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Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

always acted in a fair and impartial
manner
The law under which the commits
sion was appointed today provides
that the commissioners must take oaths
as referees; they must be attended by
the district attorney and counsel for
the defendant and may compel the
attendance of witnesses.
The statute then proceeds:
when the commissioners have con-
cluded their examination they must
forthwith report the facts to the court,
with their opinion. If the commits
sion finds the defendant insane the
trial must be suspended until he be-
comes sane, and if it deem his dis
charge dangerous to the public peace
and safety he must be in the mean
time committed to a state lunatic
asylum and upon his becoming sane,
he be redelivered by the superinten-
dent of the asylum to the sheriff.
when received into an asylum he
must be detained there until he be-
comes sane. Then the superintendent
must give written notice to the Judge
of the court in the district in which
the asylum is situated. The Justice
must request the sheriff without delay
to bring the defendant from the
asylum and place him in the proper
custody until he be brought to trial.
Judgment or execution as the case may
be, or be legally discharged
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
NAMES CIVILIANS
ON Commission
NeIII, jerks and Wheeler VIII Study
the immigration Question,
Thus Completing the
Commission

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The presi-
dent has appointed the following per-
sons as the civilian members of the inn
migration commission authorized at the
last session of congress: Charles p.
NeilI. commissioner of labor; Prof. j.
w. jerks of Cornell university and
VIM. r. Wheeler, q business man of
Oakland, Cal.
senate and house members having been
announced, .,,,,t
They are Senator's Lodge Dillingham;
and Latimer, and Representatives How
ell. Bennett and Burnett.
The commission is to make tull IN
ouiry into the subject. OF immigration
and report it's findings and recon-
mendations to congress-.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.-Wm.
r.. Wheeler, appointed on the immtgra-
zion commission by President Roose-
velt. Is connected with the Arm of Hol-
brook. Merrill a. Stetson of this city.
ne. Was prominently mentioned for the
Mace on the interstate commerce COM
mission now held by Franklin X. Lane.
at the time Of the latter's appointment.
He has taken conspicuous interest i'm
matters affecting the business affairs
OF the coast, particularly with reference
10 the rates ON transcontinental traffic.
At the recent hearing by the Interstate
commerce commission IN this city he
furnished the commission with great
deal OF data bearing on the subject.
His home Is In Oakland.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
STARVING CHINESE
BECOME CANNIBALS S

SHANGHAI, March 26.-The famine
stricken have been practicing eannibal-
ism in localities where the distress Is
most acute.
The spread of fever continues and
the heavy rains are increasing the gem
eral misery.
Spasmodic rioting has occurred, but
the outbreaks have not been serious.
The famine relief organization Is
taxed TO the utmost in supervising the
distribution OF relief and In managing
the relief work.
The committee is appealing for more
voluntary helpers.
Large orders for grain have been
placed IN America, Australia and Man
churia.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
RAFFLEs vAN|SHEs
into ATMOSPHERE
13
EVEN PINKERTON DETECTIVES
SHOW INTEREST
The Merry Chase Is on Promptly at
Midnight, but Man of Mys-
terry Is Nowhere
Around
Continued from Page oneI

AEOh f-dEe OnesJ
given the professional sleuths of your
home town a chance to picture him in
their rogues gallery, measure him
through their much vaunted Bertillon
system of criminal Identification and
who has walked openly about the
streets of your city for the past week
think thai it would be possible for
that man to actually talk with you and
still maintain the incognito which he
declares is absolutely possible.
Most Difficult Trial
But then, if you please, just remem-
ber who I am. I am the mysterious
Mr.. Raffes, and being the celebrated
man of mystery, l am firmly con-
vinced it is possible for me to do al
most anything. You, however, may
think differently, and even today-my
first day out at that, may find myself,
not half as bright or clever as pre-
Viously imagined and some one of you
may be figuring just what you are
going to do with the $1,000.
But then-you know 1 have not been
captured yet and until 1 am I will
still maintain my ability to evade cap
ture in this town indefinitely. This
demonstration in Los Angeles will be
the most severe 1 have ever under
taken. Never before in the history of
this game have 1 undertaken to pre-
sem the mysterious Mr. Raffles under
such alarming circumstances. 1 know
so many people here now that I feel
as though l had lived here a year. Or
dinarily, when presenting this game, I
have kept strictly under cover until
actually out among those whom 1 con-
templated battling.
Where the game was hard in New
York, Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia,
Boston anG New Orleans I will find it
n hundred fold more difficult in Los
Angeles than in any of the places men,
toned.
Friends Grow Anxious
You have everything your own way
- have let you all in on the ground
floor, now go after it and see what you
can do. If I am fortunate enough to
eVade capture today you will all be in
the air in so far as my immediate cap
ture is concerned, as / Intend going
after the sleuths of Los Angeles as |
have never before attempted to operate
in any other city.
1t is not up to me, folks, to go into
details concerning my escape from the
Hotel Angelus last night. The Messrs.
LOOMS, proprietors of the Hotel An
gelus. with 1. e. Burdick, the well
known financial man of the Wall street
district of New York city: William G.
Wellborn, general manager of the
Pope Motor Car company of Toledo
Ohio, and my business manager, w.
X. Carruthers, together with Lemuel
r.. Parton of The Los Angeles Herald,
the latter being present, to cover in
1.-THE story Of my official disappear
ance," were all more or less up in the
air" as the time approached for the easy
money to heave in sight.
/ will leave il IN Mr. partot1 IN teII
you how it all happened. He was
there with a goodly sized gathering of
the faithful, all of whom were keen on
the approaching possibilities, and II
you will follow his narrative you may
discover why 1t was that those of the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
GAM E ON IN EARNEST
WHEN RAFFLES LEAVES
ANGELUS AT MIDNIGHT

What, no! All ye sleuths and Hawk
shaws! Raffles is loose!
If you had been at the Angelus ho-
tel last night with your sneaks on
and a morning Herald in your pocket
you might have had him, and then
again you mightn't. True to his word
the man of mystery put on his vanish
ing sketch at the uncanny hour when
nothing but the alluring prospect Of
grabbing a $1,000 bank roll could keep
honest citizens out Of bed.
In the first brush with the public
Raffles came out all to the good-and
is still out and still to the good, as
far as the immediate chances of cap
ture are concerned.
Raffles is as elusive as the shifty
card in rouge-et-noir deck. He has
faculty Of obliterating himself, of
mingling with the landscape, of be-
coming persona non grata at oppor-
tune times, kind of protective color
ing, as 1t We're and when he walked
about the corridor of the hotel last
night, waiting for the beginning of his
period OF exile. at first you saw him
and then you didn't.
Pinkerton Watches
Seymour Butler, Los Angeles head of
the Pinkerton Detective bureau, was
among the visitors at the hotel after
the fight. He dropped in In a care
free, debonair way and cast coldly
penetrating eye, or words to that ef-
feet. about the corridor. He measured
a few tracks with a small carpenters
rule which he carried in his pocket,
took wax impression Of the key to
Raffles' room, said "hist" several
times and looked around for Raffles.
Raffles was posing like a Greek
athlete against the decorative back
ground Of the frescOes, and the sleuth
saw II was no use and went sorrow
fully out into the night.
1t was almost time for the evanes-
cent Raffles to begin to evanesce. An
unsympathetic visitor, with black
slOuch hat, a determined chin and an
ante-bellum waistcoat, was staring at
him in most embarrassing way. and
as the hands Of the big clock crept
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

around toward u Mr. Raffles saw that
If his disappearing seance was to be
at all dignified he would have to get
busy.
His transits across the corridor be-
came less and less frequent, and the
seculsion of the rest room, with Its
alluring divans, suitable to crawl under,
and dark shadowy recesses behind the
curtains became more and more in
Viting.
Prosperous Men Interested
OF course it might in same cases be
construed as undignified for a man of
good standing in the community to be
camping on the trail of a hunted man
at midnight for the sake of a paltry
$1,000 and the seekers for Raffles, in
and about the hotel were in no ways
demonstrative. 1t was astonishing the
number of persons of prosperous ap-
pearance who just dropped in to take a
look at the register, to see if a friend
had arrived. 1t was also astonishing
to see the interest with which they
studied hotel corridor, the decorations
and the stream of people passing
through.
The situation was becoming tense
when the clock hands had worked
around to three minutes TO IL. The
eleven bellboys. eighteen guests and
delegation of representative hoi polloi
from the street who had followed the
sinuous trail of Raffies during the
evening in its windings from the desk
to the cosy corner in the rest room
finally traced him to the neighborhood
of a giant vase in SECLUDED corner.
Suddenly an uproar arose near the
Fourth street entrance. Rafhes was
escaping! His pursuers rushed to the
scene of the turmoil. They found an
innocent bystander, in the person Of a
newly arrived shoe salesman from New
Salem, In the clutches of a horde OF
excited messenger boys. They returned
to the corner, whore their quarry ought
to have been, but he wasn't there.
The big chimes grudgingly released
the hour, and again Mr.. Raffes is an
outeast and hunted man.
In North Spring street a wild crowd
coming from the fight was enjoying tO
the utmost the police raid which was
pulled off late last hight. They did not
see man who went quietly among
them and who distracted handker-
chief from the pocket OF George VIII
liams, which he Will return next Thurs
day.
First Raffies Victim
The first Raffles victim was L. p.
Allen OF 4102 South Main street Mr..
Allen came out Of the Angelus hotel at
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

11:55 and started to cross the street
when he was Immediately seized, de-
spite his good-natured protests, and
accompanied by his captors and a
couple of hundred persons, was brought
to The Herald for Identification. The
amateur detectives were two messenger
boys and they had the support of a
score of their friends.
Mr. Allen grew indignant when the
boys refused to release him. but came
in with considerable good grace, and
after being declared not guilty was es-
corted to a car so that he might reach
home in safety. He bears a slight re-
semblance to the mysterious Mr.. Raj
fies, as he is smooth faced and about
the size of the man Of mystery. Raj
fes has a dangerous crowd in the Los
Angeles messengers. Nothing in any
eastern city to compare to the messen-
gers of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

danger point is no doubt past. All Of
the lands not already under will escape.
1.-THE Fruto went to Antioch by way
of Three Mile slough, and we found the
current there, as we'll as in the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin, very swift.
We took down a large lot of horses and
cattle from Courtland to Antioch and
Sacramento. Stock is in bad shape,
however, owing to lack of food. The
people of the Montezuma hills back of
Antioch don't like to take this stock,
as their pastures are soft and it is
probable that many head will die"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
stlee Makes Announcement

Justice Makes Announcement
Josiah and Edward Thaw, brothers Of
the defendant, and Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, his wife, were telephoned to by
the attorneys and quickly appeared at
the court house.
In announcing his decision today to
appoint commission the justice read
from a written memorandum. He
based his decision on the conflict of
affidavits as presented by the oppos-
ing sides, saying they were too di-
ametrically at odds to permit of a de-
Cision other than in favor of an i'm
partial inquiry.
After citing the suggestion made in
court by District Attorney Jerome and
the various affidavits presented on
both sides, Justice Fitzgerald's men,
| orandum reads:
Il do therefore, in pursuance of the
statutes, hereby appoint Morgan j.
o Brien, Peter B. Oiney and Leopold
| Putzel, M. D., three disinterested per-
sons, as commission forthwith to
| examine into the mental condition OF
| said Harry K. Thaw, and to deliver to
the court with all convenient speed the
facts and their opinions as to whether
at the time of such examination the
said Harry K. Thaw was in such a
or insanity SO as to be incapable of
rightly understanding his own condi-
ton, the nature of the charges against
| him and Of conducting his defense in
rational manner"
AS Messrs. Hartridge O'Reilly, Pea
body, Delmas, Gleason and McPyke
the six Thaw attorneys, left the
judges chamber one of them was
heard to remark:
he
Later, however, the attorneys
seemed to hold a brighter view. Mr.
Hartridge said:
Commission Means Delay
II did not expect a decision of anS
sort today, much less the one that has
] been rendered. We had hoped the
trial might go on without further in.
terruption. The commission will mear
considerable delay. Now that the de.
cision has been rendered, however, Il
| Is hard to see how Justice Fitzgerald
could have done otherwise. OF course
there was a conflict Of affidavits anc
he cannot understand how firmlS
| Thaw's counsel believe In his sanity. :
Messrs. Hartridge and O'Reilly Went
with Mrs. Evelyn Thaw to the Tomb.
and there in the hospital ward they
met the prisoner.
1T is all right, dearie," he said tC
his wife. II am not afraid of q com.
mission. / am sane man now, just
as sane as the judge himself, and
am sure that any fair-minded commits
sion will declare me So"
When Mr.. Hartridge came out HI
| declared:
"The fortitude Of the boy CThaw'
astonishes US sometimes, and certain,
| ly today"
Thaw Makes Statement
Later Thaw sent out a statement al
follows:
"This thing is perfectly satisfactor,
to me- / am sure / viii be able I,
satisfy the commission that / am SAM
at the present time. Anything justice
Fitzgerald does Is all right. He has
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
GIVES REASONS
FOR COMMISSION
Testimony of Opposing Sides Too
Much at Variance to Permit
Of Any Other Decision,
Says Justice

CONTINUED from Page One.)
and respect. District Attorney Jerome
seemed pleased at the result of his
efforts,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
Flrut RaffIes Victim

Allen OF 4102 South Main street Mr..
Allen came out OF the Angelus hotel at
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
co BACK TO THEIR
FLOODED HOMES
Determined CALIFORNIANS
TRY AGAIN
Will Not Give Up Their Islands, Sac.
ramento Reports, and New
Crops Will Be Put in
Immediately
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO. March 26.-Although
all of the rich island districts between
Courtland and Antioch-with the 'ex-
ception of Sherman, Grand, Sutter and
Merritt islands, Walnut Grove and
Reclamation district No. 744-are under
water, and thousands of dollars worth
OF damage has been done by the re-
cent flood, the reports from down the
river today may be termed encourage
ing.
The worst is over, the water is fall
ing, all districts not already flooded will
be saved, and the determined people
who We're driven from their homes are
preparing to go back and begin over,
TO build their leVees higher and to save
their productive lands from disaster in
the future.
Although telephone communication
with down-river points is still cut off,
an able review of the situation is given
by those arriving on number of boats
which came in today, who say that the
water in both the river and the over
flow is rapidly subsiding.
The backwater had fallen two feet at
Franklin this morning. Rio Vista re-
ports the river at that point at the
FALLEN stage of 14.7 feet. The water
ceased to run through the upper break
| uu lle Terry estate dDOVe COurtland,
but the whole of the Pearson district is
under water.
No Lives Lost
Large numbers of stock have been
lost but no human life was sacrificed
Inestimable damage has been done to
the asparagus and other crops, yet the
people are undaunted and say courage
ously that they would not give up their
islands for the highest drVest snof on
earth. Very few refugees are coming
to Sacramento save Japanese, who have
no liking for the experiences they have
had on the islands during the past few
days, but every steamer which arrives
brings large cargoes OF stock.
The relief boat Fruto, sent out a Sec
ond time at the instance of Governor
| Gillett when the cry for help came from
| Pearson district yesterday morning
arrived today with large number OF
horses and cattle. In speaking OF the
situation Captain 70. w Sawtelle said;
1.-THE Fruto went all the way to An
tioch and the situation may be summed
up briefly. Grand, Sutter. Merritt and
| Sherman islands are intact, as is Recla-
nation district No. 744. also Bradford
island on the San Joaquin. Everything
else is under water.
I'VE found the situation at COurtlano
extremely bad. Much stock has been
lost, but the majority has been saved
Pearson district was all under water
However, the food Is subsiding and the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

The pressure has risen steadily over
California and conditions are more
favorable for fair weather than they
have been for some time. The pressure
distribution is favorable fair fair,
somewhat warmer weather Wednesday,
with northerly winds.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

wise class" did not succeed in accom-
plishing that particular thing which
they were loudly declaring, during the
early part of the evening they would
do when the midnight hour arrived.
Look out for me today; that is my
tip to the wisest of the wise.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27

Only one "BROMO QUININE0
That is LAXATIVE BRoMO Quinine.
Similarly named remedies sometimes de-
ceiVe The first and original Cold Tab
let Is a WHITE PACKAGE with black
and red lettering, and bears the sigma
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-27
FOUR INCHES ABOVE NORMAL
BY Associated Pre-

Los Angeles Rainfall Record Passes
Nlneteen-lnch Mark
BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO March 2S.-Rain-
% AnHn
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PILES CURED IN a To ~ DAYS

PAzo OINTMENT n guaranteed 70 cure any
rlles 10 70 u days. o. money refunded.
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OUR AID DECLINED
CONTINUED from First Page.)

the Panama canal. Others rldlcule the
governors objection 10 the landing OF
American sailors armed or not armed.
The insecurity of the city IL evidenced
by the attempt on Friday night by six
negroes TO waylay midshipman from
the Missouri, who drew his revo.yer
and put his assallants to flight.
The streets OF the burned district
still reek with the stencil Of decaylng
bodies. The burned ruins were illuml.
mated only by the baleful glow OF the
corpse fires lining the roadways
Many bodies were recovered through
the aid of vultures, which perch In
iiocks on the ruins beneath which their
prey Is buried. As fast as they are I'M.
covered the bodies are thrown on the
funeral pyres and slowly consumed.
The total known dead is about 100
and Il Is believed there are ut least 10
pers )ns who have not been account
ed fo:.
Food is coming into the city from the
country districts, but famine Is great
~ feared.
The filthy condition OF the camps or
the parade grounds and race course,
where thousands Of persons are bud
died under lmprovlsed tents rooted
over ana sheathed with palm leaves.
causes grave apprehension OF an out
break Of typhoid fever
At present there Is most urgent
need for tents for several thousand
persons. hut the government Is not
supplied with these and Is not making
cndeavors 10 obtain them. Rain is
now threatening. aud II II should come
II will involve untold suffering on
homeless thousands.
The work OF clearing the streets Of
Kingston of'debris and recovering the
corpses Of the victims Of the earth
quake and connagratlon T. proceeding
rapidly.
The southwestern portion Of Kings
ton looks exactly as did ST. Pierre
after the eruption Of Mont relee.
Fully 1000 persons have been MAIN.
III for life. their legs or arms having
been amputaied. and those who sus
tained lesser wounds are counted b.
the thousands
On the whole. the conduct OF the pop
ulace has been admirable. There have
been only few attempts at looting
and these have been confined 10 rum
shops and provision stores.
The Catholic priests stationed IN
Kingston escaped unframed. but their
mission buildings have beer destroyed
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BtN NJ BRIEFS.
News Of the Town and village Told
Briefly for Busy Readera

Miss Hannah Madden is still iii at
the home OF her brother, John Mad.
den.
Mrs Patrick Casey who lives in the
western part OF the town, Is confined
to the house.
Capt. G. +. Burnham OF Bell VS.
Falls was the guest Of friends here
Friday and Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs Human 8. Brown will
leave February for California to
spend the remainder OF tbs winter.
Col. and Mrs Thos Harmon are ex.
pected 10 return home this afternoon
after spending week In Brattleboro,
Springfield and Chester.
The Corbett- Grennan ten pin to im
will go TO Hooslck Falls this AFTER
noon 10 play the O'Meara team this
evening. Thursday evening the North
Adams team will roll return match
here.
Mrs Chas Kells and daughter Mari
on have just returned from attending
her husbands funeral, Charles Kells
who died last week. lie leaves vile,
step daughter Marion, and own daugh.
ter Mary.
Parties from Troy we're 10 town las,
week negotiating for the rental the
coming summer OF the Aaron Robin
son property at Bennington C inter-
which wa, occupied last season by
Rev. Joseph Robinson OF White
Plains, N Y.