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The Call Print — THE WEATHER. ‘ Forecast made at San Francieco for | thirty hours ending midnight May 8: San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, | with showers Monday; light west wind G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. | + "GRAND—“Joan ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comie Opera. of Are.” VOLUME XCVII— SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY 0, MAY 8, 1905. CHARGE OF BIGAMY FOLLOWS COLLINS CflCAGO MARRIAGE WIFE HERE IS PROSTR Attorney Calmly Repudiates Wo man Who Has Been Known for Years as His Lawful Spouse. % | GEORGE D. COLLINS SAYS: I married Miss Clarice McCurdy on last Easter Sunday in Chicago. Charlotte E. Newman is not my wife. 1 was mar- ried to her sister, Agnes, who died about five years ago. Charlotte Newman made these same statements during the disbarment progeedings against me, MRS. CHARLOTTE E. COLLINS SAYS: I am the wife of George D. Collins and the mother of his three children. If he has married Miss McCurdy, I will »secute him for bigamy. proceedings against ment lins in Chicago. THOMAS E. CURRAN I was the best man at Collins’ first marriage. lotte Eugenie Newman that he knew her sister weil, and there There the marriage certificate. WILLIAM P. NEWMAN SAYS: | quit work to see that my siSter gets justice and to- as soon as the warrant office opens I will ve w morning swear 10 a complaint charging I kept silence during the disbar- him for the sake of our children, MRS. 5. A McCURDY SAYS: I was present at the marriage of my daughter and Mr. Col- | I am confident that he is not deceiving us. was no mistake in'names in the marriage license or SAYS: It was Char- married. I know her and | can be no mistake about this. George D. Collins with bigamy. husband eighbor ar but that Agne M. , and King The New- e then Fire D for years has been caring for theirs, who is state- the sister, now nfidence "that he dower when he the second time THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. The woman at 2519 Pierce street, who e wife of the attorney. arriage certifi- M. D. Con- to having mar- genia Newman on May 15. 1899, her sister. and both declare they sent at the ceremony and that George D. Collins were d this Collins is reputed a statement which. when it in the history of this s one really wonder all, reading fiction in- acts of a case eloping Francisco. Collins. es that he was married A n the date men- ke was made ficate, the name g written instead of nes died in 1901 she the name of Agnes did marry Char- Newman seems | tement of Thomas | ho was Collins’ he knows Char- | 1 Agnes. and that | & no doubt that the first named e bride at Collins’ first wedding. | comes strange part of | the tale resting on the death and the | lement of the estate of Aznes New- | or whatever her name may have | n when she died. Collins is allezed | to have obtained from the Hibernia | e time of he against him. The Tobins filed an af- | fidavit alleging that Agnes was never | the wife of Collins, but that he was in fact married to Charlotte. Charlotte makes the statement. which adds to the melodramatic situa- | Miss Newman was -3 that she was urged by her son, >—and attending San Mateo Col- not to give testimony in the mat- his father would be and cut off 1ing a livelihood ain undenied ight back the ADMITS SECOND MARRIAGE. The n at 2519 Pierce street savs that Collins spent Tuesday and Friday s at their home with her. and both her brother assert that he as- wor to me in Chicago on Easter Sunday. The marriage took piace there and at that time in order that her brother, an Eastern man, might be present. s put forth by the woman s to be my wife and who law, are un- letermined. The same claim was nade by her to the Tobins and the Hi- bernia Bank when the disbarment pro- ceedings were instituted against me. The record of the proceedings shows that at that time I vigorously opposed r influences and motives i her then are undoubtedly re- ble for her present accusation. is much that I could say in detail uld show the T the accuser as well as the falsity accusation, but one must suffer in silence to maintain the stand- of being a gentleman. Hundreds of people can testify that M wman was married tc me, ople dealt with her as my e sent claimant knew t facts as I state them and the death rec- nd burial plate show that the nt's sister was my ‘wife. The nt of to-day was fully conver- wvith what T state and she made tatem to the contrary until long my wife's death. I want a judicial determination of this controversy and trust that news- papers and the public will permit the courts to settle the question. ALLEGED PROMISE TO AGNES. ““When Agnes M. Collins died she ex- acfed a promise from me that I would always keep our children under the care of my sister-in-law, and holding sacred my word of honor I have always supported them and Chariotte E. New- man. Now this Charlotte Newman claims that I was never married to Ag- nes Collins, but am her husband. She took the name Collins several years ago, but I thought nothing of it until the disbarment proceedings were begun against me. - “I did not like the connections of the Newman family, but until a year ago I thought that as I had been a bene- factor of them I would at least be shown some respect. I found cut that other than” the character that I had supposed she was, so 1 went to her and called her to ac- count. She then appealed to me in most urgent tones, reminding me of the sacred promise I had made her dead sister that she should have cus- tody of the children. Considering this, I left her temporarily in charge of them, and now she claims to be my wife.” The young bride told of her mar- riage with Collins on April 23, and how she was surprised when the San Fran- cisco situation was made known. “Of course, Mr. Collins told me he had been married some years ago, she said, “and that his wife was dead. She knew that he had three childre but did not expect to have them ri moved from the custody of the person who now has them in charge. She was unaware of the notoriety that was his at the time disbarment proceedings were flled against him last year. MRS. McCURDY HAS FAITH. Mrs. 8. A. McCurdy, mother of the young Mrs. Collins, said that she was present when the marriage was so]- nk a balance left there by Agnes at ' emnized in Chicago. “My daughter was | riages do not often f death. For this act.|lawfully and legaliy married to Mr. | Collin: obin & Tobin, attorneys for the bank, | Collins, and I am sure there must be | E. Newman some time in May, lzst year began disbarment proceedings | Some mistake about him having a wife | I cannot recall the exact date, for living here in San Francisco,” she said. “I saw that age petformed and | marri; | will not believe that he has deceived | l .. Mrs. Charlotte E. Collins has almost collapsed under the strain of her hus- 20 and announced her tel register and to his friends | I | i COLLINGS CerzmLOrIT L NEWIAY Wiy - ATED BY NEWS S 7088 V7). & » sty fif’dffifl/é{.{fw e — fears that her condition may become very seriqus. “I never knew of my husband being infatuated with any other woman and cannot believe he has forsaken me for another,” she said. ‘‘He spent both Tuesday and Friday nights with me after his return from Chicago. He told me he occasionally went to the theater with women, but that they were his | clients. T expect him to come home t. | me after this thing is over. “My reason for not making a state- ment of the truth at the time of the disbarment proceedings, when Mr. Col- lins claimed Agnes had been his wife, was that my son’ begged me not to, say- ing it woyld bring disgrace and disbar- ment to his father and take away his means of earning -a livelihood. Now that he has married another woman I do not feel that I should protect him.” Mrs. Collins is willing to progecute her husband, in case he is guilty, but she still has a lingering hope that he was not really married in Chicago. She will prosecute him for bigamy if he was. Her marriage to Collins took place in St. John's Churen, she says, Rev. Father Connelly officiating. WILL SWEAR OUT WARRANT. “I have quit work to see that my sis. ter gets justice in this case,” said Wi liam Newman. “I will swear to a com- plaint to-morrow morning as soon as the warrant office opens against George D. Collins for bigamy. I have a tele- gram from Chicago that a marriage li- cense was issued there to Collins on April 22. “It is true I had some trouble with | Collins at ‘the time of Agnmes’ death | over $1600 that I had saved and given into her custody. He drew that money from the bank by asserting that she had been his wife. At the time of the | disbarment proceedings I brought this matter up, but could not prove it to the satisfaction of the court. ‘““When Agnes died Collins let her body lfe at the house two days, right up to the day of her burial, without letting her parents know of her demise. They were very angry over it Thomas E. Curran, the well-known :young attorney and lifelong friend of | Attorney Collins, lent his support to i Mrs. Charlotte E. Collins’ claims” of wifehood last night by emphatically stating that he knew the woman to be | the wife of his professional colleague. | Curran was the best man at the mar- o WELL KENOWN ATTORNEY AND THE WOMBEN WHO CLING TO HIM FOR HUS- BAND, ONE BY RIGHT OF RECENT MARKIAGE, AND THE OTHER INSIST- ING SHE HAS BEEN HIS WIFE SIXTEEN YEARS. s band’s alleged perfidy. Her family|duce Curran to discuss Collins’ case, | owing to the bond of friendship that | has so long existed between them, but | when he-was contronted with the fact | that a woman’s honor was at stake he | unhesitatingly declared that Mrs. Char- i lotte E. Newman's claims were correct. { When it was explained to him that ! Collins is reported to have said that a | mistake in the names of the Newman | sisters had been made in the marriage cate, Curran said: “That's all bosh. Mistakes of that character are not made by young lov- ers, and an investigation of the county | records of that year will fully substan- tiate the story told by Mrs. Charlotte Collins.” ‘The husband of Mrs. McCurdy con- ducted a store in Stockton. He died | about fifteen years ago. Mrs. McCurdy | still owns a handsome residence there, but she and her daughter have not lived in Stockton for several months, Collins first met Miss McCurdy as a client, he having handlled a case for her mother about ejghteen months ago and from' the first he took a deep interest in her welfare. Last November he accompanied her to the intercollegiate football game. In frequent visits of Miss McCurdy to this city he was able to meet her often and the day he went East, it is thought he had plans ar- ranged to marry. They met in Chicago and after a week's sightseeing, were married and returned to the coast. Attorney Collins, the young woman to whom he was married in Chicago on Easter Sunday and Mrs. McCurdy, her mother, ate still occupying apart- ments at the Palace, where the attor- ney yesterday introduced the ladies to several persons as his wife and mother- in-law. ———————————— GARIBALDIAN MUSEUM NEAR ROME DEDICATED Frenchmen Join With Itallans in ‘Honoring Memory of Fam- ous Patriot. ROME, May 7.—The French delega- tion which came here for the unveiling of the monument to Victor Hugo on Saturday assisted to-day, together with the Ttalian authorities, the veteran Garibaldi, one of the survivors, at the dedication of a Garibaldian Museum next to the altar erected as a memeorial -of the battle of Mentana, twelve miles i riage, which was solemnized on May | from Rame,iwhere, in 1867 General {15, 1889. Garibaldi’s volunteers were defeated “I remember the occasion very well,” | by the French troops defending the sald Attorney Curran to a Call repre-| papacy. Ricclotti Garibaldi, the only | sentative last night. “and well T might, surviving son of the hero, was present, | for Collins_and I were school chums walking with the 8id of crutches. He ! and men who have gone to school to- gether and witness s was married to Miss Charlotte that x is a long time aj ! place in a little Catholic church think, was St. John's, and Father Con- 1y officiated.” % g0. The ceremony took | nere before the on amend- Eddy street, the name of which! I |mitted by the French empire. t took considerable persuasion to in- | live republican France!” was_the object of enthusiastic . mani- each other’s mar- | festations. Among the many speeches orget these events. | the most noteworthy was that of the French Senator, Rivet, who concluded 1889. | his-address with the words: France. I come of Mentana to In the mame 0t republican or ‘make hororable uproarious applause and cries of “Long 4 FRANCE 188 ALL JAPAN IN') RAGE HARRINAY 00T MANY HILLIONS PRICE FIVE CENTS. N0 CHANCE FOR A RAIL RATE BILL Tokio Press Urges|Sacrifices Stock to/Senate Committee the Government to Act. Suggests a Bombardment of Republic’s Eastern Territory. British Foreign Secretary Sends Sharp Neutralily Reminder to Delcasse, - LONDON, May 8.—Special dispatches from Tokio to the London morning newspapers represent that the Japan- ese feeling is becoming highly inflamed at France's alleged failure to prevent ostentatious disregdard for the princi- ples of neutrality by the Russian Pa- cific squadron. The Tokio Asahi blunt- ly describes the French assurances that they would preserve neutrality as false- hoods and declares that Japan would be justified in bombarding French ter- ritory ‘and calls upon the Government to take vigorous action. Among Japanese officials in London it is assumed that France put off Japan by fair promises in order to give Ro- jestvensky time to effect a juncture of his forces and that the Russians are now given every privilege provided they keep just outside the three-mile limit. The repert from Tsingtau that the Russian squadfon is off Vanfong, which is an inlet containing the port of Honkohe, the Three Kings being rocks near the entrance of Vanfong Bay, is held to confirm the Japanese assertion that Rojestvensky is still cruising In French waters. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent .at Tokio says that, in response to Ja- pan’s second protest France intimated that Rojestvensky had been ordered to leave Honkohe. The Times' correspondent at Tokio reports that the Japanese Chamber of Commeree is concerting measures to cease all commercial transactions with French citizens. A telegram from Hongkong to a news agency gives a long dispatch which, it alleges, the French authorities at Sai- gon refused to transmit on April 30, de- tailing how for ten days the Russian Pacific squadron was allowed to con- vert Kamranh Bay practically into a Russian base, freely coaling and pro- visioning openly under the direction of Prince Lieven, captain of the interned Russian cruiser Diana, the French ad- miral, De Jonquieres, being present the whole time and, until April 23, making no attempt to check the breach of neu- trality. The Times, in the course of a strong editorial warning to France of the ex- treme danger and gravity of the situa- tion in the Far East, and appealing to that “‘Government not te treat the Ja- panese protests lightheartedly, says it has reason to believe that Foreign Sec- retary Lansdowne has spoken very strongly to the French Government on the breaches of neutrality permitted to the Russian Pacific squadron. j ————— DRIVING BACK RUSSIANS. Columns of Japanese Are Advancing to the North. GADGEYADANA, Manchuria., May 7.—Since April 29 the Japanese have been advancing slowly and intermit- tently, pushing forward their columns successively from right to left, under cover of a screen of cafalry and Chi- nese bandits. The advance ‘has re- sulted in straightening the alignment of the opposing armies, Russian de- tachments which were far advanced on the flanks being forced to retire. Erdagou, to the eastward, was oc- cupied on, May 5, but under pressure by the Russians the Japanese later evacuated the place. On the left the Russian . cavalry retired behind the Liao River, the Japanese occupying Palaotum, Sanlingan and Balzya. The village of Shahedzi, on the north of Chantufu, has been occupied and burned by the Japanese. There was a sharp brush with Chi- nese bandits on the extreme Russian right to-day. 5 It is reported that the Japanese armies in the center have been rein- forced. The force at Field Marshal Oyama’s disposal, according to infor- mation recently received, is 348 bat- talions, or 390,000 men. The Japanese are said to have arnfed 25,000 or 30,000 Chinese bandits with captured Russian rifles. The Chinese |" population has been drafted by the Japanese for road making and en- trenching and“roads are being con- structed to Sinminpu, Banchensee and Nangapass. e TRIALS OF TORPEDO-BOATS. M Expects Great Things of Lewis * Nixon's War Craft. SEBASTOPOL. May 7.—The tor- pedo-boats which are being built at the. Government yard here under the general supervision of Lewis Nixon of ‘New York are nearing completion and their trials in the Black Sea will take place in a few days. In order to over- come the difficulty always encountered in work in a foreign country, Nixon provided his own m'."n?m tion, which he has pushed the construction of these boats to a state of comple- tion. » - Much is expected of these tcrpedo- oot st e e i i Save James H. Hyde. Makes Good Enormous Loans From the Equii- able Society. " Union Pacific Shares Sold at a Low Figure to Raise the Needed Cash. - Epecfal Dispatch to The Call | NEW YORK, May 7.—The fight of | E. H. Harriman to keep James H. Hyde in control of the Equitable Life | Assurance Society has cost Harriman at least $5,000,000, and perhaps dou- | ble that amount, according to a re- liable Wall street authority. It is said | that he has had to take up loans on | Union and Southern Pacific and other | Harriman securities with the Mercan- | tile and Equitable Trust companies, | the National Bank of Commerce and | other financial ‘ institutions in which | the 600,000 policy holders are de- positors. Some of the Wall-street bankers said that the officers of these sub- sidiary institutions of the Equitable decided to “clean house.” Others said that the insurance department ex- aminers, in tracing the Equitable money, uncovered the big loans and gave the subsidiary institutions the hint that they had put out too much money on one class qof collateral and to one borrower. Not being able to replace all the loans with other Imstitutions, Harri- man, it is said, had to sell big chunks of Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and other Harriman stocks: and this, it is asserted, was the real cause of the recent stock market slump and the gradual fall in value of Union Pacific from 138 to 116%. It is said thal Harriman had cleaned up the last o bis )quitable loans on Friday and that he is now on good, hard ground. It develops that a unanimous call for a caucus of Equitable directors on Monday was sent out by Jscob H. Schiff, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and a partner in Harriman'’s railroad ven- tures. Schiff is one of the thirty- eight so-called “dummy” directors in the Equitable and has been sharply criticized because his banking house sold $22,000,000 worth of bonds to the Equitable in 1904, on which it is said to have cleared $500,000. \ g s PROFITS FOR POLICY HOLDERS. [ 1 Alexander Says They Alone Should Share Surplus Earnings. NEW YORK, May 7.—James W. Alexander, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, to-night made public a letter written by him to Ed- ward A. Woods, manager of the so- ciety at Pittsburg, in which he asserts that.the surplus of the suciety is held for the exclusive benefit of its policy holders and not the holders of the stock. Alexander also takes occasion in the letter to deny the rumors that he will resign. The letter was written under date of yesterday in reply to a request from Woods in confirmation of certain official statements made by the Equitable Society regarding “the mutual plan of its business and the exclusive ownership of the policy holders of the surplus.” Alexander says in-part: cognize that for the bemefit of present and I're future policy holders or the should be at this time seme doubt as to three facts been conducted in ac- cordance with its charter since the date of its organization on the mutual plan; second, that B P e A T a for ‘policy It the surplus the society is held for the ex- ncise, who, as | quiries from the latter on the subject of surplus. In this letter, under date! of May 5, Vancise says: holders exclusively. . That each participating policy cetve its dul; mn of Will Dely (ke Presient, Townsend and Hepburn De- clare Present Inquiry a Farce. St Mr. Roosevelt's Campaign Against Transportation Evil Must Be Fought Over Again. Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, May 7.—No railroad rate bill with force in it will come out of the Senate Committee on Inter- state Commerce. There have been suf- ficient developments in the series of hearings now on to show there is no intention in this committee to frame a biil giving to a Federal commission any kind of rate-fixing power. Representative Townsend of Michi- gan, one of the authors of the Esch- Townsend bill, which has been ai ob- Ject of attack by nearly every witness summoned by the committee, has been watching these hearings with ne little interest. He returned home y:sterday thoroughly convinced that there was ne chance for a rate bill in the Sen- ate Committee along the lines recom- mended by President Roosevelt in his last annual message. Colonel Hep- burn, chairman of the House Com- mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com- merce,. holds the same view. Their opinion is that the fight, so far as the regulation of rates by a Gov- ernment commission 1s ¢oncerned, will have to be started all over again. In case the President be pérsistent the semblance of a rate bill will be report- ed, but this will apply only to such abuses as discriminations, private cars and private terminals. “These constitute only a part of the evils of the present transportation sys- tem in this country,” said Townsend. ““A bill authorizing a Government com- misaion to fix rates on interstate com- merce, when complaint is made by either party, is absolutely necessary to correct the transportation evil. I am frank to admit that I see little hope in the Senate Committee.” There is no indication that the Presi- dent has weakened in his position and his friends in the administration here still belleve that he will not be satisfled with anything less than a bill giving the Interstate Commerce Commission rate-fixing power. HEARTLESS WIFE SENT T0 PRISON Husbanmater S Disciplined by ot Special Dispatch to The Call. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May (.—For the first time in Cleveland’s history a wo- man was to-day given a workhouse sentence for having beaten her hus- band. Mrs. Anna Gillan was assessed $25 and costs and thirty days in the work- house, a sentence which will keep her in the house of correction for neariy six months. The weight of Mrs. Gillan is esti- mated at anywhere from 220 to 268 pounds. The nominal head of the fam- ily stood but five feet ‘lnmhdut m shoes, and with his clothing wei considerably less than 100 pouhds. He testified "that he was beaten more or less by his wife évery day and de- TWELVE THOUSAND ENTER AT NEW YORK IN A DAY NEW YORK. May 7.—All records e | to enter spring New York, indicating that the influx of immigrants this y-'~

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