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8 PAGES 8 PAGES VOLUME XI. SAHTA CBUZ, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1907. NUMBER 254. Attempt to Weigh Leon Steamer Will Attempt Circus to be on Parade aoeaers auui Aoanaoneu 10 uoisi tumne This Saturday Morning From Bay Murderer Trembles and Physicans Forego the Delicate Experiment. Today isCircus Day SAN QUENTIN PRISON.

Leon that was Intended to carry out his SANTA CRUZ WILL ATTACH LINE TO SUBMERGED OUTFIT. An effort was made Friday by a crew of men in the launch Faraola to rescue the hammer, engine and derrick of the pile-driving outfit which went into the bay Wednesday while the Cowell wharf was 'being repaired. for First Show of Season Doast tnat ne would die witn nis ooots on sicklied his features and a violent trembling shook his limbs. The curious physicians fell back and the guards hurried the quivering prisoner up the short flight that led to death. Hut a moment was required to adjust the headcloth and the noose.

Then tl; body fell through the opening in a drop that ended in a sharp recoil and a Soeder was hanged at 10:55 Friday morning for the murder of his brother-in-law, Joseph Blaise, on January 11th, 1904. He had to be assisted up the scaffold. Prior to leaving his cell he Issued a statement declaring his Innocence and asserting that he had been railroaded to the gallows. His frightened soul passed to whatever gods received it, unweighed and unreckoned by science. When Warden Edgar saw the sick collapse of the The derrick and the engine were immovable, but the hammer, -weighing in the neighborhood of a ton, was pulled into the boat and taken to the Railroad wharf.

It is stated that the steamer Santa Cruz, which is due from Monterey at six o'clock this Saturday morning with ghastly twitching of limbs. It was 10:40 when the threads which held the WILL TRAVERSE DOWN-TOWN SECTION AT 10:30 O'CLOCK. At 10:30 o'clock this Saturday morning will be heard the blare of trumpets announcing the initial parade of the season of the all-new and greater Norris Rowe circus. We will see the show and parade before anyone else and will see it at Its best. It is a well-known fact that the excitement of a first performance keeps cut by the three hidden murderer at the foot of the gallows he trap were GO tons of freight for this city, will make an endeavor to remove the engine and derrick.

Blood, Hair and Torn Apparel A Tragedy? DISCOVERY HORRIFIES VISITORS hangmen. Fifteen minutes later the body was cut down. Soeder had already given his body to Dr. Charles F. Millar, former chief surgeon of the San Francisco Emergency hospitals He went to the gibbet in ignorance that his soul also was to be an offering to science and that delicate instruments were- waiting on the very scaffold to receive the last impression of his departing spirit.

If he lost his soul when he slew his friend science can not tell it, for the waved aside the doctors gathered for the delicate experiment in spirit test lng and ordered the execution hurried to the utmost. In another minute the black-capped body shot through the trap and at the lifeless remains of Soeder were swinging from the stiffened rope. So the experiment that was to reach into the hereafter to follow the fleeting soul was abandoned. Everything was in readiness for it but the harried nerves of the victim revolted as his tne perrormers keyed up to the highes: pitch and as a rul give an exhibition full of ginger for everyone is on their mettle and wish to be seen at their best. Performers All Here.

For the past two days the lot opposite the depot has presented a busy and striking scene. The big new tents were erected and all the property of AND THEY INFORM POLICE. Visitors to Moore's beach, up the sinking of the flesh was too swift even feet stumbled against the steps of the scaffold. A smile of nauseated bravado for the eager psychologists. coast past the wave motor, discovered woman's apparel, blood and hair on the strand Thursday, and believing that they were evidences of a tragedy reported the matter to the police.

Thaw Wins First Fight 22 Die; Score Badly tne show has been transferred from Vue de l'Eau to the circus lot. Friday the last of the performers engaged for the season arrived. They were the famous ewskyoff troupe of Russia singers, dancers and acrobats. They are entitled to the palm for com Against Madhouse tlUrt III b. P.

VVrCCK Baxter conducted an investigation It was discovered that the apparel i i question had been lying on the beach SUNSET EXPRESS DASHES INTO i for a couple ot months. Also that the an nPFN cwitph I Wood, which was fresh, was not human OPtIN SWITCH. bood ag a hldQ wag at COLTON, of the most tar-heri to th clot. A cow had evident- ONE OF THE ANIMALS. ing the greatest distance to join the show, for they came direct from far off Russia.

The first performance will be given at 2:15 this afternoon and an hour earlier the doors to the menagerie will Burns Traces Every! disastrous wrecks in the history of the fallen over the cliff, had been JEROME IS IGNORED EXPERTS DECLINE HIS SUGGESTIONS. NEW YORK. Unexpected developments in the Thaw case about the almost universal opinion that the accused slayer of Stanford White will be declared sane by the commission in lunacy, and that his trial for murder Cent ot Abe Ruet's Great Boodle Wealth skinned on the beach and its carcass cast into the sea. W. C.

T. U. Women Meet in Santa Cruz ouuuiem acmu ucuurreu one ana one-half miles east of this town Thursday when a train from 'New Orleans, for San Francisco, ran into an open switch while going at the rate of forty miles an hour and ten of the fourteen coaches were derailed with frightful will be resumed on Monday morning. Thaw went on the witness stand before the lunacy commissioners and for be opened to the inspection of the public. Elks Will Attend.

The evening exhibition will begin at 8:15 and all Indications point to a banner business for Norris Rowe. The stores will close at 8 o'clock. The Elks have purchased 200 tickets and other organizations and lodges will bo well represented. Our citizens are determined to give results. Twenty-two people are known lltal i LYU 1 1 mT- 11 1 i im haan I-1 1 Iji 1 1n1niQ1 iityi fire of questions without a breaK ana Knit (i Vi nnittrtrt rwnTitr nrhrtni of whom BAINBRIDGE WILL MAKE MRS.

ber about one hundred, many 0 in a rational and intelligent manner. are seriously injured and will die. L. R. Alvord, W.

K. Davis and J. G. the circus people a generous California Guesenmeyer, members of the switch ONE MORE ADDRESS. The W.

C. T. U. women of this city and Soquel held a very successful and interesting institute In Santa Cruz Friday at the Christian Church. The session opened at 10 o'clock and after a short intermission for lunch, continued BANKERS READY TO SHOW BOOKS TO GRAND JURY.

Sensational testimony given before the Grand Jury establishes the fact that Abe Ruef kept on deposit in the banks of San Francisco hundreds of thousands of dollars. Every cent of the money which Ruef secured through his boodling operations has been traced. Bankers with whom Ruef carried large accounts will give testimony and produce their books if necessary. William C. Murdock, receiving teller of the Western National Bank, and Assistant Cashier Pabst of the United States national Bank are ing crew, who are accused of leaving the switch open and causing the wreck, were taken into custody and held in $1,000 bail by Coroner Van send off and show them that.

we consider them one of us. During tlr season they will prove a unique and big advertisement for Santa Cruz, and when they return from their long tour they will again be welcomed lo winter quarters. Wye. Jerome nad been worsted in the first encounter of the struggle to send Thaw to a madhouse. Counsel for the defendant was radiant.

The lunacy commissioners took hold of the case in a manner that was ominous to Jerome. They ignored his suggestion that the testimony of Drs. Bingaman and Deeniar be secured as to the hereditary traits of Thaw; they slurred a reference to Dr. Allan Hamilton, the witness on whom Jerome has built most of his hopes; they declined the assistance of any ctrrts whatever. In short, they through the afternoon find finally ad-Innriiprl at 4:30 o'clock.

About CO The wrecked coaches were hurled in 1 wAmr.ni'n wnro nrPCPnf every direction. Four of them were iMrs. Bainbridge, president of the San Francisco W. C. T.

U. Corps, who loptiirod cn scientific temperance at the chief witnesses. With both of smashed into flinders. Most of the dead were Italians from New York and New Orleans, going to San Francisco. They occupied the smoker and day coach.

Engagement Broken; Couple Tire ot Life these institutions Ruef carried big balances. Rudolph Spreckels of the First National Bank will also be on hand to testify. Ruef had a large sum on de pesit with the First National Bank pinned Jerome down to this particular point: "Is the defendant's mental condition jthe teachers' institute, lectured again I before the W. C. T.

U. ladies. Mrs. Illolston of Watsonville was also present and made an address, Mrs. Bainbridge will lecture again this Saturday evening at the Christian and will then leave for Tulare where she will participate in W.

C. T. U. institute work. ot nrpsent such that he is able to com before the Investigation was begun.

Day's Details of Bribery Atfairs BOTH COMMIT SUICIDE AFTER ESTRANGEMENT. san francisco; within four months of the self-inflicted death of 'boautiful Florence Yates, once his affianced bride, Sidney Salisbury has hastened to that clouded shore whither earthly troubles can not follow him. prehend the nature of the proceedings against him and to confer rationally ritti fnnn sel nnon nlans for his de- Just now mucn or Jtuets money remains with the institution of which Spreckels is the head is known only to Ruef, the bank's officials and the prosecution. Although Ruef kept money in most SAX FRANCISCO. Louis Glass and some of the "higher-ups" of the Pa Burn's Son on Trail ot A.

K. Detwiler Mystery veils his suicidal taking-off, cific States Telephone Co. are becom out melancholy brooding over the un- of the big banks of the city, he did ing helplessly and hopelessly entangled MATRICIDE FAINTS AT HIS VICTIM'S FUNERAL. Erland Soderberg Is Overcome With Horror. OAKLAND.

Overcome with full realization of the horror of his crime, most of his business with the Western 'timf'ly the society girl who National and the United States Nation-! once promised to take his name uti-al. In fact, he is interested in the donbtedly contributed to the causes in the legal meshes of the Grand Jury's dragnet. George Beanston, head book-1 TOLEDO, Ohio Raymond Burns, keeper of the telephone company, was son of Detective Burns of the United persuaded by Francis J. Heney to ac-' States Secret Service, is here and has which prompted his rash act. quaint the Grand Jury with a mass of i located A.

K. Detwiler, who is wanted ital information regarding the checks in 'San Francisco on several charges or latter. It is stated that up to a few months ago Ruef had on deposit in the San Francisco banks nearly $1,000,000. This sum has since been reduced by Young Salisbury died at half-past 5 o'clock Friday morning at the Clara Barton Hospital. He lay there unconscious ever since Thursday afternoon Neither Keyes nor any other relative drawn by Glass and cashed for the bribery, brought by the Grand Jury in benefit of the bribed officials.

Tho connection with the granting of a fran- only when he gazed for the last time 0:1 the face of his mother, peaceful in death, Erland H. Soderberg, the self-confessed matricide, Thursday afternoon pressed a kiss on the lips of his victim, and then, staggering back from the casket with a cry of anguish, fell prosecution is now hot on the trail of i chise to the Home Telephone Co. Det-the members of the executive commit wiler's business associates blame of the dead young man could offer an his investments in real estate, but the amount still lying in the banks to Ruef's credit is sufficient to make him a very rich man. tee of the telephone board who are 1 politicians and lawyers of San Fran-believed to have authorized the boodle cisco for his present predicament, and the floor in a faint. ine nnai tn payments.

Percy T. Morgan, one mem- 'think him guiltless of bribing the So nis the realization of the enormity of prime wa3 too much even for ber of the executive committee, ae-1 perviors as cnargea in tne inaicimenis. clares he was out of town when the transaction was put through. The NEW LAW RELATING explanation Friday morning for his suicide. Whatever other troubles Sidney Salisbury may have had, it Is certain that his mind was greatly disturbed by the shocking death of Miss Florence Yates, who shot and killed herself only a short time ago in her home on Baker St.

This beautiful and beloved girl was at one time engaged to marry ctnlHsm with which since his arrest Soderberg has concealed all signs of other members of the committee at the I jq MEDICAL EXAMINERS. time of the bribery incident were amotion Soderberg. in charge of Detectives Homer S. King, Frank II. Drum, Louis Hodekins and Flynn, was taken from Glass and a fifth member, whose name The law regarding examination for physicians' certificates as passed by the Legislature of California at their recent, session recognizes all schools his cell in the city prison Thursday afternoon, that he might attended the fnnoral of his victim, which was held i3 not mentioned.

These men are to be haled before the Grand Jury, and the prosecution declares that they will ELKS ELECT OFFICERS FOR ENSUING TERM. The following officers have been elected by the local lodge of Elks to serve for the ensuing term: Exalted ruler, Dr. Wr. R. Linscott; esteemed leading knight, J.

R. Williamson; esteemed lecturing knight, C. W. Hammer; esteemed loyal knight, Hon. II.

C. Lucas; secretary, II. S. Wanzer; tyler, Nelson Mosher; trustees, W. S.

Moore and C. J. Klein. These officers are to be installed at a meeting next Thursday evening by at 9. P.

M. Throughout the brief of practice. Section 1 provides for the appointment of a board of medical examiners consisting of eleven members, five allopaths, two homeopaths, two eclectics and two osteopaths. Ap services, which were conducted by the Sidney Salisbury, and the match was regarded as one that would lead to great happiness for both parties. But an estrangement intervened before Salisbury led his bride to the altar, and the two ceased to be anything moro than cordial friends.

Florence Yates was in delicate health at the time of the earthquake ot last year, and the shock was too strong for her powers of resistance. After .0 xav V. Hanson or tne oweuisn T.nthPran Church, he sat with unmov have to tell all tney Know or me indicted. It is intimated that a perjury indictment may be found against Alonzo B. Cass, president of the Home Telephone Co.

of Los Angele3, whose testimony has not been very satisfactory to the nrnaPClltion. ed face but when, after those who had attnriPd the funeral of the murdered pointments are to be made by the governor from lists of twice the number to be presented by each society. Term woman had left the chapel and he was ni, thP casket to look for the last D. D. Grand Exalted uuier w.

xi. Nutter of Stockton. icwivii i-J of office, two years. The affirmative vote of seven members is required to pass any measure or grant a certificate. the calamity she brooded, thought that she had lost all her friends, and finally ended her life with a pistol IOUiS Glass Was grauwu a.

ween, a grace in which to decide what his plea shall be. THEATRICAL MAN UNDER time on the face or nis momei, 5nr. and horror overpowered him. At the close of the service Soderberg was once more removed to the c'tv prison, while the remains of his victim were borne to their last rest-tag-place in Mountain View Cemetery. ARREST RAILROADS ONCE MORE ARE SMITH'S BODY WILL BE BROUGHT HOME.

CARRYING PASSfciNUfcKS. Railroad transportation has again med its normal conditions in Cali shot. This tragedy darkened the life of her former fiance. His friends noticed the change in hif? demeanor after the news of the society girl's death was made known to him. Other worries may have helped to send Sidney Salisbury to the Hammam Baths on Gough St.

with the desperate purpose of killing himself, but sorrow over the death of Florence Yates must be counted as one of the strongest impelling causes. 4 CARDINAL DIES OF APOPLEXY. TnTOr.flrdinal Luigi Macchie, SAN JOSE. Ed Dimond, formerly a San Francisco newspaper man, but lately manager of the Victory theatre, was taken into custody on a complaint charging him with defalcation to the amount of $319 57. The complaining witness Is Robert G.

Barton, owner of the Victory. It Is stated the amount of Dimond's defalcation will largely exceed the amount mentioned in the TOKIO. The Duke of Manchester, who was traveling with James Henry Smith of New York, who died at Kioto. Japan on March 27, said Friday: "Mr. Smith died of acute Bright's disease ending in pneumonia.

Every-think known to science was tried to check the complaint without avail. His bodv will be transported to hl3 home In America by the earliest steamer." secretary of apostolic briefs, died Fri-av after a sickness of only twelve fornia. People, who now desire to go anywhere in the State can do so, but not in the same time as it would formerly take. While the roads are all open to traffic, there are many repairs yet to be made to make, the tracks safe and in condition for train service. hours of apoplexy.

He celebrated mass Thursday morning. The cardina was born in Brazil in 1832 and was elevat 8ubcrib ror the "Sentlaer ed to the Sacred College In 18-.