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The Herald, 1907-09-27, Page 8DOCTOR KILLED BY A PATIENT. SHOT DEAD BY MAN, WHO THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE. the Mormons was -praised by the Com- mittee on Resolutions,, and the Federal Government to will px preve entd to do its the spread of polygamy. Indecent postcards were also strongly condemned. The sacredness of the marriage law was .urged upon the men and women of the country, The session concluded with numerous appointments of superintendentsin vsir- ious departments. Revolver Tragedy—A Young Wife's Ter- rible Discovery --A Strange Letter— The Slap on the Tinea. London, Sept. 23.—Dr. Walter Clap- ham Hirst, a young medical man, who recently commenced practice in yyest- fieldterraee, in the Chapeltown district of Leeds, and who was married only two months ago, was shot dead at his sur- gery door early on Saturday morning by one of his patients, a retired sewing ma- ohine shop manager, named John Wil- liam Harrison, living in Valley terrace, Sherwell lane, who immediately after - ' f e wards committed suicide by b]ewing out his brains. For a week Dr. Hirst had beenin at- tendance on Harrison, who sufferew INDIAN LOY Remarkable Manifesto by Native Noble - Man. London, Sept. 23.—The following ap- peal, widely signed by the most influen- tial noblemen and gentlemen of Bengal, has been issued to their fellow -country- men: It has been a matter of deep concern to us to observe the growing discontent of the people of this country, which has lately manifested itself in certain quar- ters in violent speeehes and newspaper articles. We desire at once to dissociate ourselves from these demonstrations, which only tend to alienate the govern- ment and the people from each other. We venture to assert that the bulk of the people of the country are loyal and law-abiding. We now appeal to our THE CONDUCTOR AND ENGINEER OF CALEDON TRAIN WERE ARREST- ED FOR CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. fixed delusions,among which latterly ! countrymen, Hin•doos and ittahommedans, 'various fixedfor a display of the practical good sense was the belief that the doctor ha seriously injured him by striking him on which color of our critics deny to us. We appeal to them to discountenance any wild and misehievous,,,propaganda which d The Horseshoe Curve Wreck --Hodge and Grimes Were Guilty of Criminal Negligence, and C. P. R. Were 'to Blame for Employing Incompetent Men, the knees. At 6.10 on Saturday morning Harmon went to Dr. Hirst's surgery ?oldoor, the and af- doctor ter ringing the bel through the speaking tube that he was suffering terribly from pains in the legs and wanted to see him at once. Dr. Hirst answered the call in person, and as soon as he opened the door Harri- son fired two revolver shots point blank at his heart, killing him on the spot, and thethenmurderer aended his the vown life vuither in his ha single shot. Mrs. Hirst, upstairs in her bedroom, beard Dr. Hirst open the door, and Har- rison say: "You are Dr. Hirst?" Then came the sound of three revolver elicits, and, run - zing' downstairs Mrs. Hirst #ound her husband bleeding from wounds in the °hest, while the body of his murderer law huddled on the doorstep of the sur- gery. By telephone she summoned the pollee, but both men were dead. Bow deep-rooted Harrisours imaginary grievance against the doctor was may be which a frinend recein from ved frome lmHaar'risonng ron Thurs- day: suffer - lag terrific an�all hear rrough, iend. I am calling in that doctor who struck me on both my knees, which, if you will 'inquire, brings on terrrific epileptic fits. It was murder to me. He has killed me. 1 was ell right before, het new I am lost. The Heins and fits are terrcific. 1 erhall not be . able to pro§edute, lease make this public property regard- Dr. Hirst, of Chapeltown. He has killed me wilfully, and deserves Punish- i ?neat. He deliberately struck me on both my knee caps laet Monday, and I confronted him with it before my sister, Mrs. Bunting, and he did not deny it, Farewell.—J. W. Harrison. This delusion evidently took posses- sion of Harrisen's mind, for he spoke of it to his sister and to a number of other people with whom lie was familiar, al- ways declaring that the doctoi`had "kill- ed him." Interviewed on Saturday, Harrison's easter stated that arrangements bad been pads to remove Harrison to an asylum , that day, and she taought he must have got to know thin and that Dr. Hirst had ordered his reg • •ival. jar. Hirst, v ho was the son of 1 ir. Dixon Hirst, r f Ross Arden,. Roundhay, Leeds, was only 28 years of age. About two months ago he married Miss 0 �royd, daughter of a Leeds manufaetu and they had returned from their lion moon little more than a fortnight a - At the inquest a verdict of murder suicide during insanity was returned, jury adding a rider to the effect t it was a matter o regret that Harris friend° had not taken more care of h "The murderer's complaint that Hirst `struck him on the knees,' tells own tale to a medical man," said. West End specialist in an interview. "One of the methods employed in d nosing general paralysis of the ins is to: ask the patient. to balance one across the other. A slight blow with side of the open hand near the top of u r kneecap gives a certain reflex on, or 'knee jerk,' as a mesult. '.Phi pierely involuntary on the part of patient, but medical men can draw valussble deductions." tends to encourage disaffection to Bri- tish rule, or to create feelings of ani- mosity between different classes and com- munities in India; for it is this tendency which furniebes the occasion and the ex- cuse for the repressive measures which have recently been resorted to. Nor must we forget that, whatever may be its shortcomings, it is to British rule that we owe our present security of life and property, the spread of education and the progress which India is now mak- ing according to modern eivilized ideals. This is emphatically the worst possible time to encourage unworthy sentiments of rancour and ill -feeling. No true pat- riot will hesitate to range himself, with us, on the side of law and order at the present juncture, so as, on the one hand to restore the good will and harmony which formerly prevailed among all clas- ses and communities in India, and, on the other hand, to leave the authorities no ground for bringing eoereicn to bear upon any group of British subjects. MONTREALWO— M N DRUGGED. Attacked by Two Men in Her Home at an Early Hour of Morning. be travelling at 67 miles an hour when' it came to the crossing where it was derailed. If the engine "sailed off" as had been deseribed, that would inaieate that the train was driven off the track by' the centrifugal force created by the seed. Question—What would you con- sider a safe mate of °peed at the Horse- shoe? Witness—It would be ,perfectly safe at thirty miles, but it would not be safe at fifty. Arthur Smith, C. P. R. superintendent, recalled, produced a bulletin issued to en- gineers and conductors on May 9, 1904, setting forth that "trains will not ex- ceed a speed of 25 miles an hour down the Caledon Mountain grade." That, he said, was a rule which it was intended should be obeyed. The Coroner—What latitude is an en- gineer.allowed with regard to the speed'? 'Witness—Safety is the first considera- tion. Mr. Robinette—But you expect him t keep up to time. r 'Witness—Not necessarily„ James C. Royce, the engineer who made an examination of the track on behalf of the Attorney -General's Depart- ment, recalled, produced a report which he had prepared, and in which lee ex- pressed the opinion that the cause of the derailment was excessive seed. He p been calculated that the train must have e !running at from 55 to 68 mike an hour when the accident occurred. Replying to Mr. Robinette, witness admitted that the regulation of speed was a matter of judgment. Q.—The whole thing comes down to a mistake in judgment on the part of the engineer? A.—Things point that way. George Hodge, the engineer of the wrecked train, recalled, repeated his evi- dence as to what he did to control the train going down grade. He did nothing different on that occasion from what he had done on previous occasions when .driving freight over the same track. When he examined his engine at Orange- ville he found the brake shoes in good order, but after the wreck he observed that one was missing from one of the driving wheels. Questioned by Mr. McFadden as to why he had said nothing before about a missing brake shoe, witness explained that he had intended doing so when pre- viously examined, but "someone spoke up" and he did not get a chance. He head no recollection of having seen the bulletin restricting the speed on the Caledon Mountain grade to 25 miles an hour. The coroner. in summing up, said the evidence showed that there was nothing wrong with either the roadbed or the rolling sack, and the question narrowed itself down to one of speed. He confess- ed he was not impressed with the engin- eer's evidence tbet he was travelling at .the rate of only 25 miles. In view of the verdict given Crown. Attorney 1l�IcFadden asked for warrants for the aarest el;Engiueer:.Hodge and. Conductor: Grimes, 'and these were im- mediately granted by the coroner. The warrants were at once priced in the hands of the police authoritiee. Both Haden and Grimes are residents of Toronto Junction. CHINESE EMIGRATING. Toronto despatch: Following upon the verdict of the Coroner's jury at the in- quest concerning the death of Richard Bell, one of the victims of the Caledon railway disaster, warrants were issued last night for the arrest of George. Hodge and Matthew Grimes, the engin- eer and conductor respectively of the Canadian Pacific train which was wreck- ed. The jury's verdict, which was returned after nearly two hours' deliberation, was as follows: "The said.Richard Bell oauie by hie death from injuries received in the railway wreck which occurred on the 3rd day of September, 1907, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, at a point known as the Horseshoe Curve, situ•�t.d in the township of Caledon and the county of Peel, in the Province of One tario, the said railway wreck being caus- ed by the' excessive and dangerous rate of speed et which the train on. which the said Richard Bell was a passenger was being run by the engineer, George Hodge, and the conductor, alai thew Grimes,: who were in charge of the said train; and we find that the said rail- way wreck was caused by the ern/anal negligence of the said George Hodge and Matthew Grimes; and, further, it is our opinion that the C. P. R. are to blame for putting iueompetent and in- experienced men in charge of a passenger train running on such a difficult piece of road." • Montreal, Sept. 23. -•--,Bound, gagged and lying u neonsciow( in a woodshed beside her home, the neighbors at 8 eeloek this morning found Mrs. Ar- Briere, of, 66 }�eiVer Lachine Road, Verdun. Aceordaiig to the information she has been able to give, she was arous- ed at 5 o'clock in the morning by some- one knocking. Believing that her hus- band had returned, she opened the door. Two men confronted her. In the hasty glance she got she perceived that both were attired in dark clothes, but before she could further observe' them, one grabbed her by the arm and the other quickly gagged her with a, handkerchief soaked in chloroform. She, essayed to free Herself, but under the influence of the drug quickly lost the powerr to struggle, and shortly became uncon- scious. It is stated that the intention of the two men was to kidnap Mrs. Briere. a0® LIQUIDATING YOE1 LOAN. MOTOR -OMNIBUSES DO NOT PAY. CRISIS NOW REACHED IN THE LON- DON TRAFFIC FIGHT, Directors Explain — Horse Omnibuses Wilt Never Be Eliminated—Costs Too - Much to Run the Motors—Too Many Electric Trams. A New Theory. ,• When thea inquest was resumed before Coroner Johnsen last night Mr. Robing ette, counsel. for Hodge, the engineer, raised a new point by suggesting that the wreck might have been caused by a brake shoe, falling on the track and derailing the. engine. Croton Attorney McFadden Conducted the examination of witnesses, and air. aleMurchy looked, after the ' interests of the C. P. B. Mr. A. ' P. Walker, civil engineer, in the employ. of the 0. P. R. said he examined the track after the accident and found the gauge rough, but very goad. He regarded the track as in very good condition, and the elevation of the upper rail;, sufficient. If the train took fifteen seconds to . travel 1,230 feet, then he calculated that it must have been travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, but he had not figured out the speed on the evidence already given. Cross-examined by Mr. Robinette, wit- ness admitted that a large stone or piece of wood at the farmers' crossing` would cause •the engine to leave the tracks. Replying to Mr. Maturohy, he said he saw so signs of any obstructio'ri. If that had been the cause of the mei - dent he should have expected to find the ties cut, the track torn up and the rails badly bent. 'Replying to the Coroner, witness thought that the curve was safe for a train travelling 45 miles an hour. Robert Preston, master mechanic with the 0. P. R., said that Hodge, the en- gineer, had passed an examination on the locomotive and on the train route. Witness regarded him as thoroughly qualified. He had frequently driven. freights over the same section and had handled one passenger train on the. Havelock section. On the night he took charge of the train he was the senior engineer available at Toronto Junetien. Was a Brake Shoe Missing? W. Brown, a C. P. R. fitter, spoke of having taken off two brake shoes after the wreck, Another fitter took off two, and two were left on the engine. He found nothing wrong with the running gear. Robert lii'aDowel, the other fitter, who was with the previous witness, said he took of one brake shoe and possibly two. He saw nothing that could have dropped. Legal Proceedings Likely to Drag for Several Months. esterda , in urg- e of t- 15 London, Sept. 23.—The motor -omni- bus does not pay, and is not likely to do - so for some time to come, said Mr. Hen- ry Hicks, deputy chairman of the Lon- don General Omnibus Company, at Thursday's meeting. The question was one of several raised by shareholders• after the explanation of the loss on the - half -year's working given by Sir John. Pound, the chairman. His statement included the loss: High price of provender. Higher price of petrol Police • stringency as xegards omnibuses. New tubes. Over development of the London County Couneil tramways. Competition of motor -omnibuses and cut in fares. Sic John stated, however, that the di- rectors were in conference with the rail- way and omnibus companies to readjust facilities and enable them to work at a profit. Omnibus miles had been reduced from 10,600,000 to 15,,900,000. Reduction in fares meant a drop of £10,600, or, in two years, £87,000. A loss of £20,700 was clue to the smallest number of pas- sengers per omnibus mile. What were the prospects, he asked, of the density of traffic improving? Pub- lic service vehicles were more numerot}s than could now be profitably employed. The most glaring instance was probably the,? of the L. C. C. electric trams. At eertain .points a procession of hese hugs "traffic congesters" almost touched one another, carrying only a fair load for a quarter of the number. It seemed to him a matter of calculation with regard to certain motor -omnibus companies now running at a loss how long their finan- cial arrangements would permit their continuing as going concerns. Some horse -omnibus companies and proprietors had already withdrawn their motors. The total net liability of the oompany, £1,381,000, was more than covered by the assets, consisting of properties, stock-in-trade,"and plant, and in addition they had cash and investments (taken at cost) of over (200.000. Mr. H. G Webb complained that the accounts of the horse and of' the motor - omnibuses were amalgamated. Were they going to stand by horses ;or motors, or to amalgamate the two? ' Mr. Hicks said there was as yet ue chance of obtaining an improved type of. motor. He did not believe that motor- omnibuses had been run in London at profit at all. Although he did not thin.N horse -omnibuses would ever be eliminat- ed from the streets of London, yet leo thought that it might be possible to make motor -omnibuses pay. et s - GOVERNMENT IS INVOLVED. a 9 0 re 11, e- gs W. C. T. U. CONVENTION. as causes of motor• e- 11 it ed to ve Results of the Elections—War on Cigarettes—Prison Inspection. Winnipeg,' Sept. 23.—Mrs. Wright re-elected 'resident of the Dominion '0.,T. V. and: Mrs. James Chisholm President. The convention this morning disc ed the anti -cigarette campaign, an motion was passed that the loon President, Ottawa ladies and of form part of a deputation to the boa ion House, and be allowed to secure 1egal talent. ? • M. Asa ttordon moved the novels re- solution that thousands of blotters be printed and distributed to he children, Stetting forth the evils of the habit. The report of Mrs. S. A, Jones, 'Que- bec, on work in prisons and jails, was dull of excellent suggestions. Women ebould be taught sewing and laundry work, while in prison, and a percent- age of their earnings should go to thein on their release. The Government should 'be asked to appoint a woman inspector of prisons where women are soafined. Police matrons should be in every city, end a Federal law should be passed} ad. tre?ting of juvenile courts. e renal work of the 1t. N. 'GiT•a1I, ck 28, er, of °5e he be - ow gas on - against. tractor. ea in, MALE STUDENTS :ARE FEW. Ladies Largely , in the Majority in Normal Schools. Many Who Have Money Saved Leaping Vancouver. the Vancouver, B, C., Sept. 23.— Many Chinese having money saved are pre- paring to return to China on the steam- er Monteagle in a few days. Many have already shipped their wives and children to New Westminster. After the notor- ious riot local firms put private watch- men over their warehouses adjacentt the Chinese district as a guard against fire. This impressed the Orientals. Ninety-seven Chinese eut of the 493 who arrived on the Empress of Japan this morning paid'the head tax of $500. One hundred and sixty-one go to the United States and the remainder to Jamaica and Havana. The Empress was quarantined at ATaggasaki on account of the cholera scare at Shanghai. A curious phase of the Oriental ques- tion has emerged in connection with the public schools. Young Chinese came here and pay $500 to gain entrance. Students , are exempt. If a Chinese at- tends school one year his $500 is return- ed. He attends. --- 4 a / FOUND A WILD WOMAN. Conductor at a Loss. Arthur Smith, C. P. R. superintendent of the section on which the wreck °cour- red, said lie asked the conductor of the train whether he could account for the accident, and he replied that he could not, explaining ,that at the time it oc- curred he was busy examining tickets. Witness made an examination when he arrived at the station, and found the rolling stock and bed in good shape. Question If the bed and rolling stock were in such perfect eondition, can you ;account for the wreck? Witness—In. this case I should say it was excessive speed. ' Major Sall, ear foreman at Tomato Junction, deposed that the train when it left the junction on the night of Sept. 2nd was in perfectly good condition. Ho could not speak forthe cars taken on at Orangeville. J. W. Kelly, divisional car foreman, arolsolling spokestock. of the good condition of the - Anton Hertzberg, engineer of mainten- ance of way, formerly divisional engi- neer for the section on which the wreck took place, stated that a change was made iti the elevation of the rails at the Horseshoe in 1904. The elevation ante re - amid from 0' ;to 4% inehes. The ob- jects of the reduetioii_were to make it more, comfortable for the travelling pub- lic and to decrease t'he cost of musinten- ance.' The change was made on the aa - vice of Chief Engineer ; MCHendry. Another Speed Estimate, If the train was running at d own thirtymiles an hour when it starts u._�...e ie would, Toronto despatch: Among the stn- ents of the Provincial Normal schools, which opened yesterday, there is a com- perative small representation of ' mem- bers of the male sex. At the Toronto school there are 180 ladies and only five men; at London 150 fmo,le students and 15 males; at Ottawa 115 women and l7 men. The opening of the schools was de- layyed in view of certain a teratioes o Cobalt Lecke Company Will Not Be Pro- tected. Toronto despatch: Yesterday at the Non -Jury Aesizes Me. justices. Riddell granted the postponement of the trial of the notion of the Florence Mining Company against the Cobalt Lake Min - The Strange • Experience of Harvard Professor. ing Company until the Ontario act had been tested and the title of tin iatt e in the mining rights of the lake had bean settled. In .support of the applteetion for the postponement the affidavit of Mr. Simon Sinclair, Viee-President of the Florence Mining Company, was handed in, stating that recently an order in Council had been passed directing the Ontario Government to show cause why the Ontario act should not be disallowed according to the petition of the Florence Mining Company. Mr. Osier,sked foon r an f of ordet Cobalt prof protect, Company, any mining operations carried on while the Case was pauding, but the application was refused, so that, any future work, done until the case is ,settled will bo at the company's own risk. The Ontario Government are really the defendants in the action, as the ease turns on the question 'whether the Government had the right to sell the mining rights in the lake to the Cobalt Lake Company, for which $1,085,000 was paid. Should the Florence Mining Company win their na- tion the Government would probably have to pay back the purchase money, but the company would still be out the amount they spent in development. Ottawa, Sept. 23.—Prof.. Macauley, of Harvard, who has come here after hav- ing spent a few weeks in the country surrounding Blue Sea Lake and Mani - wales, up the Gatineau River, not many miles from Ottawa, on the Quebec, side, brings a strange story of a woman roam- ing wild in the forests of that dis- trict. Prof. Macaulay says that while hunt- ing in the woods a rush and scurry in tie undergrowth caused him to quickly turn, and to his surprise the face of a woman, tanned to a dark brown by ex- posure and framed by masses of dark, coarse hair, peered at him from the shadows. The hunter quietly approach- ed her, but before he could speak she turned and fled. 4. ENGLISH AND DISCHARGED. Englishmen Say That Nationality Pre- judices Them in Captain's Eyes. St. Catharines despatch: The steamer Advance was held up in Welland Canal at Thorold to -day by High Constable Boyle, who compelled Purser MacFar- land to return to the city to show cause why four English sailors, discharged without seven days' pay, should not be settled with, The geese was heard by Police Magistrate Comfort, and the men told a story of seven days' wretchedness filflicted upon them by Capt. Doust, who finally discharged them because SUICIDES FOR SAP GIRL: American 'Unable to Wed Because of Her• High Rank. New York, Sept. 23.—For love of a Japanese girl of rank whom lie never could hope to marry, IL Isaac Scull, a young buyer of Oriental goods, dra{ eyaniale of potassium to -day as he stood before a picture of the girl in his room in the Park Avenue Hotel. So quickly did the drug do its work tlhwt he dropped backward, Milled instant - Pelson in Scull's desk showed that liis home was in I3ula, Pa, He was an expert judge of Oriontal goods and mads frequent trips to the east, where a few months ago he met the Japanese girl on whose account he is supposed to have, killed himself;. It wassaid that the young women be- longed to a noble family of 01d Nippon. Religiousand racial differences stood as a bar between . the couplc.. taken. were English. When evidence was en' Mack"arlend settled with the men:, paid ]vScull was a o e Befriend ,moody late - the costs and the boat proceeded, ,. > g __ _ .