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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1907-12-06, Page 2BARONESS FOR HIS PARTNER. REGINALD SPAULDING'S SCHEME RE COURT PRESENTATIONS. Lady Suffield Denies AR Knowledge of the Man—Spaulding Tells Police That He is Acting in Conjunction With Daughter of the Famous Henry Baring. London, Dec. 2.—"I've never heard of Reginald Spaulding in my life and can't imagine how he came to select my name upon which to hang a fabrication about a debt," said Lady Suffield to-day through her husband, Baron Su Lady Suffield is a daughter of the late Henry Baring, founder of the great fin- ancial house of that name, and a sister of Lord Revelstoke, the present head of the house. he is at preent a Lady of the Bedchamber to Her Majesty, Queen Alexandra. The story of a debt iu connection with her would seem amus- ing, even without a. denial. Spaulding Attempts Suicide. Pittsburg, Dec. 2.—Reginald Spauld- ing, the youug Englishman arrested here on Saturday, has made the astounding statement that he has been author- ized by Lady Suffield, Lady of the Bed- chamber to Queen Alexandra, to nego- tiate with Pittsburg millionaires for presentation at the Court of St. James' for a financial consideration. While this sensation was sweeping over the city Spaulding put a climax to the developments of the day by desperately attempting to hill himself. Sentenced to five days in jail, pending investigation, Spaulding was hurried to the Bertillon bureau. i e fought every move made to take his measurements. When the camera was brought out he leaped toward a, tray of chemicals, and before he could be prevented had swal- lowed the contents of a bottle. Only the fact that he seized the wrong jar saved. his life. What he swallowed was a vial of salts. Beside it was enough cyanide of potash to kill half a dozen men. Spaulding's revelations regarding Lady Suffield were made when he was ar- raigned before Magistrate Brady this af- ternoon. Brought from the cell -room at the Central Station, where he had -reposed since Saturday night, and ar- raigned on the charge of being a suspici- ous person, he was asked what he had to say for himself. "I can't see for the life of me," was the reply, "why you have brought me here. I came to America and to Pitts- burg on a legitimate enterprise,,. which I am fully. able .to carry out: `^ "I have a great friend in the Coun- tess of Suffield. You may not know it, but the Countess and her husband, the Earl of Suffield, have always been very close to King Edward. In fact, they were menders of his household while he was still the Prince of Wales. "The Countess and the Earl enter- tained the King lavishly while he was Prince, and largely through this enter- tainment they became impoverished, and have continued so since, "More than a year ago the Countess of Suffield borrowed a sum of money from me. She has been unable to pay it back since, and e::: told me that if I knew of any rich americans who want- ed to be introd....d at court she would make the press.:.atinn in lieu of the money elf 9W" me, I to make out of it what I could. t. "It 1FM oil this proposition that I Carrie to Pittsburg. This sort of thing is done in England, and I had no idea I was doing any wrong in ad- vertising to introduce daughters of wealthy Pittsburghers to the Court of England. (While the Suffields are often called Earl and Countess, their true titles are Baron and Lady.) ".1 made no false representations when 1 advertised that I would make the presentations. I can do it. It can be done through the Countess of Suffield, who is my friend. If she can make money through her social influ- ence, what harm is there?" That Spaulding is not an ordinary man there is ample reason for believing. He has all the polish of a drawing -room fav- orite, and Ins knowledge of English so- ciety is thorough, from whatever source it has been secured. And the confi- dence that he has been able to inspire in those whom the police declare he intended to victimize is s' :king. Men as well as women have i..,.0 his dupes. He advertised last week for a num pos- sessing $500 to accompany him on a for- eign trip as secretary, and received an answer from a Pittsburg man, who is Worth at least $2,000,000. This man con- sented to occupy the position in order that he might be introduced abroad by the Englishman. The police believe Spaulding to be the man who under the name of Oscar Frederick Spate was connected with a proposed scheme to put chairs in Cen- tral Park; New York, a few years ago, and rent them to park visitors. w. V.. NO LONGER AN AUTOCRAT. The Douma Robs Czar of One of His Titles. St. Petersburg, Dec, 2.—The Doutna to -night decreed that the title of auto- crat which has been. borne by the Em- perors of Russia for centuries, is no longer tenable within the Russian' State and is incompatible with the regime in- augurated by the manifcs'to issued by Emperor Nieholas on October 30, 1905. At the close of at great constitutional debate the Russian Parliament, by a vo'te of 112 to 240, rejected the word '`autocrat," and then 'tad ..11•ted the address from the throne unanimouse ly, amid seems. of intense excitetueut, prolonged cheering and the singing of the national anthem.. The result. of the session is regarded as a fine victory for the Constitutional Democrats, under the leadership of Pro- fessor Paul N. '_1filukoff, who succeeded in forcing the Oetoberis& hand, The final vote was taken after the demon- strative withdrawal of , tike Extreme Right Social Democrats, members of the- C;roup of Toil and the .Holes. WILD TIMES. INDIAN DEBAUCHERY ON KAMSACK AND OTHER RESERVATIONS. Girls' School Broken Into and Inmates Made Drunk and Maltreated—Whites and Halfbreeds Took a Hand in the Orgies. 'Winnipeg, Dec. 2. — Unscrupulous whites, bad italfbreeds and luclians in search of excitement; have beandebauch- ing the Indians on the reservations at Kantsack, Keyes and felly, forcing the Dominion Government to take action and institute wholesale prosecution;. De- baucheries have been indulged in which have left some participants lying in the bush in an incapacitated state for two days at a time. The Indian school was broken into, and the occupants of one of the girls' dormitories have ben intoxie- cated and assaulted by a band of young roughs, and gambling and vice have been rampant at Kantsack. where the Indians, whites and hal fbreeds have indulged in wild and disgusting orgies. These are facts obtained by the Department of In- dian Affairs, whieh placed the matter in the hands of the Canadian Detective Agency. 'Air. Charles Driver, the local superin- tendent, despatched a detective to the scene of the alleged trouble, with the re- sult that •some forty odd prosecutions are taking place, while a report has been received by tlul department show- ing that the state of arena's was deplor- able. As far as information hag been received there have been twenty-three eontictions. After working fur some time the detective collected sufficient mater- ial to convict a large number of offend- ers, and the department decided on stamping out the evil at once. Notice was sent to the reserve that a "give-away dance," an Indian dance, hat usually results in excesses and vicious freedom, would take place at Kamsack on Nov. 21. All the suspects therefore were counted on attending, and when they did there was a wholesale raid by the police, who worked from early morning of Thursday and the greater part of the following tlrly, in placing -the* Men tite5>. nanted ,nor° ar- rest. On Saturday morning the e'otirt was opened at 10 o'clock, and many fines and sentenees were imposed. A man who ran a butcher ;shop there was sent to jail for nine months, and fined $900. SUES DOCTOR. MISS BELLARD WANTED $to,000 DAMAGES FROM DR. NEVITT. Lady Admits That Surgeon's Skill Saved Her Life and Restored Her Health, But Says the Operation Was Un- authorized. A Toronto despatch: Admitting that it is only owing to the wonderful result of a skillful operation performed by Dr. R. B. Devitt, of Toronto, that she is living to -day, Miss Appehne Belland, a young French-Canadian lady, sued Dr. Nevitt WASHINGTON'S ALLEY SLUMS. TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS LIVE IN SQUALOR THERE.. Seme of the Conditions Defy Description —Blood Alley, Pig Alley and Jonah Row Significant Names—One Near the Senate—Queen's Court and the British Embassy. Washington, . Dee. 2.—The' national capital, with all its pride of marble c,• d bronze, its broad attenues and green circles, is nevertheless declared to he "rotten to the core." The phrase is Jacob Riis's. He "turned Washington inside out" a few years ago and went back to New York's r'ast Side for a breath of fresh air. Things have taken a •turn for the better since then, but the whited sep- ulchre is still n likely metaphor hu be used in connection with the na- tion's City Beautiful. Last spring President Roosevelt got so stirred up over some reports of the Washington alleys that he appointed a conunis- sion to devise a way of removing the literal and moral stench front the people's nostrils. These alleys are without a parallel in any other city. There are 286 of them, and they harbor a population of 20,000 persons. When Jacob Riis declared that Washington had a rot- ten spot at the core he added: "I mean that; for I have in mind the hidden back alelys, so well hid- den that I passed thorn day after day, pleased with the fine front the block was making and without the least suspicion of what it harbored within." Perhaps if he had known the names of some of these pestilent byways he might have suspected their nature. Ambush court is one, Blood alley is another, Jonah row is another, and there are Pig alley, Splash alley, Cat alley and other names full of signi- ficance, But the name is not an unfailing guide. Othertrise Snow alley would not be the tortuous, filthy lane which it really is. And as Queen's Court— not two blocks •from the British Em- bassy it would scarcely have shown itself to the shocked investigators, as it did for years, a labyrinth of dirt, disease and immortality. "The alleys," says Charles F. Wel- ler, of the Aseoeiated Charities of Washington, "are hidden inner worlds standing often in close proximity to the chief • centres of the city's wealth and culture: ;;Lunch row, not seven blocks from,thelVh.ite House and only. three blocks from Dupont Circle, was indescribably bad:" Chinch rows was an arm of Queen's Court, and it was only recently that, after years of war upon it, its hovels were torn down. ,Some of the de- plorable houses remain, however, so near the fashionable centre of the city that the contrast is startling. The ordinary newspaper does not print the sort of reading which the descriptions of many of these alleys matte. It is hardly fit for anything but the reports of `charity committees, and even they furnish an apology with each report. Very few of the alley houses have either water or sewerage connection, and it is hard- ly to be wondered at that the health authorities of the city are always fighting typhoid. Prior to 1903 the Government Bur- eau of Labor collected for several years official statistics of cities. In its bulletin for 1902 Washington was shown as having the highest death rate among the thirty-nine largest cities in the country. • It Was particularly strong in typhoid fever; tuberculosis, grip and malaria. Some of the causes certainly are not far to seek, no further in fact than the in- side of many- fair appearing city blocks. In most towns an alley is a straight line between two streets and is for the use of delivery men, stablemen and the alley cat. In Washington the peculiar plan of the city has resulted in the great- est assortment of blocks of all shapes and sizes, from the little three -sided scrap of land with room for only one house ti squares that measure about six hunch -el feet on each of their four sides. The hidden world within one of these blocks trill consist of half a dozen wind- ing lanes lined with hovels and stables, the latter being far the cleaner of the two. Not all of the alley houses are so bad, but in all of them there seems to be developed an alley type of family which has lower standards than those of the people who live on regular streets. Of course in Washington, with its 100,- 000 colored inhabitants—which makes it the largest negro city in the world—it is the clarity who to a great extent popu- lates the alleys: Of the 200,000 inhabit- ants of these tyw•ays about 18,000 are colored. in the Non -Jury Assizes this afternoon for $10,000 dagames for perforating the operation. Miss Belland said in her evidence that she consulted Dr. Nevitt while she was in a serious condition from tumor and consented to an operation on condition that certain organs were not to be removed. The operation re- stored Miss Belland to health; but she claims that the doctor did not follow her instructions,, and sued for damages for trespass, assault and battery. Dr. Nevitt in his evidence contradict- ed Miss Belland's version, saying that the promise he made was that he would not perform the operation unless abso- lutely necessary. Miss Beliand's counsel admitted that his client would have died had the oper- ation not taken place as it did, and Mr. Justice Mabee, who heard the case, de- cided. that Dr. Nevitt's judgment was to be accepted by his patient, and that he took the only course open to him when the operation revealed the real source of the disease. The claim was, therefore, dismissed. STORM SWEEPS PACIFIC COAST. Wires Down and Many Isolated. Vancouver. B. C., Dec. 2.—The big rainstorm which descended on Vancouver late yesterday afternoon did not play any favorites along the Pacific coast. Practically every mile of coast from Alaska to California was swept by the storm, which in some Iocalities carried with it rain, and in others snow. Telegraph and telephone wires all over British Columbia, Washington and Ore- gon went down before the gale. There it no communication between Vancouver and outside points to -day save from the east and south. The O. P. 11, telegraph lines were carried down in the vicinity of North Bend, where seven a74:'," '"Rlt Y ''w hours. Cities Almost worst of the lot. Some of these enter froin a single street, bore their way into the block, turn and double and finally end in a ctrl de sac, Others are the arms of alleys which are open at each end. But one of these open alleys may have half a dozen blind branchings. As the resort of criminals they possess advan- tages which are highly appreciated. They are like the impasses of Paris, except that they are less imposing. In 1892 a law was passed prohibiting any more buildings of alleged habitations in Washington alleys. Since that time some of the rotten spots have been cut away and a few have withered of them- selves; hemselves; that is, the shacks which formed them fell into ruin. But 20,000 human beings are still herded in the houses that remain. In his message three years ago the President called the alley slums of Washington by name and urged their elimination, but Congress has not as yet been fired with similar zeal. A law for the compulsory repair or condemnation cel buildings unfit for human habitation was struggled for dur- ing almost a decade. One year the House passed it, but it was defeated iu the Senate by the opposition of only one man. "And he," says Mr. Weller, "re- presented a distant State whose entire pupmlation was less than one-sixth that of the District." Everybody who has investigated the alley slums says that there is only one way of reforming these conditions. That is to do away with alleys as places of residence. Some of them -]rave so much land abut- ting on them that it seems rather waste- ful to close them entirely to res -ideate,, but in these cases the remedy would be to widen and straighten the alleys, Mak- ing them into small streets. The President's Hones Commission at- tempted to carry out this work with the co-operation of the District Commission- ers. The opening of twelve such streets was recommended, and two of these were confirmed by the courts. But a de- cision by the United States Supreme Court has checked the further carrying out of these plans, and again the only hope is .in help from Congress. If the wives of members once grasp the fact that they themselves are rather intimately in touch with these same hidden alleys the activity of Congress is likely to be livened up by a few .heart to heart home sessions. It is an 'actual fact that many of the servants in well-to-do households come from alley shanties and go home and sleep there every night. As for the servants in many of the hotels, no man knoweth where they come from. Many colored women living in alley houses of the most uncleanly and unsanitary conditions make their living by taking in washing. If they went out to wash it would be bad enough. But the irony of their cleans- ing the clothes of others is exaggerated when they go through the form under ;the conditions in their wretched homes. Even if one's own servants do not conte from the alleys, or if one's own Washing does not go to them, they are the constant menace of every household, for the servants visit back and forth al- most as freely and irresponsibly as the flies which buzz from the filthy alley to the marble Capitol. Of course Washingtonians themselves might fret as touch as ever they wished without accomplishing anythings. At least that is what sone of them say. They have no votes. Congress spends their money for them and taxes their to supply half the budget. But the people who have seen the alley shacks and tried to help the alley folk think it is time that somebody was doing eotue fretting and doing it loud and clear. Snow alley lea 289 Black men, women and children to help it belie its name. But the charity workers in the alleys cm- eupied by whites say that even when the Caucasian families try to climb out of Sodom the alley influences drag them back. The alleys are foun& all over the city. Bassett's alley. with a half concealed entrance only three feet wide, is but a few minutes walk from the Capitol. It is full of families having only one room apiece in wretched old shacks,_ with floors a foot below ground level and with almost no windows at all. • The Senators can find Bassett' alley easily. It is only a block from their new office, building. There is no water or newer"n" in the alley. although the office building is a modern marvel of plunlbi:in. The blind alleys are, of course, the TRIPLE FORGERY. THREE BROTHERS JENKINS IN- DICTED AT NEW YORK. Were Officials of the Jenkins and Wil- liamsburg Trust Company -Another Accusation Alleges Making False Entries. New York, Dee. 2.—Jo'an G. Jenkins, jun., until recently President of the Jen- kins Trust Compony of Brooklyn;. Frank Jenkins, deposed head of the Williamsburg Trust Company, and Fred. Jenkins, formerly a director of the latter inst.—ution, were jointly indicted to -day for forgery in the third degree. The indicted men are brothers, and the charges against them grew out of loans made by the brokerage firm of F. & J. G. Jenkins, jun., & Company by the Jenkins Trust Company. The transactions were disclosed during the examination of the trust company's books made by the F'tate Banking De- partment after the institution had sus- pended. The Jenkins are jointly indicted on four counts alleging that they caused false entries to be made in the books of the Jenldns Trust Company, whereby loans made by the trust company to the President in excess of what he could have Iegally secured as an officer of the institution were made to appear as loans to employees of the firm of F. & J. G. Jenkins, jun., & Company. The specific charge against former Presi- dent Jenkins is that a certain part of the $557,000 secured as a loan from the trust company on October 1st and stand- ing in the names of several clerks of F. & J. G. Jenkins, jun., & Company was in reality a loan to him, and that the whole amount had been loaned to him and his firm, and not to the clerks to whom it was nominally paid.. • IN THE TOILS. CARRIED DOWN MOUNTAIN. Lumberman Caught in Log Slide in British Columbia. Vancouver, Dec. 2.—Crushed between two heavy logs and carried down the side of a mountain with them, Patrick Cummings, a hand -logger employed near Chatham Channel, B. C., received in- juries from which he died a few minutes later. Cummings was working with Andrew Galinsky just above the channel when the accident occurred. He was carried down into the water, sustaining fright- ful injuries. Galinsky removed him from the water, and, placing him in a boat, started for Allison's camp across the channel. Before the camp was reached, however, Cummings was dead. s• o THIS WAS IN TORONTO. Turned a Picture of the Saviour to the Wall. Trento despatch: Rev. W. F. Wilson, of the Trinity Methodist Church, made a statement at the annual meeting of the Toronto civic mission to -day in pointing out the danger of the foreign element, which, he said, is flocking into Toronto in increasing numbers. Mr. Wilson said that in the Elizabeth Street School, located in the "ward," and^ where the Jews are numerous, a picture of•the Saviour had been turned to the wall. Mr. Wilson further.stated that he es- timated that one out of every twelve persons in the street were frau. igners. It is probable that Mr. Wilson's state- ment regarding the school will be in- vestigated. eek SHORT MONEY, SHORT SHOVELS. Foreign Quarry Laborers' Reply to Cut in Wages. Bedford, Ind,, Dec. 2—On account of the financial situation 100 foreign laborers who used the pick and shovel at the Hoosier quarries had their wages cut from 15 emits to 124 cents an hour, The angry men marched to the machine shops and had two and a half inches cut from their shovels to meet the corre- sponding reduction in wages, They say short money, short shovels. J. F. LAVERN WANTED IN OTTAWA ON CHARGE OF BIGAMY. Wonderful Tales Told at Sault Ste. Marie Regarding the Prisoner's Ad- ventures in New York, and His Matrimonial Experiences. A Sault Ste. Marie despatch.: J. F. Lavern, alias Lange, was arrested on the American side yesterday and brought to Canada by Chief of Police Downey. He will be sent to Ottawa to answer a charge of bigamy. Canadian officers were notified of the ease by the Chief of Police- of Ottawa, and the man was identified from a picture enclosed in a letter from there. It is also asserted by the police that Lavern was connected with a recent diamond robbery in New York. When taken to police headquarters he was attired in fashionable wearing ap- parel, and appeared to be a man of pros- perity. Ile promptly asserted his inno- cence and demanded a lawyer. The police ransacked his pockets and brought to light 49 cents, apparently all the tnoney he had. When arrested Lavern was told that American officers intended to no- tify the New York police, so he consent- ed to come to the Canadian side without trouble. Lavern's pockets contained a number of letters from women, mostly from Duluth, Calgary and Hancock. Lavern is wanted in Ogdensburg, N. Y., on a bigamy charge. It is said he graduated from a livery stable to the swell set of New York, and secured 85,000 in jewels from Mrs. Olive Jewett there before decamping from the metro- polis on a marrying tour. Lavern has a wife in Ottawa, where he posed as a New York millionaire, While there he masqueraded under the • name of Lang. It is said Lavern has two children in Ogdensburg, aged six and ten years. COLLINS' CONFESSION. Murderer of Miss McAuley Admitted Crime Before He Died. St. John, N. B., Dec. 2.—The Tele- graph will announce to -morrow, from what it declares asource which cannot be questioned, that a few days before his execution Thomas F. Collins, hanged at Hopewell Cape on Nov. 15, for the murder of Mary Ann McAuley at New Ireland, N. Be made a verbal confession that he committed the murder. The confession was made in the presence of Rev. H. B. Thomas, who ministered to Collins in his last hours; Sheriff Lynds, and a third party, whose name is with- held. Collins said that after killing the woman with • the' axe he hid it in Father McAuley's bedroom, where it was not found until months later. Collins' confession was not given out because of . his request that it be not published. The evidence in the Collins' trial was circumstantial, and doubt of his guilt had been sometimes expressed. FAMINE IN TURKEY. • Harvest Generally Light—Grain Supply Already Exhausted. New 'Stork, Dec. 2.—Famine prevails in Turkey, according to a cable despatch received by The Christian Herald from. Secretary Peet, representative in Tur- key of the American Board of Foreign Missions, and made public to -day. The . despatch comes from Philippoliolis, and. reads: "harvest generally light here and in neighboring countries, Advices show grain for winter and seed already exhausted in many places, Many people will die unless relief comes soon (Sign- ed) Peet"