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; 111 PnnTLAND. OREGON, MONDAY. SEITE3IBER 15, 1913. - TRICE FIVE CENTS. rnt T.TTT. 0. 1G.4iU. - . . : ' rT::z lr i EX-JUDGE TAYLOR IS SHOT TO DEATH Rancher Enacts Trag edy at Astoria MANY SEE STREET SHOOTING Oswald Hansel Says His Fam i!y Separated by Victim. EX-WIFE SCORES SLAYER Woman Declares Assassin Feigns Insanity and Hopes to Create Scandal Bystanders Jlake Arrest Following Killing. ASTORIA. Or, Sept. 14. (Special.) Ex-Clrcult Judge Frank J. Taylor. president of the State Board of Pilot Commissioners and one of tha leading members of the legal fraternity In Western Oregon, was slain by Oswald C. Hansel, a Clatsop Plains rancher. on Commercial street, near the Spo kane. Portland Seattle Railroad de pot. at o'clock this morning. The shooting came aa the climax of a fancied grlerance which Hansel bad had for years against hla victim. for what reason no one knows and the further fact that, four yeara ago. the Judge acted aa attorney for Mrs. Han sel in filing a suit for dlrorce. an ac tlon that was later withdrawn. 5t Ward Precedes SheC The tragedy was enacted aa Judge Taylor waa en route to tho depot to take the train for his ranch at Car nahaa Station, where be planned to pass the day. About SO feet from the entrance to the depot Judge Taylor, who waa carrying a light valise, crossed the street and Just aa he stepped on to the sidewalk met HanseL Without a word or a moment's warn ing Hansel whipped out a .33-caliber revolver and Bred, the bullet striking h!a rlctim aboTO the right eye. pass ing through the brain and causing In stant death. - Throwing hla arms to hla head as though to ward ofT a blow. Mr. Taylor fell to the sidewalk on hla face. The slayer fired two more shots at the prostrate -body, both of them taking effect. Maay Mnr Scene. Fully SO persons were within half a block of the scene. Dozens of them rushed to give assistance and physl clana were aummoced. but life was ex tinct before the first one reached the prostrate man. An examination at the Coroner's office showed that, in addi tion to the fatal bullet in the brain, one had entered the right breast and lodged in the right arm. The third entered the right side. After gaxlng a second at the pros trate form of his victim. Hansel tossed hts revolver Into the river and started to walk away. He was grabbed by bystanders. He remarked that he was going to the police station to give him self up. On being asked why he committed the act Hansel replied: "Its separated my family." Later he said to the police: -Ask my wife: she will tell you." Ex.fVlfe Deaoaaeea Slayer. Sines the dismissal of the first di vorce suit, nearly four years ago. friends of Mr. Taylor, say. he had not been connected in any way with the couple's affairs. Mrs. Hansel was granted a divorce on June 27 of this year, but her attorney in that Instance was K. E- Gray. Told this afternoon what Hansel had said and that be complained of terrible paina in his head. Mrs. Hansel freplied: "He's Just trying to start a scandal and Is feigning Insanity. Judge Tay lor has not been my attorney for years and I never spoke to him In my life excepting at the time I brought the first action for divorce, fqur yearsago. "Hansel Is not Insane and never was, although be tried to make people think so. He has had a grudge against Mr. Taylor for years, bat why I never knew. He often threatened to kill the Judge, but then he has threatened other people. Including the members of his ovfti family, who assisted me in getting a divorce." Mlad Sabject of Sseevlatloou During the past few years there has been more or less speculation as to whether or not Hansel was insane. He has been in frequent trouble with his netxhbors and acted queerly. but in business matters he was shrewd. About a year ago ho went to Governor West's office at Salem and became so arouse 1 in reciting his trou!es and threaten. Ing to kill people, he waa commlttted to the Insane asylum, being releaseo. from there last February. Since then he has made frequent visits to Astoria. The tragic death of Judge Taylor has given riso to some tslk of summary vengeance on hla slayer. Frank J. Taylor was a native of Oregon. He was a son of the late Colonel James Taylor, an Oregon pio neer, waa born on tho family home stead at Clatsop Plains, on May 11. 1IS1. Ha received his early education In the public schools at Astoria and later attended the Albany. N. Y, law -boot, graduating !n 17I. Pabllo Career la Los. Returning to Astoria, ha waa ap pointed Deputy District Attorney and later was elected City Auditor and Po lira Judge, a position ha held for three PILGRIMS CURED AT NOTED SHRINE SEEKERS Foil MIRACLES ARE THRItXED BY RESULTS Rheumatic Walks, Deaf Girl Hears and Tubercular Patient Casts Ills Crutches Away. LOCRDES. Bert- 14. (Special.) New cures are said to have been made here today at the shrine of the virgin -wary, and crowds of seekers after the'per formance of the miracles were thrilled, ii r. v il El. a French pilgrim who naleen crippled with rheumatism for four years anu .in- nn crutches with the greatest difficulty, was returning from an early morning visit to me anrme. she felt power returning to ner nereio .,.. . lr The woman threv away her crutches and walked easily A Belgian girl named Jeanne Bodet. S years old, who has been oeai nu rfnmK mntt Buffering: from St. Vitus' dance for three years, aa a result of scarlet fever, visited the snrine. oaiur day. While dressing herself today thi --i .tartlet her mother by exclaiming "I have lost my shoe!" She showed . h former twitching or St. Vitus,' dance, and could hear normally in her left ear. out me nai till nmi.vhiLt defective. Thomas Downey, aged 13, of Belfast Ireland, who accompanied Z300 J"sn pilgrims, waa in an advanced state of tubercular disease of the hip, with a discharging sinus, and could barely hnhhi. with crutches. He surprised his attendants Saturday by saying he. felt much stronger, and after again visum the shrine today suddenly declared that he did not need bis crutches, ana pro- ceded to walk without them. SUFFRAGIST HORSE IS SHOT Women Disavow Cruelty, but Ani mal Is Found In Bad Way. BOSTON'. ScDt. 14. (Special.) Dis avowal of any act of abuse toward the horse "Asqultb." which drew tho suf rrrit lilkera hurdr-srurdy from New York, has been made by Miss Elisabeth tvuniii. The horse was shot at ln- thron Monday by order of the Massa chusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. MIhb Freeman said when she Dougc. fh horse in New York he was pro nounced sound in wind and limb by a veterinarian. She says "Asqulth" was walked everv ateD of the way from New Tork to Boston. On September ( she noticed the animal was out of con dition, and a veterinarian pronounced him suffering from distemper. Aaent Epalne, who shot tne norse. says he was of extreme age. It was driven from New Tork to Massachu setts in violation of law. and suffered from aldebones of both forefeet, an ulcerated left hind leg. a bad cough, was somewhat wlndbroken, had an elevation of temperature, and must have been unfit when bought In New Tork or was doped, says Spain. CULEBRA CUT BANK SLIDES Debris Can Be Removed, but Dan ger or Further Shift Is Indicated. PANAMA. Sept. 14. (Special.) A movement of the east bank of the Culebra cut north of Gold Hill this morning cast 200,000 cubic yards of rock and earth into the canal. .The debris extends across the prism for a depth of several feet. This slide will not affect the Hood ing of Culebra cut in October, because It can be removed readily by dredges, but It may Indicate the beginning of a general movement of a similar na ture at the south end of Gold Hill. where several million cubic yards are in motion, and thus delay the opening of navigation. , COUNTESS HASJ04 GOWNS Queen Mary Finds Xo Koomi In Camlc for Russian's Wardrobe. LONDON. Sept 14. (Special.) The arrival of the Countess Torby, wife of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, has up. set the royal household. The cause is the extensive wardrobe of the Count ess, reputed the most extravagantly dressed woman in Europe. Antiquated Balmoral Caatle lacked accommodation for the 104 dresses she brought and Queen Mary had to give up part of her private apartment pack ing most of her wardrobe in trunks and leaving herself with only four gowns available. ROYALTY GUESTS ON -TRIP Mrs. Corey Motors With Infanta Luis, or Spain, to Munich. PARIS. Sept H.Tspeclal.) The au tomobile party of Mrs. William Ellis Corey, which Includes the Infanta Luis of Spain, the Duchess de la Roche foucauld, formerly Miss Mitchell, of California, and . Princess Amedee de Broglle. reached Munich, where they are to attend the Wagnerian perform ances today. They will then visit Vienna, Buda Pest and Venice and ' return to the chateau at Chamont September 24. WILSON READY TO SIGN President Thinks Tariff B1U May Be Vp to Him This Week. . CORNISH. N. H Sept 14. Believing that the tariff bill may be out of con ference and ready for his signature some time this week. President Wilson planned to leave here tomorrow and be bark In Washington Tuesday. He took a long automobile ride today and spent the evening at home with 100 AMERICANS ARE REBELS' PRISONERS Consul Heads Party Reported Captured. RESCUE IS NOT ATTEMPTED Authorities Fear to Stir Cap tors to Atrocities. GAMB0A NOT SURPRISED Foreign Minister Says Nothing Else Was to Be Expected of Policy or Neutrality on Part of United States. MEXICO CITT. Sept 14. One nun dred Americans, Including women and children refugees from Torreon, are re ported to have fallen Into the hands of rebels while proceeding overland to Sal till o. Tho authorities at Saltlllo de cllne to take the respouslblllty of send ing a force to their rescue, fearing, they -say that -the rebels might commit atrocities on the refugees which possi bly otherwise would be avoided. The report comes from an official source at Saltlllo, but has not been con firmed. GimbM Expresses Regrets. Senor Gamboa, the Foreign Minister, has had no advices further than the communication to tho Embassy. ' He expressed regret but added that it was no more than what tfflght be expected as the result of the "neutrality pol icy" of the United States, which had hampered the administration in pro ceeding with a strong band against rebels and bandits. General Trucy Aubert a Federal commander, with 1000 men, who is proceeding from the north to the relief of Torreon. passed Saltlllo yesterday He is, however, making slow progress. Meantime the fate of the refugees re mains in doubt Party Headed br Consuls. The Americans are headed by Deputy Consul-General Allen, of Monterey, who went to ' Torreon to notify American residents there of President Wilson's warning. PEOPLE AT LOOTERS MERCY Arriving Refugees Say Intervention Must Come. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 14. (Spe cial) A batch of Americans rieelng from Western Mexico, tn obedience to the order of President Wilson, arrived today on the Pacific Mall steamer Peru. There were 118 passengers, practically all refugees. The larger portion took ship at Manzanlllo. The steamer Pennsylvania, to arrive ( Concl uded en Pate 8.) l '"esa- ; eyv,ta? tfc. INDEX OF TODAY NEWS ' The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 70 degrees; minimum, 48 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. Foreign. Marvelous cures reported at Lourdes. Fas 1. Party of 100 Americans reported captured by Mexican rebels. Pace 1. Domestic. Tariff vote weakens price of Wheat. Face 2. Secretary Baldwin advises recognition of women voters by Republican State Com mittee of Oreaon. page 3. Priest in New York confesses murder of girl. Page 1. Thaw kept by Sheriff from attending church. Page 3. Mayor of Venice abolishes jrlse fights. Page 1. Paclflo Northwest Ex-Judge Taylor shot to death on street at Astoria. Page 1. Addison Bennett writes ot prosperity and resourtfes of Baker. Page 4. , Doll parade feature of baby show at Asto- rla. Page 4. Washington returns Oregon madman. Page 4. Baby show big feature of Clarke County Fair. Page 3. i Sport '. Pacific Coast League results: 6an Francisco 4-6. Portland 1-0; Venice 8-17. Los An geles 3-8; Sacramento 7-9. Oakland 0-3. Page 9. Northwestern League results'. Portland Z-J. Vancouver 6-1; Tacoma 4-9. Victoria 0-2. Seattle 2-3. Spokane 1-2- Page 9. Farrell says Portland Colts have right to use Davis. Page 8. Jack King pleased with Madden's showing. Page 8. Multnomah football squad begins regular practice. Pase 8. Hellmann almost sure to be drafted by Major-League club. Page 9. Giants and Athletics almost certain to win pennants. Page 8. Portland and Vicinity. City Commission prepares to prune budget to lowest figure. -Page 14. Colonel Miller aspires to Governorship on original platform. Page 14. Bear arrives after good trip. Page 11. Fourth street undergoing complete Internal reorganization. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast Page It Mrs. William M. Kapus killed by overturn ing auto on Sandy road. Page 1. Lum Suey pins hope for life In Governor West. Page 14. , Jilted girl sues real estate dealer for $50.- 000. Page 2. Schools open today and enrollment of 80,- 000 Is expected. Page Numerous Improvements made on Fourth street. Page 10. Hospital graduates eligible aa nurses. Page 10. Members of First Methodist Church to erect new edifice. Page 10. David E. Otis, Incinerator superintendent dies. Page 2. Senator Day elected chairman of Celllo Com mission over protest of state Page IX. Y. M. C'A. department leaders discuss Win ter work. Page 10. Rev. D. H. Trimble approves daily reading of Bible In schools, yage iu. HOTEL FIRE SCORCHES GIRL Guest Awakens Just In Time to Es cape As Mocllps Hostelry Burns. : HOQUIAM. 'Wash., Sept. 14. (Spe cial.) Miss Nellie Gibson, of Tacoma. demonstrator, narrowly escaped death and was badly burned about the body and the arms when the Seavlew Hotel, at Mocllps. was totally de stroyed by fire early this morning;. The dre Is supposed to have started from defective electrlo wiring. The loss Is about $4000. Miss Gibson arrrived at the Summer resort only last night Early this morn ing she was awakened by smoke in her room on the third floor and on opening the door found the hall In flames. She caught up a few articles of clothing and ran down the stairway. The flames caught her nightgown and hair and she was severely burned on the back and arms. As she reached the lower floor others who hid been aroused seized her and extinguished the fire. HURRAY, HURRAY. SCHOOL BEGINS TODAY I NEW YORK PRIEST IS GIRL'S SLAYER Suicide Attempt Fol lows Confession. WOMAN KILLED WHILE ASLEEP Rev. Hans Schmidt Says He, Acted Because of Love. BODY IS CUT TO PIECES Murderer Married to Domestic by Ceremony performed by Himself "With. No "Witnesses Pillow Gives Police Vital Clew. NEW TORK, Sept- 14. With the ar rest early today of Rev. Hans Schmidt, assistant recor of St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, charged with the mur der of Anna Aumiller, a domestic, the mystery surrounding the finding 12 days ago of parts of the dismembered body of (the girl in the Hudson River was solved. Schmidt has confessed and at the time of his arrest attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a safety razor1 blade. "I killed her because I loved her so much." Schmidt told his captors, but the police version of the motive for the crime is that the young woman waa about to become a mother. Ho had mar ried her through a ceremony of his own, without witnesses. Woman Killed as She Sleeps. ' Schmidt's confession was full 'and complete. In it he says that he killed his companion with a butcher knife and cut up the body with the knife and a saw. - The" deed was committed while the' woman slept, shortly after midnight on 'September 2, in an apart ment in Bradhurst avenue, where the priest had placed her five days before. When, her heart had ceased beating, according to the confession, Schmidt carried the body from the bed to the bathroom and, placing it In the tub, began Immediately his ' gory task of cutting it up. With the keen knife and the saw he cut pff the head, arms and legs. Still fearful of detection, he then cut the body in two. Blood Stalsia Are Found. Five bundles, wrapped in bed clothes and papers, were made of the six parts. Five tihies Schmidt left the apartment house with a bundle to cross the Hud son River to the Jersey shore. Five times he leaned over the stern of the ferry-boat in midstream and gently gave the river his burden. Then he returned to his church. The stain of the girl' blood still discolored the bathtub when detectives (Concluded on Page 2.) 1 MAYOR OF VENICE BANISHES FIGHTS SPORT TO BE ESTABLISHED ON , Y. M. C. A. BASIS. Police Ordered to Prohibti TTnseem ly Dances and Drive Xoise makers Out, of Town. LOS ANGELES. Sept. 14. (Special. Mayor Hoibrook, of Venice, an nounced today that hereafter there would be no more prizefights, that all forms of games and sports not in con formity with the law shall be abolished and that the plans are on foot looking toward the establishment of a Y. M. C. A. in "Venice. "I was a member of the first Rail road Men's T. M. C. A. established In California," declared the Mayor, "and I would like to see one here. I am' so much in earnest about it that I will give a substantial check toward the project. I would like to see boxing as It is done in' the T. M. C. A., but in no other way." rharles Thatcher. City Clerk and right-hand man of the Mayor, has en rolled himself in the anti-prizefight movement. The chief of police has been ordered to tighten up on the cafes and prohibit unseemingly dances. Automobile par ties making too much noise on streets after midnight will be ordered out of town. POSTAL SURPLUS IS FOUND Hitchcock's Prediction Rises to Em barrass Burleson. WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. (Special.) There are strong indications that Postmaster-General Burleson is on the eve of discovering that ' the surplus which his predecessor, Mr. Hitchcock, declared existed in connection with the operations of the department was a bona fide surplus after all. Mr. Burle son actually is threatened with a sur plus larger than the one Mr. Hitch cock exploited, and as a result the Department is feeling some embarrass ment Shortly after Mr. Burleson assumed office he attacked the "Hitchcock surplus" as a myth and said if all the outstanding liabilities of the year were taken into account it would be found that there was a deficit of nearly $750,000 Instead of a surplus. Those who are familiar with the methods of estimating employed in the Postoffice Department now say that indications point to a vindication of Postmaster-General Hitchcock's pre diction that the surplus at the close of Mr. Burleson's first year would ap proximate 110,000,000. COUNTESS CZAKY ON COAST Former Wife of R. D. Inman, of Portland, Not With Husband. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept . 14. (Spe clal.) The Countess Czaky, formerly Mrs. Maud Howard Bryan Inman, at one time the wife of Millionaire R. D. Inman, of Portland, Is in San Francisco, She arrived here last Wednesday and registered at the St. Francis simply as Mrs. Kalman Czaky, Portland." According to her statement tonight her husband, the Count Kalman Czaky, of Hungary, Is also in the city and the couple will leave for New York in day or two and thence to the Count's home in Hungary. The Count, however, is not at tne same hotel with his beautiful wife. Countess Czaky said she was here for a few days only, and had a business matter to attend to that required her personal attention. x The Count and Countess Czaky an nounced their marriage in Chicago in October, 1911, after a long-continued romance. FIRST CAR RIDE FATAL Woman, 73, Who Shunned Trolleys Killed When She ConsenU. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. Miss Elizabeth Overend, who through all the 73 years of her life and residence in San Francisco had refused' to ride on a street car, is dying tonight at Cen tral Emergency Hospital, the victim of a street car accident, which occurred when she consented for the first time to ride on one of the "new contrap tions." . She was alighting from her first trol ley ride, when a car going in the op posite direction struck her Friday night. She is the daughter of James Overend, a California pioneer. FIVE AMERICANS BEATEN Twenty Mexicans Waylay Men and Women Returning From Dance. LOS ANGELES. Sept. 14. Five Americans, two men and three women. were beaten tonight by a mob of 20 Mexicans in Kdendale. The Americans were returning home from a dance, where one of them had an argument with a Mexican woman. Harry Didwell and Guy Long were clubbed unconscious. They were ac companied by Mrs. Ethel Dorsey, Miss Bessie Wohlgenuth and Mrs. Long, who received minor injuries. HEALTH OF POPE IS GOOD Cardinal O'Connell Says Pontiff En Joys Wonderful Vigor. BOSTON, Sept. 14. Cardinal O'Con nell, who recently returned from a visit to Rome, delivered a short ad dress to the congregation in the ca thedral of the Holy Cross today, in which he spoke of the Pope's health. The cardinal said: "Our holy father enjoys wonderful vigor for one so advanced in years and with such tremendous burdens to bear.'' OVERTURNING AUTO KILLS IS. KAPUS Others in Narrow Car Have Escape. MACHINE HELD OVER CHASM Made Ground on Sandy Road Gives Way Under Wheels. HUSBAND ABSENT ON TRIP Sightseeing Party Includes Mother and Aunt of Dead Woman, Hero for Celebration of Twentieth Wedding Anniversary. By the overturning tf an automobile on a steep mountain road in the east ern part of Multnomah County Mrs. William M. Kapus, wife of a business man and prominent In social and church circles, was killed Instantly yesterday. Three others In the car es caped with minor injuries. The accident occurred at the only point within many rods where an in evitable plunge of 1000 feet Into the bed of tne Sandy River would not have resulted. It happened that the only tree of any size within sight was In the path of the toppling automobile and brought it to a stop before it bad plunged more than SO feet. Large Party mn Trip. Those in the party besides Mrs. Ka pus were J. P. Menefee, of 465 East .Nineteenth street north, a real estate man, who was driving the car; Mrs. H. F. Kellogg, mother of Mrs. Kapus, and a resident of Alameda, Cal., and Mrs. Maud Crane, aunt of Mrs. Kapus. living at 202 Twenty-third avenue nortn, Se attle. In another automobile, a short distance ahead, were Frank S. Fields, former County Clerk, and the members of his family, being of the same party. Miss Fannie Chamberlain, daughter of Senator Chamberlain, also was in the Fields automobile. The presence of the mother and aunt in the city was due to the fact that Mrs. Kapus had Just celebrated the twentieth anniversary of her wedding. Mr. Kapus, who is president of the Northwest Gas Equipment Company and lives at 381 East Twelfth street north, left Saturday night for a busi ness trip to California. He was reached at Dunsmuir, Cal., and started back for Portland.' He will arrive tonight. Hade Ground Gives Way. To give the visitors a view of the surrounding country an automobile party was made up yesterday for the trip up the Sandy. Mr. Fields and the members of his family led the way and had arrived at the point which had been selected as the stopping place for lunch, when the fatality occurred, Mr. Menefee's car being only a short distance behind. The road leaving Corbett climbs a long, steep grade, gradually attaining a high elevation above the Sandy Riv er. The trail Is just wide enough for an automobile, and in places ita ou.tr; edee is made ground. Striking' oi- of these spots, the automobile sudden lurcnea over lae siue unu. iu uu possible to regain the solid ground. Car Falls Upward. Mrs. Kapus was on the upper side. but the vehicle toppled upgrade Instead of down and she was thrown under the car. Mrs. Kellogg and Mr. Menefee es caped wit ha severe shaking up and a few bruises, but Mrs. Crane was pinned under the car, almost suffocated. Her most serious injury was a badly strained arm. Mr. Fields and family had Immediate notice of the accident and turned back to give the alarm and render assist ance. Mrs. Kapus' head was crushed and one leg and both arms were fractured. Death was Immediate. Funeral Plana Not Made. Mrs. Kapus was 40 years old. There were no children. She was born In Minnesota, but went to California In early childhood and lived there with her parents until her marriage, when she came to Portland. She was a member of the Unitarian Church. Sur viving relatives are her parents and two brothers, Paul and Frank Kellog, all of Alameda. Pending the arrival of the husband. no funeral arrangements have been made. SECRETARY LANE BETTER Journey Eastward May Be Renewed yln Week on Ten Days. OKLAND, Sept 14. The condition of Secretary of the Interior Lane was so much improved today that the Cab inet official accepted a dinner Invita tion at the ho"me of Assistant Sec retary of the Interior Miller in this city. It was announced that should the Secretary's condition continue to improve as it has during the past two or three days he will resume his in terrupted Journey Eastward within a week or 10 days. Secretary Lane purposes to swing through Nevada, where ho will look into the Truckee Carson reclamation proit, going thence to Denver, where the proposition of converting Estea Park into a National reserve will be investigated. Concluded ca rase 2.) bis family.