The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1905, Page 1

ary 18 east winds. THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Franciseo for thirty hours, ending midnight, Febru- San Francisco and vielnity—Ocea- sional showers Saturday; light south- A. G. McADIB, District Forecaster. [ ALCAZAR—"A COLUMBIA—""Th tucket.” CENTRAL—*A mas.”" Matinees at All THE THEATERS. CALIFORNIA— 'Our New Man.' CHUTES— Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—‘Mother Goose." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Grand Overa. You a Mason®™ . Night Before Chriet- 1 Theaters To-Day. SAN FRANCISCQ, SATURDAY ERUARY 18, 1905. MARTIN KELLY ENTANGLES HIMSELF IN MESHES OF NET IN WHICH THE FOUR BOODLING SENATORS WERE CAUGHT ARTIN KELLY, the ex-political boss of San Francisco, may be indicted for perjury because of his alleged connection with the bribery scandal in Sacra- mento. nection with the case. note that answered the description of one passed to French by Agent Jordan. . : Kelly repeated his story, and, according to Belshaw, promised to appear before the committee with the marked note. mittee. Gavin McNab, who planned the trap in which Senators French, Emmons, Wright and Bunkers were caught, is responsible for Kelly's con- According to McNab, Kelly came to him after the exposure of the Sacramento plot and told him that Senator French had given him a bank without the note, excusing his failure to keep his promise by saying he had made a mistake. McNab sent Kelly to Senator Belshaw, chairman of the’ Bribery Investigating Com- Kelly appeared, it is said, but GRAND DUKE SERGIUS KILLED BY BOMB HURLED BY A RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONIST T TAT ZMPRESS o Z ) 4 PLAN MONTE CARLO AT Epecial Disy NEW YORK, Fe @eclare, with full c and “‘Maxe o The Call, 17,—Armed, they “Joe™ the sporting city for Los An- plans for the and build casinos, the ch have never been seen in hemisphere. laws of any kind, they afford every person that ty to play against ent or mod- ged that al- < would be to take dsc hitects who wo! over to the and engineer d select for them ite large enough to answer their These chosen, archi- tects, and gardeners will be employed to carry out the plans. Both Blumenthal and Ullman are known as daring bettors, not alone on race tracks, but in various clubs with which both have been connected. Ullman was known for several seasons as the bookmaker willing to accept the largest wagers offered at a track. Re- perts of $25,000 bets made by John W. Gates and “Pittsburg Phil” were free- ly circulated two years ago at Sara- toga. Last year a published account szid there had been only a slight de- crease in the amounts. That the two men have obtained a foothold on Santa Catalina comes as a surprise to sporting men in this city. r Monte | There, un- | PRELATES HEALTH INPAIRE) Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 17.— Owing to the feeble health of Cardinal Gibbons, who arrived here this morn- ing, every precaution is being taken to guard him against fatigue. The Cardinal has just completed several months’ hard work. He is almost ex- hausted and probably will not leave his brother’s house during the ten days he remains here. In order that Cardinal Gibbong may meet Catholic clergy of this State with- out further fatigue, a chapel, elabor- ately decorated, has been erected in the front yard of his brother’s home, where the head of the Catholic church in America will say mass every morning during his stay. It is not likely that he will be able to visit any of the churches in the city. Cardinal Gibbons came to visit his N N R & & brother, John T. Gibbons. He was ac- companied by five clergymen and ex- pects to remain in New Orleans about ten days. bl WHEAT COUP T0 BE GATES'LAST Specfal Dispatch to' The Call, CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Rumors of the proposed retirement of John W. Gates from the “pit” if he can secure the title of “Wheat King” and a falling off in the price of the cereal from $1 213, yesterday’s closing, to figures | ruling between $1 18% and $1 19%, were featurés to-day on the Board of Trade. It was said the big operator intend- ed that the present deal should be the | crowning triumph of his speculative | career and that, with it once .conclud- ed, he would drop markets #nd stocks | and devote himself to his automobile, For this reason he is said to be ma- neuvering carefully and wishes to steady the market now, because a pre- mature advance would make possible large importations from Argentina and enable the “shorts” to recuperate. More than 8,000,000 bushels of Argen- tine wheat entered the local market this week. The price of May wheat closed at $1 19% to-day. ASSASSINATION, ANOTHER SAID TO BE CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY REV- [ VICTIM OF A YOUTHFUL RUSSIAN TERRORIST, WOMAN WIDOWED BY THE OLUTIONISTS, AND THE SCENE OF THE MOSCOW TRAGEDY. Death Sentence Passed by Terror-| ists Is Horribly Executed. MOSCOW, Feb. 18.—Within the walls bt the far-famed Kremlin Palace and almost underneath' the historical tower from which Ivan the Terrible watched the heads of his enemies falling be- neath the ax of the famous Red Square, and within a stone’s throw of the great bell of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergius, uncle’ and brother-in-law of ‘Emperor Nicholas and the chief of the reactionaries, meét a terrible death shortly before 8 o'tlock yesterday aft-. ernoon. The deed was committed by a ‘single terrorist, who threw beneath the carriage of the Grand Duke a- b cha ‘with the same high power ex- plosive which- wrought Minister-- von Plehwe’s death. The missile was pacled with nails and fragments of iron, and its explosion tore the imperial victim’s which around. Every window in the great, lofty fa- cade of the Palace of Justice w. shattered and bits of iron were imbed- ded deeply in the walls of the arsenal, body .to ghastly fragments, strewed the snow for yards a hundred yards away. ‘The Duke tha < assassin belongs to - the noted “fighting group” of the Socialist revol- jutionary party, which has removed other prominent officials and long since passed s:rgnwnce of death upon Grand e The. Grand Duke knew e stood in the shadow of death. Fails to Produce | He Declared Him After Backs Down EX-POLITICAL BOSS MAY BE INDICTED ON PERJURY CHARGE — Bill It Is Said French Gave EXposure. the Stand on SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1 | j red features of Martin Kell —The fat, have been 0| Special Dispatch to The Call | | | | added to the gallery of accused bood- | | lers, Emmons, French, and | Bunkers. ! Francisco has been caught in a trap i |laid by himself and it is quite probable | that to-morrow Martin will be called | (upon to introduce to the authorities | the bondsmen that will insure his ap- | pearance on a charge of perjury now in course of preparation by District At- | torney Seymour. | Martin Kelly’s tangle with the bood- | lers cgme to light unexpectedly this | afferndon when he emerged from an | ex€cutive meeting of the special inves- | | tigating committee that has been con- { sidering the charges against the ac- | cused Senators. | Standing against Kelly is the testi- | ony of Senator Belshaw, chairman of | | the Wright investigating committee, and them: without solicitation that he had been handed one of the marked bills S0 often referred to in the bribery in- vestigation By Senator French. “A week ago last Saturday,” McNab office and asked me what his position | would -be if he should withhold from | the investigating committee one of the | bills that had been handed him by Sen- | ator French on the evening of the day | the bribery charges were filed in the | Senate by William Corbin. I ques- | tioned him at length and he told me French had handed him a $50 bill bear- ing the number of one in the published 1ist of the notes that had been used to'trap the accused Senators. The bill, he said, had been sent by him from Sacramento to San Francisco, ad- dressed to his own home, and that he still had it in his possession. It was the bill referred to as the Santa Bar- bara bank note. | CALLS ON BELSHAW. “I did not go much further in my examination of Mr. Kelly, but decided to place the matter immediately in the hands of the investigating committee. Last Monday evening I met Kelly in the Capitol Hotel in this city. I again questioned him and asked him if he would not make the statement he had made to me to a member of the com- mittee. He then went to room 62 of the Capitol Hotel, where Senator Bel- shaw was waiting, and I understand told Senator Belshaw the facts sub- stantially the same as he outlined | | them to me.” Senator Belshaw took the stand and corroborated McNab in every detail. “Last Monday evening, the 13th inst.,” Belshaw testified, “Martin Kel- ly came before me in room 62 of the Capitol Hotel and told me that he had the Santa Barbara bank note referred to as among those used to trap the accused Senators. He said it had been handeéd to him by Senator French on the night of the exposure of this affair in the Senate. After much talk I wrung from him a definite promise that he would appear before the com- mittee and bring the note. At that time he made no intimation that there could be a mistake about the proposi- tion; he was sure he had one of the notes used in the entrgpment of the accused Senat -3 and t0 free himself from any reipox;ulbnky he said he would produce the same. “But pyesterday. Thursday, he called upon me at my office in San Fran- cisco and told me that he had made a mistake; that he had examined the note that had been .handed to him by French and that it was not the Santa Barbara bank note. but a United States gold note and was not one of those mentioned as having been passed to the accused Senatérs. I told him that some mysterious influence was chang- ing his views of the facts; that he had told me positivelv that the note in his possgssion was one of those used to trap the accused Senators and that he had given me the definite promise that he would produce the same before the committee. EELLY MAKES DENIAL. “He denied that he had told me so and said that he had stated that he had been given a bill by Senator French; that he had negt examined it and did not know whether it was one of the bills used in the entrapment, but knowing its denomination he had sus-. pected that it. might be and had decid- ed to unbosom himself, and that if after examining the note he found that it was one of those being sought by the prosecution he would give it up to free himself of any suspicion. These are not the facts, however. He told me positively that he had one of the much- sought bills and promised equally posi- tively that he would produce it.” In a strenuo~ endeavor to swear himself out o# this predicament Martin Kelly worked harder than he has for years. Members of the committee affirm ‘Continued ‘on Page 2, Column 2, that he drank a whole pitches of water, perspired as he never did before and The ex-political bosseof San | Gayip McNab, who'say that Kelly told testifled, “Martin Kelly called at my | invented a tale that for even Martin contained dreams yond compare. “This is the bil aid Kelly, when called to the stand, “that was handed to me by Senator French,” and he ha d out United States gold note No. . which is not among the list these used to entrap the accused mators. “I will tell you all about this. | vin McNab has owed me a printing | bill of $305 for a long time. He repudi- | ated it and told —~ he would not pay it, but when he got into that last fight with ‘Horses and Carts’ in San Franci he needed my help. He sent for me and told me that if I would heip him out he would pay me $50 on that printing bill. He paid me the $50 and I did heip him out. “A week ago last Saturday he tel- ephoned to me and told me that if I would come to his office he would pay me $25 m on account of that print- Ing bill. 1 went to his office, he paid me the $25, and then I told him about the bill 1 have submitied for your in- speetion t6-day. 1 told him that on | the evening of the day of the exposure of the bribery scandal Senator French {had handed me a $50 bill in part pay- ment of an old account. We have had business dealings together and he owed me this money. I did not look tat the bill, and a short time after [ !received I placed It in. an envelope of and mailed it to myself, addressing it to my home in San Francisco. FINDS HIS MISTAKE. “I had not examined it when I called upon Mr. McNab, and all I told ‘flnp was that I ‘had received a $50 ill from French; that it was my im- pression that it was one that had been passed to the accused Senators to en- trap them and also that my* impres- sion was that it was the Santa Bar- bara banknote that had been men- tioned as among these passed out. I did not examine the bill until yester- day, when I immediately called upon Senator Belshaw at his office in San Francisco and told him that I had been mistaken in my belief that I had one of the bills said to have been passed to the accused Senators; that |I had examined the bill and found { it to be a United States gold note and not the Santa Barbara note I believed it to be. “After I first told McNab about the bill I had received from French he tried to lay a trap to get me to talic before a third party and finally he ucceeded in getting me to go before enator Belshaw and make a state- ment. It is not true that I told either Senator Belshaw or Mr. McNab that I had one of the bills they were searching for; all I told them was that I had a $50 bill that had been paid me by French, and that it might ;)e one of the bills they were looking or.™ Asked how he got the impression that the bill that had been handed him by French might be one of the billé; the prosecution wanted, Kelly said: “When I got home to San Francisco after mailing the bill I examined sev- eral letters I found waiting for me and then I opened the one containing the bill. I asked my daughter to take it upstairs and compare it with the list of the bills saild to have been given the accused Senators. The list was printed in one of the papers. Subsequently she left the bill on my desk and a bit of paper, on which was written the number of one of the bills in the Fst, and from this I got the impres- sion that that was the nymber of the bill T had given her to examine. But it was not, as I afterward found. “The number she had written was the one on the list opposite the end of a mark I had drawn on the paper showing her where the list was. I guess that the mark called her atteation to the number and she unconsciously copied it on the slip when looking over the list. This gave me the impression that the bill T had was one of those the prosecution was searching for and the number my daughter copied down was that of the Santa Barbara note. This is how I got that impression.” STICKS TO TESTIMONY. No amount of cross-examination | weuld force the admission from Kelly that in fact the note he had was the Santa Barbara note or that in fact he hagd told either McNab or Senator Bel- | shaw that such was the case. So posi- tive was he in his denials in the face of the positive testimony of Belshaw and McNab that the District Attorney was called into consultation and it is an- pounced that to-morrow he will swear to an information charging Kelly with perjury. Kelly has immuned himself from prosecution as an accessory to the bribery after the fact by giving his testimony under oath. When he first went before the committee he was asked to make his statement, but he shrewdly sidestepped trouble by say- ing: “Ain’t I going to be sworn here,” * Continued on Page 2, Column 4.