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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-03-13, Page 2N Tk",,.!AL HE LIFE. New York Wonsan Accused of Shooting a Boarder. Husband and Daughter Principa Witnesses Against Her. C ildren Were burned to Death. School Took fire --Four Hundred (Chlldren`;Iried to Escape -Doors Became Blocked -Numbers Trampled to Death -Floor Cave Way and Many Perished in the Basement. Cleveland, chits, despatch: In a fire Iyhit'h completely destroyed the con 01011 se•hool hniid]ug in C'ollingwood, a sub-, ur1, to -day, seventy-five children lost their lives, The fire was started by an o•erheaat• r ed furnace. The Malts(' 44111' ly spread, but a pilule ensued when- the building • filled ttii4J sI11oke and the 400 children d attempted to escape, 1 There were lett tWo (Xits in the build. - g ing, that wore available. line soon be- t I caul: e1301:evl IVitlt the children who I i madly dashed he. the open air. 'I'boee • who fell iu the doorway were trampled 0 New York, March tt,... -Wit.h her hu band and young daughter seated at he side under subpoena to appear as th principal witnesses against her, 311•, Theresa Mein, 37 year:: old. was plates on trial yesterday charged with mu der. Airs. :it 001 is accused of 1letvfn shot and Mittel Frank ll'ertinger. , boarder, and without the testimony o the husband and slaughter, whose syu1 patsies are all with the defendant, th proseeutiol would lee sca.reeIy ad,le t proeced. The case of Mrs. Stein coal upon by thus behind and soon the door- ° way was impassable. - The t'ri_111tened and ;nude0strit'ken blues many strange eircunlstanee.:, A f- chileh'rii 111011( 1 to get nut through the t01• the killing of l,ortinger last August, windows 4)1111 „Hy Huber means that nes a result of a quarrel with her hus- band, who asserted that Grrti11 ' was ('(lilt be founi Escape was cut off by the flames whet: by this time, had s,mete 1 throuiiltont the roams•. Cil( hull/ling was of brick, yet this did not retard the prom ss of the fire. In a few minutes. the 1pC('1• floor fell, precipitat- ing scores of aclildree to the basement, among the bul'ning embers. 1'he scene t\lnut the building , was heartrending. (;uiekly the news of - the • terrible. catastrophe spread throughout the village and hundreds of parents were erowdnlg alio* the building in search of their girls bind boys. In 41 fe4v. mbetee 420 bodies had been ta.k(n from the ruins: Plainly -the writh- ing or ;tilled 'muss of dozens of others could he well>it the basement. Nearby faettiriee clisitil'ed their melt and in strlleted thenn!u lscist in the rescue. They braved the fire and made heroic efforts to sevtl:lwse who were not dead. Animus the ]tlo,wn dead are Edna Eab- ner, 11 )•ears,:dI Bernie Schubert, 10 Years old; 11111i0 \\"iessbert, 7 years; -. Meyers, 0 years; two Buschman girls, 10 and 12 years old; Hugh Mellraith, 10 years; Thomas Thompson, 9 years; Eddie Kehl, 11 years; -. Roster, 10 years; two Woodmeyer girls, aged 11 and 13; Harold Sanderson, 13 years. Hissing: Lizzie Lyon, Eminar, Heinge, Peter Heninger, Injured: (,let Barber, 10 years old; .l1ildred Schmidt, 10. At 11.30 twenty-five bodies had been recovered from the ruins and were taken to the shops of the Lake Shore & Michi- gan Southern Railway Company, where • the company's physicians are attending the iejtil'ed. 1'r teticalll every ambulance in the • eastern part of Cleveland was called, as ,well a§ every available physician. • Many children rescued are believed to be fatally injured, either by fire or by being trampled upon. Scores of children have heat taken to city hospitals. letter. {)00 hundred and si ;t v bodies have been 010uvered from the ruins. influencing her, Mrs. Stein threw her elf ; l a %t STRI HOCHELAGA, from window of her home to the c,nurl Over a Thousand Operatives of Cotton 1'. 2. WAS LTII.Y five stories below. Her hill was broken by e•lothes lines, but for a lou;: Hun her life was despaired of. Stein has stated that his wife fired the shot, al- leging that she was not responsibie, hav- ing been stead: au•t•]dentally on the head two years before. Mrs. Stein has not fully reeovere.t from the shock, width has so affected her that she (nmol reeoll((t what hap- pened on the night of the tragedy. Coun- sel has indi:at0d that the clnteaee will be insanity. A jury was selected in the ease to -(lacy. Mill Go Out. Montreal, Marsh i1, -.--Twelve hundred ' THAT SHE DID NOT FALL INTO HANDS OF NO. I. INSA IlTY PLEADED. ST. THOMAS MERCHANT CONVICTED OF FORGERY. fames A. Moore Signed Hls Brother's Name to Bank Guarantee -Prisoner's Aged Father Appears in Court to Testify on Insanity Plea. S1. T11111tas eltspateh: the 401a1 04 Jatnes A, Moore, fur and hide dealer, for ferg±ing the name of hie brother, a barrister, of Toronto, to a $1,000 guaren- tea bond on the-Dohuinion Bank, ereated 'considerable interest here to -day becaus. of • the fact tjtat the defence endeavored to show- that the seemed was not men- tally responsible for his 11011008. Moore last summer leeetl11le identified with sev- eral ]udustrial concerns, rns, and bream a prominent figure on the streets with an antolncbile, 'rile 0vid(acr against Moore was sarong;. Manager Anderson swore 11001'0 owes', the bank as high as $1 0,000, aal(1 ).1oore's sfoek of hides was repreeented to le $22„310, bet inspection showed it to be worth about. 0.10.000. Mr. Ander- sot: insisted on a l:: an'atlte'1 bond, and it was given. Hare- C. Moore. brother of the accused. ref 1)111101 M. ]3exter. whore. (lame r 4,u'ar(•11 es witness, both d((]1,red they had not signed the bond. and W. II. 1",w. of the Central Business College. '1'oromte. said the writing w -as not that of H. C. Moore, but that 0f .late. A. Monro. James. 13. t1o0re, of Waterford. hillier of the. ate(ns)11, 0n the Menn,ty plea, ,41141 the defendant had not been well sinew two years old, when he went through a severe illness. He had been a failure at college and in several business undertak- ings, and was subject to breakdowns, ex. eita1)le and nervous. Dr. Russell, ex -superintendent of the Hamilton Asylum, and Dr. Guest, city. both pronounc011 Moore as being far from well mentally. and irresponsible, ,Indge Colter, however, held that, al- though the accused was not perfectly sound mentally, the affliction was not sufficient to render him irresponsible. Moore was found guilty -atnd remanded a week for sentence. To -morrow he will appear and formally plead guilty to three other charges pre. ferred by the bank. r - o COBALT MINES ROBBED. Two Englishmen Arrested With Sacks of Rich Ore. Cobalt. March 9. --On Saturday morn- ing a robnery of two hundred pounds of rich silver ore 1VaS made at the Kerr Lake Crown reserve mine. This morn- ing about 2 o'clock Chief Caldbeck and Policeman McKay searched the Ottawa restaurant, landing John Harris and Steven Balis, both Englishmen, together with a sack of ore containing over a hundred pounds of nuggets, which were identified by Superintendent Bryce, of the Silver Queen. LARGER SHIPS NEXT YEAR. Vessels x,000 Feet Long and of Propor- tionate Depth. Belfast, Mardi 9. --Harland & '('Wolff have -Begun the construction of ship- yards that will allow the building. of ships larger than ally yet known; that is. tolsa.y, vessels 1,000 feet long and of proportionate beam and depth. It is ex- pected that a nounmotll. White Star Liner will be laid down here about a year from now, and this vessel will mark an epoch in the world's history of ship- building and engineering. There Would Have Been Little of Her or the Shop Left„ She Says - Man in the Case Was in Hamil- ton, Buffalo, ..\larch 9. Edwin Strauss, :30 S -ears al. labor 'water. cnnlpaig11 speak- er. and mtni,er of the t411 'l' ag firm of Strauss & Le(•l:wood, 10 East Eagle street, is a 1110011 wanted 1111111 by three persons - nie wife, Mrs. Katherine strewn. of :pin swan s;0101, ann,ther w'u1020). w•hmnr 110 retire -ones as his wife, and who clalinie him as her husband, Airs. Jlatry Str:nlas. of .11•_' 3m:li11 street, told his hu4me:s p)1,41111'. II11,nss lots not been Keen tee one of tet three for an week. tie is being sued 11y Mrs. I\ (1 4 li 001141' Strauss for 01Ynrve. .\ Weels at.4o .Itt-.- tiee Pound, of the Supreme lours. granted a petition for $.) counsel fees and $111 annemy. 31rs. Strauss eases. • employees of the Dominion 'Textile Company weal: out on strike to -day and the lomat. I,: the rtocileiaga mils are lying lilt 1111'4411J1.as The main hone of eonterltioll le 'sold to . be that employment of an aseiet14111 foreman. : \Ir. ,I0seph Venni,. Idiom the em- ployees wanted to 1111%•( dismissed, •but i the management would not yield to that demand. Nur ix the lnauotgentent• suit:' prepared e) yield another point, cthi(it le to have the working hour?. which are now front 6.15 al. 111.. to 4 p. 111,. ehaug*ed to 7 11. m1. and 5 p.m., re- spectively. 'Ther 'debit that they have Oct right to ruin their works as they think fit. 3(0. \\'iifrid Payette, President of the Federation of Textile \\'orkers, is now trying 'to arrange with the enc pluytes of the •u'ieitaults' Cotton Co. for a sympathetir strike. Ife also hopes 10 imbue, those employed at Magog and llonllntnetn1' ' to ,juin the i ot•emenl. i -e- • o BOGUS 1 ,LT. DOLLARS. she Kae not r(1314ed any atones 110111 1 • rraaue With Cot:nterfeiting Plant Seized gt;•an•'} 11nee the 001101', order W1113 \ew spur- t } .:r coteplete 11Crd. int l'auss x4'.'4 she married hi an 111 a iltw Chicago in li$00. the; have nmee 1 fi•oin lows half, kr. 104 Sneed 111 • l3rook- plaoe to place, ,hu' say$, and he has i syn 11d.17' and four 111011 and 0110 cvO- been in trouble and ,hr, hex 1,0011 QOM. pelted to :tient ]whsle (11111 .y. 'Three years ado, she says, he disappeared, 1eat'.nri 41.14' 1111 invalid. with, at that time, little hope of recovery. She got . better, however, and well to Roelles 1 1'. where she rearmed that her husband was in Hamilton, where. two brothers re- side. She failed to tied flint in Hamil- 1 tun, and was told Haat he h.ui gone to Toronto, but latter learned that he Was in BBuffalu, where elle found (h•aues last June. 1n 111.1' story airs, Strauss says: '•1 swore out a walr•atilt elltll•gilig aban- donment. Ile - induced net to withdraw it, on his ]>runtiee that he would sup- port 1110, 11.411 1 11turnett to 3lansi'i01d. 1 slid not est any motley from him, and 1 mune 1;1101: to Iitlffaln last November, when 1 0blaincd another warrant, but ' that also I withdrew when he renewed sus p1 (: :153.4, But 1 got nothing from hill and carne bade to buffalo again. I began Illy shit fol• divorce and last 'Tuesday obtained 11 wala•au1t charging trim with nest -support. He 11:18 called at the house hero and threatened ale. .Cie said that if 1 over lel the public I.noiy that 1. had brought a etivuree suit lie would have ale turowu in jail or run out of town. 1 saw the woman with where 110 is now 111ieg, i11 the tailor shop in East Eagle street, but at the time 1 did not know it was she. If 1 had there would have been little of her or the shop left'.." When the woman who says she is Mrs. Mary Strauss was seen at her home at 111.2 1111.111 street yesterday af- ternoon. ;110 was 31181 pulling a carriage with a pretty girl baby scatted in it up the two flights of stairs to her flat. When questioled she said: " • "1 have. not seen my husband for a week. Ile went awns Without saying re word. to ale stud 1 d0 not know where he is, neither do 1 know w•ht'll he trill come back." "Ale you his wife':" she was asked, "Yes" ass GUELPH OFFICIALS APPOINTED. • Long Session of City Council Ends in Defeat of New Men. - A Guelph despatch: The City Council sari; last night at 8.15 and costive d in ise ssi0n up to' a quarter to one. '('ht, appointment of officers for the tri t positions of Clerk, T)•easurer, Collector and Police (court (leek was discussed, anal the attempt of the new members to displace the old members of the civic offices met with strong Opposition. The fiends of the old city officials succeeded in retaining ,their service -in nearly all insteneee. The Clerk Ives appointed Clerk o8 the Police Court at a salary of $500. Col, White and William 1:Iat.rt were appointed Aeeeseors; Mr. T, J, Moore, Clerk, and Elias .Rice, Collector. Ex-Ald,-S•ereg*gle was reappointed Treasurer, and Mr. G. McArthur, formerly assistant ensein;eer, made enlgiIie..er-in-ehie.` nolo Were atzrcst'(1, eha.rged with Mak- i i11g met ('11)1111)4.1: g the imitation coins. secret _ erviee .1l: 'ups 'have been search - 1r1 t roe two ))11111$ for 0 band of coun- terfeitere who have flooded the city with half 11011are see nearly like real • menet- that deteetionl was next to im- possible. They say that newly -moulded coin; found in the Brc,oklvn house to- : flay were made in the same moulds and from the sauce material as those which have tense so emelt trouble. The bogus coins. while almost an ex - I •tc'l repro(hectiou of those turned out by the rutted ~tares mints. Were found upon expert examination to contain 11 { considerable quantity of tin and also 10 be slightly overweight. The prisoners under arrest are John Hart, Raymond Serutou. Joseph (Gifford, Thomas 3Ic- 1'artlau4l and Mabel Hamilton. ♦es BANK OF MONTREAL. May Make Invasion of United States and Europe. Montreali, \fare( 9. -The statement is - • made here in financial circles that the Bank of MwttreaI is about to inaugurate a more expansive policy, as they will open more branches in the United States and very likeiy on the continent of Europe, with .a view to take advantage of its exceptional opportunities to deal with exchange, The statement is made utast within a few mouths the Bank of Montreal will open in all the American centres where ars exchange business can be worked. Roston and New Orleans are spoken of as prospective points as at starter and 11015e than likely other points will have u branch. As for Europe, the idea prevails that a branch of the big bank will very soon be opened in Paris, France, where another Quebec bank has al- ready been established. GERMANY'S OIL MONOPOLY. The Question Not to be Decided Before Autumn. Berlin, March 9 -Th.e question of a Government petroleum monopoly is still under consideration by the Imperial Ministry of Finance, but the commis - ,.;semi which 114)8 been investigating the matter has not yet decided to recom- mend difficulty is how to get along mend it. without the Standard Oil Company. If the State monopoly is to be anything more than a selling agent for the Standard di] Company arrangements must be the most economical possible for a continuous' supply of American petroleum for mixing with the Euro- pean product. No conclusion, however, need be reach- ed before next autumn, as Chancellor Von. l:luelow and Secretary of the Trea- sury Sydow have postponed the intro• duction of fresh tax proposals until that time. 5 S IN QUEBEC. Granted Colonization Lands in That Province.. ( pts a .)-_. . The salvation .rn13' intends 10 open ttp colonization lands in Qnebee. This strteneut was made this morning by ('onlmissionur Coombs, who was at the Parliament buildings to interview lion. • 3Ir, .lunteit1 and lion. Mr, Hanna. The Army has been offered land for colouiz- :Ilion purpose, in (Seebt'e, by the Gov- ernment, and will send immigrants to settle on the land. This conlplet444 the schaele for eulonlratiou in every Pro- vince in Canada. 'Ile Commissioner hetet,: t0.1119111 for New York. whence he .ails for Liverpool on the ('e'ltit. and � will return about the earl of April, While in the old country he will see General Booth regarding the schemes. Ori 3larell. 26 a party of immigrants v will leave Glaego for Ontario and the -114irit 1111.0 ('10311110044. ass PROOF IS NOT DIFFICULT. Manager's Views as to Claims Against Directors, T(n•onto despatch: The notion on the part of the rormer directors of the On- tario Bank to ]lave the suit which is being brought against them by the liquidator heard by a judge alone, instead of by al judge and jury, (tulle before lir. Justice Magee at Usgoode Hall yester- day morning, and was ad•journel for one week. The postpolle111ent of the hearing was . by mutual agreement between counsel to allow the lawyer for the directors to examine an affidavit made by Mr. Arthur Douglas Braithwaite, General Manager of the Ontario Bank. The latter is in reply to the statements of the defendant directors to the effect that should the action 1>e heard by a jury the verdict could not be a fair one owing to the alleged complicated nature of the evidence to be adduced, and to the alleged bias existing in the 11111111 of the public and in the press against the directors. The directors fur- ther stated that so numerous are the hank's shareholders that some of them or friends or relatives would be certain to get In the panel. :lir. Braithwaite's affidavit points out that the evidence which in his opinion. n11uSt be gone into will not be as technical as represented; that to his mines public sentiment does not seem against the directors; and that the number of shareholders in Toronto is not such as would make it impossible to keep friends or relatives off a jury. • HE ROBBED CHURCHES. Antoine Thomas Sent to Prison at Limoges. Limoges, France, Barest 9.- Antoine Thome to -clay was sentenced to six years' imprisonment art hard Leber. Thomas is the cooper at Clermont -Fee, who committed the series of Se1199- tional chn1011 robberies in Franke, the revelation of which created a sensation salsa 1141'1. 'lt}1e trial began 11a'u a 'February 27th. His van Francis and his mother, to- gether with three antiquarbei, Michel. Retire and :Dufay, were ehaxged with complicity in the thefts. The mother and Michel were acquitted. The son and the other two antiquaries were found guilty and sentence] each to two years at hard labor. Orders were given that the stolen relics be turned over to the State. SUFFRAGISTS AT WASHINGTON, Plea Made to Senate and to House of Representatives, Washington, March 9, --The advocates of women suffrage were to -day given their annual opportunity to present pleas to Congress, the presentation to the Senate beim; made before the Com- mittee on \Voman's Suffrage, and to the House before the Judiciary Com- mittee. Senator Clay of Georgia pre- sided over the Senate Committee meet- ing, and Rev. Anna Shaw, as President of the National Female Suffrage As- sociation, introduced the speakers, the first of whom was Mrs. Belva Lock - Wood, who has the distinction el being the only woman with ever made the race for the Presidency. HYPNOTIZED BY -VICTIM'S WIFE. A GERMAN OFFICER'S THRILLING CONFESSION. He Was Led on to Conant Murder - Astonishing Story of a Man's Mad Love for a Woman, and How She Controlled His Actions. Berlin, March 9. -The murder of a military offieor by a brother of£ieee Christmas night, which excited great interest in Germany, has become doubly sensational through the mur- derer's cenfeesion that he 11/12s hyp- notized by the wife of the murdered man. into the commission of the crime. Re's'old the fact that Captain Von Goeben; of the artillery, shot and loflled, .l, •tor 'Von "•: hoewbeck, of the dragoons, in the tat=s '1's house, owing to the former•'s guilt; love for lir-au Von Schoenbeck, little was certainly known, although malty versions of the affair were current. friends tried to get Von (su0ben deela0e/d insane, but experts declared he was sane. Von Goevcn realized that his execution as a eminent mlll•de1'er was certain, and the eonnanitted suicide y-cesteeday in his cell in the military prison -at Allen - stein, on the Polish frontier, by bruit- ing his throat with a blunt table knife, To the Munich alienist, Prof. Baric ]cllrencll.notzing, the murderer a few hours previously had made an 11 ((14ishingr co fees:ion of mad leve, for Frau 'Von ,iiielloenbeck and of her power over him, In the course of his confr Sion, Iv1liell I\'as ew'Orn to, he ••rid: "My country, my mother, my Mende, all I would have cheer. fully betrayed. could I but have ex- ehalt,1ma1 them foe this witch, who Massie me swear beneath the twinkling b1 a11(a]res of her eltildeen's C::nlisetmas tree that. I would kill their father that Yens• nig"- Although he knew from her own firs that she start led a recicls life, Von Goebel' slid: "I regeurled Bee as emit:411111ex meet and sacred. 1 Ler sieved blindly anything she said. 'When I think back i cannot comp('('.• head how I reedited it all. The wo- men must have exercised a sort of" mesmerism over me, for I would have unresistingly- and unhesitatingly have roumlutted the greatest erim.e for her. I never had pangs of cons'eience, t. I hon- ored her as a goddess." The women e.onsbanttly complained of her husband's ill-treatment, and '3011 •('inebtn resolved to free her. They discus: e'd lneanls of getting ri(1 of him. end at one time decided that, the wife should poison hint. :In hie eonfc: =ion Van Gethen adds : . '" 1 . 1et leer arou,gli n.rsenio to poison two hundred 1>erc'008, but her cour- age failed" Other means were dl]s- emce d until, when Christmas 0,1111110, Von Coeben rets Von Seboenbeok's guest, and during the letter's ab- sence front the ('sort, Frau Von Sehoenbeek mule Von (i•oeben swear that he w-on'41 kill her 1ul=band. Von Goebert said: "T cheerfully made that 00L}l," And with the wife's eanni- ranee lie re-entered the house niter leaving b3- opening a w•ind'oy, three(' hahurs after midnight. Major Von Schoenberg w'ns disturbed by the noise, and met the intruder with his re- volver. but before he coul(1. fire Voir floehen shot sant. A MAN TORN TO PIECES. . Ghastly Find on Train That Arrived Prem. Barrie. A Toronto despatch: When Grand Truro: train No. 08 from Barrie drew in- to the Unison ons ,Station Lest night at 8.33, about forty minutes. late, one of the ela- tion employees saw blood en the ba„- grat.ga ear. A eeareh was made, and be- tween the )11111 and baggage ears on the connecting a.ppl•ianees, tiller were found the pocket of a workingman's jacket, With a plug of tobaeto in it, and. the sleeve 01 a coat and a shirt, both cut off at the ,shoulder, and pare of the arm with some flesh sticking t.o the shirt Sleeve. Later word was' received from Maple than the leg of a mewl had been found on the tsncks there, but beyond this n'o further• word had been received of Who the man was who had evidently been killed. It Ivies the opinion of the rail- way offit0;110, judging from how the clotiiees wren' found. that it. was (some workman who had been riding on the bimnmers. Engineer Cnlwre ee, Wil(1 w1118 1n charge of the Haim says he had not the slightee , id0a1• of heaving street: any one and the mail c:;erke and baggage - men neitllc•1' saw nor heard anything of ' the matter. • •sac A POLISH TOWN SOLD. Dubno Passes to an Austrian Count for $2,000,000. St. Petersburg, March 9. -The news of an interesting transfer of real estate is reported her from the Government of Volhynia.. The entire town of Dubno, which has some 13,G00 inhabitants, has been sold by the owner, Countess Slruva• lovo, to Count Offendorf, an Austrian,, for $2,000,000. The transfer includes the site of the Russian fortress at Dubno. This town is one of several in Russian Poland that has been held under the ownership of a single` individual since the old feudal days. It eteis founded in the tenth century, and was once owned by a King of Po- land. The fortress has been the fieldof many engagements, and it enjoys the dis- tinction of never having been captured during eithei.' the Cossack or the Tartar rove siane.