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

PRINTS THE WBATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, April 18: San Francisco and vielnity—Rain Tuesday; fresh south winds, A. G. McADIB, District Forecaster. MORE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER PUBLISHED IN CALIFORNIA-X"The Crossways'" COLUMBIA— -m&q:u«..’! - CHUTES—Vaudeville. g ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comio Opera. SAN FRANCIECO; TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THRIFT. OF THE THEATRICAL “BIC SIX”I“FIRE” CRY REVEALED BY MRS. LESLIE CARTER ACTRESS APPEARS AS - = + 3 WHO PROVED A STRONG WITNESS AGAINST THE MEN AT THE HEAD TRUST. STRETCHING INCREASES HIS HEIGHT 'Enables a Missouri Boy to Enter An- napolis. Epectal Dispatch Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, April 17.—Rawley D. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 17.— whose sudden death at Hotel | Luther Welsh, the Kansas Citv boy w df; E'unda‘}; night pluuled who lacked one and three-quarters died of cerebro-spinal men- | 4 0pes of being tall enough to enter the worst recently ob- | the Naval Academy when he took the Evans was an athlete | preliminary examination in January health. = Twenty-four | has now attained the required stature ht symrvlomsj—flve feet two inches—and will re- s i ‘reive the appointment which he : )“'_3]“:"""‘9}‘;?: earned in competitive examination. 2o Company, of| Welsh has been undergiing a 7 stretching process at the hands of the physical director of the Kansas City d Athletic. Club for more than three ack of | months, and it has “made a man of rning he | him” in short order. A weeck ago he 1t, but he had an | had come within a tenth of an inch 1 the forenoon. A |of the required height, and daily vith the family | stretching on the machine since then, ous attack | with increased tension, has added the came in during | required tenth. B to attend Rawley's| His measurement to-day was just a 10 had hurt his hand. He | shade more than the five-feet-two, but € pulse and found nothing | the stretching will be continued for a When he called in the | few days longer to make sure that the na. Death | expected “settling together” shall not | leave him short when he comes to be sed that so | measured at Annapolis. | Hdh -5 d in the T o 2 A g phat all the symptoms | TARIFF. PROPOSALS AFFECT erebral hemorrk ad been pro- | - s PRSI It PAge il boen pi THE LEASES IN HUNGARY LESLIE CARTER, THE ACTRESS, FOR DAVID BELASCO IN HIS SUIT F THB SO-CALLED THEATRICAL VICTIM OF VENINGIT Autopsy Reveals the Cause of His Death. The Call. ® I S — OCTOGENARIAN PUTS | An AN END TO HIS LIFE| Agricultural Rents Modified in View of Possible Customs Changes. BUDAPEST, April 17.—Since the movement to establish an independent national customs tariff for Hungary assumed its present importance all agricultural leases contain a clause providing thet in the event of a tariff being established the leases are void or continue at a reduced rental, in order to enable the farmers to better meet the expenses of the first year under the independent tariff. T. C. Haynes of the Rand-MecNally Company Shoots Himself in Chicago. CHICAGO, April 17.—T. C. Haynes, secretary of the Rand-McNally Pub. lishing Company, shot and killed him- self to-day in his room at the Mar- gquette Club. He was almost 80 years old. Tt is believed that he ended his life because of illness and failing health, 5 ki WITNESS |Corroborates Tes- timony of David Belasco. | Carter, the actress, was a witness to- | day in the case of David Belasco, the | playwright, against Klaw & Erlanger. Mrs. Carter was called by Samuel Un- | termeyer, counsel for Belasco, to testify | regarding a meeting between Belasco and Nixon & Zimmerman, theatrical managers of Philadelphia, at which she was present. Belasco had testified regarding this meeting when he was on | the stand last week soon after the opening of the trial of the suit, in which | | he seeks to vrove that Klaw & Er- | langer were his partners in the produc- tion of “The Auctioneer” with David Warfield. Mrs. Carter’s testimony to- day corroborated that of Belasco re- garding the Philadelphia meeting. “Mr. Belasco told Mr. Nixon,” said Mrs. Carte ‘that he had been obliged to give Erlanger 50 per cent of War- field's profits. ‘Why,’ said Mr. Nixon, ‘I did not know that.' And then Mr. Nix- on said that his time would come, when | he (Nixon) could bring Erlanger to terms for double-dealing.” Abraham Gruber, counsel for Klaw & Erlanger, objected, but was over- ruled. 3 | NIXON USES PROF E WORD. | “Did you know Mr. Brooks at that | time?” asked Untermeyer. _“Yes, but his name was not men- | tioned. Mr. Nixon said he wanted M. | Belasco to keep away from the theatér, | for he wanted to get ‘Zaza’ opened, and ;:l,ey‘ were trying to serve papers on | him.” | “Did he use a profane word?" “Yes,” replied Mrs. Carter. “Mr. Nix- |on said there would be"—she paused a second and smiled—'hell to pay.’ " “Have you ever talked to anybody about this case?” “I certainly have. It has been on my mind for a year and I have talked to everybody about it.” ““What did you tell Mr. Vidaver of counsel?” T told him what 1 knew, and that is what I am going to testify to.” “What did you say vou were going to testify 7" “Just as I have told you.” “Won’t you please tell it again?” asked Mr. Gruber. “I lovVe to hear you talk.” “Thank you,” said Mrs. Carter, “it is so kind of you. I told Mr. Vidaver that they were trying to do Mr. Belasco out of all his money and of how they tried to get “Zaza’ away from him.” *‘No, I mean what you told him you were going to testify as to the Nixon interview.” “I am trying to tell you,” said Mrs. Carter. “I told Mr. Vidaver just what I have told you. “Mr. Nixon said they (Klaw & Er- langer) had trled to jump Belasco from one part of the globe to another; that they were trying to make him spend his money; that they were afraid of him with money, and were afraid of him anyway. Nixon said he had none of the money and he was going to call Klaw & Erlanger to ac- count for their actions.” & ““You are friendly to Mr. Belasco, are you not?" “Not only friendly,” replied Mrs, Carter, “but thankful—grateful from the bottom of my heart.” KLAW TAKES THE STAND. Marc Klaw, a member of the firm of Klaw & Erlanger, was a witness at to-day’s session of the court. Klaw produced some check stubs at the re- questwof Untermeyer, but several which were wanted in connection with the case were missing. The witness prom- ised to produce them. Untermeyer de- clared that subpenas served on Klaw & Erlanger have been repeatedly dis- obeyed by them. ‘“We are. going to get at the bottom of these books, and we will show you how they are kept before we get through,” he said. Klaw said his firm cleared $20,000 on “The Auctioneer” and also received its share of the profits from the theaters where the play was produced. His firm, however, never was a partner in ‘“The Auctioneer,” he declared, except through Joseph Brooks, and it was from Brooks that Klaw. & Erlanger re- ceived the $20,000. “You paid Franklin Bein a check when you were trying to stop Belasco from producing ‘The Music Master'?"” asked Untermeyer. “If we did; we paid it for Brooks,” the witness replied. Hermann P. Aaron, bookkeeper for Klaw & Erlanger for seven years, said there was no account in a certain ledger which was produced except with Klaw & Erlanger. One page was writ- {ten “David Warfield Company.” The N penses of ‘“The Auctioneer” were charged to the expense account of Klaw & Erlanger. When Untermeyer called for Robert Walker, confidential manager for Al Hayman, Walker did not respond, and the attorney handed up a subpena and body attachment. David Belasco, the plaintiff, then was recalled to the stand\to rebut some tes- timony given by some of Klaw & Er- langer’s witnesses ecarlier in the trial. He denied that he ever told Joseph Brooks that he was much gratified at the success of “The Auctioneer” or that he ever thanked Abraham Erlang- er for having got Brooks as a partner for him. ““What was the theatrical situation in 1900 and 1901 as to getting a route?" asked Untermeyer. - “I could not get a route without the assistance of Klaw & Erlanger. I could have got one or two night stands, with long jumps. I could not get the assist- ance of Klaw & Erlanger without giv- ing 50 per cent of the profits. As I said before, I am bottled up in New York.” Untermeyer then informed the court that, with the exception of Walkers testimony, his case was finished. He NEW YORK, April 17.—Mrs. Lesue' | bookkeeper testified that all the ex- | STAMPEDES NEWSBOTS Lads Battle for Life! on Steep Stair- | Way. | —— 'Bour Are Killed and Many Seriously Injured Dur- ing the Panic. .’l‘ra.gedy Due to a Youth’s Ruse to Clear a Way to Free Theater ilckets. INDIANAPOLIS, April 17.—Frenzied | by a false alarm of fire, several hun- dred eager newsboys, struggling to ob- tain their share of free tickets to a local theater, which were being distributed by a traveling representative of a pat- ént medicine company, stampeded in a narrow stairway in the Masonic Temple to-night, crushing out the lives of four boys and seriously injuring several oth- ers. The dead: ED MORRISSEY, aged 12 years. LOUIS SCHEIGERT, aged 15 years. CARL LAUREL, aged 13 years. HOMER _WILLIAMSON, aged 11 years, f | Seriously injured—August Overtree, | aged 13 years; Calvin Collister, aged 13 | years; Talmadge Walters, aged 9 years; Fred Walters, Guy James, Edward Many and Roy Washburn. Nineteen others suffered injuries. Long before the time ‘appointed for the distribution of the tickets the stairs of the Masonic Temple, at the south- west corner of Washington street and Capitol avenue, were crowded with yelling newsboys, each anxious to be first to receive his pass. When the dis- tribution began the excitement hecame mere intense. and: the =, of several policemen who had been .detailed to prevent trouble were. unavailing. It is alleged that one of the news- boys, in the endeavor to hasten theé exit of those who had received their passes shouted “Fire!” Immediately those at the top faced about and with- almost superhuman strength began to force their way to the bottom of the stairs. Shrieks and physical encounters fol- lowed for a few seconds, when from some cause those near the top leaped headlong upon the struggling mass at the bottom. Immediately policemen from the cen- tral station, who responded to a riot call, began the work of rescue. Four of the boys were dead when extricated from their position at the bottom of the stairs. Others believed to have been fatally crushed were taken out as fast as they could be disentangled from their frenzied companions, who fought and clung.to one another in despera- tion. After the injured had been taken from the scene of death and the crowd had left the sidewalk the sight present- ed by the stairway and sidewalk in front of the door and in the upper hall- way was grewsome in the extreme. Blood trickled down the steps. Frag- ments of clothing and flesh were strewn here and there. The accident evidently had little ef- fect on about forty boys, who after the excitement was over went to the thea- ter. ASKEDTO J0IN TALE FACILTY Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, April 17.— Charles Montague Bakewell, Ph. D., associate professor in the University of California, was to-day selected for a professorship of philosophy in Yale University by the corporation of the latter institution. Professor Bakewell is a graduate of the Uni%fnlty of Cal- ifornia and took his higher degree at Harvard. SENT TO AN ASYLUM FOR CLAIMING HIS FORTUNE ! 1 Letter Two Years After His Death i Shows Virginian's Assertions ‘Were True. :: NORFOLK, ¥a.. April 17.—Thomas Yandaw, a conspicuous figure in Nor- folk for over fifty years, claimed up to_the time of his death that he was| entitled to a large fortune in Califor- nia. Five years ago he was adjudged a lunatic and was sent to the Eastern Virginia Asylum at Williamsburg. i} Two years ago he died and was buried iin a pauper’s grave at the asylum. A letter has just been received here | by a local attorney from the Pacific Coast stating that Yandaw was en- titled to a large portion of an estate in California, worth upward of $1,500,- 000. Yandaw's wife is dead and he left no heirs. —————— Decision Against Beavers. WASHINGTON, Avrli 17.—The Su- preme Court of the United States to- day declded the case involving the re- moval of George W. Beavers from Brooklyn to Washington against Beav- ers, holding him subject to removal. —— e 4 | youngest Walker's testimony and time for coun- sel to sum up. Justice Fitzgerald ordered an ad- asked for an adjournment to take aourpmentunul'.l‘hmhy. s | 119 Market street, yesterday went be- [name to the check he cashed on Thurs- PHYSICIAN IS CHARGED WITH FORGERY AND THREATS TO KILL Charles A. Baxter Asserts That Dr. H. .¥. - Thornburgh Abducted His Wife. Wronged Husband in Angry Frame of Mind. Charles A. Baxter, manager of the Globe Medical Dispensary Company, fore a magistrate and formally charged Dr. Herbert T. Thornburgh, formerly consulting physieian of the company, with the abduction of Mrs. | Baxter. . Baxter, accompanied by his pretty vife, went before Police Judge Mogan ysterday morning and swore out two warrants for the arrest of Thorn- burgh, one charging him with threats against lite, the other with forgery. | Baxter and his wife reside at 1434 Buchanan street, and Thornburgh had lived with them. They have a beauti- ful little flat, handsomely furnished, all the appointments denoting elegance and taste. For nine years Baxter and his wife have enjoyed unalloyed bliss, and they had been thé happiest of couples, says Baxter, until Thornburgh came between them, and, as is charged, at- tempted to wreck their home. ‘Thornburgh, says Baxter, first at- tempted to win the love of Mrs. Bax- ter by blandishments. Failing in this he is said to have attempted to make her husband believe she was false to him. Not succeeding in accomplish- ing his purpose he is accused of hav- ing resorted to chloroforming her and of having succeeded in abducting her from her home and carrying her away to San Jose. Mrs. Baxter is said to have returned to her husband of her own accord, and is now with him in their flat. BAXTER ENRAGED. Although Baxter has sworn out warrants for the arrest of Thornburgh the, warrants would never need to be put into execution should the injured husband, in his present enraged state of mind, happen to meet the man he accuses of having wronged him. Baxter made the following state- ment of the affair: IR *To protect my wife and myselt from the threats of violence made against us by Dr. Thornburgh I was forced to take steps to have a war- rant issued for his arrest. “He abducted my wife and caused her to go away with him by threats made to her that unless she went with | him he would Kill her. For some time he has been pouring into her ears the statements that 1 was not true to her. He has been continually telling her alleged stories of my Infidelity. At the game time he was telling her of his great love for her and coaxing her to run away with him. I knew nothing of all this at the time it was hapven- ng. ! fi.ast Thursday night when I came home I noticed a scratch on my wife's nose. When I asked her how it came there, she said that when she was fix- ing up her face, her finger slipped and dug out a piece of the flesh. “T was not satisfied with the explana- tion, and after further questioning sl told me of the assault that Dr. Thorn- burgh had made on her. She said he came into her room and tried to make love to her, and that she indiznantly repulsed him. He then left the house. Shortly afterward he came back and rushed into her room with a towel saturated with chloroform. He threw thi® cver her face, whereupon she screamed and-fought, but the chloro- form caused her to lose consciousness. When she recovered she found the doc- tor fanning her face. He had opened all the windows to let out the odor of the anesthetic. She was in a fearful state of excitement. ORDERED AWAY. “About 8 o'clock that night Thorn- burgh came home. I ordered him out of the house at once, and he went. I went to my office early Friday morn- ing. ‘Evidently he was watching the house, as I had barely left when he rushed in. He grabbed hold of my wife and told her to get ready and go with him to San Jose, or he would shoot her. She was so terrified that she did not know what to do. but he was so violent she was afraid not to accede to his wishes and went with him. Saturday afternoon she tele- phoned to me from San Jose and said she wanted to come back. I told her to come at once. When she reached my office she was trembling with fear and. was as pale as death. “She said she only got away from Thornburg for the purpose of getting some of her clothes. Thornburgh was waiting for her in the street near by He told her he would only give her an hour and a half to return to him or he would kill her. We immediately came out here. He also threatened to shoot me on sight. We remained in- doors until this morning, when we went ‘before Judge Mogan and swore to the warrants for his arrest. He forged my day. He has also previously drawn checks on banks in which he had mo funds, and ‘these he has cashed at va- rious places. “He casheG one of- these for $20 on the Merrill Chemical Company, another one for $20 on T. M. Ferguson and another for $10 on Radovich Bros.” —_———————— YOUNG PATTERSON GIVEN A HIGH POST BY DUNNE Grandson of Joseph Medill Made " Commissioner of Public Works in Chicago. CHICAGO, AprflJH.—;ll(&yor Dunne to-d: appointed Joseph Medill t- tera:r}\' topbe Commissioner of P\filc ‘Works, Patterson succeeds Frederick W. Blocki, who at the recent election was successful as a candidate for the position of City Treasurer. Patterson, who is 26 years old, is one of the men to hold the commission- ership in the city. Commissioner Patterson is a of the late Joseph Medill, and is a grand- fl of Robert W. Patterson, editor of the Chicago Tribune. y 1 WIS 7O =z 72 CHLOBOFOES?7 - { EX MRS. CHARLES A. BAXTER. WHO CLAIMS SHE WAS ABDUCTED FROM HER HOME. JEFRERSON IS NEARING LIFES END No Hofilfl out, for the Veteran Actor. Special Dispatch to The Call. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 18.—Joseph Jefferson was still alive at midnight and seemed to have rallied somewhat. Dr. Patter, his physician, and some of the members of his fam- | {ly have retired. It is thought he will at least live through the night. | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April| 17.—The condition of Joseph Jeffer- | son, the vetéran actor, has undergone | a change for the worse, and to-night | the outlook for his recovery is neot so | hopeful. Physicians have been in con- | stant attendance at his bedside to-day and report him as very weak. It is reported that the members of his family who are not already with him have been telegraphed to come. CHICAGO, April 17.—Joseph Jef- ferson, the veteran actor of the Ameri- can stage. who is seriously ill at a health resort in Florida, experienced stage fright at every performance in which he acted during his entire | theatrical career, according te a story told by Mrs. Milward Adams in a talk at a Congregational ministers’ mest- ing to-day. Her subject was “The Dramatic Element in Preaching.” “Joseph Jefferson told me last year that at every performance of his career of sixty years on the stage he experienced stage fright. When he would first come on, he declared, his heart would flutter and he could not swallow. ' We who have watched him have noticed that Jefferson, when he first appeared on the stage in any of his ‘plays, acted as nervous as a novice.” e For Workingmen's Exhibition. PARIS, April 17.—The Chamber of Deputies to-day passed the bill pro- viding for a workingmen's exposition in 1909, i : ; AL 0 AR BABY GIRL 10 BE SOLD FOR A SONG Forty - Five Dollars Will Buy This Infant. —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. BROOKLYN, .N. Y., April 17.— With a kitten as her only companion, a chubby, blue-eyed baby girl lay alone in a rear room at 133 Union avenue to-day, while Mrs. Katy Mus- cowitz, who has charge of the infant, searched the city in an effort to find some one who would pay $45 for the privilege of adopting it. The baby is | in pawn, and it has been “nobedy's | darling” since the day it first opened | its eyes eight months ago to stare in | silent amazement at an unsympathetic world. Mrs. Willlam Babbington is the lit- tle one’s mother. The ‘was born just after Mrs. Babbington's husband strangely disappeared. The wifa went to live with her husband’'s mother, Mrs. Deborah Woten. No one cared particularly about Baby Babbington. A few days after its birth the mother also vanished. Mrs. Woten, who is an invalid, then turned the wee one over to Mrs. Mus- cowits, a trained nurse. Later Mrs. ‘Woten decided that she would like to have Baby Babbington back in her home. Mrs. Muscowitz said she would be glad to surrender the infant if Mrs. ‘Woten would pay a bill of $45. “Ridiculous,” was the comment made by Mrs. Woten, when the bill was presented. “I cannot afford to pay it. I will surrender the baby to Mrs. Muscowitz, and she can let some one adopt it.” —_———————— FIRE SET BY PYROMANIAC, NOT BY BANKER, HE SAYS Attorney Comes Forward With Unique Statement in Defe L N. Perry. CHICAGO, April 17.—After an un- usual statement by Attorney Moritz Rosenthal the taking of testimony was begun to-day in the trial of Banker I. N. Perry, accused of burn- ing a large ntanufacturing establish- ment at Hegewisch, INl., the alleged motive for the crime being insurance money. Rosenthal declared the de- fense would prove that a pyromaniac had set fire to the manufacturing plant owned by Perry. The pyro- maniac, Rosenthal said, had set a ries of fifteen blazes in the town Hegewisch from May to tober last year and had never been detected. 228