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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-23
POISONPEN ILLUSTRATES THE PERIL OF
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
BY MARY BOYLE O'REILLY.

BY MARY BOYLE o'REILLY.
London, Engiand.-A poison-pen
case has just startled England into a
realization of the untrustworthiness
of circumstantiaI evidence and Of
handwriting evidence. From April %
to May anonymous and malicious
letters fairly rained into house at
Brunswick Place, Hove. The occu-
pants were Col Gardiner, an elderly
army man living alone, and his ten
ant, Mrs: Woodward, who occupied
the ground floor. .:-
Col. Charles Henry Gardiner, re-
tired, a wel-preserYed man of 70, has
lived in Hove for several years. He
is highly respected and the author of
several books. Mrs. Woodward is hv-
ing apart from her husband with her
little daughter. The only other person
in the house, except the, servants,
was Miss Kathleen O'Brien, the
child's goYerness.
Miss 0'Brien is pretty girl of
% with blue eyes and yellow hair.
The daughter of naval officer who
died Is years ago, she lived until re-
Gently with her widowed mother at
Plymouth. There Mrs. Woodward met
and engaged the gently-mannered
girl Some weeks later Miss 0sBrien
became III and went home to recuper-
ate, returning in March.
Two weeks later the anonymous
letters began to arrive. Their char
acter prevents publication. Libellous
and salacious, they grew threatening.
The first, addressed to the unhappy
girl, read: -
Miss o'Brien had better be advised
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-23

acter, thieVing, drunkenness and 9TH
er witnesses has been sent to her
friends in Brighton and Hove.
Other letters followed, all vile in
character, many of them pushed be-
meath the door of the fiat or left on
the hall floor.
That fact focused the suspicious
of the police on Col Gardiner. nves-
tigation indicated that several cir
cumstances pointed to his guilt The
Colonel exhibited a fixed antipathy
toward Miss O'Brien. On the advice
of postofice inspectors Miss OBrien
wrote the suspected man a trap let
ter:
Col. Gardiner. Sir: Surely Miss
o'Brien is not living in your house.
Should not Mrs. Woodward be in
formed she is demi-mondaine?
|, That letter, posted in the presence
of detective inspector, was answer
ed within six hours by communica-
ton which referred to Miss O'Brien
as demi-mondaine. On a warrant
sworn by the goyerness, Col. Gardin-
er was taken into custody charged
with maliciously publishing a defam-
atory libel
Circumstantial evidence and hand
writing evidence were against him.
Col. Gardner came into court for
sentence. Instead he heard such a
Jekyll and Hyde story as modern
science cannot explain.
The prosecutor rose to express
deepest regret that he should have
been instrumental in prosecuting an
honorable man.
81 hold in my hand" acknowledged
the solicitor, "a letter similar in char
acter to the poison-pen letters in this
case. Yet the letter l hold was writ
ten at Brussels in June, 1909, writ
ten, gentlemen, by Miss Kathleen
O'Brien to herself. 1 call upon DR..
Nethersole Fletcher to testify"
e 4
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-23
IN CAESARS DAY

They say 1900 years ago 49,.
(How fast the time has f1ownD
That elevators just like ours
In ancient Rome were known
It would have made our hearts rejoice
And filled with joy our cup
Could we have heard old Caesar shout
s'Hold on there! Going upi" -
-Yonkers Statesman
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
OveruIed Pleas
 in Abatement
FILED BY ROCKEFELLER AND
 EIGHT FORMER DIRECTORS
OF NEW HAVEN ROAD
Final Pleas Must be Filed Before Next Tuesday, and Arguments on Demur- rers Will be Heard at That Time.

New York, Nov. 3o.-Final pleas by William Rockefeller and eight others of the 21 directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, under indictment for viola ton of the Sherman antitrust law, must be filed in the United States dis trict cour here next Tuesday, when ar gument also will be heard on demur rers filed by. counsel for the defend ant. Judge Sessions so decided late today, after he had granted permis- sion to the defendants to change their pleas to the indictment against them and had oyerrruled the three pleas in abatement which they had filed Mon day
 Defendants Failed to Prove Cause
 In over-ruling the pleas entered last week the court dealt first with the allegation that the indictment was de- fective on the ground that the grand jury panel had be n drawn by a depu- ty clerk residing in New Jersey. The court held that the deputy clerk of the court had the right to act in the absence of the clerk, and that the de- fendants failed to prove that the deputy really had performed the office of the clerk in filling the jury box with names
 Rulings by the Court.
 The plea that the powers of the grand jury had expired month be- fore the returning of the indictment the court ruled, was untenable be- cause the court had the right to ex- tend indefinitely the term of a grand jury. In regard to the third conten- tion-that the indictment should be quashed because two stenographers were present during the grand jury $ eliberations-Judge Sessions express ed the belief that the right of the at- torney general to appoint assistants who were not lawyers to do clerical work in a grand jury deliberatior could not be questioned.
 Before Judge Sessions announced his decision this third allegation pro- voked criticism of the attorney general by former Judge Alton B. Parker o1 counsel for the defendants He man. tained that the attorney general had no right to appoint the stenographers as his assistants and that the law Spe- officially stated that only at. torneys could be permitted in fedora grand jury rooms.
 The attorney general and his as. sfstants.' he continued "have always been willing to exercise a little more authority each time they make theil appointments. This assertion of au thority can be ascribed to the love O. power which is inherent in all men," Counsel for the defendant attempted to postpone argument on the demur rers until a date later than that se | by the court; but Judge Sessions as l serted he would not wait any Ionge, than Thursday, because he expected to leave for his home in Michigan ol Friday.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
OKLAHOMA "JIM CRoW'
 LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL
ing and Dinging Cars Only to the White Race.

Washington, Nov. 30.-A majority of the supreme court today joined in an opinion that the Oklahoma Jim Crow law proviso, permitting rail- roads to furnish sleeping, dining and chair car accommodations only to the white race, was unconstitutional but they did not so decree because of inn perfections in the petition on which the case reached the courts.
 The case was one in which five ne groes claiming that the entire law was unconstitutional, sought an injunction to restrain five railroads in Oklahoma from enforcing it. The Oklahoma. fed eral courts dismissed the petition, holding that the law was constitution al.
 The majority of the supreme court affirmed the dismissal today becuause the negroes had not shown that they commodations under the law or that the railroads had notified them that they would be refused certain accom- modations. The majority, through Justice Hughes, stated, however, that they could not agree with the low CT court that the proviso as to sleep ing, dining and cair cars was con- Stitutional. A minority, consisting of Justices Holmes, Lamar and Mickey holds, concurred merely in the order of affirmative, but expressed no views on the constitutional question.
 In the opinion of tine majority Jus tice Houmes declared that previous decisions that laws for separate coach eS for the two races was constitution al, were not questioned. He then set forth the reasons for he opinion that the lower court was wrong in hold ing the proviso constitutional.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01

If any marked successes have been attained on any of the various fields of battle the war chancellories or the belIigerent powers have refralneo from making known this fact to the public through their usual ofnciaI com" munications.
 Except that fighting continues brisk fy in Poland and that there has been another resultless attack on arrange ments in the west, there is Q pauclty of news from the fronts.
 Unofficial advices from Petrograd assert that the Russians in Poland have captured ten miles of German trenches between GIovno and Sobotas northeast of Lodz, and ill addition 6o0 prisoners. seven guns and many wounded. The capture of these tren- ches, it is asserted. strengthens the Russian right wing, which It IS de- ciared already has outflanked the German left and brought the Russian advance nearer Strykow. where bat tle Is raging.
 Berlin declares that there is nothing important to report from Poland. A wireless dispatch from the German capital however, quotes military crl- tics as saying that the time Is ripe for a resumption of acive operations against the Russians which were tem- porarily hindered by the advance or Russian endorsements. It adds that the Austrians are keeping farther south with the Germans and that there have been Austrian advances in Ser4fa@
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
OBITUARY.
Lueius TuttIe.

BrookIine, Mass, Nov. S0.-L0ciua Futile, former president of the Bos- ton and Maine railroad, died tonight at his home here. Death was due to an- gina pectoris.
 Mir. Tuttle's health had been impair ed since an operation three years ago in which one leg was amputated. Not withstanding this handicap he had continued many of his activities until week ago, when the illness set in which resulted in his death late to- night.
 Mir Futile was born in Hartford, Conn. March Ii, 1s46. Forty-five years of his life were spent in raflroadinE. For IT years he was president of the Boston and Maine railroad, his first position being that of a ticket clerk and under his administration 1t grew from the original line of that name, with one or two branches. to. an im- portant system covering a prosperous area When Mir. Futile retired from the presidency four years ago nearly every organization of employees of the road took official notice of the fact in resolutions regretting the loss Of a friend
 A year later he was obliged to go under the surgeons knife for gangreneal affection. In the same year his wife died.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
NEW REGULATIONS FOR INVOICES AND DECLARATIONS. Protested by Ambassador Jusserand of
 France.

Washington. Nov. so.-Ambassador Jusserand of France today lodged an informal protest with the treasury de- partment against the new regulations for invoices and declarations of ex- porters shipping goods to the United States.
 The regulations were promulgated last summer but not put into effect un- t1i recently. They were designed to prevent customs undervaluations and req%fre greater particularly in the specifications of goods to be exported.
 Ambassador Jusserand told treasury officials that the war had taken most of the men in the French service fa- mfliar with this sort of work into the field and that their duties now were being performed largely by women or boys without experience.
 Assistant Secretary Peters explained it was not intended to embarrass French exporters but to stop fraud and that it's workings probably would not prove so difficult as is now anticipat- ed. He promised to do everything pos- sibIe to prevel. the change from the old to new system from imposing any hardships.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
GOOD ORDER PREVAILS
 IN MEXICAN CAPITAL
Message Sent by Charge HopIer of che
 British Embassy

washington, Nov. S1.-Sir Cecil SpTing- Rice the British azraassadDrs informed the state department today of the receipt of report from Charge Hopler of the British embassy in Mexico City, saying that good order prevailed in the Mexican capital.
 Charge Hopler said that General Za- pata was not in teh city. but was rep resented there by one of his officers. He reported that there has been no exections except, in case of crimes against good order.
 Consul Canada today asked the state department to warn Americans and other foreigners against going to Vera Cruz at this time. Transports ton facilities between Mexico City and the seaport are uncertain, it was pointed out, and those who ventured to Vera Cruz would be in all prob ability stranded there.
 In this connection the department issued the following announcement:
 Many Americans returning to Vera Cruz find it impossible to go to the interior. No hope is entertained that railway accommodations will be any better for months to come, on account of the fact that the railway lines are controlled by different factions and are in constant danger of destruction. The consul suggests that this inform ation be given to the public in order to prevent citizens from becoming stranded at Vera Cruz.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
OHIO CURN GROWERS
 VISIT WASHINGTON. Over a Thousand Men, Women, Boys
 and Girls.

Washington, Nov 30-Ohfo corn growers, numbering between 1000 and 1,500 men, women, boys and girls, will spend two busy days in Washington beginning tomorrow on their third an- nual tour. The party will be under the auspices of the Ohio Agricultural commission and will arrive here on seven special trains.
 Tomorrow will be devoted by the visitors to sightseeing and at night they will listen to an address by Sec- retary Bryan. Wednesdays pro- graInme calls for a, visit to the various government departments, an address by Secretary Houston of the Depart ment of Agriculture and a reception at the White House by President Will son.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
NORWEGIAN STEAMER A BRITISH PRIZE, Brought Into HaIifax-suspeeted ot
 Having Contrahand Cargo.

Halifax. ". S., Nov. 30.-The Nor weglan steamer Sandefjord, which sailed from New York for Copenhagen with cargo of cotton was brought in here as a prize of war today. She is suspected of having contraband of war on board and the report that she has balloon silk and also copper stor- ed beneath the cotton will be investt- gated after she is docked, probably tomorrow.
 The ship tonight was anchored in the harbor. The fact that she was so eaviiy laden, it is said, first directed suspicion towards her.
 A few days out from New York she was halted by one of the British cruis- CTS patrolIing the North Atlantic steamship lines and an officer from the war vessel examined her papers. Fol- towing the examination a prize crew was placed on board and the steamer ordered to put in at Halifax.
 So far as could be learned the Nor wegtan captain made no protest against the instructions to alter his course. The Sandejford formerly was engaged in he Sydney -Wabana ore trade.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
\ Mine Sighed
 Off Fire Island
IN PATHWAY OF TRANs-ATLAN-
 TIC TRAVEL
TO PORT OF NEW YoK
Unknown Whether Its Presence Thsrs is Accidental or by Desisn-Etonian, Bound In. Passed it Yesterday.

New York, Nov. s0.-A mine with five triggers extending from it is adoat six miles west of Fire Island light, according to Captain Davies Of the London. Captain Davies said that he passed the mine about 10 o'clock this morning while his ship was bound in.
 The spot where the mine is said to be adrift lies in the pathway traveled by all trans-Atlantic vessels leaving and entering New York harbor.
 lts Presence a Mystery.
 How the mine happened to be there, by what agencies it was set adrift. whether it's presence was accidental or by design were problems to be cleared up this afternoon. The possibility that 1t had been placed adrift in the belief that it might eventually find lodgment against the side of a war ship caused some speculation The only warships seen recently near New York harbor have flown the British flag. For some time British warshfps patrolled the doorway to the harbor, passing and repassing the spot where Captain Davies said the mine was adrift.
 A recent report that a mine had been lost by or was missing from the Brooklyn navy yard was denied this afternoon at the commandants office there.
 The mine was of different design than that adopted by the United States army; hence the theory that 1t might have escaped from Fort Han cock. or that 1t might be a dummy which escaped from there. was dis carded.
 At Fort Hancock it was said that | the mines used in connection with the work of the fort, if adrift. would show merely a round metallic ring and that none of them had prongs or triggers. | The mines used by the navy, 1t was said were very much like those used | by the army in aDpearance.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
LETTER BY SPY EXECUTED
 FN TOWER OF LONDON
Written Day Before He Was shet-
 Showw No Regrets or Resentment

Amsterdam, via London, Nov. 30, ego p, m.-The Cologne Gazette pub- fishes a letter written by Carl Hans Lody, who was recently put to death -as spy in the Tower of London, writ ten by him to relations in Stuttgart the day before he was shot. The let ter says:
 @Nfy Dear Ones: I have trusted in God and He has decided that my hour has come. must start on the jour ney through the dark valley, like so many of my comrades in this terrible war of nations.
 '~May my life be honored as an humble offering on the altar of the Fatherland. The nero's death on the battlefield certainly Is finer, but such Is not my lot. die here in the en- emy's country, silent and unknown; but the consciousness that die in the service of the Fatherland makes death eaSy.
 Tomorrow shall be shot here fin the tower. It is a consolation to me that was not treated like g. spy. had just judges and shall die as an pficer, not as a spy.
 "Tarewell God bless you"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
Arbitration of
 Working Issues BETWEEN ss RAILROADS AND
 5s,ooo ENGINEMEN
Is NOW IN PROGRESS
Nine of Sixteen Demands by Employees
 Were Brought Up at First Session, of Arbitrators in Chicago Yesterday.

Chicago, ov, 30-When the arbitra- tion questions at issue between ninety eight railroads and 55,000 of their en- gtnemen began here today before board appointed under the Newlands act, the representatives of the men set out to prove that every one of their sixteen demands with two exceptions of a comparatively minor nature, has the sanction of one or more railroads. In other words, concessions now de- manded of all the roads are in actual existence on some roads, although no one road has granted all of them.
 Nine of the demands had been brought up when adjournment was taken this evening and M w. Cadle, assistant grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. had testified that the concessions were already a part of the regulations of many roads
 Makeup of Arbitration Board.
 ..Of the six arbitrators, two were ap- pointed by the roads, two by the men anw two--Judge Peter c. Pritchard and Charles Nagie-by the govern ment. Judge Pritchard, was chosen chairman and in making a routine an- nouncement added that the board was fully aware of the great importance of the issues involved. Then he and his fellow members settled into their chairs, and for five hours listened, with scarcely an interruption, to solid vol tune of statistics elicited by Warren Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhooa of Locomotive Engineers, acting as counsel for the men, from MT. Cadle. The railroads were represented by A. w Trenholm, chairman of the confer enco committee of managers appointed l by the Western Association of Gen. eral Managers, several of his col : leagues on the committee and as at l torney by James M. Sheean. 
 Case of Employees Outlined. Mir. Stone outlined his case briefly and then introduced Exhibit 1" which proved to be a volume of 935 pages l containing upward of half a million | words.
 '"rhis exhibit,' he explained. "con- | tains all the records of agreements be- l tween the enginemen and the railroads in this hearing"
 "A summary of the mems demands
 as given by MT. Cadle included: q One hundred miles or less five hours or less, will constitute a days work in all classes of passenger serv- i've tgl mileage in excess of 100 miles shall be paid for pro rata" | To indicate the justice of this de- mand CadIe said that this agreement | was aAready in effect on 48 railroads ir | the eastern territory, as divided b5 i the Interstate Commerce commission ] fourteen in the western territory anG l 24 in the southwestern territory. Two 1 railroads in southeastern territory, ht said, make four hours working day for enginemen.
 '2 One hundred miles or more ter 1 hours or less, will constitute a day. 1 work in all classes of service excep passenger and switching. All mileagl | in excess of one hundred miles shal
 be paid for pro rata Ten miles ruI
 will be equivalent of one hours servic, performed or vice versa
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
TWO eUNMEN FIGHT
 DUEL IN BROOKLYN Leaders of Rival Ganss-ResuIt Fatal
 to Both

New York, Nov. S0.-Two gunmen, leaders of rival gangs, fought re- volver duel to the death on the street in the congested foreign quarter of Brooklyn tonight The men met by chance and one accused the other of being "squealer::'' Then guns were drawn.
 So deadly was the aim of the duel ists that none of the seven shots fired went wild. One man received four
 Last wendesday in this same pre- cinct. Frank De Fonte, an Italian merchant, was killed by gangsters-
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
U. 8. SOLDIER WOUNDED
 FROM MEXICAN SIDE.
Makes 41 Persons, Who Have Been Hit
 by Stray Bullets.

Naco, Adiz., Nov. s0.-A United States soldier was probably mortallY wounded here today by a shot from the Mexican side in the siege of Naco. Sonora. The soldier was Private Caine of Troop B, Ninth United States cav. airy. He was struck in the head Four Mexican children were wounded, one seriously. This makes a total of q persons injured on the American side by stray bullets from the besieging forces of General Hills Carranza troops entrenched at Naco. One shell today entered the United States cus- tom house, abandoned because of it's proximity to the fighting.
 Villas men are advancing their trenches, but final assault seems to be far in the future.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
Train pynamited In Peru

London, Nov. 30, $40 p. m--A Lima, Peru, dispatch to the Central News says that a special train from Callao, on which Dr. Jose Pardo, ex-preSident of Peru, was passenger was dyna- mited Sunday. The ex-president eS- capped but six others were injured. As a result of the outrage many political suspecS WeRe MEresed,
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
Re.piseeun+ Ra4es Discussed.

Washington, Nov. 30.-The federal reserve board spent several hours to- day discussing the changes in the re- discount rates which several of the federal reserve banks desire to make. No definite announcement was made but it was virtually decided that the rate for the entire country should be uniform at five and one-half per cent for thirty days maturities and six per cent for longer maturities.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
INVESTIGATION OF MILITARY
 STRENGTH OF UNITED STATES
President Wilson Will Not Oppose
 Move if Asked for an Opinion.
Washington. Nov, 3O.-

Washington, Nov. 30-
 While President Wilson is not ex- pected to seek to mould the position of congress on the resolution of Rep resentative Gardner for an investiga- ton of the United States. officials close to the White House said tonight that he would oppose the investiga- tion if asked for an opinion. The president is understood to think that such an inquiry is unlikely and would not disclose any information not al- ready on hand.
 MT Wilson's position was made clear today by administration officials after it became known he had written MT. Gardner letter. saying he was ready to discuss the question with him at any time. MT. Gardner will be at the White House tomorrow 70 make an engagement for an interview within the next few days.
 The position of the administration toward the Gardner resolution, as out lined tonight, is that this is no time to agftate the question of the pre- paredness of the United States for war.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-01
sHAckLEToN's ANTARCTIC
 JOURNEY DELAYED
By a Strike in the DecEyards at syd.
 new. W. S. w,

London. Nov. 30, 7:19 a. m-A dis from Sydney. N. S. W-.( states that a strike in the dockyards has delayed the departure of the Antarctic ship Aurora, which Is to carry section of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic ex- petition, and that the indications are transatlantic journey until next year.