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ft ff ff 9 THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER- -WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916 "Perfect" Biplane Kills Christofferson President Ends Squabble ARREST HPS 44 HUNTER SMS CLUBLDYALTY 1 All Over, Says Breckinridge 200 Feet Fall at Redwood City Fatal ir: SUICIDE OF WIFE IS TOLD IN TELEGRAM SILAS CHRISTOFFERSON ENRY BRECKINRIDGE, for-teliminated a postscript to a note ad- Seen in one of the machines he had at his aviation school at Redwood City, where all interested in flying were Sierra Secretary Shoots All Day for a Dinner to Save Tax SaleHe Thinks. Youth Starts Out to Be Bandit and Is Happy When Police Haul Him In. mer assistant Secretary of War, persisted yesterday in Miotni Kr lnffrn- wont to gather, and the remains of the biplane in which the aviator made his last night. tloiml 1H in mic. 11 i 1 1 i-i r-rr i William K.

Colb secretary of the Sierra Club, sat in a damp duckbllnd at Inverness from 4:30 o'clock last Sunday morning until the sun and his Antone Koenig, 80 Years Old, Receives JSIews of Tragic Ending of Wife, Aged ,40 gun hud driven all the ducks away, in order that Assistant City Attorney Robert M. Searls and J. J. Phillips of the city's Hctch Hetchy staff might, COUPLE ESTRANGED 2 YEARS by patlsned appetites, save for htm l'osemiteland from and his club its the tax hounds. James Burke, 18S0 O'Farrell street, told the police yesterday that he was happy to think that ho was in Jail.

"I started on a life of crime," said Burke, who is but 18. "I was ready to hold up and rob last night. But there was a policeman on every corner we passed and I got cold feet. Then we were arrested. I started out with the other fellows because I couldn't get a Job and my mother wan about to be put out of our home for not paying rent." These others were taken into custody at tho same time hy Policemen Charles Gallatin and John Houlihan In Fillmore street: Tony M.

Cornero, 273S Gough ctrnat 1991! rnl Message of Death in Fruitvale Comes as He plays With Children in Hotel in This City I fafit I I Famous Airman Had Essayed -4 i Flightto Prove His Machine Hm fZ I Safest Ever Made. 4 dressed to Germany on the sinking of the Lusltania. REPEATS HIS ANSWER. 'Did you have any conversation with Dr. Bailey on this matter?" Brecklnrldg6 was asked.

"I certainly did," said Breckinridge, "but that matter has been all threshed out. In a telegram I sent to Dr. Bailey on Sunday I told hlin outright that his letter to Grafton Gushing was a jumble of false statements, and that be was an unconscionable wretch for having uttered those statements. I am still of that opinion, but 1 don't propose to reopen the issue. "President Wilson has dismissed every phase of this controversy by his statement from Asbury Park, and I regard It as the final word." Breckinridge came to San Francisco last night to attend a banquet at the Hotel Fairmont with the Japanese Consul General.

He said he thought that Wilson would be returned to office by the largest majority ever accorded a presidential candidate In the United States. BRYAN STILL SILENT. LINCOLN October 81. W. J.

Bryan refused again to-day to discuss the Lodge assertions regarding the postscript to the Lusitanla note. He reiterated his statements of yesterday to the effect that the affair is purely a Cabinet one and that President Wilson is the person to answer. ISSUE FOR CAMPAIGN. SHADOW LAWN, October 81. Nothing has stirred the Wilson camp so much as the charges by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts that the Lusitanla note was amended to Inform Germany that it had been Issued for home consumption only.

The gossip did not stop with the denial Issued by Mr. Wilson on Monday night. He is now being urged by members of the party organization to make a flying trip to Boston and refute in a public speech 811 that has been said by the Republicans. The matter Is under advisement to-night. saying thatls own version of President Wilson's attitude on the notes to Germany In connection with the sinking of the Lusitanla was truthful history.

At his home In San Mateo, Breckinridge said he did not care to create further controversy over the statement credited to Dr. Charles 11. Bailey by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. He added: It would delight me to continue this controversy but for one fact: that fact Is that President Wilson himself has sent out from Asbury Park, N. a statement that is definite and complete! President Wilson, in this statement, says that Senator Lodge is uttering untruths, and I am more than convinced that the President knows what he Is talking about.

Thl entire controversy has served to emphasize one fact. It has, and still is, making votes Wilson, and no- reasonable man can chut his eyes to that conclusion. ALL RIGHT IN HIS OWN WAY. Senator Lodge is all right in his way, but he is a Republican reactionary. His tricks are the transparent tricks of all Republican reactionaries, and he makes votes for Wilson every day he remains on the stump.

He blinds himself to the realization that men now vote for reason not from sentiment. Iodge still "waves the bloody shirt In the face of voters. He lives In the past, and the past Is not going to deliver the ballot at the approaching election. That ballot will be delivered by a very vital and contemporary populace who believe in Wilson for the very simple reason that Wilson believes In them. Breckinridge would not go into de.

tail In discussing his alleged conversation on a train with Dr. Charles Bailey. It was during that conversation, according to Senator Lodge, in which Breckinridge confided to Dr. Bailey that President Wilson had nv.vvi, uviiiaa i)ui usirui, aoou California street; Isadore Sharpstein, 2688 Bush street, amateur pugilist: James Karl, 1840 Stelner street. Karl was later released, i Tho five are alleged to be members of a ring of bandits.

Burke, however, Is said to have participated in none of them. He was a novice who had started out for his first Job Just before he was arrested. Likewise Karl is admitted to have taken part in none of the robberies. The police are now looking for Bernard Hyland, said to be also a member of the ring. Antone Koenig, 80 -year-old retired San Francisco shoe merchant, was awakened la hia room at the jectlo Hotel at 10 o'clock last evening and handed a telegram which Informed him that hia wife, Mrs.

Gabrielle Koenig, had committed suicide at their home, 2528 Peralta avenue, Fruitvale. Dazed and Bobbing, the aged man dressed, In the barren little hall bedroom, groped hia way into the Btreet, down which a chill night fog waa driving, and went to the dark house in Fruitvale, to look for his seven-year-old daughter Antoinette, whose name he continually murmured. Mrs. Koenig was forty years old. They were married in 1895, when Mrs.

Koenig was nineteen and Koenig fifty-nine. They lived happily until the last year or two. LONG IN ILL HEALTH. The dinner was held last evening. There were enough ducks to go around.

The property was- saved. The Hlerra Club owns in the Tuolumne, meadows, in the heart of the Yoseinite reservation, the only patented quarter section of land that is taxable. Searls and Phillips, on a recent viist to Sonora, found that the club had defaulted In the payment of a year's taxes. Its beautiful stone house, its trout stream that is the heart's desire of anglers, were about to go. A tax-title deed was obtained.

They showed it to Colby. What to do? They agreed to compromise with him if he would shoot enough ducks last Sunday for a dinner for the crowd. He did. But the deed was a fake. The State already had purchased the land, and the club has a year or more in which to redeem K.

Searls and Phillips knew that. Colby knows it now. Freddy Hoff, After Divorce, Is in Court Fred R. Hoff, former musical director at the Gaiety Theatre, told Judge Van Nostraid yesterday that he came home to his apartments in the St. Mark Hotel, in Oakland, one morning at 1 o'clock to find his wife entertaining Edward Lowry who was associated with her in the "Candy Shop" musical extravangaza.

After hearing the testimony Judge Van Mostrasnd continued the case for ono week so that Lowry could be served with a summons. He is with the Canary Cottage Company playing in Los Angeles, and. so is Mrs. For several years she has been in, ill health and disagreements arose between her and her husband. Six months ago, he deeded her the family home and engaged a room at the Majestic Htel, 1500 Sutter street.

Every months he sent her a check for $160 Says Wife Ran Away With Philipino Lover Although Marguerite Bretou was a pronounced brunette when she went away from home several months ago, her husband, Alphonse Bretou, quickly recognized her in a striking blonde whom he met yesterday on Market street. He acted upon the theory that a husband enjoys special habeas corpus rights and seized Mine. Bretou by the throat. The police in turn seteed Bretou and took him to the Central Police station. When he explained that his wife had deserted three babies, two, four and six years old, to run away with a Filipino, sympathy was turned In his direction and Detectives Nelson Mathewson and Ralph de Hoff were sent out to look for the changeable blonde.

lor the support of herself and their 'IT'S TIME FOR THE WILLC0X CALLS TO WILSON Hoff. Husband Was Says In support of Mr. Wilson, but does By I.ntti wational Newi Sikvici EW YORK. October 81. "Why Phelan to Make tt N' Silas Christofferson, recognized generally as one of the best all around aviators in the United States," was killed yesterday while experimenting with a.

new type of aeroplane near the training schol In aviation that he conducted In Redwood City. Chrlstofferson's wife was among the spectators who saw him make his fatal plunge. JThe machine In which Christofferson was riding was only two hundred feet in the air when it went wrong. It was a dizzy drop, and the aviator was picked up, a mangled figure, from Ihe wreckage. He waa hurried to the Redwood City Hospital, where he died.

The machine in which Christofferson was killed was a. biplane of a new design, built for Henry Anderson, wealthy rancher of Reno, who lost his life last Saturday. Anderson was killed while essaying a flight unaided, and Christofferson took out the machine yesterday to prove that it was the most perfect mechanical biplane in the hangar of his aviation school. Had Anderson used this biplane, Christofferson claimed, he would not have been killed last Saturday. With this idea in mind Christofferson took out the biplane and made a sensational ascent.

lie was shuttled through space and made the machine describe graphic curves. A big crowd was tn the aviation field and cheered him as the machine went through its evolutions. The gasps of the spectators changed to concern when they saw the aeroplane make an eccentric movement and crash to the earth. In a few moments the spectators were rushing toward a mass of wreckage in which Christofferson, unable to talk or mumble, was involved. Mrs.

Christofferson was among the first to reach his side. Frank Bryant, chief instructor in the aviation school, assisted her as she was directing the men who were carrying her husband to an ambulance. Chrlstofferson's brothers, Harry and Goodsell, were also near her. ACCIDENT UNEXPLAINED. Christofferson died a peaceful death, never having spoken a ward from th time he was picked up from the wreckage of the machine until he took his last breath on the hospital does the President content himself with a mere technical denial daughter.

Last night W. S. Haskins, a neighbor of the Koenige, living at 2C79 t'er-alta avenuet noticed that the Koenig home was dark. Mrs. Ha6klns had not seen Mrs.

Koenig during the day, and, recalling that she had shown erratic tendencies during the last few weeks, became worried. Urged by her, her husband went to the house with B. A. Gamble, another neighbor. They found Mrs.

Koenig hanging from a beam in the basement, a box beneath her evidently having been kicked over, as she swung clear. The coroner's office was notified, and the telegram which summoned the husband and father was sent TRAGEDY HIDDEN FROM GIRL. The little girl, Antoinette, returned from school yesterday afternoon and found the house locked and the curtains drawn. She went to the home of Mrs. P.

Luscomb, 2540 Peralta ave-nu. She was cared for there and remained at the Luscomb home last night. She was not told of the tragedy. Koenig is the owner of the Koenig building, at Geary and Kearny streets, and is tho father of Frank ii My m-u yjr. H.

If W4 I 1 not deny that he told the very story related to Senator Lodgo. "Secretary Houston denies that he threatened to resign, but there the force of his denial ends; and so it goes. Meanwhile, Mr. Garrison, who was Secretary of War at the time, and is understood to have been fully Informed of all that went on, maintains complete silence, and Mr. Burleson and.

Mr. Lansing, who were reported in the account that come from Mr. Warren to have been involved in the transaction, are not furnishing any help to the public in reaching a full understanding of the matter." Too Young When Wed Mrs. William Thorpe, 1016 Eddy street, was granted divorce by Judge Van Nostrand yesterday, on the ground of desertion. Mrs.

Thorpe, who is twenty-four, testified that her husband's only fault Is his extreme youth. She said he was too young to have married when the ceremony was performed in Redwood City, in December, 1910. Recently, she said, he decided that the practice of law is more lucrative than selling real estate, and quit his job to levote his time to study. As the study of the law does not yield an income the coupie separated. i rip iu nutwiuiu To recuperate from a severe cold and tho exertions of his campaigning for Woodrow Wilson, Senator James D.

Phelan will sail for Honolulu next Tuesday, combining recreation with business. He is a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the Senate, and while in Hawaii will look into matters affecting legislation on the naval bases and other subjects of Importance there. of charges, some of which were never made? Why does he hot let the people have full and complete information to which they are entitled?" was the demand of Republican National Chairman Willcox, while discussing the Lusltania controversy "It Is time for, frankness and honesty not for technical denials and concealment," continued the chairman. "It must be evident to every one now that something of a seriously important nature was written cr done or approved by the President in that connection. One of Senator Lodge's informants describes the additional writing as a 'postscript' "The President asserts that 'The public Is In possession of everything that was said to the German government' So far as I know no one has contended to the contrary.

It Is not a question of what was sent to the German government, but of what it was jtrbpoeed to do to the note or to send to Gerard. The President denies the charge that was never made. "Mr. Breckinridge, cited as authority by the Informant of Senator Lodge, cries, 'Scoundrel' and 'sneak' and then bursts into a stump speech Koenig, proprietor of a shoe store on Cranl Avenue, at Ccacy, San Francisco D. A.

R. Condemn War Secretary At the business meeting following the Reciprocity luncheon of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held at the Palace Hotel on Saturday, resolutions condemnatory of the utterances of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker In comparing the leaders of the American revolution to Mexican insurrestos were read by Mrs. John F. Swift an unanimously adopted.

Geary street. He has another son, Charles Koenig, both by a previous marriage, who is now with the American ambulance corps in France. Frank Koenig lives at Burlingame. The aged man had made many friends the Majestic hotel. During the last few months, he had become quite feeble and leaned heavily on his stick.

The children especially liked him, and he remembered them with Bweetmeats and tpld them of his Antoinette. Every night he retired promptly at 10 o'clock. Last night, the children had hung paper hallowe'en lanterns over the hall lights, and to please them he pretended to be frightened at the grotesques as he went to bed. cot to which he was removed from Women's Neckwear. Section THE HOUSE OF FouUn Ice Ball Game Hits Mrs.

McMullin Magnin standards of. work-manship materials and style are characteristics of the garments now being featured in our Popular Priced Departments Cemetery beside the grave of Lincoln Beachey, the aviator, who also met death when his machine got in trouble among the clouds. The directors of the Newspaper Men's Club of San Francisco to-day sent a message to Mrs. Silas Christofferson at the Sequoia Hotel, Redwood City, reciting the regret of the organization at the untimely death of "the man who had done more to advance the science of aviation than any other man in California," and extending the sympathy of the club, to the widow in the hour of her be-reavement. The message was signed by Kenneth C.

AdamB, president of the Newspaper Men's Club. Rich Widow Denies Jaeger Engagement Mrs. C. L. Yates, widow of a Rochester, N.

banker, who has been reported engaged to Paul Jaeger, creator of the beautiful Monte Mira ranch near Bartlett Springs, denied yesterday that there is any engagement. She is living with her sister in Uklah. A foul tip from a soft indoor baseball, swatted by Stewart Lowery in a game played on the ice last night at the Ice Palace, hit Mrs. Latham McMullin on the nose. Time had to be called while first aid was administered and the ball was recovered.

4 Mrs. McMullin occupied a box back of the home plate. Dr. Julian L. Wnr retumd to Ban FnncUco nd hi opned office at 400 Geary at.

KMideno. Palir Hntfl. Ariyt. the aviation field. Just what made the machine he drove go wrong is a matter of mystery to Bryant and to all the aviator's Intimates.

HELD UNIQUE POSITION. Christofferson has occupied a unique position among American aviators. He was born in Des Moines and was 26 years old at the time he met death. He was known for his daring, having essayed most of the things in the air attempted by aviators in this country and abroad. After making numerous flights he conceived the idea of conducting a training school for aviators.

The camp surrounding this school has been a meeting ground for every one in aviation about the bay cities. J. B. Strubel, wealthy merchant of Oakland, was among the spectators on the camp when Christofferson met his death yesterday. Mrs.

Christofferson last night assisted in making the funeral arrange DAINTY FLAT COLLARS is' Cmt New Priest Ordained By Archbishop Hanna Special 5. Men Indicted; Sent Liquor in Trunk i Louis Rothenberg and O. F. Sein-holm of this city were arrested yesterday, on charges of sending alco-holfc liquor mislabeled to Oregon. The men are under indictment there for conspiring with Gua Larsen to break the Interstate commerce laws.

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