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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-05-15, Page 2BA Barber and His Wife Are Mortally 'Wounded. Three Barbers' Throats Also Cut. The Boy Believed to be Black Hand Agent. New York, May 11.—A le-yearold boy known only as Carntello and employed in a barber :hop in Brookly, early- cut the throats of his employer,. Antonio Peraso, Mrs. Peres°, and three . arbers while they lay asleep in Peraso's apart- ment, at 107 Fulton street. The wounds of Peraso and his wife are believed to be mortal while those of the barbers are serious, but probably not fatal. The boy escaped. The police have a theory that the boy was an agent of a Black Band gang, which had been de- manding money of Peraso under threats of doing hint injury and that the black- mailers placed the boy in the shop in order to punish Peraso for his refusal to satisfy their demands. C`•arniello used a. pair of scissors and a razor in his attaek upon the barber and his employees. Frank Strnfina. it�e�riel Robento and Josef Maeero, the three barbers, were first attacked by the by. • Strain()Strain()was awakened from his sleep by a stab in the neck and before he could resist the boy drew a razor across his throat, inflicting, a severe wound. He was still eunscicnis .tied saw the boy as he crept to the bedsides of Rebento and Macero and cut their throats while they slept. Peraso, who. with his wife, was asleep t in art adjoining room, was awakened by 1 a stab wound in his neck and engaged the boy in a desperate struggle. The mann was unarmed and the boy clutching a razor *in his hand slashed his employer several times about the face, neck and hands. The fight was going against the barber when his three assistants stag- gered into the room and attacked the hey. Together they drove him from the rooms into the street and summoned assistance: It was found that " e. ed- uso'ss throat had been cut ern 'was lying in bed only pai'llal aeious whsle the fight With the boy was in progress. PRIVATE CEMETERY. GHASTLY REMAINS DUG UPS AT LAPORTE, IND. .A Murderess Murdered in Her Home With Her Three Children—After the Fire Five Bodies Dug Up Near Hoes Laporte. .incl.. May 11. --Ono of the most gnu home murder mysteries ever unearthed i:: this State came to light to -night, when the bodies of five per- sons, all of whom were murdered. were found in the yard of airs. Bella Guin- ness, who, with three of her children, was burned to death on the night of April 28 last. So far only two of the bodies have been identified. These are Andrew Heigeleir., who came to this city from tnsfie.Id, South Dakota, for the pur- e of marrying Mrs. Guinness, whose acquainance he had made through a matrimonial bureau, and that of Miss Jennie Olsen Guinness, a Chicago girl, Mr who had been adopted by . Guin- ness, She disappeared in September, 1908. The other bodies were those of two men and a woman. None of them has been identified. The body of Heige- Iein had been dismembered, and the arms, legs and head and trunk were buried in different parts of the yard. The three unidentified bodies are those of a man and two children, ap- parently twelve- years of age. So many bones are missing in the latter two that it is not known whether they. are 'male or female. It is believed by the authorities that Guy Lamphere. who has been under ar- rest since the burning of the Guinness • home on the charge of murdering Mrs. Guinness and her family, committed the Helgelein crime. Lamphere is a carpen- ter, and the manlier in which the body of Helgelein was dismembered lends to the belief that it was done by somebody familiar with the use of the saw. In some quarters it is believed that Mrs. Guinness may have known some- thing of the murders of the five people, as it is not considered likely that so many could have been buried in her yard without her knowledge of the fact. There have been rumors that Jennie Olsen Guinness had knowledge of the manner in which the; first hus- band of Mrs. (iuinnese cams to his death in Chicago, and it is believed she was made away with because she knew too much. It is known that TTelgelein had loaned $1,500 toMre. Guinnesa, and that he had another $1,500 in his possession just prior to his death. Tt is considered probable that he was killed by Mrs. Guinness or 1:7y Lamphere, or by boot • .n nrnrnre the 41141) 'ha. had and to avoid the necessity of repay- ing the loan he had made her. Lawp!tere Hendee alt lutuwiedge of pat•- licipattun in any (rinse, and declares Lunt he knows flushing of the unidentified bodies. The bodies were discovered by A. K. lielgulein, brother of the murdered matt, who had mine to Laporte to search for his brother. When questioning Joseph lfaxson, a 1'•dh 1 t h f Ii1 e - etre ant on e (.utuness assn, e g lein learned of the mysterious digging of holes by him, all of them being filled at a later date by Mrs. Guinness. The remains were only . four feet under- ground, and were enclosed in a gunny - seek. The discovery of the bodies led expressmen • to tell of the delivery of five trunks to the Guinness farm (luring the last six months, and this fact has caused the authorities to work on the theory that the place was a clearing- house for murderers. They suspect that the bodies of wealthy persons who had been lured to Cltit•ngo and killed were packet] its these trunks and sent to Laporte and disposed of. The developments of to -day also caused the authorities to recall that the two husbands of Mrs. Guinness died under snspicions circumstances. both meeting violent deaths. The first, Max Sorren- son, was insured fur $8,500, and the sec- ond. Guinness. was insured for $3,500. This insurance was paid over to Mrs. Guinness by the companies. 'fire home of Mrs. Guinness, six miles front here, was destroyed by fire during the night a week ago. The bodies of the woman and her three children were found in the ruins. The children were Jie rtie, aged 11; Luey. 9, •and Phyllis. 5. .Joseph Maxwell. an em- ployee of Mrs. Guinness. barely escaped from the horning house. The head of Afro. Cninness was missing from the charred trunk. it has not been found. Sohn after the fire it was suspected that Ray Lamphere knew something of it, and a senrch was made for him, resulting in las arrest the same evening in the woods near here. He had con- cealed hnnself in the trunk of a hollow tree.. .e•e GIRLS STRUCK BY ENGINE. Crossing Incident at Montreal --- Loses Her Arm, Montreal. May 11.—'To Page and Flora Miron. em lo Ameriean Tobacco Com caped d Tike.. ; girls . the Grand Trunk a.t Ros where tate crossing is quite and when in tate middle of the Ira light engine cane along at a lively and struck both, knocking thein to eit side of the tracks. Miss Page was picked up 'unconscious, but outside of a bad shaking up escaped serious injury, but Miss Miron was bad- ly injured and had to have her left arm amputated at the shoulder. a -r 8TH SATELLITE OF JUPITER. Greenwich 'Observatory Officials An- nounce a New Discovery, London. May ll. ----The officials of the Greenwich Observatory claim to have discovered an eighth satellite of Jupi- ter. During an examination of photo- graphs of .Jupiter, Mr. Melotte, one of the assistant astronomers, discovered a faint marking, occupying slightly dif- ferent positions in the different plates. The circumstances precluded the pos- sibility that it was one of the known satellites or a minor planet. Repeated investigations by Messrs. Cromeller and Melotte heel to the conclusion that it was a new satellite, with a retrograd- ing orbital movement. r • s• SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. art the Work in India under the Can- I adian Peesbyterinn Church. The field that church ocoupies contains 17,000 villages and has revert stations—In- done, M1ioer, Nem -nude, Ujjain, Dhar, ...an,and Ain.khut. A beautiful church has been built at Neemuch, 'with not a rupee of money from any- where outside of the place itself. At the afternoon session greetings from sister societies were presented. Reports. were read from scene fif- teen -Preebyteriti•n societies, hi most oases :by representatives of the Pres- And Co byteriais, some being present from distant 'points, even as far, west as British Golunibin. R UR. Ea Su Ohio Horseman Shoots Colored Gori and a Maas VICTIM OF MURDER WAS SEEN WITH ANOTHER FOR- EIGNER AT PORT CREDIT. Dead Man a Galician?—Detective Nlil- ler, Follows Clue Into Toronto— Pdst,mortem Showed Death Was Mee 'e..0 Ft' ,w on the Head With a Club, Eriiiilale +fay 11. ---With a Bust of stories fro o rsrsone who say they re- member seeing the young foreigner founddead 011 Sunday in the bush on the Samuel Daricon farm, with his skull erusb.ed-in, is the definite statement of \'1 illia.m Patelrett., of the Stone road near -here, who says he met the victim and another foreinmer at Arthur Wil - bur's. Hotel, Port Credit, about the middle of last month. Mr. Patchett, who asserts the two mon were peddling and were on their way through the eountry from Toronto, has positively identified the body taken from the bush as one sof them. Port Credit is the ter- minus fot -tire Mbnieo division of the York Radial Railway, and upon the fact that t eceipt checks were found near tete •,Icily it is practically certain that .the ti tease(] and a rontpunion trav- elled from. Toronto on one of the elec- tric cars on the Pert Credit route the day the fiekets were issued. April 10. A "di; td" punch was used upon the ticket is bel thorit condo from sitit Mr. wh 101 'ate the amount paid, and it that this will give the au - e cine to find the particular ith sumo the two then rode side to Port Credit. As a re- s information furnished by Provincial Detective Miller. sigh Constable l3roddy, is the murder, returned to ht by way of Port Credit, the victim and his corn - ace of starting, possi- `oronto. ingings are in the ve Mi ler, who will v department \ad man in Ins Dr.4 d beyond 's rkuli was Witt a blow with r the body caused re no post-mortem t dicate the man had with the woolen scarf is neck. Provincial De- er photographed the re - afternoon before the in - ;he Anglican Church Ceme- Only Survivor of the Party Now at Winnipeg. Winnipeg, May 11. ---Murdock McLen- nan, the only known survivor of the party sent ont in 1853, under Dr. Rae, to search for Sir John Franklin, spent yes- terday here with his granddaughter. IIe is still hale and hearty at 82 years of age, and con relate .graphically matters of interest eonneeted wth that terrible trip into the Arctic. He says that half has never beets told of the remaeltable mineral wealth of that region, where gold, coal, copper and silver abound. He also ,tests of an island of purest marble along the northwestern shore of Hudson's Bay and declares tho harbor a,t Qluunccill to be one of the finest in the world. • MISSION WORK IN INDIA. Dr. Chone Oliver Tells of Its Fas- cination and Trials. Toronto despatch: The seating capac- ity of Westminster Church was over- taxed last night on the occasion of the illustrated lecture by Miss. B. Chone Oliver, M.D., missionary from Neemueh, Central India, before the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in. Can-" ada (western division), which is hold- ing its thirty-second annual meeting here. The terrible visitation of the plague' was referred to by Dr. Oliver, who passed through that trying time while at Indere. The death rate reached 200 a day in that city of 86,000 inhabi- ants. There are seventeen womeet engaged to ma tei tery. DRWNED BY HER HORSE. Miss Annie Boyd, of Indian Head, Sask.; Thrown Into Water. Indian Head, Sask., May 11.— Miss Annie Boyd, daughter of John Boyd, of this place, was drowned yesterday afternoon in the Sunbeam dant. Miss Boyd was found of horses and was out driving a colt. On her return, while crossing the high roadway which forms the' barrier of the big Sunbeam edam, the horse became fractious, and getting beyond control, plunged down the bank into the water, which is twen- ty feet deep, dragging with him Miss Boyd, who was caught in the wheels. Miss Boyd was an only child and a general favorite in this community, where slier was born and her whole life had been spent. ••s DON'T PICK BUTTERCUPS. They Cause Fever, Says a Philadei• phia Doctor. Philadelphia, May 11. --That the pick- ing of buttercups is ;injurious to the health of children is the theory of Dr. W. W. Cha:'lfonte, of 1,435 North Six- teenth etreeb. He declared to -day at a meeting of physicians that some cases called measles are not measles at ail, but are the effeets of gathering buttee- cups and inhaling their perfume. "Buttercup fever" is the term Dr. Chal- fonte gives the disease. "In Germany and Reiland there are laws forbidding the growing and picking of buttercups," said the physician. "Land -owners are cautioned and dairy inspectors are as- signed to see the pastures are free of the flowers. In these countries epi- demics of 'buttercup fever' carate regu- larly, and in same eases the disease prov- ed fatal.' REFRIGERATOR CARS. Grand Trunk Starts Service on Mon- day Next. Montreal, May 11. --On Monday next the Grand Trunk Rahway will com- mence running, their special refreg- erator car service between the dairy districts of Ontario and Quebec to Montreal. This service has been 'run every summer for some years past tin- der an arrangement with the Depart- ment of Agriculture. It calls for a weekly refrigerator car service be- tween May 11 and October 17 each year in order to carry dairy products to Montreal under most favorable con- ditions. 1rlits Sul. ide--He Previous- ly Killed a Man. Washington Court House, Ohio, May 11. ----Bert Devaney, aged 43, a well- known horseman and driver of I i' n Hancock, last night shot •and killed Lida Bird, aged 22, a colored girl, and shot her mother, inflicting a prose- ably fatal wound. He then ren across the town to the barn of Silas Shackelford, where he took refuge Refusing to conte out, Shacklefor.l went in after hint and was shot %i.ed killed by Devaney. Later Devaney committed suicide. It was thought I)eva.ney was insane. Following the shooting of the two women the authorities organized a posse and a company of the Fourth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, was called out, permission having been given by Governor Harris. The offic- ers surrounded the barn and threat- ened to burn it. Finally persons ventured up to the barn door and there say Shackleford's body-. Under cover, they removed it to the outside. Nothing was then seen of Devaney, but several shots having been heard it was supposed that De- vaney had committed suicide, and upon going into the barn, officers found his body, he having shot him- self in the head. Devaney shot the girl and her moth- er when he called at their hone and was refused admittance. The color- ed girl was -a graduate of the High school. Devaney was separated from Itis wife, who lives at Darbyville. Several years ago while Marshall of Darbyville, Devaney shot and kill- ed Washington Hadrington, who was resisting arrest and served a short term in the penitentiary for the act. CAN'T GET RID OF DOUKS. Police of Yorkton Still Guard Un- welcome Guests. Yorkton. Sask., May 11.-- The col- ony of Doukhobors is still in the Ag- ricultural Building, under the supervi- sion of the Mounted Police. The Town Council and the Board of Trade are urging the Saskatchewan Govern- ment to send them back to Ontario. Aparently they are a fixture, as both the Provincial and Dominion Govern- ments refuse to accept the responsibil- ity. The Ottawa authorities author- ized the police to buy peanuts and ap- ples only for them, but no clothes. They are scantily clad, but are apparently satisfied to remain here indefinitely. BROTHER TAKES REVENGE. Assaults Man Who Procured Opera- tion for Sister. Vancouver, May 1I.—George A. Walk - em, a prominent young business man, is on trial- for procuring an abortion on Blanche Bond, a young woman with whom he lived. The girl faint- ed several times on the stand. Sev- eral physicians were examined on technical features of the case and were sharply cross-examined by Joe Martin. Just before the trial Richard Bond, the brother of the girl, pounced en Walken and blackened his eyes and otherwise damaged his features. Young Bond is under observation lest he does harm to Walkem. 4I ANOTHER ARBITRATION TREATY. United States and Japan Will Settle Disputes Amicably. Washington, D.C.. May 11.— A general arbitration treaty between the United States and Japan was signed to -day by Secretary of State Root and Ambas- sador Takalrira. This treaty follows the lines of the several arbitration agrements which have been negoti- ated between the United States and European nations during the winter in the recent Hague Conference. It will permit of the arbitration at The Hague of nearly every class of dispute which may arise between the signatory pow- ers. •-4 A BOY'S HEROISM. Sidnoy Martin Rescued Companion From Raceway. A St. Catharines despatch: George Court, a seven-year-old boy, fell into the hydraulic near St. Paul street yes- terday, and was being carried to- wards the spillway, where death would have been certain, when Sidney Mar- tin, his young companion, plunged into the water, and, with great dif- ficulty, succeeded in bringing Court ashore. Neither of the boys suffered any serious injury from the incident. DRUNK WITH SPECULATION,✓ Paper Trust Accused of Making Reck- less Investments. Washington, May 11.—John Norris, of New York the representative of the Amerioan Newspaper Publishers' As- sociation, to -day repeated hisstate- ment before the House Committee in- vestigating the wool pulp and print paper industry that the American paper manufacturers have bought large tracts of woodlands in Canada, and charged that instead of cutting the timber on this laud, which they have bought with almost recklessness, they have gone into the market and arti- ficially snake(] up the prices on them- selves. Ile protested that the Ameri- eau eonsutuers should not be saddled with the penalties of any such specu- lation, :iii. Norris produced figures to shah that there has been a reduc- tion in the price of pulpwood exported from Canada. "These nen," he teak', "are simply drnnk with speculation, and 1 expect • to show that they have been investing. in Canada from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 in the acquirement of timber lands ap- parently upon the idea of a good specu- lation in timber instead of applying their moneys to the extension of the ma•nufaeture of paper in the United States to meet the demand. Instead of doing that for which they borrowed money in 1905 they appear to have been pouring it into Canada to ' bu;,r timber lands and control all the lum- ber companies there." MAJORITY OF EIGHT. British Liberals Carried East Wol- verh:: rnpton. London, May 11. -The declining popu- larity. of the present Government was again revealed by the result of the bye - election in haat Wolverhampton to re- place Sir Henry Fowler, who as Vis- count Wolverhampton took his seat in the Mouse of Lords. The Liberals re- tained the seat in the Commons, but by a bare majority of 8, as against a ma- jority of 2.805 in 1906, the result of to- day's elections being Lie follows: G. 11. Thorne, Liberal, 4,515; L. S. Amery, Unionist, 4,507. This result is looked upon as indica- tive of grave doubt that Winston Spencer Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, will secure his seat at Dundee, whither he has gone to contest the vacancy caused by the elevation to the Peerage of Mr. Edmund Robert- son. The campaign at Wolverhampton was fought almost entirely on the tariff reform issue. This is admitted by the Liberal newspapers, which do not at- tempt to disguise the severity of the blow the Government has sustained. Premier Asquith is to make his bud- get. statement on Thursday, and if this ehould impose any further unpopu- lar taxation the growth of opinion against the Government and in favor of tariff reform may become still more rapid. The Unionist press attributes the re- markable revulsion of public opinion. to the bad reaction in trade, following a few years of booming commerce, which rendered Mr. Chamberlain's personal ea.mpaigrt nugatory. 410 BROKERS QUIT BUSINESS. Two Hundred Members London Sto Exchange Not Seeking Re-eiectl London, May 11. --Owing to the sena slump in business no fewer than t+ •o hundred members of the Stock Ex- change have placed their names on the Est of those who have decided not to apply for re-election the current year. Many brokers declare that business has beer so poor that they have been ua- abre to make expenses. Others, more seriously bit, actually admit that they can't raise the necessary nomination fee. *- NOT A PENAL COLONY. Canada Refuses to Take Dregs of - British Population. London, May 11.—Lord Alverstone, presiding at the Metropolitan Prisoners' Aid Society, said that in 1907 the society had sent a number of men to Canada, where, it was stated, there would be a demand for them, but the experiment had not been successful. Sir A. Wills point -ed out that in future the society would be unable to send such men to Canada. Canada and the other colonies now absolutely refused to take the dregs of the Betish population. SWINDLER HAS MANY VICTIMS. Ex -officer of British Army Sent Down at Winnipeg. Winnipeg, Man., May 1L—In the most dramatic and sensational trial brought up in a. Winnipeg police court for $ome years, Percy Lear, a roan- of many aliases, who says he has been a captain of infantry in the British army, and who poses as a high officer in many secret societies. was sentenced to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary this morning by Magistrate McMicken on the charge of obtaining $140 from John Thomsen by false pretences. lie swindled men all over Western Canada through secret society work. THE REVOLUTION IN PERU. Political Prisoners to be Tried by Military Court. Lima, May 11, --Rumors are afloat hero of a revolutionary uprising in the De- partment of Cuzco. The insurgents are said to be in possession of the city of Cuzco, capital of the Province. The Government has decided to turn over the political prisoners gathered in during the last few days to a military court, for trial. It has also confiscated the arms and ammunition in the posses- sion of the shooting chiles of Liana. TO BREAK DOWiE'S WILL. Widow Claims Prophet Was of Un. sound Mind. Waukegan, I11., May 11.—Mrs. Jane Dowio and her on yesterday filed suit to set aside the will of the late John Alexander Dowie, appointing John A. Lewis his successor. Mrs. ])owie hopes to become the head of the Dowse Church, She alleges Lewis used undue influencer and that Dowie was not of sound mend.