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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1907-10-04, Page 2ADAM. LODWICK cupiett for some hours in turning away people ashes had conte to deliver the "or- FOUND golds, Iii myna cases it was EDD DINSANE eagle noise uffictutl' that the people who a 11`i! rsllacx en him were itulttced to regard the affair as et joke, but on being satisfied ONG DAGUIiTER GIVES EVI- that it was tic, they 'contented. them- selves with remaining in the vicinity in ns ENCE IN WHITBY COURT. o • td r to Fed' others come up and be fool- ed, and irniden ally enjoy the humor at- ZSbould Have Been Under Restraint Some taeheng to the situation. Time Ago—las Murdered Wife Al:bey street at this particular spot Ob- soon beeasue iaupa5sable with wagons, jested to Parting 117°111 Ber Bus- carte, drays and barrows, while hundreds j band. of people•-. the news having been quickly spread—came in from all directions to joie in what apparently to them was a solute of great fun. There were many particularly amusing incidents, notably ono occasioned by the arrival of a porter from Billiugsgate market' He pulled up as near the house as the congested state of the road would allow with a hand- barrow containing three bushels of winkles. Having stated that he had come to deliver these winkles as ordered, the victim implored him to go away, saying "It's all a hoax." With embellishments' such as only Billingsgate porters are pro- verbially said to be gifted with, he re- plied, "It ain't ----- oats X vo got to de- liver; its winkles." After some argu- ment the truth of the situation was borne in upon him, and the merrimont occasioned by his arrival 'and argument was added to when .by some means or other his barrow was tilted over and the winkles were scattered about the roadway. A. Whitby, Ont., despatch: A verdict that Adam l,odwice: killed his wife, but was insane when the deed 'Maas committed, and true bilis returned by the grand jury against J. le. Cook, •ganductor, and I1ugh Kyle, engineer, C. p. R. employees, for manslaughter, were the events of interest at to -day's sittings of the assizes. When court opened this morning, the grand jury returned a true bill against Lodwick for the killing of his wife at 'V•uallentyne, on the morning of July 20th lest.The prisoner, a dejected, care- worn melane`holic, when placed in the dock was the picture of despair. . lie is 45 years of age, and had been married 10 years, caul has five children. The story of the finding of hera - mur- dered mother was told by wick, the eldest daughter. The mother :lay, dressed., upon, her bed., a. tiny in - lent, a few weeks old, on her arm, Nand her head blown to on the fragments and splashed over the bed. aaridu P crying baby. 'The father was found in the kitchen, and a double-barreled shot- gun lay on the table. The day pre- vious to the tragedy the mother, for the first time, had felt and expressed feaacting ct husband,ngofher strangelyhad been for months.The child said her father had bend hurthad by afalling limb last January, act- ed queerly since that time. Dr. Blanchard said he treated Led - ' wick for nervousness in190a, again in 1906. He had recovered. In The Hurons. it was also stated, is re- Maroh of this year the doctor found Lod- turning toor Quebec. so Furthera, is ru- wicl: a lantitus wreck, and suffering lags have as yet, not been received, but #rem Several other dia. it is believed that the collision occurred Several witnesset added de- some tines on Sunday, in the Straits of tails to the story of the tragedy. For ells Isle, - the defence, Mr. Robinette called re- Belle Mongolian, which was under latices to showLodwick's changed de -command of Captain Gavesbell, sailed meanar during recent months. Morose- . from Montreal last Thursday, for Liver- pool. with 150 passengers, including a number from Toronto, and a general cargo. The Mongolian was reported from Father. Point on Friday evening, and it is believed that when the accident oc- curred she must have been passing through the Straits of Belle Isle. Mr. Andrew .Allan stated to -night that eceoneiil,g to reports eereived, heavy fogs j3le. isle Straits, collision occurred -a fog, :41r.,Allan left for Quebeo to -night to await the arrival of the Mon- golian; whieh is ezpedted to reach there tomorrow. Chf`' MMISSIONER. MAY GO 10 JAPAN, GOVERNMENT AN FOR SETTLING OCEAN LINERS COLLIDE. Passenger Steamer Mongolian Injured. Montreal, Sept. 30.—Messrs. H. and A. Allan received a telegram from Fame Point this evening. stating that their steamship Mongolian had sig- nalled this afternoon that elm had been in collision with the freight ship Iluronia., of the Tham+pson Line, and had been so seriously injured that she was compelled to return at slow eed to Quebec with her 150 passengers. • IM1VIIGRA' Islid DIFFICULTY. Ottawa, Sept, 30,—The Government have under oonSIdeeation.the question of sending to the Orient a special com- au.ssianerto ie veetigit'te and report upon the whole problem of Asiatic im- :uigralion into Canada, and also to urge personally at 'Tokio Canada's re - Badly quest that an; annual limit of about aux hundred. be placed by the Mikado's Government upuir the number of pass- ports issued to inunigrants bound for this country. It is felt that the Can- adian viewpoint in regard to Japanese immigration can be more' effectively brought before the attention of the Ja- panese Government by direct presenta- tion of the case in personal 'interviews with the ivlinisters at Toldo than by the formal exchange of correspondence. .stir. Ishii, the Japanese envoy, who was recently in Ottawa, will of course re- port to lois Government, but a strong Canadian representation to impress upon the members of the Government at Tokio the representations made to 111r. Ishii by 'the Canadian Ministers will undoubtedly have great influence toward bringing about the arrangement desired by Canada. The Government also realize that the problem. of Oriental immi"ration is bound to become an in- creasingly important one, as Canada's advantages and opportunities become known in Japan, China and India. To deal with it . will require a thorough knowledge of the character of the Asia- tic people, their adaptability for assim- ilation with the -population en this side of the Pacific, the conditions tending to direct the overflow of the population of Asia to this eoutinent and the best means of checking and controlling that immigration. The economic aspects of the problem must also be studied at first hand, The responsibility of the commissioner to be charged with this task is evidently very great, and his mission will remi:re a thorough states- manship and . fie e diplomacy. Just who will be sent i- !1st definitely decided, but, according*, the present views of the Ministers ,gee, no time will be lost in appointing cud sending a commission- er, The C overs punt are thus preparing to solve in a sta:ermanlike and adequate manner one of the most difficult and complex questions now confronting them. the last three months three of the small- er monkeys nave died of the disease. In captivity they semi particularly sus- ceptible to at, and it was the aim of the two experts to study the causes and remedy the conditions, In five years tuberculosis has cost the Zoological So- ciety many rare specimens. Though the two scientists realized the danger of working among theiinfeeted monkeys, they believed they could avoid infection by care . Together with his work of curator of reptiles and mammals at the park, Mr, Ditmars has been at work on a new reptile book. His last book on the subject is just off the press. In his enthusiasm he con- fined himself too obesely, weakening his health and giving the disease a chance to gain a hold. KITCHEN MAID WINS teeo,000. nets instead of cheerfulness, silence and, lethargy instead of activity, fear of death or an insane asylum, these were the symptoms. Four medical ex- perts, Dr. P. Warren, Whitby; Dr, Bruce Smith, of Pefferlaw, Inspeotor of Prisons; Dr. Beemer, Superintendent of Mimieo Asylum, were put in the box: To Mr. Robinette .they agreed that when firs= examined by them rn gin yrs insane, -and neer 1riget Both defence sand Crown. waived ad- dresses to the jury, and his Lordship chard d, aslring the jury to find, first, Was Lodlciek on ,7uly 20th? Sec- ond, Is he insane to -day? In forty- five minutes their reply was an a.f. firntative. The prisoner will be kept in jail here till the Attorney -General places him in an asylum. The grand fury struggled all day with the charges against Cooke and Kyle, members of the train crew charred with causing the fatal wreck at Myrtle, and this evening found true bills. They have yet before there's another indictment. that against J. W. Manson, train despatches at Toronto. 'WEDDING DAY DAX. GODLD MURDER. BLAMES HIS WIFE FOR MME. LEVIWS DEATH. Reconstruction of Trunk Murder — Dra- matic Scene --Infuriated Mob Hoots.. the Prisoners. London, Sept. 30. --"Sir Vere" and Mrs. Goold have been taken froth Marseilles to Monte Carlo to stand Wel for the murder of Mzne. Levin, their wealthy neighbor, whose body, it will be recalled, was dismembered and carried to Max eeii.lee in the acousecl's baggage.. On Wednesday 'the Goolda were driven in closed landaus to the villa in which the terrible crime was perpetrated, for the reconstruction of the murder. The woman's grizzly hair was bare, Invests Dollar in an Irish Church Lot- tery and Gets Big Estate. Wenham, Mass., Sept. 30.—After in- vesting. $l for a lottery ticket to aid a church bazaar in Ireland, Miss Nellie .Mitchell, an Irish servant girl, reeeived notice to -day that she won the first prize, an estate value at $20,000. The girl was at her kitchen duties at the country residence of the Misses Pin - gree when she received the news. 'She burst into tears and then laughed. "Af- ter I have given to charity for many years,,' she said, "God has reu"•tarded me." The property was donated to eau rch in Roscommon, Ireland, by a -wealthy land owner, and is known as the Knoek- meane estate. Thousands of tickets for the lottery were sold in this country. Miss Mitchell is said to be the first per- son around Boston to receive a capital prize from such church drawings. She bas been in America teny ars. HAIL WORKS IIAVOC, CAPTAIN'S LIFE SAVED. pt. Frank Bertrand, of Steamer Nim - ick, Left Behind. Buffalo despatch: In suspending his license for 30 days, the local inspectors at Buffalo probably eased. the life of Capt. Frank Bertrand of the lost steamer Alex- ander Mimick. But for the enforced idle- ness during his suspension, Capt. Ber- trand would have been in command of his steamer when she was wrecked Sat- urdaay night in place of Capt. John Ran- dall, who lost his life, The; Mimiek left Buffalo on Sept. 11, in command of Capt. Bertrand, but was forced, to return to port on account of heavy weather. \Vhilc returning; to the harbor the I'im- BRIDEGROOM. ick collided with the steamer 5, S. Curry, resulting in the suspension of Capt. Ber- tran Undertaker Arrives—Band Ordered • to ! portd. Theron,, Ont.,. Sept. 24. —Play on Non-Euistent Lawn—All Mrs. Randall, the 'Wife of the Algonac captain of the ill-fated vessel, was ap- prised of her husband's drowning Sun- day night when she was a. guest in the home of Spain E. Pearce, this city. Mrs. Randall has been in failing health for some time and came to Port Huron to recuperate. It is thought that the shock may prove serious to her. When the captain left to take out the Ninniok he said to his wife: "I don't believe this trip is going to prove a very. fruit- ful one. I just feel it." FOUND D G ILTY. Great Quantities of Peaches Destroyed in New York State. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 30.—Damage to the extent of thousands of dollars was caused by a hail storm that swept the Irondequoit gardening and fruit section to -day. The storm wrought havoc with all crops from Lake Ontario to the ridge road and from. the Genesee River to Irondequoit Bay. Reports received here indicate that thousands of baskets of peaches have been damaged and will be a total loss. W. T. Rudman, one of the largest -that growers in that territory, reports at the storm was the severest that has ever visited Irondequoit. Be said thatafter the storm, which lasted thirty minutes, hailstones could be shoveled from the ground like snow. Be es- timate'sthat fifteen thousand baskets of peaches were ruined. NEW. BRUISWICIC MAN I5 CON- VICTED OP 1VIURDER. He Will Be Hanged on Nov, es—Crime for Which He Must Die Was Murder of Priest's Sister—Took Sentence Calmly. THEODORE KOOK etrePLAYED OON Sorts of Jokes ;Wedding Postponed. London, Sept. 30.—An extraordinary hoax has been perpetrated in Abbey street, Bermondsey, the victims being a number of tradesmen and a young couple who were to have been married on Sun- day, but whose wedding had to be poste pried until Monday owing to the blob dent. By the first post on Saturday the pros- pective brodegroom received a number leeletters in which tele writers expresse4. te r pleasure at being able to accept the young couple's invitation to be pres- ent at the wedding. No invitations had been sent out, because it was the inten- tion of the couple to have the ceremony carried out as quietly as possible. Hardly had the postman gone when the young man answered a knock at the front door, and was there met by the representatives of a local firm of under- takers who had come to measure his "deceased" mother-in-law for her coffin. that he was out The young man pointed not yet married, and consequently bad no mother-in-law, and that the caller had been sent on a fool's errand. The tradesman event away, and for about an hour after that the young man was left in peace. But before nine a brewel•'s dray laden with barrels of beer drove up, and the drayman announced li- quor deliver the t he had been that for the wedding Following dose upon one another tradesmen came up with vans and barrows laden with all kinds of goods, such as groceries, meat, fish, three pianos and coals, the drivers all stating that they had been sent to execute orders received for the delivery of the goods for the wedding. A local doctor, a district nurse, a corn- ohandler, a fish porter from Billingsgate, arta vnen driving wedding carriages and Chauffeurs driving motor -cabs also fon loved to carry out orders. The yottrig team's Whole timVMSe vhs 00' friend reached him We was extinct, and elle Wat ghastly pale. She was im- mediately :,then to the flat, her hushandi being conducted, to a a ine and. wood cel- lar, watched over by two stalwart gen- darmes, to await his turn. On arriving at the landing Mrs. Goold fainted. When she had quite recovered he sud- denly asked, "Now explain, how you did' it?" "I have already explained," the woman. exclaimed. "I did not kill Mme, Levin; my husband did it all." "You, bout of you together did it," said the judge. In loud tones, so loud as to be heard in the street below, the woman cried: 'Mo "No, no, 'Monsieur le Judge, a hundred times no; I swear that I am innocent; it is he who killed. I neither helped to assassinate her, nor to out up the body." Step by step the judge led the woman through the scene in every detail.Withgrowing anger and vehemence she replied doggedly: "I've nothing more to say; I've already explained I am innocent." Finding that be erred get no further re- ply the judge had. her led away to an- other cellar to avoid meeting her hus- band, who was led manacled into the din- ing-room.'When asked to explain, Goold began: "I opened the door to Mme, Levin and she insulted me." "E•ah h interrupted the judge. "enough of that old. lie. We have abundant proofs that your victim: came not to borrow money from• penniless people. nor to insult you. Come, the truth." To all interrogratione Goold said re- pea'tediy: "I alone killed her, not my wife. She wasn't there." "Did you drink liqueur with her?" ask- ed the ;judge. 'No, I did not," was the answer. "Oh, trot there were two glasses used. Then your wife took some with Mad. Hopewell, N . B., despatch: The third trial of Thomas F. Collins, for the murder of Miss Moen- Ann McAuley, sister of Rev. Father McAuley, of New Ireland, ended to -day in a verdict of guilty, and tb.e death sentence, both of which the prisoner received with stolid composure. The murder, which was of an unusual ye� Te committed August, Collins, year ago last who was employed by the murdered wo- }nan. and who had disappeared, was suspected, and about a week later was arrested near the American border. In his possession were found some things stolen from Miss Mo Auley's house. The first trial ended in conviction, but a new trial was ordered on technical grounds, and this resulted in a disagree- ment. The third trial has been going on for the past week. The case went to the jury this morning at ten o'clock, and tater four hours' deliberation they returned a verdict of guilty. Judge Hunt- ington stated that he entirely concurred in the finding. Collins heard the verdict with abso- lutely no show of emotion and kept his eyes fixedon the judge during the whole proeeediegs. At 4 o'clock the court reopened and Collins was sentenc- ed to die Nov. 1.5th. 90 -YEAR-OLD SUICIDE. , CROSSING THE WHEAT. Prof. McBride, of McGill, Reports Cam- bridge Experiments Successful. Montreal, Sept. 30.—Professor Mc- Bride, of McGill University, has just re- turned from Cambridge University, where he investigated the new process . of wheat crossing. Be believes that the question has been solved. He claims that the qualities of certain kinds of wheat are due to heredity and are not the result o fthe climate. By a process of cross -breeding he has got a produd t a1n h combines the go od qualities of Manitoba hand with those of English wheat. The large, soft heads of English wheat and the hard qualities of Manitoba, No, 1 mak an ideal pro- duct roduct and -one which will double the yield of the Canadian wheat fields. e 4 /.^ • HUNTER SIIOT DEAD. • A Pennsylvanian milled Neer Lake Ed- . Que. "•Y:� Was Too Much for the Wealthy. Pitts- burg Man. Pittsbuvg, Sent. 30: Rather than go ci to St. Frans hospital and take treat- ment for the liquor habit, Thomas Mc- Dermott, aged 05, a wealthy resident of Agnew, a fashionable suburb of this city, threw himself in front of a train on the Fort Wayne road this afternoon and was ound too pieces. ag Some time McDermott's wife, Cath ought to have her husbaad declared ran habitual drunkard, alleging that he had not been sober for thirty- nine hirtynine years. On his promise to out his drinks down to six a day the suit was withdrawn. He failed to keep his pro- mise, and so it was decided to take him to the hospital. Rather than go he threw himself under the train upon which he was to have made the jour- ney. cap HAVOC BY STORM. Many Lives Lost at Various Points Coast of Newfoundland. St. John's, Nfld., Sept. 30. ---Additional regorts by mail and. by coast steamers from remote points show that sirteen, and possibly twenty-four lives were lost about the Newfoundland coast during the equinoctial gales on Thursday last. Seventy-five fishing vessels were wrecked and much damage done to the wharves and fishing gear. The finan- cial loss is estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. The equinoctial gale was the great- est recorded here in forty years. Wires were blown down along the western and northwestern coasts-, so that the full extent of the disaster to the colonial shippingfleet was not known until to -day. Notre Dante Bay coast steamer reports that of thirty- one schooners in Twillingate Harbor twenty-nine were driven ashore. Twenty were smashed to pieces on the rocks. Ten of the crew of the schooner Effie were drowned. The eeh•ooner Mandue. with a crew of eight men is still miss- ing, o-* DYING FROM HUSBAND'S BLOW. . Probably Fatal End to' msstic Quarrel arrel Near Montreal, Montreal, Sept. —Mrs. John La- peinte is lying at the point of death et her home in Longueuil, opposite the city, as the result of a domestic quarrel tonight. Her husband ar- rived home in an intoxicated condi- tion, a quarrel ensued and the husband seizing a shovel, struck hie wife over the head, kneeking her unconsciout. Lae pointe then, drove off, leaving hie wife apparently dead. The +police were' noti- fie`, ,but Lapointe was not placed under asest. The woman is not expected to reeover. • a o—• The manwho never leas time to do anything it Is noticed generally never on "Well, yes," said. Goold. "Ah, then, •you confess at last that your wife was with you?" Goold saw that he had blundered. Be blurted out: "My wife held: her while I stabbed Perp but we did not finish het here. We dna rged her into the room, and finished her there. After that alone out her up and placed her in the trunk." The judge then ordered the wile to be brought in to confront the husband. "Your husband has confessed that you were present, and that you held. the vie - tint." remarked the judge. "Miaeratble wretch, wdeat have you done, what have you done?" he exclaim- ed, with a furious movement towards her husband. Then. turning violently to- wards D'1. Savard, her eyes blazing;, end looking as if she longed• to assault bit, elle cried "You make nee suffer cruelly, hut am innocent. I shall appeal to England., and England will claim, me." \Vben the Cool& were brr,nrlut from Marseilles to llionte Carlo large crowds gathered at the statione en route and greeted the ,passing of the train with: cries of "Down with the assassins! Kill th curl" At Monte Carlo a. determined atty ck on the Goolde was made, and the police with diffieulty hustled, the prisoners into the waiting carriages. The public ex- pressed their opinion of Mrs. Goold in no. ,measured terms. "Down with the ghoul! To the guillotine! Kill firer!" were the silos hurled at her. .e . a.--•.-•-• yo -YEAR-OLD FAN MAY DIE. A. Beneeseer, of Cowat, Ends Life With Paris Green. Middlemiss, Sept. t.. ---A. Beneeseer, as old man, 90 years of age, committed suicide at Cowat to -day by paris green Ile had been in bad health for soma time, and to -day he seemed to be better than usual. At noon he talked freely and cheerfully. At 2 o'clock he went into a Isis room, took the dose and drank half cupful of peals green and water, Dr. McKillop,of Dutton, was immedi- ately called, but could do nothing, and the victim died at 4 p. nt. Quebec, Sept. 30.—News reached town this evening from Lake Bdward of a fatal shooting accident in Lake St. John district, as a result of which a man named A. Gaston, reported to belong somewhere in Pennsylvania, meet death. It appears Gaston was hunting with a friend at the Triton Club, and while 'paddling was mistaken by his friend for Moose and shot dead. When his INFECTED BY MON'Kle YS, The Curator at the BronecZoo Has Tuberculosis. New York, Sept. 80.—Curator Ray- mond L. Ditniars,of the New York Zoo- logical Park, the Bronx, is stricken with tuberculosis. He becamesinfected during his work in the bast year trying to stamp out the disease among the mon- keys in the park. Curator Dittears and Dr. W. Reed Blair, veterinarian at the Zoological Park* ve been working untiringly during na the as 1 t 'twelve months to stamp out C. S. Smith, Aged so, Strikes Captain Prentice, Aged 7o, on the Head, Lawton, Mich., Sept. 30.—Crazed with rage resulting from an argument over a baseball game, C. S. Smieth, of this place, struck Captain G. H. Prentice over the • head with a baseball bat, inflicting in- juries that it is feared will cause Pren- tice's death. • Smith is 50 years old, and Prentice is fully 70. Both men have re - tuberculosis among the monkeys. In gets anything done. sided here for years and have been life- long friends. Saturday evening they differed over a point in a local baseball game. Startin gas a polite difference of opinion, their conversation developed into a heated ar- gumont, and finally into a furious quar- rel. Ilot words were bandied back and forth until Snaith could no longer contain his temper, and picking up a bat felled his friends With a blow on the head, Brought to his senses when he realized the terrible e tl ing he had done,e > Smi th fled, but later gave himself up to the county sheriff at Pave Paw. Be is being held pending the result of Captain Prentiee's injuries. Smith's aged and invalid ieother is nearly frantic with grief over' her sone trouble. Captain Prentice served' in Company Bt Seventh Michigan Cavalry, during the civil war, and had an etcellent record in the army. Both Captain Prentice and. Smith are enthusiastic bataball fans, and are attendants at all local games.