The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1903. | | | PIONEER DIES N THE FLANES Well-Known Resident of Kern County the Victim of a Blaze Which Destroyed Small Hotel PR LODGERS RACE FROM FIRE Men Declare That Two Other Persons Were Burned Death, but It Is Not Believed et —— Dispatch to The Call. ISFIELD, Dec. 7.—George well known citizen and County, was burned a fire which destroyed the 1 this morning. gs came to this county in the d settled negr Tehachapi, rings Valley, r him. He for medical treatment nd was operated on and con- s bed e alarm of fire Cummings sprang is bed and tried to make his way e in the hall and The hotel was , on I street, started in a Paine. Gerald was playing in stove and in an ablaze. Mrs. William Myers room and en- out of the ds badly with her facg hair and down the several of The build- and brought isp. C. E. Van was in the hall- irs portion was itive he saw two bod- of the of the stairs, but w says there was only one i Responded to His Cue. rence reputation has a e other day on The actor was rid- nce As he was the window g€ across the w of conversa- rd from Sarah?” the midst of his ADVERTISEMENTS. IQUE and beau- tifui is the co lec- tion of Furniture Novelties we have gathered here for the Holiday Season. Every articie displays besauty, strength and | exclusiveness—the attractive things that are SO appropriate for Christmas gifts. Especial attention is directed to our Toilet Tables, Dressing Tables and Desks for Ladies, bautiful in appearance—perfect- ly made. It is well to remember that we have an wunrivaled stock of Carpets, Draperies, Fabrics and Rugs. cfrefletichs a MARKET ST. opp- Kearny DON'T FORGET THAT ED. EVATT POR 22 YEARS WITK T. LUNDY Is at 76 Geary St. Watches, s Silverwars. per cent profit on goods. see me and save money. EVATT 8 HINKLE 76 Geary Street. OPEN EVENINGS. s fine st The common taste for va. nilla is formed on tonka, a strong coarse flavor. Real va- p nilla — Schilling’s Best — is delicate soft fine rich creamy and not overstrong. ' to | MRS. COIT TESTIFIES IN COURT AND GIVES DAMAGING EVIDENCE Alexander Garnett, Arraigned for Murder, Sits Unmoved During Proceedings and His Attorney Hints at Insanity Defense ——— ) CANDID TALKS BY CLERGYNEN Profound Religious Thinkers | Deliver Interesting Talks at| Well - Attended Meetings eitiios MANY TOPICS DISCUSSED Bl { Want of Brotherly Love and Christian Abnegation Are Among Subjects Considered e—— The various minsters, clubs and mis- sionary societies were busy in this city | vesterday. The Presbyterian ministers | | met at the Presbyterian Mission Home, Sacramento street, and listened to a ! | profound address by the Rev, Dr. Edgar Vanhee, late of Sydney, Australia, The doctor gave a lucid explanation of his subject, “Science Subordinate to Reve- lation.” Among other things Dr. Vanhee said that if people would realize the authen- ticity of God there would be greater faith, greater zeal, less skeptics and few empty churches. There were people, he said, who thought that religion was for the weak- minded and he asked, if that were the | case, how was it that religion had stood for civilizing the world, had stood the tests of mighty war and had remained victorious and pre-eminént over polit- ical opposition? Dr. Vanhee asked whether any hu- men intelligence could give the world a religion to take its place? He con- tended that the prophgcies of the scrip- | ture were being fulfilled daily and re- futed the essertions sometimes made that the scripture was antiquated. He feared there were those who expected | that the church should lean to the car- There is Genuine- N only One Syrup of Figs, The Genuine is Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. The full name of the company, California Fig Syrup Co., is printed on the front of every package of the genuine. The Genuine~ Syrup of Figs- is for Sale, in Original Packages Only, by Reliable Druggists Everywhere Knowing the above will enable one to avoid the fraudulent imita- tions made by piratical concerns and sometimes offered by unreliable dealers. therefore be declined. The imitations are known to act injuriously and should Buy the genuine always i you wish to get its beneficial effects. It cleanses the system gently yet effectually, dispels colds and headaches when bilious or constipated, prevents fevers and acts best on the kidneys, liver, stomach and bowels, when a laxative remedy is needed by men, women or children. Many millions know of its beneficial effects from actual use and of their own personal knowledge. It is the laxative remedy of the well-informed. That it is de- | way to appear in | which occurred in Mrs. Coit’s ¢ November 2 last, gave her vesterday morning in the Police Judge Fritz, at nary examination of the ac- attended by a e and Attorney Creswell, | Hall of Justice in a| once escorted to nd wa e office of District Attorney Bying- ton Mrs. Coit remained in the office of | the District At ey until a few minutes before the case of Garnett was | called by Judge Fritz. Garnett, the man accused of the murder of Major McClung, was taken to the courtroom half an hour before | his cas He was locked up in the in the murder case of ex-Police mony Officer Feld, who ruthlessly shot and | killed his father-in-law, Fritz Dirking. | Garnett listened closely to the evi- dence in the Feld case, but he betrayed no emotion. He shifted his seat in the |dock as he listened to the evidence | and kept his eyes on the various wit- k Coit, the soli-| to the murder of Clung by Alexander at the Palace Hotel on the | trained | . T AT THE PRELIMI- ATION OF ALEXANDER GARNETT, CHARGED tol in his hand. He placed the weapon | in front of me and he tried to pull back the hammer with one nand while he held the revolver in the other. “He said to me, ‘Major McClung is shot,” or ‘T have shot McClung,’ I can- | | nct remember which; and then he said, | ‘T will do you.up,” or ‘I will kill you." | 1 | told him 1 did not want to be | arnett replied to me, “You don't.{ don’t you?' and continued to try to pull | back the hammer of his pistol. Then I | said to him, ‘I don’t want to die yet.' and then he dropped his hand with the revolver " IDENTIFIES THE REVOLVER. Mrs. Coit then recounted the strug- gle she had with Garnett in the bath- froom, where she had gone to use the | telephone to summon and of the arrival of a maid of the hotel and the subsequent coming of the doctors and Garnett's departure, after throwing the pistol at her feet. | Mrs. Coit told of the insulting lan- | guage used to her by Garnett ten days previous to the murder, when he swore |at ker over a ‘game of bridge whist, when she ordered him from her rooms | and told him never to return. A hush fell upon the crowded court- room when District Attorney Byington i o |showed Mrs. Coit the revolver _with : 2 : which Garnett had shot McClung. In IS GARBED IN BLACK. | a perfectly cool manner, Mrs. Colt ad- When Judge Fritz called the case | justed her lorgnette, looked at the rett, Mrs. Coit entered the court- companied by her hospital Creswell. | as garbed in black and her | s hidden by a black vell, the | | f to th mber color being | edging to the sleeves to the murder of was given a seat at s’ table. Her nurse sat of her The evewitness ajor McClung attorneys’ | and her attorney er side. | | few seconds after Mrs. Coit was | seated, Alexander Garnett was re- leased from the dock. He. walked | with a jaunty air to the attorneys’ table and took a chair next to Mrs. | Coit’s nur and then arose and walked to end of the table and! sat next to his attorney, W. Alford. arnett never once looked at Mrs. Coit and the woman, whose testimony is so important in the case. avoided !looking in the direction of the man who shot down her old friend in her sence without warning or cause, All the witnesses in the case were | present in the court when Judge Fritz |announced that he was ready to begin the preliminary examination. Mrs. Coit was the first witness called i she took her seat on the witness Mrs. Coit was cool and collected and gave her evidence in a convincing manner. There was no attempt on the part of the witness to shield the accused man. On the contrary, she aging. EVIDENCE IS DAMAGING. Questioned by District Attorney By- | ington, Mrs. Coit once again told of | the proceedings that took place in her rooms at the Palace Hotel on the even- ing of November 25 last. which resulted in the killing of Major McClung by Al- exander Garnett. 279 She repeated the testimony she gave {to Coroner Leland when that official | took her evidence in her rooms last | week. ,rooms with Major McClung, who had ; paid a friendly call; of the sudden en, trance of Alexander Garnett in an ex- cited manner, of the latter's wild ap- pearance and of his drawing a revolver from his waistband and of the effort {of Major McClung to disarm Garnett | and of the firing of the shot by Gar- | mett that resuited in the death of the | man who had sought to defend her from murderous attack. Mrs. Coit added one most important feature to her previous evidence. “Af- ter shooting Major McClung,” she ‘waid, “Garnett advanced to me with the pis- nd and was sworn by Judge Fritz. | testified to facts that were most dam- | Mrs. Coit told of being in her | nickel plated revolver in the hand of the District Attorney, and said that it looked like the pistol she saw in the h;]‘nds of Garnett when McClung was shot. Questioned as to Garnett’s motive in coming to her rooms with the intention of harming her, Mrs. Coit again told of | how Garnett lived free at the Brooklyn Hotel, which she owned, and how she had heard from McClung that Garnett feared he would be turned out of the hotel as a result of the insulting larn- guage he had used to Mrs. Coit over a game of bridge whist. QUESTIONS OF MOTIVE. Prompted by Garnett, his attorney {asked Mrs. Coit if she had not parted very friendly on the night on which he had quarreled with her over a_game of cards. ¥ | “Did you not ask Garnett,” said At- torney Alford, “where he had placed some oysters he had bought for vou ijust previous to his leaving your room that night.” “I did not,” | of Mrs. Cott. | _Attorney Alford then tried to show | that Garnett had no motive to harm Mrs. Coit by questioning her as to the terms on which Garnett lived free of charge at the Brooklyn Hotel and that | she did not have any power to order him from the place, as his living at the hotel was guaranteed in the lease be- | tween herself as owner and her ten- | ants. At the close of her evidence Mrs. Coit |left the witress stand and, accompa- nied by her nurse'and her attorney, de- parted from the courtroom. The party descended to the street and entered a carriage and returned to the Palace Hotel. Mrs. Dr. Whitney was the next wit- ness to follow Mrs. Coit. The evidence of Mrs. Whitney showed how Garnett had appeared at her rooms in the Pal- ace Hotel on the night of November 2 and asked for Dr. Whitney. The wit- ness described Garnett as being excif- ed and appearing in despair. Mre. Wihiltney also recounted how she had accompanied Garnett to Mrs. Colt's rooms and finding Major McClung in a wounded condition and of her summon- ing Dr. Shiels to attend the wounded man. TESTIMONY OF DOCTORS. Dr. G. Martin and Dr. G. F. Shiels also testified as to the condition of Ma- jor McClung and his being informed that he was fatally wounded and was likely to die. Dr. Shiels, an old friend of Major McClung, again recited the statement was the emphatic reply | that there must be subordination some- | | dle. ‘| The width of the ribs of a man varies Always buy the Genuine— Syrup of Figs nal—to the expounding of sensational politics of the day, and many required | the accessories of highly paid vocalists | as a means to invite the congregations, In holding that science was subordinate | to revelation, the speaker said that the genesis of all things was ascribed to God, even by heathen mythology, while the sacred historians had admitted fghe fact. SCIENCE NOT CREATIVE. Dr. Vanhee asked whether any of the sciences could create the sun, the moon, the stars. Could it be said of science, he asked, that she was self- existing, that she was capable of crea- tion? He repiled in the negative and declared that God was the original source of all knowledge and his will was revealed by holy men of old and | proved by the miracles of Jesus Christ, | gerabble circuit,” should have the the only mediator between God and!place of preference. man. | Y > - i The Rev. James Woodworth spoke to | The Rev. Dr. M. C. Harris held that the. subjegt and Professor Day sald | o W&8 BOL 1M HRC BArErs O & Saxon to show that humility and mod- ! esty ampd reserve that would lead him where. He sald that they must have material before they could have the |t0 ask for a more obscure place and science of geology or astronomy. To- |Stand aside and give the first place day, sald Professor Day, they found |t0 another. » men meeting and looking eye™o eye | The Rev. Dr. Larkin submitted in and coming to mutual understanding. |great candor that it was hard to ac- Peace, he said, and not strife was dom- | quire a state of patience, long suffer- inating. | ing and brotherly love. While he had The Rev. E. E. Clarke was of the | witnessed self-abnegation among a opinion that the intelligence of the ! congregation that was edifying and en- people was sometimes overrated and | couraging, on the other hand at con- held that from his experience the peo- |ferences it seemed to appear as though ple did net study Darwin and Spencer. |all things would gb to smash in the The Rev. Mr. Clarke did not attribute | “scramble for office and for place.” He the lack of attendance at churches to jadmitted that he himself had not yet unbelief, but he considered that the !reached that point of sglt-abno_gallon. swirl of modern enjoyment was re- ! but he would never be diplomatic, and sponsible. {vet wgre he appointed to a_ position Following the Rev. Mr. Clarke came | undesirable, he had prepared to sus- the Rev. Dr. John T. Wills, who de- |tain himself and family. His opinion clared it as his opinion that the people | was that if bishops and elders would of San Francisco did not fail attend- | make appointments without bias or fa- ing the churches owing to any un-|voritism there were men who would in belief, because he and other ministers | that event go to the end of the world could testify that the very men who | without complaint. did not do so were the very first in -5 B iy i HEAR CHICAGO MINISTER. e s T o] The Congregationalist ministers’ ister. That showed belief in those | i A rery v stai ® | meeting took place at the Young Men's | very men who abstained from attend D s ras ing their church, a neglect probably | Christian Asso s Rev. Mr. due to surrounding circumstances. i day, Rev. Willlam Rflql,r~)1md in turn. Redolpho' B. Hummel, a student at | Brooke of Oakland presiting o "l Stanford University, spoke of the great | Rev. Dr. George . G088 & @ de- good that was being achieved by the | the assemblage, his Aiscontes Ay, . Sta ® | voted to the Book of Genesis. g:;‘;rmcfi:c:f:r:"pr‘.‘\fxfg;\-_ tanford stu- | Yur0 “Myron W. Haynes, pastor of | the Belden Avenue Baptist Church, CHRISTIAN ABNEGATION. Chicago, and who has recelved a call The Methodist ministers met at Ep- | from the First Baptist u\ux:nhbo{i Sm'; worth League Hall yesterday. The | Francisco, addressed a larze body o Rev. L. H. Baker, an evangelist from | clergymen of hi s denomination yester- aking of th. " | Gay. The reverend gentleman spoke et Ces A AR R hiefly of the possibilities of work in clared that there was not enough | C 2 % brotherly feeling among ministerial | this city and of (hehegcourdg}lr;s con- bodies. He regretted that, as a rule, | dition of the charel ere. . Mr. { Haynes is to return to Chicago, where y 1 consult his family before re- call from the First Bap- there was not that Christian abnega- tion to influence a person who was | he Wil being appointed to a good holding to | :’lh;m(jgh\!x())-r;xhe step back and advise that one whom | tis 3 he knew to be equally competent, but | _The rgg\nar monthly m;eu;ngpo{ :he who was being appointed to a “hard- Woman's Occidental Board o oreign @ | street yeste Missions was held at 920 Sacramepto 2 » | presiding. rday, Mrs. Cyrus S. Wright Miss Donaldina M. Cam- made to him by McClung when the lat- | eron annolinced that two little Chinese ter was informed that he was about to | slave girls had been rescued and were Dr. Shiels repeated the statement | jnmates of the mission. Ah Ycung, the of McClung, who had informed tne foster daughter of the late Chew Bin, doctor that Garnett had sought to harm | and who had been found to he neglect- Mrs. Coit and in defending her he (Mc- | ¢d and abused by the widow of Chew Clung) had been threatened by Garnett | Bin, who was the fifth spouse of the and shot by him in (he struggle that | jate Chew, he having left two other followed between the two men, surviving wives in China to deplore There was a slight tilt between Dr.| their loss, had been given into the Shiels and Attorney Alford for the de-| charge of the Occidental board by the Little fense when the attorney cross-exam-| child’s foster brother and uncle. ined the Yitness. | Ah Young may have litigation with ught to ascertain how far jre. Chew Bin owing to property left below the bullet had lodged in the back py Chew to the girl. Alford of McClung compared to the point ot‘ Redolpho Hummel addressed the entry. Dr. Shiels answered by telling | meeting and explained his forthcoming of the distance in ribs and spaces, but | yyigsion to Africa a missionary. Alford wanted to know the distance by | Miss Sarah M. White has offered her actual inches. services to the board as a student vol- “Am 1 ‘f“"y“’%flg “S‘;;“'-']‘e” = as [ ynteer in foreign figds. an expert?” replie T. els. “I am . s & feliing you by anatomical distances and| _ WOMEN'S BIG OFFERINGS. not by mathematical measurements.| Members of the Women's Home Mis- sion Society of the Methodist Episcopal | church met at the Japanese Woman's | Home yesterday and listened to an ac- count from Mrs. E. R. Willis, who was a delegate to the twenty-first annual meeting of the general society of the Woman's Home Mission, held at Chat- tanooga, Tenn. Mrs. Willis said that the large sum of = $91,000 had been | pledged for the general work of the Woman’'s Home Mission during the an- | nual meeting. The sum subscribed was $25,000 more than last year, when the meeting _was held at Kansas City. Bishop Hamilton addressed the gath- ering, as did Dr. George Smyth and Mrs. Smyth. Mrs. Hamilton, president of the socjety, received the members. from the width of the ribs of a baby.’ Attorney Alford denied any intention of being technical with the witness and ended his cross-examination. DEFENSE OF INSANITY. * Nora Kenealy, 2 maid at the Palace Hotel, repeated {he testimony she gave at the Coroner’s inquest. Her evidence simply tended to show that she had seen Major McClung in a wounded | condition in Mrs. Coit’s rooms and of | the witness handing Garnett his over- coat when he returned to the apart- ment shortly after the shooting of Mc- Clung. Detectives Cody and Ryan testified to ! free of securing the revolver used by Garnett in shooting McClung and the arrest of Garnett in Oakland and the statement made by the latter that he had shot MecClung in self-defense, as already published in The Call. Owing to the absence of Dr. Baciga- lupi, the autopsy surgeon, the further hearing of the case was adjourned un- til this morning at 10 o’clock. Attorney Alford, who represents Gar- nett, stated yesterday that 'he would not make any defense for his client in the Police Court and that he would not put Garnett on the witness stand this morning. From Alford’s statement Garnett's defense will be that of in- sanity. Everything that is new, good and mod- erate priced in trunks, valises, dress suit draveling sets, kel ‘wrist for the holl&(’; trade now on sale. All leather goods lettered in gold charge. Sanborn., Vail & Co. * The executive }committee of the mi slonary conference, which is to be opened in San Francisco on April 28 next, held an important meeting yes- terday. It was agreed to engage the Alhambra Theater in which to hold the convention. It was also resolved to dispatch to the board of bishons a cordial invitation to hold their annual convention ,in this city, which conven- tion will e place at the end of next April. At the meeting were Rev. Dr. LOVERS STIR LPAPK'S IRE Italian Maid of San Jose Runs Away From Home and Mar- ries Seeretly Despite a Protest i ik Special Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE, Dec. 7.—Because her father objected to her suitor, bretty | Gertle Maneri, an Ifalian gig), has eloped with Fred Newhall, a’young man well known about the city. About ten days ago the couple se- cured a marriage license, but Maneri Sr. became aware of the fact and be- | fore they could get married he had | practically made his daughter a! prisoner. It is said he kept her locked | in a room at home for a week. Last | Friday, however, she managed to get away from home and met New! They arranged to be married the next | day. At the appointed time the two met at the residence of Justice Wal- lace, who tied the knot. Mr. and Mrs. Newhall left imme- diately after the ceremony for San Francisco, where they are spending their honeymoon. Newhall is 22 years of age and his wife is two years younger. Maneri some time ago drove Newhall from his home with a shot- gun, and it is said he has not yet be- come reconciled to the marriage. —_——————— Gans Beats HoMy. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7.—In a six- round bout at the National Athletic Club to-night Joe Gans put Dave Holly to the floor several times, but Holly easily responded before the limit of the count in each case. The bout was fa lively one, but Gans had the better of the argument throughout. ——————— One in four of the people in Chicago is a German. CAGED LIONS KILL WOMAY Animals Leap Upon a Trainer and Tear Her to Pieces in Presence of Many Speectators et DESSAU, Germany, Dec. T7.—Frau Fischer, a lion tamer, was torn fo pieces to-day by four lions in a me- nagerie cage in sight of a great crowd of people. She was trying to make a lion spring through a hoop and struck 11t with a whip, whereupon the animal leaped upon her and disemboweled her at one stroke. The woman shrieked once and the three other lions joined in the attack on her and fought among themselves for fragments of the flesh. There was a frightful panic among the spectators and many persons were in- Jured. Finally the lion tamer’s assistants, armed with iron rods and hooks, suc- ceeded in dragging the animals from the woman's mangled body. The children of Frau Fischer were in a box witnessing the performance when their mother was killed. —_———————— Convict Smugglers Are Sentenced. SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 7.—As a result of smuggling opium into the State Prison at San Quentin, Alex. Hernan~ dez, R. M. Gonzales and Manuel Baca- nara must serve eight years each in Folsom penitentiary. These convicts had only a few months more to serve when they were caught and confessed to Warden Tompkins. e AVANA, Dec. 7.—To-day was o a national holiday in Cuba, it being seventh anniversary of the death of Maceo, who was killed while daringly attempt- ing to raise an army in Havana province with which to attack Matanzas, and also the an- niversary of the death of General Gomez's eld- est son, who was Maceo's aid-de-camp and who was shot while trying to rescus Maceo's body. the ADVERTISEMENTS. anywhere. several other stylish shapes. those who want them. Good for everyday wear, and different shapes. Money saved in George B. Smyth, Rev. Dr. J. N. Beard, Rev. Dr. F. M. Larkin, Rev. Dr. Filben, Rev, Dr. E. R. Willis, Rev. Dr. M/C. Harris, Rev. Dr. A. C. Bane and Rev. 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