The Herald, 1906-08-03, Page 7TIIAW'S M'OTU[R WANTS
IIIM DECLARED INSANE.
Preparing Papers to That Effect Against Wishes
of Harry Thaw Himself.
New York, July C3.—The World to-
day says: It ;has been tacitly agreed be-
tween the attorneys representing Barry
Kendall Thaw and the District Attor-
ney's office that the ease against the
young mililonaire will be called for trial
the week beginning Oct. 15.
It has been practically decided that
"emotional insanity" will be the de -
'fence offered by Thaw's attorney, Clif-
ford W. Hartridge, of 149 Broadway.
Behind this plea Mr. Hartridge expects
'to produce a mass of evidence that wiW
result in Harry Thaw's acquittal on the
ground of justification or the "unwritten
law "
Former Judge Olcott is contemplating
an action, at Mrs, William Thaw's sug-
gestion, that ie almost unprecedented in
the courts of this State, and one whieh,
if it proves successful, will result in
;Harry Thaw being sent to an insane asy-
'lum, irrespective of his own wishes, those
of his counsel,and without the consent of
District Attorney Jerome. Mr. Olcott,
it is said, is preparing papers in a civil
action to have Harry Thaw declared in-
sane.
As the representative of the +prisoner's
mother, Mr. Olcott proposes to go before
the Supreme Court within the next few
days and apply for a commission to pasts
upon Harry Thaw's mental condition. If
this commission declares Thaw is insane
he will be ordered committed to an asy-
lum and his mother ,appointed a com-
mittee of hia person and property. Such
a action upon Mrs. Thaw's part can have
but one result. When the Thaw ease is
called foe trial the attorneys represent-
ing Mre. William Thaw will go :before
the Criminal Court, file the order of the
Supreme Court, declaring Harry Thaw
insane, and the case will be marked off
the calendar.
All this works out well in theory, but
in bringing such an action. Mr. Olcott
and Mrs. Thaw will have to contend with
strong opposition on the part of the pris-
oner and his counsel. Thaw stolidly
maintains that he is sane at present, and
so does. Mr. Hartridge.
FUR BUYER'S SUICIDE.
M. F. ST. JOHN, MONTREAL, SWAL-
LOWS PRUSSIC ACID.
It is Alleged That He Was Mixed Up
in a Fur Robbery Case, and Took the
Poison Because He Feared Arrest.
',Montreal, July 30.—having taken
a dose of prussic acid, M. F. St.
John, fur buyer, manufacturers' ageeit
and jewellery importer, lay down
and died on the rloor of his office in the
Temple building last night or early this
morning and there his body was found
towards noon to -clay. St. John was
thirty-five years old, and single. Seem-
ingly he had contempated suicide, be-
cause last evening he went to his board-
ing house and bade his friends good-bye,
saying he was going away for some time.
The cause of his action is conjectural.
Chief Carpenter received word from the
Chief of Polite of Chatham, Ont., several
days ago that some stolen furs had been
shipped from there to M. F. St. John,
Temple building. Yesterday the Chief
sent a man to St. John's office to make
inquiries, and, although the detective did
not try to make an arrest, deceased was
very nervous and gave reason to believe
in some way he was connected with this
deal.
Later another wire came from the
Chatham Police Chief asking for the ar-
rest of A. Futail, Notre Dame street;
west. Futail was wanted for the theft
of the furs at Chatham, and it was he
who had shipped them to St. John, it is
alleged.
Futail was arrested to -day and it is
believed that fear of arrest led St. John
to take his life.
GIVES SALOON AWAY.
JERRY MILLER IS NOW TWICE A
MILLIONAIRE.
Hands Over Business to His Bartender,
and Declares That He Will Never
Sell Another Drop of Liquor.
New York, July 30.—A special to the
World from Bristol, Tenn., says: Jerry
Miller, a saloonkeeper, received news to-
day from Lauder, Wyo., that by the
death of his uncle, J. H. Miller, at Lan-
der, he had fallen heir to mining pro-
perty valued at $2,000,000.
Jerry 3..f3llcr, who has been an invalid,
for several years, was so elated over
the news that he made his bartender,
W. O. Raner, a present of his saloon
business and left to -night for Wyoming
to elate:. his fortune. He declares he
will never sell another drop of liquor.
AT BRITISH LEGATION.
REBELS IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST
AFRICA EXTERMINATED.
Campaign of "No Quarter"—Fugitives to
the Number of Forty Thousand Are
Believed to Have Perished.
Berlin, July ,30.—The offical report
of the Government concerning the re-
sult of the war against the native
Rebels ,in German South-west Africa
contains appalling details of the cam -
ted corpses and bones from which the
flesh has been devoured by birds and
beasts.
The terror-stricken fugitives dug
holes in the desert to a depth of six
feet, using their hands, being without
tools, in the vain hope of finding wa-
ter. After hours and days of desper-
ate digging, which finally proved futile,
they laid down and died in the wallows
which they had created by their own
efforts.
It is estimated that 40,000 natives
perished in the desert, of whom many
were aged men, women and children. The
campaign is declared to have been with-
out a parallel in point of ferocity in re-
cent years ,and is likely to prove a
strong weapon for the Socialists at the
next meeting of the Reichstag.
GREAT PAPER STRIKE.
THREATENED UNLESS LENGTH OF
WORKING DAY IS SHORTENED.
Thirty-one Mills of International Paper
Company Involved—Meeting of Paper
Makers in New York on August 6.
-._r.= a ?.,l<• an-t>aner makers in
the thirty-three mills of the Internation-
... w.npuny in the United. States
and Canada have given notice that they
will go on strike on August 6th unless
their working hours are reduced to
eight hours a day without a reduction
in the scale of wages.
The Paper Makers' Union will hold a
meeting in New York on August 4 to
form a plan. The International Paper
Company has been preparing for just
such a. contingency.
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PAINTERS MEET AT WINDSOR.
Third Annual Convention of Association
of Employers.
A Windsor, Ont., despatch: The third
bnnual convention of the Master
Painters' and Decorators? Assoiriation
of Canada opened here this morning
with a fair attendance of delegates
present. The officers who presided at
this morning's session were: President
A. M. Mackenzie, Hamilton; Viee-Presi-
dent Thomas Brooke, Windsor; Secre-
tary -Treasurer Stewart N. Hughes,
Toronto.
Mayor Wigle extended the freedom of
the city to the delegates in an address
of welcome, after which the remainder
of the day was spent in disposing of
routine business. This evening the
delegates and their friends to the number
of nearly four hundred were taken for a
trip on the river, concluding with a ban-
quet at Bois Blanc Island.
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PRINCE OF WALES IN RUNAWAY.
Horses Take Fright and Dash Carriage
Against Tree.
London, July 30.—The Prince and
Princess of Wales narrowly escaped
death in a runaway accident in Hart-
ford, where they had gone to attend
the opening of the Bluecoat School.
The horses of the Royal carriage be-
came frightened at the shouting of
the crowd and bolted, dashing the
carriage against a tree by the road-
side. The Royal couple escaped injury,
however.
A score of the spectators rushed for-
ward and prevented the carriage from
overturning.
paign of the extermination which has **a
been carried on by the German tom- GREAT WEST LIFE PROBED.
mender there in revenge for the vari-
ous reverses that the German forces en-
countered in the earlier days of the cam-
paign against the blacks.
In the initial campaign the rebels
slumbered 60,000 men and outnum-
bered greatly the Germans sent
against them. So soon as the German
forces were able to assume the of-
fensive a campaign of "no quarter"
teas inaugurated and carried through.
'Death was the portion of all rebels,
avid the German forces were so dis-
posed that their enemies were soon
driven into the desert, where they per-
ished by the thousands of hunger and
thirst.
An immense area of the arid land
tow strewn with thousands of rot -
Royal Insurance Commission Opens in
Winnipeg.
Winnipeg, July S0.—The Royal Insur-
ance Commission opened an investigation
here to -day into the affairs of the Great
West Life Co.
Nothing sensational developed with
regard to the methods of organization,
the election of officers and. distribution
of profits or investments.
The salary of President Brock is $15,-
000 per annum, He maintains that no
aetual rebates are allowed by the com-
pany, and that the funds are safely in-
vested in securities paying 73>z per cent.
The investigation will be continued to-
morrow.
MRS. THAW,
Mother of Harry Thaw.
!DREADNOUGHT'S COST.
jFIRST OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
HAS BEEN TRADE.
Estimated That Expenditure on This
Great Fighting Ship Was $8,987,-
485, Including
8,g87,485,Including the Guns Which Sbe
Carries.
London, July 30. --The first official
announcement respecting the battleship
Dreadnought is contained in a White
book which was issued to -night. Besides
the ten twelve -inch guns announced, the
Dreadnought will have twenty-seven
twelve -pound quick firing anti torpedo
tubes. In the arrangement ofarma-
ment six of the big guns are mounted in
pairs on the centre line of the ship and
the remainder are mounted in pairs as
broadsides. .
Thus eight twelve-ineh guns or 80 per
cent. of the plain armament, can be fired
on either broadside, and four and pos-
sibly six twelve -inch guns, or 60 per
cent., can be fired simultaneously ahead
or astern. In view of the modern po-
tentialities of torpedo boats and consid-
ering especially the chance of a torpedo
attack toward the end of a battle, the
anti -torpedo boat guns are widely spe-
arated, so that the whole of them can-
not be disabled by one heavy shell. Spe-
cial attention has been paid to protec-
tion from submarine explosions.,
After thorough consideration from
every -point of view, the White Book
states, experts had no difficulty in arriv-
ing at a decision to adopt turbines,
which are considered more advantageous
for seagoing speed, providing sufficient
stopping and turning power and for pur-
poses of quick and easy manoeuvring.
The speed is designed to be twenty-one
knots. The bunker capacity is 2,700
tons. with whieh the Dreadnought can
steam 5.800 sea miles at economical
speed and 3,500 miles at eighteen and
and a half knots. The estimated cost
of the Dreadnought, including guns, is
$8,987,485.
SHIELDS SLAYER.
GIRL CONFESSES TO MURDER COM-
MITTED BY RIVAL OF VICTIM.
Many Versions of Deed—Tells so Many
Stories That Police Have Found It
Impossible to Make an Arrest.
Pottsville, Pa., July 30,—On the morn-
ing of July 5 James Frizzell was found
dead in a lonely spot near town with a
bullet wound in his head. It was known
that he had gone for a walk the night
before with Emmen .Stophany. When the
police approached the girl she prompt -
1y adniatte& killing : Frizzell, giving as
au excuse that he had Insulted her. She
said she had thrown the pistol
fence into some weeds
Yesterday attorneys for ldiss
any sought her release under
corpus proceedings.
From the evidence elicited
hearing the detectives and lawy
gaged in the case are pow full,
vinced that the girl's story th
killed Friziell, is false.
It was learned that she has pri
confessed that another pian, a xi
Frizzell, comimtted the deed.
"But I must shield him or be nv
marry me;" she is reported to haw
It is said that this man came alo
road where Frizzell and Miss Ste
were walking, and in a fit of je
shot Frizzzell.
The girl has toll so many storie
it is impossible to make an air
her evidence. The chief of po
court to -day swore the revolver t
said she had thrown away could
found. Chief Davies intercepted
ter from the girl to her mother in
the mother was urged to ,get a
ver and give it to the officers a
them it was the weapon with
Emma. killed Frizzell.
METHODISM IN JA
INDEPENDENT CHURCH T
ESTABLISHED IN MAY
Canadian and American Missio
Cease to Exist on the First Day of
That Month—Initial General Con-
ference to Meet at Tokio.
Toronto, July 30.-0n and after May
1, 1907, there will cease to be any Meth-
odist mission in Japan, dor on that date
the first General Conference of the ''Nip-
pon Methodist Kyokwei" (the Methodist
Church of Japan), will meet in the city
of Tokio. Delegates will be elected at
the next session of the annual Confer -
canes, and commissioners representing
the three •uniting Churches—the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, the Methodist
tpiseopai Church (south), and the Meth-
odist Church of Canada, will be present
at this first General Conference to assist
by counsel and consultation in the or-
ganization of the new Church.
Rev. Dr. Alexander Sutherland, Gen-
era) Missionary Secretary of the Cana-
dian Methodist Charlie, who has return-
ed from the meeting in. Buffalo last week
of representatives of the three iChurehes
in a joint commission, reports that the
union of Methodism In Japan is bound to
be fraught with far-reaching importance,
and means much for the triumph of
Christianity in the Land of the Rising
Sun. Articles ,of union have been unani-
mously adopted, and provision has been
made for organization.This action was
first authorized by the General Confer-
enees ` of the Churches of the United
Staatea and Canada, and was in response
to the practically unanimous ;conviction
of the pastors and aneznbers of the
churoheat. In Japan, as well as the earnest
desire of the foreign missionaries work-
ing among them.
The articles of religion adopted num-
ber eighteen. In the introduction to
them it is stated that "the Nippon Meth-
odist Kyokwai shall be permanently
founded on the fundamental doctrines of
Holy Scripture as unfolded by Christ
and His apostles, formally stated. in the
articles of religion embodied in this plan
of organization, and expounded in Mr.
Weley's notes on the New Testament
and the first fifty-two sermons pub -
Hailed by him during his life -time."
The Nippon Methodist Kyokwai will
have an initial membership of about 11,-
650, with more than a hundred native
ministers. The Churches in the United
States and Canada, while no longer hav-
ing "missions" in Japan, evil, however,
still continue their active support of the
work there by co-operating with the
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Sophia Speranski, charged with the
manufacture of explosives for revolu-
tionary purposes, came to a conclusion
,festerday. Alexander was sentenced to
five years' imprisonment, and Victor and
the woman were acquitted.
Alexander is the man who, on May
3rd was seriously wounded by the
explosion of a bomb • in the Forest of
Vincennes, near Paris. He was in the
company of a man named Benjamin
Katz, known at that time as Striga,
who was carrying the bomb that explod-
ed, and was killed by the explosion. Vic-
tor Sokoleff and Sophia Speranski were
arrested later.
ESSENCE OF RED TAPE.
Frenchwoman Threatened With Fine for
Taking Sea Water.
Boulogne, July 30.—A woman who
took two buckets of water from the
sea to bathe a child in accordanee
with the doctor's orders was aston-
ished to receive an official warning
from the Customs' officer threatening
to fine her for a breach of the
law. It has been discovered that there
is an =repealed law of Louis XIV.
forbidding the taking of sea wet er, lest
those taking it extract the salt and thus
defraud the revenue of the salt tax.
The woman was obliged to submit, but
she has written a declaration of the pur-
pose for which the water was obtained
in order to secure aix official permit to
use the sea water.
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KILLED BY JUROR.
FORMER CONVICT HAD THREAT-
ENED VENGEANCE ON HIM.
Shot ,Dead During Fight—Released Pris-
oner Opened Fire With Revolver,
Which Was Returned With Fatal
Results.
New Orleans, La., July 30.— Bass
Barefield, former convict, was shot dead.
at New Boston, Texas, to -day, by Louis
Odom, one of the jurors who sent him
to the penitentiary twelve years ago.
Barefield killed Dr. Robert Lee, a,
prominent young physician of the town.
He was himself a man of influence and
a desperate attempt was made to save
his life.
Odom, who was on the jury, voted to
hang him and held out on that verdict
against the eleven other jurors, but
finally compromised on a verdict of
twenty years at hard labor in the peni-
tentiary, a much longer term than the
other jurors wanted to give the pris-
oner.
Barefield went to jail threatening
vengeance against the obstinate juror.
He did not remain in prison the twenty
years for which he was sentenced, but
got out on a pardon. He began at once
to persecute Odom. and yesterday,
meeting him, opened fire on him, to
which Odom replied, sending two bul-
lets into the former convict's head.
A BIGAMIST'S CONFESSION.
Walker Butterworth, Who Married Mrs.
Rogers, of Orillia, Pleads Guilty.
Orillia despatch: In the Police Court
to -day Waller Butterworth, an English-
man who has lived here about a year,
was charged with bigamy. In May he
was married to Mrs. Ada Rogers, a local
clergyman officiating. Butterworth
claimed to be a widower, but said he had
two children living in England, but that
he expected some money to be forward-
ed him from there. Funds ran low, and
when a letter came on Monday his wife
opened it and was astonished to learn
from it that Butterworth hada wife
living in England and that she refused
to send any money.
Wife No. 2 at once laid an information
and Butterworth was taken into cus-
tody. A second letter followed, telling
of the death of his eldest daughter, and
the news so unnerved the prisoner that
he acknowledged his guilt and asked the
Magistrate to deal leniently with him.
He will come up for sentence on. Wednes-
day afternoon.
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PUNISH THE PULAJANES.
Ladrone Chief and Forty-eight Men Have
Surrendered.
Manila, July 30.—Governor Lie has
requested military aid to punish the
Pulajanes in the Province of Leyete. A
battalion each of the 4th and 8th In-
fantry have been sent to the assistance
of the constabulary.
The Ladrone chief and 48 men on the
Island of Cebu have surrendered, and
Governor Osmanli, reports that there are
no more outlaw bands there, and that
the island is completely pacified.
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NO MINISTER FOR WALES.
British Government Withdraws Section
of Education Bill.
London, July 30.—While the House of
Commons was considering, the Educa-
tion. Bill in the report stage Mr. Birreli,
President of the Board. of Education, an.
nounced the withdrawal of the proposi-
tion to set a self-governing odueatt e
department in Wales, with a new Minis•
ter as the political head of the depart
ment and responsible to Parliament,