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VOL. . V. NO. 302.
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Girl Wife Makes Good
Witness f or. Thaw.
Jerome, Fails to Trap
the Witness
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..'.iVe w'.Yorfc. i"eb. 20.-When court con-
vaued. this morning Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
plunged Into tW .greatest ordeal of bar
passion-tossed - career.- Jerome, with
heavy brown, rasping voice and sinister
gesture, armed with her mother's state
ments, her brother's tales, her friends'
latlona, with the delving of the en
tire police department of New York st
his command, stood before her and the
battle was on of woman's lova against
the power of the police, and tbe in
genuity of -tbe law.,.... . . .
' Here was- the real tragedy of the
Thaw case, at laat centered about the
shrinking little figure, attired In a blue
sailor suit . wlUxJu-hroad whit -collar
nd a flowing tie, which was. almoat
hidden In the big witness chair. The
story which she bad told had echoed
around the world. Could Jerome break
It, that Was the problem. An upon the
solution every one in the court room
realised hung the - fate or the prjaonor
at the bar. By nightfall - we should
know what of tbe marvelous story must
be thrown out of calculation In reckon
ing on a verdict. , ' '
Picture a silent trial chamber, with
the Justice, bla chair drawn cloae to
the witness stand, listening Intently
with sidelong glances at the child wife
ntV-the rack, spectators bending for-
Td. Jerome striding back and forth
within the enclosure, wherein sits also
Delmaa. ready with pertinent objec
tions! Thaw leaning upon elbows, eyes
fixed on bis wife, who searches narrow
ly the face of the prosecutor and strives
to read his . thoughts In advance of
spoken words.
Save for a friendly word that Delmaa
might throw her now and then, she had
passed beyond his power Into the hands
of an unfriendly attorney, bands that
have been watting for the opportunity
to tear to tatters. If possible, the story
which she had built up as a buttress
around the imperiled Ufe of her hus
band. -
Evelyn ' displayed considerable ner
vouenees as she took the witness chair.
Jerome presented a number of photo
graphs taker) of Evelyn when she was
sn artist's model and asked her when
they were taken. -- He discussed the
pictures and the clothing In which she
posed. One waa In a kimono, which she
said Thaw gavs her. She said that in
Philadelphia, before coming to New
York, ahe bad never posed .with more
than her neck and shoulders exposed.
During this period one of Jerome's
assistants entered with a great heap of
photographs of the former model, which
the prosecution prepared to show her.
Jerome asked Evelyn if she was ever
(Continued on Page Two.)
Despondency Over Business and His Family
v Troubles Causes-Adam list to Com- v
m i t S
... . ' . mmmtmm mmmmmmmam
"'" T.ocfc th door and let nobody In,"
were the words Adam List spoke- Just
before taking carbolic acid this morn
ins at his plac of business, under the
Measanton. ZM Third street, corner ot
Columbia, which resulted in his death.
Despondency, . brought on by family
troubles and an Indifferent business,
provoke by drink, la ascribed as the
reason for the suicide.
At o'clock, Dick Nobln, an express
man who has a stand .near, and who
was quits familiar with List, wss ths
person to whom the sbove words were
The former states that List
ltd talked or suiciue nr m "
lava and that he tried to cheer him
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with which the auloide had pro
ving himself, snd he was the first to
dlseover th body bo w'elook,
we II years List was a grinder fo?
the Lewls-Btenger Hsrbef Supply com
tmny but lately starter business for
himself. Although a good man In his
line his business dwindled, which Is
given bv his sen ss the primal provo
cation for the act. Nobln spoke of fam
ily troubles. . ,v
OF. WOMAN'S LOVI
WITH P0WEK OF '
SIS
JeromeThinksEvelyn's
Career Gives Lie 'to
' Statements' Mother
and Brother Aid Him
.. (Journal Rpccia! Berries.)
New York, Feb. 20. Dlstrlot - Attor
ney Jerome's shrewd- cunning reached
tbe climax of his career as an attor
ney In his endeavor (o get before the
Jury a statement from Evelyn Thaw
that would discredit the story she told
under direct examination by the attor
neys of her husband. Jerome's task Is
one of intricate delicacies, seldom faced
by a lawyer. ' It Is admitted that tbe
defendant at the bar killed Stanford
White. Attorney Delmaa of California
with the unerring Instinct of a master
of psychology, won the sympathies of
the jury and pubtlo at large by bringing
out In court the unsurpassed outrages
perpetrated upon Innocent ' Americas
girls by the defendant's victim. .
Kurt Treat Mn Kindly.
Evelyn's straightforward story makes
It necessary for Jerome to treat her
kindly. If he subjected her to the ter
riflo,. grilling he Is competent to visit
upon careless witnesses the Jury would
be Incensed. He waa forced by DelmoS
to cross-examine before he wss pre
pared. ". .. ... . ' ; , ... ,..
Jerome began today upon apparent
Immaterial matters and gradually led
Into Evelyn's life before she even met
White. The line of the prosecutor's
questioning Indicated that 1 Jerome hot
only disbelieves the tragic tale .. the
young actress told with all the effec
tiveness of her footllght training but
thinks that with her mother she walkM
in unholy paths In the earliest part of
her New York lite, and that had shs
trod the narrow way of life' she never
would . have become . entangled wltn
Sun ford White. . ,
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, Oakland Xplsode,
Jerome followed closely the statement
made by Evelyn's mother regarding her
life with the owner of a private yacht
and Sunday excursions st tbe time this
Owner, Charles Garland, was seeking a
divorce, and also at the same time, It Is
believed, that the witness under direct
examination testified that Evelyn and
mother were living In abject poverty.
supported only by the slender earnings
of the childish artist's modeW
During Jerome's questioning of Evelyn
concerning the - letters this morning.
Thaw, growing more and more restless.
finally. In' a ' voice audible over - the
courtroom, whispered, "White stole them
from me. Jerome paused, turned to
ward the prisoner, and said:
"If you wish to testify I win give you
an opportunity." , ? ,
Thaw kept still . -.- v . :t .' f '
u icide v V il ; : ; : i
He left a note which ha caused some
conjecture . Written with a lead pencil
on the face of an envelope was this, as
near as could be made out:
"Goodbye. George; you will 'find me
by the flouring mill." ,
ft was thought by Coroner Flnley that
he had thought of another nlaca In
bwhirh to destroy himself, but afterward
deemed airrerently. Oeorg is a son.
Deceased leaves a widow -and a fam
ily of grown children, two girls snd
three boys. The- family borne Is at lit
Rodney avenue. 'He wss a member of
several lodges. Including ths Woodmen
Of the World, the Ancient Order of
United Workmen 'snd the local Eln
tracht. a German order ' , . ,
THE JOURNACTTHE ONLY PORTUANDTAPER TIZAT TELLS
IT5 CIRCULATION EVERY DAY-YEAR IN AND -YE
WILL RETAIN SEAT IN SENATE
Senator Reed
Final Debate Over, Four Year . Controversy. Is
Heated Dubois Leads Attack Upon Mor-
"y- monism and; Its; Senatorial Apostle
Jearul Special gtrrles.) ...
Washington. Feb. 10. After dragging
for years In congress the question of
the expulsion of Reed Smoot from ths
United States senate will be voted
upon late this afternoon. In ail prob
ability Smoot will retain his seat.
The. final debate this afternoon was
heated. Dubois of Idaho declared that
Senator Hopkins In a previous speech
had declared that Mormonlsm waa
above all Christian religions. Hopkins
leaped up, bla eye's biasing: ' ,
"I'll not yield.. I'll not yield." shouted
Dubois, who has led the opposition for
four years.
. Hopkins shouted, "It's an absolute
misrepresentation."
Hopkins .was declared out of order,
bat notwithstanding Dubois' protests,
Hopkins added:
THIRD LARGEST FOR WHEAT
Portland's Shipping Record for January ShowV This Port to Be
" Far Ahead of All Puget Sound Cities Combined -Only
V New. York and Philadelphia Ahead.- 7 " r .
As a' wheat shipping port Portland
climbed up to third place in the -United
Bute during ths month of January,
her -wheat - shipments surpassing - even
the total of sll of the Puget sound ports
combined. "
New Tork leads, Philadelphia comes
second and Portland third with ship
ments as follows: New Tork, l.,6
bushels, valued at Sl.i41.000; Phila
delphia, 1.1S7.311 bushels, valued at
tt50,ISS, snd Portland. 142. 1S bushels,
valued at 67.0. During the same
period the combined Puget sound ports
shipped (01.324 bushels, vslued at $411,
su.. " "
The total wheat shipments from .the
United ftates during the month of
January amounted to .101.JRI bushels,
valued at t4.t?.2l4. During the same
time the flour shipments were 1.105.202
barrels, valued st I4.tl0.76. The total
quantity of wheat shipped from the
United States during -Vie paat seven
WL LAW
8 moot of Utah.
TIE TOGA
"The senstor must hot misrepresent
a colleague If kg does, not want to be
interrupted."
Continuing, Dubois said certain sena
tors deceived ' the senate and the pub
lic "because they had .not spoken from
the testimony." .He charged that Knox
had made a ."sarcastic fling at, the
sanctity of the American home." Fac
ing the Republican, side, he exclaimed:
"You have the Mormon, vote, but you
have lost the - moral support of the
Christian men and women of the United
States." " . .
Beverldge contrasted the Smoot and
Dreyfus cases.. He declared there was
no blacker wrong than the ruin of ths
reputation of man or woman. He In
slsted there waa no public policy that
could Justify such . damnation upon
error. . ' . , ..
months. Is 14,138.104 bushels, valued at
141.(144,958. New Torlt taking the lead
with' 12.705.402 bushels.. Galveston
gains second place with 12.125.711 bush
sis; Philadelphia third, with 1. 175,185
bushels; New Orleans fourth, with
4.7l2,m bushels, snd Portlsnd fifth,
with 4.470,054 . bushels. During ths
same time tbe combined shipments from
sll Puget sound , ports were 4,121,404
bushels. " - ' - . . .
riour shipments from Puget sound
during the month of January were 148.
7 barrels, valued at 1475.475, while
from this port they were 86,411 barrels,
valued at 1815.054. - -
Accepts Island Twaty. ,
- (Joaraal Speflsl Servlrs.)
Washington, D. C, Keb. 10. The
seriate committee on foreign affairs to
day agreed to report favorably the new
treaty wltb Santo Domingo,
Port of
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Salem, Or., Feb, 20. With 10 votes to spare the Port of Columbia bill passed the senate
. this morning, amended to give the appointment of the port commissioners to the governor.
. Five commissioners are provided, one to be from Clatsop, one from Columbia and three from
Mltnomah county. The house concurred in the senate amendments and it is believed that
the governor will sign it. : v t I-' , , - , -
The Multnomah delegation promised to support the reapportionment bill In the house, but
insisted that the Port of Columbia bill be passed first. A result of last- night's skirmish is an
effort to reconsider the vote by which the governor's veto of the Smith normal school bill was
sustained. If the vote is reconsidered the bill will pass the senate over his veto. Smith of :
Marion, "father of the bill abolishing two normals, changed his vote from aye to no yesterday J
afternoon so that he "could move for a reconsideration of the vote. It is believed that the at-
- tempt to reconsider will be successful. - .; i . - -'- T -. - , ' , j
BRING A i W OX
FRAUD CASES
INTO TRIAL I
Government Seeks to
Open Up Swindles in
Hermann Case, to
Show Motive
(Wsthinctoa Boreas of Tb Journaf.) '
' Washington, Feb.- Itf. Bistrlct - At
torney Bilker, conducting the Hermann
cas for the government, now desires to
jDtroduca a.lrast maae of -testimony- reorder "Streets, and the arrest this after-
veallng land frauds in western tstates.
in order to establish that Hermann had
a powerful motive to destroy the letter
press copy books containing ths official
correspondence of the general land of
fice. Incriminating him and many others.
Although the first skirmish over th
Introduction of lettersas evidence was
spirited, the move b the government
will surely bring oaf a legal battle In
which Baker and Deputy Adkins for the
prosecution snd A. 8. Wort hins ton snd
H. Preston Gstley, Hermanns son-in-
law, for tbe defense, will bring to bear
...... mmiiw. knitvn. It ml decided '
this morning that the court will hear I
arguments or counsel on mis iiuum
Letters' Am Stead. ,
It a favorable decision for the gov-
ernment Is rendered It will probably
open the entire line of sensational Inci
dents pertaining to the land frauds of
Oreson. California and other, states.
Worthlngton strove to secure another
slight delay today, having , a pressing
engagement elsewhere. - Judge Stafford
said that because so many Oregon, and
California witnesses had crossed the
continent and were kept here at great
Inconvenience the trial must proceed
with all possible expedition.
Every letter which has been the sub
ject of controversy up to this time will
probably be read late this afternoon.
They will bring to light many facts of
political Interest la Oregon referring to
former campaigns and Hermanns rela
tion thereto. Albert Hermann, son of
Binger Hermann, a lawyer of Roseburg.
Is here witnessing the trial. The addi
tional Juryman was easily secured yes
terday afternoon. ,
- Btteaographer em BSaad.
Dr. Harry 8. Reiner, who was Her
mann's stenographer and clerk during
the Incumbency of the commissioner,
was the first witness when the trial be
gan this morning. Reiser had tran
scribed the notebooks containing the
stenographic record of letters dictated
by Hermann. A number related to of
ficial business of the general land of
fice. Instructions to special agents, lands
on which final proof was pending and
matters coming up In the ordinary
fourse : of business. Ths letters, too,
were Introduced ss evidence snd showed
to Relger, who Identified them In some
Instances as thoss which In th ordinary
course of business would be copied in
the letter press books which Hermann
destroyed. He stated that he was la
mim position for four years under Her
mann's predeceasor and familiar wltb
tbe office business and exercised his
own discretion ss to where the letters
should be copied. .
District Attorney Baker first sought
merely to establish that the letters In
ordlnsry course of business should bsve
been copied Into ths letter press book
destroyed.. . . ? : ...
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN ;
v IS PHYSICAL WRECK
(oarsat Rpeettl gn1r.
Tondon, Feb. 20, Joseph Chamberlain
Is broken down physically, although still
mentally alert. - He passe most of his
time Indoors at Highbury, his Blrmlng
hsm residence, but when the weather is
fine .Tie" drives out In his rnrrlsre. II
never stays outside the house more than
45 minutes at a time. Occasionally ha
takes a short walk, supported by his
wife's srm, but his Invalid chair Is al
ways st hand.
Columbia Bill Passes
IS STOLEN
Mrs. Ben Ely atCarleton
MissesValuableGems
and Detectives Arrest
Young Night Clerk
" A" mysterious theft of a casket of
Jewelry from the apartments of Ben
C Ely, former baseball magnate. In
the Hotel Carleton, Thirteenth and Al
noon of Al Meyer, foreman of the
wrapping department of Meier A
Frank's department store snd night
clerk at the hotel in question, are the
salient features In a can that has
caused a ferment of excitement In the
fashionable Alder atreet boarding-bouse.
Until the arrest of Meyer today and
the recovery of the casket and a por
tion of its oontents, by the detectives,
the suspicion that the Carleton shel
tered a thief caused the guests to look
askance at their neighbors and wonder
if next 'door roomers were the myate
lious Mr. or Mrs. Raffles. ' ,
. . Oak Cask lUsssd. '
Mr. and Mrs. Ely, who occup apart
ments on the second floor of the fash
ionable hostelry, reported to 'the police
yesterday that sn oak casket containing
a miscellaneous assortment of Jewelry
valued at several hundred dollars had
mysteriously disappeared from their
rooms. According to ths list furnished
the authorities the chest contained
among other things a gold watch valued
at 540, 4v solid gold chain of peculiar de
sign, a 55 gold penholder, a solid gold
snake ring, two pairs of gold cuffs but
tons, a filigree silver cardcase, an Elk's
tooth, sn Elk's botton with red stones,
a small unset diamond Snd a silver belt
buckle.
The box In which the valuables re
posed was of oak, measuring 5xtxS and
was lined with pale blue satin. The
corners were covered with brass and'
across the-top of the chest was en
graved the word "Jewelry." ,
kceyer Xa Arrested.
Detectives Jones and Tlchenor were
assigned to the case and aa the result
of their investigation Mrs. Ely visited
police headquarters this morning snd
swore to the complaint against Meyer.
The young man. Who Is but 15 years
of age. was taken Into custody as he'
was going to his work at Meier and
Frank's store and hurried to the city
prison. His bonds were fixed at 51,000,
(Continued on Page Two.)
Pugnacious Rat in
Gets Out of Trap
-'.::'X Pets
- Were Robert Browning alive and In
Portland today he would have a better
opportunity to exercise his poetlo pow
ers than he had when he told the story
of the Pied. Piper of Hamelln and "the
great rats, and ttis brawny rata, snd th
gray rats, and tbe tawny rata," that fol
lowed the piper to the river and were
drowned that is, all excepting on
who,. "stout aa Julius Caesar, iwial th
river Wser."
Mr. Browsing's opportunity to xer
r Is his genius would be given at th
horn of City Treasurer- J. E. Werleln,
at 725 KiVUllson street 'A rut
thnra-jlicked -. Mr. Werleln' 'Cat- the
other night, and when he got through
with the eat he started In on ths trsas-
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Harriman Buys Land
for an Entrance to
Portland. Under Uni-
: versity Park
' Within the next 50-days th consoli
dated Harriman lines will begin con
struction of a double-track. railroad tun
nel under University Park, from, a point
near McKenna function to Mock's bot
tom. Today J. W. Morrow, right-of-way
agent, purchased at the north en
trance of tbe projected tunnel 725 lots
and acreage amounting to 45 acres, pay
ing In the aggregate upward of 5200,000
for the properties. Everything Is now
In - readiness for beginning construction
ss soon as the abstracts of title are
passed upon.
The tunnel will be 5,400 feet in length.
It - will enter th Columbia river sldo
of the divide at Newark and Dana
streets and come out on the Willamette
river side Juat under WlHamett- boule
vard, at the half section line through the
center of section 17, township 1 north
of range 1 east. Here it will provide
a connection with the present line from
St Johns, which will be double-tracked
to the steel bridge, provided no other
crossing of the Willamette is supplied.
The tunnel will enable the Harriman
companies to bring the traffic from the
Seattle extension and the main line from
the east Into Portland on a water grade
and make It possible for the Union Pa
cific system to do business on a scale
even larger and as economically aa it
will be done by the Hill system. The
tunnel project was made Inevitable for
the Harriman lines when Hill decided to.
enter Portland with a double-track rail
road through the peninsula.
Th lands and lots purchased today
by the Harriman companies -comprises
about 725 lots from th University Land
company, lying between- Adriatic, New
ark and Washburn streets, snd Colum
bia boulevard, for which they paid ap
proximately 5150.000; SS aores front
John Nolo, 10 acrea from Jacob Blauah
terbeck and 10 acres from- O. A. Mark
bind. The acreage price waa about
51.005 per acre. The total lands and lots
cover 110 acres. It Is said the com
pany's Intention is to establish m. town
at the tunnel entrance, and make this
headquarters for its peninsula switch
yards. .The plan is to ran a suburban
train service between the Portland
union station and McKenna Junction,
(Continued on Pag Three.)
City Treasurer's Homo
and Scares Family '
Away : ; .
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Brer's pet cocker spaniel, which had re
sponded to the feline's appeals for help,
fclnoe th fight tna Hog and ton rat
have been living at other houses, snd
Mr. Werleln has not been able to Induce
them to come back.
Last night Mr. WirWa bated a trnp
for th rat. Th rat took th bait,
kicked th trap over and ritlrd tn h's
nest. Ths night before fc sot the nm,
trap and put a cl-ith over it. Tti rt
carried off the b.tlt anil nln the c-!Mt,
which he probably v,ntil l u f"r a
nxt'klrv This murnini cue of Mr. -r.
Jela's bojrs sot tlie tisp mnl r pvr. i
UP with dust. Th,rt I'H.k t; - t ;
Ssnln anil, to the Mn ! it
Werleln snd the cMMt. -i. - , ,
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