The morning Astorian., March 12, 1908, Image 1

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in AND
SUICIDE
Rcmcnted Woman Shoots
Her Friend.
BOBS UP AOAIN.
WELLESLEY GRADUATES
Both Were Teachers and Last
Fall Decided to Open Finish
ing School for Glrle.
DEED DONE AFTER RETIRING
n.. v.m Wamin Who Did the
Shooting Hid Been t a Sanluriuro
th Result ol Overworn -bow
Dead When Found.
BOSTON, March 11. A murder
and uiclde at the Lauren School, an
exclusive finishing school for young
m.n wii renorted to the police
today. The dead women are Mi
Sarah Chamberlain Wtea 01 vnctinui
Hill, Philadelphia, and Mis Eliaa-
beth Bailey Hardee, ot casj on
' Each wan about 3S yean of age and
they had been intimate friend lince
their graduation from Wellesley Col
lege, Mis Hardee receiving ncr u.
i i04 while Mis Weed re
MUIHt '
ceived her a year later. Missllardcc
... n inmructor In mathematic at
Wellesley in 1899 and 1900, and aince
that timt had been teaching in Ver
mont Miss Weed had been teaching
in varlou sections of the country.
Last summer the two women decided
to open a boarding school for girls
on AudubonJRoad in the Fenway. On
October 1, the day upon which the
Lauren School, a they colled it, wan
opened, Mis' Weed broke down a
the result of overwork ana wa taen
to a ianitarium in West Newton,
I iSjicre she hod since been under treat
Jjncnt for nervou prostration. While
. jt the sanitarium .Miss weea noo
x been subject to severe attacks of
melancholia.
Last night she escaped from the
sanitarium and made her way to the
Laurens School. Miss Hardee volun
teered to care for her during the
night, pending her return to the sani
tarium. .
Miss Weed behaved in a peculiar
manner, according to the tcher,
Y wandering aimlessly about the school
building and occasionally making
some strange or incoherent remarks.
At length, Miss Hardee persuaded
Miss Weed to retire, and the dement
ed woman followed her to her own
chamber on the third floor of the
school. When Miss Page, the matron
f Hi school, went to Mis Hardee'
; room this morning to awaken her,'
she found both women dead in bed.
Miss Hardee had been shot through
the base of the brain and there was
a bullet wound In Miss Weed' right
temple. A revolver, witn two cnam
bers empty, was lying on Miss Weed'i
I. Mtioal Examiner Stcdman, after
1 viewing the bodies, declared that Miss
' Weed had committed suicide after
; having killed Miss Hardee. The
I pupils at the schocf, about 4U in num
; ber, are daughter of wealthy parents
J from all sections of the country. ,
X JURY NOT COMPLETED.;
NEW YORK, March ll.-When
anurt adiourned today eleven jurors
'had been selected in the trial of Ray-
"mond Hitchock, the actor, who is
being tried on charges preterrea oy a
15-year-old girl.
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Brownsville Episode la Again Under
Dltcuaiion In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, March: 11. - A
message from the President and the
report of the committee on military
affair on the Brownsville affair con
sumed the time ot the Senate during
the early part of the session today.
A brief debate brought out the state
ment by Warren, chairman of the
committee on military affairs, that
bill will soon be introduced for the
reinstatement of the discharged sol
dier of the 25th regiment under cer
tain conditions. ' ' J':
The pending currency bill wa dis
cussed by Clark of Arkansas, who de
clared he would vote for neither the
Aldrich bill nor the Bailey substitute.
Consideration on the Panama trans
portation bill which wa to have pro
ceeded today, went over until to
morrow. ,
ANNA GOULD COMINO HOME.
CHERBOURG, France, March 11.
Madame Anna Gould, accompanied
by her three children tailed for
America today on the steamer
Adriatic.
PARIS, March 11. It it reported
here that Prince Helie de Sagan also
tailed for the United State today
but confirmation is lacking. It is
known he took out a passport for
America on Monday, but this i not
significant, a a passport i one of the
best evidence of identity for legal
document. ,
A LONG FIGHT WON
-
"PUBLIC AVILL
NEVER KNOW'
Cause Which Led to Es
trangement; MRS, THAW DEFENDANT
Not Necessary to go to the Court
to Get Fees for the
Consel.
WELL SUPPLIED WITH MONEY
Letter Carriers Win Out for an
Increase.
TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
An Amendment Waa Introduced by
Gobel Granting the Increaae Waa
Adopted House Also Allowed $25,
000 for Clerk la Third-class.
WASHINGTON, March 11. -The
determined and persistent assaults on
the postoflice appropriation bill in
the' House today resulted in the am
plification of that measure in many
important parts, despite the protests
of Chairman Overstreet and the com
mittee. The letter carrier finally
won their long fight for $1200 salaries
when an amendment was introduced
by Gocbel granting Jjie same and was
adopted. The House also allowed an
additional $25,000 for clerks in third-
class offices where the salaries of
postmasters range from one thousand
to $1200, and $15,000 additional for
contract stations. The Prohibitionists
also had their innings when through
an amendment by Houston of Ten
nessee there was incorporated in the
bill a provision prohibiting the trans
mission through the mails of intoxi
cating liauor which was later modi
fied so as to include cocains and its
derivatives. Altogether the appropri
ations carried by the bill were in
creased $1,335,000. Consideration of
the measure had not been concluded
when the House adjourned.
SCHOOL ROOMS CLOSED.
CHICAGO, Mar. ll.-Because of
violation of the fire ordinances the
two upper floors of the St. Agnes
School were closed summarily yester
day by order of Acting Building
Commissioner Robert Knight. .
Three other buildings out of . the
fifty or more inspected during the
day were declared by members of the
fire department to be in a condition
which menaced the safety of their
occupants. Two of these were public
schools which have been reported as
safe by school officials. .
west of Paxton, Neb., 194 miles east
of here last night, when the Italian
racer dropped into; a mud hole and
broke a jack shaft.
A duplicate shaft should have been
in the shipment awaiting the car
here, but it could not be found, hav
ing been left out of the shipment.
When the supplies here were being
overhauled at the Union Pacific held
a fast passenger train ten minutes
expecting to have to carry the dupli
cate to the disabled car. Uuless the
duplicate shaft can be located the
Italian car will be tied up at Paxton
Nebraska, indefinitely. It was 48
miles behind the American car when
the accident occured.
The Papers Served Today Briefly
Recite That When the Couple Were
Married That the Defendant Was a
Lunatic.
NEW YORK, March 11. Daniel
O'Reilly, Evelyn Thaw' counsel, ex
plained that the elder Mr. Thaw
wa made a co-defendant because be
ing next to kin she is technically the
real defendant. The law presumes her
son to be insane, and is therefore le
gaily dead. ' A Mrs. i Evelyn Thaw
was leaving O'Reilly' office after at
tached her signature to the papers
she was asked if she had made public
the cause of the estrangement which
led to the suit and she replied "No one
will never know." The papers served
today briefly recite that when the
couple were married on April 4, 1906,
that the defendant was a lunatic and
incapable of making a marriage con
tract. O'Reilly said he did not an
tlcipate any trouble in obtaining from
the defendant's counsel fees and
alimony. A. Russell Peabody, Thaw's
counsel said it would not be neces
sary for Mrs. Thaw to go to
court to get fees for counsel and'
alimony while the suit was pending.!
He said she had been getting money
from Peabody since Harry had been
confined and that she will continue to
do so during the pendency of the suit.
Peabody said he should fight the case
upon instructions from his client.
Peabody said the matter of a cash set
tlement had not been taken up.
An attempt was made tonight to
serve Harry Thaw at the Mattewan
Asylum with a copy of a summons
and complaint in the action brought
by Evelyn Thaw to annul their
marriage. The messenger was ad
mitted to the asylum withv the docu
ments but late tonight it became
known that owing to a technicality
the the service was not completed.
Dr. Lamb, superintendent of the in
stitution, being Thaw's guardian,
must also be served, it was explained.
Learning this Thaw refused to accept
the service and the proces server re
turned to New York when another
set of papers will be prepared and the
service will be made upon Dr. Lamb
and Thaw tomorrow. Late today
Mrs. William Thaw, who is named as
the co-defendant, was served at her
hotel in this city.
PERMISSIVE BILL KILLED.
. ALBANY, N. Y., Mar. ll.-The
bill prSviding for the permissive syi
tern of direct nominating primaries,
in accordance with the message of
Gov. Hughes wa practically killed
last night when the assembly judic
iary committee in executive session
voted not to report it
The permissive direct nominations
bill embodied one of the recommend
ations upon which Gov. Hughes has
been most insistant. He recommen
ded it last year and the senate passed
it, but it failed of passage in the as
sembly." The governor this year re
newed his recommendation.
The action has revived the talk of
an extra session, the general impres
sion being that Gov. Hughes regards
the preposition of sufficient import
ence to press its enactment by every
contitutional means within his power.
PUTS UP BIG BAIL
Schmitz Has Thirty-Nine More
Indictments to Answer.
EMI
A
DENT
Man Entangled in Barb
Wire Fence.
DRUNKEN BRUTE.
HEAD NEARLY SEVERED
How He Got There or Who He
Is Has Not Yet Been
Ascertained.
HAD A TICKET TO DALLAS
Unknown Man Got Off Train at This
' Station Last Night, After Wander.
ing Around he Disappeared Found
by Railroad Employes Barely Alive.
Poured Boiling Water Over Wife
And Children.
CHICAGO, mTTh.-A band of
farmers residing along the lake shore
between Wintrop Harbor, III, and
Kenosha, Wis., armed tfiemselves
with shotguns, revolvers and corn
knives and patrolled the lake shore
yesterday searching from Christian
Rasmission, a farmer of the town of
Pleasant Prairie, Wis., who is charg
ed with schalding his wife and child
ren. ' ', y -"' v.;.
Rasmussen is reported to have
gone home in a drunken frenzy Mon
day night and heating a large kettle
of water to have gone to the room
occupied by his son, four years of
age, and his daughter nine years old,
and deliberately poured the boiling
water over the children.
RENO, March 11. A special to the
Gazette frSm Imlcy, Nev., says with
his head nearly severed from his body
as the result of an entanglement with
a barb wire fence, but still alive,, the
body of an unknown man was found
this morning by the railroad em
ployes. He was naked, covered with
blood and unconscious. The man got
off a train last night He had a ticket
for Dallas, Texas. He wandered
around the station house some time
and then disappeared. .
FRISCO SHORT LINE.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. U.-Artic-les
of incorporation of the Los
Angeles & San Francisco Short Line
R. R. Company, with a capital stock
of $2,000,000 of whkh about 20 per
cent, is secured, were filed here yes
terday.'' The purpose of the company
is to build a line to San Francisco
cutting off almost 100 miles from the
distance covered by any of the roads
now constructed between here and
Northern city. The line has already
been surveyed. It is said that east
ern capitalists are behind the prop
osition. The -incorporation deny all
connection with the: Western Pacific
HAD TO GIVE $345,000 BAIL
District Attorney Langdon Would
Not Say What Steps Would be
Taken to Bring the Extortion Mat
ter to the Present Grand Jury.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. ll.-Eu-gene
E. Schmitz, former mayor of
this' city, was released from jail here.
He had been confined for the past
ten months. He wilt be a free man
until he again comes to bar of justice
to face the 39 indictments which are
still pending against him and upon
which he had to furnish $345,000 bail
before being released from custody.
Pursuant to the order of the higher
tribunal Judge Dunne of the superior
court before whom Schmitz was tried
and convicted, dismissed the indict
ment on the exterition cases and or
dered Schmitz discharged, but at the
same time he directed that the extor
tion cases be submitted to the new
grand jury for the purpose of having
a new indictment found. .' .
District Attorney Langdon would
not say last night what steps would
be taken to bring the extortion matter
to the attention of the present grand
jury but it is possible after the court's
suggestion that it will be laid before
I the inquisitorial body without loss of
time.
FIREMEN INJURED.
CHICAGO,' Mar. ll.-Fire,follow-ing
an explosion in a building at 189
Fifth Avenue last night for a time
threatened neighboring buildings and
tied up several street car lines for two
hours. It resulted in injury to sev
eral firemen from showers of falling
glass and stone coping from the roof.
Loss was $50,000. , ;
ITALIAN CAR TIED UP. t
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Mar. ll.-The
sprint which the Italian car has been
making to overcome the lead of the
American car in the New York to
Paris race ended a short distance
KING GOES HOME.
BARCELONA, March 11. After
a two days' visit. to this city King
Alfonso tonight went from here to
Madrid. Great crowds gathered on
the streets and at the station to bid
him farewell.. No untoward incident
marked the king's visit in Barcelona.
CONTESTING THE WILL.
NEW YORK. Mar. ll.-Coming
as a possible witness in the contest
of the $1,000,000 Cohen estate Helen
Margaret Beatrice .Sacher, seven
years old, in whose behalf the efforts
to break the will of her great grand
mother, Mrs. D. D. Colton, of Wash
ington, are being made, arrived here
from Europe yesterday on the Kron
prinzessen Cecilie of the North Ger
mon Lloyd Line. The Colton will,
after bequeathing $1,000 to the child,
divided the remainder of the estate
to Mrs. Caroline Dahlgren, the test
atrix, only surviving daughter. The
child claims one half of the estate.
Her mother, who was the daughter
of Miss Helen Thornton, a sister of
Mrs. Dalgren, died about three years
ago. v. ,
SIGSBEE AND TESLA GUESTS.
NEW YORK, Mar. ll.-Rear Ad
miral Charles D. Sigsbee, retired and
Nicholo Tesla were guests of honor
at a dinner and reception given by the
Entertainment Club last night. Nik
ola Tesla spoke on the future of war
fare. He said:
"Mankind will eventually harnessJ
the waterfalls and transform this
enormous pressure to energy and
this will (simplify warfare- Aerial
vessels of war will be used to the ex
clusion of ships and with 10,000,000
tons of energy this country will be
equipped to rout the civilized, world.
"I consider the greatest achieve
ment of humanity will be wireless
telephony, which may be operated
throughout the globe,"
HOPPE DEFEATED. ;
CHICAGO, .March 11.-Jacob
Schaeffer tonight successfully defend;
ed his championship title as a bil
liard player at 18-inch balk line game,
one shot in, defeating Willie Hoppe,
500 to 423. 7 ;
OKLAHOMA FOR TAFT.
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 11.
Instructing them to : "vote for any
proposition favorable to the candi
dacy of Secretary Taft fop presi
dency," the Republican state conven
tiqn today elected four delegates at
large to the Chicago convention.
i PUNISHMENT ABOLISHED.
COLUMBUS, March ll.-The
Senate today passed a bill abolishing
capital punishment.
CATI11AIT
Columbia Hotel Burns With Two
of Its Guests.
S. McCOY AND J. L. SHEETS
Fire Developed in Early Morning
Hours and Was Too Fierce for
Successful Handling Loss About
$5000 Details Are Lacking.
This city was shocked yesterday
morning by the intelligence that the
cozy little city of Cathlamet, on the
Washington shore of the Columbia,
had been visited by a fire in which
two lives were sacrificed; and eager
inquiry during the day developel the
truth to a point that excited the
deepest interest and sympathy here.
It seems that the leading hotel of
the place, the Columbia, caught fire
in the basement a little after 1 o'clock
yesterday morning, just when the
house and town were in the depths of
quietude and least likely to discovery
or successful subjugation, and before
th einmates could be aroused, had
gained a headway that nearly baffled
the entire group in the rush for
safety. . '"
It was a frame structure three
stories in height and 50 by 100 in
dimensions and burned like tinder
until the last fragment of it was in
cinders, and from the best sources of
information was caused by a defec
tive flue, the original spark having
ignited material that smouldered un
til the unpropitious moment of its
ruinous expansion and dreadful re
sults. There were in the neighbor
hood of 21 guests in the house aside
from the family of the proprietor,
William Oxman (who had but re
cently purchased the property), and
all succeeded in making their escape,
minus everything but what they
slept in, and glad even of that issue
from an appalling danger, except two
men, Col. J. L Sheets, a well known
citizen of the lower Columbia, and
Sjdney McCoy, a drummer, both
of whom were asleep on the second
floor of the building and who it is
thought, were overcome by smoke
while they slept, or at least too late
to make a successful struggle against
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