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CARSON'S BAD MELTS
Secret Investigation of
the Mint Steal
Goes On.
MASON CROSS-EXAMINED.
He Tells Why He Suspects
Jones of Having Substi
tuted Bogus Bars.
IMPORTANT DUPLICATE KEY.
The Shortage Supposed to Have
Occurred During the Silver
Administration.
CARSON, Nev., April 24.— examina
tion of Jones is still being conducted with
closed doors, and the Nevada papers are
not able to publish accounts of the pro
ceedings, except the Appeal, which ap
peared this morning with a full account.
At 10 o'clock this morning Mason resumed
his testimony for the Government. He
was questioned a good deal by General
Clark, bringing out more positively facts
elicited by the testimony the day before. .
He reiterated the statement that the
stealing began after the clean-up of June,
1892. He was very positive on this point,
and explained how the system of book
keeping in the mint clearly demonstrated
the fact.
The defense took the witness and asked
him a good many questions, evidently with
a view of confusing him. The witness was
perfectly cool and answered each as ur
banely as he did in the direct examination.
Finally the question was put point blank.
"Have you a personal feeling against trie
defendant, Jones?''
"None whatever, or against any one else
in the case. I was sent from Washington to
find where the shortage was. It was im
material to me where the facts direct me.
I am here to find the one who is guilty, if
possible. The Government desires to pun
ish the guilty and recover the amount
stolen. I have reasons for believing that
the defendant is the guilty one. This is
why the Government has begun proceed
ings against him. Personally, there is no
feeling in the matter whatever."'
"Did Harris tell you that he thought
Jones guilty when you came here?"
"No. The first I learned of Jones being
regarded as a party was by reading a letter
in Washington which Harris had written
to Superintendent Adams when he re
ported the shortage to him. The letter
was forwarded by Adams to the depart
ment, and it was there I saw it and first
learned of Jones."
"Didn't you also find out that bullion
had been stolen under the present admin
istration?"
"Yes."
"How did you discover it?''
"Harris, the melter and refiner, discov
ered it and reported it?"
"When did lie report it?"
"He reported it as soon as he discovered
it. I think early in February." (The dis
covery was made by Harris on February
10. The missing bar weighed thirty-nine
ounces and was worth about $730.)
"What did he think had become of the
bar?"
"He thought it was stolen by Mr. Jones."
'What other matters did Harris' letter
to Adams contain?"
"It was all in relation to the shortage."
"How did he account for it?"
"He said that bars had been stolen or
else were of such a character that they did
not hold up to their assay value."
Coffin then discussed Mason's theories
of the case, and said he had theories in the
case, but had endeavored to get at the
facts. When he paused for a moment, Mr.
Woodburn rose up and said he desired to
ask a question relative to the Standard
mine, entered originally in the gold book
as No. 77. Commissioner Edwards glanced
at the clock and remarking that it was 12
announced that there would be a recess
until 1 o'clock.
The cross-examination of Mason was re
sumed at the afternoon session. Attempts
to rattle the witness on the part of Coffin
failed. The matter of theories was again
reverted to, and the witness said his
theory, based on his investigation, was
that the first stealing took place in June of
1893, when the Standard mine deposit of
$23,000 came to the mint. After the ten
and a third bars had been rem el ted $20,000
in gold had been taken out and silver sub
stituted, so that the bars after remelting
were only worth about $3000.- What he
had before testified relative to a conversa
tion with Jones regarding the matter was
gone over. He said he had told Jones he
considered that the change in the bars
could only have occurred in his depart
ment. Jones had replied: "Well, that
looks pretty rough for me, don't it?" or
words to that effect.
Another thing that strengthened the
theory of the witness was the fact that
Harris had found a duplicate key to the
refinery in Jones' desk. This evidence
came out quite unexpectedly to the de
fense and caused attorneys to put their
heads together. The witness continued
that the only key to the room which was
supposed to exist was in the hands of Su
perintendent Harris, who had told him
that he had found the key in Jones' desk
about the time he had suspended him.
Coffin's cross-examination was continued
on the theory that the shortage occurred
after the silver administration came in,
and from the questions it was manifest
that the defense would be made on these
lines. ' " .
Mason was asked by Coffin if his orders
were to fasten the shortage on any admin
istration or person. •?.£*.
"No, sir. I have investigated every
thing that I could learn of street rumors
and from every source possible, both in
and outside of the mint." - .'i ;./
. "Has any one tried to influence your in
vestigation ?"
"No, sir."
"Do you know of bullion being taken in
the mint at any time to make good the
melter and refiner's accounts?"
"Yes, sir. Mr. Jones told me he took in
$560 in June, 1894."
"When does your investigation show
that the first shortage existed?" .
"I think in 1892, before the annual settle
ment." < v :/
I "Why do you think so?" .
"Because of the melts in the settlement
that year and 1893 and 1894 that I consider
to be like the one here in court, bogus."
"Have you investigated any or all
melts?" ,
"Yes. I asked Jones what they were.
He said they represented the slums from
the refinery." . "
"Why do you suspect them ?"
" "I never knew or heard of slum melts
having such a high proportion of gold."
Here he read the slums of 1893, Nos. 131,
23 and 33 all being over 300 gold fineness,
and compared these with slum melts of
preceding years, when they ran from 40 to
200 fine in gold.
"Have the present officers tried to keep
anything back from you?"
"No; on the contrary, they have been
both willing and anxious to aid in every
way."
Here Mason explained how the bogus
melt could have been made from bullion
in the mint, and cited a deposit that con
tained 19>_ gold and 943 silver that was the
exact recorded fineness December 17, 1894,
of the bogus melt. Coffin immediately
jumped onto this, and to his surprise
learned that the deposit had been turned
over by Mr. Harris in settlement April,
1895.
During all of Mason's cross-examination
he and Coffin had many tilts, and Mason
each time came off best.
Mason was asked if the bogus melt could
have been made without the complicity of
the melter and refiner or his assistants..
"No, sir; and I think melt 164, made un
der Jones' supervision in the latter part of
June, 1893, and trie other that made up the
deficit came down from the years 1892-93."
After further examination by Clarke he
was excused and Hirsch Harris was called.
He showed that the melt of November,
1 892, for which the bogus one was substi
tuted, when it was delivered by the Su
perintendent had the number 77 on it.
The bogus melt had no such number.
Harris stated that on June 1, when he
took charge, Zabriskie was not ready to
turn over his bullion, but kept scraping
and melting until June 8 and 9.
"How was the delivery made when you
received the bullion from Zabriskie?"
"The delivery took place in his vault.
Mr. Jones, my assistant melter and re
finer, supervised and Mr. Elrod did the
weighing. I merely checked the list fur
nished me by Hofer. The bullion was put
on trucks, weighed and put back in the
vault."
"Was this bogus melt among the de
livery?"
"Yes, sir."
"Has it been in your possession ever
since?"
"Yes, sir."
"Could any one have made it during
your term without your knowledge?"
"No, sir."
"When did you first mistrust that some
thing was wrong with your gold?"
"In October."
"Did you speak to Mr. Jones about it?"
"Yes, sir. He told me it was all right
and would be found in the slums."
"When did you first know of a short
age?"
"After the returns from the nitric acid
gold from the refinery in January. The
returns showed a shortage of 1500 standard
ounces. I then decided to have a clean-up
in my department."
"Did Mr. Jones when he went to San
Francisco know that you were short?"
"Yes, sir. I told him everything. While
he was gone Mr. Ellis and myself checked
the gold and Mr. Noteware and Mr. Ray
craft the silver. When Jones came back
he advised checking again and we weighed
all the bullion, including the bogus melt,
No. 164, which Mr. Jones did not discover
to be bogus, although looking for such
melts."
Court adjourned.
SEATTLE RATES RESTORED
War Between the Steamsihp
Companies Comes to an
Amicable Ending.
Owners Say the Farallon Has Not
Been Making Money So They
Decided to Quit.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 24.— The rate
war between the Pacific ,Coast Steamship
Company and the steamer Farallon, run
ning between Seattle and San Francisco,
which has been in progress for some
months, has been ended by the withdrawal
of the Farallon. Both parties deny that
any inducement was given the Farallon to
withdraw, and the owners say they simply
gave up because they were making no
money, although the boat was crowded
every trip.
It is believed the transcontinental rail
road had something to do with her with
drawal as the low rates were affecting over
land business on all lines.
The Farallon has been chartered for one
year by the Yaquina Steamship Company,
which is controlled by the Oregon Pacific
Railroad, and will run between Yaquina
Bay and San Francisco. She left here
on her last trip to-day crowded with pas
sengers and freight.
AGAINST A BHYLOCK.
Seattle's Superior Court Scores a Usurer
for Bringing Suit.
SEATTLE, Wash., April John Fair
field Dore, who has just cleared himself of
the charges of embezzlement at Boston,
gained a decision to-day in the Superior
Court against Henry Binnian, a notorious
5 per cent man, who sought to recover $581
on a $200 promissory note executed in 1890,
and on which $280 had been paid. Judge
Langley scored Binnian severely and dis
missed his complaint and granted Dore a
perpetual injunction to restrain Binnian
from foreclosing a chattel mortgage given
to secure the note. , '/ :~~ \
There is no usury law in this State, but
the court held practically that in a court
of equity in the case of a usurious contract
only the legal rate at the time of making
the contract could be recovered. As Bin
nian had already been paid more than $46
in excess of the legal rate (10 per cent) per
annum the terms were not acceptable.
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ASKED TO RESIGN.
An Old Cashier of the Northern Pacific
to Step Down.
TACOMA, Wash., April 24.— W. H.
Cushman, who has been cashier of the
Northern Pacific Land Department here
since 1878, resigned to-day at the request
of Land Agent Cooper. He was in no way
connected with the Schulze shortage. C.
H. Knapp, chief clerk of the engineering
department, will succeed him. Land Agent
Phipps returned home to-day, but leaves a
force of men at work checking up the
Schulze accounts. %
Tacoma Rolling-Mill Starts.
TACOMA, Wash., April 24.— The West
ern Iron and Steel Company's rolling-mill
at Lakeview, which was moved here from
Burlington, lowa, was started up to-day
and a euccessfal test of the rolling machin
ery made. It is the only rolling-mill on
the coast, excepting one at San Francisco,
and has a capacity of eighty tons of bar
iron per day. The start is made with
seve nty-five -' men. Superintendent Joyce
says the outlook is promising for the
rapid development of the iron industry in
the Northwest. A large portion of iron
which has . been , shipped from the East
will now be made here. . .
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1895.
RATES ARE TOO HIGH.
Plaints of Denver Men
to the Interstate
Commission.
BUSINESS IS CRIPPLED.
Industries of Colorado Re
tarded by Unfair Dis
crimination.
REDUCTIONS MUST BE MADE.
Railway Officials Dismally Fall In
Trying to Make Plausible
Explanations.
DENVER, Colo., April 24.-The Inter
state Commerce Commission this morning
heard from railroad officials the reasons
for the higher freight rates to San Fran
cisco from Denver than from Chicago and
other Eastern points. They claim they are
obliged to make lower rates from Chicago
than they could afford to make from in
terior cities, situated like Denver, on ac
count of the competition.
J. A. Monroe, general traffic agent of the
Union Pacific system, who was trie first
witness to-day, frankly conceded, how
ever, that rates from Denver were too high
and declared in favor of granting to Den
ver the same freight rate to trie coast as is
enjoyed by Chicago.
J. W. Nesmith, manufacturer of mining
and milling machinery, next presented a
complaint. He said his industry had been
built up slowly from small beginnings, and
he had built many smelters in the West in
competition with Eastern manufacturers.
He did not ask unreasonably low rates,
the raw material for his establishment be
ing right at hand in Colorado. To El Paso
the rate on manufactured products which
he made was just trie same from St. Louis
as it was from Denver, though the former
was twice as far from El Paso. Chicago
had a rate within 9 cents of the Denver
rate, though 1000 miles further away.
He thought there was no reason why
Denver should not have a chance to ship
machinery to the North, but it was shut
out by the freight rates. The Missouri-
River points should be open to Denver for
coihpetition with Chicago, but that was
out of the question because the rates were
all in favor of Chicago. Mr. Nesmith felt
indignant that Denver was not given a fair
chance to become a great manufacturing
and distributing center.
H. Z. Salomon told of his attempts to
get rates such that he could develop a large
body of clay containing aluminum which
he owned near Denver. If he had been
given a rate equal to that on metallic ores
he could have got into the Eastern markets
with it. He had failed to do so.
W. A. Bissell, assistant freight traffic
manager of the Santa Fe, was next called.
He gave a detailed account of the principle
upon which rates to Denver and California
from the East were made. .
He said such rates were largely in
fluenced by water competition. It was a
question of abandoning coast business or
meeting the low rates of the steamship
lines. The Panama line was the strongest
competitor the transcontinental lines had.
There was no such competition in Denver.
Upon this basis he explained some of the
particular cases which Mr. Kindel had
mentioned in the way of freight discrimi
nation.
His line would, he said, be willing to
give a satisfactory rate, as low as the Chi
cago rate, to San Francisco for Denver
products if that would not involve the cor-
responding lowering of rates to intermedi
ate points. If the interstate commerce
law required this the roads' would prefer to
give up their coast business.
General Freight Agent Crosby of the
Burlington dwelt upon the effect of hard
times upon the railroads and was of the
opinion that all the lines had always done
the best they could for Denver merchants
and manufacturers. He said there was
never any complaint concerning the rates
on ores, bullion and other products, which
largely constituted Colorado's output.
It is stated to-night that the roads have
practically conceded that Denver and Pu
eblo shall be made terminals. This means
that they will really be distributing cen
ters of the Chicago freight level.
The Southern Pacific, however, insists
that the commission shall not
extend this ruling to intermediate
points, as that would compel
that road to abandon competition with
water carriers on transcontinental busi
ness and fall back on local business, which
would compel it to help develop its tribu
tary country. Freight Agent Smurr of the
Southern Pacific was on the stand the en
tire afternoon telling much of the condi
tions which his road contended it should
be allowed to maintain.
If the concession practically agreed upon
is made Denver manufacturers in other
lines will be granted the same methods of
rate-making between Denver and the West
as have been granted the complainants in
this hearing, and will be able to make use
of the rate for a short haul equitable with
that made for the long haul. This applies,
however, to westbound business only.
VILLARD AGAIN IN CONTROL.
Once More to Guide the Destiny of the
Northern Pacific Railroad,
ST. PAUL, MINN., April 24.— dispatch
this afternoon will say: Henry Villard
has again secured control of the Northern
Pacific, and will come to this country for
the purpose of making arrangements to
wind up the receivership and assume the
direction of the property. This, it is said,
has been accomplished through the efforts
of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, Viilard's
backer ever since his connection with the
Northern Pacific began.
Twice Villard had control of the road,
once at its beginning and once later, and
each time it seems he has had the Ameri
can stockholders to contend with in his
efforts to look after the interests of the
bondholders who are represented by the
Deutsche Bank. The stockholders have
invariably carried the day, and Villard has
been ousted. The last time, however, the
ousting was followed in no great length by
the receivership, so that the stockholders
did not gain a very great benefit from the
process. % i;*
THOMAS C. BUSBY BEAD.
He Introduced McKinley to the First
Outside Political Meeting.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, April 24.— C.
Busby, a pioneer residing near here, died
to-day aged 80. Mr. Busby had the honor
of introducing Governor McKinley to the
first political meeting he ever addressed
outside of his own district. The speech.
an experimental one, proved a stepping
stone to success. Mr. Busby's five surviv
ing sons are all prominent newspaper men.
William H. Busby is managing editor of
trie Chicago Inter Ocean ; Hamilton Busby,
editor of Turf, Field and Parm ; L. W.
Busby of the Inter Ocean, T. A. Busby
of the Railway Age, and C. A. Busby of
the Railway Review.
WENT BY THE GAS ROUTE.
Unrequited love Causes an Austrian to
Commit Suicide.
CHICAGO, 111., April Jilted by the
girl he loved and despondent because he
was without money or friends in America,
Lndwig Grossman, an ex-lieutenant in
the Austrian army, ended his life late last
night in his room in the Niagara House.
Shortly before trie body was discovered
the odor of gas was noticed coming from
Grossman's door. The door was forced
and Grossman found lying on the bed,
and near his mouth a rubber tube attached
to the gas jet.
Grossman had been in this country
since January 25, and went to the Niagara
House two weeks ago. A passport is
sued by the Austrian Government and
11 cents were • the only property found
in his possession. - His home was in
Prague, Bohemia. Grossman was en
gaged to be married to a young woman
who lived in Prague. He entered the
army when he was 21, but when he came
home he found the young woman had
married another man. ' To forget his
misery he sailed for America, but he had
no friends here and could find no employ
ment. ' • i- *
PROTECT PUBLIC MORALS.
Ainsworth Explains the Object
of His Anti-Nudity
Bill.
But the New York Assembly De
cides to Materially Prune the
Measure.
ALBANY, N. V., April 24.— What was
designed to be a very tame, business-like
session of the Assembly last night started
in a contrary manner by the launching of
the Ainsworth anti-nudity bill, and a
consequent discussion. No sooner had
the clerk announced the bill than there
was an amendment offered by Mr. Friday
exempting from the bill's provisions all
entertainments where historical costum
ing, ballets or operatic performances were
concerned.
Mr. Ainsworth said he hoped that
no such amendments would prevail. The
bill was designed to protect trie morals of
the community and hinder any display
that was in any way indecent. No man
would stand up and justify such exhibi
tions as have caused the introduction of the
bill. The bill was demanded by every de
cent citizen in the State, and no man was
a lover of the land and the people who
would oppose it or amend it.
Mr. Foley moved to strike out the en
acting clause, and said the measure was
entirely too drastic.
Dr. Bush hoped no such motion would
prevail.
Mr. Ainsworth— Why, Mr. Speaker, these
destroyers of morals and all that is decent
have even sent their pernicious literature
into the female academies and schools of
the land. There is nothing in this bill
that will stop decent exhibitions, and no
theatrical manager has protested against it.
Mr. Foley — I don't believe that art
views of the female form are so very detri
mental to anybody's morals. It is rather
the acting and conversation in indecent
lines.
Mr. Armstrong l am in favor of the
principle of the bill, but I am also for the
amendment, for I believe that the line
should be drawn in the bill and not left so
ambiguous that art sales, exhibitions, etc.,
shall be prohibited.
Mr. Ainsworth— contend that there
are great differences in productions, and
that no one shall say that a representation
of the Greek Slave or Cleopatra is inde
cent, but that a fully clothed figure doing
a Cairo street dance is decent.
Mr. Stanchfield contended that the law
was so broad that any production de
nounced by a crowd could be adjudged in
decent, and he believed that the line
should be drawn.
Mr. Ainsworth— This bill is not destined
to say how people shall be clothed, but to
say that that they shall not be unclothed.
Mr. Friday's amendment was adopted
by a decisive vote and the bill was
amended and ordered printed for passage.
NO DANGER OF TROUBLE.
Impartial Investigation of Affairs Among
the Winnebagoes. J '_ "4'J"
Omaha, Nebe», April 24.— A special from
the Bee's staff man hurriedly sent to the
Winnebago Indian reservation to-day to
ascertion the exact truth as to the rumors
of a probable uprising, says:
"There is no danger of organized trouble
with the Indians as a result of the leasing
of reservation land by white settlers. All
talk to the contrary is by irresponsible
persons. Much bad blood has been en
gendered, but at no time has it reached
the proportions of imminent danger of an
uprising. These reports have been started
by those interested therein, making it ap
pear that the Indians were demanding an
immediate decision. The trial of the two
Indian police arrested by the Sheriff will
occur Friday.
Never Miss Wainwright's Angel.
CHICAGO, 111., April 24.— 1n an inter
view with Julian Magnus, Actress Marie
Wainwright's manager, he said: "Paul
Schulze, the well-known Western railroad
official, was never Miss Wainwright's
angel, and she has had no backer for three
seasons, as she did not need one. Miss
Wainwright, however, was intimately ac
quainted with Mr. Schulze and his family.
She has not received that farewell letter
from him mentioned in the newspaper dis
patches. The only communication was a
letter from Schulze's lawyer telling of his
suicide. Marie Wainwright has not played
in Tacoma for two seasons. The story of
any affair between her and the dead man
is absolutely without foundation."
Not Interfered With.
BOSTON, Mass., April 24.— British
steamer plying between here and Jamaica,
reported to have been chased by a Spanish
gunboat on her last trip, arrived in port to
day. Captain Hopkins said : "A Spanish
gunboat chased a small vessel which went
in before us, but we were not interfered
with." \- .'""-.:
Nitro-Glycerine Explodes.
LIMA, Ohio, April 24.—Five tons of
nitro-glycerine at the factory of the Ohio
and Indiana Torpedo Company, two miles
west of here, exploded to-day. The shock
was felt twenty miles away.
Collector Hall's Shortage.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 24. -The short
age of County Collector Hall continues to
grow and it is now thoueht the deficiency
is greatly in excess of $18,400, as first re
ported. Hall has not been seen for several
days. . .
BALLY OF THE CLANS.
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Republicans Are Ready
for the National
Meeting. -
LEAGUES ALL IN LINE.
One Innovation Will Be the
Holding of an Open
Session.
SILVER BOOMERS TO ATTEND,
f. ' ' '' "
General Clarkson, Warner Miller
and Other Noted Men to Be
Among- the Speakers.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 24.—Secre
tary A. B. Humphrey of trie National
League of Republican Clubs is in the city
in conference with the committee in charge
of the arrangements for the coming con
vention of the league in Cleveland in June.
It has been decided to introduce an inno
vation at this convention in the shape of
one open session, at .which free discussion
of all political questions will be permitted.
This, it is believed, will furnish an op
portunity for a lively fight over the silver
question. Information has been received
to the effect that a special train will be sent
from Chicago. A boatload of Republicans
Will also come from Dulutri. Denver will
send a trainload of silver boomers.
There will also be a special train from
Pittsburg, one from lowa with trie cele
brated lowa State band, another from
Louisville, Nashville and Cincinnati, one
from Philadelphia and one from Indiana,
and still another from New York. A
special boat will also be run from Buffalo.
The invitations to address the conven
tions have already been accepted by ex-
Senator Warner Miller of New York, Hon.
J. S. Clarkson of lowa, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster
of Washington, Governor McKinley, Hon.
John M. Thurston of Nebraska, ex-Gover
nor Foraker of Ohio, Hon. A. B. Cummins
of Dcs Moines and Senator J. Burrows of
Michigan.
It is also expected that Senators Alli
son, Wolcott and Teller and ChaunceyM.
Depew will accept trie invitations which
have been sent them. -
Trie committee to-day decided that Con
gressman Boutelle of Maine should pre
side at trie banquet to be given the visitors.
MAKES A COMPROMISE.
Controversy of Atlantic and Pacific Re
ceivers With a Trust Company,
ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., April 24.—
The United States Trust Company and
the Mercantile Trust Company of New
York, and the receivers of the Atlantic and
Pacific road compromised their differences
in the United States District Court to-day
in the matter of borrowing money to pay
the rental on the line of the road from
Needles to Mojave, Cal. The parties
stipulated that an order could be made
authorizing the receivers to borrow $75,000
and. issued receivers' certificates for the
same and an order was made by the
court and entered accordingly.
The receivers intended to borrow $275,000
but the United States Trust Company
which is trie trustees of nearly all the first
mortgage bonds objected to bo large a
loan. The question was then taken into
court and a compromise was the result.
Opposed to Free Coinage.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 24.— The Post
prints an interview with James B. Mc-
Creary to-day, in which he declares him
self unalterably opposed to the free coin
age of silver. This utterance was brought
out by Senator Blackburn's stand in favor
of silver. McCreary says: "I favor an in
ternational agreement consistent with
sound business methods, but to throw
open the mints of this country to the world
is simply preposterous." '?&£>'
Witnesses From "Heaven,"
ROCKFORD. 111., April 24.— The case
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Winter— so it must be dis- O go.
posed of now. _
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Wholesale Manufacturers of IV Between Bush and Pine.
Clothing for Man, Boy or Child. I^l LOOK FOR THE BLUE SIGNS.
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of George Jacob Schweinfurth, the alleged
'•Messiah," is being investigated by the
Grand Jury. A dozen witnesses were in
from the "Heaven" and several out from
Chicago to testify against him. Marguerite
Taft, mother of one of the illegitimate
children at Schweinfurtli's, created a sen
sation to-day by going to Wisconsin and
marrying William Weldon to evade giving
evidence before the Grand Jury. >
APPEALED TO THE POLICE.
An Aged Miss Would Take Her Lover
by Force.
NEW YORK, N. V., April 24.-Chief of
Police Donovan of Hoboken was appealed
to in a singular manner last night. Miss
Helena Rauch, who is 50 years of age, and
whose home is in Chicago, wanted the
Chief to compel a young man, Richard
Elso, to accompany her to Chicago. Miss
Rauch is. said to be rich. Last November
she went to Leipsic to spend the winter.
While at a hotel there she fell in love with
Elso, a young man who was the book
keeper of the establishment. Despite the
disparity of their ages she and Elso ar
ranged to return to Chicago together and
be married. When they arrived in Hobo
ken Elso said he liked trie town and re
fused to go to Chicago. He was still will
ing to marry Miss Rauch, he said, but she
would not consent to the ceremony unless
he would accompany her to Chicago as he
had agreed. Donovan told the lady that
there was no law to compel Mr. Elso to go
to Chicago against his will. The couple
are still at the hotel, with little proba
bility of reaching an agreement.
THEY CONCEAL A CRIME
Blunders of Hospital Doctors
in a Case of Wife-
Poisoning.
A Plain Case of Murder by Paris
Green Dig-nosed at the Autopsy
as " Alcoholism. "
NEW YORK, N. V., April 24.— A sup
posed wrong diagnosis of the illness of
Mary Kane by the doctors at Bellevue
Hospital'and the incomplete autopsy on
the part of the pathologist of the same
hospital, came very near hiding what is
believed to be a case of murder. The vic
tim died of paris green poisoning, which
was diagnosed as alcoholism, but whether
she died by her own hand or was poisoned
by some one else will be determined by the
police and the District Attorney.
The doctor explained that when he gave
the information upon which the certifi
cate of death was given his autopsy bad
been imperfect, inasmuch as he had not
examined the stomach of the woman.
When, however, he returned to finish his
work, he found that there was a quantity
of paris green in the stomach.
The woman came to the hospital suffer
ing so much from the effects of drink that
she staggered. She was dazed and could
not speak. She was put to bed in the
female ward, but died three hours later
without having regained consciousness.
The woman, who was only 26 years old,
lived with her husband, John Kane, a
pressman, who is about 60 years old. By
the people living in the house the couple
were regarded as excessive drinkers. Dur
ing the last week their quarrels annoyed
their neighbors more than usual.
The woman was helplessly intoxicated
Saturday night, and during the night and
morning moans in her room led some
people living on the same floor to inquire
what ailed her. She said that her coffee
at supper had upset her. Later she went
out, saying she was so ill that she would
go to the hospital. Her husband did not
return to the house until Monday night.
He made inquiries about the health of his
wife of the housekeeper. He told her that
Mrs. Kane had taken the keys of the room
to him in a saloon. He then asked the
housekeeper to allow him to stay in the
house without paying his rent, as his wife
was insured. She consented and he went
up to his room alone and removed some
packages of powder which had been se
creted under the cover of the bureau.
These he took away with him and he has
not been seen since.
Colonel Fairbanks Dead.
ST. JOHN-BURG, Vt., April 24.—
onel Franklin Fairbanks, president of the
Fairbanks Scale Company, died to-night.
He has been ill a month.
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A Plain Reason Given Which
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The Whirling of the Brain a Good
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The Kidneys More Active.
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"Nature Has Overstimulated
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