The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1906, Page 43

Pages 4 3056 — ey SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1906.' FIND BODY OF MAN IN BIG TRUNK Startling Discovery Follows Opening of Large Sara-! toga at the Railroad De- ™ CORPSE IS THAT OF MIDDLE AGED PERSON Police TUnable to Obtain Slightest Clew to Iden- tity or Learn by Whom the Big Box Was Delivered Epectal Diepatch to The Call STOCKTON, March 24— When an un- called for tru at the Southern Pacific Gspot was opened shortly after 10 o’clock . the body of a fine looking man 6 feet tall! was found tightly 3> The man had evidently deed for several days, for the body begun to' decompose. The clothed with the excep- hoes which had been re- a single mark of identifica- as found in the trunk or om the dy finding of the body has aroused 2s it has not been aroused for e police force is working , though the sleuths the slightest clew that will give them a lead. Xk in which the body was found ticed by the baggage-master depot about 2 o'clock this was conspicuous by its on a small truck together ther pieces of baggage, called for. 2 of the expressmen to loaded with trunks ot entrance, where their them have them ains. But no one he big trunk, so wheeled it into the before 10 o'clock to- n a corner of the ggageman detected a strgnge His suspicions were at once aroused telephoned to police headquarters. squad of men went pon opening the trunk ers drew back, horror stricken. ssy eves of a dead man stared eir faces back in the been cramped i fit into was 4 fine textire been worn much. been removed, but the pon the feet. e clothing failed Every label had he white shirt bosom wers ple of laundry marks aluable clew. The new one, but the which evidently bore the e maker and sellar had been bore no marks of viclence. he man was blood stained, cod about the nose showed bled profusely from that organ i man was evidently about 33 age, about 6 feet 1 inch in nd weighed about 200 pounds. He blue eyes, very large and lumi- and sofe light hair and mustache. ing they were used to lots of hard work. The dead man's features are very refined. | The police at once began & search for the expressman who brought the trunk to the depot, but o far their efforts have no success. The trunk ‘was ht from some place in ‘the city or imediate vicinity, and did not come ain as it had not been checked icials @t the depot do mot remem- seeing it deposited there. e news of the finding of the body in trunk spread like wildfire through the night and thousands viewed the re- mains at the Morgue, but there was not he vast multitude who could iden- off the 111 be performed tomorrow that the cause of death police are firm in man was murdered a systematic search of e expressman who brought e city. It is expected the n the shirt bosom may ystery, though it has ¥ ained whether they are those of a local laundry. COSTLY BLAZE pot in City of Stockton | nds are large and calloused, show- | N CCCIDENTAL Fire Destroys Seven Build- ings in Little. Town Six- teen Miles From Santa Rosa A e Epecial Dispatch to The Call. i TALBOT CITED 10 APPEAR ON CONTEMPT ALLEGATION Wife Says He Flouted Court Order and Violently Took Children From Her. ! | B Py | o WIFE OF MILLIONAIRE W. H.” T, WITH OPENLY VIOLATING OF THEIR THREE CHILDRI AN O N P ALBOT WHO CHARGES HER HUSBAND | 3 RDER OF COURT GIVING HER CONTROL | ENDING SETTLEMENT OF CASE. Millionaire Willlam H. Talbot has beeri cited to show cause why he should not uffer punishment for contempt of court. “harged by his wife with not only abus- | ing her, but deliberately violating the or- der of court giving her the control of her three children, Vera, Willlam and Eric, Talbot has beén directed to appear next Saturday morning to explain if he can what imp of indiscretion. it. was that caused him to snap his fingers at -the court’s order and openly express his be- lief in the impotency of any tribunal to compel him to do that which did not meet the approval -of his will. . It was .upon affidavit filed yesterday by Mrs. Talbot, showing to what ends conditions in her unhappy household have run, that the citation was issued. “On the 9th of September,.1%05, Mr. Tal- | bot, contrary to the expressed wish of | this affiant, took two of the children, Wil- liam and Eric, away from their home at night time and kept them beyond the care of affiant until far in the night, thereby impairing their physical health,” says Mrs. Talbot in her affidavit. “On that oc- casion Mr. Talbot said he would take the children wherever he pleased and-when- ever he pleased, and that he cared not for any order of court. INJURES HIS WIFE. “Again, on the 224 day of October, 1905, Mr. Talbot undertook forcibly to take Wil- liam and Eric out of thejr home at night time. I declined to permit the children to be taken out and made known my wishes in that respect to the defendant. He re- fused to yield, however, and in his en- deavor to take the children out of the home he forcibly and violently pulled and shoved this affiant, trampled on her foot and wrenched her hand, arm and wrist. On that occasion the defendant stated to the affiant, and in the hearing of the chil- dren, that he did not care what order the court had made in respect to the care and custody of the children, that he would 7 take the children out if he wanted to at any time and anywhere, and that he would do as he pleased in regard to the children, court or no court, and otherwise expressed his contempt for the order of the court. Owing to the protests of af- fiant the defendant finally desisted from his forcible efforts to remove the children from their home, but did not desist from hig efforts until he had inflicted grievous bodily injuries upon the afflant and terri- fied her and the children and greatly dis- turbed the quiet and peace of their home. On November, 11, 1905, and again on March 3, 1906, the defendant took William and Eric out of their home at night and kept them beyond the care of the affiant until far into the night, thereby impairing their physical health, and on that occasion again said that he would take the chil- dren wherever he pleased and that he did not care what the order of this court might be. ) . ATTORNEY TAKES HAND. “iAs a result of this miscondict upon his SANTA ROSA, March 24—Word was' part this affiant caused her attorney, d here tonight that shortly after!Samuel M. Shortridge, to communicate ck fire broke out in the town of| with Mr. Talbot, directing his attention Occidental, a little town sixteen miles) to the, order of court and informing him from here, and before the flames were |that further violation of the same would cked by the brick walls of the Odd ows' building seven buildings with eir entire contents were destroyed. The loss will reach between $40,000 and $50,000, In one of the buildings destroyed was the postoffice and the office and plant of the West Coast Mountaineer, a newspa- The blacksmith shop of J. B. Dodge burned to the ground, as were also the aloon of Louls Carrillo and the mer- chandise store of W. 8. Taylor. The resi- dence of R. 8. Stone and W. Morrill were aiso destroyed. 5 e i be brought to the official attention of the court, to the end that he might be dealt with according to law—punished for con- tempt. In this communication Mr. Short- ridge said: ‘I am not addressing you by way of threat or to excite anger or to pre- cipitate trouble, but in the hope that your good sense may prompt you to show re- spect for the court and obey its order.’ Notwithstanding this communication the defendant again took Willlam and Eric from their home on the night of March 17, though Eric had just recovered from a s + vere illness. Affiant called defendant’s at- tention to -the order of court, whereupon the defendant stated that he was not afraid of this court or any court. On other ‘occasions the defendant has taken William and Eric out of the city against the expressed wishes of this affant. “Not only has the defendant taken the children out, as recited, contrary to the expressed wishes of this afflant, but he héis caused the children to remain up late at night, contrary to the orders and ex- pressed wishes of the affant; he has caused the children to disobey this affiant, ber wishes and directions; he has foreibly prevented the children from obeying af- flant, and: has by words and acts taught and caused -Willlam and Eric to disobey afliant and. disregard her wishes and di- rections in réspect to them. CAUSES BOYS TO DISOBEY. “On . October- 2] 1905, and on March 19 1906, by threat. and ‘force the defendant caused the boy$ to disobey affiant and to Temainup, ‘contrary to her expressed wishes- and directions, and on both of these occasions when his attention was called to the order of the court the de- fendant stated in a sneering and jeering manner that he did not care anything about the order and defied affiant to bring the facts to the official attention of the court. “‘On various occasions since the service upon the defendant of this order he has said that he did not care for any order of this court; that he purposed taking his boys out whenever he chose to do so and to whatever- places he saw fit to take them; that he did not care for lawyers or Judges, and by such statements made in the presence of the children the defendant has caused Willlam and Eric to think and believe that affiant has no right, in law or otherwise, to their care and custody or to control them in any way, and in conse- auence thereof the boys, particularly when in the presence of the defendant, refuse to obey the affiant, their mother.” Tomorrow morning Judge Murasky will hear the petition of Willlam H. Talbot to modify the order giving the custody of the children to their mother. A ®itter con- test is expected. ——— : Engineers Hold Banquet. The junior and senlor classes in en- gineering at Stanford University and the . University of California Bave a joint banquet at the Spreckels Cafe last night. Toasts were responded to by ;;ote;sfirs ‘aoule, Marx and Derleth, e following commi y e & ttees were In Stanford executive committee—g, Strout, chairman: ¥. O Shutee o o Burr, O. G. Stanléy, C. B, Taylor; Cali: fornia executive committee—E. B, Stil]- well, chairman; A. J. Cleary, F. A Geisting, W. W. Gilmore; joint banquat :;mBmlllteT h{i Cleary, chairman; o, . Boyle Jr., L. J. Dobb - A. C. Toll. R e —— Falls Down. Elevator Shaft, Charles Hill, a porter at the Golden West Hotel, was instantly killed yes- terday afternoon in a fall down the ele- vator shaft. He was on the fifth fioor and' when the freight elevator came up he grabbed hold of the bottom Wwith the idea of stopping it. He was Jerked forward and his head struck the side of the elevator, stunning him. He fell forward into the shaft and strutk the bottom five stories, below. He had been employed at the hotel only three and little was known of him, but it is -thought he lived somewhere on How- ard street. He was about 35 vears of | of police, to be a bad one. LANCDON'S REPLY COOL BUT FIRM Denunciation by Poheim and 0’Grady of Police Board Met With Well Tempered Outline of Official Duty DEPRECATES QUARREL BUT WILL NOT FLINCH Gambling Will Be Stopped,l Declares District Attor- ney, for the Law Reads Plain What He Must Do After having been called a “school- master run amuck” and a “circus raid- er” by Police Commissioners O'Grady and Poheim t™e night before, District Attorney Langdon was still serene and unruffied yesterday. He sat in his of- fice, puffing slowly and regularly at the last half of a cigar, his chair back- tilted, his legs spread beatifically be- fore him, and on his brow there was not the suspicion of any petty wogry. When reminded of the stormy de- nunciation of which he had been the object, he merely smiled, a smile suci as is seen on. the indulgent school- teacher at some foolish prank of his kindergarten. Then, having smiled, he suddenly stiffened, his eyes, which are blue, took on a slight green tint, and very slowly and gravely, pressing heavily on each word, he said: “I have no war on with Mr. O'Grady or the Po- lice Department. My only war is with the violators of the law. and that war I will continue as long as I remain in office.” @ ' ‘When preesed to define the power he held over :ie Police Department in the matter of the suppression of gambling, he answered: B ‘Section 335 of the Pexal Code.” ection §3% of the Penal Code reads: District ‘Attorney, Sheriff, Con- ble or police. officer must Jinform against nnd dlligently prosecute any person whom cause .£6 belles, provisions of sambling) and every fusing or negleéting to do so, iy gulity ot a misdemeanor.” LAW ON LANGDON'S SIDE.’ Langdon is a reticent .man: he never drops a word until he has fully weighed it. - And that answer.“Section 335 of the Penal Code,” may mean a great deal. In the first place it means, 'of course, that if he himself did not prosecute and inform against persoyis whom he has 2| reasonable cause to believe violate the gambling laws,"He would be guilty of misdemeanor, and he evidently has no intention of.being found guilty .of mis- demeanbor. [ But in the second place it might aléo mean that a police officer, or even a!Chlef of Police, who does not diligently prosecute persons believed to be violating the gambling laws, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Whether Langdon places such an in- terpretation upon the quoted seetion he would not say yesterday, and wheth- er he does will probably be known only when he acts. When asked whether, in case the po- lice refused to.support him sufficiently in his crusade, he would call upon,the Sheriff for help, he looked up long and conslderingly at the celling and when his eyes had come down again, said, “That is a contingency which I refuse to consider at present.” A few seconds ‘later his eyes were again directed upward, and it was a long time before they came down. The question asked was, “Is it not a fact that you consider that the police, whatever its motiyes may be, Is block- ing you in. your efforts to suppress gambling?” His answer was carefully couched. He said: “It ill beseems one officer to discuss another. We should be all united in our work.” DRINKHOUSE APPROVES. Police Commissioner Drinkhouse, who at the meeting Friday night sup- ported the District Attorney against the onslaughts of O'Grady and Poheim, was outspoken. He said that all the charges made that gambling was going on and that tribute was being levied should be investigated, . “There is sel- dom any smoke without fire,” he sald. “I want to see the smoke investigated. If there is no fire, 80 much the better. But we want to-be sure about it.” He thought: that' the rule made by the Chief of Police that the District Attdrney could makeé requisitions for ralds only from the Chief or captains “It is ridic- ulous,” he sald. “When the Captain of Police is absent, who is in charge if it is not. a lieutenant, and why could not the District Attorney requira the lleutenant to raid a: suspicious place? Why, by the law, any private citizen, having reasonable | ground. to believe that gambling Is g0ing on has a right’ to request any police officer to make an investigation immedlately. Should the | District Attorney be deprived of a right ! which every. citizen has?” The Commissioner also denounced the verbal attacks made upon Langdon by his brother Commissioners. “I don't like that sort of thing,” he said, “LM-’ talk about ‘schoolmasters’/ It i3 no disgrace to be a sSchoolmaster. Such talk is nonsense. POHEIM STILL CHURLISH. ‘ Commissioner Poheim, on the other hand, stuck to the stand taken by him and O’Grady at the meeting Friday night. “We simply resent having Langdon work by himself and without the police. He is giving the impression that the police is in- efficient or not to be trusted. We'll do anything in the world if ‘only'he will come to us. But we can't have any picayune person go to the police, demand a squad and raid a place that for some mysterious reason has gained his enmity. “This is what occurred in the O'Neil af- fafr. “For all we know the police that night was used for purposes of b) Only anarchy can result in the force from such methods. We want to. place the re- sponsibiiity’ in a few men, and then if anything wrong happens we'll know whom to punish. 22 “That is what ! sons who offend the order. of.the Chief of | —————— PLEADS CANDY GIRL HELD HIM BY HYPNOTISM. Jacob Waldorf of Berkeley, who eloped with Ada Moore, an Oakland t1zed by Mass Moore. ‘tenability of this theory. el O SR AL L, candy girl, leaving his wife and two babies destitute, has written Mrs. Waldorf begging her 1o let him return. He declares he was hypno- The deserted wife 1s now pondering over the s — RETURN HOME, AND THE BERKELEY WOMAN WHOSE RECREANT HUSBANDPLEADS TO BE ALLOWED ! TO OAKLAND :CANDY GIRL WHO HE SAYS LURED HIM AWAY BY HYPNOTISM. — e Police about raids means, and it is a good order. All we ask is that Langdon act square with us, and we'll act square with him.” X Next Monday at a special meeting of the Police Commissioners, at which the District Attorney will be present, all the rumors and charges of illicit gambling will be thoroughly discussed. “THE WAR WILL GO ON.” Last night District Attorney Langdon issued the following written statement: “The District Attorney's office has no war with the Police Commissioners or with the police or with any public officials. / Its only war is with the violators of the statutes and ordinances of the State and the city. That war has been commenced. That war will go on. It will go on to the end of my administration, at least. “Let me insist again that this office will not voluntarily quarrel with anybody ex- cept the violators of the law. There is enough common ground for public officials to stand together on. That common ground is the joint responsibility for the enforcement of the law. A war among public officials is a disastrous thing. It encourages crime. If the friends of the law cannot agree to prosecute their work the enemies of the law will certainly find opportunity to prosecute theirs during the disagrecment. % “The police and the District Attorney are both charged with the suppression of gambling. I have felt confident that gam- bling existed and have acted accordingly. “The District Attorney does not want to usurp the functions of the police, nor has he usurped their dutles. “Section 335 of the Penal Code jointly charges_‘every District Attorney, -Sheriff, Constable or police officer’ with the re- sponsibility of diligently prosecuting per- 3 inst the provisions of the chapter on ing. A failure to as- sume such obligation is specially desig- nated as a misdemeanor. 3 . TO STOP GAMBLING A DUTY. “To stop gambling is my function and my duty.. I .took an. oath to do it when 1 took office, and I have an idea I can keep my oath of office. There ought not to be any misunderstanding on that score. ‘When 1 was nominated as a candidate for this office I made a very simple: pledge ‘to enforce the law.’ Five times each night, five nights each week for five weeks of that campaign, I repeated my pledge. The people elected me. I took my oath and I am going to do my duty. . { “That.duty, as I now see it, is the fulfillment of that same simple pledge. It was good enough for the people then: I am sure It is good enough for the peo- ple now. They backed me then, they will, now. 1 repeat it: ‘The laws are .on the statute-books; all m-hmwng;m_ I pledge myself to the enforcement ~ of those laws. Good or bad, the have made them. It is the single ob- Attorney ligation of the District to ‘én- force them.’ 3 # Lot_them such aid and rant violation of the law in the openihg of the Anna lane Monte Carlo in the very heart of the city called for imme- | diate action; in the second place, the Poolrooms, operating In violation of Iaw. also required and also received immediate attention; in the third place, the in- corporated clubs- sustained by poker games ‘féll Within my notice, and that evil had to be attacked in the policy of suppressing the illegal practice of gam- bling. 7 “In all ‘these cases the police co- operated’ with' this office splendidly. We should not split when the application of the gambling laws comes to Chinatown. “This office was informed ‘that gam- bling was going on in Chinatown. To satisfy ourselves beyond a reasonable | doubt that the condition should be in- vestigated, the members of this office, along with the Grand Jury, visited Chfnatown. ' We then communicated our belief to the police, assuming their usual co-operation. _ NO CAUSE FOR QUARREL. “Merely - ‘because an irresponsible lawyer, ‘'misgepresenting himself as a representative of this office, as the police allege, should have-duped the police for whatever ends of his own he might have had’is no reason for a misunderstanding and_quarrel between the Police Depart- ment and this office now. “The District “Attorney has a lot of ‘work to.do—and it is nard work—and he needs co-operation in it.. This applies to the business of gambling which is in hand now as it applies to other mat- ters which will have their turn. The first co-operation needed is police assist- ance. When he needs police he needs them at once while the criminal is at work, not after he has got away. Time is the very essence.of efficiency. “Now there are certain places where police are to be had, namely, at the va- rious police stations. Application to the head of any particular station for help. should bring it—it doesn't matter ‘whether it is a Chief of Police, a captain, a lieutenant of police or [ rlh. fight they beat him unmercifully. Sthe 15 half 1nclined to accept it. 1Jacob Waldorf Begs Wife to Take Him Back. THROWS BLAME ON COMPANION Ada Moore FExerted Subtle Power, He Declares. - LONGING FOR DEAR BERKELEY BERKELEY, March 24.—If Mrs. Ja- cob Waldorf can be induced to accept the theory that her recreant husband, who eloped three months ago with Miss Ada Moore, an Oakland candy girl, was practically a victim of the girl's hyp- notic art and really is not to blame for his escapade, she may forgive his past and take him again to the Waldorf home to rule as head of the Waldorf house- hold. Jacob Waldorf's friends have ad- vanced the theory to the wronged wife that- Miss Moore mesmerized the hus- band, and while under this extraordin- ary influence he did that which brought him into his present . difficulty. Wal- dorf is supposed to have originated this extraordinary theory to account for his misconduct, and Mrs. Jacob Waldorf now has before her the task of deciding whether the theory is tenable. ‘Waldorft, the dashing salesman for the Ramona candy factory in West Berke- ley, for whom the police have peen searching during the last three momths, is in Los Angeles. He has been in com- munication with Mrs. Waldorf for sev- eral weeks. He desires a reconciliation with the wronged wife, admitting that his elopement with pretty Ada Mbore of Oakland has not been a brilliant suc- cess as a rose-flavored romance. If Mrs. ‘Waldorf can be convinceéd that the hus- band really was not to blame, or alto- gether to blame, and that the hypnotic power of Miss Moore lured him away from his household hearth, there is a likelihood that Waldorf may grace the seat at the head of the Waldorf dinmer table. Mrs. Waldorr is almost per- suaded. ‘Waldorf's elopement with Ada Moore stirred the town last winter. His wife was left helpless, unprovided for, with two little babes. Waldorf had cruelly told her he did not care for her. Mrs. ‘Waldorf even charged her husband with conspiring to keep her in Chicago, a year ago, so that he could sue for ai- vorce here, charging her with desertion. She sought to punish him, after his elopement, swearing cut a warrant for “his arrest on the ground of faflure to provide for his children. This warrant s still out. ‘Waldort's affair with Miss Moore was revealed to the wife when she found love-letters from the Moore girl to Waldort in the clothing of the man. She taxed him with his infidelity and he did not deny the charge. Two days later _he ‘was off, and Miss Moore also left her hame on Market street, n Oakland. They apparently have been in Los An- geles ever since. Waldorf seems to have tired of his companion. Mrs. Waldorf has been an inmate of C. E. Thomas' home ‘at 2140 University avenue since Waldorf deserted her. Charitably minded . folk raised money for her, and she has been able lately to earn her own living. She refused to tell to-day whether Mr. Waldorf's theory that he was hypnotized by Ada Moore will be accepted by her, although she ad- mitted that the . runaway husband | yearned to be taken back. SALOON-MAN ATTEMPTS TO -BEAT HIS WIFE Four Men Protect Her and " Belabor'Him Into Un- conseiousness. Frank Collins. a :saloon-keeper 1057 Kentucky street, was badly beaten by four men in his saloon shortly after midnight yesterday morning because he attempted to beat his wife. Police- man Crowly found Collins lying in a pool of blood in a rear room of the saloon and sent him to the Patrero Emergency Hospital, but later he was taken to the Central Hospital. He was suffering from contusions and abra- sions of the head, forehead, eyes, nose and face and it was thought that his skull was fractured. He was in an unconscigus condition. Pfim-n Crowly ascertained that Collins had attempted to beat his wife seve: times and each time four men who were in the saloon interfered to protect her and when Collins showed i of the men, Daniel Crosby and Isadore geant. "The acting head of a station | Soto, were arrested by Crowly and should- give the District Attorney a | locked up pending the result of Collins’ posse. = “To, restrict such . permission to Chief of Police or a captain, instead the real acting heads of a station, is to make unnecessary -trouble and delay that defeat efficiency. injuries. The names of the other two aimen are not known., but Crowly Is of | searching for them. Collins regained consciousness yes- terday morning. The physicians at the The Chief of Po- | Central Hospital say that his skull is lice or the captain may be home in bed, | not fractured and he is only suffering off duty, when the District Attorney | from the severe beating administered calls ‘for ald. When the District Attor- ney made-his suggestion he assumed of course that the police stations should be just as co-operative against crime 3 police captains and Chief: are in bed as when they are “The District Attorney will therefore Wmnmewmm ing him in the pi ‘of any breach of ‘the peace or the commission of any criminal offense whenever he Trequires g3 to him. ——ee———— . Fish Commission at Work. Deputy Fish Commissioners I. C. galls and M. L. Cross ‘Anderson, a bay launch terday on a charge of weight striped bass. H guilty and demanded a jury ‘Welch and Cross ss:-ml Tony Marshall County on a charge of spearing head trout i & |