The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1906, Page 1

kPR |~ s More News Than An THE WEAT A wers; G. McADIE, Distr HER | fresh south ct Forecaster THE A “ SAN FRANCISCO, MRS ADELAIDE LLEeYD SMITHM 4 — NE OF $2140. URESS WHO NOW OCCUPIES A CELL IN THE CITY PRISON, BEING HELD ON AN OLD CHARGE OF OB- BY FALSE PRETENSES, AND THE LITTLE WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN SWINDLED ' INTIFORELCN. | ROTS FEARE N HONGKONG American Representa- tive Warned That Life Is in Danger. | Dispatch to The Call, | ‘G, Jan. 2—The erisis in by the opposition to taxes of the railroad to Han- an end. United States Lay has been warned source not to leave -ession in the city un- ing to run the risk of being Specta ple here are striving to eroy of Kwangtung eign troubles, sassinations and he celebration of r, January 2. Amer- R suls are on the alert DEATH STALKS NEAR A JOLLY GATHERING Claims Host Within Hour| After His Guests Had Departed. @ o The Call Taken suddenty 1 | r entertaining friends t Hirsch, a_prominent | of this city, died before | be done to save him. | 1 been suffering from neuralgia days, but last night was feel- | better ‘and in good spirits! A riends gathered at his home and he d and entertained them, remarking he was all right and didn’t intend to die yet awhile Within an hour after the melghbors left the house Hirsch was dead. Neuraigia of the heart was the cause. hat ———————— To Advance Burton Case. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—In the Su- preme Court of the United States a) motion was made to-day for the ad- vancement of the hearing in Senator Berton’s case. The motion was made by Soliciter General Hoyt and con- curred in by ex-Secretary Carlisle in Senator Burton’s bebalf. LOLD NUGGETS ARE FOUND IN WATER PIPES Yellow Metal Drops Into Nevada Ma- tron’s Dishpan. e Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Jan. 22.—When Mrs. Robert Blater of Spring Valley, Humboldt Coun- ty, opened the faucet of the water pipe in her house yesterday she was sur- prised to see sparkling on “the bottom of the pan into which the water dropped several yellow particles. An examina- tion of the specks proved that they were gold nuggets. It is believed they came from the rich placer diggings of the Spanish Spring camp, This camp was at one time one of the richest in the State, but of late has been abandoned by all except a few Chinese, who have con- tinued to work it on a small scale. It is thought that the news of the phe- nomena will result in a rush to the abandoned camp and the location of claims as soon as the snow which now covers the ground melts. The camp is located about sixty miles from Winnemuceca, near the raflroad. 0 JOURNALISTS HALED INTO COURT Charged With Contempt Be- cause They Refused to Answer Questions. Special Disvatch to The Call. FRESNO, Jan. 22—W. A. Fitzgerald, | city editor, and B. R. Walker, a reporter of the Fresao Republican, have been cited to appear before Judge Church in the Superior Court to-morrow for contempt. They refused 10 answer questions put to them by the Grand Jury last week. Last Friday the Republican published an arti- alleged attem| £ rob the Ralsin v of a quantity of raisins’ r. The Biep\lbllun stated . Jury :tood eleven for ind! ‘against, and that one juror who favored indictm was disqualified. Fitzgerald and Walker were immediately summoned before the Grand Jury and questioned as to the gource of their information. They refused to give the information. . CONCRAESS MAY REESTABLISH ARMY CANTEEN House Committee Has Bill Unde_r Con- sideration. e Special Dispatch to The Call, WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Members of the House Committee on Military Affairs have in their keeping the bill to restore the canteen in the army. It was intro- duced without = flourish of trumpets by Representative Edward de V. Morrell of Philadelphia. There is more than a pos- sibility that the committes will screw up its courage to the point where it meets conviction and report the measure favor- ably, but the report, if it comes, will make its appearance only after the com- mittee room has been a scene of battle, It is probable that Representative Mor- rell is in a better position to contend for the canteen than any other Northern fmember of Congress. Morrell is a Re- publican and has a district practically filled with Republicans, a fact that Is disclosed conclusively by election returns, which show that he recelved six votes for every one cast for his opponent. Ths anti-canteen element might influence some votes in the Philadelphian’s dis- trict, but it would be a hard task to master enough to defeat the man who has dared to propose the measure. The Philadelphia member has gathered material which he s not afrald to put into print as part of his measure. After quoting the Secretary of War to the ef- fect that the operation of the present law increases drunkenness, disease, in- subordingtion, desertion and moral and physical degeneration, he intimates that law makers should be guided by the re- ports which 90 per cent of the d- ing officers of the service have t in, to the effect that a restoration of the dier and to the service. Newlands Opposes BlL ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.5Senator New- lands to-day concluded his statement in opposition to the Philippine tariff bill in the hearings now pi fore the Senate committee charge of this measure. He took the position that it would be cruel to the Filipinos to accustom them to a sub- ent | sidized price for their sugar and re- turn them to the world’s pri thirty-five ‘cents a ton - canteen would be a blessing to the sol- |. bex having | nappy TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1906 Mis. Christine Mellion faced Mis. Adelaide Lloyd Smith at the City Prison yester- day afternoon and piteously begged her to retun the $2140 which she had bor- rowed. Mrs. Smith turned over some furniture for part of the debt. She was ar- rested at noon yesterday on a warrant sworn to in 1903 by Mrs. Sarah Kut- scher, alleging the securing of money by false pretenses. - John Brossos, a'waiter, now says that Mrs. Smith got | $200 of his savings. £ = Former Is Now Held on Resurrected Charge. Mrs. Sarah Kutscher Alleges Fraud in 1903. Down in the reception room of the City Prison yesterday afternoon & ffantic woman beggeéd another to re- turn the money which she alleges was obtained from her by fraud, and the loss of which has thrown her.penniless on the streets. Failing to secure anything but a sympathetic reply that no money could be had, the poor woman fell to weeping and had to be supported by her husband. * was Mrs, Christine Mellion, the )lfi@”ihfifi reStaiirant-keegel, sliéges that she was defrauded out of $2140 by Mrs. Ad#laide Lloyd Smith, the woman to whom she made her appeal. It was a striking scene, a tragedy of lite, and it affected even Mrs. Smith herself, used as she is to troubles and entanglements with the law. In the end Mrs. Smith signed over to Mrs, Mellion the right to sell the furniture she has stored with Pierce-Rodolph. On this some little money will be raised, enough at least to temporarily relieve, Mrs. Mellion from want. Mrs. Adelaide Lloyd Smith is now being held in the City Prison on a res- urrected charge sworn to in 1903 by Mrs. Sarah Kutscher and alleging the obtaining of money under false pre- tenses. This transaction occurred dur- ing the time when Mrs. Smith was operating in oil and mining stocks. She was later arrested and taken to Seattle. Since Mrs. Smith’s return the warrant was never served, but lay untouched until yesterday noon. Contrary to expectation, Mrs. Mellion did not swear out a warrant for Mrs. Smith's arrest. She is determined to get the money back and was satisfled for the time being to take the furni- ture. ‘WAITER HAS TALE OF FRAUD. There turned up, however, another individual who alleges that he 1s the victim of this woman’'s smooth prom- ses. He is John Drossos, a Greek waliter, employed for several months in Mrs. Mellion's restaurant at 407 Ellis street. He appeared at the office of the Chief of Police yesterday morning and declared that he had been swindled out of $200 by this woman. Drossos said he waited on Mrs. Smith at the restaurant and that she told him if he would come Jo her room she would teach him to Speak better Eng- lish. Drossos gladly accepted, he sald, in telling his broken story to Chief of Detectives Burnett, and went several times to take lessons. 4 ’ Then, he alleges, he told Mrs. Smith that he had $200 In the bank. Mrs. Smith, he says, told him that she could take care of his money for him and make it soon double in amount. Then, he alleges, he gave her the money and took what he thought was a receipt for it. X To his surprise, when he had a friend read the receipt to him, he says, he found that instead of being a receipt for money 1t was & receipt for mining stock. It read: “San Francisco, December 4, 1806.—John Drossos has this day requested me to keep for him two (2) certificates of stock in the Original Bullfrog Mining and Mill- ing Company, numbers 23-24, for 1000 shares each until he demands them of me. (Signed) Mrs. A. L. Smith.” Drossos claims that he did not know that he was purchasing any mining stock when he turned over the money to Mrs. Smith. He admits, however, that he signed two pleces of blue paper, although he says that he did not know at the time what they were. He wept coplously be- fore Chief Burnett and begged him to get the money back. He did not swear to a complaint. SAYS HE MADE LOVE TO HER. Mrs. Smith has a far different story to She says that Drossos had heard TEQUSLY APPEALS FOR RETURN OF MONEY KLONDIKER SCENE BETWEEN MRS. SMITH AND MRS. MELLION AT ‘THE JAIL COL. MANN THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"The Admirable Crich- ton." ALHAMBRA—"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GRAFTING RUNS AMUCK | A PRINCE OF | IS CHARGED WITH A CUN P MRS Lty Four Persons Are Wounded by a Rich Miner. Three Victims of Mur- derous M_a,niq Are Women. Tragedy Culminates in the Suicide of the Would- Be Assassin. ' BOISE, 1daho, Jan. 22.—A sensational tragedy occurred here at 9 o'clock this morning. Henry Neuebaumer, the principal in the affair, lies dead, with a self-inflicted bullet wound through his head, and four victims of his desire to kill are in the hospital. These are: Ollie Powell, aged 23, suffering from seven wounds, caused by buckshot, one of which is in the right lung; Mrs. Robert Gray, shot in the hip; Lafayette Gray, aged 21, son of Mrs. Robert Gray, one wound in the abdomen, one in the right temple, right arm broken and three flesh wounds; Lillian Gray, sistey of Lafayette, 18 years of age, fles wound in right arm and right side. The first named three are in a serious condition. Miss Powell, employed as a clerk, was staying with the Gray family. Acrgss the street from their home was a bill board and just back of that the wall of a livery barn shed. Neuebaumer | sécreted himself between the.bill-boacd- and the shed and used a hole in the board as a port hole. " Miss Powell and Lafayette Gray came out of the house. A eharge of buckshot brought the girl down. The young man was shot as he stood on the porch. Neuebaumer reloaded his gun, and at that moment Mrs. Gray and her daughter opened the door and stepped out. He fired both barrels at them. Robert Gray ran out, and one buckshot from a fifth charge cut his suspender. After a few moments the gathering crowd heard another shot be- hind the bill board and found Neue- baumer lying dead, with a pistol ball through his head. Neuebaumer was a Klondike mining man and was gstimated to have been worth anywhere from $150,000 to $500,- 000. Until 1897 he lived at Caldwell, thirty miles from Bolse, pursuing the business of blacksmith and accumulat- ing considerable property. In 1897 he went to the Klondike and prospered there. He was enamored of Miss Pow- ell, daughter of John Powell of Cald- well, and advanced the money for her education. She had promised to marry him, but the wedding had been put off from time to time. In November he came from Alaska to claim her. At that time he gave her $1200 for her trousseau. The time was set for th wedding, but on the night precedin, the proposed event she left home with' Lafayette Gray, coming to Boise. Neue- baumer located her and had kLer ar- rested for having taken the clothing he had bought. The case was settled out of court and he went back to Alaska. Neuebaumer reappeared here on Jan- uwary 17, but kept well out of sight. From a great number of letters left by him it is apparent he had carefully planned to-day’s erime. On the day he arrived here he deeded all his property in this locality to his brother, Edward Neuebaumer, of Jamestown, Cal. VOLLEY FIRED AT A WOMAN SICK N BED Invalid Wounded by Mysterious Chicago Assassin. b o g bafiling alike to the detectives working on mm-tudmthemmawgg; “| then BORROWERS Noted Gothamites Bled for Many "Thousands. Big Men Purchase Im- munity From Town Topics Attacks. Editor’s Ready Hand Always Out for Cash or Rail- road Shares. B NEW YORK, Jan. 72.—Colonel W. D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, testified at the Hapgood criminal libel trial to- day that he had borrowed nearly $200,- 000 from J. P. Morgan, James R. Keene, W.' K. Vanderbilt, William C. Whitney and other prominent financiers. Many of these loans were never repaid, so far as Colonel Mann could recall, and others were repaid In stock of Town Topics at $1000 a share. The largest single loan was obtained from James R. Keene, who lent the Town Topics editor $90,000. From W. K. Vanderbilt Colonel Mann obtained $25,000; from J. P. Morgan. $2500; from W. C. Whitney, $10,000; from Collis P. Huntington, $5000; from John W. Gates, $20,000; from Charles M. Schwab, $10,000, and from Thomas F. Ryam, $10.000. ‘When Colonel Mann' testified that many of these loans were paid in Town Topics stock at $1000 a share, James W. Osborne, counsel for Hapgood, asked if the par value of the stock was not $10 per_share, Colonel Mann replied that it fifi‘ "~ AR A contract was produced showing that $2500 was, paid by William J.| 57y White of Cleveland for a subseription to “Fads and Fancies,” the book which was_ {issued under Colonel Mann's di- rection. White's name was not in this book, and Colonel Mann was asked why White pald the money. He replied that he did not now, but that, learning that White was a prominent Cleveland man, he had approved his subscription. The price of a subscription to “Fads and Fancies” was $1500 and Colonel Mann was asked what White paid the ex- tra $1000 for. “He wanted four pages instead of two,” Colonel Mann replied. CLARK GIVES RAILROAD STOCK. Colonel Mann’s dealings with United States Senator W. A. Clark of Mon- tana were taken up by Osborne. The witness said he never received any money from the Senator. “There was a series of articles about members of his family?” Osborne asked. y “I was not aware of it.” sald Colo- nel Mann. “That series was stopped and you became friends with Semator Clark?” “Yes.” “How did you become friendly with him without money?” “There Wwas some correspondence with him,” sald the defendant. “The Senator came to my office and talked for an Hour or two. He sald he was building a railroad. He sald he was going to issue bonds only when the road was completed and that I could have some of the bonds then. From that day to this I have not seen Sena- tor Clark.” “Did you ever borrow from Charles Schwab?” asked Osborne. “I applied for a loan of $10,000 from him on stock of the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company and he agreed to take the stock and give me the $10,- 000.” “Did you gst it?" MONEY LEFT IN MANN'S OFFICE. “Some one brought the money into the office agd it was left there, but I dia not handle it.” “And you don’'t know who it was that brought the money?” “No.* X Taking up the loan from W. K. Van- derbllt, which Colonel Mann sald might have been $25,000, Osborne sald: “Is it¥not agreed that his name is n.”vlzr to be printed in Town Topics?” 0. “Did you not tell Mr. Wayne, your managing editor, that if he sald any- thing about W. K. Vanderbilt In your paper or even mentioned his name at all, it would be taking money out of your mouth?” “I did not,” answered Colonel Mann. The relations of the Equitable Life Assurance Society to Town Toplcs was en up, Colonel Mann testifying t the paper printed advertisements eral languages for the Equitable. “TURNED DOWN” THE STORY. “Did you not have the story of the row in the Equitable long before it be- lations with Mr. Hyde, or for other reasons?’ he was asked. “No.” Y $ “D& not a woman bring you the story of the quarrel in the Equitable?” “I now have a faint recollection of a woman who said she was a sten- or clerk in the Equitable of- BY HORTON Auditor Says Bills Approved Cover Stealings. He Alleges That Baehr Allowed Accounts Improperly. Brown, Power & Co. Accused of Gross Frauds in Their Transactions. Following in line with the allpged dis~ coveries of graft in the departments of the city government recently vacated by the anti-Ruef cfficehoiders comes the an- nouncement by Auditor Samuel W. Hor- ton that his predecessor in office, Harry Baehr, was cognizant of wrongdoing in his department. Horton alleges that the stationery firm of Brown, Power & Co. was paid by the Auditor’s office for print- | ing which was never delivered to the city. The “stealings,” as Horton calls them, amount to nearly $1000. When the Auditor's office was turned over 'to Horton one of its eivil service em~ ployes was John Leibert, who remained in the office. Shortly after Horton as- sumed control he gave Leibert an extend- ed vacation and started his investigation. Horton says he has found that one bill only rendered by Brown, Power & Co. is correct and properly paid. This is for %2 pads of license blanks at 39 9-10 cents each, which it is admitted by the Auditor were delivered and are being used. - The bills that are fraudulent acs to are one for 1285 pads, $389 87; 533 pads, $191 34, and &7 pads, %, “making a total steal,” says Hor- ton, “of 249 pads, or 3579 09.” Furthermore Horton says that of $49 S0 ‘worth of peddlers’ licenses, but 700 pads were delivered, the “stealings,” according to Horton, being about $18. The entire matter has been referred to the Mayor, and it is understood that he is preparing to lay the case befors the Grand Jury. Horton furthermore claims that Auditor Baehr and the latter's chief depyty, Wilkinson, audited the disputed bills, thus dividing the responsibility, Horton says he askeu for a statement from Brown, Power & Co., which was refused. Former Auditor Harry Baehr said last night: “The accusations are ridiculous. I never counted the license blanks per- sonally. I left that to the clerks and relied upon their counts. I do not belleve that anybedy in the office was in collu- sion with any printing establishment or any other establishment. “The statement that John Liebert has been suspended is absolutely false. He is away on a sixty-day leave of ab- sence.” b P Tl A DENIES NEGLIGENCE CHARGE. MeDougnld Says He Had No Supervision Over Appraisers’ Work. From the new Treasurer's office an- other cry of negligence on the part of former Treasurer McDougald and t ‘consequent loss to the city of thousan of dollars been launched before the people of San Francisco. This time it comes from Cleveland L. Dam, recently appointed attorney for Treasurer C. A. Bantel. Dam says that through the acts of the appraisers of estates the State was robbed of thousands of dol- lars, and that no effort was made by MeDougald to stop the guilty work of the appralsers. Ex-Treasurer McDougald character- izes the statements of Attorney Dam rubbish. ' He says that appralsemtents are all made by officers appointed by the Superior Court. These appraise- ments were all accepted by the court and legalized. McDo that he had no alternative but to accept and that to have rejected the appralsements would have been contempt of court and would have placed his bonds in jeop- ardy. “Let Bantel try it and then sea where he lands,” are McDougald's parte ing words to Dam. RENEWS HIS ATTACK ON SOCIETY WOMEN it