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The Herald, 1906-06-22, Page 2MR. MURRAY PASSES AWAY that time, but accepted in 1875, 'having in the meantime with the consent of his employers undertaken the Bunting clown of several bands of criminals for the On- tario Government. The first unuedee e case in which he figured in this country was that in which he brought to justice the slayer of Ralph Findlay, a wee] -edu- cated farmer in the township of Sombre, Lani'bton county, its September, 1875. Findlay was murdered when he went to his barn in the middle of the night, be- cause from tate noise he thought someone way trying to steal his horses. First a Sailer, Then a Secret Service On the day of Findlay's funeral and at Officer. the edge of the grave Murray arrested William Smith, one of the hared men, who was convicted and sentenced to be for Thirty -One Years a Government privy Council on a technicality as to a hanged. The case was taken to the Detective. woman's evidence and that body upheld] • the verdict. The sentence, however, Death of Most Famous Police Official In Canada. A Toronto despatch: Chief Inspector John W. Murray, of the Ontario Crim- inal Justice Department, who was strick- en with paralysis on Saturday, died a little after 7 o'clock last evening at his home, 82 Brunswick avenue. While no hope was held out for his ultimate re- covery, his taking away was rather sud- den. The veteran detective had spent a good day, but towards evening took .an unexpected turn for the worse, His daughter, _Miss Mary Murray, was pres- ent at the bedside when the end came. His second daughter, Mrs. William Boyd, of Sydney, Cape Breton, is on her way to the city. Inspector Murray's last in- vestigation was into a case of cattle - poisoning in Etobicoke township last week, and on his return home on Sat- urday be complained of feeling unwell. The famous detective had a long connec- tion with the Jasonie Order in this city, having passed through the Royal Arch Masons and entered the membership of Geoffrey de St. Aldemar Preccptory of .Knights Tempters. The funeral will take ,place on Friday morning at 9 o'clock, to ,St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Bath- turst street, thence to Mount Hope Ceme- tery. Inspector Murray's Life. John Wilson Murray, for 31 years a detective in the employ of the Ontario • Government, was one of the most wide- ' ly-known of men, His fame was inter- national, thousands of people knew him by sight, ninny hundreds prized the pleasure of his acquaintance. In his time he travelled through almost every known country, and he frequentlly at- tained success in his objective when others had given up in despair, declaring the task beyond the bounds of human achievement. Mr. Murray was a tall, sturdily -built man above the average • height, and very strong. He was ap- pointed Government detective; as the of-, , fice was then known, on May 29, 1875. At that time he was the only Govern- ment detective. The criminal work *grew apace with the increasing p7�opula- tion.. of the Pravinee, and two outer, de- teatives—now Inspectors Joseph E. Rog- ers and William Greer—were appointed. Some ten or twelve years ago the title of detective, as applied to all three, was portant .fiat quite exacting nature, in changed to inspectors, and on Norem- which he had few failures to eecord. SAD TRAGEDY I HOW DOES A MOSQUITO AT KRii.A E. Four Little Lads Were Burned to Death. Mother Tried to Save, But Home Collapsed. The Boys' Bodies Were found Amid a Mass of Embers. IT[ YOU? She Carries a Set of Lancets, and Her "Bite" is in Reality a Surgical Operation. Perhaps up to this time you have been eontent to be bitten by Miss Mosquito—for only the female mosquito bites—and have never taken the trouble to find out how she does it. Sketch No. 1 -will show you how the mosquito's head looks when greatly magnified. A to L are four sharp lancets. Upon settling on your skin, Miss Mosquito brings those lancets into one close bunch and presses their united points through your skin. Then she pulls out the lancets, puts in her probosois,or trunk(D), and sucks up the blood. Not content with that, she inserts a drop of an irritating fluid, and it , is this that was commuted to life imprisonment, and Ottawa despatch: The town of liil causes the keen smart - Smith died in Kingston •oPnitentiary, p after serving fifteen years. Other laloe, South Renfrew, 94 miles from rang and itch- m•urder eases which were investi- Ottawa, has been plunged into deep You sea, gated by Murray early in lois career mourning as the result of a tragedy therefore, in this colentry were: The Monaghan y murder in Harwich toevnsliip; the mur- der of "Doe" Needham. near St. Thomas; the nntrder of Mary Ward, Caledon. Peel county; the murder of Joseph Dains, Toronto; the murder of Mrs. Bennett, Pickering township, Ontario, and others. In 1880 he ran to cover the famous John- son gang of connterf•eiters, who are said to have set in circulation counterfeit money totalling over $1.000;000. Some of this is said to be atilt in circulation in Canada, and so well made as to defy detection. The plates cost $40,000 to make, and are part of the trophies Mr. Murray kept in "his library. The Birchall Case. One of the most notable of the cases in which Murrey, after much hard and clever work, brought a man to justice was that of Reginald Birehail, who in February, 1890, lured a young English gentleman, F. Benwell, to Canada on the strength of an advertisement •offer ing partnership in a farm, murdered him, and concealed his body in the Blen- heim swamp, near `Woodstock. This, for the sake of £500, which the young man was to invest in the farm. Birch•a.it who was also en Englishman of good birth and excellent education, and his wife were arrested. There was noth- ing against her, and she was discharged]. Birchall was convieetd at Woodstock, the trial commenced in September, and hanged on Nov. 14. The evidence indi- cated that be bad planned to kill, for the sake of his money, at least one *other young English gentleman who had been caught by the advertisement. This ease created an immense sensation through- out Canada and in Britain at the time, and columns were devoted by the news- papers to the trial. The arrest and conviction of Dallman, Nolan and Walsh for attempting 'to dynamite the Welland Canal and their sentence to life imprisonment (t see even were suspd ted of beloii ng eta an Irish revolutionary body), are-' among the wore noted cases of Tnspeotos Mur - ray's later career. They were interspers- ed wi'tu considerable work of a less im- that occurred early on Saturday morn- ing, when the four sons of Mr. Daniel Dickson, engineer, were burned to death by a fire which destroyed their hone. The dead are: Daniel Alexander Dickson, aged 12. Carroll Herbert Dickson, aged 8. William Clemens Dickson, aged 5. James Dickson, aged 2. Mrs. Dickson, the mother of the vic- tims, and Jane, her only daughter, aged four, had a narrow escape. The mother jumped with. Irene in her arms, and while she was getting a ladder to res- cue her unfortunate little sons the roof collapsed, burying them in the ruins. The Dicksons lived in a small but comfortable house about a quarter of a, mile from the Grand Trunk Railway sta- tion, and several hundred yards from the nearest neighbor. Mr. Dickson, a native of Glengarry county, who has lived in Killaloe for twelve years, had been called to Barry's Bay. Asked Her to Jump First. Mrs. Dickson and the family bad been bothered with mosquitoes the previous evening, and Daniel the eldest lad, made a bonfire to try and keep them in check The family retired about 10 ber 23, 1904, M. Murray was appointed by order in Council Chief Inspector of the Department of Criminal Investiga - tion. His last cases of importance 'were dealt with at the Belleville Assizes. His Early Adventures. From the earliest boyhood his life alas one of adventure, Born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 25, 1840, he went to New York with his father and mother `when he was about five years old. Going 'back to Scotland at eleven years of age he attended school at Edinburgh, but *later again went to the United States, 'and for two years he attended. the Georgetown Academy. at Washington. At fifteen years of age be ran away from school and home restraints and became a sailor, making journeys to many lands. Afterwards he sailed on the great lakes, and in 1857 he joined. the United States navy. When the civil war broke out be passed the required examination, obtain- ed a commission, and took part in some of the warm naval engagements which characterized that conflict. It was while serving in the United States navy that he carried out his first detective Mr. Murray, in has conversation and in his memoirs, held that crime is a dis- ease; it is hereditary. It may skip a generation, or even two or three, but at will reassert itself. Ctame also, the can - tended, is contagious. Constant con- tact with criminals often led to others becoming criminals. He was a strong believer in circumstantial evidence, bay- ing often found it surer than direct evi- dence. that over mosquito bite ti is in reality a small out,and that into every cut drop of irratating pofsonousf ltid i is injected. 1 Here is just where the value of Zane. Buk is easily demonstrated. Zam-Buk is not only a healing balm, which soothes, i closes up and heals outs, wounds, etc., in marvel - t lonely short time ; but it is also an anti- septic. What harm may poison in a wound not do? It it well known that mosquitos i spread fever by injecting their poison Zam-Buk is good for insect stings, but it is good in a far wider sense. It prevents harm ' arising from poison in any wound, not only in the bites or stings of insects. After a long series of experiments, testing the effects of Zam-Buk on "harmful and poisonous bacteria and disease germs, Mr. W. Lascelles-Scott, the noted analyst, re- ported that " the antiseptic and baotericidal powers of Zam-Buk exceed those of the' „ �D Mosquito's head highly magnified. thing like eczema, writes Mrs. J. Reeserp. of Aurora. It was very troublesome and made the child very i11. I tried all sorts of ointments and salves, but no good name of their use. Then Zam-Buk was brought to me•and the third supply cured the little ones completely." e/ " I never saw anything heal so quickly in my life as a deep out on my husband's chin healed when we applied Zam•Buk," Ray's, Mrs. H. T. Parks, of Washago, Ont. Mrs. J. F. Baker, of Aultsville, says : "T< think Zam-Buk just fine for skin diseases. Having once proved it, I would not bo without It in the house." The ex -champion wrestler of America, Mr. Hugh Lannon, says of it: "Zam-Buk heals cuts and bruises as nothing else docs that I have even met with. I had a piece of flesh badly torn• on my arm, and anticipated being unable to use my arm for a long time. In two days. Zara-Buk closed the wound and in a few days it was covered with new skin. I shall always give Zam-Buk a good name." The Rev. W. C. Leeper, of Mollie Rectory, Suffolk, says: : "For years I suffered from y piles, but Zam-Buk cured. azo. I have great confidence in recommending it." And so, wherever you may be, or im whatever station of life, you inquire, Zam- Bulc is praised • by all. It is made from vegetable essences and contains no trace of any animal fat or any mineral coloring matter. It is easy to apply, is always cleanly, never tins or dyes, and in all ways is an ideal healer. All druggists sell it at 50 cents a box, or you may obtain it direct from the Zam-Buk Co., Colborne St., Toronto, upon receipt of price. -,While of general service for all skin injuries and dis- eases, Zam-Buk is especially good for insect o'clock, thinking the fire out, all going ; caustic carbolic acid of commerce. Think to bed in one room in the front of the , what that means 1 Everybody knows that house. About 1 o'clock Mrs. Dickson ' crude carbolic acid will kill every disease - awoke with a start and found the house , germ with which it is brought in cantaot. in flames. Hurriedly rousing her lit- ; But nobody would dream of putting this tie ones, Mrs. Dickson rushed with them • powerful irritant on to a wound or sore. to the window and proposed that they : Yet Zam-Buk has more power to kill germs jump. Irene, the little girl clung to her ' than this highly caustic substance, and stilt mother, eying in fear, while Daniel, it can be applied to wounds, ulcers, bites, Carroll, 'William and James followed. . stings and skin diseases, and injuries of all kinds. When so applied it soothes the pain, "Jump, mother and bet ave ladder,"ywhile its antiseptic powers are in full oper- cried Carroll. "We will be saved if you ation. It stimulates the colla immediately do" , under the epidermis and builds up new, Til Building Collapsed. • healthy 'skin. It combines germ -killing Catcbinl} �"gene in her arms, Mrs. Dick- i. power of the highest order with soothing sane jam uJ:'end, alighted. -safely,` and and healing. While being one of the ost while Irene ikan ler assistance she rush- ; powerful antiseptics yet discovered, it is so ed to get the ladder. As sbe looked ; mid and soothing o tbhoingsthbae the benefited n oy its around Daniel,, Carroll, James and Wil -newly • Bain were standing together near application. PPlication. ALPS ON THE MOVE. Whole Villages Raised and Lowered— Declaration of Scientist. Geneva, June 18.—M. de Varigny, a Swiss scientist, has just published an in- teresting article on the movements of the Alps. He declares that the mountains, especially the Swiss and Austrian Alps, are continually changing, so that an atlas of these districts two years old is no longer correct. The writer states that many villages in the I3erneso Oberland and the Canton of Valais have been raised or lowered from six to twelve feet within the last six years, and that the contour of moun- tain ranges for hundreds of miles bas considerably altered, A He Becomes a Detective. In 1866, according to Mr. Murray's re- cently -published memoirs, he left the ac- tive navy, and shortly afterwards be- came a special secret agent of the Navy Department, his work involving for two years extensive travel throughout the United, States, and particularly in the southern States. It was at this time be determined upon becoming a detective, and he set about fitting himself for his profession by the most systematic study of 'men, and particularly of bad amen -- their lives, their methods, training and environment. In 1868 he joined the police force of Erie, Pa., and five or six years afterwards became a detective in that city. He had many adventures and lots of experience there, including a case which resulted in the capture of "the only pair of professional women burglars working alone that I ever met red-handed." It was at Erie that he re- ceived the first permanent physical physical marks of his dangerous proles• soon, one from a negro prisoner, who tried to kill him in the court room with a razor ,and succeeded in cutting hi shoulder; the other from the bullet of a burglar he was arresting, who Shot him in the left hand, Murray mastered the negro and captured the burglar. My baby hada rash on the skin some - window, from which she had sprung, crying and wringing their bands. Mrs. Dickson had barely touched the ladder, however when the building fell in.with a crash. Neighbors subsequently found the unfortunate mother nearly uncon- scious and prostrated with grief. Word was sent to Mr. Dickson, and he returned next morning. The bodies of the four children were found close beside each other in a mass of smould- ering embers. 11 a ++ ws DOMINION NOTES FOUND. Five Thousand Dollars in a Montreal Scavenger's Cart. Montreal, June 1S.—Scavengers found three packages of Doininion one and four dollar notes in a cartload of refuse they were dumping at the Fuller street re- ceptacle. The packages were wrapped up in yellow paper, and contained in all legal tender to the amount of five thou- sand dollars. All the bills were cut into six pieces, and, therefore, it is supposed that it had been intended to destroy them entirely on order from the Re- ceiver -General, or that they had been stolen and then deposited in a lane by the thief. Investigation will be made. Many Celebrated Cases. Mr. Murray. left Erie in 1873 end set- tled in Canaria as the head] of detectives of the Canada Southern Railroad. The Manner in which he put' a stop to 'bridge- , butting, car breaking and rifling on this tine greatly enhanced his reputation. In 1874 afrete dOliverl Mho wat;'then m from lr. {torw as ds Sir) At- torney -General, who asked Murray, then living at St. Thomas, to become Pro- vincial detective. Murray declined at NEWS IN BRIEF A GadJfy (4), and one of his sawlike jaws (13)D with which he saws through the skin to suck the blood. bites and stings, cuts, burns, bruises, eczema', pimples, running sores, spreading scabs,. scalp diseases, poisoned wounds. festering; sores, piles, ulcers, bad legs, abscesses, boils, ringworms, erysipelas, scrofula, psoriasis, barbers' rash, stiffness, rheumatism, and all injured, chafed, diseased or inflamed con- ditions of akin and tissue. , To obtain a free trial box cut out this, article and write aoeoes it tiae., name and date of this paper. Then Mail it to the. Company at above address together with your full name and address, and a one -cent. stamp to pay return postage. Your appli- cation will then receive immediate attention. arines, has started proceedings for libel to save the political prisoners who were against the Star -Journal newspaper be about to be sent to Siberia to undergo cause of an anonymous letter published on Saturday bearing on the Smith case. The writer acused him of calling farmers "jaekasseo." Dr. Comfort denies using such language, and says he has a number of witnesses to bear ]aim out. • 1• , nine years' banishment. .After a fighb the keepers carried the obstruction and order was restored. CANADIAN. An estate valued at $100,175.57 was left by the late 1t. S. Williams, of To- ronto. Jahn Ward; cigar manufacturer, To- ronto, hes assigned, with liabilities of $30,000. Harold McGaffey, little son of W. A. McGaffey, near Iiemnny, Man., wax drowned last night while playing on some logs i:: the Assinlboine River. While conversing with a friend on the deck of the tug Hood, at Sault Ste. Marie, Joseph Trembley, a dredgeman, fell dead. Heart trouble was the cetera An anealgaamtion of the Great North- ern Railway, the Quebec, New Bruns- wick & Nova Scotia Railway and the Chateauguay & Northern Railway was comtpleted at' a meeting held in Toronto. The Teniiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway Conienission• has given to the Town Site Mining Company a 900 years' pease of the southwest 67 acres o± the Cobalt town site, which is known to con- tain. anineral, FRENCH REVOLUTION IN nor. Socialist Who Prophesies It Promises It Will Be Bloodless. Paris, Jpne 3.8.—M. Guesde, the new leader of the Socialists in the Chem - her of Deputies, prophesied a social revolution in 1010. He says: "In four years the United Socialists will be able to consider coolly a revolutionary solu- tion. Their attitude will be so menacing that the capitalist government will call out the army, bait, as the army will refuse to fire, the revolution wall be bloodless." BRITISH AND [ORIEION. Two German officers and eight men were killed and ten anon were wounded on June 4 in a fight with Hottentots be- tween 'ta4 arrnbad and. Fish River. Dr. Wm. Oldright, of Toronto, who is in Italy attending the ]Medical Congress, at Venice, vvne robbed at Padua yester- day of his purse, eontaining personal pa- pers and a letter of credit for $1,500. Judge Winchester has refused to grant Lady Wilson an order to have the ac- counts of the •estate of her bate husband, Sir Adam Wilson, reopened, and the costs of the recent legal proceedings are to be borne by her. Mrs. Felix Dunwoody, the 18 -year -odd wife, of Felix Dunnv,00cly, one of the lead- ing •citieens of Magian, Ga., slot herself shortly after midnight. Her husband be- longs to the Dunwoody family, to which President Roosevelt is related. No cause is given far the act. Ambassador Reid took Congressman Nicholas Longworth to the distinguished •strangers' gallery of the British House of !Common yesterday afternoon, to hear the debate on the education bill. Mrs. Longworth, accompanied by Airs. Reid, made e tour of the shopping dis- the rate now charged for a two ounce triets. packet. Df. Sharpkovsky, a marshal of nobil- ity, was waylaid and murdered by revo- lutionists yesterday at Kutais, Trans - Caucasia. On Saturday persons entered St. Gearge'e Cathedral, e.ingston, and car- ried away a quantity of wine used for celebrating the ,sacraments, as iveli es e few other articles. Word cause from. Cincinnati of the sud- den death there of Robert Lawrie, for- merly waterworks inspector at .St. 'Cath- arines. Ile went to Alabama last Oc- tober, sufferiate from consumption, but he was thought to be swproving and started for home. For some years die was a member of the City Council. A little boy, Kea Cahill, eon of Walter Cahill, St. Catharines,was playing in the yard on Saturday when he saw what he took to be a kitten, sitting on the ground, and picked ,it up. It 'swerved to be an enormous rat which had been hurt and could not run, and the moment the child touched it the rodent bit 'hirci se - London—Orcler of St. Michael and *Sit. George to -day acquired a chapel of their awn, a special recess in St. Paul's Cathe- dral having been dedicated to the service of its knights, who now for• the first time in the history of the order have a sanctuary in which to deposit their ban- ners. The eases of the four meat -packings companies charged with accepting re- bates, was to -day given to the jury in. the U. S. district court at Kansas Ci'ty, Mo. A verdict is expected to -day. The cases are those of Armour & Co.,„ Swift & Co., Cudahy & Co., and the Nel- son Morris Packing Co. The most disastrous fire in this his- tory of Sodas, N. Y., broke out at. 2,30 o'clock this morning, in Frank D.., Gaylord's general store, on Main street east. The eastern half of the village • is practically destroyed. Most of the • buildings were of wood. structures. It, is estimated that the loss will be over • $100,000. Ill Under the red -need. postal rates a let- • ter to Great Britain. from the States, will cost five cents for taeco first t ounce • ancl three cents for the ounce, or eight cents for two ounces. In other words, when the new rates become ef- fective, a letter packet wighing six ounces can be sent to Great Britain at The steamship Westernland, which went aground yesterday at the entrance to the Delaware bay and was floated at midnight, reached Philadelphia to -day. She sustained no damage. A fire which started just before mid- night did $100,000 damage to the exten- sive packing plant of Armour & Co., in South Omaha. Cornelius Denny, a mem- ber rivate fire de. par{;nien , r wase & killed by fall ng timbers. Josephine Terranova, the young wo- man who was recently acquitted at New York, by a jury, of the murder of her aunt, was to -day paroled in the cus- tody of her counsel by Justice Scott. The action was taken at the request of Assistant District Attorney Ely. Foreign Governments through Chicago consuls are to take a hand in the inves- tigation of conditions of packing houses at the stockyards as the result of allege= Mons in the report submitted to Fresi- dent Roosevelt, by Messrs. Neill and Reynolds, it was learned to -night. versly on the hand The. inmates of the Moscow prison to - Police Magistrate Comfort, of St, Oatth- day barricaded the building in an effort t - it MONTANA TORNADO. BARRACKS WRECKED AND SEVE! TROOPERS ALMOST DROWNED. Havre, Mont., June 13.—Meagre ac— counts from Fort Assiniiboine tell of the - great •destruction *wrought there by yes- terday'a tornado. The large commissary buikling, together with the adjutants office, stables of the *troopers and sev- eral barracks went down. Capt. Bona - face and seven troopers had a narrow • escape from drowning while going to the . rescue of a family which had been, cut off by the flood. It impossible to es • - tablish. communication with Harlem and Chinook. Eng:ewers report that the ter- ritery between Havre and Glaegow re- sembles a sea, due to the breaks in ir- rigation reservoirs. A report states that . both reservoirs at Fort Assiniboine� •• have burst, and that the quarters of the • soldiers are flooded. Four troops, of the -- Second. Cavalry, and four companies est the Second intantry, are stationed there.