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Season of Delay in Homicide
Cases Seems Past.
FIVE TRIALS ON CALENDAR
Matt Johnson Escapes Gallows on
Second Degree Verdict Son Is
Acquitted Start Made In
Third Hearing.
One murderer convicted, one man ac
cused of murder acquitted, one murderer
placed on trial, two murderers refused
further time In which to plead. That Is
a brief summary of progress made in the
State Circuit Court yesterday In dealing
with the Jallful of men held for the tak
ing of human life during the past six
months.
Matt Johnson, slayer of Fred J. Holoek,
waa the one to be convicted, thoucrh the
Jury let him off with a second degree ver
dict. His 22-year-old son. John Johnson,
held because of having supplied the fatal
weapon to his father, was acquitted of the
murder charge.
James A. Finch, discredited lawyer and
slayer of Ralph Fisher, prosecutor of the
"Multnomah Bar Association, was sum
marily ordered to prepare for trial next
Friday, his appeal for more time in which
to decide on his plea being refused. Finch
seemed taken completely by surprise
when Presiding Judge Gantenbeln refused
to tllow him one more week In which to
plead. When he found there could be no
delay, he declined to enter a plea. The
court ordered that a plea of not guilty
be entered, and set tlie trial, for Friday
next.
First Trial Started.
Harry Daley, miiraerer or Harry Kin-,
ney wanted more time in which to plead,
but when It was found that more time
could not be secured, he pleaded not
guilty and his trial was set for next
Thursday. Antonio Petarsso. murderer of
Yencenza Desantis. appeared for trial
yesterday, and the empannelllng of a
jury was taken up. nine men being se
cured before night.- The Jury will be
completed Monday morning.
In not one of these cases is there any
element of doubt as to the actual kill
ing. The crime In every instance was
performed in the presence of witnesses,
and the outcome of all the cases will be
watched with eager Interest, for t!ere Is
wide public feeling at the series of
crimes which have occurred in Multno
mah County within the past half year.
Matt Johnson, although convicted on a
charge that means Imprisonment for life,
was In reality overjoyed when the Jury
came In for the same verdict acquitted
his son. John Johnson. The father, who
has made three distinct efforts to kill
himself within the past week, has been
chiefly concerned about the son. The
night he murdered Holock, following a
saloon brawl, young Johnson ran home
and got the revolver with which the
murder was committed. Since the trouble
Johnson has frequently said that he had
been a neglectful father, and had not
done right by the boy.
"But now he Is clear. I do not care
for myself," he said, when the Jury came
in.
Part In Jail Corridor.
Half an hour later father and son part
ed company In murderers' row in the
County Jail. - There was no exhibition of
feeling when the boy walked out free,
leaving his father to spend the rest of
bis life behind the bars.
"Take care of yourself," the elder pris
oner said, in Finnish.
"I'll do that." said the son. "See you
later," and he was off without a glance
back at the long steel cage in which 11
murderers were grouped about, watching
with wistful eyes the departure of one
of their number.
; The Jury wiilch tried the Johnsons went
out at 6 o'clock Friday afternoon and
reached a verdict at 2 o'clock yesterday
morning At first, on retiring to the Jury
room, there was an inclination to hold
the father for first degree murder. The
showing as to his mental state probably
served to modify a verdict which would
have sent the man to the gallows. Ac
quittal of the son was agreed upon almost
from the start. Suggestion was made that
he ought to be held for manslaughter
because of running for a gun when the
elder Johnson was in trouble with hit
victim, at a saloon at Twenty-fourth and
Nicola! streets. But since it had bei--made
clear that Matt Johnson ordered the
, boy to (u lur the weapon, it was decided I
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to place all the blame on him. ' There
was a general belief at the Courthouse
that the father was fortunate to escape
the gallows.
Although Johnson assured the offi
cers that he would make no further at
tempt to end his life, h was closely
watched again last night. It has de
veloped that on Thursday night he at
tempted to hang himself in his cell.
Failing In this, he cut his windpipe
with a ftor before court time Friday,
but failed to end his life, and after be
ing rushed: to a hospital and treated
was taken to court to complete his
testimony. Later on he attempted to
pull the dressing from his wound, but
was restrained.
"Now that the boy is free I will not
try to kill myself again." he told
Jailer Hunter in broken English. "I
do not care for myself, but when they
were after the boy I wanted to kill
myself so that I could go to hell and
get ready for the persecutors."
Although there has not been a single
first degree verdict returned thus far
in the year by a Circuit Court Jury,
the belief is current that a beginning
is to be made with Finch. From what
has been developed it would appear
that the defense Is to be a combination
of self-defense and insanity pleas. The
state has plenty of testimony to show
that if Finch was mentally unsound, It
must have been merely during the ac
tual commission of the crime, as he
assuredly was sound of mind an hour be
fore the murder of Fisher and was able
to talk most consistently of everything
excepting the murder an hour after it
took place.
CourtTires or Delay? .
The action of the Presiding Judge
in declining to allow Finch more time
in which to plead would seem to indi
cate that the court Is tiring of the long
delays insisted upon in each' and every
murder trial brought up. A new record
Is set In Finch's case, as he is to come
up for trial within a month from the
time of the actual murder.
The fellow has settled down to a
more serious realization of his offense
now. There is little doubt but that the
crime grew out of a bitter hatred and
an uncontrollable anger. But with two
weeks to reflect in the quietude of the
County Jail, Finch seems to realize the
seriousness of his position and the
prisoners in murderer's row say he has
hours of alternate horror and weeping.
Harry Daley's defense will be the
well-worn Insanity plea. He pleaded
not guilty to killing Harry Kenney, a
saloonkeeper, several weeks ago. At
torneys L. W. Humphreys and John H.
Stevenson were appointed by the court
to defend him. There are many wit
nesses obtainable, it is said, who will
testify to Daley's mental unsoundness
for the past year, following a steam
boat accident in which he was struck
on the head. It will be brought out
that Kenney, thinking the man harm
less and disregarding his threats of
violence, actually dared him to shoot,
whereat Daley promptly accepted the
dare.
Murder at Wedding.
Petarsso. who was placed on trial
before Judge Morrow during the fore
noon, shot and killed his countryman,
Desantis. at a wedding. The two
delved far too deep into the beer at
the nuptial party of some Italian
friends, and In a quarrel the murder
followed. Petarsso will claim self-defense.
He says the other attacked him
with a knife and that he either had to
shoot or be stabbed to the heart. The
nine jurors secured thus far in his case
are M. Kronenberg, R. F. Crawford, A.
J. Fanno, B. B. Gardner, C. H. Clement,
J. G. Dan. H. E. Clemens, J. M. Cald
well and E. O. Daniel.
The Jurors who passed upon the
Johnson case, and several of whom are
now appearing in the Petarsso trial,
are K. B, Gardner. M. Kronenberg, W.
H. Brown. J. W. Caldwell.- Robert
Service, H. G. Chickering. A. J. Fanno,
R. F. Crawford. Theodore Brugger, E.
K Dixon, J. L. Yarnell and Fred C
King.
FUTURITY CAXXOT BE TAXED
Judge Bronaugh Rules Expected
Business Is Not Assessable.
Tax assessments cannot be made on
the probable future business of a Arm
or corporation, according to a decision
made yesterday by Circuit Judge
Bronaugh in passing on the appeal of
the Pacific Railway Advertising Company
from the assessment made by Assessor
Sigler and approved by the County Board
of Equalization. This company was as
sessed J20.0O0. it having developed that
the present proprietors of the concern
paid that amount. The company wished
to pay on but $350. the value of the office
fixtures; but the Assessor insisted on
making the sale price the basis of as
sessment, contending that the privileges
enjoyed by the concern In putting ad
cards on streetcars should be taxed.
Judge Bronaugh said that no assess
ment could be made except on the actual
value cf the concession as shown by the
boeks during 1907 and this, he said,
authorized an assessment on 16000 valuation.
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ADVANCES NEW IDEA
Democracy in Workshop Cure
for Trust Control.
ALSO AID TO CHARACTER
Walter Thomas Mills Closes Local
Lecture Series With Appeal for
More Individualism on Part of
Great Mass of orkingmen.
Walter Thomas Mills concluded his
series of addresses at Masonic Tem
ple. West Park and Yamhill streets,
last night, speaking on "Either Des
potism or Democracy, Both In the
Workshop and at the Ballot-boxes."
The meetings were successful, and
much Interest was manifested, there
being an average attendance of 800. In
the course of his remarks last night
the speaker said:
onMPnahkftone' ln the 'Commentaries
on English Law, says that " a law is a
rule of action prescribed by a sune
r or for the direction of a n I nf eri or"
5T;. erstn reported .to have said
that government Is best which gov
erns least. If government is an au
thority vested in a group of people sup
posed to be superior, to enact and en
force laws for the government of
others, supposed to be their Inferiors
then I WQuld amend the words of Jef
ferson by saying that government of
that sort would be the best of Its sort
which would govern not at all.
. n,hl? country for a hundred vears
Mr. Jefferson s own conceptions of the
law. that Is that a law Is a voluntary
agreement between equals determining
what shall be done with regard to in
terests which they hold in common,
have been ln vogue. But such a gov
ernment would hardly be regarded as
the best, because it governed least,
buch a government would be best
which, with the greatest capacity and
Justice, would provide for these interT
ests which the Joint sovereigns are sup
posed to hold in common.
Mr. Lincoln once said "that man has
never yet been born who was good
enough to be the master of another
man.' Government which pre-supposed
a relationship between a superior and
an inferior necessarily carries with it
the relationship of mastery and servi-
iuue, ana is mererore necessarily a des
potism. Governments, however, which
attempt Jointly to administer the Joint
affairs of the persons involved are
democracies.
A despotism always rules by ap
pointment from the top down. Democ
racy rules by election from the bot
tom up. Under a despotism every of
ficer is a master. Under a democracy
every officer is a servant.
In this country we have two gov
ernments, one a democracy with its
headquarters In Washington, the other
a despotism with its headquarters in
New York. In this country we have
an industrial despotism existing in the
midst of a political democracy.
With the individual units, that is
those who possess and exercise a po
litical franchise, the power of the gov
ernment individually dependent upon
industrial masters cannot long main
tain a political democracy, and with
an industrial democracy once estab
lished it could not exist at all under
political despotism. Whatever form
of government Is to be established and
maintained, either in industry or ln
politics must prevail In both.
It is admitted that self-government
in the Industries is greatly to be de
sired and would be ideal were It pos
sible; but then it Is contended that
any effort to establish Industrial self
government. Instead of realizing a
beautiful ideal, would result in. doing
Infinite harm. If industrial democracy
is to harm society it must do so either
by lowering tho grade and the charac
ter of the workers, or by producing a
smaller or an Inferior product, or by
corrupting the government. If society
s Injured ln none or these Industries,
f. In fact, society is benefited bv in
dustrial democracy in all these par
ticulars, then the last objection to
self-government ln the workshop as
well as at the ballot-box, is over
thrown. As to the character of the workers,
under Industrial democracy, self-government
would Immediately Improve
the Intelligence, the character, the
self-possession of the workers. It
would do away with unsanitary condi
tions. It would do away with child
labor. It would give leisure for social,
educational and religious purposes,
and ln all these particulars would raise,
not lower the standard of the work.
lngmen's life.
Again, wun an men empioyea, wiin
the best machinery under scientific
management, with free access to the
raw materials, the volume of the prod
uct would be greatly . Increased: and
as no one could profit through the pro
duction of Inferior, shoddy or adul
terated goods, self-government would
not only Increase the produce but lm
nrove the nualitv.
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