TIIE MORNING OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, JAJTCAIVaT 9, 1912.
MOTHER TRIES TO
SAVE BOY IN VI
BIG BANK LOOTER
BELIEVED Id JAIL
Howard Thomas Dies in Hotel
Fire at Hillsboro; Woman
Severely Burned.
British Columbia Suspect, John
McNamara, Is Accused of
Stealing $375,000.
Itorm Interferes With Service
It will be a bard blow to our girls,
rhe continued, speaking of their two
daughters, one of whom was recently
married.
The Barret referred to In the dis
patch Is known throughout the coun
try as "Billy Barret, the bank sneak."
He was arrested in Portland In 1D0S
on a charge of tapping the Portland
Hotel cash register for $150.
At his preliminary hearing he was
released for lack of evidence, but
meanwhile the police) had been notified
that he was wsnted In Baltimore and
at San Francisco. He served two years
In the Maryland penitentiary and three
years In San Quentln. He was released
last June and at that time passed
through Portland. The police here say
that he la engaged in business in the
Northwest and is leading an honest lifa.
CAPTTKE ENDS I.OXG CHASE
EXTRADITION NOW SOUGHT
San Frmwisco Man Known to Police
of Many Cities and Stalked Across
Continent, Wanted In New
Westminster, B. C. .
(Contlyq from First raga.)
r.i,v ri i ,i 1 thought It waa
I some more serious chsnte."
In addition to laroenv. McNamara is
rlsrged with dynamltinir the bank'a
sata acJ binding- and gagginc a Chi
nese natchman. McNamara joked with
his captors when he was urged to con
fess, and said he was traveling over the
. ttntrx lookm for a gjood, location to
oin a cafe.
lie admitted, the pollrs say. that ha
was In British Columbia at the time
the bank was robbed, and had lived at
the fctrand Hotel In Vancouver after
ward, but declined to ear anything
further.
McNamara will be arraigned tomor
row. Assistant Police Commissioner
troua-nerty said tonight that the British
c onsul here colncldentally will ask for
hia extradition to Canada.
For nearly IS years, the police as
sert, McNamara has been known to
the authorities throughout the country.
His picture, they say. Is in the rogues
galleries here and In Washington,
Louisville and Chicago, but there Is no
record of any conviction.
Although the detectives trailing Mc
Namara could have arrested him at
any time within the last two months,
they say. they held oft In the hope that
he would reveal the hiding place of
the loot. Whether he had done so the
police declined tonight to say. They
did declare, however, that he bad been
positively Identified as the man who
cranked tbe automobile in which the
cracksmen fled from the bank with
the money.
The robbers dropped a $5000 bundle
of bills in their haste, and. finding
that they had more than they could
carry, hid 1:4.000 beneath a wooden
sidewalk In New Westminster.
Two bi: D-d red and forty thousand dol
. lsrs of the stolen money was neg-oti-abla.
larking, however, tbe signature of
the bank's officials. A world-wide
warning was sent to banks to be on
guard for this money.
ttlx weeks later a bank In Buffalo
received IlOOi In the stolen bills, de
posited, the police declare, by a pool
room keeper. Tbe bank Is said to have
asked the depositor where be procured
It. and upon his failure to give an
answer, the money was confiscated.
-DEEX KXOWX I SEATTLE
". Prisoner In Von Angeles Formerly
Had Launch oa Pnret Sound.
SEATTLE. Waah- Jan. I. The West
em manager of the detective agency
that arrested John McNamara In New
Tork on a charge of robbing the New
Westminster. B. C. bank, and the man
... known as Charles Deen. alias Hoffman,
'"alias Howard. In Los Angeles, on a
I similar charge, said tonight McNamara
and leen were seen In Vancouver early
! tn September. Immediately after the
. robbery. September IS. they disap
peared, and all tracw of them was lost
for a time. Deen was traced to Seat
tle and then through Chicago. Niagara
Falls. Buffalo and San Diego to Los
Angeles, where he was arrested.
Wen. It Is said, formerly conducted
a bowling alley at i aroma. He owned
a launch and made frequent trips about
the Sound. The detectives say that he
was Injured by an explosion at Spo
kane several years ago. when he was
boiling dynamite to obtain nltro-gly-irrlne.
The robbery of the New Westminster
Bank is declared to have been tbe larg
est that has occurred In th last 40
years. The robbers, of whom It Is said
there were six. appeared at the bank
at 4 o'clock In the morning. They
bound and gagged Chong Hong, a Chi
nese Janitor, and blew the vault door.
They took loot consisting of gold
and large bills amounting a
. but subsequently f 30.000 was recovered.
)J The men made their escape In an auto-
J. mobile long betore me alarm was s.i.u.
The robbery took place on a stormy
night. Few people were abroad and
the explosion was not heard. The first
i news of the robbery was received when
' Chong succeeded In freeing himself and
ran Into the street, giving the alarm.
'. BAY CITT RECALLS SISPECT
John McXamar Conducted Notori
ous Report In San Francisco.
RAX FBAXCT.SCO. Jan. John Mo
Namara. arrested in New Tork on the
charge cf having robbed the bank at
New Westminster. B. C has a long ,
criminal record, according to a local
detective agency.
McNamara bore the aliases of John
' p. McNab. "Big Mack" and "Australian
Mack." and in ! was arrested In
Boston on a burglary charge. In 100
' he was arrested In Cleveland on a
' charge of bank robbery, but was ac
quittal. He was also arrested In Aus
tralia en a eharge of bank robbery.
During the VSchmtti-Ruef regime In
San Francisco. McNamara Is said to
have enjoyed many privileges and eon-
' ducted a notorious resort known as
-The Turtle." Later be and "Billy"
Gallagher conducted another resort
known as Tom's Cabin, liallagher was
'i killed In a pistol duel with a deputy
eherin at San Mateo.
' McNamara was followed last Fall to
Portland, thence to Seattle, and to Van.
couver. B. C.
It was through McNamara's family
In this city that lie was finally arrest
ed. He had sent SIOOO to Ills wife,
who lives In San Francisco. Through
' the fiTwardlng of the money. McNa
mara was located In New York.
McNair.ara had been associated with
. a n:an named Barret, who Is now
said to be serving lime In Oregon for
burglary. Barret Is not believed by
!ical detectives to have been connected
with tne New Westminster bank rob
bery. Harret robbed ti:e First Na-
1 tional Bank of San Francisco of $20.
too In 19o4. and served five years In
San (juentin for the crime.
Mrs. McNamara denied that she had
received any such large sum as J 1000
v from her husband.
"I last heard from my husband In
.. September." she said, "when he wrote
- to me from Vancouver. H. C. saying
he was going to Australia. Enclosed
wn a small sum of money for house
bold expenses. This. I think. Is the
best proof that he has gone to Austra
lia, since if he wss nearer, he would
. certainly send me some money-
"I married Mr. McNamara In Austra-
". 11a 10 years ago.
vo If It Is true that be Is a robber.
Record of Hoffman Includes Many
Paring Itobbcrles.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. . Charles
Hoffman, alias Charles neen, alias C.
W. Howard, waa arrested here yester
day by detectives, chsrged by them
with being directly connected with the
robberv of the Bank of Montreal at
New Westminster, B. C, last Septem
ber. Hoffman, since the blowing of the
bank at New Westminster, had been
trailed all over the I'nlted States. He
finally reached San Diego. CaL. and
from there went to Los Angeles, where
he was arrested yesterday.
Hoffman, or Eeen, Is credited with a
long criminal career, and has served
time, it Is asserted. In the Stillwater.
Minn- prison for robbing a Great
Northern Kallroad train near Fergus
Falls. Minn, In the early Spring of
1199.
"The arrest of Hoffman was not
made public sooner." an operative of
the agency said tonight, "because of
the request of the Canadian authorities
that It be kept secret until other ar
rests could b made in the East."
The detective agency gave out a
signed statement tonight, showing the
work of their men In following Hoff
men. "All of the loot." the statement
said, "could not be carried away by
the robbers, as It consisted mainly of
currency. So in their hurry they
cached some of It under a sidewalk
and some under a bridge near New
Westminster, where- later this money
was recovered.
The man hunt at once simmered
down to a still search. The agency at
Seattle, by the use of their rogues' gal
lery, finally succeeneo in naving in
of the burglars Identified by persons
at New Westminister who had seen
strange men near the bank. From the
tracing of known associates of these
men. it was made possible to eliminate
a considerable territory and finally our
work was confined to the Pacific Coast
and to a few of the larger cities in
the East.
"From New Tork, where we bit a
trail, we followed Hoffman to Buffalo,
to Chicago, to Philadelphia, then back
to San Francisco. From there we
trailed him to Los Angeles, Portland,
Seattle. Tacoma. and thence to Ban
Diego, where for tbe first time our men
came upon him face to face.
"McNamara la one of the most skill
ful bank burglars In the world, and is
known to the police of this country.
England and Australia.
"Hoffman, or Deen, has a long crimi
nal career. Ha was arreeted November
11. 1$$. with Link Thayer, J. B. Ed
wards. J. C. Hall. W. C. Ross and
Homer J. Mlnot. alias Albert Addison,
st Moorhead. Minn., for the robbery of
Great Northern train No. 1 the night
previous, near Carlisle, and on May 10,
1$9 was convicted and sentenced to
It 14 years In the state penitentiary at
Stillwater. In 10 he was pardoned.
He was arrested with Al Addison and
a o n . 1 1 nnhAin. after hav
ing experienced an explosion of dyna- j
... t-,i- . - .,tM.tln i! tro. .
nine wmw wij " ' - -w '
glycerine at Natatorlum Park, Spokane,
Wash. Grant, whose true name was
Raddigan. was killed by this explosion."
AT THE THEATERS
THE BABMEsV'
By
Hex Beaesi Preseatsd at tbe
Baker Theater.
John Gals Korval MaeOr.gor
Captain Burrell. C 8. A.
Lee Miller
No Creek Lee.
.Max Etelnle
Poleon Iorr.t . . . .
Stark
Runnlon
Corporal Thomas.
Private Jamss.,..
Necla
Alluna
George Cleveland
.Bryce Howatson
...George Byron
J. H. Rollins
. . . M. A. Gonna
. ..Kleaoor Haber
Mauls Hyde
BT LEONE CASS BAER.
That strong and human - drama of
Alaska, the Alaska of which Rex Beach
has given ua an Insight through
"The Barrier." has come again to Port
land, brought to the Baker by a com
pany whose work os on the highest
level of competency. Authorities agree
generally that this story of the sunny,
summery farming Alaska, of which
Ilea Beach chronicles so delightfully,
is iar preferable as a setting for any
story of the Northland, than la the
mining, trapping and trading regions.
In the words of George Monroe. "Be
that as It may." the story of the blood
barrier between the white man and hia
supposedly Indian-tainted sweetheart
could bavs had no more picturesque
loccle for its development and In all
probability could not have happened
elsewhere.
It would b but another Incident of
carrying the inevitable coals to New
castle to relate any part of tbe inter
esting romance at thia late day. when
the book baa long alnca become a fix
ture In one's library and tbe play an
almost annual institution. But Port
land baa not been always so fortunate
In seeing "The Bar.ier" so splendidly
put on the boards.
From the most minor character to
the big trio, the two men. Gale and
Stark, one the hunted and the other a
man hunter, and the girl. Necia, whose
life Is darkened by the touch of Indian
blood in her veins, all the characters
are Individual gems.
Norval MacGregor makes sdmlrable
tbe Impersonation of John Gale, the
squawman. who Is Necla's foster father
and bunted for a crime of which he
is Innocent
Into the role MacGregor Injects a
calm force which holds, gaining
strength by Ms singleness of purpose.
An excellent foil for him is Bryce
Howatson as Stark, the latter playing
with staunch ease and surety that la
commendable. During the trying
scenes between these two the action la
really tense and holds the audience
gropingly. Eleanor Haber, a Port
land favorite who is remembered of
former Baker days, makes wholly de
lightful and sensitively girlisn the role
of Necia. In the early momenta of the
play Miss Haber playa merrily and with
a charming spirit of mischief, but into
the later acts, when Necia loams that
her tainted blood is to become "the
barrier" to her marriage with the sol
dier, the actress plays with a grave
and attractive dignity. Her emotion
is beautifully repressed and suggests
rather than displays.
DISK RECOKDS.
Victor records are the best In the
world. They wear longer and may be
used on other machines. Sherman, Clay
Co, Sixth at Morrison.
MATCHES START FLAMES
Head Lad' Brother, Who Gave
Alarm, Pays Younger. Boy Wa
Playing- With MatchesPatrons,
at Commercial House Safe.
HILLSBORO, Or.. Jan. $. (Special.)
Fire which destroyed the Commercial
Hotel here at 7:10 o'clock this morn'
Ing cost the life of Howard Thomas,
aged four, and resulted in severe In
Juries to his mother, Mrs. A. J. Thomas,
who made a vain attempt to rescue
him. The hotel was leased by Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas, who came here recently
from Vancouver. Wash.
Matches, with which Howard Thomas
was playing, are believed to have
started the fire, though his moth-
says (hat the blase may have started
from sparks from a stove. ,
Eldest Soa Gives Alar sa.
Clavton. aged six, eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas, gave the alarm that
the hotel was afire. He had been play
Ing with his younger brother In the
family apartments on the second noor.
He said that his brother had lit a
match and that this caused the fire.
When the fire started he ran down
stairs screaming that the hotel was on
tire. Mrs. Th'omas waa In the kiLchen
at the time. Hhe ran to the aecond
floor by the back stairway, knowing
that Howard was In the alcove. As
she opened the door she was met by
a sheet of flame.
With her clothes on fire she con
tinued to try to force her way into the
apartments where she knew her boy
was, but by this time one of the hotel
patrons and II. Brown, the hotel cook,
had arrived and restrained her. A
blanket was thrown around her, the
flamea extinguished and she waa car
ried out of the building.
Body Is UnstovI.
Tbe body of Howard Thomas was
found after the fire In the debris un
der the alcove whore the boy slept.
Of the IT patrons in the hotel at the
time all escaped unharmed.
At the Coroner's Inquest tonight wit
nesses testified that the boy could not
have been saved after the alarm was
given, as the flames spread with such
rapidity.
Mrs. Thomas waa taken to Portland
tonight for treatment for her Injuries.
Her parents live there. At the time of
the fire Mr. Thomas waa In Portland,
having left an hour previously. "
The hotel waa owned by J. W. Bailey.
Ed Schulmerlch and W. V. Wiley, of
this city, and was built 15 years ago.
The loss to the building which was en
tirely destroyed, is $4000, with 11000
Insurance. - The contents of the hotel
were valued at 11500. with small in
surance. The hotel owners announced
today that they would erect a new
brick building on the site next Spring.
Heat from the fire slightly damaged
the corner of the Wiley livery barn
across the street and broke the win
dows In a brick building nearby.
NEW OFFICER CHOSEN
Miss Mary Ward Membership Sec
retary at T. W. C. A.
Miss Mary Ward, for two years a
primary teacher at tbe Hawthorne
achool has taken the place as mem
bership secretary of the Y. W. C. A.
made vacant by the resignation of Miss
Alma Hales, who was married Decem
ber 10 to George Hunt of Berkeley,
CaL Mr. Hunt Is connected with the
forestry service. He met Miss Hales
while they were attending Willamette
University. She began her work with
the Y. W. C. A. as president of the
Willamette association, and served for
three years with the Portland associ
ation. Miss Ward is a graduate of the
Grand Rapids Kindergarten Training
School, and also Rttended the normal
school at Albion, Mich. She baa been
a club leader in the local association
for several years.
Tbe V. W. C. A. membership fee is
St. Tbe plan has now been adopted In
the cafeteria of charging 6 centa more
to non-members than to members.
When the nickel Is paid a check is giv
en. 30 of which entitles a girl to mem
bership. SPURNED CHILD IS SUICIDE
Letter From Mother, Telling- Girl
She Was Always In welcome.
WINFIELD, Kan, Jan. I. A mother's
letter telling a story of a child unwel
comed and despised at birth and
spurned to the point of being disowned.
We Sell and Deliver Both
Gas and Briquets Re
gardless of the Weather
PORTLAND GAS & COKE CO.
is held before the authorities as large
ly responsible for the act of Leola
Killion. 16 years old, who had swal-
. . ,e ..-In- trvnhnlnn and WSS
lOWfU A. B'"""
found dead In her room at a boarding-
house here today.
The letter says In part:
"You know I never did want you In
. - . 1 T nrnillli HAt do SI1 V
ine nrsi - . - .
. . . i, VA(, wee tflvlner and.
ining lor yuu -
as I say,' you could not come to see me
If I were dying.
STENOGRAPHERS QUIT JOB
Uoufe Sngar Trust Inquiry Held Vp
by Strike Arbitration Begins.
n . cntvnmv. Jsn. S. For the
first time in the history of the Gov
ernment, a labor strike neia up mo
machinery of Congressional legislation
today. The House committee stenog-
i . to work because the
accounts committee reduced their com
pensation from 26 to 15 cents a ioho.
TK a. at ii era t mi fit investigating commit
tee had to adjourn until tomorrow.
The stenographers "out" are extras
employed to help the Tegular salaried
committee reporters. The reduction of
nay would save about .5000. Chairman
Lloyd of the committee on accounts,
said that If the regular reporters in
terfered they would be dismissed.
The committee on accounts Immedi
ately began to arbitrate with the sten
ographers. Passenger Trains Crash.
MONTREAL. Jan. . Three persons
were kiUed and three Injured today
when two Canadian Pacific passenger
trains, both traveling at full speed,
collided near Terrebonne, about 30
miles from Montreal
One train waa coming from Quebeo
and the other from Montreal Both
were crowded with passengers bound
for their homes in the country dis
tricts after attending special Epiph
any services in the two cities.
The unusual severity of the "Silver Thaw" has seriously inter
fered with our streetcar and electric light service in Portland for
the past two or three days.
In consequence of the confusion brought about by the fallen
telephone lines and the occasional breaking of the electric wires,
the current was turned off in the eastern portion of the city, at the
request of the city authorities, they fearing injury would befall
the public and the linemen working among the broken wires.
Since the start of the storm on Saturday the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company has had a large number of men con
stantly at work maintaining the streetcar and electric light serv
ice, and co-operating with the teVi)hone companies. These men
have worked constantly and diligently during this emergency, and
we especially wish to thank, not only our employes for their un
tiring efforts, but our patrons for their indulgence.
We feel especially kind toward all who have so patiently borne
up under the circumstances and accepted the unforeseen condition
In such a good p--it. Our prompt success in restoring service has
been due solely to the ability of our employes and the forbearance
of the public, for which' we feel very grateful.
PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO.
SETTLER PRAISES STATE
ATSWCOMER. FRO ML PORTO RICO
SAYS OREGON BEST PLACE.
Homesteader Gives Thanks to Port
land Commercial Club for Its
Work Advertising Country.
A new settler In Oregon, a home
steader near Necanlcum, who came to
Oregon In response to advertisements
of the resources of the state as set
forth in the publicity literature from
Portland Commercial Club, has writ
ten an interesting letter of thanks to
the publicity bureau of the Commercial
Club thanking Its officers for the share
they had in bringing him from Porto
Rico to this state. The correspondent
declares his Intention to make his home
permanently in Oregon and to build up
a dairy Industry on the farm he has
secured. He says:
I thenK the I-ra that I am situated as I
am- I will take some of that back and
thank the Commercial Club of Portland. Ore
gon. Tour wide-spread voice of -a-eicome
to the ler in Oregon 1. what brought me
hire and reached me away down In ths
lUUe liS Tot Porto Rico. I w.nt ther. tot
in" health from Bpflalo. N. I., my home
"I'was In Porto Rl-o in all (Irs years. Dur
ing the first four years all went well, but at
last I besan to fail. I was at my wits end
.. ,o whit to do. as I knew I could not stay
"ere any longer. One day I bought a ma
aslne and there read some of your adver
tmelS: among many oth.rs. for settler.
In the great State of Oregon. I must ad
Inlt that t the time It sounded a little
Shy. bat since I have come to the dear old
statel or rather new state, .he has more
than vou give h.r credit for. hot that
double' eagles grow on trees, but you can see
your work has done something for you.
Mother Nature will do worlds for you hers
If you will give her a chance.
t ,ay yon have dons me worlds of
swl. more than thouand of dollars would
in the way I have been spending it for doe
tora Tou have made a man of me so far
as health Is concerned, through your efforts
to populate and settle Oregon, and you have
got one here who is going to stay. I landed
In Portland In September, 1010, and I have
been pleased with the state ever since. It
Is great in every respect. I was then noth
ing but skin and bones and weighed less
than 05 pounds. I can tilt the scale at 150
pounds now and am working hard every day.
I looked at several pieces of land and
worked out a bit. but I concluded that a
homestead was the place for me. as the land
was out of my reach in price, so here I am
on 160 acres of good land, have been healthy
and happy and tbe same Is true of my wife.
It has not been all roses and sunshine, as
It has cost more than I thought it would,
but I am well satisfied and will stick to It,
as I want to see Oregon grow and nothing
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Mandot Ontflghts Allen.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 8. Joe Man
dot, of New Orleans, outfought "Billy"
Allen, of Ottawa, lightweight cham
pion of Canada, at every stage of their
eight-round bout before the Southern
Athletic Club tonight and waa award
ed the decision.
Seals to Train at Paso Robles.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 8. The San
Francisco team of the Pacific Coast
League will go into training at Paso
Robles.
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