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"THE MAN VITII THE LADDER AND THE IiOSE"--GONG IN MUSIC SUPPLEMENT 5UND.V - " ' Utile Ad b THE JOURNAL Journal Circulation Ertags Results. Costs Only 29.383 One Cent a Word. Yesterday Was .Tha Weather Fair tonight with, light frost; Friday fair. , . VOL. VI. NO. 31. PORTLANDOREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL,, 11, 1907. TWENTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. $ TIAIXS AWS wrwe biskcs. rivg emu : v r? n r? i. . - . .- j a m m m 11 x . t. m'BH. ' i m a w J a a mm. mm m w a 1 w m v , iHHi MWii ililll i MitlBtEVEi W WIFE TAKES -ASK FOR EXHIBITS M ; OWtl LIFE Testimony in Case ; Is Read and , Docu f : m i to 5 Wdrn-Oii Men Upon Whose; Dccisioiv Life v or Death for Prisofter Depends, (Journal Special Serviced New York, April 11.:--Worn out by their efforts to reach a de- pision as to the guilt of inn.Qcence of U.arr. K. Thaw f the murder 1 of Stanford White, the jury is on-the ve'rg of collapse, ajid a vtt "diet has fjof yct6eenvagreed upoTi. - Their 'deliberations haveicon " tinued almost, unceasingly since 5 o'clock yesterday evening, when (Thaw's fate, was giyen'intOvtbeir .hands by Judge Fitzgerald auer instf ucting them, .on the ' legal phases of the case.-' This morning . they asked to see a number of the vi,V',A-": v5( ,'''-T,t?-"r t (loonwl SeUI frrtr.) New York, April 11. Af Ur rsceivlnc th exhibits In th Thaw -trial;-this morning, Kvelyn'a tetlmony waa ravl , to tna Jury. Thm Juror war h&cffard ; and forlorn aa they listened to ths rd i Ing clerk. Their- faces were jplnehed and their kyea were hollow. . Juror Steele, the oldest of the panel; appeared 'to suffer moat. -He once , interrupted ' the proceed! ngs to go for a drlnlc of .water and breath of air.' He stag - gered from' exhaustion ' aa he walked : from the room, and it, was-five minutes before he was able to return. , The Jury then had mad to them the ' teatimony of Meyer Cohn. wltneaa for (the state, who saw the shooting, and as f to Thaw'e ' changing his -couree whll ; leavlnn . the .roof garden so as .to walk ; past White. " -The' teetlmony of' Paul Brody. the . fireman at the gardwa,, waa also reed to the Jury. Brody Is the msn " who took the revolver from Thaw. "- The reading of other testimony -'to 'the jury continued for some time. To that of Dr. Hamilton particularly the Jury listened attentively, but their nerv. ousness Increased, V At'." 1:M, Owcar Pink requested a recees. As he started ' for a window he staggered and displayed , evidence of sctoal 111 nana. , s , :: t, , - rOrowd-Cheer-Ttw- WUdlyvT fc-, ' Thaw' croeeed 'the bridge of sighs evFranklln afreet' a ' great : throng packing'' the street from curb to curb cheered wildly . The-1-prisoner. - smiled out was not allowed te return tRe 4e lute. On reaching ihe courtroom Ua 1 ( ( f ' f MMMMMMVMmMWMMMMMMMMMMMH. . .- ........ ... J. S.Warner's: Communicatioh;Us: Received ': , ii-j J 1 1 : 1 rcVk.v VV Aiiui no nau miuuu no liiu uy v ; ,v Means ot a ' A-.-i Atricken in body and mind a the re sult of an attack of , oerebre splnsl 'meningitis several yet rs ago, J. S. Warner it years of age, made hie way Into the basement of the rooming-house ' at It North Sixth street yesterday afternoon and ended his life by putting a bullet through hla" head. , The, body ..was discovered about I p. m. . !.. . . iTior to ine trageay, wamer wrote a rambling. Incoherent, almoet illegible letter to The Journal. In which he ac cused his brother, Charles R Wamer, a tailor at 384 Stark atreet, with having cruelly maltreated and starved him and made several other sensational allega tions agalntt his relative. An Investigation chows that Warrmr was undoubtedly demented at th time Of inditing the communication dl a : cusatloaa of abuse on the pert of his brother and the tatter's mlatrestment of his wife apparently are nnfmlndcd. According to kirn. pt Warner, his alMer-ln-la w. Warner hM often threet- end to end his life. Two rtpVn mo Ve wrote a almUa' commnnli'u-n to The Journnl. and after penr'nir i r elve prooure,! a rivolvi r v i.) !c!arej he oM f t I I II II If II . l J 1111 II II II ' II II ' - i mm m Mr m m w ' . m m m. mm .mm m m m t - r is - i - i If M . 1 1 I I II ' . - t . "X Li - . a 1 ' LA U. g. "I v . . i - l : exhibits tn the case. ' f, V.W, iV-i' - gave to the newspaper men.' asking to sign his name across the back and return for preservation,, the following statements i . , '. (,' "I am teld It Is impossible to ten beforehand what the' jury will do, so I am attending to my ' ordinary af fajra and preparing for the best.. Aa it' is simpler to unpack if necessary, than to return here for my things if the1 ver dict Is favorable, I 'ant packing my be longings. I had a good cold bath this morning and a good breakfast. V The de tails tf the' trial' have, proven of great Interest to the publio at large. Naturally we are all anxious for a speedy ver dict" While -the exhibits were being read. Thaw handed to the reporter the following: I wish they ad 4 other ortgtnat lettere of the dctaeed.";;; ; , ; '"- ' Xvelym Attraeta Oreaf Cbjowd. -. ' Even a larger mob .fallowed Evelyn when, she left the restaurant after a quick lunch. Fully 1,009 people were near Franklin and ? Lafayette streets. .When she came out the police formed a hol low square about' her and eeeorfBd her to the. Franklin atreet entrance. The officer this Uma were able to protect her from actual contact with the mob. " TCwai" a7lgfiltofet"Tlr-THtn-thf building. ' ioalah and Edward The' at the entrance stood speechless while the officers got their sister-in-law Into the building. . Then-the mob surged tip on (Continued on . Page Two.) . Pistol Bullet. Warner disarmed the melancholy man and.deatroyed the letter. - - , . , Warner had resided- la the Sixth atreet house with his brother end slater-tn-4dw for some time, and reea.-y was in the Good Samaritan hospital under the care of Dr. Marry F. MrKir. Hie brother, C R, 'Werner, paid t of the hospital and medical attention. .... Dr. Harry McKay performed an au topsy en the body this -tnornlng and found all af the vital organs In excellent condition.. The surgeon gives it as his opinion that Warner- was suffering from hypochondria, and waa unquestionably slightly demented. "" f; ' J - ' . , Warner was a native of ftacremento, California, and has a alater, Mr a, Joe E. Crew, residing at HIT Clay street, San Francisco. The funeral will be held to morrow and the coroner has decided not to hold an lnqueet. ' - " : Charlea Wamer says his brother's arltten statements of mnltrrstment are ahiurd ahd believes that his brother Was l-i.me In the tailor hop thte morn Ine rr f Hl'1.1 liot tie r trlc acid, ! i x'lflnt- ' i i 1 r. 'Hi, TV m:i , IS. STILL OUT "' s- ' , 'J -" I ' ....,..,. ... . ? fiVELTN. NESBIT i TH AWi lloersa Speelal Serrtce.) ' Ban Francisco. April 1U Patrick Cal houn, president of the United Railroads, arrived In San Francisco from New York early yesterday 'morning on a be lated Central overland train. H went at once to his residence at 1515 Webster street, which all. along hag been the home of Thornwell Mullally. the'aaslst snt to the president and acting local Chief of thp company., . - , : i ' -S Calhoun7 came west alone and slipped fc-r - I Ford Stieet Hrlilge. Dotted Line b.owg Courm of uoily ia Atr. l.oer Lowengart Waa Ticked Up. lpier Croi hovr Where tie A " ' '. ;THE CATJSE 0T IT ALL. into town ' aa quietly as possible. ' He spent yesterday closeted in his apart ments and last night he authorised the statement that ha would give out an In terview today. Servants and. attend ants in the household repeatedly denied that President Calhoun had arrived, and Insisted that they did not know that he wit coming and that no preparation of hla apartments had been ordered In ex- ' (CoaUnued on Page Two.) SCENE OF THE SUICIDE w w LEAPS MM MIDGE Mrs.; I.. Lowengart, the Victimof Melancholia, Wanders From Home iriTEarly:Morhing. . while Buffering from an attack . of melancholia, Mrs,. Leah Lowengart, wife 01 ignata Lowengart. a wholesale mil liner and dry goods merchant on Front street, committed ' sulolde this morning by throwing herself from the -Ford street bridge, - Her body struck an em bankmenf on the south aide of the canyon, feet - below the . railing, crushing " the , bushes and thea rolled down into, the Canyon road.- , ' ' Mrs..' Lowengart waa . still breathing when Patrolmen Ilsy . and eherwood reached her aide. The patrol wagon waa summoned and ahe was conveyed to the North Factno . sanitarium, where ahe paased away without regaining con sciousness at 7:40 o'clock. Her-body wss taken to the family residence, 12S Irving street. , ; i Xusbana Finds He atlaslng. ' Mrs. Lowengart had been a sufferer from mental depression for rome time psst and had been under - the care of Dr. Oustav Baar. Thla morning her buaband awoke ahortly fter 4 o'clock to find her mlaalng from the room. Fear Ing that something bad happened he hastily dressed, . summoned a - carriage and waa driven to the police atatlon. where . he notlned the , otnoera ot : wlf e'a absence. Mr. Lowengart returned to hla borne and bad been there but a abort time when word was telephoned him. from the sanitarium that bla wife waa there. He hastened to her aide, but ahe died without recognising those anout her. . Almost -Wkera 7ehasoa Sled. . The unfortunate woman plunged from the high bridge soon - after t o'clock thla morning.. She' climbed the railing (Continued on Page Three.) fro '"-'rk. T ru v T I'l t Vkhera r fro iran on r"inir ATr '- MRS. LEAH LOWENGART-AND CHILD PETTY GRAFTING DONE BY BINGER HERMANN IS SHOWN UP IN HIS TRIAL Former Land Commissioner Drew Three Dollar a Day and Ex penses in Addition to Five Thousand Dollars a Year Salary ' While, Upon Vacations Cot Half of . Salary . Given Harry Robertson When He Was Appointed Session - derk-r-Alteged : to Have Attempted to Induce Attorney to Swear Falsely. ' (Wirtlattee Bore. ef The Joaraal.) Washington. April It The govern mnt pressed eji-Congressman Binger Hermann savagely today In the cross examination to bring out several facta. Amona them were the statements .that Hermann always drew tl per diem arfl sxpenses In addition to hla 16.000 annual salary, every time he vielted . Oregon inon vacations ss commissioner, and that he made Harry C. Robertson, whom he had appointed aessioa clerk of the houss of representatives just before he became commissioner, divide, his 1185 a month salary, giving Robertson 180 and retaining flOt. It waa also asserted that Hermann attempted to induce At torney Brltton here to awear in court that Hermann had Initiated the suspen sion of the Benson-Hyde claims In 1802, and that Brltton refused, saying, "I cannot, because It. Is not true." , Oaaaot stesiemsesw Each time a new phase was opened up by the government. Hermann cau tloualy swore that he was "not certain" and "could not . remember," but , gave explanations aa follows: "when 1 went to Oregon I went upon official business." - The government sought to prove that this waa Inconsistent with Hermann's previous testimony, when h said. "I always took my summer vscatlon In Oregon and brought, out Assistant t)ec- nurj nrin, ana suinnrisea mm. in ths absence of Hitchcock,! who himself wss on a summer vaeetlon. though not on per diem and expenses." . Referring to- Robertson, Hermann said that port of the t lift per gin nth went to pay another young man. who took Ight . dictation thren- times a eerk 'he matter waa not cltarv.l u, how ever, the examination leaving 1f)i a month peym'-nt for hr evenlnet a week for worn by thf othi-r num. ' T 's ri ne. As to r th v". " I r n f 1 1 l.i.-K I voted all session clerks by the house of representatives he did not remember, wss "not certain whether Jamea got pert," could not 'remember "Jamea' " full name. No expediting of the Putar-Wetson "11-7V claims aa at Mitchell's request, and the Hyde and Benson claims, wss gone into, . t : . , . ; s. . ., Hermann clung tenaciously to the statement made first In direct examina tion and denied that he had railroaded the Benooit, Hyde, Dlmond patent oases through the- department .upon the re quest of Mitchell.- - s , -.-' A remarkable document has been of fered by the government. It was a large blank, ao by 10 Inches, which had been prepared as a form for Hermann to send to Myrtle point. Oregon, to some one who wss connected with the rent for hla property there, to make monthly reports to him. The blank showed that he owned the Maaonlo hall, the opera bouae. livery stable, Kogers hotel, prey house. Border house, Schiller house, a brick saloon, warehouse and other prop, erty In that town, r .... , Shyloekl&g the rnblleC ' Tan CHara. clerk In the general land office, prepared the Mank forma, ani on one he wrote the followtnsi "Note. May 1, 18 Mr. lloush. iv retary to the commissioner, sayn: 1 asked him why this waa not put" r i ruled paper, aa It would tuke very 1 , time to prepure It.' He eM: Commil'ri.r oMwf"! to rv(-T much poiture. 14 cuts to ... , bult, ami ni. )t im ti i , as tu com Li m t"trt,.v' i i. romiii'nt : mliBttlont'i' m . rfk lo tl., I t !int. In i ; i 'i i.n.k nt 1 . I -, I a : .. i.i. . I I. T