The San Francisco call., 1908-07-21

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police. The Greek WIS trying to leave
Reno on a train and was caught hurry
ing 10 the station from an isolated part
of town. He answers the description
of CIaudianes. but is now trying 10
prove his identity.
In order to prevent the discharge
from custody Of John Claudianes under
a writ Of habeas corpus or his removal
TO Oakland to- face direct charge of
dynsmiting the house occupied by
James l. Gallagher. the district attOr-
neys Office yesterday secured his for
NAL arrest on a misdemeantor warrant.
charging criminal conspiracy. Cal
sgher swore to the warrant in Judge
Shortalrs department Of the police
court at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
and included Peter Claudianes, brother
OF the prisoner. and "John Doe" and
Richard Roe" as defendants. The
specific crime to which the conspiracy
is alleged TO have been directed is the
dynamiting of the house occupied by
Gallagher at 1870 Nineteenth avenue,
Oakland, April %.
District Attorney Langdon refused to
state who were meant by John Doe"
and Richard Roe" One Of them, how
ever. is understood to be Felix Paudu-
veris. the close associate Of Abe Ruef
and Of Peter Claudianes. who has be-
come a fugitive and for whom a
search is now being made all over the
coast The other legal alias may refer
70 Ruef. who, according TO Special
Agent Burns. is suspected of compile
tty in the plot TO assassinate Gallagher
As a general charge Of conspiracy
has been made gainst John CIaudianes,
* f1ar ? h. f,a4F gorrr
in the warrants may not directly refer
10 any person definitely suspected or
the crime, but may have been inserted
in order TO be used against any sus-
pect who might later be taken into
custody.
Gallagher swore TO the four warrants
in the morning and Detective Thomas
Murphy Immediately went with the
John Claudianes warrant from Judge
Shortan's court to the city prison and
served the paper on the prisoner. Bail
was fixed at $4,000.
Claudianes was then bundled into an
automobile between Detectives Murphy
and Charles Goff and taken up 10 Su-
perior Judge Carroll Cooks court At
torney J. ". Scott met his client there.
District Attorney Langdon and Assist
ant District Attorney Louis Ward were
present in court.
The Claudianes habeas corpus matter
was the first on the court calendar.
When the judge called the case the
young Greek stood up in the dock. He
was freshly shaven and his soft shirt
was more tidy than the similar gar
ment he wore when he appeared in
public last week.
The district attorney presented the
return on the application for the writ
Of habeas corpus. Included with the
return was the statement Of Chief of
Police Biggy that Claudianes was now
held on a warrant. so that the allega-
tion Of the petition for the writ that
the prisoner was deprived of his lib
erty illegally was void. Included with
Biggy's return were the warrant and
the complaint. Attorney Scott stated
that he had no answer TO make to the
return, and Judge Cook immediately
dismissed the writ and remanded the
prisoner TO the custody Of the chief Of
police.
Claudianes was hurried from the
courtroom between Murphy and Gof
and locked up in his cell.
Claudianes will apear before Judge
ShortaI at 10 o'clock this morning to
be instructed regarding his rights be-
fore the court In swearing to the
complaint Gallagher did not give a
residence address, but subscribed him
self from the office OF his attorneys,
35s Pine street.
1t is understood that the intention is
not to try the prisoner on the con-
spiracy charge, but to hold him as long
as possible before giving him a pre-
liminary hearing. and then to transfer
him TO Oakland, where he will be di-
rectly charged with the crime Of dyna-
miting. This method leaves the prose-
cution free to pursue It's efforts to ar
rest Peter Claudianes and Felix Paudu-
veris before making known the nature
of the evidence against them The wires
were kept hot yesterday in the en-
oesvor OF the authorities to locate the
two men, but no clews as to their
'wherea bouts were secured.
Following the hling of the warrant
against him John Claudianes was
booked on the regular police register,
but IN spite of this fact he is still held
incomunicado. no one but agents Of
fthe district attorneys ONCE and his
own attorney being allowed to see him.
He was not taken out OF the Jail during
the day yesterday for further attempts
20 secure identfications, the attention
of the prosecution being turned to the
chase Of the two fugitfves. but visited
several parts of the city last night with
Special Agent Burns in the latter's
automobile
Attorney Charles S. Peery, whose
name has been mentioned in connection
Win the Cl6uoldncS case IOr the reason
that he was the attorney who defended
the men arrested for trailing William
J. Burns during his first attempt to run
down the perpetrators of the dynamit-
ing outrage and because OF the further
Circumstance that a letter from him
was found among the effects of Peter
Claudianes at Chico, declared yesterday
that he knows nothing of the Gallagher
case and has but slight acquaintance
with the Claudianes brothers
Peery states that his only connection
with Peter Claudianes was IN reIa
10 his testimony against Greek doc
TOR whom Peery vas prosecuting at
the request Of DR.. F. Dudley TAFT and
that this case was the only subject OF
any correspondence that ever passed
between them He says also that he
met John Claudianes in the same way
and found him to be so irresponsible
that he refused to go ahead with the
prosecution on the strength OF such
testimony, and the case was according
ly dismissed
4 defended the four chauffeurs as
would defend any clients whom 1 be-
lieved TO be falsely accused" he ex-
planned There is absolutely no con-