The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1904, Page 1

thirty Rours exding midzighi, Janmary 12: Saz Pramcisco amd vicimity— Cloudy, with rain Monday; light scuthwest wind. €. E WILLSOS, Lecal Forecaster. * o SAN FRANCISCO., MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1904 POLICE FIND OTHERS WERE IMPLICATED WITH SOEDER IN PLOT TO S KILL BLAISE of FAMOUS ADMIRAL OF BRITISH FLEET PASSES TO REST L va i Pl victim whose life had been heavily insured. The police are said to know of three men who were implicated in the plot that led to the slaughter of Joseph Blaise on the night of Sunday, January 10, at the foot of Russian Hill, and further arrests are expected at any time. The men who are suspected of being accomplices of Soeder are known to the police. They are thought to have supplied funds to him, and testimony is being sought to prove that they forwarded money to Soeder in New York and Europe. Evidence secured by the pclice tends to show that Leon Soeder was but one of a2 band | conspirators in this city who sought to swindle insurance companies by foul murder of a { | | 4 it The most startling have come to light in the investiga tion by the pqlice of the murder of Jo- seph Blaise, for which crime Leon | Sceder, brother-in-law of the man, is under arrest. Not only do the police claim that { | Sceder’s hand was the one that ended { | the life of Blaise a week ago Sunday night at the foot of Russian Hill, but tors who plotted to in order to swindie nies, It is known that the police are shad- owing certain persons in this city, and two and may be made at any time in comnee- tion with the murder of Blaise. The theory of the police, based upon information ne n their pessession, is that the piot to find a victim in Eu- rope and bring him to this country to be heavily insured and then murdered was hatched five months ago. One of the conspirators is supposed to be a saloon-keeper in this city, who has made ‘a fortune _in the lowest walks of life. A second conspirator is supposed to have left the city In the last few days and his identity is care- fully guarded by the police. The tk conspirator is Known to be a wealthy man, but absolutely unscrupulous in his greed for momey. The police belie that Soeder, who | |is charged with the murder of Blaise, was induced to join the eomspirators om account of his record as an ex-con- vict and his implication in undiscov- SOEDER. of his connection with riel t-m Germany and the police theory is that the conspirators hoped when he joined end a human life ng would s conspirators fur- funds to go to vietim to tances sent r in New York t the police ask for conspiracy to ise extends to I can't - give us 1 make this ng murder trial that he pessession of developments , the police ten dead that he was one of a gang of conspira- | insurance compa- | possibly three more arrests g to show that befo his vietim, Blaise, sailed loeder and toal e insugance company in Bremen for a large pol the company when it Blaise was but a ttle village. Cablegrams are now i of Palice Wi.tma® on but time will be required ence to be legally taken in | sien | these {for the e Germany try. he detectives have learned that pre- s to Soeder leaving for Germany he | was fless. He traded o | his reput: a eook to secw | meais at P aprant { Soeder’ turn with his broth A Blaise, gave deep affront to the conspir- ators, expected to find that the pros victim @f murder would be ood saefal and commerecial | “On arriving in New York Soeder ap- | plied for a policy of $16.000 on the life of | Blaise. In San Francisco he again ap- plied for another poliey of the same , amount. ' He then secursd two policies for $1000 each, the_jarge sum of $10,300 being denied by the imsurance com- pany. - DEMANDED VICTIM'S DEATH. The poiice theor¥ is that when the | feliow comspirate: | that the victind of §e plo’ was a sim- ple young,German hotei keeper and a y on Blaise, but that it | the posses- | forwarded to this coun- | ot it | to any extreme to carry out his. de- | with Moritz Meienburg and his niece, I M from Europe 2n application was made | Meienburg and his neice came over id Soceder a and they became acquainted with the two men on the voyage. w Blaise, an employe of _the ericksburg Brewery at San Jose, visited police headquarters yesterday. He thinks that Joseph Blaise is his lence of Detéetive Gi first that Jo- v Dbrothers, but he did have one. is six miles Joseph Blaise a very cunming man- e questions of Blaise in German, which was not allowed by Detective Gibson. Sosder showed no emotion at meeting the man who may be the brother of the victim he is ae- cused of slaughtering like a sheep. All {he would say to Andrew Blaise was that he was not guilty of the erime of which he is accused. OFFERED CANNON MONEY. That Soeder was ready to g0 signs is shown by the testimony given i < 3 Ewdence Secured Showing Diabolical Plan I Was Hatched Five Months Ago. t.at he kill Blaise ?mm m-m *them o’ the.| { - —. | to_the: police by Framk Cannon. Can- | Snce could be scuted on Bis life. they | Bom toid . Detective Thomas Gibson | demanded of that Soedet had frequeatly visited him at the O. K. on_Pacifie_ street, money adwanced to Seeder to go-to | made him a propo- Germany. Failing in this, Sceder was | sition to follow Miss Catharine Flat- threatened with exposure to the police |ley and find out with whom she was for many erimes in which he was im- | associating. from thé com- | piicated, including the suspicious death | in Petaluma. y was refused to Soeder by Eis comspirators. He was in des- perate straits and on the second week of his arrivaledid not ve enough to pay his room rent of 33 58, according to the statement of J. Niblav of whom he rented a room, at Jackson street. Soeder’s statement that of his w Blaise had cablegram that Blais with him from his home. The police t a roseate story to Blaise prospects in America and offered to pay all exp the unfortu- nate m s and came to Am awful end train, provided avily insured or on the overian ’s life could be | in the metropolis. Finding it was impossible to secure insurance in New York, Soeder brought 1 ntinent to this his vi ss the city | Detective Gihson is fied that Soe- der. while e ng. i o a bungler in crime and that the full fie of the foul slaughter of BI ul det: be shown in all its I Gibson spent many hours yesterday | Soeder also asked Cannon to burn down the residemce at 300 Marshall street, where Miss Flatley resided with her parents. Cannon further says that Soeder offered him $10 a day for the time he was to spend in following Miss Flatley and agreed to give him $300 when he had set fire to and dest: her home. Soeder also made another propesition to Cannon, who is an onvict and ha the State's posal. From the e te murder for s: during the last five months and accomplices, it is bel Sceder made a proposit non to join the conspirators and take a portion of the results rance money which they expected to get on the lite of Blaise. The fact that Soeder wanted to take into his comn- fidence a2 man who has,served a term in the penitentiary shows that he had work to do that only 2 man with a criminal record would do. The police, as usual, refuse to give out just what took piace when they interviewed Can- non, but the facts above mentioned are known to be true. The fact that Soeder promised to give Cannon $19 a day for an indefinite length of time and a lump sum of $300, in the light of the fact that it is posi- tively known that Seeder had no mon- ey and was almost without a eent at | the time of Blaise’s death. shows that | he expected to receive a sum of money in a sheort time. -+ Death Closes the Remarkable Career of Sir Henry Keppel. RAILROAD BUILDING Cheries K. Pepper Says That Com- struction Is Progressing Rapidly in Various Countries. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 17.—Charles K. Pepper, representative of the United States Gevernment for the projected Pan-American Railway, has left here for home, after a journey of 25,000 miles and visi g the capitals of twenty-one different governments. Pepper says that the Pan-American Railway being built by Americans in the southwestern part of the republic is to-day within 165 miles of the Guate- mala line and when completed Guata- mala and Nicaragua will build lines in continuation. Argentina is doing most effective work in railroad construction and there it is part of the national spirit of the day to speak and write of a railroad from New York to Buenos Ayres. In Chile some 1200 miles haye been built and Brazil is planning a raiiroad that is to pierce the Andes. —_— e MYSTERY VEILS KILLING OF CHINESE GARDENER transferred to Brazilian sta- January, 1367, he hoisted his flag rd the Rodney as vice admiral ander in chi at the China and on. He returned to Eng- and Medjidieh ral Keppel wrote “Expedition to With Rajah Brooke's Journai,™ 1847, “Visit to the Indian “Reminiscences” in " and e LT R TURKISH TROOPS ARE CLAMORING FOR PAY Mutiny Threatened and Orders Have Been Issued to Satisfy Their Demands. n i in the China war of Terward concerned in th. svember, 1847 Brother of a Wealthy Celestial in Ba- kersfield Found Wounded NSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 17.—Or-| on a Street. rs bave beem seni by the Govern-| BARERSFIELD, Jan. 17.—Choo Kim, nt to the Governor of Beirut, Syria, | o Chinese gardener, about 60 years of ¥ the arrears due the Turkish ! age, was found this morning in a dying pe there, the nonpayment of wfnchl condition en Twentieth street. There has kept (he troops in a mutinous con- ! were three wounds on the back of his inted to the e hoisted his | dition for several days past f which were apparently inflicted m board the — e e “higa, where | Mutipous Turkish troops have been | With & heavy piece of iron. He died R T w S | without making a statement. Kim left gy e D r ooveral daYS. | e home of his brother, one of the ke mutineers, Who numbered aboutf.cqjthiest Chimese in the city, about 1300 men, were landed on January 11| midnight to return to his home and 2 returned | from Yemen, Arabia. and immediately | was not seen again until this morning. to Englasd on attair faz rank A besieged the Covernor’s palace, de- | He had no money on his person and as In 1858 be was made groom in waiting manding abeut 386,000 in arrears of | far as known had not a single enemy %o the Queen, which office he reiin- | pay and threatening to sack the town. ! among his people g om a rock f ships at fleet in th- or which was made IN SOUTH AMERICA| ADVICE OF HERBERT “Keep Europeans and Americans at Arm’s Length,” Is Warning of | SCHOOLMA’AM CHARGED SPENCER TO JAPAN| WITH SERICUS OFFENSE | Younz Woman Arrest. ‘ompiaint | | et ol e | influence. The statement adds: | Alleginz That She Committed JAPAN’S RICH MEN CONTRIBUTE GOLD < for at least ome week. 'y fear the agg is not stopped i In the me reconciled to TO THE WAR CHEST T’JKIO, Jan. 17.—Japar does not expect Rus Korean Troops Invade Chinese Ter- ritory and Murder Dillagers. als on the berder report similar occurrences and assert that the Kores g3 would measures. The Daily Mail's Seoul ent, cabling yesterday. Shampo learns that ent at soldiers “The Emily Mail's Seoul correspond- ent says that an armered train with quick-firing guns from the ships is emuino to rush men to The cor- the Japanese ured comtrol of the Korean court that the Emperor has wir Peking and Tokio adv 1 nsive and defensive not to leave . jecured an fleld guns on the k ded repairs and pratenss locked cen 0 The council The port of ports on the Yalu Riv bound TWO POINTS IN DISPLTE. In what it claims as an authoritative statement the Daily Graphic this morn- ing announces that e peace nego arrived at a stage leaving upon which neither Russia is inclined t been fou Both of these points eoncern Manchuria. and their ace vould not in the slightest mod legal status quo or chang= the ad- trative situation in Manchuria Japan insists “that they be em- bodied in a treaty between Japan and Russia,” amour propre, refuses to accept su dictation at the hands of Japan. Much, however, is still hoped from the Czar's lons are made and while Russia, as a matter of | ° - LOOKS TO AMERICA FOR AID. Japan Believes This Nation and Great Britain Will Check Russia. 2 —The Japa e world’s symg tussia and army and American narked and numerous ys e flags of the two ma- DPODI b > n the opeming rts of Mukden and Autung is | kzenly watched and in some quc ters it is hoved that this may zid in solv- ing the problem of insuring pesce. The cemsorship probibits the publica- tion of military movements. At pres- CRITICIZES OUR MARINES. British Correspondent Says Those Now at Seoul Lack Discipline. , Jan. 17.—A dispa e from Seoul dec s that Minister, is CZAR'S INFLUENCE FELT. Abatement in War Talk in the Capital Thursday last, mment reprodt created a splendid impression and also have had a good effect in pe diminishing the war talk in army and ptibiy Late Philosopher. “ Aeseuit Sor Mol 2 LONDON, Jan. 17.—The Times this| SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Jan. 17.—Hat- morning publishes the text of a re- tie Pitcher, the young woman school | markabie letter, received by mail from | teacher, who asserted she had been Tokio correspondent, Herbert Spencer wrote to Baronk Kaneko, educated in the and was graduated its late 1892 was States who | S. D., was to-day arrested on a war- United | rant sworn out by half a dozen promi- from | nent tusiness men of Miller. She is advies on the pelicy of Japan. The| gist of Spencer’s advice to the Baron was to keep Europeans and Americans | o as much as possible at arm’s length | ™" “and to take every precaution to give as| ,, robbery. and furthermore, to absolutely forbid | the marriage of Japanese with for-| and .after having been made TROOPS ON FROm‘sgripr_ion of his assailants and the af- tair remained a mystery. Miss Pitcher at first said she had been shot accidentally. She took the SALONICA, Jan. 17.—An impertant coneentration of Turkish troops has be- gun at Kumanova, on the road leading to the Bulgarian frontier. —_————————— Pearcy Appeals to President. HAVANA, Jan. 17.—United States Consul Steinhardt, having declined to interfere in the grievance which the American residents of the Isle of Pines . have against Mayor Sanchez of Nuesva Corome, in connection with the arrest and imprisonment of Morgan Pearcy, the son of a prominent American, a pe- tition to President Roosevelt is being prepared for the signature of the Amer- icans. the revolver with which the wound was inflicted, but would not say who shot her. Drops of blood were found leading from the drug stere, where Quirk was assaulted. to the hotel. Other arrests are probable. e — Loudon - hanze Lively. brisk than that of the week previcus, but the erratic business and the vary- phases of the Russo-Japanese crisis h-:on‘ly affected all markets. Easy —_——————— money conditions facilitated business Asks Chi for T during week, and the American 1 - market ted in the activity, but LONDON, Jan. 13.—The Standard’s | perhaps to a less extent than in other Tienstin correspendent says it is re- | departments. however, showed that Russia has asked China | a substantial t. Canadian to send 15.000 troops to Manchuria to | Pacifics were dull on the t- protect Chinese subjects. traffic returns. which the | shot, bound and gagged last Tuesday | in | night in the Henshaw Hotel at Miller, | Harvard University). who sought hiS|charged with assault with intentions | to commit felony and administering | | ether to Wilbur Quirk for the purpese | Quirk was a clerk in a drug store at | . Miller. On Tuesday night he was held | littie foothold as pessible to foreigners. | | "0 oo masked persons, bound. unconscious by the use of ether was | eigners. tied to an irom bed. where he qu{ 5 > : | found the next morning In a serious| TURKEY € {CENTRATING condition. He could not give a de- | | the Sheriff to the place and pointed out | LONDON, Jan. 17.—Business on the | Stoek Exchange last week was more | course, any attempt of Russia to| increase very largely her naval forces| in the East by moving her Black Sea or| Baltie fleets would make war a question of only a few hours.” This statement seems to be borne out by dispatches from Tokio yesterday that Japan had received Russia’s com munication saying that Russia would respect the rights and privileges ai-| ready acquired by the powers in Man- churia under the existing treaties with China, except in the case of the estab lishment of foreign settlements, which | shows that negotiations are continuing | navy circles, which were quick to take their cue from the assurances coming from the . The newspapers, which have been discussing the Far Eastern situation h clear freedom. bave grown almest silent, and what hey do say is commendatory of the improved prospects of peace. Rl s LEGATION STRONGLY GUARDED. American Marines Take Machine Gan With Them to Seoul. on the question of Manchuria. | wWasHINGT Navy At the Japanese legation to-night it rtment t advices was said that no fresh news had been | ooieeteror o dispatches received and that the situation "'}teui:: of the of the ke | American guard at the United States REGARDS AMERICA AS ALLY. |legation in Seoul. Two officers and The Times Tokio correspondent says | sixt pur men were sent there from that in recent speeches by publicists | the United States steamship Vicks- laim was made that Japan was l burg, now a¢ Chemulpo. They carrvied fighting for Angzglo-Saxom ideals in |2 machine gun with them. T‘rer:-‘ are Asia instead of miiftary despotism, and ; now 100 or mers men from the Vieks- that several Tokio journals rejoice that | burg at Seoul _:uardmt the _c‘u«m. “America iS mow in the same ecamp | The news received at the Navy - with Japan.™ partment shows the native press to be The Russian corres, ndent of the | Somewhat inflammatory in its utter- Times hears that a special council pre- | ances against foreigners. 5 sided over by the Czar arrived at the | conclusion that war should “e avoided. | i Safezuarding Italians im Seoul. The inference, they say, is that the | peyE Jan. 17.—A hough twenty i £ - * - x - e O P T A n | sailors from the Italian cruiser Eiba said “no ome can contemplate hestili- | have been landed to protect Signor ties hetween two grect zed com naco. the It : Minister in Seoul, tries without feelings of misgivings | the' legation buildi-g cannot be easily and of depression.” declaring that |defended and Minister Monaco has Grea* Britain would carry out to the been instructed in case of danger to fullest extent all her treaty coligations, | take refuge in the British Lezation. greatly influenced this decision. where the [tafian sailors will join the It is reported that, as a resuit of th's | British bluejackets. . conclusion, Russia intends to opem| e vom'u!‘lrahn;m-flfk;-herm- PFrench Marines Go to Seoul. it A e R Arnd.| SEOUL, Jan I7—Thirty-nine ma- possibly, even not retain Port Arthur Sie Piansll 1 as a military stronghold. The rrespondent of the Times at have arrived here from Chemulpe to = protect the French legation. Mesce v comments on the severity of