The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1904, Page 1

fhirty beurs ending cember 15z o westerty. A THE WEATHER Forecast meds at San Franciws for San Francies and vichnity—Cloutty Trmrsfay: Hght north winds, changing District Forecaster. — mmdnight Decem- G. McADIR, e THE P L. Dahomey. MAJESTIC—"Mr. Potter Matinee to-day. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee to- day. TIVOLI—“King Dodo.” of Texas™ _VII—NO. 15. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIG SCANDAL ARISES IN' POLICE DEPARTMENT + + + | 4 : el INC vADn ‘ OLICE COMMISSIONER HUTTON dis- ) 5] \ OU ‘ [ covers that women of the half werld are con- EL I £ [ | tributing enormous sums of money to officers || 9 ; F &(‘h\ i in uniform at the entrances to their brothels. Pa- | T T GR I 3 {| trolman John Dean collects one day’s toll and ] 1 turns the coin over to his superior. ' Pacific street, ! PAT’[]:RSO | Hinckley alley, Belden place, 1129 Dupont street | OF LAWSON {| and Bacon place are said to pay’more than $5000 | —— {| 2 month for “protection.” Some of the guilty R i i i public servants are alleged to be known, and for- i C]lma‘x m Trla‘l OI] mal investigation of gthe wholesale corruption JOker Slgns Na'me A]Jeged Mur_ || in the red light district is promised. | Of Greene tO a ‘ - deress. Prisoner Almost Faints When Widow Appears as Witness. Courtroom Crowd Has Opportunity to Make Comparison Between the Two Women NEW YORK, Dec —Mrs. Margaret Young, widow aesar” Young, to- day faced the man charged with her busband Her appearance on 4 marked the climax e prosecution against n She was called r addressed to Young by erson Smith, “Nan" sist containing an im- Mrs. Smith called Young and warned him that son was in a desperate and that unless he r there was no telling do. she wc Pat had given many treme nervousness when Mrs. Young's e day was and called every vestige of color fled fro her face. She was livid as she clutched her father’'s left hand, and he again placed -his right arm around b.x shoulders. There was a long delay, @s the widow had been permitted to re- main in ghe District Attorney’s office, on & r floor of the building. Ther mened and Mrs. Young ap- dressed entirely in black, with hanging from her hat. lked slowly to the witness w voice took the sol- v the truth she did the slighter figure »r. The spectators sid making comparisons two, and it was In the betwe widow's fax d handsom a ples one-time rival tions is frail face and a hat childish. her light blue = on the stand only the letter, Mre. »ped one of the of the trial, athly pale, watched of the wit- ef éxamination. g's brothers-in-law, of what had ment v Young and Miss heir meeting in a saloon Young was killed, and cab driver, repeated ng s Young slap ce during a quarrel same night. BRILLIANT BALL FOR HER DEBLT Miss Gladys Vanderbilt of New York Makes Her Bow to Society of Metropolis NEW YORK, Dec. 14—To introduce® to soc her daughter Miss Gladys Van Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt to-nigh hrew open the family man- sion at Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh | street, and a brilllant dance for | her daught The entertainment was ! X ble poi e, it was the given by Mrs or more. Wh only from its soeial im- t also from the fact that large nderbilt in five years in reality it was the debut of Miss Vanderbitl, it was not the only entertainment that will be given to her, for Mrs. Vanderbilt will presentation 12 to society on Jan- uary Although styled 2 “small dance,” to-night’s entertainment was to all in- tents and purposes a ball, and by no means informal, as it would be out of the question to so style so spiendid an entértainment. Miss Vanderblit, while yet at her studies, is quite as much out in society as the other young women of her age, as she has been frequently at the opera this winter and also at other entertainments, While it was the intention of the hostess to confine her invitations to the younger married people and to those of the young dancing set, there were not a few of the older members of society present. Many -elegant costumes were seen ————————— Roosevelt Aids Art Pioject. PARIS, Dec. 14.—President Roose- velt was one of the first subecribers to the proposed museum of Arits, which will coliect provincial relics. Iis sub- to | entertainment | a grand ball to mark her daugh- | | Another disgraceful scandal has come | to light in the Police Department, The fallen women of the tenderloin are pay- ing immense sums for “protection,” | |and the uniformed guardians of the peace are acting as collectors of the shameful tax. Police Comm! oner Hutton has uncovered the criminal facts. An official investigation of the | matter is on the tapis. The central | figures in the sensational expose are | Hutton and Patrolmen John Dean | and Samuel Higgins. | | The toll was extorted from the mis- | erable inmates of Bacon place Tuesday | night, and proof of the transaction is forthcoming. Hinckley alley, Belden | place, 1129 Dupont dtreet and Pacific| street have all heen contributing large | sums to the police. In Bacon place | alone the u\'erng dally payment has | 1 #35 o350, according to the number of Women occupying cribs. As the men on these detafls were changed daily the conspiracy among! the members of the department must | have been widespread. Each day the | fund has been gathered and disbursed. Every inmate of the dens of infamy at Bacon place and 1128 Dupont street is| said to have paid 50 cents daily. The women claim that they have the alter- native of paying or being arrested for vagrancy. The scandal came to the ears of Hut-| ton and he immediately began one of | his favorite private investigations. Pa- trolman Dean of the park police sta- tion was selected by the Commissioner to demonstrate the truth or falsity of the report of the shameful taxation. Tuesday night the policeman was de- tailed to watch Bacon place by Captain Gleason and by Hutton to gather the toll. He experienced no difficulty in get- | ting the corruption fund and turned it over to the Commissioner. The latter planned to continue his in- vestigation and verify the reports of | protection” at the other brothels, meanwhile keeping secret the results| of his detective work. But the story of | Tuesday night's affair spread through | the force like wildfire yesterday, and last night there were no collections. BIG SUMS COLLECTED. ‘Whether the individual policemen | who have exacted the tax each day | kept the total amount or turned over| | a part of it to others higher in nu!hm’—‘ ity is the principal thing that Hutton is anxious to discover. The aggregate | | sum gathered monthly from the resorts | mentioned is alleged to exceed $5000. | Hutton expects to be able to show to | whom the funds were paid. | Reports that “protection’” taxes were | paid by falien women have been spread | during many yeass. Occaslonally some | policeman has been brought to task on | this charge and dismised bor trans- | ferred to the “fog belt.” Proof of the | illegal transactions between members | of the police force and the women of | the half-world has always been diffi- | cult to secure. Of late the abandoned | women and their consorts have been ‘camylalnins that the tax has been In- creased and extended to cover practi- cally every member of the clique. When the unfortunates refused or were -un- | | able to pay, they are sald to have been | jarrested, charged wilth vagrancy and | usually sentenced to jail. Thus the levy was enforced. In Bacon place the daily offering was collected by the “hops,” as the alley’s errand boys are called. They turned it | over to the police on duty. it is | charged. The policemen are said to have pocketed the coin and that is the last the contributors know of it. Thg stories | of corruption had of course fome to| | headquarters, and to prevent any one | | policeman from getting well acquainted | | with the inmates of the brothels the detail was changed every twenty-four {hours. In spite of this move the toll | was ‘collected each day, as before. | Higgins and Dean were detailed from { the North End and Park stations. re- | spectively, Tuesday. Higgins was not { apprised of the fact that anything un- | usual was planned. Both performed the | usual duty of taking the names of men { who entered the alley until after night- | fall. Then Dean accomplished the spe- ! cial task assigned him by Hutton. Higgins is reported to have taken some of the money and to have subse- | quently refused to surrender it to the | Police Commissioner. He denies abso- {lutely that he has seen any kind of money for a week, and is surprised to learn that dissolute women contrijute | ‘to the private incomes of poli n. Higgins has been a member of the force since Julv, 1902. He is married. has several children and i& generally well thought of. His record in the depart- | ment has been without a blemish. | Dean in San Francisco for the last five years. He was taken on the force last October, superiors. scription was accompanied oy an auto- | and is well liked by his Hig- ...;mmmmmmmncuélnm'mwuumm Post gznizer of the project streets, betwgan Jones and Stelner. immenseConspiracy Is Alleged to Exist 'MONEY WIDELY DISTRIBUTED Parties to Investigation Are Very Secretive. 1 they were surprised to find that there an ex-soldier, who has lived | of having stolen stock. certifi i Dean covers Fell and Oak streets, be- tween Steiner and Stanyan. THE NEWS SPREADS. Tuesday evening news was spread through the tenderloin that Hutton was abroad. Women ceased to solcit, music was shut off in the saloons all | along the Barbary Coast and the half-| world assumed & quiet appearance. The embargo had not been raised again last night and the inhabitants of the lower social levels are awalting for something to happen before resuming activities. Policemen Reade and O'Connell suc- ceeded Dean and Higgins on the detail at Bacon place Tuesday night and Hammill and Hostetter had the watch yesterday. The four officers last named had all received word of the investigation by Hutton, “Speeial Chief of Police for 1129 Dupont street,” and was corruption in the red light dis- trict. A Hution declined to speak of the ma¢- ter last evening although he admitted that there were “doings” in Bacon place twenty-four hours before. Dean was wildly alarmed over the erroneous story that ran through the Police De- partment to the effect that he had been caught red-handed in the act of tak- ing marked coin from some of the in- | mates of the alley. He said Hutton would clear him of any such charge, but refused to tell about the arrange- ment he had made with the Commis- <joner to uncover the graft. - Dean re- flected sadly that Higgins had a fam- | ily, but could not trust himself to tell | anything about his brother policeman. Higgins denied that he had done any wrong and evinced great willingness to | answer any and all questions that the Police Commissioners might ¢hoose to ask him. He denied absolutely that he had seen Hutton in Bacon place Tues- day night. Both policemen reported off at the usual time and were on their regular beats yesterday. No money was collected from the fallen women last night. It is alleged that Hutton has positive evidence:against certain members of the force who have been engaged in the big graft. SENSATION CAUSED BY AN OFFICIAL BLUNDER Coroner Not Notified Until Louis Tscheh's Body Had Lain Three Hours Exposed. Through a blunder of some one con- nected with the Police Department the dead body of Louis Tscheh was al- lowed to lie exposed to the public view in his Powell-street store at 1215 Powell street for three hours and five ;‘nlnutes before the Coroner was noti- ed. Tscheh had been subject to epilep- tic fits and had an attack on the side- walk at half past 9 o'clock yesterday morning. He was taken back into his upholstery store and medical aid was sent for, but he died within a few min- utes. Police Patrolman P. O’Connor reported the affair through the tele- phone to the Central police station and a detectlve was detailed to inves- tigate the case. The Coroner was for- gotten in the matter until at 12:35 p. m. an Iindignant citizen called at his office and wanted to know why the body had not been removed to the Morgue. Tscheh was 37 years old and a member of Roma Lodge, Knights of Pythias. | ) Message. x Warns Boston Man to Pre-I pare for Visit From Westerner. Answer Comes Back Promptly, Naming Public Strest as Meeting Place. Special Disoatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—A practical joker sent the following telegram to Thomas W. Lawson to-day to test the Boston man’s nerve: “Thomas W. Lawson, State street, Boston—Leave for Boston on 10 a. m. train from New York. Will be at your State street office at 3:30 p. m. “W. C. GREENE." Within a few minutes back came a message from Lawson, selecting as the place of meeting the scene of the Bos- ton massacre of revolutionary times. Here is Lawson's telegram: “W. C. Greene, on board 10 a. m. train to Boston—As you seem angious to do your business out in public and as my office is for other purposes than your loud ine I will mest you at the time stafed on State street, in front of the ise, and as I have had sufficient of 4 bies ings 1 herewith no ‘ou I will do all the denouncing that will be done. “THOMAS W. LAWSON." H. H. Rogers, chief stock market agent for the Standard Oil party, came publicly to the rescue of Colonel Greene to-day in his fight with Lawson. It was announced that Standard Oil | money would take care of the stock of the Greene Consolidated Copper Com- pany and the bears were invited to sell it without fear that Colonel Greene would threaten to call at their offices. The stock rose from $25 to $27 50. It was officially reported that the control of the company had been hand- ed over to Rogers by Colonel Greene during his visit to 26 Broadway on Monday, while the raid on his stock was at its werst. I H. Harriman, whom Greene named as the largest stockholder outside of himself, is ba- lieved to have acted for Rogers in buving the stock. Safe from further financial storms, Colonel Greene announced that he was sorry he had entered into a competitive advertisement writing contest with Lawson, “Lawson can write better than I can,” said he, as he stroked his curly hair with the big fat hand that has *dug copper ore in the West and made notches on his pistol in Mexico. *1 was mad. You would be mad, too, it some one made you lose $2,000,000 in two days. I don’t intend to make any gun plays. The Lawson incident is clesed.” Colonel Greene, in his decision to let Lawson alone, doubtless felt that one fight on his hands is enough. To-day he swore out a warrant for the arrest of Frank W. Goodman, who went gun- ning for him last year. Goodman has been writing more threatening letters to Greene. PAY FINED BY SIZE 0F * FAMILIES — e r——— HUNGRY WOLVES ATTACK A STAGE IN MINNESOTA Driver and Passengers Have Thrilling Experience in Broad Daylight. TWO HARBORS, Minn., Dec. 14.— With a pack of hungry wolves jump- ing into the vehicle in an endeavor to secure the carcass of a deer, snapping at the horses’ necks and threatening the occupants in broad daylight, the driver and passengers on a stage ex- perienced a thrilling adventure in driving from Grand Marais to Two Harbors vesterday. Early on the trip a pack of wolves was seen at a dis- tance, following the.stage. They kept up the chase for .féur hours, until a house was reached, where the pas- sengers put up for the night. —_——— Must Return to Face Trial. LONDON, Dec. 14.—At the Bow- street Police Court to-day James Wal- lace of Marquette, Mich., was com- mitted for extradition on the charge cates valyed. at $30,000 from Edward Brei- tung, a banker of Margq . Wallace was arrested at Liverpool upon his ar- rival there November 4 on the steam- ship Saxonia from Boston. £ Race Suicide Dis- couraged 1in Kansas. Special Dispatch to The Call. TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 14.—In order to encourage the raising of big fam- jlies, the Commissioners of Shawnee County have voted to increase the salary of every employe in the court house $5 per month for each baby born in his family. “In placing a premium on babies,” said Commissioner Sterne, “‘we are simply carrying out the Republican policy of encouragement to infant in- dustries and the Roosevelt idea of big families. In case of twins, the clerk will get a raise of $10 per month and if there be trlnlat;; $15. The county ! board has nlue way of- fiv;tennx a ‘r‘un!y i to the people generally as an induce- ment to raise m families, fint can reach employes of the county throi salary increase, and we Drovose to i . UG ST S CLEVELAND MOB HOOTS AND JEERS AT MRS. CHADWICK. Her Sensational Home-Coming Has Its Ending in a Dingy Cell p——— BODY FULL OF WOUNDS FROM KNIFE Man Supposed to Be T. J. Feeney I Murdered. —s What looks like a case of cold-blooded murder was unearthed at the City and County Hospital early this morning, when a man, supposed to be T. J. Feeney, was taken there in a dying condition from the home of Thomas Christall, 426 Twenty-seventh streét. Death was at first supposed tohave been caused from a bullet wound in the head. A later examination disclosed eight knife wounds over the heart and several small cuts and abrasions on various parts of the body. The man was found shortly before midnight and as he still breathed he was rushed to the City and County Hospital, but diled on the operating table. At first it was thought to be a clear case of suicide, as a revolver with one chamber discharged was found lying near the unconscious form of the man. But the finding of the knife wounds over the heart of the unfortunate man leads the police to believe that murder has been done. No clew to the identity of the man could be ascertained other than the shirt. The deceased was about five feet eight inches in height, 40 years old and | of dark complexion. He was attired in dark coat and vest and striped trousers, with gray socks, and wore two suits of gray underwear. No one in the neighborhood where the man was found heard the shot or any disturbance. The people in the house were unaware of the presence of the dying man until informed by the ce. A search for the knife proved unavailing, Detectives will be detailed on the case to-day. CLEVELAND, Dec. 14.--Five indicted by the United States Jury . at rolled into the station, Mrs. Chadwick came home to.Cleveland this afternoon. She was greeted with jeers, hoots and hisses by the crowds that gathered in the howled at by .hundreds gathered in front of the Federal building. The last sound that reached her from the out- side world as she passed into the stuf- £y, ill-smelling -office of Sheriff -Barry in the County Jail was the hoot of de- rision from the people massed in front of the dédrway. She made no attempt to/give bail, and after a’brief stop in the office of the clerk of:the United States court was taken to jall. She is held to-night in a cell in the woman's department of the jail, and her palatial residence oh Euclid avenue, of which the furnishings alone are ‘valued ~ at $200,000, is oecupied by her maid. Mrs. Chadwick's courage:held to the last, but her body failed her, and when she mounted the three flights of stairs leading to the tier of celis where she is to remain she collapsed utterly and fell in a faint. But for the aid of a Deputy United States Marshal, who held her up and almost carried her along as she mounted the stairs she never would have been able to reach her cell. Breathless, pale and stagger- ing, she was barely able to reach a chair as the steel door of the women's corridor swung open to receive her. She sank feebly into the chair, her head fell backward, and but for the rfinarghnln she would have rolled to the \oor. MUST REMAIN IN JAIL. . Water was quickly brought to her and in a few seconds she revived and was again a woman of business. Her first request was that her lawyer, Shel- don Q. Kerruish, be sent for and she soon engaged in a conference with him concerning her defense. There is small chance that she will be raple to legve ithe jail before her trial. There are’now seven indictments against her—five additional charges havingz been laid .against her in the Federal Court this afternoon. It. would require surety to the amount of at least $100,000 to.give her freedom, and there is nobody in Cleveland who will advance that amount. She has her- jname given above, which was on the! geif no idea of giving ball and will remain in jail. She has the best cell in the place, but it is not a nice cell, nor .is the county jail of Cuyahoga County a nice jail, even as jalls go. i+ Mrs. Chadwick's train was scheduled to arrive at 11:10 o'clock in the morn- ing, but it was three hours later be- fore it reached Cleveland. The delay of the train served but one p that of increasing ‘the crowd ‘of the curious at the station. When the train had passed Collinwood, a suburb about six miles out, the ‘police cleared the platforms, drove the crowd back from —— el D " Continued on Page 2, Colamn 1. CHARACTER STUDY OF MRS. CASSIE L. CHADWICK, CENTRAL FIGURE IN A REMARKABLE CASE. DRAWN DURING HER APPEARANCE BEFORE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER SHIELDS IN NEW YORK CITY JUST BEFORE SHE WAS i TAKEN TO A CELL.IN THE TOMBS. the exact minute her train | station when her train. arrived; | ———————— 1 I _— times | Grand | DR. HADLEY SURPHISES NENDICANT Yale’s President in an Exciting Sg_ugga Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW HAVEN, Dec. 14.—Dr. Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale Univ: sity, detained a visitor to-day until de- tectives arrived, and in the interval was in the thick of an exciting strug- gle between several men and his quar- ry. Three students whom Dr. Hadley summoned to his assistance also knew they had been in a tussle. Charles F. Porter, the visitor, was so exhausted and breathless that he had to be sup- ported by detectives when placed under arrest. Porter, a man of heavy frame, drove to Woodbridge Hall in a hack. He Is tall and weighs about 220 pounds. He went to Dr. Hadley’s office, and, al- though rather poorly dressed, was able by dint of excellent manners to be ad- mitted. He toid Dr. Hadley he was from Denver and that for some time he had been traveling in this part of the country. Just now ne was on his way from Boston to Syracuse. Porter added that his father, now dead, was graduated from Yale sixty-five or more years ago. Soon Porter remarked that he found himself short of funds and hoped that Dr. Hadley could lend him $10 or so. Dr. Hadley excused himself to consuit the university récord as to Porter's father's Yale antecedents. Not that the man's story tallled with the alumni record, Dr. Hadley again ques- tioned Porter and then telephened to detective headquarters for ald. Porter decided it was time to go, but in the Hall Dr. Hadley caught, and held Mo Porter fought viciously. Thrée students came to Dr. Hadley's aid, and they overpowered him. Porter rested for vagrancy. ar-