The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1905, Page 1

fresh west winds. thirty hours ending midnight, July 13: San¢ Francisoo and viclnity—Fair Thursday, with fog in the moruing; G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. i il Golden Count: COLUMBIA—Yiddish Players in “The GRAND—"“A Turkish Texan ORPHEUM—Vaudeville, ry.” Matines. VOLU XCVIII—NO. 43. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GEORGE D. COLLINS IS ARRE FOR PERJURY AT REQUES George D. Collins is under arrest in Victoria, B. C., charged with perjury and will be brought to this city for trial. STED AT VICTORIA, B.C., T OF CHIEF DINAN. Mrs. McCurdy left San Francisco Sunday night to join the runaway attorney. The alleged bigamist told a close friend that he was forced into his second marriage by Mrs. McCurdy and that he made an attempt to leave the country alone on July 4. f— THOSE WHO WISH MAY ADD TO STATURE. Each Person’'s Height Can Be Increased From One to Five Inches. Special Dispatch to The Call, DENVER, July 12.—By & remarkable invention now in use in the University o it is possible for any one to increase his height from one to five inches in less than three months. Ex- periments have been conducted at the university during the last Shree years under the supervision of Professor David B. Cropp and Professor Fordyce P. Cleaves. Professor Cropp is physical instructor at the university, while Pro- fessor Cleaves is connected with the scientific department. xm“ persons have subjected them- selves to the stretch! process eight weeks and now 2& is from tz:: i our weeks. The principle is based on & newly discovered natural law and the process ' One subject | of is simply to stretch the backbone and increase the chest measurement at the same time, until the patient has at- tained the increase In height that he wishes. The claim is made and substantiated by figures setting forth actual results that the height of the body can be in- creased by mechanical means from two, to five inches in a short time, without causing any injury. Neither is the pa- tient subjected to any discomfort dur- ing the process. The new method Is termed the “car- tilage extension method.” Experiments ‘were first made along the lines which s Srerm M\l\n“ AFCopoy COLLINS' CHICAGO HOTHER-I;Q-LAW. WHO IS KNOWN TO HAVE FLED TO JOIN HIM IN VICTORIA, AND His LAW cum% WHO HAS GIVEN IN; TERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT HIS EMPLOYER. SAYS HE COULD NOT GET FAIR PLAY IN SAN FRANCISCO George D. Collins, When Placed Under Arrest, Talks Aboutr Being the Victim .of Conspiracy. VICTORIA B. C., July 12—Chiet of Po- lice John Langley and Detective Perdue of the local police force arrested George D. Collins of San Francisco this even- ing at the Driard Hotel on a charge of perjury, the warrant alleging that the offense was committed in his having sworn he was not married to Charlotta Newmen on May 15, 1889. He declines to state the whereabouts of Mrs. McCurdy, and declares he will fignt extradition. Asked for a statement, he said: “I am the victim of a base conspiracy. During many years of practice at the ‘California bar I had made many enemies, some of whom were very pow: I had also a personal trouble with the San Francisco Chronicle, ‘or rather its pro- prietor, while I had often acted as prose- cuting counsel in actions for damages against the other papers. They conse- quently were all after me, and when Charlotta Newman raised the accusation of bigamy against me it was too good an opportunity for the lot to miss. In addition blackmail was tried. “A brother of Miss Newman came to “Tais T would not agres w agree and clous stories were circulated about me and my family affairs, foul fabrications from start to finish. I was hounded night and day and saw that I was not going to get fair play in the California courts. My wife and I therefore decid- ed to leave San Francisco for Canada, where we had relatives, and where I would only have to_establish my {nno- cence of any Wrong to meet with friend- 1y reception. y “About sixteen years ago I married in San Francisco a Miss Newman and to us several children were born. Living with us was my wife's sister, a Miss Charlotta Newman. About ago my wife MW S e, £ S WILL BE BACK A BROUGHT T ONCE. Mrs. McCurdy Left on Train for the North Last Sunday Night. ACCUSED ATTIORNEY SAYS HE WAS FORCED 70 MARRY | Claims He Was Intoxicated When Ceremony Was Per- formed in Chicago. - George D. Collins, the accused bigamist, whose hur- ried flight last Friday night proved a sensation and whose arrival in British Columbia’ was told exclusively in The Call yesterday morning, was arrested in the Ho- tel Driard, Victoria, last night on the charge of perjury at the request of the policeof San Francisco. Word to this effect was received by Chief Dinan at midnight _from J. M. Langley, Chief of Police of Vietoria. : Collins will be brought back to San Francisco to be tried on this new charge. District Attorney Byington will swear out the warrant for perjury to-day, as Collins was arrested on a telegram witn notice of a warrant to follow. The charge will be based on the statement made in Judge Graham’s court by the al- leged bigamist that he was never married to Charlotta E. Newman. MRS. McCURDY’S FLIGHT. Mrs. Sarah McCurdy, mother of Clarice McCurdy, the woman who made her es- cape with Collins, has gone on the trail of her son-in-law. She left this city last Sunday night and took the train at the Oakland mole for Poftland. By this time she could have easily reached the Cana- dian border. She knew he was going to Canada and did not intend to follow, but later a fear came over her that Collins intended to get beyond her reach, too, and so she pursued. Startling facts relating to the marriage of Collins in Chicago with Miss McCurdy were brought to light last night. July 4 he started to leave the country, leaving his so-called wife and mother-in-law be- hind with no knowledge of his sudden departure. He distributed his belongings among his office force and made all preparations to abandon San Francisco forever. He left here early on the morn- ing of July 4, took the Creek boat to Alameda, so that he would not be de- tected, and boarded the train for Santa Clara. There he met Frank V. Kington, a lawyer employed in his office, who had brought down his grip, which contained a few articles of clothing. Collins got as far as Los Angeles with- out question and he could have easily reached the Mexican border without be- ing detected. But there he seemed to have experienced a sudden change of mind, and he put back to San Francisco on the very next train, only to make his escape later in company with Clarice McCurdy. Inside facts concerning Collins’ Chi- cago marriage have come to light. From & story he told a very intimate friend it appears that he was forced into the mar- riage with Clarice McCurdy. He told this person that he had a case concern- ing some property for Mrs. MoCurdy, and that he met Mrs. McCurdy and Clar- jce in Chicago on his way back from ‘Washington. Mrs. McCurdy then became possessed of the idea that she would like Collins for her son-in-law. DRUNK WHEN HE MARRIED. According to the story of Collins, he married Clarice McCurdy when he was drunk and did not know what he was doing. Mrs. McCurdy had her dream realized, and she had won the son-in- law of her heart. Then they all returned to San Francisco. enough after C to cover the tracks of him and his bride and then she started in pursuit. She left San Francisco Sunday night and , driven by thelir flight on the day set for the uance of the trial, are Pratt & Tierney, proprietors of a notorious red- | light resort on Mason street. They saw ‘Bogie” O'Donfiell after they had com- municated with Collins and made all the arrangements for the details of the successful coup. Q'Donnell has been quietly in Vallejo ever since the day that he was ques- tioned by District Attorney Byington, and admitted there that he had driven the automobile which waited at the Sac- ramento-street - home for the Collins party. He has spent his time in the sa- loons of the town, but he has been very careful to avoid recognition by any pass- ing San Franciscan. MORE HELPED HER ESCAPE. Mrs. McCurdy, when she made her flight, boarded a street car in front of her home at 1118 Sacramento street, took the ferry-boat to Oakland and there the 9 o'clock train to Portland, the very same train on which Collins and her daughter had made their es- cape two nights before. Only one per: son saw her go away who recognized her, and that one was bound by friend- ship not to tell. Ars. McCurdy determined to hide in or depart from San Francisco, because she did not want to testify against Collins. She knew that his trial was set for last Monday afternoon, and she also knew that when the case was called and the defendant did not appear she would be the first summoned to the witness chalr, there to be grilled for hours about what she knew of his escape. The man who heiped Mrs. Collins make her escape is still unknown to the San Francisco police. He is A. M. More, clerk in the offices of George D. Collins for the past two years. He knew all about the escape of Collins and he rode in the very same automoblile on its re- turn in which the runaway lawyer had left his Bacramento-street home. He has lived with Collins at 1118 Sacramento street for many months and has known every move of that man and his mother- in-law during all this time. He was not examined with the other witnesses last Monday because no one, District Attor- ?n.,l.n Judge or police, knew that he was Y Way acquainted partic- ulars of the case. Nohip 7 ‘WOMAN IS NERVOUS. was enabled to. successfull border. He reached Seatiie S g and should have been safe a few minutes nrmlw'dock.wunhmldhm- ing on the Pacific toward British Co- lmhfl:-dm-nunmm she board train satety. and fled for her own Itwn‘o’ehekllnh.ymm‘vh DIL KING'S -~ FAMILY 1§ IN A RAGE Threatens to Sue Miss Ida M. Tarbell. _ Life Story of the Senior Rockefeller Stirs His Sons. James Corrigan Says the Magazine Writer Simply Told the Truth. Special Dispatch to The Call. CLEVELAND, July 12—Frank Rocke- feller, brother of John D. and Wil- liam Rockefeller, brands Ida M. Tar- bell's story of his father’s life, printed in a current magazine, as a lie; says the truth will be known and suggests that the family may take action to protect the name and honor of his father. Miss Tarbell had pictured the elder Rockefeller as a convivial quack doctor and wandering merchant, well known to the taverns and an associate of horse thieves. Frank Rockefeller was bitterly indigrant when he read the article and has been in communication with his father regarding it. His father does not want any statement made in the matter now and will preserve his seclusion in the west, but is planning action to clear his name. “I can’t discuss the Corrigan matter,” said Frank Rockefeller. “Corrigan is the best friend I ever had. It is a matter for discussion between my brother, John D., Corrigan and Tarbell. Let them have it. But part of the Tarbell story about my father was a He. It does a mon- strous wrong. I will not tell the true story now. I will not tell where father is, but I know positively that he will not talk” CORROBORATES MISS TARBELL. James Corrigan, in referring to a for- mal statement issued by Attorney Virgil P. Kline in defense of John D. Rocke- feller, says that the statements in Ida i M. Tarbell's magazine article were accu- rate. | “That account of Miss Tarbell's was about right, including the insinuations,™ sai@ Corrigan. “The case Is really worse than she put-it. In faet, it is worse than any one has put it. Legaily, I sup- pose he got that case; morally, he was not entitled to it. “Miss Tarbell's information was ob- talned partly from papers held by Judge Burke, but I did not right as far as it goes, but there a great deal that might have been said besides. At any rate ths story is not misleading. “Mr. Kline says it was more two years after the contract was with Mr. Rockefeller before I petition against him. That is enough, but the only reason it was brought before is that I could catch him. He was afraid we would serve him and never came to Cleveland, except secretly. ROBBED OF CERTIFICATES. “The amount of 3$260,000 which Mr. Kline says was advanced on account of an fron mining company was not at all. It was loaned to . efeller's own brother. An- other thing, I did not sell those cer- tificates to Mr. Rockefeller. He them from me.. Mr. Kline H there was a secret combination and I failed. “I borrowed considerable money from Rockefeller and he me to borrow more. Intosh gave me about $150,000,. but di@ not know at the time Rockefeller's money. Mr. got me to indorse notes for his brother Frank. That of his plans to get the c ‘wanted me to pay Frank's would let Frank have money. bring pressure to bear on me me indorse the notes. dala il