Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 15

Fourth Section Fourth Section i VOL. LXVII. OAKLAND. CAW SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 21.

1907. 43 PAGES No. 50 i STILL FREE FOR THIS BECOME IISIIT GRAim MM Marcovich's murderer UflDn Safs'HigheiiypQtUaals I IHLI IILLI llflllU ire Protecting Shameless Really Ed Short, United Tenderloin Dives. UNPAID BILLS PREVENT JACK LONDON'S DEPARTURE Stales Army Deserter. fame of Smith Was an Assumed One; Police Were Incited to Greater Blockading Police on Notorious Houses of III Repute Investigation of Whole Department Now Planned by Heney and Associates.

AND NOT DIAMONDS THIS ROBBER GOT FROM NAT GOODWIN Most Successful Haul of Loot by Billy Barrett, Notorious Crook. BALTIMORE. MdT. April 20. "Billy Barrett," one of the most notorious bank sneak thieves of this country and Europe, who was released rrom the Maryland penitentiary this morning, was rearrested by Detective John Kratz on the charge that he sneaked a package containing $20,000 irom me irst national Bank of San Francisco.

When at headquarters Barrett asked, if anvthinc hart hn "An- Ing" in the criminal line since his im prisonment. "Yes. some sneak thieves mt isnn 000 haul Of dlamnndn frnm Mian Anna Held, the actress, while she was on a ranroaa train," Superintendent Dim-lck informed him. "That was a good haul, -wasn't it 7" said Barrett nnd umlloH "I was in a bunch that 'followed' Nat Goodwin and his wife, Miss Maxine Elliott, looking for a bag of Jewelry; I won't say where it happened or when. We got the bag, but it only contained toothbrushes.

Whenever I think of Nat Goodwin or Miss Elliott I remember those toothbrushes." Barrett 'is thirty-seven years of age, or rennea appearance and most peo pie would call him handsome. When told the contents of the fore going dispatch, after the performance at the Macdonougb last night, Mr. Nat Goodwin removed his sailor hat and twinea it a minute in silent medlta tion. "No," he finally said, "for the life of me I can't recall ever having been robbed of a toothbrush. My toothbrushes always turn up all right when wancea.

At least, so rar as I now remember, I've never been shy that item. "But mv wife" was rohheri nt ml. icine chest one night on a train running out of Chicago, and didn't know It until I told her. Even then she could not believe It, because there was the box Itself in plain sight as evidence that she still was in full possession of it. "It happened that'the medicine, box looked like a Jewel case.

A of thieves, anticipating a big haul, followed us and swiped the box when we weren't looking. There was nothing doing in the Jewelry line, though, so they put it back, and one of them, calling me to one side, told me if we Action by the Mayor Murderer Smith', who sKot and Idlled John Marcovich Friday night, is still at large and the pa-lice are unable to trace his move-' fnents since leaving the home of Mrs. Murray at 11:20 Friday night. One thing has been learned, however, that may tend to locate the murderer. Instead of Smithi his name is Ed Short, and he is a deserter from the United States armv.

When the Spanish-American war broke out, Short enlisted in Battery ThirdArtillery, U. S. leaving San; Francisco about the time tha4he First California Infantry left the Presidio. Whenthe campaign and his term of service ended he enlisted in the Thirty-Sixth regulars, from which he deserted in 1900. is is looked on as an important piece of news in locating Short, alias Smith, as he is well known in San Francisco.

Each hour witnesses new activities on the part of the Oakland police to capture the assassin bf restaurateur Marcovich. Last night Mayor Mott, Chief of Police Wilson, Captain Lynch and the full force of detetcives were closeted together for more than an hour. In view of the criticisms that have been made against the police in "connection with the murder, the meeting was a lively one and both the Mayor and Chief have put the mem bers of the Department on their metyf SOON ON SCENE. Sergeant Walters and Patrolman Crossman who were first on the scene of the murder were particularly criticised for their acts by William V. Witcher, whose statement in THE TRIBUNE yesterday afternoon was to the effect that these men allowed the murderer to make his escape and against whom, he would prefer charges.

"I reached the restaurant in two minutes after the report, came in." Ah Inquisitorial body are determined to wipe out the low element that' has transformed residential sections of this city into regions of open vice. Every district will be scoured and officers and men from each called upon to testify upon the witness stand. The Grand Jury will spare no' one in its efforts to wipe out the new tenderloin. Captain Mooney's story of protected vice opened the eyes of the Grand Jury- There was no disputing tha fact that the grizzled veteran knew -what he was talking about, and that his charges were based upon facts, of which he had the actual proof. He began with his removal from tha tenderloin district by Chief of Pollca Dlnan and told the entire story of the growth of vibe while he was away and after he came -back to his old command.

AND PLACES. Captain Mooney gave to the Grand Jury the names! of more than thirty disreputable houses which he had or- dered closed and which he learned later on had been permitted to flour- -lsh by his own officers and -policemen. of these resorts is that at Turk and Rtelner streets, run by a woman Lazzarrmne. Mooney placed a blockade at the door of this -house, but the blockade was never effectually maintained. JOS MEN HID.

"I have known for monttifC that these resorts were and that many officers and policemen in my command were not reporting truthfully about them," said Mooney. "The men were not afraid because" they would receive protection from those who are 'higher up. 0 Under the close questioning of Prosecutor Francis J. Heney, Captai Mooney gave mo uranu -lury bjo clflc facts showing tlmt certain resorts had been built up under-police protection. He furnished the Grand Jury with a listi of these houses and the names of their owners.

Many of these proprietors will be summoned to appear as witnesses and to give the details of their arrangement with the police whereby they were given pror tection. The Grand Jury will meet again on Tuesday, afternoon. It Is probable that Captain Mooney will be recalled to complete his ievldence. The Investigation of the police department will be continued. iThe first witnesses who will be called are the policemen who have been doing duty In the new tenderloin.

I RAID SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. Captain of Police John Mooney today laid bare before the Grand Jury the whole startling system of police protection by which certain administration-favored resorts in the new tenderloin, that borders along Golden avenue have flourished in direct violation of the law. Mooney declared that his own officers and policemen had given him false reports that they had closed certain notorious dives when in reality they were permitting them to run on in shameless abandonment. declared that blockades which he had ordered placed upon well-known houses of ill repute had proved futile because the policemen on guard could not bo made to enforce their orders. HIGHER UP POWER.

Captain Mooney declared it was his belief that some one "higher up in the administration" possessed an influence stronger than his own with the officers and policemen of his command, and that this Influence was being used to maintain against his will a disorderly section of the oity. Captain Mooney was on the Grand Jury witness stand for more than an hour. When he left the room he refused to-discuss his testimony. He would not deny, however, that the man "higher up in the administration" was none other than Chief of Police Jeremiah Dinan.and that he was the one who was exerting an all-powerful Influence over the officers and policemen of his command. BOOKS SEIZED.

The books of Captalh Mooney's office. Including his order books and the reports of his men, were seized- by the Grand Jury and examined. They will be brought in again and subjected to a thorough search. Five plain-clothes policemen who have been doing duty under Captain Mooney's direction in the new tenderloin were summoned to appear before the Grand Jury and give evidence concerning the protection going on there. Because of the lack of time they were not They will be recalled on Tuesday to give their testimony from the witness stand.

INVESTIGATION NOW. Captain Mooney's expose to the Grand Jury today will lead to an Immediate Investigation of the entire- po lice department. The members of the CONDUCT ARMY OFFICERS SAID TO ABUSE RANK PRIVILEGES Men Who Enlist Soon Serve as Abject Slaves. By VICTOR A. WATSON.

WASHINGTON, April 20. Despite the denials' of army officers, there Is In existence today In the United States army a system by" which men who enlist with the expectation that they are to be soldiers pure and simple find themselves excused in many Cases from all military duty and act in the capacity of servants. It is one of the worst features of army life, according to the etorles of men In the ranks and yet General Bell, chief of staff. Justifies the idea of enlisted men becoming the servants of officers, although he admits It is In direct violation of the army regulations for any officer to excuse a man acting in such capacity from military duty. I have it from the Hps of three soldiers presented to me- by one of- the best known army, officers in the East as men with absolutely clean records and whose word may be accepted as truth that men who consent worc ror onicers as siriKers or "dog roo-bers" sometimes find themselves doing the ordinary drudgery of kitchen-1 maids.

SOLDIERS TELL. Here are same of the things that are done by men who enlist with the idea that they are going to wear gay uniforms and march waving flags to the air of stirring music. They hang out. washing; clean lawns, wait on table," wash dishes, black boots, floors and perform similar household duties. The statement made recently' by General Bell that enlisted men are not made the subjects of indignities at the hands of officers was laid before Colonel Heistand, acting commander of Department of the East, at Gov ernors Island, and the colonel concurred in his chief's declaration.

Before I had left Governors' Island, however, enlisted men whose names are withheld to save them from persecution, had told me so many facts about the life of a "dog robber," an epithet applied to the man who becomes an officer's servant, that Colonel Heistand said: "This absolutely astonishes me. The (Continued on Page 19.) HUGHEsls i KIND OF SHY Is Not Seeking Pres'h dent's Endorsement. I ALBANY, N. April 20. President Roosevelt's pronunclamento that he was swinging the" axe at the heads of the Federal officeholders in New York State in order to strengthen the hands of Governor Hughes, far from being hailed tVith expression of Joy that were expected to be heard in the Hughes camp, have aroused the bitterest resentment.

I From a member of tfc cabinet, after the Governor had de tc iui imi, came an inspir ed statement which, among other things, made the startling revelation that the Governor was not even consulted about the removal of Archie D. Sanders, collector of internal revenue at Rochester, which precipitated the Roosevelt-Wadsworth fight The Governor regards the President as a Greek bearing gifts. While the Governor will ostensibly welcome any moral support from the White House for hie administration and measures, he will fight shy of entering into any political alliance with Roosevelt. jilABELLEiS HURJAGAM Corey's Soon -to-Be Bride Meets With Accident. PARIS, April 20.

Mabelle Gilman, the American actress, who it is reported will soon wed W. E. Corey of the United States Steel Corporation, met with an acident on Thursday while riding In the grounds of chateau at Massey-Verrieres, about fifteen miles from. Paris. She was thrown from her horse and slightly Injured in her left knee.

She is now undergoing treatment at a private hospital Protests of Mott. said Sergeant Walters. 'Patrolman crossman was witn me ana as wo entered the restaurant we found Marcovich on the floor breathing and alive. At this minute aTman stepped up to1 me and told me there was an automobile outside and he had the man who dlJ.the shooting located. As Marcovich xwas breathing and apparently alive, I considered my first duty was to the living, and I hustled the Injured man into the auto and to theReceiving Hospital where he died pn the operating table1." "I may have erred In Judgment," continued the sergeant, "but I thought my first duty was to save life and leave the culprit for further action." STILL NO CLTJE.

Up to this "time the police have been unable to pick up the trail of Frank Smith, the murderer, since he left the home of Mrs. Murray at the corner of Fourteenth and Market streets. The man requested Mrs. Mur ray to look after his wife, but she told him that she had all she could do to look' after her own affairs. The police believe that the fact of Smith going to another residence and mak Ing suchjk.

request after just leaving his wifevwould indicate that she knows more of his whereabouts than she confesses to knowing. Mrs. Smith has been given the "third degree" by the police, but steadfastly refuses to admit that' she knows, anything about where he nan gone, and still Insists that she be lieves he either has or will commit suicide. So far as the police are concerned the man has dropped off the earth. At seven o'clock last night.

Captain Lynch received word from Benlcla that a man answering the description of the murderer had been seen in that city about noon time on Saturday. A further investigation by means of telephonic mesasges showed that the description given by the Be nlcla officers did not in any way an swer that of the missing man. ANOTHER ALARM. Later last night ano'ther general alarm was sent out by the police as the result of some clue which resulted In a dragnet being cast out over all the lodging 'houses In San Francisco. Chief Wilson said last night that it would be impossible for the man to remain at liberty very much longer.

All last night the Oakland police department continued Its thorough search of the city, overhauling every lodging house, shadowing every haunt of the man and following up every clue which came In at headquarters. Declarations of! of scientists believe a universal calamity is Imminent, while another group fears no such calamity, although agreeing other slight seismls disturbances are possible. John Clarke, State Geologist of New York, says the Atlantic Coast is by no means safe, although he admits the shocks generally follow along the Viewer mountain, ranges of the Pacific. Records kept here show that since December 3d there have been twenty-six earthquakes. Added to these disturbances in the same period are several hurricanes.

A typhoon on Good Friday swept over the Caroline islands, killing 230 people. The Gulf of Mexico was recently turned into a boiling pot during the Mexican earthquake and the steamer La Provence, which arrived today from Europe, encountered a weird electrical hurricane, attributed to the seismic disturbances. IN FtST FIGHT by the Governor and the scene previously enacted was repeated. James Naven, state bullion tax collector, and Ed Robb, a Democratic politician, hauled the Governor away, preventing further trouble. Sparks raised his cane to hit Morgan but the tetter stepped away and inissea the blow.

1 The affair was the culmination of hard feeling that has existed since Governor Sparks was criticized by the (Continued on Page 19.) PREDICTED The Author Scores Sellars and Company With Sizzling Words. "This boat has cost me about 125,000 as she lays there at the wharf and I boat was libeled for $242 by Sell ers people and now they come with tys attachment or libel for $242-. It is a bourgeois panic," declared Jack London last night to a TRIBUNE reporter who visited him at his yacht "Snark" at the foot of Franklin street. Late yesterday afternoon his little boat was libeled for $242 by the Sellers Company, ship chandlers of 20 Sacramento street, San Francisco, who used this means of collecting the balance of their 'account with the author before he could put to sea this morning. "They took me at a time when all the courts were closed and I could not do a thing.

I sent a lawyer over to the city- five minutes after that blackmailing sheet of paper was tacked on the main mast," said the au thor indicating the notice neatly placarded In plain sight on the maff. ENTER MARSHALL. Late. yesterday, afternoon, United States Marshall from San Francisco came over to Oakland and boarded the "Snark" at the foot of Franklin street and with four little brass tacks' posted a notice on the main mast. It told of the fact that the craft was libeled by Sellers Company of San Francisco and that Jack London must pay his account before he took in a line.

boat Is not even mine as she lays there now," said London. "I Cannot even take a line off the wharf the way they have me now, and have made arrangements with the launch people to have a boat here at 11 o'clock in the morning to take her out in the stream. I have to swing my compasses before putting to sea. If heaven and earth can move this boat tomorrow, why she will leave this wharf. I have been working steady and on the go every moment since that notice was placed there In order that I might not be detained.

If there -was only a way to get him his money, why he would have it a minute. I cannot tell a man like that (Continued on Page 19.) WAS 'ttfrlED' TOHSDEflTH Boy's Death in Gym-s nasium Leads to Investigation. NEW YORK. April 20. Lifeless since 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, and with men and boys swimming about it, the body of William Sondler, 19 years of age, was found today on the bottom of the tank in Columbia University gymnasium.

At first it was believed that young Sondler had been drowned, but Coroner Harberger became suspicious and lent an element of. mystery to the case by stating that the boy had not died because of submersion alone. He Immediately began an investigation to discover if Sondler had had a fight, had suffered from heart disease or had been "hazed" by his fellow students. The investigation Is being continued. PERSIAN TREASURES at Munro Auction Rooms, 1007 Clay Street' Iskender Bey, formerly of the Imperial Palace of the Sultan of Turkey, ithe world renowned collector of rare Oriental rups.

who used to sell at Bovee Toy San Francisco, 22 years ago, has Just arrived in Oakland with an immense stock of genuine antique Turkish ami Persian tors, and carpets, which will be on exhibition on Monday, April 22d, at Munro Auction Rooms, 1005 Clay street, and sold at auction on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 23d and 24th, beginning at 11 a. m. J. A. MUNRO, Auctioneer.

REAL ESTATE AUCTION SALE. We will sell the following described pieces of real property, at publio auction, on Monday, April 22, at 2 p. m. at our auction rooms, 100? Clay Oakland. 1462 Castro five-room house, lot 26x' 75 feet.

$1500 can remain on 1557 West choice seven-room house; lot 40x140 feet: terms to suit. Lot northeast corner Market and Lydia 100 feet on Market and 75 feet oa Lydia. $5,000 can remain on this valuable piece and foif-roomi bungalow, lot 25x133 -on west side of Magnolia, street, about 313 feet- south from 26th street. $1000 can remain on this property. This is a grand chance to buy a good piece of property.

Terms 10 per cent on fall of the hammer. 10 days allowed for search. J. A. MUNRO J.

A. MUNRO CO- Auctioneers. END OF WORLD CHIE IS ficcording to the Police Captain Mooney Makes Arrests Across the Bay Without the Sanction of Dinan. Some of the Scientific Earthquake Experts, (Continued on 18.) RESIGNS; DEATH NEAR -0 Customs Official Is Stricken With Malady. SAN FRANCISCO.

April 20 Collector of the Stratton has received the resignation of Andrew Hollywood, special collector of customs, who has been in charge of the sub-port at Oakland. Continued ill health from an incurable' disease Is assigned as the cause of the resignation. Hollywood is now at his home in Oakland and his death is almost hourly expected. Mr. Hollywood, who is 65 years of age has been in charge of the sub-port of entry ta Oakland since it was established in June, 1906.

Although the salary Is only $1600 a year, there are already a number of applicants for the position. Collector Stratton has refused to hear any recommendations for a successor. THEY FEAR MONKEYS WILL DO THEM HONOLULU, April 20 -UPeople in Honolulu (have been living in mortal terror-of a recurrence of the horrible scene described by Poe in the Murders in the Rue Morgue," where two women are murdered by an escaped ape. Two large monkeys that were formerly kept at the local zoo have escaped. They killed two dogs the other day, and it is feared that they may attack some children.

The Ha-wailans are especially alarmed over the danger. The monkeys are not so large as the murderous. ape of Poe's horrible story was represented to be. SACRAMENTO LOSES TO SAN JOSE TEAM SAN JOSE. CaL, April 20.

San Jose defeated Sacramento at the Luna Park baseball grounds here today by a score of 1 to 0. San Jose made five hits and played an errorless game. Harry Cranse of St Mary's College, Oakland, pitched an excellent game for San Jose. i NEW YORK, April 20. The remarkable series of earth tremors that has girdled the globe in the past few days has not yet entirely abated.

Shocks were reported today at Lisbon, Constantinople, Mexico City and Chlcopee, Mass. None of these disturbances did any damage to life or property, so far as reported. Scientists whose attention has been directed to the subject by the rapid succession of earthquakes in Mexico, Spain, Eastern South America and even in Charleston, S. explain that the earth Is passing through a period of unusual instability. Whether further indigestion In the bowels of the earth threatens danger to the more thickly populated portions of the world is a subject on which the seismologists differ widely.

One set SAN FRANCISCO, April gambling resorts were raided and 104 gamblers arrested tonight by the sudden sweeping down of a small police squad commanded by Captain John Mooney. The gambling houses raided were: Lanigan's, 1815 Post street, thirty gamblers arrested. Ted McDonald's, 2008 Sutter street, ten gamblers arrested. Alaska Gambling Parlors, 1712 O'Farrell street, thirty-five gamblers arrested. J.

de Bernardl's craps game, 1654 O'Farrell street, forty-two men arrested. -The arrested men were bundled Into patrol wagons and taken to the Bush street station. Keepers were released on cash bail of $50 each. The rest were liberated on cash ball of $10 each. 5 Captain Mooney had with, him three trusted men from his command.

They were Lieutenant McManus, Detective Mitchell and Detective Cornelius. No one except these four officers knew that the raid was to be made, and so carefully did they move that until muchr of their work was completed no one had an opportunity to give a general warning, i Not even Chief Dinan knew -until It was over. Following the raid there was terror In the tenderloin. Word was passed from resort to resort that "Mooney was making good his Grand Jury promise; to. drive out the "Close tip quick!" was the word.

Lights were hurriedly puf out in a hundred resorts of questionable nature and red-eyed patrons hustled out quickly through rear doors. Ned Lanigan's gambling house was the first to be raided. So lax wag the guard at the door because of fancied security from "above" that. Captain Mooney and his Bquad passed Into th room unnoticed. Each officer stationed himself at a table.

When all waj ready Captain Mooney's sharp com-. mand stilled the chink of the ivorj chips and brought fear to the heart of the gamblers.l "Gentlemen, you are arrested," he said. "Submit quietly and do not try to escape. The doors are blocked." The command was obeyed and thirty men were put into the waiting patrol wagons. J.

de BemardI, who had championed the cause of Abe Ruef for three sea--sons and who was supposed to hav perpetual immunity from arrest, waj visited by Cantain Mooney's abbreviated squad and a crowd of forty-two crap players were arrested. There was no resistance. Tonight's raid; was one of -the most successful ever pulled off by the pollc department. It marked Captain Mooney's determination to keep hit promise made to the Grand Jury thai he would rid San Francisco of its vicious tenderloin. Chief Dlnan wai not consulted and he did not know oi the raid until the arrested men were brought by the dozens into the Bush street police station, AUCTION SALE.

Wednesday. April 24, at 2 p. m. Japan, ese art goods, carved furniture, embroidered sflk goods of all description, and cane furniture, at the Kit 414 San Pablo avenue, near Eighteenth street. Must vacate.

Also bronzes, brasne, vases, jard inters of all descriptions. Sat-uma, Kuga chlma, bamboo furniture, silks, silk handkerchiefs, Mmcmas. Sal positively without reserve. Everything must be sold to vacate the- premises The Kll Company. A.

CRANWELL Auctioneer. GOVERNOR AND EDITOR ENGAGE RENO, April 20. Governor John Sparks, of Nevada, and Editor O. R. Morgan, of the Reno Gazette, the leading Republican newspaper of Ihe state, engaged in a fist fight in the Barrel House saloon here this after-toon and but for the.

interference of trlends of the chief executive it Is said shooting would, have been the remit. When separated the combatants rent tc the street, Morgan being followed to the Gazette editorial rooms.