The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1905, Page 1

per " ge A" Prints More News Than Any Other Paper Publ@lie&in i d and 1 ’ THE WEATHER. l t San Francisco tor! midnight Jume T: | victnity—Fair | + wind. : A. G. MCADIE, ! t orecaster. 1 i q ecast made at Sai KINBERLY'S RICKES FOR MRS. ASAY GRAND—"The MAJESTIC— TIVOLI—Comic CENTRAL—"The Eleventh Hour." CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matines. ‘Leah Kleschna.™ ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee. Financler."" Opera. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE PRICE FIVE CE SHALLLOT 15 300 FOR §100,000 MAESTRETTII'S TRIAL BEGINS i | | | The trial of Frank A. Maestretti, member of the Board of Public Works, for sub- ornation of perjury in the Wyman ballot-box stuffing case, was begun yesterday. order of intelligence, confused and uncertain. Their testimony was so weak and Woman Says She New H;gh Record Will Inherit | Mllhons | Probable Contest Over Each Square Foot of]| Mining Man’s Great Estate. oty ves to Attack Will if t Bequeaths Fortune to | Former Adventuress. N JUAN HILL | HERD DIES IN- | DIRE NEED Too Profid 1; Inform Rich Relatives of | His Plight. | Epeciel Dispatch to The Call Supreme Cour his country he r,,i,p, university Osler the degree edicine; also honorary | of_Letters o [,u;ll] lee pro of rite With Colombin. I’ CARACAS, June 6.—The rivers Zulia | and Catumbo have been reopened to Co-l lombian traffic. | mage called upon Captain | Oratory for New York Realty. Soil Yields $598 20 to the Seller. Transfer of Most Valuable Plat | of Ground in Western Hemisphere. 6.—Establishin uare foot orner of Wal opposite Trinity feet in Broadway by all street, was sold marks erty of his owner v sold by At the, time George R. Read, man, was entering on_ his career real estate broker. He desired to | e property and finaily singled plot. He went to Silliman and f he would sell d the owner,” T'll sell it. i Read. vou cover it can have it space a silver how many lot. He d computed and the dea the ' pr figure ago. young as a heard h would sell, but he doliars instead ve to be used. RICH YOUTH FATALLY HURT ON A RAILROAD Unfortunate in Attempt to| Learn the Duties of a Brakeman. ’ Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, June 6.—Frank E. Snow, the University of Michigan student hose neck was broken yesterday Je he was working as a brakeman e Indiana Har Line at Ham- mond, Ind., is now tion in Margaret's Hospital at that place, where he is surrounded by grief- stricken relatives. From the present outlook his injuries will cause death. The young man, whose father Frank E. Snow of Detroit, took course in engineering at the un{versity and then entered into practical railroad work, beginning at the incentive that the responsible rail- road positions of several relatives gave him is a |FATR COMMISSIONER ACCUSED BY WOMAN Portland Landlady Says Of- ficial Owes Her Large Sum for Board. Special Dispatch to The Call PORTLAND, June 6.—Marion Hum- of Police to-day @nd laid before him a nt against Elmer E. Johnston, e Cominissioner from the State ashington to thé Lewis and Clark Exposition. She alleges a bill for board and rooms is duc her from Johnston, X e and two- children. It is al- ivzed by the complainant that profane 1d abusive language was used by Mrs. Johnston in the Hummage house last week. Slover e r—— CAPTAIN J. €. FARNSWORTH MARRIES A DENVER MISS Bride Miss Lilllan G. Gentry, Graduate of the FEmerson School in Beston. DENVER, June 6.—Miss Lillian G. Gentry, a popular Wolf Hall girl,. and Captain J. C. Farnsworth, a Califor- His - { nian, were married here last Wednes- day, but the fact did not become gener- aH\ kunown until tosday. The bride Ts 2 graduate of the Enerson School of in Boston. Farnsworth is a business and club mau of San Fran- c1sco and a relative of Colonel Fred Farnsworth of Detroit, Mich., who was Minister to Chile under President Har- rison. 7| The trial Read | in a critical condi- | - | Silberstein and Podd should be given life. | the bottom, with | IS i |‘ The evidence of Silberstein anfi Podd, for the State, showed them to be of low i rambling that it may help the accused Maestretti in securing an acquittal. — - Silberstein and Podd Prove| Weak and Uncertain in Their Testimony. IMPLICATING ACCUSED, %Both Men Swear They Were| Asked to Commit Per- jury for of Frank A. Maestretti,: member of the Board of Public Works, charged with trying to induce C. M. Sil- berstein, election official, to testify falsely in.the case of Charles Wyman, | ballot box stuffer, promises to be a short one. Most of the argumentative | propensities of counsel seem to have been satisfied during the choosing of the jury, when the defense gaye indi- - | cations of a desire, in the interests of | the accused Maestretti, to charge down | | upon the Citizens’ Alllance, Mercha: | Association, Republican League and other orzanizations that are trying to release San . Francisco from the incu- | | bus of ofiicial corruption that new rests | | =pon her. | There was mo mention of any of | thewe bodies vesterday and perhaps the | efforts of the defense to create the! | impression that the prosecution of Maestretii is really a political perse- cution will blow over as smoke, as in- timated in The Call yesterday. Coun- sel for Maestretti may resume the at | tempt, however, i¢ they introduce an witpesses for the defendant. i A. Hosmer sat beside the District ney and Judge Ferral employed for the pre | the civic organization. { Could the intelligent Francisco have attended the session ves- | uld have received a fore- | 3 esson as to the class of men allowed through push” influence to of- ifiriale at the elections held in this city. | Two of the witnesses produced against | Maestretti, Silberstein and Podd, both o1 | whom had served in the booth in the ! | Seventy-third Precinct on Auvgust 9, when | | Wyman voted his own name and that of | S, H. Mann, gave testimony that sounded | like that of imbeciles, though each seem- ed trying his best to testify as strongly & possible against Maestrettl. It is said at their testimony for Wyman helped convict that individual and that their tes- timony and their general ' appear ance in this case may help Maestrett to liberty, even if they do their best gainst the defendant. ~Both seemed to | have muddled minds and a remarkable inability to remember details. Even enteen and @ half days at a country re- ort at the-Grand Jury's expense did not scem to have improved their general | mental condition much. They were rather | objects of pity, even by the prosecution. It was generally conceded that whether | or not Maestrett! was guilty, those re- sponsible for such election officials as | of voters San | [ | | | Some saw cunning behind their lapses | and a well-lald scheme to gain fmmunity | without hurting Maestretti, but their general testimony against him seemed too strong for that. POINT OF THE DEFENSE. It developed during an objection made by Governor Budd that the defense will try to show, among other things, that the meeting in Attorney Countryman's office, where Maestrett! is saild to have given his instructions, was actually held on the night of January 8 just before the wit- nesses for the defense were introduced in the Superior Court trial of Wyman, and not on the night of September 27, prior to the beginning tof the hearing | in the Police Court, as set forth in the | Maestrett! indictment, and that the wit- nesses for the prosecution who were at the meeting got the latter date from the | indictment, which was found on March Police Judge was the first witness. He {identifled the complaint, | warrant and other records of the pro- | ceedings of Wyman's preliminary exam- ination and they were Introduced in evi- dence. | the witness the fact that Silbersteln had not testified at all at the preliminary ex-- amination, but he was not allowed to | prove it in that way, an objection of Dis- trict Attorney Byington being sustained, though the defendant’s counsel asked many ingenious questions to bring out the fact from the Police Magistrate. Budd objected to the admission of t(he Police Court record on the ground that the of- fense set forth in the complaint, that of fraudulently voting the name of another, was not the same as that mentioned in connection with Wyman in the Grand Jury indictment against Maestretti. The court sustained Byington, but the defense made the same objection to other testi- mony throughout the trial and took sx-‘ ceptions in each case. i ‘ Charles M. Silberstein, su to be | the star mfl was called. He showed ; a woeful p: ty to stumble and mix himself as to dates, and even the prosecu- tion had to emile at him at times. He ! the neighborhood.” | the month of April, Ex-Governor Budd tried to get from | V& Wyman. DEFENSE IS HOPEFUL PR R S was sure, though, of the general propo- sition,” that Maestretti had told him to swer i the Wyman trial that Wyman had voted only onee, and that this was told him at the office of Attorney Robert H. Countryman_ in the presence of Fos- ter, Wyman, Goetjen and Podd, also elec- tion officers, and Attorney Countryman. He said 4t first that Carson, another pri- mary officer, was present also, but dented this later, Siiberstein then told how Wyman had | voted hlz own name and then that of Mann, as~judge, receiving he Brs B Iot Abd mean foreibly de- positing the other in the box. Continu- ing, he sald that on September 27, the night before the heéaring of Wyman's [ in the Police Court, he had met Wy- n in Maestretti’s saloon at the corner Sutter street and Central avenue, and 1an received a telephone mes- of there W sage from Maestretti, telling him of the meeting the primary election officers of the Seventy-third Precinct to be held in the office of Attorney Countryman on Montgomery street. They went there and before the assemblage Maestretti an- nounced that in the case of Wyman, the election officers were to Wyman, had voted only once. Attorney Countryman, it was testified, seemed sat- isfied with this, SIBBEERSTEIN IS UNSTEADY. The witness said his application to | serve as an officer at the primary was indorsed by Abe Ruef and Maestretti. This documeént has been destroyed. Judge Dibble then took up the le examination of Silberstein. He could not shake the scemingly half- witted man on the stand as to the statement that Maestretti had | told him to swear that Wyman had only voted once, but he seemed utterly unable to tell whether it was just before the trial in the Superior Court, which be- gan early in January, or just before the haegring in the lower court, beginning on September 5. Asked why he did not arrest Wyman | when he voted the second time, Silber- stein stammered and was nervous and “didn’t want to make a disturbance in In response to a query as to why he hadn’t told some one, he sald he didn’t know whom to tell. He declared that he had not been influenced by any threats to make his statements to the Grand Jury. “Were you nervous from August § to next year?” asked Dibble. It was in April the Grand Jury was {nformed. Bilberstein had been at Tocaloma in Ma- rin County for the last seventeen days and a half, his expenses being pald by the Grand Jury, he sald. At the afternoon session the cross-ex- amination by Judge Dibble was resumed. The witness seemed actually unable to say whetoer, when he did testify in the ‘Wyman case, it was in the Police or the Superfor Court. He sald he had testified for the defense, but didn’t know what that meant except that “he had just gone on the stand.” “Don’t you know?” asked Dibble, “that the meeting in Countryman's office was on the night before January 9, when they did call witnesses in this court?” ““Yes,” was the reply. District Attorney Byington looked sur- prised and took a hand at redirect ex- amination. “You sald in answer to my question that the meeting was on Tuesday, Sep- tember 27, the night before the hearing in the Police Court, and now you say it was the night before the hearing of witnesses for the defense in the Superior Court,” he said. Tell us again just when it “Tuesday evening, September 27,” re- plied the witness. Here Judge Dibble broke in again and the jury began to lock puzzled. Dibble sald: “You said to me the meeting was the night before the hearing of the Wyman defense in the Superior Court and now 1 you tell the District Attorney it was the night before the Police Court hearing. ‘Which is 1t?"” “The night before the trial in the Bu- perior Court,” replied Silberstein. PODD IS ALSO MIXED. This style of alternate questioning be- tween Byington and Dibble and Silber- stein's peculiar answers were continued until counsel thought they had enough of the man’s waverings in the record. He stuck to it, though, that Maesterettl, in really made the note at the time of his | ments ! the office of Countryman, had told him and the other election officers that they must -wsrwymnvmnn!yuw.. ’.l‘omfiu! i thsmu,fllm swear that he, | 1 i | WITH TWOWITNESSES CONFUSED NOW BRIDE - 0F PRINCE ~ FREDERICK Cecilia the Crown Princess of Germany. |Gala Assemblage of Royalty at Berlin Wedding. 8.—Crown and Duch BERLIN, June Frederick Willlam cilia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin married in the palace chape! this af- — { ! | | | | ! i — f— CHARGED WITH THEM TO TWO WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION SUBORNATION OF P! Y SWEAR FALSELY AT THE TRIAL OF BA LLOT-BOX WHOQ TESTIFIED YESTERDAY AT THE THAT THE ACCUSED PUBLIC “ORKS STUFFER W YMAN TRIA F. A MAESTRETTL } ¥ COMMISSIONER | ASKED — S stein swore that at the time Maestrett! spoke to him the defendant did not know that Silberstein knew Wyman had voted twice. illlam Henry Podd, ballot clerk in the booth of the Seventy-third Pre- cinct at the primary of August 9, cor- roborated Silberstein as to Maestretti's telling them that they must swear Wymnn voted but once, but his wits seemed just as rambling when it came to fixing the exact time of the meeting at which Maestretti issued the fiat. The witness testified at the tyet though, that Maestrett! knew all about Wyman having so transgressed the as the witness told him at the or Maestrettl, saloon on Cen- He sald that on the night of ering;~which he declared was on Sep- tember 27, Wyman, Goetjen, Foster, Silberstein and-himself went from the saloon to Countryman’s office. There Maestrett! told them how they must testify in regard to Wyman—that he voted but once. On cross-examination the witness sald he too had been to Tocaloma for seven- teen days and a half. He knew that much from the hotel bill, which had been paid for him. Then came another exhihition of stu- pudity, almost equal to imbecility, such as the prebeding witness had given. If Podd had been coached it had been done cleverly, for he gava the impression that he did not want to save Maestrettl. He admitted that he, ghe witness, had com- mitted perjury in the Superior Court when he swore Wyman had voted but once, but he had given that testimony un- der the influence exerted over him by Maestrett! and the desire ‘“to save the boys.” He had decided to no more, but to tell the whole truth. No threats had been made against him by Foreman Andrews or any other Grand Juryman, ! but one of Bolger’s detectives had told him he would “send him to the rock plle” if he did not tell the truth. Podd said at first, on cross-examina- tion, that the meeting at Countryman's office was held about three weeks prior to the trial in the Superior Court. He knew the date of it because he had made a nate of it. This note he had made about two and a half months ago. He had seen Andrews and Bowes relative to tes(TIying before the Grand Jury about six weeks ago. He denled that he had interview with Andrews and Bowes, or EEE | primary election officials at Country- | man’s. Byington went at the witness again, |and there was much of the same sort of | see-sawing as with Silberstein. y Podd said Countryman had suggested | that the witnessss would better stand on | the ground laid down by Maestretti. Mrs. Charles Merrill told of some one, whom she afterward learned was Wy- man, calling at her home at 3265 Sacra- subsequent to Wyman's arrest, and tell- | ing her husband that “Frank” was out- side and wanted to see him. Charles Merrill, the street car conduc- tor, testified that shortly after Wyman had been released on bail he and Maes- tretti called at his (Merrill's) house one night and outside Maestrett! said to him | that “Charlie’'s case was coming up and they wanted him (Merrill) to testify that Wyman voted only once. The witness promised to do so. He said on cross-ex- amination that he did not know Wyman had voted twice and did not know wheth- er Maestretti knew of it. He told of the alleged mysterious stranger who sald there would be $1500 in it for him If he left town, but his testimony on this line amounted to little. The witness was in- vited by Carson to attend the meeting at the saloon on September 27, but did not go. The case goes on at 10:30 this mrm = P REBSTOCK SECURES DELAY. Motion for New Trial and Argument Goes Over Till Friday. Joseph Rebstock, who was convict- ed by a jury in Judge Lawlor's court on Friday night last on a charge of violation of the election law by an of- ficer of a primary election precinct, ap- peared for sentence yesterday. When the case was called Attorney New- burgh said he had a motion to make for a new trial on various grounds. The Judge asked him whether the argument would occupy much time, as he was desirous of proceeding with the Maestretti trial. “My argument will be of at least two hours’ duration,” replied Newburgh, “but if your Honor has made up yeur mind to deny the motion there would be no use of taking up your ‘time in any m-nl. Judge replied that he was al- | mento street -one night after dark and| ternoon while the clock on the plaza marked 5, and batteries here and in every garrison town in Prussia and in every sea where German warships floated began firing a twenty-one gum salute at the same moment. In the chapel one of the most dis- tinguished assemblages that could be gathered In Europe saw the simple wedding service of the Lutheran church. Among the sixty or seventy members of the royal families present from German and foreign states wers Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, representing Emperor Franecis Joseph; Grand Duke Michael of Russia: Prince Henry, consort of the Queen of The Netherlands; the Duke and Duchess of Aosta, representing the King and Queen of Italy; Prince Arthur of Con- naught, representing Great Britain; Prince and Princess Albert of Belgium; the Duke of Oporto, rwnl Por- tugal; Prince Ferdinand, of Roumanias, and the Crown Princes of Denmark and Greece. These all stood in a wide cir- cle around the altar, for there were no pews, and behind them without re- gard to rapk were the members of the foreign embassies, with Embassador Tower and Mrs. Tower among them; the Cabinet Ministers, a numbaer of ad- mirals, the commanders of the army corps and many persons of the high nobility. WEARS CROWN OF DIAMONDS. The Crown Princess, for she was al- ready Crown Princess by civil cere- mony, which had taken place in the morning, came in on the arm of the Crown Prince. She was wearing & wreath of fresh myrtle on her head, over which was a small erown of dia- monds and rubles in a gold frame, placed there by the Empress. A tri- angle of diamonds rested on the front of her low-cut bodice, and around her neck was a necklace of large diamonds. The wedding dress was of Russian sil- ver brocade, with a train four and a half yards in length and two and a quarter yards wide, attached to the shoulders. Four maids of honor in dresses of pale blue silk, the Crown Prinee’s favorite color, carried the train, and behind them walked two pages. The bridal veil was of old Brussels lace. The Crown Prince wore the light blue uniform of the First Foot Guards, with a major’'s insignia and his deco- rations. He carried his helmet in his hand. - Behind the bride and groom came e tem—————————— Ceatinued on Page 3, Columa &