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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1903-07-17, Page 8tMllAT HOUSE MURDERER !Makes a Confession, Admits He Killed Victim. THE HALIFAX GIRL'S STORY. S1.arndon, Jhauy -18.-,Aauiuel gerbert '.Dougal, Who a fortnight ago was teund guilty of the :murder, or Miss Camille Holland }at the Moat House, Saffron 'Widen, and sentenced to be hanged, has confessed the eili- leg, but claims it was plainly an ac- - aeident. He states ,that on May 150 .i.899, after returning from a drive, trilib* cleaning his revolver, when t was accidentally discharged, the 'tbullet striking Miss Holland. On the strength of this confession I}ougal's lawyer has asked the j.• 'Lome Secretary for apardon. I3ou- gal's execution has been fixed for July• 14th: Tl I alifaa, N. Sw, girl whom he persuaded to elope with ham said. lin an interview: 'He is a monster i and. I pray that be may get his just deserts. I have reason to re- member him. He was a good -look- ' tng man, but he had an oily tongue as well as a pleasant countenance, and I lwias one of his victims. "He was a man of great personal magnetism, and he attracted many women. Our family resided in the outskirts of Halifax, and he often ' came there with me. He urged me to elope with: him, saying he would take me to England, and that upon our arrival he would marry. me. So wee left Halifax. ,,.,`,After our arrival in England I urged him to keep Its worts, Tie 0. 'Sways put the matter off, but T ,wrote to ei:y zeople saying that I ,w,aM his wife. ( 7,.L.......; r"• "Be met with other wonben, and ,gradually neglected me. paying me feta attention. I was treated like a dog, and bn more than one dcea- `sloe he threatened to kill me, and to make awviav with my body. 1 "When I threatened to expose him, he replied that in doing so I t would be exposing myself. He ad- vised me to go home, to say that t he was dead, and that I was his , widow. He gave me money to buy • a mourning outfit, and I donned a widow's veil and went home to my people." F•Ciereeeelr "see neer %see reeseettell A proviaetel ' charter has been granted theBlaine 'Harrow Manu- faetu,ring Company, Limited, • with $100,000 capital, and ]read otfioes at Toronto. The' provincial. directors are Geoxge Eimer' Blaine, George Clat- worthy, Aiea, Keith, end Jelin Be - chateau, all orf Toronto, Mrs, William Hulse, of Fern Glen, a email place about ten miles from Burke's Falls, committed suicide on Fay by, swallawln.g Paris green. She was dead before medical desis- tance arrived. Deceased' and her hus- bandanaved to Fern Glen recently front Toronto. He is an iron moulder by trade.. A family; of two are left.. Inspector Greer was in Winghlare Friday, to Identify,"Thomas"ThomasWilliams, w.hri'te, foemerly;, of Port Hope, and Frank Reed, colored,. to home, who were arrested and held an suspicion of being concerned in the Glory, Whalen murder at Coliingwood. In- spector Greer , ,declded that they, are not the men for whom .he is searching. The two officers of the Provincial Fisheries Department, Mr. W. W. El- lis and Mr. W. R. Wood, who 'con- ducted the recent shipment of 4.00 parent bass to Rat Portage, 'where thee' were deposited in the vicinity, of Lade of the Woods, have returned. They report that the flab safely, with.stodd the journey! of 1,500 miles from their Lake Erie home to the land, or rather the water, of their adoption. Burglars broke into the foundry,' of John Inglis and Bons, on Strachan avenue, Taranto, early! Sunday; morn- ing, and were in the ant off carrying off 164 pounds of brass castings when discovered byNight Watch-• man''Wm. Wright. Tine thieves quick- ly,! dropped their booty, and made good their escape. Wright fired four shots from his revolver at the flee - tag men, but pone of them, appar- ently, took effects. It is thought thatthatthe burglars belong to the no - serious Stanley, Park gang. • BkITISI AND FOREIGN. NEWS IN BRIEF 2 CANADIAN. i Judge Doherty! died at Montreal. i• Zion. Hugn John Macdonald, of VWimnipeg, es recovering, 'Jahn Hyderman, of Deseronto, was ,killed in attempting to get off a ftuoving train near Trenton. Emperor William has gone on a yachting, cruise to Norway. Ttae Premier of japan wishes to re- tire on apcount of illness: A despatch from Evansville, Ind., says a pingo lynched a negro late last night. ,British Admiralty profess to know no special reason for warships gath- ering, in the Gulf of Pechill, seer. Harris, the Times' correspond- ent, has been released by Morocco tribes after three weeks' captivity. Isolated cases of bubonic plague have occurred at Valparaiso and other towns in Chili. The Sofia correspondent of ;the Lon- don Timels says there is danger of a massacre of t,laristians in Macedonia. The Paris correspondent of the London Threes ,shows reasons for a 'Permanent and closer Anglo-French understanding . The Canadian Pacific has ordered 20 powerful compound locomotiveis from the North -British Locomotive Company, of Glasgow. The New Zealand Government has appointed two dairy experts with a view, to increasing their exports to Great Britain. One of the experts is a Canadian. Dr. Oronhyatekba has given For- testers' Island Homo for a resting }place for veterans of the I. 0. T. !staff. t e'er. Fielding has given notice of a )kresolution providing for a bounty of 1x15 per ton on lead produced from 'Canadian ore. During, the absence in Europe of the LieutenanteGovernor, Hon. Wil- lliam Mortimer Clark, )Government House will be thoroughly renovated, lee a cost of about $8,000. • l not. Geo. W. Ross, in an inter - Mew, has approved of the Govern - 'meet construction of a railway t from tWinnipe g to the east. i ,The proposed excursion of the eves- ttlern Canada Press Assoiciation to ?Montreal teed Quebec bas been post - Waned, owning to the date cia;shing witch the Manitoba elections. I. Jas. Dunsmuir, can Saturday com- pleted is deal with, a Seattle ey)ndi- ;cate for the sale of 50,000 acres of i.timberland an Campbell River, Van- coruver Islanld, for about $1,000,000. Rev. Prineiptai Coven is making sat- isfactory progress toward recovery. 4a<Ie is now strong enough to permit elf his being carried out on the ver- jan'iah for a ,short time each day. ;After a (week's vain search for the [body of Douglas Plumb, who was drowned in the Romaine River, Lab - „radar, Mr. Justice Nesbitt has de- cided to abandon the search, and is 'now awaiting a. steamer to return to Toronto. YROTE STORY OE SLO DEATH. Criminal Wreck of Schooner Courtney Ford, A TALE OF THE ARCTIC. Iron Pat in the Compass to -.ender it Useless -Lone Sailor''s ; Siory of Four Months Lonely Suffering Ending ale th His Death. • Stan Francisco, Cal., July 13.-0f_ all the . stories of brave, uncom!- piaining suffering that ever came out of the ,sea none has ever exceed- ed in dramatic realism and gene- ine pathos the simply, told account of the lagt four months of the life 'of Ode, a sailor, which reach- ed there in the shape of a copy, of the log found "a few weeks ago be- side ,Ode's body, in the wreck of the selLooner 'Courtney, Ford in Alaskan waters. ) In the sinttple language of a sea- faring man, Ode seta down the hap- penings of that quarter year spent aboard the wreck amid the loge and ice. ; Schooner Purposely Wrecked. W. K. 'Vanderbilt, jun., las confined to his bed at the Hotel Ritz as the result of serious burns received by an explosion while he was fixing his automobile. tinue,s the .substance of record for ererverai, days. It goer on : . Jan. x. -Tried to get across ice, but got playeel oat, about 100 yards from beach. Bad to sit downfive or eix times to rest on way back. ( I em too weak. I have been oaf- , faxing from rbeumrattlem, but never thought I bad lost so much tstrengtLeh. Jan. 2o.-gs swell up. t San. 21. -Lege same. Jan. 28. -Lege swell up to my hips. Don't knave what it is. Believe it is scurvy. Jan 24. Legs the same. Jan 27, -Arms swell up, too. Ja,n. 28. -Swelling goes down (lur- ing, night, but a,s soon as I start Move about it le same again. T have stili a little hope, left, but little. T don't expect the cap- , taint will send help, because they think I am safe in Mlozovia, but ' winter came fewt weeks too early, If it was not for snow I would try once more to get away, but in condition I am now I could not travel a, mile. Then I can hardly' lift my legs high enough to get out of • bold with piece of firewood. Jan. 80, -Ice starts to go off beach. I hope this wind will last for awhile, as sooner ice goes more hope is there I may get away. Nobody will believe bow 1 long for fresh provisions. 1 still have a aced appetite; but my stomach will not digest, food. Feb. 1.-Iee goes out of bay. health earn. Feb. 1.-I never expected to see this day. If I can hold .out until April 1 I think I could get away. Hope -that is x19 I have left. Wind southwest ; squally; snow and rain. Fe(b, Sr -Feet ,swell. ,Cannon get boot on. Feb'. 4. -Chest swollen. I can't make out what it is. Almost Too Weak to 'Walk. The schooner Courtney. Ford ran ashore Sept. 80th, 190,2 on Iz'en- bek Island, Alaai:a. Two mien were drowned when it struck the beach and two °there were drowned later by the capsizing of a boat. After the schooner had struck, Capt. N. E. Bergeson found that some one had 'placed a piece of iron inside the comipaes, rendering it useless. The schooner stranded during thick weather, after it had navigated for three days by dead reckoning. The captain and crew, alter camping ashore about a week, were picked up he a passing vessel . and land- ed at Seattle. Ode was left behind as a Watchman. His dead body was found recently, by the officers of a revenue cutter. The help for which Le had waited in vain left here a few day.s ado, when the schooner Carrie and Annie sailed for- Teen- bek I.,land with wrecking apparatxs aboard. Welcomes Ris Death. Ode's log commences Oct 4 and ends with a faint penal scrawl, in which he tells+ of the welcome ap- proach of death. It recounts a rou- tine of' duty to which he adhered as long as he was physically able. 13e describes the hoevling of hungry foxes which saurrounded his ice- bound quarters and be writes with no note of complaint of tbe gradual conquering of his body by . dread scurvy and of his lonely fight with dreath. He tells of sufferings 'from elements, of fruitless struggles to reach places where he expected) to find bis fellows, and of a . growing weakness which gradually claimed ins robust frame and rendered im- possible 'the effort necessary to light a. fire or crawl a few. feet for water. He had rheumatism and merely mentions it. He had tooth- ache and endured it patiently. His log, in pari, is as follows, and tells its own story. Oct. 4, -Boys left at 10 a. re. Took my stuff back to sobooner and Vamped her out. Wind northwest. Oct. 5. -Found ekilf. Pumped it out. Shot one goose. Took ennvae on board. Madre sail for skiff from !beds+h set. t, Constant Work at Pumps. He then telhe from day to day of fitting out a skiff' for cruising pur- poses, and each, day records . the tact that he "pumped it. out." A hurricane visited him on Oct 11th, and after that, as long as he was able, the log tells that he pumped the schooner oat twice a clay. He records a total eclipse of the moon on Oct. 16, and on Oct 17 notes a visit from the Eskimos. It was pump, pump, pump until Oct 27, when the schooner was thrown on its beam ends. He walked across the is- land on Oet. 30, and on Nov. 1 he shot two dlucke• His log continues:' Nov. 20. -Snow. Nov, 22. -Terrible wind. Made up and to leaves Nev. 24. --Celt ,schooner. Came about sit miles away from schooner, and at 5 ps in. was swamped by breakers: Could not return, as beach was too .erteep. Nov. 25.-31ad terrible night, which I spent ou.teide. Lay undexquilt ad oil coat. Turned back. Nov. 26. -Skiff frozen in. Nov. 27 and i8• -Started to build cabin (on souooner). Dee. 21. -My twenty-seventhbirth- day. Carried fifteen barrels of water. Ile completed lois cabin, stocked it with firewood, and was ready for the heavy now and cold which followed. The grim record oontinuee: Dee.: 5:--"`'t'ind northwest, stiff. Ter- rible cold. Stove red bot, but could not get ice off window. Dec. 29. -Two foxes cams to cabin over ice. Ja,n. g. ---Ice began to move oust of ,by- , . Jan. a8. --•Wind wept, lightone day* ,sine°. Dec. 22. Clear enough to make out Anink Tstand. Fbxeis came along duxing'ntgh t', making terrible noise. Ion Is back again. Jan.. 13. --Wind srotr,thwest, clear. "T oothaoiiew • i trength Begins to 'Wane. 'Che condition of the weather e Lord Hatiburton is energetically advocating a Canadian Club worthy of the Dominion. Ile has the support et Lord Aberdeen, Lord Lansdowne, and a hundred leading Canadians. How axe the mighty fallen. Ste following advertisement appears In a Pretoria paper : "To Let -Ex -Presi- dent Kruger's late residence, a few nicely, furnished bedrooms, with board, etc," • A former French army officer names! Baliguet la•as been sentenced to five years' imprisonment for epee ing in behalf- of Germany. Baliguet attempted -to procure plans of the new fortification's at Nancy, France. The meat ,'hop scheme of Mr. Sed- don, the New, Zealand Premier, prom - Lees to arouse formidable opposition in England. The great trading firms declare that if he becomes a menac- ing competitor they will start a war of rates, The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says the bankers' commission has fixed the rate of exchange for the half yearly payment of the in- demnity, due June 80, at 54 Bente, involving a total los to the Chin- ese Government of over $200,000.. The Toronto City Council passed a •resolution strongly opposing the To- ronto & Hamilton Railway bill. The ,,player brought down a. draft agree trent with the "Toronto Railway Com- •lrany regarding the entrance of radial railways, Which the company has de- clined to 'consider. The Minister of Finance has given notice of a resolution giving the ,Government power to increase the tame of Dominion notes from twenty million dollars to thirty million dol- lars. with a reserve In gold or de- )aentUres of 25 per cent. guaranteed iby tate Imperial Government. fronose Joboure, a Syrian belong - pg to Buffalo, was arrested at To- nta as he was stepping on a !gterthier to go across the lake. He Was pointed out to an officer by an excited Syrian, Louhad Rontanoss, of j6ttffato, fronx whose trunk he is charged with stealing. $800 about five months ago. Miss Lawton, one of, the girls in- jured by .jumping from h C. P. It. ress on Saturday near Vaudreuil•, Que., under the impression that they paesect the station, is dead. In i•• >r descent trona tbe car she went directly bite e. telegraph vele and stained injuries which proved fatal. Elbe arae nineteen years of age. BOOKS MUTILATED On Feb. 15th he writes be is so weak on his lege he can hardly, get across the galley.'. ''I don't know. wheat the captain thinks abont my) mot showing up," he adds. "Do they; Welt I am going to wait until strawberry,' time or that I am in Mozovia Bay: ru nein g up a bill? 'If T was h•eaith,y I would bave been somewhere else. My teeth start to get sore is my; mouth, and if I don't have help I will lase them in a. few days. The bay is open for a eteam- er, even for a. schooner. 1 don't get any pain, but have lag my appetite. I only wish there would come help or I bad ,done witilt this world -for- ever. The galley leaks eo terrible ; so soon it starts to rain every't,hing Ls wet a.nld I cannot get it dry) again." The log then continues: Feb. ie. -Using snow for water. Can- not leave ,schooner. Help is what I neer) and fresh provisions. Feb. 17.-I can get aft no more. Ido not know whet I am going to do for water when snow leaves deck. Impassible for me to get down in 1 hold. No fire in stove for three i' days. 'Everything is damp. When I cook I have, to cook for four or five da'y;s at a time. All 3 can cook is dried apples, and then put 50 :mush pour on until I get it like plum. pudding when cold. I am dirty in face, bat that little isniow 1 have lest; I use for coon - lug. There is hardly snow any more; it is mostly rain. I liopo it will end soon• I don't think there will comae any blip; so sooner better. This is only a struggle with last breath. Feb. 18,-Wihd northrwesrt. Feb, 19. -One month slnce•I laid up with this scho'aner. Life is sweet, bat death is eweeter in like tih)is. I have nothing but cold scraps and snow water. To -days I ate ;came dried apples and piece df ice. I can make no more fire; es I can't dt•ay ap that long. Feb. 20.-I ,arn waiting for my death. e Death at )Last " Anid then In pencil, faintly; traced after`the last entry: "Death at last. Four moruthe alone." UNDER 3IIOTUN BEJ1ENEJ Patrol of Evansville Streets to, Prevent Riots. HOW THESHOOTINGCAMEABOUT 'Evansville, Ind., July, 13.-Thecity oP Esis now; ndtiaa •dcol• 01 vanBrig.-Genville. W. J. Moluierse anMayorntro Charles G. Covert, assisted by, a com- mittee of public safety. The step was taken alter a conference to-a,giit. The seguler pollee force will bo tripled and wits be assisted by, the several companies of militia now, on gun cl. All personas found on t1a•e streets wlro cannot furnish a satis- factoxy explanation of their business will be sent to their, homes under guard, Mee police are armed) with shotguns• and revoivers, and their instructions are to force the people to respect their aarthority. Mayor Covert to -night made a statement Saying be anticipated no, further trouble. Prank Lambie, the eighth victim of the battle in trout of tee county, jall• last night, died to -night. Frederick Kappler, the seventh vic- tim, 'died oafs afternoon. No fuetl>,er• outbreaks occurred. How the Tragedy Occurred. At 9 o'clock at night the mob grad- • uaily became more excited, its mani- feistrataoas of uneasiness more fre- quent, and at 10 o'clock it wag seen that nothing could prevent an as - Sault an the jail. At 10.80 the rioters presserd slowly forward, and innocent o'nlooker,s followed. Slowly they - famed the militiamen back toward the jail, until an alley between Divi- sion street and the stone building. was reached. The leaders, with a bi- cycle eu their 'front as a. ,shield to the bayonets of the soldiers, stoned the, jaa entrance. Captain Blum, of the National. Guard, ordered a charge on the rioters. TIlxe crowd was. forced back, tine soldiers using their bayonets and butte of their guns. Suddenly a rioter fell. i tones and bouldertc: began to fly through the, avis. A. sotuier was struck with a: rock and fail. A. riotes wa,s knocked down with a gun butt and a shot fol- lowed. This started a fusillade from the detenderts and a e nattered fire from the rioters. .Faliy 300 shots wore fired. No one knows who fired the fleet skot. The soldiers claim it was the rioters, while the rioters make no claim, The Governor is said to have instructed the authorities. not to jeopardize the safety of the jail with half -way measures. The sol- diers and deputies fired into the re- treating mob of men, who ran into Division street failing, crying and. 1'iraying. F;or 15 minutes tate firing eaetinued, then it ceased. The mob- wvlals gone and the soldiers held the place. Dillicults in Tracing 1-towley's Opera- tions. St. Timm'a.s, July i3. -W. 13. Devitt, who conducts a painting and paper- hanging business, was to have ap- peared before Judge Hughes to -dal, to continuo his examination in con- nection with the Shia Loa n •Co's',teas- pension. Mr. t;evitt left the pity somewhat ,suddenly several days ago, . caches not returned, and did not put in an appearance to -day;. Mr Be•vitt hats for years operated, in margins folr Rowley, and the object of hie ex- axninaa,txon was' to discover the exact condition of things existing between the - twO, what cleats were put • through, yvhee 1'oxsr.et were sustained, what profit.s were made, a,nd how much of the. 'profits Rowley received.,` It, Hout'i'y, local manager of Heintz Co., brokers, was examined for a . similar purpose, and compelled to produce booke to- show the traneao., tions- made, through him, but all the. information sought for was not found in the books, leavee being ludas-; ing. Important dietelosnrce In this brunch ter the case are shortly 'ex- peetedr a • . • , WANT NO BANK WRECKER. St. Thomas Depositors Object to A. E. Wallace's Presence. ,gat. Tlaonxa,s, Jolly lg.-A...E. Wallace is daily, In the office of the defunct Atlas Loan Company. 'Tae depositors and stockholders criticize the pres- ence of the es president severely. Be says he has the permission of the National. Trust Company, which is the liquidator, to remain there and furnish what to he can to those wishing it. Mr. "Wallace takes exception to the story generally cir- culated concerning tbe sad experi- ence of a woman who deposited $2,000 with the concern the day it closed its doors. According to the well authenticated report a woman, now residing in Jacksonville, Fla., took a $2,000 gold draft to the Aitlas the day before the doors closed and deposited it. When the failure was announced her lawyer cabled Nassau, Bahamas, where the draft was pay- able, to stop payment. The repay came back ' Draft cashed by cable to -day." In other words the incident indicated that the company had in,. stantby sought to collect this money when the deposit was Made. Mr. Wallace says the ca.bie was not sent ; that the woman deposited the draft with the intention of buying stock as sour. as any was on 'the market. He said it was collected in the ordinary course of business. George Rowley, the former man- ager Of the Elgin, ocouples a barred cell in the county jail. Ile is -now charged with felonies enough to place him a lifetime in prison. His trial will occur July 20. It is asserted that his plea of not guilty will be wvithdrawn, and he will throw himself on the mercy of the court. A. P. gtiwkWls. formerly, of St. John, committed suicide in New. 'York through grief over the lore sof his wife. • ,Within half an hour things had become so quiet that care could be taken of the dead and injured. The wounded soldiers were taken into the jail and Sound to be four in num- ber. Their injuries were slight. Tiley; were taken to their homes. • This was accomplished with difficulty., as, only, a few men were brave enough to pick theft a Many, of the wound- ed were taken away before their carxles could be learned. , The Captain's Statement. Captain Blum, of Company E, made the following states ent of the shooting; "The snob crowding up, the corner of Fourth and Division streets forced tee guards back to the jail gate and would not be' beaten, back. A. man in the crowd fired a shot, which struck asol- dier. Then the firing became gen- eral from+ the mob, and the soldiers tired is return. Orders to cease fir- ing were given to the :soldiers al - meet at once, and as the crowd turned in flight no order to fire was given by himself or any other of- ficer. it was done spontaneously and in self defence. The mob had. been repeatedly begged to go back. Boulders and bricks were thrown. long before the firing commenced,. and one soldier was knocked uncon- scious. Tho nina were given orders. to fire only, in self-defence. Of- ficers and soldiers greatly deplore - the shooting, but They, feel that they. acted only - in the line of their• duty." MURDERED IN CUBA. Manager of a Colony of Americana and Canadians. Bavana, July 18,.-A friend of 1. Bradley, an American, has written to Mr.. Squires, the 'United States.. Minister, informing him of tbe de- tails of the brutal murder of Arad, ley, near Holguin, on June SO. Brad. The Austrian criele is over, and the Premier consents to retain office. ley was tee 'manager of a colony of Americans and Canadians. His: body was nut to pieces, and botb arms were hacked off. It is supe posed that the motive of the &rime• was robbery, as the body had been pricked in the beak with the polntee of cutlasses, it is presumed in order to make Bradley tell where the. money. was. The murderers are un' known. Mfr. $quires will call ate tention of the Cuban Government to• the murder. T1he Aseonuan reservoir in Egypt has been emptied of its winter's: swore of water for the first time.. The results are most satisfactory.. ilibe area of cotton is largely in- creased, and the success of the sum - meg teropte is assured in the entire. area tribunary to the dam. Pita, offietials say the expenditure on the, daxm lo rune,' jpsitifled, ,