The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1904. STRONG DENIALS ARE MADE TO ASSERTIONS CREDITED TO SERGEANT ELLIS, WHO STANDS CHARGED WITH NEGLECT OF DUTY UEFS TALK VITH ELLIS I\ TWISTED Attorney Tells of Con- versation and IS Corroborated. — Sergeant Approached Him and Expressed Hope He Would Escape. ~ ) [ Wl Fe s A A. Ruef denies positively that } r approached Sergeant lis 1&g the hearing by the Pol « nission and said to him, “I don't anybody to get hurt.” want regarding the cohversa- ok place between Sergeant s and myself, from which it is ap- he warps out this statement, are these,” said Mr. Ruef. “Three or four days after the investigation began 1 & standing in the corridor of the H of Justice talking with Civii Se Commissioner Rogers and the representative of & morning paper. A approached me, passed a greeting kind and joined the group. w f som Don't you know this man? said 1 ewspaper man. ‘This is Police 8. ant Ellis. Permit me to intro- c 1 shook hands with Ser- gear is, and then he said to me: Mr. Ruef, T hope 1 am not going to get hurt in connection with this mat- ter. 1 have done the best I could and 3 t think they should make me a 3 egoat The administration den’t wi v scalp. Do you think 1 am & get hurt? ¢ 1 answered, ‘if they have T re proof against you tham they have against Mayor Schmitz, Commis- sioners Reagan and Drinkhouse and myseif whom they have openly « 1 do not think any one is go- ing get hurt. There is no proof that any took any money, and the | - rge they eould make against 3 2& incompet for failing, Af you i fai » stop gambling. ¥ you have wrong you do not need to | worr it if you have you will get Burt if it can-be proved.’ This is the sum and sibstance of | our conversation.. I never met the man before § 1y life to my knowledge and 1 statement that 1 said to him, ‘I don’t want any one to get hurt,’ is ab- solutely false.” Civil Sery Commissioner Rogers ® ewspaper man, who over- hea conversation, which took | place in their . opr corroborate | Mr. Ruef in every —_—————— Siruck by a Mission-Street Car. W cross Mission street last| night David Broida was struck by a oz i badly injured.. Broida was in ; pparently intoxicated geondition. The motorman rang the car bell, but Broida did not pay any attention. The « struck him and knocked him sev- era] feet to the side. He was taken to the Centrali Emergency Hospital, where found that he had a fr 1 PPN o There Is Always Something New In the tints 2nd shapes of our pretty.| boxes of writing We have just re- ceived some shipménts that far rettier than have come out before, but Eie prices are not n bit higher, Sanborn, Vail & Market et .. refused to from the County Jail the commission His law bailot ADVERTISEMENTS. @he b Exclusivoe Figh-Grade Clothiers No Branch Storcs and No Agents. THERE A RE NO BETTER| AND MORE EXCLUSIVE CLOTHES THAN WE OFFER THE CLASS OF TAILORING OUR MODELS CONTAIN| UNQUESTIONABLY DEFY THE BEST TAILORS. We mow show spring modeir of top co&t for mimeteec: bundred amd 8ve 132 Zearny $Street Thurlow Block flens | CONMISSION CHEATED oF A WITNESS MeetstoExamineSer- - geant,but He Does | Not Appear. \Detective Department Ad- | mits Its Inability to Locate Him, | | Bhortly after the fact that Ellis was {in the hands of the Grand Jury he- came public Mayor Schmitz was noti- | fied that the assertion had been made that the sergeant had confessed that | corruption existed in Chinatown, and that Chief of Police Wittman was di- ctly responsible for the condition. | Mayor Schmitz immediately communi- cated with the secretary of the Police Commission and informed him that it wag his, the Mayor's, desire that the commission meet immediately, call Ellis before it and continue the investiga- tion begun some weeks ago and get at | the facts, if possible, Chief of Police Wittman was notified | | that _his presence at the meeting was | degired, and he was requested to order { the attendance of Ellis, Ellis, however, was not at the Harbor station, to | which he is attached, and Chief Witt- man instructied Captain of Detectives Burnett and Chief Clerk Norman to de- tail as many men they could spare to locate the much-wanted sergeant. COMMISSIONERS GATHER. Promptly at 7:80 o’clock Commission- ers Drinkhouse, Howell and Reagan ar- rived at the commission rooms. Word from Hutton was to the effect that he might be present at the meeting, but could not say positively. However, Hutton put in an appearance shortly | after this announcement was made. He wag not enthusiastic regarding the idea of the commission proceeding with the examination of Ellis, in view of the fact that Ellis was occupying the deli- cate position of witness before the Grand Jury. | attempt to examine Ellis regarding his alleged confessibn,” said Hutton, “and 1 do not think this is the proper time to take this up.” | "Bui” interjected Howell, “‘we need not tread on dangerous ground. All we | want testificd before the Grand Jury or not. When we determine this question we | can stop, if we are so advised.” ELIIS IS MISSING. | At this point in the dlalogue Chief | Wittman entered the commission chamber, and said that he had been in- formed that Ellis could not be found. Inquiry at the Grand Jury rooms had elicited the information that he was not there, and the detective department | had admitted its inability to locate him {in the limited time remaining. Well, we will wait until 8:30 o’clock,” | #aid Drinkhouse, “and If he falls to put in an apnearance by that time there is | but one thing to do and that is to take 2 conitinuance until to-morrow after- noon, when we meet to consider other he hour of 8:30 arrived and Fllis was £till among the “ahsent. Drink- | house’s statement had been taken for | granted, and the Commissioners with- | out formal action filed out of the room. None of the Commissioners had any- thing to say regarding the sudden de- {v lopment in the Chinatown scandal. | Ali they could do, they sald, was to.con- tinue the investigation to a finality, | which they purpésed dolrng when they qr-r»u!d get the proper witnesses before | them —_—— BYINGTON 1S NON-COMMITTAL. District Attorney Refuses to Discuss Ellis” Charges Against Wittman, District Attorney: Byington had | nothing to say about the case except- ing that he attended -the meeting of | the committee of the Grand Jury as { its legal adviser. nothing to say. | said - The Grand Jury, he would convene again to-morrow afternoon and he would be present at that session. He knew nothing re- garding any communication that would come from Chief Wittman in {regard to the Ellis charges. He added that he had not read the statement of Ellis published in an evening paper. et BF Eala g DETECTIVE DINAN EXPLAINS, Advises Ellis and Then His Words Are Warped to Suit the Sergeant. Detective Sergeant Dinan explained last night his use of the expression, Stand pat,” to Sergeant Ellis. , ves, 1 used those words,” said Dinan, “but not in the sense in which it was reported I did. “1 met Ellis three days ago, I think. He told me that he had been mis- quoted injthat paper and seemed very | much disturbed about it. I said: “Tommy, the best thing to do is to E nothing to anybody. Just stand pat. Don’t talk to the newspapers at all, and then they can't print things at you didn't say.’ o0, 1 did not have any hint that this thing was coming off. I was the most surprised man in the world when | I heard of it, and found that my name ! was mentioned in the case. Ellis and {1 have always have been good friends. He was well liked about the hall.” —— / WANTS BREWERY RECORDS.~Joseph F. Cofiey, one of the new directors of the Colum: rewing Company, who applied to the ccurt for an order ousticg thé old board, yesterday applied for & -writ of mandate compel Mastin H. Ulrichs, the former secre- books - records held tary, to deliver the by him “We will all be up for contempt if we | to detérmine is whether he has| He sald that ‘Ellis | | was there during the session last | evening, but regarding what Bllis | told the committee Byington had (il Continued From Page ANDJURY MAY ER A SCANDAL| 13 ASSUMED —_——————— 1, Columns 2 and 8. — 4+ men pacing the corridor waiting to be Doran, Henry M. Heinz, R. R. O'Brien long time, but it is said that the most investigation. Every Those who wa positively to =i v a rd, wrongdoing in Chinatown. make at the session of the Grand Jury ress was being made. { ] All but Chase are among those against whom charges of neglect were preferred by Commissioner Hutton. duty to prevent strollers from going too near the Grand Jury rooms. geant Ellis was concealed most of the evening in the iwitness-room. remained for some time after the Grand Jurors had departed in the hope that the newspaper men would be gone and 4 .d had small reward for their Datience, for Ellis refused When the police committee convened in the evening there were five police- called to testify. They were William Charles E. Munn and Gilbert P. Chase. of duty O’'Brien was on the grill for a satisfactory witness. was Heinz. One report has it that he gave the committee some good points for their future effort was made to preserve secrecy, and a policeman was on Ser- He that he could escape them. Foreman Andrews refused to deny or affirm the report that Ellis had made a confession or any statement implicating himself or any others He declared that a large part of that which had reached public print was ludicrous. The committee would have no report to in this afternoon further than that prog- = | | WANTS TO WITHDRAW FROM OFFICIAL BONDS Company Asks to Be Rclicved as Sureties for Commissioners Schmitz and Maestretti. The United States Fidelity Com- pany yesterday flled notice upon Aud- | itor Baehi of its desire to withdraw | as surety upon the official bonds of Herbert L. Schmitz and Frank A. | Maestretti, Commissioners of Public Works, The notice states that its reason for its desire to withdraw from Ethe bonds is that it fears it will sus- | tain loss if it remains longer thereon. | The bonds are for $25,000 each. Auditor Baehr ig in doubt as to | whéther the company may withdraw from the bonds and has submitted the | point to his attorney, William H. Cobb, for an opinion. Should the withdrawal be legal it will be neces- sary for Schmitz and Maestretti to file new bonds. i) | “I understand,” said Schmitz, “that | the reason the company wants to withdraw from our bonds is that the | Superfor Court has decided that we as Commissioners are individually li- able for the city's responsibility re- garding defective streets and side- | walks. The surety company believes | the risk to be great in view of the judgments that might be obtained against us on that ruling.” Commissioner Casey, whose official bond was declared unsatisfactory by the Finance Committee last month, has not yet filied a new bond and will probaasly not do so since he is short- ly to retire from public office. e WOMAN AND ACCOMPLICE CHARGED WITH ROBBERY Annie Beck and Henry Huntsman Are Arrested on the Complaint of H. T. Berg, Expressman. Annje Beck and Henry Huntsman | were arrested vesterday morning by | Detective Matheson and locked up in the City Prison on a charge of rob- bery. The complaining witness | against them is H. T. Berg, an old ex- | pressman, who had been in the habit of visiting the woman at her rooms, | 519 Montgomery street. A few nights | ago she asked him to give her $25 as a Christmas present. He refused. On | Wednesday night he relented and called upon the woman with the $25 in his pocket and $50 besides. When she saw him she at once began to abuse him for the meanness, and, sud- | denly Huntsman, who was in an ad- joining room, came in. Huntsman and the woman, Berg alleges, | him, and, after taking the $75 from him, threw him out. Berg met Detective Matheson at the ferry yesterday morning and told him ot the alleged robbery. He accom- panied Matheson to the woman’s room {and found them preparing to take | their departure for Stockton. They were promptly placed under arrest. Matheson recovered $35 in gold, which was booked as evidence. ——— INDICTED MAN SHOOTS AND KILLS A LAWYER B Keeper of “Blind Tiger” Slays an At- torney and Escapes to the Mountains, HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Dec. 32.— {I. E. Christian, a leading corporation ! lawyer, was shot and killed at Oceana to-day by Ken Canterbury, who ‘escaped to the mountains. A posse is in pursuit. Canterbury operated a P“blind tiger” and was indicted through Christian’s efforts. ———— The Best Fountain Pens. We are selling agents for “Wadterman's Ideal Fountain Pen,” $2.50 up to $10.00 each. and sole agents for “The Marshall,” the best $1.00 fountain pen in the world. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. * bt e ot ity OCEAN STEAMERS. NEW YORK—Sailéd Dec 22—Stmr Moltke, for Hamburg, via Plymouth and Cherbourg: stmr Mongolian, for Glasgow; stmr La Gas- cogne, for Havre. Arrived Dec 22—Stmr Deutschland, from Hamburg, via Dover and Cherbourg; stmr Victoria, Liverpool. GLASGOW—Arirved Dec 22—Stmr Pomer- anian, from w York. NAPLES—Arrived Dee 22— Stmr Romanic from Boston. via Ponta del Gada. X ST MICHAELS—Arrived Dec 22—8tmr Vin- censeo Florio, from Genoa and Naples, for New York. LIVERPOOL—Arrived Dec 22—Stmr Oce- anic, from New York. T ST R S T REE FR o PLUM PUDDINGS ri— MINCE MEAT. WITH SUNDAY CALL SMALL ADS. ARMOUR PACKING COMPANY'S FAMOUS BRANDS. b ng Free With Every Small Ad i 7 Sunday Call. o See Small Ad e for Further - — . attacked LAKGE BRIBERY FUND REVEALED New York Grand Jury Un- covers Alleged Scandal, but Can Indict No One SRS NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—No evidence warranting indictments in this county fwas presented to the Grand Jury in connection with the charge that a | bribery fund had been collected by the | Liquor Dealers’ Assoclation to influ- ence legislation at Albany, according to | & presentment handed In to-day. The presentment described as “shock- ing” the facts discloged by the evidence and after asserting that it had been im- | possible to return indictments in this | country, requested that all the evidence —175 typewritten pages—be sent to the ! Governor and to both branches of the | Legislature to do with it as they see fit. The Grand Jury says it appears from | evidence submitted to it that the Li- | quor Dealers’ Association, which ex- tends throughout the State, from time to time raises money from its members | and applies it for political purposes. It | was shown that a large sum of money | was raised in this way during the pres- ent year and that it finally was re- ceived by a committee known as the legislation committee, which went fre- quently to Albany while the Legisla- ture was in session and took with it the money in cash. Continuing, the report of the jury says that the evidence presented to it showed “that this legislation commit- tee allowed its disbursing officer to give a considerable part of this money to one of the State departments of this State in seemingly an unlawful way; that a large part of this money was, by this legislation committee, expended upon various members of the Assembly and the Senate of the State of New York and their friends, in appalling and shocking ways, with the intention of influencing such members in the dis- charge of their official duty as mém- bers of the Assembly or Senate.” After reading the report Judge Cow- ing said he would see to it that copies would be forwarded to the Governor and branches of the Legisiature as re- quested,. with the request that they | take such action as the evidence war- | rants. The story that first reached Mr. Jerome and started his investigation was that a fund of $50,000 had been col- lected by the liquor dealers to influence legislation at Albany. —_—— PROBING INTO METHODS OF STREET SUPERINTENDENT City Brother Official Is Not Conducting His Office Properly. CHICO, Dec. 22.—A surprise was sprung this evening at the investiga- tion Into the affairs of Superintendent of Streets J. McC. Stilson when the three City Trustees—€anfleld, James witness stand by the City Attorney. who is making the investigation. They were questioned regarding the con- struction of abutments for the bridge at Little Chico Creek, which cost more than $500, while the law provides that bids must be called for on contracts for more than $100. It was stated that the board authorized an expendi- ture of $100. The investigation into the methods of Stilson showed that he owned gravel pits and sold gravel to the city. for the number of loads of gra hauled and the difference either way above or below the regular wages, $250, was settled with Stilson. It wag brought out that Stilson made out each bill to the city in the name of the teamster, who swore to the bill. B D e N TENANT AND LIQUOR GO INTO THE STREET Property Owner Experiences Religion and No Longer Will Rent Build- ing to Saloon Man. | COLFAX, Wash, Dec. 22—Philip ‘Wilman, owner of the block in which the Star saloon, considered one of the most notorious resorts in the Palouse country, is located, has experienced re- +ligion and yesterday threw his tenant, C. H. Coryell, all the liquor and other paraphernalia into the street. ‘Wilman declares that he never will allow another of his buildings to be used for saloon purposes. The Star is the oldest saloon in the county and is known as the “slaughter house,” ocwing to the many murders and suicides that have been committed there. cauge. To get the genuine, call for full and look for signature of E. W. Grove, - Attorney of Chico Believes | and Mayor Clark—were called to the | FIRM STAND ) AEER AP W s TR i l | “It was only as short a time ago as; Continued From Page 1, Column 7. |1l ©'c¢lock this morning that I had a L ———- | Conversation with him regarding his| Burnett. They were asked if they had | Work in Chinatown. Some 80 bench | ever received orders from Sergeant | Warrants for the arrest of Chinese that | Ellis to permit gambling to run un- | Were implicated in the raid by Com- molested. All the men replied that ! missioner Hutton of the place kept by they had not received any instructions | Chin Kim You were handed to me for | of that sort. | service. As Sergeant Ellis was in Chi- The patrolmen are: R. R. O'Brien, datown at the time of Hutton's raid, Charles E. Munn, Henry T. McGrath, |@nd would be able to identify more of William Doran and Henry Heinz. All|the accused than any other man, I sent these men declared to the Chief and |him to serve these warrants. the Captain of Detectives that the “This morning I was informed that squad attempted to carry out its or-|writ of certiorari had been issued b: ders to the best of its ability. Not one'Judge Slosg, that I had been summoned of the patrolmen knew anything of | for comtempt of court for seeking to graft or rumors of graft. Sergeant | serve these warrants, and in addition Ellis did not appear at the Chief's 'sued for $25,000 damages, and I called office. Ellis in and told him to turn in the —_———— warrants and to serve no more of them Police Are Looking for Moove. until the contempt proceedings had The police are looking for Charles been disposed of. This was at 11 Moore of 1608 Devisadero street, who jo'clock this forenoon, and while Ellis is accused of interfering with a pa- was in my room I questioned him fur- | trolman. On Wednesday evening!ther as to his work in Chinatown. Moore engaged in a fight with Police-| “I said to him: ‘Elli§, is it not ;mssl-[ man Sawyer. Sawyer struck Moore ble that some of your men deceived over the head with his revolver. After |you while you were in Chinatown and Moore was subdued he was taken to|failed to properly perform their duty, the Central Emergency Hospital to be | perhaps for a consideration? treated for a lacerated scalp. The K *“‘No, it is not possible,’ Ellis an- policeman who brought him to the swered and continuing said: ‘I did my hospita] failed to make a chargelwnrk as well as any man could have | against Moore and when the police | done it in Chinatown. The charge that went to the hospital for him they|we permitted gambling to go uninter- found that he had been dismissed. rupted is not true. I know all of my a - | | | | 4 | i | games. —— WITTMAN DENOUNCES STORY AS PERJURY men did their duty as I did, and that the only gambling that occurred during my time there was when some Chinese would steal a game or two during our absence from their quarter, while we were engaged in suppressing other I made many good hauls there as the records will show. The charge are false. “This is what he said to me, and yet the report comes to me now that he has confessed that he did permit gambling to go on in Chinatown, and this under secret orders from me. 1 repeat again that I do not believe he made any such statement, but if he did I repeat with more vehemance that he committed de- liberate, unwarranted, rank perjury. for what purpose I, of course, cannot determine at this time. “As our interview was drawing to a pse, I asked him if he had been served with charges. He said he had, and showed them to me. I told him that I hoped he could prove his innocence, but informed him that the charge against him was a serious one, and I | advised him to get a good lawyer and prepare his defense. He said he would do so. The next I heard of Ellis was when I was informed that he had testi- fied before the Grand Jury that he had permitted gambling to run in China town because I had secretly ordered him to. I need mot reiterate my con- tention as to the truth of this state- ment, if it was made. 1 have done that already and and in plain, unmis- takable words.” ADVERTISEMEN' hese Jaunty Stylish Top Coats *3.35 The use of printers’ ink -to state a value is open to every clothing merchant in this town. The newspa of inducements. Every mother question, “Where clothes?” To her we mos we back up every with the merchan what we state them pers right now are full is confronted with the will 1 buy my boy his t emphatically say that one of our statements dise. Our values are to be. The mother who comes here to buy one of these overcoats will find that the gar- ments are reduced from their former prices —and that the garments are worth now- just what they sold for originally. But she has recourse in money back if she is not pleased in every way. The top coats which we picture comprise three grades which sold formerly for $7.50, $6.00 and $5.00. As a few sizes were sold in some of the lines we took all of the remain- ing garments in ages 9 to 13 years and put a sale price on them—namely, $3.35. We did this for this reason—to induce mothers to visit the store and see what a large department we have devoted to juvenile clothing, furnishings and caps. Why not save $2 to $4 now, at Christmas time, when money can be put to so many advantages? Even though the store is busy these days, Teamsters sent their bills into the city we have sufficient salesmen to wait on all customers promptly. In addition to the good merchandise offered, the store service you get here makes this a convenient place in which to buy your needs in boys’ and men’s outfittings. Pocket, Knives Free We give a good steel pocket knife free with a purchase of a boy’s suit or overcoit. The knife has a chain attached to { utton on the trousers. Santa Cla panied by adults, up to and including Christm.s us gives candy free to chi'dren accom- o