Morning Oregonian., January 04, 1917, Page 7, Image 7

THE; 3IORNING OEEGOXIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.
MURDER EVIDENCE
IS
CONTRAD GTORY
Bartholomew Faces Repudia
tion of Parts of Reported
V Statement to Detective.
PRISONER RETAINS GRIN
Two Bailiffs Required to Keep Order
in Crowded Courtroom During
Recital of Events Associated
With Green Trunk Murder.
The prosecution of Edward Bar
tholomew, on trial before Circuit Judge
Davis this week i for the slaying of
his friend. John Lln'd. produced evl
dence yesterday which, if the accused
tii an is to establish his Innocence in
the eyes of the Jury, may demand of
him two thngs.
One is the repudiation of essential
parts of a. reported statement-made to
City Detective Frank Snow on the way
from Seattle to Portland, ana to wmcn
Mr. Snow testified.
The other is- a showing- that several
witnesses for the state may easily have
been mistaken tn certain phases of
their testimony.
Contradictions Are Recalled.
Chief contradictions shown in evi
dence thus far obtained may be grouped
- e.s follows:
In the reputed conversation with De
tective Snow, which cross-examina
tion did not shake. Bartholomew said
that he fled from the room in which
Paul Lund was assaulting Llnd to
bathroom on the second floor of the
house at 407 Stark. street, the night of
November 18. 1915. He remained there
"four or five minutes" and when he re
turned Lund was holding the money
belt he had stripped from the dead
man. and the' corpse had been placed
In the srreen trunk.
In that brief time. If the testimony
and statement were true, enough blood
was drained from the body of Llnd to
eeep through a wool and excelsior
mattress of the bed on which the body
fell, the carpet .on the floor and to the
Taddins umder the carpet, bucn diooq
evidence was described, by several wit
nesses.
Bartholomew was said to have told
the detective that he left the house
that night and did not return until 10
o'clock the next morning, and that
Lund also left. ,
Landlady Gives Testimony.
The landlady of the house testified
that between 7 and 7:20 o'clock the
. morning following she heard someone
walking about in the room occupied
hy Lind and Bartholomew; that at 8
o'clock Bartholomew gave her some
shirts, a handbag and a sweater he
eaid he did not want.
Detective Snow said Bartholomew
told him he drove to the house alone
to get the trunk and met his helper,
Lund, there.
A witness who saw the conveyance
drive up testified that there were two
men riding one Bartholomew, the
other answering the description Barth
olomew gave of Lund. She saw no
third man help with the trunk.
Another witness who interviewed
Bartholomew before his arrest testified
that the story of the killing told him
then was of a drunken row, in which
a thind man did the slaying.
Lodger Ileara No Scuffle.
A lodger In an adjoining room to
Lind and Bartholomew testified that
the only sound he heard the night the
murder may have been committed was
someone walking around about 11
o'clock.
The landlady of the house was cer
tain no one entered It between 9 and
11 o'clock except' her son and a couple
living there.
A signed and dictated statement said
to Incorporate the admissions made to
Detective Snow is in the possession of
the District Attorney, and Prosecutor
John Collier said he probably would
offer It In evidence today.
Bartholomew continued to present
the aspect of . an unconcerned and
rather amused spectator at his own
trial. A broad grin sat easily on his
face during much of the testimony, as
If he refused to take seriously the
thought that his future liberty was in
the balance.
Occasionally he whispered to his at
torney. The closest approach to a look
of worry was the frown with which he
greeted testimony touching upon the
baseball bat, the instrument the prose
cution maintains was used by the mur
derer.
Two Bailiffs Maintain Order.
Two bailiffs were employed by Judge
Davis to maintain order among the
many spectators who crowded the
courtroom. When available seats were
filled and the walls at the rear of the
courtroom were lined with onlookers
end listeners, the doors were locked,
no more being admitted except those
connected- with the case. A score of
people loitered about the hallway, hop
ing In some way to gain admittance.
At the opening of the doors at
o'clock there was a small-sized riot. In
which one woman was almost trampled
on. another had her coitfure badly dis
arranged and both men and women lost
hats and acauired a disheveled appear
a nee. More women than men forced
their wav Into the courtroom.
This was the version of the murder
erlven Frank Snow, the Portland de
tective who brought Bartholomew from
Seattle, by Bartholomew himself, dur
ing the train ride, according to Detec
tive Snovrs testimony under oath.
Bartholomew met Lind in San Fran
cisco In August. 1915. He roomed with
him. -While there a man named Paul
Lund was pointed out to Bartholomew
as an acquaintance of Llnd. Lind and
Uartholoraew came north in October
for the purpose of buying a chicken
ranch. They looked at property In the
Willamette Valley. Llnd paid the ex
penses of the trip and promised to
'keep and support" Bartholomew if he
would go with him Into the ranch business.
Lind Met In Saloon.
After arriving in Portland. Novem
ber 15, 1915, Lind and Bartholomew got
room together at 407 Stark street.
That was Monday. The Thursday fol
lowing they met Lund in a saloon on
Burnside street. Lund borrowed some
money from Llnd. All had numerous
drinks. Bartholomew and Lind went
to their room between 9 and 10 o'clock
that night.
Bartholomew lay down On a couch
and Lmd reclined on the bed. not un
dressing. Fifteen minutes later Lund
stepped into the room. He asked Lind
for some money. Lind told him he had
all that was coming to him. Lund
pulled a club from his sleeve, and as
Lind rose from the bed, struck him
several times with it.
Bartholomew took fright, ran out of
the room and upstairs to the bathroom.
In four or five minutes he returned
to his room. Lund was there. ' Lind
was not to be seen. .Lund explained
that he had stuffed the body of Lind
in the trunk and threatened to "fix"
Bartholomew if he told of the murder.
Lund and Bartholomew left the
house and "wandered around," but not
together. Bartholomew did not return
to the house that night, but went back
at 10 o'clock Friday morning to clean
up things. Later he drove up to the
house to take the trunk away. Lund
was not with him, but he met Lund
at the house.
Landlady la Chief Witness.
Chief .witness during the morning
was Mrs. Anna De Corsey. landlady of
the rooming-house at 407 Stark street
at the time of the murder.
Lind and Bartholomew came there
Monday. November 15, 1915, according
to her story. She heard Bartholomew
ask Lind if he were going to pay her.
Later Bartholomew paid her with a ?
gold piece and kept the change. Bar
tholomew was curious as to the occu
pancy of the room adjoining the one
he and Lind rented at the front of the
house.
Mrs. De Corsey did not retire until
11 o clock Thursday night. November 18
The defense says Llnd was murdered
that night; the prosecution is inclined
to argue that the crime was committed
Friday morning, early..
The landlady saw Bartholomew at
o'clock. He showed no signs of agita
tion. Between 9 and 11 o'clock she
heard one couple living in the house
and her son enter the front door. She
was In the kitchen and the kitchen
door was open. She heard no one else
enter. She was positive no one else
did. She heard no unusual disturbance
in the front room, occupied, by Bar
tholomew and Lind.
Thud of Object Recalled.
Friday morning -Mrs. De Corsey
heard one person walking about In
Land's room as she made the fire in
the furnace, about 7 o'clock. She heard
the fall of a heavy object. She thought
it a shoe. She saw Bartholomew at. 8
o'clock. He brought her a brown
sweater, a handbag and some shirts
(supposedly Lind's) which he said he
thought she might use. She saw Bar
tholomew make two trips to the base
ment. Much of the evidence of the
crime was burned In the furnace that
morning.
During the time Bartholomew and
Lind stayed a.t her house, Mrs. De Cor
sey saw no visitor calj upon them and
no one about the room but the two
men who had rented it.
She discovered signs of the murder
Saturday morning'when she found new
pillow slips and sheets on the bed in
the room which had been occupied by
the two men. Lifting the sheets, she
round a mattress through which blood
ad soaked even into the carpet. A
blood-stained baseball bat was found
in a storeroom in the basement. It
was too large for the furnace, the
prosecution contends, unless broken.
which would have made more or less
noise.
Chief Details Are Repeated.
A habit of Bartholomew which an
noyed Mrs. DeCorsey was a continual
opening of the door into hfs room when
people passed in the hallway, and star-
ng after them. She told of this the
day the murder was discovered. Vir
tually all the chief details of her story
were repeated substantially as she told
them more than a year ago.
Mrs. Jessie Althoff, who occupied the
second floor front" at 405 Stark
street the week of the murder, testi
fied to seeing Bartholomew drive up
to the house adjacent for the trunk. In
company with a boy she described as
Swedish, .about 19 or 20 years old, and
attired in high logging shoes and rough
dress.
Robert Gavin, to whose Identification
of Bartholomew on the streets of Se
attle was due his capture, told briefly
of the end of his chase of thousands of
miles on the trail of Bartholomew.
Heard about that scandal about me
killing that man?" he said Bartholo
mew greeted him, continuing, "I worked
all night cleaning up the mess and Tny
hands were all bloody. There were
three of us, all drunk and having
h 1 of a time. I was in Jail for two
months In Portland as a suspect, but
thev turned me loose, as there was
nothing to It." '
Bartholomew's Nicknames Given,
He said that associates of Bartholo
mew- knew him as "Fatima" and
Greasv Fat."
Oscar A. Lund, who came from Los
Angeles to refute the suspicion that he
was the Lund accused oy uartnoiomew,
was subpenaed as a witness, but not
called upon yesterday. He saia ne couia
prove that he was in Hillsbore the aft
ernoon Bartholomey and a blonde
young man answering Mr. Lund's de
scription removed the green trunk,
City Detective Koyle, Price and Jiai.
lett were the first witnesses to be
called yesterday. They testified to the
murder investigation following tne
finding of Lind's body in the green
trunk In the river at the foot of Klan
ders street. Detective Royle asserted
that the concussion over the right
temple of Lind had been made by
single blow, in his opinion.
U'REtl, SMASHES IN
SHERIFFS OFFICE
Second Party of Raiders of
Madras Is Led Through
Window to' Culver Safe.
MORE PROPERTY TAKEN
Connty Court Approves Removal of
Records and Orders Other Sup
plies v Relinquished Sallies
v. Mart Second Visit.
CULVER. Or., , Jan. 3. (Special.)
Thirty residents ,of Madras who par
ticipated ..In the seizure of Jefferson
County records Mere Monday returned
to Culver today with nine automobiles
and 'drays and carted off a large part
of the county property, overlooked on
the first visit. The visitors were armed
with an .order from the new County
Court approving the Monday raid and
instructing former county officials and
other persons at Culver to turn over
the property. "
W. 6. U Ken. who again led the
Madras delegation, broke in the win
dow of ex-Sheriff Black's office with
a rock and led a force of men through
the window to get the safe and other
property in the office. Sheriff Black
had telegraphed "the County Court that
he would turn over the property if the
County Court would take steps to pro
tect him from responsibility. A large
crowd from Culver watched the raiders,
and many saw Mr. U'Ren throw the
stone through the window.
Cash Demanded of Connty.
The telephone company has refused
to accept accounts chargeable to the
county, demanding cash until the
courts have passed on the removal of
the county seat to Madras. Efforts to
charge a call to County Judge Boyce
to the county, in spite of the official
nature of the message, were answered
by the company with a demand for the
money.
The visit today was marked by good
natured sallies between the people of
Culver and those of Madras. Mr.
U'Ren retired, defeated, in a passage
with '"Mother" Peck, of Culver. Peo
ple of Culver also offered to supply
more automobiles and drays if the
Madras visitors found themselves han
dicapped in the removal of the county
property.
The order of the County Court today
did not provide for the removal of the
steel and iron structures In the County
Jail nor culverts in the possession of
road officials, nor vaults in the Court
house. But the Sheriff was Instructed
to remove all county fuel to Madras
and to employ such assistance as he
might need to get it there.
Farmers Amazed by Removal.
Ex-District Attorney Myers turned
over all ol the property in nis pos
session when the court order was pre
sented, but demanded a receipt in full
from Sheriff Wood.
In some parts of the county farmers
ave not yet learned of the removal
of the county seat. A visitor to Cul
ver today was amazed to discover that
the Clerk's office had vanished and
that he would have .to go to Madras to
collect bounties, on scalps.
County Commissioner Chttwood re
fused to sign the order approving the
action of the Madras delegation Mon
day, although the order was signed by
Judge Boyce and commissioner ara.
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NEW BOARD REFUSES TO . FREE
IDAHO TREASURY LOOTER.
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Information aa to Disposition of Loot
Demanded Before Leniency Can
Be Considered.
BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 3. (Special.)
Fred M. Coleman, former Deputy State
Treasurer, in the State Penitentiary for
embezzling $22,000 state funds, will no
be liberated in February. The new
State Board of Pardons, at a meeting
today, rescinded the action of the old
board, taken just before the end of
the year, fixing his sentence at the
minimum, two and a half years.
The new board, composed of Gov
ernor Alexander, T. A. Walters. Attorney-General,
and W. T. Dougherty, Sec
retary of State, held that the old board
had violated one of its own rules by
considering an application for pardon
in behalf of Coleman before six months
had elapsed, and discriminated in his
favor.
The new Board of Pardons takes the
attitude that if Coleman has any hopes
of leniency he will have to make
clean breast of the affair. The board
wants to know what became of th
$22,000 he stole, as well as the $71,000
that Allen took.
judge j. J-i. Mcciear appeared as
Coleman s counsel, and late today re
newed his application for leniency. The
board took it under advisement with
the significant statement "it would b
pleased" to hear from Coleman as to
the details in the looting of the treas
, ury.
The Heiress of Coffee Dan's
in which our heroine mixes romance, a fortune and a lover into a story filled to
the brim with heart throbs and thrills Bessie Love in the title role!
ffice, but this is the tenor of it: .My
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ly the consequent expenses of operation.
it is impossible at present to give you
the Increase in salary you ask for. lo
not despair, however. Good service
never goes unrewarded. Boss." .
New apparatus for filling automobile
ires with air, automatically cuts off
the supply when the overinf lation dan-
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Get a 25-cent bottle of Danderine at
any drug store, pour a little into your
hand and rub well into the scalp with
the finger tips. By morning most, if
not all. of this awful scurf will have
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will destroy every bit of dandruff; stop
scalp itching and falling hair.
CHILD GETS SICK,
CROSS, FEVERISH
IF CONSTIPATED
Look at Tongue I Then Give Fruit
Laxative for Stomach,
Liver, Bowels.
'California Syrup of Figs "Can't
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at once.
vv hen listless, pale, feverish, full of
cold, breath bad. throat srfre. doesn
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babies, c 'ldren of all ages and grown.
ups are 1 finiy on the bottle.
K.eep it bandy in your home. A little
given today saves a sick child tomor
row, but get the genuine. Ask your
aruggist lor a bu-cent Dottle of 'Call
fornla Syrup of Figs," then see that it
is made by the "California Fig Syrup
company. .
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Coming Sunday-. MARY PICKFORD
BARON ORDERED EXCLUDED
Immigration Commissioner Refuses
to Disclose Charge.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Baron Robert
Kmanuel Oppenhelm, excluded from
landing in this country by a special
board of inquiry at Elli Island, has
appealed to the Secretary of Labor at
Washington.
Frederic C. Howe. Immigration Com
missioner, refused to disclose the rea
son for Baron Oppenheim's exclusion.
All he would say was, "The Baron is
excluded on the ground that he is
guilty of an offense involving moral
turpitude. The offense, it is alleged,
was committed in France."
Warren C. Van Slyke. of 32 Nassau
street. Baron Oppenheim's attorney.
said he believed the Secretary of Labor
would overrule the board's decision.
After his removal to Ellis Island yes
terday from the steamship Noordam.
of the Holland-American line, on board
which he arrived hero on Sunday, the
Baron expressed indignation in em
phatic terms.
"I have been in this country many
times." he said, "and I always received
most courteous treatment. t
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