The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 24, 1904, Page 1

ber 24: A THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours, tndln"@mw! Novern: San Franciseo and viéaity—Cloudy, unsettied weather Thursday. probably showers; fresh southeast winds. Distriot Forecaster. G. McADIE, Slaves."" THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—'The Village Postmaster.” CALIFORNIA—*The Runaways.” CENTRAL—"'Queen COLUMBIA—""Her Own Way." CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—"“The Show Girl"” MAJESTIC—"The Taming of Helen."™ ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI— The Messenger Boy.’ Matinees at ail Theaters to-day. of the White SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1904 PRESIDENT WILL MAKE NO TARIFF RECOMMENDATION IN MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Important - Change in Law Relating to Be Advocated. SEQUEL TO PARKER'S-ATTACK| | P S RS Special Dispatch to The Call ALY, BUREAT, HOTEL BARTON, MTASHINGTON, Nov. $3.—President Roosevelt has about concluded the writing of his message to Congress. He Intends leaving the tariff discussion for & special message, to be sent either to the present Congress after it shall bave convened or to an extra session which he may cail. The President has had many conferences during the writ- fng of the message with Attorney General Mo Secretary Metcalf of the 1 ¢ Commerce and La- | Territory Trusts Will of Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, and his message will | declare that this bill should be acted | upon. A determined fight will be made against it. The people of Arizona and ! New Mexico do not want to be joined | in a single State, and the people of In- | dian Territory and Oklahoma are equally as determined that this should | not be done. The residents of Indian maintain that in lnm'xlngJ them to Oklahoma they would have no H voice in the management of their own | Justice Snuth w 'HOLDS WEBER FOR TRIAL N A CHARGE OF MURDER s Sufficient Funds Evidence Agamst Prisoner [. of having murdered his mother. The prisoner’s attorneys will try | | to secure his | pending the trial. are still endeavoring to find where the blood-stained revol- ver used by the murderer was bought and will search to this city. USTICE SMITH decid-' ed at Auburn yesterday that Adolph Weber must stand trial on the charge release on bail The officers carry their| i | It was learned yesterday that while Weber was yisiting San| the voting population lives in what is affairs, as by far the greater part nf! now Oklahoma, | Francisco last July he had his| picture taken at a local studio and that he gave an assumed name to the attendant. bor and ioner Garfield of the Pureau ons, at which sug- 1 to the President as The continuance of the present sys- say on the trust ques. | tem for the upbuilding of the navy tior - will be recommended. The President | jon the President | ®ill again urge the conmstruction of a esgage s that the | Daval base In the Philippine Islands. | | nformation collected | PROGRESS ON THE ISTHMUS. | of Corporations of the | ppe megsage will set forth the work | and Labor be | ipo¢ has been accomplished by the | formation ob-|jgpmian Canal Commission since its | benefit of the | ¢, mation. The President will admit Commis- | 1pa¢ the work has not progressed very | e over this| ,pigly, but will say that systems had | but the Presi-| ¢ "p." worked out and arrangements | w much of the | na30 for the proper carrying on of | given operations. . Wish 10 Crpere will be a review of foreign re- | s which will unneces- | ,, ;0 the condition of the treasury, | | 2ess of greal ©oT- | 4y, relations between capital and labor, st ':"";" | public lands and insular possessions. e by e " _:‘ ,' £ . | The President will recommend that a ’ ' of-49 e Spprieel; lower rate of duty be provided for CHECK ON CAMPAIGN CANARDS. | goods coming into this country from 3 lent is the Philippine Islands. el He will devote considerable space to a discussion of the principle of inter- national arbitration as a method of settling disputes between nations. He will discuss also the need of another meeting at The Hague for the perfec- tion of arbitration. has already sanction The message will be_about the same n Congress, making | length as those previously sent to Con- ve four Territories | gress by President Roosevelt. + ——————p CH MANS SON 1§ HELD FOR RANSOM Strangely Kidnaped on World's Fair Grounds. SEE A Spécial Dispatch to The Call RICHMOND, Va.,, Nov. 23.—After having been missing for two weeks, Stephen Putney Jr., the son of Stephen | | Putney, the Richmond millionaire and | long of enthu- ! manufacturer, has been heard from. He | is in or near St. Louis, the prisoner of | indignant that »u should have been g secrets he gained f the Department of Labor for the benefit of party. He intends that 1 cha~ges can be fhicial. . e Fa. LAWSON SENDS ECCENTRIC | APPEAL TO WALL STREET Promises to Dump Three Enormous Blocks of Stock Upon Market. Special Dispatch to The Call : 4 5z ENDEAVORS TO THROW OFFICERS OFF TRAIL Says He Suspects Neighbor Special Dispatch to The Call. | U MURDERED HIS MOTHER. REPRODUCTION WRITTEN BY HIM AND ONE OF HIS FORME V"—;EBER APPRECIATES . KINDNESS SHOWN TO FR AUBURN, Nov. 23.—Adolph J. Web- and was a close friend of the Weber er, the youth accused of killing ms‘tamily. Both Rechenmacher and Mrs. family, will face a jury on the spscinc | Snowden, young Weber’'s aunt, have t unknown, and is be- L | talked very plainly to Adolph about charge of having murdered his mother. | the ‘ertme. sng’ his apgaient indifter- Justice Smith, at the conclusion of ‘hei STON, 2 25 —Thomas W. Law- t in three 1 the mar- cretion and mightily siasm. “Please, Wall street, stand by on Friday next, and don’t forget the hour persons at pre: ing held for ransom. These facts were is friends of te “prevent attention during loaded to ated, Sugar £0,000 and as d 1 am on the »d to let go, in be music to a I earnestly ask vs that I am )00, respectively w tune, I have investigated the in- nd it to be cor- fere: to the prayers and well wishers of the over this line at 11 o'clock next, the day following that by our President for general g, and the favor I ask is that the street stand by and see that I gety After denying the allegations of the good prices, thereby perhaps preveat- ing the financial ruin of one who has been caught tremendously short of dis- or the amounts and names of the stogks which I will be compelled to slaughter. | “THOMAS W. LAWSON. “P. S.—1 would throw over my lines to-day, in accordance with the pro- gramme advertised by the financial | critics, but for the fact that I wish to| enjoy Thanksgiving day, which I could | not do if I knew I had been ruined. Conspiracy and fraud are denied by | Thomas W. Lawson in an amendment | to a demurrer which he filed to-day in the Massachusetts Sugreme Court in a | suit brought against Lawson, Weiden- | feld & Co. by the Bay State Gas Com- pany of Delaware, The action against the firm was be- | gun in April of last year and its pur- | pose was- to restrain the defendants | from disposing of certain shares of the | Bay State Company, as well as bonds of the Buffalo City Gas Company. bill of complaint, Lawson declares that J. Edward Addicks of Delaware sHould be joined in the suit as a defendant. SHOW NO MERCY TO GOODWIN Fellow-Prisoners Give Remember His Night in Jail. Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Nov. 23.—It was a sad night for Edward H. Goodwin, scion of one of New York's most wealthy and aristocratic families, when he was im- mured with hoboes and petty larcenists in the city jail. Goodwin's jail mates discovered his identity and during the night they kept him in a mental condi- tion bordering on insanity. “Say, Beau Brummel,” queried a va- grant, leering in disgusting fashion at Goodwin, “what's your number in New York's four hundred?” “It must be awful nice to-have a Jot of money and be able to sleep in this place with forty different species of in- sects as companions,” suggested an oc- cupant of another cell, gazing through the bars at Goodwin. The badinage was kept up until Goodwin covered his head with a blan- ket. Then one of the Inmates would Society Man Cause to disturb him, stumbling against him as it by accident. The capitalist did not enjoy his rest. In the morping a cash ball of $1000 was accepted. It was Dy the merest | accident that Mrs. Goodwin met her | recreant spouse in Portland after searching in vain for him elsewhere for several months. Goodwin tried to buy her off for a fgitry $100, but the wife entered complaint against him. The other woman in the case has dis- appeared. Gocdwin is the son of the late Ed- ward Goodwin of the firm of Perkins & Goodwin, paper r.akers, New York. His sister is the wife of Charlemagne Tower, former Embassador to Ger- many. % Goodwin married the daughter of a San Francisco capitalist in 1895, while she was attending school in the East. Deserted by her husband she was taken i { azy not a word had been heard of him. | tall ana weighs 165 pounds. #and a beautifully embossed emblem be- learned to-night from his sister-in-law, Mrs. Langhorne Putney, who returned from St. Louis and is now with the boy’s grief-stricken parents. | According- to Mrs. Putney, her hus-| band, the young man’s brother, who is | now in St. Louis, recelved a brief, un- signed note saying that Putney was| safe and well and would be held until a sum large enough to pay for their trouble was produced. Mr. | Putney, she said, was preparing to| open negotiaiions for his ransom. Fur- | ther particulars are not known here. Young Putney’s case is a mysterious | one. He was with his sister-in-law, | Mrs. Langhorne Putney, in the World’s | Fair grounds on November 16. He was | carrylng her handbag, containing | money and valuable jewelry. Suddenly | Mrs. Putney missed him, and until to- | There are reasons for believing that a | woman assisted those’ who decoyed him | away. The boy is 16 years old, six feet He is the grandson of former United States Sen- | ator Withers of Virginia. —e———————— PRINCE FUSHIMA ROBBED OF JEWELS AT THE FAIR Japanese Guest of the American Na- tion a Victim of St. Louis Thieves. } ST. LOUIS, Nov. 23.—Two handsome longing to Prince Fushimi of Japan, an da beautifully embossed emblem be- longing to A. Sato, grand master of ! ceremonies at the Japanese court, the ! gift and decoration of a European mon- | arch to Mr. Sato, have been stolen from | the apartments of the royal visitors at the Buckingham Club while the Prince and his sulte were visiting the world’s fair grounds. The missing jewels were the favorite | ornaments of the Mikado's cousin, and, besides aggregating in value, it is said, between $4000 and $5000, were regarded | as priceless heirlooms by the Prince and his family. | _— ill and while in a San Francisco hospi- tal was induced to sign a paper by | which she says she unknowingly gave up the custody of her daughter to her mother-in-law and husband. Mrs, Goodwin Sr..is very wealthy and it is his captors4 believed the matter will be settled out of court. preliminary hearing to-day, committed | derer. ence as to the identification of the mur- the prisoner for trial and refused him | and haye told him so. Rechenmacher bail. Had Justice Smith failed to hold him, | On the night of Weber would have been rearrested on the charge of Kkilling his father, his sister or his little brother. Except for a slight flush which crept over his face, young Weber showed no visible sign of emotion when he heard the decision committing him for trial. After court adjourned he remained for some min- utes injJearnest conversation with his attorney, Ben P. Tabor. He wrote a couple of pages of manuscript for his attorney, presumably notes taken dur- ing-the hearing. The strain 1Is beginning to tell on ‘Weber. Usually he walks inte the courtroom with elastic step and with head and shoulder® erect. To-day he held down his’ head and his step was slow, It is the belief of the officers that it is only a question of time until he breaks down and tells everything. Weber’'s attorneys announced to- night that they will make application for bail to Judge Prewett. Sheriff Keena was in Sacramento to-day look- ing for some one to idéntify the pistol found in the barn. He returned this evening unsuccessful. He will resume his search in San Francisco. It is pos- sille that the pistol may have been purchased through a mail order house in the East. SAYS HE SUSPECTS NEIGHBOR. Weber says he wants to swear to a complaint charging some one else with the mur of his family. He intimated to Under—Sheriff May this morning that there are several persons whom he suspects. The Sheriff’s office thinks he 18 making a bluff to bolster up his fast |.waning courage. At the close of coyrt to-day District Attorney Robinson called attention to the desire expressed by the defendant, and suggested that | Justice Smith remain to issue the war- rants. Weber’s counsel immediately got their heads together, consulted with him and then announced that there would be no complaint filed by the pris- oner. B It is not known whom Weber sus- pects, but he intimated to Under Sher- iff May that the person did not live far from the Weber home. The two near- est neighbors are the Snowdens. and the Rechenmachers. Rechenmacher is the owner of the Auburn Brewery, hav- ing purchased it from Julius Weber about ten years ago. He is a German, is of a very sympathetic nature, and he discovery of the murders was almost prostrated with grief. To The Call correspondent Rechen- macher said to-day: “My Ged, I cannot see how any human being could com- mit such a terrible crime, but if Adolph did it, I hope he will be shown no mercy."” TRYING TO TRACE PISTOL. The latest rumor concerning the pis- tol found in the barn is that the officers | have ascertained that a boy, James Armstrong, sold a 32-caliber pistol to Eugene Rodehaver a few weeks ago. At a dance Rodehaver hid the pistol outside, not wishing to take it Into the hall. When he went to look for it later it was gone. This story hag not been confirmed. The officers now believe that the shells (Peter's make) could have been purchased in Auburn. One hardware store here carries them, but R. J. Han- cock, the proprietor, does not recall selling any to Weber, Sheriff Keena has inquired in Sacramento and finds but one hardware store that keeps the Peters shells, Baker & Hamlilton, and the firm only sells at wholesale. The pistol is not a new one. It shows rust well eaten into the metal, and it may be difficult to locate the seller. The number is 19554. It is an Iver Johnson make, and the factory is located at Fitchburg, Mass. Weber sent word from the jail this evening that he wanted to see John Adams, his guardian, alone. His re- quest was not granted. Several days ago Sheriff Keena gave orders that no one should be allowed to see the pris-: oner without an officer being present, and this rule will be strictly enforced. ‘Weber's™ cell has been carpeted and bedding put in and everything arranged for his comfort, but he will not be al- lowed any more liberties than other prisoners, He complained of lack of exercise Tuesday, and Jailer Fulton put up a punchfng bag for him. His boxing gloves were found In the barn to-day. FOLLOWING UP BANK ROBBERY. Now that the preliminary examina- tion has been concluded interest centers ‘more strongly In the bank robbery case. J e R IR R e _ Continued on Page 2, Column 4. They both believe him guilty | * dressed in black HIM BY AUBURN, Nov. 23.—The only sign of feeling that Adolph Weber has shown | since his arrest is manifested in the | following communication given by him to a correspondent of The Call, with the request that it be given publicity: “Adrian Wills’ friendship moves me deeply. He Is the noblest specimen of God's creation I have known. A year ago, when I was sick, he brought me some quail. Last May I endeavoi to bring about the re-existence of that happy tie which had embellished our boyhood days. He responded not to my effort, and until the fatal evening of November 10, when I sarfk exhausted beneath the little magnolia tree in front of my burning home, no evidence of recognition passed between us. “A. WEBER.” TELLS OF OLD FRIENDSHIP. Weber and Wills had been boyhood friends and were almost inseparable until about four years ago. At that time their paths diverged. Adolph be- gan to drop all his friends. His life be- came more or less a solitary one. He still kept up the outdoor athletics, and occasionally mingled with his old school friends at any general gathering. About a year ago he had practically weaned hims€lf away from all the as- | sociates of his boyhood days. He went | so far that he finally stopped speaking i to the majority of his former friends. He devoted his time to reading cheap novels of the blood and thunder order. ‘Weber’s sense of gratitude, coupled with some feeling of emotion, still seemed to exist in him when he sent word to the correspondent of The Call requesting that he visit him at the jail. WRITES NOTE OF THANKS. On arriving at the jail the corre- spondent found Weber pacing up and down the long, narrow cell. His hair was disheveled and fell in tangles over his low, retreating forehead. He was and wore his cus- OLD FRIEND SA4YS ADRIAN WILLS FIRST GAVE HIM SOLACE ON NIGHT OF TRAGEDY. Special Dispatch to The Call tomary black sweater. About his neck was a towel. He came slowly forward and without speaking a word handed the correspondent a note tightly folded up. The expression of his face was worn, tired and sad. After the correspondent had read the note Weber said: *“I feel it a duty I owe to Adrian Wills to make this statement. Will you please publish it in The Call? I read the remarks of Adrian in your paper. What he said was true, We had drifted apart. It was my fault, not his. For a year we had seen nothing of each other. But I can never forget the kindness and great sympathy he showed to me that awful night when I lay stunned and bleeding under the magnolia tsas = front- of my burning home. APPRECIATES KINDNESS, “No one came near me until Adrian came up, and calling some of the other boys raised me to my feet.and carried me away from that terrible scene. He took me to his home and there his gen- tle sisters dressed my hand and offered me words of cheer and hope. How can I ever repay them for their kindness? I was alone and friendless, and Adrian came to my rescue. I shall esteem it a great favor if you publish thys note, for 1 want Adrian Wills to know how deeply I feel and appreciate the great kindness he has shown me.” Weber then paced up and down his cell, apparently lost in deep thought. Returning to the cell door he bright- ened up slightly, and being asked if he did not wish to have his friends visit him he said: “No. What good could they do me”" DOES NOT CARE FOR COMPANY. “Would vou not like to have Adrian Wills come and talk with you?” “No,” replied Weber. “What good could he do me?" “If you feel so deeply touched by the kindness that Wills showed you on the Continued on Page 2, Columm 3.