The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1904. JURORS ARE NOT AGREED | ON VERDICT After Spending Five Hours in Deliberation on Ep- pinger’s. Fate They Are Locked Up for the. Night ATTORNEY DUNNE PLEADS FOR MERCY Byington Tears to Pieces Pathetic Pictures Drawn by Defendant’s Counsel of Their Client’s Virtues| PECNETE SN | The case against Jacob l-}wlneer.E charged with obtaining money by fraudulent representations, was given | to the jury at 4:50 p. m. yesterday. At 11 p. m. the jurors had not agreed on a verdict and were locked up for the | night. | After a trial lasting over six weeks the case of the people of the State of for against Jacob Eppinger, | arged with obtaining money by false tenses, was submitted to the jury efore § o'clock last night and t remanded to the custody He was not at once County Jail, like & com- the urgent request of up by affidavits o his health, the the responsibility of per- to go home for guments in the e to the jury occu- The courtroom onlookers, eager to last cpportunity naire on trial for accompanied om by his wife, his sons, Morris his nephew he scathing ar- Attorney Bying- wosure, but wn and wept nger’s counsel, the sing state- Attorney inced that, say, he pre- £0 to the jur: intimati ce of BLAMES ETTLINGER. Dunne’s argument dealt »f the missin ane his faithful bim? Her At 2 ek took up the 4 rosecution and start to pieces the elabor: nse. He attempte n oratory, dealing ol nee and the trans- or to its failure. , and Dem- use, with his from his Nps, re 2 ALL. give warmning that ely testified on this who bad any guilty will be pro: defense has b 4 of wheat wen t shipioad after n ports. Jacob wger knew that that wheat did not belong but to the Colusa Bank, and he €rain money was end it was afterward Has it been to meet the Y ¥ afrald to admi s n court? An honest merchant does ot fear an inspection of his books. Gentiemen of the Jury, do not et the man steals hundreds of thousands of dollars free while the man who steals a farthing to 3ail. With the firm conviction that will do your duty 1 now leave the case th you Judge Lawlor's instructions to the while lengthy, were confined to he laws governing embezzlement, and after the jury retired he ordered a re- ess until 8 o'clock. At 11 o'clock no agreement had een reached and as there seemed no wope that a verdict would speedily be found the jury was locked up for the ury, | fication among | chatelaine | purse containing 10 cents and a shirt ! broken away. OUNG WOMAN DIES ON BEACH Body Supposed to Be That of Anna McCoy Discovered | Near Life Saving Station Visitors at the St. SACRAMENTO VALLEY WORKERS ARE PRODUCING GREAT RESULTS Louis Exposition Are Being Given Ample Demonstration of the Productiveness of the Great Northern SUING HEINZE FOR MILLIONS Two More Actions Are Filed in Court to Recover Value es} of Ore Said to Be Stolen i IS A MYSTERY CAUSE ! Pretty Girl With Flowing Brown Hair Lies on Slab' at Morgue Unidentified A young woman, supposed to be| Anna McCoy, was found dead in the sand dunes at the beach last evening. The corpse was discovered lying face | downward a quarter of a, mile south of the United States Life Saving Station by a man and woman whose names are unknown. They notified Captain Varney of the life saving station. Varney did not know that the woman was dead and notified the Park Hos- pital. Dr. Pawlicki responded to the call and on his arrival pronounced the woman dead. In his opinion she had | | been dead for several hours. He could | | not tell what had caused her death. 11 Deputy Coroner Fennel removed the | | body to the Morgue. There was nothing | | in the way of a positive mark of identi- the woman’s effects. In her purse was an aluminum tag bearing the name “Anna McCoy.” A bag of brown leather was found mear the body. In it was a small stud bearing an imitation diamond. She had a handkerchief with the initial “A” embroidered in one corner. In the hand- kerchief were several small red candies | | and a key. I The dead girl wore a wedding ring | | and a plain band gold ring on the first finger of the right hand. On the third | finger of the left hand she wore a small | | imitation gold ring with two blue| | stones sct in it, i1 | | | | The woman was about 27 years old, about five feet in height and of medium build. Her features are regular and the head is crowned with a wealth of pretty brown hair. Her right upper eye tooth is gold crowned, and the bicuspid immediately back of it is The piece of the broken | tooth was found in the handbag. She wore a brown tailor-made suit, pale blue straw hat with pale blue flowers | | as a trimming. The jacket of the suit was trimmed with yellow lace. In the girl's white waist was a small silver| | heart pin I Deputy Coroner Fennel is inclined to | | think that the girl was sick and fell in the sand and became smothered. Her mouth and nostrils were clogged with sand. Another theory is that she took poison of some kind, speedy in action, and fell unconscious on her 3 BY PAUL EDWARDS, j CALL BUREAU, PRESS BUILDING, ST. LOUIS, July 22.—For \\'ideawak&‘,' active work at St. Louis there is prob-/ ably no section in California that is| | excelling Sacramento. The advantages | I 22 i SN Rl of the great Sacramento Valley are REPUBLICAN LEADERS | presented to the exposition visitors in | GO TO LOS ANGELES 2 manner that arouses interest from —_— | the very start. | San Francisco Will Be Well Repn:-i The scheme has been placed in the sented at Banquet in Southern |hands of men who understand that City To-Night. | they have been sent to St. Louis to - M. C . EEh accomplish a special purpose, and that William M. Cutter of Yuba, who Was ;11,05 is to convince the people that chairman of the Republican State Cen- the Sacramento Valley is the great- tral Committee in the memorable cam- est producing section in the country. | paign of 1902, was in San Francisco To see is to believe, but it requires vesterday on his way to Los Angeles to Nard effort to set the people thinking attend the dedication of the clubhouse !N this line when they are 2000 miles of the Union League in the southern Iy = Up to a late hour this morning the corpse had not been identified away. But this is what the Sacramento Valley promoters are doing. city e edit Is At the banquet in Los Angeles to- 4::;£‘nald‘.‘lx‘,“\\":l]‘;:’?r:d ]i;r‘ell»{ni‘l.{l; Jt’ night San Francisco will be represent- ' (1o (ommissioners who are so ably ed. An excursion party consisting of representing the northern portion of the following left here last evening for (p. statc the south in a speclal car: Colonel rpe presentatives of Sacramento George H. Pippy, Mrs. George H. (jty also are doing splenaid work. The Pippy, Miss T ss Ethel o1k js under the direction of General Pippy, Cc Fuller. T. K. Kase, j G. Martine, and he is assisted by Mra. T. K. E. Tauszky, Mrs. E. j H. Devine and H. P. Rowley. The Tauszky, Colonel Charles Sonntag, Ira headquarters are at the Hamilton} A. Manning, J. R. Tregloan, Mrs. Grace Hotel, although excellent missionary Moore, F. H. Short, R. H. Schwarzkopf, work is being done at all the hotels. Harry Horn, J. Harry Russell, R. E. Sacramento, Butte, Colusa, EI Mille A. Bates, A. J. Ranken. Dorado, Glenn, Placer, Shasta, Sutter, | Ferd K. Rule, president of the Cali- Tehama, Yuba and Yolo counties are fornia League of Republican Clubs, embraced in the association. Good work was in the city yesterday. Early in for each of them being done by the the day he conferred with General representatives her George Stone. ck an of the State There is an Oakland merchant at the nmittee, and ent to Sacra- Louisiana Purchase sition who mento. W. D. Tillotson, a Republican leader in Shasta County,"is in San Francisco. —_————— learned something concerning the »nce of California wines that wiil f benefit to him. It does not look mable that new customers for goods could be found among vigiting the fair, but un- Two Japanese Missing. M. Yamanoto, a Janane fisher- : 8 man, was rescued from the bay at the = there are denizens of the foot of Second sireet on Monday, C°lden§ “""'“‘;" "'_“ for: 1 label When conveyed to the Emergency Mania—only excusable if the foreign Hospital he was booked as “John is r]‘. Iy better—as badly as the D as he could not speak English. People of the East : | Since then he has communicated with _ 1P¢ Mmerchant in question. whose tie Deantry it B SiBRc R Al fhins. TN 1;, v known in California com- he and three others had been fishing ";,rf R e e e g up the bay. On their return their PlaY of his native e in the Palace > ang a leak and they were ©Of Agriculture and sampled some sau- | terne, toward which variety of wine he has a leaning. Setting down his glass he asked of Ferdinand Haber, who has charge of the d “You tell me wine?” | “Look at the label,” said Haber. “We | wouldn't risk selling anything from the European laboratories under selled to swim for their lives. The survivor does not know what became of his com corr *— * this is a California ing of Jacob his brother Herman Eppinger and Bernard Ett- linger, was one of the largest grain dealing firms in the world. On June 6, Eppinger, our es-| 1903, shortly after the *“Big Four,” teemed label,” and his chest puffed out. which included Eppinger & Co., had The Oaklander saw that the l)utlle: bore the brand of a well-known Cali- | fornia winer He asked the price of | the vintage and was informed on that point. attempted to corner the grain market of the worid, announcement W made that the firm had suspended. The notice came like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, and the business' ‘“Well, I never knew,” he said, “that con nity was electrified. The firm any sauterne as good as that was pro- | was supposed to be worth millions. For duced in California. I've been for years a quarter of a century Jacob Eppinger's/Tsing an imported sauterne at my table word had been accepted without ques- ' and this is actually better and cheaper. tion among bankers and he could bor- I'll use it instead of the foreign article row as he chose. There was a hurried hereafter.” consultation among the business men, Haber couldn’t miss the chance for a credilors’ meeting was called and an oration, and to the Oakland mer- | even the most conservative of the chant and the rest of those present he| creditors described the failure as “rot- said: ton, very rotton.” The liabilities of the *If Californians were like the French firm were over §1,250,000; its assets were and Germans—loyal to their sofl—the | promises ‘assure a splendid future for | bottle with a pretty label to carry home | 28 a sample. Section of the State---Foreign Expert Praises Our Win T/ T B e | SACRAMENTO _EXHIBIT _ AND | | THREE ACTIVE COMMISSIONERS | AT THE FAIR. o+ . ed at a wine exhibit will say the bev- erage given them is good, but when| a viticultural expert for a foreign coun- | try that has its own wines in the mar- | ket carefully tastes and then praises with true enthusiasm it means some- thing. B. C. Cinncinnato da Costa of Portugal, a member of the jury of | awards at Paris and also of the jury| for this exposition, has not only said the California wines were of excellent | quality, but has expressed surprise at | their improvement during the last few | vears and says their future, with the still further improvement that is nat- ural, is a great one. Commissioner da Costa’s opinion should be worth some- | thing, for he is a professor and’ vice | president of the Technical Agricultural Institute of Lisbon, of which the King, of Portugal is president; director of ! the laboratory of fermentation of the same institute; member of the Supe- | rior Council of Agriculture and Science | of Coimba and director of the Royal | Central Agricultural Association of | Portugal. If all that doesn't make Da‘ Costa’s opinion of wine valuable there | mall chance for any one's to have | ght. But if that isn't enough, it | might be well to say that he is the| author of two well-known volumes, | “The History of Viticulture of Portu- gal” and “The Technical History of Agriculture of Portugal. ! “When 1 was at the Paris Fair,” said | Professor ,da . “I sampled the California wines exhibited there and, to be truthful, was not favorably im- | pressed with them; they emed to be | woefully lacking. I remember smingJ down to dinner with California wines on the table and there was more m | the boftles than myself and my friends | needed. | “My surprise is great when I taste| these excellent wines you exhibit now. The improvement in these few years is marvelous. You have wines that rank | with any in the world and all are good. | Thz present quality of California vin- | tages and the still further improvement | that the advance in the last few years | the grape and its product in Cali- | fornia.” v Professor da Costa has tanks of wine at_his disposal, so he didn't say all | this because he hoped to be given a! It looks as if some gold | medals might come in the direction of California’s wine exhibit. Haber’s ability to speak several lan- guages is a valuable asset to him in| his position here, as many of those in- | terested in wines and grape culture are foreigners. —_— | i FEAST UPON WATERMELONS, ! ¥ i Luscious Repast Enjoyed by Visitors at the California Building. ! |GREAT SUMS INVOLVED | P SRR | Totals Asked in Various Suits Against Butte Mag- i nate Amount to $16,000,000 more BUTTE, Mont., July Two | suits were begun in the District Court jto-day by the Boston and Montana Company to recover damages to the amount of many millions of dollars on | account of the alleged looting of large quantities of valuable ore from the ad- | joining mines through the Minnie iHealy workings. In the two suits that | were begun to-day judgments are | asked to the amount of $7,400,000, mak- | ing a total, with the big suit that was | begun on Thursday, of $13,150,000 for | ore alleged to have been unlawfully | extracted from the veins of the Colusa, | Piccolo and Gambetta mines through | underground workings in the Minnie Healy. In the five suits that have been begun against Heinze and his agents, alleging | Davitt, Little Mina, Colusa, Piccolo and | Gambetta mines the judgments in "damages that are asked aggregate $16,- 850,000. The two suits begun to-day were against Heinze corporatibns alleged to |have been in charge of the Minnie | Healy at different periods in the com- | plicated proceedings that have arisen | through the litigation over the prop- erty. | | —_— e ———— | SIX PERSONS INJURED | AT WORLD'S EXPOSITION Serious Accident Caused by the Care- | lessness of a Scenic Rail- way Gripman. ST. LOUIS, July —Six persons were injured in a car on the scenic \railway at the World's Fair to-da | The injured: Miss Helen Woodward, |'Omaha, right ear torn; W. Chand- | ler, St. Louis, right ear tor Mrs. J. | D. Thomas, Kansas City, right ear |torn: Lewis Wilson, St. Louis, knee ! sprained; C. W. Porter, Muskogee, I | T., knee hurt; Miss Mabel Rossington, | Pueblo, ear torn. i The accident was caused by the grip- man, whose attention had been di- ‘\'erled from his work, losing control | of the car, which ran against the side | supports. Four of the injured had e ! m::’lr : | B & { " | the looting of ore from the Michael | BLAZING CAR ON WILD RN Electric Motor Catches Fire and Then Makes Speectae- ular Trip Down Town | FIREMEN LEFT BEHIND [Word Is Sent to Headquar- ters and Current Is Shut Off Before Damage Is Done USRE R CHICAGO, July 22.—Blazing flercely rom wheels to roof, a runaway motor car on the Metropolitan Electric Ele- vated Railway whizzed by hundreds of waiting passengers and led a fire en- gine a chase of more than a mile and | was not stopped until it had reached the crowded loop in the downtown region used by the four elevated roads of Chicago. The car was brought to a stop by the temporary shutting off of the power at the supply station, the engineer of the power-house having been advised that a runaway car was speeding downtown. When the car was first found to be on fire it was detached and was run past the Aberdeen street station so that | neither the rest of the train north and the station might catch fire. The train was left-alone and a fire engine was called. For some reason, just as the firemen were making ready from be- low the elevated structure to send a stream of water on the blaze, the car suddenly started. With no one on board and leaving a trail of fire and smoke behind it, the runaway began the wild race down- town. When the car stopped at the loop entrance the fire engine, distanced in the first part of the chase, came up land put out the fire, but not before | the car was a charred wreck. RFCHERER SRR | OBJECTS TO CARICATURES OF THE IRISH RACE | 3 Ancient Order of Hibernians Adopts i | Resolutions in Convention at | St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, July 22.—In the co Ancient Order of Hi- by vention of the bernians to-day a report submitted the committee on resolutigns favored a national home for members of the or- caturing of the Irish race ge and in | the comic sections of the newspapers. upon t THIS VICTIM = | Mrs. Angela Fawn Is Found Unconscious on the Street With Her Skull Crushed @ . H With her skull crushed and one arm broken, Mrs. Angela Fawn of 915 ‘Washington street was found late last night lying unconscicus near the cor- [ ner of Ninth and Stevenson streets. |l She was taken to the Central Emer- gency Hospital, where Doctors Stephen and Kusick examined her. The sur- geons say positively that the woman | was struck on the head ‘'with some biunt instrument, probably a hammer. There is little hope for her recovery. The case looks very much like an at- tempt to murder. Detectives are now working on that theory. The woman regained consciousness long enough to give her name and then relapsed into a state of coma, from which. she will probably never recover. The surgeons were attempting to trephine her skull at a late hour this morning. DRINK CAUSES FATAL OUARREL in an Intoxicated Condi- tion, Tries to Shoot Spouse AR T Special Dispatch to The Call. Cotton Blankets. Our special to-night is one of unusual in- terest to householders. Extra blankets are al- ways welcome. A good grade of cotton blanket, 10-4.in. wide; 72 in. long. To-night LOS ANGELES, July 22.—In a fit of | rage induced by drink, her appetite for | whigh she could not control, Mrs. Ran- | neb, wife of J. Will Ranneb, a Los An- | geles attorney, fired three shots at her husband Wednesday night at Norwalk, this county, and then turned the | weapon upon herself, inflicting a wound from which she died to-night. The couple were married a year ago. Soon | after the marriage the husband dis- covered that’his wife had acquired an | ungovernable appetite for drink. He took her to the McCarthy ranch n;ar! Norwalk, in a remote section of the county, hoping by absenting her from | places where liquor is sold to be able to cure her. All went well for a time, but \the woman fcund the means of | securing liquor and this led to frequent | quarrels. } Thie best afloz Wednesday night Ranneb returned and found that his wife had been drinking. A quarrel of more than or- | dinary violence followed and during it | the woman seized a revolver and be- gan shooting at her husband. Her condition was such that her aim was not good and he escaped injury. She fired four shots at him, all of which practically nothing. The outside hold- ings of ranches and stores were heavily mortgaged to various banks, and the warehouses supposed to be full of grain contained little but sweepings. The matter was brought to the attention of the Grand Jury, and after an investi- gation Jacob Eppinger and Herman Eppinger were jointly indicted on charges of obtaining money under night. | false pretenses, the specific charge on | State would prosper more. The French- man and the German will not eat any- thing, wear anything or drink anything not produced by the soil of their coun- try, provided their countries supply them good articles. wines, their own olives and their own olive oils, and the producers will be more prosperous.” s Haber was revived after this effort Let the Califor- | | nians recognize the merit of their own | went wild. Her failure to effectively use the weapon seemed to anger her the more and turning the revolver on | herself she sent the last bullet into { her left breast above the heart. Had | she recovered the public probably would never have known of the shoot- ing, but her death to-night rendered it | necessary for the physicians who at—; tended her to notify the Coroner. The ST. LOUIS, July 22.—A watermelon | feast was given to-night on the large lawn at the rear of the California build- ing to California visitors and the pub- lic generally. A half carload of fine watermelons had just been received from California. The melons were flavored with several kinds of Cali- fornia wine. The feast was attended by SHERWOOD a0 many prominent Californians, who | husband is almost crazed over the SHERWOOD DISTRIBUTORS FAILURE OF THE FIRM. The firm of Eppinger & Co., consist- ' which the indictment was based being | with a dash of French cognac that was a transaction with the International handy. Banking Corporation on April 14, 1903.! Most any one who is hospitably treat- pronounced it one of the pleasantest af- fairg that has yet graced the California building. death of his wife. He is a son of S. D. Ranneb, a well-to-do real estate dealer in this city. WHISKY 212-214 MARKET ST SAN FRANCISCO 216 N MAIN ST. LOS ANGELES.