The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1907, Page 1

| For The Call's of News of the See Page 3, Colu index Day mn 1 VOLUME ( IT.—NO. CHIEF VOLLMER Y5 STRONGEST LINK 15 FORGED Poisoned in the Klein- schmidt House of Miss Kerfoot's| Visit to Basement Said | to Be Confirmed THEORY OF POLICE old That the Young Man as Given Deadly Drug in a Drink ake the unqualified as- the strongest link in of circumstance has Thi link, according ing more nor the visit of Blanche Ker- Harry Kleinschmidt the young Bellows died, he had described it. Vollmer T R NG BEARING UPON CASE Kerfoot visited Kiein t the poison was not out t was| ningly HIEF RETICENT esterday wheth e a ested evidence could sking an anaiysis of Bellows' stom- ach or other organs Hamfin sald e would not be a to decide un- d determine he process of e body after case Bellow it any ot prevent ro COMBAT HABEAS CORPUS A ma ts are being prepared in the y's office at Oakland to n behalf ¢ t the prosecu- appears be- seek reieass on iese will be =ub- r of Berke- trict Attorney Everett J. Brown, trict Attorney Phil M. Carey M. Peck. Carey and Brown present their reasons for not hav- g placed a formal charge against 4t, although detsining him n the county jail. The doubtful status legal prdceedings on holidays and the mature of the evidence against Kieinschmigt will be adduced in sup- this position. r will give facts concerning ¢ unearthing of evidence said to im- plicate Kieinschmidt in the alleged der of Frank Beliows, and Peck, ¢ man who last talked to Bellows re his meeting with Kielnschmidt, be expected to depose regarding 4 to by Chief Vollm q Maybe you have a very steep Sinai yourself, but have you thought about ther people’s Sinais? They tell about 'them in some interesting confessions in BANK PRESIDENT CUTS THROAT T0 NOID DISERACE imates That Bellows Was Released From Prison Cell,|Dr. Britton D. Evans De- Howard Maxwell Ends His Own Life L’'S STORY PROVED REDUCED TO POVERTYfiDEFENDANT‘ Surrenders Fortune to Save Institution From Which DEATH MADE CERTAIN Severs Windpipe With Razor and Gashes Wrist With Penknife NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—Howard Maxwell, deposed president of the Borough bank of Brooklyn, who was under indictment for grand larceny and forgery and was last night re- leased from jail on $30,000 bail, com- mitted suicide today. throat and left wrist with a razor and penknife in the bathroom of his home in Brooklyn and died tonight at Long Island hospital. Maxwell, who was locked up Thursday, had felt his humiliation keenly and during his in- | the Thaw case, not only declared ! Lincomm-Roosevelt league, to hear him | carceration had appeared hopelessly 1 He had, however, given intimation, ®o far as he contemplated suicide ostrated by tha tragedy the care of a physician Maxwell was released late last night from the Raym street jail, where he had been held a prisoner since the thres indictments charging him with nection with tHe the suspended bank ere was some difficulty in and officers of the jail Maxwe il yesterday and the day v on his bed and appeared to his surroundings He Geclined to receive any visitors ex- cept his wife and counsel. Last night man- was greatly to be obliv Justice Burr signed an order for Max- well's release when ball to the amount of $30,000 was furnished CUTS THROAT WITH PENKNIFE Maxwell, ih company with his c | He Stole } | He cut his| SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1907. CENTS. THAW EXPERT IS - GHAMPION OF RS, BRADLEY nounces Brown on Witness Stand INSANE| —— | Man She Killed Blamed for | Condition of Woman'’s Mind at Time |ALIENIST CAUTIONED Judge Stafford Tells Him| i He Must Not Attack ! the Dead = | WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.— Dramatic scenes marked the pro- | ceedings today in the trial of Mrs.| Annie M. Bradley, charged with | | having murdered former United| States Senator Arthur Brown of | { Utah in this city last December. | ! Dr. Britton D. Evans of New| | York, the alienist who testified in | {that Mrs. Bradley | when she shot was insane | Senator Brown, but was so vigorous in denuncia- {tion of the conduct of the dead] senator that Judge Stafford reminded | the witness that the late Senator { Brown was not on tria! and not there | | to defend himself, and admonished him | to refer to the dead man only when | | necessary to show the eftect of his | | acts upon the mind of the defendant, | | soN oF BROWN TESTIFIES The appearance on the stand of Max | | Brown, son of the dead senator, who | | was called in rebuttal, was affecting |in the extreme. The young man, tall,| slendsr and fragile ‘in physique, tot- ‘ tered as hé made his way to the vu-' e > | W\ \\\\}\‘\ W + sel, I. R. Oeland, was driven to his resi- dence at 182 Congress street. Maxwell | spent this afternoon quietly at his |home. This afternoon he announced ! his Intention gof taking 2 bath and go- | ing for & walk. Shortly before 2 o'clock | 8 masd heard & sound as of some one falling on the second floor. Hurrying upstairs she discovered the banker ly- ing on the bathroom floor, half dressed, with gaping wounds in his throat and left wrist. On a washstand near by lay & white bone handled razor, half open, and a penknife with blades open at each end, both covered with blood. | As she turned to summon help the maid stepped on a second rasor, which lay half opened in the hallway leading to the bathroom. Maxwell was con- sclous and tried to articulate, but failed to make himself understood. Dr. C. E. Brown, the family physi- o ness stand. He carefully avolded look- ing toward the defendant, who sat within 10 feet of him. When he told of seeing his father and Mrs. Bradley in the kitchen of their home with jars of fruit they had brought from the cel- lar at a time when his mother had been called away from the city to the bedside of her dying sister, the defend- ant laughed and lowered her head in confusion. But there was no sign® of merriment on the face of the witness, who replied briefly to all questions put to him and lowered his eyes during in- tervals in the giving of his testimony. Dr. Charles B. Hill, professor of ner- vous and mental diseases in the Balti- more medical college, declared that in his opinion Mrs. Bradley was insane when she did the shootinpg. The many abortions performed on her, the suf- Continped on Page & Column 2 % Continued oem Page 3, Column 3 Continued o Page §, Column 3 L] ELMHURST LUMBER coO. fering and disappointment and " the HENEY ATTACKS S P INPLENFOR i DIRECT PRIMARY Speech Rouses a Berkeley| Audience to Great ‘ Enthusiasm ! STAMPEDES HEARERS!~ Remarkable Demonstration| Following Appeal to the Voters BOSSISM DENOUNCEDé Lincoln - Roosevelt League Opens Campaign in E College Town ' | | BERKELEY, Nov. miliar snap .and directness of - Francis J. Heney of the recant cam- | paign, Langdon's right bower satled | into -the Southern Pacific and Kindred | public service corporations tonight, not | mincing his. language nor balking at| | any term which might describe. his| 3§ opinion of the man and methods be- | longing to the railroad. | Twenty-five hundre@ people ' gath- ered.in the Berkeley skating rink in| Allston way, under the auspices of the | do it, and they cheered themselves | hoarse long before the iron voice of | the speaker was tired and he stepped | back to his chalr on the platrorm. { Every word Heney uttered was -a| plea for direct primarfes—the direct | election of the senators by the people | themselves, mnot through: some inter- | mediary, such as a legislature. It was an elementary lesson in civil government and the thing to be demon- | S L L 2 Scenes of the Elmhurst horror, pictures of objects that add | to the chain of evidence and portraits of the principals and wit- nesses mentioned in the tragedy. At the top is Mrs. Anderson, whose dream led to the discovery of the crime. the left, is M. A. Wilkins, the accused. Mrs. Wilkins, the mur- dered woman, is in the lower right hand corner. the top, are the prescription, jewel case and lumber bill, bearing on the crime, and below the diagram of the scene of the murder is a photograph of the investigators digging in Wilkins’ barn. Mrs. Belchee (lower left) fixes the date of the murder and Mrs. | FI EN“ ? { Bennett tells of Wilkins’ conflicting stories. Below her, to On the left, at - AN _RRCH strated was the desirability of direct primaries. He hammered that at the people, showing by example what had been accomplished In other states by the practical workihgs of the principle. ‘He showed how there was in every city in the United States an “unholy wedlock between vice and the public corporations who have something un- lawful to ask from the powers that be,” | and he tonguelashed the man who stays away from the primary, saying: “He is not fit to be an American citi- zen.” Nor did he attempt i~ spare the feel-| ings of his hearers. That is not the Heney of it. “You—you who think that there is no other nation on the face of the earth as free and big as you— you fail to remember that only a few short centuries ago there were people in England who wore other collars than the one you wear. True they were not marked ‘S. P. R. R.’ but they were Jjust as good.” TALKS PRACTICAL POLITICS He talked “practical politics” to the people and they stood up in the seats and yelled approval. When at the end of an hour and a half of steady speak- ing he stepped back and declared that he had spoken long enough they shouted =again and again: “No! No! Go op, g0 on!” And he went on, tear- ing down the flimsy structure of pre- tense which the railroad -and other self-seeking corporations had reared between themselves and the people. “They'Il* tell. you that if you attack Fantastic Stories of Revolt Are Denied Portuguese Premier Says Cabal Circulated Reports for a* Political Purpose SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL LISBON, Nov. 26.—So sensa- tional, not to say fantastic, have been the reports concerning Por- tuguese internal affairs which the newspapers abroad have been publishing. for some time past that I solicited an interview with Senor: Franco, who said: “You .can judge for yourseif what truth there is in the reports circulated among the forelgn press. Does this look like a city on the eve of a revolu- tion, as the government's enemies will have you belleve? “Otf course, the recent financlal crisis abroad has made itself feit here, but proportionately less so than in many of the other countries, and not a single business firm has come to grlef through, it. Public order has not been disturbed, nor does it show apy signs S A e, SRR Continued to Page 2, Columa 3 ' |of belng so. Horrible Evidence Found in Search for Clew {Grave Dug in Advance | for Murdered Woman \Carmon Missingand | Another Crime Foretold \Kimmons May Be Victim of Man Who Killed Wife + ! || Wilkins’ Victim Wife | of Another Man | | xansas crry, me, New. 26— | || The woman who had passed as || M. A. Wilkins’ wife 1 belleved Bere to be Mrs. Vernie Linderman Carmon, daughter of Hemry P. Linderman, propristor of the Frain Hotel, 6532 Washington Park boulevard, this city. She was married eight years ago to Louls Carmom, now engineer om the St. Louls and San Frameisco railway, rusning out of Spring- field, Mo. Mrs. Carmom was them 24 years old and Carmon was, 50. child. They ram a ! restaurant 6519 Washington Park boulevard for a while. The Carmons left Kamsas City about a vear and s half ago. The woman's father refused to dlscuss the ease. Louls Carmonm, the woman's busband, was ouwt on him run tomight and could mnet be reached. § -+ In M. A. Wilkins, now in cus- - tody in Oakland under suspicion of having murdered his wife with strychnine in their home in Elm- hurst on the night of July 21, the Alameda county authorities be- lieve they have a fiend whose atrocious crimes have been those of a second Johann Hoch, whose methods have equaled in hideous- | ness those of Luetgert, the Chi- cago sausage maker, and the ter- rible secret of whose past may never be revealed until his own lips are at last unsealed in con- fession. ‘Who was the woman whose de- composed remains were found Monday night in the grave lined with quicklime under the floor of Wilkins’ Elmhuri barn? Was i she his wife? What has been the fate of the ;thrte or four other women whose Impertinent Question No. 27 ’[ “What’s the Matter With Teddy?” For the most original or wittiest answer to this ques- tion—and the briefer the better—The Call will pay FIVE DOLLARS. For the next five answers The Call will pay ONE DOLLAR each. Prize winning- answers will be printed next Wednesday and checks mailed to the winners at once Make your answer short and address it to : IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, ; : 3 THE CALL Wifet™ Husbandt” Wianing Answers to “Why can’t you manage your g 35 prize to J. . Heckman, 4000 19th strest, eity. Tell me and keep the five. « $1 prize to, Mrs. E. Wood, 504 South I street, San Jose. Because too many of his friends are telling him how to manage me. 31 prize to Miss G. Frie, 1322 Larkin street, city. That's a nice question to ask an old maid! $1 prize to Mre. Wallace, 2730 street. Berkeley. The baby has the job. $1 prize to A. V. Willlams, 2003 Béss street, Berkeley. I'm z bronco buster. A woman ain't a hoss. $1 prire to J. B. Walker, box 504, Fresno. * Sheis so unexpected. -—