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The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
Morris Gibbs Believes He Has
Found Man Who Pur-
chased Oil Can
Without Hesitancy Tells Detec.
tives That Accountant Made
Purchase in His Store
Police Believe That Firebug
Had an ACcOmplice in
Crime

Morris Gibbs. hardwareman of z104
Fillmore street, picked out Fred
TetsaII, emBezzIIng book keeper of
ROsenthaPs store, from a crowd of
men as the one 10 whom he sold an
oil can like the one found I'm the
store.
Police search city for mysterious ae-
eOmplice. young and blonde haired.
who bought oil can with the man
supposed 10 have been TetsaIL
Isaac Roseathal. president of the
robbed firm, says TetsalPs peeuls-
tiOns will reach far above the figure
set by the book keeper himself,
$4,000.
Private detective finds key In TetsaIl'S
house which will unlock back door
of ROseDtkaFs store from inside, hut
not from outside.
Relatives and others account for Tet-
SAILS movements during the entire
night before the fire.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10

~ IC6ED out from crowd of men
as the one who had bought an
oil can like the one found in
ROsenthaTs store after its at
tempted destruction by fire. the identi-
fication coming from the hardware man
who had sold it. Fred j. Tetsall. con-
fessed thieving book keeper of the
Van Ness avenue shoe firm. yesterday
saw the finger of guilt leveling toward
him as the firebug. Because he hesi-
tated to swear a man into convict's
stripes unless there was no possibility
of mistake. Morris Gibbs. the hardware
dealer who selected TetsaH as the oil
can purchaser, refused to make his
Identification absolute. The fact re-
mains. however. that he picked Tetsall
from a group of more than dozen men
and that TetsaIl answers in every par
tieular the description given to the
police by Gibbs several weeks ago as
that Of the man who bought the oil can.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
PERFECT DEVICE
FOR MEASURING
THOUGHT WAVES
instrument Registers Strength
of All Human Emotions
Experienced
Boston Savants Declare Electro
Motive Force Is Generated
in Brain
Doctors Garry on Delicate Ex,
periments, Which Bring
Amazing Results
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

lOpcCtui ItSpUICH 10 4 nc ACItl
BOSTON, Jan. 9.-That pleasure, pain,
love- hate and all the other complex
human emotions felt in the daily life
of every man and woman create a dis
stinct electromotive force which may
be trapped. studied, classified and
the amazing results just secured by
two prominent Boston investigators.
who have forged ahead of the scientific
world on the subject
BY the genius of DR.. Boris sidis, a
famous alienist and psychologist, and
Or, Herbert Kalmus, professor OF
physics at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. the way is lighted to
the solution of problems which have
vexed the greatest minds since the
middle ages. Into a jungle of tangled
ideas the searchlight of truth has been
directed by Drs sidis and Kalmus.
Experiment Successful
Scene, laboratory at technology
Drs. Sidis and Kalmus, keen eyed and
watchful are grouped about Dr. w
Bernis. who is connected with strange
appearing electrical device Dr. Ber-
mis- is given difficult problem to solve
| a calculation that would fully exert his
mental faculties and absorb his atten-
tien.- suddenly ee--lesvy. weight is
sent craehin & Ia. the floor The mem
tai shock caused by the unexpected
sound instantly created the emotion OF
surprise. Immediately the Investigators
eyes were turned to the indicator or
their appartus. Abeam of light. sharp
and clear, moved slowly over scale
and registered In cenfimeters precisely
the degree of. surprise. felt by their
subject, and a theory thereby became
demonstrated fact.
The foregoing recounts one of the ex-
periments. There have been many 9TH
ers equally interesting and equally sue
cessful with the emotion tester" To
detect and record the strength and
character of thought waves is the pur-
pose of the apparatus. and this device
has already shown that these waves are
electrical.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
Answer to Divorce Suit Admits
Kissing, but Denies She
Neglected Children
Former Music Hall Singer Says
Her Husbands Complaint
Is. Too Harsh
Naval Constructors Action Will
Be Expedited by Reply of
His Spouse

Mrs Maude Evans, wife OF Naval
Constructor Holden A. Evans. and de-
fendant in divorce suit brought on
Thursday by her husband, does not
contest the material point In the case,
that she permitted Lieutenant Frank
lin Wayne Osburn, L. S. N, to kiss
her Christmas day, but yesterday she
filed an answer to the complaint, in
which she defends herself against the
charge that she lacks maternal affec-
ton. Unchallenged and undenied, she
allows to stand the allegation that she
and Osburn We're discovered in an in
discretion; but the pretty woman. who
once was music hall singer. denies
that she neglected her children
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
Electrical Machine

Although the emotion tester has
been built and experimented with in
secret, Doctors Sidis and Kalmus. have
written a description of it. The ma
chine has an electric circuit, which is
completed by the subject, whose wrists
and ankles are connected by the cleo
trodes. The defections, in the cur
rent, as caused by the emotions, are
read by means of a beam OF light re-
hected from mirror attached to the
moving coil of the instrument to a
telescope with a scale
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
What the Experiments Show

In their own language, Doctor Sidis
and Doctor Kalmas declare:
Our experiments clearly point to the
fact that active physiological. sensory
and emotion processes initiated in a
living organism bring about electro
motive forces"
Where the emotions are born and
what causes them have for ages beer
the subject of speculations by philoso-
piers. scientists and the humblest
humans.
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
EARTHQUAKE

Bishop ring around sun observed again by
Honolulu physician as result OF the tenn
blors. Page Al
Strange rise and fall OF waters OF Lake
Geneva FOR two days before earthquake IN
Italy. Page Al
California's contribution 10 date to the earth
quake sufferers in Italy and Sicily totals $751;
4S7.OJ. Page Al
Money to aid earthquake sufferers comes from
all sections OF state and big benefits are being
arranged in this city Page IL
True conditions at Messina are concealed
by rigid censorship of newspaper corre-
spondence Page II
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
LEGISLATURE
GRAFT

Former Supervisor Cofey TO be put tris
tomorrow for accepting bribe for trolley frsI
chiee Page ?
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
Formal Answer Prepared

DIsregarding the fact that such an
act might look like collusion between
the couple Judge Harrier prepared the
wife's formal answer to the complaint.
1t was confined almost entirely to de-
mails Of the allegations made by the
naval constructor except the charge
that she was kissed in the husbands
presence by the naval officer. Lieuten-
ant osburn's name did not appear in
the original complaint and it was not
necessary for it to appear in the
answer
Mrs. Evans signed the document
thus drawn up returned to san Fran
cisco.
The Evans case has been set for Mon
day morning at SIS o'clock. Mrs.
Evans said last evening that she would
not appear at Fairfield at the hearing.
nor would she be represented by coun-
sci nor in any way oppose the suit.
When asked if she would offer any OBJ
Jections TO the children being placed in
the custody of their father, she simply
said: They will be well cared for
there. But / don't know just what I
shall do in that matter"
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
Implored to Tell Truth

Tetsan was confronted by Gibbs yes
terday afternoon in the Office OF Captain
of Detectives Anderson when Tetsalrs
wife had just departed after impIoring
him to tell all the truth. 1t was a
dramatic moment As Gibbs entered
the room the suspect was standing in
the midst of a group of plain clothes
detectives.
DO you see here the man who
bought the can?" asked Captain Ander-
son.
Peering searchingly at the assembled
men Gibbs without hesitation. waved
his hand toward TetsaH and said:
you'd better have that man stand
ing behind you stay want to hear
him talk.
Tetsans face blanehed. then he
sprang forward.
What do you meang' he shouted,
Il had nothing to do with that fire.
swear before God 1 never did," he
cried. bowing his head and stepping
back again.
Morris Gibbs was interviewed in his
store at 2104 Fillmore street last night.
He said:
Il don't want to swear that Tetsal
was the man who bought the can of
me. but / Will say that he is just like
the man described to the police before
/ ever saw him. There were two men.
and / remembered the older one par
ticularly because of his manner and
because he. was buyfng something Z
don't sell once in six MONTHS coal
oil can His accent was marked He
talked like a foreigner. I thought ne
was a German who hadn't been in
America verv long. lis articulation
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
SPORTS
MARINE

Pacific Mail liner China arrives from the
orient with shipment OF raw silk valued at
100000. Page AZ
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
Answer Expedites Trial

If Mrs. Evans had not filed an answer
20 the suit the trial could not have
been called until ten days had elapsed.
Then the case would have gone by de-
fault. Her answer expedites the pro-
ceedings, and if the Solano judge does
not raise the point of possible colIusion
the interlocutory decree should be
granted by $3.50 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Constructor Evans passed Yesterday
-at his work at Mare island.
When seen last evening Mrs. Evans
said; The reason / entered a denial
to the charges brought by nv nus
band is that did not think | had been
as cruel to him as he said | was. The
complaint was too harsh. Now we
were different temperamentally. but
never purposely treated him cruelty. ]
never neglected my home to go to So
cial affairs and it was not true that !
neglected my phildran
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
Mysterious AccOmpIice

INy StCI IUuS HNIVIIIpIINC
With Gibbs sensational Identification
of TetsalI came the injection into the
light haired. younsish man who was
with the man supposed 10 be Tetsail
when he bought the oil can. In sup
port of this Theory, should the em-
bezzling book keeper be proved guilty
police have established an almost com
plete alibi for the prisoner from his
wife and mother in law Another de-
velopment is that Tetsalrs peculations
it is said by the Rosenthal company.
than TetsalTs own estimate of $4,000
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
SUBURBAN

Dramatic scenes iT court follow awarding Gus
tody OF little boy TO father Page 81
lie Beuf held on second charge Of embezzlemeni
from Hale's store Page 3e
Expert compares signors handwriting on
forged documents. Page Is
Mrs. Sarah /. Winchester, recluse heress sues
contractor for damages. Page 10
New chapter Of Delta Delta Delta sorority Il
be installed at Stanford university. Page 81
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
COAST

Southern Pacific and other roads accused
0vercharging shippers OF freight Page
Clothes worth 81 oO0 taken by burglars fr,
Stockton store. Page
Three men killed and two injured in rallro
accident. Page
Bracket obtains rights Of way for electric TO
from Modesto TO River Bank. Page
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
EDITORIAL

The country well rid OF Foraker. Page IS
A state reforrnatory needed. Page rs
The cost OF making gas. Page IS
Ripley railroad jeremiah. Page IS
LEGISLATURES
Senator Mccartney Of Los Angeles places
mother in laws name payroll as porter. but
omits the Mrs" in official list Page 4.
Snator Curtin introduces bill that might re-
lieve unsuspecting municipalities Of valuable
franchises. Page "a
Bob" Beardslee slated for ehairmanship of as
sembly committee ways and means Page "A
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10

Continued ON Page is, Column )
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TO-DAY
TELEPHONE KEARNY SO
WEATHER CONDITIONS

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10. 1909
The San Francisco call., 1909-01-10
STOCK MARKET

Violent break in traction stock has depres
ing effect on New York stock market. Page
CITY
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-23

Truly the greatest opportunity ever offered This sale will be
years the NeverTo BeFogoten Saea sale where
merchandise will be sod but almost given The firm
all the contained the and which
owned formerly by the New York Consolidated Coers Not
dollars worth of goods will be carried y
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-23
Read These Prices
Boys Heavy Suits and Overcoats


$3.50 and $780, sehoenheld price, $40 and $3.50
Boys Refers and Top Coats -
New York Consolidated Co $780, schoenfeds price $500
Bows bst Suits sold by the New York Consolidated
Clothiers 81 0O Schoenhelds price 9o'9o
Bows extra that sold by the New York
Consolidated Coher for $500; Schoen6eds price. $3.50
Lot Of Mems Suits Overcoa sold by the New York Consolidated
Clotiers for $780, $3.50 and $780, in sizes SO chest
measures Schoen6eld's price. S4sO
Young Mems 3 Long Pants Suits for young men from
years old that sold by the New York Consolidated
Cotiers $1,000 $1,000 and $780, Schoenhds price $9p
Mems fine Dress Suits and sold by the New York
Consolidated Clotiers $780, $4,000 $225o and $1,000;
Schoenfelds price, $144o and. :Sl19V
Over 5000 pairs Boys Knee Pants Corduroy Casmes ATWOOD
Chev6 Serges Pants that sold by the New York con-
odaed Clothiers $780, 7c and 5oc Schoenhed price,
1Sc 29c &c., 48c and. .oSc
Mems Hats New York Consolidated price, o Soenfed price $50
Mems Hats New Consolidated price, $780, schoenfelds
Mems Hats New York Consolidated price, ssso Schoenheds
price ............ .S14o
Over pairs Mems Dress Working Trousers that sold BY the
New York Consolidated up $500; Schoenheds price from 9S
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-23
Max Phi. SchoenfieId

Mems best ovefas sold York Consolidated clothiers 75
Scaoen6elds price .... 48c
Mems best Aeced lined Jndwear Consolidated for
SOC; schoen6eld,s price 4 49, ssc
Mems Atwood Pahts by Consolidated $3.50 Schoen-
fields price @1os
Mems Shirts sold BY Consolidated and S15o;
Schoenheds price y sec
genuine Coats S6d by New York Cono=
dated for $780, $500 and $28g schoen6elds new 80
strictly aloo Dress Suits New York Consolidated Clothiers
sold them for $1,000 Schoenfeds price. $500
Mems high grade Dress Suits which sold by e New York Con-
Cohers $1,000 and $780, SShoen6elds
price .z.......... ............ $3.50
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-23
BILL OF SALE
Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. %, 1909.

= Philadelphia Pa, Nov. %, 1909
Know all en by these presents that Salisbury OF the city OF
Philadelphia State OF Pennsylvania by power authority being
of five representing the holders and
the New York Consolidated
Clothing Manufacturers located No 1928 Market Street. the city
Wheeling State West Virginia County Of Ohio the building
formerly known Peabody Building being owned and known
as the Mutual Savings Building that Sasburg for value
do hereby bargain transfer and sell this day unto Max Philip
Schoened stock merchandise appraised and valued at
$ O00 being remainder the stock known the New York
Consolidated Clothing (which turned by the
the Western District Of Pennsylvania and the
Virginia 20 the dollar in bank
rupy proceedings that hereby bargain transfer and sell unto Max
Philip Schoen6ed legal heirs and and hold
merchandise forever and having received full value
payment stock which the remainder Of the bankrupt stock
known York Consolidated Clothing Manufacturers
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-23
Affidavit
Made by N. A. WILKINS, Mgr. of
Clothing Department.
City of Wheeling,
City of Wheeling,
State of West Va,
County of Ohio,

me- John Gompers Notary Public in and fer said
came A. Wilkins who being duly according law says
follows: .5
A. Wilkins full charge of and of the cloth
inc department the store known as the New York Consolidated Cloth
ing Manufacturers No. street. hereby make the
declaration that the entire stock clothing by and
ssg 90 worth of SUITS overcoas coats rain coats
single and have been remarked and still
retain original selling price which these goods sold the
bankrupt advertised during the last weeks by the New York
Consolidated Clothing Manufacturers.
that have received orders sell out this entire
stock at reduction per per below the bank
rup price which means per off the regular prices
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-22

gram of navy Improvement. the founda-
tlons for which have been laid in re-
cent times. The country is quite well
Informed about the reorganization of
the navy yards, as far as affects their
operations and administration. That
is to be worked out in the autumn, and
some changes are to be expected. 1ney
may not be sweeping, for. there is rea-
son to expect that the reforms in that
particular which Secretary Newberry
instituted in the closing months of the
Roosevelt administration will stand in
all essentials. The training of officers
and men to high degree of fighting
efficiency was well under way before
President Taft took office, and Mr..
Meyer became Secretary of the Navy.
There are still questions of greater eff
fciency of the personnel, however,
which are not to be lost sight of. For
instance, younger men are to be select
ed as commandments of navy yards and
the nominations of admirals. about to
retire, to serve a few months and thus
attain some added distinct ton for them
selves will be discontinued. But whether
1t be in the Improvement of the per-
sornel or the material, President Taft
and Secretary Meyer want a Navy
trained to the minute and able, like a
fire company, to perform service of the
highest efficiency whenever there is an
alarm
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-22

a Board Of Military Design is soon to
take the place of the Board. of Con-
struetion. Secretary Meyer has chosen
some of it's members and all the names
viii be announced in few weeks. They
are to be the best experts the Secretary
can find in the Navy, who are to give
their time entirely to. questions of
design and to passing Judgment upon
the work turned out by the Bureau Of
Construction, to which all naval con-
structors are attached.
The constructors and also the mem
bers of the Board of Military Design
will be expected to originate ideas, as
well as to keep track Of what the con
struction corps of foreign navies are
doing. Certain of the experts will
voyage to Europe occasionally and
study the operations of the most mod
ern ships of war on that side. Naval
attaches of our embassies in Europe
have been expected to do that. but as
a matter of fact naval attaches have
generally been chosen because of po-
litical considerations and, for that or
some other reason, have not helped the
department as much as they should. The
experts of the Board on Military De-
sign are accordingly to go after infor-
nation at first hand.
Much other reorganization work for
the Navy is either under way or con-
templated. It all fits into the big pro-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-22
MEYER WANTS
STRONGER NAVY
fCont1nued from Page One.)


base in Southern California. 1t may
be that Secretary Meyer viii journey
as far as the Pacific Coast before Con
gress convenes and the time comes
when he must appears before the Nava-
Committees of Senate and House to an
swer questions about appropriations and
give his opinion as TO where the money
for navy bases should be expended. He
has already directed Assistant Secre.
tary of the Navy Winthrop to make an
inspection trip to the Pacific Coast.
The naval bases on the Atlantic
Coast are receiving his immediate at
tention this autumn, for such obvious
reasons as their proximity to Washing
ton. Formidable as the department
would make the Pacific naval bases,
those of the Atlantic are regarded as
quite as important. The battlefield
is being kept on the Atlantic for the
present and probably viii be kept there
for a number of years. Then the great
naval powers of the world are just
across the Atlantic and any program
of naval efficiency must be studied
with reference to their activities.
Signs point eventually to the main
fenanee of Portsmouth, Boston, New
York and Norfolk as the great naval
bases on the Atlantic Ocean. That
means the other yards will eventually
be abandoned, although it is likely to
be a question Of several years before
Congress can be brought to acquiesee.
There are powerful Senators who will
resist any legislation to, cripple the
yards at New Orleans, Pensacola, Port
Royal, and League Island, which is near
Philadelphia. All these yards or
stations are matters of local pride.
League Island. of course, is now a big
naval establishment but it has tortu-
GUS channel and in many respects is not
desirable for base The yard at Ports
mouth. N. H., would probably be aban
daned but for the fact that it now has
a splendid drydock and very deep
channel, 1t is SO near TO Boston that all
the work could well be done there,
rather than at Portsmouth.
There viii be vast mount of con-
troversy before the naval base question
is fully worked out. There will be heat
ed debates IN Senate and House.
Political considerations will be weighed.
Inc opposition or influential Congress
men will have to be overcome But
naval authorities are driving hard to-
ward the elimination of the useless
yards and it is inevitable that the great
dreadnought fleets of the American
Navy must operate from such centers
as Boston, New York and Norfolk, on
the Atlantic, and from Bremerton and
Mare Island and Pearl Harhor opd
Cavite on the Pacific All these yards
now either have great drydocks, suf-
fieiently large for dreadnoughts. or will
soon have such docks. The big docks
are indispensable for the modern navy
and will become more indispensable as
the size of the ships are increased.
For the Navy Department is row
building 10000 ton lbattIeships and it
is not improbable that before long they
viii be building 10000 ton ships. That
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-21
AM USE MENTS
GEM

warm reception, at the Gem Sunday
evening their friends packing the
house for both performances. Their
act is better than ever. Their voices
have improved and they have added
number of new stunts to their now
we'll known acrobatic act. They will
be here tonight and tomorrow night
and there is every assurance that
they will play to packed houses at
each performance. The rest Of the
bill is up to the high standard set
by the Gladstone Sisters. Don Fay
bio is a contortionist and acrobat
without a peer in the profession. It
is said that he is so crooked that he
can hide behind a cork screw. Edna
Randall, the soubrette has number
of new songs and she puts them
over in a way that pleases. It makes
one of the best balanced bills that
has been put on at the Gem for some
time The picture program for this
evening contains 5000 feet Of high
class pictures and one single film Is
1000 feet long and is Pathe art film
of Emil Zola's great story Drink"
This with the three good acts make
performance that it is impossible
to beat at almost any price.