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St. Paul and Vicinity—Fair.
For Minnesota—Showers and thunder
storms Friday and Saturday, fresh south,
t-hifting to west winds.
VOL. XXVIII.—NO. 118
KILLS HIS WIFE AND
SHOOTS HIMSELF
COLORED MAIN PUTS FOUR
BULLETS IN HER BODY
George IVlahon Then Turns Revolver
on Himself and Inflicts Wound
Believed to Be Fatal—Police Are
Summoned and (Murderer Is Taken
to the City Hospital Where It Was
Ascertained That His Chances of
Recovery Are Slight—Jealousy the
Cause of the Crime
Tn a fit of insane jealousy George
Italian, 24 years, colored, shot and
killed his wife, Hattie Mahan, also
colored, and then shot and mortally
•wounded himself, at 559 Sibley atreet,
shortly before 1 o'clock this morning.
Muhan fired four shots Into his wife's
body, and then turning the gun on
himself discharged the remaining car
tridge into his left breast just below
the heart. Three of the shots struck
Mrs. Mahan in the right arm, shatter
ing the bones jnto bits, while the last
Bhot penetrated her heart.
At 1 o'clock Capt. Hanft of the cen
tral station was notified of the shoot
ing by Stella Stallings, who boarded
with the Mahans, and patrolmen were
hurried to the scene. When the police
entered the room Mahan and his wife
were lying side by side on the floor,
With the revolver between them. The
v.oman was already dead, but Mahan
was breathing, although unconscious.
The police ambulance was called arid
he was hurried to the city hospital,
v. here it T as reported that he eoulil
not live.
Stella Stallings Tells the Story
Stella Stallings, who occupied a room
just above the one used by the Mahons,
tells the following story of the shoot
ing:
"I was just going to bed," she said,
"when I heard a shot. I was not quite
cure of it, however, but in another sec
ond, another shot rang out, then two
more. All was still for a moment and
then there was a fifth report. I hur
riedly dressed and run down stairs, but
I was afraid to go into the room and
ran to a saloon and telephoned to the
police."
According to the police there had
been a scuffle before and during the
ehootiiig. When the room was entered
the couple were lying on the floor. Ma
hon was fully dressed and had evidently
just come into the house, but his wife
was in her nightclothes and had been
to bed.as the rumpled bedclothes plain
ly showed. The theory of the police
is that Mahon had left the house early
GIFT IS A WISE ONE
Comments on Carnegie's Fund
for Educators
NEW YORK, April 27.—1n his letter
to the trustees of the $10,000,000 fund
contributed by him to provide annui
ties for retired college professors, An
drew Carnegie said:
I have reached the conclusion that the
least rewarded of all the professions is
that of teacher in our higher educa
tional institutions. New York city gen
erously, and very wisely, provides retir
ing pensions for teachers in her public
schools and also for her policemen. Very
few indeed of our colleges are able to do
no. The consequences are grievous. Able
men hesitate to adopt teaching as a ca
reer, and many old professors whose
places should be occupied by younger men
cannot be retired.
Colleges in the United States, Can
ada :tnd Newfoundland are the bene
ficiaries and the trustees comprise a
large number of leading university
presidents and other prominent edu
cators.
Among the expressions of apprecia
tion are the following:
President Hadley of Yale —It is an ex
ceedingly valuable gift, or whose uses we
Khali know more in the future than we
do now.
President Schurmann of Cornell —This
is the wisest thing ever done for higher
education in America. It recognizes the
professor as the essential factor in the
university. It dignifies his office and it
provides for his wants when he is no
longer able to work.
President Peterson of McGill University
—Mr. Carnegie deserves praise for the
ptep he has taken. It is a most unselfish
one. This fund will offer a solution to
the (|uestion of superannuation and will
do also much to add to the attractiveness
Of thu teaching profession.
Good Use for Arbor Day
Special to The Globe
MENOMONIE, Wis., April 27.—The
entire male population of the city and
county schools have voted unanimous
ly to celebrate Arbor day by clearing
up the shores of Lake Menomonie. Sev
eral hundred boys will join in this
work under the supervision of compe
tent overseers and the shores will be
parked und beautified.
THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC DAILY NEWSPAPER Of GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE NORTHWEST
THE BT. PAUL GLOBE
in the evening after a quarrel with his
wife and had returned in a desperate
mood. They say the couple renewed
the quarrel and that Mahon in a fit of
jealous rage drew a gun and threaten
ed to kill his wife. Mrs. Mahon must
have then jumped from the bed and
grappled with her husband in the hopes
of disarming him. Mahon managed to
wrench his pistol hand free, however,
and fired the first shot which took ef
fect in his wife's arm, just below the
elbow, breaking the bone. The woman
disabled by the wound must have grown
weaker and unable to defend herself,
whereupon Mahon. beside himself with
rage, deliberately fired three more shots
into her body. Standing over the dead
body of his wife he then turned the gun
on himself and sent the last bullet
crashing into his own body.
Led Quarrelsome Existence
Mahon and his wife came'to St. Paul
from Little Rock, Ark., about a year
ago, and Mrs. Mahon opened a rooming
house at 559 Sibley street. Mahon ob
tained employment at the union depot,
where he remained until about a week
ago. According to the fcStullings wom
an and other roomers the couple had
been unable to live peaceably together
for some time, and during the past
week scarcely spoke to each other.
The Stallings woman's version of the
story is that Mrs. Mahon wished to
gain a separation from her husband
and start a rooming house on her own
account somewhere else. She had ap
proached most of her roomers and ask
ed them to come with her to the new
place. Mahon, who was insanely jeal
ous of his wife, would not hear of her
leaving him, and threatened several
times to kill her if she attempted to
desert him. Mrs. Mahon was afraid of
her husband, according to the roomers,
and frequently said that she was
afraid George would kill her.
Mahon was 24 years old and his wife
20. The couple had been married
about two years. There are no children.
Coroner Miller was notified of the
double tragedy and ordered the wom
an's body taken to the morgue. The
inquest will be held some time next
week.
NEW FORM OF LIBEL
Political Party Utterances Go
Under the Ban
NEW YORK, April 27—Robert Ful
ton Cutting, president of the Citizens'
union, was served with papers today in
a suit for $250,000 damages for defa
mation of character brought by Cor
poration Counsel John J. Delaney. The
suit is based upon the campaign ad
dress issued by the Citizens' union
convention on April 13 last, which was
prepared by the city committee, of
which Mr. Cutting is chairman, and
raises a unique point of law in that the
utterances of a political party are
made the basis for a suit for damages.
Mr. Delaney's complaint recites a ref
erence to himself in the address in
question which he regards as damaging
to his character.
THE NEWS INDEXED
PAGE i
President Cuts Trip Short
New Sensition in Equitable
Sensational Evidence Against Koch
Rojestvensky Awaits Peace Parley
PAGE II
Sibley Street Matter Held Up
Wine Room Ordinance Delayed
Drainage Campaign Bgins Today
PAGE 111
Minneapolis Matters
News of the Railroads
News of the Northwest
PAGE IV
Editorial Comment
Bigelow Goes Into Bankruptcy
DAGE V
In the World of Sport
Teamsters' Strike More Serious
PAGE VII
Short Story
Of Interest to Women
PAGE VIII
Financial and Commercial
PAGE IX
Globe Paying Wants "
"Caesar" Young's Widow Testifies
PAGE X
Mysterious Girl Tries to End Life
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 28. 1905—TEX PAGES
THESE FELL TO THE PRESIDENT'S GUN
First Bears to Succumb to the Hunter —They Were Enormous Brown Bears
—Yesterday the Party Got Three Including One Grizzly Bear
PRESIDENT KILLS
THREE BEARS IN ALL
Shortens His Programme by a
Week as He Is Needed In
Washington
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., April
2".—President Roosevelt will break
camp on May 8, a week earlier than
he had intended, and will start for
Washington at once. The only stops
hp will make will be at Denver and
Chicago, where the dates for his re
ception have been, advanced to meet
the new arrangement. Secretary Loeb
returned early today from the camp.
He announced that affairs in Wash
ington made it necessary that the
president curtail his visit. That there
is nothing alarming in the situation
is man4fested from the fact that the
hunt will be continued ten days more
in spite of conditions of governmental
affairs which resulted in the altered
plans. The Venezuelan situation, it is
believed here, resulted in the order to
start home on May 8.
Of the six bears killed by the hunt
ers thus far, the president has brought
down three and Dr. Alexander Lambert
the other three. Four bears haVeVkn
killed by temporary attaches of Se
party and nearby ranchmen. All of
the hides were brought here and will
be mounted as rugs.
One of the party killed a huge grizzly
bear today.
WASHINGTON, April 27.—Secretary
Taft, when made aware of the presi
dent's plans to leave Colorado May 8,
showed no surprise, for it was known
to him before the president left Wash
ington that he was very doubtful of his
ability to carry out his wish to remain
in the hunting country until the mid
dle of May. Although there is no
pressing emergency here requiring the
immediate presence of the president,
there are some important subjects re
lating to changes in high public of
fices in the diplomatic service which
the president alone can direct. As far
as Venezuela is concerned, the issue
merely has been postponed.
Will Dissect Cattle
JANESVILLE. Wis.. April 27.—The
general public has been invited by the
Wisconsin state veterinarian to attend
an autopsy on fifty-seven cattle which
died of tuberculosis, it is said. The
post mortem examination will be held
on a farm near Janesville.
ROJESTVENSKY IS
ORDERED TO WAIT
Peace Negotiations Postpone
the Collision of Hostile
Fleets
Special Cable to The Globe
TOKYO, April 28.—There Is less ex
citement in this city about the Rus
sian fleet than there is in. Paris and in
London, judging from dispatches which
come here from those cities. Compe
tent members of the naval staff, in
cluding at least one admiral, are rath
er skeptical that Rojestvensky will at
tempt to make the sea of Japan to
fight the Japanese fleet. They point
out that he has been now three weeks
in the China sea, using up both coal
and provisions and making practically
no progress towards his alleged ob
jective point. Every day that he re
mains in water reduces the speed of
his ships, and hence their fighting
power when in. action.
It Is not regarded as probable that
he believes for one moment the Japa
nese navy will go out of its way to
meet him In the south China sea, and
bo the belief is gaining ground here
that the commander of the Baltic
squadron has imoerative orders from
St. Petersburg not to sail north of
Parades island pending certain nego
tiations for peace which undoubtedly
are being considered in more than one
European capital.
Nebogatoff's Ships Dubious
Naval chiefs do not believe that he
is waiting for NebogatofTs ships. They
are five iron clads meant only for coast,
defense, with a speed of less than ten.
miles an hour under pressure. The
only two serviceable fighting vessels
are a battleship and cruiser, and their
value is yet to be determined.
Rojestvensky cannot now attempt to
sail Into another French port in Cochin
China. He is fully provisioned in coal
and supplier for a journey to Vladi
vostok, and his only object in delay is
to keep away from Admiral Togo's
fleet pending possible peace. It is re
garded as certain here that he will be
heard from in another neutral port,
and probably in one which has no fleet
that can enforce neutrality.
Attack Night and Day
The reticence of the imperial navy
board continues, but nevertheless the
Continued on Third Page
"Come Take a Trip in My Airship*
KNOWLES IS FIRED
BY MR. ALEXANDER
Late Superintendent of Agen
cies of the Equitable Gets
Back at the President
NEW YORK, April 27.—"How the
mighty have fallen under the baneful
influence of Tarbellism," says H. H.
Knowles in his reply to the notification
of his discharge as superintendent of
agencies of the Equitable Life Assur
ance society which came to him today
in a letter signed by President Alex-*
ander. Mr. Knowles was superintend
ent of agencies until a few weeks ago,
when he was suspended by the presi
dent. He has occupied his offices in
the Equitable building until today. Mr,
Knowles' name was brought promi
nently into the Equitable controversy
during the meeting of agents ii> this
< ity ten days ago. At that time he
gave out an interview criticising Presi
dent Alexander and Second Vice Presi
dent Tarbell. and subsequently made
charges against the latter in the news
papers.
Mr. Knowles' wrote a reply to Presi
ileru Alexander's letter of dismissal, in
which he says:
Tou first. Mr. President, attempted, no
doubt at the suggestion of Tarbell. chi
canery and intimidation, by threats of dis
charging me to get me out of the city.
Failing in that, a few hours afterward you
tried to work upon my sympathies, and
the high regard that I had always enter
tained for you, to aiVumplish your pur
pose. That being ineffective, you tried
suspension, and after thirteen days, find
ing that this did not have the effect of
stifling my voice and opinions against the
Alexander-Tarbell plot and on behalf of
the Equitable, you today add insult to in-
Jury by terminating my connection with
the Equitable Life, after forty years of
service, fjr no reason except my loyalty
to what I considered the Equitable's best
interests.
I want to assure you. Mr. President,
that this effort to stifle me will be as fu
tile as your previous ones, for the high
handed, outrageous manner in which you
treated me. at the instigation of Tarbell.
more thoroughly convinces me of the dan
ger to the body of policy holders of the
Equitable Ufe if the plot succeeds in plac
ing Tarbell in the position to ever as
sume the presidency of the Equitable.
If I were unmindful of the Interests of
the great body of policy holders of the
society as the Alexander-Tarbell faction
proved themselves to be by their waste
ful expenditures, including packed con
ventions of managers. In trying to becloud
Continued on Fifth Page
PRICE TWO CENTS SvJS'nt.
MISS KOCH MARKED
THE HANDKERCHIEF
SO POLICE CHIEF ASSERTS
SHE INFORMED HIM
Klause Tells of Noticing Blood Stains
on Telephone Wire Near Dr. Geb
hard's Office Window Through
Which Murderer Escaped —Head
of New Ulm Police Reveals Vital
Points Overlooked at the First Trial
Special to The Globe
MANKATO, Minn., April 27.—The
Eighth day of Dr. Koch's trial was full
of sensational Incidents. Several bits
of testimony of value to the state not
secured at the New Ulm trial were
brought out. One was Policeman Jo
seph Weisenborn's testimony that he
saw the pencil lying near Dr. Geb
hard's body when he entered the room.
At the New Ulm trial he said that he
did not see it. A more important de
velopment was the conversation of
Chief of Police Klause with Miss Ida
Koch, sister of the defendant, in which
he quoted her as saying to him in Dr.
Koch's presence that the handkerchief
found at Dr. Gebhard's office was her
brother's and that she marked it. Chief
Klause did not tell this at the N.-w
Ulm trial. He says that ho did not
get a chance to tell it then. He ex
plains Weisenborn's testimony regard
ing the pencil at New Ulm by saying
that he was "rattled."
Chief Klause also said that he notic
ed blood stains on one of the telephone
wires near the window from which
the murderer is supposed to have made
his escape. He did not testify to this
at the New Ulm trial. The two police
officials were placed under severe fire
by the attorneys for Koch, but clung
to their statements steadfastly.
Chief Klause stated this evening
that as a matter of fact Gen. Childs in
advertently overlooked asking him
about these points at the New Ulm
trial, and when he called his atten
tion to it later thought best not to re
call him.
County Attorney Wilson is daily re
ceiving freak letters from people in
regard to the case. Most of the writ
ers have suggestions to offer as to
what the state ought to do.
Mi»s Gebhard Wants Only Truth
Miss Emma Gebhard, teacher in a
school for the deaf in Milwaukee, who
expected to attend the trial only this
week, has consented to remain
throughout. She is a sister of the
murdered dentist. She said today:
I have concluded to remain and hear
both sides. It Is a shame what kind of
reports are being printed by some papers.
One suggested a day or two ago that my
brother's death was the work of a mad
man. Every day there Is something sen
sational printed. I admire those who
stick to the truth. People all over the
northwest are reading about this trial,
and only facis ought to be prjnted. for
people depend on the papers for their In-
WATCH REIO'SSMOKE
Suggests National Convention
to Fight a Nuisance
CINCINNATI, 0., April 27.—The
calling of a national anti-smoke con
vention was suggested by Dr. C. L.
Reid in an address before the wom
en's club today. He spoke of the smoke
nuisance as viewed from the economic,
sanitary and legal standpoints. He
said a dingy atmosphere is not con
ducive to a dear intellect. It is diffi
cult to imbue the young with a st-nsr
of the beautiful when beauty itself is
bedaubed with soot. It is likewise
difficult to instill a sense of justice in
the minds of youths who are brought
up in a community that permits one
interest, needlessly but flagrantly and
with impunity, to violate the equal
rights of others.
"If the movement is to advance co
operation between different cities
looking to the regulation of the evil is
of vital importance. For this reason it
seems that cooperation to be effective
must be national in extent." Action
was taken by the club looking to the
holding of such a convention in Cin
cinnati probably next October.
MAY ATTEND WEDDING
OR NOT, AS THEY LIKE
German Crown Prince and Bride Will
Be Received by Girls in White
BERLIN, April 2T.—"No invitations to
the wedding of Crown Prince Frederick
William to Duchess Cecilia of Mecklen
burg-Schwerin June 6 will be issued to
Europepn governments, although some
private invitations may have already
been sent to individual princes and
princesses here and there, such as
Prince Albert of Flanders and his wife
and Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria and
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark,
but other members of royal families not
thus favored may come or delegate
princes to represent them as they like.
Emperor William wanted the prince of
Wales to come, but as the king of Spain
will be in England at the time, the
duke of Connaught will probably come
lnßtead.
The municipality of Berlin has de
cided to spend about $33,000 in decor
ating the streets through which the
crown prince and his bride will enter
the city. Several hundreds of young
women dressed In white and bearing
bouquets of roses will meet the latter
inside the Brandenburg gate.
READ THE GLOBE
THE ONLY LIVE NEWSPAPER II
ST. PAUL
formation. We have all road every pacer
we could got. and it is_ a terrible strain
on my mother, who lives in Black River
Falls. Wis.
Miss Gebhard's brother of Black
River Falls, who is attending the trial,
remarked that the family wanted to
get at the truth as to the murder and
don't want anybody punished who is
not guilty.
Among those present today were
William Koch, cashier of the Citizens
bank. New Ulm, and Albert Koch,
banker, of Echo, both brothers of the
defendant. They, with the aged fa
ther. Miss Emma Koch and Mrs. Som
sen, sister, of New Ulm. and Miss
Han^erter, cousin, of Mankato, sat
near Dr. Koch during the session.
Hear Ulen Eagerly
When Ole F. Ulen's name was called
late this afternoon, there was a gen
eral bustle of expectancy on the part
of the audience, and neckfl craned for
ward. Mr. Ulen proved to be a middle
aged man, with an honest face, a tall
form, a slow gait and a weak voice,
characterized somewhat by a Scandi
navian dialect. He said that he has
lived at Lake Hanska for fourteen
years, tilling the soil, and that his
home is a mile and a quarter from the
village. He first met the defendant in
June or July, 1903, in Dr. Wood's office
at Hanska, where Dr. Koch had an
office and dental chair. He had want
ed "some tooth work" done, and Dr.
Koch had pulled two teeth for him.
They had a talk about Dr. Gebhard.
•'What was said?" asked Gen.
Childs.
Mr. Brown asked that this be pre
sented In written form that he might
object to it. This was done, and he
objected to it as a whole and to certain
parts separately. The court read over
the offer and then overruled the ob
jection. The witness said:
"I asked him if he was a dentist, for I
didn t know him. I told him that Dr.
Gebhard, in New Ulm. had polled a tooth
for me. He asked me how I commenced
to do that. 1 told him a clerk had sent
me down, and that .some of the rest of my
family had gone. too. He said Gebhard
was no better than the rest of them. He
said Gtbharcl wouldn't be In town very
long. I asked if Gebhard was going away
He said no. I asked if he was? sick. He
Raid no. I raid he must be there, then,
and he said somebody would kill him I
said they can't do that. He said to me:
'You could do it.' or 'Would you do It?' I
said. 'I wouldn't do it if I was to get the
whole of New Ulm. not even the whole of
America.' He said it was not worth that
much. I said, 'The man who will do that
will get punished.' *Nobody can find It
out,' he said."
The defense then moved to strike out
Continued on Fifth Page
EAST SIDERS UNITE
New Commercial Club In Payne
Avenue District
Out of an intricate tangle of parlia
mentary law the East Side Commercial
club emerged last night a completed
organization of East side business
men.
About forty business men of the
First ward met last night in a hall at
Wells street and Payne avenue, pur
suant to a motion made at a previous
meeting held two weeks ago, and
heard the report of the committees
elected last meeting and instructed to
formulate a constitution and bylaws.
The reading of the constitution gave
rise to a discussion which led to a
parliamentary war between D. I. Ham
mergren and S. A. Ponthan, which
later involved almost all the men pres
ent. The disputed clause was can offi
cers of an organization be elected be
fore the passage of the bylaws. After
an hour spent in debate, retort and
counter retort, J. A. Orythman ruled
that the bylaws were not necessary to
the election of officers.
J. A. Grythrran, the temporary
chairman, was unanimously elected
president; Alex Lindahl, vice presi
dent: John G. Thaung, treasurer, and
Martin Johnson secretary.
A board of directors consisting of
the following was then elected:
Charles Oberg, Dr. H. L. Btolpestad,
Alfred Pearson, C. A. Nyberg and D.
K. Hammergren.
The consideration of the bylaws was
laid over until the next meeting, which
will occur May 11, after much objec
tion, and it was decided to have 100
copies of the proposed bylaws printed
and distributed among the charter
members of the organization.
The organization was formed for the
purpose of promoting the business in
terests of the East side, and any per
son of good social and business stand
ing of the age of 21 or over is eligible
to membership. The annual dues were
fixed at $10 per year. The club, after
being more firmly organized, will have
permanent headquarters.
Building Was Safe
CLARINDA. la.. April 27.—The east
wing of the ("larinda hospital for the
insane collapsed today, carrying seven
men with the debris, although none was
seriously injured. The state board of
control inspected the building yester
day and pronounced it safe. The entire
wing will have to be rebuilt and the
loss wiU exceed $30,000.
