Morning Oregonian., March 11, 1908, Page 5, Image 5

TTE MIXING- OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11, 1908.
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. PRIEST KILLED
Prosecution Has Evidence
Nearly All Presented in
Alia's Case.
TROUBLE WITH CHURCH
Story ot Murdrrpr'h Kworamu ni ca
tion and of Wife I' n true to Him
With Friewt Alienists Testify
Sicilian Is Perfectly Sane.
DKNVKPi, Marrh 10. The prosecution
i?i the case of Giuseppe Alia, charged
with th murder of Father Lpo Heinrichs,
in St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church, Fel
ruary 3. nearly completed the presenta
tion of its evidence today and the fate
of the defendant will probably rest in
the hands of the Jury by tomorrow night.
The developments today showed that
there were only two witnesses to the
actual killing, and while, there were 70
or So other people in the church at the
lime, none of them saw the shot fired.
The suggestion of a plot was introduced
by the testimony of Mrs. VanHcave, but
i here was no corroboration of her testi
mony. The Jury is composed of plain business
men, all non -Catholics, who have de
clared under examination that they are
not opposed to hanging and would not be
influenced by th fart that the murdered
man was a priest.
District Attorney Is Effective.
In his opposing statement. District At
torney George A. Stidgcr briefly sketched
the life of Alia as obtained from him.
In Sicily, where he was born, he aban
doned the Catholic belief and associated
himself with a Protestant church. As
the. District Attorney described the shoot
silence in the courtroom. He spoke in
simple words, with no effort at eloquence,
but his description of the murder made
a deep impression upon the jury.
Mr. 8tldger told how Alia, while in thS
rountyj all. told a consistent story of his
life and of the shooting, and how, later
on, when he was being examined by
alienists, begun to claim lie could not re
member. Atfer being admonished, he
again answered questions for a time in a
rational way.'
The. first witness was Dr. Hugh L. Tay
lor, who assisted in the autopsy on the
body of Father Ieo. He said the cause
of the priest's death was a bullet wound
In the heart.
Alienists Watch Closely.
During the entire morning session eight
alienists watched Alia very closely. As
during the progress of the trial yester
day. Alia sat most of the day with down
cast eyes, but occasionally he would look
at the jury or a witness and, with blink
ing c'es, would seem to be trying to
make out what was going on.
August I M attic, an Italian who has
acted as Itnerpreter in the various inter
views with Alia held by Mr. Sticbcer and
the aeveral alienists, said Alia told him
he was excommunicated from a Protest
get no work nor a place to live in Italy.
He therefore left for South America.
While there he was told by a countryman
of his that his wife bad been untrue to
him with a priest. He told these stories
to Mattel without any show of feeling.
The only time Alia showed any excite
ment, Mattei snid, was when he told of
the killing. The examination of alienists
then began.
Facets of the Prisoner.
At the Afternoon session Detective
Claude Boss! testified regarding his
interviews with the prisoner shortly
after his arrest. He told of visiting
Alia's room and finding among his
effects a box of cartridges, some cloth
ing, a file and sorry other tools. The
file showed lead in its rough sides and
It was intimated tbHt Alia had used it
to sharpen i he bullets found on his
sun. Alia had claimed in his confes
sion that he had bought these bullets
In South America at the same time he
bought the revolver. The revolver,
! artridges and flies were exhibited to
the jury.
Bosst repeated the story of Alia's
crime as told him by the prisoner. His
testimony was similar to that of other
viln esses, except that Rossi said that
Alia asked him if the priest he had shot
had a star n his forehead, and when.
Informed that Father Leo had no such
scar, AMa dec la red he had killed the
wrong man, but any way he was a
prlft.
Mrs. M. F. Vancleave, a communicant
of St. Klisiiibeth's Church, testified she
saw Alia at the church three times be
fore the tragedy and each time he was
accompanied by two other men. On
the second visit the men talked to
gether and Alia pointed toward the
ultar. Sue was in the church at the
earlier mass on Febraury 2 It, and al
though she did not see th actual
shooting, she saw Alia running down
the aisle waving his pistol.
Witness of Actual Shooting.
Joseph 'Hines aged , altar boy at
the church, was the first witness to tell
f the actual shooting. He said that
Father Ixo handed the accused man th
r acred wafer during holy eommun Ion
and that Alia spat out the wnfter. and
drawing a gun with his Irft hand, tired
at tne priest.
A Father l,eo staggered back Alia
rushed down the aisle waving; his re
volver. George Miller, aged 12. the other
altar boy. corroborated the testimony
of young llines. Several other wit
nesses testified they he;trd the shit
fired and ?aw Alia running down the
aisle.
The day's session closed with the
examination of expert witnesses. Fmir
physicians whose specialty is brain and
nerve diseases, testified that tiny had
examined Alia and found him wholly
sane. The prosecution still has three
experts to put on the stand. Their
testimony will be heard tomorrow
morning and the defense will then
open.
SEEKING HIDDEN GOLD
Lure That Traw Men to World s
Most OanRerous Place.
Ro.titn (J lob-.
Po long as irass srowi and mater
runs, and man toils for gold, hidden
treasure will hold a lure for the hu
man heart. It draws men to far and
desert countries, over high mountain
ranges, through sickly swamps, among
the sand-burled ruins of old cities,
across tropic seas to uninhabited isl
ands, to foreign coasts and roadsteads
in which gd 11 eons may have sunk at
their anchors In old sea fights, to wild
bays and loths where the ships of thi
Armada dove to their doom, around
and up and down the world, in fever
ish quest for glittering wealth beyond
the lot of him who toils dayby day in
prosaic labor near his own robf-tree.
Who has not read with eager inter
est the myth of Kidd's buried loot?
All up and down the coast of America,
on beaches,- islands headlands, are
holes in the ground where men have
delved and sweated in search of that
same treasure, which exists only - in
tradition, and never was buried at all.
No more persistent illusion has been
harbored by generation after genera
tion than that Kidd buried great wealth
in plunder along the New Bngland
coast. Some little Inquiry reveals that
when the freebooter lay in jail at Bos
ton, awaiting deportation to England,
all the treasure he had brought north
with him from the West Indies was
turned over to the Government's repre
sentatives by the owner of Gardiner's
Island, in Long Island Sound, to whom
an unwilling custodian, it had been in
trusted while the pirate came to Bos
ton to make overtures for condonation
of his crimes. In the State archives of
Massachusetts may . be found an- In
ventory of all this treasure, very care
fully drawn, accounting for every shil
ling. . Kidd brought no other treasure
to this roast, and what he left with
his ship "in a cove in Hispanlola," was
afterward sold to a merchant in the
Danish island of St. Thomas.
Yet. in the minds of millions Kidds
treasure and its varied burial places
are as firmly intrenched as the legends
of Mother. Goose and the sacred myth
of Santa Claus in .the heads of chil
dren. The treasure seeker, whether sitting
in his library and speeding his quest
on the storied page of history or ro
mance, or actually voyaging to dive
or dfflr. haa always before him the tan
talizing uncertainty, that makes treas
ure hunting the most exciting of all
human occupations. Always the great
question is before him: Where?
Where is the rich city of the Great
Khan.-of which Marco Polo left a map.
where gold and silver were so common
they were traded for fiat money made
from the inner bark of the mulberry
tree?
Where lies the great treasure Pope
Innocent VII. is said to have buried
near the old papal palace of Avignon
In the south of France?
Whrtre is the treasure King John Is
supposed to have secreted In one of
his castles?
Where Is the wealth the Romans are
supposed to have buried In the great
wall in the north of Kngland?
Where is the tomb of Alaric, thfe
Goth, "crammed with the richest spoils
of the first sack of Rome?"
Where did Genseric, the vandal, hide
the five shiploads of gold, silver and
jewels he gathered In Italy and took
to Carthage?
Where are the treasures of Solomon's
temple and of Babylon?
Where Is the Hungarian cave in
which Attila stored his millions of
plunder, and which he strove to tell
as he died?
Where is the fabled lake of El Dora
do in the South American highland?,
where the Indians sunk tons of gold
In sacrificial ceremonies?
The treasure seeker never tires. No
less than a score of fruitless expedi
tions, for example, have sailed to the
Cocos Islands, off the coast of Peru,
lo hunt for pirates treasure. Kach
has cost a moderate fortune. So eager
has been the search that rival parties
have met on the Islands and blood has
been spilled. Still the treasure remains
hidden to lure on future generations.
DR. A. C FROOM TO ENTER HIS PRIZE-WINNERS
AT THE VANCOUVER, B. C, HORSE SHOW
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(ORVNDIM AND HISfAMA UH1CH Wl lL BK ENTERED IN
AMONG the Portland horses whi.-h
will be shipped to Vancouver. B. C,
tonlRht for the purpose of exhibitiiuc at
the Vancouver Horse Show at that place
on March I J. 2o and 21. are three of Dr.
A. ( Froom's prizewinners, which took
ribbons at the recent Portland and Se
attle horse shows. These handsome anl-
SMITHSONAWINNER
Runs 70-Yard Hurdles in 8 4-5
Seconds.
BREAKS WORLD'S RECORD
Dan Kelly Gets Third in Running
Broad Jump Champions in All
Lines Called Together by Madison-Square
Garden Meet.
NBW YORK, March 10. Champions at
nearly, every branch of field and track
sports were brought together at the an
nual in-door carnival of the New York
Athletic Club at Madison Square Garden
tonight. The sport was of the best, the
performances of Forrest C. Smlthson,
formerly of Portland, Or., but now a
member of the New York Athletic
Club, and- Harry Hillman. of the same
club, particularly arousing the big crowd
to a high pitch of enthusiasm.
Smithson, in the third beat of the 70
yard hurdle handicap, made a new
world's record of 8 4-5 seconds from
scratch. In the final heat of this race,
Smithson skimmed over the hurdles a
winner under nine seconds. The record
for this .distance over high hurdles has
been 9 1-5 seconds, made by S. C. North
idge. of the Irish-American Athletic Club,
last year.
The final of the special match race at
6no yards, between Harry Hillman and
Guy Hasklns, of the University of Penn
sylvania, was sufficiently- exciting to
please the onlookers. Haskins had led
for three laps in rather slow time, when
(Hillman dashed past him in the final lap
and won by two yards.
Cornell won the relay for college teams
handily with Amherst second and Pratt,
of Brooklyn, third. Four Harvard men
made up the Boston team, which ran
against the New York Athletic men. a
mile relay, and which was won by New
York in a very pretty race. Hillman
ran the last relay for the winners.
Matt McGrath, of the New York Ath
letic Club, made a new world's record
In throwing the 56-pound weight. From
scratch he threw the weight 15 feet 7
inches. The former record was 15 feet 6
Inches, had been held by James Mitchell,
of the 'New York Athletic Club, for nearly
ten years.
The running broad jump handicap was
won by X- A. Sherman. Dartmouth Col
lege 16 inches) with 21 feet 9VA inches;
Dan J. Kelly, Portland, Or., (unattached)
scratch, was third with 22 feet 11 inches.
VANCOUVER XIXE TO ORGANIZE
Players Will Try Out on Portland
Grounds Sunday.
The members of the Vancouver team
of the Trl-City League will report for
practice at the Portland Pacific Coast
League grounds next Sunday after
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HAZRI,. WHICH WILL BE ENTERED IX LADIES SADDLE CLASS.
niais will be exhibited by the owner, who
will leave for Vancouver today. Dr.
Froom's entries are the handsome mare
Hispania. which captured first prize in
several classes at the Portland show;
Hazel, a beautiful marc which will be
entered in the ladies' sadd!e classi and
Corundum, which horse will be entered
noon. Arrangements are being made
for several games to be played with
the Wabash "White Sox." the crack
Portland independent team. The prac
tice games with this nine are expected
to assist materially in developing team
work and batting ability on the part
of the Vancouverites.
The fans of Vancouver are enthusi
astic over the prospects of being repre
sented by a first-class team in the Tri
City League, and judging by the talent
so far lined up by Manager Helser, It
Is practically certain that Vancouver
will be well up In the race. With but
very few exceptions, the Vancouver
team is complete, and with the assist
ance of several minor league players
of note, the youngsters will be devel
oped before the Tri-City League sea
eon opens. Manage Helser has secured
Pitchers Pender, last year with the
F rakes: Olney. of last season's Cub
team, and Concannon, formerly with
Woodburn. These three twirlers were
among the best flingers numbered in
the league last year, and are said to
be even better this year.
In the - catching department, Van
couver has three backstops to depend
upon. King, Shea and McBride each
made a mark in the Tri-City organiza
tion last year, and two of them are
certain to wear Vancouver uniforms
during the Coming season. The infield
will be selected from among five play
ers: Lodell. Turk, Frye, Shaffer and
Houston. Ahern, Brlggs and .Helser
will look after the outer gardens. Two
promising Vancouver boys Woods and
Ferrel will be given a chance to make
the team. There is a posa'ble chance
that Jasman, the big first baseman of
the Wabash nine, may yet join the
Vancoucer team. He handles himself
well and can hit the ball, which causes
Manager Helser to consider him a pos
sible candidate for the Initial sack po
sition on the Vancouver team.
DOG FANCIERS FORM A CLUB
Will Encourage Proper Training. of
Hunting Animals.
Portland owners of hunting dogs, such
as pointers and setters of the retrieving
kind, have formed an organization that
will be known as the Portland Field
Trial Club, the object of which is to pro
mote the working out and training of
game dogs.
The followers of this sport assembled
recently at room 403 Abington building,
and formed an organization, and will
meet at that room hereafter every Fri
day night. It is proposed to offer $500 in
prizes, to-be divided between a derby
and all-age stake, for the purpose of
stimulating greater interest among the
sportsmen of Oregon in proper training
of dogs. B. A. Parsons, Will F." Lipman
and Dr. J. M. Meyer are among the most
enthusiastic advocates of the field trials
and are doing all In their power to pro
mote the new club.
Literary Gem From Indiana.
Linplncott's.
A reader for a New York publishing
house gives the following, quoted from a
story submitted by an Indiana authoress,
as being about the choicest bit he has
come across in many years:
"Reginald was bewitched. Never had
the baroness seemed to him so beautiful
as at this moment, when, in her dumb
grief, she hid her face."
D4ckna left &n estate of $400,000, the re
sult of. his writing.
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THE TANDEM CLAM.
in the tandems ' and single harness
classes.
President McGrath. of the Portland
Hunt Club, who has Riven a cup to the
Vancouver show, and several other Port
land admirers of horseflesh, will leave
today or tomorrow for the Vancouver exhibition.
HAS HARD PRACTICE
McCredie's Team Ready to
Meet the White Sox.
MARSHALL TO PITCH TODAY
Sixteen Beavers on Hand at fcanta
Barbara Confident of Victory.
Players Win Hearts
of the Town.
BY VCUiL. G. MACRAK.
SANTA BARBARA, Ca!.. March 10.
(Staff Correspondence.) Four hours of
the hardest kind of practice and Mc
Credie'e crew of pennant-chasers is ready
for tomorrow's same with the Chicago
"White Soxs." Manager McCredie haa 16
men on the ground with seven more to re
port. Marshall will bend them tomorrow
for Portland. He is a tall, lanky fellow
on the Kcnsella order. He hall from Los
Angeles and McCredie 1ms great con
fidence in him. Marshall has been work
ing out for the past three weeks and if
the Chlcagoans trim him, they will have
to step some.
Tonight every player in the team after
the day's hard dritling Is confident of
trimming the Sons, and, if McCredie's
crew does not win the. opening game,
there will be a lot of heart-broken
youngsters on the team. Although the
teams have only been here a few days,
all the players have become favorites with
the Santa Barbara fans. The town is
making great preparations for the two
big games. McCredie has been having
some trouble with the Mexlcon baseball
mogul here, but when he threatened to
go to Salinas, things were' arranged in a
hurry.
The team, what I saw of its practice
this afternoon, looks good and "Mac" will
have his own troubles picking out the
best of the young-esters when the weeding:
out time comes.
The batting order for tomorrow's game
will be as follows: Portland Casey, sec
ond base; Cooney. shortstop: Malloy. cen
ter field; Johnson, third base: Bassey,
left field: Kennedy, first base: MoCredie,
right field; Walsh, catcher, and Marshall,
pitcher.
Chit-Chat of Sporting
World
BY WILL G. MAC RAG.
ASHLAND. Or.. March 9. Here is an
interesting news item that San Francisco
papers are making a great deal over.
"Truck Eagan weighs less than usual."
What would interest the fans more
would be to know if Truck is clouting
the ball as usual.
That forfeit that Tommy Burns hung
up to bind a fisrht with Jack Johnson had
a string tied to it. Just as soon as the
pride of Dingeville got into action
Tommy took his money down.
Portland fans need not worry and look
upon the pennant as lost to the Seals Just
because they beat Chicago's second team.
They must win games in the Coast
League before the scramble counts.
If Jocky McFarland lives up to his
Eastern reputation he should have little
trouble of taking Britt's measure. The
Ulna Kid came within an ace 'of being
whipped by Nelson.
This is the time of the year when life
to a young ballplayer is more of a hope
than a realisation. He hopes to make
good, but the manager realises that he
was bunked when he drafted him.
"Danny Long has four baby Sea!
pitchers he is nursing," says a sporting
scribe. We did not know that Danny had
gone into the wet-nurse business.
At New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, March 10. Fair
Four furlongs Tony W won,
Holland second. Pinion third:
:49 1-5.
Five and half furlongs Idy
won. Nazimova second. Meadow
third; time 1:0S 2-5.
Six furlongs OTme on Sam
Cablegram second, J. Minot third
1:14.
Six furlongs Hasty Agnes
Merrick second, Oraculum third;
1:13 3-5.
Tom
time
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Six furlongs Robin Hood won, Han
nibal Bey second, Airship third; time
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Mile and a sixteenth Ottoman won,
Gilfain second. Daring third; time
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Mile and a sixteenth Gild Way won,
Louise MacFarlan second. Gild third:
time 1:48 2-5.
Animals' Second Sight.
M. Schwabe in Uebersinnliche Welt.
In a recent work on the Alps, in
the chapter devoted to avalanches, H.
Berlepsch gives some curious examples
of the manner in which many animals
seem able to foretell' the approach of
an avalunche. Chamois avoid slopes
which are often visited by falls of
snow, ths mountain starlings descend
to the valleys, and the dogs which
are employed to search for travelers,
especially on the Simplon, become un
easy and howl loudly before an ava
lanche. Horses are still more sensi
tive; they feel the coming storm and
hasten homewards, and even the quiet
est and most peaceable animals be
come unruly and unmanageable. In
one Alpine village the inhabitants re
lied almost entirely on the sagacity
.of a horse.
Onx one occasion, when drawing a
sledge, he absolutely refused to ad
vance beyond the entrance to a narrow
mountain pass, neighing loudly to pro
test against man's stupidity. At last
he was compelled by blows to pro
ceed, but the sledge bad hardly entered
the gorge when it was overwhelmed
by an avalanche, in which all per
ished. The, population of New Zealand (exclu
Ive tf Maoris) in liiOS wa 90H.OOO.
EMMET DRAKE
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at the primary election on April 17.
b well known as a vigorous worker in
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He standr for the Republican voters
choice for CnUd States Senator as
adopted in the platform -at the county
convention of the Republican party on
February 29. last. lie is in favor of
a high bridge across the Willamette,
and favors an emplovers' liability act,
such as suggested for each state by
President Roosevelt in his la-st message
to Congress.
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