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OIL TRUST SPIES.
THWART THE AI
standard (Ml Secret Service Sys
tem Threatens "Government
Agents.
J-AKE "INDEPENDENTS"
BLOCK THE SLEUTHS
Rockefeller Greater than Roose
velt, Is the Ory of the Oil
Octopus.
in a
Chicago
Chicago, Dec. 29.Raymond,
hiladelphia special to the
ribune, sayst
"We are bigger than the govern
ment. Standard Oil is stronger than
the United States. We own the senate
and the house. If you pursue your in
vestigations beyond the point necessary
to fool the public we will have you re
moved. We can secure the instant de
fosition of the secretary of commerce
nd labor, Mr. Metcalf and the commis
sioner of corporations, Mr. Garfield. If
you persecute us in the slightest degree
you will be out of your 30b and if you
keep at the busrntess you will find out
that what we say is absolutely true.
This is the kind of talk which has
been handed out to the agents of the
government at every stage the game.
The first thing they learned was that
the Standard Oil company, as has been
truly said of it, was a great System.
They discovered, as I have said before.
Standard's Secret Service.
Agents of the government were con
fronted at the outset by evidence of the
existence of extraordinary secret ma
chinry of the Standard Oil company.
They discovered that it covers the
United States and probably extends
into foreign countries. It was organ
ized and operated in the first place for
the express purpose of preventing job
bers and retailerbetween1cutting Contracts exist
commerce and labor that whoever sells
a shade off the market price is invaria
bly caught and punished according to
the code of the "System."
Government Thwarted.
This secret service is said to be more
Organized Spies.
SHAW ARRAIGNS
WESTERS BANKERS
Secretary Scores Financiers for
Withdrawing Money from
Wall Street.
Criticizes Eastern Bankers for
Paying Interest on Money
from West.
Journal Special Berrloe.
Government agents have shown and manipulations in stocks. It is the "nat-
have so reported to the secretary of
This system of spies and informers
appears to have been organized on a
definite basis. It is the same in every
locality, which shows the existence of
a central head. Furthermore, it has
been developed by the investigation of
government experts that these secret
service oil men are shifted from one
part of the country to another, so as to
render them absolutely independent of
local influences.
This secret service system was con
trived for the express_purpose of en
abling the Standard Oil company to
control and probably to obliterate mde-
fnvestigators
enden
SCOKES IN MAN HUNT
Chicago, Dec. 29."Spare Wall
street" is the appeal that is to be made
to Chicago bankers this afterWoon by
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M.
Shaw. The secretary arrived in Chica
go yesterday, and last night made
known his purpose o. counseling west
ern bankers to he lenient with the east.
Already Secretary Shaw has asked
one banker to lend an effort toward
checking the west's demands for cash
and today he will see others. He was
hampered in his mission yesterday by
the fact that many of the local finan
ciers were out of the city, having gone
on a trip of inspection or the John R.
Walsh properties.
A "national mania" to loan money
last summer, regardless of the rate of
lnteres
that the investigation of the beef ^^^^t
trust was merely child's play as com
pared with an inquiry into the opera
tions of the Standard Oil company.
from prices.
0W,crops
ed
thiss
thr
th
ura
organizations. Mr. Garfield's
have been struck from
the outset with the fact that there
were, here and there thruout the coun
try, independent oil companies which
did not seem to have basis of actual op
position to the Standard Oil company.
Now and again, when the government
agent ran up against an independent
company, he was surprised to find out
that in every case there was a fear of
the vengeance of the Standard Oil com
pany.
Rockefeller Is King.
"Rockefeller is a bigger man than
Roosevelt," was the constant cry of
the Standard Oil people, not only in
New York, but in Illinois, Missouri and
Kansas.
There was a reason for this cry, and
the secret reports of the United States
agents, which I have had the pleasure
of perusing, establish this fact. In
the first place, it has been shown that
the Standard Oil company is the parent
of a secret service which is far and
away better and bigger than the secret
machinery of the United States govern
ment.
In the second place, I have discov
ered, and I believe agents of the United
States government have found out the
same thing, that the Standard Oil com
pany has promoted the organization
and existence of independent oil com
panies which are fraudulent on their
face and which are owned absolutely
by the '/System."
That is to say, the government is now
ln_ possession of evidence to show that
independent" oil companies have been
organized in almost every big ship
ping center, of the United States. These
supposed independent'' companies are
in each case creatures of the Standard
Oil company.
Crushing out competition by means
of a dummy company is not entirely a
new device, but it is dangerous, because
the Standard Oil company has origin
ated and applied it so as to affect com
mercial conditions all over the country
resul
con(jitions
far reaching than anything which has very proud of themselves that they
ever been known before in this country.'
Government agents have been' aghast
at its extent. For a while they were
stupefied and frightened by its threats.
At every stage of the investigation the
pgents of the government have bees
thwarted by the malign influence of
people who aTe not supposed-to'be asso
ciated with the Standard Oil company,
but who are none the less ready to do
its bidding.
At the outset it was discovered that
this extraordinary secret service of the
Standard Oil, which permeated^ every
city and state, was in the beginning or
ganized for the sole purpose of pre
venting dangerous competition. Later
on it was diverted to other direction
and the agents of the government real
ized that they were up against a sys
tem, which, altho organized to prevent
the cutting of rates, could be used to
Btifle evidence, to pack juries, to cor
rupt^ minor officials, to divert public
sentiment and ultimately to prevent
Criminal prosecutiom
Bandits Break Thru Cordon of Pursuers
in Ohio.
Toledo, Dec. 29.The five men who
mortally wounded Marshal Thornton are
still at large, having broken thru the
net spread about the thicket and under
brush between here and Perrysburg last .._
night. Scores of men today resumed Quoted at Js5 per centr the lowest point
the manhunt.
a
TH E "MMNEA
NEW FIRES OF REVOLT
SPRING UP IN RUSSIA
fall by
countr
lag
night
theyslow movement0ii* of i assigned the
secretary of the treasurasaicrnede as th reason
for the stringency in wall street. He
vigorously denies that it is the result
of speculation.
Shortness Everywhere.
"The shortness of cash is not con*
fined to New York, but prevails all
rnn
ia bv the
Secretary Shaw said
itft i a
nati(ma cia i
Wal
the Standar
Oil company and various subsidiary
companies and private firms for the dis
posal of the product of the united cor
poration.
a loca
bu
condition thao exists in finan-
a
circle The treasury department,
depositing mo"tfey in New York, is
notbenefiting 'its friends, the financiers
street,' is helpingn out
every man, womabut and child i the
country who has a dollar to invest.
"Legitimate business, Wot specula
tion, has caused the situation. The
money is not -demanded now, owing to
tha prevailedn last summeo and o- mistaket made the
from lack of foresight.
"When1
I attended the meeting of
the state bankers in Nebraska, last
summer, they told me that they had
sent $17,000,000 to New York to be
loaned out. The bankers there felt
were able to send such an amount to
Wall street, where they could get it, as
they said 'any time we want it.'
Money Sent East.
"The situation- was no different in
Nebraska than in other parts of the
west. From all parts of the country
money was being sent to New York,
to be loaned, last summer. There
seemed to be a national epidemic to
loan money. Every person that had a
dollar wanted to loan it, to get rid of
itat almost any price. Money was
loaned at as low a rate of interest as
1 per cent. Indeed, millions were
loaned for less than 1 per centwhich
in itself should be a crime.
"Now, from all over the country
these persons are calling for their
money. Crops were slow this year, and
ready money is not as plentiful and
easy as it might be. The banks in turn
are calling in their loans, and the final
call comes with a stunning, accumuia*
tive force on the New York banks. It
was to them that the streams of money
flowed during the summer, and now
they are being called upon to return it.
"The same condition existed in
1902. The situation in New York is
little different now than it was then.
In 1903 the money-lending class had
not forgotten the lesson. The New *W*^/^
York banks did not loan out what they i
had accumulated from various parts
of the country. With a $50,000,000
reserve on hand, everything went along
pleasantly thru the winter.
Chicago Position.
I saw one Chicago banker today. I
told him that the Danks of Chicago
should not embarrass the New York
institutions and possibly provoke a sit
uation which may be serious by insist
ing on the recall of their loans at the
present time. He replied that his bank
wanted the money and had a perfect
right to call for it.
'And suppose every Iowa bank
that has sent its money to Chicago to
be loaned should make a simultaneous
demand for it, what would you do?'
I demanded.
'The situation would be the same
here as in New York now.'
"When the farmer reads of Wall
street and any assistance the treasury
may give it. he shouts of 'stock specu
lators' and 'gamblers.' Is it any worse
for a man in New York to pay $1,000
on $10,000 worth of stock than it is for
one in Kansas to pay $1,000 on a Cana
dian farm worth $10,000, and expect to
sell it at a profit befofe the remaining
$9,000 is due? Yet the Kansas farmer
damns the New Yorker who buys
stocks, and the Kansas banker curses
at the Wall street financier who does
not return his money the moment it is
called for.
"What do they expect the Wall
street bankers to do with this money
that comes in to them from all parts
of the country? They could not let it
lie idle in their vaults. That was not
what it was sent there for. They
loaned it out again at interest am*
now when it is called for, someone else
has it. The only criticism which I have
to make is that the bankers of New
York should not have offered interest
on the money which was sent them and
thereby attracted it from the sections
of the country where it belonged and
which are now crying for it.
"Chicago banks and banks in other
cities have sent money to New York
and they should appreciate the situa
tion there."
Call Money See-Saw.
New York, Deo. 29.Call money
opened strong and in considerable de
mand today. hTe first bid was 40 per
cent. Two loans were made at 60 per
cent. By 10:45 a.m. the rate for call
money advanced to 70 per cent bid, 80
asked.
Call money ruled at 50 per cent at
noon With large offerings. Much of this
money came from new out-of-town
sourcese, including Philadelphia and
Pittsburg. Some of the big loeal mer
chants made further loans. Loans
made yesterday at top prices were re
newed today at 55 per cent.
About half an hour before the close
of th-e, stock market,- call money was
*o i of the day uri that hour.
REDS RAGING IN
POLISH CAPITAL
Strike Against the Government
Breaks Out in Many New
Places.
Washington, Dec. 29.Official ad
vices have been received here from
Russia to the effect that the strike ap
pears to be breaking out in new places.
St. Petersburg, according to these ad
vices, is the scene of a few insignifi
cant collisions.
Warsaw, Russian Poland, Dec. 29.
Bands of socialists are parading the
streets here striving to enforce the or
ders for a general strike. They com
pelled the newspaper and insurance of
fices to close this morning and sent out
gangs of youths to smash the windows
of shops whose owners refused to close
their establishments. Traffic is much
impeded on the Vienna railroad. Only
two trains left Warsaw station today.
Military engineers are maintaining
traffic on the Klava branch of the
Vistula line.
REDS FORM REPUBLIC
Red Flag Flies and Czar's Officials Axe
Hostages.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 29.For a
week past Zlatoust, a town of 17,000
inhabitants, government of Oofa, in
the Ural mountains, has been in the
hands of the revolutionists, according
to information received by the Molva
(Russ). They have formed a local re
publican government and the red flag
is flying over the government arms
factory, the officials of which are held
as hostages. The former local author
ities threatened to summon* Cosacks,
but the revolutionists declared that if
Cossacks appeared the officials of the
factory would all be killed.
MOSCOW REVOLT CRUSHED
Workmen Seek to Make Peace by Call
ing Off Strike.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 29.1:30 p.m.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press at Moscow telegraphs that the
scattered revolutionists there are only
able to keep up a feeble show of re
sistance to the troops and the work
men's council, realizing that the revolt
is crushed, is negotiating' terms for the
strikers who participated in the upris
ing with the view of calling off the
strike on Monday.
Nevertheless, the radical papers of
St. Petersburg continue to inflame their
readers with stories of desperate fight
ing in the streets of Moscow, repre
senting the revolutionists as being in
complete possession of ten square miles
of the city which the troops, with all
their authority and machine guns, are
unable to pierce. These papers print
columns of descriptive matter repre
senting the revolutionists fighting
valiantly behind barricades, standing on
heaps or corpses of their comrades.
Fled Horrors, Almost Mad.
The Molva prints an interview with a
student who has arrived here from
Moscow, in which the student says that
horror of the sights he witnessed was
driving him insane and he was forced
to flee.
It seems established that some mem
bers of the fighting organizations of
the German and other foreign social
ists have come to Russia to instruct the
revolutionists in the use of arms, the
art of constructing barricades and the
manufacture of bombs.
Altho now it is only a question of
time when the flames of open revolt
Continued on 2d Page, 3d Column.
5
FRIDAY EVENING,1
1* *M-Trttt**:Wxv*ttm/Myx\
'New York, Dec.
^DECEMBER 2*9, 1905*
CHARLES T. THERKES,
Traction Magnate Who Died Today la
ft New York.
S I
C. T. YERKES DIES,
SHDNNED BY WIFE
Traction.Magnate Passes Away at
Waldorf-AstoriaMrs. Yerkes
Is at Her Home.
A 29.Charles T.
Yerkes died at 2:20 this afternon at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
When inquiries were made at Yerkes'
home at Sixty-eighth street and Fifth
avenue today whether or not Mrs.
Yerkes, in view of the conflicting state
ments about her husband's condition,
would say anything, a servant said
that Mr. Yerkes would not Bee reporters,
but gave this message*
"That she had not been to the Wal
dorf-Astoria hotel during Mr. Yerkes'
illness there, that she did not intend to value is over. eight millions
go there, that she was not indisposed,
and that she refused absolutely to dis
cuss her reasons for ner actions in the
matter.'' Mr. Yerkes had been ill for some time
with a complication of diseases. Dur
ing the past summer he had a rather
serious illness in London, but recov
ered sufficiently to permit him to come
to the United States. His condition
became serious soon after his arrival,
however, and for several weeks he has
been seriously ill at the Waldorf-As
toria hotel in this city.
$750,000 ON SEAS
TO BODGE TAXATION
Honolulu, Dec. 29.The Oriental
PAINE ARRESTED AT ASHLAND.
Applston, Wis Dec 29.George Paine was
arrested here today charged with stealing a
$50 silk American flag from the county court
house at Ashland, Wis, last May. He has
been taken to Antlgo, Ws., for trial.
FREIGHT CASS. DERAILED.
Special to The Journal.
Miller, S. D., Dec. 29.On account of an
unfastened switch three ears of the west
bound freight train were derailed today. No
body was hurt.
"THE CALL OP THE WILD." +1
Is the little boy on the ijence going to respond to the call?
whic
Steamship company's steamer America,'ffjeat stress, but these are liberally con-
which left for San %ancisco yesterday,! strued by the court, and are held not
carried $750,000 f* $Jn, sent by regis- J.to obscure the real meaning of the legis-
tered mail by local bankers, in order,, latum The tax is not on estates as a
it is alleged, that -the money may be. whole, but on each bequest, anoT $10,000
at sea and beyond the territorial "juris-1 of each bequest is exempt. The amount
diction on Dec. 31, when the tax' of 1' in excess of the $10,000 1B taxed pro-
per cent is levied on all money held on gressively. If the bequest is under
deposit by the banks on that da'te. It $50,000 the rate is 1% per cent. If it
is understood that this money will be is over $50,000 and under $100,000 it is
returned here immediately. Deducting taxed 3 per cent, and if over $100,000
the charges of shipment, the saving it is assessed 5 per cent. This rate, in
made will be approximately in the the case of the John Martin estate, will
neighborhood of $7,000. The bankers, bring in something near $90,000
deny that this is the reason for the
heavy shipment of coin.
PEl&fJQUENAI
INHERITANCES
MUST PAY TAX
__
Supreme Court Holds the New
Law Constitutional, Reversing
Probate Judges.
ESTATES NOW TAXABLE
David Tozer, Stillwater (es-
timated) $3,000,000
John Martin, Minneapolis... 1,915,070
John C. Oswald, Minneapolis 400,000
F. B. Forman, Minneapolis..
Loren Andrews, Minneapolis
S. H. Hall, Minneapolis
H. J. GJertson, Minneapolis.
Isaac W. Joyce, Minneapolis
S. A. Stearns, Minneapolis..
F. A. Roebuck, Minneapolis.
Sallle M. Bell, Minneapolis..
H. A. Turner
V. Simpson, Winona 1,500,000
P. D. Ferguson, St. Paul... 250,000
C. E. Dlckerman, St. Paul.. 150,000
Joseph O. Pattee, St. Paul.. 115,000
M. Robinson, Minneapolis 143,000
$-
few days close to half a million dollars
in taxes will be covered into the state
treasury as a result of the decision.
This is the estimate of State Auditor
Iverson. Senator R. E. Thompson of
Preston, who is in the twin cities to
day, predicts that the decision will
bring no less than $10,000,000 into the
state treasury in the next ten years.
I have preached inheritance tax for
years," said Senator Thompson, "and
I have voted for four inheritance tax
bills. I reioice that we finally have a
law that stands the test, and that this
great source of^ revenue is at last tapped
for the state."
Three Former Laws Invalid.
The law declared valid was passed
last winter, and the legislature profited
by the errors of 1897, 1901 and 1902.
The acte containss some blunders, on
th attorney for the estates laid
The court declares in its opinion that
the tax is not assessed on property, but
upon the right of inheritance. It may
therefore be progressive, as the consti
tution authorizes, and not absolutely
equal.
State Auditor Iverson was elated over
the decision, which will put the state
revenue in very comfortable shape. He
estimates that with the 4 per cent rail
road tax and the inheritance tax, it
will soon be possible to practically abol
ish the direct levy for state purposes.
Continued on 2d Page, 6th Column.
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BRENNAN CASE WILL GO
TO JURY BEFORE NIGHT
312,500
183,500 t41,500
50,000 17,500
23,000 30,000 20,000 62,000
-$
The Inheritance tax law is valid.
The supreme court gave its decision
today, one of the most notable ever
rendered in the state. It is written by
Justice Brown, and reverses the pro
bate courts of Hennepin, Ramsey and
Winona, which had declared the law
unconstitutional.
The cases before the court and di
rectly passed on are those of the John
Martin estate, Minneapolis the V. Simp
son estate, Winona, and the Paul D.
Ferguson estate, St. Paul. There are
nearly a score of estates probated since
the law passed,-however, and their total
._ __...- "Within a
MBS. BRENNAN IS
MOYED TO TEARS
Alleged Murderess Loses Her Com
posure for the First Time
During Trial.
Murder in Either First or Second
Degree May Be Verdict,
Soys Court.
Yesterday's late proceedings In Brennan
trial on page 5.
Mrs. Stella Brennan's fate now
rests with a jury of her peers. These
twelve men' and they alone must now
decide whether or not Bhe killed her"
stepdaughter, Elisabeth Brennan, and
if she did, whether, or not she was in
sane when she did it. The evidence
was closed yesterday, the arguments
and the judge's charge have been made
today and now the court, the lawyers,
the public and the defendant are anx
iously awaiting the verdict of the jury
that may mean life or death to a human
being.
Whatever the verdict of the jury,
Mrs. Brennan may escape the life pen
alty for her crime. Judge H. D. Dick
inson will charge the jury that they
may find the defendant guilty of mur
der in either the first or the second de
gree. If the verdict is murder in' the
first degree the defendant will probablv
be sentenced to hang unless the court is
convinced that there have been shown
pnsonment.
In Second Degree?
Ti, a
able discussion among lawyers and the
a verdict of murder in the second de-
physical condition are believed" by
some to be strong enough reasons to
make some of the ."jury refuse to vote a
verdict that means the scaffold for the
defendant, even tho there is no doubt
of her guilt. Reasoning on this hy
pothesis it is contended that the jury
will probably compromise on a verdict
of murder in the second degree. That
seems to be the general expectation.
Wept First Time Today.
After nine days in court
which time she has undergone an or-
tears, either of sorrow of repentance
THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS
County Attorney and Counsel for the
Defense Sum Up Evidence."
Masses of humanity struggled this1
FATE TONIGHT AND SATTTRDA
Xhe-Sunday Journ&l
3TORi(5fc gap' TY.
18 PASteSHVE" O'CLOCK.
AGED WOMAN IS
BURNED TO CRISP
Early Morning Fire on Minnehaha
Avenue Brings Death and
Suffering.
(4
it
interested public as to whether or toot ise filled and lightede thtel stoveatove,.*i1etherlio
wa
gree would be error. Defendant's coun- the aged woman were soon in flames.
sel and some others contend that if the The fire went like a flash to other parts
defendant is guilty at all she is guilty of the third floor and soon the whole
of murder in the first degree and any top of the weak frame structure was
other verdict will be error. They as- ablaze.
sert that Mrs. Brennan? either did or did nanirhtM-'* Heroic Attemnt
not murder these children and that if Daughter Heroic Attempt.
she did murder them she did so in a i Mrs. Booklass' robm# were on the
cold-blooded, premeditated manner, or third floor and her daugjjker, Mrs. Mary
else she was crazy and should be ac- Poley, lived with her. Mrs. Foley,
quitted. i seeing the flames creeping about the
On the other "hand, it is contended
a ffe
that while even tho the jury finds that to save her life, but the flames drove
Mrs. Brennan did commit the murder her back, with
and was not insane enough to be irre
sponsible, her mind might still have Charles Bates, who lives on the same
been affected enough to make murder
or of fear, rolled down her paled cheeks.
floor
She sat without flinching during the that neighborhood,to
opening of County Attorney Smith's| Mrs. Foley, whose foster mother was
argument in which he accused her of burned to death, is left absolutely desti-
murdering her innocent little stepchil- tute, her husband having died just a
dren and looked 'straight at him at
times. When he began to describe the
murder with terrific realism and told of
the babes who had loved their father
and had hungered for-a mother's love,
being found cold in death with the bul
let holes made by a woman assassin in
their heads, the crisis came and Mrs.
Brennan could not restrain a flood of
tears. Her nerve soon reasserted itself, fright. She waft carried to the street
however, and she remained during the
rest of the argument red-eyed, but ap
parently calm and as uncaring as ever.
morning for admittance into Judge H. wifl find it hard ton_ gethlalong until their fa
D. Dic&nson's court room, where Mrs. Fms are repaired. They carried no
Stella BTennan is on triaf for the al- insurance. The work of repairing the
leged murder of her stepdaughter. This
S and to the terrible accusations of Sfft^"LJ^Sff S
the nrosecuting attorney%with a calm
indifference that has been as extraordi
nary as the murder itself, appeared this
morning as self-contained as ever.
Glad It's Nearly Over.
"I'm glad it's nearly over." she re
marked to Matron Woodburn this morn
ing, when she started from the jail to
the courtroom. I am confident I will a
be acquitted." And her actions this
morning bore out her words. She is
paler than when the trial opened nearly
two weeks ago, but otherwise she does
not show the least sign of the terrible
ordeal thru which she has gone. She
Continued on 2d Page, 4th Column.
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TWENTY-SEVEN FAMILIES
HOMELESS AND IN NEED
Two Painfully Injured While Try.
ing to Save Others from
Roaring Flames.
3
THE DEAD.
Mrs. A. R. Booklass, w69 jps,
burned to death in bed. r^F
THE INJURED.
Mrs. Mary Foley, foster daughter
of Mrs. Booklass, burned.
Charles Bates, living next dooi to
Mrs. Booklass, burned while trying
to save her.
A. V. Wells, 819 Oedar avenue,
arm broken while saving the five
children of Mrs. Charles Schwartz.
PLACE.
Old Higglns block, 817-823 Min
nehaha avenue.
LOSS.
Building owned by the New
Hampshire Bank company. Dam
aged to extent of $1,500. No in
surance.
CAUSE OF FIRE.
Oil stove in Mrs. Booklass'
Mrs. A
room.
R. Booklass burned to death.
burned stj
two other persons painfully
exceptional circumstancs that make the about the face and twenty-seven poor "-"V
case one in which the death penalty families rendered homeless and desti-
should ntot be imposed. If the verdict tute, was the terrible work of a fire
is for murder in' the second degree the that swept thru the old Higgmst block-ISa4:3
defendant will be sentenced to life im-
817-82 3 Minnehaha avenue a
a
this morning.
The fire started by the bedside of
Mrs. Booklass, who is 69svears old and
i, onj r**AAa, who had asked her fosterdaughter, Mrs.
There has been and is now consider-'
a Fole
l?h a
th
lit
wa 8
an
in the second degree. A decision in attempt to_ save the aged womanjs
prominent case is cited and readsa
"Tho a total want of responsibility oh
account of insanity be not shown, yet
if the prisoner's mind be so impaired
as to render him incapable of a delib
erate, premeditated murder, he should
be convicted of murder in the second
degree.''
Judge Dickinson's Stand.
This is the stand taken by Judge
Dickinson and he evidently considers
that in the present case enough evi
dence of insanity has been introduced
to raise an issue as to whether or not
the defendant's mind was even par
tially impaired and that that issue is
one for the jury and not the court to
decide.
The fact that the defendant is a
woman and the. evidence regarding her thru the smoky, winding halls to the
deal to which a woman has seldom been provided for them.
subjected, Mrs. Stella Brennan has re- The structure was one of the land-
mained calm, unappreciative and appar-1
ently indifferent. Today for the first tuilt about twenty-five years ago. It
time she broke down and tears, real
gettinlgJ colder. As. Mrs. Fo~ Xs
He was driven back and was painfull,life
burned. sP"
Early in the stage of the fire Mrs*
Booklass wis rendered unconscious by
the smoke, and she was undoubtedly
dead before Bates tried to rescue her.
Seeing that it would be useless to at
tempt to save her, Mr. Bates and Mrs.
Foley escaped to the street.
Body Badly Burned.
When recovered by firemen the body
of the aged woman was burned to a
crisp.
The building runs from 817 to 823
Minnehaha avenue, and the fire spread
rapidly thru the dry old structure.
Much difficulty was experienced by the
firemen getting the occupants out,
as at least 100 persons had to be taken
street.
Daring Rescue by Wells.
A. V. Wells, who lives across the
street, at 820 Minnehaha avenue, ran
up to the second floor and rescued the
five children of Mrs. Charles Schwartz.
His arm was broken some time ago and
was in a cast. It was rebroken this
morning and Wells is now in care of a
physician.
The tenants driven from their homes,
clad only in nightclothes, took refuge
during' sheds and doorways of other build-
ingS until temporary homes could be
ma wa an
rks ot South Minneapolis and was
^h
a flash and the room and bed of-w
woman's bed, made a heroic dash
Mrs
always looked upon as a firetrap
a the fact that it did not burn long
ag wa a a
fM^
Foley'face screamsunsuccessfud,scorchedsnhandadean attracte
also mad
puzzle the residents or
year ago.
"Fainted from Fright.
Owe of the narrowest Escapes was
that of Mrs. Katherine Rouse, who
lives on the third floor. Her screams f^
attracted the neighbors and firemen
and when they broke into her room she
was unconscious, having fainted from
and was soon revived. The firemen then
returned and visited every room in the ^i
place to make sure that no more lives
would be lost.
Mrs. Booklass had been warned many
times about having the^oil stove In the
place and she had promised the agent,
A. E. Carlson, that she would not
usde
it. Nearly all the families i^n the
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_8_mo??in?build-
s.b_e
a
f^
some of the tenants
rooms by tonight.
a i
ldin
is the last day of the trial and the last
chance the public will have to indulge
morbid curiosity by watching the wom
an whose life or death will be intrusted
to the jury tonight or tomorrow morn
ing. As a result all of the. sheriff's
force and a number of city policemen
were required to keep the crowds in
any semblance of order. For every
perso-nJ admitted into the courtroom!
there were several turned away or left lTlw 9Q
standing in line during the morning ^^S^k^it^ Sw
^ThT'pretty defendant who has list-!
ened to all the state's damning evi- J**
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can live in the I
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this time to strike with the idea that a
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when thousands intend to seek a
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They want $18 a week and a commis
sion on their sales besides. Officials of
the company say there is not enough
money business at this season of the
year to grant the increase and hope
there win be no inconvenience caused
to water drinkers next week,