The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1905, Page 3

THE N FRANCISCO CALL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1905. ' TROUBLES OF SENATOR M[TCHELL ODER. ed Oregonian Dies | a Poriland Hospital. Deailr Saves Him From Disgrace of Prison Cell. 2d left th a Far West he was 1 well versed in legal man he took a » his new home, ng times of in frustrat- the g LOCAL ENTHUSTASK On One Sub)ec-. San l"ram:iseo| People Grow Enthusiastic. 1 u\(u: sut popular enthusiasm almost daily publ t R d r‘ scove! rn)h « ing of e wake of Doan's Kidney gecomb of 934 Mission: st San Cal s Kidney n in the back. but Doan good than pi € Price 50| rn Buffalo, s for the Unitea Co., sole ag the name—Doan’s—and Tooth Powdqr Avoid discomfort, danger and unp]e&ant after taste by re- fusing all other powders or pastes, washes and soaps. | Your dentist will advise yow in bandy metal cans or bottles, 25¢. Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder Co. himself as | removed the, | for four that position he was elected In 187¢ e embe term the choice »sition, but was defeated in st expired, of his after a jotnt sessic He again elected, hov that » on in November) 185, and écted In 1891. In 1897 the Legis | 1ature failed to elect a Senator | Mitchell retired for the time life and the practice of his pr In 1901, however, he was again chosen, as ihe successor of George W Bride, und his term would have expired in For 1y a half of a century he was r of his party in Oregon and wielded large influence, both in and out of the ranks, and until well along in the land fraud trials he res { tained the strong and loval support of is hosts of friend A AR MAY NAME DEMOCRAT. Governor te Appoint Mitchell's . Suc- | Next Week. Dec 1 appoint 1 within a certainty that the Democrat already been bro cessor PORTLAND, W ght t ar a Portland Republican. | ibilities are promine a bank Ladd. k. B Wilcox. well-known flour mill man, Republi- | can { Death Stops Appesl. WASHING Dec. & —T:! ! against nator Mitehell, w | been appealed to the Supreme d States, will abate by rea death. He had just paid $850 rk of the court for the print- ing of ecord in the case, but as | th¢ work had not been ¢ d the | money will be refunded to his estate. Emeilig T LONG LIFE IS ENDED. | Mother of Massachusetts Congressman Dies in San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 8.—Mrs. Eliza V.| Roberts died at her home at 720 Third | street last night after a prolonged iliness. The immediate cause of death was heart trouble. The deceased was 73 years ot age and had been a resident of this city for the past twenty-two years. She is the mother of Congressman Ernest W Roberts of Massachusett s g Death of Captain Carter B. Harrisom. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 8.—Captain Carter B. Harrison, brother of the late | President Benjamin Harrison, died | yesterday morning at his home near Murfreesboro, Tenn., aged 65 ye Captain Harrison was appointed by brother to be United States Mgrshal for the middle district of Tennessee. He served gallantly through the Clvil War on the Federal side. 8 STATER0OD BILL MAY BE PASSED Spectal Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—A compromise being arranged by which statehood ation will be accomplished at an date and without a protracted dis- is cussion. The Republican leaders of the Senate who have heretofore been success. ful in preventing the pas: e of the statehood bilj have agreed to permit the adoption of enabling act for Arizona and New Mexico as one State, provided | | the people of each Territory vote on the | question separately. A .definite reply to | this proposition has not been given by the | | advocates of single statehood, but it is | Newman | Coliins | Newman family when he was 17, |law student, s DEFENSE S OUTLINED HER LIFE S FORFEIT FOR CRIME jury Spends Three Hours in Opening Statement to! and Tells WOMEN PROMINENT IN THE COURTROOM Jury His Story Fair Sex Listens Attentive- Iy to Defendant’s First Connected Account of His Relations With N a0 Newmans In the courtroom presided over by Judge ‘flfl']' filled with spectators, two-thirds women, alternatel remarks to the jury a , George D. Collins for vesterday For the first time he story of his relations w family from the time he outlined the plan of his toid a | met them until the clese of the prosecu- tion's last witness. The statement of the defendant attor- | ney occupied both morning and afternoon sesslor nd indicates a general denial of the points in the charge against him, a | stronger denial of the testimony so far elicited and an attack along technical lines upon the answer on which- the ¢ perjury is based. Collins, in orts that the signature to his was not witnessed by a notary and that the answer was filed his consent, thus ending the of perjury against him. ng Colling’ passiofate address the twelve jurors, probably the most intelli- gent that ever sat in Department No. .., followed every move of the defendant with searching eves and gave him undi- vided attention. Collins, with the knowl- -dge that he is fighting for his freedom and the woman he has lately mar- ried argument, eloquence and every art command in unfolding the story of the wrong either done by or against him. Inten interested. room and the or u at plausible is the women in the lessly to every word used man. Clarice daintlly gowned, sat beside her attorneys auring the after- Charlc wman Collins sat be- her sister, at the prosecu- able. Both were dressed in black, lins sat with downcast es, ence and Charlotta frequentiy looks and comments, and lotta shook her head negatively sev- s as Collins made some startling WOMEN IN COURT. The women in the courtroom appeared better class, and their bright & color to thelotherwise formal prominent men | the benct including lawyers taches at the ¢ Hall. Judge E. i of San Rafael sat within while among the spectators Frank French and the acquitted Julio Uriburi. Collins began his statement in the morn- the rall- were eX- recently ing, after. Dr. Nathan Rogers had tes fied regarding his signing of the death certifica The witness said he signed | the certificate of Agnes Collins on the | authority of Colling, _who said that she was the wife of hie brother, who was | then at s He explained the signature on the child’s certificate by saying that he glanced at the top, saw the name Col- lins and then signed the certificate. In opening his statement Collins moved that the trial be postponed to December 26 to enable him to call upon Father M. D. Conolly, who performed the marriage P The motion was overruled, and gan his outline of defense. defendant said he first met the and be- interested in the struggle of Agnes Collins. who was supporting the family. He said the defendant aided the girl as much as within his power while then a and in the early part of 1889 married her. This marriage was evi- denced by a legal contract and Agnes Newman became his wife. The document was witnessed by a Dr. Huston and his daughter, Jenny, and given into Agnes’ custody. Agnes was inierested especially in Charlotta, and asked the defendant to provide for her, which was done. HE DISPUTED MARRIAGE. Agnes then asked the defendant for a religious marriage and he acceded to the request. Together with a friend and client the defendant asserted he visited the marriage license office and there signed blank recordd, as he was in a hurry, and left his friend, James Mul- cahey, data with which to fill the blanks. v The came Through some error “Chariptta” was the name inscribed as the wife and ‘“Agnes” as the witness. This mistake, claimed the defendant, was Jepeated in the mar- riage certificate. Collins will #r¥ to prove he took the certificate from for the religious marriage, and appeared with her the next day before Father Conolly. In the church, he says, he of- fered the license to the priest. who told him to bring it to him after the cere- mony. This ceremony he solemnly as- serted made Agnes his wife in the eyes of the church. After the ceremony the news was pub- lished that Collins had married Charlotta Newman and Agnes requested the de- fendant to Investigate. He visited the church, and in the absence of Father Conolly saw the assistant and together they found the marriage certificate, wiich ,on its face bore the names of Charlotta Newman and George D. Col- lins. The paper was without indorse- ment on the back, and to enable it to be found on Father Conolly's return, Col- lins said he indorsed the names that ap- peared on the face of the document. | understood they will accept. The only drawback to the suggestion | les in the time and manner of voting. The Sénate leaders desire to have _the ] vote taken in each Territory at the same | time that a constitution is adopted and State officers chosen. This is satisfac- | tory to the people of New Mexico, but is opposed by those of Arizona. At present it is estimated that joint statehood will be overwhelmingly rejected in Arizona. It is argued that if the question is de- cided at the same time as the State offi- cers. are elected, personal campaigns waged by candidates and those interested in the election to the United States Sen- | ate would overcome this oppesition and | the result would be the acceptance of | joint statehood with New Mexico. | The single State advocates are willing | to accept the plan outlined by the Re—l publicans of the Senate, but desire to have a separate vote on the question of acceptance. It is now virtually cemin\ that if this cannot be secured the origi- | nal proposition will be accepted. This mesnl that Arizona and New Mexico | will be admitted as one State and Okla- bome and Indian Territory as another. Collins alleged he made several at. tempts to -have the error corrected and added that the law was not complied with, in that the document was filed with the Recorder more than thirty days after the ceremony. The defendant said he made several visits to the Recorder's office after May 15, 1889, when the cere- mony was performed, and the document | was not recorded until January 25, 1890. DEPLORES FILTH IN CASE. Collins then denied that he ever intro- duced Charlotta as his wife, and main- tained that he had always publicly pre- sented Agnes as his wife. He said that on every occaslon of the birth of a child he was out of the State. He deplored the bringing of the children into the case and sald he would not drag their names into the mire in which the case was in- volved. From the time of the marriage Charlot- ta resided with the Collins family. She |and the rést of the family werc present at Agnes’ funeral and saw the coffin plate eng-med ‘““Agnes, wife of George Collins,” but no comment was made. Again, later, when Collins became in- 3 ’ over three | connected with the | McCurdy | Mulcahey without looking | at it, told Agnes to make arrangements | et ks [ Attorney Charged With Per- M. Rogers Pays the Death | Penalty in the V ermont | State Penitentiary for the 0 VERY 0ME | Murder of Her Husband! 2 - 1 ® ) as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play—when in health LA ]hl: '(;ii,% kl:hl’]! IEVE —and how conducive to health the games in which the)lt) indulge, the outdoor '0 GRAX ! life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and 2 B > 5 &) the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health Woman Faces the End With should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of the Same Stoical Indiffer- every medicine of an injurious or objectionable nature and if at any time a ence That Marked Her remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence Demeanor Sinee Her Arrest | should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial R [ in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by DR VE D B the_ California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in |iLremoran: withont & maptEle aasy | many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and | death on the gallows at the State Prison |~ |f €Xcellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. e Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, be- St Beimington 10f A & UECH IE0K HHol) cause they know it is whelesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform Calmest person in the ehamber of | all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtalned, death, Bhe o i sy by an original method, from certain plants finow /n to them to act most benefici- s than e sehalie 1 o ly and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian Greatly to the relief of those offi- blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret rem- e ot e e e maatng | o edy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physiclans, who do not ieatour weo-somadiablytres Ty < e« ANDIOVE of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. : that the woman's | would desert her wonderful nerve at the final moment | and that she would be carried to the | scaffold in a state of collapse. Instead, Mrs. Rogers met death » were no sensational incidents in connection with the hanging. The woman’'s neck was broken at the sec- cervical vertebrae, and she lost conscigusness instantly the drop fell. A' few feeple, convulsive movements of icned hands were the only evi- that vitality had survived the first shock. drop fell at 1:13 p. m., and Mrs. Rogers was pronounced dead by the at- | tendant physician at 1:27%. The wo- instant, of but the the deputies on the scaffold an platform conscious form a couple of inches. MOTHER WILL BURY BODY. An nour after death was pronoynced the hody was taken from the prison to he railroad station and the coffin was placed on 1 the 2:55 to Hoosic Y., where Mrs. Rog- | ' Interment will be at | in that town Although M ors remained calm | until the e she ate nothing to-day. n Matron Durkee prepared break- | fast and carried it to Mrs. Rogers' cell, but the prisoner declined it. At noon another meal was sent Mrs. Rogers, and again she refused eat: Since the death wateh was estab- lished about ten days ago Mrs. Rogers had eaten heartily until to-day and | had slept soundly. Last night she re- tired at 11 o'clock and awoke this morning at 5. Dufing the last few days Mrs. Rogers | spent a great deal of time in crochet- | ing tokens for relatives And friends. Every night her crochet hooks were taken from her for fear that she might do herself some injury, but were turned the next morning. ber of calls from clergymen. Up to within three hours of her death | Mrs. Rogers consoled herself hope that she would not be It was shortly after 10 o'clock this morning when she was informed that Governor Bell had denied her a third reprieve. TAKES LIFE OF HUSBAND, The crime for which Mrs. Rogers suf- fered the death penalty was the mur- Bennington on August 13, 1902. At the | time the crime was committed Mrs. Rogers was only 19 years old. She had been separated from her husband for ing a young man named Maurice Knapp. On the day of the murder Mar- cus Rogers went to Bennington to visit his wife and that night she arranged | to meet him in the woods near the | Walloomsac River. While caressing ne him. was In bind his hands and while powerless she chloroformed half-witted boy, the river, where it was found the next | day. woman wrote a note, to which she signed her husband's name, giving the fmpression that he had committed sui- cide. Immediately after the murder Mrs. Rogers endeavored to collect her hus- | band’'s _1life insurance, amounting to | $500, and also made arrangements to purchase furniture for the house where she expected to live when she had mar- ried Knapp. A few days after the mur- der Mrs. Rogers, Perham and the Bates woman were arrested. Perham made a complete confession and both he and | Mrs. Rogers were found guilty of mur- | | e | was made that Agnes was not his wife. It was not, claimed Collins, until his marriage with Clarice McCurdy that Charlotta came forward with her claim. Then it was, claimed Collins, that the Newman family *made their first attack upon the memory of the dead and the | reputation of the living. an ingrate and said that he borrowed { money from him while visiting his enemies. He denied that he told Charlot- 1a to tell Willlam that he was not married to Clarice McCurdy and cited the evi- dence of the- Palace Hotel register to prove that such a conversation was un- necessary. He then told of Willlam's ill feeling toward him iy the matter of a small amount of money that Agnes left, | ana ascribed the animus of the Newman family to the fact that he had withdrawn the funds allowed them by him for their support. He closed by reviewing the trip to Canada, which he said was done to avoid the disagreeable hounding to which he was subjected, and as the perjury charge was not thought of until the bigamy charge failed to extradite him, he could not be accused of fleeing from it. The defendant then attacked the technical points in the indictment and answer, and after over three hours of talking, worn and pale, closed his statement with a short word of thanks to the jury for their close attention. The case will be- morning at 10 o’clock. resumed Monday man’s feet harely touched the floor for | der of her husband. Marcus Rogers, at | volved with the Bar Association, no claim | He characterized Wililam Newman as | Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup . of Figs always has the full name of the Company— California %1g Syrup Co. — plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. e R ——— 0 0 ® i l der in the first degree. Perham was | immediately | ghtened the rope and raised the un-| train and sent | for dife, case senfenced to imprisonment while the sentence in Mrs. Rogers’ was death on the gallow: SN YOUNG WARNER HANGED. | Youth Who Killed Santa Barbara Wo- man Dies on Gallows. HELENA POLICE (RIS AND JEER ~ ez ARREST STRONG! IN CONFERENCE ya, whom he killed at Sanfa Barbara | in June, 19M, died on the gallows here to- ALBANY, Y., Dec. §.—The Albany | day. Warner was but 20 years of age.| police to-day from the received word The murder for which he was hanged| police of Helena, Mont.,, of the arres YORK. De Hisses, catcalls, was an atrocious crime. Warner had| there of Arthur Strong of Rouse's Point, | N00ts and jeers marked an unusuat scene known his ¥ictim in other cities, and, fol-| N. Y. Strong has been the companion in | at the immigration con ce being held | lowing. her {o Santa Barbara, attémpted| flight of his cousin, John Cross Ham-| under the auspices Civie Federa- | to force his attentions upon her. He .de-|mond, a young carpenter of this city,|tlon in-the Concert Hall of Madison | mandea Jewelry and money from her, and | whose wife's body was found November | Square Garden this afterncom. Walter upon her refusal to give her time and| 23 in g trunk in their flat on South Ferry | Macartldr of California, secret of the She read the | Bible a great deal and received a num- h the | executed. | Chinese and Japanese Exc n Society. was the object of the displeasure shown by sixty or more delegates from all parts Nof the Unfon, and his speech was tem- | porarily cut short by a remarkabie out- burst of feeling against him. He had arisen to debate on the Chinese exclusion question, following a h made in favor of the modification of the law given money to him he shot her in a most cold- blooded manner. She was shot in her room at an Anacapa house of ill repute late at night. Warner went to the girl's room and was at first refused entrance. When the door was at last opened he drew a gun and | shot several times, one bullet killing h((‘ | almost instantly. He left the house and| street, where it is believed to have lain for nearly two weeks. Strong and Hammond left Rouse's Point November 15, and since then have traveled from Montreal to Tucson, Ariz., thence 'into Oregon and to Missoula, Mont. At Missoula eight days ago the Heléna police say, Strong ran away from | Hammond and wrote home to Rouse's was arrested on the following morning. | point for money. This led to Strong’s| by Ng Poon Chu, a Chinese editor of San b= | arrest Francisco PAYS THE PENALTY. Hammond had upward of §2000 when he| “Mr. Ng. said Macarthur, “Is a e | started on his journey. wealthy man. He hasn't been here Life of Washiugton Murdercr I8 Baded | "y io jeqrned that Hammond and Strong | twenty-five vears for nothing. He travels e Gallows I \Walls Walrs- { did not know till they reached Portland, | around the country at large expense. SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 8-—Angus|gre, of the discovery of Mrs. Ham-| while the American editors o the coast { McFhail was hanged at the Washing- | mong's body, and the search for them. | have to push a pencil to make—" {ton State Prison at Walla Walla to-| At the inquest, which has been ad-| That was as far as Macarthur got. Mr. day for the murder .of Fred Alderson| journed until next week. Hammond's| Ng had made himseif a favorite with at Darrington, Wash., on May 1, 1903.{ father and mother both swore that their | those present by his speech and they McPhail, who made a defense on the rew angry. The noise which followed plea of insanity, stated last night that & #on confessed to them the murder of his drowned Macarthur’'s voice, and when the wife. he supposed he killed Alderson, but he jeoring dled away the speaker, flushed had no knowledge whatever of the S T With embarrassment, hesitatingly con- crime. He walked to the gallows un- | ROBS HIS SISTER tinued on a mew line of discussion. He assisted and kept his nerve to the last. OF HUSBAND'S LOVE | svoke only a short time longer. however. | as the demonstration he had aroused evidently had discomfited him greatly. —_— — Negro Assaflant Isx Hanged. 1 Special Dispatch to The Call. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 8—The first All the speakers with the exception of legal execution In the history of Ful-| SAN LUIS OBISPO, Dec. S—After two | Mr. Ng were against any modification | ton County, Georgla, for the crime ot |and a half hours’ deliberation the jury|of the exclusion act. A committes some time and was desirous of-marry- | | | him she induced him to allow her to | | this she was alded by Leon Perham, a | was arrested to-night at the Southern who was the son of | pacific depot and charged with passing a the woman with whom she boarded. | fctitious check for $40 on Anderson Bros and Mrs. Rogers rolled the body into | grrested. In order to divert suspicion the | then brought n a They indorsed that assault took place at the Tower to- |decided that V. L. Donat! should pay | appointed yesterday day, when Jim Walker, the self-con- | $2000 for having alienated the affections | set of resolutions victed negro assailant of Mrs. Allce | of G. P. Codonl! from his wife. Mrs. Co- | part of the President's message concern- Moore, the wife of a white merchant of | doni is a sister of V. L. Donatl. Mrs. Co- | ing immigration. doni claimed that her brother had es- tranged her husband from her and sued him for $15,000. The trial of the case cre- ated considerable interest, inasmuch as Donati is a prominent business man of this city. Donati is now suing Michael Reghetti for $19,000 damages. He clalms that he was maliciously arrested upon a warrant was hanged. Approved as Reserve Agent. WASHINGTON, Dec. $.—The Wells- Fargo Nevada National Bank of San Frangisco has been approved as re- | serve agent for the Whittier Natiomal Bank, Whittfer. Cal —_———— WASHINGTON, Dec. S.—A bulletin issued Atlanta, e Demonstrations of McCarty Wireless Telephone r. 11, 315 Cal. st., 10 tb 11:30 and 2 to 4:30. * Passes a Bogus Check. ‘SAN JOSE, Dec. 8.—Andrew Thompson Another woman, Estella Bates, was | Thompson purchased groceries amounting [ S¥O™ t0 Y Reghe:", by the Census Bureau to-day shows the num- D ttar i to 8 and gave the check In payment | .0 Yore Deo “n Congressman W. | 6. o be 8084842 counting round balcs 38 After chloroforming Rogers Perham | thompson had $209 In his possession when | 5 URT cockran' was elected grand sachem of | haif bales. A previous report showed 7,488,167 Tammany Hall to-day. |u1u ginned to November 19, 1908. Brussels ‘Weave Rug ‘Size 30x60, Hin- doo effects; qual- ity not, to be judged by the ‘price. To-day only, while they each ?5c excellent. grade, suitable for couch cover, ¢ozy cor- ners or drapes; fringed all round. While they last —each bac™, rigidly made. they last, ecch. .