The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1904, Page 1

ber 21: ally cloudy Monday; G. H. THE WEATHER. Forecast made at Sen Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Novem- San Francisco and vicinity—Gener- Local Foreaster, Temporarily in Charge. lght west wind. WILLSON, A VOLUME XCVI—NO. 174. SAN FRA ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. NCISCO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HIGHWAYMAN CAPTURED AFTER A PISTOL DUEL GEORGE MILLER AGAIN BEHIND THE BARS Surprised in Act of Searching Victim. e Policeman 0’Neil’s Arrival Very Opportune. Holding his three-year-old son by the kb e yesterday afternoon Po- S. O’Netl fought a pistol &nd captured one of the ngerous highwaymen and iat has looked from be- the bars in the City Prison for months. The prisoner, George y having served four othes, re- wound- shots infant was to a call for duty flender, thou at him while el was at short range. The were hardly ten feet apart. from 2 41-caliber English the po man used a er revolver. When the fusil- ended both weapons were neither combatant ough T this fact. A chase fol- taken prisoner n where it start- his pistol and maintained a of De- ckly recog- his previous rec- dmitted his identity e 1882, most of his t hin the con- MANDS MONEY. was golng home from his as ayp aching Chestnut when a masked the highwayman d ordered him Malone was g, but when the eated he realized face with a des- man also nd him, and d thug was com- of the first, so tance and, when ver a purse con- fol- possession. cgme upon who was off dut N but a short id lit- tion until v the gas 1d 2 masked aled held a nd was going s pockets with th calized what er and the road to who, until unconsciou policeman, denly and opened he WEAPONS ARE EMPTIED. O'N lost no time in responding and a few seconds each party had ex- changed five shots apiece and the air wvas dense with smok: Miller, slightly ed In the started to run. followed him, calling upon him urrender. The crim- eed and the chase arm, no ller stumbled on that had recently been O’Neil halted beside him. 1 inted his pistol at the hold-up an end ordered him to give himself hands of the law. Miller at sed, though his weapon was but finally cast it aside and 1= above his head. through the chase had e officer and when the made he was at his ordered Miller to stretch and Malone, taking a pair uffs from the policeman’s aced them upon the prisoner’s Miller was of the opinion that shot left in the ver, and the officer er had reserved a bul- I fight, there having only 10ts fired from each weapon. s for the surrender with- . P ot look like a criminal ed the central police sta- pted to elicit sympathy £ that if he asked for a dollar splaying a pistol it would not given him, though he were stary- in He attempted to convey the im- ession that poverty had forced him ion of the crime. A as taken to the detec- ive bureau and questioned by Captain The chief of the detective orce quickly recognized him. Calling for a book of records and pictures from the rogues’ gallery, he showed one to the prisoner. Miller glanced at his photograph and in answer to a ques- tion stated that the police records con- tained all of his history. The records of the department show that Miller was sent from San Franeis- co on June 7, 1882, to San Quentin for his face con-| liceman to head- | offender and con- | d in front of him. | The per- | g his boy | I | | | | { ! — MALONE AND THE | 1 DUEL IN WHICH THE CRIMINAL EX-CONVICT WHO WAS SURPRISED IN THE ACT OF ROBBING RICHARD C. POLICEMAN WHO CAPTURED HIM AFTER A PISTOL WAS WOUNDED. AW CHEATS - CHINESE OF e little | IS BRIDE | TACOMA, Nov. 20.—Shen Hsi Shul, | & wealthy Chinese of Shanghal, who | arrived here several days ago on the steapnship Tremont, is being held at Port Townsend because of his lack of an identification certificate. With him is Florence Wagner, a good looking S}-girl, who says she comes from a good | New York family. She loves the Chi- | nese, she says, and he adores her. They | will marry when he can secure en- | trence to the United States. The girl met Shen in Shanghai and promised to become his wife. They | took passage on the Tremont, and, in | order to see the Japanese scenery, took | the train from Moji to Kobe, when they | again boarded the steamer. They found that Shen’s stateroom had been enter- | ed, his box of valuables broken into, and numerous articles, including his | certificate, stolen. The Consul at | Shanghai by wire declined to issue a | new certificate except on Shen's per- sonal application. Shen thought his story might get him in, but found him- self mistaken on his arrival The company operating the Tremont | has supplied 2 round trip ticket to | Shanghai to Shen and Miss Wagner. {On their return they will go to San | Francisco and thence to Panama. | While Shen is detained Miss Wagner is stopping at the best Port Townsend hotel. She is supplied with every lux- ury Shen's money can purchase. She went to Manila during the Philippine war as a nurse. — the crime of burglary in the second de- | gree. On January 27, 1885, under the | alias of August Halberstadt, he was re- | turned to the same prison from Alame- | da County for the same offense to serve | a sentence of four years. On April 14, 11892, as George Miller he again went | to San Quentin prison for burglary in the second degree for the term of five | years and on May 12, 1896, he was sent to Folsom prison for twelve years for an assault to commit murder commit- ted in Santa Clara County. He was | released on June 4 of the present year. | When taken to the City Prison last | night Miller was booked on one charge of robbery and another of assault to | commit murder, the latter having been | preferred by Policeman O’Neil. Miller is suspected of having held up Frank Trainor at Webster and Lom- bard streets last Sunday night. Trainor was robbed by a man whose description tallies with that of Miller and as the two holdups occurred in the same neighborhood it is naturally sup that the same man is guilty of bof PAYS FAIR PRICE FoR HER COUNT Special Dispatch to The Call., PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 20.—The com- | ing wedding of Count Cini of Rome, | Italy, grand nephew of the late Pope Leo, to Miss Elizabeth Howe of Pitts- burg, has been again announced. It | will take place in London in the spring. | The wedding was announced some time ago, but for some reason not then ex- plained it was called off, or it was so. understood. It is now a certainty, and social Pittsburg Is at present discussing the announcement that the demands made by the Count have been' met by Miss Howe, who has agreed to defray all the Count’s debts, providing they do not total more than $50,000, and guarantees him $10,000 yearly for life. TUntil this was done the Count did not enthuse over the wedding arrangements, After the wedding had been first an- nounced the Count demanded that he be given $70,000 in hand to settle out- standing obligations and $15,000 annu- ally for life. He was refused and fled to Canada, whence he sent a revised bill, making it $50,000 cash and $10,000 yearly. This was accepted. Miss Howe, who is 40 years of age, is much the older of the palr. ————————— HIBERNIANS HONOR MEMORY OF LATE SENATOR HOAR Exercises in Boston in Which His Friendship for the Irish Is Recalled. BOSTON, Nov. 20.—Under the aus- pices of the Ancient Order of Hiber- nians of Suffolk County, services for the late TUnited States Senator George F. Hoar were held in { Fanueil Hall to-night. The hall was filled. The speakers dwelt particularly on the fact that when race and _religious prejudice was directed against the Irish immigrants in America the words and acts of Senator Hoar were an important factor in stemming the tide of bigotry. Chamberlain Visits King Victor. ROME, Nov. 20.—King Victor Em- manuel to-day received Joseph Cham- berlain in private audience at his country estate, San Rossore. His Majesty evinced great interest in the situation in England and in Chamber- lain's scheme of tariff revision. PAYS BACK LOAN Wi INTEREST “Diamondfield Jack” Remembers Benefactor. Substantial Gift to Man Who Omce Wrote His Death Warrant. Tonopah Mining King Surprises a Defeated Candidate for Congress. , Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. SALT LAKE, Nov. 20.—Judge O. W. Powers of Salt Lake came to his of- fice the morning after the election to learn he had been defeated for Con- gress. On hig desk he found a letter conveying to him mining stock worth $10,000, a Congressman's salary for two years, from ‘“‘Diamondfield Jack” Davis, whose death warrant was drawn by Powers in Idaho in 1898. “Diamondfield Jack,” then known as a desperado, gun-fighting cowboy, was convicted of having murdered two sheep herders in Idaho in 1896. The killings followed a long war between the sheep- men and cattlemen for possession of a range in the Shoshone Basin. Davis had been in numerous scrimmages with the sheepmen and had threatened to kill the next sheepman he found on the disputed ground. When the bodies were found suspicion at once pointed to Davis. He fled, but was later arrested at the Arizona penitentiary in Yuma. Goverhor Sp: of Nevada, by whom Davis had been émnployed, spent a large sum of money, sald to be not less than $20,000, in defending Davis. The sheep- men employed Powers, a noted criminal lawyer, to p . Davis was con- i and Po by order of court, the death rant. poin Then, after Davis had been for the third time sentenced to hang, another man confessed the killing. Powers, at his own expense, went to Boise to plead for a pardon for Davis. The pardon was granted. Davis came to Salt Lafe and bor- rowed from Powers the few dollars necessary to buy a ticket to Tonopah. Davis began prospecting. He was one of the original locators at Goldfleld and Diamondfield and is believed to be a prospective millionaire. He has re- formed, married and is regarded as a model cltizen. Powers had not heard from his loan until the order for the mining stock reached him. —_——————— CINCINNATI VISITED BY DISASTROUS FIRE Flames Canse Damage to the Extent of Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars. CINCINNATI, Nov. 20.—Fire to-day caused a loss in the central part of the city, on the south side of Fourth between Walnut and Main streets, and also on Main near Fourth, approxi- mating $700,000. It started about noon in an abandoned bullding in the rear of the Pounsford Stationery Company. A strong breeze caused the flames to spread rapidly and it required several hours to get the fire under control. Several five-story buildings were damaged, the heaviest Joss on buildings being sustained by the McKickin estate, estimated at $75,000. The principal losses on stock fol- low: The Rudolph Wuritzer Com- any, pianos and musical instruments, 200,000; the Pounsford Stationery Company, $60,000; F. A. Schwaill & Sons, manufacturers of glassware and bottlers’ supplies, $55,000; Queen City Window Glass Works, $40,000; the Loring Andrews Company, jewelry manufacturers, $45,000. —_———— DEMONSTRATION AGAINST AUSTRIA BY ITALIANS Students Gather About the Embassy in Rome, but Are Dispersed by the Troops. ROME, Nov. 20.—Demonstrations of protest against the Innsbruck af- fair continue to be made at various places in Italy. In Rome the students again started in the direction of the Austrian embassy and soon were aug- mented in numbers on the streets. The police were insufficient to control the demonstration. When the crowds arrived at the embassy they shouted “Long live Trent” and “Long live Trieste.” The troops that had been called out charged the mob and dis- persed it. The agitation is taking many forms, including contributions to the Dante by municipalities and addresses to the Government, one of which from Naples bore 6000 signatures. —————— . STEAMER'S MACHINERY BREAKS DOWN AT SEA 1 The Belgian Vessel Iris and Reports Her Crippled Conditie lon. LONDON, Nov. 20.—The North German Lloyd steamship Branden- berg, for Baltimore from Bremen, which passed Lizard Head to-day signaled that she had spoken the Belglan steamer Iris, about 250 ‘miles southwest of Queenstown and learned that her machinery is badly disabled. The Iris is in command of Captain Fytor and is on her way to l memorial ! Alighieri Soclety, memorials adopted |\ OFFICIALN TALE T BELIEVED: WO LOVERS Arizona Grand Jury|Woman Ends Life Orders Arrest of Ex-Treasurer. His Story of Being Bound, (agged and Robbed Investigated. Body Finds There Was Shortage in Funds at Time of the Sup- posed Crime. Special Diepatch to The Call. PRESCOTT, Ariz., Nov. 20.—James P, Storm, former County Treasurer of Yavapai County, who was found bound and gagged in the vault of his office on November 9 and who re- perted that he had been robbed of $15,000 by two men and then placed in the vault in the condition found and where he claimed he had been for seventeen hours, was arrested this morning and charged with embezzle- ment. When the Territorial Grand Jury adjourned November 12 committees were appointed to investigate the vari- ous county offices and particularly the circumstances connected with the al- leged robbery. Many -circumstances did not harmonize with the story told by Storm, ome in particular causing doubt, in which he claimed he had kicked on the door of the vault at in- tervals all night to attract attention. | When his bondsmen were making an investigation they placed one of their number in the vault and locked it and had him kick on the door. The noise made by him attracted the attention of people on the opposite side of the plaza. Another circumstance that Storm was unable to explain to the satisfac- tion of the jury was why he had left the vault and safe open and the money d on a holiday, particularly as had made a monthly settlement ith the Board of Supervisors on the preceding day. These and minor eir- cumstances aroused suspicion. A large number of witnesses were examined by the Grand Jury's com- mittee. The committee concluded its investigation late last night and dis- covered that an alleged shortage had existed in the office for some time and a complaint was immedfately sworn to charging Storm with embezzlement and a warrant was issued for his ar- rest. An officer found Storm at 1 o’clock this morning taking supper at a restaurant with a number of friends and he was taken to jail. Pending final action in the case by | the Grand Jury, which reconvenes to- morrow, bonds were fixed at $20,000. Stdrm “was a stock raiser and rancher before his election to office | in 1900 and had always borne a good reputation and was very popular. Late this evening a bond was of- fered aggregating $25,000, but was re- jected by the District Attorney on ac- count of not being in legal form. Storm’s friends claim he will be able to furnish bonds to-morrow. =l PLUCKY GIRL FIGHTS THIEF Miss of Fifteen Grapples ‘With Masked Burglar and Then Causes His Capture WHITTIER, Nov. 20.—The athletic tratning which she had had as a mem- ber of the girls’ basket ball team at the Whittier High School to-night en- abled Miss Mattie Hall to win a des- perate fight with a masked burglar in her room and to be the means of caus- ing his arrest. Miss Hall is only fifteen years of age, and last night her parents left her and her sister, aged 9, at home while they went to spend the night with a rela- tive. A noise in their room awoke Mattie about 2 o’clock this morning, and her first glance around the room revealed the outlines of a man's form passing out the door. Pluckily, the girl decided to do some investigating. She arose, locked the door and quickly dressed. She then attempted to open the door to step out into the hall, but found that it was being held by some one outside the room. Just as she stepped back from the door it was forcibly thrown open and a masked man stepped into the room and viciously attacked her. She began calling for help and at the same time. tried to throw the man to the floor. He endeavored to grasp her throat, but she struck him several telling blows, one of which almost downed him. By this time her sister had opened a window and began screaming for help, and the burglar, hearing other persons approaching, ran from the house. Officers tracked him by the imprints of his tennis shoes a few blocks away and found a young man named Gunn in bed with his clothes on and bearing abundant marks of a recent struggle. Gunn is in jail and Miss Hall says she thinks he is her assailant. —_—————— New Play for Sarah Bernhardt. PARIS, Nov. 20.—Sarah Bernhardt is preparing to produce a new play, “Le Prince Charmanta,” of which the American rights have been secured by Blanche Walsh. DEATH PACT S KEPT BY as Man Is Being Interred. |Sequel to Sudden Demise of an Ohio Railroad Official. Miss Elsie Gesterling of Denver Drinks Poison in Her Apartments in a Chicago Hotel. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—Dramatic and | mysterious eircumstances surround | the suicide of Miss Elsie Gesterling by drinking poison in the Vendome Hotel | here yesterday. Grief over the sudden | | death of the man she was to have mar- ried next Saturday is the only known cause for her act. She left no note that would give a clew. At the hotel it was stated that her flance was Her- man Parker, a prominent railroad offi- cial residing in Cincinnatl. He died| suddenly on Wednesday, it was said. A. E. Frost, proprietor of the hotel, said her betrothed, Mr. Parker, was buried In St. Louis yesterday, and de- clared it as his belief that Miss Ges- terling committed suicide so that she | | might die at the hour of the funeral. At this point the mystery begins. No Herman Parker died in Cincinnatl. No Herman Parker was buried in St. Louis yesterday. No Herman Parker | occupled a prominent position in the railroad world. But— Charles A. Parker died “suddenly” in Cincinnati. Charles A. Parker was buried in St. Louls yesterday. Charles A. Parker was first vice president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, and President of the Pierre ”]hrquetle Railroad. Charles A. Par- ker knew Miss Gesterling in Denver, and it was from that city that she came to Chicago- When the news of Miss Gesterling’s suicide reached Cincinnati the bellef was expressed that C. A. Parker had taken his own life. There were s | picious circumstances connected witl | his sudden death, but all talk of self- | destruction was ‘at first hushed, be- | cause there was no apparent motive ! for the act. His friends, though in- sisting that death was due to natural | causes, said that he-had been melan- | choly for some days, but attributed that | to worry about his position. A possible motive was supplied yes- | terday by the despairing young woman i’!n the Vendome Hotel, if the sequel | shall prove that the lives-of this man and this girl had been so fatefully merged. For Mr. Parker was a mar- ried man. Miss Gesterling and her mother came | to Chicago from Denver two months | ago. The young woman was 23 years | of age, the only daughter of a widow, and possessed of independent means. According to reports received from Denver to-night Miss Gesterling led rather a gay life In that city. The theory is advanced in Denver that the sudden death of Charles A. Parker and the suicide of Miss Gesterling were the fruits of 2 death compact between the | two. —_—_ % HUNGARY NEAR GREAT CRISIS Resignation of the Premier Demanded and the King *Threatened by Factions BUDAPEST, Nov. 20.—As Premier Tizsa was lev‘lgx a meeting of his po- litical supporters to-day he encounter- ed a hostile demonstration. He was greeted with shouts of “Resign!” and was pelted with snowballs. The police dispersed the crowd by a discharge of blank cartridges. Forty arrests were made. At the meeting Premier Tizsa, in a vigorous speech, ridiculed the charge that a breach of the constitution had been committed and said that the na- tion must decide whether Parliament | was to be ruined by factions of the mi- nority. The situation is regarded as critical. “Out of a total of 400 members, 160 mem- | bers of the opposition parties have | united against the Government, whose party has been weakened by the loss of | the aristocratic group under Count An- | drassy. The press is equally divided | for and against Premier Tizsa and his enemies are actively _intriguing at court in the hope of influencing the : King against him. A memorial of the united opposition demanding of the King the dismissal of Premier Tizsa on account of his measures to defeat obstruction has been drawn up by Count Apponyi and | | Breen's nomination. signed by Francis Kossuth, Baron Banffy, Count Zichy, Deputy Ugron and other leaders, representing all sec- tions of the opposition. In a menacing tone it acgouul Premier Tizsa of violat- ing the comstitution by summary re- form of parliamentary rules, ana threatens the King with a conflict of incalculable dimensions if he breaks his oath by sanctioning laws passed under summary procedure. | RICH MINE CLOSED BY [JONCTION Court Order Deals a Hard Blow to Heinze. Famous MMaly Prop- erty Is Rendered Tem- porarily Idle. - Montanans See in This Development an Echo of the Recent Campaign. BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 20.—The famous ten million dollar Minnie Healy mine, operated by F. Augnustus Heinze, was to-day closed by an injunction issued by Judge Clancy at the instance of the Amalgamated Company. The shut down throws out of employment nearly 1000 miners, smeitermen and other la- borers. It is for the possession of this prop- erty that Heinze and the Amalgamated Copper Company have waged one of the most bitter and sensational legal fights in the history of the United States. The mine was first awarded to Heinze by Judge Harney, but the State Supreme Court remanded the case to Judge Clancy. During the second trial the Ada Brackett scandal arose and the alleged efforts to bribe Judge Har- ney with $260,000 by amalgamated men were brought to light. Judge Clancy finally awarded the property to Heinze. An appeal was again taken and a decision shortly is expected from the State Supreme Court. By an order of the lower court Heinze was allowed to work the property, which has been in full operation until to-day's shut down. To-day's injunction was granted on allegations made by the Amalgamated Company that Heinze was using the Minnie Healy as & means of looting adjoining property, which belongs to that company. F. Augustus Heinze attempted to thrash Constable Fitzgibbons when the latter served the enjoining order. Only the iInterference of some of Heinze's friends prevented a mix-up between the United Copper Company’s presi- dent and the officer. Heinze flew into a rage, threw Judge Clancy's papers at the constable and slapped his face. Prior to the assembling of the va- rious fusion forces of Silver Bow County in convention previous to the late election. Judge Willlam Clancy was known as the foremost of the so-called Heinze judges, enjoying, it Is said, the Intimate confidence of Heinze. An indiscreet admission by Clancy that he knew that the sale of Heinze's mining jnterests to the Amalgamated Company was about to be consummated endangered Heinze's chance of carrying the county, and in retallation Heinze defeated Judge Clancy for a renomination for Dis- trict Judge. County Attorney Peter Breen was nominated. Clancy in wrath quit the con tion hall im- mediately after the announcement of Both of Heinze's candidates for judgeships were beaten. The Minnie Healy injunction fol- lows a suit for $5,000,000 against Heinze for ore alleged to have been looted from Amalgamated mines. —_————— VISIT BY STORK ENDS A STRIKE OF TENANTS Wholesale Exodus From Apartment House Prevented by Bird's Appearance. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Nothing but the stork could have broken the strike of tenants of a new apartment ip Jersey City. A dozen familles that had moved in on the promise that certain improvements, which had not been made for want of time, would be made at once, had waited as long as they could. When Agent Craven called for the rents on the first of the month they all refused to pay him a penny. “Oh!" the agent promised, "“it will all be done before the month is out.™ The tenants: were obdurate, how- ever, and finally the agent began dis- possession proceedings against theéem all. They renewed their agreement to stand together and move out in a body. This they would have done if the stork had not dropped in on the family of one of them, Clerk Flanagan of the Board of Finance. The call of the bird made it de- cidedly inconvenient for Flanagan to move his family, so he pald his rent. The line is broken and the other ten- ants are giving In one after the other, but they say they will renew the strike next month, unless the promised im- provements be made. _———— TWO VICTIMS OF BARCELONA BOMB EXPLOSION SUCCUMB Others Injured at the Same Time Are Reported to Be in a Grave Condition. BARCELONA. Nov. 20.—Two per- sons, who were wounded In the bomb explosion at the Mayor’'s office in the Calle Fernando on Thursday night, died to-day. The condition of the others wounded at the time is grave. Many ‘anarchists, arrested subsequent to the explosion, were released. ——————————— Germany Gets Satisfaction. BERLIN, Nov. 20.—The Garmah embassy at Constantinople has been officially notifled that the officer and soldiers responsible for the recent at- tack upon Herr Eckhardt, the Ger- man Consular agent at Uffa, have been punished.