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COMPLETE Associated Press Telegraphic Reports WEATHER FORECAST FRANCISCO AND VICINITY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CLOUDY UNSETTLED WEATHER, POSSIBLY SHOWERS; TUESDAY CLO UDY; FRESH SOUTHWEST WINDS. OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA MONDAY EVENING, MAY 16 Pages. NO. 62 COMMIT LAST i EDITION FORMER COUNCILMAN So SUICIDE.

SEEKS; ELEVENTH STORY TO SAY PLi SEA STRIKE HIS LIFE ATTORNEY COLLINS IS A BIGAMIST. Wife From Chicago But 1 til BREAKER ftffLE KILLS 10 Another Woman Claims Him as Husband. the undersigned do hereby certify that on the Ijth da of May, i889 in the church of ST. fOHN the BAPTIST joined in the HOLY BONDS OF MATRIMONY, and Miss CHARLOTTA Mr? GEORGE COLLINS E. NE WMAN according to the Church.

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO GEORGE D. COLLINS Arvfb CHARLOTTA E. NEWMAN. THIS DOCUMENT IS THE WORDING OF THE CERTIFICATE WHICH CHARLOTTA E. NEWMAN SAYS MAKES COLLINS A BIGAMIST.

B. C. CUVELLIER, BRILLIANT, POLITICIAN, ELOQUENT ORATOR AND BUSINESS MAN, WHO TOOK HIS LIFE. 429-431 Battery street, San Fran-Cisco. There were also a "card of Oakland Lodge, No.

171, B. P. O. E. a.

commutation ticket, which showed that Cuvellier had not been in San Francisco since May 3rd; several note books, in one of Nip in Chicago Stabs. Brother in Hint. CHICAGO, May 8. Today, the thir ty-first day of the teamsters' strike, found both sides prepared for even more intense struggling during the week to come. In which President Roosevelt is to visit Chicago.

The commission, composed of Pro fessor Graham Taylor, Towner K. Webster and William C. Boyden, ap pointed by Mayor Dunne to investigate charges of graft and blackmail on the part of union leaders and of efforts to incite trouble on the part of the employers, has details and plans for beginning the inquiry. The merchants have made plans for more strenuous efforts to bring the recalcitrant team owners into line and the Federation of Labor on the other hand resolved to seek the indictment of the officials of the Employers' Association to Chicago for this effort. Call ing It conspiracy.

The strike commission; which was to begin work this afternoon, from all appearances will have no holiday task. The union leaders declare they will submit volumes of testimony bearing on the charges that the employers have fostered the war by aiming to extend the strike through a score of trades. On the other hand, the employes are not enthusiastic over the project, seeing no good that is likely to come out of it, though Chairman Taylor was assured the merchants would do nothing to block the inquiry. Two brothers, John and Richard Fruen, were fatally injured today In a street fight with a colored man. Both of the men were stabbed in the abdomen.

Their assailant, whose identity is not known, escaped. The police be lieve he is a stranger In Chicago, and are working on the theory that he may "strike-breaker." Attempts were made today by the employers to resume business on a scale as near as possible! to that before the teamsters' strike. sThis was especially the case at all the barns used by the department stores. Little trouble 1 was reported at any of the Employers' Company barns. Unlike the corresponding time last week, few persons were about the sta bles.

Even the Peabody Coal Company, against which there has been a special fight, sent out today caravans of loaded coal wagons without molestation. Policeand deputy sheriffs, however to guard all or nearly all vehicles driven by non-union teamsters. Ht IS ADMITTED TO BAIL. LEXINGTON, May 8. Judge James Hargis.

whose trial for the murder of James Cockrill resulted in a hung jury here last week, was granted bail today In the sum of 125,000. Oyama is Now Pressing General Linevitch. ST. PETtSBURG, May 8. Interest is onsenore directed' to Man-churla, the news from point indicating that Field Marshal Oyama is pressing Qeneral Llnevitch's advance posts east and west of the railroad with considerable force, as if about to undertake a geherij offensive movement.

The Russians are offering slight resistance ana falling back upon their first line of defense: The Russian advance post covers a front of about one hundred miles ex-tending from "Singtmantsu. on the Liao river, in a southeasterly direction across the railroad above Shangtu to the Mandarin road, lead ing to Kirin, to Kamalpass, about seventy miles due east of Tie pass. The Russian cavalary protect both wings, small bodies being1 probably beyond the Liao river In Mongolia to guard against a surprise turning movement in that direction. Ex perts, however, believe that Oyama's purpose is to thrust in from the east. turn Kirin arid' Interpose himself be-tween Harbin and Vladivostok prep aratory to the investment of the lat- ter place.

Linevitch's disposition seems especially taken to meet such a plan. He would not give battle along his present lin, but would gradually r-tire and draw in his forces as Oyama's strategy develops to the main Russian positions, which 'extended due east and west from Kirin through Kuanchangtsu to Huaitathsien. A considerable force of troops also is reported to' be due east of Kirin as far south as the Tumen river to contest the Japanese advance northeast ward toward Vladivostok. It Is not regarded as certain that the Japanese advance will be really serious. RECEIVES NEW TROOPS.

Oyama is said to have received large reinforcements, which have filled up the Japanese ranks and he brought up immense quantities of supplies and ammunition after the battle of Mukden both by way of Sinmintin and over the reconstructed Manchurian railroad. But at the war office here there is a difference of opinion as to whether' Oyama is yet ready and it is added that if he Is In earnest pr6ably almost all of a fortnight will elapse before the issue is decided, the preliminaries, of each, of the battles of the present war, in view of the fact that the armies over-such a large area, having-atways been long and tediousTTup to yesterday the Russian advance posts generally had retired about eighteen miles. If (Continued on Page 2.) Shoots Himself in Mouth While on the Roof of Union Savings Prostration is Saitl to he the Cause. Choosing the roof of thehigh-jfest building -in Oakland as the $cene of his final act in life, B. C.

iCuvellier, former City Council-tnan, went to the top of the Union 'Savings Bank Building this Xnorning and sent a bullet crash- Jug through his brain. I Illness, aggravated by grief oyer the recent death of his, wife, Mis supposed to have been the cause fcfthe suicide. RIDES WITH THEM. Mr. Cuvellier went to the bank 'building at Thirteenth street, and Broadway a few minutes before II o'clock this morning and rode in the elevator to the eleventh 6tory.

In the elevator with him Attorney Ben F. Griffins, -Abe P. Leach and two strangers. Arriving at the eleventh story he asked the way to the roof ancT At torney- Griffins showed him the4 Way to the BODY IS FOUND. Shortly before noon a man, woma.n and little girl went to the roof.

They had no sooner reached the roof than they rushed back and told John Bernhard, the elevator boy, that a man had shot himself on the platform of the roof. One glance satisfied Bernhard that a suicide had been committed and he hurriedly notified Policeman James Mulgrew who, in turn, sent word to the Coroner's office. ON PLATFORM. Deputy Coroner Van Miet was soon upon the scene. He found the body of the former Council-v man lvinsr on the "observation i platform" that has been erecte i for sightseers.

The body lay on the left side and a few inches from the' right hand was a 38 calibre Smith 1 revolver. The desperate man had placed the barrel of the pistol in his mouth, pulled the trigger and sent his soul into eternity. NO MESSAGES. -lie did not leaveva farewell letter and it is only a matter orcbnT jecture wliy he wished to end his earthly career. A letter which was found in the dead man's pocket after the body had been removed to the Morgue proves that Cuvellier had recently I been treated at the Adventist Sani-' tarium at St.

Helena. The letter reads: PRAYS FOR HIM. "ST. HELENA, May 'i, 1905. "My Dear nend our very elcome and anxiously awaited letter just received and I hasten to answer at once, that you may receive by first mail.

"Mr. Cuvellier, I cannot" explain on paper the sorrow it gives me to, learn-of your present condition. "A I read the first few lines of rites of the Holy Roman Catholic M. D. CONNOLLY, Rector.

Grand Jury for settlement. COLLINS' STORY Collins made the following statement In the presence of the woman who, he says, is his wife and who was formerly known as Miss Clarice McCurdy. "Permit me to Introduce you to my wife, and the only wife I have." Collins then denied that Mrs. Charr lotta E. Collins had any claim on him as her husband: "It is not my intention," Jsald Collins, "to answer in detail all the published gossip concerning me.

Suffice It to say that on the 23d of last month in Chicago I was married to Miss Clarice McCurdy of Stockton, who is sitting there. To no other living woman was I ever married. Upon the death of my first wife, whose maiden name was Agnes M. Newman, I gave Into the care of her sister, Carlotta E. Newman, my three children.

NOT HIS WIFE. "Charlotta Newman Is not my wife, ehe never was my wife and is not the mother of either-'one of my three chil dren. All this gossip about the dead woman being my sistei -In-law andr the lluing Miss Newman my wife is not true. That was all threshed out in the disbarment proceedings. I do not pro pose to go over it all again.

Ordinarily I wpuld pay no attention to this tittle-tattle, but it is due my wife here that there should be no question as to her standing. For that reason I desire it published that the young woman who was recently Miss Clarice McCurdy is the only Mrs. George D. Collins, my wife. PREJUDICE IN STORIES.

"In my opinion, these stories are set afloat at the instigation of the Tobins for the purpose of annoying me. In some way I am going to bring the matter into court so as to settle for once and all these fslte statements. I don't know just exactly how I am going to go about it. There is no use of suing the Newmans. They haven't anything to sue for.

But in some legal wsy I propose to establish the "Where in Chicago was the ceremony performed?" was asked. 'In the Presbyterian Church, corner of Indiana and Twenty-first streets, by the Rev. Mr. Morrison," said Mrs. Col lins.

STORY OF BROTHER NEWMAN. William Newman, brother of wife No. 1, tells the following tale-r My sister Charlotta is the "wife of George D. Collins. They were married May 15, 1889, in St.

John's Church, this city, by Father M. D. Connolly, who Is now in' the East. I nave the certifi cate of their marriage. It is nova in safe deposit.

I will produce it, together with other records when I go to Foreman Andrews of the Grand Jury tomorrow morning. I was among those present at the wedding. I re member the occasion as though it were but yesterday. i COLLINS WANTED SILENCE. "The first I knew of the present (Continued on Page 2.) FURNITURE AUCTION On Tuesday, May 11 a.

of Mr. G. Garreseru residence, 1220 Thirty- -fourth street, between Adeline and San Pablo avenue. Fine parlor upholstery, fine carpets, rags, lady's desk, solid, oak bedroom sets, hair beds, couches, fine kitchen range, new linoleum, two sets of harnesses. New Home sewing machine, elegant sideboard, crockery, garden tools, etc large line of other kooiU contained in above nine-room residence.

Bale peremptory, on account of departure for Goldfleld. MEYSEL A METSFTL, Auctioneers. Office, corner Eighth and SAN FRANCISCO. May 8. On Tuesday last, George D.

Colljhs, the well-known attorney of. San Francisco on his return from the East, wrote the following in the register of the Palace Hotel: "George D. Collins and wife." On the next line below, in Mr. Collins handwriting, were the words, "Mrs. S-A.

McCurdy." It is known "wife" referred to by Collins, in this Instance, is, a daughter Mrs. McCurdy. and was known as Miss Clarice McCurdy. who, with her mother, resided In Stockton. In the view of the fact that there is a woman at 2519 Pierce street, San Francisco, Mrs.

Charlotta E. Collins, who before her marriage was Miss Charlotta E. Newman, who claims to be the wife of Collins and to have been married to him for sixteen years, but who was not with him when Collins registered at the Palace Hotel, the registration in question- has caused surprise among the friends of Collins and prostrated the woman on Pierce street who claims to be the attorney's first, legal and only wife. COLLINS VAGARIES At various times, since registering the names quoted, Xvhen asked as to whether he had married another woman, has declared that the writing; of the names In question was simply the joke of a friend and that he had not married Miss McCurdy. He it i alleged, requested the brother of his wife on Pierce street to say nothing about the marriage and still he has come out boldly and asserted that he was never married to Miss Charlotta E.

Newman, and that his only wife is the woman who is now living with him as such and. who was formerly Miss Clarice McCurdy. MANY WITNESSES This, denial and avowal, both of which are inconsistent, appear all the more remarkable when witnesses claim to have been present to St. John's Church, In San Francisco when Collins was married to Miss Charlotta New man by Rev. Father Connolly, pastor of that church.

May 15, 1889. The claim Is substantiated by the certificate of marriage which was issued by Father Connolly, which Is In the possession of the first Mrs. Collins and her brother. Among these witnesses is a sister and brother of Mrs. Chralotta E.

Collins, as also Thomas E. Curran, an attorney of San Francisco, who was best man for Collins when he married Miss Charlotta E. Newman In the Church of St. John. Collins, at different times, has given still another version of the mystery, that on that day in May, 1889, he was married, but his bride was Agnes Newman and not Charlotta Newman-but her sister, and that Agnes died four years ago.

He avers that a mistake was made In the writing of the names in the marriage license and In the certificate of marriage. This version is controverted by Hfce story of Curran and a brother of the Newman who declare that they know that Collins was not married to Agnes but to Charlotta Newman, who is still living and still his wife. To Mrs. Collins, her brother, Curran and others, the George D. Collins appears only as a bigamist and they say they will bring bis case before the your letter, in which you state that you felt fine, I felt very good, but the nd of your letter makes me feel very, very sad.

"I have done as you requested me by remembering you in my prayrs and tonight' I have prayed for you, hoping and trusting that our kind Heavenly Father will see fit to answer by comforting and sustaining you. "But, Friend Cuvellier, you should not (and I trust, not) neglect to pray yourself, for God will answer the prayer; that is sincere. We are all sinners- and come very short, but please read John 3:16 'God so loved the world that He gave His son, that if we trust Him we may be HAVE COURAGE. Now, my friend, just of good courage and trust; in the Lord, press onward and upward in the-straight and narrow wav that leads to eternal life. Do not be discouraged.

Cheer up! Cheer up "How5 pleased would be to bo able to be of some service to you and hope you may" some' time come up and see us. "But I hope your condition 'will improve so that it will not be necessary for you to return for treatment. Now hist keen un courage, dq not give up. the ship. While there is life there is saic be hopeTso hope, hope, hope "I have written hurriedly, but if you will write again soon telling me of your improved condition I will tell you any- news.

Mr. Cohen and Mr. Frirsare still here. God bless you, dear friend and guide you and kfeep you from harm is the prayer your sincere friend, i "GEORGE R.lCLOSE. BEEN TREATED.

Mr. Cuvellier had recently been treated in this city by Dr. J. F. Rinehart and a receipt for $10 paid to that physician on account was found in the pockets.

In the pockets also were several cards of A. Vignier wine importers, of firm the dead man was vice-president; The which were 'sundry addresses and five two-cent postage s'tamps and some small change. The weapon with which the suicide was committed was an old style Smith Wesson weapon of 32 calibre and had evidently seen considerable service. LAST TO SEE HIM. B.

F. Griffins, the attorney, was probably the last one to see Mr. Cuvellier alive. "Shortly before 11 o'clock this morning I entered an elevator to go to my office on the eleventh floor," said Griffins. "In the cage' with me were Ross Bromley, Abe Leach and one or two others whom I did not know.

Just before wq started the ascent, Cuvellier entered the elevator. He seemed pre-pecupied, as if he was thinking deeply about something. "He nodded to the others in elevator and spoke to me in an absent-minded manner. When, we reached the eleventh story he turned to me and remarked "FINE, BUItDTNG." is is a fine building, isn't "I replied that it was and he asked how to reach the roof. I caught him by the shoulder and directed him' around the corner.

"noticed nothing unusual about him, save that, he appeared preoccupied." Among those who rushed to roof when it was learned-thnt a suicide had been icommitted -ere Griffins, Abe P. Leach, George W. Reed and others. They quickly identified -the dead man. "I remember taking Mr.

Cuvellier to the top said John the 'elevator operator, "but I noticed nothing peculiar about him. I did" not, know who lie was. About half an hour afterward, a and lit OAKLAND MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH. House He Was Moving Settles on Him and Breaks Neck and Back. HAYWARDS, May 8 Joseph MeCrea, a house-mover, residing in Oakland on Linden street near Twenty-fourth, met a-horrible death today by being crushed underneath a house he was moving from Castro to street.

After moving the. building some distance the unfortunate man crawled under the structure to remove some timbers. When directly under the center of the building, the house, without any apparent cause, settled down mors than a foot. One scantling broke McCrsa's another broke his back and his legs. leaves a wife and five children.

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