The Oregon daily journal., March 31, 1907, Page 6, Image 6

ins OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNINO. MARCH 81. 1C0T.
JEROME'S HANDS TIED ; .
BY LUNACY COmiYIISSIOlM
Pf offooutor ; Loses His Temper
Upon Being Ruled Against
3 V In Thavr Examination.
ALIENISTS TO TESTIFY
i REGARDING OBSERVATIONS
T-jOrUmt Secrecy Maintained Rgar4-
lf Inquiry White Thaw la oa the
Stand, but Defeneo Is Satisfied
; With Showing Made.
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J', New York,
March 0. Xlatrlot At
torney Jerome won a nominal victory
--f Hte thla afternoon before the Thaw
' lunacy commission, when the board de
'; Welded to hear hie expert. Thle de
cision followed a dispute between the
Tlawyere In 'the"ee.-1ir-wlilcl-Jerine
t' eeverorilmea lost UliTterapeF end after
. t. mail a. warm nlee that the ea-
perte whom he confessed ooet him $800
peris wnc
a day to
t After r
I Ston end
f hearing , '
O aay to nwo, iuuiuu -
reaching tnia oeciBion, me
ended end It wee announced the
would be resumed ei io:iv
Tuesday morn Ins. The Jury win meet
again Monday, but, wltt again be ea
4 eueed until later In the week, when It
w. Is hoped the commission can report
T In deciding to hear the alienists the
' commission also limited the scope of
their examination eo that it Is doubtful
U'tf It will do Jerome any good to put
' them" en the stand. On the stand the
experts ean testify- as te what they
." observed of Thaw In the courtroom
end as to facts, but long hypothetical
'. questions, embracing facta of Thaw's
i'.1- alleged predisposition ito "Insanity -and
). auppoeed Insane acta. In the past, will
V be, barred
' i, , ' Thaw am mtneea aa.
? -y That ' the commission will hold
Jerome strictly within the bounds aet
waa shown by the examination today
c' Bf Dr. Allan -McLane Hamilton. The
moment Jerome tried to question the
expert as to what he knew about
Thaw's mental condition from his ex
amination of the prisoner, he was
balked. '
I' Thaw waa on the stand before the
' eotnmlsalon the '. greater pert of the
" day, During the last three quarters of
' an hour ho was put through a gruelling
i cross-examination by Jerome, His ex
Si amlnatlon lasted from 10:80 o'clock this
ii morning until t o'clock thla afternoon,
I f with only a 20-minute recess.
. If ' The greatest secrecy waa maintained
as to the examination of Thaw, which
waa held behind cloaed doera. No indi
cation waa given as to how well Thaw
acquitted himself except In the brief ex
- presslon of Clifford W. Hartrldge, one
'of his attorneya, that ha waa well sat
i Isfled with ThaWa examination.
. Thaw, after the long ordeal In the
i atand. did not look particularly flus
tered. . He waa calmer and quieter than
ba has been during his trial. On the
.other .hand., however. . Thaw,- It la be-
Vlieved. strengthened the Impression be
'gave the examiners oa Thursday, that
: he la aane within the meaning of the
I etatute. . " , , f.'.
' " " Defense Booree en' Jerome.
While Jerome got nothing from the
only witness be has called In the lnsan-
4ty proceedings, Dr. Hamilton, the de-
fense brought' In five wltneesea who
" have been In almost dally contact with
Thaw to teetlfy they had alwaya found
htm rational. They are the prisoner's
' attendanta. Then Lawyers Delmas and
' Hartiidge went on the atand and told
how Thaw has advlaed them during the
trial. ;
Jerome threatened once "te spring
something" while Hartrldge waa an the
stand.- He asked the attorney If Thaw
haa not reoeatedly . during the trial
.Wanted to aend coramunlcatlona to the
- court and had only been prevented from
doing so by hie defenders. -
.' .Hartrldge said he could remember no
Such caae. Jerome tried to. press the
point, nut an objection - from Oleason
waa sustained. Jerome in disgust said
tie had no other questions to ask Hart
' ridge.
- The proaecutor put op a hard fight to
- gret before the -commissioners some of
. the letters written by Thaw offered at
' the trial. He eleo fought to have the
' affidavits of his alienists expressing
7 their opinion - that Thaw was -aardonle
and Incurable, admitted, xne noara
'overruled him.
Jerome to sea Kls Tamper.
: That Jerome and the commlsalonera
are at loggerheads waa ahown more
than once.- 'When the : hearing w
. opened to the newspaper men after
- Thaw left the atand, Jerome Intimated
. broadly that hie hands were being tied
' by the board.
- , When the defenaa bad finished with
' Its witneaeea and Jerome waa called
on to produce evidence as to ThaWs
' Inaanity, ha vlrtuaily threw up his
I banda.
don't know what you gentlemen
K want ma ta do," he exclaimed, hopeless-
ly. "I can eummon witnesses, but there
Is no use doing so. If 1 cannot exam
ine them as I wish."
,'1 have a group of facta." ba con
tinued, warmly, "on which eeven alien
' ' lata will awear thla defendant la not
' able to understand the natuee of the
" proceedings here, or to advise his eoun
' ; Bel rationally. I can prove these facts
J beyond the shadow of a doubt If you
will let ma These witnesses are oost
1 ' Ing me 8800 a day and 1 would like to
.tiara thrnn examined " .
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J. D. Duback
Optometrist
v . ,,;,. - Suoceaaor ta the
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Later Jerome renewed Me plea to
get In the afftdavlta of ailenleta. Chair
man UoClure Interrupted him t aay
the commission would hear any wlt
a eases that oould give facta aa ta
ThaWa . present mental . condition
whether they were ailenleta or not.
' "Yo know 1 1 cannot, do that." hotly
retorted Jerome. "My alienists have
not been allowed ta examine thla de
fendant. They have only observed him
In court and llstenett to what his own
i. .tlffxl - ta. . Thev
could not even observe htm while be
was under oroae-examlnatlon, - Now you
tell me to Introduce wltneesea who
know bla mental condition whan I can
not do It." . .
"Testimony as to wbat these auen
Ista have aeea or heard In eeurt the
commission i will receive." anawered
Chairman MoClure.
"That la all I ask." said Jerome,
switching his tactics and the eom mis
sion adjoarnad until Tueeday.
MRS. WHITE TALKS
Widow Bcfuaea ta Talk About Harry
Tluwri
IhkHAW Mi W Bjml1 1
Boston, atarcn so. mrs. riiu
White todar cava the flrat Interview aha
baa submitted to since the killing of her
hn abend br Harry Thaw. By inference
aha denied the reports that White waa
greatly In debt to the firm of architaota
with which be waa aonaeoted at the
time cf his death. It waa notloeabkt
that throughout the Interview .neither
the name of her husband nor that ax
Thaw waa mentioned by Mrs. White,
except anoe, when Tbaw'a name waa put
ta her directly.
"Do you think Thaw waa eraay wbaa
ha fired that knot la Madison Square
Garden T" aha waa asked.
With aolema amphaala on every word.
Hra. White anawered: "HarryThaw
crairT I do not know Harry Thaw.
Pray do not apeak of hlra to me.-
Mre. White explained that aba la not
reading the newepapera and la keeping
aloof from anything connected with
the Thaw trial Later, when asked If
abe4ld not find It hard to part with
bar art treasures, aha said: .. "I do not
ear 'to talk ot that. If they are sold,
they will give pleasure to e there at
least." . ' '
"They were not sold to pay debts, but
becauee I wanted to dispose of them.
If there were debts, they would ba
paid."-- , ,,,.-----------t
Mrs. White axpeota to remain In Boa
ton until the end at the term at Har
vard, where her eon la a atudent. - Her
future plana will depend largely upon
what her eon wishes to do.
RUEF UPON PAYROLL
(Continued from Page One.)
After PUlaburya admission that
Ruet had been receiving thla princely
salary for mora than two years, the
same question waa put to the million
aire dlreotora ot the telephone corpora
tion. Timothy Hopkins admitted it.
Bo did Homer H. King. F. W. Baton
remembered the foot and- ao told the
grand Jury. In fact, the minds of the
millionaire dlrectora which had 'failed
to remember a dosen and more expen
dtturee of many , thousands of dollars
seemed to rally Instantly When they
aaw the grand Jury, already knew the
circumstances of Ruera employment.
and -each oould remember ail-about It.
. Today waa millionaire's day before
the grand Jury. Four of California's
wealthiest men. each of them a mem
ber of the board of dlrectora of the
Pacific etatea Telephone company, were
aubnoenaed to a linear before the in
quisitorial body and teetlfy concerning
the relations of their corporation with
the administration. They were Timothy
Hopklna, Homer a King, Peroy Morgan
and Louis Glass.
Dlreotora Bid aTo Blxoettnff.
. Morgan' and Olaae were excused and
did not testify. Homer B. King, presi
dent of the California bank. waa. the
flrat of the millionaires to teetlfy.- He
was the object of a rapid fire of ques
tions by Francis J. Heney, who la trying
to find out whether the executive aota
mlttoa of the board of dlrectora ef the
Pactflo Statea Telephone company or
dered Vice-President Glasa to pay Theo
dore V. Halaay money with whlon to
bribe ten members of the board or sup
ervlsors. "
King explained that the Paciflo Statea
company did not have the time nor the
opportunity to look Into every bill that
It allowed. '
He denied all knowledge of the 880,000
paid to Halaey for bribing purposes.
Others Deny Official Bribery.
Timothy Hopklna waa given 15 min
utes of aweatlng by the grand jury.
His testimony waa along the same line
aa that by King. He atated that if
bribe money waa paid be did not know
it, and he had never knowingly per
mitted such a bill to go through the
executive committee. Hopklna admit
ted that bribery by Glass and Halsey
might have been possible, and the exeo
utlvu committee have been kept In dark
ness about It. '
Fred W. Eaton, who has been t
Orer of the PaolOo Statea Telephone
company for many year a, testified again
today that ba had no knowledge of any
bribe money, although he admitted hav
Ing signed large checks which had been
made out by Vice-President Glasa.
The prosecution has no positive In
formation that Eaton disbursed the
money that was paid by Halsey to the
10 supervisors, although there la evi
dence that ha knew the purpose of the
l&IUIOA-chaclL
When Suefa Bank Bon Bulged.
. It baa been dlsoovsred by Expert
Stewart, appointed by the grand Jury
to examine Abraham Ruef a bank ao-
eounta, that the Indicted boss fortune
wae swelled by the addition of more
than $100,000 shortly after the time the
Home Telephone company la alleged to
have paid Its enormoua bribe to secure
the franchise from the board of super
visors. In two banks, the United Statea Na
tional bank, under Ruef s office, where
he kept a large' personal account, and
the Crocker-Wool worth National bank,
in which he kept a aafety deposit box.
Ruef made large- deposits In February
and In April. It was In February that
the Home Telephone company aent ita
flret bribe fund, estimated to have been
In the neighborhood of 1200,000, to San
Francisco aa a preliminary step in se
curing the million-dollar franchise It
coveted.
It waa in April that the same corpora
tion aent the second fund of 8300,000 to
San Franolsco to clinch the contract.
After both theee happenings, Stewart
haa found.. Kuefa fortune waa ma
terially Increased. - '
The evidence Is purely circumstantial
bu the prosecution believes It will have
weight with a trial Jury.
Stewart made hla report to Assist
ant District Attorney Heney today. At
that time he had completed his ex
amination of Ruefs account in the
United Statea end the Crocker-Wool-worth
National banke.
senate at the First National bank a
the Weetern National bank.
. BfaUanr Bewalafsaa.
There waa a persistent rumor to
night to the effect thet Thorawell
Mullally-bad made a statement In full
regarding the purchase of the overhead
trolley franchise by the United Rail
roads from the board of aupervleora.
All aoooerned made vlgoroaa denials of
the truth of the atory, but as It came
from friends of the Sohmlta forces, and
the flret people, by the way, to tell of
the eonfeeslons of the supervisors, those
In eloee touch with the situation are
confident there la some truth In the
tale. '
It will ha remembered that tha prose
cution emphatically denied that any su
pervisors had been trapped In the skat
ing rink bribery, for a week previous
to the publishing of that atory. Bub
sequent developmenta, however, Bhow
that the denial was made for tha pur
pose oil defeating tha efforts of tha
defenee to smother the eonfeeslons.
Mullaly ie the local head of the bribe,
giving corporation a. He la a nephew1
ef Patrick Calhoun, head of tha United
Rallroada.
ma. m eva evhi;
Assistant District Attorney Banoy
said tonight! ' i'
"Tha prosecution will answer l ?
when Judaa Dunne oallB tha oaae of
People vs. Abraham Ruef oa next Tues
day morning. Then we will know
whether the defenaa la bluffing ar not
in Ita demand for aa Immediate trial.
There will be no oeasatlon In tha work
ef tha grand Jury. - That will go on
next week Just as fast ae It haa this.
"If : the Raef ease la not ooatiauea.
tho prosecution will divide Ita foroea.
I will attend ta tha wont Before tne
grand Jury. District Attorney Langdon
d Hiram Johnson will eonauet tne
oaae before Judge Dunne. Everything
la proceeding satisfactorily."
On With Grand Jury WerTa.
Tha prosecution haa determined) te
go ahead with tha Ruef aaaea Tueeday,
when they are called up before Judge
Dunne. It la probable tha drawing of
tha Jury will begin at once. There
have been rumor all week that Ruef a
attorneya had been buay all week pre
paring write to gain further delay, but
thla they emphatically deny.
It waa atated today that tho telephone
Investigation would not ba completed
until next week, 'y
The Investigation of tha trolley deal
will follow next. Then will coma tha
eubpoenalng of tha officiate of the
Ban Francisco Oaa ds Electrlo com
pany. The fight trust will corns laat
The grand jury will meet at 1 o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Abraham K. Detwller haa net yet
been found. It la known that ha la In
tha United Statea, probably In Ohio.
He haa been conferring with hla attor
neya In Toledo.
Mlea Mary Ryan, a pretty atencg
rapher employed by Halsey during hla
btibeglvlng operations testified before
the- grand Jury today. Her statements
were secured as evidence to be need
In the trlala of Halsey and Louie
Glaaa for bribery. She la the second
woman to ba called before the grand
Jury.
TRUNK LINE CHIEFS
(Continued from Page One.)
They Informed the commlsalonera
thalr committee would aend a quorum.
If not Ita full membership, to the
hotel to be In readlneea to again meet
the men If the latter consented to re
open negotiations. -' '' .- '
Tha present eonfereneea have broken
all records In concessions of prestige
to the labor leadere. Never before
have the big officials of the big trunk
lines gone out of their office to meet
union committees. Nslther have they
previously gone to conference rooms
and called upon tha Tabor leaders. To
day they waited two hours In tha hotel
lobby while the repreeentatlvee of their
employee were upstairs discussing
terms of compromise and rejecting the
railway magnates' proposals.
v ' ' sro intervention uxaiy.
Chairman Knapp tonight denied that
President Roosevelt had Intervened In
any way to avert tha threatened strike.
Mr. Knapp said:
"We came here In pursuance of tha
provletone of the Erdmann law, at tha
instance of tha railway manager Tho
managera appealed to na to apply tha
law to prevent a tie-up of the entire
western community. - That such a con
dition would ba intolerable to them and
to tha business intereeta la obvloua. It
could not ba permitted. The Erdmann
law effera an easy solution out of a
difficult situation. Both aldea of thla
controversy are reasonable and we hope
successfully to apply the law. If tha
act la a remedy in the present oaae. It
may prove to be a panacea for many ot
the labor troubles which : mtnaoe tha
tranquility of business."
Situation Is Balloaaa,
Messrs. Knapp and Neil declined to
discuss aay phase of the negotiations
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Without Fain, Cutting or Sargerr.
Inatnnt Relief. .
W Prove XV ampla Paokaere rrea.
Seven people out of ten are aald to
have Piles. Not one men In a million
need have them and we are proving It
every day at our own expense. We aend
a sample package of the wonderful
Pyramid Pile Cure ta any person abso
lutely free. .
We don't do thla aa a matter ef
amusement or philanthropy, but becauae
It la to our intereet to do eo.. We know
that the sufferer from pUea. tormented
iv ua.M .MtuwBi y. J 1
"wretched trouble, wlllTlnd such, Imme
diate relief that he will go at once to
his druggist and buy a box and get well.
We knoTr that we have got the great
eet remedy In the world tor plies, and
we are ready and willing to stand or fall
by the verdict of those who make the
trial. We have been doing thla for come j
yeara now and we never yet have had
occasion to regret It j
And the remedy at tha drug store la
exactly the aame as tha sample we aend
out. As, for instance, here is a man
who got such Immediate relief from the
sample that he at once bought a box.
Waa it Just the earner Undoubtedly,
since It cured htm after all aorta and
klnda of things had failed.
. Here la a eample of the kind of let
ters we get every dsy and we don't
have to ask for them:
"Received your sample of Ple Cure
nd have given it a fair trial and it has
proven the best I ever tried and effected
a complete cure, I can recommend you
highly In thla vicinity. Have used your
sample and one box and It has been a
complete cure. It haa been worth 8101
to me. -
"Thanking you for the eample and the
cure, 1 will recommend you to every
body. Toura respectfully, Julius Mayer,
dealor in feathers, ginseng and hides,
Bedford, Ind." - "
Pyramid Pile Cure la for sale at every
arus-gist a at ee cents a box or, If you
would Ilka to try a eample flret, you will
receive one by return mall by eendlng
your name and addreaa to The Pyramid
Drug Company. (I Pyramid Building.
THREE PEOPLE SOT!
OYER NIAGARA FALLS
Two Commit Suicide by Jump.
Ing Into Water of Mighty
. . ; Cataract. '
(rvtauWe Fress by tpeeiat teseet Wire.)
. Niagara Falls, N. T, March II.
Threepereona have been awept ' Over
Niagara Falls within tha past 14 .hours.
Shortly before noon today an unknown
workman waa seen to lose hla footing
and fall Into tha river.
. Laat evening a Jepaneae leaped Into
tha river from tho outermost of tha Three
Bisters Islanda and waa ' oarrled over
Horseshoe falla. - f
About the same time ' aa unknown
woman about 40 yeara of age Jumped
Into the stream at Prospect point, leav
ing nothing by which her identity oould
ba established. -
between tho rallroada and tho am lona
M. Nell aald: . .
"The situation ta a moat delicate one
and we havo no oommanta to make.
Any dleeuasion by aa may muddle the
affair, - It will, do no good, and Mr.
Knapp- nod- myself have decided not -to
dlaoloao ana word - of what eooure
here." . , j
Three eonfereneea . wore held during '
tha day at tha rooma of tha commis
sion at tha Auditorium Annex. The
following railroad men visited tha eom
mlaalonere aa a oommltteo of managera
In the forenoon! . L O. Rawa, vloe
preeldent Illlnola ' Central, chairman:
A. W. Sullivan, general manager Mis
souri Pacifies W. O, Nixon.- vice-president
and general manager Frieeo; A. Ij.
Mohler, vioe-preeldent ' and - general
manager Union Paclflat F O. Kellher,
general manager Chicago, Rook Island
A Pacific B. T. Blade, general superin
tendent Great Northern! R. H. Aahton,
general manager Chicago A Northwest
ern; J. M. Q ruber, general manager
Chicago, Burlington Qulney. and E.
I Bush, general euperintendcot Chi
cago, 'MiVraukee di St. Paul.
Bo Opinion Jfipyejaoedj.
During the day other railroad mag
natee visited tha rooma ef . tho com
missioners. A, B, C3 arrets on, grand
chief conductor; P.- H Morrieeey, grand
master of the trainmen, and six com
mitteemen of the whole strike commit
tee of III men paid twe visits to tha
commission. Thsy remained with tha
commlsalonera for houra.
At tha and of -tha daya aenferonoea
all those who attended them declined
to expreee any opinion aa to tho prob
able outcome. It waa announced that
no aatlafaotory agreement had bejen
reached.
The rallroada are ' aald te haw de
manded arbitration of their proffer of
10 per cent increase with a nine-hour
day for trainmen and 10-hour day for
other employee. The uniona insist upon
their demands ef II per cent and a
general nine-hour day. After tho sec
ond conference Oarretaon saldt
"The trainmen are cltlaenat they
have the utmost respect for the law and
will give ita repreeentatlvee every op
portunity to exercise Ita fullest func
tions. " .
History of Zaat Itrlxe. '
-- Tha -Impending strike haa- revived
statistics of the famous A. R. V. atrike
in 1814. Twenty-four rallroada center
ing here In 1881 formed a general man
agers' association. In 1881 the associa
tion received a demand from the B witch
men of all tha rallroada In tha organ
isation for an Increase in pay. The
other railway workers were organized
by Eugene V. Debs under the name ef
"American Railway Union."
The men won a atrtke against the
Great Northern road. Then they struck
against the Pullman company, demand
ing arbitration of their demands. Thla
was refused and Pullman cars were
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all persons whomsoever" to prevent In
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' Mall oars were put at tha rear of ev
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against the protect of the state, county
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of shape and finish that is called style. It is pretty near a
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here.' The state ' authoiitlea regarded
the act aa one of -unwarrantedusurpation
by Cleveland. . Deba waa aent to
Jail without a Jury trial on a court or
der for contempt for elx months. In
the railroad yarda 1. 100 deputy United
Btatea marshals were placed. Tha free
use of the federal power in behalf ot
tha railroad broke tha strike. i
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-From- Uoyd'a) Weekly, J 1-
A little girl at Oreat Tot ham. -Essex,
whan aaked to, write about Wild ani
mate and tha eountrlea they Inhabit,
wrote: - 'Wild animals used, to abound
in England, but aow they -are only to
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