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The Wingham Advance, 1908-01-09, Page 7T. Co DRUCE SAY WITNESSES Perjury Charge Against Her liert Druce With- drawn But Suit For Estate Goes On • • an Ma story, A squad of fifty pollee - NOT FOR WAR men kept tho passage Wept clear. Ihe =augment* were 4tr better than at t the firet Mai, when the'elsaatt to get in- to the eourt room amounted to practi- cally a riot. The word' that Women were to he deberred had been judiciously spread abroad and there were none bUt newspeper writers en hand to -day. Last year, at the beginni»g of the trial wo. men predominated in the court room and it was their eXisteaee which wised much of the disorder of the opening day. • Thaw AIMS 't•isited by membere of his connect in the Tombs prison this Inoue ing, He was elated over the fact that the day of his new trial, so long awaited, lied at last arrived. Mrs, George Lauder Carnegie, his sis- ter,- and Josue Thaw, one of Ins broths ers, also called ou the defendant this morniug anti brought him a message, of .greeting from his brother, who is still too ill et her Leine in Pittsburg tat "come on for the trial. It wee the first time Thaw had eeen his sister and Mo- ther for some months, . Mrs. Hatay lc. Thaw went directly to court house, coming down town too late to stop at the prison. One hundred Mamie nare under or- ders to report on each of the first three days of the trial. , New York, Jan. theeThe Thaw was called at 11,27 4, Thaw was called to the bar at 11.27 o'clock. His appearenee showed little change from last year, AS soon as that appeared ids chief counsel, Mertin W. Littleton, announced that the former plea -of not guilty en- tered hy his client would be amended to read "that the defendant was insane at the time that the deed was cone mated." Thew was seated at the counsel table with Mr. Littleton, Russell Peabody and Daniel O'Reilly. District Attorney Jerome and Assist- ant District Attorney Garvan represent- ed the people. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, attired in the blue school girl dress, whieh became istmiliar during the first trial, was in the court room, accompanied by Mrs, Carnegie and Joshua Thaw. s Justice Dowling announced that until further notice there would be three court sessions each day, as follows: Front 10 .a. in. to 1 p. m., from 2 p. in. to 0 p. m., and from 8 p. m. to 10 p. ne He also announced that the jury would be locked up throughout the trial, After a somewhat informal discussion as to the methods of selecting jurors the work of filling the twelve vacant' chairs was taken up. District Attorney Jerome undertook the examination of the first talesman. He was Wm. F. Mil- ler, a decorator in the employ of a large department store. Miller said he had known Stanford White casually, and had formed an opinion upon what he had read of the case. He felt he could ren- der a fair and impartial verdict, and upon this statement Mr. Jerome passed the juror for cause. Mr. Littleton,' for the defence, brought out the fact that Miller had had some business relations with the architectural firm of which White was- a member. : Prange Anxious to See Japan and U. S. Settle Difficulties, Parbisdan.p.• The French Government Is considerably exercised over the' re- ports Wiled to eorne American =mats pets last week in which it is repreeerted seeretly desirous of a war betWeen Japan and the 'Unitea States, ..nd the aestruetion of the American fleet, with • , - 1 Asietie EXclustion LeSigne fire nitielt per- I tuthed, All tise iteeontmode,tions of the Atte- trallan-Ottnaellan line steamer lutv.e been secured, it is stated, six menthe Wised* hy the jepanese at IIontdulu, Techni- cally, the Japanese Government caenot do anythMg te prevent the eentLng of ethe store with SOO worth of par - in ea, ne ug eigate te WA- det Mul neeklaee, coneeeled In her BROK.. EN RAIL, thoOncenetessf titelyb000seitiAtueurfeehet:4atedifiedpiegt4lieacti .FREIGHT TRA.IN CRASHES family an that lier ilfiegrftee would be a OTTAWA STRBET CAR. ONE MAN DEAD. INTO • " to be let go, eaying le was of & noble terrible thiag, Ae only Batty cents was found in her Purse, her story was ridiculed and the police were called, but afterward the real identitr of the Countess was estate proprietors of the store. After the amount of the 0ountees' arreet had been given the case was ad- journed. these Jepanese to Britieli Columbia, for 'IMPBRIAL tilvirTgp• ninsITOP DOWN tb0 Apeaeso aro free agents once they have turned in their passports at the ZMANICMENT.. Wands, So far nO action hes been. taken las Lindsay Wein= Was Caught in the police or other authorities toward that there are thousand) of serviceable tory and Crueheds-Another Victim disarming the Japanese, It is estimated Isondon, Jens — "The perjury Leildoa,' het, 6, --The resumption of firearms in the Japanese section, is Reperted Deaa—Aecident Happen - a • bm It t II he t D. the case to•day before a crowded court VI Near Ohapleeu. nog(' usl aga its er r tuce by hie nephew, George Ilollamby Lime, house testified to the revival of interest brought about by the recent exhumation has collapsed, ba the civil action. for t•lite recovery of the Waite of the Duke for George 11, Druee that the body In. r °Wand, will be continued, the coffin was not that of T. C. Drace. This became known this afternoon The first witneeses called testified to and the hints. gtven out by the ettorneys the ultimate object of witnessing the internationelizetion of the Panama, Ceuta. The Associated Press wee authorized to tleclare to -day that nothing could be farther from the truth.. Frame is the sincere friend of both comitries, mat slte le .extremely desirous of seeing the pres- ent difficulties amicably settled, It was for tide reason that France as long ago as last spring made an unoffieial tender of her good offices in ease site could be of service, A FRENCH SPY. am. North Day deepetelt: The Imperial Lim- ited express, eastbouud, was wrecked ut 1.10 this morning, 35 miles west of Ohap. BARON VON VELTHEIM NOW ON lished, to the astenislunent of the JAP ARMY MEN TRIAL IN LONDON. leau, by a broken rail. One pessenger Ordered From Vancouve t R the condition of the :vault and the cof- r eport when Alia Atterly-Jouvs, Masa for fin; they :mid there was absolutely no (le°• IlcglanlbY Eq'ures aAllot"Weat that Ina in the vault, and declered they were an view of the dieesveties made when satisfied that neither the vault nor the the eoffin of Thome?, Charles Theme was ?pened, anti examined Dee. 30, it will be impossible to proceed with the prosecu- tion...Me statement wile made atter the Preeenteatiou of evidence -by Prof, Au- guaseas 3, Pepper, of the Uaivereity of 11,01140n, and others who were present at the exhumation. , skin being broken in only one place. The Herbert Druce was charged with corn- face was covered with a handkerchief wee Isilled and. about a dozen injured, GerMen Werleing at Feet Of Znibankinent, Wiled- by. -Car---Paileengete. end CrOW Badly $1taken Up. Ottawa despatch: A C. P. De freight train crabbed inea an Ottawa street cer ehie afternoon at the Beechwood ave. atm croesing over the hratteh line of she railway, smashed the ear to kindling wood, and In the wreck one men was shied and five persone lujated. Augnet Watink, a Gentian, Agee 02, who wee working in tut excavation beside the eroesiug, was caught under the street tlaeknlail the Charge—Prisener Says Iralitee t;faisipi zds rultimniutgh on area :t .a gvoorde ,w e op sn eisse at Tokio, ear as it fell, after betng dregged near- .), eighty feet by the locomotive, ReVenge ia Motive ter Presecntion— suddetay startled by a gratin noiees coffin had been tampered with since the He Was Tried ia South Africa for followed by a toed crash as the cars latter had been deeosited. Then Prof, - Murder of Companion's Brother. turned over and plupged dosvn an ems Pepper took the stand, Mid gave tt de- tailed description of the ceffin and Re I : - - benkment into a creek. The Colonist, second clam mut fleet class cars were opening, Within the coffin, he said, was London, Jou, 5.—Not since the time ditehed;the .Pullmane remaining on the the body of a male aged about 05 years. trial of Whitteker Wright have Londoners of leaxitlien.gulcosiriteudnabtyelyotehe eaheeeetkleiltvehgjeahs weax.s. it was extremely well preserved, the cliteses flocked to the Guildhall in plains the low casualty list. The peseta such numbers as in the early atages of the trial this week of Franz Von Veit. ignersiiidn ttlhe forward coaches were penned et work of extricating them by helm, who styles himself 13aron Carl Lud the4 trainmen arid their fellow-prassen- wig Von Velthelm—possibly the world's, gers Was speedily begun, 51.6-st ee•ddiss-skelmsualiiteratio,nateteds The worst Mauer of the wreck was, the finding ef a woman's dead body in venturer. The man is now charged with attempting to extort, on threat of rime- the lavatory, where site had been crushed to 'deaths her arms and head protruding - der, $8,000 from Solomon B. Joel, the from the broken side of the car fled her London and South African mine owner and financier, body swaying in the water from the creek, which covered the floor of the c.ar 'The defendant is believed hy some to be Frank Kurtze, the murderer of Woolf for several feet, It was hupossible to Joel, brother of the neeseentor in the release the body for several Items, but present case. The crime was committed death must have been instantaneous, T. he unfortunate woman was Mrs.• Ben Johannesburg ten years ago, end Sloan, of Fielding, Saskatchewan, on her Veltheim's lawyers are using this faet on which to baee the defence that the way to visit a sister in Lindsay. Before the wreck she talked of the surprise she present pros•ecution is instituted out of revenge by the murdered man's brother. would give her sister, who did not know she was earning east. A husband and When his ease was called Veltheim twelve children suriive. candidly admitted that he was a secret agent of the French Government, and James Stanley, C, P, engineer, who boldly announced his address as the Quai was on his way to Schreiber as a pas- Dorsay (the French Foreign Office), senger, was badly. injured about the Paris, which fact, by the way, may ae- head, besides •reectiving internal injuries. count for the zeal of the German detee- One arm was also broken and an eye tives in attempting to obtain his extrk seriously injured. It is reported that dition from the French Government en eheenfliremdeidn. the hospital, but this is not the charge of obtaining .$10,000 from a •German woman. James hale, another 'C. P, It. em- tective Who brought him from France Veltheim told of questioning the de- PleYoe, jured: The follosving passengers were in - of Chapleau, wee also injured. concerning the eleven warrants which of which was that involving the alleged Alex. Ross, Dundurn, Sask., lost right formed ,the basis of his arrest, the chief Joel blackmail threat. hand. "When the warrant charging nie with W. Reynolds, Montrealehead cut. an attempt to blackmail Joel svas read," shoulder bruised. Duncan Livingston, Durham, Ont., witting peejury by sweat:mg that Ms father, Thomas Charles Dreee, of the Baker street bazaar died Dee. 28, 1864, and he saw the deed tody placed hi a voffla and buried in Highgrate Celine %eq. George Hollamby Drum deolared that this must be untrue because T. C. Druee was in fact, the fifth Duke of Portleud, who lived uutil 1870. That beiug so, George Hollamby Druce tut he himself, being the senior clea- t -mutant in the male line, was the right- ful heir of the Poatland Dukedom and to certain rielt estates, the income from 'which, is placed at $1,500,000 it year, now held by Lord Howard Dewolden. The grave of T. C. Drum) upon being opened, was found to cot:teen humen remains which were declared to be those tif T. 0, Druce. Robert O. Caldwell of New York gain- ed considerable notoriety during the hearing of this ease by swearing that the Duke of Pertland who had lived tts T, 0, Druee, aud the Duke of Portland, tired. of this dual existence, put his other self, T. 0. Druee to .death, and ar- ranged. a "mock fuueral" on whicb quantity of lead Wai buried in high - gate cemetery in place of a body. KILLED IN BUFFALO. beartug the mantis T. C. II, The removel of this hatelkerchief res veaied the features of a bearded man, quite easily reeogeizable by any one who heti known him in life. lie had reddish - brownish inousteche awl whiskers end beard of reddish-browit and white. On this evidence Mr. Atherly-Jones announced tbe withdresval of the per- jury charge, saying that it would be contrary. to the best traditions of the legal profession if he persisted. therein. Alagistrate Plowden, discharging Herbert Druce, whose trethfulness he remarked had been absolutely an con- clusively vindicated, thanked him for having. consentea to the opiiiing of the grave m the hiterests of justice. • George Hollemby Druce declared to- day that the civil action would be con- tinued, but public intefest itt the affair vanishes with the collapse of the case against Herbert Drnee, whose father's remains were positively identified at the exhumation by 'independent witnesses. G. W. Thackeray, who was closely confiected with T. C. Druce, testified in court to -day that the body was unquess tionably that of his.former friend. , , . . able preservative powers, Ait oak tree planted tWo yeare ago has kept its first leaves, which are now as fresh end vigorous as when they first iteeseared. TERRIBLE DEATH OP LIET.-COL. the same way ripe fruit can be kept • JOHN O. CAUTLEY. fresh under a. blue sereee for twenty days without deely. The straWberry Mangled by a Street Car, Which Struck plant eau he 'retarded for a similar period and. then allowed to fructify. The Him as Ile Stepped Off Another Car experiments aro expeeted to have a wide —He Was a Soldier of Distinction. medication to market gardening. The discussion has brought to light a • curious story from Lyons, where many 'Buffalo, Jan. 5.—After passing through people are employed in the great cinema - 'several campaigns in India, the Soudan tograph works. It is declared that worke and South Africa, without suffeling a ars who are developing. films under a -single wound, fate reserved • a horrible red light for a long time become nervous death for Lieutenant-Colonel John C. and irritable. .One clay the women workers were so. overwrought that they, Cautley, retired,' whose venter head attackea the men, and. a • great row eves quarters were at the Ca.aad, Union Hotel only stopped when the light was changed. 7 Toroato. s As he stepped off a Main THE. THAW TRIAL etreet car in this city this afternoon al. 'Bryant street on his way 1.0 Visit his two daughters, he was struelc by a. era travelliug in an opposite direetion, end his mangled body :hurled for 130 feet be- fore the motorman arose* Use car to a ttop, The Ueeident oeturrtel in hetet Li the Frontier Hospital. . •Surgeons front this institution carri;d the dead colonel into the •hospital, and after .the body hail been reviewed by Medieal Examiner Itowlatil WaS moved to the home of Attorney John M. Provost, No. 2,420 Inwood avenue, where his two daughters are stopping. Both girls, who attend the Technieal High , School here, were prostrated by the sight cof their mutilated father. The medal which he -wore was found erushed against his heart. The body will be shipped to a brother in .Baltimore for burial. The motormaa and conductor of the ear were arrested, and later released on their own recognizanees to testify at the Police Couratinquest Lieut. -Ca Cautley had belonged to the Royal West Kent Regiment. Ile had seen service in India, in the Gordon relief -expedition, and. at Majuba Hill, retiring from the army in 1SO4, He ;eaves a niife and son in Engladda Toronto, Jan. 6.—Lieut.-Col. Cautley was a well-known figure in Toronto; ana also•at Georgian Bay ports. He was 'the owner of considerable property emotes Georgian Bay islands, and was propriat of a °summer hotel known as the :efinne- cognashene, on one of the islende. The eolonel, who was about fifty terms of age, spent his winters in ths city, staying -at the Greed Union. r A CLASH IN THE EAST. Conflict Between British and Japanese Interests There. Pekin, Jan. 4.— Great Britain Lae taken exceptions to Japatts protest egainit China, extending the Hsm Min Tun railroad northward, the tontraet for the partial construction of which ,#‘1, hats been given to a British firm. The protest of Baron Hayashi, Japaneee Minister to China, agaiest the extol:- sion of the railroad gives as a. reas that a parallel line would injnriously affect the Japanese railwe,y, tuel to- nounees Untenable Ohina,'s rejoinaer, that the line would not be built neer 11.e jepanese line than is customary in for- eign eountries. Japan's course is no •louget considered a mere pretence Ly Greet Britain, in view of the offleial action taken but a violation of Mail rights, severely affecting British biter - este. The situation in Alanee lets di- verted attention from the negotia dais between Chine and Great klyitain coning the patrolling of ' tl.e West Tle.- er by British granboats, Withal pritetical- • ly Ilene been dropped for the present. RED LIGHT AIDS GROWTH. New York, Jan. 6.—Harry K. Thaw, to -day, for the second time, faces a trial on the charge of wilful murder. After months of waiting in the Tombs, the ted- ious work of securing a jury to try the young Pittsburger for the killing of Stanford. White has been begun in the criminal Branch of the Supeeme Court, the same room in which Thaw sat' daily for nearly three•niontles during the pre- vious trial. Compered with the'former trial, inters est M Nese York is at a low ebb. Rear- rangement of the court room has mater- ially lessened the number of seats for re- presentatives of tho press, but the de- mand for room for reporters has been considerably lees than at the former trial, and there will be no trouhle in ae- commodating all those who are entitled to press scats, in spite of the reduced. ae-. commodations. It is probable that Ins ny tedious days will be spent in securing a jury for the trial. of the ease. During •the previous trial thousands of columns of the evi- dence were printed in. practieelty every paper in New York, and it is not believ- ed that any ease ever tried in New York attracted the amount of attention or caused. more widespread argument than accompanied the first trial of Thaw. It has already been decided that jurymen will be placed mid* lock and key from the moment they are chosea until they finally finish with the ease and this will add to the difficulty in fiedine qualified jurymen who be willing eo serve in the ease and who will not ia soree way be able to squirm oat of that duty. It will not be a surprise to the attorneys m the case if a month or more is con- isumed in securing the jury. C. -B. MAY RESIGN BRITISH PREMIER NOT YET RE- STORED TO HEALTH. Advised Not to Attempt to Resume the Responsibilities of the Premiership —Excitement Might Cams.; Another Seizure. New York, Jan, 5.—A cable dsepatch from London to the Worid says: The resignation of Sir Henry' Campbell -Ban: nerman appears to be imminent, It ie. stated on high authority that within the last Week the Premier notified his Cab- inet colleagu-es Out his doctors earnes- ly advise him ageinst attempting to re- sume the labors and responsibiatise of the Premiership, The pbysicians have diagnosed the Premier's malady as dila- tion of the heart, end deelare that ex- citement or worry is calculated to bring on a seizure attended with the gravest of consequences. Though the Premier benefited some- what from the change to Biarritz, he stljt looks and. feels feeble. Ile cannot face any physical exertion. In view of an attack of • angnia pectoris recently at Bristol his doctors ere appreheneive of the consequences of a sudden change. to England during a continuanee of the present severe weather coaditions. Thotigh" it is generally believed that the next Premier will be Mr. Asquith, Chencellor of the Exchequer, there is .a, . section of the Cabinet who favor John Morley's claims on the ground that his standing with the Ministerial party and country generally would give the new Government a stronger foundation. District Attorney Jerome and Assist- ant District Attorney .Garvan will again reeiresent the people m the ease while Martin W. Littleton, a svell-know'Brook- lyn attorney, will appear as Thew's chief ,eounsel, replacitag Delphin Michael Del- mas, the California, lawyer who headed the defence's corps of lawyers at the for- mer trial. The prosecutions' direct eiteeet will be briefs The actual killing will be proved, and. thee the defence will have an opportunity to prove, af it can, Out Thaw was not mentally reponsible when ae fired the shot whieltended the life of Stanford White, It is said that the de- tente has selmommed-a large number of additional witnesses for this trial, but it is believed that Evelyn Nesbit 'nit* will still be the prineipal witnees for the de- fence. That she will tell practitally the same \story she told, on the lest trial is probable, but it is rumored that the pro.' seeution will cross-examine, hot' eveu more severely than was done at the rinpOrtant Reeults of the Experiments other trial. Assistent District Attorney by a Freneh Scientist. G. -limn is said to hasse spent the greater Paris, jan. Fituumarion, portion of las vacation in Europe hest milliliter in going over the route of the the eminent sicientistepublishen this week the results of the remerkable experi- trip through Europe Jamie by Thaw and •ments that he has been ronducting for Evelyn Nesbit before they were married, the past two years to discover the and it is not impossible that -he secured effect of various lights on the growth information there that mey eolue out in of vegetation. De has number of plante the crose-examination. A special venire CARRIED A DUMMY BABY. The Clever Ruse of Shoplifter. New York, ,Jan. 5, ---The World has received the 'follosving eable despatch from Paris: Certainly this young wos man showed the height of the profes- sional shoplifter's cunning. Neatly dressed, respectable looking, she visited. a big department store sev- eral times during the holidays and made small purchase. Always she bore in her arms a baby, whose face Was carefully covered , with Nails as was natural it should be to protect' it from tin. biting winds. 'The youeg woman displayed great affection for the baby, end often kissed it, hnt alsvays through the veils. suapicion was raised by the yotnig mothei's Wien. Site was ar- rested. . The baby was a dummy. Its robe hid it long eardboara box, in which the shop- lifter slipped the erticIes she stole. MURDERS WIFE. Plunges a Enife ,.Into Her Heart and Then Tries SuiCide. Easton, Pa., San, 5. --Prank Smith, ACM of City Controller • Chester Smith, to -day murdered his wife and then attempted to commit suieitie. Smith and his wife had been separate for some time. Ile stole to the room elle occupied and plunged a 'carving 'knife into his wiit's heart. Going to his father'e residence, Smith reeited the details of the &int% and then attempted to kilt himself by gashing his thtoat a French LIVELY BATTLE. EXPLORERS FOUGHT ALL DAY -WITH HOSTILE CONGO NATIVES. They Spent Two Days in Retreat After Killing 125 of. the Assailants—Tha First of an Arduous Campaign, Washington, Jan. 5,—News was re- ceived here yesterday of 4 bettle be- tween a hand of hostile natives and a party of explorers employed by the International Corporation, and which hes the concession to develop the Con- go Free State's rabbet autr mineral re- sources. The fight took place six miles inside the corporation's eon- eessiou, near the Kasai River, and 125 natives were killed. Five porters of the exploretion party 'net death, and severel others were wounded. None of the white men of the com- pany., which was in charge of S. H. Ball, of the United States Geological Survey, was even hert. The battle lasted an ens tire day, the retreat of the explorers occupying the next two days, during all of which they were constantly harassed by the natives before they reached safe- ty. This is looked `upon as only a be- ginning of the troubles of similar enter- prises of the corporation. News of the battle came in letters to friends of ,the group of Washington scientists who entered the service of the company, in which the Guggenheim interests are represented, for the purpose of making a geological and scientific survey of the country. The letters indi- cate further that.the engagement reports ed is likely to be small and unimportant compare.d to others tht may follow, It is stated that in this battle twenty- five soldiers, under command, of Mout Empertoria, of the Belgian forces, fought a veal numbee of natives. The latter were mostly armed with flintlocks, which they get from the Portuguese tradieg posts: 'The tremendous possibilities Or the campaign which the big International Corporation has inaugurated may be judged from the statement given in the sante letter, that a regiment of eative troops is to be employed to conduct the scientists through the hos- tile country. The natives are described' as very vicious:, and some are cannibals. I BATTLE FLAG. TROPHY CAPTURED FROM AMERI- . CAN FRIGATE IN are. . It Will be Sold at Auction in the Dis- persal Sale of the Middlebrook Col- lection— Balaclava Trumpet and Other Historical Relics. London, Jan. 5.LIt is announced that the flag, of, the American man-of-war Chesapeake, which was captured by the British ship Shannon on June '12, 1813, will be sold at public auetion in Lon- don on *January 29. The flag in question is one of a large number of relics relating, to memorable and historical events, which were collect. ed by the late T. G. Middlebrook. These relics • are to be disposed of by order of the executors, of Mr. Middlebrook's estate. Mr. Middlebrook obtained the flag from Chapman, of King- ston,on-lhames, and it came to Mr. Chapman from Sifnor and Mme. Papn Wapusci, the latter having inherited it front her mother, a Mrs. Grundy, whose husband wes a captain in the British navy. Capt. Gr.undy's father, Who lase was a captain in the British navy, partjapated in the engagement between the Shannon and. the Chesapeake, be- ing at the time a midshipman, and in some way came into possession of the American sbip's colors. Aniong other relies to be sold at the same auction is the bugle on which Trumpet -Major Joy Boundea the order for the famous charge of the Light Bri- gade at `Balaclava. Cromwell's helmee, the spear that killed Ceeneral Gprden, Dr. Johnson's spectacles, and a number of Nelsoit re- lies are rase included he the Middlebrook collection. The Nelson relics are two sil- tver dishes weighing 150 'ounces, and a pair of, gold buckles the hero wore at Tref rtIgar. • WHERE HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED. East End. of London Harbors Many Thieves, But No Murderers. London jan, 5.—If an outsider were asked wh'at he supposed was the dis- triet in London where human life was in the greatest danger, he probably would say the Ertst'Efid. 13ut East Lon- don's- .eoroner on Frido whitewashed the disteiet, stating that though the yearly average of *metiers in London was 48 and of the manslaughters 32, there manner, "I said: `Fancy an innocent let- euiris Hartle; Deloraine, Man., head said the prisoner, in an unconcerned threat to kill and murder!' I have had F, E. Perkins, Port Arthur, head eut ter like • that being construed into ti the opinion of Sir Thomas Barclay on Peter McKean,,Balek, cut on head. that letter. He said to me that no David Lindsay; London, cut on head. one could see any harm in the letter if Ed. McLane, Pa.ynton, Sask., head and he considered it with candor and hon- hand cut. . on head. • Dan McDougall, St. Almon, Ont., cut esty. "Three months elapsed between the Robert Matthews, Moose Jaw, back time I wrote that letter and the first injured. arrest. They are trying to make out wound. A. Gilehrist, Glenannon, Ont., scalp step taken by anybody to secure my some crazy lettei written ten years MOORE COMMITTED. 1 . $ . that that letter is a eontinuation of .. ago.'" . er from Paris testified that Von VeltS The detective who brought the prason. St. Thomas Merchant, Charged With helm had said to him when they Were Forgery, Refused Bail. coming to London: • St, Thomas, Jan. 5.—Alaeistrate Glenn - "These letters were put in evidence yesterday committed for Lial James.A. against me in my trial for the murder Moore, hide and fur merchant, on the of ;Joel's brother in Pretoria, and I am Outage ef forging the name of his brother, advised that an absolutely illegal use Mr. H. C. Moore, Toronto, to a $5,000 of them is being made a second thne in guarantee bond, given the Dominion Bank the effort to procure evidence against as security for loans, Mr. II. C. Moore It was then brgught out thet Inspec- testifesl against his brother, declaring the signature on the bond was not his, nor . me." tor Pentin, the detective referred to, had placed there with his consent or knoWl- until an hour after the warrant had been ing expert, compared handwritings of edge. W. IT. Shaw, Toronto, handwrite. not taken down Von Veltheim's remarks read to him, the two brothers, and declared the name counsel, Pentin was asked: 'Did Voir on the bond was not the signature of ET. 0, Moore, but had without doubt Cross-examined by Von Veltheim's Veltheim, on being arrested in Paris, tell been put there by James A. Moore. In you to go back to Joel and tell him not cothmitting Moore to jail the magistrate you to advise Joel to read that letter a refused to grant ' bail. e : i to make an ass of himself? Did he tell second time?" GOOD FOR CATTLEMEN. Veltheim simply said that Joel was a' Mild Winter Has Been Easy on Feed in ____ "No," answered the detective. "Von In response to further questions the the West. fool to take any notice of the letter." he should make would be used against Iriliemte.ctive admitted that he did not' eau - tion Von Veltheim. that any statements blessing to the. people who have cattle in those districts, where it was 'm- end the absence of snow have been a Winnipeg, Jan. 5.—Mild vreather of the counsel who are conducting Von V sable to put up sufficient hay last tell for winter fodder. Up to the' In view -of this fact and the strength Veltheine's defence, there seems to be a P es ent the cattle' have been brows - pretty good chance that the prisoner will Mg on the prairies and. it has been again slip from the clutches of the law. unnecessary to give them any extra Before the case will be finally determin- fred. Thus farmers and stoehrnen ed, however, a number of witnesses will have effected an immense saving en have to be brought to London from ti eir hay supplies. Some steamer). South Africa. killed off or sold to defilers a eon- /. : I. siderable Proportion. of their herds, , end others secured a .supply of straw .LONDON TIMES TO CHANGE HANDS? 1.) help out in ease of pressurf3, and ____ It Is now felt that the winter •e•ilt . bo r.assed without loss. Report That Negotiations for Tranifer Are on FoOt. DIED ON THE BENDS. Imodon, Jan. 5.—The Observer prints a eeport to the effect that negotiations English Engineer Overcome While ere afoot for the transfer ef "the dime - tion of the Times newspaper" to the Working Under East River. hands of the proprietor cif several pope- Neat York, Ian. 5.—George Hartis, lar magazines and newspapers. of London, England, a constructing Sonte of •the newspapers are making engineer, Who formerly owned the a feature of the rumored transference Chiswick Iron Works in tendon, arid of the Times, rebnearding which nothing recently came to America to study definite can be learned. A. F. Walter, tunnel engineering, died last night the chief proptietor of the Times, is from bends, which overcame hien (meted me saying that the direetion of while working in the Pennsylvania the paper Will not leave the lutrtils of tannel under the East River. Mr. the Walter family. Enqnuiries and de- *Harris sought emplpyment in the tun. duetions indicate that the negotiator is nel upon- his arrival here a week A circumstantial tumor alleges that ago with his wife, that he might have not Lord Northcliffe, C. A, Pearson, acting on behalf of teriff a full opportunity of studying tunnel reformers, Is seeking to Becure control work at close renge. he at first refused to say auything. Then USED A REVOLVER. of the paper. When be Was quAstioned lciTehsersti.::m'alyheureesieseineotdheiyng.niti it," adding, John IVIorrison, Crazed With Liquor, Fired Two Shots. . ses e : Toronto, Jan. 6.—In delirium, john WALKED OFF WITH THE MONEY. Morrison, 80 Defoe street, fired two shots at jamcs Madden, 230 Niagara Man With Revolver Robs a Winnipeg Grocery Stere. Wianipeg, Ian, 5.—A daring 1101 lenp 'Vancouver, B. C., 0,—Many Jatlau ese reserve army men have been ordered to- Tokio, according to a report current here. The Japanese themselves refused. to discuss the situation, but it cannot be denied that several hundred men have arrived front the United States and arc making ready to leave for Japan. japan. ese Coneul.Merikawa has gone to Japan on a furlough, and his office in Vaneou- ver denies any Jcnowleclge of the affair. It is reverted that a large number of Japanese arrived on a steamer on Satur• da,v from Puget Sound points. THE POND MYSTERY A. PARTIAL SOLUTION IN IDENTIFI- CATION OF DEAD WOMAN. Was M r s . Whitman, Wife of Motorman on Brooklyn Elevated—Often Qua•i- relied With Husband, Who is Held on Suspicion. Newark, N, J., Jan. 6.—Followiag searching examination, during whieb many incidents of his life were laid bare, Theodore S. 'Whitmore, the husband, was held by the Nees Jersey police to -night as a suspect in the death of "Lena" Whitmore, who was beaten insensible, stripped of her clothing and drowned in a pond on the Haekensack Meadows, in Harrison, on the morniug fo December 21. Whitmore, who bad been detainei in New York, was taken to Harrison to.night, and, having definitely identified his svife's body, was rigoreusly question. ed by the authorities. The nature of his testimony determined the' police to keep him within the jurisdiction of the local courts. The body of the woman Whose death has been a mystery for a fortnight was identified last night by her sister, Mrs. Martin Sehmitter, of the Bronx, by Mrs, Sehmitter's husband, by Frank Englert, a friend, and finally by Whitmore, •a motorman on the Brooklyn Elevated Railway. Whitmore admitted that he had often quarrelled with his wife, and said he was not surprised when she did not return home. She had left home on Christmas Dey, telling him she was go- ing to visit a sister in Schenectady. Mrs. Schmitter furnished the police with what is believed to be moat im- portant information. She told of a series of letters and telegrams received by herself and her sister in Schnectady purporting to come from Mrs. 'Whitmore, but gome of which must have been writ- ten after her death. A trunk belonging to Mrs. Whitmore had also been sent naysteriously to her home, Mrs. &limit - ter said, Ares instausty Rated. `Ihe passengers the car and, the motorman and conductor miraculously .scaped serioue injuries, Motorinau elegil lost an ear and was bad/y out tbout the arms and head. Conan:tor Soulier was bruised scratched. Mrs. - aeries l'etithe, New .Ediubnegh, a pas- ienger, had several. hones broken and. was badly bruieed. but wilt recover. Her awther-halaw, Mrs. George 1Criecie re- Jeived internal injuries, which will not likely result fatally, sod George Me - 134111, of elarkstowe reeeivea some had bruises and cuts, !Luckily there were :to other passengers on the car. Medical :Lid and ambulenees were at once. •sums. .aoned, and the injueed were speedily sonveyed to the hospital. - There •ure no .gates or watehmentat the eroseines and just as the eer was on the traek% it was struck by an engine of a freight train, hueled off the track end dragged. along with the Inelring train tor soine distance. Men engaged in the work near the crossing elenn that the train gave no warning of its ap- proach by whistling or ringing a bell. An inquest will be held. 1 7 17 _ BELLEVILLE DEATH. Son -in -Law of Sir Mackenzie Rowell Passes Away, Belleville, Ont., Jam Phe dea,th took place suddenly at eleven o'clock last night of Charles P. Holtou, one of the city's most prominent citi- zens. He was an active chnrch m enteer end had just eoneluded concluding ev- angelistic serviCe 111 the city nassion w1Mn steicken with apoplexy and died two hours later. Ile was 59 years old. "In 1872 he married Caroliue Harriet Bo- wel', daughter of Sir 'Mackenzie Bowel], who survives him. with four children, three sons and one daughter. He was a member of the late firm of T. 0.- Hol- ton & Co., then mitered into partner- ship with J. j. B. Plinth, in the lumber business some years ago, and took over the bueiness. which he conducted up to his death. He was a member of the Board of Albert College and. his death is deeply regretted here. SEALING- S011040:111ER WRECKED. . , Queen of Neve Scotia Fleet Total Wreck oxl Falkland Islands.. Halifrsx, Jan. 5,—A cable was received at Halifax to -day by het owners from Captain Anderson, of the Nova Scotia sealing schooner Baden Powell, stating that she is a total wreck at the Falkland Islands. The Baden Powell, which is the queen of the Nova Scotia sealing fleet, sailed from Hislifax on Sept. 6th, and ar• rived at her destination on Oct. 26th, She carried a crew of 18 men, who were all rescued and are new on board a steamer bound from Monta video for Liverpool. The schooner and. catch were insured by Dale & Co., Montreal. The Baden Powell WaS 90 tons register and was built in 1900 for the esaling 'trade. She was owned in Halifax. I : • SXATING IN ENGLAND. Many Deaths There Through Exposure and Drowning. • London, Jan. 5.—Fog is seriously im- peding slifpping on the British coast. and it is especially dense in the re. glens of Glasgow and Liverpool. On Saturday many liners were delayedo.tThlet: Carmania should have sailed at 5 o'elock over until title afternoon. Many big eteamships, both ineotning and out. going also had been held up. A weeks' herd froet has permitted the itidulgenee of skating by thousands and has led to many aeaths through ace Meets on the ice as well as through ext. posurn. 7 t The Turk Lives Long. London, San. 5. --The Constantin- ople correspondent of The Lancet writes that the loeal press of that cite asserts that no other country pro duces so many eases of extraordinary longevity as the Ottoman empire, many of which haveebeen proved by eubstantial testimenV As such is ;noted the case of Hadji Reif, who is livirig at Xeni Baghtcha and who iS 134 years old. He had been a book- binder at the military school at Pan - midi for eighty years. His father died the age of 142. He was a GC'S ernment official. 4 - 1- . New Unitarian Church at Montreal. streeet, at midnight last night. He was Montreal, Jan. 5.–. -The formal opening carried -)ut, locked up in No. 3 station, chargcd With of the Church of the Messiah (Miter- ,Itee eats ana• euceessfully shootieg with intent. . Morrison had. been drinking for several Rittertv). t1o)rok place to•day with sermons by has not been a single ease of either in S. A. Eliot, son of President eldereinitaostFreaventeiiisnggiwoheeenrya. ssttorraeng3enr Nseoariteb. days. He got' into the cellar at his Eliot, of Harvard Teniversity, and by Find criminals, in recent years, specialize hones just before midnight and would Rev. Dr. J. de Normandie. The church hie -district in 1007. It teems that East ' larceny, shopbreeking and all kinds of Winnipeg about 6 p. me when there waS net let anyone come neer hint. Later ' is a, beaatifili example of Gothic wield, - revolver under the cleric's nose and Medden, who Was trying to paeify hint. Ttethettelroestaonfa tlile.asstr compelled him to hand •over the cesh in t olpteetiliterde ‘fvrite:- ocovfe rde$bi tr.. sWinaling, but avoid physical violenee, only one elerk on duty. He poked a he went out into the street and shot et Three 'Hundred Jape Arrive; Twelve , ROYAL THANKS. 000,000. VANCOUVER STARTLED. the till, amottating in n11 to $72, He SHOPLIFTING COUNTESS. s made good. his escape. Wife of Italian Balker Caught in Regent Ottawa, San. 0.--(Speeial)--The Gov - which he subjeeted to red, green, blue of 300 Jurymen has been stinunoned,100 Hundred Mere Are Coming. THE SECOND VICTIM. Street, London. ernor-Generril has reeeived the follosving M. Plammarion exhiftited to friends New York, Jen. 0. --.The usual curious - Tcledo, Ohio, Zan. 6,—"Wbou the. flux ef 1,200 within the next mouth Ht. Thomas, J entn• 5.--"Jolln It CraY: Memo, wife of tt leaditig Ttalitte bank- royal mint. (Signed) Edward rt." ,t1tTleallk.fft5rrbo'GrortIgItht Sillirtetstro\Viaese etnhia)ineklyroolltufoirnslittAvlian3;,satys utilt,riei‘pCrinegse.nt'a‘e and white light—the conditions otherwise of whom reporte Viumonver, 13. C., jan, 5.—The un- Death of John' H. tray, Injured in Till. shoLOwnvidoinn being similar—and the results Were most ' Nil' report to-rnerrote and the remainder d to -day, A second 100 1 and abdomen. _ explained arrival of 300 Japanese in astonishing, on Wednesday. Preacher jilted at Altar,. , Vancouver, with, the prospect of an in- . • sonburg 'Celli:den. Court to -day When Countess Louise tive. opened the Canadian branch of the lett-ace stock which was ne herd as a %swards were gathered about the eriminal Itata Walter CIAPP, formerlY rector from Itenehiley ate the 4•4atutts of 11. T. XL brakeman injtired in the treeli -er reeldieg here, and a member of a. --, II d te cane, Thie lied been. grown under the (matte building this morning its the hope et St, jotaiss Church here, tow a the Orientiil Satiation. bete at Present. between the Waliash light engine and well-Juiewn family, was eh:aged" with quality and were inedible. thee day 11 f his second trial'. In the eor. te be wedded to Mee Aliee Thorne, a At 11 o'elock yeeterdny morning they there on Saturday, making the seeend The Countess, who 18 a sttikinely l'of Brooklyn, one of the oldest of the PILOT DIED. influenee of red light The leamea how- ti catching a Oilmen of Harr ThttW ne micoionary in the Philippines, ens Why the 300 SePanese eaole here is a the G. T. ii. feight at Tillsoriburg on }shoplifting in a Regent street &pert. ever. of this atoek had lost all their le crossed the bridge of stg is on the toyed St. Sohn s Church this mottling inYs erY. • ,/ • ' , d' 1 ' il ' hos 'tat t to te New York, jai. 6.—Cept. Wm. Ha, Tinder the effects of red light eertein More ef the eourt house also a throng J prominent Toledo society girl, he WaS Poured into tOWn from the coast logging vietim of the wreck. Cray wits 23 isetralemue women of forty, WAS preeent ' Sanely Donk nilote, died during the Dr. V..1.14mile, assistant- Ottani maw Vee'etablelt, euelt IlA lellina. grew fiftesn If, eneval hundred persous litut tome to I handed a nate sent by the bride, de camps, and mom even from the Amer. years old ana unmarsisel. The body le:the eourt room, facillionably dreseeil, eight on boare the 13ritish liteanier Mull- , tiger of the Willialll DaviQs SO11115111, •tilliee 10 fast tie under blii.A light. On eltneas. from the outside at leatt, the I elneing the match off. Mise Thorne ican elide of the boundary line. There are was taken to his noose le 'eViediter foel and Nit near her eolieitor as the story easter Caetle, wilile the steenier Wee at Toronto, is dead at Doehester, elmneSuts: the other band, bine HAL hes remeric- opening scenes Of thie new pelicans:I of &Nee no publie teaser: lev litr eaten. rumors of trouble, aed bilk:ere of the burial, , Nita told that she had been &eight leav- anchor off Quarantite station. after nu operation for galletofies, MORE ROCKFELLER GOLD. A Gift of $2,/ex,000 to the Chicago University New York, Jan. 0.—The Tribune has. received the followinnt despatch from Chi.. canto: John D. Rockebfeller has made In- otrter gift to the University of Uhintgo, this time the amount being $2,191,1C11 The gift was announced this evening. ft brings the total of the Rockefeller 00.1- tributions to the university up to $13 315,000. Of the sum announced. to-days$2,000,- 300 goes to swell the general endowment fund, and consisted of securities the nature of which is not made Another specific sum of $155,000 deers off the deficit in running expenses from July, 1908, to July; 1909. 'The rest goes for books, repairs and other incidentals. Mr. Rockefeller took no part in the negotiations for the gift. Last month President Harry Pratt Judson and the chairman of the trustees visited New York •and were told by John D. Rocke- feller, jun. to make out a list of the imounts diey wanted his father to give. When the list Vas presented Mr. Rocke, feller made the gift without question. A CRUEL PRINCE. Heir to Servian Throne Guilty of Further Brutality. grlartiletsnna,f rojinn'Be61g.—raAdee,cordpieneglistieledtelien- the evening newspapers freeh ehareees of outrageous conduct' are brought against the Servian Crown Prince. Daring yesterday's. sitting of the Skuptseldna, the Socialist deputy, Lap- 4heviteh, interpelated the Government with regard to --the eonduet of Prince (leorge. Some days ago, the •deputy stated, His Royal Highness visited a ear- penter shop in order to make inquiries about his motor boat, which was under repair. The tnaster of the shop was ab- sent, and, as the information volunteered by.assistants did not satisfy the Crown PrInce,. he abosad and beat them. The deputy demanded that, as Prince. Georee is privileged, the Government shourd compensate the workmen for in- juries they had received. Toelay the same deputy related another instance of the Crown Prince's brutality. stating stating that he had belabored two foot- men with a hammer„ one of them being t • • eeriously injured. CANADIAN CARPENTER KILLED. Wm. Lewellyn, of St_ Catharines, Died at Batavia, N. Y, Batavia, _N. Y., Jan. 0.—William F. Lewellyn, a Canadian carpenter, injured at the Dellinger building here on Dee. 10, died at the Bet -twill hospital yester- day. Lewellyn 'was operated on the night of the accident for a rupture of the bowels. A second operation was per. formed on the 20th ult., after which it was thought tbe men had fair chanee for life. tewellyn claimed that he had no relatives. He came to Batavia trete. St. Catharines. Ont. Witinipeg's Probatitei Officer. Winnipeg, Jen. 5.—The Government have aceedea to the request of the vari- ous charitable aud meal orgenizetiona and have appointed a probation officer hi the person of F. J. Billiarde, superie- teadent of the. Children's Aid. Mr. Bil- lie:Me will have charge of all juvenile offenders, foster homes and -delinqueets front SCI10010 'MUSICI AN DEAD. Baltimore, Jan, 0.....4tev, Dr. A. Kai- ser, for many elms Cantor -of Oneb Shalom temple end whose musket OM. paVitiatia Hebrew devotional servieee ere used a)1 aVet the world, died yes. terday of heini diseese, Aged OA years. • ,tee 'as? ' t