The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1904, Page 4

4 ' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1901, BELIEVE TN EBER 1S T\ '8 B L AKE] Auburn Authorities Are of the Opinion That He Will Break Down and Tell Story of the Terrible Crime PRISONER APPEARS FOR ARRAIGNMENT Is Given Until Next Monday to Enter Plea to Informa- tion Accusing Him of the Murder of Hl\ Mother Special Diex AUBURN, Nov. 30.—It was ramor- ed late to-night that Adolph Weber had confcssed to the authorities that he had murdered his father, mother sister and brother. Under Sheriffl May denles the story and it is given but little credence by those who are work- ing on the c May says, however, that he believes it will not be mmu before the prisoner breaks dow and tells the story of the terrible crime. Weber was arraigned in the Superior Court to-day on the specific charge of baving murdered his mcther. Judge Prewett noticed that the in- formation Adolph named the defendant as Julius Weber and said that isoner made no statement to rary he would be tried under that Weber acknowledged it to be his true name. Ben P. Tabor, counsel for the de- fendant, is absent from the city and S. J. Pullen requested the court to postpone further proceedings until next Monday Judge Prewett then announced that next Monday at 10 a. m. would be fixed as the time for Weber to plead. District Attorney Robinson then addressed the court, saying that he George W. Hamilton to assist he trial and asked that Ham- me be entered as one of the g attornevs. prose The court made the desired order. Hamilton is the son of the late Gen- eral Jo Hamilton, who was one of the | best known criminal attorneys in the State and is considered very bright, especially in criminal cases. The se- lection of Hamilton ends the rumor that L. L. Chamberlain, a prominent Auburn attorney, would be employed to assist the District Attorney. Weber appeared more flushed and feverish to-day than he did when first arrested and no longer assumes a cool, nonchal manner. His tonfinement is evide beginning to tell on him and his expression is more thoughtful and worried. He still maintains, when questioned by the officers, that he cares. little about the robbery charge. “The murder charge ie the only one worrying me.” is his frequent remark. To the query of an officer this evening as to whether he ever thought geriously of the matter he replied: “You people seem to think because 1 am not crying that I have not done any thinking. Well, I have done a great deal, and I have planned out my future as far as it is possible for me to do s0. When I get out of this 1 intend to cast my fortunes else- where. 1 believe in controlling one's’ will power so that he may compel himself to think of those things which seem brightest to him." The Grand Jury took up the other murder charges to-day and examined the following witnesses: Dr. Rooney, Mrs. Snowden, May Clark, A. D. Fel- lows, Clarence Gear, Ben Dependener, John Monaghan and Chris Henny. About four years ago a Chinese was found murdered just over the hill from the Weber place. His head was nearly cut off. The evident motive of the crime was robbery. No particular suspicion attached to any one at the time, but during the last few days! some persons have revived the story and profess to think Weber may have killed the Chinese. As Weber was only about 16 years old at the time the theory does not find many sup- porters in this community, although #ome think that if Weber murdered hie own family he was capable of committing the deed of four years ago. ASHLAND, Or., Nov. 30.—A young | lady of this city “has been flowere and letters to Adolph Weber, | the young man who is being held in | jall at Auburn, Cal, charged with murdering his father, mother, sister and little brother. The accidental breaking open of an express package at the depot yesterd §, directed to Weber, disclosed the photograph of a girl. a bouguet of flowers and a letter. Instructions to address answer to “Weber.” care of (here the girl's true name followed) were in the package. NO SUBSTITUTE has yet been found for cod liver oil. There are so-called extracts, wines and cordials of | cod liver oil that are said to contain the active principles but not the oil itself. This is | absurd on its face. You might | as well extract the active prin- ciples of wheat and make bread with them. The best form of cod liver oii, tilat-an, be digested and assimilated nost easily, is Scott’s Emul- sending | | terest. UROR GUILTY OF MISCONDU b _ciay s Drinks With Attorneys CT De- fending a Man on Whose | l"l“ He SENSATION Is IN Guilt to (‘()I‘RT Judge Sternly Rebukes the Offender and Promptly Orders Discharge of Jury —_— o The Call Special Dispatc JOSE, Nov. 30.—Charges of Juror Louis Cavallaro SAN misconduct of | with the attorneys for the defense and | the subsequent dismissal of the jury in the Nolberto Coronado murder case created a sensation to-day in Ju Tuttle’s court. The ¢ had been on trial for the past ten aays and Nolberto was on the stand in his own l\f‘hj'xf, When the case was called this morn- ing District Attorney Campbell e- sented an affidavit made by C. Olsen, alleging !mproper canduct on the part of Cavallaro and which also referred indirectly to Attorneys W. A. Bowden and Bertram A. Herrington. Campbell then made a motion that the court dis- charze the jury. | E The affidavits of Olsen' reciied a number of instances where Cavallaro and an attorney for the defense drank together in the Parlor saloon, and it is also set forth that another juror was present at some of the _gatherings. : Olsen on another pccasion had heard one of the attorneys for the defense urde say to Cavallaro, .~“You and, don’t you?” 7 District Attorney Campbrll stated to- the court that the acts of the juror were suspicious, and he believed that experience had fully proven that it is a semi-miracle, and practically ‘un- known, that a juror should consort with either side .of a csuse during a tria! and join with his fellows in a verdict for the adverse side at the end of it. On the eontrary, the District At- torney continued, a juror gnerally votes as he drinks, with his friends. JURY IS DISMISSED. Attorneys Bowden and Herrington did not reply to the statement of the District Attorney. They asked for cop- fes of the aMdavit. Judge Tuttle stated that he was’ not prepared to pass on the matter at once, but would look into it, and he ad- journed court until 1 o’clock this after- noon. Attorneys Bowden and Herrington presented affidavits thisgafternoon de- nying ‘that anything -rong had oc- curred in their relations with Juror Cavallaro. An affidavit was also pre- sented by Cavallaro making the same denials and stated that he had only met_the attorneys in a social way, as he had been in the habit vf doing for years, and that at no time had he and the attorneys for the defense discussed the Coronado case. Judge Tuttle then took up the motion for a dismissal. He said that he was surprised that attorneys should so far forget themselves and the spirit of their oath of office and conduct them- | selves In a manner that must of neces- sity arouse suspicion. But for-a juror to act In such a manner was an insult to the court after the admonitions given and a menace to the measure of usefulness of a juror. “For a long time,” continued Judge Tuttle, “T may | say for years, rumors have been float- | ing about this community that jurors | have been tampered with and the course of justice in our courts thereby defiled. The familiarity of certain at- torneys of this community with jurors in the way of treating to cigars, drinks and even to dinners, as well as holding apparently confidential conversations | while causes were in actual trial, have been pointed to and commented upon until the jury system, : s it exists in this county, is becoming a byword and re- proach to justice and common honesty. | It is high time that radical steps be taken that this system, so powerful for good when unsullied, may not become | in this community a stench in the nos- trils of its people and a damnable farce.” JUDGE SCORES ATTORNEY. he would consent to a dismissal of the jury. Coronado said he would not; | that he had been in jail three years and wanted to be tried by the jury se- | lected. The court then made an order that {.An exception to the order was taken by | the attorneys for the defense. Attorneys Bowden and Herrington stated this afternoon that Coronado could not be tried again, as he had once been in jeopardy. They declare that Judge Carroll Cook of San Fran- cisco refused to dismiss the jury in the Botkin case when charges were made against it for the reason that it would mean the dismissal of the defendant. They propose to at on-e take steps to | secure Coronado’s release, and unless | it is granted by the courts here the matter will be taken to the Supreme Court. Coronado is charged with the murder | of Frank Narona at Guadalupe in 1901. | This was hig third trial. The first one resulted in a disagreement and at the second he recelved a life sentence, but the Supreme Court set the verdict aside because the complaint failed to state that Coronado had killed a hu- man being. ————— BEAUTIES OF THE PARK PLEASING TO PREMIER' Sir Wilfrid and Lady Laurier of Canada and their party spent the greater part of yesterday forenoon in | viewing the beauties of Golden Gate Park, in which they showed a deep in- At noon they went to the ocean beach, where they lunched at the Cliff House and watched the bel- lowing seals as they lazily climbed ‘| about their rocky domain. In the afternoon the distinguished party departed for Del Monte, where the Canadlan Premier will spend at least two weeks. From there he will &0 to Southern California with the ex- pectation of enjoying another two weeks in and about Los Angeles. It was stated yesterday by the secretary | i | of the Premier that the latter already “feels the invigotating influence of the California climate and looks for- sion. SCOTT & BOWRE, 1y FaTR New it ward to a pleasant vacation within the boundaries of the Golden State. | ACARTY PRAISE FOR THE - CALL'S ROSE PLANT PLAN T = ME 1S C@MMENDED Outdoor Art League Says ldea W z// [T aken Love of Beautifut. The rose plunts Call’s plan of furnishing sides. culturists and florists, experts, who. its subscribers wit has met with enthusiastic approval on all Letters from - many lovers of the beautiful out of doors have been received, commending the idea. Flori-! recognize in the list. ofte sred some of the rarest and most beautiful spec1es of | have the owners rose, sent .te_stlmomals of the «little chance to make them some letters showi.ngj The ‘Call’s plan: | = ‘what lovers Thos. H Stevenson, Palace Florist, Palace Hotel, City. o ’ s 3 ; San Francisco,, Mr. J. D. Spreckels, ; The Call. Dear Sir:— Prop. of front gardens” beautiful at small cost. Cal.; Nov. admiration. The are pleased at. the | of flowers think of 29, 1904. { Permit me to congratula‘be you most hea.rt.ily upon your proposed rose plant. distribution, as outlined in the advertisement in this morning's Call. The idea is an excellent one and should meet with the approval of all people interested in the welfare and beautification of California, within the reach of all flower lovers; and, florist business, . as it will place all the latest and finest varieties of course, being in the -1 cannot but help appreciate the interest you have taken in p]a.cing before the public this munificent offer. I rema.in, Respect"ully yours, OUTDOOR ART LEAGUE. OF FICERS—DIRECTORS. 5 MRS, LOVELL WHITE, 1616 Clay MRS. R. C. POULTNE MRS, LUTHER WAG- OF "CALIFORNIA President, President, ce President, @ % o ““The beautiful rests on the foundations ~f the necessary.’'——Emerson JAMES SEADLER. NELLIE B. EYSTER, nan Street. . Treasurer, . THOMAS PALACHE, Page Street 1573 Editor Morning Call, Dear Sir: San Francisco, ‘Nov. DIRECTORS. MRS, CARL RENZ MISS MARY G. GORHAM MRS. M. J. L. McDONALD MRS. L. A. SORBIER - MRS. F. V, WRIGHT 29, 1904. The Call is deserving of |praise for adding its quota toward the general adornment of the city Judge Tuttle then asked Coronado it by its efforts to induce the people to plant rose gardens a.nd thereby awaken in their minds an appreciation of beauty. The Outdoor Art League indorses this method and all methods |employed to create and foster a taste for the beautiful in the out- the jury be dismissed without verdict. |/door or natural world. : Park e o the q@ml %mamu San Faancises, Cal. W. J. Martin Esq., Business Manager Call, ; San Francisco, Cal. My Dear Siri— Lodgé , Nov. 29, 1904. Noticing in this morning's Call an announce- ment offering Call subscribers a premium consisting of a variety of rose plants, I wish to extend you my hearty indorsement of the scheme, not only as a means of beautifying the homes of this cit.y and vicinity, but also as creating a desire among your readers for somethimg that is of real worth. In conclusion, the list you have selected is certainly complete and contains some of the choicest varieties of roses known to the floriculturist. Very truly yours, "Here are| let me add that . MORE TROUBLE FOR BLACKBUR Head Watchman of Chinese | | Bureau Strikes a Guard While Latter Is on Duty J. Qumlfln, Whose Jaw Stops Blow, Will Prefer Charges A"amst Superior Officer Mason S. Blackburn, head watchman dressed one of his subordinates as a “—— liar" yesterday afternoon and then tried to knock him out by smiting him on the jaw. As a result Guard J. | Quinlan, at whom the epithet was ! hugled and whose jaw stoped the blow, will prefer charges against his superior officer. The encounter took place at one of the gangways leading from the liner Korea to the Pacific Mail whart, and if | a few Chinese did not escape while their custodians brawled, it was not because the Chinese Bureau's hired eyes were | upon them. During the last stay in port of the liner Coptic Chinese Bureau Guard A. | L. Dilley, so the story goes, found his brother watchman, Guard Quinlan, coiled up in an out-of-the-way corner | of the Coptic sound asleep. Dilley, too busy watching Chinese to arouse Quin- i burn to where Quinlan lay asleep. Blackburn reported Quinlan for sleep- ing at his post and the guard received a reprimand. Since then relations be- tween Quinlan and Dilley have been strained. Dilley, it is said, denied to Quinlan all responsibility for bringing Blackburn: to the scene of Quinlan’s stolen siesta and arranged yesterday to repeat the denial in the presence of Blackburn. Korea’s gank planks. Dilley and Black- burn_joined him at his post. What fol- .lowed is told by bystanders, among whom were dock clerks, customs offi- cers and guards -of the Chinese Bureau. A few words, audible only to the trio, Wwere spoken. Blackburn - stepped toward Quinlan, called him a liar and struck him a heavy blow on the faw. “He’s an old man, don’t hit him,” counseled the men, who grabbed Quin- lan. Blackburn retired in disorder and the work of keeping uninvited Chinese out of {the country was resumed. BUTCHER FINDS BURIED COIN Uncovers Nearly $1000 - in Gold in a Corral in Rear of His REDDING, Nov. 30.—William Men- zel, a butcher of this city, found rich diggings in the yard of his slaughter- house, three miles from Redding, on Monday. He raked up $1000 in coin, the most of which was in gold. All of the money was coined ‘more than thirty years ago. It is believed that in early days some miner cached the treasure and died without revealing his secret. In course of time the slaughter-house was built on the ground and the cache was inclosed in the corral. The hogs then, according to this theory, rooted up the buried treasure at some time when their rich find was unobserved and scattered the coins over the small space of ground under an average depth of four inches of dirt. The re- cent rains uncovered $30 in gold coins. ‘When they were found it was believed that the money had been dropped by two marauders who had been shot at the previous night by a slaughter-house employe. But on Sunday Menzel found ground. It, like the other coins found, | was of old mintage. That fact set the | butcher to thinking. Monday morning he went to the corral bright and early armed with a rake. At the first haul of the rake a number of $20 pieces were uncovered. Within a few hours the lucky butcher had secured $1000. Among the coins are six two and a half dollar pieces and $6 50 In silver that was so badly tarnished that it was hardly rec- ognizable. e e—— MAY SPEND SUBSTANCE ON WICKED MACHINES Reckless Nickel-in-the-Slot Gamblers of Palo Alto Win Victory in Supreme Court. The Supreme Court yesterday de- livered a telling blow to the reform movement in Palo Alto. The slot machine business .may henceforth flourish in the pretty college town. An expensive campaign started for the purpose of eradicating the gam- bling evil has come to naught. The State’s highest tribunal has decreed, nevertheless, that the reformers need not be compelled themselves to send stray nickels after more. Joseph Fritts charged one Levin with operating a macKine in whic one might “place a nickel, turn a crank and secure a chance of getting a much larger sum of money from said machine.” Justice of the Peace Charles refused to issue a warrant and the complainant asked for a writ of mandate. “In this case there is nothing to| show that operating the machine in which a person by placing a nickel said maehine upon turning said ~rank’ injured plaintiff in any manner different from the general public. He | is not compelled to_put a nickel in the machine and turn a crank, but if he should do so, according to the complaint, he ‘secures a chance of getting 4 much larger sum of money from the machine.” Neither complaint, answer or de- cision explains what sort of a machine it is that gives a player a chance to make so big a sum of money. ————— The people who don’t amount to much generally let you know it BRAWL ON MAIL I)OCKv of the Chinese Bureau at this port, ad- | lan, is said to have conducted Black- | Quinlan was on duty at one of the R SRR S F T e 4 Slaughter-House | a $20 piece sticking edgewise in the! The Supreme Court says: ; therein ‘secures a chance of getting | a much larger sum of money from | JURY NOT ABLE 10 FIY BLAME Docton Qm-monwl \hont Finding of a Sponge in i the Wound of a Patient —_— SURGEONS MYSTIFIED Ver(lmt That Ah Sing Died | Because of Foreign Sub- stance Poisoning Sy -— ! Several doctors were among the wit- nesses called before the Coroner's jury in the case of Ah Sing, a Chinese shoe- maker, who died on November 19 in the City and County Hospital of septic peritonitis, caused by the presence of a piece of sponge left in the abdominal cavity of the unfortunate Chinese by some one of the physicians who operat- ed on him on two occasions. Ah Sing was suffering from dropsy and cirrhosis of the liver, and acting under the advice of friends he went to the City and County Hospital for treat- ment. There Dr. W. C. Pruett “tapped” his abdomen with a trochar, but io- advertently cut a large artery in doing so. In order to prevent the patient from bleeding to death an incision was made in the abdomen and the artery was tied. Several days later it was de- cided to perform an operation for cirrhosis of the liver. This was per- formed by Dr. A. W. Morton, assisted !by Dr. F. R. Hart, in the presence of students, to whom Dr. Morton at the time délivered a discourse as to the | proper manner of using the gause sponge. After death Ah Sing’s body had been taken to the Morgue. Dr. Curry per- formed an autopsy and found a plece of gauze almost the size of a man's hand lying against the right kidney in | the location of the second operation, the first by Dr. Pruett having been per- formed on the left side of the abdomen. | Dr. Morton denied on the witness stand yesterday that he had left any gauze in the body of the patient be- fore sewing up the incision and sug- gested that the sponge might have floated over from the left side. Dr. Pruett, the students who wit- nessed and the nurses who assisted at the operation testified that they had not seen any gauze left in the wound at either operation. It was in such a position as to render the theory im-- possible that it could have been swal- lowed by the patient. The jury returned a verdict that Ah ‘Slnxs death had been caused by peri- | tonitis ‘““‘on account of presence of \nuu in the abdominal cavity found | after death. It is impossible to de- } termine whether the gauze was used at | the first or second operation.” —_————————— FIVE DAYS IN JAIL FOR VIOLATING AN INJUNCTION Member of Cooks’” Union Ordered Into Custody by Judge Hebbard. Acted as Picket. Disregard of the court’s injunction !hu brought a penalty of five days in jail for H. A. Hoburg of the Cooks’ Union. His arrest was ordered yes- terday by Judge Hebbard at the in- stance of S. Constantini, proprietor of the Maison Tortoni, who had obtained an injunction against the boycotting tactics of the Cooks’ and Waiters' Union. Hoburg was examined and ad- mitted that he had continued at his post as picket for a day after receiv- ing the court’s order to quit. Attor- | ney Devoto, representing the union, announced that he would move that the injunction be jet aside because it was ‘“improvidently granted.” He said that the Torton! was a notorious resort and therefore its proprietors did not come into a court of equity with clean hands. Judge Hebbard also heard the order to show cause Why a member of the union should not be punished for violating a like injunction granted for H. Pundt, proprietor of the Poppy cafe. It could not be shown that the order had been served and it was dis- charged. | ————— ADVERTISEMENTS. A Warning One of nature’s warnings that the Stomach, Liver and Bowels are weak and out of order is—i to The system is so clogged with im- | purities that the nerves are affected {and sleep is impossible. Better try Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters before it is too late and sickness comes upon you. It will correct these ailments promptly and in- sure you a per- fect night’s rest. 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