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VOLUME 114.—N0. 94.
TRAINS SMASH, 19 DEAD, 100 HURT
LOLA NORRIS' VIVE) STORY HURTS CAMNETTI'S CASE
fil EL5
OF FIGHT
TO SAVE
Victim of Young Man's
Wiles Tearfully Relates
Story of Downfall and
Accuses Defendant
"THIRD DEGREE"
METHODS RELATED
Graphic Narrative Given to
Jury by Young Woman
in Tears
. Tf. " Marsha Warrington's story
htlped the case of F. Drew Oajhtnetti.
who Is accused of violating the Mann
white- slave act, the frank words of.
Lola Norris hurt; it.
More charming in her personal ap
pearance than when she testified in
fh*e case against Diggs, more sure of
her -voice and more becomingly em
barrassed at the harsh questioning,
Mfcs" Norris proceeded to.' converse
about • cdrnnrenplaces when she took
■ the -witness clmir.-in'- the .federal dis
trict court ..this- .morning. ■'.-.'
Without'- a', change of voice, only
more hesitant*.and'-with'''eyes down
cast and full .of-tear's,, she-retold the
slmo.st unbelievable -.story, of her
strrugle .'against, the wiles of Cam :
lneltr for. her virtue..-
.The noon recess found M-lss 'Norris
.bowling-along briskly in her -narra
tive. ...She resurne'd the chair this aft
ernoon... .'Her Cross examination is in
tlie'hands of. Robert-Devlin. . The de
fense may' get-; to o'rre.'or two wit
nesses'.late this 'afternoon,' but it is
not likely. • V
Once again .young. Caminetti re
newed his declaration of principles
regarding the testimony of his com
panion' on the Reno trip. •
NO WORD AGAINST LOLA \ORHIS
. "I will not have-one word to say
against Lola Norris. Her cross ex
amination will pot be In regard to
her relations ' -with me during the
'Reno episode, .or just before. I have
no fear of her story. I believe she
will tell the whole truth. I do not
think she- Is, of the "opinion that I
persuaded her to go.in bad' faith."
None of Camirietti's relatives ap
peared.- Crowds came hack almost as
strong as they were during the Diggs
trial. At noon there were 200 people
lined up. many of them women, plan
ning to get seats at the afternoon ses
sion.
EARLY BTtlMßra PREDICTED
There is a chance that the case will
go to the jury Thursday. Marshall
Woodworth of counsel for the de
fense told Judge Van Fleet it might
be possible for the defense to put its
case in tomorrow, Thursday, in any
event. If the evidence is in by
Thursday at the noon adjournment,
yt is understood Judge Van Fleet will
Intend the afternoon session until the
Mlosins arguments have been made
Jgid the judge's charge in. Judge
Fleet dismissed the Jurors on the
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THE SAN FRANCISCO
CALL
will not only be a clean,
wholesome newspaper in
its news columns, but will
also be a clean, wholesome
newspaper in its advertis
ing columns.
No objectionable medical
or indecent advertisements
of any character will be
published.
THE San Francisco CALL
Reminds Yankees
Mexico Is Civilized
and Not Like U. S.
BETENSOHN and John A.
Willey, who arrived this
* morning on the steamer
City of Para, learned at Salina
Cruz exactly what official Mex
ico thinks of the United States.
The Para stayed over night
at the Mexican port. Efensohn
and Willey took advantage of
the opportunity to stretch their
legs ashore. They gamboled,
perhaps a little too freely. At
any rate, they ran foul of the
police and both were locked up
on a charge of disturbing the
peace.
They were bailed out by fel
low passengers, but they had .to
appear in court the following
morning.
As they were passengers on a
ship about to depart, the magis
trate dismissed them with this
warning: ■
"You should remember, ae
nors, that when you are in
Mexico you are in a civilised
country, not in the United
States, and must behave your
selves."
U.S. BRINGS SUIT
TO BREAK UP
COAL 'TRUST'
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.—A civil
suit having for its object the disso
lution of the so called hard coal trust
was filed in the federal court here
today by United States District At
torney John C. Sawrtley against the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
'■ompany and other roads and George
F. Baer and nine other individuals.
The suit was brought in behalf of
the department of justice.
The papers in the suit, which was
brought under the commodity clause
of the Sherman anti-trust law, charge
that the monopoly grew through the
formation of the Enterprise company,
created in 1871, which finally became
the Reading company, and leased rail
roads and canals intersecting the an
thracite coal mining region, until ab
solute control was secured.
The. defendants are:
The Reading company, the Philadel
phia and Reading Railway company,
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company, the Central Railroad
company of New Jersey, the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal company, the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation company,
'the Wilmington and Northern Rail
road company, the Lehigh and Hudson
River Railway company, the Lehigh
and New England Railway company,
George F. Baer, George F. Baker, Ed
ward T. Stotesbury, Henry C. Frick,
P. A. B. Wldner, Henry A. Dupont,
Daniel Willard, Henry P. McKean and
Samuel Dickson.
The court Is asked to make an order
restraining the defendant companies
from transporting coal for the Inter
state or foreign trade.
The companies have an aggregate
capital stock of $117,500,000 and a
total funded debt of $322,108,444.
Oakland Publisher's
Kin, Deserted by Wife,
Ends Life With Shot
Thomas C. Aschom, Son in Law of
Enquirer's Owner, Dies With
Mate's Picture by Side
Thomas C. Aschom, 35 years old, son
In law of G. B. Daniels, owner and
publisher of the Oakland Enquirer,
committed suicide between 8 o'clock
last night arid 10 o'clock this morning
in his room in the Bue de Lao apart
ments. Third avenue and East Six
teenth street, Oakland, by shooting
lii mseff in the head. His body was
found at 10 o'clock by Webb M. Pierce,
cashier of the Enquirer Publishing
company, a close friend of Aschom.
Clasped In Aschom's left hand was
a photograph of his wife, from whom
he had been separated several months.
Mrs. Aschom was formerly Miss Alice
Daniels. He had been brooding over
the separation.
Aschom was a native of Washing
ton, D. C, where his parents live. He
left a letter and package for Pierce
and a note to the coroner reading as
follows:
"Please turn this letter and package
over to no one but Webb M. Pierce."
SIXTEEN PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1913. —PAGES 1 TO 8.
JAIL SAWED,
CRIMINALS
ESCAPE
Convicted Murderer and
Burglar Cut Through
Steel Bars
DESPERATE THUGS
FLEE IN DARKNESS
Make Incredible Flight
From Fourth Floor of
Alameda County Jail
Sheriff Unmet thla morning offered
9100 reward for the capture of either
of the Jailbreakers. Poasen are •roar
ing the hills bark of Oakland and de
tectives and police officer* are con
ducting a close search of the old
haants of the men throujrh Oakland.
Sawing: their way thro.ugh three
sets of guaranteed, toolproof half
inch jail bars, and a steel cell floor
grating - , and then climbing down
from the fourth story of the Ala
meda county jail by means of a rope
improvised from their cot blankets,
Robert Bradley, murderer, and Rob
ert E. Graham, burglar, escaped be
tween the hours of 1 and 6 o'clock
this morning.
The discovery was made at 6
o'clock by Night Jailer Harry Wood
ley and Engineer Edward McLaugh
lin. The jail breakers took with them
the tools they used and all materials
which might have been used as clews
as to how they secured the means
of sawing their way to liberty.
They had been rated as desperate
characters by Sheriff Barnet and oc
cupied cells in what the sheriff had
figured the most secure compart
ments of the jail—the fourth floor
double cells.
STATEWIDE ALARM GIVEN
Information was telegraphed at 6
o'clock this morning to all police
chiefs and sheriffs throughout central
California to keep on the lookout for
the escaped prisoners.
Bradley was being held awaiting an
appeal on his conviction of the mur
der of Special Officer J. A. Williams
in Oakland a year and a half ago,
for which, he had been sentenced to
life imprisonment at Folsom peniten
tiary. Three months after the mur
der he had been arrested for vag
rancy and was recognized by a de
tective as Williams' murderer. He
was placed in the Alameda county
jail in July, 1912, and after being
convicted of murder in the first de
gree was sentenced, December, 1912,
to life Imprisonment.
Graham, hia cellmate, who had for
some time been on probation, at
tempted another burglary a few
weeks ago. Upon being halted on
the street by Patrolman Brock, he
attempted to escape and the officer
shot him In both legs. He was re*
moved to the receiving hospital and
admitted to the county jail August
25. ,
Sheriff Barnet and Chief Jailer
Clark are at a loss to understand how
the Jail breakers secured the tools.
FLED DURING NIGHT
Jailor Woodley, in discussing the
break, said:
"The jailbreak evidently was com
mitted sometime between 1 and 6
o'clock. I came on duty at 1 o'clock
this morning and made my rounds
as usual. At this time I opened the
door to the corridor of the cell Oc
cupied by Bradley and Graham and
talked to them. The lights were out,
the men were In bed and there was
nothing miaalng. I made my rounds
again at 3 o'clock and this time I
listened outside the corridor door and
heard no signs of noise.
"At 6 o'clock, when I admitted the
engineer, I found that three bars had
been sawed from the bottom of Brad
ley's cell, and that the grating and
three more bars from the outside
window of the cell had also been re
moved."
SHERIFF GIVES ALARM
Sheriff Barnet aaid:
"We are doing all in our power to
locate Bradley and Graham. I have
notified every sheriff and every chief
of police In this part of the state,
and do not believe that the men will
long remain at large."
DOES ROLPH WEAR BOUQUET?
SHOULD HOCKS SMILE ALWAYS?
LADY SUPERVISORS HUNT POSES
Mrs. Lena Sullivan (left), impersonating Dr. Andrea Gianrrini, and Mrs. Dorothy Johns as "Billy"
McCarthy, in women's skit on supervisors.
WIFE FLEES CAFE,
FOILING HUSBAND
While private detectives are scour
ing the city for his beautiful young
wife, Ralph E. Myers, a mining en
gineer of Globe, Ariz., is pacing the
lobby of the St Francis hotel almost
in a state of nervous collapse.
Myers arrived here yesterday aft
ernoon from Arizona expecting to
meet Mrs. Myers, who has been vis
iting in San Francisco for more than
a week. He called at the address
she had given him as her stopping
place, and was told that his wife had
not been there for some time.
Myers became alarmed and engaged
several private detectives. In com
pany with one of them he walked
down the street. Opposite a big cafe
he saw his wife and a man whose
name Myers said was Roche leave the
restaurant. He called to her. In
stead of stopping, the woman and her
escort beat a hasty retreat and .be
came lost in the crowd.
Today My«»rs and the sleuths ex
hausted every clew to the wife's
whereabouts.
The husband said he was too heart
broken to talk about the "unfortu
nate affair."
"God knowa I can not explain h*r
actions." he aald with tears starting
from Mb eyes. "We have been happy
together. More I can not say be
cause she is still my wife and I will
not hold her up as a target for pub
lic criticism,"
Great Combing of Wigs and
"Trying 'em on" at
Rehearsal
Does the mayor ever wear anything
but a pink carnation In his button
hole? And just how does Supervisor
"Billy" McCarthy make his light brown
hair He down so smoothly? Likewise
does Doctor Giannini invariably stand
with his hands in the pockets of his
trousers or of his waistcoat? Also,
should Oscar Hocks smile a great deal
or only occasionally?
Any one able to supply these details
will confer a favor on the members of
the Women's Political league by com
n unlcatlng with them at once.
It is all because of the play, "When
the Lady Supervisor Comes to Town,"
which will be presented tomorrow
afternoon and Thursday night at Scot
tish Rite hall hy masculine imper
sonators from the league, under the
leadership of Miss-Mary Falrbrother.
She is president of the league and
author of the skit, which embraces
bits of vaudeville as Weil.
REHEARSAL ON TODAY
Informal rehearsals of costuming
in the garb copied as nearly as may<
be after the Individual attire of the
city fathers are taking place all day
today, and wigs are being combed and
recombed, patted, pomaded, twisted
and rufflsd, In* a serious endeavor to
make them as like as possible to ths
exact mode portrayed in the por
C*stlsme« •* Paajs X Cstasaa S
MONEY LENDER
BADLY BEATEN
Lying unconscious in a pool of
blood, Charles E. Fuller, proprietor
of a loan office at 1634 Seventh street
Oakland, was found at noon today
behind the counter of his store, where
robbers had beaten and gagged him.
A large three karat diamond ring
was taken, and it is believed other
valuables were stolen.
Fuller was alone in his place dur
ing the noon hour, and was not
found until J. Gould, whose mother
keeps a rooming house above the
loan office stepped In.
Five policemen were detailed on the
case, but found no clew to the as
sailants. The instrument they used
tot beating Fuller was not discovered.
Fuller was taken to the receiving
hospital and is in a serious condition.
He could only give a meager de
scription of the men who attacked
him.
Rich Wife
and Daughter Slain
RICKS LANDING Pa,, Sept. 2,—Mrs.
Joaie C, Rice, 60, wife of one of the
wealthiest farmers in this section, was
found dead In her home today, her
head beaten to a pulp, with her
granddaughter, Bertha Fox, whose
skull was fractured. Posses are
aoouring tha surrounding country for
trail of the assassins,
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San Francisco*3
Great Pfcfi|y
BODIES HURLED HIGH IN
AIR BY REAR END CRASH
ON EAST'S TRAGEDY ROAD
Pile Victims by Crow With
Returning Summer Resorters Are Splintered—
Another Chapter in Grim Record of line Is
Written on the Day Melleri Quits
TRAIN CREW DECLARES
DENSE FOG HID BANJO
SIGNAL TILL TOO LATE
TALFORD CROSSING, Conn., Sept. 2.—A* B. Miller of North |j
!; Haven was engineer on train No. '95, which crashed into the train j
! | ahead. He jumped and saved-himself:' He was interviewed by Coco- ||
!j ner*s Physician Goodrich shortly after the wreck and said:
"Owing to the fog it was impossible, to read the bah jo signals !;
i along the line of the road without running very close to them, We !
| came to the banjo signal a mile north of the North Haven station.
; It was set against us. I immediately applied the emergency brake, j
jj but the crash came before I could get action on the'brake. There !j
J was absolutely no chance to stop."
.T. F. Fowler, conductor of No. 95, also escaped uninjured. He |!
told Doctor Goodrich that Engineer Miller's statement was correct ;
. so Jar as he was able- to gaid-,tktre sets absolutely no j
chance to see but a few feet ahead owing to the fog. . j L.
BULLETIN".
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 2, 5 p. rh.—Nineteen dead and
100 injured was the known record this evening in the wreck on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, in which the first
section of the White Mountain express rammed the second section
of the Bar Harbor express near North Haven.
Identified Dead
R. A. HOTCHKISS, son of Leonard Hotchkiss.' of C. W.
Scranton & Co., brokers, New Haven. \ ,
ALBERT GREEN, New York. '
WILLIAM ALTSHULT, Norfolk, Va.
FRANK B. BUTLER, vice president and sales manager,
Scranton Bolt and Nut company, Scranton, Pa. * . • ;* * .'
' L. H. MARTIN, Bryn Mawr, Pa. v . ; . V
M. T. TAMI, a Japanese, address unknown. * " .
ROBERT YAHN, Boston, died at New Hay.en hospital.'' m
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept, 2.—The New Haven road added one
more to its frightful series of fatal wrecks on the sand plains a mile north
of New Haven station today, when the firs? section of the White, Moun
tain express No. 95 southbound crashed into the rear end of the second
section of the. Bar Harbor express. It cut a swath through the Pullman
sleepers Chancellor, from Kineo, Me., and Kasota, from Portland, Me.,
and partially telescoped the.Pullman sleeper Chiaholm, killing 18 passen
gers and injuring at least two score others. . •. •
The bodies of the dead were torn and mangled in the wreckage or
hurled into the air, many of them landing in a nearby water melon patch.
The injured were scattered through the wreckage -or strewn along
the tracks. " ,
ANTIQUATED SYSTEM OF SIGNALS
The Bar Harbor express, running an hour and a half late, had stopped
at a banjo signal, a part of the antiquated system used for years on this
division.
Whether they sent out a flagman or set the torpedoes necessary to
stop the following train is a question. The Bar Harbor trainmen assert
they did.
Engineer A. H. Miller, whose home is not far from the wreck, and
who was on the White Mountain express, says he saw no flagman and
heard no torpedoes, and in the dense fog could see nothing until he sud
denly discovered the signal against him and applied the emergency
brakes, but too late to prevent the crash.
Miller and his fireman, Albert B. Robertson of Springfield, Mass.,
stuck to their posts.
The engine, one of the new super
heater Moguls, No. 1337, an exact
duplicate of. No. 1338. which caused
the big wreck at Stamford, went
through the cars with little or no
damage to its parts.
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Both train* were loaded with pas- '
sengers returning from the Maine and
White mountain resorts for the sum
mer and many of them were dressing,
while some were still asleep in their
berths. - ,
The dead were brought to the
James street trolley carbarns in this
city, which were converted into a
temporary morgue.
VOLUNTEERS REMOVE VICTIMS
The dead and Injured were re
moved from the wreck by train hands
and volunteers among tbe passengers,
including several newspaper men who
were traveling on the train. T f
dead ware laid along the tracks as
fast as they could be gathered to
gether. Eighteen bodies were re
moved and they were taken to* the
James street trolley car barn in this,
city.
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