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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-01-10, Page 2ELOPING MINISTER AND HIS AFFINITY. Former Pastor of Long Island Church Working to Support Girl He Has Ruined. Deserted His Wife and Family In East. VERDICT OF MURDER JAMES CURRY TELLS STORY OF CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY. John Terrace Committed by the Jury— . Evidence of Barnardo Boy Not Heard —Proof That a Second Shot Was Fired. Brampton despatch: In the little town hall at Ehuibauk, twelve •miles from here, Coroner 1). Reggie, of Brampton., San Francisco, Jan. 6.—In apelting held an inquest this afteruoon into the rain and before daylight, the Rev. Jere ; eirculnstanees surrounding the death Knode Cooke, formerly pastor of the 1 01 William Curry, who died ou Christ - fashionable St, George's Church at Hemp- ma ,night. after ideingcesilo, Whiby le is hsou iree stead, N. Y., and Floretta Whaley, the of the jurors contended that further 17 -year-old heiress with whom he eloped evidence ehould have been add:maid, eight months ago, deserting a wife, stole ; and that they should have heard the away to -day from the little flat which j snort of Jamie; Reid, the Barnardo buy who saw the shooting,. the follow - they had occupied at 1199 Green street ! ing verdict we. returned: in this city, where they were diseovered i -We find that William Curry cause yesterday living under the name of Mr, to his death from. a gunshot wound caused by a shot from a gun fired by and Mrs. Gerard Bascom, taking with one John 'terrace, anthat the send them their baby boy.. John Terrace did directly kill aur The discovery of Cooke and the girl !• murder William Curry." was made through the fact that Captain No new evidence was brought out,. Cleary, of the Morse patrol agency; who . James Curry told his story of the had met them as Mr. and Mrs. Bascom 1 shooting of his father and the strug- when they arrived here last June from ; gle he had with Terrace, whom he Los Angeles, recognized the girl's picture finally overpowered. and tied with rape. when it was published last week in con- { To �Mr. liassard lr. Curry said that nection with a despatch from Louisiana on the day before Christmas, when he etating that Cooke had deserted Floretta r and Terme:, were in the stable, Ter- Whalez race removed a 7cirge 1laamuer from his r—resterday afternoon a representative ! Packet and placed it in a barrel. Mr. from a local newspaper called at the ; .Hassard cross-examined Mr. Curry very home where Cooke and his companion ; minutely as to tl.e dimensiong of the lived. Cooke, a Yale graduate, worked • dining-rboni at ids house, and 11r. 'Curry at painting and decorating, and when broke deuu n and cried, stating that he that was not abundant he did any man- ; would rather not give evidence against nal work that he could get. j Terrace at all. lie was positive that no When the interviewer called yesterday, mention of hiring or wages was discuss- Baleom, or Cooke, admitted his identity, eii while Terrace had him covered with but sent the young mother and the baby the gun. into another room, asking the reporter ; Dr. Moses IL Aikins said he reached to lower his tone that she might not + Curry's house at exactly twelve o'clock learn of the discovery of their identity. 1 on Christmas night, and found Mr, Wm, e. When Cooke was visited at the Green I Curry dying. '.Thirty-two minutes later street flat yesterday he was engaged in he e could have ote dreat death, oii his opinion, mating gravy for his Snuday dinner, was caused by shock and hemorrhage. Dr. 1). L. Hegie, of Brampton, who performed the post-mortem id eoi i1 any with Dr. J. 4.. Lawson thbI • Di.A. 3. Johnson, of Toronto, gave,' as the cause tit death, hentorrhege and shock, caused while Floretta Whaley, beautiful and with the pallor of recent motherhood still on her features, lay on a lounge in the next room singing to her baby, a healthy boy. The fugitive pastor at first denied his identity and insisted that his snore eoatvenicdt ctnd economical handling of the coinpauies' traffic." Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, in submit- ting the resolution, said it was un- neeescseryy for him to enlarge on what was said at the annual meeting of the shareholders when the issue was fore- ahadott•ed end its purposes explained. Yoturs directors are convinced, he continued, "that Canada will continue to progress, and that if there be any temporary setback resulting from fin- ancial conditions in other parts of the world, it Will prove comparatively un- important, It may not be out of place to say at this meeting of shareholders that newspaper rumors with reference to negotiations by the C, P, R. for the purchase of railway lines in the United States are absolutely without founda- tion. There have been no such negotia- tions at any times" At a subsequent meeting of the board the directors dt'eided to issue twenty - fear million three hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars of said stoek forthwith, and to offer the same at par to the shareholders of the ordinary capital stock of record Jan. 13 next, when the transfer books will close for the purpose, in the proportion of twenty per cent, of their respective holdings, as shown by the .company's ,tock registers on that date, name was Bascom, but as he offered his bS- the Slinehot woarid. visitor a cigar his hand elanok and he Tha general line of the wound, said finally admitted he was Cooke. Dr, Veggie to Mr. Hansard, was upward. • "Pjnl=he exelaameca, "pow the awak- • The bulk of the shot passed through ,ening, 3." :\iy God, v:hal; .an awakening. Look here, give me a chance to get away. You are human, just as human as I am. I don't mind Sing Sing or hell, but it's the body. Inspector Wm. Greer, who examined the (,'tory homestead, stated that there was a gunshot hole in the ceiling of the she. The child was born only two months !kitchen, and he found the shot lodged ago and this will 'kill her• What's the in the rafters and sheeting of the roof. uiie—what's the eternal use? The rues- This concluded the evidence 11r, orable law must be maintained. The Hansard asked the coroner to instruct 'oriel will go around and nothing can the jury to brinin a verdict that prevent it. I have -reached it myself so William Curry a net his death from often • that I oe 't to know it now. .- Faith, -there's nothing that will paint a black sheep e ••ite, but look here, listen to my side. For ten years I have kept silent. For ' ':e las t eight months I have borne with -11C a murmur the vilest lies that yellow journalism could.conjure and now I will speak. It was only yesterday a gun in the hands of Terrace, but to leave off the clause containing the referenee to murder. The verdict was returned as above, however. 4 THE KAISER'S SISTER YORK LOAN. RIGHTS - OF HOLDERS MRS. YOUNG SAYS SHE IS NOT THE WOMAN FOUND DROWNED. Yet She Was Positively Identified by a Friend --- Murdered For $900. New 'York, Jan. 6.---Positice identifi- cation was made yesterday afternoon of the woman found murdered in the mush near Harrison, N. J., as Mrs. Angus A. Young, who up -to a year and a half ago was the controller in the pay department of the Ansonia Hotel, this city. The identification was made by her close personal friend, Mrs. Frank Hull, who lives at 7 West 102nd street. Mrs. hull tells the police that she last saw Mrs. Young on Christmas day, when after breakfast in a West street restaurant near Cortlandt street, Mrs. Young went. to Jersey City in company with Charles Myers, a piano tuner of Brooklyn, who had been quite attentive to the woman. Mrs. hull says that on Christmas day "ADVANCE" SHARE- ! sirs. Youug had $300 which she had BEFORE REFEREE. drawn from the bank two days before to put into a laundry which she and Myers were to establish in some Jersey town along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mrs Young had been separated from Judgment Was Reserved— Shares In- volved Amount to $25o,000, Against Which Are Loans Totalling $Ioa,000. Tortiutii despateb: Areumeuts on class 11 claims .against the York loan assets was heard yesterday afternoon by Offi- cial Referee M, Kappele. Judgment was reserved. Mi. W. le. Smythe appeared for the elasseind fir. W. M. Douglas, K. C., for the #general body of shareholders. Class 11 'ludes those shareholders who borrowed on their stock. The shares involved amount, to $230,000, against which loans totalling $102,000 have been made, Isle, Smythe heist that the amounts paid hi b ' a .}„traliolder afler laorrowiug on his share -Mould be credited against the loan; so that whern the liquidator comes to .distribute the assets of the company the shareholder will receive his dividend on the amount paid in up to the, time he borrowed, and that money paid in after the date of borrowing be credited against the loan itself. The bookkeepeing of the York Loan indicated that payments made after money was borrowed were invariably credited as ad- ditional stock payment and not set clown as offset to •the loan, unless special ap- plicationwere made by the shareholder. It isag i-fle apparent effect of this th ay8T,ene c. keeeptng that,Mr. Smythe Supplied Information Concerning the that a paper bad a story about ene giv- Camarilla. ing away my wife to a man in Louisiana —as if that could be possible. Give her Berlin, Jan. 6. --The name of Princes away! Give away my life? Charlotte Vou Saxe-Meiningen, the eldest "I worked my way through college sister of Emperor William, was brought writing for the papers and periodicals into the Harden•\'onlfioltice libel case to make out my expenses and then took a post -graduate course there. I then en- to -day as the person who had supplied tered the ministry and was given the Maxiniillien harden with the informa- • rectorship of St. George's Episcopal tion concerning the Zit Eulenburg "group" Church at Hempstead, L.I. Prior to this near the person of the Emperor, upon I had married and three ee clays after my which Barden lased his campaign marriage I discovered that I had made against the so-called eauiarilla. the most awful mistake a man could Harden had two meetings with the make. To continue, I found what a mus- princess. seemingly upon request. Prof. .take I had made three days after I was Schweninger, who was present at these married. I don't intend to give allthe interviews, gave a brief account of them details of the next nine years of my life,in a deposition. General Cotnit Wilhelm but it was ]lel.. Von Hollenau was mentioned, but no.ref- "Then I awoke to love and everything erence was made to Count Kuno Von was worthless. You know the end, On Moltke. the one hand was a loveless life with princess Charlotte and the Emperor honor and position pad wealth, 1 andp ed have been on cool terms for several years back other love and poverty. 1 stepped past The late Prince Bernhard, •bus - r ago, slug old trade learned fifteen de- band of the princess, was for long op- yorat and became a painter and that posed to the influence of •Prince Philip cora tor. And now all o ask is th 's Zu Eulenburg at court. It is apparent -this may coneisue. I am doing a man's that the princess dial not forget this feud ed. work. I 1 begthe stheed,but o have suffer- one and that she has been instrumental in with my wife and child. I can let live lthe ruining Zu Enlenburg's reputation and . life of a good citizen. They say I e.m a causing his consequent loss of favor good decorator. I was kept at work with the Emperor.es , long after the other men were let go dur- ingthe financial stringency. I ask the world to let me 1* a painter, nothing more, to do a man's work and enjoy the New Issue of C. P. R. Stock Will Aggre- average sorrows and happiness of the gate $28,32o,000. average nlali. Montreal, Jan. 6. -At a meeting of Will Return Here. the shareholders of the Canadian .t'aoli's: San I+raneisro, Jan. 0.---Tbe Rev. Jere Railway to -nth �irtwas the dire torts unanimously y r e ee KnocleCooke.Cooke. who disappeared from his solved to authorial residence when his identification became an additional 983,200 shares of the par known, together with his young compan- value of $28,320,000, so as to bring the ion, Floretta Whaley, and their baby, capital stock of the company up to the was located here again last night. He authorized amount of $150,000,000. The is staying at the home of a friend, where stoek is to. be issued from time to time he and his companion are comfortably according to requirements, and is to be situated. In an interview last night disposed of by the directors .in such a Cooke said 11e will return cast as soon manner, and at suchaeluia e(noteasss Ito he can get enough money to travel, than par) ants on such. t p payment and as soon as matters can be arranged as they may fodetermine. The of such iss lie will marry Miss Whaley. to be s d - It is expected that the grandmother d•t' al rolling stock and the eonstru,c- of the young woman will scud her funds such additional permanent .to return east. rr as argninb, f • Mr. �V• l\i 1k igise, K. C., held that the York Loan was justified, and, hi fact, legally obliged in crediting pay- ments on stock instead of on the loan and that this system was intended to continue until the share matured. The loan was then to be subtracted from the gross amonn.t of the stock. Mr. Kappele will hear argument on the other classes at the earliest possible mo- ment and expects to be able to deliver Interesting Test of the System on Inc decision about the end of January. Pacific Coast. A FATAL HOLIDAY. of wireless telegraph stations recently her husband for two years and it is. said. owns considerable property in the vicini- ty of Flushing and Jamaica, L. I. She. told Mrs. Hull that she had made a will,; leaving everything she possessed to, Myers. Mrs. Hull's identification was positive, She had maintained the closest personal relations with Mrs. Young and they both had lived first with Mrs. Blandford at 1492 Amsterdam avenue, and later with Mrs. Dazzer, 310 West 13th street, Myers is described as being short and swarthy, having a close -cropped Hark moustache. He wore when Mrs last an him a gray overcoat and gray gloves. Not the Woman. New York, Jan. 6.—It was reported to -day that Mrs. Agnes Young, the sup- : posed victim of the mysterious mueder at Harrison, N. J., is alive and employed in a real estate office on Madison avenue, this city. In an interview published with her to -day she is quoted as saying she knows Mrs. Hull, who identified the body of the murdered woman as Mrs. Young, but is unable to understand why Mrs. (lull should tell such a story as she did to the police. KIDNAPPING CASE 1 tion whether alcohol was to him a . happy excitant, from the point of view of musical composition, replied that he did not think so, since he ha' UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES I always preferred to abstain from ASKED TO INVESTIGATE, ! clarets. He .drank a little alcohol, at most an occasional sweet liquor. He `--`• ' did not believe it was an intellectual And if the Story is Well Founded. It is t stimulant. It might whip one up, Suggested That the Victims of the 1 but later it proved depressing. For Dakota Officers be Compensated fort himself, he never worked better thee` Damages Sustained, on an empty stomach. The green an ' yellow muses were tragic and deadly counsellors. Ottawa, Jail. 6.—The Secretary off Vincent D'Inty, being religious in Mate Hon. R. W. Scott, has written drinks as well as art, as one critic to Washington to ask the United States Government to investigate the alleged illegal action of a forth Dakota official who recently held up two Cauadian.far- mers driving along the boundary line at Emerson, forced them to cross over into United States territory, and on threat of keeping them in jail • compelled one of them to sign an affidavit iinpiicating him in an attempt to smweale wheat across tate boundary. . The affidavit was signed under pro- test, and the .nen were then allowed to return to En}}erson. Hon. Mr. Scott has represented to the' Washington author- ities that the action of the Dakota offi- cial was contrary to international law, and has asked that if an investigation bears out the contention of the com- plainants the United States Government compensate them for any damage sus- tained. •.• WIRELESS OVER MOUNTAIN. says, takes benedictine and char treuse. He Works cheerfully without cognac, but it adds to his excitation. The intellectual faculties stand a good chance of being vitiated if due to fictitious aids like alcohol. FRANK LAW HELD. Some Startling Revelations in Conspiracy. Case. A Toronto elespa.tch: So serious and so incriminating was the evidence in the Law -Russell conspiracy Hasa yesterday afternoon that Magistrate Kingsford thought it. his duty to in- crease Frank Law's bail from ;10,- 000 610, 000 to $20,000. Up to yesterday the Crown had devoted most of the at- tention to the Highland Mary claims, but yesterday the transactions with reference to the • much -advertise•. "Blue Bell" claims were brought to light. W. D. Hodson, formerly Sup- erintendent at the "Blue Bell," stated the that he had got in five months only two gold assays from the property, ona of which went $1.50 to the ton and the other $2.60 to the ton, not- withstanding advertisements which stated that the assays ranged from $2!00 to $20,000 to the ton. Victoria, B. C., Jan. 6.—The system Metalled on the tower coast by the Do - Two Scots Drowned Recently at Rock minion Geverninent has been successful Bay, B. C. in communicating over land sections, a D t as sceptical Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 6.— News comes from Rock Bay that Kenneth Matthieson and Mathew McOskar, na- tives of Scotland, have been drowned. The men took their Christmas dinner at the hotel at Rock Bay Landing; at sap- per at the operative camp six mites dis- tant, and started for their sleeping quarters in camp two miles away about 6 o'clock, They attempted to make the usual short-cut by walking along logs lying across the bend of the lake. The snow lay to a depth of three or four inches. They were missed on Friday. Their tracks were followed and this resulted in the finding of the bodies. 'The men had evidently fallen between the logs into the lake. McOskar belongs to Johnstone, near Paisley; Matthieson to Glasgow. •• ASK FOR SEED GRAIN. Growers' Association of New Provinces Wants a,000,000 Bushels. Ottawa, Jan. 6.—The Government has been asked by the Grain Growers' Asso- elation.of Alberta and Saskatchewan to furnish seed grain to'districts in Alberta and Saskatchewan covering about one mullion and a half acres, where the crops have been either a failure or have not yielded sufficient for seed purposes. It would take over two million bushels to supply seed for this acreage. The applicants have been referred to the Provincial authorities. TERRIFIC QUAKE RECORDED. thong which Supt. ou re rr DR. GRENFELL'S REINDEER. about when the system was first install Three Hundred of Them Storm -Tossed on the Atlantic. ed. It was expected that Pachen Victoria might have to talk through the medium of the United States station at Tatoosth, owing to the mountable inter- vening between Pachena and Viotoria. This has not been the ease, however, as communeiattion is now going on regular- ly between the points mentioned. News of an unexpected record was re- ceived last evening, however, when the operator at Victoria picked up the fol- lowing: "This is the steamer Portland, off Cape Mudge, waiting for the tide." This message sent from a point off Sey- mour Narrows ,on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, had to cross a high ridge of mountains, winch, added to the distance of about 150 miles, is re- garded as very creditable for the lim- ited power of the station. Believed to Have Taken Place Between ltfexico and Colombo. - Laibacile, Austria-Hungary, Jan. 6.— A series of earthquakes of great violence were rccorded at the observatory here this morning; which, according to Prof. 13elar, must -have bad their centre on the mainland ,between Mexico and Colombo, and produced :formidable effects. The disturbance, as shown by the recording sheets, lasted four hours. Shide, Isle of Wight, Dee. 30.—The seismological instruments at the Shide Hill Observatory registered an earth- quake this morning. Prof. John Milne, the well known authority on seismologi- cal disturbances, believed that the pres- ent 1 ion a disturbance, if not of submarine ori - tion ofst . i gin, may prove t.o have been most de- routes, etc., as may be required for the struetive. • FRENCH MEN ABHOR ALCOHOL. They Claim Fictitious Aids Vitiate Intellectual Faculties. St. John's, Nfld.,Jan. 6.—The Allan Line steamer Siciian, overdue fs'om Glasgow for Boston, arrived last night, having been delayeit by stress of wea- ther. Her officers report encounters with fierce gales. On account of the stormy weather it is thought probable that the steamer Anita, bound here from Norway, withlt 300 reindeer for Dr. W. T. Grenfell, head of the Labrador mission, will make a. long passage. 'rhe steamer is now four- teeu days out. Paris, Dee. 30.—Those usually nu- merous and well-intentioned beings who hold serious converse with them- selves at this season, debating whe- ther to swear off on New Year's Day, may be interested in some replies re• ceived by a French periodical which sent are enquiry to artists and writers necessaryasking if it were to drink alcohol, and what tthey drank. M. ' Sardou replied that he holds alcohol to be a poison. He could not stand half a glass of bran dy He never had recourse to aleo- hol as a stimulant to do his work. s coffee �u eetimesthe other daily. hand, Heedoes drinnot sleep well at night unless he has half a cup of coffee without sugar after dinner, M Saint-Saens says, pleasantly: "1 drink when I am eating and drink when I'm thirsty, chiefly mineral wa- ter and wine without excess, and a little beer, because I rarely find good beer. I fear alcohol because I have an easily irritated liver, and I drink little of it, but I don't totally abstain. depending on my state of health. 1 'never take alcohol as an incitement to work, nor any other stimulant, al- though sometimes I drink coffee if my head is heavy. If I can have good, cold, fresh water, I prefer it above all drinks." M Marsenet, repeating the quer' 4' BOILERMAKER FACED DEATH. Locomotive Passed Over Him, But He Fortunately Escaped. A St. Thomas despatch: Otto Winter - mute, a boilermaker, employed in the M: C. R. shops here, was crossing the yards on his way to work this morning when he was knocked down by a locomotive, the ash Iran had struck the mane body, The engineer stopped the engine before the ash pan and struck the man's body, and Winternmte crawled out between the drivers. He suffered only alight bruises, and will be out again in a day: 01' so. Wintermute did not see the en- gine coming owing to the fog. A REFUGEE IN CANADA. Charley Finlay, of Kentucky, is Dying of Consumption. Georgetown, Ky., Jan. 6.—At the trial of Caleb Power's for complicity in the Goebel assassination to -day .&t torney Wilson, speaking for the defence, declared that Charley Finley, who was indicted with Powers, and is now a fugi- tive in Canada, would have come back to Kentucky to testify at Vale trial, but is dying of eonsumption and .unable to travel. False Imprisonment Suit for '$ro,00te. A Chatham despatch: A writ for $10,� 000 damages was this morning issued by W. F. Smith against Geo. Massey, Manager of the Bank of Montreal, po- lice officer Thos. Graves and the Cor- poration of the city of Chatham on the ground of false imprlsoninent and ma- licious arreat on behalf of M Robert Ralph, of Wonderland.