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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1902-10-02, Page 7WIATHIMONIAL MHOS UP Sent .0tit. .,.0vr.e:3.00,000 • . Letters to Suckers. TRUNKFUL OF PICTURES. Love -101.0 Alen and Women Seta 4pplication:4 Picture nue Cash - et Was the Cash That the Agmicha Were Arter-a Specimen Cireutar Chicago,-• Sept. 27. -Appearing re- luctantly as witnesses against the managers of a matrimonial bureau trust in the Harrison Street Pollee Court yesterday, a dozen blushing typewriterbashfully admitted that they had written gushing leters to more than 309,000 lovelorn men, whii, judging from the list of ad- .dresties the police Seized In raiding the ;various establishments in the com- bination, are to be found in nearly • every village, town and city on the • map. "011, that's all zight. I unner- ntand perfectly that they were not from your hearts, but were merely the dictation of your employers.," terpoeed Justice Hall, when one of the einbarraesed girls eagerly at- tempted to offer a confused explana- tion to this effect. These girt fur - tiler explained' that :emite,,as many maids aeca divoreed women living an Varieue pts of thee Taillad Jatates vent La photographs pf themselves and wrote expectantly for husbeeds, J. P. McCann, I. S. Daly and af, C. Clark 'proprietors of „three •• of ethe seven agencies that are said to have been in league to •owinelle by means of various "get -rich -quick" schemes besides the matrimonial fraud, were granted a .continuance to next Thee - clay. They each gave $1,000 bends. . The entire stock in trade of the linked agencien is plied up in a ear- ner of the squad -room at the Har- rison street ponce station. There is a large trunk filled with photographs of prospective brides and bride- grooms. , Thousands et letters that • accompaniedthese photographs are packed away in' two alphabetical sets of 'letter Dies (orge-eized boxes), Explained by woottirolge. ' "They 'did business outside Chi- cago exclusively," said Detective Wooidridge. "Their scheme was to work the matrimonial swindle first. In this way they got the dupes to fill in regular form. blanke and send them in. These filled-in blanks, of Which we found thousands, contain even information concerning the am- ount of wages each person earns. When the combination got all the money it could out of a victim through the matrimonial swindle it aost no time in sending `get -rich - quick -literature to the same Per- son." , The promoters of the alleged swindling concerns are charged enth ina,king bisoks oxi the raeee besides doing business In Chicago without a charter from theSeceetary of State. The' maximum fine for the latter of- fense' is $1,000. The federal authorities, Detective Wooldridge says, are eager to take the men • into custody for using the United States mails for fraudulent. PliirnOsen. . Datides Name into Three. John Hall Caron, one of tile al- leged leogne of swindlers, who is still 'al:large, Detective Woolcialage says, divided leis name for three matrimon- ial agencies. Wooldridge says he found Carson doing business at 93 Ogden avenue under the name of "Hall." "At 565 Madison street I found him conducting the .nohns ma- trimonial 'agency,". said the detec- tive; •nand at 408 'Ogdeh avenue he used his right name, Carson, with the Initials J. at.befone it," Following Is an extract from some of the catchy literature sent out : Wei have ladies with only a , pretty fade, ladies with ranches and ladies with city property; young, rich and handsome Widows, willing to try ma- trimony again; beautiful, dark -eyed Voluptuonue Spanish girls, many of themvery wealthy. We have city belies and country maidens, and many servant girls who have worked out • for a long time, saved their money, and want to mama some industrials, respectable man and have a home of their owe: • •0 . Detective Wooldridge says that the picture on thb wife of one of the man- agere was simultaneously' sent broad- cast throughout the country to thou - donde of . matrimonial aspirants. BRITISH NAVY MAY USE OIL Expetiotent. on Torpedo Boat Des- troyer may Drive Qat Coal, ' London,' ept. 28. -The gunday Times this morning reports that the torpedo boat destroyer Surly has tested oil fuel on a seven -hour run, and that this experiment, with othere that, ..are secretly progreseleg at Portsmontia base encourage:110e he - 'tel. -that oil will supercedo or at least material* keduce the comumption of •• 'The Sunday Timm says that 04 difficulty of neutralizing the emoke of oil burning in warships has pram - :finally ; „been., overtorne by pumping Into the fornacen enough hatiregen to: neutralize 'Om excess of earlow caused by -burning erucle petroleunt The paper adds, however,. that oil le dearer at present than Welsh coal. MESSIAH'S' tio.psp ROBBER.. Pigott, Who Says Ile Is Christ, lie- elthes Alde • 'London, Sept. 28. -The Rev. 3. la • Plightt, Who has- 'several tinieci an- nouneed haneelf AR the new atema Eon • in hie churchat Claptoni has 'Wilthdrentail to the strictest retire- ment. The churen hit I remain olosei until further notice, and the "Christ," no 110 calls himself, is abut Up from. the ohne eye in his hottee. Tbe. pollee goon' about tilt) .prent- teeta has been reduced to a tangle eonatellie, wildee presenee nos net deterred an enterprising burglar from antemptang to tomer hie way into the neilding through te rear en- tralige. Pigott • drove the thief &way and 'aneltbeed police interval- tiOn. The nOtOriety itehleeed ley Pigott and his follOwere bite serval to ere - ate linitatOre, taipecially a fan - Map Of time Mune Of Poplar, helm areerto that he bite the faculty of Divine healing anti the power to . raise the dead to lite. "DOWN WITH AAERICANS." Diatom :Moues. Attend Stange of Trout wey Men in Gowen, London, Sept. 29,--alhe Genelat cor- reel/el:Wept of the Daily Repress de- scribes the riotous scenes in con- nection with a tramway strike in that city which ;holes brought about by economies). effected by the Man- ager Of tee line, who is an "Ameri- can. A. mob filled the streets, and Preventea the, cars lrom running. They attempted to overturn care that Were manned by nonatrIkees, and a member of shots were fired. Mot- ors were damaged, • and tile over. head linee were cut. The police are inclined to side with strikers, wbbse ors is "Down' with the American& Several arreete have been made. The last etrike tooic place on 'Aug- ust: 841st, when 4,2 men were die - missed, INIINESSES IN- • ME USE, 'One Piece of Evidence Favor, able to Kent. LETTER TO HER FAMILY. Kent Does Not Seem to Worry In Jail • -Has Plenty of Reading matter.- (iros Letters W ere in the Trunk, but Where are They 11'3W? • Rochester, Sept. 24.--Terenzo Van Allen, brother-in-law Of Ethel B. • Dingle, has beeo located, and will be :witness ebefOreetheegrante ..jury of. Monroe county this week. Mrs. Mabel • Dingle Van. Allen, sister of the dead girl, is still in Duudas, Oat., suffer- ing from nervous' collapse on account of the harrowing death of her Was - woman. John Mackey, at patient at the Buffalo. General Hospital, whom Kent was attending and Miss Dingle wos nursing, will likely be a witness ie the case, as he was remembered in the ante-mortem letters. Evidence was adduced before the grand jury to: the effect that the long letter signed "Ethel," and ad- dressed "My Darling Brother and Sis- ters," WAS really written by Miss Dingle. There is no question regard- ing her handwriting or signature in this missive, which is one of the first pieces of evidence favorable to Kent that has been produced. Leland Dear Kent seems to enjoy Ida jail life. He has been supplied with cigarettes end black cigars. His relatives. have given him a large quantity of reading matter, includ- ing the eurrent numbers of the maga- zines and the newspapers. Ho passes his time reading and smoking inces- santly, preferring the black cigars to the cigarettes. It is now known that Ethel B. Dingle saved all the letters written to her by Leland Dear Kent and Dr. George H. Grant. These were pre- served by' the girl in her trunk. Tills explains why the 'defence was so anxious to secure possession of 'the trunk and resorted to such Sharp practice to gain this important .cor- respondence. ' TRAITOR SENTENCED. A,German Subject Who 'carried Im- portant Menages. London, Sept. 29.-A deepatch from Celle Town to the Central News says that Ernest Hensbel, a German sub- ject, has been convicted of treachery and sentenced by a military court at Pretoria to ten years' imprisonment with hard labor. The evidence in the case showed that last March, after having taken the oath of neutrelity, Henschel started for Germany, carry- ing With him a number of Kaffir cur- iosities, among which were foand, when the curiosities were examined at the frontier, certain documents addressed by Commandant Boers to former President Kruger and' Dr. Leyda the Boer representative in Eu- rope. The prisoner pleaded ignorance as to the.contents of the clocumentie, but admitted that he had been promised $5,000 for delivering them, PRESIDENT UNDER KNIFE. Bonear His Leg Potted to be slIghtls • A fleeted. Washington, Sept, 28. -Secretary •Cortelyou at and °Week this af- ternoon issued the following state- ment : • "Dr. Newton T. Shaffer, of New York, joined the President's phyea clans in consultation this .morning at I. o'cloak. • • "The, increase in local symptoms and a rise in temperature rendered It necessary to. make an incision Into small cavity, exposing the bone, which was found to be slightly af- fected. Thorough drainage is now established, and the physicians feel confident that recovery will be un- interrupte• a. "The operation was performed by Surgeon -General Rixey, assisted by Dr. Lung, in conjunction with Sur- geon -General O'Reillyand Deptors Shaffer, Cale and Stitt. ")Signed) George '13. Cortelyou, "Secretary to the President." SWIFT AND 'ANGLO.A.MERICAN important Deal Of Packing interests • Tends to Contlirsit Merger. Chicago,' Sept, .27.-aA definite step Wheeler narrowing the field of com- petition was taken Saturday, when Swift 84 to. took over the aneelo- American packing • intei*esta • The Steps taken tittle. far' looking to a merger of the big 'packing in- terests are the absorption of the Anglie-Amerien,a Company by the Santis and, the Hammond Cowpony ana the Ohlaba Packing Company by the Arnhoues. The delay in con- solidating thews leteeeete is said to be due • to the money stringency and to politleal 0(31)810101one. • SHOT HIS BROTHER. •- Burk's VA MI On 14/ Sept. fig. -While hunting In the township of Laurier, tome Six rialee north of this Village, Wellington MicitlihtOu accidentally ehot and killed his brother Oeorge, The two had separated in theit, moat for game, and Wellington, noticing a inOVement In the bush, fired his gun le that flirtation, with fatal results. The coroner needled that an intineet Wite not 1100000417. MURDER AT CHIPPAWA OF MRS. FRANKS. The Defenceless Woman Struck Down While at Supper. The Top of tier Dead Completely Battered in -Deep (lash on tier Forehead -tier Clothes Torn awl Dishevelled -She Was Evidently Disturbed at Supper. -Fought Der Way or Dragged to tier Bedroom -Some Jewellery and Money Missing.4iow the Peed Was Discovered - No Clue-I3ut Police Working on the oase. Niagara Faildespatch-The Most brutal murder that hos occurred on the Canadian Niagara Mentor took piece some time last evening in the heart of the 'quiet little village of Olappawa. The victim was a Mrs. Jessie Flemien, Franks, a well-known resident, of the village, who has re- sided In the village since girlhood. her lifeless foam was found lying in a pool of her own blood clotted one the Door of her bedroom title morning. Her brains were battered out, Mrs. Franks, who was a widow about fifty years of age, moved into I. F. alanitiem's old homestead last spring. It. was In this house she met Ler death. eceue of the Murder. The place is located on the south- east corner of the pubee equate in the heart of the village. Ties house Laces west, and as a Iwo -story old frame house with a large verandah on the liaart and north eine of it. Lurge shade trees almost obscure the tiouse en front. On the south Ade is the public rood running east and west; on the north vide is a email yard, and wan scrubby fruit trees. Tito next to the norm a with a dimpidatee board fence as a di- viding line is another two story frame house °weed also by, J. F. Macktem. The Interior of the house where the murder occurred is divided on the lower floor by a large hail, run- ning from the front door to tile rear. On the right of the hall as one enters the front door are the apartments of Mrs. Franks, consist- ing of large front room, also used us a minor and comfortably fur - Moiled. On the east side of this room Is a door leading into another large loam, used as a bedroom, and further in the rear is the diningroom and kitchen, with door leading from the bedroom to the north of the kitchen. ft led out at the rear end of the ball to the summer kitchen, which, with the upstairs, made up Airs. Frank's portion of the house. Had Been 11.1vIug Alone. During the euramer Mee. Franks kept one or two boarders, but the past two or three weeks she has been aving alone la her own apartments, her only income being some $15 sent by a brother, who is located in the -State. On the left of the ball or north side of the house are two large atoms, one used as a bedroom and another 'as a sitting -room by Miss Thomas, who is about 50 years of age. As Miss Thomas is a distant relative ,of Thomas Mackiem she lived during the day and ate her meals at his residence. he would come to her apartments about 10 o'clock each evening accompanied by someone from the Mackiem. honae, short distance away. The entranee into Miss Themes' apartments is from the north side of the house, anti there is also a door leading from bier rooms into the hall. It has been the habit of Airs. Franks always before she retired about 9.80 o'clock to light Miss Thomas' lamp and leave it in her room. Yesterday Miss Thomas spent the afternoon in Buffalo, returning in the evening, She went direct to Thomas Macklem's home and about 10.15, accompanied by Aft-. Macklem, went to her. apart- ments. No bight in the House. On arriving there they found no light burning. Mr. Macklem lighted eevdral matches, bat was unable to find the lamp in eithee room. They welt out into the hall, lighted more Mateltee, and then rapped on the. door leading into Mrs. . Franke' parlor. Inearleg not a soulul he partially opened the crooO and called Mrs. Franks. Still there was no reply. They went to the rear of the hall, opening the door into the dining room and kitchen. Mr. Aleeklem held up a lighted match', and seeing no trace of Mrs. Franks, there they cone eluded she had gone out to spend the night at some of the villagers' houses. Coming back to Miss Thom- as' apartment she felt timid 'to re - Main alone In the toast) and returned with Mr, Afacklene to his home, where she 'remained all night. levidenee or Robbery. This morning, wishing the use of her .spectaeles, and reinemberlidg she bad lea them in her handbag, on the bed, she and Mrs. Thomas Macklem went over to the rooms about 9 o'clock this morning. Upon tiM twe haloes' entering they noticed that the top drawer of her dresser was part- ly open with the look, whieh she had alwoye kept looked, wrenched off an3 althouga several pieces of jewel - cry were thrown tondo down. in the drawer, none of it was missing. A large trunk that stood in the • sit- ting room had the look pried' Off and the contents turned upside down. Several old spade guineas were not touched, but one American five dol- lar gold piece was Missing, and un- der a, table was an old axe, which' evkleetly Itan been. esed 'to pry open the traitk. • • • A Gruesome Discovery. The ladies, tealleing that their apatite -Os bad been rant:ticked, Went iota Wonted Mr, Herber, a store keeper near by, who return- ed with them. • After examining their apartments, he Went into Mr. Franks' apartments, and there saw a most horrible sight. fie (tie- Coneted the body Of airs, Franks lying just inside ot her bedroom door leading from her parlor. One foot Was caught on the South door Jamb. fier dress wits almost around her Waist ahd the left sleeve of her shirt Waist was pulled completely off. Her naked arm beets bloody finger merlon In the Middle of her forehead leading ' &On from t lie rootii of bee hair to almost between her eyes wAS a deep gash, while the lop Of her hood was completely battered hi, and n portion of her betting Wore eoting out, a stream of clotted blood flowed inwarde teciattedil the parl, DI the north- west corner of the parlor a most ghastly sight was to be seen. This was the spot, no doubt, where the . poor woman got her death blow. 1 Pools ot Blood on the 1, leer. There was another pool of blood au the Hoer, with a portion Of the woman's brains' and her brok- en spectacles and back hoircomb. The wall in the north side of the room was 'spattered with blood near the bottom. dust east and under a writing stand in tine corner of the room was another small pool of blood, and everything indicated that the poor victim had made a most desperate struggle for life against big odds. Apparently the murderer dragged her bleeding form from the northwest corner across the parlor floor and part- ly into the bedroonh, and there let It lie. Going out to the kitchen he took a ta,ble towel off a clothes rack, wiped blood on it either from his hands or clothing and left the house through the window on the south side, or as he came into the house, from the rear through the stone house, kicked in the back door of the hall, wrenching the look fastening from its place. The mud- dy footprints are quite plain on the floor. 1 One Reasonnbie Theory. The hour of the revolting and brutal murder is placed between 6 and 7 o'clock last evening, as the lamps in the house had never been - where the blood,,' weapon was con - cooled betore the lanai, is something that Will have to be elearea Up. A murderer would not care to be bur- dened with a blood-stained axe, and if the weapon he not found it will be bora toconvince anyone that the deed was not committed by eomeone, living in the neighborhood. that the object was robbery, and that the murderer was a stranger. Against tele view Is the more likely one, however, !het the murderer knew that Ars. Franks WAS 1110/1+' in the house. Who would Lie likely to know this Au Itifter13' WIA1461V. • The unfortunate woman was a wi- dow, 52 years of age. She was -born in Scotland, and came to Canada when four years old, liar only child, a son, disappeared aboat fifteen years ago and has never since been heard of. Three brothers, John R., Albert and Thomas Fleming, reside at South Bend, Indiana, and bane been notified of their sister's 'death. Was Robbery the Cause? The murder was an title:atom one, the motive evidently being robbery, although as far as is known the amount of money taken was trifling, notwithstanding the fact that the whole lower story of the house was ransacked. Strum( Down at Her Mel. Tile eupposition is that Mrs. Franks was eating her evening meal, as the reenelne of the supper were on the kitchen table. After strik- ing the woman down the murderer must' have allowed her to remain In the parlor for seine time, evident- ly for the purpose of ransacking the building, as a large amount of blood was on the floor, mach more than was at the spot where the body was found. The apartments ransacked, the body was dragged by the arm and leg through the parlor to the sitting room. It is quite evident that the murder Was committed early last evening. A. peculiar cir- cumstance is that while the effects of Miss Thomas were handled in a nowise gentle manner, there was nothing disturbed in the rooms of the dead woman. In Mime Thomas' bedroom was found an axe which bad evidently been used to force the trunk, as there were no bloodstains either upon the handle or blade. The trunk wa,s thoroughly ransacked. Everything was found Intact, with the exception of an American $5 gold piece. At 7 o'clock to -night an autopsy was performed and though the of- ficial report could not be obtained It was learned that death had been caused by a crushing blow on the top of the skull. D. James MeGerry, Jun., who, with Dr. Andrew Gray, eoeoe--aenna=e. r., LOAM% PEARY. Who Return's Without Bringiri g the North Pole With I Him. yet lighted, and the Buffalo News, that Its delivered to her each even- ing about 6 a in., still hung on the front door knob, never having been taken in. There is only one reason- able theory as to how the victim Met her death. Shortly after 6 o'clock last evening the woman wets having a light supper of bread, butter ano jam, with a cup of tea. Either one, or probably two, men forcibly en- tered her residence from the rear aud sprang at her as she sat at her kit- chen table, to insult and outrage her. The woman jumped from the table with .4 table knife in her hand and ran from the kitchen through her bedroom and into the parlor, where the brutes overpowered her, after a desperate etrug'itle. Her dress and shirt 'amnia a ere almost puled oil hoe and her undergorments were ripped and torainto ribbons from the waist band. Her screams were evidently smothered with a sofa pillow- that lay Lu the corner where the crime was committed, and after probably accomplishing their brutal purpose, they struck the woman on the fore- head with the eharp side of some in- strument as she lay prone and partly unconscieus on the floor. Pulling her body out of the Corner near the door leading to the ball, the murderers battered the top of her head in and dragged her body to the next room!, and then as a blind rifled Miss Thomas' apartments. Although two colored men, who work on the Power Company's works and live in two rooms of the other Mackletu home looking towards Mrs. Franks' house, only the width of a town lot away, claim they heard no noise last evening, Mrs. James Office, who lives in another house to the rear -of Mrs. Franks' home, claims she heard a pounding noise about P. M. • Pollee Have a Chia, As soon as Ur. Mabee made the discovery he notified Village Consta- ble Lymburher, Who at once notified Chief Mitina of the Ontario police, These two officers are working hard on the ease, and, although' they do not speak, it is pretty well Under- stood that they are on to a, chic that 'will lead in) to the arrest et the devilish brutes who caused this woman's death in such a brutal manner. 'Whoever they are, thy have Well covered their tracks. Coroner McGarry empartellod a jury, Who, after *Wing the dead Woman and promisee, adjourned until next Monday, Ine Definite Clue. Chief Wane, of the Ontario forte, discussing the murder, said late Thursday night that he was proceed- ing with no definite clue. A most Important feature Is that no bleed - stained William were found. An axe wits probably used by the murderer, and there witti Only ono wound, although the victim might have been struck thvice In the fame lhace. , There was a feeling that the deed Watt Committed by a 'stranger, but performed the autopsy, said that While there was no positive evidence Of a criminal assault on Mrs. Franks there was abundant 4.ndaatione that it had been attempted. , • Chippewa, Sept. 26. -Although the police were unanimous to -night in saying they had no clue to the mur- derer of Mrs. Jessie Franks, it is wellunderstood that they are in- vestigating along a. line that pro- mises sonic interesting develop- ments. The authorities refuse to believe ' that more than one man was °nagged in the terrible trag- edy, or that a hatchet was used, as at first supposed, to inflict the In- juries which caused the unfortu- nate woman's death. The marks On the rear door, by %Mien time murder- er entered the house, would indi- cate that a small "jimmy," sharp- ened at one end, had been used to force an entrance and slay the woman. Murder After BurgIney. The police now theist that the murder was committed after the apantments of Miss Thomas, in the north side of the house, who was reputed to have considerable money, had been ransacked. They are strongly of the opinion that Mrs. Franks was nt in the house when the murderer entered, but that site came in upon him when he was in the act of carrying off the valu- ables in the plam, They found oat that; had the dead woman been in when the fiend appeared at the rear door of the house, there would have been no necessity for him to force an entranee, Marks on the door plainly indleate that a lot of force was used by the murderer. The "jimmy" Was apparently In - sorted between the woodwork and the door. When this method of operation would not accomplish his end, ft Is believed he placed his knee close to the hatelle and forged the look. Had Mrs. Fronke been in, the police contend shin Would surely have heard the murderer and gone to: the door to investigate the cause of the noise. The spot whine) Mrs. Franks retained the death blows was in the front stud on the West side of the house, or fully 5.0 feet from the door Which was pried open. Chippewa If:Vetted. For this pest 55 hours nothing Mee hasbeen talked about in Chippewa hut the brutal murder Of Mra Pranks, Villagers gathered about the site of the tenacity to -day, and groups dis- cussed the mole and advanced vatlom thecalete Bach had his own opinion of the ease, and the motive for the Murder. Searching parties were or- namented, and the ground for scam dis- tance about the hOuse was gone over Carefully In the hope Of getting seine tram of the instrument used by the Murderer to form ail entrance to the place and kin the woman, The Search woe made under the direction of Con - Stable Inrieberner, of Clappesita, who, with Chief Mains of the Ontario po- lice, is investigating time ease, Weapon Can't be round. There are any number of places close to the scene of time tragedy where the murderer could secrete his weapon, and it is not to be wondered at that Dimas not been found, There (1.8 )1, tttlicer13100kttehevilialenlid iiothhevree ri at hpea snsoltul! y that the weapon lino been thrown into the water by tile fiend after leaving the mem of the murder, The most important bit of evidenee yet secured is a statement made 1:0 - day by an Inmate of the home of Dr. Gray, who explained that the dead woman had called on the doctor last Tumidity, but failed to find hiM, She gave bet' reason for the visit that she hail received a severe algae the night before, and that her heart would never be right again. She wanted some medicine. After being told that the doctor was out elle left, saying that she would mime back again in a short time. On the way home she met Mrs. James Office, and again related the incident, whiell caused her to be- come alarmed. Judging from the con- rlyveeotrirltito,n lsiviles.lmodulhoveithetatemutto'detrhetel conclusion that a man had looked in the deceased's window when she was The dead woman seemed to take seriously the action of the man, whose name she did not mention, and talked of going to Buffalo for the winter months to live with friends who hod spent the summer with her. Died Before 6.30 31, To -day Chief Males Was engaged in tracing the movements of the woman prior to the murder, and from, his investigation he is fairly well con- vinced that gre. Franks met her death between the heave of 4 and 6.80 o'clock. The dead woman was last seen about 4 o'clock, at ah auc- tion sale, at a neighbor's house, at which hour she left for home. From the condition in which the lamps are at present it it -mild appear that dark - nese had not set in when Mrs. Franks was murdered. The lamps have no evidence of having been lighted on the night of the tragedy. A villager, who knew the deceased well, declared to -night that lie had been speaking to a lady who had seen the deceased at the auction sale as late as 5.20 p.m. This would seem to indicate that the deceased had gone home and had returned o second time to the place where the sole was In pro - gross. The authorities are inclined to think that if their theory is cor- rect that the murderer entered the house during the woman's absence it was while she was away at the sale for the seemed time. All 11143011111M Point, An important point which has intezied the °Mare on the case 'will in all probability be cleared up when the inquest is resumed by Drs. Mc - Geary, jr., and Gray, who performed the autopsy. It was the presence in the drawing room Where the woman received her death blows of a second pool of blood under it secretary in a corner. The terrible injuries to her head, the doctors say, show be- yond a doubt that tile woman was struck at least twice. The pool of blood in the corner got there, the doctors will contend, when the -wo- man was struck the first time. The presence of finger marks on the de- ceased's body plainly demonstrate that ebb was outraged after blood had flown Trom the woman's head; that the blow which caused • death was struck after the assault, while Mrs. Franks was lying unconscious on. the floor. Doctor's Theorr. The theory the doctors will ad - Immo at the inquest, it is understood, is this: The mua•derer forced the rear door when Mrs. Franks was at the auction sale and was ransacking the apartments of Mrs. Thomas when the 'deceased 'returned home. Mrs. Franks did not notice anything un- usual till after site 'had prepared a light supper. She was sitting at a table in the kitchen, when .she heard footsteps, which camecl her to go to the drawing -room. The murder- er heard her coming, and struck the fh•et blow, causing her to reel around the erawing-room and fall insensible with"leer head under the secretary, and while in this condition she was outraged. After the murderer had acompliehed his purpose he dragged her about two feet, and then in - Meted the blow which caused her death. The fiend then "dragged the body to the spot where it was found, and where he thought it could not be seen from the street. The doctors form their opinion that Mrs. Thomas' room was ran- sacked before time murder was com- mitted, from the fact that no blood stains were found In the room or on anything handled by the man who Is now being sought by the police It is known Vint time murderers hands are stmared with blood, by the presence of finger marks on the towel found lying on, the chair in the kitchen. There is no evidence that the man washed his hands. The &motors will all contend that the murderer was some one acquainted with the interior of the house. Detective Greer to Go. Chief Mains this afternoon wired to the :Attorney -General, Imploring the assistance of one of the proein- cial detectives. A. Fleming, a bro- ther of the dead woman, wired to- night that he was heaving South Bend, Indiana, and would be here to- morrow morning In time for the fun- eral, which takes place at 4 p.m. The body is lying at the house of time deceased, In charge of Undertak- er W. E. B. McKenzie. Tile contents of the house will be left undisturbed until PrOvincial Detective Greer comes and takes up the investigation of probably the moist atrocious crime that has ever etoatied the Niagara district. Niagara Valle, Ont., Sept. 21 -Chief Mains spent the most of yesterday and to -day at Chippewa, investigat- ing the Franks murder, but so far 110 important link hue been found. Nothing bat suspicions, with no evi- dence to coliviet Is tae condition, and the gdlity party may never be known now, zue theta has beeri ample time to destroy every vestige of guilt connecting the culprit withi the crime, The eoronosa inquest to -mor- row Will prove teat the woman Was Murdered In the twilight of Wedneen day evening last, ited will prove that murderer had broken into the helot and was in the place when the wo- man came home from the motion Pale It Will also prove how the pool of blood came tch be under the Write lug desk. Some sensational develop- texzereAxxeicletOffice,etltot i occur at the Mrs. s said, define she B&W' ;three strange men prowileg around Mrs. Franks' home late on Wednesday after110011. The Villagers do not lett Wish im- portance lit this story, The sant:tins of the unfortunate wo- men were la -la In. their last resting place tithe afternoon in the Presley- teelite Church burying ground of the village of Chippewa. and Were followed to the grave by ielmoilt'Ma a drizZlIng rain. ery resideitt of the village throinell It is expeettal Platinticial Detective Greer Will molt here op Monday morning,. and Will take charge of the prise at the Inquest, which re- Beimet1 at al. ie. ea, • Niagara, Falls, Ont., Sept. 29.-Tlie adjourned Inquest into the murder of Mrs, Franks was resumed at Chip- PONVO at 11 o'clock this morning by Coroner MeGarry. The evidence waif similar to that already published. The otit 'in the throat was not sufficient to cause death, and in the doctors' opinion hail been lidlicted after deetit. There ivos evulence Of criminal as- seult, rs"TtiI ll?cetestifiedseeing fitOtinger:lk,4aroundmre.prank; house about Pane last Monday, preceding the day of the murder, The Man was dressed in a Wm* suit and black fedora hat, and left two other Strangers standing down the stoneroced towards the village of Drummondville, and came down the road to the house and walked clown the south side, and around the front, looking several them at the house, did not see hina rejoin this other men, She also testified hearing three distinct bangs in the direction of 3lafga raFbt•auntkss.'11510u;.me .Wednesday even - Officer Lymburner corroborotes Airs, Office so far as the stranger Is concerned. He claims to have came across him on the streets, and told him to get out of town as he did 'not like his appearance and actions. EMILE ZOLli FOUND DEAD, Famous Author Victim of Asphyxiation, SICILIAN HORROR CROWS. Six Hundred Bodies Await Burial - Plague Is reared - Typitoca Sweeps Over Yokohama, Doing Great Damage -Big Swindie Germany Leads to Arrests. Paris, Sept. 29. -Emile Zola, the novelist, who was born in Paris on April 2nd, 1840, died this morning. Zino was found dead in his house from asphyxiation. His wife Is gravely ill. It is said that the nov- elist's death was accidental. Madame Zola May Survive. Later, aO1 p. m.-Af. Zola, was as- phyxiated by fumes from a stove, the pipes of which are said to have been out of order. At the same time it is stated that there are indica- tions of suicide. Zola and' his wife returned to Paris yesterday, after haying spent three months in the country, It is hoped that Madame Zola Will sur- vive. --- 013V1OlisLy AN ACCIDENT. M. Zola Wit a Dead and Wife .niateWlICII Found. Zola* returned to his Paris home from the country hotise at Medan, and owing to a sudden spell of cold weather here, he ordered the heatene Move In hie bedroom to be lighted. The stove burned badly, but Zola and his wife retired at 10 o'clock la.kt night, and. the servants, not heariing any movement in the apart- ments this morning, entered the bedroom at 9.80 and found Maclaine Zola lying on the beta inanimate. Zola was *Ina half out of bed, with his head and shoulders on the floor and his legs on the bed. Doctors' were senninoned, but they ;ailed to restore Zola to life. Al ter prolonged efforts they resuscitated Madame Zola. The rumor circulated regarding Zola's supposed suicide :nom poison were based on the fact that ejections from his stomach were found on the floor. But the doctors say they came from Zola's dog, 'which was also in the bedroom and which did not suffer from .aapityxlation. Zola dieted with a good appetite yes- terday evening, and alte servants of the household ate of the same dishes. Nothimar unusual was heard in the bedroom during the night, Some workmen arrived at the Zola residence at half past nine this morning in order to make certain re - paha in Zolins bedroom, but the ser- vants had already become alarmed at hearing no sound frota the room, decided to enter it, and burst the door open. A slight Odor of carbonic gas was at once noticed, and the Shod- ies of the novelist and his Wife were found in the positionalready des- cribed. Zola . had evidently been awakened bychnoking sen- sation and tried to e rise, but was overcome by the fumes, which apparently escaped from the defective Stove. Tae windows were immediately opened, doetors and a comeliest -try of pollee were summon- ed, and the utmost etforte were made to revive the novelist and his wife, but the former bad already suc- cumbed. Madame Zola regained conscious - nem at about noon. She now lies in a state of complete pnostration, Atm improvement In her eonclitlon is anxiously awaited in order to ob- tain further light on the occurrence. A Growing Death Eon, London, Sept, 29.-A, special des- patch from Rome says that the death roll resultieg from the ro- t:alit hurricanes in Sicily. M swell- ing. The bodies of 600 persons are now aWaieleg burial, And as Incites fOr their :prompt interment are lacking there are gravefears of an epidemic, , Tsphoon Stveeps Yokohama. Yokohama, Japan, Sept. - A severe typhoon swept Over Yedee- llama to -day. Several steamers were driven ashore here. Some of them have been re -floated. It is feared that there have been, many fatalities among the fishermen. ArreSt winnlers. Isrankfott-Onethe-Main, Sept. 29' -The Frankfurter Zeitung, in addi- tion to announcing to -day hi a des- patch from Mannheim time Arrest of Herr Menninger, a director Of the bankrupt Rheinan-Mannheint Chetni- eal Company', says that Joseph A. Doable, another director of that coMpotty, hes been taken into cus- tody, The direetora among other dealings, are alleged to have sold to Banks at aftennliehe transfers anhetiliting to $125,000, On a New York Bank, with which it had Wel- /Mee tonliechtiOna, without the com- pany haeleg an equivalent SUM to Itti cretin% iii Nehee TOrk, MOTHER OF 7 SHOTS HERE "0 God, Have Pity!" Her Last Message, MAYOR OF SEATTLE LOST. New Yorka Budget of Crimes --A Chicago Woman Pound Beaten to Death In au Ailey -President Pardons a Murderer After 29l Years. Chicago, Sept, '27. -With her hue - band dying in California, no money to guard against suffering and the knowledge that she one her little ones would be turned out of their home October 1st, Airs, winiton H. Deming could find no reason to live and so eliot herself through the head. The only message:she left *as pencil- ed on a bit of po,pen and read: "0 God, have pity." leere. Deming and her Seven young children lived at 2858 North Forty- fifth avenue, Mayfair. For several days she had been deepondent. Yes- terday morning elle went to her room, Whiell is in 'the attic or the cottage. She had just locked the door behind her when her oldest son, Fritz, who is not yet 14, called and asked her to come down and, attend to the baby that had begun' to cry. She replied that she would be down in 4 minute, and he went down to Imre for the baby until his mother orrived. A moment later he heard the repert of a pistol shot And, rushing upstairs, he found his mother lying face downward on the floor. A Mayor Missing, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 2'T. -Mayor Thomas J. Humes is either lost in . the woods near Lake Washington or has met with a serious accident that has prevented his return' to his summer camp. He started on a bear hunt on Thursday and became separated from his companions, lie failed to appear at a designated place of meeting, anti no trace of him has since been found. Diligent efforts are being made to find the mayor. !Pound Dismembered Body. New York, Sept. 27. -The dismem- bered body of a man was bound to -day in a furnace at No. 38 West 29th street, a building occupied by n• Chinese restaurant. The head had been cut from the body. New York, Sept. 27. -Harry Rose, a theatrical manager, shot and killed mi e wife to -day. He went to a police station, told of the crime, and area Aced under arrest. Evidence or Pool Crif110, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 27. -With face lad body terribly beaten and her clothing torn off, Aire. MOM. Swan - eon, who lived formerly in, elliteeto,„_addeoi avenue, was found lifeless last night Lu an alley at the rear of a. shoe .actory at Kingsbury and Superior streets. The alley runs near the tracks of the Milwaukee & St. Paid Railroad, and is particularly dark /tad • lonely. It seems clear the woman was dragged into the alley and murdered. Several arrests have been made. Murderer Pardoned, Washington, 1). C., Sept. 27. -The President has granted a full and un- conditional pardon to William Din- kella, convicted In 1880, before a Un- ited States consular court in ifa,pan of the murder of Charles Abbott, the first mate of the American. ship Cen- tennial, while lying in }Dego har- bor, the prisoner being the second mate cif the ship. Dinkelia has been in prison for more than 22 years, two years its Japan and over 20 years in the Albany, N. Y., Peni- tentiary. He always has insisted that the crime was committed in the heat of passion and when lie .1:alloyed his own life was in jeopardy. CANADIANS LOSE SPRINGS, American Capitalists Buy leamotte S Catimbr Ines Waters. Toronto, Sept. 27. -Many times has it been the experience of Can- adians to see men from across the line wit)) their characteristic enter- prise come over and scoop up some of the most valuable natural assets of the 'Dominion. This is getting to be a matter of almost weekly occur- rence, and though Canadians may Impotently gnash their teeth over the situation, they cannot help won- dering where the 'enterprising Am- erican will land next. The latest strike made by Ameri- can capitalists is the formation of an $800,000 company to secure the entire rights for the sale Of the famous St. Catharinee mineral wat- ere. It is learned olm The Very best authority that the springs have been seeured by this company, and that the entire lame of stock has been subscribed for in New York. Timis may be considered another instance of the wideawake citizens of the Re- public stealing a march upon their dormant neighbors to the north. The ineorporatore are Se T. Groves, 0. J. Baby, W. J. Keyea and R. an Campbell, all of whom are favorably known In the neighborbood of Si', Catharines. Incorporation papers have been applied for. 13 IT CONSPIRACY WOMail Alleges She Is the Widow or a Millionaire, New York, Sept. the Or - plums' Court, at Long Branch, N. revelatlons are expected to -day wit:telt may result in unmasking • a gigantic &emote/Ley, involving the possession of the molar part Of the large tetate of the late Henry Al. Bennett, of Pittsburg, Pa, Laura Biggar, an actress, is the chief claimant. Her .contention rote npon an alleged mit:Death of mar - tinge, whieh opposing counsel -ex- pect to prove Is a forged document. It Is held that her assettion that hi becOme the mother Mat July of 4 posthumeme child, the son of the old. millionaire, rests upon no less tickle a foundation. &tome! Wanton, formerly it Ho - 'molten Justice of the Piece, who hod Pridan swore that lie had performed the wedding Ceremony iii 1898, cool net be found yesterday le Hoboken. Ile has been naming Same Tueeday. ethouln he appear In Long Branch to -day (lounge! opposing Laura Big- gar'e claim, eapect to put him on the statist as their own witness- and to prove thei alleged tonspiracy by Ian Oldelleb and OM rOthera • •