The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1905, Page 1

ary 9: San Francisco and vicinity—Showers Monday; light northwest wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. — { THD THDATERS. ALCAZAR—‘'Lost River.” CALIFORNIA—Black ~Patt! dours. COLUMBIA—“‘Salammbo.* CENTRAL—Minstrels. CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudéville. GRAND—"The Darling of the Gods.* MAJESTIC- ‘Mizpah.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. ® VOLUME . XCVII—NO. 40. ~ CIADWICK ~ DENOUNCED ~BY IS WIRE I . Woman Gives Free . Rein to Her Rage. Says Her Husband Had No Money Except What She Gave Him. S Tl Suffer, but Not Alone, Mark You,” Her Warning to Those Who : Turned Against Her. Special Dispatch to The Call CLEVELAND, Jan. 8.—'“Fear for- gery charges?” exclaimed Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick to a Philadelphia North WAmerican reporter in jail here to-day. “Never! They are false. I fear neither them nor the technical charges in the Federal co I'm neither afraid of this court nor any court in the land. 1 defy them all. “Men are cowards. They turn their b on a woman when she is down. They were once so full of assurances. and- proffers of aid. Now where are they But they shall pay for it! I'll suffer, but not alone, mark you. They shall pay their share. “1 Chadwick knew me for three before we were married in Pitts« ourg. Now, if he didn’t find out who vas in all that time, it isn't my fault, i Am I to blame if he didn't know whom he was marrying? “You musn’'t think that Dr. Chad- wick lost h fortune through my transactions,” she said. at isn't true In the first place, he never had a private fortpne to lose, and in the second place I gave him more than he ever had before. This talk of his los. ing $70,000 of his own money through me is all rot. He never had that much money. “The doctor’s present impoverished condition appeals to the sympathy of his friend: His return home in the second cabin on a comparatively.chi boat and his habit of eating at cheap restaurants mean nothing. He always did travel that way, except when I was payin L r. Chadwick had $5000 ket and nothing to do with v of it he would rather walk miles than spend a nickel for r fare. That's the kind of man he is, and you know it.” Commenting on the fact that he had been served with an order by the Fed- era] authorities to ‘“‘produce certain diamonds and gems,” Attorney J. P. D: counsel for Mrs. Cassie L. “I have C pewter shoe buckle from either Mrs. -Chadwick or her husband. The serv- ing of such an order strikes me as be- ing humorous.” BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 8—Nathan Loeser of Cleveland, Teceiver of the es- tate of Mrs. Chadwick, was in Buffalo to-day on his way home from New York, where he had been making an investigation in connection with the Chadwick estates. Loeser said that he f d that the amount of assets of the estate so far in hand had been grossly exaggerated. “The property which T have in my possession now, including the house, real estate and household effects, ought, if sold, to bring about $100,000. There is a real estate mortgage of $35,- 000 on that and a chattel mortgage of $7000,” he said. MAKESLING TP AFTER FRONG M | Wite's Quest of Hug- ~band Ends in a Queer, Way. . Epecial Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Jan. 8.—After traveling more than a thousand miles in the hope of finding her husband, who disappear- . ed more than seventeen years ago, dis- - appointment was the fate in store for ‘Mrs. H. Roderick of Dawson City on her arrival this week in Centralia. While in Dawson, Mrs. Roderick ‘miade the acquaintance of George Berg, erly of Centraiia., While telling Berg of the disappearance of her hus- band seventeen years ago in the Black Hills of Dakota, it occurred to Berg that there was living in Centralia one George Roderick who might be her husband. He remembered that Roder- ick had lived in Dakota. Mrs. Roderick came clear from Daw- son and looked up George Roderick, .only to’ find he was not the right men, ———— Japan Trade Falling Off. 2 VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 8.—Sta- tistics regarding trade between Can- ada and Japan show a decline during the past year. The value of Canadian goods exported to Japan and of Jap- anese goods brought into Canada was considerably less in 1904 than in 1903. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JANUAf{Y 9, 1965. ' PRICE FIVE . CENTS. EARL SAFE WITH PARTY AT PANAM i | g ENGLISH LORD FOR WHOSE SAFETY GREAT ANXIETY WAS FELT IN LONDON. %ear CnhcerninE Fitzwilliam IS Allayed. i T Special Cable to The Call and New York | Herald. Copyright, 1905, by the New York | Herald Publishing’ Company. LONDON, Jan. 8.—Anxlety as to the | safety of the steamship Veronique and | her crew was allayed to-day. when | Cowper, Lord Fitzwilliam’s private sec- | retary, received a cablegram from Pan- ama, announcing that the Veronique | was undamaged, and that captain, offi- cers and crew were well. The whole party has left Colon by steamship, and will arrive at Southampton within the next three weeks. A dispatch from London vesterday stated that the Veronique had met with an accident, but gave no details. On board the vessel is Earl Fitzwilllam’s expedition, which had planned to seek for buried treasure in an island in the South Pacific. In the party are several distinguished Englishmen. MILWAUKEE HAS HORSE -~ TIAT ADIS Rival of “Hans,” the German Equine Wonie. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 8.—“Colonel Dixon” is only a delivery wagon horse, but the animal is learning tricks so fast under the training of his driver, Isaac Goodman, that his owner, James Conroy, is seriously considering placing him on exhibition. Colonel Dixon is five years old. He first began to show signs of unusual intelligence a year ago. “At that time I used to teach him to go to customers’ houses without driv- ing,” said Goodman. ‘Dixon seemed to understand perfectly. ‘Go to Bacon's. I would say.. Away would go Dixon, ; turning the corners, and finally stop- ping at Bacon’s. ‘Perele’s next.’ and at Perele’s he would stop. In this way Dixon was able to go to a dozen or miore places without being driven.” The horse already can count. “Colonel- Dixon, take three from five —can you do it?” asked Goodman of the | close. Tubers From This horse, Colonel Dixon nodded his head. Then he gave answer by stamping his foot two times. | “Add four and three” said Good-l man, Colonel Dixon promptly stamped his ] foot seven times. | Goodman attributes the intellizence | of the animal to telepathy. “I believe the horse is hynnofi:ed."’ sald he. “I believe it is telepathy that makes it possible for the animal to zive | correct answers. I ask him to add three and four, and I have the answer. seven. {firmly in my mind. I belleve the fizure jis then transmitted to the animal and ! he gives the answer. I have never| heard of telepathy being applied to an- | imals, but this is the only way in which | can account for Colonel Dixon’s tricks. I have recently read all about the tricks of Hans, the German horse, and I believe before I gét through with Dixon I can make him do the same.” —_—————— NAGASAKI, Jan, 9.—One thousand gg:x%ee't lm“h prisoners of war 0! ur - R hana ave arrived at Dai. —— Russian Losses at Port Arthur, KIO, Jan. 9.—It is belleved that thnu-i'l-n casualties at Port A.rg:r will total about 25,000, X WILL OPEN HOTEL FOR WORKMEN New PMmpy Is Planned by John | Arbuckle. | —_—— l 'WelI-Equipped Hostelry to] Charge Guests Fifty I Cents a Day. l Will Be the First of a Series to! Be Established in New York City. Special “Diepatch to The Call NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—An advertise- ment which tells of clean, well ven- tilated rooms; healthful, substantial, well-cooked food, with books, maga- zines and a piano in a common living- room in an especially erected building in the heart of New York, at 50 cents a day for men and 40 cents for women, reveals the latest philanthropic plan of John Arbuckle, the coffee and sugar | merchant, who established the “floating hotels” for poor people. While the attractiveness of the home he proposes to open will appeal to the more prosperous classes than those which it is designed to aid, Arbuckle intends to exclude all but wage-earners of both sexes and of good character. He will in person supervise his novel ! hotel. Where this marvel of comfort | and modest rates in boarding-houses is | located Arbuckle declines as yet to dis- He said to-day: “The building is not yet completed, | and will not be for two weeks or more. | I advertised as an experipent largely | and to see how many persons would apply. When 1 get answers 1 will go over them all carefully and select from the applicants those who appear to be the right kind. To each of these I shall send -a pamphlet descriptive of ~the hotel. It will accommodate only. 100 guests, and at first I shall not let any one engage & room there except by the day. “This hotel is not intended for de- pendents or invalid or aged persons. 1 want to fill the house with voung men and women who are working for a liv- ing and as a rule cannot get for what they can afford to pay anything but the bare necessities of life. 1 want to give at least 100 of them more than the bare necessities.” John Arbuckle is a bachelor, more than 60 years old. He and his brother Charles came to New York and began the sale of ground coffee in packages. They went from this to refining sugar, and aroused the antagonism of the| sugar trust. The “floating hotels” which Arbuckle sends out on sea trips every summer crowded with poor wom- en and children are his pet charity. It is said that Arbuckle’s new hotel, should it prove the success expected, will be only the first of a series to be established. CALIFORNIA POTATOES ¥ IRELAND . State Flourish in Cork. —— REDDING, Jan. 8.—W. J. B. Martin, a Pacheco district farmer, is in receipt of a letter from R. H. Hayes, a Justice of the Peace in County Cork, Ireland, announcing that the smail lot of Bur- bank potatoes sent to Hayes by Martin one year ago have done famously, every eye in the lot escaping the po- tato blight. Hayes, who is also secretary of the County Cork Agricultural Soclety, writes that he is so much encouraged at ‘the 'prospect of getting a blight- proof tuber from Pacheco district stock that he has already decided on a name for , the importation—"Mogalore,” a Celtlc word meaning ‘“good enough.” Irish farmers have paid tnousands of pounds for alleged blight-proof pota- toes, but so far without avall. Martin was in hopes of being instru- mental in having his birthplace, County Cork, seeded to alfalfa, but Hayes writes that the alraifa seed fent him by Martin did not turn out so well as the potatoes. : FOLK'S THREAT KEEPS LAWMAKERS IN CAPITAL Members of Missouri Legislature Afraid to Ride Home on JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 8.— In qonmne‘fi of Gawernor-elect Folk’s threat that pass users would be prosecuted, nearly o House and Senate remained in town ;o-dly rather. than railroad fare jome. fMi | utes she tried to gain an entrance. P | bro: GRAND JURY WILL PROBE NARRIAGE llionaire Duke's Case. Promises Sensation, ' —_— Relatives Say He Was In-| competent When He Wed- ! ded Alice Webb. Young Womar Has Record as a Stock- broker and a Promoter of Companies. Special Dispatch to The Cail. NEW YORK, Jan, 8.—Incidents fol- lowed one another quickly to-day in the affairs of Brodie L. Duke, the mil- licnaire tobacco man, who has been committed to a sanitarium. They cul- aninated to-night in a slege of the house of George H. Mallory, = Mrs. | Duke's attorney, by & woman who said | he was M Duke. Mallory refused to have her admitted and for fivée min- | B. L. Duke has been summotied to | appear before the Grand Jyry to-mor- row.~Mrs. Duke will becorhe a promi- nent figure in the investigation by the Grand Jury and the District Attorney of the financial' affairs of her hus- band, with which she seems to have Dbeen - intimately connected. Previous | to her marriage to Duke, three weeks ago, Alice Webb had promoted com- n being a member of a stock kerage house, and had apparently won the confidence of many bankers in small towns of the South and Middie West. The authorities at Bellevue Hospital have deposited with the District Attor- ney the bonds, stocks, notes and checks to the face value of about $60,000, which were found in the pockets of Duke when hel taken into custody at the i ice of his relatives on the ground /i not competeny to man;* falre. b e g Mrs. Agnes d'Esplaines, an of Mrs. Duke, also has been sum- moned to appear before the Grand | Jury. All persons connected with the af- fair were reticent to-day as to details, but the hint was given in many quar- ters that developments of the great- est interest might be expected. Concerning the financial career of Miss Webb in Chicago and this city many interesting facts developed to- day. Her connection with Mrs. Q’Esplaines seems to have had no con- — nection with the various commercial interests in which she was interested. Mrs. ‘d’Esplaines, who is her senior by TWO YOUNG TRAMPS WHO HAVE CONFESSED TO THE BRUTAL MURDER OF GEORGE DUNN, NEAR -CRI LAST MONTH, THEIR VICTIM AND THE SHERIFF OF DEL NORTE COUNTY, TO WHOM THE YOUTHFUL MURDER- ERS TOLD THE STORY OF THEIR HEINOUS CRIME. several years,.was once proprietress of a resort on West Thirty-second street. The two women have been on terms of intimate friendship for many years and they were living together when Miss Webb made the acquaintance of Duke. Dispatches from Chicago say that Mrs. Duke is a daughter of W.. H. Webb of that city and that she in- herited her talent for financial man- agement from her father. Rev. W. W. Coe, Dr.. Parkhurst’s first assistant, who performed the wed- ding ceremony for Duke and Miss Webb, said to-night that he did so knowing nothing of Miss Webb's ante- cedents and making no inquiries about CRESCENT CITY, a tremor and with fear or sorrow, Harry Brown and Frank Kelley, two youthful “hoboes,” now confined in the Jan. 8.—Without no display of them. He said also that at the time Duke manifested no signs of mental disturbance, although the clergyman admitted that in the excitement of the ceremony Duke gave answers in the wrong place at times. The statement was ¢made to-night that George H. Mallory, Mrs. Duke's attorney, had severed his relations with the woman, and that this was the rea- son for her attempt to gam admission Crescent City Jail, confessed that on the night of December 29 they took the life of George Dunn, a genial Irishman, long past the three-score- and-ten mark, who for years past kept a store on the lonely Crescent City-Grants Pass stage road. The con- fession was first wrung from Brown by Sherift Crawford, who, by cleverly playing upon his fears that his part- ner in crime was about to turn state’s evidence, induced the youthful but hardened murderer to tell'the story to his residence. Mallory was averse to entering into any discussion of the transactions. There are among the papers in the|of the awful crime. temporary custody of the District At-| Glibly and with an air of bravado, torney’s office three promissory notes|and still with the cringing and fawn- for $5000 each, said to have been made | ing air of an informer, Brown de- on December 5 last by Duke to Miss|seribed the last moments of the aged Webb, four days before their marriage, | storekeeper, whose great heartedness and due in three, four and five months. [ had won for him the respect and es- Mallory sald he had an idea they were | teém o0f the residents of Del Norte to be used in connection with the|County.- Only once did Brown falter financing of the Texas-Cuba Tobacco |in his bloody -tale, and then his hesi- Company, of which Mrs. Duke was | tation was not due to any feeling for president before her marriage. the .white-haired old man whose life It was said to-night that the decision | he had. helped to take. He faltered of the Duke family to take steps to | because he did not know for a cer- annul the millionaire’s marriage was | tainty whether his confession would reached - when it was discovered that|earn him the reward of the cowardly Mrs. Duke was once proprietress of the | informer—usually immunity from the ‘give battle if provoked. cided that Kelley should insult him, “House of All Nations,” a notorious resort. CHICAGO, Jan. 8—In marrying Brodie L. Duke, who was placed In a sanitarium _on Long Istand yester- day, Mrs. Duke, who resided in Chicago before the wedding, gave up a rémarkable business career in this city. Before the wedding Mrs. Duke, who is the daughter of William H. Webb, a well-known Chicago business man, had aided in the promotion of several large industrial concerns, and at the time she became the wife of Duke, which has been less than a month ago, she was president and secretary of the firm of Taylor, Webb & Co., a prominent in- vestment company in La Salle street. She was understood to be wealthy. —_———————— WILL ADD TWO MAMMOTH STEAMSHIPS TO FLEET Japanese Company Determines Build New Liners to Run Out of { San Francisco. VICTORIA, B. C.i, zuu 8.—The steamsip Keemun, which arrived to- day from Liverpool via Japan, brought "'"m?i“ %‘:ll:lrg,% 12, 00%?% o term! to I twe a line; (oru:!u San Francisco s route. all members of the|in death penalty. He hesitated - long enough to ask if he or his partner in crime was to be benefited by the con- fession. When assured by the Sheriff that he would “get’all that was com- ing to him” he breathed a sigh of re- lief and went on with his tale of cow- ardly, treacherous murder. PLANNED IN ADVANCE. +Armed with the facts obtained from Brown, part of whose conversation with the Sheriff had been overheard by Kelley, purposely placed in an ad- joining cell, the official paid a visit to the latter. He found him pacing his cell in a frenzy of excitement, fearful of the consequences hecause his com- panion in crime had been more craven hearted and selfish than himself and had forestalled him in his plan to save his own neck at the expense of his companion’s. “What's the matter with that fel- low?” he cried almost before the Sheriff had entered the cell. “Is he getting cold feet? Is he turning te's evidence?” Sheriff, by evasive answers, succeeded in still further arousing the fears of Kelley. Possessing the craven heart so essential to.the makeup of | one 'h‘:?y E‘::l.ld take t;:ll‘i:; of an aged man, could not he strain. Horrible Details of the Killing of Ageci George Crescent City Given to Sheriff of Del Norte. Special Dispatch to The Call. bear, and finally with a foul impreca- tion he said, “Bring me an attorney and ‘I will tell the whole story.” Quickly the_Sheriff summoned Dis- trict Attorney F. W. Taft, and within a _short time Kelley gave to the two officers the story of the brutal murder of George Dunn at the hands of him- self and Brown. Not a detail was for- gotten by the youthful criminal. His story was even more complete than that told the Sheriff by Brown. Dunn’s murder, according to the tales of both men, was planned in ‘Waldo, Or., two days before it was committed. Forced to leave Waldo by the officers of that town, Kelley and Brown wended their way to California. Their objective point was Dunn's lonely roadhouse. From Brown first came the suggestion of visiting the old man. He had heard rumors that the old fellow had gold galore hidden in the store. The suggestion fell upon willing ears. Kelley was as anxious as Brown to_get the money, at what cost it did not matter. They stopped at the Monumental mine and there the club with which the old man’s life was beaten out was picked .up.. The hands of Brown fas! led the weapon. USE CLUB AND AN AX. The two men knew that Dunn was a courageous old fellow and uld So they de- while Brown would await a chance to deal him a.cowardly blow. But their plans miscarried. At Dunn’s they met two men in search of work. The pres. ence of the strangers delayed their game, but they got rid of them by sending them to the Monumental mine, hastening their progress by telling them that two men were needed there. The strangers disposed of, Kelley rapped at the door of Dunn. The store- keeper told him to enter. Upon enter- ing the store Kelley, deterred at first by the - stalwart figure of the Irishman, lost heart and hesitated. A gesture from Brown stirred him to action, and he raised his hand and shoved the old man against the counter. “That’s your game, is {t?" said Dunn, regaining his balance and facing his assailant. The old man bravely rushed at Kel- ley, who jumped to one side. Brown took a step forward and brought his heavy club down upon the white head of the gallant old man, felling him to the floor. The old man struggled to rise, but another blow stretched him senseless upon the floor. Again and again did the club fall, and soon life was extinct. . “Get an ax,” cried Brown to Kelley. The latter did as he was told, and ‘when he returned Brown compelled him to use the weapon upon the prostrate “I-did not hit him hard,” whiningly -sald Kelley during his confession. | relatives YOUTHFUL MURDERERS MAKE A CONFESSION Two Tramps Tell of Thewr Brutal Crime BSCENT CITY 1 Dunn Near Then Brown took the ax and with a blow almost severed Dunn’s head from his body. Kelley and Brown then searched the store. They found a filled watch and $7° 15 in cash. Brown claims to have a home and in Humboldt County, and Kelley says that his parents live at ‘Chehalis, Wash., and that he has an uncle named Felgate employed in the San Francisco Mint. WOULD-BE BENEDICTS FACE TRIAL Young Women Or- ‘ganize a Court ol nquy Special Dispatch to The Call. CONNERSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 8.— There is trouble and work ahead for the swains of Connersville. In fact, if the plans of twenty-five young women here, who have been horrified by fre- quent divorce suits, do not miscarry, there will be more “giving the mitten” than giving in marriage for some time. So deeply moved are these women that they havp organized themselves into a commiftee of the whole to investi- gate, pass upon and approve or reject such suitors as may seek the hand of any member. As in the most exclusive of clubs, a blackball cast by a single member of the organization will be sufficient to bar the would-be benedict. ‘While love stricken men do not take such a horrid yilew of the’situation, they are none the less dismayed at the expensive prospect, to say nothing of seeking the approval of -twenty-five young women D3 L} W o]