The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY MARCH 7, 1904. ALBERT BUTTGENBACH IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON SUSPICION OF HAVING ATTEMPTED TO MURDER HIS FATHER AND THE CASE BECOMES SENSATIONAL i! \ M + —_— . T 1 (”l H [hLlS ‘Damaging.EvidencelFound | the Suspect. r Leader Announces the |, Existing Be- tween Operators and Men je— Conditions .ROOMING HOUSE ™ waicH .E:%P‘;:'Ts WERE TAKE s VST DN P - — ARE HELD CONFEREXNC Report on Situation in In- diana to Be Presented to a Convention Committee INDIANAPOLIS ence to-ds ¥ be- , leader of the op- Mitchell. | 05 R NmAcy . anything, | _wuove toward a reopening | | RO, Iater in the MRy Bl a e s v 11 and m ers were in secret T +| Albert Buttgenbach is in the | HOW IT WAS IN OLD City Prison, suspected of hav- | ing shot his father. Louis E. Brune, the bookkeeper, who was present at the commission of the crime, has also been taken | iInto custody, as the police be- lieve he knows more than he has AND HOW IN NEW JAPAN The Industrial Plutocrat Was Not Not Enown in the Old Feudal Days. here were few violent ? was told of the affair. Notwith- standing these arrests, Edward rice, 22| | Gonzales and Jack Riley, ex- 3 ot Gotai convicts, who roomed directly the opposite the Pacific Packing Company, are locked up. De- tective Thomas L. Ryan has found a witness that asserts that | he saw Albert Buttgenbach with a revolver shortly before i the shooting. Jean Nichol, a | laundryman, who was at work ‘ across from the Shipley-street entrance, declares that no one e N A AT R & Albert Buttgenbach occuples a cell at the City Prison suspected of having | shot his father, Joseph Buttgenbach, Saturday night In the establishment of the Pacific Packing Company, Fourth | and Shipley streets. Louis E. Brune, the bookkeeper that was present when the fatal shot was fired, Is also on the | detinue book owing to his reticence to | turnish the police with detalls of the | affair. The victim of the murderous | bullet is hovering between life and death at St. Joseph’s Hospital in an onscious condition, which precludes sibllity of a statement at this ence of a damaging character | has been unearthed by Deteetive Thom- as L. Ryan which seems to fasten the bedragele ream- - Dedraggled dream |crime upon Albert Buttgembach. A | Tanks outside of the | Witness has been found, whose name e great nobles are | the police refuse to divulge, who saw thing. With emi- | Albert Buttgenbach transfer a revolver ey ask: Why is it | from his right pocket to the left one a a government that |Short time before the crime. Jean omts the best conception of man | Nichols, a laundryman that conducts a along with a makeshift | French laundry at 322 Fourth street, festly imperfect? | has informed the police that no one lies the sinister shad- | left the side door of the Pacific conflict. —London an rresistible | | came out after the pistol shot. } | Packing | Company after the shot was fired, as' | BUTTGENBACH EDWARD SONZALES b Foooa av TN RRE SAID TO HRVE ENTERED JOHN RILEY | PRINCIPALS IN STORY OF TRAGEDY THAT 1S DEVELOPING INTO ONE OF THE CRIMINAL SENSATIONS OF THE DECADE. e — he was engaged In putting up his wagon for the night in a shed directly opposite, on Shipley street. SAY HE MADE THREATS. It has also been ascertained, the po- lice claim, that young Buttgenbach re- peatedly made threats against his father. Several disputes, the police allege, occurred between father and son owing to the latter’s spendthrift pro- clivities. It is also asserted that the young man played the races heavily Young Buttgenbach. who was arrested Saturday night after the shooting, while forcing his way through a parti- tion leading into the grocery of Alpers & Helede, in an endeavor, =o he claims, to escape from the -alleged thugs was released yesterday morning after an examination by Captain Martin. Louls Brune called at headquarters and was also questioned at length. They were again taken into custody last evening, however, and after two hours sweating by Captain Martin and Detective Ryan, it was decided to place their names on the detinue book, pending further in-| vestigation. The witness found by Ryan states that Albert Buttgenbach, while in the saloon cortducted by Alpers and Heide, adjacent to the Pacific pany, a few minutes before the shoot- ing, took a revolver out of his right side pocket and transferred the weapon | under his coat to the left pocket. genbach claims that Butt- it was only a | | —_——— | y | makers who have taken up their abode in this country will no doubt he Inter- ested in the following warning to Swiss-Americans returning to Switzer- land, by Consul A. Lieberknecht, Zu- rich, Switzerland: “The attention of students and others intending to remain for any length of | time in Switzerland is called to the ne- of providing themselves with ‘;\ ssports. Many naturalized Ameri- ‘r‘sr citizens who were formerly Swiss | citizens 1abor under a misapprehension | | | | | | hly understands t wife of voter—Well, » you think of | 1¥)—To tell you husband, Dick, oughtn't to | P 4 says | ept h ADVERTISEMENTS. 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The genuine bears | has acquired American citizenship.”— my signature. ~Accept mno Jewelers' Circular. substitutes. Address | A Curious Hostelry. A hotelkeeper who kept a remark- able hostelry has at last been run to earth at Paris. He kept a good sized hotel, and attracted the attention of the police by turning away all guests on the excuse,that his house was full. The officers searched the place, and found that four burglars lived there, and had been stealing travelers' bag- Thisscientificgermicide, aluabie Booklet on the treatment of diseasey - (verv much up-to- Citizenship in Switzerland. e impression that | The vast number of Swiss watch- Don Carlos, Try one drop of Schilling’s Best lemon extract in half.a- glass of water. Try how many drops of some ther extract it takes to flavor as much. & your grocer’s ; moneyback, gage, which they sent to the hotel. The hotelkeeper sold the goods for them, and what could not be sold was packed away in the different rooms. Over $100,000 worth of stuff was seized.—Naw *York Tribune. —_————— “This merger question must be pretty important after all.” “What makes you think so?” *“Well, I see the Feder- al courts are deciding it both ways."— Detroit Free Press. How Don Carlos Enjoys Life. who for many years was Spain, is a familiar figure on the grand canal of Venice, which he has selected as his place of exile. His automobile-gondola, adorned with his private flag—yellow and red, with the Bourbon coat-of-arms on a yellow ground—is to be seen at all hours of the day in the watery ways of Venice. Tall, majestic and severe in appear- ance, his brown beard carefully part- ed on his chin, he sits as still as a statue in the little boat, his left hand resting on the side, a dreamy look in- vesting all his personality as if from every street and canal and balcony thousands of painters and photog- raphers were waiting to take his pic- ture and send it to Spain as a pre- cious memento to posterity. He was at the Goldinl Theater, occu- pying the central box in the second tier, as becomes a royal personage, the night on which the report had |preld_ that his daughter Alice had eloped with her coachman (a report subsequently denied), and the eyes of all Venice were upon him. He stood the staring silent and impassive, as at the time when Donna Elvira, another daughter, eloped from Rome with the painter, Folchi. With him was the Princess Marle Berta de Rohan, a pale little figure, in great contrast to her giant lover. Don Carlos never addresses her in public and answers all her queries with mono- syllables, as if to indicate the difference that separates their respective socfal ‘Whenever she visits her native coun- try, Denmark, the Dowager Empress of Russia has some Danish black rye bread served to her every day. She has a great liking for this bread, which forms part of the rations of the Danish soldier, and is not very inviting to the majority of people. e The first sleeping car seen in Cuba is now on exhibition in Havana. This “dormitorio” is for use on the recently completed line to Santiago. Packing Com- | the pretender to the throne of | monkeywrench, but the witness de- clares positively that it was a pistol. HEARS PISTOL SHOTS. Jean Nichols, the French laundry- man, says that he had put up his wag- | on for the night and was engaged in cleaning the harness when he was startled by a pistol shot. He opened the gate on Shipley street and looked out. His eyes, he says, never left the | lishment until the arrival of the police who entered the store and he is positive | that no one left the building. This | disposes of the holdup story. | Albert Buttgenbach in his statement to the police made reference to a blow that he said he had received from the | butt end of a pistol in the hands of | | an alleged thug. An examination of his scalp fails to reveal even so much as a scratch and no swelling is notice- | able. | Buttgenbach was fired“from outside the office. | of which the office is constructed, might be engaged in working over a | desk. The bullet passed through Butt- | genbach’s hat and entered his skull at | the top, near the center. The only explanation that can be given of the | broken glass door is that a scuffle took | place previous ta the shooting. The wounded man as he fell to the floor | clutched the jagged edges for support and lacerated his hand. side entrance to Buttgenbach's estab- | The hole in a glass pane, | is | on a line with the head of a man that | Brune, who says he was only a few feet away when the crime occurred, asserts he did not know of the en- trance of the alleged thugs until he saw his employer struggling on the floor with a man. This assertion the police regard as peculiar. One of the most peculiar circum- | stances in the entire affair is the ac- | tion of Buttgenbach and Brune kicking | down the partition to the saloon to es- ) cape, they say, from the alleged thugs, | when they could have locked the heavy door leading to the factory amd have | been safe if thugs were really in the | place. | Young Buttgenbach does not appear i to be affected by the seriousness of his | position. He declined to make a state- | ment last night before being locked up | and Brune also remained silent. | Yesterday the police also took into | | custody Jack Riley and Edward Gon- | The bullet that struck Joseph | zales, ex-convicts, on suspicion that | they committed the crime. Gonzales | and Riley were arrested in a room at 325 Fourth street, directly opposite the | Pacific Packing Company. Riley was known to have served time for burg- | lary and Gonzales spent five months in the county jail several years ago. Patrolmen Moriarity, Tyrrell and | O’Connell entered the place about 10| o’clock yesterday morning and found Gonzales 1ying on the bed, fully dressed. Riley was caught a few minutes later as he was entering the house. The room | was thoroughly searched, but nothing ! Y of an incriminating character was found. They were taken to the Hall of Justice and, after a “sweating,” regis- tered on the detinue book. LANDLADY SURPRISED. The men had roomed in the house for eight months, landlady, Mrs. J. T. Stelzner, conducted themselves in a above suspicion. She was very much surprised to hear that her bore an unsavory reputation. always Mrs. 1S!e!zner stated that if they had been accused of the crime a month ago she would not_have been surprised, owing o thelr straitened circumstances. To the detectives Gonzales and Riley said that they had run’ out of the house upon hearing the shots, but had not gone back to bed after the excitement subsided. Gonzales was arrested in 1393 for fraudulently securing subsgriptions u der the pretense that the same were to be used to aid the families of the brave firemen killed at the Ashbury Heights fire. He was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment in the County Jail. Jack Riley, alias J. H. Davis, allas William Earle, was sentenced on August 19, | 1892, to two years in the House of Cor- rection for burglary. On October 13, 1895, he was sent to San Quentin for four years on the same charge from Los Angeles County. Their move- ments up to 2 o'clock yesterday morn- ing have been ascertained by Detective Ryan and nothing suspicious detected. BAKERS CLAIM THAT THEIR Assert That the National Biscuit Com- pany Refuses to Employ Other Than Non-Union Men. S Bakers working in cracker factories are complaining that their remunera- tion is not equivalent to the amount of work they are doing. They say they are working for $6 4 week and should have more. The cracker bakeries are controlled by what is known as the Na- tional Biscuit Company, which has re- sisted all union rules and has employed none but non-union help. As a means of bringing the biscuit ccmpany to terms all union men and their familles are instructed to ask for the union la- bel when making purchases of crack- ers. Civie and labor unions are taking ac- tion in opposition to Chief Wittman's ordinance. T. E. Zant, F. C. Knight and L Shenkan, acting as an organi- zation committee, have issued invita- tions to all unionized bodies to send delegates to the Labor Bureau, 915% Market street, on next Saturday even- ing, at which time a permanent organ- ization will be formed with the object cited in view. The Janitors’ Union met yesterday afternoon in the Alcazar building. Four candidates were admitted to member- ship. The meeting of March 20 will be an important one as the union has placed itself on record as being op- posed to the ordinance restricting pub- lic meetings on streets. The union will give a picnic at Glen Park on Sunday, April 17. + Carriage Woodworkers’ Union at its last meeting agreed to affiliate with the Carriage Blacksmiths’ and Car- riage Painters’ unions with the view of regulating a scale of wages satis- factory to its members. All labor unions in this city have en- tered a protest against the ordinance now before the Board of Supervisors regulating open air street assemblages o SALARIES ARE TOO SMALL! A couple of years ago when stocks | were booming and everybody was flush |a New York jewelry firm secured one | | of the most splendid of the ornaments | | collected for the crown treasury of Rus- | | sia, expecting to dispose of it at a great | | profit to some wealthy patron. It is a | | pearl necklace, said to be the finest of | | its kind in the world, and is valued at | necklace, their weight aggregating 5600 | for the privilege of inspecting the neck- Crown Guns for Sale Hcre. $350,000. There are 497 pearls in the grains. The seven strands are caught by five brilliants, which are paralleled | by twenty-two smaller brilliants. It is possible to make eleven single strand | necklaces out of the ornament as it is at present arranged. The pearls in each of the seven strands are about even in size and. represent years of careful purchasing and matching. The jewelry firm's St. Petersburg agent paid $750 lace, and it was brolight here in confi- dence that there was surely some woman in the city who would pay $350,- | 000 for such an ornament. But although | its fame has spread there are no ac-| tive bidders for the jewel. The mem- bers of the firm, however, are confident | that it will be sold ultimately.—New | York Commercial. . —_———————— An interesting comparison of the physique of the modern English school- boy with that of his predecessor of a quarter of a century ago is made from careful records of height and weight of | pupils which have been kept during this period at Rugby and Marlborough schools, which show the advantage in both height and weight is with the boy of to-day. +- e for the discussion of public matters. Henceforth the executive committee of the Labor Council will hold its weekly meetings on Tuesday evening instead of Wednesday, as has been the custom. A mass meeting of all painters affil- iated with the District Council of Paint- ers will be held on next Wednesday evening at headquarters, 280 Jessie street. Matters appertaining to the trouble now existing between the two ‘wings of this body will be discussed. — Cotton From Pine Wood. The interesting story comes from Ba- varia that experiments are being made there to manufacture cotton out of pine wood. The method is to reduce the wood to the finest layers possible, then to subject it to a vapor process for ten hours. The pulp thus obtained is then plunged into a soda bath, where it stays thirty-six hours. It is thus trans- formed into a kind of which a resistant quality is given by adding oil of gelatine. Then it is drawn out and untangled by machinery. The process is said not to be expensive, and it is thought that if this cotton can be made of practical use Europe will be independent of America and India. The immense forests of Scandinavia and Germany would furnish ample material for her “cotton™ supply.—New York Commercial. They Bound the Wrong Leg. A man in North Waldoboro while cutting wood last week had the misfor- tune to cut a deep gash in his leg. which, owing to a very peculiar mis- take, came near being much more seri- ous than the circumstances would war- rant. His leg was corded and he was | taken to Waldoboro village, a distance of six or seven miles, for surgical treat- ment. Upon arrival there the injured man was found to be at death’s door from the loss of blood, and it was then discovered that the cord had been tied around the wrong leg. He is now re- covering.—Kennebec Journal. —_——— Paper telegraph poles are one of the developments of the art of making paper useful. The paper poles, now used to some extent in Belgium, are said to be lighter and stronger than those of wood and to be unaffected by causes which shorten the life of a wooden pole. ———————— Of the brides led annually to the altar the Christian world over a measured but extremely moderate percentage re- fuse to repeat the words of the mar- riage service,binding them to obey as well as to-love and honor their hus- ~ and according to the| manner | roomers | cellulose, to MURPHY LOOKS 10 CLEVELAND Indications That Issue Will f Be Waged Between Parker and Former President HILL WANTS CONTROL Tammany Leaders Will At- tempt to Break His Power With Princeton Statesman — NEW YORK, March 6. —Cleveland versus Parker is to be the issue of the fight for control of the Democratic or- ganization of New York State between David Bennett Hiill and Charles F. Murphy. With this as the sole issue fo the fight Murphy is confident that he | Will be able control the required number of delegates at the State con- vention in Albany on April 1. Murphy relies first of all on the popu- larity Mr. Cleveland in Brooklyn to give him control of the Kings County delegation, and on the fact that Hill open espousal of Judge Parker's candi- dacy will cost Judge Parker a consider- able percentage of the support he might have received with a different to man as his campaign manager. Murphy w I leave the city In a few 1 remain away for several is for the purpose of elim- inating himself from the fight as far as possible so that the natural animesity against Tammany in some of the up State counties m Meantime, it has been ar- ranged that Cleveland shall be visited | at his home in Princeton for the pur- pose of going over the situation and as- may be reduced to a however, certai or not Cleveland | stanas ept the nomination | in case it comes to him absolutely un- | sought and without an effort on his part | Murphy is confident that Cleveland stands ready to accept the nomination | it it comes to him in that method. His | present confia due largely | Cleveland's letter several days ago to & Representative in Congress denying the | statement that he once entertained a negro as a guest —_———— Oiling Western Railroads. People who have suffered from the | alkali dust in traveling through south- | ern Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, | find the old plague has practically dis- | appeared. This has been accomplished | by sprinkling the track with oil. The principal reason why the olling of | roads has proved more successful in the West than in the East is that the California oil has less odor, is much less volatile, and contains a larger amount of asphalt than the Pennsyl- vania ofl, and therefore forms a mo perfect crust of asphalt and sand. When this work was first taken up three years ago, many difficuities wer experienced in handling the thick, mucky, crude oil, but at present it is possible to distribute it the full width of the ballast on the roadway, and that, | too, while running at the rate of about ten miles an hour. From 4000 to §000 | gallons of oil are used to the mile. It | has been found necessary to follow the first application of oil with subsequent sprinklings from six months to a year and a half, depending on the amount of rainfall and the character of the ballast. In sandy regions the oiling must be repeated after any extensive working on the track which breaks the gummy crust.—New York Commercial. —— ADVERTISEMENTS. nee is to | | | | o “Good Faith and Fair Dealing.” We conduct no lottery. Every suit of clothes leav- ing our establishment is a prize, for with it goes a guarantee of satisfaction. Our customers have $350,000 worth of material to select from. Twenty- five years of success is | | assurance of our motto. Sults from $15.00 up Trousers to Ord:r~ $4.50 up Samples and self-meas- urements free by mail At Mocerate Cast : ~ =