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

- "-'0, Srary . m UKL ~PRINTS THE WEATHER. i | Forecast for December 13, 1908 Sen Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy | unsettied weather Wednesday prob- | : southeast | McADIE, MORE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"The Secret GRAND—“The Matinee. CALIFORNIA—* CHUTES—Vaudevi COLUMBIA—"The College Widow."" “Merry Burlesquers.” MAJESTIC—'‘Christopher Jr.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. I ALHAMBRA— Resurrection.” | i | I TIVOLI—Comie Opers. i of Policht- Matinees. Fires of St. Johm.” Matines. ably rain by night; fresh winds. A G Dis t Forecaster. XCIX—NO. 13. ., DECEMBER 1 WOULD SELL THE DETAILS OF SCANDAL W.E CI);(;SIJ'S Uncle| Makes Strange Offer. Public Can Buy Story by Giving $100,000 | to Charity. Instructions Sent to Officials by Moody. Attempt to Be Made to Enforce Provisions of Elkins Act. -— Ready to Reveal Correspond- ence Involving Carnegie and Schwab. Big Concerns in Chicago and Quaker City. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Attorney General Moody to-day semt a circular lstter to all the United States District Attorneys—eighty-five in mumber—ati- recling them vigilantly to caforee the provixious of the Elkins act ngaiast rebates snd discriminations of all Kin-'x by ear: . The metled of pro- ceeding suggested is by way of dictuen’s. It Is the expectation that this letter will result in the prompt investigation of all compiaints made. haustive railroad g0 has local Fed- the rly ship- Federal District - Attorney T L d to have recelved his om Attorney General e secured at various sessions iterstate Commerce Commis- to the investiga- e to a climax to- T. March- imerce Com- f District is declared, his possession he is: ™ ulted in t penas d States s in persons, 2 summoned by United J. W. Thomp- Federal Grand in v and give testimony be brought agai and shippers witnesses w ¢ this city, one »ne in Washington. still ays . fo Ten sum- New York e District emplated prosecu- with at least three compan the one of w {s in the trict Attorn ompson said investigat of rebates forms of nation has y n discr! rough and that it is probable | action rge will be taken in several other cities against certain carriers esult of the prosecutions to be inaugurated here. STUDENT IS SAVED FROM DEATH IN POND Brother of Skater Who Falls Through I¢é Proves a Hero. Special Dhflo The CHL’ RENO, Dec. 12.—Lawrence Frey, a stu- t of the University of Nevada, was ically rescued from death by his brother yesterday. Frey and his brother were skating on Wheeler's pond. In the center of the pond the current ig strong, and consequently the coating of ice is thin. Frey approached too near this plece of ice and broke through.. His brother secured a boat, but in attempting to reach his brother broke an oar by rowing against the current. Seeing that his trother was about to perish the herofc A from the boat and swam to g him as he was sinking for e. He managed to reach the edge of the ice and succeeded in make pubiic | OREY.” Metho- taken | ut has Hebrew race. t for W. E. but he could There was &n incessant Pittsburg to-ay, APPLIES FOR AN INJUNCTION TO STOP WIFE'S TONGUE | Husband’s Petition Results in Summon- | |5 of Helpmate Before Court. 12.—William A | I‘(“-‘ isting th 1 ng business Hours, H danger of losing his po- ———— “YOU CONTEMPTIBLE CUR! i EXCLAIMS THE COURT was denied, but a rule | as granted, and| e to explain to the | hould not be restra d her husband while b Hushand’s Attempt to Shield Wife's As. sallunt Angers St. Louis Judge. Special Dispatch to The Call. arges that his wife recent-|{ ST. LOUIS, Dec. 12—Bernard J. P pearance at the Ham- | Downey, aged 34, and Joseph W. b. erican dock, where he is em-| Downcy, aged 22, brothers, were round- ket agent, and began to|ly scored by Judge Tracy in the City im before a crowd. | Hall Police Court to-day in connection he ulleges, hurt him from | With their appearance as witness and B tandpoint. A few days| defendant, respectively, in_ assault and ordinz to the husband's| battery charges preferred by the wire his wife appeared at his officy | of Bernard Downey. Mrs. Downey al- what she thought | leged that she was beaten by her broth. er-in-law. Losing his patience at what he char- acterized as a deliberate attempt on FIRM FOR $50,000 DAMAGES ; the part of the husband to shield his brother at the expense of his wife, Va., Dec. 12.—Mrs. May | Judge Tracy Interrupted the case, stop- dley of Washington, daughter of | ping the testimony of Bernard and ex- 1 Stevens of the navy and wife | claimed: rt & Bradley of Washington, is| “Get off the stand, you contemptible & here for $50,000 because it was| cur! You're a willful perjurer. Mr. ged she stole from a store a belt | Marshal, remove the man from the 16 cents. The defense’ has) stand.” stification and will attempt| In his indigation Judge Tracy made ve that Mrs. Bradley did take the | no effort to temper his voice, and the The defendants are Scott, Retlew | courtroom was startled to its most re- mote corner told him ——e———————— ADMIRAL'S DAUGHTER SUES i NORFOLK, TP | TOPUTEND | TOREBHTES Attack Begun Upon Heads of ‘ in- | been summoned | refuses to make public | nes of witnesses or defendants. | head- | getting | him’ to firm ice, after which he revived him and took him to thelr home in this JOHN BAIRD S KILLED BY DEADLY AUTO s ;Big Car Overturns ' Crushing Victim to Death, |Two Women and Man in .Party Escape Injury. {Machine Suddenly Becomes Unmanageable During Ride : on the Corbett Road. On the lonely mountain side crossed by | the Corbett road John Rush Baird lay near the midnight hour last night pin- |ionea vurnder a large ' automobile that | pressed bim helpless and dving beneath | its inexorsble bulk, while a woman who | had been his companion on the ride flew down (he hill in terror seeking those who might come to the aid of the doomed n. Through the night with all the speed that the horror of the situation could key her up to the woman ran until she reached Eighteenth street, where she saw a car coming over the hill from the park. hailed it. There were several men aboard the car and they ran back with | the woman, hoping to save the life of the man beneath the auto. The conductor of the car telephoned for the ambulance of the Park Hospital. The men who hastened up the dark rodad to the scene of ‘the accident found 'theYe was nothing for them to do but | take the -dead body of a man from be- neath the monster machine. The wo- She | man moaned in terror as the still form | of Baird was pulled out and laid be- |side the road. She took the ghastly {head in her lap and tried to call her late companion back to life. | The accident that caused Baird's death | occurred where the Corbett road crosses | Ashbury street on the slope of Twin reaks. The woman who was with him, who gave her name as Ruby Brown and her residence as the Princeton Ho- tel, =aid it was due to the machine not working properly. When Dr. Kucich, in charge of the park ambulance, reached the place Baird was dead. - The body was taken to the hospital in the ambulance, the woman accompanying it. Baird's companion said she was some- times known as Nell, as she had been adopted by a man of that name, and that she was a great friend of Baird's mother. This is her story of the accl- dent: “Mr. Baird and myself went to Mateo on a ecar about 2 o'clock this afternoon. There he rented an auto- mobile Wwithout my knowing it and we | started for this city about 4 or 5 io'clock, We had luncheon at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and upon reaching the | | city autoed about the Mission for some |time. Then we went to Tom's Cabin |at the park entrance and from there |to the Casino, where we took dinner. From there we went to the beach and along the boulevard and up the Ingle- | side road. It was then getting pretty | 1ate, but he decided to take the Corbett road around the mountainside home. “At the corner of Ashbury street and near the residence of Architect Burnham there was a gate across the road and I got out to open it. After I had done so Mr. Baird tried to start the ma- |chine and it would not go. lcalled to me to come and try to start the wheels. The machine start- ed down the grade, but he seemed | to have no control of it, something being | wrong. About 150 feet down he turfied tke machine into the embankment. I ran down and found him pinioned under it. The auto had turned completely over and only his head could be seen. ,He to.d me to ‘kick’ the lights out, which I wd. Then he told me to get help, as he could not work himself out. I ran as fast as I could and stopped the car that I saw coming over the grade.” Dr. Kucich said that death had been | caused by the breaking of the back. It |18 not lkely that Baird lived long after | telling Miss Brown to “kick out the lights.” The road on which the accident occurred |is probably a short branch that the | Spring Valley Company recently con- | structed around its reservoir, and this exs plains why the gate existed, the road be- | ing a private one. | John Rush Baird was the son of IMiles T. Baird, a deceased capitalist, Jand Mrs. Veronica Baird, who lives at the Palace Hotel. John was about 29 |vears of age and was well known about town. He was a brother of | Miles Baird, who has gained much no- toriety here because of his wild career |in the+Tenderloin. Their sister recent- |1¥ married Willam Sproule of the Southern Pacific Company. John' was |a member of the University'and Fam- {ily clubs. 5 Miss Neil says that her foster father, Mr. Neil, lives in Sonora, Tuolumne County, where he has large Interests. ‘When the clothes were removed from the body of the deceased at the hos- | pital a suit of pajamas was found un- der the outer garments, At 2:45 this morning the police ascer- | tained that there was another man and woman in the automobile. Their identity |had not been ascertained at the hour named. 2 ————— Hearst Held Responsible. PARIS, Dec. 12—The metion for against William R. Hearst's chauffeur as the femult of an automobile sccident, aithough Mr. Hea: the motor car at the time of the accl has resulted in being oo e his deciared to ly responsible. The Judge naid he considered the accident be unavoidabie, c b WOMAN Francis Hall McGrath, whose body was found on the Oakland mole last Thursday, was seen in this city on the day before. He was at Haas' candy store, inquiring for Mrs. Lena Welk, a pretty young married woman. She answers the description of the woman who visited San | i | | recognized the dead man by peculiarities | He | McGrath in jail. She may | be able to help solve the mystery. Pretty Mrs. Lena Welk, a Candy Girl, May ‘ Hold a Clew. Victim Was Last Seen in This City in Search of Her. ‘Answers Description of | Lass Who Visited the Jail. Francis Hall McGrath, whose body was found on the rocks at the Oakland mole last Thursday, was seen in this city just a week ago. He visited Haas' . candy store last Wednesday morning and ins quired for Mrs. Lena Welk, a beau- tiful young married woman who braved &the public opinion’ of Sau: ]b’alitb and suffered. by its soclety for his sake. When asked if she had known McGrath the woman admitted that he was “a friend of hers,” | but refused to discuss her relations with | him or to say when she hdd seen him | | 1ast. | The forewoman of Haas' candy store declares that McGrath was there Wednes- day. He inquired for *“Lena,” as she is | known at the store, and was told that| | she would not be there. He left, and so | far there Is no record of him being seen | alive after that. Mrs. Welk answers the description ot the woman who visited McGrath whiie he | was held in the County Jail at San Ra-| for the killing of George Taylor of revenue cutter Bear. She denies) | strenuously that she ever visited him | during that period. | | Several people from Sausalito visited | | the Oakland Morgue to see the body ves- terday. The face was so badly decom- posed and disfigured that they could give no opinion as to whether ft was Mc- Grath’s. Charles Bright, the poundmas- | ter of Sausalite, who was more intimate with the dead man than anybody else in the town, sticks firmly to the assertion that the body is that of McGrath. He the in his build and by various articles of clothing. | WOMAN MAY HOLD CLEW. While it is not thought that Mrs. Welk knows anything about the immediate cir- cumstances of the crime, it is believeds | that she may be able to give some clew | to the men whom McGrath feared. When he left Sausalito, a year ago he confided to Poundmaster Bright that “they had sworn that they would get him.” Bright understood that he meant friends | of George Taylor, his second victim, who died from the effects of 3 blow dealt-him by McGrath in a fist fight. Feeling ran high at the time against McGrath in Sau- | salito. As soon as he was acquitted Mc- | Grath went quietly to Bright'’s room, where he packed up his belongings and left Sausalito 2 “T'd better lay low,” were his last words to Bright. “They are after me.” In Sausalito the general opinion is that McGrath was killed by friends of Taylor. Mayor Thomas belleves that that is the solution of the mystery. Sherift W. P. Taylor of Marin County has another theory. He had McGrath in his charge during both trials and saw the woman whose description cor- responds to that of Mrs Welk. He believes that McGrath’'s infatuation for this woman led him into a fatal quar- rel. s, While the police of Oakland are now satisfied that McGrath was murdered, they are at a loss for a motive. As t'ox where the crime was committed they are still in the dark. Whether :ne man was lured to the spot where the body was found, whether he was mur- dered in some place near by and the body dragged to that spot, or whether he was slain on a boat and the body cast into the water—these are all mar- ters of speculation. INQUIRIES FOR MRS WELK. The only facts unearthed concern- | ing the dead man so far are these: His life ha dbeen threatened; he was in Jove with Mrs. Lena Welk; he was last seen in this city inquiring for her, Fhe last that was seen of him was | when he visited Haas' candy store. Evidently he erossed the bay to Ouk- land. The rest is all theorizing. Tt is a mystery that has baffled the police | tWo Vvears ago. of two cities and may continue to do So unless the Welk woman can fur- h a clew. Fear of notoriety sealed Ler lips yesterday. At Haas' store the intimacy of Ma. Grath and Mrs. Welk was well known. He called at the store frequently to see her till about a month ago. Then his visits ceased and he did not ap- pear at the place again until last Wednesday, the day before his Lody was- found. 2 = He seemed disappointed when tola that “Lena” would not be at the stors, but made no comment. Whether he —_—_— ~ Continued on Page 2, Column 3. JUST BEFORE g TWO CHILDREN WHOM 'McGRATH SOUGHT DEATH IS FOUND. W0 HUSBAND SHARE ESTATE Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison’s Will Filed for Probate. Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Mrs. Fraacis Burton Harrison, who was killed in an automobile accident, executed her on June 3. bate and by it she appoints her hus- band and Henry T. Scott executors. and directs that they shall not be required to furnish bonds for the faithful per- formance of their trust. Mrs. Harri- son was wealthy in her own right, having inherited a large fortune from her father, Colonel Charles F. Crocker. _The petition states the value of aer real property to be unknown and gives that of her personal property as “more than $10.000.” To her friend, Mary Scott Martia, of San Francisco, Mrs. Harrison bequeaths a diamond pin and $50,000. To her sis- ter, Jennie Adeline Crocker, she lesves a large-black peari rirg; and to her brother, Charles Templeton Crocker, a black pear-shaped pearl. Mrs. Harrison's - two <children—Vir- ginla Randolph and-Barbara- Harrison —receive two-thirds of the residuary estate and the other third is given to her husband absolutely.. * KIDNAPED FROM FIANCEE'S SIDE Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, 'Dec. 12.—Diplomatic circles here are astounded over the sen- sational part taken by the Nicaraguan Minister to the United States In sepa- rating two youthful lovers. It was learned to-day that Alphonso Zelaya, the 19-year-old son of President Zelaya of Nicaragua, was on Sunday night -cized { by an agent of the Nicaraguan Minister and two détectives and taken to the Cairo apartment-house, where he was locked up. Young Zelaya was for three years a cadet at West Point. Last summer he resigned and came to Washington to be near Miss Mary Barker, whom he met They had failén in love with each other at sight, and in the last few days have been planning to get mar- ried. They made no secret of it and the news came to the ears of Nicaraguan Minister Corea, who cabled to President Zelaya. Corea then enlisted the aid of the ‘Washington police. The Minister planned the kidnaping programme, which was carried out successfilly, the detectives wiil It was filed to-day for pro- | | soioem .~ I emueeines AN WHOSE BODY WAS FOU HE WAS INFATUATED. CITY OF HER BIRTH LACKS ~ HIGH TDEALS ' Thus Says Mrs. Ather- . ton Speaking of San Francisco. S G Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, -Dec. - 12.—Mrs. Gertrude DURING McGRATH'S IN SAUSALITO THE WOMAN IS SAID TO HAVE OFTEN VISITED HIM. Atherton, whose novel, -“The_Conqueror,” excited so mueh discussion two years ago, arrived here to-day on the Cunard liner Pannonia from Mediterranean ports. She will stay a day or two in New York and will then go to California, where she will spend -the winter in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, bullding up her health and working on her forthcoming novel, a story of life in Northern California, which wiil have for its hero one of the most prominent public men in England. Although she was born in San Francls- co and has spent most of her life in this country, Mrs. Atherton has made her home in Munich for the past few years. “I find It impossible to work satisfac- | torily over here,” she said when asked | why she had chesen to live abroad. “There is ‘altogether .too much of the business spirit, even in the literary life, in our great cities. There is too much rush and bustle in places like New York, Chicago and San Francisco. One's ideas cannot help but be affected by the undue prominence accorded to material things in this country. “It is totally different abroad,” the au- thor continued, “esveciaily In cities Itke Dresden and Munich, where the jdeal and esthetic sides of life are held in higher esteem.” ——— CONNECTICUT CURATE DISMISSED FROM (HURCH | Special Dispatch to The Call. STAMFORD, Conn.. Dec. 12.—The troubles of Rev. George Chalmers Richmond, curate of St. John's Episcopal Church, who recently ' caused a semsation by declaring that any man $25,000 s a thief, il MAN WITH | ARCERATION IN OAKLAND AND LANE'S NAME NOT T0 COME UPIN SENATE Nomination Remains “Pigeonholed” in Committee. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDI} WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Leading le- publican Senators to-day declared that the nomination of Frankiin K. Lane to be Interstate Commerce Commissioner. which is now “hung up” in the Tom- mittee on Interstate Commerce, wouid still remain in that posjtion when Con- gress shall have enacted railroad rate legislation. ‘Whatever bill on this question final- 1y becomes law will provide for the ro- organization of the Interstats Com- merce Commission, of which new bady, these Senators assert, Mr. Lane wi not be a member. They are positivs in their statements that the question of confirming the nomination will never be acted upon. CALIFORNIA COUPLE MARRY IN ST. LOUIS Miss Mary Fitch Becomes the Bride of Dr. Ralph Curtiss. Rev. John W. Cun= officiated to-day at Mary E. Fitch of only daughter of ST. LOUTS, Dec. 12. the George Hamlin Fitch, the lijerary editor San Francisco, of the Chronicle, and Dr. Ralph Cu now assistant director of the Allegheny Observatory at Allegh . Pa. Mise Fitch came to St. Louls to-day with her father, and after a qguiet wedding the young couple departed for Chicago to- it Miss Fitch is a graduate of Miss Head's school and is very well known in Berke- ley. Dr. Curtiss is a graduate of the Uni- of California, and also received his doector’s degree at Berkeley last year, his specialty being astronomy. He bas dome brilliant work at, the Lick Observa- tory and at his new post at the Alle- gheny Observatory. He has devised a new spec ., of which much I8 ex- pected.