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The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21
Nicholas Gives Bond and Is Released
Arrest of Duffy on the Perjury
Charge Put Over to Today

side over the trials of Abraham Ruef
and Mayor Schmitz when they are
brought to the bar of Justice to an
swer to the first indictments that have
been returned against them as a result
of the municipal graft investigation
by District Attorney Langdon and
Francis ]. Heney. Judge F. G. Mus
rasky. acting as Presiding Judge. in
the absence from the city of Presiding
cases arising from the Ave indictments
against each man on the charge of ex-
tortion from French restaurant keep
ers to Judge Dunno, in Department 6
of the Superior Court.
The question of which court would
be chosen for the trial of the graft
cases has aroused considerable inter
est among those connected with the in
vestigation, and Judge Murasky's ac-
tion is taken as an indication that the
greater portion of the expected indict-
ments will be assigned to Judge Dunno
for trial, to the exclusion of the other
criminal departments. The choice of
departments naturally lay between
those presided over by Judge Lawlor,
Judge Carroll Cook or Judge Dunno,
as these as rule receive all criminal
cases. The two former. however, were
practically eliminated from any con-
that Judge Lawlor would not have been
acceptable to the defense, while the
prosecution would not have been salts
fed to conduct the trial before Judge
Cook. Attorneys for both sides have
expressed a preference for Judge
Dunno, and there is not even the re-
motest possibility that a change of
venue will be taken.
The trial on the five joint indictments
iu ho lar
Dunno said yesterday that his calendar
is light at present and will allow Of
a prompt hearing of the cases IL the
contending attorneys wish to have
them set ahead rather than wait for
the usual run of minor cases to be dis
posed of. He said that he would take
no action in the matter unless request
ed to do so by those directly Interested,
but that in case both the prosecution
and defense cared to have the trials
begun as soon as possible he could
probably place them on his calendar
within a week il necessary. In case
an effort is made to set aside the in
dictments it will be much longer be-
fore the taking of the evidence can be
commenced.
1t was positively decided yesterday
in a conference between Ruef and his
attorneys that the former will take
the witness stand in his own defense
when his case is brought to trial, and
his own sworn testimony will be re-
lied upon as one of the strongest fea-
lures of the defense. He will be sub
jected to a rigid cross-questioning by
Heney, which the prosecution believes
will strengthen the case against him.
Schmitz, too. will take the stand, in
pursuance of the policy determined
upon by the defense, and will be re-
CURED to tell in his own words Of
the various deals by which he is ac-
cused of having turned his official po-
sition into means for personal finan-
cial.. gain
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ORPHANS MANNED
IN EXPLOSION

An explosion of Illuminating gas re-
suited yesterday afternoon in manning
two young girls for life and virtually
wrecking the recently rehabilitated
Maria Kip Orphanage, Eleventh avenue
and Lake street.
Since the earthquake the orphanage
has been maintained at a camp In
Ross Valley, While the building at
Eleventh avenue and Lake streets has
been in the hands of a contractor.
Matron Mrs. A. F. Fox. accompanied by
Lottie Montanya, II years old, and Ella
Gomas, IA, came to San Francisco, and
finding the repair work virtually com
pleted the matron decided to spend the
night at the orphanage. She turned
the gas into the house pipes at the
meter and at 4:30 sent the girls on a
tour of inspection. One of the girls
carried a lighted taper Attracted by
the odor of escaping gas they opened
the door of ward room and tre-
mendous explosion Immediately ensued.
The girls were enveloped in flames,
the entire west wall of the building
blown down and every window in the
structure wrecked. Mrs. Fox, on the
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21
TRANCE THREATENS
LIFE Of GIRL

REDWOOD CITY. Nov. 2o-Since
last Wednesday Miss Julia Williams,
aged FL years, daughter of Mrs.
Fannie Williams of San Francisco, has
been lying in a trance at the country
home of Mrs. S. A. McDevitt, near this
place, and the efforts of three ply
sicians have been unavailing in restor-
ing consciousness to her. Miss Will
liams is prominent in San Francisco
society circles and is a sister of Mrs.
r. P. MacJohnston of Hollywood.
Two weeks ago Miss Williams came
to Redwood City for her health and
was at the time in an extremely
nervous and excitable condition and
plainly quite i'll, although she was not
confined to bed Wednesday morning
Miss Williams complained Of feeling
bad and, while standing in her room at
a dressing table, suddenly called to her
mother. telling her that she felt. weak
and dizzy and asking her mother to
support her. A minute later the girl
dropped to the bed unconscious and
Mrs. Williams ran from the room cry
ing out that she was dead
Two physicians were hastily sum-
moned and found that the young
woman's heart action and respiration
were normal and that she seemed to be
sleeping. All efforts to awaken her
were in vain, however, although she
was given constant attention. On Sun
day the attending physicians declared
that Miss Williams would live but
few hours longer. DIR. AAF. Maine then
took charge of the case and since has
scarcely left the bedside of the girl.
From Wednesday until Sunday Miss
Williams had nothing to eat, but since
Sunday liquid nourishment has been
given her and she seems to be improv-
ing slightly and gaining strength She
has not given any signs of awakening.
however. and her only movement has
been when her hands are placed at her
side to raise them slowly after some
hours and clasp them over her breast.
No explanation has been given of the
girls. condition, but DR.. Maine con-
tinues to hold out hope of her ultimate
awakening and recovery.
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Heney's Grasp Of Fight
Trust Astounds Promoters

all expenses under one head. and divid-
ing the balance. Graney testified to
the same effect. Now it remains for
Heney and Burns to show that under
the head of expenses" came the sti-
pend which went to the men above.
These men above" are the ones the
Grand Jury is after, primarily, but in
termediately there are the men who
managed the trust and who were will
ing to satisfy the almost Unsuitable
greed which characterized the admin
istration.
In collecting evidence against the
fight trust" the methods of Burns
men We're to associate with the pro-
moters along the Tenderloin, catch
them in mellow moods and turn con-
VITALITY into loquacity. When in full
possession of their faculties the several
managers of the fighting game are
noted for their shrewdness and caution,
but when in their cups 1t was tolerably
easy for their native reticence to be
overcome and the cat leap out of the
twentyfour foot ring as nimbIy as 1t
ever leaped out of the bag.
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BOOKER IDENTIFIES
JOHN S|EMSEN

The positive Identification of John
Siemsen, gaspipe murderer, by James
Booker, an architect and builder, as
the man he saw in the Kimmon Ginko
on Tuesday, October 4, furnished the
single thrill for the neutrality-suspicious.
yesterday afternoon in the resumption
of the arraignment of Siemsen and
Dabner before Judge Shortall.
Booker was at the time of the mur-
der of Banker Munakata and the loot
ing of the bank engaged in directing
repairs or alterations on the building.
He saw Siemsen in the bank the day
before the murder and yesterday his
Identification was not only positive, but
his description of the clothing worn
by the murderer was so minute that
1T was one of the very few things per-
mitted to go without manifold reitera-
tion in the cross examination conducted
by the attorney for the defense
Y. Kitashima, proprietor of a
Seventh street restaurant, told the
court how he discovered that a crime
had been committed and, panic-stricken,
rushed from the bank later to return
with Policeman c. J. Carroll and K.
Ishahari. While Ishahari was on the
stand the blood-stained, paper-wrapped
gaspipe bludgeon was again intro
duced Dabner averted his eyes, but
Siemsen with entire nonchalance
shifted observing eyes from the face
of the excited witness to a scrap of
paper on which he hurriedly sketched
a fair likeness of the frightened jap
anese.
Policeman Carroll, Y. Takakura,
Kitashima and Ishahari told in detail
of the finding of the banker and his
clerk weltering in their blood and the
apparent discrepancies in their testi-
nony were successfully reconciled by
the DISCRIMINATION.
The arraignment will be continued
at o'clock this afternoon and then go
over to some day next week for con-
clusion.
The report that when the gaspipe
nnurderers come to trial Siemsen will
be represented by expert counsel and
make desperate fight to escape the
hangman's moose was given color yes
terday by renewal of the story that
the Kanaka while in Folsom prison
was apprised of the location of a $4,000
cache made by a convict evidently a
life-termer Captain Duke unsuccess-
fully tried yesterday to get Siemsen tc
tell him where his alleged wealth is
hidden.
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AF ONG FAMILY IS
MUCH DIVIDED

HONOLULU, Nov. 12.-Seven de-
murrers, Identical in terms. have been
nled on behalf of as many respond
ents In the equity suit of Carries B.
Rlggs, complainant, VS.. Julia H Along,
Samuel M. Damon ttrustee). Avert f.
Along, A Henry Along, Mary Along,
Julia H. tombstone. Alice L. Hutchin-
son, Helen 6. Henshall. Many L. Nc
Stocker, Emeline NJ Magoon, Marie K.
Humphreys, Bessie r. Burns. Melaine
b. Brewster, Eta p Whiting, Martha
M Dougherty, Tony Along and Samuel
NJ Damon, Alexander Garvie and A. w.
T. Bottonlleys co-paftners, doing busi-
ness under the firm name and style of
Bishop & Co., respondents.
Some of the respondents of the Along
family live abroad and it will be some
time before they are heard from. These
seven demurrers now filed show that
those in Honolulu, Messrs. Albert f.
and Henry A. Along, Mrs. Julia H.
Johnstone. Mrs. Alice L. Hutchinson.
Mrs. Helen G. Henshall and Miss Mary
Along, stand by their mother and make
common cause with her in defense of
the fortune she received from her late
husband, Chun Along, before his de-
parture for China, where he recently
died, against the claim of Mrs. Riggs
that the fortune was trust for the
benefit of the whole family.
In explanation of the troubles be-
tween Mrs. Along and some of her
ons-in-la law, F. b. McStocker has made
the following statement:
Mrs. Along having taken occasion
to make the threat that she would dis
pose of large properties and moneys,
held by her in trust for all of the
Along children, to the detriment of
those children. we gave notice to her
through her son and business agent
that we demanded a readjustment OF
the trust estate managed by her for
the entire family, looking to a curtail-
ment of her powers and control"
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paper reports of his insanity he rushed
with his riding whip to the Foreign
Office and into the room of Premier
Pasics, shouting: You dog. you In
tend to conf1ne me. your future mas
ter! I'll kill you. I'll trample on you,
you canaille."
The Premier had much trouble in
calming the Prince, who then pro-
ceeded to the press bureau. where Di-
rector Ivanitch, under the orders of
the Prince. composed official denials in
his presence. When this had been
done George departed. fourishing his
whip and crying:
These Swabian and Hungarian
dogs shall eat their words
Similar scenes were enacted at the
Palace, where, the correspondent says
the Prince ill-treated his brotherJ
Prince Alexander, who is quiet
youth.
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to like penalty if convicted of agree
ing to accept a bribe.
In speaking of the indictments last
night Prosecutor Heney said:
"We have barely begun our work.
| don't intend at this time to hint at
just what evidence we have against
other Supervisors and city officials,
but l will say that no grafters are
to escape. The indictments that we
expect from the evidence we have
amassed are only beginning to be re-
turned. The roll will be a lengthy
one before the Grand Jury finishes
its present sitting Of that 1 feel
confident, or should not commit my
self to this extent at this time.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21
Executive of City
Lives in Oakland

By an unprecedented arrangement
the acting Mayor of San Francisco
lives in Oakland. James l.. Gallagher,
who in the absence of Schmitz has
succeeded to his rank and title, has
forsaken the city over which he pre-
sides. He has taken apartments at the
Hotel Crellin across the bay and slips
quietly back and forth. For a week
Gallagher has resided in Oakland, but
either through modesty or shame he
has refrained from placing his name
upon the register. Gallagher is sensi-
tive, something unfortunate for an off,
cial who takes service under the ban
ner of Abraham Ruef. The prevailing
"unpleasantness" has induced the act
ing Mayor to dwell among folk to
whose honest service he has not bound
himself by sacred oath.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21
FREES MAN CONDEMNED FOR
SIEMsEN AND DABNER's CRIdE
Governor Pardon's DowdalI, Who Was
Convicted of Robbery Gas Pipe
Thugs Admit Committing

Richard Dowdall, sentenced to fifty
years Imprisonment at San Quentin for
the robbery of ex-Coroner Leland,
which crime has been confessed by
Siemsen and Dabner, will be a free
man today. Governor Pardee signed
the pardon yesterday afternoon
Dowdall was the victim of the exig-
encies of a situation most trying for
the San Francisco police. The public
demand for action had to be appeased.
Dowdell, unfortunate, without friends,
was arrested and railroaded. Later,
upon their arrest, Dabner and Siemsen
said that they and not Dowdall were
guilty of the crime.
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Continued from Page 1, Column 2.
questions to him on the fight trust mat
ter. Coffroth explained the organiza-
tion, saying that each of the four man
ayers held a share of the stock of the
Associated Athletic Clubs.
The expenses of the combine were
paid out of the proceeds from the first
fight" said Coffroth. II drew up the
articles of Incorporation myself and
faed them; that cost was in all about
$I2. which 1 had returned to me after
the first fight in February, the Neil
Tenny match, which resulted in the
death of Tenny. That fight was given
under the auspices of Morris Levy and
he paid the city the $1,000 license out
OF the proceeds of that fight. After
those accounts were settled we divided
the surplus"
Before the trust was formed the city
received $4,000 license from the lighting
game.
Coffroth stated that the manager Of
each months fight would make only a
general report of the finances, Jumping
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21
Jury May Consider
Graney's Contract

The presence of Thomas McGee in the
lobby of the Grand Jury room yesterday
afternoon gave rise to a report that he
would be called before the Grand Jury
to give testimony in regard to the fat
contract which had been awarded to
Eddie Graney to shoe the city horses
When the contract was made McCee,
who is a contracting blacksmith, en-
tered vigorous protest, charging that
the price Graney had named for the
work was excessive Special Agent
Burns would not admit that any evil
dence on the subject had been gath
cred.
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Duffy charges that nearly all of the
testimony before the jury last week
was perjured 1t was Duffy who in
troduced Cohn to Supervisor Nam
lock and arranged the deal for the sale
of furniture that Nicholas is indicted
for on the charge of bribery. The
prosecutors also charge Duffy with
receiving a discount of 10 per cent
on a bill of S85 worth of furniture he
bought from Holmes Bros. and which
is now used by him in his home at
2l7 Elm avenue.
PENALTY FOR OFFENSES
Duffy denied all this in his testi-
mony before the jury last week and
claimed that he bought this furniture
on the installment plan and received
discount
he penalty for perjury is fixed at
i.om one to fourteen years imprison-
nent Supervisor Nicholas is liable
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21

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to the French Hospital and later to
IL was found they were both suffering
from frightful burns about the face
and arms. The hospital physicians
say that both will recover. but will
bear the scars of their awful expert
ence for life.
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Why Drugs Don't Cure

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general vitality. and try TO cure them
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The life of the weak nerves and the
life of the blood is electricity. That Is
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21
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posTMAsTERs NAMED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Postmas-
ters appointed in California: Enter
prise, Butte County, Lewis Williams.
vice Hiram e. Parker, resigned; Igo-
kigo, Shasta County. Mrs. Belle Stew
ems, vice Olonzo Engfe, resigned.
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MOTION TO DISMISS DENIED-New York.
Nov 2o.--A motion to dismiss the indictments
against the American Sugar Refining Company.
charging II with accepting rebates was denied
by Judge Holt today
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21
PRINCE DECLARES
HE'S NOT INSANE

LONDON, Nov 21.-The Vienna cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph for
wards what purports to be an account
of the official denials of the present
condition of Prince George of Servia,
When Prince George heard the news
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-21

son. Wis. Nov 2O--The police department re
ceived news today Of the arrest in Montana of
j. Gordon Morse. recently prominent In business
and social circles of Madison Morse was ar
rested - = warrant charging him with for
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Graft Trial Will Be
Heard by Dunno

Judge Frank H. Dunno of the Supe-
rior Court is the man who will pre-