TIIE 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1908. TRIED FDR MUHDER GUILT! OF ARSON Lamphere Is Sentenced to Prison, Fined $5000 and Disfranchised. VERDICT CAUSES LAUGHTER ?nry's Finding Ridiculous, Says De fendant's Attorney If Guilty at All, Guilty of Murder Ak for New Trial. LA PORTE. Ind.. Nov. ;. Ry -w-pher. char iced with the murder of M"-s". Rrlle Oiinnrm and her three ciuulren by Bttlnc fir to th Gunness hou.e. was found irutlty of arson tonight hy the Jury, -which liad dlibrat.'d ince 5:30 o'clock !at evening. Within five min ute after the veniirt the defendant was sentenced to the Slate Prison at Mk-hl-Kin City for an imletermlnate term of from two to '.'1 year, fined $5JU0 and wa aifranchi.ed for five years. Verdict KUliciiloui. Attorney W'orden. for the defense, said tor.lnht that a motion for a new trial wouid be made, and nhould It be refused, an appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court would f Mow. The Indiana Supreme Court ia two years behind In Its work, ro thia caae could not be reached until after. he had served the minimum time of hi sentence. Mr. Worden declared the verdict to be ridiculous. "If he was guilty at all." -saiJ the at torney, "he was trail tj- of murder. He should have been acquitted." The motion for a new trial will be based on the Judge's Instruction that a jurv could find Ijimphere guilty of arson. Should the case be carried to the Su preme Court and sent back for retrial. Ijimphere could not be tried on any charge In this particular case excepting arson. th crime for which he was con victed. However. In an event or that kind the tate would elect to try him on one of the Indictments, probably the Ilelgelein case. Members of the Jury are reticent about discussing what occurred In the Jury-room, but enough has been learned to know that but for two mem bers Lamphere would have been found guilty of murder or manslaughter, the verdict being a compromise. Several members of the Jury, it Is understood, held out Ions for murder In the nrt de Free, with a life sentence. So far as could be learned, none was for hanging. Confident Body 'Was Woman's. lamphere. in a statement tonight, said that he was confident that the adult body in the fire was that of Mrs. Gun ress. He reiterated his Innocence In t,he matter of setting fire to the house, though admitting that he was on the road and saw the tire that night. He also declared that he did not see Mrs. Gunness kill Helgelein. "I have no complaint to make about the verdict. Things looked pretty blue, but the verdict mlcht have been worse." GERMANS BOAST OF POWER wpaper Declares Kaiser's Troops Could Dictate Terms in England. BERLIN". Nov. :S. German military critics have contributed their opinions to various newspapers concerning the upeech made In the British House of Lords November 23 by Field Marshal Lord Roberts. In which he expressed fears of a possible German invasion of Knelnnd and intimated that a force of Ij.Ohi.OmO men would be necesary to pro 'tect the island. In ever)' instance they Meprecate the Idea of war. but the pos taiblllty of such an Invasion Is not ex cluded, particularly In the event of a greater portion of the British fleet be ing engaged at a point distant from that selected for a landing. The Tageblatt publishe an Interview with an anonymous person, who is. how ever, described as a high military au thority, whose Judgment is that under favorable conditions Germany could land sufficiently strong Invading force In England to enable her to dictate terms of peace. The- feeling of nervousness in England. It is argued here, arises from the realisation that they do not possess adequate forces under arms. Kaiser Starts Censorship. BERLIN. Nov. 36. Emperor "William has ordered that the court circular which Is given dally to tne press, and in w.iieh are described the doinxn of His Majesty and of the nyiil family, be much ab breviated In the future. The circular hereafter must be contined to the Hmper 'or's acta, as ruler, and the events con nected with these ac ts. The movements of the Empress and iYlnces will, as a rule, be omitted. It Is assumed that this change In pro cedure Is due to recent discussions in the newspapers, while the Emperor was stay ing jit Ivmaueschlngen, during the so ralled crisis, trie court circular having reported the number of etaus that fell before His Majesty's ritle and mentioned his merry mood at evening banquets. The circular must in the future be shown to a responsible official before being given to the press. PARIS SHAKEN BY MURDER tOomlnued from. First Page.) s not Wolff, the man who did commit the crime resembled him strongly. Then su.-plclon turned upon Mme. Stelnheil herself, and at C o'clock It was announced that she should be locked up in the prison at St. Laxar under a war rant of arrest. No charge, however, was specified. Wolff was also held, but not on a warrant. One of th'e surprises of the day was the revelation of the fact that Mine. Japy, who was murdered at the same time as Steinheil, was not Mme. Steinhell's mother, as had been supposed, but her stepmother. The end of the day brought a crop of sensational rumors. It was said that Xlnister of Justice ilriand had ordered an investigation of the open charges that Mme. Steinheil had been the mis tress of M. Leldette. the examining mag istrate In the case, and that M- Leldette had been Instrumental In stifling the In vestigation. Chief of Detectives Ham ard was credited with the statement that Wolff had practically established his alibi and that open suspicion had been cast upon Mme. Steinheil Couillaud. the man arrested several days ago on suspi cion, was released. Story Creates Sensation. The local newspapers published extras throughout the day giving under big headlines the details of the woman's tilement and Uer subaeuueni exaauna tlon by if. Hamard. Behind the inter est In the crime Itself lie tne more or less thinly veiled Intimations that France is on the verge of a scandal involving high personages, and the failure of the police to clear up the mystery had led to the open assertion that their lack of energy Is dictated by powerful repre sentations, dating back to the death in Paris in 1S99 of Felix Faure, at one time President of the republic. The public appetite for a sensation was whetted further by M. Hamard. who an nounced at 1 o'clock that the mystery was not yet cleared, and that a great surprise might be expected at any mo ment. . The crime In question was committed the night of May 31. Mme. Japv was murdered at the same time as Steinheil. The latter was a por trait painter and a grand-nephew of Moissonier. The assassination of the woman, however. Is supposed to have been Incidental to-the killing of Stein heil. He was the man It was desired to put out of the way. Woman Bound and Gagged. Steinheil, his wife and Mme. Japy lived together. Mme. Japy was bound and gagged by her assassins. Alexander Wolff, the man accused today by Mme. Steinheil, is the son of a woman who was formerly employed in the Steinheil family as a cook. He and his mother, whose name is Mariette. were at once arrested. It transpired, however, that Mme. Steinheil was not the first person to accuse Wolff. A mechanic named Warner told the police a few days after the crime that Wolff had suddenly come around with a pocket full of gold. The night of the crime he was not present In his usual haunts, but the morning after, when he read an account of the tragedy In a newspaper, he appeared to be great ly excited and swore that he would have vengeance on the assassins. Mme. Steinheil repeated her statement to the newspapermen to M. Hamard. chief of detectives, this morning. She was hysterical and sobbed out her story. In many respects her statements were conflicting. She said that Wolff com mitted the murder from the motive of robbery, but that he spared her on ac count of her daughter. She said she had kept silent up to the present time be cause of Wolff's threats to charge her with having Incited him to the mur ders if she denounced him. She declared emphatically and repeatedly that Wolff was nothing to her and that she was not In any way a party to the crime. She did say. however, that she had hated her husband and that she had a lover In whose eves she wanted to justify herself. "I hoped to Justify myself before a man whose love I have now lost forever," she cried. In Love With Nobleman. This man Is said to be a French noble man, and in his identity Is believed to lie the key to this romantic tragedy. There was a series of dramatic con frontations at the Palace of Justice throughout the morning. The parties to these interviews were Mme. Steinheil and her daughter. Marthe: Alexander Wolff and his mother, and the man Coul laud. Each was subjected separately to a close examination by M. Hamard and M. Levden. Marthe Steinheil has been devoted to her mother in the beginning, but today she was in a pitiful condition of dis tress. After the ordeal at the Palace of Justice she was completely prostrated. TROOPS STW OFSCEKE XO DEMONSTRATION BY STRIK ING CLAYWORRERS. Clergymen Intercede Willi 'Employ ers in Behalf of Workingmen, but Their Petition Is Denied. PERTH AM BOY, N. J., Nov. 26. Al though the clay-mixing and clay-working strikers In Keasby village, on the out skirts of this city, made no demonstra tion today, and evidence accumulated that thev were not likely to resort to further violence, yet It was decided this after noon not to withdraw the troops. All the Injured were reported tonight out of 'danger. Rev. Francis Gross;- of the Hungarian Church. and Rev. Julian Ziellnskl, of the Polish Church, held a meeting with H. M. Keasby and H. R. Keasy. of the National Fireproofing Cumpany. and urged the needs of the men. The priests asked for the Increase from J1.35 to Sl.EU for which the men have struck. They were told that business conditions did not warrant an advance at this time. LEAVES MONEY TO WOMEN Wealthy Manufacturer Bequeathes Sum to Nurses. CHICAGO. Nov. 26. Three gradu ates of the Illinois Training School of Nurses will receive legacies left them by Walter E. Ammon. a former patient. The nurses and the amounts left them are: f Miss Nellie O. Miller. o00: Miss Freda B. Phelps. $500; Miss Alice L. Voigllt. 1600. Mr. Ammon was a manufacturer of buttetlne In Jersey City. N. J. Six vears ago he came West on a business trip and while at the Auditorium Hotel In this city became ill with typhoid fever. Miss Miller was called in by doctors who were attending Amnion. The patient was taken to the Presby terian Hotel, where he was attended for three months by the other two nurses. Mr. Ammon. while in the Pennsyl vania station in Jersey City, on No vember 17. was fatally shot by Andrew McGrath, who had a fancied grievance against him. -Mr. Amnion's- will also contains bequests for many young women In the vicinity of New Tork. To a young woman who did the sten ographic work in drawing his will he gave $250. and the young women who were employed by his firm in Jersey City, 11500. Miss Anna Louise Carrie, of New lork City, received $:'5.000. with no explanations, and Miss Magdalena B. Williams, daughter of a Jersey City policeman, to whom Am mon Is said to have been engaged, gets one-third interest in his business bouse. Miss Williams was Amnion's private secretary for some time be fore the murder. Outlaws Safely Berthed. SACRAMENTO. Nov. 26. President Taylor, of the Boston American League baseball 'club, came to terms this after noon with Harry Hooper, the great right fielder of the Sacramento State League team, and Hooper will reportto Boston next season. Charlie Enwrlght, first baseman of the Sacramento club, whom McCredie has tried to get for two years, goes to Cleve land next year. Steel 3Iagnate Is Seventy-one. NEW YORK. Nov. 26. Andrew Car nesie's 71st birthday passed quietly, happily and uneventfully. He crowned the anniversary with a quiet little din ner to a number of Intimate friends last night at his residence in East Ninety-first street. Only 14 guests were present. Many telegrams and messages of con gratulations were received by the iron master during the day. - nA- nft on diamonds at Motx- J ger a, 342 Wualiington street. HEIGH OF TERROR EXISTS 111 HAYTI Anarchy Widespread and Country Generally Is Liter ally Running With Blood. WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS Persons Suspected of Sympathy With Insurgents Shot Down. Foreign Residents Make Frantic Appeals for Aid. NEW YORK, Nov. 26. According to a cable dispatch, received early, today by the. Picayune, from St. Thomas. D. W. I., private cable advices received there from Port Au Prince are to the effect that the cn sored dispatches sent from Haytl, give only a faint idea of the reign of terror now existing on that is land. The dispatch continues: Anarchy reigns throughout Haytl and the country is literacy running with blood. Private cables received here from Port Au Prince states that wholesale ex ecutions are In -progress, both by the gov ernment forces and the revolutionists. . Persons who are suspected of sympathy wlthnhe insurgents are being summarily shot by order of President Nord Alexis. The same course Is being followed by the revolutionists, who have control of the southern portion of the Republic. ."Foreigners in Haytl are making frantic appeals to their government for pro tection and the French representative has cabled for ships. The German Minister, it Is said, has cabled a similar message to Berlin. 'It Is the general opinion In St. Thomas that Intervention by the United States is necessary." NO BRITISH SHIPS SENT Consul-General Does Not Fear for Safety of Conntrymen. LONDON. Nov. 26. No British war ships have been ordered to Hyti. The Consul-General of Great Britain at Port Au Prince has informed the For eign Office that he Is not apprehensive of any danger to British subjects or British Interests. NEW YORK LOSES GIFT Yerkes Widow Refuses to Pay Inter est on Big Library. NEW YORK, Nov. 26. Because the widow of the late Charles T. Yerkes refused to pay J17.000 interest on a mortgage, the city of New York will lose the Yerkes" Library and Art Gal lery adjoining the Yerkes' mansion, at Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street. An order providing for the sale of the library under foreclosure on Decem ber 16 was entered yesterday as a result of proceedings brought by the Mutual Life Insurance Company, which held the mortgage. Mr. Yerkes provided In his will that the library and art gallery should be come municipal property and since the suit of the Mutual Life was instituted it was generally understood that the matter would be amicably settled. But unless something is done between now and December 16.. the property will be lost to New York as a public institu tion. The value of the library is considered to be greatly In excess of the amount of the Judgment to be satisfied J242.296 while the land where the structure is situated Is held at about 12,000 a front foot. With this as an estimate, this prop erty is twice as valuable as the amount of the judgment. Buy your Xmas gifts now; save 25 per cent at Metzger's. When to Use Dr. WUliams' PINK PILLS These piDs were originally a prescription used in the doctor's private practice and their benefit to mankind has been increased many thousand fold by their being placed on general sale with the doctor's own directions for use. They are entirely safe and contain no opiates or other habit-forming drugs. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the remedy to use when the blood is thin as in anaemia; or impure, as in rheumatism ; or when the nerves are weak, at in neuralgia ; 01 lifeless, as in partial paralysis ; of when the body as a whole is iO nourished, as in general debil ity They build up the blood, strengthen die nerves and have cured troubles of women and growing girls and many forms of weakness. That hundreds of people have tried the treat ment with good results is shown by the increasing num ber of cures reported. - Dr. Williams' Pink Fill am sold by all druggists, or will be sent postpaid, on receipt of price. 80 cents per box: fix boxes. 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