The Herald, 1910-07-08, Page 8ROULD1'HRTE,
RY FE AVEtii
Letters Found Reporting His Suicide
May Be Fakes.
Belief That He Left the Boat at
Detroit and Escaped.
Investigation Still Going on. at Ot-
tawa—Exaggerated Stories.
Detroit despatch: The .Detroit police
are searching fur Drank S. Gouadtt:rite,
eh.arged by the Canadian Government
with having taken $200,000 while super-
intendent of the Dominion Printing Bar -
eau, and this despite the feet that -on
the Detroit and Cleveland boat this
morning a letter from him was found
scrawled in his straw hat to the effect
that he had sought death and conveying
the imliression that he had slashed hie
throat and lumped overbaard.
The police have no proof that Gould-
thrite did not loll himself, but the
feeling is strong tnat the letter is bat
a ruse—that lie walked ofi the beat
at Detroit and is in hiding here.
The discovery of tate hat was not
made until after the boat was docked
at 8 o'clock, and the passengers n. d
disembarked, so it is nut known
whether the man jumped overboard
or left the message for a blind and
walked off the boat with the rest of
the crowd.
"Look nor my body in the river
near Introit," the m usage written ui
the inside of the hat wan lead pencil
reads. "Letters in ove.ruoat. acne
lettere to my wife.»
Gouldthrite occupied the lower berth
in stateroom No. '3.28, and in this room
the overcoat he mentioned. with e. suit.
ease, was found. One of the two let-
ters in the overcoat was :addressed to
:tars. Avaleene Gouldthrite, Uockaiffe
Park, Ottawa., aCnada, • ,while the other
bore only the name "Avaleene Gould-
thrite."
In the suitcase were fiend a derby
hat, a pair of socks and garters and
a shirt and collar, the latter blood-
stained. From appeagranses an ef-
fort had been made to wash the
bloodstains out of the shirt and col-
lar. Whether the men accidentally
cut himself while shaving, or slashed
his throat, is not known. A. safely
razor was also found in the suitcase,
but there were no stains on at.
The last seen of Gouldthrite was at
11 o'clock last night, when he asked
the boy in charge of the news stand
on the boat for some stamps. None
of the passengers who have been lo-
cated remember the man.
.As the boat did not enter Detroit
River until after daytirnt and the
man's <message stated that the body
would be found in these waters, it in
believed by the Detroit and Cleveland
oficials that someone on .shore may
have seen him leap from 1.a•' deck.
None of the employees of the beat wit-
nessed the supposed act. General
Manager Sehantz, of the Navigation
Company, has wired the wife in O-
tawa.
Examination of the passenger list on
the Eastern States this mornmg reveille 1
the fact that Cmt:dthrite hid given an
assumed name to the purser. Gould.
thrite's berth was rented to .f. Non, and
this was suppneed to be • th ' paean's cor-
rect name until seare:i was made of the
effects.
"No one can make nn au:heriletive
statement to the efeet tint this men
Gouldthrite has lolled laimeelf beearise.
his hat was found near the railing
and other eirenmstanees point to thae
version," said L. G. Lewis. general pass-
enger agent for the Detroit and Cleve-
land lines, this evening. "Cie have hard
similar cases to this happen on our brute
before, where clever men hid paced ar-
<tieles of clothing in pieces that might
paint to death by suicide and hid then
walked off the boat tvhrn s?ae arrived at
her destination. During the simmer
weather a men mirrht not be nntieed
leaving with the other *ma:angers, eeen
if he were in his shirt sleeve:."
WAS A COOl? S11:TJTl;lsit.
Ottawa despatch: The Dominion Po-
lice authorities stat: that beyond rhe
details of the press repnrte fro:n Detroit
telling of the alleged suicide of F. S.
Gouldthrite, the absconding .snperin'.enct.
:int of stationery, nnthing ulnae is avail.
able here concerning him. An offieer of
the departrnc'nt has p•atie to Detroit to
investigate. Meanwhile there is a die -
position i:i cir'ria1' circles- here to clenbt
the ?uicide theory.. tt ie believed that
the letter indieat'ing t',i* suicide of
Gouldthrite is a blind. !{reigned to F,ten
further swell. Gauldtheitc' was a ga' d
swimmer, and even if lin did leen over-
board he could have hadno great ,trea-
ble itt getting ashore,
I 41TsTIGAT.cOCONTit
Hon. Charles Murphy t:s c iotiruain+
his invcttigation Tato the affairs at the
Printing Bureau, and to•d,iv rx.inrine t
a number of employees under o ith tvi h
'regard to nest nide of purchasing enol
accounting for stationery s rpnl.e
to the present the eulq ssrioum irrag» aa
]es found have been in ran eeetion wit'
the stationery brunch, of which Gould-
thrite had charge. The total amount o
loss is not nearly so great ei some of.
the sensational stories published in the
press indicate. Meanwhile no official or
reliable information as to the, situation
at the Bureau will be given out until
the investigation is completed.
MRS. UIOOULlll1'EBITl+, iN UNITED
STATES.
o.
Brockville despath says; Mrs. Gould-
thrite, wife of the former superintendent
of stationery at the Printing J;lureau,
reached here from Ottawa last Saturday
morning at 9.15, and fifteen minutes
later was aboard the steamer Island
Belle, sailing for Ogdensburg,
NORTRIFST CROPS
W. D. i There is No
Cause . About Them.
Reports of Damage by Heat the Work
of Manipulators.
Toronto, Ont., July 4. — W. D, Mat-
thews, one of the biggest of Toronto's
grain merchants, among .others, therms
cold water on the attempt to raise alarm
over the probable failure of the North-
west wheat crop. Onn of the firm has
just returned from the Northwest and
everywhere lie went there were random
statements about injury to wheat by
heat, bet no instances were discovered
to bear out the statement of injury eith-
er from heat, drought or bugs. There
is a strong belief among grain men that
it is yet too Sean to say anything about
the crop, but the belief is strong that it
will be the best on record. This is
borne out by railway, banking house and
grain merchants' reports. Attempts to
raise alarm is regarded as the work of
manipulators.
3TM1DAD EDES
And Leaves Glidden Tour Car Driver
a Fortune,
Had Twenty Dollars Now Has a
Million and a Half.
Des Moines, la., July 4.—Word has
reached here that Rudolph J. Fass, drive
ing a. car in the Glidden tour, has fallen
heir to a fortune of $1,500,000 through
the death of his grandfather, Pliudolph
A. Pass, of Wurtembur.g, Germany. The
news was a great surprise to Fars.
"1 certainly had a grandfather in Ger-
many;" he said, "and i also expected to
get a little something tiom him, but I
never dreamed of anything like this.
My grandfather and niv father were not
always the hest of friezes, .and 1 have
long been in line fur some of his estate.
My father is his only living child, all
the other children being dead. i ouie
weeks ago I received a letter saying
that my grandfather was sick. but I
never dreamed that he was near death's
door. '1'lien. again, the irony of it all
is the fact that w/tea the news reached
me the extent of my worldly possessions
was $20. Isn't it great to be worth a
inilllan nnrl a half when you only have
twenty dollars in your locket?"
•.....WE , ey
LET HIM GO.
Toronto Business Man Arrested in
Detroit Released by Judge,
Detroit, Mich., deepate:i: ' V m. Camp-
bell, a husinese man of Toronto, was ar-
rested as he left the police court yes-
terday afternoon on a writ of habeas
craves, swain out by Attorney John At-
I:bison, of Detroit, in :a snit against
Campbell for alleged fake arrest and
maticicus per eeotion in Toronto several
weeks ago. When Judge Donovaii's at-
tention was called to the fact that
Campbell cause to the Unitecl alta tees as
a voluntary witness in a. criminal cede
and was therefore exempt from arrest
of thin serf, he•immediateiy ordered
Cnmphell's release. The arrest was one
of the incidents of the squabble that is
going on among wires distine ; interests
made by Julius Taeltenberg'r in Detroit.
wlio was arrested in Toronto recently on
complaint of Charles 13. Ring, who alieg-
es that be chile certain blue prints and
drawings on an automobile_
wAItxn 'rA1,1K CURST.
Thousands of Dollars', Damatee and
Winson Men injured,
Allentown; 1'a., ,in;y 4. —•' Sheeeen
meta worts injured cr aealded and
thousands of dollen? damage was done
to -clay w;ien a ten thousand gallon
water -torah above the rctyf of the Na-
tional Sill= Dyeing Company's plant
buret, flaeding the building.
The tank tore a bele in the roof,
droobing timbers on tbe rnen beneath
and breitlUner ste'tntpiue`.
Some, of the men were scalded by
ese aping rteatrci, and atha s sustained
broken :rr.r., cr lege.
SNE KINDS OATH
ALTEREB IN FORM
government Bili Passes First Read-
ing Amid Cheers.
Mr. Asquith SpRaks in Its Favor, is
Did Mr, Balfour.
Some Objections by Members—Some
Press Comments,
London, July 28.—J3eginning by ex-
pressing the hope that it would not
be controversial, Prime Minister Asquith
in the House of Commons this after-
noon, introduced the Government bill al-
tering the form of the Ring's declara-
tion on his ascension to the throne. The
introduction of the bill was voted 383
to 42 and it was read the first time
amid general cheers.
Mr. Asquith reviewed the History of
offensive to the
the oath, which is ao
Boman Catholics of the Empire, Mr.
Asquith said the language of the oath
was emphatic- but it has been equaled
by the Thirty-nine Articles of the
Church of England and that used, by
the Church of Route to converts in de-
nouneiation of Protestant doctrines. Ro-
man Catholics, the Premier declared, en-
joyed all civil and political rights, al-
though they were barred from one or
two offices. Mr.. Asquith said he hoped
the relics of the past would be remov-
ed. He continued:
"The Roman Catholic subjects of the
Crown number 12,000.000. Nobody doubts
their loyalty, anti the declaration can-
not fail to be offensive to the Soverign
himself. (Cheers.)
"The late King found it a repugnant
duty to signalize the beginning of his
reign by a repulsive formula directed
against many of his sltibjects. (Cheers.)
"There are three distinct statutory
safeguards for the Tirotestant succes-
sion," continued Mr: Asquith. "We
could get rid of the deelaration alto-
gether, but the Government proposes
that it should run as follows:
"I do solemnly and sincerely, and ill
the presence of God: profess, testify and
declare, that I ant a' faithful member of
the Protestant. Reformed Church, by law
established in Eng' and I will, ac-
cording to the tan a t>le enact-
ntents which secure it sts�`sli, succes-
sion to the throne of my realm, uphold
and maintain said enactments to the
best of my power, according to law."
(The old oath de'lared the sovereign's
disbelief in the doc:rine of transubstan-
tiation and denounced the adoration of
the Virgin Bary er any other saint as
practised by the: Church of Rome as
superstititious and idolatrous.)
Mr. Asquith expressed the hope that
the House would not enter into full de-
bate on the bill.
MB. BALFOUR JOINS.
Air. Balfour, leader of the Opposition,
joined Mr. Asquith in this wish. He
said that the late (lovernnient, of which
he was Prince Minister when Ring Ed-
ward ascended the throne, was anxious
to alter the declaration, but found it
impossible to do so. Mr. Balfour said
he approved of the change in order to
renters the source of offence which the
King's loyal subjects take to the form
of the old oath.
During the debate preceding the vote,
William Redmond, the Irish Nationalist
member who lira been agitating the
question of a change in the Ascension
oath, said he did not believe it would
be reasonable for Roman Catholics to
object to the new declaration.
Three Irish Conservatives, Capt. Jas.
Craig, member for the Eastern Division
of County Downs; Charles C. Craig, rep-
resenting the Southern Division of An
trim.. and Win. Moore, the member- for
the North Division of Armagh, opposed
the bill as did the Liberal, Sir Clifford
john Cory -Thomas Agar-Robartcs, Neil
I'riinroee. youngest son of Lord Rose-
bery, and Alpheus Morton.,
There five. Liberal members, Hilaire
Beller, Sir Joseph Crompton Rickett,
John Ellis, F r•edlet'ick Verney and George
Harwood, and the Conservative, Henry
Newton. itupported ilte bill.
The introduetian of the bill was voted
383 to 42, and it was returned the first
time amid general cheers, •
SOME PRESS COMMENT.
In an article on the declaration bill,
The Daily Mail says: Mr. Asquith
conl.3 not have chosen a more favorable
moment for introducing the bill, Sen-
sible men of all parties will welcome the
new declaration.
The Chronicle eays: The hill seems
likely to he so far non -controversial
in that the Opposition; as such, will
not be against it. The Government's
1pcd:oy is logical and meats the real
grievance fully. Therefore, it con-
tains a promjee of finality.
The Daily G•ruphic congratulates 'at on its courage in attempt-
ing to deal with -a thorny sitbas•ct.
Tho comparatively - small : minority
voting against the bill gives an xnac-
eurai;e impression of the oppos teen,
but it is to be hoped that this opposi-
tion will be concentrated not to the
principles of the bill, but en tho
wording,
The News save the new declaration
is preferable to the older formula.
Tho Leader Bays there is no guaran-
tee in the old form of declarati-tn
with all its offensiveness to Cat colics
whioh is not to be found in the new
ono.
The Telegraph says:
Itester•iay's
proceedings in the House of Commons
can only be regarded as a happy pre-
lude t o King George's reign, and an
emphatic serviee to the moral unity
of the Empire,
' The Morning Post has no dollt
that the hill will pass substantia*.'v in
its present form. It is desirable that
its passage should be marked by as
]]tile wrangling as possible.
The Time anticipates a more ex-
tensive opposition to the second read-
ing, but says that, when taken in con-
junction with other safeguards, Otte
declaration must surely be felt to
afford every security that a formula
can give.,
The receptiion of the Bill has been,
on the whole, favorable, though the
bill goes further than many anticipat-
ed. Several leaders of Nonconformity
who were interviewed gave it their
support. Earl Grey listened to the
debate in the Commons.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
Notioe was given for the rejection
of the bill by Captain Craig and other
members, who anticipate getting a
bigger n$inority on the second read-
ing. They expect the Scottish mem-
bers will press for the acceptance of
an amendment to include the Church
of Scotland in the terms of the de-
claration. Mr. Donald Madidascer
and Mr. Harold Mackinder voted
against the first reading of the bill.
THE FORMER OATH.
The oath imposed by the Bill of
Rights and Act of Settlement which ev-
ery British Sovereign since Wiliam of
Orange has taken, and which was in-
tended to prevent anyone who might be
even secretly in sympathy with the Ro-
man Catholic faith from ascending the
Throne, was as follows:
do solemnly and sincerely,
and in the presence of God, profess, tes-
tify and declare that I do believe that
in the Sacrament of Our Lord's Sup-
per there is not any transubstantiation
of the elements of bread and wane into
the body and blood of Christ at or after
the consecration thereof by any person
whatsoever, and that the invocation or
adoration of the Virgin Mary or any
other saint, or the sacrifice of the Mass,
as they are now used in the Church of
Rome, aro superstitious and idolatrous.
And I do solemnly, in the presence of
God, profess, testify, and declare that
I do make this declaration and every
part thereof in the plain and ordnary
sense of the words read unto me as they
are commonly understood by English
Protestants, without any evasion, equi-
vocation, or mental reservation wliat-
soever, and without any dispensation al-
ready granted me for this purpose by
the Pope or any other authority or per-
son whatsoever, and ^without any hope
of such dispensation from any person
whatsoever, and without thinking that
I am or can be acquitted beta -e God
or man of any part thereof, altboug'a
the Popo or any other person er persons
or power whatsoever should d5aitense
with or annul tho same or declare that
it was null and void from the begin
ning."
FOR NMEAT
New York People Get Wood and
Short Weight.
New York, July 4.—W. H. Noyes, a
representative of Swift & Company, tes-
tifed at a hearing at the City Hall to-
day that in 1409 the New York 'public
paid. $28,000 for 225,000 pounds of wood
"spreaders" in its meat. Retail and
wholesale -butchers alike gathered at the
hearing to -day to give their side of £he
case. The city authorities have been
trying to remedy short weights for sev-
eral weeks, and first-littn.d information is
sought.
Hams and bacon weighed before the
assemblage to -day showed how the publie
is gulled. A ham, including heavy paper
wrapping, marked 131-4 pounds, tipped
the scales at only 11 pounds 14 ounces.
Another marked 10 1-2 pounds weighed 9
pounds 7 ounces. Similar shrinkage
was shown in bacon.
FARM HELP.
Farmers Around St, Catharines Un-
- able to Get Hands,
St. Catharines, Ont., despatch: Farm
hands are about as scarce as hen's teete
throughout ale district, and some of the
farmers are at their w; tn' end to know
what to do .with their harvesting and
other farm work. Good wages are being
offered, but it seems the nen who are
of any use on the farm clo not .want
farm jobs at any price. This is the big
week of the strawnerry and cherry pick-
ers, and hundreds• of school children are
at it. The children do the work as well
as adults, and they are a boon to the
strawberry growers. The crops in Chia
district look well and are ripeuing fast.
Hay is a big crop.
Sophie, after scrutinizing her new
easter for •several moments, discover-
ed deep creases in the flesh of her fat
little wrints and neck. "Mamma,"
said Sophie earnestly, "we don't want
her; she's creaked.` We must ex.
change her right away."—The Delin-
eator,
S OF THE
DAY i11 !JREF
Cote St. Paul Policeman Almost
Beaten to Death.
Small Boy Crushed to Death by
Planks Falling on Him.
Another Vessel Goes Ashore on
Lower St, Lav, rence.
The Austrian Lioyd steamer Trieste is
eight days overdue at Bombay.
United States Senator Samuel Doug -
les McEnery died at his home at New
Orleans.
Thaddeus York, wanted in many cities
on charges of forgery, was arrested in
Seattle.
Owing to the increased value of tax-
able property in Paris, Ont., the tax
rate, which had been struck at 27 mills,
will be reduced to 24.
Brantford will lay no more street
pavements until a thorough investiga-
tion is made of the merits of the pav-
ing already put down.
On Monday night Michael 13sasley,
aged six years, residing on Ninth avenue
west, Vancouver, was crushed to death
by a number of planks falling on him.
The saw mill of Wm. Milne & Sons,
Limited, Spanish River, on the C. P. R.
Soo branch, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is $40,000, insurance $30,000. The
lumber piles were saved.
.A campaign has been started. in Mont-
real to raise hall. a million dollars for
the Notre Dame Hospital. Rodolphe
Forget, M. P., has headed the list with
a personal subscription of $25,000.
Cloudbursts in the mountains of cost -
ern Kentucky caused damage estimated
at $100,000, swept dwellings from their
foundations, destroyed considerable
standing timber and put many residents
of the section in peril.
After several witnesses were examin-
ed at Oshawa by the Magistrate, Sheri-
dan, accused of stabbing McAdxun in
the convent gardens on the evening of
June 14, was committed for trial at the
County Asizes in November.
French troops encountered a force. of
Morooean hillmen at Oum Er Rebia,
Morocco. The French lost thirteen oifi-
eeis and men killed. end 100 woun•led.
General Moinier is hastening to ;hastise
the Berbers and other hill tribes.
Ex -Constable N. Lapointe, of Cote Bt.
Paul, was almost beaten to death after
the political meeting there on Monday
night. He was found lying in a pool of
blood on the sidewalk, shortly after
midnight, in an unconscious condition.
A Newmarket deputation waited. upon
Hon. James Duff and Hon. Dr. Pyne yes-
terday, to urge the establishment of an
agricultural department in the New-
market High School. The project is one
originated by T. Herbert Lennox, AI, P.
P.
Rev. Dr. Sutherland, general secretary
of Methodist missions, who has been
critically ill for the past few weeks, was
reported by his physician to be resting
quite easily last evening, with a strong
posisbility that he would last through
the night.
Canada will be represented at the In-
ternational Geological Congress at
Stockholm, Sweden, by Dr. W. G. Miller,
Provincial geologist; Dr. Coleman, of
the University of Toronto, and Dr.
Adams. dean of the faculty of science
at McGill University, Montreal.
The gross earnings of the Temiskaming
& Northern Ontario Railway for Amdl
were $133,825, while the expenditures
were $93,978, leaving net earnings of
$39,817. This is a decrease from the cor-
responding month of last year, the
freight receipts showing a. considerable
falling off.
Baron de Ungern Sternburg, the news.
paper correspondent who was arrested
at St. Petersburg after various docu-
ments had been seized by the political
police in his apartments, is charged with
delivering secret documents to a for-
eign state. The baron is held in strict
confinement.
Another vessel went ashore on Tues-
day eventing on the lower St. Lawrence
route, when the Aeeti,' of the Canada -
New Zealand Line, ran aground at afar -
tin River, 250 ,miles below Quebec. It
was the first voyage of the Aoeti to
Montreal, this being the opening sea-
son of the new line.
With a record of twenty-three con-
victions against him, Adelarcl Starmand
was at Montreal sent down for three
years fen burglary. Ile has already
spent fifteen years in the penitentiary.
Joseph Pointras, caught in the same
burglary act, got two years. He has
had twelve convictions.
George Butler, a native of Deseronto,
het living in Watertown, N. Y., was
found dead, When returning home he •
wasstruck by a train, the body being..
badly mangled. The head. was complete-
ly severed, and was lying several feet
away. Deceased was a plumber by
trade and was 20 year of age.
Kansas City papers are boasting of
the latest novelty in that hustling west-.
ern city—a horseless funeral. A few days
ago a chauffeur was killed by his ma-
chine, and when leis body was borne to
the grave it was in an automobile ambu-
lance, which took tbe place of a hearse.
There was not a horse-drawn vehicle in
the long procession that followed it, the
relatives arid frio..cis came -seine raaaere