The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1905, Page 1

thirt San Monday; west winds. G H. THE WBATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for ¢ hours, ending midnight, May 15: Francisco and continued warm; light north- Local Forecaster. vicinity—Fatr ‘WILLSON, CMOREWEWS THAN ANY OT HER PAPER PUBIIS TSk aom, !‘ Saracen.” N el et THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—“Vivian's Papas.” ALHAMBRA—Ysaye. CALIFORNIA— CENTRAL—"A Human Sla: CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—*“Terence."" GRAND—*The Creole.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comic Opera. 3 : 3 i FRANCISCO ‘The Crusader and the Mati SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FLEN TAX GRLEGTOR 16 BROVGT HOBE FOR TRIL [Vorn and Nervous, He Is Not Met Anywhere by a Friend Locks Himself in _figmom, Hurries From; _ Train to Boat and Hides His Face From Photographers. GLAD WHEN HE REACHES HOME AND MISSES CROWD After Arrival at Férry Embezzler Is Driven Hurriedly to Hall of Justice to’Be Interviewed by Chief. certons guarded t.Foreman Andrews risoner was reluctant to talk to reporters. engers starec ater on the boat. ds PNSONER | S ABUSIE 0N TRAIN Uennunfl]ieman of brand Jury and the | Neflpa_pgrs. haggard, a pitiful wreck sed to be, Edward Smith, Tax Collector, arrived morning. During eedles he refused wing-room section of train stopped at “akers- was given an opportunity be had cared to make the Detective Wren and Detective the last named of the Pin- the train to get lunch. as left alone in the car. The was open and no one was g. The criminal must have ng a dash for it. He the window ledge and | e open country. Some to pass and Smith >f_his room. man the desire or the cour- is life he had plenty of op- But he cowered back the detectives complained | brought ‘to left I see my attor- “I never said t check for $15,000. I never anything. I won't admit on the whole | attitude F re of bravado | : ti he tried to t the laugh was pitiful. “I ¥ rights,” he would assert. Al- | the same moment h: would remble. up,” Detective Wren would “You be ,” Smith snarled in v anything,” declared Smith. “I want to see my attorney. | The pepers have been saying I spent | the money on women. I'm not a fool. I lost it in stocks.” And Smith, wlo disgraced his na- city, broke his wife’s heart and ved all his friends, feels more hurt from injured vanity than from a realization of his guilt. He wants to be regarded as a financier, not as an ordinary crook, as the world re- gards him. ENRAGED AT ANDREWS. “Yes, 1 left with Leona Brooks. What of it? But I'm not going to talk about her. I didn’t spend much on her. She told the truth.” The fact that Smith left with the Brooks woman was first told in The Call. It gave a clew to the where- abouts of the defaulter that led to his capture, Smith insists that all the money he took Bas been 'gambled away. The Pinkerton detectives and Foreman An- | resentment by his glance, clenching his | him closely. The journey was un because of the inquisition there. When he ali at him. Flashlight photographs 1, the defaulting Tax Collector, arrived in° San Francisco:at 1 a. m. to-day . Detective Ed Wren of the San Francisco police force and Detective Cow- eventful. t the prisoner or the party at Point Richmond, on the boat or in this city. a prisoner in his stateroom the moment he boarded the train at The Needles. He ghted from the train a hundred of him were taken as he stepped Arriving in this city.the party was at once driven to the Hall of mith was placed ina cell. MEFTS THE DEFAULTER Tremhlim Wom He Retums Like Hunted Quary, When the belated Santa Fe Ovrlaned reached Point Richmond shortly after 11 o’clock last night Edward J. Smith, San Francisco's defaulting Tax Collec- tor, was led from his drawing-room prison. Detective Ed Wren of the San Francisco police force and Detective Cowarden of the Pinkertons ‘guarded him. Haggard, trembling, pale, greatly re- duced in weight, uncertain of step and gaze, he came forth to meet the stare of his fellow passengers, all strangess. There was not a friendly word or handclasp to greet the return of the fallen native. ,No one shook him by the hand, none drew near and not a kind glance fell upon the worn and broken prisoner. All day, through the heat and dust of the desert, he had hid In his stuffy drawing-room, to which his meals had | been brought. As the whistle blew for Point Richmond he grew nervous, pulled on his overcoat and tried to be cheerful, but his voice sank, in his throat. He was the last passenger to alight from the last car of the long train, and he came forth like hunted quarry scourged from its lair. 'When he pulled up the high ‘collar of his long overcoat and sought with trembling hands to cover his haggard features from the view of a hundred strangers he was the picture of despair. Biff! Bang! Bang! went the flash- lights of newspaper photographrs, but the face caught by the lenses was one covered by the prisoner's hands, for he shrank from publicity at every step from train to boat. After a hurried walk to the boat he was seated downstairs and surrounded by a hundred curious strangers—men, women and children—who sought a) peep at the prisoner. Here many flash-| light photographs were taken, each re- port of the powder increasing the crowd that surrounded the broken-i spirited man. Once or twice he showed teeth as if he would defend himself against intrusion. Soon a spectacled and bewhisken,d] man rushed up and greeted the prison- er, with whom he conversed for a few minutes. Smith told the detectives that the visitor was his lawyer, but the lat- | ter declined to either affirm or deny this statement or to give his name. At the foot of Market street there Was no one to meet either detectives or their man. Few of those gathered at theg:m seemed to know that the tall, ed man who walked between two others was the defendant in a cel- ebrated case, or in any case, or that the men who walked with him had brought him a human wreck to the citythat had honored him in his prime. Hack number 55 was hurriedly called, Ct;;fll;;ld on.Plgel.Oolnmnl. 'Continued on Page 2, Column 4. i ply. NO MONEY FOUND BY ANDREWS Search MAngeles by brand Juryman Proves Futie ——— LOS ANGELES, May 14.—If former Tax Collector Smith of San Francisco “planted” any of the money he is al- leged to have stolen those who are now engaged in making up a case against him have been unable to find it. They thought Smith must have left several thousand dollars in a safety deposit box in Los Angeles, and to find this money Foreman Andrews of the San Francisco Grand Jury came here to-day after a dramatic all-day sweating of Smith at Needles, which did not turn out as he had expected. Smith declared he had spent all the money in Wall street speculation and that he has not a cent, but. Andrews was not satisfied. He reached here at 11 o'clock this morning, accompanied by Vice President Smith of the surety company which is on the Tax Collect- or's bond. Their quest was futile, how- ever, and at 3 o'clock they departed for the north. While here they en- gaged private detectives to look into some matters about which they refused to talk, saying that to make them public would be to ruin their case. An- drews admitted that he had expected to find §42,000 or thereabouts, and that he still has hopes of finding some of Smith’s money somewhere. He talked freely about. the case, except when it came to. telling what confession Smith had made. And in response to some straight questions he gave straight answers. . “Is it true that you were trying to make a deal with Smith to produce the stolen money and go free?” he was asked. “How could we do that?” was the counter query. ‘“Will you accept any such overtures from his friends?” “I couldn’t if I wanted to; it's beyond my province. I am foreman of the Grand Jury. That would be up to the D“‘%‘{fx‘ :ttomey of San Francisco.” & the District Attorney offer him immunity > 4 “No, the people of San Francisco would never consent to any such thing. This s not going to be any Tom Hayes case.” ° “Where would we get off?” put in Mr. Smith of the surety company. “Would your company consent to make terms with Smith?” was asked. “‘Most assuredly mot; he’s got to go to prison,” replied Smith. *““What has this mony .was a schoolmate of TAKES HER . SECRET 10 Aged Murderess Dies i Unidentified in - Special Dispatch to The Call. NEWBURGH, N. Y., May ll.—-fl!}"l- rietta Robinson, who, many years ago, acquired -the title of the *‘veiled -mur- deress,” died to-day in the Matteawan State Hospital for criminal insane. The hospital records say that the wom- an was seventy-eight years old, but she always claimed to be older, and on ‘Wednesday last -she said she was eighty-nine years of age. The name Henrietta Robinson was assumed and her rezl name was never disclosed. She was convicted of the murder of Timothy Lonegan and his sister-in-law, = Catherline Lubee, in Troy, in 1853. It was then hinted that she came of a noble English family, and since then, in a moment of for- getfulness, she had said royal blood was in her veins. She was frequently urged to tell her ideniity, but always refused, saying that.she had kept the secret so long that it might as wo*l dle with ber. It was during her trial that she gained the name of the ‘veiled murderess.” She had gone to Troy with the idea of getting a situation as a teacher, but.;ntare({ uf’:;n a life o: dissipation. She me negan an Miss Lubee through dealing in the former’s store. Going there one day, she ordered drinks and poisoned the couple. 4 A local paper claims that the real name of the “veiled murderess”’ was Lady William F. Elliott, and that sh Mrs. Russel —_————— Commander Eva.Booth Collapses. CHICAGO, May 14.—Commander Eva Booth of the Salvation Army collapsed to-night while she was preparing to address an audience in Orchestra Hall. Her trouble was due to an ulcerated tooth, which has caused her intense pain for several days. 3 i =+ —_— FAITHFUL PHOTOGRAPH OF TAKEN ON THE ,BOAT CR! E HAGGARD FACE OF EDWARD J. SMITH, ING THE BAY U!‘l;TNIGHT. BESIDE HIM SITS PINKERTON DETECTIVE COWARDEN OF LOuUIS. » ARCHBISHOP PRETENDS ROME, May 14.—Positive orders have been issued by Plus X for x.n: holding of another consistory som time :ext month and it is asserted on ‘good authority. that several car- dinals are to be nominated on this oc- casion. It is said that at least four new cardinals will be nominated, as through the recent death of- Cardinal Ajuti the number of vacancies in the Sacred College at present is: ten. At the request of the Bragilian Gov- ernment, it is sald, Pius X has deter- mined to give South America its first cardinal in the pbet--wn“h ;;‘(:‘oh:inlar' T op po! :h:ufiaf#fnmu be- added to the , - h a successful : R T 2 ni e e arrived when such pro- seems to have ‘will be made. ‘motion m: the BOSTON, May 14.—The flight from Boston of a woman who has been op- €rating here for eight years has re- vealed one of the most astounding swindles ever perpetrated im this city. Professing to be Carlotta, the widow of *Emperor Maximilian of ' Mexico, a brether of present Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, this.woman per- would herself' be'crowned Empress. By this & tion woman, an accomprice, who rep- Tesented “as Crown Ru- dolph, has got away with ut $40,000 advanced for her scheme. ustrian .i WRECKERS HURL-TRAIN INTO DITCH Santa Fe Express Is Derailed in - Kansas. rr——s EMPORIA] Kans., May.14.—Santa ' Fe passengef train No. 1T was ditched by ‘trainwreckers a.mile east of town at 12:30_o'clock. this morning. Six passen- {gers were injured and two probably | willdfe. The mjured: | “ James Euger,- 79 years old, of’the ! S5ldiers”- Home _at Leavenworth; fa- | tally ‘thjured,"¥ight arm fractured’ in two places, head and bhands cut: and back injured. 4 J. O. Rice, Santa Fe car repairer, on way from Topéka hospital to Shawnee, O.-T.; badly bruised; left ear partly | torn off. 5 Nate' Hendricks, Roswell, N. M., cat- tleman; back.and hips sprained, long cut :aeross- forehead and scalp wound. Condition serious. 4 y J. L.yCooper, Spickards, Mo., farm« ; hands cut, elbow fractured. E. A. Taylor; Kansas City, Mo., eon- duetor; deep:cuts on. scalp, four .teeth knocked - out, ‘contusion on right leg, both hands cut. ¥, A/ Grover, fireman, Topeka; .throwrn‘from cab. and’back and shoul- ‘ders injured. « This-:was .the fourth attempt in the last four months to“wreck passenger trains in the same place! Previous at- tempts were made by piling tiés on the track and were without serious re- suits. The wreck to-day was cdused | by removing the spikes and fish plates of two rails on the inside of a curve. The engine passed over the loose ralls safely, but'the mail car left the track and was dragged 100 yards along the embankment before the train was stopped. The next five cars—the express and baggage cars, the smoker and two coaches—went into the ditch. The end of the baggage car went up into the air- high emough to ground the tele- graph wires. . Two Pullman sleepers remained on the track. The passengers were asleep when the wreck occurred and became - of uu men in the overturned baggage car. A window was broken and of seven men in the car, six were found ~