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The JonrnaL Has a Larger ' Proved, Sworn-to, Paid-for Circnlalion in Poriland arid Within Sixty rJlles ol Portland, All Directions, and Thronplioat the Slnlc of Oregori Thk -Any Other, Daily Paper to the' Inspection of All Advertis j USE THE JOURNAL'S WANT COLUMNS FOR BEST RESULTS. MoT? Help Wanted ? . : ApyERTISE IN THE JOURNAL The Weather Shower tonight or. Thursday, v . :.: JOURNAL CIRCULATION " YESTERDAY WAS 31,025 VOL. VII. NO. 51. Portland, Oregon; Wednesday evening, may e, , isos eighteen pages. PRICE TWO CENTS. oir t&aot awo mm takd. ma , cm ii BIG FLEET ANCHORS li FRISCO BAY Led by the Connecticut, Evans' Battleships Enter Sari Francisco Harbor, Es corted by All Manner of Pleasure Craft. Nearly One Million People View Great Naval Display From Hills and Docks Great Enthusiasm When Vessels Enter Port. San Francisco, May 6. Headed by the battleship Connecticut the battle blp fleet entered port this noon. . At 11 o'clock the hate lifted and the tun shone. The eea wag quite heavy outside and the bay was choppy. At 11:15 the signal "up anchor" was flung out by the Con necticut, and almost at the same moment the anchors came up and the Connecticut moved harborward. followed at safe intervals by her sister ships and the torpedo-boat de stroyers. Immediately upon receipt of word that the fleet had started, the ships of the Pacific battleship fleet and Its torpedo-boat destroyers, with the auxil iary ships, prepared to fall Into the big parade and the patrol-boats steamej up and down the sea-way line to keep the launches and excursion-boats with in the limits prescribed for them. As Admiral Evans' ship got fairly under way, they presented a beautiful sight. Their prows nosed through the water l(ke knives, throwing up a gnat spray that washed back upon the bulg ing white sides of the mammoth armor 'clads. Steaming slowly, -4hey gave the sightseers upon the beach an excellent opportunity to . witness tbelr passage Into the gate. As the Connecticut arrived within the reservation the guns at Fort Baker and the Presidio roared out their sa lutes. The speed of the Connecticut was slackened s bit while it was passing the forts and all of the vessels behind her slowed up. Their steadiness of forma tion aroused the highest admiration and completed a- marine picture beyond compare. The torpedo boat destroyers steamed along on the port side of the big ships and were almost completely hidden from the view of th San Francisco side. Meiggs' wharf, on the eastern extrem ity of the Presidio, was reached shortly after 12:40. The ships . at this point were close enough to shore for the men on board to hear the cheers of the en thusiastic multitude ashore. Bluejack ets and officers manned the rails, an swering and waving their caps. As the Connecticut reached Alcatras Island she let go her great turret guns In reply to the salutes of the forts. The ship was almost hidden behind the clouds of smoke belching from the can non. Turning Into the north channel the 16 battleships, with the torpedo boat destroyers still steaming on their port side, sailed past Angel Island, where the Pacific fleet of battleships and cruisers, the Pacific torpedo flotilla and the auxiliaries were awaiting the order to fall In line, which came Immediate ly after the last ship in the Atlantic fleet had cleared the Island. With clocklike precision the waiting ships fell Into line ind then in fleet formation the combined squadrons con tinued the journey past Mission Rock and maneuvered back to their anchor ages off the city. 13 VICTIMS OF LA PORTE MURDERERS Nine Mutilated Bodies Are Unearthed in Yard of the House Which Was Fu- ' neral Iyre of Mrs. Gunness and Her Three Children. Police :-f Believe Farm Was Clearing: House for Gang bt VUlainous Cut-Throats Who Shipped Bodies of Victims in Trunks. Bier 3Iartin Robbed Safe and Was Arrested and Fined, His Wife Coining to His Res cue With Money, Which Secured His Release. DOCTOR GRIFFIN OF SALEM SAYS prisoner; was once in his cam (Doited Press Lsiwd Wire.) Lalorte, Ind., May 6. Three ad ditional bodies were found upon the farm of Mrs. Belle Gunness, the sup posed multi-murderess, today. One was dug up early this morning and this afternoon two more were found burled la the rear of the Gunness house. Thick mattresses had been placed over the bodies before the dirt was shoveled over them. (Continued on Page Five ) (United Press Lensfc Wire.) La Porte, Ind., May 6. Six mu tilated bodies unearthed here by the police, besides the charred corpses of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her three children, tell a story of carnage and murder unequaled since the days of H. H. Holmes, the modern bluebeard at Chicago. Mrs. Gunness and her three children were burned to death in a fire of Incendiary origin a week ago Today the sixth victim of the murderers was found buried in the yard of her farmhouse. It Is be lieved that at least five other bodies will be found before the hunt is ended. The police believe Mrs. Gunness was a member or the Dana or wnoiesaie murderers and that her accomplices fi nally burned her to death after some kind of a quarrel. Ray Lamphere, for merly an employe on the Gunness farm, has been arrested on suspicion of hav ing set fire to the house, but denies his split or that he knew of the nu merous murders which occurred there. He admits, however, that he had long been suspicious of the woman who em ployed him. Body in Back. , The arrest of Lamphere was followed by the discovery of a sack, containing the head, arms, legs and hacked body of a man, burled near the fence sur rounding the ruins of the Gunness home. The body had evidently been cut up with a saw by the fiendish murderer. This gruesome find later proved to be the corpse of Andrew Heltegreen of Aberdeen, South Dakota, who came to La Porte last January to marry Mrs. Gunness. Heltegreen met Mrs. Gunness through an affinity bureau. He arrived her in January and was last seen alive Feb ruary 3. His brother, . John, who is here, says Andrew announced his in tention of marrying the woman but that he does not know whether he did so. Last winter Andrew Heltegreen re quested a bank In La Porte to cash a 3.000 draft on the Indorsement of Mrs. Gunness. The bank declined to accept the Indorsement and took the draft for collection. The mony arrived .from Ab erdeen and was paid to the woman. She immediately took up a note for $000 and paid a number of other debts, depositing the $"00 that remained. It Is believed by the police that Lam phere was a suitor for the hand of Mrs. Chief Secrist Furnished the Portland Police With De scription of Man Claimed to Be Regular Army Lieutenant. (Continued on Page Four.) FOUR PERSONS HURT IN AUTO WRECK AT SEATTLE LAST NIGHT (Dslted Press teased Wire.) Seattle, May 6. Four were seriously and two perhaps fatally Injured late Tuesday alght whan an auto, running ata high rate of sped. Jumped the Fourth-avenue south - bridge, v whining thrnugh spare ' for a distance of 100 feet and dropped to tna tide flats be low. - The four were In the "water for . an hour befor being rescued by the -lire department. All were seint to hos pitals. The occupants of the car were i .. Miss Alice Kester, right knee crashed, body bruised and Injured internally.;. ' illss Haiel-Rosi, internally injured. Henry C. Hlbbard. son of C L Hlb bard, secretary-treasurer Hlbbard- Stewart company, left side crushed and several ribs broken. - Edwin C. Bennett, manager of Ben nett Co., face crushed. , The Jatter was ertlng as chauffeur. Mus Kester and Miss Ross may not recover. . All parties are well known socially..- The party was returning to town from South Seattle and must have been travellngt.a very high rate, as the ear failed to take ths curve and went craahrnar through the ValHng'ajid landed 100 feet away from the bridge Ja It feet of water. 4 (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ' Vancouver, Wash., May 6. Ed ward H. Martin, arrested in Portland on the charge of murdering Nathan Wolff, a Portland pawnbroker, has a police record in tbJs city, and curious ly enough was arrested f6r fobbing the safe of M. Clow, a local pawn broker. From the varied story told the Vancouver police by Martin, Chief Secrist of the local force, be lieves Martin likely to deny the charge of murder in the face of the most incriminating evidence. It was partially through a description of the man furnished the Portland author ities by Chief Secrist who knew him well that his capture was effected yesterday. Martin came to Vancouver early last summer, claiming at that time to be a lieutenant In the regular army, although as a matter of fact her had been disc charged from the army previously. While here Martin was known to use drugs and an entire outfit for the use of morphine was found on his person. On the morning of July 7 Martin went Into the pawnshop of M. Clow and, asking the price of revolvers, quickly opened the drawer of the money box In the store safe and secured $15. The theft was soon discovered and the "ex-army officer" arrested. He stoutly denied his guilt and said to Chief Secrist: '.'Officer, do you know what you are doing when you arrest an officer of the United States army?" However, he was taken to police headquarters and ths searched. The $16 stolen was found in his shoe. Martin's trial was to come up before the superior court on a charge of grand larceny, but through the Influence of his wife and friends the charge was re duced to petty larceny. Martin pleaded ?;illty and was fined $30, this amount be ng paid by his wife. After his expe rience here Martin soon-left town and has ' not been seen since by the local authorities. S !' J f . , . I" , ' t 1 ' s A? m If U 'J Ar ...-..w.-w ...... . BMsssssssssssssVlsss.. f Edward H. Martin, the Prominent Figure In the Forejcround, Detective Hillyer to the Extreme Right and Detective Jones in the Center STARTLED MRS. BOYLE To all of his friends who saw Ed ward H. Martin during the exciting chase yesterday, the fugitive vehement ly denied any knowledge of the Wolff murder and to all declared that he In tended giving himself up to the police. At about 10 o'clock hei Is believed to have stopped In a butcher shop where hla wife's relative, James Boyle, is em ployed. Shortly before noon he went to Boyle's home at 378 East Davis street, where he saw Mrs. Boyle. "He was terribly excited," said Mrs. Boyle today, "and the sweat was stand- I begged him to Ing out on his face. give, himself up to the police, but he said he had already agreed to do so at 6 o'clock. He asked me to telephone my husband and find out when he would be home, and when I told him to do so he eald. 'Oh, I can't go out of the house they are following me so close ly. They would catch me In a min ute.' "When I asked him If he had killed the man he said, "No, I am as Innocent as your little child standing there. I know nothing whatever about the mur- DEFENSE VILL BE ON LIKE (Continued on Page Three.) - Admiral Evans1 Flagship Connecticut, Oft Port San Pedro. Salem, May 6. Edward Hugh Martin, under arrest In Portland for the murder of Pawnbroker Nathan Wolff, was treated for insanity, oc casioned by excessive use of cocaine, by Dr. David B. Griffin, of Salem, a year ago. The young man was treated by the physician for a fort night and at the end of that time was discharged apparently sane and free from the mania for the deadly drug. He gained in weight while undergoing treatment .from . 1?3. pounds up to 142 pounds. Dr. Griffin stated in an Interview thts morning as follows In regard to Martin, whose picture he Identified as the man he treated: "Martin was brought to me hers by bjs father May J3. 1S07. from Portland. where fie had been arrested for running wildly about ths streets with a hypor dermic syringe In his hand, calling loudly for the police to come to his aid; that he had locked two cocaine fiends in his cellar and that they were being pulled to pieces by degrees and that . he could hear their-groans. ', After ha was arrested, Influence was brought t bear and he escaped -being sent to th's rockplle for 90 day He WU hrourht tn thin ettv tiv hla in, wnoae name i tmn ne said waa Hugh Martin,' and whom, he claimed,; was., a wealthy New Tork broker. K : waa violently insane, and while he dull not attempt to kill anybody we did not dare trust .him for a single minute while he was under treatment. "Martin was apparently cured of In sanity when we let him go, though ha! had not entirely recovered from the useJ of cocaine. I believed be would uu-i doubtedly become Insane again If be re-' sorted to the pernicious drug.: Toward the end of hla treatment,. Mar- tin told me much of his former life and education. He waa remarkably welt ed ucated, and knew a great deal about military engineering. . f "After leaving me I beard from Mar tin several times, the last time about four months ago, when he told me he waa not using the drug and weighed liJ pounds." Dr. Griffin has many drawings and diagrams made by Martin while undf r hla care. Dr. Griffin is no relation t Mrs. Martin, who was a Miss Griffin before her marriage. (Continued oa Page Tliree.) ORCHARD REPRIEVED: FIRES ATTORNEY FOR TRYING TO SAVE HIM r- (United Press Leasts Wire.) Boise, Ida, May (.---Governor Good ing will grant a reprieve for - Harry Orchard, who la sentenced to be banged May 15 for the murder pf former Gov ernor Steunenberg, and the case will not oe considered ov tne eoara or pa dona sntil lta next regular meetln July I. . . r The board today declined to take up the caae, owing to the fact that the le gality of the proceedings has been brought Into Question. It Is held by the attorney genera that the board cannot take up new matters -at a special meet ing. ' - - - : Frank Wymsn. attorney for Orchard, when this ruling waa mads asked Gov- ernor Gooding; if a reprieve Could t granted, and was given assurance thet suchr action would betaken. Orchard yesterday addressed a' letter to Wyman, In which he d!sml8d M i as his attorney, H expressed dh" !-.-. -. ure at the efforts Wyman had nm ! t save his life, and reiterated his u-ur that the execution take place. Wyman, who was spixiinf ! tr fv Court, Is not certain 'that On in1 the Dower to dismiss him. and , tlnua his .efforts In betiwlf i,f i demned man, for the prnt t I Boise. Ids.; Msv t.Governoe " Ing today sranted a ri-nlo i t I Y - OreharJ. to July 2. 'li.a.L. irj t.1 l. dona will meet July 1.,