The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1905, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1905. Joseph Jordan, the Alleged Go=Between‘, Is Charged thh Three Felomes and Released on Bonds GIVE TESTIMONY AS TO PASSING OF BRIBE MONEY Detectives Make Out a Strong! Case for Prosecution. —_—— Continued From 18 not conser d only answer but he was cer- f his associates on the to repay the money t through the spring- It was belief that those that his paid it did not want to be reimbursed; that they were well paid for their loss by contemplating the fact that they had struck a death blow at bribery, blackmailing and graft. JORDAN MEETS TICHENOR. g conducts the et, at which go-between he te: alled at Jordan ted her that to wait. Tichenor waiting for J me after '] Jordan and Tiche- ed conversation and together. This was all as not cross-examined. an Francisco detective, d Tichenor here to wit- f the money to the was next called to ] proved a strong witness g the facts regarding his in the case and telling of of years he has been en- work he got down cts of the alleged brib- ow he had witnessed the 1 of $350 each to Sen- s and Bunkers. how after arriving in Sac- had some troubie in he having been given but later they and Jordan afrange- d for the payment tors of the money T OF THE BRIBE. evening of the 24th,” he he ve t Jordan te hand to these rs and inStructed me to be sure n & position where I could see ney 1 took the numbers bills and npted that one bill in of $350 was initialed. o'clock Tichenor met f Hanlon’s saloon on walked up K street d down Seventh to 1116 the house. They remaiged twenty minutes and then They separated, but later nlon’s. Tichenor left Jor- into Hanlon's saloon. time he came out, accom- Emmons. walked street Ejghth and K, . people and all stréet. a minutes an and Emmons street and behind them. cigar store, m the corner, they package ter € front T at some Jordan t them hs pulled out the bills to Emmons. Em- in his inside pocket and ndshake they separated and t.up the street. n crossed the street and joined and they walked up K street. tes’ conversation they and Jordan joined street.” v interrupted to secure ns ¥ the witness to Jordan ‘when the latter was by the former, ac- Hartling said thin thirty or forty feet that it was about 6:30 th evening and that he aw_the greenbacks handed by Emmons. He said Jordan ) open in his hand as though to some one the fact that he This corrob- Tichenor's statement that he had arranged with Jordan that the yment be made so he could see that dishonest transactien svas honestly arried out by Jordan BUNKERS TOOK THE BILLS. Returning to Bunkers, the witness said he saw Jordan join Bunkers and that they walked up K street to Eighth, I followed,” he continued, “keeping close to them. They turned up Eighth street and stopped on the edge of ths | sidewalk in front of the American Cash | Store &+ | CALL PATTERNS. displa was making the payment. rates All orders for THE CALL'S | PATTERNS will be filled at ‘ the earliest possible moment. | It will, however, take at least ten days to fill orders, as the Patterns are mailed direct from | our Eastern Publishing House. } e e ——— reet and Jordan his back to the build- but a short distance away n~ put his hand info his inside at pocket, withdrew a bundle of bills d handed them to Bunkers. Bunk- ers placed -them in his inside coat There was t.and walked aw vering on the bills plainly displayed that I had no dif- ulty in seeing the transaction. Jor- jan then rejoined Tichenor and I fol- wed them. Jordan venth street I' rejoined Tichenor, nd he told me that Jordan had gone d French and Wright. ¢ around and on the look- réjoined Tichenor at the cagle Hotel, where they held a tion, and Jordan again left, I ver and Tichenor told me Jordan ad not found the man yet, but would fi goon. and for me to femain close at hand. Jordan soon came back and again left. Tichenor told me that Jor- dan said there was a meet- ing of the committee at Tenth street and that he would see French We walked around nd Wright there. to locate the place. The meeting was scheduled for 7:45. The first person to arrive there was Senator Emmons. I ith Jordan at the corner above. “Jordan soon left and Tickenor in- fo! first, when Jordan would pay him, and that Wright would be out later. We then separated and Jordan soon came out. Tichenor later informed me Jor- | dan said he could not get them, that they were busy, but would be down to Golden Eagle Hotel about Jordan did not arrive af ock. ¢ o'clock. Jordan and Tichenor walked own K street toward Sixth. I fol- lowed right behind. JORDAN GETS HiS MONEY. Finally they stopped and Tichenor handed Jordan the bills to be paid to French and Wright. They then sepa- rated. 1 rejoined Tichenor and he told me he had to get another $100 for Jor- dan. Tichenor again met Jordan at 12 o'clock and they held a long conver- sation. After they separated 1 re- joined Tichenor and he told me that Jordan had already paid French and Wright. Tichenor then went to the de- pot to get the extra $100 for Jordan. He came back and showed me the bill and I took the number. Later he was rejoined by Jordan and they went in front of the Golden Eagle barber shop, where Tichenor handed Jordan the $100 bill. They then went across the street to a saloon, where they. remained about twenty-fivé min- utes. When they came out they shook hands and separated and 1 rejoined Tichenor. He said our work was com- | pleted.” after several meetings | Every effort on the part of Cator to break the witness down on cross-ex- amination failed. The witness was sure of his time and of his facts, and when Cator saw he was making poor headway he turned from this line and | attacked, by imputation, his character, He was asked if he had not been ac- cused by Judge Ham of Napa of at- { tempt at blackmail. r showed me the bills he | placed his hand in his | ATTACKS BY IMPUTATION. ““That is not true and I defy you or any other man to say it,” answered the witness. Cator then asked the witness if he was not involved in the Little Pete bribery case. This was denied and the witness explained that his only connec- tion - with the Little Pete affair was after he had been murdered and he had been employed as a detective by the defense. Hartling was then asked if he had not been accused by Attorney Slessin- ger of testifying falsely in a case. “Yes, Slessinger accused me of testi- fying falsely in a case when I was against him,” answered the witness, “and probably you will do the same lhing when 1 get through with this case. This answer caused much laughter and Cator was plainly discomfited. Cator then went into a line of ques- tions regarding which hand each of the accused used in taking the money given them. “Both hands,” interjected McNab, and again the audlence broke into laughter. Cator then let the witness g0 and an adjournment was taken un- til this evening at 8 o’clock. Only two new witnesses were called { by the prosecution, and it announced on regarding the posi- | that its case was all in. Moses Heinze, who received the money from Grange in the Mills building on Mon- day, was one of these. He told of that circumstance. William Russell of the Continental, who brought up the extra ' $100 _for Jordan that was_received by Tichenor at the Southern Pacific depot in this city on the evening of the passing out of the bribe money, testified to his trip here on a late train. CORBIN IS RECALLED. William Corbin was recalled by the prosecution and again made to go over a great deal of the same ground he had covered at his previous examination. In addition to this, however, he inter- jected a2 mysterious stranger into the case, whom neither he nor any of his u#ttorneys seem to know, but who is credited withr being responsible for | the clause in the affidavit that is to be stricken out. This stranger fur- nished the one remaining mystery in the case. He fioated into the office of Mr. Corbin, whispered a warning of dire things to come and then van- ished. “Friday afternoon of last weel | said Mr. Corbin, “a man called at my Bunkers had his back to the | Ofice and said he had noticed the |. S | prosecution of the Continental Build- ing and Loan Association by the Ex- aminer. He said he wished to give us warning that the Senate Committee on Commissfons and Retrenchments had been arranged by Al Murphy of the Examiner and that it proposed to make a bad showing for the Contin- ental if it could; that Bunkers had been elected with money furnished by the Examiner and that &nmon.s was employed by that paper.” "Who is this man?” asked Cator. “T don’t know,” replied Corbin. “He said he was a stranger to me, but that he wanted to see fair play. I communi- cated with Mr. McNab and told him of the circumstances, He said: ‘“The man who told you this evidently told you nd they were | left Tichenor on | Tichenor | moved away and saw Tichenor talking ( ned me that French would come out | 10| the | n Eagle at 19, but he came about ACCUSED MAT THE BLAME TRY 10 SHIFT ON JORDAN. NoA ttempt Is Made o Protect Him the truth. I have informdtion that, Bunkers, French and Jordan are in| | town trying t drum up business forf the committee.’ | Continuing, Corbin retold the story | of his part in the trap set for the al- |'teged bribe takers. Cator sald he wished b associate, Copeland, to cross-examine Corbin, as Copeland had | sume data and documents in his pos- session that were necessary to the cross- examination. He said Copeland was ill and could not be present to-night. In | view of the fact that the accused Sen- jators had three attorneys present the committee ordered that the cross exam- | ination proceed, with .the understand- {ing that Copeland might ask what questtons he wished at the next session. WARNED BY A STRANGER. | Cator asked the witness particularly | about the mysterious stranger he had| | mentioned. “I asked the man s name,” said Corbin in answer to a question, “and he said he did not care to have it known at present. 1 have never seen him since.” | "“Wasn't Jordan, was it?” suggested Cator. . “No, I have seen him since and know it was not him,” was the reply. The witness said the stranger was about the age of Cator and about his build, but had a smooth face. He wore a dark suit. “Did Mr. at what you told him?” ! prise asked Q. he said he wasn't surprised at | said,Corbin. “I think that's so,” said Cator. “I hope the editorial remarks of the | attorney will not be made a part of | the record,” sald McNab. No, they'll be put away on the shelf | alcngside of yours,” replied Cator. “Is it got a fact that because of this | centrovefsy with the Examiner these | charges were got up by you as the orly practical manner of striking back | land that you got up this scheme for | that purpose?” asked Cator. “We didn’t get up the scheme,” re- | torted Corbin. * “It is the Examiner | and that crowd that has been schem- | ing.” | “You make the charge that the Ex- aminer is mixed in the affairs of this Committee on Commissions and Re- trenchments,” sald Cator. “To the best of my knowledge and belief it is,” replied Corbi Continuing Corbin said: "I would never submit to the examination of any committee that is dishonest.” Asked if he knew any members of the committee Corbin said he knew none of the accused men, but that he knew Bauer. “You mean asked Cator. “No, Bauer,” sald Corbin. DOES NOT KNOW BUNKERS. “I don't know Bunkers and don’t want to. It is common talk in the city that the four members of this com- mittee charged are crooked.” ou would submit to an investiga- tion by them if you thought they would report your company to be all it should be, wouldn't you?” was asked. “I believe that if it had $20 pieces piled to the ceiling this committee would report that the Continental treasury was empty,” replied the wit- ness. “That might have been true after a visit of the committee,” said McNab. “Did you care whether the money ever reached these Senators, as long as you besmirched them?” asked Cator. “I would not be the cause of be- smirching any living person unless they deserved it,” said the witness, Corbin said he had no interest in the money put up. He would not say that he «didn’t care whether it was lost, as he didn’t like to see anybody lose their money. “Do you know Emmons?” was asked. “Yes, 1 do,” was the reply, “and there I must' correct myself. When asked if I knew any of the members of the committee I thought only of those I knew honorably.” Asked what he knew ' of Emmons, Corbin said the Continental had loaned him money to build a house and that it x;‘o“ had neither the money nor the ouse. Bunkers, don’t you?” EMMONS IN BAD LIGHT. “We loaned the money to Mrs. Em- mons rather,” said Corbin. “We sent a check to her, but the comtractor did not use the money as he should and the house cost more than the money loaned. Mrs. Emmons indorsed the check and sent it back marked paid. The house was half finished and the contractor said if we would let him have enough to finish it he would make the payments. We did so, but he made no payments. We brought suit for ejectment. Emmons claimed the money had never been received by them, but Mrs. Emmons said she had received and indorsed the check. Emmons has been in the house ever since, holding it on a technicality. He never sued us as stated; we sued him.” “Well, he beat you, didn't he?” was asked. “Yes, but the code happened to be against us. We should have brought a suit of foreclosure.” Attorneys McNab and Gould an- nounced that they had no more wit- nesses and Cator took up the cross-ex- amination of Tichenor. One of the points he tried to settle was whether Emmons had reached for the money with both hands, as Mr, McNab had intimated. It wag pretty well establish- ed that Emmons had used but one hand in reaching for whatever Jordan may have handed him. Asked for the story of his life, the witness told of various businesses he had been engaged in and then entered upon a pericd of speculation in_San 'Francisco. Next he was only a Pull man conductor. After narrating this tragedy he was again led over all the ground covered by himself, Jordan and the accused Senators during the pass- ing of the money. Cator’s effort was to show that he could not have seen what moneys were passed because of the distance he was away and the po-l- tions in which the partles stood. was asked if he noted the position ul Hartlin - at the times the moneys were paid and said he had not, as he was too busy keeping his optics on Jordan. MONEY HANDED TO ACCUSED. “‘Are you willing to swear now, know- ing that the liberty of these Beu.tors may be at stake and considering inclination you may have towunl mt belief because you saw Ji put the money in his pockets, that McNab manifest any sur- ! it was Gov- | ernment bills he handed to these ac- cused men, and the bills you gave him?" Cator asked. “To the best of my knowledge and belief the money he handed Emmons and Bunkers was the same rolls I gave him at his room at 1116 Seventh street,” was the reply. Tichenor stated that Senator Bunkers smiled broadly when he received his roll from Jordan and seemed filled with satisfaction. “Don’t you know a man might smile at other things besides receiving money?” asked Cator. “Jordan might have been telling #m a funny story, as he is capable of doing. Maybe he told him the Continental was going to put up that ten thousand.” “That would make anybody smile,” said Tichenor. The witness refused point blank to answer any question going into his for- mer relations with the Pinkerton Agency. He even declined to say whether he knew Emmons while en-! gaged by the Pinkertons at Bakers- | fleld. This question was allowed by the | committee, but others were not. and Cator took an exception, saying he might appeal to the Senate. DEFENSE ASKS FOR TIME. | J. E. Alexander, one of the attor- i neys for the defense, asked that the | case go over until to-morrow evening. ‘“We have been confronted here with a mass of secret testimony,” he said, “and have had no opportunity | to refute it. We need a little time to make up our line of defense. It may | be that we will call some witnesses | from Bakersfleld and Los Angeles. | Our testimony is in the hands of oth- ers and we do not know just how to ‘ go ahead. 1t may be that the accused men will be our omnly witnesses.. At the request of the defense Tiche- I nor and Hartling will be present at | the next sesslon for further cross-ex- | amination. The hearing was continued until to- morrow night at 8 o'clock. MAY AMEND AFFIDAVIT. ‘When the committee opened its evening session Senator Ralston said he would like to have Mr. McNab make a further statement concerning the first clause of the affidavit of accusation ‘which intimates that undue influence was used in appointing the Corimittee on Commissions and Retrenchments. “It was never the intention.” said Mr. McNab, “to convey by the slightest word that the president of this Senate was influenced in the least in the ap- pointment of this committee. We will withdraw that part of the affidavit. Mr. Corbin as the maker of it is will- ing to do this.” “The committee has no right to with- draw the clause of the afidavit. but it will ask the permission of the Senate to do so to-morrow,” said Chairman Belshaw. “If you will file with the committee in writing what you desire it will be attended to.” “The defense has some rights in this matter,” said Attorney Cator. “The Senate itself has no right to expunge from a record the statement of people not members. It is to our intersst to have this affidavit remain as it is.” McNab was told to put in writing what he wished done, and promised to do so. Cator said he would protest against the elimination of the clause referred to. . ALLEGED INCONSISTENCY. The last of the witness' testimony established an inconsistency between his statements and those of Detective Hartling that was eagerly seized by Attorney Cator. Tichenor said he handed the bills with which the Sen- ators were to be bribed to Jordan, done up in rolls. So far as he could see, he being located across the street, in both instances, the bills were still in rolls when they were handed to Emmons and Bunkers. 'Hartling, who testified that he was a short distance away ‘when the bills were handed to the Sen- ators, sald they were not rolled up, but were handed out full length, so that he had no difficulty in recognizing them. The defense proceeded, how- ever, and in foreing from Tichenor a further admission weakened this point. Tichenor, in answer to questions, ad- mitted that if the passing of what he believed, from the position he occu- pied, to be bills was a transaction be- tween strangers, he would not have been able to identify the object that passed as paper money. This elated the defense, but when it | comes to the argument the prosecution will point out that this admission upon the part of Tichenor strengthens its theory that Jordan unrolled the bills after receiving them from Tichenor and thus Tichenor’s testimony operates as corroborative of Hartling's testi- mony that the bills were handed out unrolled and easily identified. ACCEPTS JORDAN’S WORD. As to the guilt of French and Wright, Tichenor said the only evidence he had was Jordan’s word that he had paid them. Asked if he believed Jordan to be an honest man, one whose word could be taken in such a case, Tichenor said that so far as carrying out his part of the compact was concerned he had found Jordan to be honest, or, in other words, that he was a‘dis- honest man with a flne sense of the ‘"honor that obtains among his kind. Tichenor said the last action he had taken in the case was to consult in the office of Gavin McNab in San Fran- cisco with the District Attorney and another official of Sacramento regard- ing criminal proceedings to be insti- tuted against Joseph S. Jordan. At that time the District Attorney had ! expressed regret that he had not been informed of the bribery case before it was_announced in the Senate that he might have taken action to gather further evidence, if the same was found to be necessary. In conclusion Tiche- mor said he had not seen any of the marked bills since the ‘day he turned them over to Jordan. Attorneys for the prosecution admit that they have been unable to trace any of them. This is the weakest, in fact the only weak point, in their case. The trial will go on again to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. 1 B i o s A 7T According to Professor an-rth of ‘Vienna, the number of meteorites actu- ally falling on the earth each year, not including, of course, shooting stars or meteors, is about 900. Two or f.hm these bodies fall, then, zomewbm on earth every tw; tyv four hours. ififi ‘Take hflfl“ Bt HOLDING SHORT SESSIONS MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE WHO HAVE Bm APPOINTED TO MAKE A THOROUGH INVES/ OF THB CONTINENTAL BUL GATION INTO THE ING AND LOAN ASSOCXATXCN | S AND AFFAIRS Pl LR T R R R A R L COES T0 HEAD OF THIRD FILE Yosemite Re-cession Measure to Come Up for Final Read- ing .in Assembly To-Day Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1—The Yo- Semite re-cession bill will be faken up by the Assembly to-morrow morning. After a lengthy debate this morning the lower house voted to put it on the head of the third reading or final passage file for that time. Several mo- tions fixing days for hearing it were This is an indication that the Assem- bly is in favor of re-cession, as he leads the opposition. The motion to take up the bill to-morow was adopted as a compromise, however. Amerige was its author. The matter came up on Estudillo’'s motion to rush his amendment protect- ing vested rights in case of re-cession to; the printer and have the bill consid- ered at the afternoon session. The Society of Califorma Pioneers presented a petition through Speaker Prescott that the Legislature appro- priate a sum sufficient to place in the National Statuary Museum at Wash- ington statues of John A. Sutter and James Lick, the society deeming them the most illustriously connected with the State’s foundation. Espey demanded that his bill prohib- iting gpool selling be taken from the hands of the Committee on Public Morals (Lucey chairman) and given to gome other committee. He intimated that the Public Morals Committee was delaying the matter of reporting the bill back. Tt was evident he feared it would be smothered in the committee. On motion of Stanton Espey’s motion ‘was laid on the table. Treadwell's bill giving the Board of Harbor Commissioners of San Fran- cisco permission to lease certain blocks on the water front was taken from the hands of the Committee on Commerce and Navigation at the author's re- quest and otherwise referred. Bliss introdtced a bill providing that the female ward at the Mendocino State Hospital for the Insane be trans- formed into a prison hospital for in- sane ts. _An appropriation of $15,000 to estab- ush a California exhibit at the interna- tional exposition to be held at Liege, Belglum, this year, and giving ihe Governor power to appoint a Commis: sloner at a salary of $250 a month, was introduced by Meincke, At the request of the California Pro- motion Committee Vogel introduced a measure making green and gold the State colors. % crex!:hto& Introd:xcte:‘ a bill provid- ng for the ntment of the Superior Juds:’g:: Shasta Cou;:; % —_— Charged With Stealing Tools. Samuel R. Haynes was booked last nlfllt at the th End Pollee Station A v hnt nm m’um of tools ‘&m A d Hyde streets. a new flat A ‘ | tion. | the place of the Committee on Commis- put. One, by Jones of Tuolumne, to lay | the matter over for a week was beaten. NEW COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED President of Senate Names Five Members to Investi-|: gate Continental’s®Affairs Sbecial Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.—President of the Senate Anderson, acting under Sen- ator Ralston’'s resolution, passed yester- day, appointed to-day a special com- mittee to investigate the affairs of the Continental Building and Loan Asso- ciation, or any other similar organiza- The special committee will take sions and Retrenchment, a majority of the members of which are now on the defensive. The new committee consists of Senators Woodward, Curtin, Hahn, Anderson and Lynch. An extended debate took place in the Senate to-day, when a bill introduged by Senator Hahn of Los Angeles came up for final passage. The bill adds a new section toythe Penal Code, as fol- lows: An; Tson, persons or corporation who aliows & minor under the age of sighteen years to visit a saloon, gambling-house or gther tmmoral place, bkyey:hyle:m owned, [ con N vt T Sailiy o e mide- meanor. . Senator Selvage of Humboldt County made a vigorous assault upon the bill, contending that if it were passed and became a law it would keep young men from engaging in business. He held that under the provisions of the bill it would be unlawful for grocery clerks, drug clerks, newspaper carriers, mes- senger boys and others to deliver goods or messages. Senator Shortridge of Santa Clara de- clarea that the bill was of the Sunday- school brand of legislation. Proceeding, Shortridge said he did not want any boy of his watched. He believed the Senators would be better off if they at- tended to their own business. The cities of the coast were able, he declared, to grind out ordinances tor their own pro- tection. At the request of the nuthor the mat- ter was continued until to-morrow. ‘A bill was introduced in the Senate this morning by Senator Rush of So-| lano County to put a stop to coursing of bills in the Senate of which Lieu- tenant Governor Adden Anderson is £aid to be the author. One of the bills provides for the opening of the Legis- lature on the first Monday after the first day of February instead of, the first of January, as at present. | 'The other bill makes a large numper of the attaches statutory officers of the Senate and Assembly. This in- cludes porters and certain other at- taches, who shall be under the direc- tion of the Secretary of State. The ob- Ject of this is to have certain peces- sary work performed just before the opening of a session of the Legisla- ture. i Inspects Normal School Building. SAN JOSE, Feb. 1—A Senatorial committee of the State Lexgislature to- day inspected the State Normal School building in this e¢ity and the Agnew Insane Asylum. In the party were J. A. McKee (chairman) and wife and son of) Sacramento; E. F. Woodward, wife and daughter of Santa Rosa: J. B. Sanford and wife of Ukiah: J. H. Nelson and wife of San Francisco. A. E. Muenter and son of Stockton: C. W. Pendleton of Los Angeles; Captain F H. Crumbley of Los Angeles; J. B. Irish of Dowieville, deputy Sargeant at Arms, and his brother, O. G. Irish. —_———— LANDS WITHDRAWN, ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—For the ex- tension of the Klamath River irrigation project the Interior Department to-day ordered the withdrawal from all forms of disposal of 448,640 acres of public lands in the Lake View, Or., land dis, trict; 289,520 acres in the Redding, Cal., land district, and 109,440 acres in the Susanville, Cal, land district. The withdrawal of 78,720 acres of publ'c lands in the Independence, Cal., land district also has been ordered on ac- count of the Owens River irrigation project. A keen’appetite and pow- er to properly digest the food is the certaip result of taking a doseof the Bitters beforemeals. Besideston- ingup the stomach and aid- ingdigestionitisalsosplen- didincasesof Indigestion, Dyspepsia,Liver and Kid- Ills, Costiveness, Ce%ls, Colds and General Debillty. Trv it matches. The bill makes it a mllde- me: nortotnehmmhsnhlmln ene’s possession or to offer h:m sale to be used for courfl‘n; Hahn’s bill providing for the lmtlt- ment and employment of the ltuchu of the District Court of Appeals and lor their salaries. The bill provides for! each court a clerk at $2400 per unum. one stenographer, to be a deputy cle'rk. at $1800, and a at $1200. Carter of Los Angeles intro bill adding a new section to the Code making it a misdemean w hushand to flfl:‘l‘t his wife w]