Jftnf nwg JSjjt tttam VOL. XL.VIII XO. 14,797. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY. 2, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PAWNBROKER BUTCHERED Nathan Wolff Killed in the Office of His Store ROBBERY MOTIVE OF CRIME Revolver and Hatchet Used in Fiendish Assassination of Wealthy Man. DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY GONE Murder Committed in Heart of Business District. PROBABLY. IN DAYLIGHT Police Theory Is That Two Thngs Did Bloody Deed, Looting Store at Their Leisure Booty Is'w Worth Probably $1800. Nathan Wolff, a pawnbroker at 165 First street, was brutally murdered :n his place of business sometime between 6 pnd 7 o'clock last night. Wolff was first ' t-ttot through th- ' iy-t i- ' Ji.ii L.k! was dragged Into la rear room; whero head was horrlbljha'elted "wttBr" hatchet. the blood-stained weapon being found beneath the hpad of the murdered man. The crime undoubtedly was committed by two thugs, men .whose demands for money and valuables WolIT resisted at the cost of his life. The murderers evi dently entered the store through the front door and blood-stained footprints leading from the rear room, where the body was found, through the store, tes tified that they made their exit by the same door. It is estimated that the rob bers secured Jewelry to the amount of about $1600 and rifled the money drawers and the cash box in the "pledge" safe of about $300 In money. Have a Slender Clew. The only clew obtained by the police consists of a blood-stained stand-up white collar and a brown necktie, together with two empty shells from a 32-caliber revolver. It is suspected that the crime may have been committed by the two desperadoes who made an unsuccessful attempt to rob the postofflce at Bridal Veil the night before. Circumstances attending the finding of the body prove conclusively that the murderers proceeded with deliberation in ransacking the safe and showcases of their contents after committing the murder. J. D. Robinson, deputy Sher iff and special nightwatchman, passed the store at 6:45 o'clock and discovered that the door was locked and that the light that Wolff usually left burning iad been extinguished. He gave the fact no special consideration, thinking that Wolff had left the store tempor arily and would return later. Suspicions Are Aroused. Robinson next tried the door at 8:40 o'clock, and llndlng the place locked and in darkness, became suspicious. He hastened to a nearby telephone and rang up the Wolff home, only to find that the family had become alarmed over the failure of Wolff to return home at his accustomed hour, . Hastening back to the store after an absence of 10 minutes, Robinson was as tonished to find the front door unlocked. Going in he turned on the lights; next discovered hloody footprints leading from the building, and a further investigation revealed the body of Wolff, with the face and head mutilated beyond recog nition, lying in a corner of the rear room. Withholding the news of his dis covery from Mrs. WolfT, who, accom panied by her young daughter, had come down town to ascertain why Wolff had not returned to his home. Robinson im mediately notified the police. Mrs. Wolff and daughter were after wards taken to their home by relatives, where they were told of the murder. Theory of the Police. It is the theory of the police that thej, bloody deed was done by two men. The time of the murder is fixed at not later than 6:30 o'clock, for the arrange ment of the jewelry trayo on the show cases indicated that Wolff was in the act of placing Ms valuable goods in the safe when his assailants entered the store. At the time he must have been standing on the south side of the room, behind the showcase, a shattered glass on the wall telling the course of one of the two bullets fired by the robbersv The second bullet lodged in PVolfTs neck and was in itself a fatal BY BURGLARS wound, according to City Physician F. W. Zelgler, who examined the body. Chops Victim's Head. Having thus silenced their victim, the probability is that the desperate thugs ; dragged the body Into the rear room, after extinguishing the lights and securing the front door by the spring lock. With the aid of a hatchet, evidently secured from the woodshed,, which is located in the extreme rear of the .building, the robbers completed their desperate deed by chopping Wolffs head into an unrecognizable mass, almost severing the lower jaw. The hatchet was afterwards -deposited beneath the head of the dead man. That the crime was committed about 6:30 o'clock is believed by the police Tor the reason that Wolff rarely remained in his store later, than that hour. . , Two Hours at Work. Judging from the story of Night watchman Robinson, it is further con- -4 ; f'A - ''?? 4 A'' Stephen B. Elkins, the Senator W ho Met HU Match in Senator Kutton Yesterday. eluded that the robbers spent' the greater part, of two hours leisurely ransacking the safe and the showcases. Title supposition is based on the fact that the men are believed to have been in the store when Robinson first tried the front door of the building when he returned from the Baker Theater at 8:40 o'clock. When he- returned ten minutes later he found the door un locked, evidently as it had been left by the robbers in their hurried flight. Difference With. Employe. The murder was one of the most brutal in the history of the city. Wolff was in the store alone at the time, len til tt fw days ago he had an assistant, John Olsen. . Last Monday Olsen was discharged because of some differences between him and Wolff and an entry in the dead merchant's books shows that Olsen at the time was' paid $100 for his services to date. Since - then Wolff had been conducting his business without any assistance. It is possible "that the murder and rob bery may have been committed by mem bers of a gang of criminals that is oper ating on the Pacific Coast and making a specialty of diamond robberies. Wolff was known to have a considerable "num ber of valuable diamonds in his stock, but they were all locked in the more se cure of the two safes. Signs of a Struggle. The scene which met the gaze of Dep uty Sheriff Robinson, Mrs. Wolff and the police was one of blood, disorder and hor ror. That some bloody scene had been earlier enacted in this store was only too apparent. That the pawnbroker had gone to his death only after a most fearful struggle with his butchers was indicated on every side. The safe in the rear, facing the entranoe, ' stood open, empty. What remained of its contents was strewn over the floor. The show cases on either . side of the room .'were . dis ordered and some of them'empty. Bloody Finger-Pritits. The two cash drawers 'were open and bore bloody finger marks, showing that the murderers had not taken time to wash their hands before looting the place. The end , of the showcase In the rear, just in front of the open safe, was broken and the glass strewn about' the floor. In the glass door of the wall show case' on the left side there was a bullet hole, while embedded in the woodwork- inside was found ' a bullet evidently aimed at Wolff and had missed its mark. Thug Leaves Xecktle. ' In the little office space partitioned off by a railing in the front on the right side was the pawnbroker's desk. The papers and other things It contained were thrown about in confusion. On the chair In front of this desk were found the bloody collar and necktie .which one of the robbers had hastily torn from his neck in his haste to rid himself of some incriminating article, and which now furnishes the police the only important clew to the identity of one of the mur derers. On the floor near the money drawer, on the left side, was found a $5 gold piece and a 5-cent piece. ' Trail of Blood Spots. Along the left side of the store, on which side the unfortunate man had been first attacked and shot, was a trail of blood spots and splashes which led back to the corner of the rear room where the, mutilated and bloody remains were found. Boxes and articles on the shelves that skirted this narrow passage were turned topsy turvy, as if the wounded man had struggled desperately with his murderers while they were dragging him back to the spot where he was literally slaughtered. In the rear room in one corner of which lay the body which had grown cold in a pool of blood, comparative order prevailed showing that whatever struggle took place between Wolff and his murders must have occurred in the front. Having reached here no doubt in an exhausted condition from hia, wounds and (Continued on Pace W-i ELK1NS IS FOILED BY FULTON'S ACT Baffled Railroad Sena tor in a Rage. PENALTY OF HIS BAD FAITH Attempt to Shield Railroad Sinners Is Thwarted. HEYBURN JOINS IN FIGHT Oregon Senator Offers Rate Bill Amendment to Elkins' Commod ity Resolution Heyburn Threatens Long Filibuster. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 1. Senator ' Fulton . today squared accounts with Senator Elkins on account of the latter's deliberate refusal to permit the interstate commerce com mittee to consider and vote upon the Ful ton bill providing that no interstate freight rates shall be increased until such advance is held by the Interstate Com merce Commission to be Just and. reason able. Elkins was, endeavoring to get a vote in the Senate on his pet resolution' ex tending the time when the commodity clause of the rate law shall go into effect. This measure is very close to Elkins'. heart, for most West Virginia railroads own and operate coal mines, and under the commodity clause such holding and operation Is prohibited. Elkins is. a very large stockholder in West Virginia rail roads and mining property, and his pocket is touched heavily, hence his desire to ex tend the time when this clause shall go into effect. Fulton Arouses Elkins' Wrath. When Elkins thought he had his resolu tion well on the way to passage, Fulton rose and offered his own rate bill as an amendment to Elkins' resolution and gave notice that he should expect the Senate to vote upon his amendment. There is con siderable support for . th,e"i1toni MUit-tJ the Senate and,J'lf 'vottS. upon" a' ant amendment, it may be made a rider to the Elkins commodity bill. Elkins, how ever, is as bitterly opposed to the Fulton bill as he is favorable to his own measure and, when Ftilton ha,d offered his amend ment, giving notice that he would Insist upon a vote at a later day, Elkins dis played considerable anger and intimated to Fulton privately that, if the Oregon primaries had not,,already been held, he would take a hfjid in the fight to bring about his defeat. . Heyburn then Harose and offered an other amendment, which made Elkins sit up and take notice. Heyburn has a bill providing that a rate on a short haul shall not exceed a rate on a long haul whenever the short haul Is embraced In the long haul. His purpose is to give Boise, Spokane and other inland towns the same rate from Chicago that is en joyed by Portland and Puget Sound, which have water competition. - Heyburn said he had been pressing his , --.- o o . . . oo . t SHAKE! j t :. .-.-v-' . ' ' -. o . . . . . . - .. ... .... bill for five years, but Elkins' committee had always refused to grant it considera tion. He declared there -was great de mand for such legislation, .hence he of fered his bill as an amendment, and said he would force the Senate to vote upon it before adjournment. He was decidedly ugly about his" threats, and Indicated his purpose to secure a vote upon his. amend ment or else kill the Elkins commodity bill. '. Elkins Breaks Promise. Neither the Fulton : nor the Heyburn amendment was voted upon today. but both will be pressed to a vote. If Elkins again calls up his resolution. Today was the day when Elkins promised to report Fulton's bill from the Interstate Com merce committee, but, as Fulton antici pated, . there was not a quorum of the committee present, and Elkins failed' to make good. His failure to keep his word was the immediate cause for the offer ing of Fulton's bill as an amendment. Elkins' resolution suspends, until Jan uary 1,. 1910,T the commodity clause -of the Hepburn law. . This clause went into effect today and railroads, therefore, which haul in interstate commerce pro ducts of mines or manufactures in which the carriers" are' interested are liable to maximum fines of $5000 for each offense. ' ' Excuse of Railroads. The Elkins resolution proposes to give the-n-ailroads .20 months additional time in' which to divorce . themselves from these properties, on the ground that the financial ' condition of the country has been such that the railroads have been unab to find buyers and to settle such questions of joint ownership as are in volved. In mortgages covering both the . . . ryrirtiaa proprietor or milling or manu facturing proprietor. ' Elkins used this (Concluded on Page 4.) 0REG0NIAN INFORMATION BUREAU , Oregon, Washington and Idaho people please. register. "Vonr Name Will Be Wired to The Oregonian the nay You Kegls ter Here. IF you are going to San Francisco to see the fleet, watch for this sign. It will be found on the second floor of the Ferry building. '. There you will secure a room tat any price you want "to pay, without the trouble of tramping over town or Jost ling on the overcrowded streetcars. There you will get all needed Information, your address In San Francisco will be regis tered for the. benefit of your friends, and your name telegraphed to The Oregonian the day you arrive. When you land at the Ferry building; go to the second floor and look for that sign. . . ou will find other information booths in the same vicinity, operated by the city of San Francisco for the benefit of visitors. - Among these you will see that sign, a register and some one to take an interest In your welfare. The; Oregonian was prompted to estab lish thi Informa-fliin. rj-V'-au on-account it the difficulty there -ktt be tn secur ing rooms in San Francisco during the time the fleet is there. It is estimated that, at least 250.000 people will visit San Francisco at that time; and as most of them will - be there for the greatest event to see the fleet steam in through the Golden Gate, with the rheumatism racked, but brave old Admiral Evans on the bridge there will be great difficulty In finding rooms. This difficulty having been foreseen by The Oregonian, a special arrangement has been made by . which the Northwest people' will be cared for by The Oregonian's representative, who will do all that is possible to spare fa tigue and . trouble in the crowded city, and see that they are not overcharged for their accommodations. Go to the booth immediately upon your arrival and spare yourself trouble. There will be no use In going to any of the well-known hotels unless you have secured accommodations in advance. A list of available rooms and apartments will be there for your- Inspection, and when the big crowd comes, if there is a room in San Francisco to be had, you shall get It. SHEDS 110 LIGHT ON THE MYSTERY Jones Won't TelLWhy He Left Home. LONG BELIEVES HIS BOY DEAD Returns Secretly Years Ago . Without Seeing Family, CONVICT' BLAMES' JONES Disappearance Influences Jury to Convict . Ingram of Charge of ... Murder Prisoner Denies Xow 'He Knew Medford Man. MBDFORD,- Or.,- May .1. (Special.) Reunited with his wife, who for five years has mourned him as dead, the vic tim of a gruesome murder, and looking upon the -face of. his son for the first time, Henry Jones sat with his family at breakfast in a local hotel this morn ing. " It looked a happy family, though the little boy cast shy glances with Tils bright blue eyes toward the father, so much a stranger to him. Jones was asked for an explanation of his mysterious disappearance. "It is not an Enoch -Arden story, only a per sonal affair, and I do not wish to make any statements publfc," was all that could be secured. Jones departed alone tonight for the north. Returns Home Secretly. Why Jones left home no one here can say, but the fact leaked' out today tliat Jones, in August of the year he disap peared, 19031 returned to the scene of his former home and found that his wife had gone to her father's home. While near the home which he had left he heard, from some small boys whom he chanced to meet that his child had died. Regretting his action in 'leaving his wife alone in grief, he went, forth, again, and untH a letter reached -him a few weeks ago, did not know his son was still living. ' . ..'' Five years ago this May Jones, then, a prosperous young farmer living In the northern end of Jackson County, started early one morning for Grants Pass to deposit money in a bank. ..He had sev eral hundred 'dollars, the proceeds of a sale of cattle. Failing to return home, investigation showed that Jones did it deposit the money in the bank. He was. seen for the. last time In a. Grants Pass saloon, and It was the supposition of friends that the young man had been murdered for his money. His domestic relations, it is said, had been pleasant . Ingram's Strange Story. Detectives took charge of the case, but obtained no clews. The general public had allowed the affair to give way to matters of more recent concern, until two years had elapsed, when the state ment of a prisoner in court recalled the facts to mind. In 1905 William Dunlap, an old miner, was murdered in his cabin, sup posedly for money. Andy. Ingram and Arthur E. Dodson wVe suspected and placed under arrest. Dodson confessed to being one of the principals in the murder of Dunlap, but Ingram stood trlaK He was found guilty. Oi murder In the first degree, but, believing he would be granted immunity from pun ishment, as he had a wonderful tale to tell, he Intimated that he knew the fate of Henry Jones. Whether or not this may have had any bearing or not, it remains that Ingram's sentence was made imprison ment tor life at least 'to correspond with the sentence of Dodson. In his self-made story, . Ingram stated that Jones was killed and the body cut into pieces and burled not more than 100 yards from a Grants Pass hotel. - In vestigation by the District Attorney failed of 'results,' and, believing In gram's story without foundation, the prisoner was not asked for further in- . J. Ondrn Armour, Master of Chi cago Wheat Market. formation until after his confinement in the penitentiary. . Friends Keep Up Search. All save friends of the wife of the missing man were silent.' Het 'friends,' however, -Jiave ever kept on the alert for some rumor whicu might lead to the solvinsr of the mystery. Only 'lx weeks ago were they rewarded when a man returning from British Columbia told of a man named Jones, once a res ident of Jackson County. Letters written by Mrs., Jones' friends to : authorities there soon brought the fact to light that Jones was well and prosperous and his re appearance was a Jlttle less surprising to -his friends than It would have been but for the recent word from him. - Mr. Jones arrived here yesterday, coming from Yreka, Cal., whither he had gone on land business. HELPED TO COXVICT INGRAM Disappearance of Jones Had Its In fluence on Jackson Jury. SALEM, Or., May 1. (Special.) Con vict Andrew Ingram denies he ever made an affidavit describing the killing of Henry Jones. Ingram, who Is serving a life sentence, says he never knew Jones, knew nothing of his disappearance ex cept what he heard, and never pretended to know anything about him. Andrew Ingram and Andrew Dodson are serving life sentences for the killing of William Dunlap - in Josephine County In 1903, about the time that Jones dis appeared from bis home near Grants Pass. The two men were not arrested and charged with the crime till 1906, and it was then generally . talked and pub lished that Ingram may have' had some thing to "do with the disappearance of Jones. ....... ' "The return of Jones is certainly , good (Concluded on Page. 5.) - CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. , YBfTERIAY'S Maximum temperature, 60 degrees ; minimum, TODAY'S Rain; fresh southerly winds. National. Senator Davis makes speech against News papers. Page 5- . Fulton blocks Elkins game on behalf of railroads and makes him furious. Page 1.. More exposture of paper trust methods. Fage S. Government . accused of relaxing vigilance in Chinese exclusion. Page 4. Domestic Boom tn Chicago wheat market caused by Armour's squeezing shorts. Page 3. Rumors that Cleveland has cancer cause fear he cannot recover. Page 1. Trainmen tell of Pittsburg express robbery. Page 2. Jerome accused of shielding Ryan and the ice trust. Page 2. Locomotive dynamited on Northern Pacific Railroad near Butte. Page 1. Sports. Coast League scores Portland S. San FYan cisco ; Los Angeles 7, Oakland '2. Page 2. Lewlston High School wins trl-state meet at Walla Walla. Page 6. Oregon freshmen defeat Portland and Eu gene High School track teams. Page 6. ' Parine Coast.' Fleet arrives at Monterey apd orders are given for ' entrance to San Francisco -. Pago 4. Green will turn state's evidence against Ruef. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Grain committee of Board of Trade adopts rules. Page 17. t May wheat passes dollar mark at Chicago. Page 17. , St.. Paul feature of stock market. Page IT. General trade is quiet. Page 17. Large increase in grain exports during the past ten months. Page 15. Portland and Vlcinltr. Nathan WolIT murdered and robbed in bis pawnshop. Pago r. City Electrician Bavarian blamed for Hre- alarm cable blunder. Page 7. Four-day livestock sale ends. Page 12. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson lectures on greater Navy. Page . R. r. I oman resigns city ofTloe on account of quarrel with Mayor. Page 10. Deficit In city general fund is threatened. Page 12. Sport. Confirmation of awards at bench show. Paa 10. DOES CANCER EAT lY HIS VITALS ? Mystery About Cleve land's Illness. DOCTOR'S LIPS TIGHTLY SHUT Wife Is Worried, but Refuses to Talk About It. i RUMORS NOT ANSWERED Ex-Prcsldent Lies Suffering at Lakenood and Report Says Hope of Recovery Wanes Bryant t Refuses to Reveal Ailment. . ' TCEW TORK, May t. Anxiety was oc casioned today by widely circulated ru mors that the condition of ex-President Grover Cleveland, who has been 111 for several weeks at a hotel In Lakewood, N. J., had assumed a grave phase and that slight hopes were entertained of his recoverj. ( The Evening World gave prominence to reports current at the; offices of the Equi table Life Assurance Society, of which Mr. Cleveland is a voting trustee, that the ex-President's physicians had diag nosed his illness as cancer of the stom ach, and had decided that there was no hope of his recovery. Bryant Will Not Talk. - Positive denial of these statements was not obtainable today. Dr. Joseph D. Bry ant, who has attended Mr. Cleveland for years, said his patient was "all right," and that all reports from Lakewood were favorable. In answer to a question as to whether Mr. Cleveland was suffering from cancer of the stpmach. Dr. Bryant said that as' a physician he could not make public the diagnosis in the case of any of bis patients. Any Information on such a subject, were It to be given to the public, should come from the family, he said. Mrs. Cleveland Worried. At Lakewood tonight efforts were made to obtain an authorized statement regard- ' Ing Mr. Cleveland's illness from the hotel authorities, or through them a statement from Mrs. Cleveland. But the same .aOr swer, "Nothing to say," was all that was given out, though several Inquiries were made.. Some of the friends of the ex-President who have seen. Mrs. Cleveland say that she Iras told them that there Is nothing serious the matter with Mr. Cleveland, but they add that she appeared much worried regarding her husband's condi tion. It is known in Lakewood that as yet no local physician or additional nurse has been called into the case, and Dr. Bryant, the family physician, visits Mr. Cleveland only every other night. t Dr. Bryant visited Mr. Cleveland to night, but could not. be reached when a telephone call was sent for him at the hotel E BUTTE TRAIN BCRLIXGTOX PASSENGER IS HURLED FROM TRACK. Engineer Killed and Fireman Badly Injured Mallear Is Damaged. Pullmans Not Ditched. BUTTE. Mont., May 1. Eastbound Burlington train No. 6, due in Butte at 11:33 o'clock tonight, was dynamited about a mile west of the Northern Pa cific station at 11:27 o'clock. The ex plosion caused the first, or helper en gine to leaveilie rails, but it plowed along for a few hundred feet without turning over.. The second engine crashed into the bank south of the track a few carlengths from where the explosion occurred. ' Every person on the train lias been accounted for excepting Engineer Bussy, of the second engine, . who is supposed to be burled under his loco motive. Carl Mange, who was riding on the blind baggage, had to be taken from the mass ,ef timbers under which he was burled. His arm and leg were broken. Fire man George Bhle, of the second engine, was badly scalded. Both were hurried to the hospital in the police patrol, which was at the scene of the wreck, as quickly as possible after the men were received In the city. Locomotive No. 2100, in charge of Bn-,, gineer Bussy and Fireman Elile, is lying on its side south of the track. The mall car, which was right behind it, was hurled on its side and badly wrecked. A cold storage fish car was next to the mail car, and it was smashed Into kindling wood. Following the fish car was the express car. Only the front trucks of the express car left the rails. The baggage car also remained on the track. The general theory of the . explosion is that the dynamite was placed directly on the rails, but it is Impossible to say whether a time fuse or some sort of per cussion cap was attached to the ex plosive, those who saw the flash agree it came from the south side of the track. AW