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2 FREE FROM QUILT. Lizzie Borden Acquitted by the Jury. WHO COMMITTED THE DEED. Though She Is Net the Culprit, Vet Is the Mystery No Nearer .solution. IFj«eUI ■■. Tar UoKMtxe fs-__. New Bedfoed, .Mass.. Jane 20. —At the opening of the Borden tri»l this norn ing, : District Attorney Knowlton resumed his j argument ln behalf cf tbe Commonwealth. I If* addressed .-. Mil to tte motive fori the mnrd*r. He pointed oat tbe enmity of I JXzzie toward her stepmother as sufS- \ cient motive for fc<»r murder, and said ber ] kiiiinz necessitated the killing cf her } fattier, who was a stern man, wbs koew tf the enmity, and wi. loved bis dead wife. The only way for Lizzie to possibly escape pnolsbmest lay in killing ter father. It is a theory only, but one which *onld con sistently account fer tbe double murder ill/ WJMMi taking place with a period of one hour and a half between the acts. 'in all yonr ob serve'Xr.s." he asked, " ive yon ever heard of. an attempt to create an alibi in wbicb tbere wa». more straining of tbe cir cumstances than in this one? 'Ihat barn abb! will not stand." lie then commented on the old and fluvy cor.dition "f tl c barn, and the fac that keen-eyed people found no traces of poison having been there. How she could avoid gettins blood on her clothes the jury could not answer, because they were neither women nor murderers. It was a sicguiar thing that tbe dress, after being kept so long, was burned oa that particu lar Sunday. Lizzie bad Deen told on Bat urnay night tbat she was accused of the crime, and on tbe next morn had burned Isi dress. The speaker said that Mrs. Began bad never denied the "you gave-roe-away" story coder oath. Tbe prosecution did not claim that it Intro duced tbe hatchet witn which the murder bad been Bitted. It showed that the hatchet bad been wet and robbed in ashes, and tbat the blade fitted & most miracu lously into tbs bole' in the skulls. The speaker continued arguing that tiie silk dress prod need __>• defendant was not the dress worn at the time of the murder. '1 •-.'-. two versions of the story of the horn ing of the defendant's dress were irrecon cilable. He iii-cu .-cd the defendant's con duct since the order, and eald the pro duct on of ti.e hatchet was no part of the Government's ease, and closed with an eloquent appeal to the jury. 'J lie court then took a recess, and on re assembling defendant was given an op portunity to sneak. She said: "I am in nocent, but I will leavs my case in your bands and with my counsel." Justice Dewey then 'barged the jury. He. defined the different degrees of murder and stated tbat the : resumption of Inno cence was increased by the defendant's character. There must be a real and operative motive for a crime of this sort. The Judge further charged the jury to weigh the evidence to see whether the de fendant's permanent state of mmd showed a motive for tbe crimes. Every material allegation in the indictment must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, that is to a moral certainty. He compared direct and circumstantial evidence and said that the failure, to prove an essential fact would be fatal, but the failure to prove a helpful circumstance not a - fact might not be. Lizzie's statements about the note were discussed at length, and the Judge 'said they must be satisfied that they were false. Every fact proved must be reasonably consistent with guilt. The Government dii not show that anybody else bad an op portunity to commit the crime, but it most prove the defendant committed It. The jury must reason as to the effect of de fendant's conduct and statements. They were not to reach a conclusion from expert testimony, but were lo apply to ita reason able judgment. They might convict, even if satisfied that the act was done by an other party, if they also found that de fendant was present aiding and abetting the commission of the crime. The mere fact that defendant did not testify should not influence them against her. . X;-> Judge Dewey, continuing, said that the government claims that these acts come under the head of murder in the first de gree. The law says that in order to prove Ibis every claim must be established be yond a reasonable doubt. It is stated that the government presents its case on cir cumstantial evidence. It is understood by the couil that the governmeritelaimed that the essential fact embraced in the note matter, namely, that she made statements which she knew to be false when she was making them, but contemplates the possi bility of there being an assassin. Might he not have come upon her when the note was at liana and removed it as one of the links In the evidence? lv cases of circum stantial evidence, unless every link holds good, the chain is worthless. The jury is asked to bear in mind the supposed fact that there is nothing to connect the de fendant with tbe murder as far as outward appearances go. ' -: : ~ At the conclusion of the charge the at torneys consulted a lew moments and then tbe jury was allowed to retire. It was just 4:30 o'clock when the specta tors, who bad kept their seats patiently during the retirement of the jury, noticed a movement indicating their return. A moment later the twelve men filed into their seats and were polled. Miss Borden was asked to stand up and the foreman was asked to return the verdict, which he announced as "not guilty." Then all the dignity and decorum of the courtroom vanished. A cheer went up which might have been beard a mile away I "■'■ If ■iiiwiwiMi'iiPii<<y^iiOH_M'ii_ _unM<y'<iiifci"<i||iii hi" "ii land tbere was bo attempt to check it. i Msis ■_.','_ bead went down neon the ' rail in front ol ber and tbe tears cam*. f Mr. Jennicgs was almas: crying whit ■ Mr. I Adams seemed incapable of speech. As soon as .possible lie r6.m was cleared, and wben ite sp«ctatcrs had finally zone Miss Borden was taken to tbe j room of tte Xstjre and allowed so recover ter composure only tte -4-- -.'■ friends j j upon her and only tbe caresses of ber de- j ] voled admirers. At tte expiration of an j boar she was placed in a carriage and j j driven to the station, where she leek tbe I train for Fall River, hot home no . .- i.-.:. probably, bat still ■ .- only otjtctiTe point for tte immediate present. THE CRIME AND ITS MYSTERY. If Lizzie Borden Did Not Commit the Murder, Who Did? Altboagh the trial is endef and a jury bas declared Unto Borden not zuilty of, tbe atrocious double crime with which she stood chareef, titers is about UM case yet a mystery tbat has never boon unraveled, try the most tola analytical minis to un ravel it as 'bey may, aod that i: now seems will never bo solved. If Lizzie Borden did ' no: kill her parents, who did? Andrew" D. Borden, a man whose wealth wasestl \ mated at from $a>V£« to $500,000, was found murdered and with hU sad almost cot to ; sees on the lounge in the sitting room of bis b< ise, on second street, Fail R.v*r, st 11 :C5 o'clock on the morning of Thursday, August 4, ÜB2. When tbe a'artied friends and neighbors regained ; their senses sufficiently to Intend to ac quaint bis wife with tbe occurrence they found ber murdered in an almost exactly similar manner, on the floor of the second : story "spare XL," whither she had gone to prepare it for 'he reception of a guest. It appeared, ttcuzh this point was never folly Investigated by the police. that only two people were ii st about th» . boose at the time, namely, Lbs Borden, the dead man's danzhter, and Bridget Sol livan, a servant. Owing to the facts that superior int^llizence was requisite for the concealment of the crime and that the danzhter had not warmly loved, though it could not be shown tbat sbe even disliked her stepmother, and also tba: sbe had teen Impatient of her father's par*irar.Dy, «us- j piciou fell upon Li2zie Bontoa, and Ci'y Marshal Hilliard and District Attorney Knowlton i roseentrd the case on tbe the ory of bet guilt. In a secret cross-era ation three days long, when she was de. prived oi counsel and mad«» to tell :he same story over and over again for the purpose of creating discrepancies, the Dis trict Attorney succeeded in Baking •-. accused contradict bersell in several par ticular* and undoubtedly convicted her of on* falsehood. This was when she said that she had be lieved that bet stepmother was out that ' morning, because she bad pot a note at k- 1 ing her to call on a sick friend. There is no evidence lhat such a note was ever re ceived, and the contention i* that she first told the Story to prevent I er father from going upstairs and afterward «tuck to if. The contradiction* were in own or less important points, such as when she ac- I counted for her own temporary ab«ence from the room where she had been and ( where her father was murdered, by say ing bos that 6be bad teen out to the barn to eat s.r.t^rs for a fishing excursion to Marion, and again that she tad been there to get a piece of iron to fix a window. Again she sa d sbe had given her father , his s.itp-rs when he came in at 10:45 from his morning visit to the two banks In \ which he was Interested, while the fact was that be lay 'town in his boots to take the nap from which, ho never woke.- Again, she j said, in response to one question, tbat the j Gshl.nes for w bleb she wanted the sinkers wen at Marion, and, being pressed, tald ; that she had intended to buy new lines. '. If she did cut sinkers in the barn she never produced them nor the piece of lead from whicb they were taken, though had she done to the Di'trict Attorney would have '■ denounced them as manufactured evidence and argued against their admissibility in i court. But It was,, on this barn story, its ; improbability anftofntrsdietions, that the prosecution bore most heavily in arguing for a commitment-.plts was in fact Lizzie Borden's alibi. If slie was not in the burn lbs must have been In th" house, in the ' I very room or the kitchen adjoining it ; I where her father was Bordered, or in the | yard, where she would have seen bis mur derer escape. On the point of intent the prosecution ! had one materia! fact, namely, that on tbe ; day before the murders Lizzie Borden had i tried to buy prussic acid in a drugstore at j South Maine street and Columbia avenue, ; Fall River, saying that she wanted it for I the purpose of packing furs. , The fact was that tier furs had been parked for months. Identifications are things In ; which witnesses make many blunders, but j even if Eli Bence, the drug clerk, had been mistaken in bis. it is probable that '■ the woman who asked for the prussic acid i would have come forward and corrected i the error— probable, that is to say, except j on the hypothesis that another murder | was meditated In Fall River that day and never carried out. As to motive the prosecution was very I weak. District Attorney Knowlton dwelt much on Andrew Borden's niggardliness, I which had prevented him from even put ; ting a stationary. bathtub in bis house. But murders for money are almost in variably committed for ready money and ; Lizzie Borden had plenty of that — one thousand dollars in bant, a hobse yielding rent, some corporation stock and a very moderate allowance for pocket money of ! $2 a week. She was but 32 years old, and \ before she was 35 her father, who was 70 years old and not robust, was pretty sure | to leave her a fortune, while in a few years more her stepmother's life, then 07 years in being, would end and with it the last barrier between her and her sister Emma and the whole Borden estate. The only evidence that there bad been any trouble In the family, about money matters was that Lizzie and Emma some years before, on the occasion of a handsome gift from their father to their stepmother, prevailed upon him to make over to them real estate | worth £3000, which at the' time of the murders stood in their names. Two blood-stained hatchets were found on the Borden premises, and it was shown on the trial also that shortly after the mur der Lizzie had burned a dress which, she i claimed, had been stained by paint. Fur j ther, It was in evidence that after she had been held to answer for the crime,. Lizzie Borden received, visit from her sister, and the two had engaged In an altercation during which the accused girl, I seemingly in anger, had used the words: ' "You have given me away, but I will not yield an inch." ' : ■ X <-.; The matron of the jail, who told this story, denied it to several witnesses, though she subsequently swore to it on the stand, and both- the denials and tbe affirmations were in evidence. On'the other hand, Lizzie Borden was a young woman whose moral character was of the highest, and who bad conducted herself In all her thirty odd years of life as would any well-regulated young person In a well-regulated- New England com munity. Her own* story of _ the murder, briefly, Is as follows: . She said that her father complained of not feeling well and that he lay down on THE MOBNING CALL, SAX FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1893. I the sofa, sbe ad jailing the pillow for htm ; ' tbat tte fUtiras were net hot enough to iron with and that to pet in the tune while they were heating she. went ent into the back yard. She stopped there for a few moments and picked np some pears which bad fallen to the ground from the trees. : Then she thought she would go into tbe ' barn for seize sinkers for Ler fish line, as she was going to .Marion the next day to fisb. Her father told her tbere were sinkers in a Utile box npstairs in the barn and the went there to get ttem. Sbe bad net been in the barn before in three j j monies. Sbe went upstair.-, tr.rew open the door and stood tr.ere while she ate four pears. Then she looked for tte sinker* and came into tte house. When tte got in she fooad ber father murders: and summer. fed Bridget. On ber cross-examination she was con fronted with the fact that sbe had once before said she went to the barn li £-". - niece of iron for her t i.i line and with tbe farther fact that lying in tbe yard close to the tarn doer were pieces of lead with which she could hare made sinker*. Then __. was asked to explain how it was on tha: hct morning sue went to the hottest place on the premises to stand and eat pear*, a place from which, a* she had testified, sbe could not see the yard or anybody who came into it or left it, bat _ could give no satisfactory answer. This, it must be borne in mind, was on tbe. preliminary examination when she was _.*.,_ for murder. The defendant did nr>: go on the stand at the trial, but her physician '.'.-•.. that she was under the influence of morphine when examined, : tte drug given her by himself, and that the eject ot morphine was to produce hal lucinations, to cloud the mind and canse a ; person to give confused answers to ques- i tion The medical experts in Boston who ex- : amined the stomachs of the murdered man j and wman testified that in their opinion Mrs. Benton was killed from an hour to an hour and a half before Mr. Borden. They based this belief upon the stages of diges tion cf the food in each of tfcelr rton aeba, and it bas come to be the accepted opinion. If that is the case and Lizzie was the mur deress, she mist have butchered her ! mother about 10 o'clock— that it at about the time or before ber father went down town. This Involves believing that with her : mother lying slaughtered upstairs this \ unnatural monster of a girl went ealmlv j about her ordinary household duties: that , ■be chatted and laughed with Bridget- Bridget testified to that— and then took her chancer on Bridget getting out of the way long enoujh to split open her father's head as it lay resting en the pillow, which ibe had smoothed for him to rent upon. It involves also believing that after butcher ing ber mother, with Bridget about the bouse and apt to come upstairs at any mo- j ment, she was able to make way with her weapon and her blood-soaked garments of slaughter as quickly and deftly as she did after 'he murder of her father. Much stress has been laid upon the fact of Lizzie's wonderful composure after her first incarceration, but tbls, it now seems probable, was rather the effect of mor phine than ef natural self-ecu At all events, doting the trial just closed, she; has conducted herself very ranch as an ordinary woman, a trifle less than ordi narily emotional, would have - done o a llkecrisi-. Emotion, strong emotion. is paroxysmal and not continuous. Hu manity could not endure the strain if it were. And Lizzie has broken down at several potato* and at several other limes bas only controlled herself by an effort visibly strong. ,7, X !."'. From the first it was apparent on the i trial that the police, having conceived a suspicion of the girl, bent every tat and circumstance to accord with that sus picion. It wa* not co much a case of find ing out who the murderer was as of prov- \ ing Lizzie Borden guilty. Every other theory of the crime was rejected. There ; seems to have been even no attempt to in- ; vestigate any other theory or to discover ■ay other solution. Every fact was ! brought out by the police as strongly as possible to tell against her, and this spirit j was so apparent that it worked the de- j struction of the ease of the prosecution. In their hurry to convict the police j rushed in headlong, contradicting ea:'h j other on most material points, until the ! prosecution found itself Involved in a hope less tangle of something akin to perjury and the verdict of acquittal became almost a foregone conclusion. With that verdict of acquittal comes the old mystery, if Lizzie Borden did not com mit the double murder, who did? The assassin, whoever it was, must bave come and gone unseen. At the head of the stairs in the Borden house there is -a closet in which he could have lain concealed. When lira. Borden came upstairs he might have approached ! her from behind in the bedroom where she was found and murdered her. Then he might have hid in his closet again until he thought. there was another opportunity, sneaked downstairs and murdered Mr. Borden as be lay asleep on the sofa, Lizzie being as she said in the barn. _ After that be escapes to the street and goes away unnoticed with his weapon under bis coat. All this of course does violence to a dozen probabilities and enables the murderer to dodge what would seem to be almost Inevi table chances of being caught at his work or seen coming, away from it. But are they any more violated or Jthe . chances taken any greater in this case than they are on the theory that Lizzie Borden did the deed ? ls it any more Improbable that a murderer could have' so acted and escaped than it is that 'Lizzie could have twice transformed herself with ligh niue change rapidity Irom a blood-soaked butcher to a spotless, primly clad young woman, free In the first Instance from all signs of excitement or agitation, and In the second only agitated as a girl naturally, would be who had just discovered her father lying murdered at her feet? ' In whatever way you look at this crime in whatever way you try to picture it and conceive how it might have been done, you have to make up your mind to accept things which are wildly improbable on the basis of any past experience of human ac tion. It is a mere choice of Improbabili ties at the best. ■ . — i — • FIGHT THE TRUST. The Distillers of Illinois Not in the War for Fun. Peokia, 111., June 20.— The distillers who have been fighting the Distilling and Cattle-feeding Company, at a conference to-day decided to assist the Attorney-Gen eral in every possible way in bis efforts to destroy the company. To further the plan they had their attorney draw up a statement giving ihe history of the organization of the trust In 1870 and this will be sent to the Attorney-General. lafMlfi . .*, Rates to the Fair. New York, June 20.— The general agents of the trunk lines met to-day and decided to recommend to the executive committee of the Trunk Line Association a special rate of one -fare for the round trip. Chicago and return, on special World's Fair excursion trains. H^ftlJlimßL: _; .: — »..«_» — - — Do you ii.r. '■ If so. and you want to kill the perfume of same. chaw White's Yucatan Gum. It will do it in two mlauteaXX ALL DOING WELL. Condition of the Wounded Bandits. ——_—_—— THE SONTAGS IN MINNESOTA. Incidents of Their Career in the Northwest Recalied-An Old Crime of Chris Evans. tspeclj.! to Ibi Uoa-fas Cali. Yisalia, June 2').— Fred Jackson is free of fever and very cheerful. His appetite Is excellent, and the stamp of his leg is knitting well without any discharge. He ! bas not suffered the slightest pain since : , tbe amputation. Dr. Pattersoon took control of Evans j • and Sontag yesterday. He reports their condiiion to-day at follows: "Sontag's arm ! is paining him a little more than usual.; otherwise to Is doing well. Evans is pro- j gressing favorably, with the exception of a j ! slight lever and a little more pain in his I right eye. There is no increased swelling I in the eye. lam satisfied that a buckshot i penetrated the inner corner of tbe right eye j then passed backward and probably [oaged j in the orbital cavity. He can't see with tbat ye. Tbe iris is wholly paralyzed and the j functions of the eye suspended." SHE*, June 21.— Mrs. Mary Sontag, | mother of John and George '-onisg, i passed through here to-night lit Yisalia, Daring her stay there she will be tbe guest of Mrs. Chris Evans. — ■" - ■ ■—■-—■ -- TWO STORIES OF THE BANDITS. The Sontag Boys' Minnesota Career. An Old Crime. A number of years ago the writer was visiting Mankato, Minn. At the time rumors of a raid by the James boys were rife. The Missouri authorities r._i noti- I fied the Chief of Police at Mackato that it was reported to tbem that the bank at Mao kato was tbe objective point, and as a consequence the greatest precautions were adopted by the bank officials. Armed guards were kept up day and night and the utmost vigilance prevailed. On the morning of the raid the writer and a little boy were fishing a: the junction of the Minnesota and Blue Earth rivers, when bis attention was attracted by w hat his companion called a party of soldiers minx up the road. They certainly did I resemble soldiers. Tne party consisted | of eight or ten -mounted men, riding ! two abreast, ail wearing long linen dusters, wbien completely concealed their weapons. On reaching Mankato Jesse James, the ; leader of tbe party, Halted bis men opposite the bank, and oismounw. went in. A glance was sufficient to show him the armed men silting and standing around, and throwing down a 820 hi;, he asked for change. ll* then crossed over to where his companions were seated on their horses and was beard to remark, "The ji.- Is up here." He then entered a saloon an purchased a quart bottle of whisky and remounting his horse he and his party proceeded up tne road in the direction of Northfield. The attack on the bam: at Northiield and the killing of the cashier and the fight that followed is well known. As soon as the news reached Mankato the citizens turned out to the number of at least 500. armed with what weapons could be hastily collected. and every roadway was patrolled. Prominent among these men were the Soutag or Conant brothers, John and George. This was their first baptism of fire, and presumably their first lesson in the art ot highway robbery. ; The day after the raid a party of citi zens surprised the bandits and captured their burses and saddle equipments, leav ing them afoot. This part of Minnesota Is cut up by what are called "winter roads"— that is, roads which in winter lead across the ! frozen lakes— and in their efforts to escape ! the bandits frequently followed these ; roads and found themselves balked by an impassable sheet of water and were obliged to double back on their tracks. There are two bridges at Mankato, and it became necessary for the .lames boys to cross there. The wagon bridge was strongly guarded, but the railroad bridge adjoining it was not thought necessary to guard, and at midnight on the third day after the attempt on the bank the outlaws secured a handcar and would have made their c cape but for an unforeseen clrcum cumstance. It was the custom at a large flouring-mill to blow the whistle at mid night; this mill adjoined the railroad track, and just as the bandits passed the mill the whistle blew. Taking this for an alarm signal they jumped from the car and scattered In the timber, where they were all captured, and are cow doing time in the Stillwater penitentiary, with the exception of|the two James boys, who. mounted ou one horse, ran the gauntlet of the guards on tbe bridge and made their escape. This raid of the James hoys at Mankato In which the Sontag beys took part on the side of law and order must have undoubt edly been a potent factor in starting them upon their lawless career of robbery and murder. ' About eighteen years ago in the summer t»f 1675, says the Yisalia Times, there oc curred a fight between two men on a moun tain road in this county, that has just been revived by recent events. That fight was betweeu Chris Evans and an old man by the name of A. D. Bigelow. Many conversant with that trouble still live here and in different parts of the county, and from some of those persons we bave gathered the facts of this story. ■ Close to the northern limit of Tulare County and on the western slope of Red wood Mountain is located the site of the old sawmill long known as tho Hyde mill. In 1875 or thereabouts the mill was owned by K. E. Hyde and run by Joseph H. Thomas, both of this city. Among those who worked at the roil), or among timber near the mill or teamed between Yisalia and the mill were Chris Evans, his brother-in-law, Louis Byrd. and A. D. Bigelow. Bigelow was known at the mill as a ''literary feller," for he occasionally wrote for the papers and had tha reputation of being something of a poet besides. One morning there was a sensation in camp. Chris I Evans bad found tacked up on a convenient board a short. piece of anony mous doggerel, badly spelled and badly rhymed, but containing hints that lie con strued as slanderous references to his do mestic affairs. .' No ; names , were used in this poetical effusion, but Chris Evans flew into a rage over it. It was not known 'who wrote It, hut common consent seemed to lay its authority upon Bigelow. Evans soon found an opportunity to wreak vengeance upon the supposed au thor. One day Bigelow and a friend by the name of Hunter came to what is known as Rattlesnake Mountain, on -the Camp Badger road. Near here they were met by Chris Evans: and Louis Byrd. While Bvrd stood Hunter off witb a gun lest he might interfere, Evan* attacked Bsgelow and most eraeliy best and braised bim. It is said bis finishing strwke was a vicious wrench of biceiow's neck that almost dis located it. Bie«"low was an eld gray headed man, while Evans was yoonz. strong and in tte very prime of yoi.t_.fol vigor. Bieelow died about a year afterward. He claimed teat he never felt well afur tbe assault of Evan*, and many bated his death to tbe effects of tne beating and tho wrenching os then endured. His daughter Is married and Is living at pres ent at Po'tettiV.f. A complaint was lodged azainst Evans and Byrd. and J. S. McGatey, who was deputy at tbat time coder .-■■: '■'■Ai.s --£-.;. was sent to arrest tbem. The two men at one*, took v> the mountains, and for several days eluded the officer*. Chris declaring that he would n»*er be taken. But bis father-in-law. Jesse Byrd. sent tbem word to come to iowo and give themselves no and he wo old pay any fines that mis*:: be imposed npon item. Thay did so, and subsequently were indicted for felonious assault and were convicted. Evans waived time and was fined H_Mt HIRAM RAPELJE. The Man Who Shot Son tag in This City. Meeting Two Strange .Men Just Before the Battle With the Outlaws at Stone Corral. Hi Kape'je. the man who shot John Sontag, is in town. He pronounces hi* name with the consonant "j" heard and not silent, as is the ease in most Calif nia words. He is a Htebiftan boy, and his intimate friends when tb*y address blm call him Hiram. Very few people meeting him on the street would recognize him as the hero of the memorable fight which ended In the rapture of the two notorious outlaws. He is soft in speech una quiet hi manner. He dres»es neatly. Hi« height i« about 5 feet 8 inches, bis age shout 46 years, at.d be is square built. His occupation Das been that of a st ige-drlver. Speaking < I the bzht a week azo last Sunday. In which Sontag and Evans were disabled. Rapelje said that be had been in Hiram R-.pe'.je. the Man "Who Shot Sontae. the field nearly sixty days looking for the two men. His trip under Uuited States Marshal Ganl was tbe most arduous of the" many he had made. The party bad suf- ; fered great privations while camping on the trail of the robbers. Burns was not taken along as a fighter, but because he was thoroughly acquainted with every loot of ground and In regard he proved j to be an extremely u«eful man. One incident which has escaped the attention of the reporters who have so I graphically described the circumstances of the battle of Stone Corral was related by : Kapelje. This was the appearance of two j other men on the ecene about half an hour j before Sontag and Evans waited into j "heir trap. One was driving a J cart and the other mounted met ■ him on the road near the bouse in which j the posse had concealed themselves. They ! stopi ed and spoke for several minutes and then continued ou their way. Kapeijs says he believes these men were friends of Suntag and Evans, and were looking for them in accordance with a previous ap pointment to bring them to Visalia, which point the outlaws were making for that Sunday afternoon. In reeard to the capture of Chris Evans after he was wounded, Kapelje said that he had the first information that the wounded man had taken refuge in tne house of Llie Perkins. He bad received his information through a letter fr >m a friend who was very intimate with Mrs. Chris Evans. He had communicated wit _ Deputy Sheriff Hall and there was an un derstanding that Kapelje was to run down the stricken game. But, in violation of his compact. Hall started out on the same mission, his only object being to secure the reward for the capture of Evans. When Hall's party were seen driving so furiously in the direction of the Perkin- i bouse Rapelje believed they were friends j of Evans and concluded to follow them. ' Kapelje at the time did not know exactly ; under whose roof Evans had taken refuge. His only information was that the bandit was somewhere in the vicin ity. When he arrived at the Per kins house it was still dark. Mrs. Parkins informed him that Jivans was lying wounded upstairs, and was so badly hurt that be could offer no resistance. .Rapelje asked for a light, but did not wait for one. He walked upstairs in the dark. When he reached the room where Evans was lying Hall struck a match, lighted a candle and claimed that Evans was bis prisoner. Kaoelje returns smith tn-day. " Mr. C. M. Lauer A. A Nerves Shattered Generally broken down; at limes I would ; fall over with a touch of the vertigo; was not able to go any distance from the house. . I was a m -H-rM i> ■« mi . * I got very much disheart- ened, v The day I commenced on bottle No. 2 of Hood's BarsaparUla, I began to feel better, and I am glad to say 1 now feel like a new man. Hood's Cures I am working again, and can be on the go all day long aud do uot have any of my bad -nelN. I „L , 2 v . ,. a '.. rf C! ««"•--" Chas. m - Lauer, G5O West Mantel street, Yoik- Fa. X Hood's i Pills are the best alter-dluner Fills, assist digestion, cure headache. 25c. , _SE__&___»ls_a____-3&£l__g£__-_>ri«_f^^ RAIN CAME DOWN, Literally Drenching the White City. SPOILED THE ATTENDANCE. The Weather Now Seems to Be th; Only Uncertain Quantity About the Bis Fair. Spee_ai to The Moa-rrxoCAti- Chicago. Jure The opened hot, but with fl*»cy c ends and a good :<_»z-. uni b made getting about id t&e fair grounds quite comfortable. People began pouring into tbe grounds early, an unusu ally large proportion of them giving ev dence being visitors from outside the city taking tbeir first view. By 10 ■•'clock It was estimated that XX ft "_•' it _':. '■• JO had passed the turnstile*, and Chief Tucker of J tbe bureau of admissions was of thecpir. --j fon that near 900,000 would be tbe day's i record. About noon the weather changed and in ' a short time rain was coming down in tor rent*, and the prospects for a big attend ance wgre ruined. Tf.e weather erntinued stormy for the remainder of the afternoon , and evening. The big Ferris wheel will be dedicated -morrow witb appropriate ceremonies. The exposition authorities have set apar October 20 to 24 for a big reunion of war ■ veterans of both the Confederate and Union ' armies. Te Grand Army posts will make efforts to bring all Use old soldiers possible to Chicago. Arrang?ments are now being made to give the Spanish c- ravels a royal welcome on their arrival here, after their long voy age via tba St Lawience River and tbs great lakes. Tbe Mexican exhibit in tbe Forestry building was opened to the pub lic to-day without ceremony, and the Ger man wine exhibit v.iii be opened to-mor row by Commissioner Wermuth. Oregon is one of the States '"at will re ceive daily shipments of fruit and vegeta hies In the sea-ion. T.'.e first shipment, cf strawberries arrived to-day and came on: crisp and fresh as en th- day tbey were pieied. Or goo also inaugurated tc-d*y a daily telegraphic statement c? crop :: •■ per.. and conditions in tbe State, and it proved quite an interesting fea:ur». I-* ihe Boor tests made .to-day in he A; - cultural build'ng Oregon fiour waa l.utsd to be superior for whiteness and amount of eluten. Can da outstripped her competitors in the June exhibit of cheese. Th*-re v ■-■■ &»7 exh' ! btts, mostly '■'-. cheese. 0/ these 130 scored rush en neb to win me<_ si or dh 10ma... .- of them beinz C»na d: an manufacture. Thirty-one Cansdia:. lots scored higher than any from tbe United States, ringing in excellence from 93 per cent down. The Illinois board has decided on August _-. ss Illinois day. A special effort will be made to mako it attractive. A party of twenty-one children, sent here from California as a reward for fine scholarship in the rublic schools, wr given a recep.inn in the Children's Build ing to-day by tbe Board of Lady Manager.?. Tbey were greeted by the president of the j board, wbo made a pleasant talk to them ' aud congratulated tbem upon [earning the prize tbat must' be of so great benefit to em us a trip to the great Columbian Ex position will undoubtedly be. There was music by the Exposition Or chestra. The various departments in the tiuilding were shown the children. Mrs. Mary Manes Dodge was present ana made a fhort but interesting talk to the little girls. After the reception each little Cali fornia girl was presented with a silver spoon as a souvenir of the trip. The chil dren were taken to luncheon on the roof garden. The West Virginia State building at the World's Fair was dedicated with simple i ceremonies tc-day. The lowa State band; I furnished the music for the occasion. Owing to small attendance the three ! world's congresses on banKinz, railway | I commerce and insurance consolidated to day. Bradford Rhodes of New York ad- \ dressed tbe congress on tbe "World's Ex perience in Banking." John J. P. Odell followed in a brief address, and John F. Dillon read a paper on the constitutional guarantees of railway properties, fran chises and rates against legislative spolia tion. General Horace Porter read a naier i on "Safety Devices Applied to Railway | Cars." This afternoon the Congress of Boards i of Trade convened. Secretary Stone of the Chicago board made an address of wel come and the remainder of tbe programme consisted of responses. A special conference of the State and I National Bank Examiners was held ana to-night there was a meeting of the Com- j merce and Finance Congress. Auk n_r the speakers were Horace Whits on "Single Gold Standard," E: W. Meddaugh on "Railway Strikes," and Dr. Charles Bom baugb on "Life Insurance Progress." The "ttendance to-day was 123,318. of whicb 38.091 were employes and officials and 456(5 children. BANQUET TO MARKHAM. The Great State of California Cannot Be Duplicated. Chicago, June 20.— A dinner in honor of Governor Markham was given by the Califomians in exile in the grand banquet hall of the Auditorium this evening. None but California wines appeared upon ! the menu. State Commissioner Robert McMurray, who presided, proposed the health of Governor Markham as the first ; citizen of California. Governor Markham ', rose, complimented the State and national j commissions upon the harmonious manner j in which they had acted, and said that to | tbem all credit is due for California's j magnificent representation. "We grumble.". he ; said, "because we have not duplicated California at the fair. California cannot be duplicated, because it is in miniature the United States. I con gratulate the Commissioners upon the suc cess of their labors, but we are not through yet. I want to warn people who think that display they saw in our building is j California's exhibit to come and see it on I September 9. That will indeed be Califor nia day. Our native sons and daughters will put on more style than those of the other States of the Union put together." Following the Governor short compli mentary speeches were made by General T. W. Palmer. Murk McDonald. Moses P Handy. General. Miles and General Mat tox. M. B. de Young spoke at length upon the proposed winter fair in Sau Fraucisco He was followed by Horace G. Piatt, who did full justice to the toast "The Native Daughters of California." Short speeches were also made by S.W. Furgusson, Wash ington Porter, James D. Phelan, Colonel C. J. Murphy. W. D. Kerfoot and Dr. N. J. Bird. About fifty prominent Chlca goans and Califomians were present among whom were Judge William T. Wallace William Irelan Jr., T. J. Hendy, H.M. Laroe. P. T. Wn*b». 3. C. Slobbs. A. ' Page Br' wa, Norton Bcsb. C- F- yen i Petersdorff, L A. B^ona, C. V- We .... | Drnry Melon** Colonel C. J. MarpSy, K. jL. Brownfieid. ________ SUNDAY CLOSING. President Harrison Desires to Put Himself on Record. Nra- Yoke, Jane 31— la respcese i* a <sne*ticn ex - pre.'.dect Harris I tele | graphed tba :' .lowing from Isdia_:aroli*: < "If I am quoted as having expressed ap proval of tbe aetfaa ef :__*■ eoenaissjosers ' in opening ::.a '..- en Sunday, cr cf the decision of the Circuit Const cf App**l». it is without authority. I said to nenwaper representative* ia Cb •»?■; that is my •opinion tbe qcev.i-n i: ci.. r.ave been ; re_rarded as closed forever wfces tbe Con gressional donation w*s aec>p>d. As to the ruling of Chief Justice FaiUr, I eon Si ; not express a safe opinion without as ex aminatien of the briefaasd p.eadings; bs I am not inclined to b»ileve a *-onrt o equity ran only take rag] zince by isaac; -; tion >,'. inquiries strictly pecuniary. " Washington, Jane 20.—Attcrney-Ger. era! Ointy has --«•-. called cpon ny tte Treasury Department for an opinion cf the present status of all tte World's Fair appropriations and question-, ie view tf I the decision of tba 1 tod State* Court cf ; Apnea > at Chicago on Saturday. Tbe request is written by Assistant Secretary of tbe Treasury Cart;?. COWBOY RIDERS. Doc Middleton Put Out of the Race by a Lame Horse. Slots C irr, June _X— GiliesE.e sed IX ttieso ... Pee, cf the cewtor racer*. spent tb» nigbt here and started at 6 a. st Gillespie's horses ?.rei fine trim. Prtc's I buclcsktn looks ratber grogzv. Doc Md I dieton arrived last n^gbt- Albright, Sxnita | and Berry eros-ed the river this mcrcioz j and efl ati -' oak, after shoeing their j ■•--. Gillespie and Pet- have focr - boors' leai. Dec Middleton left here ibis evi-ing after noting bis horse twenty hour*. 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