The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1905, Page 1

Ticiatty—Fair | Tuesday; brisk west winds. ; A. G. McADIE, | CALL mount.” MECHANICS' Show. THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—“Tom Moore." CALIFORNIA—"‘The COLUMBIA—"“The Other Girl." CENTRAL—'Paul Revere.” CHUTES—Vaudeville, GRAND—Grand Opera. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comie Opera: PAVILION — Nature M M E XCVII_N SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ROSA TORTURICI IS OVERCOME BY HORROR WIFE OF VILARDO’S SUPPOSED MURDERER UNABLE TO VIEW BODY :’V&RS. ROSA TORTURICI, wife of the man charged with the murder of Biaggio Vilardo, shrieked with fright yesterday when taken - into the room where lay the murdered man’s remains, and refused to cast her eyes upon them. The officers, in pity, led her from the place. bloodstained relics might lead - HER SHRIEKS CHILL HEARTS F HEARERS cally Tears Away From Place Where Comse Lies. sten Attempts to Get a Confession From Woman Fail, ] *.rLI (At i. .‘ * »® .fl‘"x 1 p /JI!!‘Q‘ s Pats, < » Raw S ARl » s '-e,""-voax;, # % Fablhg ST TM — TORTURICI ON THE STREET He Passes Them Fri- ~day Last on Mont- gomery venge Louis Cuneo, a barkeeper in the Owl saloon at 311 Montgomery avenue, and Joseph Bacigalupi saw Pietro Tortu- e SHT PHOOX BY E A. ROGERS. )GRAPHED RAPH OF ROSA TORTURICI TAKEN JUST A8 EHE WAS TOLD THAT SEHE MUST LOOK UPON THE MUTILATED BODY OF CONTRAST BETWEEN THE LOOK OF HORROR ON THE WOMAN'S FACE AND THE LOOK Torturiel s | Department could not bear to carry it out to the stern, relentless end. There is an old Sicillan superstition that if any one connected with a mur- der touches the corpse blood will gush from the wounds. They told Mrs. Torturici that she must view the hacked remains of Vil- opened suddenly. Two |ardo. She was fondling her pretty rust her in. She did not+ Paby and crooning’to it a little Sicilian ) where the sheeted rem. | 1ullaby. When she heard of the ordeal Ry e tuenns | She was to go through her face was 1 being lay; but turned | wiid with terror. ied animal The baby smiled and leaned its little she shrieked. “For God's head upon a tiny hand. It's smiling, | contented features were in strong con- trast to the fear-distorted woman's face above it. SHRIEKS IN FRIGHT. “You must come and see the body,” Insisted a detective. fed to force her into the death r, but her cries rang louder and She ie & tiny woman, but by effort she forced the burly de- | back and fell, sobbing and| . on the threshold of the door “Por Dio! For God’s sake, no!"” room where the horror lay. | gasped Mrs. Torturiei. Her face was blood-chilling drama came | like a death mask and her lips parted through a desperate endeavor to the woman confess all she knows | 1In vain she pleaded. The ordeal was the brutal murder of Vilardo. | decreed and she must go to gaze on the failed—perhaps because the Police | pitiful relics of the man whom, ac- jin_terror. jcording to Captain Burnett, she had | seen hacked to pleces. | "You had better leave your baby with me, ggested the prison matron. But the Sicilian woman hugged the child | to her breast with the fierce tender- | ness of a feline mother. | .. 'No, T keep my baby,” she Insisted. | | She recovered from the shock rather | |quickly and resumed her attitude of | sullen defilance. The scowl that her | | new emotion of fear had driven tem- porarily away again appeared on her face. She was ready for the ordeal, she thought. Looking from right to left with the expression of a hunted animal, she walked between two detectives to the Morgue. The baby cooed gleefully at the pleasant sunlight and patted the mother upon the cheek. The woman's head sank and she pressed her lips to the child's soft cheek. For an instant the scowl disap- peared and the light of mother love transfigured her. =k B exol OF PEACEFUL INNOCENCE ON THAT OF HER BABY rici pass them Friday afternoon as they were standing in front of the Owl. They spoke to the murderer and Cuneo jokingly asked him about a dol- lar he owed him. Torturici hung his head and with a sullen air passed on without returning the salutations. This was at 4 p. m. The Owl saloon is owned by Joseph Lawyer, a foreman at the American Can Works, under whom Torturici worked. Cuneo and Bacigalupi know Tortu-| ~;0an‘. kerp. Inyo, Santa Barbara, Angels nardino, In the office of Captain Burnett the bioody blanket and shawl in which the dismembered trunk had been wrapped were suddenly unrolled before her, and she again cried out in fright and covered her eyes her to confess her v It was hoped a sight of the remains or husband’s part in the murder. The murderer is still at large — INSIE |GOVERNOR PARDEE NAMES JUSTICES FOR NEW COURT OF APPEALS. ol ade s Bpecial Diepatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, April 10.—~In compli- ance with the constitutional amend- ment adopted by the people at the gen- eral election last November, Governor Pardee to-night appointed the follow- ing Appellate Justices: First District—Ralph C. Harrison of San Francisco, presiding; Samuel P. Hall of Oakland and J. A. Cooper of San Francisco. Second District—Wheaton A. Gray of Viealia, presiding; George H- Smith and M. T. Allen of Los Angeles. Third District—General N. P. Chip- man of Red Bluff, presiding:;’ A. J. Buckles of Solano and C. E. McLaugh- lin of Plumas. ' Of the newly appointed Justices of the Court of Appeals, Harrison and Cooper of San Francisco, Gray and Smith of Los Angeles and Chipman of Tehama are Supreme Court Commis- sioners. The First District comprises the counties of San Francisco, Marin, Con- tra Costa, Alameda, S8an Mateo, Santa Clara, Fresno,-Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito. 3 +The. Sécond District. embraces the countiés of “Falere,” ~ S Ventura, Los es, San Ber: Orange, Riverside and San Wliego. The Third District eémbraces the counties of Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Te- hama, Plumas, Mendocino, Lake, Co- lusa, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Sonoma, Napa, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Do- rado, San Joaquin, Amador, Cala- veras, Stanislaus, Mariposa, Madera, Merced, Tuolumne, Alpime and Mono. The nine Justices appointed will hold office until the first Monday of Janu- ary, 1907. Their successors will be elected at the general election of No- vember, 1906. District Courts of Ap- peal must hold their regular sessions | respectively at San Francisco, Los An- | i | geles and Sacramento. | The salaries of the Justices of the Court of Appeals will be the same as | the salaries of the Justices of the Su- { preme Court. The Supreme Court shall have power to-order any cause pending before the Supreme Court to be heard and deter- mined by a District Court of Appeal, and to order any cause pending before a District Court of Appeal to be heard and determined by the Supreme Court. The order last mentioned may be made before judgment has been pronounced by a District Court of Appeal, or with- in thirty days after such judgment shall ha¥e become final therein. The judgments of ‘the District Courfs of Appeal shall become final therein upon the expiration of thirty days after the same shall have been pronounced. The Legislature at its last session created three new Superior Courts in Los Angeless The Governor appoints W. P. James and Walter Bordwell of Los Angeles and G. A. Gibbs of Pasa- dena to these judgeships. Charles Mon- roe of Los Angeles is appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Judge Allen to the Court of Appeals. In Shasta County there will be re- gret that Judge Edward Sweeney was not appointed to the Appellate Court, but' the announcement of the appoint- ment of Thomas B. Dozier to the new Superior Court of that county will give general satisfaction. The Call recently forecasted the ap- pointment to the Court of Appeals of Superior Judge Buckles of Solano and the incumbent Supreme Court Commis- sioners. Many of the lawyers and politicians of Alameda County entertained strong hopes that Judge Henry A. Melvin would be named for the Court of Ap- peals. Superior Judge Hall, who was appointed, was highly commended by many eminent lawyers. The Democtats appointed by the Governor to the Ceourt of Appeals are Judge McLaughlin of Plumas and Court Commissioners James A. Cooper of Mendocino and George A. Smith of Los Angeles. i St INDIAN GIVEN LAND BECOMES A OITIZEN Decision by the Supreme Court Grow- ing Out of a Liquor Seiling Case. WASHINGTON; April 10.—The Supreme Court of the United States in an opinion by Justice Brewer rici well and say that the hunted man | grented the petition of Albert Hess of was around the saloon a good deal. | Kansas for a writ of habeas corpus. They say that they cannot be wrong in their identification. s The information was given to Cap- tain Burnett, and Detective Bunner is now searching for Cuneo to get his story in detail. ~ Bacigalupl said: “Cuneo and I were standing in front of Joe Lawyer's saloon at 3i1 Mont- gomery avenue Friday aftern i About 4 p. m. Torturici passed. °g‘e both spoke to him and Cungo called Continued on Page 3, Column &, Continued on Page 3, Column 2, Hess was prosecuted and convicted in theDistrict Court of Kansas for selling beer at the town of Horton to a Kick- apoo Indian named John Butler, to whom land had been granted in sev- ! eralty. The prosecution was based i upon the theory that Butler was still a ward of the nation. The case was brought to the Su- | preme Court in an original action on the und that in becoming an allot- ‘tee t';:: Indian became a citizen of th United States. This view was sus- tained by to-day’s opinion. | — J. A. COOPER, WHEATON GEORGE H. SMITH, M. T. N. C. E. M'LAUGHLIN, ALLEN, Los Angeles. THIRD DISTRICT—Sacramento. P. CHIPMAN, Red Blufl. A. J. BUCKLES, Solano. GIVES PROMOTION TO SUPERIOR JUDGE — JUDGES OF NEW APPELLATE COURT. | FIRST DISTRICT—San Francisco. | RALPH C. HARRISON, San Francisco. SAMUEL P. HALL, Oakland. SECOND DISTRICT—Los Angeles. A. GRAY, Visalia. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Plumas. { MOTOR CAR MRS, “JACK” - WILL CARRY | WILMERDING TRAVELERS Union Pacific Inno- vation an Entire Suceess. Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, April 10.—The Union Pa- cific gasoline motor car built at the shops here for passenger service will be given its initial trip with passen- gers to-morrow night. Later in the week it will leave for Portland, Or., where it will be placed in service, making the run across the plains and mountains under its own power. To-morrow evening the car will be on exhibition in the Union Station yards, with experts on hand to explain its method of operation. Several minor improvements in the mechan- ism have been made since the car was first turned out of the shops. The car was given a private run yesterday and W. R. McKeen Jr., su- perintendent of motive power, under whose direction it has been bullt, de- clares it has proved successful In every particular. It is said to run as smoothly as an electric motor, with which it is intended to compete. — FRENCH FIRE [PON MOORS PARIS, April 10.—A dispatch to the Temps from Algiers says it Is re- ported there that a bloody encounter took place on Sunday between the troops of the Sultan of Morroco and the rebels supporting the pretender. The latter had planned the capture of the strategic town of Cudja. The Sul- tan’s forces were driven back and a serious rout was the condition when Lieutenant Mongin, commanding the French frontier forces in that- vicinity, opened fire with a battery of artillery, checking the rebels’ advance and per- mitting the Sultan’s forces to retire in order. ‘ ———— et PENSION COMMISSIONER : WILL WIELD THE AX Holds It Over the Heads of Mem- bers of the Board of . Review. WASHINGTON, April 10.—The new Pension Commissioner, Vespasian ‘Warner, has caused great consterna- tion in his department by servi no- tice on several members of khargqn.rd of Review to show cause why they should not be dismissed or reduced in- The Commissioner is under- ' rank. stood to be campaigning against what he considers the slipshod methods in his department. The offense for which 5 MISSING Escapes for Second Time From Sani- tarium. NEW YORK, April 10.—Mrs. “Jack™ ‘Wilmerding, great-granddau,hter of Commodore Vanderbilt, escaped for the second time last night from George W. Hill's private sanitarium, in Har- lem, where she had been under re- straint for some months. She said to-day she had left a “dummy” in her bed in the sanitarfum and “when all ‘was still fled through a window.” Mrs. Wilmerding added that her for- tune consisted of 20 cents at the mo- ment. She visited two lawyers’ offices to-day, to whom she gave details of her escape and then disappeared. Even Mrs. Clara Bloodgood, long her friend, did not know ,where Mrs. Wilmerding was to-night. Mrs. - Wilmerding first called upon Mark Alter at his office on West Tenth street. Alter was her counsel in Au- gust, 1902, when she appeared in the Jefferson Market Police Court and complained that John C. Wilmerding, her“:ab‘nd. had failed to contribute to suj , a8 had agreed bu;vun t.l!;?:‘: P oy ‘ormerly wel own in soclety sl married Wilmerding in 1391 and !h:; lived together for seven years. In February, 1397, a commission declared Mrs. Wilmerding insane and her uncles, John Wallace and Franklin Allen, were appointed trustees of her personal es- tate, then worth $40,000. Mrs. Wilmerding was sent -to Bloom- ingdale asylum, where she remained more than a year. After a long legal fight, she was set at liberty in Decem- ber, 1898. Some months ago she was committed to the Hill S8anitarium. Af- ter a few weeks she escaped and went to Philadelphia, but soon returned and voluntarily went to the sanitarfum. —_——— SUPREME COURT DECIDES AGAINST COMMERCE BOARD Commission Unable to Force Railroad to Frame Report as Desired. WASHINGTON, April 10.—In an opinion by Justice McKenna the Su- preme Court of the United States to- day affirmed the decision of the Northern Circuit Court of Ohio in the case of the Interstate Commerce Commission against the Lake Shore Rallway Company. The suit was brought by the commission to wfiol the railroad company to comply with the order of the commission to incor- | porate certain particulars in its re- rt. The commission was overruled | by the court’s deeision. —————— To Be Judge Advocate. WASHINGTON, April 10.—Lieu- baugh, amembers of the board are to answer | tenant Colonel Harvey C. Car is allowing pensions to members of a [now at San regiment that was never in the ser- vice of the United States. Francisco, is ordered Governor’s Island, N. Y., as judge “‘- vocate of the t of the Bast.