The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1906, Page 11

» Pages1lto ] Pagcs I A 1t02 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1906. GORKY FINDS A REFUGE =7 B AR EN A, [ir * 3 T, " SSSSSE LADRONE BAND R Three A 2 SN N WIS NN WITH WRITERS 05 ARSENAL EAR MANILA of the Defending Constabulary Slain rs bulld- t of police and constab- : | vember, uit R - FORETEIL Clergyman, LS DA TEN X OF DEATH ARS IN ADVANCE Like His Two Passes Away at the Age of Forty-Six. 2 A I am 4 stop was a son app is eit °cy was is as 1 re the last words of the dy- that he ced ago ar- his earthly » fell 111 Soon’ my inced he at- me 8" he sald heart God has so willed ———ee—————— Dies After Leaving Church. April 16—Frank Geiger, nded church yesterday, died a s after his return to his ¥ Valley, Death overtook in a chair reading. He of a pioneer of this county, the | | | | | | | | pire,on March 4, 1 | Roosevelt | minds of the Pre + TS SRS | i 3 i 2 SVOLUTIONIST NOW EW YORK, AND THE FAMI- E DESERTED. WOULD SERVE THE COUNTRY IS SERKTOR Mr. Roosevelt Expects to Continue in Public Life. e e DISPATCH TO THE CALL. April 1t.—President has made known to some of BCIAL | those with whom he has talked recently | that his ambition is to represent the State | | of New York in the United States Senate after he leaves the White House in 1909. There is not the ghtest doubt in the nt’s closest friends that he intends to adhere strictly to his announcement on election night in No- slij would he serve another term in his pres- ent office. In speaking of his future Mr. Roosevelt has taken it for granted that his listeners fully understood that he Brothers, | Would not again be a candidate for the Presidency. It s assumed from what Mr. Roosevelt 1 16.—Ten | has sald that he much prefers remaining gach, | in public life to becoming president of Harvard University. Both of the present Senators from New 11| York are more than 70 years of age, and 1t | is generally understood that neither will stand for re-election. Roosevelt will cease to be President, March 4, 1909, while Depew’s term will ex- If he were elected | to sweceed Platt, Mr. Roosevelt would be | sworn in as Senator, if he so desired, on | the day of his retirement from the Presi- dency. Upon his accession to the Presidency in 1301 Mr. Roosevelt was the voungest man who had ever occupled that office. If he lives until the expiration of his present term he will be only 5 years old. He will then be thirty-five years younger than the nestor of the Senate, Pettus of Alabama. John Quincy Adams served ‘eight terms in the House of Representalives after he had ceased to be President in 1829, e Ships Coilide in the Soo. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., April 16, Two big freight steamships, the Sax- onia and the Eugene Zimmerman, col- lided in the Soo passage today and both sank. The crews escaped. SOCIETY Russian Novelist Goes | Into Seclusion in * 1 New York. May Be DeportedFroml Country on Charge | of Bigamy. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YCRK, April 16.—Maxim Gorky |1s still in this city—not, as reported, in some out of town retreat... Frignds of | the Russian revolutionist thfJ after- = | | tity of Gorky's companion did not in- gt PR K L | | 904, that under no circumstances | { Platt will cease to | the hour | be a Senator on the same day that Mr. 3 somewhat reluctantly Andreiva, he fs domi- ciled. at 3 Fifth avenue, which is | the headquarters of an organization known as Club A, a co-operative so- clety of writers. Gorky is writing let- ters for publication and the work of translation is being partially done by his son. Russlan Consul General Nicholas de Ladygensky, when seen at the con- sulate, said that he had no knowledge regarding the identity of Gorky's com- | panion, and that the Russian Govern- ment was not concerning itself regard- ing the revolutionist, leaving the sub- | ject to the intelligence of the American | people and of Commissioner of Immi- | gration Watchorn. If Gorky has vio- lated any American law, the Consul | said, America could be depended upon | to do what was proper. ‘ At the Russian Blue Cross Soclety it was said that the question of the iden- noon admitted | that, with Mme. | terest them to any great extent, be- cause in Russia common law marriages | were regarded with equanimity. The | actress who is accompanying Gorky is | of the provincial type, such as tour the country but are not allowed to play in St. Petersburg, where only those of the highest powers may appear upon the stage. Gorky showed feeling the situation which had about through what he activities of his enemies. “The Russian Government and its secret police recognize my marriage to Mme. Andreiva,” sald Gorky, speaking with some bitterness. “Why then should there be a question over the matter here? I cannot believe that my wife and I are beilng sacrified through a desire for cheap sensationalism on the part of a certain section of the American press. I do not want to be- lieve that. But If it be not due to that, then it is owing to the work of emissaries of the Russian Government. This hurts me very much—more than I can say. She is my wife—my wife in every sense of the word.” Immigration Commissioner Robert Watchorn said the Gorky case was no longer in the hands of the local Im- | migration Bureau.® It was up to Secretary Metcalf of the Department of | Commerce and Labor at Washington, he sald, “If Gorky is, as he says, married to the actress and at the same time not legally separated from his wife in Rus- | sla, then he is llable to deportation,” said the commissioner, ‘“for both bigamy and polygamy are under the ban of the immigration laws. As the case now stands, however, we have no evi- | dence against Gorky or the woman who came here as Mme. Gorky.” ‘Word was received yesterday through the central committee of the Bund of this city that Maxime, who was the leader during the revolution | in the Baltic provinces, and head of the federal committee during the three weeks of the republican government, would be in New York'in a few days. ! His mission to this country is similar to that of Gorky. He will make a tour of the United States, making speeches and lecturing. B | KING ALFOYSO TO VISIT { FIANCEE IN HER HOME Will Reach England Today, Where Ar- rangements Will Be Made for Marriage. LONDON, April 17.—There is every promise that King Alfonso's visit to {his bride-elect in her English home lWl'll be favored by beautiful. weather. | The King will arrive at Cowes at 9 o'clock this morning (Tuesday), bring- ing presents and intending to spend three weeks here, during which time the final details of the wedding will be arranged and the marriage compact drawn up. For this purpose the King's suite includes high court officials who {will be in constant telegraphic com- munication with Madrid, where the Government also will be dealing with the matter. | “Princess Ena and her mother, Princess Henry of Battenberg, will meet King Alfonso on-board the Spanish royal aacht Giralda before he lands,’ in talking of been brought considers the SPRINGFIELD NEGROES IN UGLY MOOD Race War May Result From Lynching, Colored Man Killed After Firing Upon White Couple. Governor Folk Causes Arrest of Four Leaders of the Mob. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, April 16—On leaving for St. Louis this afternoon Governor Folk made the following state- ment: “I am now advised that about 100 of the lealers of the Saturday night mob are known. I have in- structed General Clark to arrest these and place them in jail. If an attempt at rescue is made and more troops are needed I will send the First Regiment and Light Battery A of St. Louis.” SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 1@.—Leslic Peters, 16 years old, shot and killed Ralph Burns, a negro of bad reputation, one of two that attacked him in this city tonight while he was escorting a young lady home from' a party. The negroes aceostéd him at the gate of the young lady's home, and one of them fired two shots from a revolver at him, but neither shot took effect. Peters immediately fired four times at the negroes, killing one of them. Peters went to the police station and gave himself up, but was re- leased without bail. May Lead to Race War. The news of the killing of an- other negro spread like wildfire through the city and hundreds of persons left their beds and has- tened to the public square. The militia on guard there prevented any violent outbreak, and after a time dispersed the crowds, and no further trouble is feared to- night, though it is believed that the killing will tend to increase the feeling against the negroes: Citizens that had been disposed to sympathize with the negroes are incensed at this latest negro as- sault. A squad of militia was detailed to guard the home of the young lady whom Peters was escorting when he was attacked. Four Men Under Atrest. Four men are now under arrest here, charged with having been leaders of the mob that broke into” the County Jail. Saturday night and lynched three negroes. One of the alleged mob leaders is in jail and three.have been re- leased on bail. Charles. Cannefax and Oney Calfry were the first men ar- rested. Cannefax has been a poolroom proprietor, but is at present employed in the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad yards. Calfry is a switchman for the same road. Daniel Crane, son of D. D. Crane, a well-known saddlery merchant, was the third man arrested. Crane moves in the best society here. The three have been released on bonds. Otis Hall, the last man ar- rested, is a police court character. Hall is still in jail. Cannefax went to Sheriff Hor- ner today and inquired how much damage had been done by the mob to the Sheriff’s property. Cannefax was informed that it would amount to $1000. He then said a collection would be taken up to repair the loss, but his offer was flatly refused by Sheriff Hor- ner. The Grand Jury will meet to- morrow morning especially to e e ran ot Ak e AR e * Continued on Paze 12, Column 1. | | DELMAS REFUTES CHARGE WITH COURT RECORDS. Challenges Attorney L. M. Hoefler to Produce Proof and Pours Forth Elogquence That Silences His Accusers. LT e Like a knight of old, Attorney D. M. Delmas appeared before Judge Kerrigan yesterday to refute the charge made against him by Attorney L. M. Hoefler last Thursday at the trial of the Yoell will contest. Hoefler, who represents the contestants, had charged that Delmas, at- torney for the defense, had at one time been sued by J. Aléxander Yoell for mon- eys he was alleged to have withheld. With convincing eloquence, backed by a certified copy of the proceedings in the case referred to by Hoefler, Delmas pro- ceeded to refute the charge and confound his accuser. The documents showed that in 1883 Yoell was empowered to collect $5000 for Delmas, and claimed $2000 as his fee. Delmas regarded the amount as exorbitant ‘and Yoell then brought a suit that was never pressed to trial. Before Delmas produced these rec- ords to show how woefully garbled was the account of that case as told to the jury by Hoefler, Delmas made demand of the contestants that they bring for- ward the records which might support the charges their chief counsel had mads. The attorney, who warmed up in elo- quence, hurled challenge after chal- lenge at his accusers, but the only an- swer came from Attorney E. E. Cothran of San Jose, assoclate counsel for the contestants, “What Mr. Hoefler has said we will prove when the proper time comes,” was his only reply. With dramatic intensity that was ac- centuated by the deathlike silence that prevailed, Attorney Delmas addressed the court as follows: CHARGE SPREAD BROADCAST. “If your Honor please, before proceeding further with this cause, I desire to ad- dress a motion to your Honor, a motion somewhat, I acknowledge, out of the beaten path of procedure, justified, per- haps, by the fact that it is addressed to a matter itself outside of the usual course of events. On last Thursday, in this courtroom, in making a statement to the jury of what the contestants purposed proving in this case, their counsel stated, among other things, that he would prove that years ago James Alexander Yoell brought suit in San Jose against D. M. Delmas to recover a sum of money which Mr. Delmas-had collected for him but had never paid over. “That statement was made with all the deliberation which ought naturally to at- tend a charge of that gravity. It was at once published to the world. The papers appeared with headlines the next morn- ing stating that the defendant’s counsel had publicly teen charged with a breach of trust, and had withheld from his client moneys which he had collected - for his use. It had been copied and reiterated in many, doubtless in most, of the papers which have been publish¢d in this State and, through the Assoclated Press, has now been disseminated throughout the United States. For the Aslatic plague does not spread its. pestilential wings more rapidly over the land than does a slander. The uccguflon came, as was well remafked by one of the morning papers, like a bolt out of a clear sky. “I confess that it took the person against whom it was launched somewhat by surprise, and that, anticipating no such charge, he was then unprepared to meet it in a proper way. Trusting to his -memory, and to that alone, of an event which took place some quarter of —_ 2M5S B.YOEZL GENT/IE FPHOTOS | e -+ THREE DAUGHTERS OF J. ALEX- ANDER YOELL, WHOSE WILL IS BEING CONTESTED, o * a century ago, he did, however, in your Honor’s presence and that of the jury, denounce the statement as a base, wicked and malignant falsehood. RECORD DEMANDED. “He called upon the counsel, who had madé that charge relating to -a matter which, if it existed at all, was a matter of record in one of tne courts of this State, to know whether he had the record upon whfth that charge was based. He was answered by that counsel that he did have the record. He then asked if coun- sel would produce that record, and hold- ing in his hands what doubtless was a certified copy of those proceedings, hav- | ing that under hls eye, the counsel stated that that record would be produced at the proper time. “That incident, if your Honor please, placed him who now addresses you, if he made the explicit denial of that charge that he did make, knowing it to be true—placed him in the attitude of an Infamous liar. If, on the other hand, that charge was thus made de- liberately by opposing counsel, if it was made with the record in his hand which’ showed that that charge was false, if it has been alldwed by him to be disseminated the world over, to poi- son the public mind, he knowing that it was false, what language is adequate to describe his conduct? What brand of infamy shall be seared into the brazen front of the man who made such a charge, knowing It to be untrue, made it with the record in his hand and under his very eyes, which provea. it to be false? “If your Honor pleases, one of two men, members of your bar, about to embark in = long trial, stands before you ax an infamous linr. Which of these two men occupies that attitude? Let it not be replied that that Is a matter that concerns those two men only in their private character. It is a matter which concerns you, sir, sit- ting here as the representative of the Justice of the people of this State. ‘WHICH THE SCOUNDREL. “It behooves you to know whethe: as we proceed through the -develop- ments of this case, the counsel who appears before you is entitled to that confidence from the court which every counsel should deserve, and, deserving, should enjoy. _*“And, therefore, I call upon you, sir— you, who control the procedure In this case; you, who can determine at what time evidence that It is purposed to in- troduce shall be produced before you— I call upon you, as an act of simple Justice, as an act of mere humanity to a man who has been deeply, cruelly, wantonly wronged, to demand the in- stagt production of that record which, when produced,! will prove to your'day. MORE QUEER VOUCHERS ARE DISCOVERED New Outlet for Funds of Mutual Policy Holders. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL NEW YORK, April 16.—Many more peculiar vouchers have been found in the supply department of the -Mutual Life Insurance Company, the head of which was formerly Andrew C. Flelds, who also was the Mutual's legisiative agent in Albany. It is belleved that Field used much of the monmey in cor- rupting legislators at Albany and that the Mutual Company covered up Its tracks by ascribing these payments to ficticious persons. One series of vouchers for $150 a month for'‘“cab hire” has been found. The receipts are signed “Willlam Goodspeed,” and they appear at inter- vals of about one month during a con- siderable period. It is said Richard McCurdy and other officers of the old management were liberal In the use of cabs, but whether all the money represented by these vouchers was spent in that way is not known. ‘Willlam Goodspeed does not appear in the New York city directory. It was shown during the recent legislative inquiry that many vouchers were signed in Field's department by employes and others who did not re- velve the momey for the vouchers to which their names are appended. Vouchers have been found bearing dates -at frregular Intervals and re- ceipts for $130 for “furnishing plants for the court.” The “court” is supposed to mean the interior - court of the Mutual's main buflding. Honor which of these two men stands before you as an infamous scoundrel and lar. If you do not exercise your power may I, as a matter of simple Justice, ask that I be permitted to place in your clerk’s hands for your inspec- tion and the inspection of these gen- tlemen of the press, who have, however innocently, poisoned the public mind on this subject, a certified copy of the record which proves that charge to have been. what I stamped it as being at the time, a wicked, infamous, ma- licio le?” Gertrude Yoell, one of the daughters of ths deceased capitalist, who has been practically disigherited by %the terms of the will, w: ut on the stand to identify dlaries that had beem kept by her father. When Attorney Hoefler attempted to introduce the books in evidence Attorney Delmas objected vig- orously. and the ‘rest of the day ‘was consumed in argument. The case will go on at 10 o’'clock to~ <R SRRy