The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1913, Page 1

ATHER FORECAST: Ith rain: brisk southwest winds. > 5 rging to the Front The Call during the first ten days of March GAINED 42,434 LINES in ad- vertising over the corresponding days last month. Mizhest Night, Temperature Yesterday. Towest Sunday 46. Wor detmils of the Weather see page 15. News Up to the Minute The 6 o’clock a. m. edition of The Call prints all the news that develops after the city editions of other newspapers are printed. LL - “An lndependan( New:paper’ 1913.—PAGES 1 TO 10., *GA CL\*T% FIV PRICL VOLUME CXIIL—NO. THREE SHOT N | compimens i 101. 'WOMAN IN HOT CHASE Declares Man Took Money From Her Miss Carol Gardanier, who says that she was “‘stung” fo the tune of $500 and alot OI-E""“ by Raymond McMurray, whose trail she follows. i} SEARCHER FIND GRAVE OF GREAT BUEST AT 5T. FRANCIS BY WARDEN FOR ILLEGAL AGTS Outdoor Art league lo send vou a letter of congratulation upon being the first to urge the appointment of Franklin K. Lane as a member of President Wilson's cabinet. 2 ¥ MRS. G. H. SANDERS, Fish and Game Officer Frank Corresponding Secreldry. Galloway Wounds Captain San Francisco, March 10. George and Herbert Le Cornec After Dropping With a Bullet Through His Head—Joe McNamara of This City Is Being| Searched For by Officers— Two Men May Not Live ateo-anantnsnens LOST AS A BABY, FOUND AS PARENT SOME DOUBT AS TO |« SHOOTER'S IDENTITY | Lhioirusct After 20 Year Search Captain J. E. Wagner Locates Missing Child and New Grandson al Dispa HEBOYGA The Call) Wis.” March 10.—After o0 s searching Captain James A | {E. Wagr retired, found the baby ! he lost in Manitowoc in 1893. Not only Prisoners Handcuffed When F Starts — Eyewit-| he found the baby, but a grandson, AAIHG s well, at Oxnard, Cal. nesses Flee When Fusil-i Twenty vears ago in this city the ~ baby was born The mother died, and lade Begms—Catchmg‘m girl, five weeks old, was given | Steelhead Otut of Season|!© ® grandmother to rear. The grand- mother moved west and the father lost Prompts Arrest — Lark- trace of both, — VRIS 1 _| Recently, at Manitowoc, he learned spur and Vicinity All _Ex that Mrs. Hunt, the grandmother, was citement Over Affair—|in the west 5 S Deputies Looking for Gun|gysy pAY FOR BANDMAN [u-mmd for Embeszlement in Morn- | ing, Married in Aftermcon Larkspur atch to The Call) EZ, March 10.—Oscar N. Preston, a member of the orchestra of the steamer Yale. arrested on the |dock in San Francisco this morning by ry is | | (Spectal Dis | MARTIN h of excitement curred | tad s noon. Deputy R ;:‘“M shot | Comstable C. H. Palmer of Martinez on a charge of embezzlemept. Pres- | fled prisoners, the Le | ;55 pride to be, Miss Rose Kalarnin nee br one of had |of San Franclsco, was waiting on the eliarE t r's head |dock when the Yale landed to be mar- L sted the Le Cornec|Tled’ In San Rafael. Preston was b S and Herpert, | PFOUSHE here accompaned by his flan- : 2 " | cee, He settled the case and the mar- et from the Lark- | riage was performed here this after- 5 gh with six steethead fish, |noon - / it ok 2 ¥ to_have caught | ) v e ullesed wohave s ICHESTER WAS IMPETUOUS ome On,” Said He to Kitsy, and They & a Rushed to the Minister M 2 (Special Dispateh to The Call) 244 | PALO ALTO, March 10.—“Come on, | we'll get married,” was the simple way e place and Lark- iy which Chester A. Boggs, a civil en- gineer of Nevada, broached an elope- o ment to his flancee, Miss Kitsy S. PR Buckhout, last night. Miss Buckhout et reed to the plan. They divulged their of 309 Tenth avenue, | gecret upon their return from Redwood T City, where they were marfried. WHEN SHOOTING Joc s T |QUAKE DESTROYS A CITY = | Guajimquilapa Is in Rulns and Ma wns Damaged ed ahead of the WASHINGTON, March 10.—According A out and |to an official report from the American n ks, a|charge at Guatemala City, a severe s way through |earthquake Saturday morning destroyed ght t of of his mouth | Guajimquilapa, capital of Santa Rosa g cheekbone. | Drovince. Villages within a radius of ¥ & s mouth| 18 miles were damaged. It was re- o bis el- | ported that there was considerable loss re-| of life at Cuilapa, especially among one of | school children. y g Herbert SO BT % ol Jerbert b RIVATE SHOOTS CAPTAIN ack and A second | > ; when | Infantrsman Objects (o Reprim : | Commits Suicide Following Act OTHERS ‘S B EL PASO. T March 10.—Captain | Mc. |Hamilton Bowie, Thirteenth cavalry, ce witnesses, sought|Was shot through the shoulder by Pri- o Lt s | vate Carl Campbell of the Thirteenth, s who committed suicide after having X PR wounded one of his campmates who |jolned in pursuit of him at Ysleta, Tex., today. Captain Bowie had repri- manded Campbell HATPINS |1ate s point | WITH BUTTONS | Massachusetis Enacts Law Prohibiting Wearing Without Guards lear, but it is be-| » the woods with !M‘ ever, started for| nted up the town mar- | BOSTON, March 10.—Those women of Massachusetts . who do not cover the of their hatpins with some de- vice that will protect the public injury hereafter will be liable to a fine of $100. An act to this effect was | signed today by Governor Foss. — “REPUTATION OF A CRANK” ogether they poi s time | and rom broug were nt t the where aid Later were ven Dr. J. E. McHue ved to the Cottage et g first Standard Resenty Wilson' London President Teetotal Policy NoS- | LONDON, March 10.—President Wil- son’s teetotal policy at the White House has aroused the resentment of the Lon- |don Standard, which editorially warns € | the president against, “gaining'the fatal °f | reputation of a crank. but which one | was removed from | heek, leaving a gaping his head. The He him, ugh roof torn, but K. declares one to say. »bed the wound in George and succeeded in Herbert's | Sixty-elght Women Drown When Boat Is Swamped LONDON, March 10.—A Vienna dis- patch to the Ixpress reports the drown- ing of 68 women by the swamping of a boat on Lake Scutari. e QUAKE FELT IN THE SOUTH Tremor at Riverside Preceded by Loud Rumbling Noise RIVERSIDE, March 10.—A light earthquake shock was felt here at 6:24 p. m. The igemor was preceded by a 1and rumbling noise. shoulder bullat, but nore serious nature, torn its way ‘into his expected to live, life He Galloway aving is not and very hances of are sheriffs are guarding the Joting to prevent rela- of the Le Cornec rom finding the revolver with Galloway was shot. 1t was awdy after the shooting. Mc- the offi- es and friends $rotners t ich thrown Namara is being sought by clale from | |{DEATH IN WATERS OF LAKE | NAPOLEON'S SON Unmarked Mound Is Discov- ered Among Bushes in { © the Laurel Hill Cemetery SUPERINTENDENT IS CONFIDENT OF PLACE Omission of Burial Records Indicates Motives of Doubt- ful Political Morale In strong contrast to the tomb of his illustrious sire in the Hotel des | Invalides in Paris is the unmarked grave in Laurel Hill cemetery of John Gordon-Bonaparte, son of Napoleon I, { emperor of the French, and an English housekeeper, wooed by the Conqueror during his last years on St. Helena. To searchers in the cemetery yester- day afternoon C. E. Kruger, the super- intendent, pointed out an uneven mound, partially covered with laurel | bushes and grown over with pertwin- kle, the delicate lavender Ulossoms giving a faint touch of color to the otherwise unadorned sepulcher. “There,” he said, “is what we believe to be the grave of the last son of Na- moleon. It is known that his body is somewhere in the cemetery. There'is no record of his interment, the omis- slon indicates political motives of doubtful morale. OLD TIMERS RECALL “This is one of the few unrecorded graves in the cemetery. Old employes who were here in the eightles have told [ me that this ground covers the body | of John Gordon, whose facial resem- | blanee to the emperor was so marked | | | ZORDON |as to cause comment wherever he ap- ! peared. I understand his quiet funeral was attended by persons from the French embassy in Washington.” At least two men in San Francisco remember John Gordon well. Undoubt- edly there are more, but many of his intimates of the old days—he came to ‘San Franéiseo in I18T4—have died or left ‘the city. George Fields, bar tender in a Market street saloon, knew Gordon. “He came to New London, Conn., be- fore I was born” said Fields, “and when I had grown up there it was an accepted fact that his father was the famous Corsican. He was an expert watch maker and jeweler and visitors in New London were shown the store Napoleon's was employed along with the relics of the revolution —earthworks where farmer boys died | fighting the soldiers of George IIL |CAME TOo SAN FRANCISCO IN 1872 where son | “Gordon had three children; one was | Bill, with whom I was inttmate, while | the others were girls, one of them be- |ing a cripple. I came to San Fran- cisco in 1872 and two years later Gor- don came here. At first he was em- ployed by Tucker,"who conducted the !Jewelr) store at Sutter and Montgom- ery streets, which at that time was the | rendezvous of the city’s fashionables. “Later he opened a store of his own Kearny street near Bush. It was |not =0 elegant as Tucker’s, but the | work turned out by Gordon best in the city. He could make a better watch than most of his craft. “His departure from New London was sudden and mysterious, T have been told. One night he closed up his shop as usual and the next morning his customers discovered he had packed up over night and left the city, taking his entire stock of jewelry with him. ot long afterward he turned up in San Franeisco. His wife had died be- fore he left New London, but he had his three children with him. SON NOW IN LOS ANGELES “I was away when he died in 1886; if my memory serves me right, I was in Paris at the time. When I re- turned I learned he had died. His house was in Sacramento street near Clay. “I know several people liere who knew him both in San Francisco and New London. One of his acquaintances was in here a few days ago. He is Henry Whittimore and usually he spends lis winters in Los Angeles, where, I understand, Bill Gordon now is lving, Bill Is a grandson of the great emperor. He didn’t resemble his father at all, and none would have suspected his relationship to the dis- turber of the century. “Old man Gordon, though, was a dead ringer for his father. He didn’t deny the relationship, but I can't remember hearing him refer to it. “He wasn't very short, but his head was remarkably like that of Napoleon— the jaws square, the chin pointed and the eyes wonderfully expressive and piercingly intent in their gaze. T'll bet he'd have been a great one If he had had half a chance.” DOCTOR MeNUFT FINDS RECORD Dr. 'W. F. McNutt, founder of the McNutt hospital, is one of the keenest students {n America of the life of Napoleon, or for that matter in the world. His library contains more than 1,000 volumes dealing with the emperor. Doctor McNutt has known of Gordon- Bonaparte for some time, and still is making exhaustive efforts to trace his Jife, His library contains at least one Continued on Page 2. Column 1 {in was the | Miss Carol Gardanier Says Roy McMurray Deceived Her in Far Off Japan In the role ot a man hunter, Miss Carol Gardanier of this city returned from the orient yesterday on the Jap- anese liner Shinye Maru. She is on the trail of Raymond W. McMurray, the railroad clerk who recently was di- vorced in this city by his former wife, a wealthy Portland woman, McMurray went to the orient a few months ago on the same steamer that ‘carried Miss Gard@nier. Tn fact, Miss Gardanier, so she. said yesterday, ad- vanced him the money with which to pay his fare. She was going:to the orfent to visit an aunt. - He was go- ing, she said he told her, to take a job in the sefret service of the- Southern Pactfic. In Yokohama, she MeMurray suggested that it safe for her to carry so much money about with her. He advised her to let him give it to the hotel clerk for safe custody. said, was not She gave him the money, she said, and he left her in Japan. 'The hotel clerk denied he had received any money. YUTH KILLS FATHER WHOM FAMILY FLED Steps Over Dead Body of Parent and Sits Calmly Smoking When Po- lice Arrive (Special Dispatch to The Call) CHICAGO, March 10.—Peter Scheib- ler, a 19 year old son of Charles Scheib- lef, shot and killed his father today after his mother and the two youngest children had fled from the house, and he and his sister, Helma, 15 years old, had locked themselves in the pantry to escape their father's wrath. The son stepped over the dead body of his parent, walked into the living room and lighted his pipe, and sat calmly smoking when the police came. The son met & boy acqualntance while the detectlves were taking him to the patrol box. “What's the matter, Pete?” asked the boy. “I just shot the old man” the son replied. “Kill him?” : “Yes; he won't trouble us any more.” Peter was locked in a cell and his sister, Helma, was taken to . the matron’s quarters. “I killed him,” Peter told the police, “and 1 ain’t sorry for what I did. You see, my father had & bad temper. He grasped a butcher knife while we were at breakfast and would have killed all of us if we hadn't got out of his way. Mother ran away, but Helma and T locked ourselves in the pantry, The old man was strong, and when T saw he was going to pull open the door I picked up a rifle and shot him. He was a trouble maker. He was always abusing mother and us chil- dren. I knew he'd kill Helma and me this morning, so I got him first.”’ ——— JAPANESE IS SENTENCED FAIRFIELD, March 10.—Charles Kambe, the Japanese who attempted to kill the entire Armstrong family ‘of | northern Solano last month, was sen- tenced to 28 years in Folsom prison. - He left her, she said, after she had refused to follow his suggestion and return to Honolulu on a business deal told her should net them at least $1,000. When she found out that he had gone she cabled to Honolulu a request for his arrest. “Either arrest him or collect. $500 and hold meney for me,” the cablegram that McMurray ran, In Honolulu, according to the Honotuig newspapers, - McMurray represented himself as a Southern Pacific offictal and nephew of Willlam McMurray, as- sistant general passenger agent of the company in Portland. He told the po- lice that the woman was trying to blackmail him. He arrived here a week ago on the Korea. “He has my money,” said Miss Garda- nier, “and a lot of things bought with my money in Japan, including two silk umbrellas. I came back determined to have him arrested. As for me you can say that I was stung.” IARRING TONGS BESTIVE UNDER - EYE OF POLE |Armed Highbinders Cower Behind Barred Doors and Renewal of Hostilities Is Awaited In small groups sullen celestials who gathered at street corners in China- town, only to: disperse and melt in dark alleys upon the approach of the police squad, last night awalited a resumption of hostilitles between the Suey Sing and Bing Kong tongs, which had its inception Monday night with the death of one tong member and the narrow escape from -a simflar fate of another prominent member. Armed highbinders cowered behind barred doors during the day, only ven- turing forth at night when aecom- panied by white guards or other tong members. Those in touch with the situation predict that - there will be further shootings before the matter has been adjusted to the satisfaction of all con- cerned. It first was believed that the medi- ation of the Chinese Six Companies or the Chinese consul general would bring about a settlement. According to au- thoritative sources, all the efforts of the consul have gone for naught, as the warring tongs decline to acknowledge their governmental representative. Untll the warring tongs evince some desire to arbitrate the matter the Six Companies will' be helpless. It had been planned to hold a meeting to | devise ways and means, but this was abandoned when those In- charge be- came aware of the disposition of the tongmen. Small merchants and dealers, par- ticularly those in -the affected zone, closed their stores yesterday in antlei- pation of further trouble. The aug- mented squads under Comporals Goff and McGee had their hands full in breaking up groups of Chinese. ? Known highbinders are under close survefllance. ‘ No additional arrests haye been made. night by a force of 100 rebels and the | stitutionalistas with BURGLAR WHO GARNERED JEWELS WORTH $100,000 Desperado Who Put Up Fight in Home of M. T. P. Sherman and Was Shot in Leg in Duel With De- tectives, Confesses to Robbing Residences and Stores in Many Cities of Coast—Identified by Torn Card as *0O. D. Conn,” Known at Hotel as Eastern Merchant PREACHER'S WIFE BLAMED FOR START ON EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF CRIME Large Showcase Arranged at Police Headquarters and Today Recovered Gems Will Be Exhibited for Benefit of Those Who Have Suffered From Mys- terious Visitations—Houses in Richmond, Ashbury Heights, Sunset and in Western Addition Robbed Confessing to the stealing of nearly $100,000 in jewelry within a period of eight months of criminal record seldom paralleled in the history of crim- inology, Frank Dale, sometimes known as O. D. Conn and sometimes as Otto Owen, unbosomed a tale yesterday morning to the police that astonished the most astute detectives of the department. Dale is the burglar who put up a fight in the home of Mrs. T. A. Sher- man at 2033 Hayes street and who was shot in the leg in a duel with detect- ives and later taken to the city and county hospital, where he finally confessed to his remarkable career of crime. Dale, under the name of O. D. Conn, registered at the St. Francis hotel |January 28. He said that he was a | merchant from Kansas City and that FE" ¢ he had plenty of means with which to pay. his bills. LOOT WORTH $30,000 FOUND From the hotel he sallied forth and stole from homes, almost too numerous to mention, $50,000 worth of loot, of which $30,000 worth, according to Chief of Detectives Mooney, already has been recovered. » Captain Mooney says that ag much mor® i in pawnshops and hidden in Maytorena’s Revolt in So- ?é:z:a‘sh;t"u{l:: the present Dale re- nora Not Popular With The identification of Dale, or Owen, s as his correct name appears to be, was People, Says Minister effected through a card that was found, De la Barra 'partly torn, in a pocket of his clothing when he was removed after the excit- ing gun fight of Saturday afternoon in which Mre. Sherman and two plain- clothes men played a courageous part. The carq was soiled and barely legi- ble In the matter of the writing upon it, but the telephone number automobile stand was evident, and Captain Mooney detailed Detectives Proll, Black and Riehl to look Into the matter. GAVE CARD TO “CONN" The phone number was called up and it proved to be that of a taxi man at the St. Francis hotel. . This witness told the detectives that he did not know Dale, but he believed that he had given |a card to a man named Conn or Owen, who resided at the hotel. The locating of the room followed. In ‘the gentleman burglars apart- ments were many evidences of his fam- fly relations—and many substantial proofs of his extensive crimes. case, concealed under the bed, was found diamonds, watches, bracelets, necklaces and all kinds of jewelry to the value of thousands of dollars, Pawn tickets, letters, telegrams and memorandums that are not now alto- MEXICO CITY, March 10.—Federal troops are in possession of Monclova, which was occupled a few days ago by the rebel governor, Venustiano Car- ranza, the latter moving eastward. He has 500 men and apparently is headed for Lampazos. Another federal detach- ment is proceeding northward from Monterey. After his defeat near Reata Saturday Carranza escaped to Monclova with a part of his forces, the others taking to the hills. Federal pursult was slow owing to the necessity of repairing bridges burned by the retreating rebels. On the approach of the federals Car- ranza evacuated the town, and the gov- ernment troops captured a quantity of arms and ammunition which he left be- hind. The revolt of Maytorena, former gov- ernor of Sonora, according to official re- port, is not meeting with popular sup- port. An effort to raise 200,000 pesos in Guaymas resulted in his obtaining only 60,000. PEOPLE DO NOT APPROVE Senor de la Barra, minister of foreign relations, points to this fact and others conspicuously of an In a tin alleged to be in his possession, as a|gether understood were among the basis for the statement that the Sonora | articles aiscovered. rebellion lacks the approval of the| Among the letters were several people. Emillio Campa, a former Orozco lieu- tenant, who accompanied Senor de la Fuente, probably will be designated to assist in exterminating the Maytorena rebels. Pascual Orozco Jr., who was expected to arrive at the capital tonight, and in whose honor a great demonstration had been planned by various organiza- tions, will not reach here before to- morrow. FELIX DIAZ RESTING General Felix Diaz dropped from sight today. It is announced that he has gone to a nearby ranch for rest and recuperation. The health of Gen- eral Dlaz has been affected by the strain of the last few weeks, but his condition 1s not regarded as serious. Federals Abandon Town DOUGLAS, Ariz, March 10.—Five hundred federal soldiers tonight are preparing to evacuate Agua Prieta and leave it In the possession of the 300 or more comstitutionalists encamped about the town. General Ojeda, commander of the Huerta garrison, stated today that fear of international complications in event of a battle between his and the rebel forces situated so closely td Douglas had brought about his determination to move westward along the Arizona border with his entire command. El Tigre, a mining camp 40 miles southéast of here, was attacked last from a sister In Chicago, showing that the burglar had lived in that city and that he had told his family, apparently respectable persons, that he was in the moving picture business and that this kept him moving about the state. This his family seemed to have aa~ cepted as the truth, judging from theiw letters in return to the thief. The story told at police headquarters last night was that after finding the tax! man's card and locating the room of the thief in the St. Francis hotel the detectives went to the city ang county hospital and confronted the wounded man with the evidence. At first he refused to acknowledge Continued on Page 3, Column 1 ENTIRE FREEDOM from all eye glass trouble would be great, wouldn’t it? EQUIPOISE eye glasses come nearer solving the problem than :ny other eye { They are made 4 or your comfort— { made to stay on with a gentle pressure that doesn’t pinch the nose and leave a red mark. Wear Equipoise California Ogtlcal Co. (W.D.Fennimore J.W.Da A.B.Feonimere) 181 Post St.....San Francisco 1221 Broadway. . .Oakland 3 (C. L. Hogue at Oakiand Stere) garrison there of 160 men surrendered. One hundred federals eluded. the con- their arms and A band of pursuing Continned: an Pazxe 2. Column 7 ammunition.