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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-05-22, Page 2M.00K 11 Did -Not -Know -it -Was m Loaded Tragedy, Young Tea ;ter Slain by Boy Friend. Chicago, May 18.—Quiek death ended a mock holdup scene yesterday in the bakery of Henry Frank, 727 West Forty - Seventh street The victim was Henry Frawley, 18 years old, who had lived at 1008 West Fiftieth street. The man who fired the revolver was John Hefeli, a young Austrian employed in the bakery. The one act tragedy was enacted in the front room of the little bakery at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Frawley, who was a teamster and a steady, good na- tured young man, entered the place to buy a few things to take home for sup- per. He had just been paid, and as he was well known in the bakery he flour- ished a ama11 package of bills—about $12. Hefeli, busy behind the counter, ex- changed joking remarks in broken Eng- lish with Frawley. He threatened to come out and take the money away from the young teamster if Frawley did not put it up. "Come ahead," said Frawley. "I can take care of myself." After a few harmless threats Hefeli suddenly disappeared into a rear room. Steve Iiorscae, another young Austrian, vas working there. "Let's hold Frawley up," said Eefeli. "You take the money while 1 point the revolver at him. It will be a good joke." "All right," said Steve. Just as Frawley was about to leave with his bundles, the two young Aus- trians sprang into the front room. In the true style of holdups he had read about. Hefeli leveled the revolver at Frawley and shouted: "Hold up your hands or I will kill you,,, Frawley turned a laughing face to- ward the mock desperadoes. "You fellows can't scare me with a rusty old gun like that," he said. "Come. on if you want trouble." He put down his bundles on the coun- ter and made a lunge toward Hefeli and Steve. In the play and flash of the moment, tittle dreaming that his finger held back et:' bullet by the pressure of a hair, Hefeli pulled tbe trigger. There was a loud report. The little bakery was filed with smoke. Frawley dropped. Frank, the" baker, came rushing in. The frightened men lifted the young teamster from the floor, where a small trickle of blood showed his wound. Frawley could not speak. He was dying. The bullet had entered his chest. Hefeli and "Steve" stood stupidly by, hardly knowing what had. happened. When Sereets.:auIlaney and Golden. of the stockyard; station, came upon the scene they re rested. Hefeli and his com- rade. h'rawiry vas put into the ambu- Iance and the horses were started on a gallop toward. St. Barnard's Hospital. On the way to the hospital, however, Frawley died without a word passing his lips. The ambulance then was turn- ed to Mclnerney's undertaking rooms, 4,635 Wallace street. The police sergeants made a careful' investigation of the case. They found that Frawley and the two men they had under arrest were all of good character, and they finally accepted the explana- tion of "accidentaI" as the true one. They will hold the two men, however, until the coroner'e jury agrees upon a verdict. Hefeli at the polies station was the picture of grief. As the hill result of bis act dawned upon him he bowed Ms head and wept. DROWNED IN LARDER LAKE. Young Englishman Lost His Life -- Broke Through the Ice. Cobalt, May 12. --Herbert M. Sperl- irng, aged about 35, a young English- man who spent several yeans in South Africa in the war as well as in mining and milling as an amalgamator, was Browned on Sunday afternoon at Lard- er Lake. It appears -Sperling and his eomrade, Snyder, were crossing Larder Lake and broke through the ice, Sperl- Ing being unable toe get out. Snyder arrived in Cobalt on to -day's train, bringing Sperling's body along, Mr. Sperling was well-known here and bad a host of friends. He had spent most of the winter at Larder, having been in &barge of a small mill at R.eddick's pro- perty, His relatives in England have been cabled. , et-* CAUGHT IN JUDGE'S HOUSE. Alleged Gas Inspector Found Upstairs by the Maid., Toronto. despatch: At the General Sessions yesterday Judge Winchester, In charging the grand jury, referred to it�ihe great number of robberies thet ad been perpetrated in Toronto of te.Writingon this subject a busi- ness man had suggested to him that If the waterworks and the gas com- inlay sent out onlyuniformed men to call on householers 4 would be a prosection against the many' regrnes who introduced themselves under the guise of ureter' inspectors. Judge Winchester said that he him- self had had an illustration of the audacity of these gentry. A man was discovered upstairs in the judge's house, and when questioned by the maid, said he was looking for leaks in the gas pipe. "if you make a recommendation that properly authorized persons should wear uniforms I think it would have some weight," said his Honor. 4 . PRIVATE CE 'f ETERY. Tracing Mrs, Gunness' 'Victims by Mea><is of Bank iBooks. Ray Lamphere Denies That. lI� Maie a Confession. Laporte. Ind., May IS. ---Unless the sifting and sluicing of the powdered. debris taken from the (Tiler of the ruined Gunness farmhouse results in startling discoveries to -day, the produc- tion of anything like tangible evidence in the big tragedy is not likely. Yes- terday's developments exhausted iuost of the sources of the sensations in the case, and the authorities are now con- fined to the task of fiud%ng details cor- roborating the main points already de- duced. Just how suceesslui they will be will probably nut berevealed until Ray Lam- phere is brought to trial. Prosecutor Srnith has evidently modified his pre- viouc determination to rush the ease into come, finding that the State's side may be strengthened in many particulars. Coroner Mack has Made public the re- sults of his iavestigations on all the known bodies, except that supposed to have been Ole 0. Buddsberg, of lola, Wis. It is expected that t he mystery surrounding the bodies yet unidentified will never be fully solved. The deeoni• posed state of the fragmentary masses of flesh and bones makes identification virtually impossible What developments are to come prob- ably will be in the direction of estab• lishing the identity of more of the mys- terious men seen to enter the farm- house, but never to leave it. Yesterday three such persons were comtected ,wl the Ounness woman, 'the evidence. Warding John Moe, of Elbow Lake; Minn. and Henry Gerholt, of Scandinavia, .Wise being almost conclusive. The fate of George Ilrader, of Tuscola, I11., is iess cer- tain. Moe was traced to the farm by means of the banking actions which preceded his visit. The facts shown were start- lingly similar to those brought to light in the cases of Ole 0. Buddsberg and An- drew Helge]ein. Each of the sten cashed a cheque in the afternoon for a consider- able amount At one of the local banks, and at the desk of the cashier all trails end. It is considered probable that an in- spection of the books of the banks would reveal further evidence of a similar nature. BIG NT. Restoration f Historic Pile by Emperor William. Strassburg, dello 7.8.—The Emperor and Empress, who have arrived here front Vienna, accompanied by a brilliant suite, among Whom are the Viceroy of Alsace, represeirtatives of the federal council of the Reichstag and of the Al- saee-l,orainc Provincial Counei.l, to -day attended the solemn inauguration of the restored Habkoenigsburg near Schletts- lad; in Lower Alsace. The Hohkoenigsburg, which was one of the largest and most picturesque remnants of feudal times in Germany, passed into the possession of the Emper- or in 1804, and his Majesty immediately ordered its coinplet.e restoration. When the work was taken in hand all that remained of the original pile was part of the main building with three wings and two towers, tin so-called "Vorburg" (keep) and tbe iu.ter wall. 'Che castle is petalled on a tory can be frac century, since partially destro 300 persons too geant. erdinence and its his back to the thirteenh en it has been often d and rebuilt. Geer .part in to -day's pa - USES YNAMITE. Costly Residence Near Port Henry Partly Wrecked. Port Henry, N. Y., May 18.--Dyna- miters attempted to wreek the $125,000 residence of Geo. D. Sherman, near here, yesterday. A heavy charge of the ex- plosive, placed near the front of the dwelling, torn off the piazza and broke all the window; on that side of the house. The explosion started a fire, which was checked before it gained much headway: 11r. Sherman and his family were not injured by the explo- sioThn. e dynamiters gave warning of their intended outrage in a note received by Mr. Sherman last night. The Idlehurst is considered one of the most beautiful residences in this part of the State, where the Sherman family is prominent. Detectives from Albany arrived yes- terday to investigate the explosion. They considered the note a valuable clue. Mr. Sherman had discharged three men from his employ on the day the note was received. BLE ? Made No Confession. Laporte, Ind., May 18.—Mrs. Gunness' hired man, Ray Lamphere, vigorously denied to -day that he had made any confession or promised any to Rev. A. E. Scheller, or to anyone else. Lamphere is under arrest here, charged with com- plicity in the wholesale murders at the Gunness farm. Laporte, Ind., May 13.—Rev. Dr. E. A. Schell, of Laporte, ind,, in talking again to -day about the Gunnels farm tragedy, denied that he said that Ray Lamphere helped to kill the Gunness children but had no part in slaying any man except lielgelin. "I have made no statement regarding this or any detail of my inter- view with Lamphere, except to say that Lamphere's communications to me were. wholly privileged and unless he shall himself make the statements to Prose- cuting Attorney Smith, will be ma.intain- ed as an inviolable secret." Mr. Schell added that, like many oth- ers, he believed that Mrs. Gunness was alive, but that he had no knowledge of the fact. It was merely his personal opinion. Speaking further concerning the case and some of the persons connected tbere- with, Mr. Schell said: "Mrs. Gunnese, as I said yesterday, was an attractivea woman in her way. She was always dressed richly, and even, you might say, in good taste, but her manner of talking and ger speech' itself—her vagaries of grammar—showed a low origin. She could best be described as "f1rs. New - rich." "Lamphere is a span who drinks hard and has borne an unpleasant reputation. Ile was a man to be pitied because of his training, or lack of it. On one or more occasions recently he has come into town with a roll of bills, which he has generally managed to get rid of over night. "Lamphere sent for me and told me his story, end that is how I was mixed up in the case. Despite the advice of his lawyers, I believe that he will tell the whole truth when he goes on the witness stand. 1 did not know person- ally any of the supposed victims of Mrs, Gunness." The peer man was torn limb from fireb. Science is organized knowledge,— - Spenser. • ge Detroit, 3 , :" A novel suit has been begun here my the'Pere Marquette Railroad against Andrew Healey, who runs a saloon on Third street, near the Union Depot, used by the P. M. Rail- way, claiming $7,500 damages. Last July a P. 11. freight was derailed at WebberviIle, causing a heavy loss to the company. Investigation showed that a switch had been tampered with by two boys who were intoxicated. It was since learned that the boys became intoxicated in Detroit on liquor sold them by Healey. The action Is founded on a statute which makes saloonkeep- ers liable for damages resulting from their sale of liquor to minors. MAN FROST BITTEN. Gangrene Has Set IN and He May Lose Eoth Legs. Guelph, Ont., despatch: With his legs in terrible condition with gangrene, as the result of frost wounds which were never attended to, a ;man. named Ken- nedy lies in the General Hospital in a very serious condition. He was brought to the hospital by Capt. Head, of Era- mesa, on whose farm lie came recently. Apparently he has been wandering about all winter and has been severely frost- bitten as high up as the knees. These bites have never been attended to, gan- grene has set in, and his legs will prob- ably have to be amputated at the knees. He has told the hospital officials little further than that his name is Kennedy. Era TRAIN -ROBBERS'. BIG HAUL. Got $5,000 on a Great Northern Ex. press Bound for Vancouver. Vancouver, B. C., May 18.--J. E. Perrin, the express -messenger of the Great Northern train, which left Se- attle at 8.10 this morning for Vancouver, . was beaten, insensible by men w.iio en- tered the express ear presumably at Se- attle, and stole $5,000. The messenger did not recover consciousness till after the train had backed to Ballard,' five, miles out, where the injured man was given medical attentioli. The brakeman says soon after leaving Seattle he began arainging the parcels, and on hearing a noise he turned and and two strangers in the uniform of brakeman. One struck him a terrific blow on the head with the butt eruct of a revolver, When he recovered he , found he was bound hand and toot. He -managed to loosen the rope, grabbed the sigea.l rope and stopped the train, The robbers . tI looted the car. MURDERS MIEN LESS Arrest Made In Connection With Erindale Tragedy. Stephen Swyryda, a Pole, In Hands of Authorities. Efforts to Clear Up the Mystery of the Murder In Peel County. Toronto despatch: Within four days after Heksa Loutick, a young Galician, arrived in Toronto from Rotterdam, he was taken out to a lonely spot near l+hindale and there cruelly murdered. Stephen Swyryda, a Pole, 37 years of age, of this city, is now lodged in Bramp- ton jail on the charge of that murder. Provincial Detectives Miller and Greer last night after the arrest of the for- eigner and after they had made much headway in the case believed they were justified in direetly charging the pian with the foul murder in the bush on the farm of Samuel Fasken near the village of Erindale, in the county of feel, on the night before Good Friday. Police in- vestigation points to the victim having been taken out from this city by way of the Port Credit electric sass under the impression that work was to be found for him with a farmer by the man now under arrest. The young man found dead left Toronto about 5 o'clock on the evening before Good Fri- day in company with the prisoner, who returned the next day alone and saying he had placed Loutick with a farmer near Clarkson. The prisoner still atieks to this story, although he has in important partictuars varied his state - meat and cannot give any Mea as to the situation of the farm where he took the victim of the murder. Provincial l)eteotive Miller upon his return to the city last night from Brampton, where lie went with Provincial Detective Greer and High Constable Brody, of Bramnteu, to lodge the prisoner in jail, went eo woks again here to get together a strong chain of evidence which the officers believe will go a long way to- wards clearing up the mystery which clouded the 'murder of lleksa Loutick in the Peel county bush on the night of April 16. Found the Murdered Man. It is just a week ago last Sunday since three little boys came across the body of Loutick lying in the bush on the farm of Samuel Fasken.. Every- thing pointed to afoul murder hay- hag aying been committed, and the autopsy conducted bore out the theory ofthe police' offieers that the man's skull had been crushed in by a blow with a heavy piece of wood which. bore traces of blood and which was found not fax from the dead body. it appeared a bonfire had been started in the bush, and a whiskey flask as well as some beer bottles showed there had bean some drinking. A valuable clue was furnished the police officers in two receipt cheeks issued on the electric railway for passage from Sunnyside to Port Credit. 'ihese virtually fixed the date of the murder as about April. 16, and a slip with the name of M. D. Davis, the labor contractor at 117 Front street west, led to the identity of the victim. Loutick, who was but seventeen years of age, was sent to Canada via Rotterdam to work on the Grand Trunk Railway conctruetion. As there was no work just then, and as the young man was not a likely fel- low, Mr. Davis advised him to seek employment elsewhere. Victim Had No Money. Being practically without funds, he slept in the police cells for two nights, and the third day, the police say, he fell in with the prisoner, who listened to the new arrival's story of hard luck, and invited him to his lodging house at 130 Adelaide street west, kept by Ste- phen Vasilinlax. Two nights they slept together, and about 5 o'clock on the evening before Good Friday started out, ostensibly to look for work on a farm. Loutick parted with his concertina to the lodging house keeper for one dollar. The next day the prisoner returned to the place, saying he had placed Loutick and another with a farmer who had giv- en iven him $1.75. A dollar of this the pris- oner' paid the lodging house man on a bill for tobacco and room rent, which he owed. These facts are all admitted by the prisoner, who claims he will be able to point out the farm. Pole is Arrested, Provincial Detectives Miller and Greer and High Constable Brody, -of Brampton, were yesterday led to the lodging house and to the room occupied by the pris- oner by a Pole who assisted the author- ities in the investigation. The foreigirer entered into the ease on Saturday laet, and yesterday he was back with all the information upon which the arrest was made, Provincial Detective Miller slipped into the man's room yesterday morning, and found him just rolling out of bed. Taking all the necessary precautions to see that the suspect was not armed, the officer searched the room and discover- ed what is said to be an important bit of evidence. On his arrival hero Loutick had in his valise some matches of strange manu- facture, and some of these were found with the prisoner. Other articles were picked up in the room, and. an effort will be made to show that some of these things belonged to Loutick, and were stolen from his valise, which was pick- ed up on .the Fasken farm by the hired Baan and afterwards destroyed, This valise 'mien found had a hole cut. in the. bottom. Story Told By Prisoner. • The prisoner mica taken to the Court street station, and afterwards to Bramp- ton, where he was remanded on the charge of murder by Magistrate H. H. Shaver, of Toronto Township, for a week. On the way to Brampton in brok- en English the prisoner freely discussed the death of the lad, and said that Lou - tick had fallen in with some Jews, whom he described. He, however, stuck to his, story that he had placed Loutick with a farmer. The prison,; took his arrest coolly, and on the journey to Brampton puffed away at cigarettes furnished him. He claimed to be 37 years of age, and said he came from Rochester last March. A woman who claims to be his wife join- ed him here a few days ago, and it was from her ho asserts that he received $g found on him. Inmates of the Adelaide street lodging house say he worked but four days since coming here. From tra- der the sweat -band of his hat was taken a Buffalo newspaper of a November date, and inquiries will be made there and at Rochester about the man. i :re Inquest at Erindale. To -day Provincial Detective Miller will prepare for the inquest to be held to -morrow at Erindale by Coroner Sut- ton, of Cookeville. A statement has been taken from Mrs. George Manley, of the Upper Middle road, who liven adjoining the Fasken farm, and who saw two men just about dusk near the en- trance to the bush. One had a light coat and, it is claimed, a garment answering this description was found at the pris- oner's room. Blood stains are also said to be noticeable on the coat. Probably the most important witness. in the ease is a 0. P: R. fireman, who noticed a man on the morning after the crime is said to have been committed washing his bands and clothing in a pool beside the tracks. On his return. journey the fireman saw the same matt walking into the city on the railway tracks. A verdict in the inquest is ex- pected to be reached at the sitting to- morrow afternoon. e .'a LONDON MURDER. Murderer Moir No Longer a Soldier of the King. Has Seen Much Service—Where He Comes From. London despatch: Murderer Moir will be committed for trial following his pre- liminary hearing, and will likely come up to answer perhaps with his life at the assizes in September. It was stated yesterday morning that the young soldier was subject to epilep- tic fits, and that it was likely that 4l would be made a factor in his defen Sergeant Gilmore, of Wolseiey reeks, who was one of the party of lo- cal police who were put on the chase for the soldier, had an interview with the prisoner in his cell at the police sta- tion this morning. Moir was struck off the strength of Wnlseley Parrnrks as a deserter on Sat- urday, and Gilmore informed Moir of this, asking frim what part of his ef- fects he wanted sent to him. The soldier asked to have all of his civilian outfit brought down to him, to- gether with his personal effects and his trunk. His request will be complied with. The story was told yesterday that when Mr. Charles Robb went to Elora to notify the police of Moir's presence, he asked Constable Blocklock that if it was the right pian how much of the re- ward would he secure. He was told that he would get half of it. Meanwhile another man had approach- ed Chief Farrell, of Arthur, and made the same proposition, Farrell agreed to give him a piece of the money, and so it will be divided. Moir is to be treated in a little differ- ent manner from the other prisoners, as the authorities recognize that they -have a desperate mast to deal with, and do not propose to give him any opportunity to cause trouble. There is no cell espe- cially set aside for those. charged with murder in the jail, but Cell No. 1 isusu- ally occupied by any desperate charac- ters, as it is near the kitchen, where thenightwatchman makes his headquarters during the night. This enables the guard to look especially after the safety of the man imprisoned in this cell. It is not the intention to allow Moir to mingle with the other prisoners at MI, Dor will he a c given his exercise in the yard used 1.v: the other prisoners, es this yard can ' e overlooked, and it is thought were sir allowed in there a. crowd might c .igretrrate to overlook the man. Tithe man will therefore take his exercise in the ward on the soutl/ side of the jail; which is completely screened from observation. Moir was born in Roxburghshire,. Scotland. When only 16 years of age he enlisted with. the Gordon Highlanders. for a period of seven years. After serv- ing five years he eves granted Iris dis- charge on account of good service. Ile then went to Glasgow, where he spent six months In the gymnasium there, re- ceiving a certificate frpm that institu- tion as an all-round athlete. When the Boer war broke out, Moir was one of the first to enlist for the front. He saw aeti"' service, being nue of those at Bloemfo:itein, After the elose of tthe war he went to India, wchere he served on the Indfe n frontier. Four years ago 1• a came 'to Canada. He went first to O n elpdh, where he worked for six months on a farm there and later put in six Months at one of the factories. T"n,n there he went to. Lansdowne, where he spent two years. Six, montihs ago he enlisted at Wolseley Hermits, London, and stayed there till theng, ``IshootiHaver .Earl trouble with Lloyd," de- clared Moir, brokenly, "We were good friends, and I have no enemy in • the world that I know of."