The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1905, Page 1

THE QAL PRINTS MORE N T o8 { THE WEATHER Foretast snade at San Francisco for thirty bours, ending midnight 1905: Francisco and day Distri brisk west wind. \.,G. McADIE, | \ e .| vietnity:Cloudy { et Forecaster. | MAD INFATUATION FOR LEONA BROOK SLEADS TO ARREST OF THE ABSCO! ISHED IN SAN FRANCISCO e A in Flower. LUMBIA—"‘Much Ado About Neth- ing. CENTRAL—‘‘Shamus O/Brien." CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matines. CALIFORNIA—"The Eternal Femb e GRAND—"A Gold Mine. NICS PAVILION— May Fes- tival." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matines to- TIVOLI—Comte Opera. - A A SAN ' FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MAW 3, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS. TAX GOLLEGTOR SMITH 1S UNDER ARREST AT ST. LOUIS 'DER Edward J. Smith, the defaulting Tax Collector, was captured in St. Louis yesterday. His. mad i{wfatuatior) for Leona Brooks, which was published exclusively in The Call last week, led to his arrest. Pinkerton men easily traced the notorious woman and the San- o ra ncisco fugitive w as apprehended as he was boarding a westbound Rock Island train. FIVE YEARS S SENTENCE OF BUNKERY M N Boodler Sent to San Quentin Prison by | Judge Hatt: - | Court Ex-Legislator His Henor | 18 watched and on bad the limit, and mean about two tion to permit | to the District very pale in court and appeared | sible of his position, something of | vado returned-as | > jail in an officer’s | ‘Hello, “what did the: Bunkers,” sald a bystander, give you upstairs?" e a fve spot,” said | e over and see me | when I get ac e ba e —— END OF THE PRESIDENT’S HUNTING : TRIP IS NEAR Party Will Ride .Into Glenwood | Springs on the Coming Sabbath. | 2.—Secretary Loeb returned from the | President’s camp to The - party y ve to the East de Creek to- | ayed by then work of - Gar- ill ride | the h Sunday riers in t be used 1 have bee; he Hotel Colorado | e President on | ected. He will cupy the hridal apartment in- the | t wing. S B M. C. A. BUILDING { FOR ST. PETERSBURG | James Stokes to Purchase and Equip Structiire on One _of Main Streets, | PARIS, May 2-James Stokes of| New York to-Gmy informed the St. Pe- tersburg delegates to the World's: con- | ference.of the Young Men’s Christian ‘Association thd&t he would purchase Association building in one of the principal streets of St. Petersburg. The project will costeabout $75,000, the approaching crowd, keeping them at bay until they had made good their * | escape toward Mount Upton. - { horses and | GREEK FLAG | not record any new developments ex- | Government, | bufldings. , | ered the Greek flags from the Govern- | ment house at Candia and at Retimo, | honors. ! | Running Time of the Overland Iim. ! | cago and the Pacific Coast is hereafter | ciseco and Chicago eastbound and thir- equip a large Young Men'd Chris- |pedo attack 'at Berehaven last night CRACKSUEN HOLD Toi; IN TERROR Rob Bank and Use| Citizens for | Targeis. Exciting Farly Morning in| & Rural Village of | d “York” State. | Building of a Financial Concern | Demolished and §$6000 in. Tash Taken . :’.‘ The Can. Y., May 2—Five the: -Gilbertsville | sville ‘and_indiriged in | at about 2 o'clock this | ped wi 000 in htening m of the € tter have not re- timid about leaving | s about 1500 inhab > nearest rail- center for that usually carries h for the imme- ns. r the bank, which v G. C. Brewer, sion, which n earth- | two more | sed residents to beds and rush out of doors the cause of the trouble. | the bank building demol- | were met by five masked | ordered them to return to , on penalty of immediate ens obeyed the mj;m‘on, ception of Charles Dafield, out to warn other town = robbgrs fired several shots at him, but he escaped in the dark- nesg. Within ten minutes nearly the whole | town had been aroused. The robbers fired several rounds of ammunition at In e the robbers stole two ragons, with which they soon outd nced all pursuers. The rigs with h they entered the town were found near the bank building, one of the horses being neariv dead from exhaustion. Before entering the bank the cracksmen had cut all telephone and telegraph wires. Sheriff Mather of Cooperstown has organized a posse and is In pursuit. —_——— PULLED DOWN FROM CRETAN BUILDINGS Regular Emblem of the Island Sub- stituted by a British De. tachment. LONDON, May 8.—With reference to the dispatch from Rome, giving a re- port of a serious insurrection in Crete. dispatches received here from Canea do cept that the foreign Consuls in the island presented a note to the Cretan demanding that it haul down the Greek flags from Government This having been refused, & British detachment yesterday low- rehofsting the Cretan flag with due | pelibiaie L5 el 5 CHICAGO BROUGHT AN HOUR NEARER TO SAN FRANCISCO | fted to Be OCut Down. CHICAGO, May 2.—The running time of the overland limited between Chi- to be sixty-nine hours. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway announced to-day that an hour would be taken off the rurning time between San Fran- ty minutes from the westbound sched- ule. The new schedule is to govern every day iIn the year. - A L ————— CORK.eMay 2.—During a sham tor- the torpedo-boat destroyer Syren, on a reef at the eastern entrance of harbor and is a total wreck. ra; e 'WANTS | Smith, | here | the Jefferson Hotel hthem. Defaulter Taken Into Custody as He Is About to Board a Train Says He Was About To Make His Surrender WOMAN IS IN JAIL Is Found at Swell Hotel as Mrs. Smith. CRIES ABOUT WIFE When Told of Her {liness. Breal_(s : .Dpwn.' e ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 2.—Edward J. the absconding Tax Collector who stole over $60,000, was captured to-d4; His infatuation for Leona Brooks, the woman whose story was printed exclusively in The San Francisco Call, led to his capture. He followed the woman for whom he had sacrificed honor and honesty, deserted his wife and betrayed his friends. Leona Brooks is also in custody. Smith was arrested as he was board- ing a Rock Island train en route for San Francisco, He at first denied identity, but later confessed and ex- pressed readiness to return to the Pa- cific Coast at a moment’s notice, with- out requisition papers. The woman in the case was not with him at the time of the arrest, but she was the lure that drew him here. She was reg- istered at the Hotel Jefferson as: Mrs. B. Smith. The absconder met her there and registered as B. Smith. The Pinkerton agency shadowed the Smith woman and in following her to incidentally ran across Smith's signature on the regis- ter. The signature was recognized from a fac simile printed by the Pink- erton agency, a copy of which Super- intendent H. W. Minister of the local Pinkerton force_had in his possession. “Mrs. Smith,” who is really Leona Brooks, was taken into custody at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday morning and held subject to the chief’s orders. The po- lice are trying to connect her with the defaulter. and jn their efforts to do this, got the handsome Westerner out of bed at midnight for a thorough sweating. The police would not say just what admissions the woman made or what information of valug was obtained from her, but her arrest followed shortly after the force assigned to the case reported to headquarters. Smith’s appearance has greatly altered since he left the coast. His face is careworn and he rarely, if ever, smiles. He broke dowa when toid that his wife was in a dying condition in San Francisco. “I never neglected my wife,” he ve- hemently cried, “and I've got the sweetest ,baby on earth.” Smith would implicate no one and stoutly declared that he alone was responsiple for the shortages and that he would fully explain the details of his*peculations at the proper time in 8an Francisco. At the Four Courts Smith'again con- fessed his guilt, and agreed to go back to San Francisco without requisition papers. He said .that he was on his way to Los Angeles, where he intended to take a short rest, after which he in- tended to surrender to the authoritiés and make a clean breast of the whole affair. . The story of Smith's infatuation for Leons Brooks, which was printed ex- clusively in The Call, gave the Pinker- ton detactive agency the clew to the defaulter’s whereabouts. B. F. ble, the head of the local Pinkerton of- fice, wired to watch her. She was shadowed from the time she | reached St. Louis and registered as Mrs. B. Smith. Kemble was confident that the absconder would follow the woman for whom he probably went into his recent crimes, and the suppo- |- sition proved correct. . . District Attorney Byington an Foreman Andrews were at the Orphe- um when the news was announced to “They immedjately came to The Call office to bhave .the news verified. “» am pleased with the capture,” said Foreman Andrews. “This will be a warning to other grafters.” “He must be convicted,” saig the District’ Attorney. n e ple should be made of him. The Tistrict Aftorney and Foreman Andrews belleve that Smith will make TO RETURN|| Detective Wren will bring Smith back te this city. for Los Angeles and Freely Admits His Guilt ‘ EMBEZZLING TAX COLLECTOR OF THIS CITY WHO WAS CAPTURED IN ST. LO 2 ] - ) - {1 o18. | s Prisoner Denies That Women and Races Caused Ruin, . Alleging That Too “I do not know exactly how much mone; T have taken. I don’t believe that the defalcation i\'i!l reach over $62,000, and I have never taken money fromi any one person or firm which could not well spare the loss. It was my friends that ruined me, and not women, as has been said in San Francisco. I wasalwaysa good SRS, AT D admissions that will involve ‘othe) municipal employes. Those - who! they believe are implicated with the defaulting Tax Collector are ng closely: watched by 't Chief 'Pinan and, held a consultation as soon as the news was received from St. Louis. "It was degided to send Detective Bdward nolice. ‘Wren HEast as soon as possible, and’ it is likely that he will leave this even- ing. Thefact that Smith will not in- \ T sist_upon .requisition papers will in- | into the affairs of the Tax Collector's sure h and Burnett expressed satisfaction, but | pointed Julius. C: Saulmann to expert ‘they’ deefired surprise that -the mzn | the books and accounts of the offices F; c - vp | SBOULd be taken in this country ptain ; Burnett | - 3 o ———— ¥ fellow—always ready to help a friend. is_speedy_return. Both Dinan SALUMANN TO EXPERT BOOKS. 'px}tmlmu'y to his investigation Many Friends Were His Downfall. “I certainly never plaved the races. never drank, and- the only failing 1 have had was a tendency to dabble in wheat. “It.is a pretty hard thing for me to say what I did with the ¥ money. I did not spend it all on women, as has been so unre- strainedly said by the press. I am gnilty, and I am willing to go back and face the music.”—E. J. Smith in an interview at St - Louis after his arrest. : 3 offices named yesterday, showing his letter of appointment signed by Mayor. Saulmann was employed z month, or two by Smith in the *Tax Collector’s office last year. It was said that Savimann turned on Smith when the latter decided to do without hi seryices by making public some o Smith’s questiozable wpansactions. La- ter developments indicate that therq Continued on Page 2, Columm 1. ——— - office, Mayor Schmitz yesterday ap- of. the Tax Collector, "Auditor and Treasurer. ‘The Mayor desires to as- certain whether the two latter officials were in any way cognizant of the ir- regularities of Edward J. Smith, the embezziing ex-Tax Collector. Saulmann will begin his new duties at once and was around the three