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VOLUME 29, No. 357
Outlook for and Previously Unthought of Technicailify May Win Freedom for Morse and Walsh
MORSE AND WALSH
MAY YET GO FREE
Point of Law Raised in Heinz Trial May Be
Taken Advantage of and Indictments Be
Declared Faulty.
UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PRESENT
Associated Press.
New York, Jan. IS. —A point of law
brought up yesterday by the attorneys
for F. Augustus Heinz, may, if sus
tained, free Charles W. Morse and
John R. Walsh, both of whom were
sentenced on charges similar to those
pending against Heinz.
The contention of the Heinz attor
nev was that the entire indictment
against him is void because there was
present before the grand jury during
the examination of witnesses, “an un
authorized third party”—John P.
Femsler, a public accountant. The
district attorney admitted that Ferns
ler had been present but said he was
appointed advisedly to assist the grand
jury in getting an understanding if
the complicated case. But the Heinz
attorneys assert that no law can be
found authorizing the presence of such
a person.
The bearing of this on the case of
Morse is pointed out by the latter's at
torneys in a statement today which
says: “If is our purpose to bring Mr.
Morse before a Georgia court early
next month on n writ of habeas corpus.
At that time we shall take advantage
of the question which has been raised
by Mr. Heinz's counsel. If it appears
that there was present during the
grand jury proceedings which led to
the indictment of Mr. Morse an unau
thorized third person, it can be shown
that by reason of this fact the court
was without jurisdiction to try or sen
tence Morse because it had before it
an indictment that did not eoine from
n lawfully constituted grand jury.”
According to announcement made to
dav, “both the grand juries that in
dicted Morse and Walsh were assist
ed by Edward P. Mosey. Fernsler or
one of the other experts from Mr.
Moxey’s firm which has done the chief
work in such cases for the government
for several years.”
CLAIM PLAN WILL SAVE
THE CITY $15,000
Special Dispatch.
Austin. Tex.. Jan. 18.—A plan to
concentrate the water supply of the
citv at the steam pumping -station at
the main plant, has been suggested-by
Commissioner Bartholomew and will
probably be adopted by the city coun
cil. It is claimed that by this plan
an annual saving of $15,000 can be t*
fected.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
“THE RETURN FROM ELBA”
CURTISS TO TRY
98 MILE ELIGIII
American Aviator, If Weather
• Permits, Will Attempt to
Fly to. San Diego.
Associated Press.
Los Angeles. Cal.. Jan. 18. —If the
ideal weather conditions of yesterday
prevail again this evening, Glenn Cur
tiss will attempt the unparalleled feat
of an aeroplane flight from here to
San Diego. People of that city have
offered a purse of $5OOO for the flight
and that Curtiss will make the attempt
is certain. The distance is 98 miles
by an air line and Paulhan did 70
miles in less than two hours yesterday
over the Dominguez course, while try
ing to beat Farman's 144-mile record.
If Curtiss makes it today, it will be
the first time, so far as known, that
man has flown between two places so
far apart.
ROOSEVELT WRIIES
ABOUT SPECIMENS
Collection Is a Monster, Ac
cording Letter Received at
Smithsonian Institution,
Associated Press.
Washington, Jan. 18.—Former Presi
dent Roosevelt, in a letter dated Nia
robi. December 15, received at the
Smithsonian institute yesterday, in
formed Secretary Walcott that the
Smithsonian "expedition under his di
rection up to that date had collected
8463 specimens of vertebraes. a large
number of m.lHuska and other inverte
brates. several thousand plants, 2000
photographs alfd other specimens.
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MRS.JONES SO ILL
MM NOT BE TRIED
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■Judge Dwyer Increases Special
Venire of Fifty to One
Hundred Men,
—
Mrs Fay (Heard Jones, whose trial
for murder was yesterday set for Feb !
I ruary 7, is so ill at the home of Edwin
H. Routledge, 112 Woodward place, that
even her counsel cannot, see her, and it
is said she is yet ignorant that the date
of her trial has been set.
The nature of the trouble with Mrs.
Jones is not known, but is reported to
be nervousness coupled with a physical
breakdown and severe cold which may
degenerate into something more serious.
Until she improves somewhat. Attorney
Davies, her lawyer, will not be allowed j
to discuss the impending trial with |
her.
Believing that more than fifty men I
will be required from which to select
a jury in the trial. Judge Dwyer ana
District Attorney Baker this* morning
ordor-d that the special venire be in
creased to 100 men. It was explained
that neither the state nor the defend
ant's attorney wished to get half-way
; in the selection of a jury and then find
| the venire had been exhausted. Out of
! the 100 men it is believed that twelve
i men can he picked equally suitable to
1 state and defense.
WILL LAY PIPE FROM
TRENCHES TO STATION
■ I
Austin. Tex., Jan. 18.—Mayor Wool
dridge conferred with the governor to
i day regarding the laying of pipe along
the river banks from the filtering
trenches at the electric light pumping
station to the old steam pumping sta
tion. The mayor proposes to make the
steam station do all the pumping for
the city and thus do away with the
olectrie station and the expense at
tached to it.
ISSUES BULLETIN.
Austin. Tex., Jan. 18.—The depart-1
ment of agriculture has issued its tri
monthly bulletin which is entitled the
Dairy Industry in Texas, and which
contains much data of interest to those
interested in dairy farming. The book
let is by C. 11. Alvord, of the Agricul
tural and Mechanical college.
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\ New York. Jan. 18. —Halloas. •,
coatloss and almost insane from ■,
■, anxiety. Frank La Scalia, a ■»
•« druggist, spent throe terrible
•, hours running about in the win- ■.
■» tn- air yesterday trying to find
’« and save rhe life of Filomcne
% fUanielzia. In the end La Scalia *•
% failed by five minutes to reaeh ■« ,
•, the victim of bis error and the *■
*■ stricken man died in the hos
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SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1910
FIVE DIE
IN FEUD
BATTLE
Eight Participate In a Bloody
Fight, Firing on Each Other
at Close Quarters.
ONE IS FATALLY WOUNDED
Feud Reopened During Recep
tion at House of One of the
Families Implicated.
Special Dispatch.
Mamou. La.. Jan. 18.—In a feud fight
here last night five mon were killed and
one perhaps fatally wounded. The fight
occurred at the home of the Soileau
family where a reception was being
held, anl eight men took part. They
stood in the hallway and continued fir
ing until five lay dead upon the floor
and one blooding from several wounds,
was carried from the scone.
The feud was between the Soileau
and Carroll families and started three
years ago over the division of property.
It was temporarily -patched up and
members of the Carroll family attended
the reception last, night. Carelessly
dropped remarks are said to have caus
ed the reopening of the trouble.
ROCKEFELLER BEING
CAREFULLY GUARDED
Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 18. —Several em
ph ves on the Pontocanto hills estate
of John D. Rockefeller have been ap
pointed special deputy sheriffs with
power to carry arms and make arrests
within the confines of the estate. Most
of the deputies ate former secret ser
vice men and their appointment gives
credence to the report that Mr. B ® c “ e "
feller is being guarded more arefnlly
since his life was threatened as report
ad not long ago.
IGNORE MORGANS NOTE
Associated Press.
Havana. Jan. 18.—The senate finance
committee has leported tn'orabl; tie
original bill which provi Ie- for die
exchange of the arsenal for the n.a
Nueva railroad station, ignoring 1 ,r '
mer Minister Morgan's n-.ifieation to
President Gomez that the I p-ted Stn.os
insisted upon radical modification of
the terms of agreement
A Day of Tragic Deaths in
H MESSAGE Of
DEAIR COMES 10
JUDGE BN BENCH
ge Seeligson Calls Upon a
Brother Judge to Go on
With the Case.
EDWARD SEELIGSON DEAD END ERE IT IS REACHED BODY IS FOUND BY NIECE
Brother of San Antonio Jurist
Passes Away In Kansas
City—Goes North.
Just after he had empanelled a
jury this morning to try the case
of F. G. Courtney vs. The Interna
tional & Great Northern Railway,
Judge A. W. Seeligson of the Fifty
seventh district court, received a
telegram stating that his brother,
Edward Selligson. had died sudden
ly last night in Kansas City.
Judge Seeligson immediately comma
nicated with Judge J. L. Camp of the
Forty fifth district court, asking the
latter to take charge of the ease and
proceed with the trial. This Judge
Camp did, and the case is going on.
On the 1:25 o'clock train this after
noon Judge Seeligson left for Austin
where ho expects to receive additional
information concerning his brother's
death, which max' cause him to make
the journey to Kansas City. In the
event that the body is not brought
back here for interment it is likely lie
will go there.
Edward Seeligson was at one time in
San Autonio, but is said to have left
here seven years ago and gone north.
He was married last November a year
ugo at Kansas City and has since been
residing there. The particulars of his
sudden death were not received in the
message which came to Judge Seelig
son.
ICE GOUGHS
MOVING OUT
i Breaks In Several Places But
River Men Say That It May
Mean Jam Further Down.
Associated Press.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 18. —The great
ice gorge in the Ohio broke this mom-
I ing at several places between Louis
[ ville and Wolf creek, the southernmost
point. The break seemed to be the re
sult of general softening of the ice at
all points, but rivermen say it is too
soon to tell whether the great field,
nearly seventy miles in length, will
move out entirely or merely take up
a new position further south.
SENATE APPROVES
$lO,OOO APPROPRIATION
Associated Press.
Washington. Jan. 18.—To meet the
emergency caused by the forming of an
ice gorge in the Ohio river near Louis
ville. Ky., the senate today approved
the *lO,OOO appropriation proposed in a
joint resolution adopted yesterday by
the house.
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MtSfEMS COMING
[Movement From St. Louis To
night Will Bring Hundreds of
Land Prospectors to Texas.
Judging from advices received in the
city by the Katy, the Aransas Pass and
the International A- Great Northern
railroads, there will lie a big movement
of homeseekers to this section from St.
Louis this week. The excursions that
are scheduled to leave the north tonight
■will consist of eight special trains over
the Katy and several over the Misouri
Pacific, which will arrive in San An-
Vmio over the International A Great
Northern.
. Advices received today by W. IL
Fitch, southwestern passenger agent of
the Missouri Pacific and Iron Moun
tain. say that a special train from ,
Pittsburg, having over 100 persons on |
Hoard from that city will reaeh San An
tonio Friday morning and will he tak
en to Premont, 11 new town on the Ar
ansas Pass, near Falfurrias. The Inter
nntlonal & Great Northern will also pick
up two special ears from the Rock Is
land at Fort Worth, having on board
some 60 homeseekers from Enid, Okla
homa, who are en route to Hbllago,
1 Mexico,
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MAN DIES IN
ELEVATOR AS IT
GOES TO DOCTOR
Son Carries Unconscious Form
of His Father to a Phy
sician’s Office.
“Robert, Get Me a Doctor; I
Believe I am Dying,” Says
Parent Entering Building. |
“Robert, get me a doctor quick. I
believe that I am dying.”
These words were uttered Monday 1
morning at 11 o'clock, on the lower I
floor of the Hicks building, by Robert]
" eyermann, 51 years old, to his son. 1
Robert, while the two were waiting for j
the delator to take them up to the of- ;
flee of a physician on the fourth floor j
of that structure. After he hud called J
for the doctor Mr. Weyermann stag
gered into the arms of his son. the form :
of the father was carried into the ele-1
vator and the ascent to the fourth I
floor began. Carrying the unconscious'
form of his parent into the office of
Dr. Moss, it was learned that life had
left the body and that Mr. Weyermann
had .lied in the elevator while it was
। ascending. After working on the body
for several minutes in trying to revive
। the patient, the attending physician
' pronounced the man dead and the body i
1 was removed to the Sloan & Hagy
j morgue and prepared for burial. Be-'
; sides his son, who resides in this city.:
| Mr. Weyermann is survived by a wife
! and other children in Austin.
Mr? Weyermann was a native of Aus
-1 tin aud for the past twenty-five years
was shoemaker at the Deaf and Dumb
institute at that place. He had been
3 sufferer from heart trouble during the
past several months and his son ad
vised him to come to San Antonio for
niedi.-al treatment. He had only been
in the city a few days when he died.
The body, accompanied by his son.
was taken to Austin yesterday for in
terment. Tiie funeral was held this af
ternoon from his residence in the capi-
I tai city and the burial was made in
Oakwood cemetery.
FREDERICKSBURG
SENDS LETTER TD
SAN ANTONIO
Meeting of Railroad Committee
to Evolve Some Plan for
Building the Road.
A TENTATIVE PROPOSITION
An Important Communication
From Gillespie County Will
Be Received In Morning.
First Page—Fredericksburg Sends .. ..
Up to noon today there were no
new developments in the Freder
icksburg railroad matter and the
members of the railroad committee
of the San Antonio Chamber of
Commerce are awaiting some word
from Fredericksburg before any
further action is taken.
The announcement that J. P. Nelson
had the assurance of help from E. H.
Harriman in the building of the line
and that the death of the railway mag
natc had spoiled the plans, was an eye
opener in local railway circles, and
caused a great deal of discussion. Now
that Mr. Nelsou. who contracted to con
strict the line, has been unable to find
the finances with which to-build the
road from Waring on the Aransas Pass
to Fredericksburg rind bis admission
that he is willing to turn his contract
over to other persons who could carry
out his orginal plans, has set the com
mer.-ial bodies of the two towns at
work in attempting to find a successor
to Mr. Nelson or to evolve some plan by
which the road can be built.
A long distance telephone message
received today at noon Ay the Light
and Gazette from the Gillespie county
railroad committee at Fredericksburg
states a communication has been di
reeled to Secretary J. B. Carrington of
the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
in which the matter was set forth and
that arrangements would be made for
a meeting of the two railroad commit
tees in the near future. It is thought
the Fredericksburg committee has some
tentative proposition to make to ban
Antonio in regard to the building ot
the proposed hue which would connect
the two cities by rail. The communica
tion from Fredericksburg will arrive
tomorrow morning.
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San Antonio
TAKES LIFE IN
GRIEF HI DEATH
OF HIS MOTHER
Gustave Huthmacher Finds Ex
istnee Unendurable —Drinks
Carbolic Acid to End It.
Since Burial of Parent, Whose
Favored Son He Was, Often
Expressed Wish to Follow.
Grief over the loss of his mother,
Mrs. Ida A. Wolff, who died in San
Antonio July 1. 1909, and continued
illness, caused Gustave Huthmacher,
46 years old. to become despondent,
and sometime during last night he
crawled under the home of Dr. Her
man T. Wolff, at 821 Avenue C. and
drinking an ounce vial of carbolic
acid, died from the effects of the
poison.
The discovery of the dead body of
Huthmacher was made this morning
shortly after 7 o'clock, when his niece,
Mrs. Herman Wolff, went to call him
for breakfast. She saw the form of
her unde uu.ler the house with his face
turned tup to the floor and when he
failed to answer her calls, she had other
members of the family go under to see
what was the matter with him. The
man apparently been dead for sev
eral hours, as his body was rigid. By
his side was found an ounce bottle of
carbolic acid, which had been drained,
and the burns around the mouth and
face told the story of self-destruction.
Mrs. Wolff said:
“Ever since the death of his mother,
1 Mrs. Ida A. Wolff, in this home last
July, the son had often expressed the
wish that he always wanted to die with
her. lie was the pet of his mother
[ while she was alive and the parting at
I her death was extremely He
I has talked of her continually since her
! death and we could hardly console him.
i Tn addition to this. Mr. Huthmacher
suffered a stroke of pararlvsis sixteen
I years ago at Laredo and has been in
1 poor health ever since. This and the
death of his mother caused him to be
come despondent, but we had no idea
that he would take his own life.
“In warm weather my unclft would
never sleep in the house, but made up
a bed under the house and would sleep
there. Owing to Monday being a regii
lai summer day. he went under the
house and when I called him last
to come out to supper he answered that
he did not care for anything to eat and
advised us to eat our meal without him.
We thought no more of the matter from
the fact that he acts in that manner oc
casionally and was in the best of humor
all dav yesterday and was cheerful.
Following the discovery of the dead
bodv this morning, it wa« removed to
the'Riebc morgue, where it was prepar
ed for burial. Mr. Huthmacher is sur
vived bv his niece, with whom he resuL
cd on Avenue ('. He was a native of
Marion. Texas, and had been a resident
of San Antonio during the past four
vears. The funeral will take place t»-
inorrow nnd interment will be made in
the Hermann Sons’ cemetery beside
that of his mother.
SHORT AND UGLY
WORD IS PASSED
Ja. kson. Miss., Jan. 18.—The lie was
passed in the house todav between
Representatives Stennis and Robinson.
Stennis denounced a statement in re
gard to the appropriation measure at
tributed t 0 him in the house journal of
1908 as a lie and its authors as liars,
declaring he made no such statement.
Robinson returned the epithet.
The matter was referred to a com
mit tee. both withdrawing their, lan
guage temporarily. I
For San Antonio and vicinity,
tonight and Wednesday:
. . Fair, colder tonight; wanner
H Wednesday.
OThe maximum temperature
tor the 24 hours ending »
o'clock this morning was .6 de
-IA/ * re, ‘ 9 ttUd lh ® minimum was »«
” Comparative temperatures for
Ethis year and last:
ISOS Hit ,
R 4 a m « W
6 a m *•
C is a. 11l j* rf
U noon
1 p. »• “
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