The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1906, Page 1

STATE , ZEAL="PRINTS MORE NEWS THAN — THE WEATHER, Forecast for March 29, 1908: San Francisco and vieinity—Cloudy, unsettled weather Thursday, possibly showers; light south winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. ANY COLUMBIA- tery.” TIVOLI—'“The ALHAMBRA—“A Midnight Marriage." ALCAZAR—"The Dictator.” CALIFORNIA—Rellly and Woods. SENTRAL—“Too Proud to Beg." CHUTES—Vaudeville. “Heir 1o the Hoorah." GRAND—"The Death Valley Mys- “Sweet Nell of Oid 1 MAJESTIC — Drury.” Matinee ORPHBEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee. Matinee. Isle uf Spice.” T . 119; MRS, B0B MONTGOMERY ASKS COMMISSIONERTEST CAS UGRADY TO GET BACK LETTERS FOR HER. MAKES OFFICER INGHAM DEFENDAN Quick Settlement || Is at Once Ef- || fected. |3 4 Mrs. Bob Montgomery, well known as the seller of her husband’s NQ:_ndn mine to C. M. 8chwab for $5,000,000, applied to Police Commissioner 0'Grady to have Officer R. L. Ingham return certain letters. A settlement was effected. L PROMISE MADE TO RETURN MISSIVES| Both Parties Nowi Deny Whole Affair. i | | | | MAKE EFFORT TO || COVER UP FACTS, Hotel People and|| Police Will Not |! Talk. | WOMAN SELLER OF | $5,000,000 MINE s. Bob Montgom- to get back a little e and white letters n Richard L. Ing- hispossession?> =1 kes them of such tre- ortance that she se- o Police Commis- and asked him to e them to to gi 1 wi loes Mrs. Montgom- | t she has ever seen| or that she ever heard of | gham? Are these letters the in-| | 1 1sings written by | | e long ago| | rdian of the| | are they| which | | ittle woman, e foot and em-| 1 Charles M.| with $4,000,000 cold | » does not seem to be | y man or woman in the| | ared to be laughed at be-| lish notes written a rs ago, and therefore in-| e high authorities of the MRS MONTG OMERY, ‘, police department to recall them? — THAN HE DBECLARED HE WOULD PAY FOR IT AND POLICEMAN WHO HAS PROMISED TO RETURN THE PACK- WEALTHY WOMAN WHO RECENTLY SOLD HER HUSBAND'S MINE TO CHARLES M, SCHWAB FOR' $4,000,000 MORE AGE OF BLUE AND WHITE LETTERS SHE EARNESTLY SOUGHT. Leaves Apartments ’]~ at 8t. Francis Horel| n Monday morning Mrs. Bob | ’ y left her beautiful | tr the St. Francis Ho- cretly sought out Chief | THU”EHT .l-u BE ry Dinan in his office Il of Justice. She ex-| 1 her mission there and was ld to come back on Wednesday m Ingham would be present to hear whatever she had = against him. Every ef- a 4 he police did not once S i :f wj,’r')r-x 11_(;: ]»{r(-smm in the of- Fa'lls to Lure Hlm e of the Chief. The corps ' of lerks and bellboys at ;hpe \Ot From Home' Francis did not know that she had « left her apartments. Mrs, Bob Mortgomery told no one of her strange actions, er LAKEWOOD, March 28.—Although the day was warm and sunny, John D. Rock- efeller did not stir outside his home here today. He has been accustomed to take 4 2 his exercise by pacing back and forth in 0 Gfddy Takes Char €€ | nis glass-enclosed veranda, but observ- | ers 'who have kept close watch on him .of Propa,rea' Hearmg have not noted his familiar figure there Police Cemmissioner O'Grady since last Thursday. 2 took charge bf the case for Chief Seen at a distance of several rods on that day, Rockefeller was wrapped in-a an. An bfficer of the Police 41 artment had been- indirectly shawl. His figure was bent and he ap- compromised and the Commis- peared to walk listlessly. When he no- ticed visitors observing him he retreated sioners were ghing to see that jus- tice was done.| into the living room. The guards at the_Rockefeller place have in nowise relex®d thelr vigilance. Attorney General Hamdley's promise of | the appointed time on :‘m;nu:uyfltmm tprocqs servers has not . t] Rocks inesday m'irnmg Mrs. Bob | nis mfu:w:fl e T Montgomery left the St. Francis Today for the first thme the grocery and meat vlagon* conveying supplies for and appeared afi Chief Dinan’s | the Rockefeller household were held up office. Commissioner O’Grady | at the middie gate, while a guard peered was there. " A \moment later|inSde to ses If anybody was, concealed These extra precautions, coupled with 2, Columm & " the reports that Rockefeller's mental and FORMER STATE MAYOR DUMNE OFFICIAL CIVEN | AND FRIENDS TERM IN PRISON Sherrick - Convicted of Em- bezzlement, INDIANAPOLIS, March 28.—Special Judge James E. McCulloch today handed down his decision denying a new trial, and sentenced David E. Sherrick, former Auditor of State, convicted of the embez- zlement of $120,000 of State funds, to serve from two to twenty-one years in the State prison at Michigan City. Sherrick leaned on the arm of his coun- sel when sentence was pronounced, but when asked if he had anything to say re- plied in a firm voice: “Nothing further, your Honor.” ————— Declines Nelson Memorandum. LONDON, March 29.—The British Mu- se has declined to purchase the Nel- memorandum outlining the plans or the battle of Trafalgar, which was recently sold at auction for $15.000 and offered to the museum by the purchaser at the same price. - — physical condition is far more serious than was at first supposed, have started the Lakewood residents talking. It is generally believed in the village that members of the Rockefeller household are striving to conceal his real condition. ARE AUN I of Indiana|Arrested for Violating Chicago’s Auto Or- dinance, ———— Special Dispatch to The ,Call. CHICAGO, March 28.—Mayor Dunne and a party of friends were arrested on Diversey Boulevard tonight for violation of th: automobile ordinance and came near to being taken to the Sheffield-ave- nue station by an alert policeman. Alder- man Kohouse was With the Mayor and through his intercession with the blue- coat the prisoners were eventually re- R ina attepil foratiabt ‘Party seco! attempt to arre e was made by a pol n in Lincoln Park, but an occupant of the car saved the party this time by ' advising chauffeur to ‘‘put on more juice.’ the driver did and the machire peared from the-park in a eloud of dust, while the policeman made vain to get the number.in.the tness Fishing Boat Blown Up TOKIO, March 28—A fis] “boat struck a floating mine on Marc) ‘"m the coast of the province of Hchize Japan, and was blown up, Seven of her crew of ten men are missing, e SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. INSTITUTED BY JEROME George W. Perkins Is Haled Into Court. . Legality of Campaign Contributions to Be - Decided. Former New York Life Offi- cial Obtains Writ of Habeas Corpus. Sl NEW YORK. March 2.—On a charge that his connection with the contribution of $i8,702.50 from the funds of the New York Life Insurance Company to Corne- lius N. Bliss, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, in the campaign of 1904 constituted grand larceny in the first degree, George W. Perkins, a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and until recently first vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company, was arrested today on a warrant issued by City Magistrate Moss. When a detective went to serve the warrant upon Perkins he found that a writ of habgas corpus had-already been obtained from Justice Greenbaum of the State Supreme Court and the case was immediately taken out of the magistrate’s -hands. Perking appeared before Justice Green- baum, at the request of his counscl, and the hearing in the case was adjourned until Friday. Perkins was paroled in the custody of his personal attorney, Lewis A. Delafield. . « - The warrant for Perking' a ‘was pplled for yesterday by District AXtérs ney Jerome. Magistrate Moss would not act, however, until affidavits were filed in the case. These were presented fo him. today. They were signed by Darwin P. Kingsley, vice president of the New York Life; Edmund D. Randolph, treasurer of the company, and Thomas A. Buckner, also a vice president. . ADMITS CAMPAIGN DONATION. Perking' counsel admitted to Justice Greenbaum that Perkins had advanced the sum named to Bliss upon the request of the late John A. McCall, president of the New York Life Insurance Company, and afterward was reimbursed through the action of the company’s finance com- mittee. It was contended that McCall had executive authority to make the pay- ment, and that if any crime was com- mitted it was participated in by every member of the finance committee present when the matter was acted upon. Despite the action of Jerome in apply- ing for a warrant for Perkins and thus taking’ the matter to the higher courts of the State, Judge O'Sullivan in the Court of Special Sessions today again addressed the Grand Jury, which is con- sidering life insurance matters, and in- structed the jurors that it was their duty to continue the Investigation to the end. He told the grand jurors it was their right to demand that the District At- torney subpena witnesses to be examined before them in any matter they may have under consideration. PERKINS GIVES ALL FACTS. MLEGED THEF A SICL Lo One-Time Suitor for the Hand of a of Former Senator Mason KNOWS RUTH HANNA Fashionable Friends Attend Court to Extend Sympathy When He Is Arraigned Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 25.—Interest in the unique career of John Wilmer Martine, ex-actor, former circus contortionist, man about town and friend and entertainer of smart society, was increased today when it developed that he had been a suitor for the hand of Miss Ruth Mason, daugh- ter of former United States Senator W. E. Mason of Illinois, and had at one time known Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter of the late Senator Mark Hanna. ‘When Martine was arraigned in the ‘West Side court today on the charge of grand larceny preferred by a Fifth ave- nue haberdasher, for whom he had been head salesman, a number of his fash- ionable friends drove up to the building in automobiles and were present in the court-room during his appearance there. Martine was correctly dressed. He smilingly acknowledged the bows of the soclety folk who evidently had intended to extend thelr sympathy. His arraign- ment lasted but a few minutes. for Mag- istrate Barlow granted an adjournment until Saturday, on request of counsel for W. A. McLaughlin, the complainant. Martine sald today: “Mr. McLaughlin has made a mistake in preferring charges against me. He can never prove that I had any articles in my room for which I had not pald and for which I have not receipts. I brought to him the custom of John D. Rockefeller, James Henry Smith, Mrs. Herman Oel- richs, Stuyvesant Fish, Charles M. Schwab, and other men and women of society.” CHICAGO, March 28.—Former Senator Mason was angry when shown the text of some of his daugiter’s letters, written to John Wilmer Martine, who is under arrest in New York City. T shall go to New York,” he said, “and shoot the cur that prints the letters of my . daughfer. Martine met my daughter in. Washing several years ago. It is later my daughter learned several facts in rej _to. Martine’s life which caused her to renounce him.” The love letters of Miss Ruth “Mason to Marting were written shortly: after his circus experience as the vaunted “Human Corkscrew” -and = '‘Anatomical Marvel.” They are typical letters of a school girl STEALS A CENT; CETS 3 YEARS New York Frenzied Finan- cier on a Small Scale Is Sent to Reform School Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 28.—For holding up a 10-year-old girl and stealing one penny from her Michael Petite was today sen- tenced to serve three years in the New York Reform School. His lttle victim, Priscilla Summers, told her story in the Harlem Police Court, and with tears in her eyes begged the magistrate not to be Daughter CARMEN VOTE T0 STRIKE Walk-Out Isin Prospect in Oakland. Higher Scale of Wages Is the Demang. Traction Consolidated and Key Route Are Affected. ——— The Oakland Carmen’s Union, by a vote of 510 fo 56, has de- cided fo strike unless the com- pany granted its demands. OAKLAND; March 29.—To decide whether a strike shall be called In an effort to enforce demands upon the Oak- land Traction Consolldated and the Key Route, the Carmen’s Union assembled to- night at their Headquarters, Gler's Hall, Fourteenth street, near Washingtom. For some time bef! nour, 3 o'elock. meeting to order, the mien the various . phases of the situation, with much variety of opinion being developed. It was freely predicted that, if & secret ballot were taken, the two-thirds aMirma- The affidavits upon which Magistrate | so severe with the prisoner, who is only 16 Moss acted in issuing the warrant for | years old. Perkins' arrest were forwarded to the| Priscilla was sent out by her mother to Supreme Court on a writ of certlorari. | buy an evening paper last night. Cluteh- The statement sworn to by Vice Presi-|ing a penny tightly, she was searching dent Kingsley gives some of the detalls | for a newsboy when Petite selzed her and of the meeting of the New York Life's | forced the penny from her hand. She finance committee in December, 1904, | screamed and Petite fled, but ran into the when President McCall appeared and | arms of Policeman Donohue. stated that Perkins had advanced certain large sums of money to Cornelius N, Bliss, treasurer of the Republican Na- tional Committee, pursuant to McCall's agreement to contribute $50,000 for the use in the Presidential campaign of 1904. District Attorney Jerome tonight, made public correspondence between himself and Perkins, which showed that, upon the District Attorney’s request for in- formation and without promise of any jmmunity whatsoever, Perkins had sup- plied to Jerome all the facts connected with the 1904 campaign contribution. In concluding his letter on the subject, Per- kins wrote: *“When I made the advances mentioned, and when I was reimbursed therefor, it never occurred to me that there could be any question as to the propriety of such expenditure, which I believed to be for | the benefit of the company. It has come o me as a total surprise that the legality of such payments should be questioned. After the girl's plea for clemency the presiding magistrate was inclined to re- jease Petite, but when the police informed him that the lad had already been in the Catholic Protectory three years for a sim- ilar offense and had been arrested a num- ber of times for other petty crimes he se- verely lectured the boy and sentenced him. HUNDREDS O N COAL WO TOKIO, March 28.—By an explosion in the Takamshima coal mine near Nagasaki While so asserting, it is not my inten- | today 250 miners were killed. tion to dispute or to deny civil liability to account to the company moneys.” 3 COUNSEL ASKS FOR DELAY. When the case of Perkins was presenfed to Justice Greenbaum for argument Dis- trict Attorney Jerome informed the Jus- tice of the issuance of the warrant for Perking’ arrest and the writ of habeas —_——e—————— for these | JAPANESE PARLIAMENT ENGAGES IN FREE FIGHT Members Exchange Blows as Result of Contest Over the Railway LONDON, March 20.—The correspondent at Tokio of the Dally Telegraph reports that the submission of the House of corpus. Delafield, Perkins' counsel, then | ot "o mendments to the bill for the said: - "%eom ‘W. Perkins, a man of unim- peached character, has been placed under considerable arrest this morning pursuant to a War- | hange of blows and . the tearing of nationalization of railways to the House of- Representatives on night caused a free fight, a ex- rant issued by Justice A. Moss as a clty } .jothes among members. Eventually the magistrate, by which he is charged with lice were s restoring order What I conceive to be a purely technical | bnd closing the doors In order to frus- oftense, I shall not ask at this time to enter upon a long legal argument on the x .question involved, but will ask Wm to postpone it to a more op- of | Mr. Perkins. = ,“in the summer of 1904, continued Dela- field, * elfus N. Bliss, who was the .mg,v o eiealr, Perking ot the ot nittee, called upon Mr. at the of- fice of J. P. an & Co., of which Mr. ‘-~~€¢‘IIII: ued on Page 3, Column 5. = tures agalnst e the attempt: of the opposition to 've the house in a body. The bill was then adopted by a vote of 214, the oppo- sition declining to record its vote, as it moment, when I shall be assisted | considered the Government's action in the r counsel who will be retained for | matter inconsistent with the principle of the constitutional government. —————— Cullom Files His Petition. ; . IN.. March 28.—Sen- SPRINGFIELD, ator Shelby M. Cullom's petition for Senator, * United States Se ~ filed In the office of ‘the Secretiry of contained * 121,676 _signa. State today, 4 ] 24,000 for Richard ! diately go out of their hands. associal Yates. tive vote necessary to call a strike would not be obtained. This was so. strongly impressed upon the officials of the twe companies that they issued a warning notice today to the men, urging them to demand that the ballot be a secret one in the fullest sense of the term. The statement also declared that, in the opin- ion of the companies, ‘‘the community was in no humor for a strike.” The statement read: “To Motormen and Conductors of the Oakland Traction Censolidated and Key Route— “You have been asked to vote on an impbrtant question. Go to the meeting tonight and demand what it is every man’s right to demand—the right to vote by a sealed ballot and without intimida- tion and coercion. s “Those who are most urgent in ask- ing for this vote want. the vote thelr way, and they will have it thelr way and count it their way unless you have the courage to defend your right to & free, secret ballot and a fair count. Don't be stampeded into § rising vote. Don’'t submit to a vote on roll-call. Be on your guard against ballots printed so that you can only vote ome way without detection. Look out for tlssue envelopes that show your ballot when held up to the light. All these tricks have been used and the result announced as a fair and impartial election, “We are strongly of the opinion that the community is In no humor for a strike, and we also believe that a ma- jority of you do not desire it. We have confidence in your intelligence and good judgment if you will but voice your honest judgment by your vote. “As the meeting-hour is somewhat late and Inconvenient, you are welcome to the free use of our cars to take you to the meeting and return you to your homes after it is over. Very truly, “OAKLAND TRACTION CONSOLI- DATED. “W. J. KELLY, General Manager.” The carmen began assembling at thefr hall at midnight. The meeting as an- nounced was for 2 o’clock, at which time the men were called to order by President ‘Willlam H. Ellison. The programme called for a half-hour’s debate in order to allow the last of the men to get to the hall from the “owl” cars, which reached the barns shortly after 2 o'clock. At 2:30 o’clock it was announced the voting would begin. Before the meeting President Elli~ son made the following statement: “Several months ago the Carmen’s Un- company and it has refused to consider it. The meeting tonight is for the purpose of taking a strike vote. Mr. Keily of the company has refused to recognize the vote taken on the agreement as official, take a two-thirds vote, and decide to strike the matter tion will take uj What we want first is union. There are a number of fevances that we could probably gthou.t 2 union. But we want to treat with the company as a union.” ~ It was distinctly stated by the men - that, even in the event of a vote to en- immediate strike. "11: !‘n.":-m stands ng its demands the question will then pass into _the hands S‘:h- national body, after whieh negotiations 11l open direct that body w! - Is. The publi lzore. the demands of the uaion, there g : 1 H § B 4 i I