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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-04-18, Page 7THAW JURY DISAGREED AND 9.41 bate, and heal been iuterviewed on nip D ,White'N behalf by the nothriotte Abe . M tIARGED Impanel. Hummel siveare alio llama eigia • ed an afidevit ateetiaing Thaw of al Suspidous Circumstances in Covi. a true es a. us ng the period ele . , inpent am the vontinent with him, ana A t .1(flAstifYlte,t5dior:taiii:icrisl'kF:lirggslc!," nr-mwer.,••.16 ARTHQUAKE SHOCK AT mato) aTy . tern, A quantity of woliielde a the night before and put on another 01) i 011,11)w WWI 1441111d hanging over the feet of the ' ' ' -- ' ' - ' - - ' • -„- heti in which she ;slept, which wOuld indis tette that she had taken her clothes off / 0 , while Keener is somewhere abont i 1 Mrs. Dewing was CI, year or two twee :30. The former woe 0, widow, and has .ft SW living in Winnipeg Koeller . b. . eye he had linOW11 per omy from Mareit 30th, when he engaged ber to aet as ids hoeeekeeper during hie wife's abernee, Koeller ie a- maehinist, ausl works in the Grand Trunk ItailavaY sdame. While not wealthy, he and hie wife and four ehildren apparently livid well, though the man hats a repu- tatior for drinkieg Ronsiderobly. After his arrest, when arraigned, before Po. Hee Magistrate Oloa,ne, his demeanoy W416 perfectly cool ant collected, end, if nervousneee is a mark of guilt, he certaluly did not display any, Ilis Wife, t00, eXprti4NeS the utmost confidenee in his inneueuee and in his ability to clear hmeelf of the awful eharge hanging over him, Thaw Hands Delrnas a Note in Court 5aying He No Longer in. Charge. - • - Dan. O'Reilly Now Looking After the Case—Will Ask for Ballo New York eXpril Die -Failing to agree on a verdict after more than 47. home of deliberatiou, the .1.11aw jury wa3 dis- missed at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. -kr The first ballot taken after the MHO was put into tho halide of the jury at 5.15 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon showed this mull: For murder first degree, 0; for mauslaughter, 2; for au- quittal, 4. Almost imutediatel,y on the annotunannent, a this result the two who had voted fur a verdict. of manslaughter changed their votes to coovietiou of mutter. Seven Against Five. For several ballots the vote stood 8 to 4. Then there was -one more change, which increfteed the number of those who would set Thaw free on the ground. of insanity at the time of the killing to five. Thus the final vote stood yeeter- day; For ;murder, first degree, 7; for ate - guide!, 0. With no hope of change from this attitude, the jury was relieved of its task, and all the work done since the first talesman WAS eXa111111eir on January 23rd had gone for naught, The New Trial. mit Harry K. Thaw will be tried again for the murder of Stanford. White. District Attorney Jerome says it will be Oetober before the new trial can. be moved. When court reconvenes on'April 20 an applieation may be made for ad- mitting the primmer to bail, Mr. Jer- ome will oppose it. Thaw, while bitter- ly disappointed at the resttlt, bore up bravely. His family seemed znore down- cast. The discharge of the jury, and the de- claration of a nil:atrial were brought about without dramatic effect. Harry Thaw had been told before entering the court room that the jury hopelessly dis- agreed, and that his counsel thought it best to concur with the District Atter- nay in proposing the dismissal of the jury. Thaw Hopeful to the. Last. The young Pittsburger had earlier in the aseternoon again bundled up the mass of letters and. doeumente which he meant to take with him front his cell. He was even at; the eleventh hour hope- ful of aequittal. .110 thought that- the appeal of Mr. Donnas, who pietured. him as Sir Galahad, reeettleg forlorn dam- sels, would imprees the jury ;so greatly that he would. be liberated before the esetting of yesterday's sun. When ho was told. by Mr. Peabody and M. O'Reilly of his eonasel that the result would be a inietrial, he drop- ped Ms bundle of documents to the floor. The bitterness of his disappointinent was beyond words. He faced months more of confinemeet and then •the strain of another trial. After some words of encouragement from his lawyers Thaw braced himself and followed his prison g.uard into the eourt room. He slipped into his chair at tho head. of the table raserved Itir the lawyere for the defence so afflict -1y that few of those in court noticed The Prisoner's Wife. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw elipped into the room from the door -which leads to the Justice's chambers. nstead of tekieg her accustomed seat she swung. a chair beside that iu which her husband. sat. - She knew the result; she had. been told by the lawyers who made the fight for her husband's life and liberty. As she sat elose to. him Thaw dropped Ms right hand. toward ller, caught her gloved hand and held it fast. Some court attendant pressed a but- ton and a flood of light relieved the cloudy .April afternoon by the glare of many electric lights. Clerk Penny , arose from his seat and -called to Thaw to stand and fae,e the jury. He then turned to Foreman Demiug 13. Smith and called to him and his eleven as- sociates, to face the defendants The Scone in gourt. Thaw stood up. In the glare of the eleetric light his face showed plainly the pallor that moos front long im- prisonment. The lines from the curve of his nostrils down to the ethin seemed to haw deepon.ed 06 if the keenly -1 sharpened plow of adversity had sud- denly furrowed them. A few moments before he had sat with his pitiftd lit- tle! treasures in his lap all neatly par- I coiled and ready to carry them to the great outer life, of which he had been deprived for nearly 0 year, He had 1 oven arranged for a tour abroad with his wife. As Thaw 'rose he threw batek his heavy 1 shoulders and pnt his chin in the air. Ito looked squat:01y at Foreman Smith and Mr. Smith looked at Justice Fitz- 1 weld. The end of the ease was brought , quickly, Clerk re1111y asked if the Airy had outlet' verdiet. Mr. Smith said simply that it had not. He then pluMped himsel f suddenly b It 0 his ehair a,nd Thaw sank into his, Mr, Debnas then aeked Thaw foe per- mission to withdraw, but his requeet was refused. Delmas, under the law, could not voluntarily retire from the case, aml Thaw, haviug tidal lailit that he, Thaw, was the leading counsel in his own ease, Mr. Deimos asked him what he wished done. "I want you to take Dr. Hamilton off the stand and begin to sum, up before the jury," WaS the reply. Dolmas attempted to reason with Thaw, but he was immutable, theta - upon ammounced that the -defendant roosted hie meta anal Ina litunittou WaS excused without testifying. Daniel °Reilly makes the announce - went that he ia 110W counsel of record for Thaw, and will be in active charge of the ease hereafter, He was appoint- ed to that position a couple of weeks ago, ho says, succeeding Clifford W, Hartridge. Thaw appointed O'Reilly the day Mr. Hartridge started to eross- examine Dr. Mabon, Mr. O'Reilly .1 -says, and tried to form a hypothetical guys! Hon whieh the Judge ruled out. Mr, O'Reilly is authority for the state. meat that he is the only one of the five lawyers re-engaged, but he says that Thaw is fond of Lawyer Peabody, and he will be retained. Dolmas and Gleason, according to Mr. O'Reilly, are out for good, Lawyer O'Reilly will move within a week to have Thaw released on bail, and says he expecte to succeed. STORY OF THE TRAGEDY. Short Sketch of the Nesbits, Thaw and White. There were four principal characters in the sordid drama that ended in the murder of one of the most famoua archi- tects in the new world- on the Madison Square Roof Garden on June 25 last— Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, her mother; Harry Thaw, a young Pittsburg millionaire of unbridled paesions, known amon,g his schoolboy assoeiates as "Crazy Harry," and. Stamford White, designer of some of the greatest buildings on the continent, but utterly immoral, and, as his own son put it, given over to the "Broadway life." Mre. Nesbit wits the widow of a Pitts- burii lawyer. 81;e had a eon and a, daughter, nod wae an extremely hard task to make ends meet. As her little daughter grew up, Mrs. Nesbit saw that she was micommonly beautiful. In Philadelphia, before the- child was twelve, she W03 1108111g to photographers:. The mother found that this was a profitable thing. She looked about for a wider field, secured letters to artists in New York, and when Evelyn was about fif- teen moved to that city. The girl model soon heeante popnlar, and oatmeal about $1 Se. week in various HtliellOS. Sh0 it the original of some of Oilmen's most striking blitek and white work. :There eon be no doubt that Mrs. Nesbit knew the depth's of temptation into which she WaS plungiug her child, for she next per- mitted her to go and seek a place as a sl beauty, whieh she obtained after the -manager of the theatre on her first applieation had declared that he was not running a "baby farm." Nor WaS 011e long in eanning. Stan - Seed e had seen the little girl posing bi a studio. 110 made haw acquaintaece, end that of her mother. The latter per- mitted the girl, (11111 under eixteen, to go unattended to suppers with 1Vhito after the performance at the theatre at which She was appearing. The almost inevit- able. result followed. The before she WaS SiXteell, became Stamford 'White's mistress, by force and fraud, she swears, and received a regular allow- ance of money from him. These rela- tions eontinued from August, 1001, for a considerable period. She never told her ,mother what her relations with White were, and. the mother, living in compamtive luxury by White's bounty, asked no queetione. At Christmas; 1001, yoeing Harry Thaw, whoett life was one of wild die- sipatiou, saw Evelyn Thaw for the first time, lie called upon her several times at her mother's apartments, and on one mausion took her to slipper after the theatre. White was insanely jealoas, 11)1(1 18 said to have threatened to shoot Thaw. 'ro remove the girl from "evil nflueneas" she was sent to boarding school in 04-tober, 1902. A diary kept sy her at that period, Nvheit elm was just seventeen, shows that, she was thorough- vorrupt, and despised the virtuous girls around her, expressing her con- tempt by quoting the word "virtuous" in ow references to them. In 1003 she woke with White entirely. She and ter mother went abroad, and, althouglt tart of her expanses for the trip had been advanced by White, young Thatw went with her, and for about eighteen she lived with him at various dams; in Europe, the two passing them- srlres off as husband and wife. Evelyn's mother, meenwhile, returned to the United Stat,s by wire of London. 1:11 till this time the story had been a mean, :sordid one. At Paris, however, oeentred an hwident that, RA the W11101 proved,' gave the tale a tragic end. Thaw, in his rough, brutal fashion, loved the girl., and asked her to be his wife. Ho desired. the legal right to protect • her 'The yoke of conscience and. a. Renee Of shame that proves man to be higher than the beasts that perish awoke 111 the girPe heart. Tbe State prosecution holde that the volee was that of aelf-interest. If a desire to forestrIll any discoveries thaw mig,lit later make 11.8 to her 1111A, .sit the ciremnstances seem to pita 10 eoneluelm that in a spirit ef ;Leff nerifive elle told Thaw the whele bor. Rde story of her relations with Whilo. Ind relosed bemuse of them to rums. 11111. The effect, upon Thaw seemed to teal, been very gevat. He beeama pos- .essed of ail ungovernable hatred of Vhite, believieg the phi tf) hal'e 'WO 11 1111W/11111V vietim. On his 1.etorn to he Pnited Stetee he went to ltis mother, obi her prattleally the witole story. sueeeetled in inducing!' her to commit 11 his marriage to Miss Nesbit, wired' ook plaee ia note doenment. try evidowe showing that Thaw tried 0 sot the Stselety for Cho Presention of lee upon White's trail, and that let 1111- aufeessfullv sought by interviews, eles 0 get Mi. .knthony Comstock to raid bet dens froquented by the arehiteet tirl his s ; sepia tes. stilettos' 1,Vhite was nut !tolerant of elyn Nesbit hail retorted o America in the Lill Of loos, ahead 01 Thaw's Lawyers Changed, New York, /5.—Interest in the ease of Harry K. Thaw now centres aboat the probable chamses he make in his staff of lawyers. NVIille no ofri. eial announcement has been made in Ode regard, intimations heve come from the lawyere themseives whet cheeps htve been, made, and that °there will ; Delphin Delmns, who led the fieht ' At the recent trial, has, it is stated, .4:4v- 1 ered lus connection with the ease. t this connection StOry of the nenm s able proceedIngs •of Thaw, at a critaal period of his trial, is published here to- ; day. The story recites that when the 1 trial was resumed after the report of the 1 lunacy commiseion Deblois ealled Dr. !" Hamilton to the stand to have hint \ tify ate to Tlinev'e mental condition when • a sde murder Was committed. He WoR. 111,1 111/011t to question him when he receive:1 1 a note front Thaw whielt remit ,"You tire no longer in vintage of my ease." DeIntas, surprised, eveured tha :mew ; permission to confer with his client. 1.1.. story states, and when he tteked '1 11 tat N what the note meant, Thaw it sail t:a ; have replied: 1. "It Waits just what it says. l'on ars ) t not aping to make those men te ; that 4 am ins.tne, I ant sane ant; :.,es 1 know it. You nre 11;1 1011ger 111 1 of my. ease," 'filen& ihe gas statement now is that !the bulk of the document ie bopeue, ant 1 .aloesi. not repreeent what she staid it 111111111101, The hicident la of value as priavina 1 . that Thaw meant to expose White 11 1)11. evidence that would discredit Evelyn portuatty served, and .thatt White knew Ude, and was seeking la advance to get Nesbits' testimony. After the nutmeg° of the youug peo pie they kept away from New York, 1;nit, finally, early in the seaeon of 1009, they paid a visit to that eity. It was la June that matters eame to a crisie, TIM* heard that Inite had been referring in vile terms; to his wife, This is not in evidenee, but there seemsto belittle doubt that tho erehiteet had been talk- beedoelabont Mrs, Thaw's past rJ • good ' On Jima 25, he was in the Cafe Martin when the Thaws were also present, Mre. Thaw paseed a note to her husbanddi- teeth% Ids attention to White's pres- ence. Later in the evening Thaw and his wife were in audience at Madison Square Roof Carden, and again encoun- tered White, During, the performanee Thaw, aceortliug to the -evidence of White's brother-in-law, rose from his seat aud prowleil routul like a beest "seeking its prey in the jungles" The end mute like 4 flash. He ap- proaelted 'White, and, drawing a WerOlV. or, ShOt Min dead as he sat at a refresh, anent table. After the murder Thaw, turning to the policeman who airrested him, said, "That man ruined my home. I guess he won't ruin any more homes. Is he death" Thaw lay in jail till January 23, while the State and lite defence were gathering evidence, The trial which began then Ms lasted. 79 flays, and it is believed has ;met the Thaw family over $300,000 and the State at least, $75,000. The chief t episode of the trial was the expression of opinion by the State Attorney, Mr.. ,ferome, that Thaw should be in an asy- lum instead of under trial for his life. As 11 result of this Judge Fitzgerald ap- pointed a commission of experts in tun- insie who deeided that, whatever `Phase might have been in June, 1000, he is 1101)' saue and quite responsible for his ac- tione. N. DYMENT'S Win ESTATE AMOUNTS TO OVER A MILLION AND A HALF. --- Simon and Albert E. Dym.ent Get a Third Each After the Widow's Por- tion of a Few Legacies Are Taken Gut, and the Two Daughters Divide the Other Share. Torouto, April 15.— The will of the late Nathaniel Dyment wos filed for probate in the Surrogate Court at Bar- rie by Messrs. liewson & Ureswieke, 011 Saturday afternoon. January 24, 1907, is the date of tho will, which is wit- nessed by joseph Heighington, barrister and Ethel M. Somervilie, nurse, both of Toronto; Simon. Dyment, Albert Dyment and Joseph lielghingtou are the mom - tows. The estate, which is valued at $1,- 301,000, is distributed as follows: $5,- 000 to his nephew, John .Dyment.; $2,0110 Lo his coaehannt, Job, and. $100,- 000 to gether with the homestead, fur- niture aml effects, to his widow,' Isa- belle, Be Dyment. The residue is di - tided into three equa1 parts, one-third to Simon Dymeat, oue-thied to Albert E. Dyment, and tho remaining Oita divided equally between his. daughters, MIN. Floe Baker and Mw. W. E. Wis- new, of Landoll, in tlie will is a clause that if anty of Lilo legatees. dispute the Will their lega- ey is to be forfeited. The testate it, made up as follows: Household furniture, $1.513; hurses, S46.750; book lebts nod mates, $30-1,786; mortgages, tt12,908; stocks, $822,11:5; seenrities, *33,955; cash, $6,693; other Personal property, :,1385,492; real estate, $20,650. Total, $1,594,660. The stocks held by deeeared were; Atlanta. Loan Company, 0,000 shares; Goderich Elevator Company, 111 shares; Green -Meehan Mining Company, 3,000 shares; Abitibi & Cchalt Mining Com. pany, 1,500 shares; Silver Queen Mining Company, 1,000 shares; Tretlewey Sil- ver Miniug Company, 20,000 shares; Hudson's Bay Extended, 400 shares; Nipissing Mines, 6,000 ehares; Domin- ion Iron & Steel Company, 700 shares. and ten bonds; Nova Scotia. Steel & Coal Company, 330 shares; Sao Paulo, 508 shares; Canadian (kmerat Electric 1,000 sharni; Barrie Carriage Cmnpany, 160 shares; Port Hood Coal Company, 23 bonds. WRECK AT WINNIPEG. Engine and Three Coaches of Great -Northern Flyer Ditched, Winnipeg,April 14.---1n engine attach- ed to the Great Northern .flyer., leaving Winnipeg this evening at 5.30, left the rails at Pembina avenue crossing, about a lune from the depot, andinside the city limits, taking with it three paesea- ger emehee. The engine wee badly dam- aged, the 00001105 were wrenched front their trucks and the tracks were tOrll 111.1, Fortunately there was mo person 111' 30(011, aud, though the gas tank below 'the observation ear exploded and the gas ('aught fire, the horrore of the Chap- leau Meek Were averted, as the fire was alt ou one eide of the coach. The fire brigade was called and assisted in etsin. qmishing the 1 lames. _ 'the atecident was eaused by the engine runnieg off a :switch because of the brea king of a rail. A party of Winnipeggers en rnute to the Ching° Bench $how had their jolty- ney stub:Mete terminate(1 in a sensational anamer . paseengees• hail eevere sheek and were badly thrown about in ths esmehes, and when the flames from the (replotted acetylene gas tank roard t the windows of the observation ear, in whielt most of the travellere were vell8tasseted, 1)11.11 (l('111011(11111 reigned, and there was it hurried exit. With blanehed 1,14105, hatless and with. out any personal belongings, many of them dashed from the coach and ler some lime thought that there hati beer! several killed, DID NOT HEAR TRAIN, - Aaed Man Killed on Track Between Ptilevmat and Shannonville. Belleville. Ont.. .1pri1 1 1.---Marehall tarimebaw, eo aere et age: etas on Flislav often:eel instead:1y lolled by it passenger train hetween thes eity and 81lannonv1lle 4181.1011, F•er1111.4111W W,11: Wa1',1111 aloug the treah and did not hear ma eapresa train that wee pre- : a Rate ea.:t1m:1, Ito Wat3 0trlleh 11! (lo' blyvk (111.1 1hlle.,11 4111 the Welt fOr 1-4,111e disttuiee,, nedion With Mrs. Dewing's Death. top* Koeller, of Stratford. Plac. ed Under Arrest. The Case. Has Caused Much xcite menL Strait fent, April: Ides -Events (11(31(1001.' ed with the death of Harriet Dewing took a sensational tura to -night, when Leopold. Keener was arrested on the eliarge of murder. There are several strange circumstanees conneeted with the ease. Nmeller stated on the morn- ing of the tragedy that when he say de- cealed the flames reached above 441.11' head. The room whieh the woman stood wee about six feet high, and Otero are no marks of smoke 011 the white- watehed ceiling. The carpet i11 the room is not burned to any degree, and sewed artielee whielt cause eusmeion wore foend in the room . The lautern in the room Wart 1101. lielded, therefore how dill the file originate? Low did Kanner ase- tingnish the Blames; without seorchine or burning the blanket said to have 170011 tteed in extinguieking the fire? Why were the circumstances not dieeovered sooner? These are some of the questions which the prisoner will be obliged to melte clear before he enn be exonerated. Won- der is expressed that the deceased could have been so terribly disfigured by the fire and the priaoner in the same house not have heard her cries before he stat- ed he did. Keener received no burns on 1ti8 hands, body or elothes as the re- sult of his alleged efforts to extinguieh the Ramos, County Constable 'I'. B. MeCarthy has the ease ia hand, and before the in- quest is resumed. ou Tuesday next it is understood a good deal of evidence will be produced. Koelier was arreeted at 5.30 to -night, and has bee tt remanded toleL ipostanortein was eondueted to- day, but it is utalerstood the arrest is due to the findings of the police rather than to auy direct result of the medical examination. The ease has eeueed numb excitement: in the city. ^ Stratford, April 11,. The authorities here fire ?tot fiaialing the ease of Alt's. Harriet Dewiug, the unfortunate wo- man who was believed at first to have been 11(.4.4de/daily burned to death, an easy ono to unravel. The story told by Leopold 1?. Koeller, at (vhose house the tragely oceurred, and who is now under arrest on the charge of nun - Sas LEOPOLD F. ROELLER, dering her, conflicts with apparent facts in so Ulany instantea that tha suspicion against. him, et first slight, has been greatly etrenathened, The Koeller residence is in a lonely spot on the nertheastera outekirte. about a mile and a half from the centre of tile city, and on the night of the tragedy its only occupante were the deal woman, Koeller himself and his little boy, a child of three years of age, quite too young to give evidence, ven if he had been awake. Mrs, Dew. ing had been keeping house for Koel- ler for a 0(1(160 ((1 weeks, while his wife and tliree of their children were visiting rela t ives in ha go. Keener teld bit story to the coroner and the jtlry \villiout liesitatioit nd with great elearoess, but in spite of his apparent frankness .the authorities fo31e.1 it ilorssible to reconeile Same 14 1ti . st ittoittottt with the facts. Though the wont:ill's body was burned and blaekened in, a horrible man- ner, her hair Was uninjured. Accord - Mg to Koeller's tale the flames had been 811410U/1g all around her head. stgain they asked themselves why it Mrs. DEWING. - woe that Koeller eseaped the slightest heti or blister while putting out the fins. 1411 011141ier eilrious feature; was -that the lantern, which the vole neer famul in the room, had not bad the glass raieed. A half-iv:trued matt 11 WO 1 dte-overal, len there Was 410 ,d!.to of any other 11111 ('('111 whieb wsid,1 mollies fire. Tho larpet. 1tit,11 was old an" mm1(281110, ((inn, 1).414 only 111:,111 111 0 e333111e=c-f plaecs; the sailing, against whieli efoeller says the faunas Am) sheeting, showed to evidensa of lire at all. Ore, import:tut point whielt vonfronts lie authorities is niiether or not Mrs. !)1) 1:'. the Lefore her asons tt she AO,, it seems smaular Ia that she sitsuld hate put ott her elothes 1. SWEPT HER DECKS, VESSEL ALLows MOLASSES TO RUN. TO WASTE To Allow lier to Lift Her Head Out ef the Water—Newfoundland Suffers From Heavy Storm—Many Lives May be Lost. IPalifax, N, S., April 10.--Ba1.1.ere4 by the terrible stolen that has been sweep, ing thecoast of the North Atlantic for the last few days, the schooner Fanny: Captain ilallyard, from the West tidies, arrived at St. John's with every movable thing swept from her decks, The vessel was almost on her beam for twenty hours, and the erew had to smash in tbe heads of a hundred puncheons of molas- ses and let it 1110 into the hold so that it tould be clunqual. out to allow the ship to iift enough to the head to get iter under sail. 17itseeegers arriviug here from New- rfoundland tell of the terrible suffering in the iaterior of that province, U'ral. fie WaS absolutely bloeked by the storm and when the railways filially got to running again it is feared many tales of loss of life will be brought out. attain concerning' u th11111111005 of his saf- ricastate to the parliamentary com- mittee of the country of which Ito is the constitutional King, practically cheek - mates the paraament. TRIAL OF 1VPGARRY FOR MURDER Public opinion in Belgium 13 divided on the question. 'There is a natural antipathy on the part of many to Bel- gium embarking upon a collateral policy. There 18 a large body el stockholders 111 coneessionary companies who are con- tent to receive big dividends and 110 118('8t10115 asked. In Parliament the ma- jority is strongly convinced that tho des- tinies of the immense Mack population of the King's African possessions, 00111- prising 900.000 square miles, demand that a civil administration amenable to Extended Over an Area of -ZOO But Nat Niue') Darriatle Done. lalexito City, April 10.—The official re- cord of the Meterological Bureau of feet night's earthquake gare the dairatiOn of the shock as lasting four ini»utees The movement was fawn emit to west in en oval elrape. The observer declared that Alai centre of the salock was probably to) southward and 11. 18 feared 04'4 the towns in that region may have suffered. Late reports front the various police sta- tions bore state that Mt lives were 308t -and Ito one injured. Not a station of the fire department reeeived eall. (Inc freak of the earth- quake WilS recorded. .& driver of a eir- mos wagon who was taking parapher- nalia to a 1(611084 depot wale thrown front his seat .by the force of theehoele. He was uninjured beyond slight bruises, ry but eveone of the 8111,81113 )to was driving WilS Telegraph eommunication as far .south Os Oaxaca. mid San Juan Bautista has been established, but beyond. the report that tile elioelt wee heavy in that re- giou and 81011g the Gulf Coast, nothing more MIS learned. • From the City of Vera, Cruz south the altos* reported to have been very se. vere, At the Moteorological Bureau it is said •that the shock Was the heaviest experienced hero since 1882. From what is known at title Woe the shock eatended. from the City of Sad Luis-polosi on the north, to Oaxisett OU the south, 13 distance of 000 Representatives of the Aeeociated Presa Made 4 rapid, tour in cabs over the businee streets of the city., 'but nowhere 000)11 damage beyond tracked walla and small fissures la the pavemeuts found. At the time of the first 911001( the eafes and theatres were filled and for a time a, panic was feared, but, owlet; to the peeuliarly steady swing of the earth's movement, the crowds left the buildings in comparatively good order. The shock Wal preceded by two bright electrie fittelioie which lit up the sky to the northwest of Mexico City. Up to this time the property loss is reported small. A. number of wattle in unsubetantial buildings eollapsed and one on Bucher - street narrowly missed bueying, the fleeing inmates of a hotel. RING LEOPOLD AND HIS SUBJECTS AT VARIANCE OVER CONGO STATE. The King Anxious to Keep it in His Own Hands— The People Want a Say. iseue„ds, .apeg eaa.seteleg Leopold's re., public opinion and a cabinet responsible turn is expected to mark the beginning to Parliament should. be substituted for al a new phase in the atruggle between the irresponsable will of one man. On the face of things the Congo ad-- the Monarch and Parliament over the ministration goes annually deeper into question of the annexation of the Congo debt. There is a chronic deficit. It; was Free State by Belgium.. The King is ea- outstanding bonds amounting, to 5$69,000, - alterably opposed to annexation anti for 000, net including the 27,900 frames the time being seems complete master of Joan niede by Belgium, in return for the situation, refusal to permit tim which Leopold made bis will in favor of Congo administration to furnish inform- the state. How much the King's rove- -Tille really is lets always been a matter of speculation, It has -been from 87a 000,000 to $12,000,000. He is supposed to get half the profits of the 001100551011- 30')' companies. Above all the King seems apprehensive of English interven- tion in favor of a conference to revoke his trusteeship. The &gaslx interest is both sentimental and economic. Stories of atrocities, rivaling iu brutality the Wee of the Portuguese slave trade, whieh originally attracted the attention of humanity o he Congo basin, have aroused public sentiment, but ever since the tariff was imposed in 1893 there lia.s been a deep resentment in England be- eauee EnglielL goods are practitelly bar- red front the Congo, BUFFALO TRAGEDY. OF JOSIAH ROSS. Buffalo, April 13. ---The trial of Aloy- elus McGarry, ehargett with the mur- der of Josiah Ross, 11. mamufacturer of wood working machinery, WhO Was found dead in his office on Genesee et., last February, was begun in the Sup- reine to•tlay, ROSS WaS believed for several daye to have committed etticide, but after investigation, eLatements made by his wife, a, warraut was issued for the arrest of McGarry and he was later held on a charge of murder in the first degrees The testimony of the preeecte Lion, which will be circumstantial, will Labarge that Ross ivas murdered by Mc- Garry, the motive for the crime being the acquiring of control of the businees of the firm, to which be had recently been admitted as a partner. WANTED WIFE, TOOK CLOTHING. Brantford Hall -Breedon Unavailing Mission to Galt. Galt, Ona, April 11.—A handsome, well dressed 3Oning W01111111 arliVe1.1 in town yesterday from Brantford and took up quarters with 3104.Taylor, Main street aiests Following bei' eame a half-breed, who Applied to the chief of police to Matte the woniae, who he eaid wee his runaway wife. The man gavo his mune as Thomas Gladiator, mid said he was employed in a Brant - Tile wenum was locked op, but flatly ford iron ivories. refueed to return with her husband, alleging ill-treatment. Gladiator con- fiscated Iter wardrobe, and, left for Brantford, despite the efforts of Chief Gorman to reconcile the couple. Mrs. Gladiator threatensto have her hus- band arrested and let the court de- cide the matter. SUIT FOR DAMAGES FOR DEATH OF HARRY J. CLARK NEAR HAMILTON. Toronto, On L., April 15.—(Spe08l)---As the consequence of the death of Harry J. Clark, near Hamilton, on October 25, 19(26, the Graod Trunk Railway is made defendant in a suit for dalllage3 enter- ed by William. Clark. The latter, who is administrator of the estate of Harry J, Clark, resides in Edwardsburg town- ship, Greuville eounty. Ile chuns. the deceased met his death through the ne- gligence of the .eompany. • ....• HIS NECK IS BROKEN. -- Grand Trunk Brakeman Jarred Front Top of Moving Train, Toronto, April 13.. (tiamge 14(1(1 p5011. n young. Greed Trunk brakeman, Bee at Grate Hospital with hie mak Ineiken aud at the point of death ais the randt oi falling head first froln the top of a freighteabooen, twet1 which he was etanding at the foot of Bathurst st.feet about 0.30 yesterday morning. The freight train on the taboosof whieh he was etanding was enterbee the yara, when the engine stopped suddenly and the moineatum of the forty eats caused a jar, which threw Simpson front bis poetion, end Ito Ante lads head against / a rail as he fell. . -_-_-_,a."----.-- ROBBED THE BOARDERS. - -- - Well Dressed Strangers Work Slick Game hi Berlin Itouse. lierlth, Ont., April 11.-- Two We11 aresSed 141.111140•8 after tt fuw days' stay at a eity boarding house disap- peared yeeterday. taking front the rooms of other boardeia $150 in cash, a, gold wee!) and some jewehl, the booty amotmtiug in value to about Om. The pair teft the city en route for Galt and will maliably try to work their game in other toe -we Amid Man's Suicide. Toronto, Aetil los -John 118110)'. 1111 sons. and nee es Netprob, 83 years of age, ansielle yesterday afternoon in the Wel: sstrd of the home where he lived with his sem, 41ohn I,. Palley, a teanuaese, as 610 'Markham greet, by tektite: a loaded revolver in his moutIt 114 dtheinatoog• ono eliomber. Ile had eon unwell for sotto. time. FEAR FAIR WILL FAIL. Half the Population Pledged to Boycott the Irish Exhibition. thibliti, April 14,--Onee the scheme was under way high hopes were enter- tained fleet ireland's International Ex- hibition would be a huge 81106055 from which the whole country would be a piper. A writer in a leading Irish P111110' 8 month ago said: "The exhibi- tion will be, above all, an Irish exhibi- tiou. The nations of the earth are. af Netree, free to take part, and a great many of them are nattiness 1.110111' 3411(13 ef the privilege, but the inter - este el' lroland are paramount over a11:' 8114'ees8 in a measure is still hoped for, bet ler the present moment it is felt in Ireland that the exhibition is more than eowiderable of a failure, and the anarantete are anxious 10 tndei'- write their risks. ft is freely stated that half the population is pledged to boyeott, the show, and its a result of disseesioos royalty will not open the ex- hibition, as WaS hoped and intended. James 8h:odes, .formerly Lord Mayor, who is the ehief executive officer of the exhibition. has treated a hot feeling of antagonism by ordering English furni- ture, importing London caterers, supee• setting the musical cemmitttee,. and er- ranging for foreign bands. It is feared that euch anti -Irish cote duet wilt go far towards wrecking the great projeet. The exhibition will rFen in a forteigist. STANDARD OIL GUILTY. Convicted of Receiving Rebates From the Chicago ea Alton. Chime°, 11., April 15. --The Stand- ard. 011 Company of Indiana, which has been on trial for six weeks before Judge K. M. Landis of the 1.7nited States District Court, to -night MIS 101111(1 guilty on 1,403 wools of receiving rebates from the Chicago & Alton, IL IL o11 shipments of oil front. Whiting, Ind.., to East St, Louis, 111. There were .originally 1,003 counts in the indictment, 440 counts fail- ing on errors. If the wallet is sustained Um oil eompany is liable to a maximum fine of $20,200.talo, as the Elkine law', which the indictment charged the company violated, snot ides a fine of $1,000 to $20,000 for eoeh offenee, Pending a new trial, width John et. Miller, chief counsel for the defeeee, announced (1. ((11141 be made immediately, no peettIty be fixed by OP court. Each mint reiat• ed to a..eakoad shipment. When the ease value to trial the at- torneys; fin. the Menee endeavored, te have all the eettate in the indietment thrown out 4 n techniealities. but the court ordered that each eount be taken up and coneidered separately, whieh was done. Tie jmy 11115 out less than three hours and reached the verdiet on the iirst halide OVER 2,,000 1VIORDERS A YEAR, — Terrible Reco-d of Crime in Italy, bet Treaty -seven Yeats. Rume, Apt% 1.1. ----The latest eriminal statistics of Italy reveal the feet that :tering the year 1006 3,106 persone were Murdered aril 03,768 wounleAl. The f ures show a deerease from the preceal- ing year in tte uumber of killed, nhieh is at tiilaited t0 the progress of snr- !eery, but theto is an inerease in the 131(1141 '1' If 11411n4041. 'It it ealeulated that in a spaeo ni 27 esears 97,7100 vas ants met. 1 1..'1•11t, deaths and 2,000,5o0 hale been Ai oondel. The statistie. re- late exelinitelv to erimes (,'l01'1 ed the (-mils, ail do not inelude (tomtits (‘!..i.,11 healed within tett days or eases (Odell were. Liddell front police. (lino:9 (4 Emit), show a, deeteasing ten- denev, as compared with the inerease in eomilatien, The reiewil for eriminalite The proportion decreases in other p_ 0111111.3, and falls to 25 for every 100,000 in Naples. It detrenses considerably in Northern Italy, where, at Bergamo, there is only one murder for every 100,- 000 persolis. 0 CATHOLIC SOCIETIES. Two Important Organizations Formed in Quebec Province. Quebec, April 14.—A lengthy m11114 - anent wee rend in the churches of the Roman Catholic Arehdiocese of Quebee from Archbishop Begin in regard to the formation of two new and important organizations, one L'Action Socialo C'ath- olique, oral in particular L'Oeuvre de la Presse. The object. of L'Aetion Socials: oatholique a- to unite in a common ef- fort for the realization of social Catho- Bee progres.:. It will gruel) all existing Catholic so- cieties and encourage all works of pro- paganda, studie8, lectures, congresses, etc., which may appear to lre helpful in developing the sentiment of Catholic life, To support the Action Sociale and supply it with a means of spreading its in- fluence, L'Ouevre de In Prose will be brought into requisitioe. It will provide the progagation of good, healthy litera- ture by publication of reviews, MAN'S - papers and tracts. A permanent committee of priests and laymen appointed by the Archttiehop and under his authority will attend to •the working of the latter undertaking. An annual- collection is to be taken up in the churches in aid of the week. 0,0 DOWN ON AGITATORS. -- HUNDRED WORKMEN KILLED OR WOUNDED IN LABOR FEUDS. Ledz April 1 3.—During the last four weeks 100 workmen have been killed Or W01111tleil here hi labor fetele. The goys - element has failed to protect those who are wDling to work, and. the latter have taken matters into their 01111 hands and are 1 Mealy expelling agitators whom y ltnl,1 responsible for the -ruin of the industries of Lodz. As the Jews form 80 per eent. of the poyulation of the Soeialists, there is Rime apprehension that the ineeneed workmen 1118y engage in an anti-Semitic outbreak. THE RUSH TO THE WEST, . Twelve Special Trains With Five Thou- sand Passengers Left Montreal. Montreal, April 14,—Twelve special trains, carrying nearly 11,000 band- graats, left 1111.3 city to -day. This is the Ingest muaber that ever left the city in olio day, and the offieials were almost frantic in their efforts to look after the erowds. .thiong them Were forty young mi11.. isters for the 'west, who were Sent 0111. 1 flint] 1,1”.114111(1 by the Society for the Propagation el the Gospel, at the its. quest of the Lord Bishop of Saskateite. with. They will engage in lanne miss' Actuary work throughout the Canadian west. CANADIANS ROBBED, Two Yount; Westerners Stranded itt London Without Money, London, April 1l.' -Two wealthy young meu front westerti Canada, 'who bird come to England 113 December, were robbed of 3a2i5 11 lostiden in januare. By pawn - their elethes they settled their -hotel 131411 maliael to eaidiff, %%Item they espeeted nullity from Canada. It had not arrited, end they got work on 0. tramp steamer and1vent 011 a voyage to the Mediterranean. On their return destitute, they were kept for several iq ball by VI where the proportion i weeks he' 0 Dun humble eirellmquiletli el murders resehe11 to ewes,- 100,000 mail ilia arrival of theit lengaielayed inhabitants in the Provineo of (lirgonti. ftinde. They sailed for Canada te.day.