THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1910.
HARPS BOY FRAUD,
SAYS DR. GILBERT
Mother Indignantly Denies
This, and Says Lad Has
Occult Power.
HIS ALLEGED CONFESSION
Physician Keeps Boy in Home and
Says He Oets Boy to Admit He
Im Responsible for Most of the
Peculiar Occurrences Noted.
Trickery, deception and mlschievous
ness on the part of 11-year-old Ernest
Harps, are, what Dr. J. Allen Gilbert as
signs as the causes of the mysterious
happenings in the houe at 646 Marshall
street on October 28 last.
"I am satisfied In my own mind that
Ernest Is possessed of an unseen power,"
says the boy's mother, who is indignant
at the way the physician disposes of the
case.
Before the Academy of Medicine
Thursday night. Dr. Gilbert read a re
port of his investigation of the Harps
boy. For some time he kept? the boy in
his home, watching him closely, and in
his report he blandly characterizes the
little fellow as a fraud. He says he wrung
confession from the lad to the effect
that he had done by physical means all
but two of the things that have been
ascribed to a supernatural power.
Occult Power Ascribed.
For two hours on the October after
noon furniture, tinware and crockery in
the Marshall-Street home danced about.
Tables were moved, chairs apparently of
their own accord changed their positions,
dishes were hurled from the tables and
other such things happened. These were
laid to the action of an occult force.
Many .people saw these things and
could not account for them by any other
explanation than that some outside power
was active. Ernest Harps stood by and
watched the peculiar antics of the furni
ture. Dr. Gilbert says the boy confessed
that he was responsible for all but two
of the strange things that were seen.
One was the movement of plaster from
the wall in the home of his grandparents,
on Seventeenth street, and the other the
overturning of a. heavy table in an up
stairs room of the Marshall-street house.
Boy Denies Two Things.
A few weeks before the occurrences in
the Marshall-street house, the Harps boy
was present In the house occupied by his
grandparents on Seventeenth street, when
the plaster in a room strangely and sud
denly dropped from the wall. A huge
chunk of plaster was carried across the
room and slammed violently against the
opposite wall, breaking in thousands of
pieces.
A heavy table in a bedroom upstairs in
the Marshall-street home toppled over
and fell with a crash on the floor. This
occurrence was noted during the series
of mysterious happenings. The boy de
nied his presence in the bedroom when
the table fell.
Touching upon his participation In the
occurrences In the Marshall-street house.
Dr. Gilbert says the boy confessed that
he lifted a couch on its end by human
strength when he was not observed by
other occupants of the rooms.
"I ran away from the lounge and when
it fell it came near striking grandma."
the lad is quoted as saying in his con
fession. Peculiar Things at Valley Hotel.
Three days after the happenings in
Marshall street the lad was taken to
the Valley Hotel, at Second and Main
streets, where his mother was employed
as housekeeper, and where he now. is.
Here followed an apparent repetition of
the occurrences. Knives slid from the
table, cushions flew across the room and
a lemon pie was said to have been seen
to rise from the table, remain poised a
moment itf the air and then fall to the
floor.
Young Harps was said to be within a
few feet of where the pie stood upon the
table. These and other antics were at
tributed by some to the occult power
seemingly possessed by the boy. In his
, report Dr. Gilbert cites the expressions
of 25 persons who witnessed these things.
Dr. Gilbert Observes Boy.
During an Illness from the shock suf
fered by Mrs. Harps after the demonstra
tion at the Valley Hotel, Dr. Gilbert took
the boy to his home and for a month
had him under constant surveillance.
Numerous occurrences were noted in the
Gilbert home during the lad's stay. Dr.
Gilbert adopted various methods of In
vestigation, Automatic readings, tele
pathy and other such means employed
by Dr. Gilbert, he says, failed to receive
any tangible response from the boy. In
variably, he says, the answers advanced
to the doctor's queries were a denial or a
boyish effort to conceal the facts.
After summing up the various incidents
in the case. Dr. Gilbert, after vainly en
deavoring to withhold his conclusions
from the public, gave out a signed
resume of his conclusions relative to the
phenomena and his convictions concern
ing the boy.
Dr. Gilbert's statement is as follows:
Dr. Gilbert Gives Resume.
(- "I am very sorry that the Harps af
fair has. been made public in the way
it has. for all reports to the Academy
of Medicine are supposed to be behind
closed doors. I had desired to keep
the report in strictly scientific chan
nels. As reported, a wrong impres
sion has been conveyed in many ways.
Rather than let It stand as it is, I feel
the statement of my conclusions should
be corrected.
"Though study of the testimony and
the case in general showed many weak
points, witnesses testified to seeing
things which were Impossible to be
seen from the position they occupied
Some told different stories in two dif
ferent recitals of what they saw. All
experiments and tests in our home were
negative. Piecing together parts of
different conversations brought to light
discrepancies and contradictions.
"All the phenomena in our home were
evidently done by Ernest himself. Mrs.
Gilbert kept accurate concurrent notes
of the happenings in our home which
would convince the most credulous that
they were done by the boy, though he
was not caught in any individual act.
On the contrary, she was careful to
give him liberty unrestricted by open
accusations. I saw none of his per
formances. "Being thoroughly convinced that
Ernest did many of the phenomena, and
having enough data to defend myself in
that opinion, I decided to probe him.
Up to this time he had no idea that I
suspected him of trickery. I had pur
posely avoided anything which might
make him suspect that I distrusted him
in the least. In fact, notwithstanding
that I was certain of some fraud, I can
even now scarcely believe it possible
that he, an 11-year-old boy, had done
all the things mentioned by witnesses.
"On Sunday, January 30, I brought
Ernest to our home without telling him
what I wanted. In the presence of wit
nesses I told Ernest that I knew how
many of the things had been done and
told him plainly that I knew he did
them. I had sifted evidence till I was
able to explain how many of the things
had been done and told him plainly
that I knew he did them, and I told
him how he did them.
"At first he denied emphatically hav
ing done anything at all at the Marshall-street
house. Seeing that I knew
more than he thought I did, he admitted
having done the things I described.
Further cross-examination led him in
to such a maze of contradictions -and
Inconsistencies regarding the things
that he .denied, that he finally, step
by step, admitted having done numer
ous other things. Cornered still fur
ther by his own contradictions, he
finally admitted having done all the
things at the Marshall-street house ex
cept two."
Mrs. Harps, the mother of the boy,
has him with her at the Valley Hotel,
where she is employed as housekeeper.
She denies Dr. Gilbert's contentions
and maintains Ernest is possessed of
a supernatural power. Last night she
indignantly denied that her boy was a
"spiritualistic fraud." as asserted by a
local evening newspaper.
"I am satisfied in my own mind
that Ernest is possessed of -'an unseen
power," said Mrs. Harps. "All those
things that occurred in the Marshall
street house and here in the hotel he
did not do."
"If Ernest is possessed of a super
natural power is he equal to its con
trol?" she was asked.
"No, he cannot control the power,"
said the mother. Then she added:
"He is feeling better and is healthier
now than when the phenomena occurred
last October."
0. A. G. 44: OREGON 20
COLLEGE DEFEATS UNIVERSITY
IN" BASKETBALL.
Eugene Team Is Completely Out
classed In Basket Throwing.
Game Clean and Fast.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE,
Corvallis, Or., March 13. (Special.)
The Oregon Agricultural College bas
ketball team finished the season by
overwhelmingly defeating the Uni
versity of Oregon quintet here last night.
The final score was 44 to 20.
The University of Oregon players
were completely outclassed in basket
throwing, but held their own In passing
and floor work. The game was ex
ceedingly fast and clean. Only five
fouls were called during the entire 40
minutes of play. Three were called on
O. A. C. and two on the university.
At no stage of the contest did the
University of Oregon five have a chance
of winning, for the O. A. C. players
got a lead in the first few minutes of
play, which they maintained through
out the game, the first half ended with
O. A. C. having the better of a 26-to-9
score.
Reed, Cooper and Horton were re
sposible for the greatest number of
points scored by O. A. C, Reed getting
12, Cooper and Horton, making 8 each.
For Oregon Moore, Walker and Elliot
were the particular stars! The Uni
versity of Oregon team was consider
ably weakened by the absence of Cap
tain Stlne, who was unable to play on
account of injuries.
The faculty and senior teams played
a curtain-raiser in which the faculty
was victorious.
This game ends the season for both
teams.
CORNELL TO JOIN JEFFRIES
Trainer of Ball Squad Will Be Re
placed by Bennett.
Roger Cornell, trainer for the Portland
baseball team, will go to the Jeffries
training camp probably about April 1 to
take charge of the big fellow. His place
with the Portland team will be filled by
"Duke" Bennett, who has worked with
Cornell and will follow his methods.
Cornell will stay with Jeffries at least
until the time of the fight, July 4, and If
he wins a stake In the event that Jef
fries wins, he may not care to continue
with 'the Portland ball team the rest of
the season. In that case Bennett will
keep the job. Bennett was trainer for
the Butte team three years ago. Ar
rangements are being made for Bennett
to take charge- of Jimmy Austin and one
of the other boxers who will appear in the
smokers here during the next three
weeks.
CHINESE SOLDIERS MAIM
Refused Free Admittance to Theater,
They Start Riot.
VICTORIA. B. C, March 13. Particu
lars of an attack upon foreigners by Chi
nese soldiers at Soochow were brought by
the steamship Monteegle.
The soldiers, whose pay was overdue,
had endeavored to secure free admit
tance to a Chinese theater, and being re
fused became riotous. A party of four
British soldiers from Shanghai were at
tacked and wounded, and a number of
Japanese were wounded and their shops
wrecked.
The Chinese soldiers were attacking the
populace, swinging bamboos and tramp
ling over the people, when they saw the
foreigners and mobbed them, belaboring
them with bamboos, two foreigners being
picked up insensible.
MORGAN GLAD HE IS ALIVE
Financier Laughs at Reports He
Died Suddenly.
ROME. March 13. J. P. Morgan en
Joyed a hearty laugh today when he
learned for the first time of the rumor
that he had been the victim of a sud
den taking off. When he appeared for
breakfast at the Grand Hotel, where
he has apartments, the American finan
cier found awaiting him many' tele
grams congratulating him upon the
falsity of yesterday's report. He was
evidently amused rather than surprised,
for he said:
"I am accustomed to such tricks.
They are planned simply to affect the
market momentarily. I have never be
fore felt as well as I do now."
Mr. Morgan lunched today with John
W. Garrett, secretary of the American
Embassy at Rome.
GERMS PREFER CURRENCY
8.2,060,000 on Dollar Bill Furnish
Argument for Clean Cash.
WASHINGTON. March 13. Germs
92.000,000 of them of manifold variety
were found on a $1 bill microscopically
examined at the request of Representa
tive Wiley, of New Jersey, according
to his statement today before the House
committee on banking and currency, in
support of his bill to provide clean cur
rency by burning all paper money re
turned to the Treasury.
Among the many diseases found to
be circulating about this money were
smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid, tuber
culosis and diphtheria.
No germs were found on metal money.
EVIDENCE AGAINST
GORDON SHUT OUT
Prosecution of Great Northern
ex-Attorney Reduced to
Utter Impotence.
CASE AGAINST HIM WEAK
Judge Kennan Excludes Bank Rec
ord of Drafts and Gordon's Con
fession, Though Gordon De
cided Contrary When Judge.
SPOKANE. Wash.. March 13. (Special.)
By decisions rendered by Judge Henry
L. Kennan in the Gordon embezzlement
case today, the state is not permitted
to prove:
By Cashier W. D. Vincent, of the Old
National Bank and by the books of the
bank, the payment of Great Northern
money to Gordon on the Gordon drafts,
because the drafts themselves, in the pos
session of the Great Northern Railway,
are in law the "best" evidence.
By N. E. Nuzura, of the law firm of
Nuzum & Nuzum, associate attorneys for
Gordon, that Gordon confessed his- short
age to Nuzum at a conference in a room
in the Tourist Hotel in Seattle. August 15,
1908, the confession . being held . to be
privileged, although Nuzum testified that
he had not been retained by Gordon at
the time.
Evidence Is Only Skeleton.
Turned back in every direction by ad
verse decisions of the court on the ad
missibility of proffered evidence, Prose
cuting Attorney Fred C. Pugh and his
assistants fought all day to get before
the jury the facts held by them to be
material in the case, only to be baffled
in the end, and to bring their case almost
to an end with only a skeleton of proof
in support of the allegations in the in
formation. Only two witnesses were heard, ancl
their testimony was brief and com
paratively unimportant, practically the
entire day being- devoted to argument
by attorneys on the admissibility of the
testimony which the state offered to
introduce. But one witness remains to
be called by the state, W. W. Tolman,
who has been once on the stand and
will be placed on again Monday morn
ing for the purpose of supplementing
his testimony in one particular.
Gordon's Own Decision Against Him.
In arguing to the court the admis
sibility of bank records in the absence
of drafts, Mr. Pugh cited a decision
written by Gordon himself at the time
he was a Judge of the Supreme Court,
holding In part:
"We think it was not indispensable
to the introduction of the books of the
bank that the checks should be pro
duced. As already stated, the proof
showed that appellant's passbook was
balanced from time to time with the
books of the bank and found to agree
with such bank books, and that there
after the book was returned to appel
lant together with the checks. This,
we think, was competent proof for the
purpose of showing that the charges
made upon the books of the bank to the
account of the appellant, because of
checks drawn by him on his account,
were proper and legal charges."
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DESERT JAIL
IROX BARS TO CORRIDOR WIN
DOW ARE SAWED AWAY.
Prisoners Escape While Sheriff Is
Busy With Sa'turday Crowd
of Taxpayers.
PENDLETON. Or., March 13. (Spe
cial.) One of the most- successful whole
sale Jail deliveries ever effected in Uma
tilla County was pulled off at the County
Jail about 6 o'clock last evening. Seven
out of the 11 prisoners made their escape
and at midnight not a single one had
been apprehended.
Someone had passed in a saw from the
outside, and while Sheriff Taylor and his
deputies were busy handling the Satur
day crowd of taxpayers, the prisoners
took advantage of the liberty they had
been accorded in the Jail corridor, sawed
the bars to a back window, dropped 10
feet to the ground below and escaped
from the Courthouse yard without being
seen.
Three bad-check artists and four bur
glars are in the escaping party. Will
Bally, of Freewater, George Slmpkins
and James Carter, of Pendleton, are the
forgers, while Leo Lent, Peter Bloom,
George Gould and Harry Ray, all. of this
city and vicinity, are the burglars.
The officers have thrown out a net over
the surrounding country and hope to
have them all apprehended by morning.
MILLS MAY GO ON BOARD
Portland Man to Have Support, for
Harvard Overseer.
SEATTLE. Wash., March 13. At a din
ner (riven tonight by Samuel Hill, good
roads advocate and son-in-law of James
J. Hill, to 150 members of the Harvard
Clubs of Portland, Tacoma, Spokane and
Seattle, a movement was set on foot to
bring about the election of a Pacific
Coast man on the Harvard Board of
Overseers at the June meeting of the
alumni.
The men present at the dinner voted
unanimously to support A. L. Mills of the
class of '81 and a resident of Portland.
Or., for the place. Assurances have been
received from the Harvard clubs of San
Francisco and Los Angeles that they will
support the movement.
RIVAL CITIES ARBITRATE
All California to Aid in Settling San
Francisco-San Diego Dispute.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal.. March 13.
The Chamber of Commerce directors
voted today to call a committee of three
delegates" from each commercial or civic
body in California.- to meet here on March
22, to consider the dispute between San
Diego and San Francisco as to where
the Panama Exposition should be held.
SUNNY SUNDAY PROMISED
Weather Man Predicts Opportunity
to Wear Spring Raiment.
"Sunday, fair; winds mostly north
erly," is the official forecast for the
weather for today, as issued by the
Weather Bureau. The cloudy weather
with southerly winds, predicted for
yesterday afternoon, failed to put in
an appearance, and Saturday ended
with eight hours and 50 minutes of
sunshine. The maximum temperature
yesterday was '73 degrees, the warmest
day of the season. During the early
morning hours the thermometer
dropped to 44 degrees.
Spring raiment was very much in
evidence on the streets yesterday and f
everybody able to spare the time was
out. Easter is still two weeks off, but j
headgear and fine clothes are rushing
matters by a fortnight.
There has been a slight fall in the
barometer over the entire Northwest,
but the distribution of pressure Is such
as to cause a continuation of fine
weather. There has been no rainfall in
this- district In the 24 hours, ending
at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
Willamette River at Portland is slow
lv failing, and has reached a stage of
10.7 feet.
FARMING 10 BE STUDIED
IRRIGATION IN VALLEY TOPIC
OF COMMISSION.
Oregon Conservationists Also Out
line Other Subjects for Investi
gation During Year.
Important among the subjects con
sidered by the Oregon State Conserva
tion Commission at a meeting in Port
land yesterday was the matter of un
dertaking a campaign having for Its
purpose improved methods in horticulture
and agriculture In the Willamette Valley
through Irrigation. This was only one
of the many details, involving the plans
of the commission for the year, which
were discussed.
First among the subjects considered
was the protection of the timber of
the state. In this connection the com
missioners considered informally the
character o'f laws that would be needed
for protecting this leading resource
of the state. It was proposed that a
law be enacted creating a Stae For
ester who shall have charge of the
forests of the state and their protec
tion. The commission during the year
also will study the subject of refor
estratlon of logged-over lands.
An effort by the organization also
will be made to induce the Legislature
to increase the annual appropriation of
$2500 to defray expenses of topograph
ical surveys. The general Government
provides for this purpose an amount
equal to that appropriated by the
state. It is complained that the total
of $5000 now available for this work
is not adequate and that the needs
of the state demand increased funds
for this important work.
The commission also will make a
study of the question not only of pro
tecting the salmon industry, but of
propagating this species of the fish
family. This- will include a study of
all subjects of legislation concerning
this industry. "
Present at yesterday's" meeting of
tfie commission were the following
members: Professor F. G. Young, of
Eugene; J. C. Stevens, J. N. Teal and
Dr. J. R. Wilson, of this city. Business
or sickness prevented the attendance
of the other three members: Judge E.
B. Watson, of Ashland; Senator Miller,
of Albany, and Senator Hart, of Baker
City. E. T. Allen, formerly of the For
est Service, and State Engineer Lewis
attended the conference, having been
Invited for the purpose of consultation.
ADVANCED IS CONDEMNED
Grange Protests Against Higher
Rate on Second-Class Mall.
The recent recommendations of the
Postmaster-General that the portage
rates on all second-class mall matter
be increa&ed, good roads, the proposed
constitutional convention in Oregon
and postal savings banks were dis
cussed yesterday afternoon at the meet
ing of Lents'Grange by Eugene Palmer
and others.
As to the increased postal rates to
make up the deficit In the Postoffice
Department, Mr. Palmer declared there
was no call for such increase and that
it would work a hardship on the farm
ers of the country, who depend on
second-class reading matter for their
information. He said that Congress
ought to be flooded with resolutions
and memorials protesting against such
increase.
Judge Lionel Webster, representing
the Oregon Good Roads Association,
who was to address the meeting, was
detained, but the work of the asso
ciation was Indorsed.
NEWPORT READY FOR RUSH
Postoffice Enlarges 'for Summer
Trade, Water System Progressing.
NEWPORT. Or., March 13. (Spe
cial.) Newport has had a busy week.
The postoffice has been moved back
to its old location across from the
boat landing and contains 100 new pri
vate boxes for the accommodation of
Summer Visitors. The building itself
is larger and facilities for quick
handling of mail are much improved.
The injunction filed by a Kansan to
hold up the city's waterworks system
will be dissolved. Work has pro
gressed on both sides of the location
affected by the injunction. No time
has been lost in continuing the work.
A number of Summer cottages .are
rising and real estate sales have been
active.
FALLS CITY ORATORS WIN
High School Defeats Ballston In In
terscholastic Debate.
FALLS CITY, Or., March 13. (Spe
cial.) Falls City won the debating
championship last evening, when the
high school team defeated the
Ballston high school team, taking the
affirmative on the subject, "Resolved,
That Immigration Should Be Further
Restricted by the Illiteracy Test."
The .debaters composing the winning
team are Lamar Thomas. Ella Murray
and Leslie Tooze. Those composing
the Ballston team are Gerald Trelly,
John Seufert and Warren Gould.
LIQUOR SELLER ARRESTED
Sheriff Sappington ' Confiscates
Whisky Supply at Camas.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 13. (Spe
cial.) For selling intoxiacting liquors in
Camas, the dry town, Paul Heina was
arrested by Sheriff W. D. Sappington to
day. Heinz was released on a $500 bond,
which he himself furnished.
The Sheriff found between 400 and 600
bottles of whisky in the cellar of Heinz,
who' Is proprietor of the Commercial Ho
tel of Camas. He seized it and will hold
It awaiting Instructions from the County
Attorney, J. P. Stapleton.
This is the first offense in dry terri
tory under the local option law.
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LAD SHOT WHEN PLAYING
BANK EXAMINER'S SON MAY' DIE
FROM ACCIDENT.
Companion Too Frightened to Tell
How ' It Happened Doctor
Offers Slight Hope.
SEATTLE. Wash.. March 13. When
playing with a 32-caIlber revolver, Joseph
Mohundro, the 15-year old son of State
Bank Examiner E. L. Mohundro, was
accidentally shot and dangerously
wounded this afternoon.
The boy and his playmate, George Na
deau, the 15-year-old son of L. A. Nadeau,
former Director-General of the Alaska-Tukon-Paciflc
Exposition, were playing
in the bathroom of the Slimmer home
of Mr. Mohundro, near Fort Lawton,
where the accident happened.
The ball entered the, Mohundro boy's
left side, near the armpit, and ranged
downward. The injured boy was taken
to the hospital at Fort Lawton, where
he received medical attention.
The attending physician says that there
is slight hope for recovery.
George Nadeau was so frightened by
the affair that he has been unable to
give a clear account of the accident.
The Mohundros were formerly promin
ent residents of Spokane.
MRS. HEWITT ASKS DECREE
Son of ex-Mayor of New York Sued
In Reno.
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Mayor Hewitt, of New York City, and
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knew her Identity, she uaving assumed
a fictitious name.
Raymond Gets New Lumber Office.
RAYMOND. Wash., March 13.- Spe
cial.) The Qulnault Lumber Company
is erecting a large new office build
ing. Two concrete vaults will be part
of the equipment. One of these was an
experimental dry kiln and when fitted up
will make an ideal fireproof safe.
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