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All this ; happened shortly before 7
o'clock and while the streets were
thronged with people. A large crowd, at
tracted by the incident, gathered. The
woman battled with Gibson and he used
his strength in subduing her.
Mrs. Smith then resorted to a clever
ruse to effect her escape. Single-handed,
she knew that she was powerless and she
counted on the assistance of the crowd. A
word of appeal to the throng brought a
wave of indignation against the man who
The car had reached Kearny- street,
when the officer beckoned hU prisoner to
follow him. She smiled graciously as she
arose from her seat and stepped to the
street. Then her cunning exerted itself.
With a bound she was beyond her custo
dian's reach and rushed wildly in the di
rection of the sidewalk. Gibson started
in pursuit and succeeded In catching: her
arm.
SEEKS CROWD'S SYMPATHY.
an adventuress has not been
eclipsed In many moons, according to the
statements of detectives, has been run
to earth at last. Handsomely attired and
resplendent with jewels, ah© was captured
after an exciting chase last evening 'and
landed, in the City Prison. To Detective
Tom Gibson of the local department is
due the credit for the capture. Officer
George Douglass assisted him in the ar
rest.
The woman, wanted for a long list of
crimes, recognized the detective b«fore he
identified her. The meeting occurred on
Market street and Mrs. . Smith tried to
elude the officer by jumping on a passing
car. Gibson saw the move and followed
her. boarding quickly and taking a seat
alongside of her. Both were strangers to
each other and it became a game of wit.
The woman realized that denials were
useless and wfcen Gibson read ono of the
warrants, charging her with the embez
zlement of thousands of dollars, she ad
mitted her identity and in silence planned
an escape.
«n jmKS. ADELAIDE LLOYD
Jn/B SMITH, for whom the police of
Ijft a dozen cities have been
** » A searching and whose career as
Mrs. Adelaide Lloyd Smith, Wanted for Illegal Oil
Placed in Prison.
SHREWD ADVENTURESS TAKEN
AFTEH BATTLE WITH POLICE
WOMAN WANTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT OF A FORTUNE ON STOCK
DEALS, WHO ELUDED POLICE AND PINKERTON SLEUTHS FOK
MONTHS AND WAS CAPTURED BY DETECTIVE TOM GIBSON.
Continued on Page 2, Column 2.
Speaker Casts Deciding Vote.
VICTORIA. B. r., April 15.— The Brit-
isn Columbia uovetnment was saved from
defeat by the Spcaser casting his vote on
the motion of Smin Curtis that 'dissolu
tion take place af4r the session to-day.
The division was 17tto 17, and the Speak
er's vote in favor ofitbe Government neg
atived the motion. I
"This young man stood towering over
oe," said Mrs. Crowley to-night," "and
shouted that he would resort to personal
violence unless I should stop maligning
his mother. He repeated the remark sev
eral times and was very threatening in
his attitude. It was because of his dec
l.-irMions that he would do me violence
that I felt compelled to appeal to the
law for protection. /
There is little difference in the stories
told cf the encounter, except that young
Seligman does not make 'his remarks
quite so threatening as Mrs. Crowley and
the sastor. ; V ¦*•.*¦ <¦**;/ .'• .' ; '¦¦-•
MRS. CROWLEY'S STOBY.
This fresh chapter to the Crowley con
troversy follows as a 'sequel to the en
counter which took place last Thursday'
evening, when Mrs. Crowley made an as
sault with a whip upon Dr. Crowley as
he was departing from Mrs. Seligman's
lesldence at 585 Caledonia avenue.
It was in the guise of a protector of his
mother's name that young Seligman went
at 8 o'clock last evening to the Crowley
residence at 1164 Alice street and demand
ed to see Mrs. Crewley. At that moment
the physician's wife was in bed, where
&hc had been confined for several days.
As goon as young Seligman was announc
ed she sent for Dr. Baker, as pastor of
the church with which she is affiliated.
Several friends of the doctor's ' spouse
were also at the- residence.
Such is the accusation which Mrs.
Crowley ma<fe when she swore to-day to
a, complaint for the arrest of Harvey Sclig
man, 19 years of age, a student at the
Oaklaud High School, and son of. the
aforesa'd Mrs. Anna Sellgman. The war
rant of arrest merely recites an alleged
disturbance of the peace. Mrs. Crowley,
iJr. Baker and young Seligman furnish
the incidental details to the narrative of
a very lively meeting that occurred in
Mrs. Crowley's boudoir.
terian Church, Mrs. Alma A.
Crowley was threatened last evening with
personal violence unless she should de
sist from using the name of Mrs. Anna
Seligman in relation to the domestic dif
ficulties of Mrs. Crowley and her hus
band. Dr. D. D. Crowley, the prominent
physician and club man. \
OAKLAND. April 15.— In her own
home, at her bedside and in the
presence of Rev. Ernest E. Ba
ker, pastor of the First Presby-
WOMAN WHO SATS SHE WAS
THREATENED BY YOUNG
MAN.
Colonel Ilic, commanding the Sixth
Regiment at Belgrade, and six other of
ficers have been arrested at Semlln. a
Hungarian frontier town In Croatia-Sla
vor.ia, six mles from Belgrade, on the
charge of conrx'Irlng against King Alex
ander of Serv|a, who submitted the ar
rested officers' to a personal examina
tion. \
CONSTANTINOPLE. April 13.— The Al
banian soldier tvho shot M. Stchberina,
the Russian Consul at Mitrovitza, Inflict
ing a wcund frcn which the latter died,
has been sentenced to death, the Russian
Embassy here laving demanded a re
vision of the previous sentence of, fifteen
years' imprisonnfcnt.
VIENNA," April 15.-The Allgemelne
Zcitucg asserts that Hilmi Pa^ha, in
epector general of the Sultan's reform
movement, placed his resignation in the
bands of the Sultan on account of the
latter's vacillating policy. The Sultan,
however, declined to accept the resigna
tion.
It feeeniB not improbable that the un
certain attitude- of the Albanians con
tributed to this decision, as in the event
cf a general rising the Albanians might
make up their quarrel with the Turk and
Join him In the extermination of unbe
lievers. T
It is thought unlikely that European in
tervention would be obtained by means of
B. rising, unless wholesale massacres took
place, and the leaders apparently shrink
from such a prospect. Consequently it
has been determined to prosecute guerrilla
warfare by means of detached bands,
which will fall upon Isolated bodies of
Turkish troops, and, when possible. In
tercept communications by blowing up
railway bridges and stations. In this
war, it Is believed, the cause of Macedo
nian freedom will Be promoted more ef
fectually and with less sacrifice on the
part of the population than by a general
insurrection.
LONDON, April 1C— A special to the
•Times from Sofia eays it is stated in
usually well Informed quarters that the
all-powerful "internal organization" of
Macedonia has lately made an Important
change in its programme. The leaders,
who have always been reluctant to sanc
tion a rising until all preparations were
complete, and who strongly opposed the
revolutionary movements last summer
and autumn, are now said to have re
eolvod to abandon the project of a general
rising this year. In view of the overwhel
ming strength of the Turkish army and
the improbability that any aid would be
forthcoming from without.
Epeciel Dispatch to The Call
New Plan of Campaign
Outlined by Mace
- donian Leaders.
GUERRILLA WARFARE
WILL BE CONDUCTED
AGAINST THE TURKS
Mrs. Seligman' s Son Arrested on Complaint of Doctor's
Wife for Alleged Disturbance.
CROWLEY SCANDAL SHIFTS
TO BAR OF POLICE COURT
Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
at that hour no fatalities had occurred,
although -many persons' had received
minor Injuries.
CARTHAGE, Mo., April 15.— Thomas
Gilyard, the .negro lynched in Joplin to
night, had confessed that he murdered
Leslie and he was crippled by a bullet
fired by Leslie in last night's fight- Early
to-day - Sheriff ¦ Owen hurried off to the
county, jail Dan Bullard, a negro who
was. with Gilyard just before the police
man was killed. To-night Bullard was
hurried away from Carthage for fear of
an attack on the county jail.
- NEW YORK. Apri'l 13.-Eight Italians,
who the police assejrt ; are members of
both the Mafia and of a big counterfeiting
gang, were arrested to-night by detec
tives of the central office staff. They are
believed to have been implicated In the
murder of the man whose unidentified
body was found crowded Into a barrel
yesterday morning at Eleventh street,
near Avenue D. Inspector McClusky raid
that for months he had been working in
conjunction with the United States secret
service in keeping the members of this
gang under strict surveillance. Three of
the secret service men declare that on
Monday night last they saw the murdered
man in company with three of the sus
pects in a butcher shop In Stanton street-
Inspector Schmittberger said to-night
that'. the" murdered man's' identity would
soon be disclosed, and that he has in
formation which caused him to be almost
certain that the- man was ' decoyed here
from out of town to be put out of the
way, as it was believed he Intended to
betray the secrets of the Mafia.
Body Found in Barrel
That of a Supposed
', i . Informer. •
MAFIA VISITS ITS
DREAD VENGEANCE
UPON A MEMBER
'rioting*. • Mayor - Trlgg ran from corner
to corner, and, mounting boxes, made
earnest appeals to the mob. to cease, but
beyond cheering the Mayor vociferously
the mob swept on and the depredations
continued.. The saloons were, hurriedly
closed by the Mayor.
After the hundreds of frenzied men
composing the . mob had vented their
wrath in the north end of the city, they
rushed to the southern end where lived
a number of negroes. Their Jiouses were
vacant and not a negro"' couid be found.
Three more housese were fired and two
were consumed.
All efforts to reason with the rioters
were'futile, as apparently a frenzy had
stslzed upon them; The streets were
thronged 'and at 11:15 o'clock the entire
city was in an uproar. . So far as known
BERLIN, April 15. — A" daring naval ex
pedition Is being organized by two Ger
man explorers, who are determined to
reach the North Pole. . All conventional
methods of transportation have been
abandoned. A specially constructed
submarine boat is expected to overcome
the difficulties hitherto encountered.
Wireless telegraphy also is to be em
ployed.
The leaders of' the expedition "are Herr
do Scholl of Munich and Dr. Anschuetz
Kuempfe. The latter has received suf
ficient financial support for the construc
tion of a novel , submarine boat, which
will penetrate beneath Icebergs to the far
North.' To aid; the expedition Herr
Scholl has organized a separate expedi
tion to erect a 'wireless telegraph station
and observatory between the seventy
eighth ) and eightieth degrees of latitude.
This station will communicate with the
Anschuetz submarine boat, which likewise
will be equipped with "wireless telegraph
apparatus. •
The big electrical . firm of Siemens &
Halske of this city, operating the Braun
wireless system, is backing Herr Scholl
and is preparing special instruments for
the wireless telegraph stations, which
will make meteorological, magnetic,
oceanographic and other scientific Inves
tigations. The results will be conveyed by
means of wireless telegraphy to the civi
lized, world.
Special Cable to The Call and New York
Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York
Herald Publishing Company.
Some time ago Mrs. Smith began to sell
stock of the Gray Gander Oil Company in
Tacomti. Seattle and other northern cities.
She represented that she had an option
on 30,000 shares of such stock, and. It la
said, collected nearly $30,000 from credu
lous buyers, all'of whom are now clamor-
Mr9. Smith tried to enter a saloon. Then
she rushed into a shoe store, all the time
appealing to the crowd to come to her
rescue. It was not until Officer George
Douglass came along that the detective
felt secure and the fair prisoner gave up
hope of freedom and was half dragged,
half carried to the Hall of Justice.
Mrs. Smith i3 wanted in this city and
the Northern States for embezzlement and
obtaining money wnder false pretenses.
She is the same woman who figured years
ago as a singer, recently was used as a
decoy to coax a fortune from Mrs. Oliver
N. Moxey, the aged bride, and later
launched a gigantic scheme, which is said
by the police to be fraudulent, to plant
oysters in Wlllapa Harbor. Besides these
are her oil ventures, by which, it is al
leged, "she has swindled people out of
thousands of dollars and amassed a for
tune. She is truly a woman of adventure
and the police expect a deluge of com
plaints when the news of her arrest is
spread broadcast. There are already half
a dozen warrants In existence and the po
lice have advised many other complain
ants to refrain from giving the case pub
licity by. asking for warrants until the ar
rest was made.
sought to detain her. "Help me, help me;
for God's sake!" she cried. "This man
will kill me." Fortunately Gibson was
quicker than the spectators, for he
showed his star and shouted that the
woman was his prisoner. It was difficult
to make many of the witnesse?. who were
about to Interfere, understand and pass
unheeded the woman's prayer. She had
everything in her favor. She is above
the ordinary in appearance and the
wealth of diamonds sparkled > fascinatingly
and made an appeal of their own."~Many
afterward" confessed to the detective that
they thought an attempt was being made
to rob tho woman and that they were
about to seize him. Had they done so the
prisoner, so long at large, might probably
still be a fugitive.
FIGHTS THE DETECTIVE.
Wireless Telegraphy, to
Convey Tidings of
Expedition.
SUBMARINE BOAT
WILL GO IN QUEST
OF THE NORTH POLE
'. The Mobile (Ala.) Register says: "Mr.
Cleveland's address upon the negro
problem, while it cannot offend the most
sensitive man of the North, voices pre
cisely, yet fully, the Southern view. The
calmness of his Judgment is founded upon
a patient study, of the facts. He has been
honest with facts. Mr. Cleveland strikes
the very note, and, coming from a North
ern man, it has a welcome sound."
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 15. — The
State Senate to-night, after a spirited de
bate, adopted resolutions endorsing the
speech on the negro question delivered by
former President Cleveland at Nw York*
last night. The resolution declares that
the 'statements and utterances of former
President Cleveland upon the race ques
tion are true, and that if followed by tho
nation tho question will be settled in ac
cordance with truth and Justice. .
The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark says:
"Former President Cleveland's country
men know him well enough to expect
nothing but a statesmanlike utterance
from him on any subject he undertakes
to discuss. His remarks in New York at
a meeting in the interest of the Tuskegee
Institute show the size of the man. He
spoke as a friend of tho negro, but ho
made it very clear at the same time that
he spoke also as a friend of the Southern
white man, whose feelings with regard to
the race question he respected and ap
preciated, and whose paramount rights he
recognized.",
Speaking of Grover Cleveland's speech
on the negro question, Clark Howell, ed
itor of the Atlanta Constitution, said to
day:
"It was an excellent speech and the best
presentation of the negro question that
1 have read in some time. If the North
ern people will take the advice Mr. Cleve
land gives and act upon it, that will do
more to solve the negro problem than
anything else that might be done In a
hundred years. Mr. Cleveland has proved
himself both a friend of the negro and a
friend of the South."
The following is from the Richmond
Times' dispatch: "First of all, Mr. Cleve
land has discovered, as many others of
his class have discovered, that the. term
'prejudice* does not apply to the white
man of the South in his feeling toward
the negro. It is racial instinct, and that
instinct is the same wherever whit^men
are found. It is more 'imperious,' as Mr.
Cleveland says, in the South than in the
North. We of. the South have been more
particular on this score, because we have
had to be. We must draw the line sharp
ly." We must insist and do insist upon
complete separation, for anything short
of that threatens the integrity of our
race." "
NEW YORK, April 15.— Southern news
papers are commenting in a laudatory
manner upon former President Cleve
land's address in this city last evening
on the race problem "of the South. Edi
tors In the South express the belief that
Cleveland's utterances will tend to a bet
ter understanding by the North of the
real attitude of the South toward the ne
groes.
Special Dispatch to The Call
Editors Laud His Utter
' ances on the Negro
Problem.
SOUTH RESPONDS
TO MR. CLEVELAND'S
BID FOR ITS FAVOR
All the- officers of the city, township
and county -were called out, but the mob
swept them aside and proceeded with the
The first act of the mob after hanging
the negro was to- demand the release
from jail' of a local character known as
"Hickory Bill," who was under arrest on
the charge of assaulting p negro. In the
hope that . this would appease the mob
the prisoner was set' free. But the rioters
did not disperse. Instead a rush was
made through' Main street and every ne
gro was frightened off the street and fled
to the northern part of the city, where
the colored population resides. In this
way the negroes were driven from al!
parts of the city to the negro sect'on.
Then the mob charged down upon the
section. Stones ( were thrown, doors and
windows of negroes' houses were broken
in and finally several houses were fired.
The fire department responded, but many
of the houses were burned to the ground.
The mob made endeavors to prevent the
department extinguishing the fairies, and
was partially successful.
A rope was fastened around his neck,
and after the ropo had been thrown over
the crossarm of a telegraph pole a score
of men attempted to pull the negro from
the ground. As many more seized him
and pulled to prevent him being hanged.
For some moments It was a veritable tug
of-war, but reinforcements on the fre3
end of the rope proved the stronger, and
the negro, despite his protestations of in
nocence, was finally swung 'into the air
and strangled to death, while shouts of
satisfaction w«nt up from the mob. ,
The lynching of the negro served to only
temporarily satisfy the indignation of the
rriob, and later hundreds o£ men again
assembled and rioted through the negro
section of 'the city, burning houses and
stoning negroes and finally driving every
negro from the confines of Joplin. The
police were powerless.
RIOTERS USE THE TORCH.
Leslie had orderd several negroes who
had taken refuge in a boxcar to surrender,
and when they refused he fired several
shots at the car. During the shooting a
negro slipped from the car, and, stealing
up behind the, policeman, shot him
through the head.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon Lee Fullerton,
aged 21. loeated-j.fe fugitive in a slaugh
ter-htfUse^ju^C.eas!^*^ Joplin. ,.*fhe negro
was armed with a rifle and defied arrest,;
Fullerton slipped into the structure unob
served and crept up behind the negro.
Suddenly he sprang at -the unsuspecting
fugitive and before resistance could be
made he had Gilyard on his back, with a
knife at his throat. The negro then sur
rendered his rifle, and. pointing the
weapon at him, Fullerton marched him
out of the building.
With the assistance of another man the
negro was brought to Joplin and placed in
jail. News of the capture spread rapidly
and the jail was speedily surrounded by
hundreds of men. There were cries of
"Lynch him:' 1
PLEADS WITH; THE IiYNCHEBS.
City Attorney Decker mounted the jail
steps and made a strong plea in behalf of
law and order. This served to temporari
ly stay the mob, but did not appease It,
and a short time after Decker"s speech
tho mob started in to batter in the side
of the jail. Every effort wa3 made to
prevent an entrance, out without avail,
find within fifteen minutes the infuriate;-!
men had gained entrance to the jail ar.J
secured the trembling negro.
As the culprit was dragged forth. City
Attorney Decker again interfered ant^
urged \that the negro be given a trial.
For a half hour he spoke and the mob
listened to him attentively, with the negro
in its custody. At one time it seemed
that the City Attorney would win, as
members of .the mob began dispersing, but
suddenly a rush was made for the spot
where the prisoner, was being held and
he was dragged two blocks from the jail.
MEN TRY TO SAVE NEGRO.
MURDER OF POLICEMAN.
JOPLIN, Mo., April .15.— For hours to
night Jopltn was InHhe hands of a mob
and maddened men .and boys gave full
rein to their hatred" of the negro race.
'Following the lynching of Thomas Gil
yard, a colored tramp. 20 years of age,
after he had confessed the murder of Po
liceman Leslie, hundreds or rioters at
tacked the negro «llstricts of the city,
burning dwellings and driving the Inmates
beyond the city . limits. A frenzy had
seized upon the populace and attempts of
cool-headed men to stem the tide of fury
were wasted. Late to-nlgnt not a negro
can be found in Joplin. Those that have
not fled are hidden. in places where Ihey
cannot be discovered by the white rioters.
A mob took Gilyard from the city jail
to-night and hanged him to a telegraph
pole at the corner of Second and Wall
streets, two blocks from the jail. The
negro had confessed the murder of Po
liceman^ Leslie, who was shot dead last
night in the Kansas City Southern Rail
way yard while endeavoring to arrest
several negroes suspected of theft.
the City.
Joplin's Entire]Colored Pop
ulation Is Driven From
Avengers &et Fire to
the Dwellings of
. Blacks,
Wild Mg Follows
a Lynafing in
Missouri.
MOB HANGS
NEGRO AND
USES TORCH
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SAN FRANCISCO, THUBSDAY, APRIL 16; 1903.
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