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YOJ7UME XXXVI. NO. 3T2. DENEEN IN VISIT TO Governor Makes a Night Call at Reformatory and Leaves Without Revealing Presence in City. STRANGE LETTER NOW IS MISSING Prisoners in Institution in Mutiny Are Quelled After Desperate Battle With Guards in Cellhouse.

A 8T1KF CORRESPONDENT. Special Dispatch to Th. Inter Ocean. PONT1AC, 111.. March Driven to desperate measures to offset the- legislative Investigation which is exposing scan Is la state institutions.

Governor Deneen is believed to have paid a clandestine visit to Pontiae reformatory Friday night. After a long midnight conference with Superintendent M. M. Mallsry, the Governor. It Is said slipped out of town ss mysteriously as he came.

The exact purpose of his mission is a matter of conjecture. One theory is that he wished to plan a plausible defense for the institution sow under Are from the legislative committee. j- Letter Nutinii. Another idea, and one acuepUd by those in possession of startling inside facts, is that the Governor visited lb. reformatory to gain possession of mr letter wbteb he is said to have written to Superintendent Msllary, and which might bring the chief executive Into unpleasant notoriety if niade'pubilc.

'or mere than a week members of the committee have had positive information that the Governor wrote tls if Her to Mr. Mallsry. Tonight Chairman Hill and the committee Instituted a search for the secret missive-through the reformatory archive- They did not Cad. it. If.

rumor fat true, lb Governor himself mav 'bare thwarted tbeir-efforts. B. Moulton. president of tbe state civil service TJo-reroor Deaeea's perr" onal representative with tbe com nrtTte. denied tonight that the Governor ba.l -been in font lac.

Despite this members of the Investigation committee credit the Governor Deneen is believed to have" arrived here over tbe Chicago Alton road Friday night at 8:45 p. m. By special order from headquarters of tbe road in. Chicago the train stopped la the outskirts of town at. tbe reformatory grounds-1 aad was jliet.

fcy a carriage from the Two men alighted, from the parlor cr, hurriedly entered the carriage, and were driven rapidly away to the reformatory. One ot these is supposed to have been Governor Deneen. How tbe Governor slipped out of town is still an unsolved mystery. Xearro Exposes Trip. In apparent corroboration of the rumor, a porter on the train on which Representative Hope came from Chicago Sunday told him the Governor bad alighted at Pontiae Friday alght.

"There must be bin doings at Pontiae." aid the negro to Mr. Hope, according to tbe latter. ''Governor Deneen rode on my train from Chicago Friday night and got off opposite tbe Pontiae reformatory. There is no doubt In my mind about tbe Governor's Identity. I know him.

I shook hands with him and he tipped me a quarter when brushed off bis clothes as we were drawing Into Pontine." While the report of the Governor's mys terious viftlt was abroad, glaring proof of misrule at the reformatory was received for a second time within a month when three prisoners broke from ranks on the parade ground today and led TOO convict boys In a daih for liberty. Pitched Battle Kada Mutiny. The end of tbe desperate mutiny came ina pitched battle In the cellhouse between th ringleaders and an overwhelming force of guards armed with blackjacks. The unequal conflict wan- rougnt In midair on a narrow shelftlke platform encircling the fifth snd topmost tier of cells forty feet from the floor. After a stubborn and bloody resistance the rrbfJi were driven Into a pell.

There they tore the heavy oak legs from commodes and, brandishing these as bludgeons, held the guards al bay. They finally were overcome ud tonight are nursing broken heads In close confinement: For an cvcntfnl half hour at the outbreak or hc affair It seemed as If almost the entire prison community would break through tb'i line of frail fence, which is the sole southern barrier ot th yard, and achieve the greatest prison delivery In history. Tho insurrection was quelled by' decisive action on the part of Captain Moses Luke, he new disciplinarian. 'aided by Night Cap- i A nt.Am William It.r.Dii PHf ford- Follette. James Quinn.

and F. A. Louis, lavestlsatloa Blamed The activity of the legislative committee now in session here is blamed by prison officials far the unrest among the inmates which culminated In the revolt. But following as it -did on the heels of a strike of 175 prisoners. In the overall factory, three weeks tbe uprising is generally set down as tbe "forlorn hope" protest of unfortunate and helpless boys against the horrors, and mismanagement of the Institution as exposed by the invest 1- eailnn I The three riugleaders of the.

mutineers were: Walter Norton. 21 years old, Chicago. Sen- Adams Burns. 21 years old. Chicago.

A second termer, sentenced for burglary. Peter Gentleman. 2 year old, Chicago. Sentenced for -highway robbery. 1 'V strike fallows Parade.

A thousand convicts assembled on the parade-ground at 7 o'clock in the morning, directly after breakfast. The bugle had sound- to bdu iur ctiiupauies oi prisoners were heeling off to classroom and workshop. When it came tbe turn of the "overall line" to march to work. Norton, Burns, and Gentleman sprang from the ranks. "We struck for our rights the other day; will git them now!" shouted Gentleman.

"Wt demand tee righu to testify to our (Continued on Page. 2, Column 4 SFPRT urn rr Ttft EVELYN FACES POVERTY THAW'S MOTHER SAID TO HOLD DIVORCE EVIDENCE." Wife Offered to Make Km Defease, aad Kapeeta ta Um Buck Mlasre. Kpeeial Dlopatcb to Th. Intc Ocean. NEW YORK.

March 9. The fervid glamour of Evelyn Thaw's life la beginning to dim. Today she stands face to face with what will mean for her dread proverty. The Thaws, her husband's people, hold what they deem the controlling hand, and she sees herself backed up in a corner with only one hope of escape to accept $25,00 and offer no defense to'proceedinga for divorce. Drives t.tkeWall.

From a source which cannot be questioned It is learned that this wonderful young woman is driven to the wail, where she no longer may dictate terms, but mutt plead- tor. a pittance of a few thousands. Mrs. William Thaw is doing the dictating. The papers are all drawn, it is said, and Mrs.

William Thaw holds them over the bead of her daughter-in-law, only waiting for her to come to terms. The young womstt is feebly holding out now against the inevitable. Her allowance has been utterly cut off. Daniel O'Reilly was present at the last Interview Evelyn had with her husband at Maiteawan. Thaw listened to the girl and her lawyer with twitching face and roving eyes and suddenly the madness leaped to him again, and.

it Is said, he sprang upon his wife and gripped her throat. O'Reilly is a big man. but it required all his strength and the added strength of a keeper to pry. the lingers from the young woman's neck. Taldof Wife's Jtetlaas.

It was not until the young millionaire was sent to Matteawan that' he was told of his wife's alleged conduct while he waited is prison between his first and second trials. That Mrs. Thaw will go back to tbe stage is now practically assured. rUiN A To China: CIIICAG tJESD A MOR XIX 31 A RCII 1 0, 1908 PRICE TWO CENTS. mtM v- IMS? TAFT FIRES OFFICE BOY WHO "PUT HIM TO THE BAD" Special Dispatch to The' Inter Ocean.

WASHINGTON, D. March 9. Secretary of War Taft tonight Bred the young maa connected with his Columbus (Ohio) press bureau, who sent out the report that the war chief would not live op to President Roosevelt's policies If elected. On the letterheads of the Tart headquarters, at tbe bead ot which is Arthur I. Vorys, appeared clippings from the Wall Street Journal and from a broker's "news in which It was said that, after all, even if Mr.

Taft did stand in his public speeches for she Roosevelt, policies, he was not of tbe Roosevelt temperament, and that when he hail the reins in his own hands he would run things on th- Taft and not on tbe Roosevelt lines. -I find," said Mr. Tait, "that th literature AVERS WINE ORGIES III SUIT A Descendant of General Winfield Scott Accuses George S. Hanna-' ford as Man Who Carried Wife in Arms at Gay Supper, WOMAN SWEARS SHE CAUGHT COUPLE IN ROOM AT HOTEL Other Testimony Is to Effect That Defendant Gave Host the Slip at Excursion and Was Found Asleep in Bandmaster's Arms. Tales of carousals with men.

of suppers where wine was served in pitchers, of gay life at the national capital, and at the beaches and resorts near Washington, are told in th depositions of Winfield Scott, a descendant of the famous General of the-Mexican war. In bla ault for divorce from Edna Scott. While tbe conple live In Washington, D. FOR DIVQRC AMES CHICAGOAI OOLITE" REQUEST ILLUSTRATED. "Kindly apologize.

Yours' respectfully, Japan." C. where Scott Is a clerk In one of the departments, they elatm Chicago as their legal residence, and George S. Hannaford, a real estate dealer of this city. Is named in the bill. Scott wa formerly employed In the Chicago postofflce, and later at the city tail, before his departure for Washington eight years ago.

'arrled Waaaaa la Arsaa. One of the witnesses tells of a wine supper given at a roadhonse. just outside Washington, at which all concerned drank much wine, and says Hannatord, who" was Mrs. Bcott's companion on the occasion, carried her across the lawn in his arms, while she was hugging and kissing him regardless of spectators. Another witness tells of escorting Mrs.

in i i (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 'v was sent out. Mr. Vorys tells me that he did not know anything about It until be began his Investigation today. Some some over-sealoua member of tbe bureau sent out the literature. I understand that be has been No, I don't know his name.

That Is not tbe It became known tonight that the unfortunate subordinate was a curly haired young man named Reynolds. It further became known that, while Reynolds baa a kind disposition and Is good to his folks, be Is too Napoleon. He was one degree above the office boy in rank. When Chief Boomer Vorys and the rest of the push put on their overcoats and went to the state convention Reynolds saw' bis chance to blast his came ou the rock of fame. (Continued on Page's, Column 7.) JAIIESVILLE HERMIT HELD AS SUSPECT IN MURDER CASES Half-Witted Norwegian Answers Description of Assailant of Wom-' en.

Also Supposed to Have Killed Mrs. Clayton and Miss Malone. ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO ENTER FORMER MAYOR'S HOME Wears Two Suits of Clothes, in the ri Pockets of Which Are Found Articles Ranging Frorrr Catskin to Steaks and Potato.1' flpeclal Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. JANES VILLE. March With the.

arrest of Otto Knoea. WalUo, a supposedly demented Norwegian, formerly of Chicago, the police think they have taken a long step toward clearing up the mystery of the three women who were found murdered in the Rock river and the attacks tipoa ether women which led to a "reign of terror" In Jsnesville some months ago. Wallin Is accused of attempting to enter the "House of a Hundred Doors." the home of former Mayor Balnea. He had been living In a tumble-down aback three miles from tbe city, near the railroad track and Three Mile creek. When bis hut was searched two pocketbooks were found In a pile of rubbish.

The pocketbooks of Madelyn Clayton and Miss Josephine Malone have never been found, and the police are endeavoring to have the pocketbooks found identified by friends of the dead women. Wallin was wearing a canvas coat with a (Continued on Page 5, Column INDEX TO THE NEWS. Page. 1 Desees visits Paatlae by alsht. Erelyii Taaw star poverty.

May salve Jaaesvf lie warders. ef C. saedlea aeeased. Bay Hi air I set S7B.OOO. -Search far ATcrbsck'i a Swedes laderae Deates.

8 Arreata vrgr4 la aestaal aaeaaee. Fire resalts la arreat. Bass asalaat Saaday alas I a a. "4 Geaeral isertlag stwa, Meriie Mlaatal attacked. Waal Praat declared baakrapt Vaath eada aloJtfe.

Bdltartal. Farai-aa trardesi aatea. Flaaaelal acwa for lavestara, News of the rallraada. lr BaUey Aldrlea bill. a Loeal flaaacial aewt, lleaart mm far a reserves.

Wheat closed lower. Live stock market, aaabbed by caaaatlltao. XX Real estate acme. OR "RED" Start Inquiry Into Mystery of Illdlafr Place of Anarchist Averbuch's Corpse With View to Burial at Waldhelm.Consentof Sister Having Been Given. DENEEN ORGAN ASSAILS POLICE Newspaper Edited bj AaaJstaat State's 'Attorney Zelotkoff, Ward Worker for Governor Expresses Sympathy for Dead -Who Is Called a "Martyr" Judge Quoted as Saying; Youth 'Was Innocent Disposition of the body of Lasarus Aver-buch waa again the subject of inquiry yesterday, when officials of the Hebrew Free Burial society.

Gomle Chesed Sbel Kmetb. decided that It was entitled to Jewish rites gad began arrangements for Its disinterment and reburlal at Waldhelm cemetery. Notice of official inquiry into tbe mystery of the whereabouts tbe body of tbe dead Ruscias Jew revived latere In the anarchist situation. To this was added a sensation la the shape of aa attack on the police department and support of Averbuch by the Dally Jewish Courier, an avowed organ of Governor Deneen. "Directors of the Hebrew Burial association agreed- at a meeting Sunday that eoubt surrounded the motive prompting Averbuch to.

attack Sbippy." said M. Rosenberg, ITS Maxwell street, president of tbe organtza-tlen." "Averbuch did not attempt atur-der we.waot te give him the rites of burial. Ja vrew, of he Uoobt entertained reinicr ment' bf the. body was ordered. Ceaaeaita ta Dialateraieat.

"Oiga Averbuch. sister ot tbe dead youth, signed aa order agreeing to disinterment yesterday, It. was "placed fa tbe hands of J. Welastein. vadertaker for the.

fehel Cmeth. sod Attempts to carry out the were bsflet) at once by tbe wystecj concent ftg- tte-whe rfeabouta "The body fa not at the morgue it la not ia grave 119 of (he potter'a field, -where It wasyrepor'ed to hkva" eera placed. 'Thls spot is covered with 'water and no grave could have been dug there for days past. Officials at Dunning say tbe body I not in the receiving vault, but that It has been placed la another grave because of the bad condition of the first Jocat ion selected. Employes at Dunning said today that they did pot know the location of Averbuch's grave.

"Representing the association, 1 telephoned to the county morgue this afternoon," continued Reaenberg. "and received information that the coroner bad no longer anything to do with the body, and that permission to move it would have to be obtained from the health At the morgue it was stated Coroner Hoffman alone knew the facts concerning the disposition of tbe body." "I read the article In The Inter Ocean say-lag that the; body bad dlcappearedSon the way to Dunning." ald J. Wetustetu. "That same morning I called up Superintendent Davis, and be told me the body was still in tbe morgue. I later telephoned the morgue again and was to.Id the body had been buried tbe night before on Instructions from Assistant Chief Scbueltler." Will A steal Ceroaer "The question of the location of the body Is up to Coroner Hoffman." said M.

Rosenberg last night. "We cannot attend to the change of burial place until Wednesday. Undertaker Welnsteln will secure proper permission from Evans." and then Coroner Hoffman will be asked to locale the body for Physicians have been employed, who will examine it to establish its identity. Whether the body is In some private morgue: in a medical laboratory, or in a grave somewhere. Coroner Hoffman will have to say.

That the body Is lost beyond finding can hardly be believed. "We will-tolerate no demonstration, and no anarchistic following when the body is burled at our cemetery." Deputy Coroner Davis said last "I made arrangements with Olga Averbuch for temporary disposition of the body of her brother, agreeing to hold it until aha should find a Jewish undertaker willing to bury it. Details in ronnectlon with this agreement with Miss Averbuch are In the hands of Coroner Hoffman." Atteadaata Gsard Secret. Every Inquiry at the morgue last night was met by a Oat refusal on the part of attendants to divulge the name of the under taker who was supposed to have removed tbe body Of Averbuch to Dunning. ao one at Dunning could tell by whom the body was transferred' from the morgue or In what sort of a wagon it was brought to the potter'a field.

A stub receipt showed the SLAIN OR INTERMENT RAT'S BITE KILLS CHILD-SLEEPING WITH PARENTS Death Renews Efforts to Start Crusade Against Pest That Is Overrunning Down Town Section. As the result of a rat bite Indicted more than a month ago, Lorlta Nato. -month-old daughter of Carl Nato. ICS Custom House court. Is dead at her boma and her parents are prostrated over ber strange In broken English tbe grief stricken father told of bis loss; bow.

while aba slept between himself aod his wife, be had beard tbe child cry out and felt a big rat run across his and how, when he rose-and lighted a lamp, he had found tbe tiny hand bleeding and tbe tender akin punctured In two places. "There are thousands ot them," be cried vaguely. "They run over tbe floors and fur-allure Bight and day and we cannot sleep. JURY TURNS UKcAM OF UIKL AINU BOY INTO A REALITY OIBL ARTIST WHO WO.N Young Artist and Crip-'BrbtherAre Awarded Verdict in Second Legal Battle Over Estate. SISTER SPURNS RUFFLES FOR ART i Every once la a while those long, bright dreams of youth come true.

Chicago baa an example of what may be round at the "end of the rainbow" In the story of Elsie Goldy, el North Clark street. i' Yesterday a Jury In Judge Carpenter's court gave a decision In favor of Elsie and her crippled brother. Walter, whereby they come into possession of a fortune of 175,000. This money' will bring to Elsie the realisation of her dreams, and to ber brother the attention and medical care that she hopes will restore blm to health. Flskt Over Will.

When Isaiah Goldy, a wealthy real estate dealer from New Jersey, died, four years ago, it was discovered that be bad left bia entire fortune -to bis niece and nephew, with whom he had lived the last rew yeara of his life. Immediately a crowd of relatives came alleging that the old gentleman had been "unduly Influenced" In tbe disposal ot his property. This was tbe second trial ot the ease, tbe first verdict. In favor of thi set aside on account-of a technicality. Elsie Goldy was overjoyed at the news her good fortune.

When a representative of Tbe Inter Ocean called at her borne last night 6he' answered the door She laughingly apologised for her gingham casket had been delivered, but no record was oa hand aa to tho location of tbe grave. Coroner Hoffman was out of the city yesterday, but was expected to return during the night. Interest in Olga Averbuch revived with the announcement that anarchists planned a demonstration at Waldhelm when the body ot her brother should be burled, and hundreds of professed friends and curiosity seekers They are so bold as to attack ua. They are not afraid." Tbe wound in the baby's hand did not heal readily, and a physician waa summoned. This was more than a month ago, but eater-day the baby died.

According to tbe stories told in tbe neighborhood the buildings are overrun with tbe rodents, and complaints are received: dally at the health commissioner's office, but bo attention la paid to them. "It is an economic, not a health question." seya Evans, health commissioner, "and does not come under the notice of this department." Tbe case of the Nato baby was reported to the coroner, and it is expected that it trill bare tho efface ot waking thing up. $75,000 i trr-n i ii 'iff uit FORTUNE IN WILL FIGHT. apron, as she said that she had been Iptsn her mother prepare the "I am so glad, for many snd aald; "first, because it was bard to sit in court and bear the things that were said that ail we' were good to uncle for was to get his money. Then.

I am glad for my brother, and I'm Just selfish enough to be BOTKC pii.wv uv I. us Ul.r to. go on with my art. I have beea working at a store, making designs for tho advertising department; now I can give tbia up. I hope, and study all day.

1 hsve never bad the opportunity to atudy aa I wanted to. "When my father died I waa about 13. aadt the next year I took up bookkeeping and studied at night at the art school. I worked, no till 1 tot mv nresent nlaro hn) I want to be a magazine illustrator. Now I hope to go to New York In a year or so.

and thea abroad." "Aren't you going to get you some silJc stockings and parasols with twenty ruffles she wss asked. luurtu, a ui uut. i aon care mucn tor clothes. I guess. Tou see.

I have bad Id wear plain things so long, and I never have had the opportunity to indulge my Aa Miss Goldy Is onJy 20. she mav develon a aw as a "Aren't you afraid some one is golcg marry you for your money" waa a question that made the pretty artist laugh. I'm not' she declared. thiaaf ojutu sense ior mat. flocked to tbe girl's borne, Ilg Washburno avenue.

She was finally forced to appeal to the police for protection and a patrolman war stationed at her door im.nii, everybody admittance. The Daily Jewish Courier, an avowed Ds u.iiu IUCCIUW. or Anarchist Lazarus Averbuch and bitterly-denounced the Busse administration and tha police department. An editorial by Editor Leon Zolotkofr sistant state's attorney and ward henchman uvtenrar, aemanas a taorough Investigation of tbe shooting at the home of Chief of Police Snippy, along the lines sug. f.

Averbuch's letter-published, StaiBatbv a Sympathy ia demanded for Laaarus Aver- manvr tbe noiire i- asked to explain useless raids In the Ghetto district: to a Chicago "Judge" is attributed the opinion that Averbuch was Innocent, and a call is sounded for tbe rise of aa Emil Zola lb America. Besides the article attacking the police anft supporting the claims of Olga Averbuch la another article defending Governor Deneen In tbe asylum inquiries. Emma GoMman and the eoterls anarchists wbo have been In daiij- confer- enc with her determined yesterdsy to abandon Rllnof a Ft 1 mmmmm.h.. kv HLI Uk.tM.tr cteff effort upon tbe single task of providing cue public appearance of tbe anarchic leader before tbe lSth of the month. great responsibility placed upon mo at this moment." said Miss Goldman yetter day afternoon, "la fbat of testing free fprecb I 1 1 tlse public If the police do not permit me to speak, thru free speech la denied me and a dirty blot is smcsred on tho escutcheon ot "Today we secured quarters In th-? looj district which ill satisfy our needs, This bas been accomplished after the most be rote.

WmWm: Miss Elsie Galdy..