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VOI*. XXXV.
TERRORISTS PLOT
SCORES ARE
POISONED; 4
MAY SUCCUMB
EMPLOYES OF DYE WORKS
VICTIMS
BEVEN PHYSICIANS LABOR FOR
HOURS
Ptomaines In Corned Beef In Lunch
Claim Many — Plant Turned Into
Hospital — Relief Comes
at Last Moment
Eleven employes of the Berlin Dye
works suffered acute agony for hours,
many of them entirely lost consciousness
and all narrowly escaped death from
ptomaine poisoning from eating the dead
ly toxins In canned corned beef yesterday
afternoon. Scores besides were slightly
affected; four may die.
Only through the heroic treatment ad
ministered by Dr. Lincoln Rogers, Dr.
H. M. Hale and five other assistant phy
sicians were the lives of the sufferers
saved.
Seven doctors worked all afternoon and
last night over their patients, and it Is
possible that three of the victims may die.
Following are the names of those who
were most seriously affected:
I. Lowenstein, 1446 Maple avenue; as
sistant bookkeeper.
J. P. Clark, Dallas apartments, assist
ant dry cleaner.
Joseph Garberlno, 1333 Elwood, assistant
dry cleaner.
J. E. Cottle, chief engineer, 1513 West
Twenty-first street.
Vincent Rlcco, night watchman.
Thomas Starr, head spotter, 1360 East
Forty-ninth street.
William Starr, shipping clerk, 1369 East
Forty-ninth street.
Thomas H. Gray, head dry cleaner, 953
East Eleventh street.
Solomon Miller, assistant dyer, th-j
Roanoke, Twelfth and Central streets.
Elizabeth Weidman, finisher, 1900 San
Pedro street.
Miss Ida Hurley, 957 South Broadway,
finisher.
Miss Hirrley, William Starr, J. E. Cot
tle and Miss Weidman were in such a
precarious condition last night that their
death is momentarily expected.
Miller Is Cook
A. H. Kornblum, manager of the Berlin
Dye works plant at Griffith and Wash
ington avenues, where the tragedy -oc-
curred, says:
"Our employes are accustomed to con
tribute for their lunch, which Is served
here Miller has beun asalgnad the posi
tion of chief cook, and he it was who
prepared the meal yesterday noon. There
wasn't enough meat, so the. employes
sent to tha Sanitary butcher shop across
the street for canned corned beef. The
proprietor of the butcher shop says the
meat was tinned by the Swift and Lieblg
companies of Chicago, and that he re
ceive! it recently.
"Over I'M employes partook of the
lunch. I presume that those who es
caped did not eat any of the corned beef.
"Soon after the employes had finished
lunch several of them began to feel ill.
"But I had eaten some of the canned
meat myself and about half an hour
after lunch I began to feel very 1 ill. I
became suspicious of the meat imme
diately and went through the plant in
quiring of all I met whether they, too,
had become sick. Scores of the employes
felt the bad effects of the corned beef.
I telephoned for uv. Lincoln Rogers.
Fifty in Agony
"Dr. Rogers arrived In an hour and
by that time nearly fifty men and women
were rolling in agony on the aoor. The
plant looked like a hospital. Dr. Rogers,
after examining one patient, gave it as
his opinion that If he had arrived an
hour later all of those who had eaten
much of the corned beef would have been
dead, and he said that more physicians
would have to be called in.
"I notified the butcher who sold us the
corned beef concerning the seriousness
of the cases and he telephoned to tho
Swift and Lieblg downtown offices. Im
mediately i the big .meat companies sent
out half a dozen more doctors and they
worked heroically over the stricken vic
tims of the ptomaine.
"It was feared that Miss Weidman,
J. E. Cottle, the chief engineer, William
Gray and Miss Ida Hurley could not
recover. It is possible that one or all
of the latter may yet succumb."
According to one of the attending phy
sicians the Berlin company employes
were poisoned by that class of ptomaine
called neurin, which is a product of
putrid flesh and causes toxic results in
distinguishable clinically from those pro
duced by certain alkaloids.
RIVETERS WORKING ON
ARMY TRANSPORT STRIKE
By Associated Press.
VALLEJO Ca)., Oct. 28.— A1l the hand
riveters employed in the work on the
transport Sheridan at the Mare Island
navy yard have struck, following the
refusal of Naval Constructor Holden A.
Evans, the head of the department, to
grant their request that they be given
piece work at $12, $16 and $25 per 100
rivets.
The situation has been telegraphed to
the navy department and it Is believed
men will be rushed here from the east.
The navy yards officials say work will
not be delayed more than three weeks.
DESERTED SLOOP FOUND
DRIFTING ABOUT IN BAY
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oat, 88.— Leaking,
with bow stove In, aa though from a
collision with some unknown veasel, and
with her small boat gone from the davits,
a nameless thirty-foot sloop, painted
white and with mainsail hoisted, was
picked up on the bay today.
Within the cabin of the sloop were
found provisions enough to last for a
week's cruise, although the only clew
to the last occupant of the craft was a
notebook under one of the seats In tho
house. Here on a flyleaf was scribbled
the name Charlie Olsen, but no address.
Los Angeles Herald.
FINANCIAL FLURRY MAY
REDUCE PRICES OF MEAT
Omaha Packing Houses Announce Re
ductlon of Ten Per Cent — All
Commodities May Be
Affected
By Assoolated Press.
OMAHA, Oct. 28. — Omaha packing
houses today reduced the prices on all
kinds of meats 10 per cent, and expect a
still further reduction.
Edward A. Cudahy of the Cudahy
Packing company expressed his belief
that the prices of all commodities
would be reduced and that the present
financial flurry would result in a gen
eral reduction.
HENEY DENIES HE IS
OLDER'S ATTORNEY
PROSECUTOR TEBTIFIEB IN CASE
AGAINBT BROWN
Says He Merely Wished to Bee How
Los Angeles Attorney "Fixed"
Witnesses In His Own
Bailiwick
By Associated Prais.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.— Francis J.
Heney was called as a witness today In
the continued hearing before Superior
Judge Dunne on a motion to set aside the
Indictments charging Luther Q. brown of
Los Angeles and R. Porter Ashe of this
city with the crime of kidnaping Fre
mont Older, managing editor of the San
Francitco Bulletin, to secure his trial In
a Los Angeles court on charges of crim
inal libel preferred by Brown.
One of the grounds urged in support
of tho motion to set aside the lndlct
mnnt was that Heney was Older's attor
ney and that therefore he appeared In a
dual capacity when he examined wit
nesses before the grand Jury in the mat
ter oi' Indicting Brown and Ashe.
Wher. Heney took the witness stand
AUoir.ey Schlessinger of the defense
hnnded him a telegram which Heney
had sent to the district attorney of Los
Argeles requesting a continuance of the
Older hearing in order that he himself
might appear in Older's behalf.
Heney admitted sending the telegram,
but dented that he ever was Older's at
torney. He said that the tplegram d d
rot accurately represent his motives in
asking for the continuance; that he
never intended to appear for Older, that
the reason he wanted to be in Los An
geles for the hearing was "to see how
Luther Brown fixed witnesses in his own
bailiwick. I know how he tried to flx
tl-em in San Francisco," Heney -«&l d.
Hei-ey nald further with great spirit
tl-.at 'he was determined to detect and
punish jury flx«rs and tamperers with
witnf sses If he had to lose every bribery
prosecution to do it.
The hearing of the motion to set aside
the indictments was continued until
Wednesday.
SHORTRIDGE LIBEL TRIAL
ATTRACTS WIDE INTEREST
Congressman Hayes of San Jose Ac
cuses Editor— Letter's Allega
tions Declared to Be
Untrue
By Associated Press.
SAN JOSE. Oct. 28.- When the case
of former Senator Charles M. Short
ridge for examination on a charge of
criminal libel preferred by Congress
man E. A. Hayes was called in Judge
Brown's court this morning the defend
ant asked for further time and finally
ne was granted until this afternoon at
2 o'clock. The examination U i be tag
held this afternoon in a crowded court
room. Shortridge asked for a change
of venue, which was denied.
Postmaster Hawley testified that the
accusation made against Hayes re
garding the amount of mall that went
through San Jose was untrue.
Concerning Shortridge's charge that
Hayes had set fire to his house in order
to collect the insurance, the county rec
ords were introduced to show that at
the time mentioned the house in ques
tion was not owned by Hayes, but by a
Mr Oglebay and that therefore Hayes
could have had no Interest in destroy
ing the property.
The case will be continued tomorrow.
MAN'S BOD? BLOCKS DOOR
WHEN WIFE TRIES TO ENTER
J. E. Clark Passes Away Alone—Resi
dent of Los Angeles Fourteen
Years— Was Native of
Canada
J B. Clark, a resident of Los Angeles
during the last fourteen years, was
found lying in !»•■ kitchen dead by his
wife when the woman returned home
from work at 6 o'clock last night.
Mrs. Clark is employed by W. E.
Stone at 200 East Fourth street. She
left her work early last night and
went to her home at 726 Mllbank street.
She tried to enter through the kitchen
door, but vu unable to open it as
some obstacle was in the -way.
The woman went to the front of the
house and entered. She passed into
the kitchen and found that that which
had blocked the door from opening
was her husband's body.
Mrs. Clark summoned Dr. McOee and
the body was taken to Pierce Brothers.
Clark came to Los Angeles from Can
ada, fourteen years ago. He was 65
years of age.
Woman Robbed on Street
By Assoolated Prtu.
BAN DIEOO, Oct. 28.— While on he/ way
to church -last night Miss Ella Hooker
was accosted by a tall young man dresscl
in a dark suit and wearing a cowboy hat.
The stranger asked to be directed to a
certain number on Beech street. Before
Miss Hooker could make reply he snatched
her purse- and made off in the dark.
BRIBE DRAFT,
ENTERED IN
CO'S BOOKS
FORD WITNESS SURPRISES
PROSECUTION
UNITED ROADB BECRETARY AD.
MITB RECORD
Heney Inclined to View with Distrust
Statement That $200,000 Drawn
by Defendant Had Been
Recorded
By Associated Press.
BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.— Such rapid
progress was made today by the prosecu
tion In the Ford bribery trial that if
the defense, adopting Its procedure In the
former trial, declines to put In any evi
dence the case should be In the hands of
the Jury within the week.
Twelve witnesses were examined today,
all but the last one of whom were con
cluded with: Nathan Seeley, cushler of
the San Francisco mint; former Super
visors Thomas F. Lonergan, Sam Davis
and Daniel O. Coleman; Thomas P. Burns,
cashier of the San Francisco sub-treasury;
Eugene D. Hawkins, assistant cashier of
the mint; Charles Haggerty, Abo Ruef'a
office boy; Richard J. Fox, formerly a
chauffeur In the employment of Abe Ruef;
I. W. Hellman, president of the Wells-
Fargo Nevada National bank and a direc
tor of the United Railroads; Qeorga
Francis, secretary and confidential cle.-k
to Tirey L. Ford; Miss Celia McDermott,
Ford's stenographer, and Qeorge Wllcutt,
secretary and comptroller of the United
Railroads.
Mr. Wllcutt supplied the feature evi
dence of the day by testifying— to the un
concealed surprise and manifest distrust
of tho prosecution— that the books of the
street car corporation do carry as entries
th» $200,000 with which Ford and Ruef are
alleged to have brlbea the supervisors to
pass the trolley franchise. The witness
was directed to produce the corporation's
journal and ledger tomorrow.
The prosecution called Nathan Seeley
of the San Francisco mint, who acted aa
assistant cashier of the relief corporation
In the months following the earthquaKe
and fire. He testified that it was he who
made up into two bundles of small denom
ination bills the first $50,000 withdrawn
from the mint by Tirey L. Ford and Wm.
M. Abbott and which the state asserts
was paid out In bribes to the supervisors.
Lonergan Under Fire
Former Supervisor Thomas F. Lonergan
took the stand. 'When ha has finished the
story of his bribery by Supervisor Gal
lagher, acting allegedly as the agent of
Ruef and Ford, he was subjected to a
searching cross-examination by Earl
Rogers for the defense. He was forced to
confess that in some particulars he had
changed his testimony from that given by
him at the first trial of Ford.
Judge Lawlor finally stopped the cross
examination of Lonergan, telling Rogers
he had covered the ground exhaustively
and consumed time enough.
Thomas P. Burns, cashier of the San
Francisco sub-treasury of the United
States, testified to giving Mr. Ford J50.000
In currency in exchange for gold July 28,
1906, and $100,000 in currency In like ex
change August 23 oi that year.
The coin, said Burns, was wheeled In
sacks on trucks from the mint to the sub
treasury, located in the same building.
Cross-examined by Stanley Moore, the
witness said that $100,000 in gold coin
would weigh about 874 pounds. The pur
pose of the defense in drawing out this
point was to suggest to the Jury that
Ford's sole purpose In exchanging the gold
for currency was to do away with weight
and bulk — notwithstanding prior testimony
that the United Railroads commonly
withdrew gold for payroll and current
uses.
The assistant cashier of the mint,
Eugene D. Hawkins, was called by Heney.
He acted as cashier of the relief corps
in the period following the fire. His ten
tlmony corroborated that given by Nathan
Seeley. Hawkins said the $50,000 In bills
given Ford ranged denominationally from
$5 to $100. Pressed by Heney, he thought
"there might have been a few as small as
$1 and $2"— lt was money contributed from
all over the country to the relief fund.
The prosecution claims, and some of the
confessing supervisors bear out, that the
first Installment- of the alleged bribes was
paid In bills of from $1 to $20 value.
Lonergan was recalled and redlrectly
examined by Heney. He said that he had
not been asked to return any of the vari
ous bribe moneys except by Theodore
Halsey of the Pacific Telephone and Telo
frraph company, to whom he handed back
$2500 of the $6000 accepted.
"You don't understand that the city has
any right to those moneys, do you?"
asked Haney.
"I don't know that It has," was the
reply.
"Put Him Over Jumps"
Heney asked Lonergan if Detective Tom
Olbson of the defense had told him that
the defense was Investigating the wit
ness" record. Lonergan replied: "No, but
cut in the lobby Gibson told me they were
going to 'put me over the Jumps.' "
Lonergan in his primary examination
had told the story of how he was trapped
in the acceptance of a $600 bribe by Qllden
M. Roy, a restaurateur; how Roy gave
him $600 at, Roy's house to vote in favjr
of a pending ordinance enlarging tha
limits within which crude petroleum
might be stored in San Francisco, and
how, the moment after he took the money,
he was confronted and seized by William
J. Burns and others.
In cross examination the defense cov
ertly Insinuated that this trap and
Lonergan's subsequent confession were
not bonaflde, but were prearranged be
tween him and the prosecution. To offset
this Heney asked in redirect examination
If Lonergan had ever seen the oil storage
ordinance. He replied that he had not,
and when Attorney Moore made a re
mark Lonergan declared that he had not
heard that such an ordinance had been
Introduced. To back him up Heney said:
"Such an ordinance was introduced, I
know, because It was prepared in my
office and turned over to Roy, at whose
request Supervisor Boxton Introduced It.
I have It here and will offer it In evi
dence. Tou gentlemen," addressing coun
sel for the defense, "will see by examina
tion of It that the Initial letters of alter
nate lines In the first paragraph spell the
word 'fake,' In other words we made the
document an acrostic for the purpose of
subsequent identification."
AERONAUTS
TALK SHOP
BALLOONISTS HOLD CONGRESS
IN NEW YORK
Science of Sky Navigation Discussed
by Experts — Victorious German
May Maks Another Ascent
In This Country
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.— Aeronautics,
whose practicability and amazing advance
thrilled most of the world last werik
through the performance of the contest
ants In the international cup, will make
a new era In its history with the meeting
today and tomorrow of the International
Aeronautic congress in this city. Twenty
papers, prepared by the men foremost in
the science of navigation of the air, will
be presented, and while they will be tor
the most part technical me popular side
of aerial navigation will have full repre
sentation in addresses by the majority of
the men who sailed across half the United
States last week.
This congress is a reassembling of men
who fourteen years ago, during the Chi
cago world's fair, met In the interest cf
the then little known science. Scores of
new members will also attend, including
the celebrated foreign and American
aeronauts from the cup race brought to
gether in this country. It was origlnafly
intended to hold this congress at the
Jamestown exposition, but for several
reasons New York was made the meeting
place. Willis L. Moore, chief of the
United States weather bureau, is presi
dent.
Oscar Erbsloeh, who won the interna
TODAY'S NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST
For Los Angeles and vicinity:
Fair Tuesday; light west wind.
Maximum temperature yesterday,
70 degrees minimum, 53 degrees.
„'■„',', ,'■„',' .'-..■ ' LOCAI ;\ X ,',' : £.' r V-
Burr Harris faces court on charge of
sending - poisoned candy ; and • bombs. ■ , ;
Mrs. Mary Black of Denver disappears
with I $1000 while husband .' is Son . way to
Los Angeles. „• *.
■i Plans prepared for rew bridge over De
Los Posos. ,*•;--. , ■'• '. ' ■"'.'■■"'■•
\ Woman Is accused of holding up man
ln alley and taking $25 from him. .•'■"-■ ■
% Four i alleged bucket shops raided .. by
police. , ' . . , • .'■':.; ■,■'• >,'\!'ii "."^',
} .;■ 'v. ■ . ■ ;;" ' ■ COAST • •.-'.•'-■■: .;. :: ; ;Vi
■' Witness in 'Ford trial admits that rec
ord of $200,000 said to have been paid In
bribes appears on books of United Rail
roads. ■.'•■:;■ :' :.,' '.■■',' -•• . *:'''■:" '''-'■'■: ■*.'•'' '* ■ ■■
.'. ' Francis *J. Heney enters political fight
lnI In j San " Francisco, » speaking ■at a ' public
meeting: in behalf of the candidacy 'of
District Attorney ■ Langdon.
| Hearing lof motion -to I Bet ■■' aside ' indict
ments against ' Luther Brown and ! Porter
A*he continued in a San Francisco court.
";'..;■ .' • i *''.*'';■ EASTERN .;' ', ' •■.'•:'••.* ■:';■
[•■ Twenty-five i million dollars 'In - gold . la
secured in Europe to relieve the financial
depresilon in New York. r i-y. :;::, •:>'.-■ ?|
:■' Twelve i states will ■•■ hold i general •; eleo
tlons 'a , weeK from today. ;"■' • '.
V Woman In New York arrested for com
pelling her child to ; sleep in dog kennel.
■ President Roosevelt signs proclamation
admitting new state of Oklahoma to the
Union on 'November 16. ■"'•• •; , 7 , :
• ; '." ! ; ..'j''' i: " FOREIGN .:."• '-■-'. "■■■'■
' : Terrorists' plot 3 destruction i of • Russian
secret • police; ■; prison' * chief !; slain "by a
Klrl.J.-u,K Klrl.J.-u,. :"■';■•- •.■Vi'i^-' v W ! '<-&~;"'\T~\* ",
'• Secretary of .War.Taft figures in anoth
er accident, narrowly escaping injury
when } team jof , mules - run. 1 away. 5- } ■''■"■ i->,
I Daughter lof • Russian | princess 1 is | kid
siajDped In London and' hald -tor witnrn,"'
Oun Shy
tlonal cup In the recent balloon race, will
probably make another ascension in this
country before returning to Germany. In
the race for the international cup Allan
R. Hawley landed near Baltimore and
covered 712 miles. He notified the Aero
club before he started that he was going
to try to win the Lahn cup, which had a
f«w days ago been won by Capt. Chand
ler. Lieut. Lahm made a flight of 402
miles and Capt. Chandler secured the cup
by going 604 miles, but he lost to Mr.
Hawley last week-
Erbsloeh wants to secure this trophy
before going home, and it is said he will
make an effort, starting from Kansas
City. He hopes, too. to make a new rec
ord for distance.
MOTHER COMPELS TOT
TO SLEEP IN KENNEL
Little Girl 111 Treated and Beaten by
Parent — Other Sisters Are
Well Fed and
Happy
By Associated Preie.
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.— The case of Mrs.
Annie Mohr of Corona, L. 1., charged
with compelling her 7-year-old daughter
to sleep in the basement with a mongrel
house dog and with otherwise ill treating
the child, Is attracting much attention.
Her family Is in comfortable circum
stances and there are two other children,
both of whom are well kept and clothed.
Martha, the abused child, is the second
child of the three in the family. Both
tue elder and younger sisters, who were
In court when the mother was arraigned,
looked happy and smiling.
Peter Mohr, the father, in testifying,
said his wife tooK a strange and unac
countable dislike tc Martha, and all ef
forts to overcome It were unavailing.
They finally gave the child out for adop
tion, but its foster mother soon died and
they were compelled to take Martha back
home again.
No amount of persuasion could Induce
Mrs. Mohr to accept the little one as
her own, and since then the child has
simply lived like an outcast. When she
appeared In court her body was covered
with bruises, the marks of repeated beat
ings, while she cowered In fear every
time an unexplained move was maue.
In noticeable contrast to her two sisters
Martha's clothing was coarse and ragged.
• The case Is still pending in court, but
meantime a cunuren's society is caring
for Martha.
RUNAWAY MULES ENDANGER
SAFETY OF SECRETARY TAFT
By Associated Press.
BAGUIO, Oct. 28.— Secretary Taft and
wife escaped injury last night from a
runaway of mules, while In an auto
mobile with Generals Wood and Bliss.
The chauffeur, who was going at great
speed, fled after the narrow escape of
the distinguished travelers.
This afternoon Secretary Taft attended
a feast given In his honor at' which
Igorrote dances were presented. He also
visited various points of Interest and
inspected the summer government build
ings. He Is said to have determined on
the immediate development of Bagulo on
a large scale.
PRESIDENT EXTENDS
FOREST RESERVATIONS
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.— The president
has signed proclamations creating addi
tions aggregating 490,461 acres to the
Stanislaus and Lassen Peak national for
est reserves In California.
' The addition to the Stanislaus embraces
land fifty-five miles long, covering 848,570
acres and including tha famous Calaveras
grove of big trees.
The addition to the Lassen Peak ag
jcracates 141,881 aores. ,
HENEYSPEAKS
FOR LANGDON
GRAFT PROSECUTOR ENTERS PO-
LITICAL FIGHT
Big Audience In San Francisco Cheers
Speakers — McGowan Denounced
as Insincere in His
Promises
By Assoolated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 28.— Francis J.
Heney tonight made his first political
speech of the present city and county
campaign, addressing a crowd of 3000
men and women at Nineteenth and Mis
sion streets, in behalf of the candidacy
of District Attorney W. H. Langdon for
re-election. Other speakers were Special
Prosecutor Hiram W. Johnson of the
bribery-graft prosecution, who presided
over the meeting, and Mr. Langdon.
With these men on the platform were
Rudolph Spreckels, the financial guaran
tor of the prosecutlonsh; William J.
Burns, who gathered the evidence against
public service corporation officials;
Charles W. Cobb, Heney's law partner;
Francis J. Heney and his brother , Benja
min Heney, mining engineer and con
tractor, whose home Is In Arizona.
The speeches of Johnson, Langdon and
Heney were pleas for the chance to
carry to completion their avowed task
of cleansing San Francisco from "the
curse of graft and punishing as the law
provides the rich boodlers who have
by wholesale corrupted her public ser
vants, and who stand ready to corrupt
and debauch and boodle afresh if allowed
their liberty and given the opportunity."
Mr. Johnson told his hearers that
"equality before the law, whether the
rich pilferer of corporation privileges,
shall stand no higher In the courts of jus
tice than the poor wretch who thieves a
loaf of bread," is the principle which
they are to affirm or repudiate by their
ballots on November 6. He foresaw in
the re-election of Langdon the seal of
San Francisco's moral rehabilitation; In
his defeat an "open and shameless return
to the infamous regime of another
Schmltz and Rupf, and all the social and
political degredatlon their names stand
for." .
Adverting to one of the elements op
posed to the bribery-graft prosecution,
he branded a portion of the San Fran
cisco business public as a "minority
whose only horizon is personal profit and
whose only guide post is the dollar sign."
Concluding he asked for Langdon a
majority of 20,000 votes.
Langdon said: "My election or defeat
is merely a question of continuing or
stopping these prosecutions.* Do you, or
do you not, want crimes tnat have been
committed against government to be
punished?"
Mr. Heney was introduced as "the fight
ing man of California."
Heney denounced as palpably Insincere
the promise of Langdon's opponent, ex-
State Senator Frank McGowan. to prose
cute "all offenders" against the law,
meaning thereby the bribe-taking ex
supervlsors who have been granted Im
munity as the price of their testimony,
as well as the Indicted corporattonlsts:
and he roused his audience to a great
pitch by holding up his right hand and
taking a dramatic pledge to "prosecute
Patrick Calhoun between November 5 and
January 1, 1908, with all of my energy
and ability, so help me God."
Heney kept the crowd Intensely inter
ested by sketching in brief outlines the
bribery-graft Investigation and prosecu
tion, a vivid and sensational story which
he crowned with the ringing sentiment:
"You could afford another earthquake
and fire, and you could and would re
build; but no city could have another
such boodllng board of supervisors and
survive."
Police Chase Crooks
By Associated Pros*.
MARYBVILLE, Oct. 28.— 0n account of
the frequent robberies and holdups here
recently the police today began forcing
all disreputable characters to leave here.
The assasslnati,
sky apparently was .
a prelude to a great*,
ton — probably the det».
secret police— which buty
the special object of the .
months.
When the slayer, who was
as Mile. Rigoiinntkeva of Pern,
ince, the daughter of a teacher c
Imperial Conservatory of Music, .
taken to the police station, her agi.
tlon was plain. She attempted to try.
her bound hands and reached toward
her breast It was found that she car
ried inside her corsage a case contain
ing thirteen pounds of high explosives,
a charge powerful enough to blow the
entire building and Its occupants to
pieces. Mile. Rigossinnikeva's portrait
Is In that part of the police gallery
marked "dangerous suspects," never
theless she remained for three hours in
Maximoffsky's reception room unrec
ognized. She pretended that her mis
sion there was to secure a better diet
for her brother, who was sick in prison.
It is understood she will be court mar
tlaled this week.
DAUGHTER OF RUSSIAN
PRINCESS KIDNAPED IN LONDON
By Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 28.— Barbara Lapotkhln,
daughter of Alexander Lapotkhln, ex
governor of Reval, and whose mother Is
a Russian princess, has disappeared in
London, and all the resources of the Rus
sian embassy and Scotland Yard are be
ing employed to trace her.
Miss Barbara, who is 18 years old, was
visiting London with her younger sister,
in charge of an English governess, Miss
Russell.
The trio went to the Aldwych theater
October 24, and on coming out Barbara
became separated in the crowd from her
companions and has not since been seen,
although the case was immediately re
ported to the police and the foreign office,
acting upon the urgent request of the
Russian government, ordered that no ef
fort be spared In the search for the miss
ing girl.
Since Miss Lapotkhln disappeared the
governess has received a note In a hand
writing which she recognizes as Bar
bara's, saying that she had been kid
naped outside the theater and Is now a
prisoner in the cellar of a house In the
northwest part of London, the address
of which she did not know. The girl ad
ded that she was wounded and suffering
so severely that she intended to poison ,
herself.
M. Lapotkhln has been director of the
police department in Russia, and Miss
Russell suggests that revolutionists
planned the kidnaping with the object
of bringing her father within their reach.
He is now on his way to London.
The Russlon officials here are inclined
to the belief that the girl was carried off
for the purpose of blackmail. The police
are nonplussed. They say they are un
able to imagine how a woman 18 years
old could be carried off against her will
in the crowded precincts of the theater.
"I'M READY TO TAKE MY
MEDICINE," SAYS BURGLAR
"Make It Light, Judge," Pleads Wil
liam E. Mclntosh — Is Sentenced
to Three Years in San
Quentln
"I am guilty, judge, and ready to ta'
my medicine," said William E. Mclnt'
charged with burglary, to Judge f
yesterday. "I don't want a lawyer
it as light as you can, Judge."
Molntosh confessed to havlr
suit of clothes. He said it *
ond offense.
Three years in San O
sentence. The prisoner
to the county jail, bu'
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By Anoclkted ' Pr
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