The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1906, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, mSDAY MARCH 27, 1906. GOES TO DEATH WITH W ial trav- I L. L. Thal, a comme | eler for u San Francisco con- ‘ cern, committed sulcide n a || hotel at Dunsmulr Monday. | | Groans attracied the atteation | of the manugement of the ho- 1} tel to the traveler's room and | the door was =t open. Upon the bed lay the body of Thal. In one hand was clasped the of a wtiful womun, pictu bis was th wife, In the other young bottle which bad con- | acid which carbolic tained the und ended his life. He Jeft nothing to show why he com- mitted sulcide, and his wife, who resides at 661 Fillmore street, in this city, is unabie to deed. { Ind I1ic‘ Hotel at ! Dunsmuir 3 Thal Swallows| a Fatal Dose ; of Acid. { Traveler 1 I in a room s dead <o U L, TITAL oo - & IFE'S PHOTO IN HAND DOSE’ OF | ACID, ‘/\)l‘X\"Pt‘lAL TRAVELER WHOTOOK 'H B, WHOSE PICTURE HE HELD IN HIS HAND AS HE TOOK A FATAL — NSMUIR AND HIS LIFE AT D | 4 3 { - CATES' OFFER CIVES SPORTS COLD CHILLS: Langdon Makes Before Police Suggests Matching of | Coins at $40,000 | a Throw. Continned from Page 1, Column 7. kins, Radke and Bender filed into the room and took seats inside the rail. President Pohelm declared that the board was ready to hear from the Grand Jury or any citizen who had proof that gam- | bling existed in. Chinatown. | = “Let us hear from the Grand Jury and the . District Attorney,” suggested Com- missioner Drinkhouse. District: Attorney Langdon rose and gaid: “I have been asked by the members there will be some | of the-Grand Jury to speak for them. 1 e Monte Carlo or | wish the jurors to correct me as I go if | T make any mistake. I think it hardly necessary to go over in detail what has already been -rélated to two of the com- missioners, but: I will “tell in a general what we found in Chinatown. is expressed that be- Pittsburg of the to pur- worth of coal voted his first | wi property A committee from the Grand Jury, at the | some: others and myself—eight in all— gan- {-went to Chinatown on.two or three occa- membership of | sions. When we first went to Waverly steel and iron | place shortly after midnight we found me to the surface | everything ablaze, great crowds on the of rich deposits in | streets -and the greatest activity every- | where. - When our presence was dis- had dropped $36,000 at | covered everything became suddenly quiet ings just before | and we went away. When we returned gham caused much | the places were wide open again. Three Hot Birm among the members of the | or four times we found the same condi- with which the leading | tions. On the last few nights, however, city s rected, and | things have been decidedly different. I was formed | might say right now that there has been was appointed to wait | considerable criticism on the part of the invite him to a *no limit” | commission.” which he could nmame | “Pardon me,” interrupted O'Grady f game, to include anything | Smoothly, “I did not criticise the Grand to pitching silver dollars. Jury.” TELLS OF THE RAIDS, Langden went on quietly to tell how g ‘m- jury committee and he had laid the y it found Gates pr:- in an automobile to Club and he smiled blandly | matter before the commissioners. It when it wes made known the object of | that was not fair,” he sgid, “I do not its visit know what fairness is. I should receive Porty thousa he commented. | the support of this commission instead of Well, so long as there is no’ limit, we | {ts antagonism. For the two years that will mateh coins for $40,000 a throw.” we are to work together we should work The -members of -the .committee . are | ghoulder to shoulder to stamp out crime ve men, but they p: es bowed and rc =, they hepé To ent: Jeaves the city. —————— Persond Hurt in Collision. TR e o ‘Pacinc | Bambling in this city will cease before cars, one southbound, the other | the sun. sets tomorrow. I may be g " erhshed together at Memer | scpoolmaster run amuck, but I will re- evening. Twb Paskenpors | I my experience in the.brief time that 5 P he&2T™ | | have been in office.” d perceptibly as away. Nevepthe- | rtain him before*he wherever we find -it. “If the commissioners are with me I | believe that they should pass a resolu- ;""“ to-night Instructing their police cap- | tains and. their patrolmen to stamp out ;‘5ambllng I believe that if this is done Two were serfously injured and others te- veived slight scraiches and cuts by fall. | The District Attorney told of the ralds ng glass. The injured are: ' | he had made on Harvey & Daroux and Mrs. N. K. Stevenson,” Log Angeles, 10" Zick™ Abfams’ place. Then, not-heed- | ing interruptions from O'Grady, he burst into a scathing denunciation of resorts | along the tenderloin. His voice rose at { the peroration and with intense earnest- | ness he called upon God to witness that | he would not rest until such places were | 'stamped out of existence. SCORES TENDERLOIN RESORTS. L. M. Kincald of Arcadia, about the face. e — We Thoroughly Understand wants pf the eritical buyer. - We operate | engraving and printing plant ng such s booklets, catalogués, private | espondénce papers; office stationery. Work | . Raising his voice, Langdon began: right or mone; Dack.. Samtorn,. Vail & Co.| ““Ana right here I want to say some- thing with referénte to the saloons. There are some 3800 saloons in this city, and for the most part I believe that the | great majority of them are run orderly, and the ‘salooh-keepers for the ' most ! part are decent, orderly and self-re- specting citizens. But there is a certain —_————— New Lodi Church Is Dedicated. LODI, March 26—The new Methoaist church was dedicated here Sunday with impressive ceremonies. Bishop Hamil- ton of San Franciscé occupled the pu]»l pit at the morning and evening |percentage, If you ‘please, ‘a small per- services, centage, that cast great disgrace upon —_—————— | the great body, because they will not { conform to the laws of the State or the laws for the good management of their institutions.© And I want to say right here that while I want to respect and T¢ Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine ‘l'lhl x;rundm refund ‘money if it falls cubs. K W. GROV E'S ll‘nuurl is on mlh-. 28c. s L SWEARS TO CLOSE ALL NOISOME DIVES Startling Declaration Commission. do respect every man's rights, that every man should know his bounds in the concuct of these places, and there are certain places in this town that I believe, gentlemen of the Police Commission, it is the duty of the Chief of Police to regulate. ““As Superintendent of Schools I went into the classroom one day less than two years ago and there saw a little girl sitting in her seat—one of our waifs, one ‘of .our innocents, receiving from my hands a graduating diploma, looking into the future with hope and promise. “In a year or so 1 saw that same girl, still in her teens, cgming out of a dive, or dancehall, in a boisterous, screaming, reeling, drunken condition—‘'a mere rag, bone and hank of hair,’ as Kipling says. 1 say to you that such an institution needs regulation. WILL CLOSE THEM UP, “And I say to you, gentlemen of the Commission, while 1 have the highest regard for property rights and maught shall be done to injure any man in his property rights, yet I belleve that mo mun should clalm estate in fee In the soul and body of those young girls, and the man who does it I regard as a fiend Incarnate—a devil from the lower pit of hell, and like Sa should be cast aside and put under foot by every respectable citizen and be suppressed and put out of businessy by those in au- thority. “And by the eternal God I say to you, while I am in the office of District At- torney, while any man insists upon running an institution of thiy charac- ter, while there is any power in my hand I will hurl it at him until he is put out of business.” ‘When Langdon had concluded President Poheim said quietly: ‘“Everything that you have been saying is entirely in keep- ing with the views of this commission. The records show that whenever we have obtained evidence against resorts of this sort we have acted quickly."” “Let the members of the Grand Jury be sworn,"” suggested Commissioner Regan. But O'Grady was on his feet again. He declared that his criticism of Langdon did not refer to the Chinatown visits, but to the ralds which were made oh the pool- rooms and on the Harvey & Daroux place! He declared that such action on the part of the District Attorney conveyed the im- pression that the Police Commissioners were unworthy of the confidence of the District Attorney. O’GRADY IS MUCH HURT. “This insinuation is cruel and abso- lutely false,” he declared. “We are al- ways ready to suppress gambiing. If you had taken the trouble to look over the records before you came advising us how@to run our office you might have found that out for yourself.” When the Commissloners insisted that the members of the Grand Jury be sworn Foreman Muchell retorted with some epirit. “We decline to be sworn,” he sald. ““We stand on our rights as grand jurors. We can subpena you. but you cannot subpena us.'” “If any of the men of the Chinatown squad are negligent in their duty we want to know=about it,” insisted Com- missioner Reagan. Foreman Mitchell still demurred. He declared that he did not think that it would be wise for “the jury to tell all that it knew at a public meeting."” Finally the committee retired with the CRANDJURY STIDT0 INVESTIGATE Judge 0’Sullivan Orders That Action Be Taken on In- surance - Contributions to Political Campaign Funds €OURT TAKES ISSUE WITH MR. JEROME Tells Inquisitorial Body to Demand That Distriet At- torney Reveal All Informa- tion in His Possession Epeclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 26.—Supplementing his recent’ charge to the Grand Jury Te- garding the conduct of officers of life in- surance companies and other corporations | who took their companies’ fund to make political contributions, Judge O’Sullivan in the General Sessions Court today ordered the grand jurors to make a complete in- quiry Into the case before it on which its hypothetical questions as to criminal in- tent were based. Acting on the'refusal of District Attorney Jerome to have the Grand Jury find any indictment until crimfual intent had been determiped, Judge O'Sullivan-told that body it must refuse to permit a case to be taken from it, and instructed it to demand all evi- dence and to investigate completely and fearlessly. Jerome was not in court when the Judge addressed the grand jurors, but was rep- ented by Assistant District Attorney tt, who made no comment on the Judge's remarks. At the end of the Judge's address Ed- ward Van Valkenberg, foreman of the Grand Jury, had a conference with Judge O'Sullivan and asked him how his in- structions to continue the investigation should be interpreted. The Judge told the foreman it was his place to go to Jerome and demand all information in his posses- sion touching on the case. Then, he said, with this the Grand Jury should go imto the subject as deeply as possible to decide if any crime had been committed, lnd what crime. Acting on this advice, Van Valkenberg and another member of the Grand Jury went to Jerome's office, but did not see Jerome, as he was out and was not ex- pected to return until late in the after- noon., The grand jurors then visited As- sistant District Attorney Perkins, who has charge:of Grand Jury proceedings, and asked him how the desired informa- tlon could be obtained. Perkins id it was in the keeping of Jerome and Van Valkenberg left, saying he would call upon the District Anaernlng and make a request for o infor- mation. ‘When Jerome returned his ‘office he declined to make any, mengv the Judge's remarks, not uld “he say Whether he would turn oger to the Grand Jury the evidence he has. ‘As the present Grand Jury has only four days longer in which to sit, it may be that it will not have time in which to consider such a complex matter and that Jerome will de- sire to let it go over untll it can be taken up by the April Grand Jury, which will be sworn in on Monday by Recorder Goff. In his charge to the Grand Jury Judge O'Sullivan again placed emphasis on the point that criminal intent might be Indi- cated by fallure to account for political contributions in the books of the com- pany or the making of false entry de- signed to conceal the payment. SR B T HAMILTON WILL NOT LET GO. Lobbyist Relentless in His Pursuit of His Former Employers. NEW YORK, March 26.—Andrew Hamilton, who came to this eity this afternoon, announced that the object of his_visit was to put the final touches on his plan of campaign against those men who have been conducting the in- surance warfare against him, particu- larly in so far as his connection with the New York Life is concerned. Judge Hamilton said tonight: 1 think it will be found I have not wasted my time when I fire my next ehot. It is not my intention to go into further detalls at this moment, but at any other time, and soon, 1 shall have something to say of rather an fm- portant nature. I want to make this plain: All T have said thus far is the truth. For e o District Attorney. After a brief consulta- tion they came in again and announced that they had nothing to reveal. O'Grady and Langdon resumed the debate as to what he had done and what the Police Commissioners had not done. Langdon declared that he would con- tinge the ralds until gambling was stamped out. He would war on crime un- til it could be no longer sald that San Francisco was the most crooked city in the country. O'Grady retorted that the Commissioners would continue to do their duty as they had been doing it, and that they would do nothing spectacular; that they aid not seek their own glorification. HURLS FINAL DEFL “I will Tiot be bulldozed or bullyragged,” declared Langdon as he walked out. As far as O'Grady-and Poheim are con- cerned the breach between the Commis- sioners and the District Attorney's office has been widened. Drinkhouse and Re- gan, while they insisted on specific charges against the Chinatown squad, seemed to side with the District'Attorney. ‘When the jurors left Sergeant Phil, Fraher of the Chinatown squad was put on the stand and questioned in regard to the increased activity in the gambling- houses. Captain Duke was then sworn. He was closely questioned by Reagan and ‘Drinkhouse in regard to the same thing. There was a slight discrepancy. “I suggest that Sergeant Fraher be transferred and that Sergeant Cook be put in charge of the Chinatown squad, sald Drinkhouse suddealy. Before the others had recovered from their surprise he added: *‘And I also sug- gest that Captain Duke be transferred. Gambling has been running wide open and something must be done to impress on the ofllcerg that they must do their duty.” “I agree with Commissioner Drink- house,” said Reagan. Poheim and O'Grady quickly. came to the defense of Captain Duke. They de- clared that it would be a cruel shame to cast odium on that officer without proof that he hed done wrons. S “Very well, then,” said Mfin sharply. ““There 1s no use of voting. is 2 to % It is up to the Chief of Police.” he announced, “with the understanding that we may take up these matters at some future date.”” When Chief Dinan was asked if he intended to act on the suggestion of Commissioner Dflmu\ln he sald de- clsively, “No, I do not.” L) Pohelm brought his gavel down with a | bang. “The meeting stands adjourned,” . FATHER CAPON ANSWERS ATTACKS N HS. PUBLIC Admits He Took Wife While Priest. —— Monte Carlo Gam- bling Due to Curiosity. ST, PETERSBURG, March %.—Father AND PRIVATE LIFE Gapon in ‘a ‘frank, open letter replies to | the ‘attacks on his public and private life, | announcing that-he has -instructed his lawyer, M. Mdrgolin, to bring an action for defamation of character against his detractors and denying the charge that he betrayed and abandoned a girl while he was a prison chaplain. Gapon ¢xplains that, refusing to. follow the rule of the orthodox church prohibiting the remar- | riage of priests, which he declares drives | the clergy to secret immorality, ‘he took | to his bosom ag his wife a girl whom he loved, and that she is still living with him. Continuing, Gapon declares that of the $5000 which Premier de Witte gave through Tormer Commerce Minister Timiriazeff for the restoration of the Gapon labor organi- zation, he received only 33500, all of which was used to help the workmen. The re- mainder was stolen by Mathushensky, the press agent and real director of the Father Gapon movement, who was ar- rested at Saratoff and brought to St. Pe- tersburg for trial. Regarding the chuza of gambling a( Monte . Carlo with “mysterious money" Gapon says: “During the bloody uprising at Moscow I reserved money for literary work, and while abroad, out of simple curiosity, I played for small stakes. A review of my connection with the workmen's movement will prove that I never was an agent of the Government and that I labored solely in the interests of the workmen."” ‘When he returned to St. Petersburg, Gapon admits, he communicated with Count de Witte, who gave him permis- slon to live here, considering that his work was ‘‘constructive and not de- structive.” Gapon concludes with an expression of his firm conviction that history will de- monstrate that “the unfrocked pope™ lived for his country to the last drop of his blood and-. died a sentinel over the rights and liberties of the workmen and the oppressed. The letter has made a good impression, but Gapon’s sincerity iIs sneeringly at- tacked by the Russ, which calls Gapon a friend of General Fulton, formerly of the police and a pensioner of Count de Witte. - - every statement I have made I will adduce documentary evidence. Ana for everything I shall say hereafter the same will be true. My every assertion will be susceptible to legal proof. Some of them have sald I have lied. It is not worth while to enter into a mud-slinging contest, but when the time comes the public will seé who has been the lar. Woe to those who have denied the truth, who have run to cover and trled to hide behind the sanctity of so-called great names; such expedients will not avail them—the truth is no respecter of personages. Reverting to the contribution of $75,- 000 to -the Republican national cam-, paign fund, which was denied by Cor- nelius. N. Bliss, treasurer of the: na- tional campaign committee, and for which. : Hamilton pfoduced a receipt bearing Bliss’ signature, Hamilton call- ed attention to the fact that further discussion of this matter was useless and without result, in view of the fact that the money bad been given to cover the expenses of the 1896 campaign and had been outlawed by the statute of limitation. It was this knowledge, Hamilton implied, that slight official consideration to be given the subject. “Just when I shall have something further to say,” said Hamilton, “I do not know. It won't be within the next few days. I shall speak when I think the proper moment has come. = There are strings to be pulled, as several per- sons know by this time. I am acting on my own counsel and am not to be swayed by pressure of influence.” Hamilton will remain in his apart- ments in the Arlington. RN ey CHOATE FILES MORE SUITS, Mutual Demands the Return of $1,200,- 000 From the McCurdys. NEW YORK, March 26.—Charges of the conversion of life insurance funds and of fraudulent. conspiracy are the conspicuous features of the additional complaints served today in the series of eight actions already begun by the Mu- tual Life Insurance Company against WHO FORMERLY WAS A LEAD- ER OF WORKINGMEN. l‘ UNFROCKED . RUSSIAN = PRIEST, 5 BERNHARDT'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN TENT Eight Thousand Texans Give the Actress a Flattering Reception, Special Dispatch to The Call. DALLAS, Tex., March 26.—Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was given a Texas Indorse- ment tonight for her stand against the theatrical trusy for which she- can ‘but feel “most sensibly appréciative. . Elght thousand persons from Dailas and ‘sur- rounding cities saw her make her first appearance as a tent performer. Scores of bouquets of Texas violets had been ‘sent to ber in her- private ‘car at Cycle Park during the day, and some of these flowers adorned her person to- | 3 PEACE NEARING "AT ALGECIRAS™ Embassador .- White Cables to Washington That a Set- tlement Is Now Certain SUE SOLVING LAST Austria’s New Scheme for Policing of Moroeco Being Considered by Committee WASHINGTON, March 26.—A cable~ &ram was received at the State De- partment today from Embassador White stating that the Algeciras conference has practically reached an agreement upon the question of policing Meroeco, which was the most difficult issue be- fore the conference. ALGECIRAS, March 28.—The Moroc~ can conference held an hour's session today, seeking definitely to adjust the police question. Austria proposed an amendment increasing the Iinspector general's control of the police, and Herr von Radowitz, the chief German ‘dele- gate, declared that Germany consid- ered the control of the police to be of supreme importance and intimated that Germany must withdraw if such con- trol were not adopted. The question was finally referred to a committes, and the conference adjourned until toe mMOrrow. ——————— CYCLONE SWEEPS OVER PORTION OF OKLAHOMA Three Persons Seriously Injured and Vast Amount of Damage Done to Property. PERRY, O. T., March 2§.—Three per- sons received injuries that may prove fatal and thousands of dollars’ worth of property was destroyed In a cyclons that struck the neighborhood south of Billings, O. T. at 10 o'clock Sunday night. Telephone and telegraph wires are down in all directfons and partic lars are unobtainable. None of the vi tims have dled, according to last re ports. Mr. and Mrs. James Russell were critically hurt as they lay im bed. The home was literaily blown to pieces over their heads and they were buried in the ruins. Mrs. Sam Merrifield sustained serios injurfes in a similar manner. Choose D~Graves’ night. Perhaps half of her audience was present to see her interpret ‘“Camille.” It is safe to-assert that the other half | were present as a complimient to_.her be- | cause of her fight against the syndleate | that had closed the doors of Texas play- | houses against her. o < its former high officers. ~Although the actions, which are brought by Joseph H. Choate and the Mutual's law depart- | ‘ment, acting for the Truesdale commit- tee and the board of trustees, are civil rsults tolicover ‘datnages, ’ the ' ‘chiirges made the complaint¥ 'Served today | embody ° criminal ' allégations, both fraudilent’ ¢onspiraly and conversion | betng teloties wnder the faw. i [ /The -defendants’ ndiwed :fn” thesé ac- tions are: Richard Al “MeCurd: h\s' son, Robert H. McCurdy: his son-in-Taw, | Louis A. Thebaud, and Colonel Charles H. Raymond of the firm of C. H. Ray- mond ‘& Co. In these latest suits judgment is de- l marded fn the sum of $1,200,000, with | interest. - Richard A. McCurdy has been | sued already for $3,370,341. } One of the complaints charges that a fraudulent and corrupt conspiracy and caused such | agreement was made between the men | named at or about the time of the em- ployment in 1893 of Charles H. Ray- mond and Louis A. Thebaud, under the firm name of C. H. Raymond & Co,, as general agents of the company through- out the greater portion of the city of New York and its environs. | \ ———— Mutual's British Manager Resigns. LONDON, March 26.—D. C. Haldeman, | British manager of the Mutual Life In- surance Company of New York, has re- signed owing to differences of opinion between himself and the New York of- fice over matters which he considers of vital importance to the British policy holders. —_———————— § Notorious Reactionary Given Office. ST. PETERSBURG, March 26.—The Rech says that Professor NicRolsky, a notarious leader of the Black Hundred, has been appointed by Interior Minis- ter Durnovo to a position in the Minis- try of the Interior at a salary of $5000. SPECIALTO-DAY Tooth Powder Dentists say— ‘It is the best denti- frice and antiseptic in the world for the teeth and gums—Ileaves the | enamel white and gleaming; also leaves a delicious after taste.” In handy metal cans or bottles, 256 Dr. Graves’ Tooth Powder Go. Nine Years From Now In San Francisco. If you are alive in 1915 this is what you will prebably read: March cotty, the hero of Death Valley,” passed away this evening from a sudden attack of the “emotional heart,” a malady which is becoming quite popular among the high-class stage artists. It will be remembered his first appearance was at the Grand Opera-house in March of the year 1906. Printed list of property free: “Shannon the real estate man.” Genuine 323 Montgomery Street. Leather. 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