The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1904, Page 16

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1904. AUTHORSHIP OF ANONYMOUS LETTERS ABSORBS INTEREST IN FRAUD CASE Hyde Is Still Silent as to Epistles Sent Him. —_— ADVERTISEMENTS. \ FIVE SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Children’s Daps at Mamin’; = 7 = G CLOAK ano SUIT HOUSE CUT RATE PRICES .BARGAINS. Yesterday’'s sessions in the land fraud | hearing now drawing to a close before | Federal Commissioner Heacock were | full of sensations. Fiercely counsel fur! Henry P. Dimond battled throughout | | the day to free him from the Govern- | | | f | | | 'Inffiints’ Wear Dept. CHILDREN'S REEFERS, made of English canvas duck; prettily | | ment's charge, fatal if not disproved, | | I | p v . h | | that he wrote the anonymous attacks | | | - ° 3 shaped sailor inserted w | E % e | ower Sdiont: Selimmmdl | | upon his co-defendant and former cli- | | | P - s | ent, Fred A. Hyde. The three features Wil PORIT: ‘DURteNS; LRPOERES { of the day’s work were a strenuous ef- strictly tailor made; sizes from 1 to | fort to obtain a reconsideration of the | . 4 wves (See stration.) $2.50 ! { Commissioner's refusal to compel Hyde | 12 SO ]5 0 7 SO and 20 00 2 b | to testify on Dimond’s behalf, the fail- | 1 . . . . . value. Special for Friday and Satur. | s O T | 'y 'y day only with the author- onymous communica- to the | | introduction of the Town Talk letter, | with all its vilification of the rich land ! | speculator. | r man, Not only the very Latest Styles at such low prices, but a better quality material and better make than elsewhere. JACKETS SKIRTS era | ship { tions, and Hyde's own consent a $1.75 ‘Wheeler and Wright have had several theorie to who v the lette % > | First they declared, them part of i i Children’s Dresses. ‘ e e L Cut Rale Prices. | Cul Rale Prices. { ants, and charged Detective Burns | | | 4 Made of S SRRO S | with full knowledge of their author- | | B $10.00 TAN AND CASTOR KERSEY | $250 GOOD QUALITY WALKING ade « zephyr, i shipt Thik they s - g COATS, SKIRTS, L Blaé .l | ship. n they acquitted Burns and | . e esigns ' and biue check hinted that the mysterious documents | | OUT RATE, $6.50- CUT RATE, $1.75. the sbi yoke; box-plaited [ were the work of a weman—a she devil | | $10.00 BLACK VENETIAN JACK- GOOD QUALITY d back 1 trimmed with nar | possessed with an almost uncanny | | ! e e PR KIR . e oty e e 1 hatred of Hyde and a long-abiding de- | | s CUT RATE, $7.50. W 13 t < a A | sire to accomplish his ruin | | $10.00 BLACK CHEVIOT COATS, | $7.50 BLACK NOVELTY SKIRTS, rnover hemstitched collar | But the evidence to prove the| satin lined, handsomely trimmed, Wffs s 6 months to 3 years. | woman guilty has failed to ap-' | CUT RATE, $£6.00. CUT RATE, £5.00 g | pear. Yesterday was again de- 1250 TAN NOVELTY COATS, LACK AND NAV See illt n) A good $1.50 value. manded ‘from Hyde, but Acein Hyde | ek s B T Sl T Shears, | AVY BROAD- Special for Friday and Saturday only refused to produce the anonymous let- | CUT RATE, $9.00. CUT RATE, 87.50. | ters sent him during half a dozen years, | | as Burns testified, by a woman whom | $16.00 NOVELTY MIXTURE $1.00 | the land dealer had long known. i i o mé%';.'a;;rx £10.00. | These letters, it is conceded, are filled ; e i with attacks on Hyde's family and| | T TR, QOMTE, All Sitk and contain no reference to his business | | strictly man-tailored, . : f — methods, such are found in_the | | SO Be T, 81400 Etamine Skirts at epistles already in evidence. But $25.00 NOVELTY COATS, exquis- Ch'ld ’ Wheeler, after McEnerney had per- | | ite material C t R \ P .Ce narens mitted him to read them, announced | | i e e T 3 " Lhm'th: were undoubtedly written | y the same hand that ote th Russian Suits. 1230-1232-1234 MARKET STREET. missioner. When Dimend’s counsel | An entirely mew Gmodel, made of called Stevens and tried to show that | 2 3 s is connection both with Hyde and with i orted Scotch hyvr. in co y | mported Scotch zephyr, in ¢ | B ade a possible ) | ! il Sl s s g | et | L Aasslile SUMIIE | | in the northern part of the State. This i oisk 3ol Biue: sises £ ; er cleared himself. What | had nothing to do with the land fraud = = 5)- This dvess :lv"»;lm‘ nw.\‘ hn_nz f'?rll‘: no one can pre- | | | cases. Mr. Aubury turned Walker excepti ol - Selee . for B ety ey sta ety Ho] | | |over to me and I furnished him the S8 cer ally good value r ave nearly exhausted their resources. | | | |information for an article that was | $4.00. Special for Friday and Satur- THE TOWN TALK LETTER. printed in The Call and copled in pa- | day only As soon as Commissioner Heacock | pers all over the State. This occurred $2.25 opened court Knight renewed his mo tion that Hyde be compelled to testi as to the receipt of letters from his alleged woman foe. He argued the question at length, but McEnerney set- | tled the matter by announcing Hyde's | refusal to take the stand and reading | the Federal crimes act of 1878, which ! Children’s provides that in a joint trial either | defendant may testify at his own re- quest and not otherwise. To all| Knight's pleading that he listen to fur. .I .t ther urgument, the Commissioner an | dallor dUILS. swered with Knight, | the act of Congr sive. We ek ar T AR ak are now in the twenty-first day of e B this hearing and 1 intend to wind it up | ks | . g without further undue delay. No more | ue; solid color collar ar ent will be permitted on this med with tailor-stitch bl h B R e le to get the so-called Ellen Ells- ed linon bands and crocheted Batter worth letters into the record, lznbi:ht\ v bainons es 4 to 14 years and Wheeler succeeded better with the | } (See v ) Regular $4.50 anonymous attack on Hyde that was ! {omgom s sent last summer to Town Talk. Theo- | value. Special for Friday and Satur ] | dore F. Bonnet, the proprietor of that | day only publication, was called and testified | that he had received the letter, which $3 00 was postmarked August 4, 1903, and | . Children’s Coats. | $6.00 value. | Saturday only | $3.00 Siadle of Aines ks atniiast this Mr. Burke?’ Wheeler requested. “It e cy mixed materia | will be necessary for us to prove that ! season’s newest siyie; collarless ef | he gave the letter to Hyde.” | Then came a conference between fe sizes 10 to 14 years. A good | Special for Friday and which inclosed a $20 gold certificate to | pay for its publication. After reading it he at once turned it over to Jere T. Burke of the Southern Pacific Rail- way’'s law department, who told him afterward that he had given it to his friend Hyde, “We now 11 on Mr. Hyde to produce | a letter in our possession,” responded. “Will your Honor issue a subpena for McEnerney | counsel for the two defendants, at the {end of which Wheeler's request for the | subpena was withdrawn. But Govern- | ment Counsel Heney was not willing to lose the chance to score a point. He demanded that the subpena issue on | behalf of the Government. This | brought out the letter, McEnerney | gracefully vielding and turning it over |to Wheeler. It was read in evidence, | as follows | SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, 1903 Gentlemen: The Government land agents | Every ing styles ordinarily shown, our prices CHILDREN'S STRAW straws 12 years; OOe, orately corded and neatly embroidery; sizes 1 to 6 yea chiidren; 50¢ and $1.00, ed hats for children from 7 Children’s and Misses’ Millinery Dept. We make a specialty of Children's and Misses’ Millinery. effort is made in order to execute the most becom- and aithough the designs are different from those LINGERIE HATS, made of trimmed with lace, 50c, $1.00, $1.50 and up. substantially made and lined with satin; | 75¢, $1.00 and up. CHILDREN’S FRENC trimmed with French braid and We call special attention to our new models of import- to 16 years of age. | In the city, trying to unearth Mr. F. A. Hyde's | 1and business and it seems mighty queer they don’t track him. Tt is thought they are paid | hush money, for Hyde's land frauds are as | plain as daylight to every one. There is a man in Tucson, Ariz, by the H. Schnelder who could in ten | name ot 3 | minutes tell enough of Hyde's fraudulent busi- | ness to put Hyde in the penitentiary for life, | and the Government detectives are right there | now working on this man Schneider, but | Hydd#s men and lawyers are standing over | this man constantly with redhot irons, and | the man is afraid of his life. Hyde would kill him in a minute before he would have his land frauds ex Hyfle has manufactured thousands of bogus es, ‘then worked them around in his full control, and it is amazing how he has thus far escaped the penitentiary all these re, but he §& such a wonderfully cunning, crafty, keen, discriminating, skillful, in- genious character, he has so far dodged the laws, but euch characters usually risk one chance too many. | The facts are the Governors of the States, bankers. fluential business men of supposed honorabie «tanding are all in with Hyde, and he gives them & large share of his enormous land prof- its, and these men have kept the people blind- ed’'as to their relations with Hyde by loudly talking, TALKING against land frauds. are no higher. . good quality of law HATS, made of plain and fancy ages 2 to H BUTTON-ON HATS, elab- : leading lawyers and many other in- rs; a practical summer hat for - i ROTTEN HYPOCRISY. Bven Hyde himself tells the people and de- tectives that he does hope they will put a &3 WOMEN AND C stop to this fraudulent land grabbing, as he seys it confounds his name to strangers with those of other disreputable business parties, says it hurts his HONORABLY conducted busi- ness. Now all this kind of talk from Hyde is ROTTEN hypocrisy, for he is right now the chief instrument in obtaining these present gigantic combination timber companies. Hyde stands behind the whole thing. This John Benson of San Francisco, land tawyer, civ!l engineer and land surveyor, has been Hyde's SECRET partner for a great many years, but before the people Hyde does not claim to know who this Sohn Benson is. Hyde has vears paid the firm of Britton & Gray of Washington, D. C., $10,060 a year to keep him posted on every movement in the Washington land devartment. Of late Hyde has gron a little afraid of manufacturing so many names to iis | 1ana_titles and he goes hunting around col- Jecting hundreds of names from -a cl poor people too ignorant to scarcely read or write their names. He tells them some misleading story, helps HILDRE N The Youngest Baby Can readiyy digest and assimilate Bor- den’s Bagle Brand Condensed Milk be- cause the casein. which is in ordinary cow’s. milk, undergoes physical alteration’ in the process of condensation. which makes it digestible. It brings the result which every parent is looking for, viz., strong and healthy children. . NEW YORK, April 28.—Mme. Emma Calve, the prima donne, Was & passenger on the steamebip La Savole, which salled to-day. She .‘ltfill*'wldmurlb"nnm.. them to sign_their names to these land titles | and power of attorney, gives them $1 or $2 and then no onme ever knows what becomes ©of the class of people to prove it against him. He' has been known to give them pas- sepger tickets to ship them to another pait of the world, knowing they would never have money enough to come back again. Those people have no ideas of the nature The Most for the Money. When you add together speed, safety, com: fort apd scemery you will acknowledge the o tourjst, cars of the Southern and Union Pacific to Chicago or St. Louis to be the best. They are large, clean, cool and run from smoothly. Buy your berth 8. F. Booth, / ‘Agew | of those papers they have been tricked into S t, U. P.'R. R.."1 Montgomery | 2l " nelr. names to and in this way Hyde 3 ——— e is grabbing up millions of acres of lands to fie“away in such & mamner that he can ET. LOUIS, April 28.—Prince Pu Lun, the imperial Chinese Commissioner General to the Warld's Fair, arrived in St. Louis to-day. He was met by a committee headed by President David R. Francis of the World's Fair and Mayor Rolla Wells. wholly control it for his personal profits. To those who do not fully know Hyde's inside life he appears to be a most charm- ingly interesting refined man of excellent pria- ciples, and by a long course of manipulations and money be succeeded in pulling himself \, { | TwEcpore- Somace ‘ | 4 P s + 1 0 MENT OF THE IOR WHO PREPARED LAND | | CASE FOR_TRIAL AND 1S O} GOVERNMENT. COUNSBL IN HEARING: ALSO TWO WITS 2S WHO TESTIFIED. | X; s o E 3 fntc the position of trustee of the State Nor- School and some of the leading clubs at publ nouncer of all Gov- 1 city political frauds, which seem- ingly folds around him purity of character which he to shine in, but under it all ¥. A. Hyde is one of the most unscrupulously daring VIL LAINS, a dangerous_enemy, an unsuspecting treacherous friend. Yours truly MR, 1. S. WINN. P, I desire my name guarded from the pubit There are many misspelled words in the original of this letter. ar the word “dangerous’ appears as ‘dangerious.” It is worthy of note that the same misepelling occurs in the anonymous letter which Dimond testi- d he received about two weeks after the Town Talk letter was Hence Wheeler claims that the two letters were written by the same hand. THE CURTIS INCIDENT. Heney asked only one important question in cross-examination—Had Bonnet heard Hyde make any state- ment regarding Mrs. Curtis? the witness answered reluct- FINNEMORE Judge of the Natal Supreme Gourt, Sends the Following Remarkable Testimonial TO CUTIGURA The World Is Cuticura’s Field, Used Wherever Civilization Has Penetrated. 1 desire to give my voluntary testi- mosny to the beneficial effects of your Cuticars Remedies. I have suffered for some time from an excess of uric acid in the bloed; and since the middle of last year, from & severe attack of Eczema, chiefly on the scalp, face, ears and neck and on one limb. I was for several months under professional treatments, but the remedies prescribed ‘were of no avail, and I was gradually becoming worse, my face was dread- fully disfigured and I lost nearly all my hair. At last, my wife prevailed upon me to try the Cuticura Remedies and I gave them a thordugh trial with the most satisfactory results.” The disease soon began to disappear and my hair commenced to f:ow again. A fresh growth of hair is covering my head, and my limb (although not yet quite cured) is gradusally improving. My wife thinks so highly of your remedies that she has been purchasing them in order to make presents to other persons suf- fering from similar complaints, and, as President of the Bible Women's Bociety, has told the Bible women to report if any case should come under their notice wlien a peor person is so afflicted, so that your ‘may be Tesorted to.” Kl (}Ollff'rm!.l:l‘dl rmnuonl.) Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Oct. 29, 1901. In particu- | mailed. | a mantel of honor aad | 0 dearly loves | jantly, ag betraying something not in- tended to be repeated in open court. | “1 heard him tell Mr. McEnerney that | he did not want what he said about a person whom he called ‘Curtis’ to be introduced.” This let the cat out of the bag, Some one had told Mrs. Curtis that Hyde charged her with writing or knowing who wrote the anonymous letters. When that excitable lady called him to account Hyde had denied having made such a charge. It is agreed by | all persons in the case that Mrs, Cul'-‘ tis had no connection with the letters, and it is probable that a statement to this effect from Hyde or his attorneys will be incorporated in the record in order to clear her from so undesirable suspicion. 1 your Honor certify the quese tion as to our right to call Hyde to the| Judge of the District Court for deter- | mination?" asked Knight when Bonnet had left the stand. This attempt to get around his ruling struck fire from the generally imperturbable Commissioner. “Mr. Knight,” he said, “I have passed on this question and I am an inde-| pendent judicial officer, responsible for | my decisions. If you do not like my | action it will be’ oven to you to appeal | at the close of the examination. I will | give you an exception to my refusal of | your motion.” WHAT STEVENS KNEW. | Horace Stevens, called then by Wheel- | er, said he was a’newspaper reporter and had known Hyde for more than | twenty-one years. He did not know Judge A. B. Pugh, the attorney for the Interior Department, who came here | from Washington to work up the land | fraud case and who is advising Heney on the present hearing. He had met | Detective Burns. All this in answer to Wheeler's queries. “What is the object of these ques-| tions?”" asked Heney, who never con- | sents to be left 1ong in the dark as to | the purpose of any move by the de-| fense. But though the Commissioner sustained the Government counsel’s ob- | jection, Wheeler wouldn't tell. He just poured out more questions. “Were you ever in Hyde's employ No.” ver have a share In his land deal- promised money by Hyde?"” Stevens told the Commissioner that | in June, 1903, he had been sent by the | Chronicle to interview Burns as to the object of his visit to California. The veteran detective had been too shrewd for the witness and instead of submit- ting gracefully to being interviewed he had interviewed the reporter and after pumping him dry had turned him away without any information. Several later calls on Burns resulted with no more success. The secret service man kept his own counsel. ‘Wheeler had Stevens tell of his work in trailing land grabhers. The reporter had varied his newspaper work by trips into the mountains in the interest of | the Southern Pacific Company to look | after men who were stealing the com- pany's timber or for the State Mining | Bureau to investigate squatters who | were trying to “locate” mineral lands | under the pretense that they were non- | mineral. His reports on this subject | had been made to his employers, and | he had used the information thus ac- quired in preparing newspaper articles. This was what Burns had got out of him*when he was sent to interview the detective. The witness further declared that his relations with Hyde had always been cordial, that he was in the habit of visiting Hyde's offjce at short in- tervals, but that he never had access to Hyde's office papers and was never taken into the land operator’s con- fidence regarding the investigations of the Interior Department. “Did you not offer a story on the land frauds to the San Francisco Call?" asked Wheeler. “No. Mr. Walker of The Call went to COATS, b0-inch long, velvet col- before February, 1903. 1 do not recall that 1 ever gave any other paper an article on these land frauds. Still I may have. I have written a ton of stuff. If you will refresh my mem- ory by citing any case you have in mind T will be able to answer defi- nitely. Heacock said this was fair, but Wheeler had nothing but general ques- tions. After making it clear that he had not sold a “story” to the Exam- iner on the same subject, Stevens was permitted to go. BURNS ONCE MORE. William J. Burns was then recalled by Wheeler and the old attempt to force the detective to disclose the evi- dence in his possession was renewed, only to be blocked at Wheeler's first vital question: “When did you first learn of the bathroom incident from Benson's ‘pie- ture man,” Woodford D. Harlan?" the attorney asked. ‘“We object,” shouted Heney, “unless Mr. Wheeler discloses the purpose of this questionin The question was not answered, but Wheeler asked about Burns’ first meet- ing with Heney in Washington. This | brought statements from both the wit- ness and Heney, and it came out that Heney had ited the capital in No- vember, 1903, to consult with Attorney General Knox regarding his engage- ment to prosecute the Portland fraud cases, but that Knox had not even then told the San Francisco lawyer that he was to be retained for the Hyde-Di- mond hearing. In fact, no word to this effect had reached him until after the arrest of the defendants. This ended the day’'s evidence, and the rest of the afternoon was occupied by Wheeler in an impassioned argu- ment that the evidence already in | showed Dimond could not have written the anonymous letters. He also de- clared that unless Hyde was compelled to produce the Ellsworth letters his client might not be able to clear him- self of having written the attacks upon Hyde. The Commissioner tried to relieve the strain between Wheeler and Me- Enerney by asking why the scurrilous parts of the Ellsworth letters might not be blotted out and enough of them put in evidence to support Wheeler's claim that they were written by the author of the later letters, now in evi- dence. Heney saild he would gladly consent, provided the communications were first shown him in their entirety, but this suggestion created no enthu- siasm on the side of the defense. Still the Commissioner’s idea may be adopt- ed. The case will go on this morning. 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