The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1905, Page 3

. hearing, as far as the at . what influenced this woman to perjure BEE TALLORS | NEW SENSATION Discharges Her Attorney in! Court; and Demands That! She Be Given a Hearing | - DENOUNCES WITNESSES | Says Their Evidence Is Per- jured and Slanders Mem- | ory of Her Dead Uncle Bee Taylor, In Judge Troutt's court | yesterday, gave a sample of her facil- | ty in expressing her own opinions, | ike unto that which caused her to achieve national notoriety and lose a i government position In Washington by | a published criticism of the adminis- | s Filipino policy. In the mat- of a few moments 1c:ated her attorney, demanded a | ring in her own behalf, criticized the court, voiced her disregard of rules of judicial procedure, and branded the witnesses on the other side of her case as perjurers and slanderers of the dead. The incident was as dramatic as it was unexpected. Miss Taylor is execu- irix of the will of her late uncle, J. D. Taylor, and is defending a ccntest in- sututed by Lizzie Taylor McBride, @ sister of the deceased, who wa cluded in the list of beneficiaries. ' s on both sides were concerned, was concluded at noon, and Colonel Barry, who sents Miss Taylor, and L. T. Wagner, attorney for Mrs. McBride, were dis- cussing with the court as en they should file their bri udge announced that the case should be sub- mitted Miss Taylor/rushed to Colonel Barry’s side and asked him to call her as a witness. Thg Jawyer made a nega- tive gesture and the woman stepped up to the railing, faced the court and cried: “Your Ho 1 demand a hear- ing in my own b ~How?" asked Judge Troutt. | “On the witness stand, I want to testify to a conversation I had with some of these witnesses when they told me something directly opposite to what they said here.” By this time Miss Taylor had reached the front of the Judge's desk and was much excited. DISCHARGES BARRY. madame, the repre- a “But you are too late, been submitted,” said the iss Taylor became more 'Who is your attorney?” | the court. | Colonel Barry is, if he will represent me; if he won't 1 will be my own at- torney,” she said. Judge Troutt asked Colonel Barry whether he wanted his client to testi- fy, and the lawyer answered “no,” whereupon Miss Taylor shouted: “Then harge him. 1 have no attorney. 1 notify you now that I have no at- y and I demand the right to be in my own behalf.” Noticing her fixedness of purpose, Clerk Kennedy half arose from his seat th the intention of removing Miss from her position, but Judge (routt bade him refrain and, for the purpose of hearing her complaint in a more regular way, invited her to take the witness stand. Mere she declined to | take the customary oath, but “af-| firmed” tk-t her testimony would be the truth. | nel Barry thereupon proceeded to n her along the lines she had ted and the third query brought matter of an alleged conversa- she had with Mrs. Talbott, keeper the lodging-house where Taylor | Attorney Wagner objected to the evidence, as the conversation had taken | .place after the death of the testator. | 3 Troutt sustained the objection. | Miss Taylor became angry. She rose ! her chair and said, “I have a, t to be heard and to show how this | n has slandered my dead. She d me the very opposite of what she testified to.” Judge Troutt said her| attorney had prepared the case and| tried it elaborately and advised her to consult him. WILL NOT BE STIFLED. “1 desire to be my own attorney,” said the woman, doggedly. “There is no power in the United States to stifie a witness who wants to show in her own behalf that another witness has per- Jjured herself. I have no counsel, and no court in christendom can say that I have not the right to appear for my- | self; I have discharged him and will not have him imposed upon me. “I have been threatened that this will would be broken if I did not do certain things,” said Miss Taylor. “I can show | Taylor herselt.” | The Judge admonished her to reflect | a little, and she said the more she re- flected the more she saw it was her conscience and her duty not to let her “dead be slandered.” “Yeur spirit is admirable, madame,” said the court, and she retorted: ‘In| other remarks from this bench, in the | trial of a claim against this est you showed your disapprobation of my | conduet.” | The Judge replied that he would de- cide matters according to law and jus- tice, and if remarks were necessary he reserved the right to make them in his own way, but he was sorry that he had caused her any annoyance. | hen the case went over untfl 2| and when the parties reap-| peared Colonel Barry said that he was ! obliged to remain in the case‘until he | y replaced in the only way possible— | by the regular substitution of another | torney, and if one was not substitut- ©d. to maintain his standing at the bar, he would argue the case he had present- ed, and he asked the court not to let his ciient’s conduct prejudice her rights. Miss Taylor insisted that she had a| kind feeling for her attorney, but that | #he had been taken by surprise, and as | executrix demanded the right to pro- er witnesses to rebut “the per- atures who said my uncle was an imbecile.” Judge Troutt closed the ineldent by condinuing the hearing until next Thursday. $ —_——— Lodge and Crane Choice of Caucus. BOSTON, ~an. 12.—-United States Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and W. Murray Crane were unanimously nominated to represent Massachusetts again at a caucus of the Republican members of the Legislature to-day. ek of time she | | MURDER AT - 1N BEl TATE ANLUM G PROBED IN COURT. Judicial g DISTRICT, ATTORNEY RAYMOND BENJAMIN OF NAPA CO JusTIC BRI S MEKNIGAT OF NAPA. § Investigation Into Death of a Patient. JOHNSTON o — Is Begun —p ,'Z'Ng -] ING OFFICER, ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS AND NAPA TRATE WHO IS CONDUCTING AN VESTIGATION INTO THE AL- KILLING OF A PATIENT AT STATE ASYLUM BY TWO ATTENDANTS. LS —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. NAPA, Jan. 12—The preliminary| Dr. F. H. Stice, assistant physiclan of examination of attendants T.D. Shan- ahan and Oscar Retzman of the Napa State Hospital, accused of killing patient Joseph R. Louis at the State Hospital last Christmas day was com- menced this morning before Justice McKnight. A large number of specta- tors, many of them acquaintances of the defendants, were present in court. Shanahan having been an attendenat for more thn three years and Retz- man for one year. District Attorney Benjamin appeared for the prosecution. Attorneys F. BE. Johnston and L. E. Johnston conduct- ed the case for the defendants. Dr. F. W. Hatch, general superintendent of the State Hospital and president of the State Lunacy Commission, was present and is manifesting an Inter- est in the prosecution of the case. County Surveyor O. H. Buckman identified a map which he had made, showing the halls, rooms and doors of the ward where Louls met his death. the institution, testified that he was in B. ward at 7 o’clock on the night of December 25, that Louis was lying on the floor dead, that he had no cloth- ing on though shortly before his death he was wearing his trousers and shirt. | The sheet on the bed had a large blood- | stain on it at that time. When Stice returned to the ward at 10:30 o’clock that night the sheet was wet the blood- stain having been washed out. Harvey Grigsby testified that he was | in B. ward on the afternoon of Decem- | ber 25, that he saw a fierce struggle between Shanahan, Retzman and Louis, that the attendants got the patient down one holding him at the head, the other at feet. Cross-exam- ination by F. E. Johnston brought out the fact that Grigsby did not see the defendants jump on Louis though the testimony of Dr. Stice showed that nearly every one of Louis’ ribs was broken before his death. Court then adjourned till Friday morning when the hearing will be resumed. — s NIGHT-AND-DAY BANK ASSURED |Site Is Purchased for the Proposed Financial Concern in New York —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—With the ac quisition of a site at the southeast | corner of Fifth avenue and Forty- fourth street, a district of fashionable restaurants and hotels, the first right- and-day bank Is tobe established. Delmonico’s and Sherry’s will be its nelghbors. All preliminarles were settled to-day at a meeting of the directors and with- in a few months the new institution will be established in a commodious building to be devoted entirely to its uses. In conection with the bank there will operate a night and day safe de- posit company. Its aim is to provide means by which its depositors may have the use of their funds at any hour out of the twenty-four. Those who wish sums of money in an emer- gency will find the night and day bank useful, for there will always be a cashier at its paying window. The idea was suggested by the ex- periences of several men who, although | they had large sums of money in down- town banks, were unable to get money | for an emergency. Heretofore all night banking business has been done by restaurants and hotels and it was necessarily limited. For the accommodation of those who attend the opera the safety deposit de- partment of the bank was primarily organized. Women returning from the opera or other places of amusement may leave their jewels in.the vaults of the company before returning home. - MISS FITZHUCH SUES BRUGUIERE Leading Woman of “Baron- ess Fiddlesticks” Company Seeks Return of Money —_— Bpecial Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Jan. 12—Emile Bru- guiere, an erstwhile resident of San Francisco, but more recently engaged in theatrical ventures in New York, is having trouble with his {ll-starred “The Baroness Fiddlesticks.” The peculiar feature of “The Baroness Fid- dlesticks’ ” experiences were brought to light to-day through a series of liti- gations begun against Brugiere. Ac- cording to afidavits filled Bruguiere compelled his star, Miss Anna Fitz- hugh, to contribute to “The Baroness’ " support. Miss Fitzhugh now seeks to recover her money as well as her salary. She had played in “The Wizard of 0z” and hud attracted attention through her good looks, when she received an offer to become & prima donna at $200 a week. She rehearsed for some time and then, she says, she was called upon to advance $5000 to the management. ‘When “The Baroness” was brought to the Casino, Miss Fitzhugh declares, Bruguiere announced that she would have to put up 35000 if she wished to remain a star in New York, but after- ward he reduced his figure to $2500. Miss Fitzhugh alleges that she was compelled to pledge her jewels. .::-b’:fm emu;‘:-li.: tt:l.t story in an mflw;fl::.r o “On Septem!] or 21, at the Hi Astor. at luncheon, Mr. m%‘.". that more money ag manded u:’f.m o i Titsuih to povn sotmeep’ McKEES SAIL FOR EUROPE Secrecy Which Characterized Attends Their Departure WEDDING A SURPRISE Parents Not Informed of the Plan Until a Few Hours Before the Ceremony —t—— Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Mr. and | Mrs. A. Hart McKee, who were mar- !ried in Philadelphia on Wednesday. | salled to-day for Europe on the Tou- | raine. Their departure was attended | by the same secrecy which character- ! ized the bride’s return from Europe. | The couple returned to this city to- | day and went at once to the French |sine pler. When the Touraine sailed there was only one of McKee's friends on the pler. Most of the mystery concerning Mrs. Tevis' movements since she re- | turned to the United States remains unsolved. even the parents of young McKee ! knew that the attractive Denver wid- {ow was in this country until Wednes- i day morning. | The first suspicion that Mr. and | Mrs. Sellers McKee had of her pres- | ence here was when Hart McKee told | his mother on Wednesday morning he | wished that she and his fasher would | take a run over to Philadelphla with | him. The party boarded an early | train and on arriving in Philadelphia went to the Aldine Hotel. Hart left | his parents, saying he would return in {an hour. He did so and then told them that Mrs. Tevis was at the Ho- { tel Walton and that he wished they | would call there with him. | Mrs. Tevis, radiant as usual, met | them with the announcement that she | and Hart had decided to get married. “It is better, I think,” sald Mrs. | Tevis, “to have it over now. There is | no impediment to our marriage, now | that Hart's divorce has been granted. | One of the things that has prompted me to hasten my marriage is that I | wish to show the world that even in | the face of the stories published about Hart's cruelty to his former wife I still have perfect faith in him.” | While the subject was being talked over Colonel Baxter, Mrs. Tevis’ father, who had come on from Knox- ville, Tenn., to take his son to school | at Newport, had stopped over in Phil- adelphia. is’ suggestion was a good one and a | clergyman was sent for. Even after i the ceremony the bride did not take | her parents into her confidence con- | cerning how she happened to be in | Philadelphia when she was supposed to be in France. | Before sailing Hart McKee satd he {and his bride were going at once to | Mintone, where Mrs. McKee has a {villa. They will return to New York next fall. | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12—“I'm heartily sorry that I was the clergy- | man selected to perform the mar- ! riage,” said Rev. E. Yates Hill, pastor |of the First Presbyterian Church, in | explaining his part in the secret cere- | mony that united A. Hart McKee and | Mrs. Tevis. Not until this mqgning | did the clergyman learn their identity. —_— The Triplet Boys. Freddie, Eddie and Teddie get an unexpected bath. In next Sunday’s Comic Section. —_——— SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED AT FIRE IN BOSTON SUBURB Conflagration in Center of the City of Chelsea Causes a Loss of $200,000. CHELSEA, Mass, Jan. 12.—Henry | Griggey, a fireman, is at the hospital {in a dangerous condition, several others were more or less hurt by smoke and falling glass and a loss of $200,000 was caused by a fire that raged for more than three hours in the center of this city to-day before it was controlled by the united efforts of the Chelsea, Everett and Boston fire departments. The Academy of Music block, a four-story brick building on Broadway, was ruined and the Hotel Savoy, adjoining, was badly damaged. The Park Hotel, near by, was threat- ened, but was not injured. —_———————— HEAD OF IOWA LETTER CARRIERS LOSES PLACE Removal Dué to Activity in Securing Concerning DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 12.—G. H. Clark of Wadena, Iowa, secretary and treasurer and general organizer of the Iowa State Letters Carriers’ Asso- clation, has been removed from his position as carrier by the First Assist- ant Postmaster General. Clark has been active in urging the passage of laws increasing the salaries of the car- riers, TR S I R S T her jewelry and to advance us some money. I spoke to Miss Fitzhugh and as a result she handed to me a diamond and pearl necklace which, she stated, was worth $12,000, and which could be pawned in order to advance money for the enterprise. 1 took the-mecklace to the Hotel Astor and met Mr. and Mrs. Brugulere at luncheon. * * * He asked me to take it to a pawnbroker, which 1 did, getting $2000, Which I handed to Mr. Bruguiere. Mr. Sheldon up to her house to get stuff, which was delivered to him. In tie lot were a gold belt and various diamond stick pins, valued at between ! $5000 and $8000. Mr. Bruguiere, when I called, had this stuff on his desk and he personally sent it out to be pawned.” the Bride’s Home-ComingK As a matter of fact, not| All agreed that Mrs. Tev- | “Mr. Brugulere on a certain day sent | CAINE SUFFERS FROM INSOMNIA 'English Author Compelled to Go to Switzerland to Rest His Overtaxed Brain |RE NOWN IS INCREASING {House That Coleridge Spent His Last Years In to Make | Way for Modern Building | Special Dispatch to The Cail LONDON, Jan. 12.—Hall Caine's | state of health has been causing his| friends a good deal of uneasiness of | |late. He has not been himself for a| | year or more, and it may be remem- | bered that when “The Prodigal Son” was only half written its author broke | | down and had to go to St. Moritz to ! finish the work. He stayed there sev- eral months, and when he returned to the Isle of Man recently it was hoped that he could keep going for quite l! while, but evidently the task of seeing | his latest movel through the press and | the part he took in the discussion that, | followed its publication were too much | | for Hall Caine. For several weeks he | has suffered from acute insomnia, and | | on Saturday last left for Switzerland, | { where his physician has ordered him to | make a lengthy stay. | Meanwhile his renown 1Is increasing— | on this side of the water, at least—at a rate which must make hig keen rival, Miss Corelll, rather jealous. The other !day the Rev. R. J. Campbell, the | brainy young successor of Dr. Joseph | Parker at the City Temple, declared in | | a public address that he preferred the | Manxman's best work to that of George | Meredith, and during Christmas week | another incident was recorded which, testified, in a way, to the potency of the name of Caine. This was the sale, | to a fashionable butcher, of a bullock | bred on the novelist's model farm fn | | the Isle of Man for $242 50, or $2 50 | more than was paid recently for a sim- | flar beast reared by the King. | After several years .of literary work 1in London Morley Roberts, who wrote “Rachel Marr,” has followed the ex-| ample of so many of his confreres and | taken a country house where he means | to do most of his writing in future. | Tappington Grange, as it is called, is near Wadsworth and may be said, in a way, to have literary associations al- ready, having belonged up to now to | Sir George Barham, one of the family of which the author of “The Ingolsby Legends” was a member. One of the most interesting of Lon- don’s literary landmarks is now threat- ened with destruction—this being the house in Highgate, Hampstead, where Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent his last years and where he was visited, at dif- ferent times, by Carlyle, Leigh Hunt, ‘Wordsworth, Charles Lamb and Robert Southey. The house, which it is now intended to replace with a modern building, is No. 3 in the Grove, Hamp- stead, and formerly belonged to Dr. James Gilman. This physiclan was the | devoted friend of Coleridge. He threw {‘open his doors to the author of “The Ancient Mariner” when he was suffer- !ing most horribly from the effects of ! his prolonged indulgence in opium, and for eighteen years safeguarded him from his dangerous habit. Of his con- dition at that time Coleridge wrote: “The degradation, the blighted utility, almost overwhelm me.” However, | while in Hampstead he got back much of his power and produced some of his finest prose—the “Aids to Reflection,” the two “Lay Sermons” and the essay “On the Constitution of Church and State.” The visits of his great literary con- freres to his home in “The Grove” were especially delightful to Coleridge. “He sat,” wrote Carlyle, “looking down on London and its smoke-tumult like a sage escaped from the inanity of life’s battle, attracting toward him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls man.” Coleridge dled at The Grove in July, 1834, and he lies in the yard of the ola chapel at Highgate, now the crypt ot | the new Grammar School Chapel. The governing body of that square mile of London known as the “city” is chiefly devoted to keeping alive an- taining intact at its civic functions that most sacred of things, the order of precedence. This fact lends particu- lar appropriateness to the subject of the courtyard of the Royal Exchange which was unveiled the other day with much ceremony. It represents a memorable incident in the history of the Merchant Taylors’ and Skinners’ companies. Between these two anclent guilds there was much jealousy and rivalry, which often threatened to develop into’ riot and bloodshed as to which of them was entitled to march before the other in processions within the City of Lon- don. Titled folk whose inherited re- nown constitutes their sole claim to !aistinction occasionally still quarrel bit- terly even nowadays over the same question of precedence. AN ENGLISH SOLOMON. The two companies in 1484 submitted their quarrel to the decision of the’ {Lord Mayor of that year, Sir Robert Billesden, and he for the “norishing ! of peas (peace) and love betweene the Masters, Wardeyns and Feolashipps aforesaid,” rendered this judgment: “That the Masters and Wardens should dine each year together at their respective halls, the Taylors with the Skinners on the Vigil of Corpus Christi, and the Skinners with the - John Baptist; and as to precedency, each company was to have that on each alternate year, save that a Mayor of either should give that company pre- cedence in his year of office.” The decree has been faithfully. ob- served ever since and ;nlmokgn “peas and love” have reignefl between the Full Dress Suits at a Clearance Sale for $12.85 These full dress suits have been, sold out in some sizes. While we have every size from 34 to 42, in some of the mate- | LITERARY LANDMARK. !‘ 3 still engaged there—heavy-laden, high- | aspiring and surely much-suffering cient traditions and customs, and main- | the new fresco by Edwin A. Abbey in ! lors on the Feast of the Nativity of St. | is why the sale price rials there is not a full range of sizes. This is so low. The former prices were $22.50, $25.00, $27.50 and $30.00. The materials are un- finished worsteds, crepes and granites--- '} soft and smooth finished materials, all silk il lined. We expect to clear all the garments out now to make room in our glass cases for the incoming spring stock Hence the sale price is $12.85. '-—:—_—-_—-fi 1| Prince Alberts, $12.85 We also have some Prince Alberts which have been sold out in some sizes. Taking the remaining line'as a whole we can fit |} any man from 34 to 42 chest measure. The ‘| materials are black and gray clay worsteds '} and black unfinished worsteds; some are silk faced, others have plain facing. The former prices were $20.00, $22.50, | $25.00 and $30.00. The price we have placed on them-—$12.85---ought to sell every garment to-morrow. two companies, bearing a gilded tablet | inseribed with the toast which for the |last 420 years has been drunk by the two companies when they dine - to- | gether, “Merchant Taylors and Skin- iners, Skinners and Taylors, Root and | Branch, and may they continue and { flourish forever.” “Jan Maclaren,” author of “The Bon- nie Briar Bush,” gave a lecture on “Kindness in Fiction,” at Liverpool, the other day, in which he protested against the inhumanity of the novel of to-day. A “The note of kindness is conspicu- ously absent from modern fiction,” said Dr. Watson. “In what dre accounted the best writers of to-day, you will be struck rather by a want of sympathy.” Such writers, the lecturer went on, took the life of the East End, and drew it with remarkable accuracy of detail and considerable power of description. ‘But they did not touch it with a gentle ihand. They treated the life of mean streets and mean people much as an anatomist treated a body on the dis- secting table. “Or,” Dr. Watson ded, “‘such writers take the life of society, and before the reader puts the book down he is left with the idea, probably erron- eous, that in what is called society there is hardly one man who is honor- able, or one, woman who is chaste.” “Jan Maclaren” expressed the opin- jon that the three writers of English fiction who will most likely remain the r, Scott and Dick- ens—are marked by the same note of humanity. ———————— Death of Woman Novelist. Jan. 12.—Mme. 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