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VOL. XL.VI.-XO. 14,457.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PASSIONATE PLEA
FOR THAW'S LIFE
Delmas Pours Invective
on White
AND EVELYN THAW'S MOTHER
Unnatural Desertion of Daugh
ter to Her Fate.
HUMMEL PROVED PERJURER
White's Fear of Exposure Reason
for Resort to Lawyer to Get the
Girl's Affidavit, Accusing
Thaw of Cruelty.
NEW YORK, April S. The trial of
Harry K. Thaw, charged with the
murder of Stanford White, la nearlng
the end. D. M. Delmas, the California
advocate, this afternoon began his
closing address to, the Jury, and after
he had spoken for more than two hours
and a half an adjournment was taken
to tomorrow morning. Mr. Delmas
expects to conclude before the lunch
eon hour is readied. District Attor
ney Jerome will make the closing ad
dress on Wednesday, and Thaw's fate
should be in the hands of the jury
Wednesday evening. Justice Fitzgerald
today ordered the jury locked up until
the end of the trial. The judge's
charge to the jury undoubtedly will be
delivered Immediately after the Dis
trict Attorney concludes. The latter
says his speech will occupy not more
than four hours.
Pleads No Vmvritten Law.
Declaring he would not base his plea
on the "unwritten law," because the
client had ample protection In the
written statutes of the State of New
York, Mr. Delmas made a striking ap
peal to the sympathies of the jurors
and. so far as he progressed today,
the subject of Thaw's Insanity at the
time he committed the homicide was
not even hinted at.
Mr. Delmas based his argument sole
ly upon the story of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw. With flushed cheeks, but dry
eyes, that young woman heard her
life's history repeated to the men who
are to Judge her husband, and bowed
her head as her mother was denounced
In the bitterest terms and tones the
eloquent lawyer could command.
Mr. Delmas. before beginning his at
tack upon Evelyn Thaw's mother, poured
out a torrent of denunciation upon the
architect who became the victim of
Thaw's pistol. He accused him of the
"crime of rape," and declared President
Roosevelt had said in a message to Con
jtresn that such a crime should be visit
ed with death. This was one of the sug
gestions which Thaw himself made to his
counsel for his summing-up speech one of
the suggestions which played so Impor
tant a part In the proceedings before
the lunacy commission.
Throng of Noted Lawyers.
Mr. Delmas devoted practically all of
his address to a resume of the evidence
of certain witnesses. He will have many
more comments to make along this line
before he conies to his plea for the de
fendant's life.
The courtroom was crowded. Justice
Pltzgerald's Injunction that . absolute
quiet must be maintained was hardly
necessary, for there was interest In every
utterance of the attorney. In the throng
were many attorneys of note, some of
whom have traveled many miles to be
present at the climax of a trial which
for length and sustained interest has no
equal.
All of Thaw's family were in the court
room. They sat unmoved. as usual,
throughout Mr. Delmas' argument. Thaw
turned to them from time to time as his
attorney seemed to strike some telling
blow. Thaw's face turned frequently to his
wife, who seemed to be standing the
brunt of the storm. She had a responsive
mile for his every look.
Mr. Jerome was not In court to hear
Mr. Delmas' speech. His assistant, Mr.
Garvan. took notes. Mr. Jerome, it was
said, was busy with the preparation
of his own address.
Hamilton's; Kvldenco Excluded.
At the morning session Mr. Jerome
formally protested against the confirm
ation of the report of the Lunacy Com
mission. He made no argument, how
ever, and his motion was quickly over
ruled. The defense then sought to
have Dr. Allan Mcl-ane Hamilton testi
fy, but tho District Attorney objected
and was sustained. Mr. Delmas then
announced that the defense rested. Mr.
Jerome made a similar announcement,
and an adjournment was ordered until
2 o'clock. In order that the Jurors, who
were to be deprlvod of their liberty,
might adjust their business affairs.
Mr. Delmas wanted to get from Dr.
Hamilton the opinion that Thaw was
Insane when he killed Stanford White.
As soon as Dr. Hamilton was seated
In the witness-chair, Jerome objected.
He said Dr. Hamilton should have been
called as a witness by the defense In
Its direct case. To call him In sur
rebuttal, he declared, meant the re
opening of the entire case. Justice
Fitzgerald sustained the objection.
After he had done so, Mr. Delmas ar
gued that Dr. Hamilton should be al
lowed to testify for the reason that
Mr. Jerome had, on the last day of
the trial, said he would withdraw his
objection if Dr. Hamilton was allowed
to tell everything.
"We accepted that offer." said Mr.
Delmas, "and therefore we feel that we
have the right to proceed under agree
ment." "The court, as I understand the law,"
said Justice Fitzgerald, "has no discre
tion in the matter. There was no occa
sion to rule upon the question when it
came up before. Had it come up at
that time, I would have been forced
to rule as I now rule."
Quotes Jerome Against Himself.
Mr. Delmas began his appeal to the
Jury by quoting from an utterance of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome during the trial.
He said:
" 'We have no right, if the real facts
were known, to be here trying this man,
and would be absolutely prohibited by the
statutes.' " He continued:
Had you heard these words from soma
Irresponsible babbler. Instead of from an of
ficial charged with a great public duty; had
this been spoken In a place where idle men
resort to Indulge In talk, instead of In a
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Dr. Allan MoLane Hamilton, Whose
Evidence in Thaw Trial Was Shut
Out.
tribunal wherein justice presided in sol
emnity; had the occasion on which they
were uttered been some trivial discussion on
some insignificant topic. Instead of a debate,
the Issue of which is life and death, and
had you after so hearing them heard the
same lips make an appeal to prove that
the law demanded forfeit of the man about
whom they were spoken, these words might
not have filled you with amazement.
It is to prevent such a conclusion In this
case that I have undertaken the perform
ance of the onerous task before me. In this
task it wiil be my duty to give you all the
help In my power in deciding the question
before you. In the performance of my task
It is not Improper to say that I shall make
no attempt to Influence your passions, nor
to make your sympathies overbalance your
judgment. -I shall not call on such a flimsy
thing as the unwritten law. "his defendant
finds his justification In the wrrtfn law, in
the t j.-utes if this state, in the written law
he finds it necessary to protect his life and
his liberty.
Sacrifice Dead to Living.
In the performance of my duty It will be
necessary for me to refer to the dead. I will
do bo in all respect possible, but there are
cases where the memory of the dead must
give way to the needs of the living. For
those who are left behind, for the widow
who mourns, for the son, I have nothing
but words of sympathy. Gladly would I sus
pend. If possible, the law that the sins of
the father must descend for three or four
generations.
The story is that of two young people
whom fate by Inscrutable decree had deter
mined to link together, to be united and
w alk through life in the company of one
another. The story covers only a few years.
It is the saddest, most mournful and most
tragic which the tongue of man lias ever
uttered or the ear of man heard.
Iet me begin briefly with her story one
filled with incidents with which a volume
might over flow, by the vivid imagination
of the most gifted novelist.
Evelyn Ncsbit's Childhood.
She was born on Christmas eve, 1S84, in
the City of Pittsburg. The first years of her
childhood saw her lose her father and nat
ural protector and left In charge of a
mother who early manifested that character
of frivolity and extravagance which were
to lead to such deplorable consequences.
When- the girl was 10 years of age, the
family was In straitened circumstances; they
began to feel the pangs of want.
At 13 she became the family drudge, as
sisting her mother. Thus the family con
tinue moving from place to place without
any fixed habitation.
But nature had endowed her with the
fatal gift of beauty a beauty which mani
fested itself In youth: a gift with which the
mother soon saw the means of supporting
tho family.
At 14 years she was in Philadelphia, al
ready embarked upon the perilous sea of an
artist's model. But New York, the great
metropolis, was the market where such
natural gifts are most sought and most
dearly paid for, and to New York the fam
ily came, and by the procurement of the
mother the employment begun In Philadel
phia was renewed, and the beautiful child
wended her way through the street from
morn to noon and noon till eve, from studio
to studio and from artist to artist and at
the end of the week the scant earnings she
carried to her mother for the support of the
Taml I y.
Grave and courageous, we find this child
at 13 years of age rushing in the daytime
from studio to studio, earning S1Q to $18 a
week, and at night appearing upon the
boards and earning an equal salary.
W hite's Pretended Friendship.
At this time we find a man whose hair
was tinged with gray, who had an excellent
wife and an accomplished son. fixing his
eyes upon the fated child and determining
to make her bis. To win her he had none
of the graces or principles of the honorable
suitor. He conducted himself to the family
In the guise of an influential friend. He won
his way into the confidence of the mother
and established himself in a paternal and
protecting attitude In the family, and when
his footing was sure he persuaded the
mother to absent herself from the city, as
suring her that the child would be safe in
his hands and telling her how fortunate it
was that there was such a protector to
watch over her. The child was left alone.
I wish it were In my power to pass over
the scene that followed. I wish It did not
have to be embodied in my argument to you.
but my duty gives me no choice. In one of
those dens fitted up with all the beauty
and taste which this man of genius pos
sessed. Into one of these dens this child
was lured and found herself alone with this
man, old enough to be her father the man
who was her protector.
Crime of Stanford White.
Must I tell you how she was led on, step
by step; how she was plied with wine and
drugged, and finally became his victim. That
story you have heard from the child's fal
tering lips. Better that he should never
have lived than to have lived to hear the
cries of anguish of the victim who lay be
fore him. He had committed the greatest
crime that ever defiled the Image of God.
He had lured to destruction and had
crushed the child who had trusted him. He
had committed a crime against the law.
against the law of this state, a crime that
the chief magistrate of this country, in a
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TAFTAND CUMMINS
FAVORED TICKET
Administration Has Its
Men Picked.
BOTH STRONG FOR REVISION
Cummins Firm Friend of Sen
ator La Follette.
FORAKER READY TO FIGHT
Will Fire First Broadside Against
Tuft Wednesday Tat Move
ment Gains Ground Root
May Leave Cabinet.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 8. (Spe
cial.) Taft and Cummins is the Republi
can National ticket which is being
"touted" here by the administration for
next years campaign.
The agricultural West is looked to,
according to friends of President Roose
velt, to supply the nominee for Vice
President and Governor Cummins' com
manding position in one of the leading
granger states, which has also in the
ranks of its leaders such men as Lester
M. Shaw, Senator Dolllver and Represen
tative Hepburn, makes him a potential
possibility.
Both for Tariff Revision.
Mr. Taft and Mr. Cummins are both
tariff revisionists and it would appear
from the gossip of adminstration plans
that the revision of the tariff schedules
will be made a leading issue In the Re
publican platform, if the Roosevelt ele
ment of the party can control the con
vention. Another phase of the talk concerning
Mr. Cummins' selection to be Mr. Taft's
running mate, always granting that the
President shall be able to force Mr. Taft's
nomination, is the fact that Mr. Cummins
and Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin,
are firm friends. Although Mr. Roose
velt appears to have little fondness for
Mr. La Follette beyond appropriating
many of the Badger statesman's progres
sive ideas, the fact that Mr. Cummins
has found grace at the White House is
causing considerable discussion on the
part of Mr. la Follette's friends.
Forakcr Ready for Fight.
Mr. Taft is known to favor tariff re
vision, going so far in his expression on
the subject as to rebuke the American
people and ihe American Congress for not
submitting to his demand for virtual free
trade between the United States and the
Philippines.
Senator Foraker is ready for his fight
in Ohio and has indicated that he will
have some interesting things to say next
Wednesday at canton, the old home of
President McKinley. He has again an
nounced that the tight in Ohio js to be
ALAS! AND
"a fight to a finish" and the administra
tion is awaiting with considerable In
terest the effect of the first Foraker
broadside. So far. the news from Ohio
has all been favorable and the Taft
movement is said to be progressing well,
but there is still to be reckoned with
Mr. Foraker's tremendous personal
power, especially when he is on the
stump and has an uphill light in his
state against him.
Root Soon to Retire.
The rumor of Secretary Root's early
retirement from the Cabinet will not be
downed. It Is now talked of that he
will keep the state portfolio until after
the Hague conference adjourns, which
will be early in September.
TAKE PLEDGE TO PRESIDENT
Three Senators, Including Bourne.
No Third Term, Says Riis.
WASHINGTON, April 8. (Special.)
"Swearing allegiance" is the daily pro-
K. I Smith, of Hood River, amed
by Governor Chamberlain as Ore
gon's Official Representative at
Jamestown Exposition.
gramme of statesmen at the White House
since the President made public his "con
spiracy" story.
"Every man who is not for me is against
me." the President has declared, and as
a result Senators Scott, Hansbrough and
Bourne have called and taken the oath.
Jacob Rils, the life-long- friend of the
President, had to renew his pledges at the
White House today. After he had been
put through the ceremony, he came rush
ing out to tell everybody he could that
the President would not take a third
term.
"He positively won't have it." Mr. Riis
shrieked as he came out. "The President
stands by what he said tibM night f him
election. He w.il not ag e e
date. He will not accept it under aiy
conditions. He is deeply interested in the
policies for which he stands, far more
so than he is in himself, and naturally
he will want someone nominated who is
heart and soul for these policies.
"There should be no difficulty in find
ing a man of this character, and, if the
President is strong enough himself in the
next National convention to bring about
his own nomination; he will have the
strength to dictate the nomination of
someone favorable to his policies."
Sultan's Enemies Will Meet.
TANGIER, April 8. It Is reported her
that 8u Hamara. the pretender to
Moroccan throne, will greet the bandit
T?Mi!uIi In a friendly manner wnen uiey
meet i
ALAS! THE TIMES ARE OUT
THE "INTERESTS" IT WASN'T EIRE THIS IN THE GOOD
SLOT MACHINES
ALL PAID TRIBUTE
Half Profits Went to
Ruef and Schmitz.
HUBERT WAS THE GO-BETWEEN
Langdon Stopped Game by
Enforcing State Law.
ACH'S SIDE ISSUE BARRED
Dunne Refuses to Take Up Contempt
Charge Against Newspapers Till
Ruef Trial Ends Telephone
Franchise Is Held Up.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 8. Nlckel-in-the-slot
machines and police corruption
alleged to have resulted from their use
occupied the attention of the grand jury
today. The telephone investigation was
temporarily sidetracked and no further
indictments were returned.
The trial of Abe Ruef for extortion was
resumed before Judge Dunne and pro
gressed for a half hour, when adjourn
ment was taken until tomorrow on ac
count of the indisposition of Henry Ach,
attorney for the defense. Mr. Ach filed
an affidavit in support of an application
for an order requiring the proprietor and
the editor of the San Francisco Chroni
cle to show cause why they are not pun
ished for contempt in having published
an editorial denouncing the court con
duct of Ruef's counsel. Judge Dunne re
fused to consider the matter at this time,
saying it would tend to sidetrack the
main issue the determination of the
guilt or innocence of Ruef. While mak
ing a motion for the drawing of 100 more
names from the regular jury list, Mr.
Ach said that the defense will exercise
all of its 10 peremptory challenges.
Graft on Slot Machines.
The witnesses examined before the
Jjsrand jury today were Dr. Joseph Po-
VM-;-ly a .Police (Jomralssioner;
. . jv larkin. local agent for easteiTi
manufacturers of slot machines; Fred
Hilbert. of the defunct wholesale liquor
firm of Hilbert Brothers, who accom
panied Mayor Schmitz upon his recent
tour of Europe, and G. Schultz, a pool
room man.
By questioning these witnesses Assist
ant District Attorney Heney sought to
strengthen the charge of the prosecution
that in January of last year, for 30 days
succeeding the repeal by the Police Com
mission of the ordinance prohibiting the
operation of money-paying slot machines,
large sums of money were paid to Ruef,
Schmitz and police officials for "con
tinued police protection" until District
Attorney Langdon cleaned out the ma
chines under the state anti-gambling
law.
According to an official statement given
OF JOINT
OLD DATS.
as an illustration, the large profits made
by Schultz. who was then an extensive
owner or lessee of slot machines, were
cut In two, half being retained by him
self and tlic other half being turned over
to Hilbert "for distribution among those
higher up."
Hilbert is the man whom the prosecu
tion charges with having paid Ruef 110.
000 for the exclusive privilege of supply
ing tenderloin resorts with whisky on the
understanding that any such place which
refused to patronize Hilbert would lose
its license at the hands of the Police
Commission. Hilbert wa very close to
the Mayor.
Turned Deaf Ear to Him.
Among the witnesses present today but
not called was M. A. King, of Los An
geles, who negotiated the franchise for
the Homo Telephone Company of that
city. He expects to testify on telephone
affairs tomorrow. He said that he tried
from December, 1901, until April, 1905, to
induce the San Francisco authorities to
advertise a telephone franchise compett-
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Queen Victoria of Spain, Who Is
About to Receive Visit From King
Edward and Queen Alexandra.
tive to that held by the Pacific States
Company and to award it to the highest
bidder, but without success.
"I wanted this franchise personally."
said Mr. King, "but the Supervisors
turned me a deaf ear.
The grand jury will resume its investi
gation tomorrow.
The trial of Ruef is to go on in the
morning.
TRIAL OF RUEF POSTPONED
Ach's Attempt to Punish De Young
for Contempt Fails.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 8. The trial
of Abraham Ruef for extortion was this
morning continued by Judge Dunne
until tomorrow, on account of the ill
ness of Henry Ach, one of Ruef's coun
sel. The defense applied to the court
for an order requiring that M. H. Do
Young, as proprietor of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, and John P. Young, the
editor of that newspaper, show cause
why they should not be punished for
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The W eather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 07
degrees; minimum. 48-
TODAY'S Showers; southerly winds.
Pacific Coast.
Eastern Oregon would refuse to Join pro
posed state of Lincoln. Page 6.
Oregon girls' drill company resent com
ments made by Portland Ad Men's
League. Page 6.
Seattle Chief of Police scolds the club
women and says husbands are henpecked.
Page G.
How Ruef and Schmitz grafted on slot ma
chines. Page 1.
foreign.
Russian douma has warm debate on land
Question. Page 3.
Great fire at Harbin. Page 2.
English Lords not disturbed by move to
abolish them. Page 5.
National.
American warship forbids bombardment of
Hondurian ports. Page 4.
Taft tells Cubans Roosevelt opposes annexa
tion. Page 2.
War Department will give Portland square
deal on supply contracts. Page 3.
Politics.
Taft and Cummins are Roosevelt's ticket for
1&0S. Page 1.
Bourne among Senators who swear allegi
ance to Roosevelt. Page l.
Rils says Roosevelt positively will not have
third term. Page 1.
Taft's friends blundering in pushing fight
in Ohio. Page 5.
Domestic.
Delmas begins argument In Thaw'a defense
and denounces White and Mrs. Nesbit.
Page 1.
Haskln describes greatest American poultry
yard. Page 1.
Hermann gives version of relations with
Mitchell and Williamson. Page 2.
Two branches of Evangelical Church may
reunite. Page 3.
Presbyterian preacher expelled for being co
respondent in divorce suit. Page 3.
Stead arouses Methodists on peace ques
tion. Page 3.
Portland and Vicinity.
Government engineers to devote this sea
son's work on bar jetty to strengthening
existing breakwater. Page 10.
Irregular signatures on petitions will prob
ably prevent $1000 license ordinance
from coming to a vote. Page 18-
President Fisher, of Carmen's Union, re
plies to ex-Prcsident Sorenson. Page 12.
Charles B. Avery in race with death across
continent. Page 12.
Oregon and Washington traveling men ask
2-cent rate on 5000-mile books from rail
roads. Page 11.
Prohibitionists will "have ticket in fleld for
June election. Page 10.
Real Estate Broker Taft sentenced to seven
years in penitentiary. Page 11.
Commercial and Marine.
Sharp decline in butter prices. Page 17.
Wheat advances a cent at Chicago. Page 17.
Rise in stock prices checked. Page 17.
Two steamers and a sailing vessel chartered
for wheat loading. Page 10.
Sports.
Automobile club holds annual meeting.
Page T.
POULTRY RAISED
IN MODERN STYLE
Greatest Chicken Yard
in America.
EGGS THIRTY-FIVE CENTS EACH
Hundreds of Dozens Snipped
to Great Cities.
MANY ACRES OF YARDS
Industry Developed to Great Scale
in Pennsylvania Mountains Ir
ish Stowaway Who Has Made
His Fortune Raising Ducks.
BY FREDERIC J. HA SKIN.
WASHINGTON, April 3. (Special
Correspondence.) "One-half mile to
America's greatest poultry farm.'
So reads the sign which confronts the
traveler when he alights from the train
at a little village In the mountainous
anthracite region of Pennsylvania. As
we traveled the winding road that led
to the farm, my sruide told me all
about the remarkable rise of the poul
try industry. He said that the Ameri
can hen, under the careful guidance of
the poultry fancier, had developed pos
sibilities as a wealth-producer that
were formerly unheard of.
"Think of selling eggs at 35
cents each," he said, "which is more
for one egg than a dozen ordinarily
sell for."
In reply to my inquiry if he sold
very many at that rate, he 'said:
"Yes, indeed, we sell hundreds of
dozens at that price every season. We
are sending out this week orders to
Panama, Australia, South Africa,
Canada and to people in all parts of
the Union. These orders are for hatch
ing purposes. We do not get so much
for table eggs, but we supply the lat
ter in large quantities. We have a
contract for furnishing a large hotel
in New York 600 dozen every week. We
also have a contract to supply a big
firm in New York with 3000 dozen
every week, to be retailed In its gro
cery department. This Is doubtless the
largest contract ever attempted In
this country, more, in fact, than any
one firm could possibly provide from
the eggs laid by its own hens. We
have buyers out who gather a large
portion of the supply from the farmers
of the neighborhood."
All Modem Conveniences.
The farm consists of eighty-two
acres. The buildings and yard of the
immense plant cover over thirty-five
acres, and the amount of floor space
under roof Is a little more than 112,000
square feet. In addition to being the
largest, it is one of the best-equipped
plants ever built in this country or
abroad. It Is lighted by electricity,
heated by steam and watered by a
system of pipes which are fed by an
immense living well on the premises.
Everything about the place Is con
ducted on a wholesale basis. There
is a root and vegetable storehouse,
where thousands of bushels of beets,
carrots, turnips, cabbage, etc., are
stored away every Fall for Winter use.
This house is built below the level of
the ground to protect its contents
from frost.
In one of the buildings there is an
immense food-cooker which will hold
a thousand gallons. It is two stories
high, being loaded from above and
emptied from below. Several barrels
of fresh meat and bones are dumped
in at once, the door bolted down and
a pressure of seventy pounds of steam
turned into it for thirty minutes, at
the end of which time the entire sub
stance, meat, bone and all, is reduced
to soup. Mule meat is used almost
exclusively in making this broth. The
farm is in the center of the anthracite
coal district, so that aged and lame
animals or those killed by accident are
easily obtainable. The soup made
from the flesh of the mules is used
to mix with the food of the young
fowls.
Feeding and Killing t hickens.
Water is never mixed with their food
from the time they leave the Incubators
until they are sent to market. They are
given plenty to drink, but the soup from
the meat of the mules is considered bet
ter for them In their food. Great quan
tities of bread are fed to the growing
fowls. They consume from 600 to 3000
loaves dally. Shell Is purchased by the
carload and ground by machinery on the
premises. The food Is carted about the
place on a little tramway. When the
track runs through the yards, as Jt must
in some places, it is built on trestles so
as not to injure or disturb the young
fowls.
The killing house, where the poultry Is
dressed for the market, has floors that
incline toward the rear wall, so that all
water, blood, etc., may be easily drained
off after a day's killing. In the height
of the seasci the men go to work at 3
o'clock in the morning. The live birds
are brought to the killing house In the
car j of tho tramway. The arrangement
of this house Is as complete as it 's pot
slble to make it. It has long picking
benches which extend the entire length of
one rid of the building. Each operator
has a wirow to afford him plenty of
light. There are scalding vats, feather
bins, cooling troughs, dripping racks,
pacaing benches, feather presses, billing
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