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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
JACQUES GUILTY OF
MARY EDDy'S MURDER,
Jury Asks Judge to Show Him All the
Mercy Possible The Mullins
Inquest at Cambridge.
JACQUES is GUILTY.

Providence, X. l.. April 3.--Earl V.
Jacques was found guilty of murder
by the jury in the superior court to-
night. Jacques was charged with the
murder Of Miss Mary Eddy, u mill
worker iii Greenvillc Il. l., Jan. .. Miss
EddyS pay envelope, containing $l3.13,
Was missing from her person and rob
hcry was ascribed as the motive of thn
killing. The penalty for murder in
Rhode Island is life Imprisonment.
After the verdict of the jury had
been declared Edward Il. TroWbridge
the foreman of the jury stated to the
court that the jury wished linn to
request that all the mercy possible be
shown to the defendant in the sen
tencc. The verdict was given at $50
tonight, after the jury had deliberated
for something over five hours
Tire trial of the case was begun
on Monday Of this week and the pre-
5entation Of evidence was completed
yesterday Arguments were made thi.;
morning b. Attorney General William,
3. GrechoIeE for the prosecution and
by j. r. tooncy and Daniel c. Arnold
both "f Providence for the defence.
'N't'l 't'' Jt' ''''i wv ~ 'if'' r,''' ~
Justice Charles T.. Stcarns they re
tired shortly before ! O'Clock this az
tor To consider the evidence and dc
eide urOn the verdict.
Only the court officials aud the at
turu"yS interested i'll the case were;
present when tn" verdict was given,
as \ recess for supper had been de-
cIarcd by the court. The respondent
received the verdict calmly, giving
no sign of emotion. His attorneys an
noIilced that a motion for Il now trial
would he made within the seven days
allowed ny the law. Sentence viii be
iilpOScd later.
The murder of Miss Mary Eddy who
WAS q woman about 30 years OF az"
employed in the Grccnvilc wooden mill
was committed on the night of Jan
. That was ray day in the mills and
Miss Eddy was on her way nome from
work with her pay envelope for TIL"
week, containing $l313 concealed in
her stocking. In an unlrcGucntcd
place not far from her home. she was
struck over the head from behind with
a club and fatally injured, dying
within an hour. After an invrstiga
ton, in which the town authorities and
police inspectors Of Providence took
part, Earl Y. jacques WAS placed under
arrest on Jan. IS.
1t was alleged that Jacques had
made a confession to Detectives John
H. Hannah and George =. Manahan
Of Providence in which he declared
that on tho night of Jan. > he secured
a dye stick from y pile behind the
Grccnvilc WOODEN mill and following
Miss Eddy along the lonely road to
ward her home, struck her down and
robbed her of her }ay envelope. Nc
cordilig to testimony introduced III tn"
trial by the prosecution, Jacques re
peated his confession 10 times after he
had made it to tn" Providence detcc-
tivcS.
The defence asserted that jacques
made the confession under pressure
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
BERkMAN DISCHARGED.
Police Find Nothing Against Him
Good Advice from the Judge.

New York, April 3.--Alexander Rerk-
man, the Anarchist. who was taken in
to custody after the Union Square
bomb throwing. was discharged today.
When he was arraigned in police court
the police said they had been unable
to get any evidence to connect Berk-
nan with the affair. In discharging
Berkman Magistrate Droege said
You had better unite with some
other organization than the Anarchists.
You say that you do not believe in
using violence in furthering your pur-
POSES but you must remember that the
police as well as the public at large
look upon an Anarchist as little better
than burglar: therefore you can't
keep out of trouble. The police are in
duty bound to keep an eye on you"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
CAPITAL CHAT.
Great Interest In German
Ambassadorship,
The Little Plot Against Or.
Hill Which Failed.
Many Maine People Are IN Wash.
ington This Spring.

Washington, ID. O.. April 81 SpeciaD
A half dozen big nations of the world
have been looking on curiOuSly now fol
almost a week since there was an out
cry that a good man had been stabbed
in the back over at Berlin. 1t was
intended to undo prospective United
States Ambassador to Germany, Dr.
David Jayne Hill. who has been slated
for that sl7,5oo JOB which. next to the
Ambassadorship at the court of ST
James and the misunderstanding at
Paris, is regarded as the most desira-
BILE blue ribbon the President Of the
United States has to bestoW for service
abroad.
An Washington has been ttilating
with the gossip, for DR.. and Mrs. Hiil
resided here number of years
and are looked upon by half of all
the 800, 900 people in the District of CO.
lunbiu as neighbors and friends. There
have been all sorts of explanations ana
statements. Assertions from Berlin
have been positive that Kaiser Will
helm never said that DIR. Hill would
not be acceptable as Ambassador from
the United States and that Or. Hill
would be very welcome at that post
and yet until day or two ago no one
seriously believed the honor would ever
go to him. TIL" matter of the accepta-
bilty of an ambassador, who repre-
scnts The person of the highest official
of the Government to which he is ac-
credited, is exceedingly delicate, and
when the thrust was made it made a
wound Nhich could hardly be healed,
unless Emperor William personally
asked for Or. IiI!. which he is now
said - have done. Behind it ali is q
most Amazing story.
Perhaps President Roosevelt could
have struck back in some way and yet
he cannot fore" upon thy Kaiser any
person as ambassador who is not
wanted To send such an @mI';tastdcr
Wotlhl h" worse than sending 10 am
bas%ldur at AL. which leads up 20 the
idea, often expressed, that there is no
actual need tfcS" days for permanent
ambassadors anyway, as practically all
the business between nations could be
transacted direct between their for
cign Offices by letter or cablcSram. OF
course the residence Of an ambassador
in II foreign country contributes some
relatin and that IS ot some account
in The long run 1t remains, however,
that most of an ambassadors duties
are social duties and that he does not
have to work very hard.
Because the work is 50 light and
tie duties 50 largely social, the ambas-
Scholarships in recent years have been
going TO people Of large wealth and
great Social ainbitionS-a practice that
Pr. SIdent Roosevelt to Il degree, would
like to break up. IN former times hi"
campaign contributions helped to these
alnbaSS;tdOrShipS and the people Sc
lectcG had money 50 that they could
spare $2oo.h'M Il year, on more, to keep
up Il magnificent establishment. This
was the case with Ambassador Char
lenlaGne Tower, now at Berlin. but
formerly at Vienna He was not very
well known when he was first sent
abroad. except as very rich man,
with Influential backing in his home
state of Penn&y lvalia. However, while
Continued on Page Eighty
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
THE MULLEN INQUEST,

Cambridge, Mass. April 5. More
than score of persons had been sum-
moned as witnesses to the inquest to-
day into the death Of Miss Anne
Mullins. the young woman whose body
was found lust Saturday in Il vacant
field. with the head almost severed by
two deep :,aShcS. The list of witnesses
who We're called upon to testify in
cluded every person who was known to
have auy connection whatever with the
case, us almost a week has passed
since the trding of the body without
the discovery of u clue and the officials
We're determined to make u definite
start toward the discovery of the
discovery Of the murderer as both pO-
lice and county officials have declared
that the young woman met her death
at the hands of another person than
herself
It. is usual To hold an inquest after
a death has been declared to have
resulted from a known cause but the
absence of the results which the po-
lice have met in their search for the
murderer made some action necessary
to go over the case closely, and an
iUIutSl was Hffeluch upon Us bIeIHlE
an opportunity to place suspected per-
sons upon their oath, with the chances
Of admission at tn" hands Of an cX-
pert cross examiner.
District Attorney John Higgins. con
Quoted the examination Of witnesses.
which was held behind closed doors.
When tn" inquest was begun today
it was thought that it might have
to be continued tomorrow, because Of
the larg" number Of witnesses. AT its
conclusion Medical Examiner William
ID. Swan will make his rcpor;
The morning session was almost en-
tireIy confined to hearing the tcsti-
nIoIy of PROF ssnr and Mrs. Won
Jasen;tliil at whose home Miss Mullins
WaS employed as Il domestic.
They both gave some account of the
woman while Mrs. Won .Iagcmam
described a Strang" man who went
away VITA Miss Mullins on the even
ing before her body was discovered
in he field about two miles distant.
The two boys who found :hc body
gave their testimony and they were
followed BY Medical Examiner Swan
who performed the autopsy.
Peter Dow ling, who admitted the day
after the murder that nc knew the
y oman, Was III the inquest room rear
~ - minutes and was detained for
further examination later in .lic day.
He was followed by J. l.. Perkins.
another friend of Miss Mullins whose
examination WAS somewhat shorter.
Perkins was also held for another APP
pcarancc at the inquest.
Peter bowling and j. l.. Perkins.
were questioned at length following
the noon recess and the inquest WAS
continued until 5 o'clock, when, Is
witnesses having been heard during
The day Adjournment was; had until
~ O'Clock next Friday morning.
District Attorney Higgins refused to
make amy statement after tn" inquest
and it could not be learned il airy
Continued on Page TWo.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04

Reed Trefethen. aged II. grandson
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Trefethen
Of Trefethens Landing, Peaks Is
land. was accidentally shot by the dis
charge of a repeating shot gun while
out cunning near Ye Headlend Inn
Friday morning, the gun being dis
charged while he was climbing fence
His condition is serious. His father
was killed Jan. 16, 1904, by the acct
dental discharge of gun and his
mother committed suicide by drown
ing June 4, 1904.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04

technical schools in the United Stptes,
Ctnadl ana New toundland and who re-
tired after % years service or having
reached the age of o. years have taught
L, years preceding. From the benefits of
the trust were excluded institutions sup
ported by state or colonial government
and schools under sectarian control.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04

Jewish societies in London are agi-
tating the problem of restoring the
p,;rc Hebrew of antiquity to use as
the Jewish national language.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
THE WEATHER.
FAIR AND WARMER.

Washington, April 3.-Forecast for
New England: Fair Saturday, slight
~ warmer in west and south portions;
Sunday fair, warmer; fresh west to
northwest winds becoming variable,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
Boston Forecast.

Boston, April $.-Forecast for Bos-
ton and vicinity: Saturday fair and
warmer; Sunday partly cloudy to
cloudy. probably local rain by night.
| warmer: westerly to $outherly winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
Gov. Guild Has Fairly Good Day.

Boston, April 3.-Dr. Winslow at
1915 p NJ, issued the following bull
letin: Gov Guild has had fairly
comfortable day. There has been no
marked change since the morning"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-04
P0pulists Nominate;
Thomas.E. Watson.

st. Louis. April For President of
the United States, Thomas II. Watson
of Georgia.
For Vice President of the United
States. Samuel williams of Indiana.
The foregoing ticket was nominated
today by the Populist party conven-
ton after two stormy sessions during
which the Nebraska and Minnesota
delegations boIted because they could
not bring about u postponement of the
convention until after nominations had
been made by the Democratic national
convention so that the Peoples party
might nominate William j. Bryan for
President should he be defeated at the
Democratic convention.
Jacksonville, Fla. April 3.--Thomas
l., Watson spent today i'll Jackson
willie and news Of his nomination as
the Populist candidate for the Presi-
deucy was carried to him by an Asso-
ciated Press correspondent. When
asked if he would accept the nominal
ton Mr., Watson said:
Not having been officially advised
Of the action of the convention, think
, It would be rather premature for me
to say that | will accept the no'nina-
.ion. have read the outline of the
.platform and [ will not make any posi-
tive statement as to acceptance unti
7 reach my home at Thomson. Ga
for which point ] leave tonight
Jewish societies in London are agl-
| tating the problem of restoring the
20
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08
FIRES MADE FROM ASHES
PROVE VERY SATISFACTORY
A Remarkable and Practical Demon
strntion Made In Practical and
Successful Manner.-A Great
Saving.

BY moistening coal ashes with a
solution of oxalic acid, rock salt
and water, the board of education
is heating all the public school
buildings with fires made from ash
es and saving $4,000 a year by It.,
according to a report made by Pat
rick Jones. superintendent of school
supplies. Some coal. but very little.
is used. and the jantors are engaged
in a contest to see which can use
the least coal and the most ashes.
Instead of putting waste coal and
ashes in the ash cans both are now
used as far as possible. Committee
chairmen and supervisors of jani-
janitors in which rules for mixing
the solution are given as follows:
Hot water must be used in dis
solving the acid and rock salt. To
every gallon of water necessary add
two ounces of oxalic acid and one
pound of rock salt"
The ashes may be treated and
showed directly back into the fur
mace. Where pea coal is used 1t
can be mixed with the ashes in the
proportions of two parts of ashes
to one of coal. The ashes may be
reused by moistening them again.
The committee estimates that the
saving should not be less than 25
and may be as high as 70 per cent.
The committee had made expert
ments for q year In school No. FL
Manhattan. OF 800 reports sent In
more than 70 per cent show saw
ing of coal. Commercial oxalic ac-
i'd costs 10 cents a pound and rock
salt 40 cents a hundredweight.-Ne
York Evening World.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08
PRESIDENTIAL BATTLES
WAGED IN YEARS PAST
The Names Of the Candidates Of the
Two Great Parties Since 1856
Northern and Southern
Votes.

Baltimore SUM-
There have been thirteen cam
paigns by the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties. Following is a list
of the Republican candidates:
1S56-Fremont and Dayton.
1S60-Lincoln and Hamlin.
1S64-Lincoln and Johnson.
1S6S-Grant and Colfax.
1S72-Grant and Wilson.
1S76-Hayes and Wheeler.
1SS0-Garfield and Arthur.
1SS4-Blaine and Logan.
1SSS-Harrison and Morton.
1S92-Harrison and Reid.
1S9G--McKinley and Hobart.
1900-McKinley and Roosevelt.
1904-Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
Here follows the list of Democratic
candidates:
1S5G-Buchanan and Brecken-
ridg.
1S60-Douglas and Johnson.
1S64-McClellan and Pendleton.
1S6S-Seymour and Blair.
1S72-Greeley and Brown.
1S76-Tilden and Hendricks.
1SS0-Hancock and English.
1SS4-Cleveland and Hendricks.
18SS-Cleveland and Thurman.
1892-Cleveland and Stevenson.
1S96-Bryan and Sewall.
1900-Bryan and Stevenson.
1904-Parker and Davis.
"By the northern Democrats, and
Breckenridge and Lane by the south
ern Democrats.
The number of electoral votes re-
ceived by the two parties in these
contests and the pluralities are
shown here.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

Major-General John f. Weston
will take command of the Philippine
division of the army, relieving Major
General Leonard Wood at Manila
next Saturday.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08
NEWS FORECAST
FOR NEXT WEEK
Many Big Political Gatherings are to be Held Including
One in Denver--Congress to Talk Of Finance---Lin.
coins Bnthday-Numerous Other Events.

The National Democratic club will
hold dinner In New York on Lin
coins birthday. The speakers will
be d. Cady Herrick, who ran for gov
ernor of New York in 1904; John B.
Stanchfield, who ran for governor
in 1900; Bird s. Coler, who also ran
in 1902; and Edward M. Shepard.
who ran for mayor in 1901. None
of the speakers will say anything
against Bryan, it is reported.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

Speaking of Col. Balm who comes
to this city next Tuesday night, l..
H. Maus. manager of the Sidney, Ia.
Chautauqua. says: HE was unani-
mously pronounced the best of the
program and we had the best of the
land. He is the most successful lee
turer have ever had on my plat
form"
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08
= = = = = = : = ++++++
CANNON TRAPPED.
New York WORLDLY

tNeW 1Ork WOrlQ.)
+ Twice during the present ses- I
+ sion the speaker has caused to I
= be read aloud rule 13, which 4
+ forbids smoking on the floor. 4
= Today. while the house was In I
+ committee of the whole on the I
+ bill for a new immigration sta I
= tion at Philadelphia. Uncle Joe
= walked down the center aisle 1
= with lighted cigar between his 4
+ fingers. A ripple of laughter I
+ ran through the chamber, but I
= he was ignorant of its cause. 4
+ When he stopped to talk with 4
= Representative Goulden of New 4
+ York Mr.. Goulden took a cigar I
Z from his own pocket and start I
+ ed to light it. 4
= Caught in my own trap, by I
+ George!" exclaimed the speak 4
= er, and darted for the lobby.
= u . u = - u q u q u 4. . =
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania,
who is nursing lively presidential
boom, will make his first speech out
of his home state on Tuesday, when
he will be the guest of honor at the
annual dinner of the Lincoln club
of Kalamazoo, Mich. On the follow
ing night he will address the Pitts
burg chamber of commerce at its
Lincoln day banquet.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

The fifth general convention of
the Religious Educational asso,cia-
tion will open Tuesday in Washing
ton. lasting three days. Among the
speakers will be President Roose-
velt, several prominent congressman
and distinguished clergymen and re-
ligious workers from all parts of the
country.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

The trial trip of the new scout
cruiser Chester will take place on
Wednesday over the usual course off
Rockland, Me.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

sThe electoral vote of the Breck-
enridge-Lane ticket of the southern
Democrats; the Douglas-Johnson
ticket of the northern Democrats re-
ceived IL.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

The armored cruiser North Caro-
lima will undertake its third trial
trip off the Chesapeake Capes next
Saturday.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

The secretary of the navy and Mrs.
Metcalf will give a dinner in honor
of President and Mrs. Roosevelt on
Tuesday evening.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

The National Association OF Rail-
road Agents will open its twelfth
annual convention in Los Angeles
Cal, next Saturday.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

Lincoln's birthday will be observ-
ed by various organizations all over
the country, and several speakers of
national prominence will address
meetings and banquets to be held in
New York and Washington on We'd
nesday night.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

One of the most important events
of the week abroad will be the cele-
bration In London on Wednesday of
the S0th birthday of George Mere
dith, England's leading man of let
ters.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

Harness oil by the gallon. quart
or pint. Fred Mantey.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08
y your horse interferes. try Hiatt
on your next shoeing.
BARGAINS
BARGAINS.

BARGAINS.
No. 1880 acres of Lice sandy
soil. miles from Frulta. all but
acres below Grand Valley canal.
High Line In this section 10 heli
at from $4,000 to 5000 per a4sss
S26OO.Oo
No. 943.-5 room house on Chipeta.
Terms. $4,000 cash. balance SIS
per month. S1O5O.OO
No. 263.-Pair of lots on Main
street, near Ninth. $fO5O.O07
We have some choice bargains In
lard near Price. Utah. Now is the
time to buy this land as there IL sv-
cry indication that prices are going
to advance in that section.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

Colorado Republicans will also
likely declare themselves in favor of
Secretary Taft at meeting of the
state central committee in Denver on
Wednesday. The time and place for
the Republican state convention to
nominate delegates to the national
convention will be decided.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-The atten-.
tion of congress will likely be largely
occupied next week with the various
financial measures that have been
suggested as remedies for the pres
ent condition of the money strin-
gency. The Aldrich financial bill
will probably be taken up for debate
on Monday and kept steadily before
the Senate as unfinished business
until 1t Is disposed of. Senator AL
drich. who will engineer the meas
ure. has made careful survey of the
situation as regards probable debate,
and is OF the opinion that not more
than two weeks will be consumed in
discussing the measure. Senators
who have intimated that they Will
make remarks concerning the bill
have been urged to prepare their
speeches as soon as possible in order
that little time may be lost.
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

Delegates pledged to the candi-
dacy of Secretary Taft will be select
ed at Republican convention of the
Sixth Tennessee congressional dis
trict. to be he,d Wednesday in Nash
Vile. A candidate for congress and
and an elector will also be selected
The daily sentinel., 1908-02-08

The Republicans of Ohio will be
given an opportunity to express by
direct vote their choice for the party
candidate for the president at pri-
maries to be held on Tuesday. In
all of the preliminary skirmishes be-
tween the Taft and Foraker forces
the former have been successful and
there Is little doubt that Secretary
Taft will be the popular choice of the
Republican voters of the state.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-07-10

Tonight and tomorrow night, Mr..
Geo. B. Howard and company will
present another very laughable COM
edy, Mrs. Temples Telegram" 1t
will doubtless duplicate the success
Of "Christopher Jr.' The plot is as
follows: Jack Temple, a young mar
ried man, attends an exposition. The
machinery of the Ferris wheel be-
comes entangled in some way, and
the car that TEN pie occupies is
somewhere near the clouds, and he
is compelled to spend the night in
the car with one other occupant, the
wife of his best friend, Frank
Fuller. Temple does not know that
she is the wife of his friend, as he
has never met her before. When he
returns home next morning his wife
refuses to believe his story, ami so,
finding that fiction works better, he
invents a story of having spent the
night at the house of a friend, John
Brown, of Elm avenue, Pickleton.
While Brown and Pickleton are both
inventions of his Imagination they
really exist. Mrs. Temple, who is of
a suspicious nature, sends tele-
gram to John Brown, of Elm avenue,
Pickleton, to come to her house at
once. Fuller, in the meantime, has
come to London and naturally looks
up his friend Temple. They acct