The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1905, Page 1

Forecast made at thirty March 23 hours San T Dist THE WEATHER. . ending Franciseo and | Thursay; light morth wind { | San Franciece !er; at midnight; | vielnity—Fair G. McADIE, rict Forscaster. TIVOLI—Comie 'Sag Horbor." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. K(Ak!“l‘l;?l:\. IA—"The Marrtage of | L COLUMBIA—""The Virginian." CENTRAL—"Hearts Adrift."” | CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matines. GRAND—“The Beauty Shop.” Opera. VOLUME XCVII—NO. 114, SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. F. A. MAESTRETTI IS INDICTED BY THE GRAND JURY ON CHARGE OF SUBORNATION O HE Grand Jury yes- “ terday mormning % brought in an indict- Frank A. ‘\)3;(1yf{';"firs<!dfint of the Public Works, ('r_;,rgmi: him with subor- The in- dictment was the result of ment against Board of nation of perjury r tesimony given ?‘_\' Cl‘!ar]es E. Memll, C. M. Silber- stein and W. H. Podd to e effect that Maestretti | proached themandasked | them to testify that Charles the convicted | Wyman, tuff r, did not vote more | than once. Maestrettiwas | eleased on $3000 bonds. . Men Accuse Him of Asking False Testimony, Surenders Himself to the Sheriff and Gives Bonds, [ | gLl Whe ement was made M t of the Board of be dicted by of subor- ation nde was 3 bonds, Indemnity Jury Five mbly Dis- 3 the time S illegally voted It was taken t had already told the members Maestretti came to swear he did nore than once r of the serious and C was in d, and the man . of the illegal voting, again told the g was car- MERRILL TELLS HIS STORY. Grand planning Merrill before it and re- when he un- the In nothing for § nd act promptly terd: % which the stories of Maes- attempt to secure false as told by Podd and Silber- , the jurors called on Merrill for his version of the affair. He told a story of how Ma etti had called on nim =t his residence when Charles Wy- T was arrested and asked him to at the trial that Wyman did not ore than e at the primary retti was in the company of a r man when he cailed at my h said Merrill. “The stranger ang the bell and when wife open- i1 the door he tcld her Maestretti was utside and wanted to talk to me on a | 1 came outside ery important matter. nd met Maestretti on the sidewalk, hen he made the proposition to me. 1d He ol me that Wyman was in nger of going to San Quentin, and ‘“We will have to get together save him. Things look bad for him, and our testimony is all that will xeep him ocut of jail. I want you to r wyou did not see Wyman vote re than once at the primary election. 11 vou do it Merrill said he would do as Maestretti asked, for, he testified, he really did not see Wyman vote more than once. He said Maestretti went away satisfied and told him he would fix everything right and that there would be no her trouble. THREE JURORS EXCUSED. The stories told by Podd and Silver- stein are practically on the same lines _Conunued on Page 2, Column 2. £W ) was | st { | S MOURNED - BY ANARMY OF HER Kl Utah Woman Leaves 303 Living De- scendanis. | BRI TN Special Dizpatch to The Call LT LAKE, Utah Leaving 302 living mourn her passing, Mrs. March endants Sarah to Ann Woolf of Hyde Park, Utah, is dead at the age of 91 years. She left 10 chil- dren, 81 grandchildren, 189° great- | grandchildren and 23 great-great- grandchildren. ~ Fifty-four of her de-| scendants dead. Her oldest child, Absalom Woolf, is past 73 years'of age. Mrs. Woolf, whose maiden name was Devoe, was born in Westchester Coun- | ty, New York, in 1514, She married when a young girl, and, with her hus- band, joined the Mormon Church. They traveled with the Mormons through Ohio, Illinois and Missouri and made | the overland journey to Utah with the | first Mormon pioneers in 1847. Their | | early life in Utah was characterized by | the adventures that came to other pio- neers—drought, famine, Indian raids, etc.—and they were several times com- } pelled to change their residence. | Mre. Woolf, with an infant a year old | to care for, drove a team from the Mis- | souri River to Salt Lake in 1847, and for | | many years after reaching Utah assist- | ed her husband in bullding log cabins, | digging water ditches, sowing crops | and performing other manual labor. | Her husband died many years ago and since that time Mrs. Woolf had lived at the homes of her sons, six of whom survive her. Mrs. Woolf enjoyed unusually good | health throughout her long life and re- | tained her faculties until within a short | time of her death. LEXTRA SESSIN ~ IN OCTOBER Congress to Take | Tarift Revision, as Well | Railroad Rate Legislation | —_— Epecie! Dispatch to The Cali. H WASHINGTON, March 22—The an- nouncement was made by Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to-night that tle President would call an extraordinary session of Congress in October. While the especlal purpose will be the con- | sideration of rallroad rate legisiation it is expected that the question of tariff revision also will be taken up and dis- posed of. October 3 is the date set L for the convening of Congress. — Up DISHONEST | price. F ~ — — - | cry oFr: BY { GRAND JURY ON CHARGE OF SUBORNATION OF PERJURY. -+ FIRMS ARE ENTRAPPED ‘Allegedfi)’(filing()on-‘ {racts to Be En- forced. —_— OMAHA, March 22.—Suits to compel several large business houses in Omaha to fulfill boodle contracts with the | county are to be instituted at once at the instance of the Municipal League. | As a result firms which are under con- tract to supply groceries, drugs and other supplies for the courthouse, poor farm and County Hospital are in a fair way to lose thousands of dollars. It was shown in a recent investiga- tion that since the contracts are awarded to the lowest average bidder, the favored bidders have in many in- stances offered articles for which it is certain there will be little or no call at merely nominal prices, while ar- ticles largely in demand are offered at two to three times the regular retail In the contract for drugs, for instance, Clark’s rye is contracted for at $3 per gallon, while Duffy’s malt whisky, which wholesales at $9 per dozen gquarts, is offered the county at 1 cent a quart. It is proposed in this instance that the county be compelled to purchase Duffy’s malt at the nom- inal price offered in the contract. Similar comparisons are made in other lines. It is shown that the county- has paid 50 cents for candles which sell at 9 cents a pound whole- sale; $6 50 per 1000 for printed note- heads in large or small quantities; 50 cents a dozen for common penholders which sell at 1 cent each. cery contract cream of wheat, which costs 121, cents, is offered at 3 cents a package. In every case where low prices were ifixed for certain articles and high prices for similar articles (the con- tractors evidently having assurance that the latter would Be ordered hy the county officlals) the county will be compelled if possible by the Munici- pal League to purchase the low-priced article exclusively. —————— Frazier Now a Senator. e General Assem in joint to-day canvassed the vote taken y‘.—m terday for United States Senator, and James Frazier was declared elected. The ”\;ote: Frazier, 104; Brown- low, 22. ¢ 5 In gro- | March 22— |ou PERJURY GGANTIC SWINDLES Operations of (Gang vin Philadelphia Bxposed. ———— Deals Running Into Millionsf Involve Banks and | Trust Companies. — Frank 0. Marrin, a Brocklyn Lawyer | Who Orce Fled to Coast, the Chief ¢chemer. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELFPHIA, March 22.—Phila- delphia is the center. of the greatest gang of get-rich-quick swindlers that | ever operated in the United States. This fact has been fully established by a protracted imyestigation conduct- ed by the Philadelphia North American in an effort to ciose up the Storey ¢otton Company, which préposed pay- ments of impossible profits. The Storey Cotton Company went to he wall last Thursday with assets of $33,- 000 and labilities totaling into the il- lions. It was followed on Tuesday by the Provident Investment Bureau, an allied concern, which furned up assets of only*§3000 and fiak nearly $1,000,000. The history back to the ii C. Marri a prosperous young Brookly; B i He was dceused of being an a&wftr for about $70,000, money entrusted to him for investment by one of his ¢H- ents, Mrs. Caroline Barry, a widow. Marrin fled to Europe. He was indict ed in Brooklyn for forgery and emb :z- zlement and the indictments are still pending. After a short while spent in Europe, Marrin went to Central America and | from there to Chicago, where he ap- peared in 1895. He was broke and re- | duced to the prunt of selling shoestrings on the street. ‘He subsacuently se- | cured employment with a press-clip- | | ping bureau at 37 a week, and while | so =mployed fell in wiith a man who was known as W. R. Bennett. In Chi- | { cago Marrin used the alias Frank M. Stone. He and Bennett organized the | Chicago Bank Depositors’ and Invest- ors’ Protective Association with offices | |in the Rialto buildings Chicago. and | | professed to be able to give inside in- } ilurmallon to subscribers about the | | many get-rich-quick concerns that | | were operating in that city at the time. i | FLEE TO SAN FRANCISCO. ! This concern quickly gave way to the | Investors’ Protective Association, which | was a blind used by Marrin and Ben- | nett, while these two men, the former | under the second alias of Edward Dunne, promoted the Securities. Sav- | ings Society, which ran a blind pool | on horse races. afloat until Februarvy, 1500, when Mar- rin, under the alias of Edward Dunne, took his stenographer, Mrs. Sophiu Beck, and fled to San Francisco. Ben- nett grabbed $300,000 of the loot and | got away. | Marrin and the Beck woman were | chased by the Chicago police from that | city to San Francisco and thence to New Orleans, where they were both arrested on Kebruary 17, 1900. Marrin had $75,000 cash with him when ar- rested, and although indicted and de- | spite the fact. that witnesses were taken from Chicago he managed. to escape extradition. ' The effort cost'him $10,000. 8 He then came to Philadelphia, hav- ing established his family here pre- vious to his flight from Chicago. He bought a handsome house on ‘South Forty-fourth street and appeared here as “Judge” Franklin Stone, lawyer and. turfman, from Kentucky. Imost im- mediately he opened offices for a fake importing firm knewn as Storey & Co., in which the partners were alleged to i be Franklin E. Storey and Francis Stone. This firm was a blind for Mar- rin, who at the same time was oro- mioting the firm of Arthur S. Foster & Co., cotton:gpecialists. R AID FROM WASH!NGTON:. Marrin went to Europe almost im- mediately after launching Storey & Co. and the Foster fraud, being represented l iu the latter concern by an Engun):mnl known as Arthur 8. Foster-Francls. In business this man passed as Foster; i socially and at his hotel he was known as Francis. Once each week Francis called at Marrin’s home on South Forty-fourth street and secured from Mrs. Marrin a check to defray the cur- rent expenses of floating the Foster outfit. ’ F) This latter concern was put out of business on September 19, 1900, by a fraud order_ issued ‘ostensibly on the ground of fraud, but in r _because the man Francis, who was identified by postal inspectors and showed a c;%\ud i record in’'New Orlears, appeared as i the nominal head and manager. Fol- ! lowing the collapse of the Foster Z A L prog¢ as The schiemes were kept | | _1338s3888RtnRTRT, 572EREE, FATHER PITIFULLY BEGS FOR MERCY FOR HIS SON. Plea of Goucher's Parent Makes Jurumen Shed Tears +- A pitiful drama was enacted in Judge Cook’s court yesterday when ex-Senator George Goucher begged the jury to free’his wayward son, Alan (alias Kid) Goucher, one of the men accused of murdering Policeman Eugene C: Robinson. appeal was reached the sobbing of women was heard and the jury was visibly affected. — When the climax of the "TSERND THIS BOY BACKTO HIS MOTHER 'S ARMS. — 5 .. = e ENATOR GOUCHER MAKING HIS TOUCHING. APPEAL TO THE JURY ON BEWALF OF IS SON CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY IN THE MURDER OF POLICEMAN ROBINSON. THE JURY WAS MUCH AFFECTED | BY THE WORDS OF THE DISTRESSED FATHET 2 < I - —_—— e AR TILLERS OF THE SO Supposed Canals Are|Polygamy - Fields, Says Dr. Prentis. NEW YORK, March 22.—Mars is in- habited, E ' The'fact is proved, according to Pro- fessor Robert ‘W. Prentis of Rutgers , -by .the straight lines on. the surface of the planet, which, he says, are fertilized areas of land, -instead of huge astronomers. g “This view, which is the result of his scientific researches, he set forth to- night in a stereopticon lecture under the auspices of the Board of Educa-. tion.. He said. that nearly the entire surface of the Mars was desert the,wu&el.vg&, hich, he believed, cultivated by an WASHINGTON, ‘March /22.—Lieu- tenant Colonel Charles Humphreys. ‘Corps ‘died here to-day. | the Artillery ‘He was 60 years of age.. canals, as heretofore believed by’ MARTIANS [FEUD RENDS | THE CHGRCH OF SAINTS _.—Cnarge‘ ~ Against Leading ~Mormon. —— SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 22. Charles” A. Smurthwaite, who-is in pro- cess of excommunication from the ‘Mormoén church because of his alleged apostasy in criticising the acts of Pres ident Joseph Smith, as charged by his having children by them, contrary to the revelation known as the “mani- and contrary to the laws of the “This ia the first time direct charge of Vioiation of the sccltatasues) tad “Restore to a broken home our Alamy a wandering child.” ‘When Senagor Goucher’s veice, shak+ ing with emotion, rang out in that plea for his scn’s life yesterday three of the jurymen dashed tears from their eyes, women sobbed outright, and a sup- pressed burst of sympathy rose from the crowd that thronged Judge Cook's courtroom. Alan, alias “Kid,” Goucher, the young priscner, bowed his head. There were traces of tears im his narrow, shifty eyes as hé turned to reassure his sobe bing mother who sat beside him. “I ask you, gentlemen of the, jury, not'to write across that boy's path des- olation and destruction. But I ask you “—and you have the power—to place this boy back in‘a loving mether’s care, with the influence of these young sis- ters to guide him. “:*I ask that these two young brothers will not in future years remember the Horrible days in this courtroem. Gen- tlemen of the jury, there are two paths; one leading to a hopeless, deso- late home and family with this boy's life moving into eternity or incarcerat- ed In prison; the other is festoration to his family, where, amid loving guid- ance, he may keep out of evil compan- ionship. live down the past and become one of the brilllant young men of thi® State.” There was a tragic dignity in the® father's manner when he rose to pleaded for the life of hi with all the eloquence that g@