The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1906, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH & ““| DID NOT DO IT,” CRIES ACCUSED MRS. LE DOUX met her mother yestsrday. woman sobbingly told her mother she Mrs. Le Doux, for the first time since her arrest for the murder of McVicar, The mecting was an affe was innocent. cting one. The accused Sobbingly Pleads In- nocence in Armms of Mother. Affectng Meeting n Cell of Alleged Murderess. Jackson Attorney May Defend Accused Woman. aid not he mother breast. Mrs. Le \ce hier arrest, afte she appeared eshed. R DEATH. WILLIAMS' QU Death of One Husband of Mrs. Le Doux | Excites Suspicion. OENIX Mar y and during 1902. Wil- cious circum- by Dr. C. L. Ed- g by s suspected, it was ,at Williams had died of presumably heart fafl- member of the in Globe and that organi- ded 375 to the widow for The fraternal insur- her by Lewis Hunt, rkmen. The money woman under the name Willlams. There is lived in Mexico bee and that while married to a man named gh whether she left him known in Bisbee for five or six years, be known as a steady, re- e and straightforward man. Long r to the death of Williams, accord- » report, he had occasion to take wife to task for her familiar asso- on with McVicar, wk t z to do with the ime concern- ams’ death, regularity” of W not strong er investig A from heart re was rende renewed his attentions to in the latter part of narried and went to where -it was. understood @he Ty Chas Beilus & Co Exclusisve Figh-Grade Clothiers N h Storeg and No Agents. THIS IS QUALITY SHOP WITH CLOTHES CULTURE. GARMENTS WE SHOW ARE FINER THAN ANYBODY EVER DARED TO MAKE. OUR STYLES ARE EMPHATIC; DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS. G00D DRESSERS LIKE - THIS, SORT OF EXCLUSIVE, YOU ENOW We _have removed the msual objections to resdy-made . clothes, and placed them above the best efforts of tallors. The secret of our muccess is that we mever have catered 120132 fearny Street Thurlow Block to the gullible. | | | OF FICCR J4. CREIG. LI i ¥ | TWO OFFICIALS OF STOCKTON { THE MYSTERY SURROU: WHO ARE AT WORK TRYING TO SOLVE | NDING THE WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND IN A TRUNK AT THE STOCKTON DEPOT. 5 MURDER OF MINER McVICAR, INTOICATED JUDCE TALKS Council Bluffs Busi- ness Men. Special Dispatch to The Call. DES MOINES, la., March 29.—Iowa Re- publicans are stirred from center to cir- | cumference by the publication of details ; Of the circumstances that brought about the introduction of a resolution before the Council Bluffs Business Men's Federation, demanding the removal from the Federal bench ‘of Judge Smith McPherson, who was appointed Judge for the Southern District of Iowa while representing the Ninth Iowa District in.Congress. Thus far there has been no denial of the charge that Judge Mg¢Pherson was drunk while addressing a banquet given by the Council Bluffs merchants in honor of Governor Cummins. McPherson is an extreme stand-patter and an implacable foe of Governor Cummins. He scheduled to respond to one of the toasts, preceding Governor Cummins. When called upon he arose .with un- steady legs and clung to the table for sup- port while speaking. He talked in a rambling and fcoherent manner, He re- marked that one was not always able to choose the company he should keep. Could he have done so, he declared, he would | have kept far away from Council Bluffs, {for he always detested the town. 8o, too, in politics he had no time for reforms or reformers. He thought it an outrage | that so-called, self-styled Republicans | should ~advocate reforms that really |'branded them Democrats and were at varfance with tr tional Republican teachings. He ignored the topic that had been assigned to him, became maudlin and unintellible, and wound up by usurp- ing the function of toastmaster, intro- ducing the Governor himself. The latter ignored the cireumstdnce and in his | speech made no reference to anything Mc-+ Pherson had said. The Council Bluffs merchants were in- dignant and at a meeting the next day a resolution was passed demanding the impeachment or removal of McPherson. A_sub-committee was named to consider this resolution and permitted it to die a natural death, taking the position that McPherson's act being outside his official duty, President Roosevelt could not be expected to take cognizance of it. —_—e————— NEW YORK THEATRICAL MEN SUED BY DRAMATIC CRITIC Secks to Recover $270,000 Damages Because Mapagers Debar Him ¥From Their Houses. NEW-¥YORK, March 29.—Basing his claim upon an allegation that they con- spired for the purpose of depriving him of his means of livelthood and to injure his reputation socially and profession- ally, James Metcalfe, dramatic critic of the Life, has begun suit against twen- ty-seven theatrical managers to recover $270,000, at which amount he places the personal damages he has sustained. The action grows out- of a resolution adopted by the Theatrical Managers' Association of Greatey, New York last year, whereby Metc# as to barred from all the N@uses included the combinationd * R ‘This step on the part of Metealfe fol- lows upon the eriminal proceedings he brought against several of the managers in which he was sustained by Magis- trate Poole. s 3 — McVicar sought in the mines. employment R LI Ly TRAPPED BY NORTON. Mrs. Le Doux Makes Significant Re- mark During Examination. STOCKTON, March 29—The only sur- prise, the only emotions and the only evidence of keen interest Mrs. Le Doux has betrayed since her arrest was . at Antioch when she was undergoing ex- amination by District Attorney Norton. In the course of the conversation he said many things to lead her on, Norton |made in a purely incidentai way the remark that there was a great deal of | biood in the - trunk. The .woman started visibly, and, appar- | ently unconscious of the purport of her | comment, said, “Is that so? Why, I don’t see how that could be.” At the time not even the officers caught the full significance of the re- | mark, for they were not then working | on the theory that McVicar was polson- | ed and thrown into the trunk before | life had fled. "Now the entire trend of their efforts is toward an exploitation of the poison theory. Coroner South- worth stated positively this afternoon, and was willing to be quoted as say- ing, that, in his opinion, the man was still alive when placed in the trunk. It is réported on reliable authority that a supplemental autopsy on McVicar's body has disclosed the fact that Mc- | Vicar's nose had been violently frac- tured, the wound evidently having been infiicted while his heart yet beat. It 15 even said that the embalming flujd worked Its way through the drained ar- teries and ebbed from the nostril. S g L ] POSES FOR HER PICTURE. Mrs. Le Doux Calmly Adjusts Her Coif- fure Before the Jail's Camera. STOCKTON, March 29.—Richard de Treville, & local newspaper artist, to- day for Sheriff Sibley photographed | Mrs. Le Doux in the jail. Of his ex- | perience he says: { After a walt of about ten minutes, during which time she arranged her hair and hat, she was brought in and seated in front of the camera. -She appeared perfeetly -cocl and coi- | lected, not showing the slightest trace of | nervousness, and did just as she was told, | without any hesitancy. As I was focusing the camera she noticed that a number of people | in the bullding acrose the street were looking | on, Ehe ‘appeaved siightly annoyed and askeq if people were allowed to ‘rubber” in that way. 1 asked her to sit as quletly as possible while I made the firs{ exposure, It was a front view, with the hat on. I then took a profile. When .it was over she seemed relieved and | remarked that it was tiresome. Mre. Le Doux was then measyred and found to be exactly five feet three inches 4n helght. Sheé eald e thought- her height' was only five feet two inches. ‘Perhaps my high heels make the difference,” she re 5 All through the posing she seemed perfectly indifferent and acted in a nonchalant manner. The prisoner was certainly - perfectly willing | t her picture taken 'and went. through | | M’ VICAR POIS 6NED IN THIS CITY ONMARCH 12, WHEN MRS. LE DOUX SUMMONS DOCTOR Continued From Page 1, Cols. 3 and 4. ,Casting down her eves and twitching nervously with her fingers, Mrs. Le Doux replied, “I am addicted to °the habit of using it and have been for years. I feel a craving for some of the drug . after the excitement of Monday night, and I cannot get any of it in town. I always secure it at Stockton, where I am known. You are the first | one I have told of my love for mor- p-.ne.” Still believing the- woman spoke the truth and warning her as to how the drug should be handled, Dr. Dillon gave Mrs. Le Doux one dram or sixty grains of the morphine. After securing it Mrs. Le Doux | thanked Dillon and told him she and Me- Vicar intended to leave for Stockton that night. Dr. Dillon never lald eyes on either of them since, and the incidents completely slipped his mind till he, lika | thousands of others, read of the awful | Stockton trunk tragedy. KNOWS WOMAN FOR YEARS. Dr. Dillon is at a loss to know how the Stockton authorities heard of the inéi- dents, but s inclined to beliéve the woman herself told them. ’ District Attorney Nor- ton yesterday afternoon called up Dilion on the ’phone from the Mill City and had an extended talk with him. The Stockton -| official; said he .would arrive in this city today .and have a conference with the medical man. This is evidepece enough to show that the Stockton officials think they are on another important clew, “I have known Mrs. Le Doux and her family for many years, having been their regular physician,” said Dr. Dillon last night.” I also was very friendly with McVicar after his marriage to the woman some years ago. “The incidents that happened at the. Lexington and-in my drug store may pr may not have any bearing on the Stock- ton horror. Some one has notified Dis- trict Attorney Norton of my knowledge of the case and he evidantly thinks this clew is an important one, for he had a long talk over the phone with me and said he would be down teday to talk over the case with me more fully. “Had it not been for the subsequent Stockton events, I would have consid-| ered the fact of my being called in no more than an ordinary incident. Ihave known Mrs. Le.Doux for a great many years and never noticed anything about her manner pr general behavior that would lead me to belleve she was ca- pable of committing the atroclous crime o ha t-all as if she was posing it & gallery instead of-the jail. < Minor Morocenn Heforms Discussed. ALGHCIRAS, March 28.—The plenary sitting of the conference on Moroccan’ reforms: today discussed customs tar- iffs ard public works, and agreed re- garding a number of details, the re- maindet going over until Satdrday. The delegates conferred privately relative to the police and bank questions, in or- der to reach absolute -unanimity on those subjects before they come up In ihe_conference for ratification. —————— Captures & 100-Ton Whale. VICTORIA, “B. C., March 29.—The whaler Orion, operating on the west coast of Vancouver Island, today land- ed a 100-ton sperm whale, which is said to be the first caught in the Pacific | which I understand she has practically confessed to., & ADVISES HER TO QUIT MORPHINE. “When ‘I answered her call on the night ‘of Marcu 12 she looked. greatly worrled, but her conduct impressed me with the belief that she was excited over an accident that had befallen her supposed husband, not showing the emotions one usually betrays after at- tempting to commit an awful crime. I am certain McVicar did not suspect the woman tried to poison him, as he told me it was the clams and beer he had partaken of that made him so sick. He did not seem to think of poison. . “When I gave her the morphine two days later that she was a vietim of the drug and familiar with it in every detall. This she was, judging from her manner of conversation regarding its. peculiarities made’ her first assure me and general effect upon administration. I gave her some ‘fatherly’ advice about the awful effects of the drug, and she seemed repentant and said she would do her best to ngut against it. “I would have let her have the other poison too, had there been any in the store at the time, for this drug is used by all photographers and I did not think it very extraordinary she should want some of it for this purpose. I did not hesitate in giving her the order on the Baldwin pharmacy for the drug. I had known the woman for so long and I had no reason to belleve her Intentions were other than the best. STOCKTON AUTHORITIES KNOW. ‘‘The woman herself must have inform- ed the Stockton authorities of both Inci- | dents, for I do not know how they could hgve become possessed of the facts through any other source. It completely slipped my mind till I read of the awful crime a few days ago.” It is more than likely that the poison purchased by.the woman at the Baldwin drug store in this city caused the death of McVicar in Stockton. The woman evi- dently wanted td purchase the drug where she was not known, so that the police would be witheut a clew as to how she came by it. What she wanted with the morphine has not yet been determined, but she probably wished to have a good supply of poison on hand, so that if one varfety did not produce the desired ef- fects the other would. No one before ever vouchsafed the in- formation that Mrs. Le Doux was a mor- phine fiend. She may be addicted to this drug or she might have been lying to Dr. Dilion in order to obtalm it at the time she secured the cyanide of potassium. She secured a whole dram of the drug, which s ample to kill several men. None of this poison has as yet been discovered by the autherities in their search. HEALY THINKS HE IS LUCKY. Joseph Healy, the former flance of Mrs. Le Doux, returned from Stockton yester- day. He declared that he was unable to furnish the Stockton police authorities with any more information than he had given Captain Burnett. He denies the story that he told the Stockton officers of a man named Milton. “That is all rot,” he sald. “I had told all that I knew about the woman already. No, I did not see her when I was in Stockton and I don’t want to see her again. I am a pretty lucky fellow. Sup- posing that I had married her and had had'my life insured. I can't make the woman out, She liked me, T think, but I guess she would have done with me what she did with the others. I am an awful lucky man. ————————————— CITRUS FRUIT GROWERS A. RAILROADS FOR RATE REFORM LOS ANGELES, March 20—In line with . their efforts to secure reform in the matter of shipments, rates, routing and icing privileges over transcontinen- tal railroads, .the executive committee of the Citrus. Protective League has is- sued invitations to the Southern Pa- cific, Banta Fe and Salt Lake railroads ‘asking them to send representatives to the conference with the representatives of the league in an effort to arrive at some amicable and just settlement of ferences. The date of the conference was left to the rallroads. was | - paxy STRANGE DEATH OF YOUNG WIFE. Mrs. C. M. Butterfield Dies at Her Home Under Peculiar Circumstances. grme —aw | o———— - BRIDE OF A YEAR WHO DIED UNDER SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUS CIRCUM- STANCES AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY. EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING FROM GAS ASPHYXIATION. L s 1 & — =5 her home, 1430 Oak street, suffering from gnas asphyxiation. She sur- vived twenty-four hours after heing discovered. Whether suicide or aceldent caused her death is a mystery. o Mrs. Clara Maud Butterfield was found uncensclous in her bedroom at Mystery surrounds the causes of the death of pretty Mrs. F. R. Butterfjeld, who was found early Wednesday morning in a dying condition in the bedroom of her home, 1439 Oak street. Her family say that it was purely a case of accidental asphyxiation, while the neighbors are reported to hint that there was a possibility that she may have taken her life in a case of pique. She is said to have been of a high-strung disposition, and it is rumored that on several occa- sions she had threatened to take her lite when household matters had not gone to her satisfaction. It is reported that once or twice she made the “gas play,” “Just to scare the family.” Mrs. Butterfleld retired on Tuesday night early, complaining bitterly of aj toothache. She occupied an apartment by herself, her husband sleeping in another room. Early Wednesday morning her sis- ter, Mrs. Wilson, who lives in the same flat, went to call her. The door was locked and a strong smell of gas was coming into the hall. The door was broken open and Mrs, Butterfleld was discovered lying | on the floor in her night robes. She was unconscious. She was immediately car- rled into another room and Dr. M. T. Wilson of 1666 Fell street was sent for. He' worked over the unfortunate woman all Wednesday, and had the assistance of Dr. D. B. Plymire in consultation. She regained partial consciousness on Wednesday afternoon and passed away carly yesterday morning. Her husband, F. R. Butterfield, who is connected with the firm of the Sterling Furniture Com- pany at 1047 Market street, her mother, Mrs. Hart, and her sister, Mrs. Williams, were by her bedside when she died. Coroner Walsh was notified and Autopsy Surgeon O. 8. Kucich went to the house of the deceased and made an examina- tion. As there was no question in his mind that her death resulted from gas poisoning, it was not deemed. necessary to remove the body to the Morgue. The family all say that her relations with her husband were pleasant, and that there was no reason why she should take her life. Her malden name was Miss Clara Maud Arguello. She resided at San Mateo previous to her marriage. An in- quest will be held after the funeral. Mrs. Butterfleld was about 27 years old. She had been marrled a yed WESTERN PACIFIC NOT OWNER OF FRANCHISE Gould Declares He Has No Interest in Los Angeles Permit. LOS ANGELES, March 29.—George Gould, in published telegrams here to- day, denles that he or any of his in- terests have anything to do with the chise granted by the City Council yesterday for three miles of steam rail- road terminal facilities along the north- eastern boundaries of the city. It has been asserted heretofore by those asking for the franchise and by Councilmen who voted for it that Gould was asking for the privilege. Several municipal and civic bodies are desperately fighting the franchise. With Gould's officlal denial that he is behind the project it is con- fidently asserted that H. E. Huntington is the beneficlary. The franchise Is esti- mated to be worth $1,000,000, although the Council is granting it without remunera- tion to the city. * ——————— AID FROM UNKNOWN SOURCE COMES TO MURDERER’S RELIEF LOS ANGELES, March 20.—It is stated ! by Attorney Warner, who defended Mor- ris Buck, ‘the convicted slayer of Mrs. Charles A. Canfield, that Buck's case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Buck 18 now at San Quentin under. sentenc hang on.June 1. As Warner, who w: appointed by the court to defend Buck, announced upon the latter's conviction that he would take no further steps in the case unless the necessary expenses of ap- peal were forthcoming, it is belleved that some persons have volunteered the neces- funds. Buck’'s defense was insanity. BERLIN HEARS - OF A PLOT BY THIS NATION Formation of South American Republic Alleged. e e i Special Cablegram to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1806, by N York Herald Publumm'fiomfiu:’:.me s BERLIN, March 29.—Reports assiduously circulated in xa?}nn :; EAE::Z‘- can intrigues in South America. Accord- ing to Dr. F. Martin in the Tageblatt the formation of a new republic under the name of La Republica del Pacifico is now proceeding with the secret assistance of the United States. The new republic is to consist of the provinces of Tacna and Arica, which were awarded to Chile in the conflict between Peru and Chile. It is stated that as Chile is the most per- sistent opponent of the Monroe doctrine the United States affords money support toAa llegor likely to weaken her power. n article in the Post state: llv]‘n‘esp’ai.fln‘ for war. et VASHINGTON, March 29.—Th, publication that the United Slll; ?:f:’: sisting in the formation of a ““Republica del Pacifico” is given no credence by of- ficlals here. From time to time in recent years there have been occasional rumors 1 | our customers. e 0 the benefit of the middlemen’s profits. that Chilean influence was exercised against the United ‘States In South America, but their truth has never been officlally demonstrated. Persons familiar with South American politics belleve that Chile, which pursues a consistent foreign policy through changing administrations, is working steadily toward a better un- derstanding with Brazil. —_—— Deputies Kill a Crippled Boy. MUSKOGEE, L T., March 29.—A posse of deputies hunting the trio of Wick- liffe Indian outlaws in the Cherokee Nation *have shot and killed a crippled boy and ®aptured the latter's. uncle, ‘Wassart Ballridge, suspected of sympa- thizing with the Wickliffes, according to an Indian who arrived here today from the hills. The officers rushed Ballridge's house. The boy raan and | was shot through the abdomen. The shooting is said to have aroused the | full-blood Cherokee Indians. ———e———— Rates Reduced. On April 10 there will be a radicalreduction in passenger fares inaugurated by the Califor- nia Northwestern Raflway from San Francisco to points north of Santa Rosa, on its road in noma and Mendocino countles. Last year at this time company made quite a reduction in its er—tares, and this spring foliows it ‘up with another deep cut. The object is to throw that part of the country open to the people. It is well known as one of the momt delightful sections in California and the com- pany is determined that the people shall have every facility to visit same this summer. Fare from San Francisco to Wil be 1.50; Cloverdale, $2.25; Hopland, $3; Ukiah, 150; Willits, Guerne: ville, $1.50. . CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of BIG STRIKE BEGINS WITH WEEK'S END Continued from Page I, Columa 1. j vote in joint conference for this demand as their ultimatum. The lliinots, Indiana and Ohin operators adhered to thelr po= sition not to pay any advance. APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT. The coal operators of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and those of Western Pennsyl- vania who have opposed in the joint con- ference the payment of any increase in wages to the miners met tonight in the Claypool Hotel and at a late hour mads public the following resolutions, which were adopted in executive session: ““Whereas, the coal operators and rep- resentatives of the miners of the States of Illinols, Indlana, Ohlo and Western Pennsylv a have met in Indianapolis at the suggestion of the President of the United States for the purpose of endeav- oring to agree on a scale of wages and mining conditions for a period beginning April 1, 196, and the parties having been unable to reach an agreement and have adjourned sine die, be it, “Resolved, That we, the coal operators of the States of Illinois, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania, representing at least 80 per cent of the tonnage of the territory involved, who have felt and stijl feel unable to pay any advance in wages at this time, do hereby propose that the President of the United States appoint a commission to investigate all matters which, In the judgment of the commis- sion, have an impertant bearing upon or relation to the scale of wages whic should be paid all classes of labor in a: about the coal mines of the territory Rere- in involved and other conditions now im- posed and insisted upon by the United Mine Workers of America; such commis- sion to report to the Presideat of the United States its findings of faets, to- gether with its recommendations. “Be it further resolved, That such com- misston have power to administer oaths and compel attendance of witnesses.” —_———————— Motorman Is Fined 325. LOS ANGELES, March 29.—In the test case against the Huntington street rail- roads of this city, involving the right of the company to run freight cars through the city, Motorman George Leabo, who was convieted under the charge a week ago was today fined $25 by Justice Chltm- bers. The case will be appealed by the company. — et————— BELGRADE, March 20.—The leaders of the regicides will shortly be placed on the retired list, thus paving the way for a resumption of dipiomatic relations with Great Britain. The most prominent will be debarred from wearing the army uniform. As a sop to the regicides some thirty of their most active opponents will also be retired. The New High Telescope This hat is one of the snappiest creations for the present spring sea- son. OFS cecevvnnccsnnncnnns That’s OUR price. You'd have to pay $3.50 at any other hat store for an equal value. The reason is that we manufacture all .our hats and sell them directly to We thus give YOU We are satisfied with ONE profit. This suits us, because it suits our patrons. Get in line, please your head, and save a dollar the whilee BE AN EARLY BIRD. Unjon label cn every Lundstrom Hu 1458 MARKET STREET Oppogsite Central Theater 605 KeArNy STReET San Francisco 9 Years From Now In San Francisco. If you are alive in 1915 this is what you will probably read: March 29.—The little building on the southeast corner of Mar- ket and Third streets, known as the “Examiner bullding.” is be- ing torn down to give room to a more modern strueture. Hearst intends erecting a build ing that will eclipse the Chronicle building opposite. M —~8ai arch 29. m Berger, the heavy-weight chmplnn”ot the world, meets “Kid” Suallivan to- night for three rounds. It seems a long time since we've had twenty-round bouts. Printed list of property free. “Shannon the rnl’ e-’t:ls’m;.g' 323 Montgomery Street. Ammuaition, Hunting sad Eey EVE & BARBER CO., Ilrlfl. st. and 521 W. T. HESS, ‘h-m-fl%:cm. ‘Shreckeis bidg. 1400 . Restdence Telephons Yol Hioe SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.. March 1906.— Sealed n ietpiicate will b6 recelved at this until 11 a. m. Saturday, March 81, 1906, and then opened for all and mw -.i be at Head- Bevartment of Callfornia. ‘Guring e ecs) the fiscal I e h.lh r\-n: of manufacture duty )