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New-York tribune., 1906-11-13

sjaia 3a7 ,e dam No $3.50 oOo No II. g$s24s No H.
SSStl5b; No. Is. S362651; No. 10. S7.0u-total for
dams 81 56,675; Big. Sandy River and Levisa and
Rug lug forks West Virginia and Kentucky S26t 200;
OF Of the the Ohio; White River. Indiana; Wabash River.
nuala and Illinois, and certain Kentucky rivers.
W. ~. VVo a9Tbor at Duluth Mimi. and Superior.
WIS, $4,000, ManiStique HaTbor. Mich. 500 900:
SM1iiddwaukes Harbor, including harbor of refuge,
$4,000; Chicago and Calumet harbors. survey OF
ilhnolS and Des PLANES rivers from waterway
From LoGkport. III. to St. Louis, $4,000; Calumet
ever LIMOS and Indiana. Sl70; Halland (Black
Lake, sH99rbor Mich 10000; Grand River, Michi
gan, $1,000; Muskegon Harbor Michigan sll0.-
W. harbor OF refuge at HarbOr Beach, Lake
huron. $4,000: st. Mary's River, at the Falls
Mlchigan. $500000 Hay Lake and Neebish channels
ssr 81 MsGys SG o Riyer 10000 Detroit River Michi
gan. NVoWo: Sandusky Harbor, Sl75,000: Cleveland
HIIsrbor $500: Fairport Harbor sl5OOOO; Buffalo
i58r50r i565 @ $O2S36 BLACK Rock Harbor and channel
$z2ZoG Osweso Harbor. S125.OO0: Deepwater Har-
boz Dor San Pedro Bay. Cal. $192 sl5; Columbia River
peJWeeI the foot OF the Dalles and the head OF
Cello Falls. $4,000 canal at the Cascades sos 900
66oluihola and Lower Willamette rivers below
portland, $4,000; mouth of the Columbia 81 900 900
aonoluiu Harhor. Hawaii 100000; Mississippi
1tlNer commissions estimates) head of Passes TO
the the mouth o m Of the Ohio. with salaries of commits
sion SS,G0OD: improving harbor at Natchez and
Nidalia La. 100000 harbor New orleans $500 O0S
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
METZ SPEAKS BEFORE S. I. SCIENTISTS.
Souelches Idea of Asking City for Funds for
Museum.

The Staten Island Association % Arts and SCI
aucss held its twenty-ffth anniversary dinner last
night AZ the Hotel CasJeton. New Brighton Con-
+roIe~ Metz was the principal speaker
The Staten Island Association has been endeaVor
ins to get an appropriation from the city for the
eractyor of a museum for the association staten
Island Mr. Metz said that in his opinion other Ge-
partments of the city had better claim te tne
money and that more public charities ana hos
pitfalls We're needed rather than more museums
Mr. Metz said that he did not wish 10 oe h',SuI sun
der hui he could not advocate ttl Sc
appropriation from the city for building museum h
when ne felt that there urgent neeN tot w,
money in other directions; that the money ""uiU
10 more GOOD If "a was expended elsewhere
The Controller said however, that ne woutd Use
his Influence 10 have large room SCI ssile ."
the new borough hall for the associaIlons use
Among the other speakers were Howard y
I},vna president OF the association; wafer =.
i<eyr ox-president and y. l. Brttou, director OF
Frh., EronX Botanical Gardens -.
After considering Mr.. NetzS address tne assoc
.ie,iCr decided To give up the idea or building
museum for least ten years amt 70 use ths foo'
I'm the borough hall during that time
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
SLOCUM TABLET SOLD AS JUNK
Seven Held in Connection with the Theft
of the Bronze Memorial

Seven prisoners arraigned yesterday before
Magistrate Connorton at Flushing In connection
with the theft on Friday night Of a bronze tablet
s, ,ba Slocuu monument in the old Lutheran
cemetery at Middle Village. The bronze tablet
which had been broken up. was found I'm the nnN
sbop Of Pgsqua" Sautorfur. Of No 476 Myrte
avenue Brooklyn. who told the police that ne ma"
Maid Sl for it to three boys.
rbess boys according the police were John
uor,ever of No. 2l5 Norman street. Evergreen
,,,,stav Dippei OF No 1865 Gates avenue. Brooklyn
and Harry Smith Of No 726A Gates avenue. Br Ok
Ivn Through information obtained from the hoSs
~ ,oIi.a arres.ed Albert Bolman. of No. 20 Pal
,,etro street, Ridsewood; Frank Doscher OF ~
10. cares avenue. Brooklyn and George DethIis -
20 cypress avenue Rldgewood- Santorfur was also
crested Boman. Doscher and pethiiScn W. W.
ia I'm 81 500 bail each for examination on ftIu'S.
Iientorf,Ir was held in ST. hail for eNamiuat
on the charge OF receiving stolen goods alez anu n
0nsver Dppel and Smith were held as wlthrsIs -,
a. soa bail each The complaint was mace ~
Wanrv KoetteL OF 10th street. Elmnurst' VINO -
treasurer Of the organization formed oy the sNi
yiyors Of the disaster.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
LAW UPHELD
L, s. Supreme Court S"st0ins Ne7o
York Cifu an Test Case.

tho Nav, York Tenement House act of 1901.
bearing the title Of Katie Moeschen agt the
Tenement House department. was decided to-
day by the Suprems Court of the United States
vorabIv to the city. The decision was an
nounced by Chief Justice Fuller.
The case grew out Of an effort on the part Of
the New York City authorities To compel the
defendant TO remove a sink connected with a
building at No So East S9th street. which she
owned she resisted. contending that the house
was in good sanitary condition. and she at
tackled the law as invalid because it was made
specifically applicable to New York City and not
~ 4 class Of cities and because its enforcement
would mean the taking OF property without due
process OF law.
The chief Justice did not prepare an opinion
in the case but the effect Of the decision is to
sustafn the conStiutiOnality Of the law.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
NOT DIRECTED AGAINST AMERICA.
Bank of Frances Rule Applies to All
Foreign Bills of Exchange.

Paris. Nov. 12.-The Bank Of France informs The
Associated Press that its refusal discount Amer.
ican bills be regarded directed par
ticuarly against the United States. The rule ap-
plies TO all foreign bills TO which less than two
French signatures are attached. 1t is pointed out
that the measure was designed TO protect the
French market, where money is at per cent
against the demands of foreign markets. where the
IS to per cent.
The Associated Press also secured confirmation of
the offer Of the Bank of France to duplicate its
loan operation TO the Bank Of England on the occa-
sion Of the Barring failure, IN 1890 when Sl5OO0G00
was borrowed by the Bank Of England on Ex-
cheOuer bills guaranteed by the Rothschds. 1t
IS not considered likely however, that the Bank
Of England, unless that institution is extremely
hard pressed. will again subject Itself the crit-
cism that the transaction evoked.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
MANILA BONDS FOR SALE.
No Postage Stamp Fortunes To Be Made
Out of This Issue.

Washington. Nov 1.-THE bureau Of insular
affairs Of the War Department has invited bids
for a 100000 1870 per cent bond issue OF
the city Of Manila. Bids are TO be opened
IN that bureau IN the presence OF bidders on De
cernber 19. at ?. By act Of Congress these
bonds exempt from taxation The issue Is
TO provide funds for the purpose of continuing the
work OF constructing adequate water supply
and sewerage system for the city of Manila. for
which contracts have been let, and which IS now
well under way. To prevent speculation each bid
must be accompanied by a certified check for
per cent Of the actual amount OF the bid
These bonds will be accepted by the Treasury De-
partment as security fer deposits Of the public
money Of the United States IN national banks when
ever further deposits may be made and may be
substituted for United States bonds now held as
security for deposits condition that the United
States bonds thus released be used security for
additional circulation when, in the judgment OF
the Secretary OF the Treasury, II is desired to st
ulate an increase in national bank circulation.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
WOULD SHUT KANSAS OUT.
Declared Not TO Haze Interest an
". X. & II. Land Case.

Washington. Nov 12.-Ir the Supreme Court
OF the United States to-day Solicitor General
Hoyt filed a motion on behals of the government
TO dismiss the case of the State of Kansas agt
the United States for possession of the Indian
Territory lands claimed to have been granted to
tbs Missouri. Kansas & Texas Railroad, and
S100O0OO0
The motion was based on the contention that
the State of Kansas has no substantial inter
est in the case.
The land covered by the grant the sub
ject of much contention in Congress at the last
session, and the pending suit was the principal
hone Of contention in the recent campaign in
Kansas.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE.

The annual meeting of the National civil Ser
vice Reform League viii he held at New Haven
November 10 and % All sessions of the league
will he open to the public, and organizat ations
having similar objects invited to attend
During the meeting the headquarters Of the
league will he at the New Haven Colony His
torical Society No. l44 Grove street. All dele
gates are requested to register there The feat
ure of the programme is the large university
meeting to be held on Monday evening a which
addresses will be made by Secretary Ronaparte
OF the Navy Department and Daniel g. Gilman
president Of the league
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
FOR CURRENCY REFORM
Continued from first page.

him' unless conditions materially change he
WIN WIN adhere to his intention not TO refun1, buy
bonds or increase deposits
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
miss MUNRO TRANSFERS TITLES.

Miss Norma J. Munro transferred yesterday
one-thi.d interest IN thu apartment house on a
plot 5Oxlgo.5 the south side Of 59th street
go feet east Of Eighth avenue TO her mother. Mrs.
Henrietta F. Munro. Also one-thrd interest in the
premises Nos "A and 20 Eandewater street to Mrs.
Henrietta r Munro.
Miss Munro and Mrs Leslie Carter recently had
a dispute over lease held by Mrs Carter
suite of rooms in the 59th street apartment house
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
TO IMPROVE THEATRE AUDIENCES.

A dramatic club, designed To improve the powers
NJ appreciation OF the who sits in the audience
will be started the West Side Branch Y NJ
G A No s20 West 57th street. tonight The club
will seek TO enable the student to give play life
and fervor by cultivating his imagination During
the season several members OF the theatrical pro-
fession will be asked 70 appear before the club and
nIGrptLs ndpnLa VINO has charge OF the dramatic clubs
at The High school of Commerce, will conduct the
GourSA
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
DATE FOR EDUCATIONAL MEETING.

Washington. Nov 12-The next meeting of the
Southern Educational Association IS be held IN
Montgomery, Ala, December . to so It is prob
able that the Association Of Southern College Wom-
and the Southern Library Association viii meet
the time and place
New-York tribune., 1906-11-13

Complete Exhibits by Importers Automobile Salon Incorporated
and Motor and Accessories Manufacturers Incorporated
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-05-19

issued on the life Of this unfortunate
b~rother-in-law as security for some
money he (Gray) mad advanced, he
might contemplate with more eQua-
nimity his relatives approaching end
Richardson thought he could fix It
and the brother-in-law was sent fol
from st. Louis.
Now, the convenient Orother-in-law
vas about as much a relative CT Gray's
as Gray was himself a lumber mer-
chant, but he was indeed suffering from
consumption and diabetes and was SO
Ill when Richardson wrote his $50, 000
policy that he had to be propped up
in bed in order to sign 1t. Richardson
announced that he had bri5ed a couple
of doctors to sign the physical exam
ination papers, and the sick brother
in-law was shipped back to st. Louis,
whence he went out to Arizona a year
later to die.
Dallas Made Headquarters.
Greatly did Gray admire the skilled
manipulation of the brother-in-Iaw
case by his friend Richardson. So
when the latter suggested that there
was plenty of easy money to be made
by similar undertakings down in the
border country where people are not
watched too carefully, Gray fell in
with the game at once, and the two
back to Dallas, where Gray's
Office became shortly their
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brother Of Devers, William Meredith.
Harle was not cross-examined, and hs
left the stand thinking he had got
away with the goods"
Confession from Harle.
At this point Bottome from Ell Paso
telegraphed Harle chat he was COM
ing to Chihuahua and wanted to see
him. Harle %thereupon started for Ell
Paso, and BottOme, when he was well
on his way to the Mexican town, got
a wire on his train that he would
pass the train on which Harle was
travelling in mid-route. Bottome left
his train at a convenient station and
boarded the other. Then, as he did
not know Harle, he sent a porter
through the Car with a Western Union
telegraph envelope addressed to the
doctor, and Harle tumbled into the
trap. BottOme and a detective led
Harle into the smoking compartment
and started a quiZz Of the third de-
gree" order that wound up that hight
with a 50-page confession impilrating
Harle in the death of Devers, and
telling enough of the circumstances of
Harry Mitchell's death to indicate
how his Suicide" had been arranged.
Harle said that Devers had been
brought from Chihuahua from Ell Paso
by Richardson in December Of 1901,
and that Richardson had said that he
had explained to Devers that Devers
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the Fort Worth Office at the request O.
Meredith, and when it came back after
collection through a Fort Worth bank
1t bore Meredith's Endorsement for de.
post. Inquiry at the bank in Ques.
ton developed that soon after the
claim had been filed on Devers' death
Meredith had called at the bank In
company with Richardson, and had
obtained there a loan of $4,000 upon
Richardson's assurance that the COM
pany a admitted the claim under
the policy n was about to pay the
money. This loan was paid in part in
cash and in part by a draft on the
Seaboard National bank, of New York,
and 1t was this draf. for $1,000, to-
gether with its Endorsement to Rich
ardsOn, that forms the first link in the
chain of evidence that was to connect
him with the crime.
So the search led back to chihuahua,
and when more light was sought on
the manner of the deaths of Harry
Mitchell and Devers 1t was found that
in the first cas- death had occurred
In the house in which Richardson and
his wife lived and within half an hour
after Mitchell had talked with a
friend. in the street, apparently in
perfect health. This was hardly con-
sistent with the theory of spinal men
nights advanced by DR.. Harle, the
physician signing the death certificate,
who happened to be also the physician
who had examined each applicant for
insurance upon his admission to the
company. In the case of Devers it
appeared that death was due to dysen-
terry, as might easily have occurred
with a man of DeverS' dissolute man
of living. Of Richardson nothing
could be learned, except that he had
appeared in Chihuahua in the sum-
mer Of 1901, with his wife, Helen
Richardson, as an American looking
for business opportunities in Mexico,
and had secured an appointment as
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-05-19

Some Of the most beautiful sight.
are found IN the seattle coral reef:
and the sunken gardens, filled with
strange marine plants. Some marine
animals live only in the purest wa
ter, others only in the foulest water;
for every condition there Ia . life Il
at It.
In all ocean basins, hills and ridges
as well as troughs and deep holes, oc
cur, and the bottom Is covered with
the skeletons Of marine animals
changed by time into slime and stone
Some of the animals of the ocean
have no eyes, having no need of them f;
others have a hundred eyes.
The largest animal and the tiniest
animal are found in the sea. In places
the sea is 10000 feet deep. It's aver
age depth is over $4,000 feet. Twice
every "a hours the water rises and
falls. At the entrance to the Bay
of Fundy the rise at spring tide Is no
less than 70 feet. The natural power
that controls the tide is a tremendous
one.
And tho plant life in the ocean is
almost as remarkable as the animal
life. Learned, men have been study
ing 1t for centuries and are only be-
ginning to understand it. If you want
to be interested as no novel can in
terest you, procure a book telling in
a simple manner Of the life in the
seas. There are plenty Of such books
written for the people rather than for
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agent for the life insurance company
in the territory.
Gray's Entry Into the Game.
1t was at this stage of the case that
there came to Dallas, where the Rich,
ardsOns were living in style, a pre-
possessing citizen named w. ]. Gray,
a dealer in lumber lands, who opened
an office of some size and took a house
in the best part of the town. The
Richardson's happened to be in Hot
Springs, Ark, at the time. and SO
Gray, the lumberman, who wasn't in
any hurry to get his Dallas affairs NOV
ing anyway, took a trip over to the
Arkansas resort and registered at the
same hotel with the former life in
surance agent, his wife and child.
The two got acquainted and became
famous friends. Then n day Rich
ardson proposed that he should insure
Gray's life. Gray demurred, but he
recalled that his wife had a brother
who was i'll with consumption, dia-
betes, and several other troubles, and
t occurred to him that IL there were
any way in which a policy might be
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-05-19
FURLBERT, MITCHELL AND HARLE
UNDER SENTENCE FOR COLD
FLOODED MURDERS.
were GANG OF LIFE INSURANCE SWINDLERS
killing of Their Victims a Part of the Scheme
by Which They Had Made Large Sums
Had Another Victim Marked
for Death.

Chihuahua, Mexico.-Through a skeil
81 plot and counter plot, that, i
evolved by a writer Of fiction, woul,
nave been considered eXtravagant, tn,
story runs OF the crime of the thret
taen. Hu-lbert, Mitchell and Harle
COW under sentence of death here.
The crime for which these three
men are to die is murder, an incident
PS their series of carefully planned life
insurance swindles.
The particular company victimized
ts one of the greatest in the world, and
only carelesSness on the part of the
0lotters, resulting from O%ver-cOnfi-
dence, saved it from a heavy loss.
Practically in its entirety the affair
= as follows:
Commenced in 1909.
1t was in the spring of 1902 that a
Fife insurance company was called
Hpon to pay two death claims in Chi
Huahua, the first on the life of Harry
n Mitchell for $4,000 under a policy
]1ssigned to his sister, Helen Richard
Bon, and the second on the life of
p@ASo OSfSAo " PlU,UUU uuuSI d DOL
Scy OF which n Willis Meredith was
The beneficiary. Mitchell had died
on February IL of that year, and
Devers on March %, and the agent in
Doth cases had been c. T. Richardson,
who had formerly been in the employ
OF the company at Chihuahua, but was
now living in Dallas, Tex.
Now, life insurance agents in Chi
nuahua, Mexico, ever those who sub
SeQuently move to a town like Dallas,
do not, as a rule, support private
teams, nor drive out in style with
negro coachman and a footman or two.
these things were included in
Richardson's establishment in Dallas.
20 the great amazement of a repre-
of the life insurance COM
Dany. who went down from the Ell
Paso Office, where the check for the
Devers policy had been forwarded, to |
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-05-19

One Of the worms found in the ocean
lives by swallowing sand, extracting
from 1t whatever animal or vegetable
food 1t may contain. The animals
Of the ocean live on each other. One
animal kills its prey by means of an
electric shock. A fish Is known which
fishes with a sort Of hook and line
and tkCs secures its food. There Is
a phosphorescence on the sea that a
times produces a light so brilliant
that at night n may read by II.
This is produced by millions Of livina
things.
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Headquarters. tray used TO hear IRON
Richardson how it wasn't really neces.
sary to bride a doctor in an insurance
case, but simply to take a dummy be
fore the medical man to pass the
physical examination, and Richardson
had just the dummy that filled the
bill, a young fellow named Mason,
once a miner in Chihuahua.
So the months went on and 1t was
In October of 1902. The Gray-Richard-
son-Mason combination was now in
good running order, and it was
planned that they should go to Ell
Paso, where Mason would AXE out
$100, 600 insurance in the name OF
Marshall D.. Sa~nguinetto, an individ-
ual whom Richardson said be knew to
be dying of consumption in Mexico.
They were to make Gray the benef-
ciary of the policy, wait until Sanguin-
etto died. and then collect the $780,
600. But a hitch arose. Richardson
remembered one day that mis- friend
Sanguinetto, was a young man OF
middle age, whereas Mason was but a
youngster Of %. Why not, then, have
Gray take out the policy as Sanguin-
etto, making Mason the benelciary,
and then collect in the usual way?.
Gray Marked for Murder.
Gray was not Overanxious TO make
his death a possible source of profit to
Richardson and Mason, but he con
sented to be Sanguinetto for the pur-
nOCnc of tho nn1inu ond 70 Nuyr RTocor
as David Sanguinetto, his son and
heir. After various i%ntroductions the
policy was made out and the deal
closed-apparently. What introduced
a new element into it that Rich
ardson and his friend Mason had not
counted on was the fact that Harry
Bottome and a couple of detectives
had been keeping in nightly touch
with Gray and incidentally had been
doing a little work on the side, listen
ing to conversation between Rich
ardson and Mason when Gray wasn't
around. 1t was in one of these con-
versations that Richardson gleefully
that Gray had beer the cas-
thing imaginable in the Sanguin-
case, and added: !
I'VE won't do a thing to him when
we get him over the border"
Bottome and his men decided that
matters had gone far enough. They
laid their information before the dis
attorney of Ell Paso county, and
warrants were issued for all three, in
Gray, for it was i%nexpedient
just then to have an exposure of the
part which the lumberman-detective
had played in the case. Gray, however.
was soon released, and the, next stem
was a charge filed in the City of Chi
luahua accusing Richardson and Ma
;on Of the murders of Mitchell and
In the preliminary hearing
Dr.. Harle was called as a witness. and
estified that Mitchell did die of strych-
line poisoning instead CT spinal men
but that Richardson had told
him that the case was one of sui
ide, and wanted to have things hu1hed
lp. Devers, Harle still declared, died
4 d~ysentery. HarN said that he had
cen called in to attend him by a half (
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hook into the matter. These things
were reported to the home office, and
Ender the direction of Second Vice
president Kingsley, Harry H. Bottome,
u lawyer of New York, and a detective,
who may remain nameless, got busy
xsn the case.
It was discovered that Devers had
Been in Chihuahua a few weeks before
f1is death, and that nothing was known
about him except that he was a hard
drtnker and of a type of social out
cast common enough in that territory.
This strengthened a theory that the
very possession of a 500 policy by
such a man required some further
explanation, let alone possible suspi.
scious circumstances attending his
death. So the investigators turned to
che payment of the Devers policy at
the Ell Paso Office, after the
mad unsuccessfully tried to have the
check sent from New York Intercepted
IN transit.
First Evidence Secured. :
It appeared that the check had been
from the Fl Paso Office to
49,