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NUMBER OF ITEMS IN YESTERDAYS • CALL 218 t ♦ Chronicle 201 ♦ Examiner 158 * + Both Quantity and Quality in The Call t •»■♦♦•♦♦♦♦»•♦♦♦♦ «««« ♦-♦♦*■♦-»-■» ♦-♦ • ♦♦ VOLUME CXI I.—NO. 173. Armistice Causes Intermission In Great War MANIAC CAUSES POLICE FRIGHT WITH DYNAMITE Calls at Los Angeles Headquar ters With Infernal Machine Primed for Destruction Terror Seizes Courts While Offi cials Humor Crank and Finally Slug Him Was Out to "Get" Biggest Man of Southern Pacific Company LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19. —Armed •with an Infernal machine con taining , enough dynamite to de stroy an entire city block, a bot tle of nitroglycerin and a 45 caliber revolver, a masked maniac took pos session of the central police station to day and held It for more than an hour, while the hundreds of occupants of the boilding and those for blocks around, panic stricken, sought the safety of distance. When Detective James Hosick knocked the man unconscious with a leather billy after slipping behind him. the fuse of the Infernal machine auto matically "was ignited and -without thinking of the consequences. Detec tive Samuel L. Browne carried the box outside, the fu*se spluttering and spit ting sparks and hurled it into the street. Scattered Over Street Sticks of high power dynamite scat tered over the pavement, while hun dreds of spectators stood, apparently paralyzed by fright, awaiting a de tonation that would send them into eternity. Through a freak of chance there was no explosion and Browne < ki ' . IK* Sticks of dyna te and jumping on the fuse until he broken the connections and ex tinguished the fire. Albert Henry Davis, the maniac, en tered the outer room of Chief of Po lice Sebastian's office at 11 o'clock this morning:. His faro and head were rr nipletely covered with a grotesque mask and lie carried in his arm? a large bo\ covered with cloth. The box was strapped around his shoulders and :<-s"mhlei] a small hand organ. ai startled and then amused by th«» strange spectacle. Police Sergeant 11. C. ililf, who suspected a practical ]<r<l the man what he wanted, pot enough dynamite in here o« 1:55 all into eternity," he said, "and T want you to send for the high est official of the Southern Pacific rail road." "This Is No Joke" The masked visitor rested the box on a filing cabinet and Assistant Dis t Attorney R. O. Graham, who was in the office, started joking with him. "This is no joke," said Davis. "I mean business and if you don't believe it try to take this away from me. My hand is fastened in this box and if I pull it out —bang—we all die." They began to realize that it was no :-.ke. Davia then walked into the office of Police Secretary C. IE. Snively, which often* into the private office of Chief Sebastian, and repeated his request that Continued on Page 2, Column 3 LOST AND FOUND FOUND—IF THF. SAN FB.AXCISCO PHYSI CIAN WHO LOST AN OLD FASHIONED HENRY COTTIER. GUIS* WATCH IX OK NEAR LOS ANGELES EARLY IN THH FALL OF 1900 WILL COMMCNK ATE WITH THE CALL'S INFORMATION BIREAU AND PROP ERLY IDENTIFY THE WATCH, SAME WILL BE PROMPTLY RESTORED TO HftS POS SESSION. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS Pag* , . 1 . . tied Public J ; Wanted „ . fnts *, .Apartments Wauled •;* icota • ,: Arcbitecta \.] I Aamrtn *' 19 AstroJogy • • • • *5| Atkins. Robert S -j Aftomeje •; A uot ions •- n *.', Automobiles ia I Kat.y Carriages J ™ i Barhers and Supplies Hi Board for ctiild'ren *fi }* I - - J* ' BuKlneea Peraooala I^! - Wanted ** I Huttons mid Pleating i *f\ Clea»f«g Si (HtHrrh and I»r;ifn<->s J* rhildfen's Chairs ':* city Ileal Estate JJ 1 Clairvoyants Jr Cottage* to Let }-M Country Ken) Estate ;•■• ';, j Deafness and Catarrh ■•■ J ]>»>nti.-t< ** I»f>e ami 1 "m Hi>s|iitßl« ]; Doll Carriaces j fluking HI Kducatiooal ]j- Kilers Musir Company 10 Kilis. Cbrstcr B. ' Kujployruent 0 Employment W*aet*«l( Male» JSJ Kmployment Wanteri (Kemale) jgl Female Hr| n Wanted } - Files Ret-ijt ■•• '21 Financial 14, J' I Flata to T>-t ]■> ' I- latP <o Lr-t • KorniKhed •J* For Sale —M ;- • - i Frederk-ks it ( «] Furnished Api Si iurniture For Sale •*] Purs h. ! •i< rumrx SaTings Bank '' j c;«Je*.u. Julius S '* Hair ("ioods •• '" j riayward Real Estate J* Horecs, Harness, Wagons iv • EIGHTEEN PAGES-SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912.r-PAGES ITO 10. Women Needed (Must Be Pretty) To Uphold Laws [Specie/ Dispatch to The Call] CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—"\Vc need more pretty women juve nile officers." said Municipal Judge Newcomer today when Miss Carolyn Grimsby, a. juve nile court attache, led Patrick .Gorman, a switchman. 6 feet tall and weighing more than 200 pounds, into court. "Did you arrest this man?" ;i ked the court. "Well, I—he consented to come with me," Miss Grimsby replied, blushing. "It appears that pretty women juvenile have more influence with delinquent husbands than husky police men."' said the judge. Gorman was fined $35 and costs for disorderly conduct. "Lucky" Baldwin's Estate Is Swollen to Nearly $20,000,000 [Special Dispalch to The Call] LOS ANGELES. Nov. 19.—Two bulky documents containing the final ac counting and statement of the $20, --000,000 estate of the late Elias J. (Lucky* Baldwin, prominent horseman and owner of vast tracts of land throughout the state, was filed today with Judge James Rives of the pro bate court by H. K. Unruh, executor. According to the figures presented in the accounting, the estate to date is valued at $17,430,506.03. This does not include some real estate up for sale at present and other securities which, it is believed, will swell the total to $20.000.00^ Tn 1909 the estate was estimated to be worth $11,606,995.01. while now. with all Incttmbraneea cleared, it is worth close to {20,000,000. The heirs who will share the $20, --000.008 are Clara Baldwin Stc-eker and Anita Baldwin McLaughery, both daughters. S. F. WOMAN GETS TWO YEARS IN VANCOUVER Mrs. Jane Bradford Convicted in Bad Check Deal VANCOUVER, B. C Nov. 19—Mrs. Jane Bradford, who says she owns property in San Francisco and who came here in September, was sentenced by Judge Mclnnes in the county court to two years in prison for fraud. Mrs. Bradford was charged with defrauding tne real estate firm of Dayid McClurg of $500 by means of a worthless check. OLDEST MAN IN SOLANO COUNTY PASSES AWAY Andrew Jackson Mayfield Suc cumbs to Burden of Years [Specie/ Dispatch to The Call] FAIRFIELD, Nov. 19. —Andrew Jack son Mayfield, said to be the oldest* man in Solano county, is dead at his home near here. He was about 90 years of age and had been a resident of Solano county for many years. COMMONS ADOPTS NEW HOME RULE RESOLUTION Financial Measure Replaces One Defeated November 11 LONDON, Nov. 19.—The house of com- mons, by a vote of 318 to 207, adopted ; tonight the new financial resolution , of j the home rule bill. This replaces the I resolution defeated November 11. Page. FTotpls 14 How w< to I>et < In furnished J U Information Bureau 12 Information Wante<l 12 liiKfPts Kxterminated VI Invalid Chain* 12 Intestinentx 14 Ke|leh»M- & Browne 11 Lodging Houses for Sa!p 14 Ixjst and Found 12 Lumber for Sale 13 Male Help Wanted :. \% Maternity Homes 12 Matrimonial 12 Medical 12 Meeting*—Lodges ♦ ■ ■ • 12 MiKceUanvoot Wants 12 Money to Ixian 14 Money to Loan —KeaJ K-!;ite 14 Musical Instruments 12 Xatban-Dohnnann ( o . 11 Notary Pabltc , 12 Oakland Bottee* to Let i I'nfnrnishedt 13 Oakland K'lil Estate 13 O'Connor, Moffatl & Co , 18 Office* an>l Store*, Oakland 13 Patent Attorneys 12 PeraofMlfi • 12 Physicians 12 RailroH.i Tim<- Tables 15 Ueal Estate to Rxehange 13 Kfdw<v.,l City Heal Estate 13 Hi'-lirimiHl Reul Estate 13 Etoemi wrifl Board Offered 14 Rooms for Housekeeping 13, 14 Rooms to Let H'lirnishfi and Infurnished).. 13 Hacrameoto Valley Lands 13 ii aud Solicitors .*.... \2 Samuels. I). 10 Sanatorium for, Sale 12 Sau Mateo Real F.state 13 Santa Clara Heal Kstat* 13 Cnw fl'-al B>tate 13 Senium Marhfoea 12 Something for Soractfaing—To Eschanpe 12 Si»irltua!i«tn U gtammerinx 12 ;iis LaAda 13 Stean).-hi|t*; 15 Storajri.- nni] Worlßg Vatif , 12 Triisse.- 12 Typewriters «nd Snppliee 12 Window Shades 13 | THE CALL FOUR GUNMEN MUST DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Dago Frank" and "Whitey" Lewis Guilty of Murder Jury Returns With Verdict After But Twenty Minutes of Deliberation Chronology of Events In the Rosenthal Case July Jβ— Herman Rosenthal wae ■hot wad killed. July —lieutenant Char'.ee Beeker inflicted for murder and ar/mtH). October s—"Blr Jack" Telia, an Important wltneew. murdered. October 7—Trial hearinw. October 21— Testimony all in. October 23—Summing; up of both slrtFK. October 25^—JnMfce Goff gave the cane to the Jury. Tbe jury retired at 4:08 to deliberate for a verdict. October 2.">— After pith I hour* a verdict of nuiltv of murder in tbe flnt degree vva* returned ; against Becker. \ovcmber I»—"l.efty I.'ouie." "fiyp tbe Blood," "Whltey" J.ov»l* and "IXijto Frank" Clroflcl are found icullty of murder in the llret decree. NEW YORK. Nov. 19.—"Gyp the Blood," "Lefty L.ouie, ,, "Dago Frank" and '"Whitey" Lewie killed Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, at the insti gation <»f Charles Becker, and Hke htm. must pay the penalty of death in the electric chair. The jury which has been hearing the evidence against the four gunmen so decided today when it returned against them a verdict of murder in the first degree after but twenty minutes of deliberation. » The gunmen heard the verdict with out show of emotion. They stood at the bar, looking straight ahead as the 1 foreman of the jury rose to make ! known the results of its deliberations and they continued to stare stolidly In front of the bar until the formalities of tht proceedings were concluded. Appeal to Be Made Formor Magistrate Charles G. J , . "Wahle, counsel for the gunmen, an nounced that he would appeal from the j verdict and. as in the case of Becker, months may elapse before their ulti mate fate is determined. When the prisoners were remanded to their cells in the Tombs, they turned and filed out. of the courtroom with as firm a step as when they first entered. "Whitey" L.ewis—he who was the most dramatic of the rour when he testified on the witnes stand—alone walked with head bowed. Outside, "Liefty's" doll faced wife wept on the shoulder of her husbanS's father, who vainly tried to comfort her. "Gyp's" wife, known as "Gyp's< Ijilllan," "received the news In the house of detention. The two other gunmen are unmarried. .Charge Takes Three Hours The final day of the trial opened with Justice Goff's charge to the Jury, which occupied three hours. The charge emphasized many points in the testimony of the gunmen which the- i prosecution, in its summing up, had declared to be discrepancies, fatal to the credibility of their stories. "If the defendants' contention that Rose and his companions, Webber, Val lon and Schepps, shot Rosenthal, would he have invited them around to the Metropole hotel to the scene of the shooting?" Judge Goff asked the jury. "Did the defendants tell , the truth when they said that they saw Rosen thal shot and were near enough to dis tinguish the faces of those who did the shooting, but did See Rosenthal fall?" he asked. "Verdict Just,'* Says Whitman /'The verdict was just, and will meet the approval of all right thinking cit izens," said District Attorney Whit man tonight. "It means the beginning of the end of 'gang rule' in New York city. "Webber, Rose and Vallon will be released as soon as their attorney makes an application fdr euch release. Th«y will not run away—that I am sure of. As for Schepps, he was only held as a vagrant, and he certainly has served his term. I shall not oppose his discharge. The jury that decided the case of the 'gunmen' did not seem to regard Shapiro as an accomplice, and T shall move tomorrow for his discharge." SAN JOSE BRIDE, 67, DESERTS ON HONGKONG PIER M. L. Cavanaugh, 74, Rich Bridegroom, Returns Alone and Weeping Romance, With Round World Honeymoon, Ends by Wife's "I'm Through" Deserted in Hongkong by the 67 year old bride he had niarriod last June in fjew York. Martin L. Cavanaugh, 74 years old, returned yesterday on the liner Mongolia from what was to have been a round the world honeymoon. Oavanaugh's home is In San Joee, of which city his bride also was a resident. He is reputed to he -worth $250,000, and Ihe would give most of it, he said, if his j bride would come haok to him and live in the $6,065 bora* lie bought for her in San .lose. Mrs. Cavanaugh is said to be returning on the Nippon Maru, which is due here next Monday. Cavanaugh is the father of a large family and was a widower at the time he made his latest venture on the sea oT matrimony. Fearing the gossips of his home town, the engaged couple left San Jose for New York, where they were quietly married, They sailed from New York on the Carmania and the honeymoon was everything a honeymoon should be, bo the old man said, until their dramatic parting at Hongkong. "My children,' he said before he left > the ship, "don't know anything about J this yet. and I don't propose to let 'em ! know for a while. And I'm not going Ito say anything more about my bride. il have a large family and I love my i children, but Id t*e willing to see every one of 'em dead before I'd want any harm to come to her. 1 love her. • "We had a bonmif.ii time in Krtrope. Continued »■ INMtO 2, lolypi* 7 Map showing Constantinople and the location of Tchatalja where there has been severe fighting and where an armistice was declared yesterday in order that both armies might bury their dead. GIRLS PAY $400 TO CHANGE MINDS Tt cost Miss Bertha Ross of London, Eng., and Miss Clara Heron of Van couver, B. C, just MOO to change their minds about taking a trip to the ori ent. They arrived here yesterday from Honolulu on the liner Mongolia. They left here on the Pacific Mail liner Per sia, intending to make a tour of China' and Japan. The Persia struck heavy weather outside the heads and the two young women were bowled over with seasickness. The weather improved after the first few days, but old mal de mer stayed [ with his victims, and they were con fined to their berths until the Persia, passed inside Diamond Head. They were under medical care for several days after their arrival in Honolulu and were advised that it would, be dangerous to. another spell of seasickness. From the geo graphical position of Honolulu this was hard advice to follow for patients who did not care about passing the rest of their lives in the middle of the Pacific ocean. So by way of compromise they decided to take the biggest ship that came along and return to San Fran cisco. The 'Persia, however, is a British ship, and not allowed to carry passen gers between two American ports. The penalty of breaking this law is a fine of 1200; The girls didn't have enough money to settle with Uncle Sam, so they cabled for it to Vancouver. The $400 arrived a few minutes before the Mongolia was scheduled to sail and the liner was held for 20 minutes to enable the travelers to pay their Oα* and get on board* I * —, ——__ , . Envoy of Allies to Talk Peace With Nazim Pasha Conference Will Be Held on the Tchatalja Lines End of Strife May Embroil Balkans With Austria i society of Turkey, a society similar in purpose to our Red Cross. The \ \ society is doing a great work f°r the wounded and sick among the Turkish j I soldiers. Mme. Rijaat is the first Christian wife of a Mohammedan to I j represent Turkey at the British court. [ ALCATRAZ FELONS CAUGHT ON ISLAND Weakened in flesh and spirit by two deadly foes, hunger and thirst, Thomas Franey and Michae* Mullin, the des peradoes who were supposed to have escaped from Alcatraz late Saturday night, were captured last night when Mullin was forced from a hole he had burrowed in the driftwood under in fantry barracks to procure water for his dying companion. A sentry on guard at a point several hundred feet from the mouth of the tiny saw Mullin, on all fours, emerge from the hole, covered with slime and nearly famished, He covered him with his rifle, ordered his hands above his head, and called for help. Within a few seconds a score of guards had arrived. Mullin, with his mouth frightfully swollen* from lack of water, pointed to the hole under the driftwood. Searclj revealed Franey lying full length An the mud. appar- ' ently dying. Both men were rushed to the hospital, where they were given medical attention. Doctors spent nearly an hour on Franey before he was able to take nourishment. Since Saturday night the men, both dangerous military prisoners, had lived in the little hole without a morsel of food or a drop of water havlngr passed their lips. Dying by inches while waiting- a chance to escape from the rock bound island on a boat, Mullin knew the game was up when his com panion sank speechless in the cave. The details of their escape from the dungeon in the bottom of the grea-t prison on the islarad, from which es capes have been almost unknown for Contiaued am. Pa«e 2, C*lama 4 BERKELEY BRIDE'S RANSOM SPURNED SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 10—Mrs. J. Hunter Smith Jr. of Berkeley, a bride of 10 days, offered to strip her hands and neck of jewels today to obtain the re lease from jail of her husband, who is detained charged with issuing a worth less check in San Francisco. Included among young Smith's* effects when he turned over his property to the jailer were many press notices of his wedding at Berkeley November 6. Sm4th was indignant at his detention and declared that if there was insuf- I ficient money in the bank to pay the check he had simply misjudged the amount of his baiance. He said that his father was J. Hunter Smith, a consult ing engineer, of Pan Francisco. His bride, according to the press clippings, was Mies' Edith Getchell, daughter of !W. J. Getchell of Berkeley. Local friends of the Smith family came to the rescue and are attempting Ito untangle the affair. • • i Father to Offer Aid BERKELEY, Nov. 19.— J. Hunter Smith and Miss Edith Getchell were married in Berkeley at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Getchell, 2043 L»os Angeles avenue. November 6. Following the eergmony j the young couple departed on a honey- j moon tour through the southern part of the state. "1 nave not heard anything about | the trouble." he' said. "We have had letters from the young folks, but none recently. Of course, if there is any deficiency or tro.uble. it will imme diately be made good." THE WEATHER 'ERDAY — Highest temperature, 58; fcsf Monday night, 54. iCAST FOR TODAY—Fair; brisk h winds, changing to n>est. Tor Detail* of the Weather See P*ge 15 PRICE FIVE CENTS. ISLAM SUES FOR TERMS FROM ITS VICTORS While Turkey Extends Olive Branch Vienna Prepares to Take Field Against Otto* man's Conquerors RUSSIA GETS READY TO JUMP INTO FRAY Attitude of European Concert Depends Upon Liberality or Harshness of Proposal to Porte BULLETIN CONSTANTINOPLE, N«fr. 19. 11j80 — The iMirle tomorrow will appoint plen ipotentiaries to meet the Bulgarian plenipotentlarteti with regard tb an armtxticr. An official ante leaned to ; night mnyn that the Bulgarian govern- I went ban replied to the port*- , * recent ■ cninmuninitlnn respecting na «rmto i tire and that Bulgaria in ready to en j ter Into relation* with the Ottoman ■ plenipotentiaries with a view of a eon cluniun of an armistice and to dlsenes condition** of peace. BILLETIN (O\STA\TIXOPLE. -\ov. 20 Bul garia has nominated i he commander In chief of the army at Tchatalja to nego tiate the armlMtlce. The negotiation)* «111 be conducted In Hademfceul. whither Turkey will eend her dele gates. By PAUL LAMBETH [Special Cable to The Call] LONDON, Nov. 19—Lines of de marcation are being prepared at the Tchatalja front within which the plenipotentiaries of the Balkan kings will meet Nazim Pasha, commander in chief of the Turkish army, and arrange the ba?is for a peace conference. Peace with Turkey now seems assured, but war with Austria seems to be brewing. Just as the present war followed the peace pact with Turkey and Italy, London is convinced that war now will ensue between the four Balkan kings and Austria —the latter pos sibly supported by Italy and Rou mania. Russia has warned Roumania to go slowly. This is taken as a hint that if Roumania does attack Bulgaria or Servia, Russia will send an army over the Danube. The czar has thousands of troops now concentrated between Odessa and Galatz and Kishinef. The situation iSj anything but reassuring. The official note announcing the ac ceptance of the Turkish appeal for peace by the allies contained a broad hint to the European powers not to meddle in the differences between the four kings and the sultan. "The porte," said this statement, '"having addressed its prayer directly to the Balkan confederation, the allies now will treat with Turkey without outside intervention. The good offices of the concert of Europe properly are appreciated." This is a rude slap in the face of 1,000 Shares of S. F. LIFE Insuranre Co. (nevr ba*#) tor snip at $1.18. Another especially attrur-tiT" offering is 1,000 Sunnyvale Land Co., at 65c At this price it pays V- per cent income secured by suburban land. WE WILL BUY 300 Weitern State* life Ins. 200 Cal. State Life Ins. 75 Vulcan Fire Inc. 2500 Tidewater Southern Kl. ICOO Stockton Terminal and E. By. » 150 Ma-scot Copper. 1 60 Ocean Shore Ry. CHESTER B. ELLIS &CO. Stock and llond Broken, 714 Market St. Opp. Call Bids. Larjcet De«lpm in Unlisted SecurJtiw on the Pselfle Coast. Est. 188 S.