Hewitt JIB!
VOL. XLVI. XO. 14,600.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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POLICE SOLVING
TRUNK MYSTEBY
Looks Dark for Hus:
band of Dead Girl.
SECOND MAN IN THE CASE
Covington's Drinking Compan
ion Can't Be Located.
WOMAN KILLED IN HOTEL
JJcd Coverings Body Was Wrapped
in Are Identified Suspected Men
Seen at Eagle Pointy Where the
Trunk Was Placed In Water.
SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 23. (Special.)
The police believe they have solved the
trunk murder mystery. George Robinson
today identified the body of the woman
us that of his niece. Mrs. Agnes True
McCombs Covington, 17 years of age, and
tonight the police have a theory that Mrs.
Covington -was murdered in the Keswick
Hotel, at Ninth avenue and Stewart
street, where the two Covingtons and
Charles Burllson, the Intimate friend of
Covington, lived together in three rooms.
The murder, according to this theory; oc
curred on September 2 and the woman's
body was taken out of the hotel, carried
to Eagle Harbor and deposited in the bay
at that point.
a peculiar current runs from Eagle Har
bor across the bay towards Alki Point.
An evidence of the power of this ourrent
Is that barrels of cement lost at Eagle
Harbor have washed ashore at Alki. This
theory of the murder is based on facts
learned tonight. A lodger at the Keswick
overheard Covington tell his wife that she
must be as loyal to Burllson as she was
to him and the woman refused. That
was shortly before the police fix the date
of the crime.
Absence From' Hotel N'ufcd.
From September 2 until the Covingtons
and Burllson were found to have left the
hotel--from Tuesday until Friday none
of the lodgers at the hotel either heard
or saw Mrs. Covington. The. police theory
is that a quarrel occurred on Tuesday,
September 2, t.ie woman's body being im
mediately wrapped in Bheets, a blanket
and quilt stolen from the bed, and after
ward Jammed in the trunk. The bed
ding, fdentiflod as having come from the
hotel, was found in the trunk with the
girl's body.
The police believe -.hat ' the trunk was
taken out of the hotel probably on Thurs
day, September 5. Burllson and Coving
ton were seen at Eagle Harbor the fol
lowing day. Burllson lias a friend living
near there, but neither man appeared at
this friend's home, and the police can
not find any one who knows where they
slept or who can give any motive for
their appearance at Eagle Harbor.
Covington and Burllson Missing.
Covington was in Seattle on Saturday,
September 7, but since that date neither
he nor Burilson has been Seen. Coving
ton gave out a statement to the hotel
people that "the trio had gone camping,
but when he returned on Saturday he
only took two bottles of whisky he had
left. He had left behind him a supply
f groceries, but he made no effort to get
them.
In connection with the theory that the
foody was thrown into the Bay at Eagle
Harbor, the fact was confirmed today
that the rocks found in the trunk cannot
be found along the beach at Alki point,
but that the waterfront at Eagle Harbor
is covered with them. The police's theory
is that the body was carried in the trunk
to Eagle Harbor and there the two men
piled in what they believed' would be
rocks enough to make it sink. The fact
that the current has carried cement bar
rels from Eagle Harbor to Alki points
indicates a reason why the trunk was
washed ashore Instead of sinking.
Identify Burllson's Clothing.
The overalls, the cap and a negligee
ehirt found in the trunk with the girl's
body belonged to Burilson. The letter
signed by "Edith" and addressed to "My
Dear Brother," in which the passage oc
curs that refers to Covington as "Frank,"
and the saloon cards of a wholesale liquor
ifirm, together with several miscellaneous
pieces of wearing apparel, belong to
Covington.
Covington was a salesman -employed for
about two years by J. J. Kelly, where he
left his sample case, without explanation
on September 7. He also worked for the
L. Kilsheimer Liquor Company, and this
firm's cards were found in the trunk.
Burilson was a steamfltter and the two
were bosom friends and drinking com
panions. The Keswick Hotei, in which the trio
lived after being forced out of a better
rooming-house, is' frequented by work
ing people and no attention is paid to
the going or coming of roomers, for
they arrive and depart at all hours.
The trunk was not seen carried out of
the hotel, but It could have been car
ried out at night or early in the morn
ing. A variety of rumori for Alki Point,
one of which says a Covington family
camped out there, were run down, but
at 11 o'clock tonight, after 36 hours on
the case,' the police believe they have
not only Identified the woman's body,
' but have solved the mystery, of her
.murder.
j Mrs. Ccvington, the girl wife, whose
dead body was found yesterday stuffed
into a trunk picked up on Alki Point,
had been practically cast off by her
relatives since the time she married
Frank Covington last March.
Covington and his wife left an apartment-house
on Ninth avenue and Stew
art street ten days ago because their
quarreling disturbed other guests, and
the owners of the house refused to
keep them longer. Since that time
trace has been lost of Covington, and
an intimate friend of the couple,
Charles Burilson, who lived with them
at one time.
The police have only this to contwet
Covington with the crime: That he and
his wife had quarreled several times and
that some of Covington's clothing, one of
his letters, and several business cards
of a firm for which he worked up to ten
days ago, were found in ' the dead
woman's trunk. The letter to Covington
from his sister Edith was found in an
unused envelope among a pile of new en
velopes, as though it might, have been
placed in the pile and forgotten. The
bedding was stolen from a boarding
house in which the couple lived.
Searching for Covington.
On the theory that if Covington is not
the murderer he will know something
that would lead, to the detection of the
persons who killed his girl-wife, the po
lice sent a party out in a launch this
afternoon to Eagle Harbor and other
Bainbridge Island towns from which re
ports come that Covington has been seen.
But neither the husband nor Burilson,
his friend, were found.
Covington is a nephew of John Cov
ington, a wealthy hay and grain merchant
of St." Paul, a wayward son of the St.
Paul man's brother, who also mysteri
ously disappeared several years ago.
Frank Covington Is but 23 years of age
now and a former resident of Lexington,
Ky. His family is well to do and fairly
well known. The sister, Edith, happened
to be In St. Paul on a visit when she
wrote the gossipy family letter to Cov
ington. She ' subsequently returned to
Lexington. The ipolice description of
Covington is: Age, 23; 5 feet 4 Inches
tall;, weight, 135; slender; invariably
dresses In black and wears a Derby hat;
handsome, dark eyes, hair and com
plexion. Little Known of the Girl.
After the marriage of Agnes McCombs
to Covington, which her relatives here
opposed, they saw but little of the girl.
She visited her grandmother two or three
time, but a coolness had sprung up which
prevented an intimate acquaintance with
the girl wife's affairs. What' little the
police have learned of the relations be
tween Covington and his wife came from
fellow-lodgers at the apartment-house or
from some of Covington's friends, in
whom he confided.
The girl's aunt. Miss Jennie Robinson,
substantiated the identification of her
body. The woman's father resides at
Vernon, B. C.
EXPLAINS - LETTER MYSTERY
St. Paul Man Tells How Stationery
May Have Gotten Into Trunk.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 23. J. B.
Covington of this city, whose firm's letter
paper was- found in the trunk contain
ing the body of a young girl at Elliott
Bay, near Seattle, gave the Associated
Press the following explanation of how
his firm s paper had come to be in the
trunk:
"Edith Covington, aged 25, and her
brother, Frank Covington aged 22, were
reared by their granparents in Catletts
btirg, Ky. After they had grown up.
they paid me a visit and the boy left
here for San Francisco. While he was
there, his sister, who was still here, re
ceived a letter saying he was going to
the Klondike. That was the last we
heard from the young man. Later, Edith
married and is now living in Rutherglen,
Va. A few days ago, a letter came to her
here from Seattle, and we forwarded it
to her. I presume that while Edith was
here, sho wrote to her brother on the
firm's letter paper and that may explain
how the letter got into the trunk. Our
theory is that Frank left his trunk be
hind him when he went to the Klondike
and it may .have fallen into other hands.
The boy always bore an excellent reputa
tion. That is as much light as I can
throw upon the matter."
SMALL WREGK TIES TRJVFFIG
BROKEN" AXIiE DELAYS TRAIN-
MANY HOl'RS.'
Overland Northbound Walts All
Night and Then Sent Around
Another Way.
ALBANY. Or., Sept. 23. (Special.)
A wreck, small in size and damage, but
great in its consequent delay of traffic'
on the main line ot tne soutnern ra
ciflc, Occurred last night 114 miles
north of Miller's Station and miles
north of Albany. An axle on a car of a
southbound extra freight broke, and
two cars were partially ditched.
The wreck occurred just before the
northbound No. 14 Overland reached
this city about 9 o'clock last evening,
and this .train and also the two sections
of this morning's Overland, were held
here until 8 o'clock this morning. It
was then seen that it would be im
possible to get the damaged cars out
of the wav soon, and these th'ee trains
were sent to Portland via the Corvallls
St' Eastern to Shelburn and then by -he
Woodburn-Springfield branch to the
main line at Woodburn.
The northbound Cottage Grove local
was held here until the track was
cleared about 12:30 this afternoon, and
was then started northward to pick up
the rielaved traffic on tne main line
No southbound trains reached the scene
of the wreck until the Oregon Express
this noon, and it was delayed only a
few minutes.
Miller's Station ha sbeen the scene of
a number of small wrecks similar in
character. About a year ago a north
bound freight and a southbound troop
train carrying soldiers of the Regular
Army from American Lake met in a
head-on collision at the exact place of
the present breakdown.
Hasten Sublg Bay Defenses. .
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. A fire con
trol system is to be installed in the coast
defenses of Sublg Bay, the naval base in
the Philippines. Conditions in the Far
East have rendered it necessary to hasten
I the completion of this equipment.
OPENS CAMPAIGN
UPO
HAHRIMAN
Fish Says Accounts
Have Been Padded.
DIRECT ATTACK ON HARAHAN
Strange Variation in Illinois
Central Profits.
RALLIES THE OPPOSITION
Calls for Proxies to Wrest Control
From Harrlman, Lest Union Pa
cific Milk Road of Le
gitimate Revenue.
NEW TORK, Sept. 23. Stuyvesant Fish,
ex-president of the Illinois Central Rail
road, made public today, a circular ad
dressed to the stockholders of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company, In which he
asks for proxies to be used at the an
nual stockholders meeting to be held in
Chicago, Wednesday, October 16 next. At
this meeting four directors are to be
chosen, three of them to succeed John
Jacob Astor, Stuyvesant Fish and E. H.
Harrlman and to fill a vacancy for a term
of one year. Coming down to recent
history, Mr. Fish says:
"The methods pursued by those of your
board of directors who act in the in
terest of the Union Pacific have been so
high-handed as to become .the subject
of widespread comment. At a recent
meeting of the board I offered a resolu
tion of Inquiry into subject matters which
should ' properly be disclosed to every
shareholder. While in the act of reading
my resolution, Mr. Peabody, representing
Union Pacific interests moved to adjourn
and J. T. Harahan, who was presiding.
summarily' closed the session. Later,
through the power given by the by-laws,
the minority who truly represent the in
terests of the Illinois Central -shareholders
called a special meeting, whereat I
offered a resolution of inquiry into the
evident padding of the accounts.
Says Accounts Are Padded.
"Such inquiry was necessary. The all
important duties so ably discharged by
the late J. C. Welling, who for 15 years
as vice-president and director had ex
ercised a close supervision over the ao
counting department, had been on his
death, in November last, delegated by J.
T. Harahan to his own immediate assis
tant, to be performed as incidental to
his other work. It appears from the
annual report of the Illinois Central
Company for the year ending June SO,
1907, that there was an extraordinary
increase in net receipts of the corpora
tion during the last four months, which
increase is wholly Inexplicable and obvi
ously inconsistent with the facts upon
any proper accounting, and clearly made
for the purpose of producing a favorable
but fictitious showing.
The first third of the year showed an
Increase in net receipts of $665,070. Then
came the change In the presidency and
in the next third of the year the net
receipts decreased by $572,586. Finally In
the last four months they were suddenly
Increased by $1,253,889, of which increase
$604,751 is reported as made in the single
month of June. This is a palpable mis
statement, which Is further emphasized
by the fact that, although neither the
ROOSEVELT "WELL, I'VE HAD A NICE REST; NOW I'M READY
FOB WORK AGAIN" i .
mileage nor the operating conditions had
changed in the slightest degree, the suc
ceeding, month of July showed a falling
oft of (U5.09S In net revenue as against the
reported gain of $604,711 in June. Yet my
resolution of inquiry was referred for re
port to the president, the very officer
who had brought the accounting directly
under his own. control, and. of course.
its whole purpose was defeated.
Danger in Harrlman Rule.
Tp to this time I have not asked
for a single proxy, nor would I do so
now, were it for the extraordinary
efforts the present management are
putting forth, with the evident inten
tion of electing E. H. Harriman and
such persons as he may select, backed
by -the. holdings of i the Union Pacific
Company," which constitute a practical
balance of power. It Is for you to de
termine whether their holding of about
30 "per cent of the stock is to name the
directors of the Illinois Central Rail
road Company without the consent and
to the detriment of the remaining 7)
per cent. Do you wish your "property
to be managed as heretofore, in the
Interest of the whole body of stock-.
holders, or to be dominated by the
Union Pacific, which, if thus put in
control for four years, will In that
time cause 3uch permanent traffic con
tractu and engagements to be made as
will deprive the Illinois Central of the
proper enlargement of Its advantages
and prevent 'its securing its legiti
mate revenue for all time to come?
"The repeated requests of large num
bers of stockholders that I not only
represent their holdings at the meet
ing, but also address the stockholders
at large in advance thereof is a suffi
cient excuse for this letter, as well as
for the enclosure herewith of a form o
proxy running to two of my colleagues
in the boar.d, Charles M. Beach and
James D. .Cutting arid myself."
JURY ACQUITS THE WOMAN
MRS. HAMBLETOX XOT GUILTY
OF Ml'RDERISG HUSBAND.
After Four and Half Hours, With
Three Ballots, Jurors Reach
Their Verdict.
BAKER CITT, Or.. Sept. 23. (Spe
cial.) "Not guilty," was the " verdict
tonight of the Jury in the case cf Mrs.
Dorcas Hambleton. tried for killing her
husband. The jury went out at 6
o'clock this afternoon and returned a
verdict at 9:31 tonight. Three ballots
were taken by the jury.
' A test ballot indicated that the gen
eral sertimoht was that tre woi.ian
was not guilty. After considerable ar
gument, another ballot was taken.
Though the exact vofe cannot .e
learned, it is understood to have stood
10 to 2 for acquittal. Further argu
ment among the jurors ended in agree
ing to free the woman.
STRIKEBREAKER IS KILLED
Fatal Fight Between Cnion and
Non-union Boilermakers.
HEL.ENA. Mont.. Sept. 23. (Special.)
News considered absolutely authen
tic, but not officially confirmed, has
reached here to the effect that there
has been a fatal quarrel between
unionists and strikebreaking boiler
makers on the Great Northern Rail
road at Glasgow, Valley County. The
report is to the effect that one of the
strikebreakers was killed In the melee.
He was one of the recent arrivals from
the East. No names are obtainable.
The Great Northern has sent a car
load of strikebreakers to Havre, the
main division point on that line in this
state, and they are closely guarded.
No one is allowed to approach within
200 feet of the shops and strangers are
kept off the right-of-way. The ma
chinists do not relish the presence of
the strikebreakers, and it is said they
purpose holding a meeting to consider
the advisability of joining the boiler
makers on strike. There are 500 men
employed In the Havre shops.
- welcome", n 5ldTwl!nirT 7
FLEET COMES TO
PROTECT CHINA
Roosevelt Cognizant of
Japan's Game.
COREA ONLY STEPPING-STONE
Little Empire Only Appetizer to
Greedy Nippon.
NAVAL OFFICERS' VIEWS
Japan Blustered About California
Schools to Get Free Hand In Co-
rea Roosevelt Is Determined
China Shall Be Independent.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. (Special.)
That the Japanese question has not been
settled but Is merely in its Infancy Is the
belief of a large number of naval officers
who have arrived at San Francisco with
the advance guard of the leet that is to
be mobilized in Pacific waters. Accord
ing to these authorities, the fleet has been
ordered to the Pacific not so much as a
warping to Japan for her past actions as
for a floating protest against her con
templated seizure of China. In fact,
these naval men interpret that presence
of the fleet on this .ride of the continent
as a message to Japan clearly saying:
"Thou shalt not steal China."
These authorities bring forward a num
ber ot Interesting facts to Bupport their
contention. In the first place they point
out that a treaty existed between the
United States and oCrea which was the
nearest thing to an alliance that the
United States has undertaken. This
treaty under a possible construction
pledged the American Government to pro
tect Corea against Just such a coup as
Japan has carried to successful conclu
sion. It it stated that immediately after
the Portsmouth treaty was signed. In
which by the way Japan guaranteed the
Independence of Corea. the Island empire
busied herself tying the hands of all the
big European powers by means of treaties
and allanoes. The United States Gov
ernment was the ony big power with the
exception of Germany not included In this
arrangement. The alliance with Great
.Britain naturally made a close under
standing with Germany out of the quee
tlon and the traditions of America's for
eign polity forbade anything approaching
an alliance. From Germany there was
nothing to fear. It therefore devolved
upon the Japanese statesmen to deal with
the United States, before taking full pos
session of Corea.
' Japan's Cunning Intrigue.
The naval officers above referred to
give it as their opinion that the iff-feeling
stirred up between the United States and
Japan was the work of the Japanese gov
ernment. 'While Japan was belligerently
protesting against the attitude of the
Caltfornlans toward the Japanese, it was
doing nothing more nor less, according to
the authorities cited, than holding Amer
ica at a distance with one hand while
with the other it was choking the life out
of Corea. Not io much as a protest was
raised in this country, while a strict con
struction of the treaty with Corea called
for an active interference by the United
States
AH- this time, it is stated, the Califor-
rem kcts
nians were not aware of the real issues
Involved. This state was merely a buffer
between Japan and ner ambitions. It is
stated, and ample corroboration is at
hand, that President Roosevelt was aware
that Japan was playing a deeper game.
The President never intended interference
in the Corean muddle, but it is stated
that he predicted that Corea was but a
stepping-stone to China.
In regard to the attitude of the Presi
dent, the writer . was told at the very
outbreak of the school question In San
Francisco by no less an authority than
Frederick 'Palmer, who had conversed on
the subject with the President, that the
one man in Washington who thoroughly
understood the Japanese was Mr. Roose
velt himself. Mr. Palmer had studied
Japanese character at olose range durlnlg
the war. and he found himself In agree
ment with the Chief Executive on the
plans and purposes of the men of the
Island empire. All this is noteworthy in
somuch as it shows that at the very out
set the President understood the Japanese1'
question and that his blustering rage was
a whirl of the big stick in a cycle of
diplomacy.
Roosevelt Watches Over China.
To go back to the naval officers and
their views. They hold that as soon as
Japan took possession of Corea Mr.
Roosevelt was convinced that the next
move would involve China, and according
ly began preparations for active interfer
ence. The United States sat quietly by
while Japan put Corea in its back pocket.
It will not sit quietly by if Japan makes'
the effort to deal in the same manner
with China.
To substantiate their theory that the
President foresaw a move upon China,
the Naval men point out that for the
last year the American Government
has been courting the good will of
China more assiduously than ever. In
the first place, the return of a large
part of the Indemnity to China was
part of this general plan. Further
more, Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, ex
Chinese Ambassador to the United
States, has recently returned to China
with a comprehensive scheme for a rep
resentative government, worked out by
the Chinese statesmen In conjunction
with the statesmen at Washington.
Dispute About It wan to.
The United States is prepared to go
to great lengths to preserve the entity
of China. Already a question has
arisen which may involve the United
States. The claim of the Japanese that
the Island of Kwanto belongs to Corea
and not to China will be investigated
by this country. . Japan gives it out
that she is interested in the Island of
Kwanto as a friend of Corea, and
pledged to see that the interests of
Corea are preserved. It Is not a far
step from the Island of Kwanto to the
plains of China itself. In fact, the
evacuation of Manchuria and the open
ing of the treaty ports are yet to be
accomplished. Again, rumors have
been floating across the PacIIlc of plots
to unseat the Empress Dowager and to
place on the throne in her stead a
Princeling as subservient to Japan as
the weakling who was placed on the
throne in Corea.
The big fleet of warships to be gath
ered on the Pacific Coast will serve to
remind Japan that the entity of China
is one of the cardinal foreign policies
of the American Government. To just
what lengths the country will go to
preserve the Chinese Empire from Ja
pan is yet to be determined. It Is not
expected that a military invasion of
China is contemplated by Japan, but
Naval men are inclined to believe that
Japan plans a campaign of diplomacy
such as recently deprived Corea of its
independence.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTGRDAY'PMaxlmum temperature, 81
degree; minimum. 5-1.
TODAY'S Showers and cooler; southerly
winds.
Foreign.
Rebel Moors accept French terms of peace.
Page 4.
Anglo-Russian treaty signed. Page 4.
National.
Naval officers f,tv fleet la ordered to Pacific
to protect cmna irom japan, rage i.
Bonaparte promises vigorous prosecution of
auit to forfeit land grant. rage a
Appeal of Hawse denied; he may go to
Roosevelt. Page 4.
Sentence on Captain Franeke modified, but
with severe censure. Page 4.
Domestic.
Standard lawyer ihowi line of defense.
Page 4.
Government confident of collecting big fine.
Page.
Federal Court suspends Minnesota rate law.
Page 3. ,
Important decision against Great Northern
in rebate case. Page 3.
Seeker after affinities refuses to close matri
monial agency. Page 2.
LJttle girl's letter stirs up Navy Department.
Page 3.
Old woman attempts suicide because too old
to work. Page 4.
Stuyvesant Fish make open attack on
Harahan' management of Illinois Cen
tral. Page 1.
Hall Csjne calls his press agent a. liar.
Page 4.
Nevada Supreme Court summons Judge and
District Attorney for contempt, page 4.
Sport.
Great tribute to George Siler on retirement
from prize ring. Page 7.
Beavers find a team they beat. Page T.
Pacific Coast.
Seattle police believe they have solved
trunk murder mystery. Page 1.
Mrs Hamleton declared not guilty by
Baker City Jury. Page 1.
Woman telegraph operator accepts marriage
proposal sent by wire. Page 6.
Joseph Jennings once convicted of murder,
set free. Page 6.
Trial, of Senator Borah begins. Page 2.
Graft indictments at San Francisco sus
tained; Heney opens Ford trial. Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
harp advances in cereal products. Page 17.
Wheat slumps 2 cents at Chicago. Page 17.
Sudden check to adpnce in stock prices.
Page 16.
Wreckers anxious to bid for stranded hulk
of Steamship Tellus. Page 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
Girls involved in houseboat case say they
are as bad as the boys. Page 13.
Another high-school building- needed.
Page lO.
Senator Tillman says his state would wel
come Japanese as offset to negroes.
Page 10.
Flour prices not yet raised; will go higher
soon. Page 11.
Bank depositors sign for $100,000 of tele
phone bonds. Page 10.
Hill road Invade California, Harriman ter
ritory, by water from Seattle. Page 18-
Diseh&rged detectives spring surprise at
hearing. Page 12.
ACCUSED BRIBERS
MUST HAVE TRIAL
Indictments Upheld by
Supreme Court.
LAST TECHNICALITY FAILS
United Railroad and Gas Mag
nates to Face Jury.
HENEY OPENS FORD TRIAL
Undertakes to Prove United Rail
roads' Lawyer Bought Ruef,
Schmltz and Supervisors, and
' 'ames Price Each Received.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 23. The
State Supreme Court late today ren
dered a decision upholding the valid
ity of tho so-called Oliver grand jury.
On this decision depended the fate of
the indictments found subsequent to
March last.
The attack was made on the grand
jury by William M. Abbott, of the
United Railroads; Frank G. Drum. John
Martin and Eugene De Sabla, of the
San Francisco Gas Company, and other
defendants to test the validity of the
indictments charging them -with brib
ery. They contendtd that in Febru
ary last the names for a new grand
Jury were drawn and that, while the
Oliver jury had not been discharged, its
powers lapsed with the first step taken
to impanel Its successor.
Justice McFarland filed a dissenting
opinion.
HEXEY OPEN'S FORD'S TRIAL
Tells Price Paid by United Rail
roads lor Franchise.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. Francis J.
Heney today, in a 45-minute statement,
outlined to the jury which is to pass upon
the guilt or Innocence of Chief Counsel
Tirey I Ford, of the United Railroads,
the evidence the prosecution -proposes to
submit in proof of the charge that ho
bribed Supervisor Thoinns F. Lonergan In
the sum of (-1000 to vote for the trolley
franchisf .
It is the assertion of the prosecution
that Mr. Ford, with the active help of his
as-slstant. William M. Abbott, and by the
orders of President Patrick Calhoun, of
the defendant corporation, paid Abe Ruef.
tho then political boss. $200,00; that Ruef
kept $65,000 as his share and through the
mediums of Supervisors "Jim" Gallagher
and Andrew M. Wilson (now Railroad
Commissioner) bribed 17 of the 18 mem
bers of the Board of Supervisors, Galla
gher receiving (15,000, Wilson (10,00 and
the other 15 getting (4000 each; also that
the share of the (200.000 delivered by Ruef
to Mayor Schitz was $50,000. The only
Supervisor who got nothing, according to
the prosecution, was Rea.
Only one witness was examined today,
the assistant clerk of the Board of Super
visors, who established by his testimony
the passage of the trolley franchise.
It has been announced that the first
witness tomorrow morning will be ex-Supervisor
Lonifercan.
APPLIES OSIERS' IDEAS
OLI WOMAN' ATTEMPTS SUI
CIDE, TOO OLD TO WORK.
Discharged From Store, Unable to
Find Employment, She Ignores
Sou's Pleadings to Live.
CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-(Special.) Mrs.
Henrietta Tabbert leaped into the lake
this afternoon because too old to earn
a livelihood and unwilling to burden her
son, 19 years old. Rescued and taken to
the Harrison-street police annexe, she
turned a deaf ear to her son's pleadings
that she return home with him, declar
ing she must "think it out first."
The woman, who Is 63 years old, re
cently was discharged from a department
store as too old. She tried in vain to
find other employment.
"Then I began to think how I could
end it all." she said. "I concluded I
would be helping my boy by getting out
of the way. It was too hard for him to
support us both. Uvlng, I am only a
hindrance to him. He is working In the
Postofflce and trying to educate himself."
While the woman was explaining her
motive, her son. Frederick Tabbert, en
tered the room in which she lay. .
"Won't you come home with me,
mother, dear?" he pleaded.
"I cannot, son," she replied. "At least
let me stay here tonight and think it
over. I am sorry I was saved. They
should have let me die. If I am too old
to work, I am too old to live."
Graves Transferred to Portland.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 23. U R.
Graves, who has charge of the special
land agents in California In ' connection
with the land fraud cases, has been trans
ferred to Portland to take charge there.
The Interior Department has decided to
clear up the pending cases in Oregon, and
T. B. Neuhausen. who has been in charga
of the investigating agents, has been or
dered to assist District Attorney Bristol
In the prosecution.