The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1906, Page 1

Forecast for March 26: San Francisco and vicinity—Showers Mc nday; fresh southerly wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. — \ALCAZAR—The CALIFORNTA—R: CENTRAL—"“Too . | GRAND—"The tery.”" Drury."” CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—"Heir to MAJESTIC — “Sweet ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. - TIVOLI—"The Isie of Spice.”” — RE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER PUBUISHEDH-SAN Dietator.” eilly and” Woods: Proud to Beg,™ the Hoorah.™ Death .Valley Mys- Nell of Ol MESERT AT WS e — SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1906. MIXFLOUR BURLY NECRD | WITH STRAW TOKILL HIM AND WEEDS Oakland Policeman Starving Japanese Saves the Life of | Reduced to Dire Felton Evans. Straits. Assailantof Two Young | Suffering in Famine Girls Is Pursued | District of Islands and Beaten. Is Acute. Cries of “Lynch Him” Start| pyrents P Men for Rope, and Riot Call Saves Victim. OB CHASES art With Their Chil- dren and Send Them to Orphanages. t REEECAS AL T Y March 2%5.—The misery and suf- the famine districts has been relieved by the prompt and lb- aid from domestic and foreign sources and the abatement of the rigors of win- The local authorities are trying to work for the #ble-bodied, but the t of the work is inadequate and tens ands ‘are still on the verge of TOKIO. in parents are parting with their children, sending them to the already crowded Okayama Orphanage. Several children arrived yesterday at the Uyeno Iway station in this city. girl 6 years old, who was found suring a package of dirty old news- rs. On examination the package was i to contain a postal card with the dress of the parents of the child, who ad been told to mail the card upon her 1 at heér destination. The severity of the suffering undergone by the children is clearly-depicted in the faces of thosé that are compelled: to dél part from their homes, where the food consists of flour mixed with straw and weeds. The mixture ig beaten fine, form- Ping a pastry, which eontains only 25 per cent actual food value. The Government has remitted the land tax in the famine district, but this will | not afford immediate relfef. The liberal contributions from American pathizets are already effective, and the relief in the form of food and clothing is commanding the heartiest appreciation. Another appeal for ald is presented by the sufferers from the recent earthquakes in South Formosa, thousands of whom are homeless The local government is busy providing food, caring for the injured and recover- ing and removing corpses, several hun- dreds of which are buried under the de- bris. NIGHT BURGLAR INVADES ROON OF MRS, TULLY Commands Silence, but Woman Screams and Fiend Flees. OAKLAND, March 25. — Awakened 5 | shortly after midnight this*morning by sought mow | [0C5teps in her bedroom, Mrs. J. E. B . | Tully arose at her residence, 6603 Tre- mont street, only to encounter a man in the room after she had lighted the gas. With an oath the intruder ordered her to turn out the light and get back to bed. AS the woman did so she wakened her sister, who was sleeping with her. “Give me your mone; the burglar de- manded, “or I'll kill you.” The threat started both women screaming at the top of their volices: The burglar made a hurried exit and ran through Tremont street. Mrs. Tully, in her night dress, pursued the man for two blocks, but he distanced her and she returned home. She said the thief carried a pistol or an iron bar in his hand. After investi- gating all day, the police tonight ar- rested Willlam Grass, Thomas Richards and Antone Vrowe on suspicion. They are from 17 to 20 years old. The intru- der broke into the house by forcing a rear window with a jimmy. e —— Bishop Potter Preaches in Rome, ROME, March 25.—The American Church of St. Paul was crowded todaw |on the occasion of the thirtieth anni- versary of its consecration. Bishop T C Potter, who read the coffsecration service, preached. Bishop Potter's father held the first service in the American Church in Rome in 1859, —————— —— Many Russians Become Catholics. VILNA, Russia, March 25.—The Ro- man Catholic Bishop has sent a re- port to the synod showing that since | the ukase of religious toleration over 20,000 members of the orthodox church have become Catholics. —e % freight train, but was put off at Six- arr) t crowd fugi- MOB BEATS i the clamor- oad of ed, “and 11 land a, rred from the nd taken | gallop t GIRLS IDENTIFY x womer w the prisoner He is held for t was shortly occurred. ghter of Al c Company roe’s father fs uthern Pacific close friends night Miss he girls Munroes nding The man | passed and | to them. They ig-| 3 some alarm hastened | street toward Seventh. The their heels and several molest now thor- | frightened pair. The girls hur- a lost sight of the pursuer, , come upon him again as they in front of the Munroe house. he grabbed at Miss Wright, and ith their umbrellas the girls tried to beat back the fellow. "hen quickly followed the exciting en- | r with the aroused'citizens, who Among them | N0 TRACE OF JEWELS DISCOVERED Stephens Mystery Deepens in New York City. Cash and Gems Said to Be Worth $75,000 Missing. No Explanation Offered as to Disappearance From Vault, Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 2.—Regretting the notoriety which her offer of a $25,000 re- ward had brought to her, Mrs. Willlam Austin Stephens, who found that thére was missing from her vault in the Na- | tional Safe Deposit Company cash to the amount of $25,000 and jewelry to the value of $30,000 when she opened it, after an absence of almost two years in Call- | fornia, nevertheless said today she would | leave no effort unexpended in clearing up the mystery of the disappearance of the luables. “I left in my vault upon my departure | from the city $2%,00 in the form of a | certificate of deposit i the United States Trust Company, $25,000 worth of New York Central Railroad bonds, $25,000 in cash, and jewelry to the value of pers haps $50,000. There were ~also some valuable, although not readily negotiable, papers. ‘To this I gave My Bnnever, my former coupsel, the right of Aggess and a | | | months ago’ in ‘Rédaing, CAHL and was carried to San Francisco for medical treatment. . At the.same time I needed cash for business purposes and wired Mr. Ennever to send me $10,000. I hoped he might be able o realize this amount on the certificate of deposit Key. " I mer with an .accidént “about zb L' = WOMAN BODY WAS FOUND | ACCUSED OF KILLING MAN WHOSE N TRUNK AT DEPOT. The body of the man found recently e as his wife at R A contained the remains and also mployed in a Tuolumne County mine. The police the lodging-house where the crime was committed. PRICE FIVE CENTS. in the trunk at Stockton Sinday night has been identified as that of A. N. McVicar, a timberman the rope with which it was bound. =~ The woman is well known in San believe that he was murdered for his money by a woman who passed They have leamed that this woman purchased the trunk which Francisco. * ——p E OF VICTIM MAY BEM URDEREALS’ without being under the necessity of actually presenting it, since its face value called for.a -Jarger sum than I wanted. This being impossible, on account of the safeguards.the banks throw about suc matters, it seems Mr. Ennever, thinking my need was desperate, determined to realize upon my New York Central bonds. ~] did not sign an agreement which not think that thc National Company should have permitted the entry,to have been made. As soon as I heard he had tuken this means of raising the money, 1 wired him that I Jid not wish the bonds sold, and considered that there was some wrong in the fact that he had succeeded in getting ht:l‘d of them. came to New York at ol “I visited the vault and there found the trust company certificates and bonds, which had been replaced in the meantime, but found nothirg of the jewels or the cash. Some papers, too, were missing, but these were later found in Mr. Ennever's safe. “1 at once placed the case in the hands of my counsel, Henry Smith, and he is at present in charge of the matter. If Mr. Ennever says the money and iewels were not there when he visited the veult, then they must have been taken before he opened the box. I am told he did not find them, and the safe deposit people say it would have been a physical- impossibility¥ for the vault to have been entered before his visit, and these two storfes seem to be the only satisfaction we have thus far been able to obtain.” Mrs. Stephens intends to put the mat- ter in the hands of a private detective agency and it is possible that she may follow the advice of friends and have a conference with Inspector W. W. Mc- Laughlin, the head of the detective bu- reau. Among the jewels which have disap- peared are many heirlooms and other pieces of great value, including an un- usually large pigeon-blood ruby, sur- rounded by heavy diamonds, which was thé gift of Mrs. Stephens’ husband; a diamond and pearl collar and a necklace ot pearls and diamonds of three strands, composed of stones of rare size and beauty. NEGROES BELIEVE MEMPHIS DOOMED Heed Crazy Prophetess and Flee From the Ten- nessee City. Special Dispatch to The Call MEMPHIS, March 25.—For the past few weeks the negroes have been making arrangements to absent themselves from the city until after the 27th of March, the date fixed by a crazy negress for the sinking of the city. Although the prothet- ess has beensent to a lunatic asylum, the alarm has not subsided and many a Mem- phis housewife is mourning the loss of her cook. So serlous was the talk that the railroads have advertised excursions to feave here tomorrow night and return on the 28th. ¥ The negress preached to vast crowds of her color nightly until the police arrested her. With the zeal and fervor of a fan- atic she described in great detail the dis- aster in store for Memphis—how the city would crumble acre by .acre into the Mississippl River and how: the sk: ers would be engulfed in the turbid. ,r Fahy's command of his pris- would have done the negro vio- sce. Evans told Captain of Police \ch that he had come here some time | from Illinois and had been fol- lo the races at Emeryville. He sald he started -tonight to leave on a teenth-street station and was on: his way to & room at the Pullman house when the trouble occurred. He in- ‘on the girls. Evans’ story. torrent. The better class of negroes concluded to remain when they were convinced that sisted he knew nothing of the attack |about two years ago the prophetess had In view of the positive | predicted the destruction of Pine Bluff identification the police do not believe [ and forced a stampede of negroes from the prosperous Arkansas city.. gave him the right of access, and I do | & | 11 | | | | ALLEGED WIF STMTHCOMS COLD USED N ~ NURDER TRIA Canadian Peer Aids Woman Accused of Crime, Spectal Dispatch to The Call. MONTREAL, March 2.—The Sunday Journal, in a dispatch from Three Riv- ers, announces that money for the de- fense of Mrs. Schlater, who is accused o1 having conspired with her lover, Wallace McGraw, to kill her husband, is being supplied by Lord Strathcona, Canadian High Commissioner in London. Lord Strathcona was for years connected with the Hudson Bay Company and was its governor. Skeene, the father of Mre. Bchlater, it appéars, was one of his trust- ed lleutenants, and when the latter, un- able to raise any money to defend his daughter, appealed to his old comrade in the Great North, the response, it was sald, was prompt .and generous. The murder took place last year at a place called Grande "Anse, bordering on the Polar wilderness. Schlater was an Englishman who had deteridrated. Mrs. Schlater had Indian blood in her. Mc- Graw was a hired man. Chlef K. P. McCaskill of the provincial detective force obtained a sort 'of confes- slon from the woman and on the stre: of this a trlal was commenced, each pris- oner being tried separately. McGraw was found guilty of murder last week. He may, however, .have a new trial on a technicality. Neither McGraw’s father ‘nor Mrs. Schlater's father had money.enough to ay for the defense necessary-.and it is said that Skeene, upon appealing to Lord Strathcona, received a résponse - which enabled him to employ sig of the bright- est young lawyers, English and French-Canadian, to 1ook after the inter- ests of Mrs. Schlater and McGraw. Mrs. Schlater’s trial will be begun tomorrow, when McGraw Wwill be sentenced to be hanged. —_——— King to See Specialist. - BUCHAREST, March 25.—The King and Queen started today for ‘Lugano, Switzerland. King Charles, will stop off at Vienna to consult a specialist. —————— Troops to Suppress Carlists. BARCELONA, March 25.—The Min- istry of War is organizing four strong fiying columns for the suppression of agitation by the Carlists. 3 ' ngihi | who had a hand in bringing about the oL Wy | | on \} “. LT DAY &S i ACELSED, ENDS - LIFE IV RVER Charged With Thefts of Which She Was Inpocent. . s g BSpecial Dispatch to The Jall. HARTFORD, Ky. . March . 25.—Miss Prudia Ford, a 20-year-old girl, attend- ing college here, drowned herself yes- terday because she was accused by a woman with whom she boarded - of having taken a watch, clothing and $10 from a roommate. Today the dis- covery was made that a greal wrong had been done the girl by the woman, as all the property was. found. The funeral was largely attended, and an indignation meeting was hcld, at which resolutions condemning _all VICTIM OF STOCKTON MURDER. WHICH SHE IS ACCUSED WAS CO! Epecial Dispatch to The Call STOCKTON, March 25.—The mystery surrounding the awful death of the man whogse body was found in a big trunk at the Stockton depot last night appears to be solved. The body has been identified and the police are on -the trall - of the alleged slayer, a woman and the ' supposed widow of -the murdered man. ~ Whether she committed the crime alone and unaided 'packed the body of her victim in the trunk is yet to be learned. It is be- lieved she was helped by a man. who een with her at the depot. wwvelopments today show that the 'man found dead in the trunk was Al- ‘bert N. McVicar, who had been em- ployed as a timber man in the Rawhile mine at Jamestown, Tuolumne County. | The officers-do not hesitate to say that the person responsible for his death is Mrs. McVicar, or the woman who went by that name and whom he registered at the California rooming-house here as his wife. The police have found that she purchased of -a local dealer Saturday morning the trunk in which the remains were found and they have also found ~where she purchased the rope with - which she tied the trunk. The expressman who hauled the empty trunk to the room and later toek it to | the depot ‘with the bloody remains of | the man inside has also been found. Everything points to the woman as the murderess, though the officers are inclined to the belief that.if she did not- have help in the actual killicg, a man at least assisted her in forcing the re- mains into the trunk. She is only a woman of ordinary size. while he was a man _weighing ip .the neighborhood of 190 pounds. In support of this theory is the statement of the little daughter’ of Officer Van Landingham, who occu- pled a room across the hall - that occupled by MeVicars. She says she saw a sr 1 2 ceased come and go from the girl's tragic death were adopted. There is talk of criminal proceedings. A letter from Miss Ford was found. ‘While couched in the simplest words, it carried a world of pathos and elo- quently vouched for her innocence and the terrible strain under which "she iabored. She said in ‘part: “I have been a loyal girl since I en- tered school—true to my God and-true to myself. As God is my judge; I'am innocent, and I die with this senti- ment ringing from my lips: 'He is mer~ ciful and just” When this reaches you 1 will be at the - bottom of* Rough River—that is, my body will,- but my, soul will be with Jesus. Live so as to meet me there. Death is sweet at this hour and on such an oceasion. - With love and prayers, I am, dying, -yours PRUDIA.” now and there, —_——— Cableship Reaches Guam. © SAN LUIS DE APRA, Island of Guam, March 25—The ip. Urmstom: Grange, carrying the Commerc! Company's Pacific cable, which is to be Jaid between Guam and Japan, arrived - place. IDENTIFIED AS THAT OF HIS COMPANION IN TURE ON LODGING-HOUSE REGISTER. man than the de-|. WOMAN WHOSE PHOTOGRAPH HAS BEEN HOUSE WHERE CRIME OF MMITTED AND PAC-SIMILE OF SIGNA- * Police Learn She Purchased Saratoga and Hired Expressman to Haul It The baggagemen also declare that they saw another man with the woman's handsatehel shortly after she took it from the baggage-room. He was walk- ing nervously up and down on the lawn near the depot. He is described as a man with a black mustache and of or- dinary stature. It is belleved that the two took the train for some point Sacramentoway. and notices have been sent to all the officers to be on the lookout for them. The woman_has black hair and eyes and is rather comely. PAIR BUY FURNITURE. The body of the dead man was iden- tified positively by two men in the em- ploy of Breuner's furniture store, as they ‘sold a bill of goods to him and the woman last week, to be shipped to Jamestown. Later, at her request, the shipment was changed to Martells Sta- tion, near Jackson, she stating that they were to be sent to her brother, & Mr. Ledoux. The police have learned that the ‘woman, who is less than 30 years of age, apparently, had been married to a man named Barnett, who died in Mexico, and later to a man named William Wil- Hams. She left Willlams, it is said, and went to live in a house of ill-fame in San Francisco, after which she is supposed to have married McViears. The crime was perpetrated in room 97 at the California lodging-house, a respectable rooming place, located at May and California streets. The au- topsy conducted by Drs. Hull and Batta during the early morning hours estab- lished that McVickar had been killed . with a blunt instrument. The skull ‘was not fractured, death being due to concussion of the brain. The stomach was entirely empty, indicating that death .had oceurred before McVickar had eaten breakfast. The doctors agree that .death must have occurred some time —_— . Continued on Page 3, Columa &