HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-01-10, Page 4ELOPING MINISTER
AND HIS AFFINITY.
Former Pastor of Long
Island Church
Working to Support Girl
He Has Ruined.
Deserted His Wife and
Family In East.
San Francisco, Jan. e. ---In a pelting
rain and before daylight, the Rev. Jere
Knode Cooke, formerly pastor of the
fashionable St. George's Church at Hemp-
stead, N. Y., and Floretta Whaley, the
17 -year-old heiress with whom he eloped
eight months ago, deserting a wife, stole.
away today from the little flat which
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 Elrnt auk, twelve miles front
here, Coroner 1). Henke, of Brampton,
held an inquest this afternoon into, the
eireaunstauues surrounding the death
of William Curry, who died on Christ-
mas night after tieing shot by his hired
nein, John David Terrace. While 'some
of the jurors contented that further
evidence should have been adduked,
and. that they should have heard the
story of James Reid, the Barnardo
bow ++•110 saw the slrootieg, the follow -
they had occupied at 1199 Green street ing verdict was returned:
in this city, where they were discovered -We find that\Villiam Curry cause
yesterday living under the name of Mr. ; to his (Leath front a gunshot wound
and Mrs. Gerald Belem, taking with ' caused by , a shot from a gun fired by
one John :terrace, and that the -said
them their baby boy. , John Terrace did directly kill and
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. Balcom
when they arrived here last June from
Los Angeles, recognized the girl's picture
when it was published last week in con-
nection with a despatch from Louisiana
stating that Cooke had deserted Floretta
Whalez=.
rYesterday afternoon a representative
from a local newspaper called at the
home where Cooke and his companion
lived. Cooke, a Yale graduate, worked
at painting and decorating, and when broke down and cried, staling that he
that was not abundant he did any man- would rather not give evidence against
ual work that he could get. Terrace at all. He was positive that no
Wiien de interviewer called yesterday, mention of hiring or wages was discuss-
Balcom or Cooke, admitted his identity, ?5l while Terrace had him covered with
but senttthe yoturg mother and the baby the gun.
into another room, asking the reporter Dr. Moses II. 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. on Christmas night, and found Mr. Wm.
...When, Cooke was visited at the Green j Curry dying. :Thirty-two minutes later
street flat yesterday he was engaged in
lie
d dcould
have
been
making gravy for his Snday dinner, prevent death, which,it his opinion,
while Floretta Whaley, beautiful and was caused by shock and hemorrhage.
motherhood
Dr. D. L. klegie, of Brampton, who
with the pallor of recent mo
still on her features, lay on a lounge in performed the post-mortem hi eoiiipalij
the next room singing to her baby, a with Dr. J. A. Lawson and M. A. J..
healthy boy. The fugitive pastor at first Johnson, of Toronto, gave, as the cause
denied his identity and insisted that ]lis of death, hemorrhage ;incl shriek, caused
"name was Belem, but as he offered his bs the "au,hot ivotind.
visitor a cigar his hand shook and he The neral line of the wound, said
finally admitted he eves Cooke. Dr. Heggie to Mr. Hassard, was upward.
"Prete: th
he exclaimed. "now e awak- The bulk of the shot passed through
BFinening. •;1iy God, what an awakening. the body.
Look here, give he a chance to get away. Inspector "Wm. Greer; who examined
You are human, just as human as I ani. the Curry homestead, stated that there
I don't mind Sing Sing or hell, but it's 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 nod sheeting of the roof.
ere—what's the eternal use] The inex- j This eoneleea Miclen�,r, Ttfx,
FI assarcl nsld the
lie coronerevto in truet
orable law must be maintained,'Ce j file jury ur to bring in a verdict that
l:orld will go around and nothing can I
prevent its I have preached it myself so William Curry met his cjeath frons
often that I otic, _ to know it now. a gun in the hands of Terrace, but
Faith,•there's nothing that will paint a to leave off the clause containing the
black sheep v ',he, but look here, listen reference to murder. The eerdiet was
to my side. For ten years I have kept returned as above. hWever.
silent. For -lie last eight months I have Q
borne with nt a murmur the vilest lies THE KAISER'S SISTER
that yellow journalism could .conjure and
now I will speak. It was only yesterday Supplied Information Caneernfng the.
that a paper had a story about me giv- Camarilla.
ing away niy wife to a reran in Louisiana
—as if that could be possible. Give her Berlin, Jan. 6.—Phe name of Princes
away! Give away my life? Charlotte Von 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 -Von Moltke 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 1.4faxinrilllen Harden with the informa-
rectorship of St. George's Episcopal tion concerning the 'Lit Eulenburg "group"
Church et Hempstead, L. L Prior to this near the person of the Emperor, upon
I bad married and three days after my which Harden based his campaign
marriage I discovered that I had made against the so-called camarilla.
the most awful mistake a man could Harden had two meetings with the
snake, To continue, I found what a oris -princess, seemingly upon request. Prof.
.take I had made three clays after I was
married. I don't intend to give all the Schweninger, who was present at these
details of the next nine years of my life, interviews, gave a brief secotmt of them
in a deposition. General Count Wilhelm
but it was hell.
"Then I awoke to love and everything erence onobenasnnia s hien 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 and wealth, and on
have been on cool terms for several years
the other love and poverty. I stepped
past. The late Prince Bernhard, _bus
back to my old trade learned fifteen band of the princess, was for long op
years ago, incl became a painter and de- osed to the influence of 'Prince Philip
:orator. And now all that I ask is that pat Eulenburg at court. It is apparent
this may continue. I.am doing a man's that the princess did not forget this feud
ed. N I 1havegsthe. world, but I have suffer- and that she has been instrumental in
w th nos I ifs and ci ld. I coli live]one
the ruining Zu Enlenburg's reputation and
causing his consequent
loss of favor
. life of good 't" They say I am 1 with the
shooting of his father and the strug-
gle he had with Terruoe, whom he
finally overpowered anct tied with rope.
To Mr. liassard Air. Curry said that
on the day before Christmas, when he
and Terrees were in the. staple, Ter-
racli removed a large hainin r• from his
pocket and placed it in a barrel. lir.
Hassard cross-examined Mr. Curry very
minutely as to the dimensions of the
dining- bon at kis louse, and \Tr. Curry
more conveniedt said economical handling
of the companies' traffic"
Sir Thethae Shaughnessy, in submit-
ting the resolution, said it was un-
necesssary for him to enlarge on what
was said -at the annual meeting of the
eltareholdets when the issue was fore-
shadow ed and its purposes explained.
"Your directors are convinced,; he
continued; ''that Canada will continue
to progresss, 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 ,nay not be out of place
to say at this meeting of shareholders
that newspaper rumors with reference
to negotiittions by the C. P. R. for the
purchase of railway lines in the United
States are absolutely without founda-
tion, There hare been no such negotia-
tions at any time."
At a subsequent meeting of the board
the directors clec•ided to issue twenty -
few inilliot three hundred and thirty-six
thousand dollars of said stock forthwith,
and to offer the same at par to the
shareholders of the ordinary capital
stock of record elan. 13 next, when the
transfer hooks will close for the purpose,
in the' proportion of twenty per cent, of
their respeetive holdings, as shown by
the _company's stuck registers on that
date,
- YORK LOAN.
RIGHTS OF "ADVANCE" SHARE-
HOLDERS BEFORE REFEREE.
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 marsh
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 Motel, this city.
The identification was made by her
close personal friend, Mrs. Frank Bull,
who lives at 7 \Vest 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. ]lull says that on Christmas day
Mrs. Young hail $300 whieh she had
drawn from the bank two days before to
put into a laundry which she and Myers
were to establish in some Jersey- town
Judgment.' Was Reserved— Shares In- along the Pennsylvania Railroad.
A ainst Mrs. Young had been separated from
volved Amount to $a5o,000, g
Which Are Loans Totalling $102,000.'
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 elose-cropped dark
moustache. He wore when Mrs. Hull
last say 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 murder
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 hire.
Young, but is unable to understand wily
Mrs. Hull should tell such a story as
she did to the police.
Toronto despatch: er,.utnents on ulnas ; KIDNAPPING CASE.
11 claims ugantst the York Loan assets
heard yesterday afternoon by Offi
tion whether alcohol was to him a
happy excitant, from the point or
view of musical composition, replied
that he did not think so, since he hal
was ear 'M aalways preferred to abstain from
Bial Referee lire liappele. Judgment was � UNITED STATES AUTHORITIESclarets. He .drank a little alcohol, at
reserved. Mi. W. R. Smythe appeared I ASKED TO INVESTIGATE, more an occasional sweet liquor. He
for the :rage and Mr. ff. arehlas,old K. did not believe it was an intellectual
C., for the generallud body of shareholders. And if the Story is Weil Founded It is stimulant. It might whip one up,
Class 11 fir+'Irides those shareholders
who borrowed oil their stock. The shares Suggested That the Victims of the bus later it proved depressing. For
involved. amount to $230,000, against Dakota Officers be Compensated for himself, he never worked better thee.
which loans totalling have been on an empty stomach. The green anti
$102,000Damages Sustained, yellow muses were tragic and deadly
niade.:�' r. Smythe held thst the amounts
ppaidr . , , counsellors.
ate ui v a shareholder after d. ago ing y Vincent D'Inty, being religious in
on his share :Ionia be credited. against Ottawa, Jan. 6.—The tt has tti rift n drinks as well as art, as one critic
the loan, so that where the liquidator State, Hon. R. \V. �
comes to distribute the assets of the
company the .hareholder will receive his
dividend on the amount paid in up to
the time he harrowed, 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-
ditlondl stock payment and not set 4iown
as offset to the loan, unless special ap-
plication: were_ made by the shareholder.
It is agaust the ?apparent effect of this
sy stem g ;aisSeeeeprng tilat Mr. Smythe
Vs as arguing, , • ,
'Mr. W. M. 13a.glas, K. C., held that
the York Logit was justified, and, it
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 amount 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
his decision about the end of January.
to Wahington to ask the United
illegal action of e North Dakota official cognac, but it adds to his excitation.
who recently held up two Canadian fee -
fictitious
intellectual faculties stand a good
mens driving along the boundary lice at chance of being vitiated if due to
Emerson, forced them to cross over into fictitious aids like alcohol.
4 . i
United States territory,, and on threat FRANK LAW
of keeping them in. jail • compelled one
of them to sign an affidavit implicating
him in; an attempt to smii gle wheat
across the boundary.
The affidavit was signed under pro-
test and the men were then allowed to
return to Eu}erson. Hon. Mr. Scott has
represented to the' Washington ,author-
ities that the action of the Dakota offi-
cial was eontrary to international law,
and has asked that if an investigation
bears out the contention of the com-
plainants the United. States Government
compensate then for any damage sus-
tained.
Government to investigate the alleged
says,takes benedictine and char
treuse. He works cheerfully without
A FATAL HOLIDAY.
Two Scots Drowned Recently at Rock
Bay, B. C.
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 sup-
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
Jolinstone, near Paisley; Matthieson to
Glasgow.
ASK -FOR SEED GRAIN.
if . a oo citizen. .. . Emperor.
good. decorator. I was kept at workm
long after the other men were let go dux- LOOKING AHEAD.ing the financial stringency. I ask the
worldto. e • me
let be a painter,
nothing New Issue of C. P. R. Stock Will Aggre-
mare to do a man's work and enjoy the
average sorrows and happiness of the
gate $28,3eo,000.
average man." Montreal, Jan. 6.—At meting of
Will Return Here. the shareholders of the Canadian t acinic
San Francisca, Jan. 6. --The Rev. Jere Railway to -day it the dire nimoustors to rlyseu-
ICnodeC'ooi;r, who di:aappeared from his solved to authorise t
residence when his identification became an additional 283,200 shares of the par
known, together with his young compete value of $28,320,000, so as to bring the
ion, Floretta Whaley, and their baby, eapital samount of qof the m5 ,0 Onp to The
the
as located here again last night. He authorized
Is staying at the home of a friend, where stock is to
to be requirefrom time ments, el ts, and is to ehe and lis companion are comfortably disposed according
ngof byr q;he directors in suoh e
situated. In an interview last n g
a
Choke said he will return east as soon manner,
r and
ndduhe
uch
ari oms f nopat less
ss
as he can get enough money to travel, than pa )
and as soon as matters can be arranged as they may determine. The money is
he will marry MiGs Whaley. to be used "f0e the purchase of such ad -
It is expected that the grandmother
of the young woman will send her funds
,to return east.
ona rennin' d"rt"I1 nnin' stool- midthe eons rue -
WIRELESS
OVER MOUNTAIN.
Interesting Test of the System
Pacific Coast.
on
HELD.
Some Startling Revelations in Conspiracy
Case.
A Toronto despatch: So serious and
so incriminating was the evidence
in the Law -Russell conspiracy case
yesterday afternoon that Magistrate
Kingsford thought it his duty to in-
crease Frank Law's bail from $10,--
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 -advertised
"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,
of which went $1.60 to the ton
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 6.—The system
of wireless telegraph stations recently
installed on the tower coast by the Do -
inion Government has been successful
in communicating over land sections, a
thing whichSupt. Doutre was sceptical DR. GRENFELL'S REINDEER.
about when the system was first install-
ed. It was expected. that Pachena and ! Three
Victoria might have to talk through the
medium of the United States station at
Tatoosh, owing to the mountains inter-
vening between Paehena and Victoria.
This has not been the ease, however, as
coinmuneiation is now going an 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, which, added to
the distance of about 160 smiles, is re-
garded as very creditable for the lim-
ited power of the station.
and the other $2.60 to the ton, not-
withstanding advertisements which
stated that the assays ranged from,
$200 to $20,000 to the ton.
Growers' Association of . New Provinces
Wants 2,000,000 Bushels.
Ottawa, Jan. 6.—The Government has
been asked by the Grain Growers' Asso-
ciation of Alberta and Saskatchewan to
furnish seed grain to'distriets in Alberta
and Saskatchewan covering about one
million 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 app)icents hare been referred to
the Provincialauthorities.
e TERRIFIC QUAKE RECORDED.
Believed to Have Taken Place Between
Mexico and Colombo, -
Lnihach.n, Austria-Hungary, Jan, 0.—
A series of earthquakes of great violence
were recorded at ,the observatory here
this morning, which, according to Prof.
13elar, must have had 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-
ant disturbance, if not of submarine ori-
tion of suer additional permanent gin, may 'Prove to have been most de -
routes, etc., as may be required for the structrvee . I.1
Hundred of Them Storm -Tossed on
the
Atlantic.
St. John's, Nfld. Jan. 6.—The Allan
Line steamer Sicilian, overdue from
Glasgow for Boston, arrived last night,
having been delayed 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, with
300 reindieer for Dr. W. T. Grenfell, head
of the Labra.or mission, will make a
long pasange. 'The steamer is now four-
teen days out.
FRENCH MEN ABHOR ALCOHOL.
They Claim Fictitious Aids Vitiate
Intellectual Faculties.
Paris, Dec. 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 aFrench periodical which
sent an enquiry to artists and writers
asking if it were necessary forthem
to drink alcohol, and what they
drank. M. •Sardou replied that he
holds alcohol to be a could not stand half a g asson. of brans
dy He never had recourse to also;
hol as a stimulant to dohis work.
s coffee
thieehe times He
other hand,
ddoeshe not 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, T prefer it
above all drinks." herons arrest an behalf of MRo
M Marsenet, repeating the trues, Ralph, of Wonderland.
BOILERMAKER FACED DEATH.
Locomotive Passed Over Him, But He
Fortunately Escaped.
A St. '.L'hornas despateh: Otto Winter -
mute, a boilermaker, employed in the M.
C. R. shops here, was croaeing the yards
on his way to work this morning when
he was knocked dowu by a locomotive,
the ash pan bad struck the man'e body,
The engineer stopped the engine before
the ash pan and struck the man's body,
and Winterinute crawled out between
the drivers. He suffered only slight
bruises, and will be out again in a day
or 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 Powers for complicity in
the Goebel assassination to -day At-
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 btuak
to Kentucky to testify tet this trial, but
is dying of consumption and unable to
travel. -
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False Imprisonment. Suit for $20,000.
A Chatham despatch: A writ for $10,e
000 damages w•as 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 imprisonment and nese