Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 325, 6 January 1908 — Page 1
AJDIUM t: H AIVJD SUN-TELEGRAM. RICIOIOXD, IXD..3IONDAY EVENING, JAXLWKY . 11MKS. SINGLE COPY, S CENTS. VOL. XXXII. o. 3?r. FIRST GUN FIRED AGED GERMANTOWH RESIDENT PASSES AWAY THAW TRIAL BEGINS IN NEW YORK COURT EARLY THIS MORNING IITE MEN OF AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND IN BATTLE BETWEEN CITY AND COMPANY STOLEN TO BLOW MUNCIE TO ATOMS Funeral Held This Afternoon At That Place.
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One Hundred Jurymen Dismissed Because Their Names
Were Published Through Error.
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TRIAL WAS DELAYED UP UNTIL NOON TODAY.
Evelyn Thaw's Harrowing Recital May Not Be Given at The Second Trial as It Is Claimed to Be a Violation.
Jerome is undecided.
Has not indicated his course in the matter of admitting this testimony case attracting old time interest.
BULLETIN. New York. Jan. . Harry K. Thaw was called to the bar at 1:4 o'clock. After a formal opening, Martin V. Littleton, read an affidavit signed by A. Russell Peabody, to the effect that the defense would be Insanity, at the time of the shooting. Justice Dowliug lined forty members of the spec ial panel, who failed to answer, $:;." each. It was agreed that peremptory challenges ould be exercised after the jury was filled.
New York, .lan. 6.--Tho first venire of cme hundred jurymen for the Thaw rase was dismissed at the opening of court this morning, because the names, through error, v. ere published Friday.
A :rcoitd ll.t was smrnond. Tt do- strict interpretation of the letter of the
L. C. HOOVER. Veterinary Surgeon.
Motorman Arnett Fined in
The City Court Today for Violating the City Speed Ordinance.
HELD THAT SCHEDULE IS
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
Supt. Gordon Has Appealed to
Higher Officials for Change, But They Have Turned a Deaf Ear to His Demands.
East Germantown, 1ml.. Jan. i Mrs.
Harriet Markley die,', at the honv of CitlZGHS NOW FPAr til Rirfp nn
iter aaugnter. ixuns. at me anvance..i. age of 2 ;t'His. The funeral war. held I this afternoon at the K angelica! j church at lienuamowii. She leaves
seven children, four uns and threes daughters. John of Richmond. Martin of Germantown, Klnier of Indianapo-i lis. Joseph of California, Mrs. Rieh-
The Street Cars Thinking That Strikers May Use High Explosives in Their Fight.
ardson of New York. Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Waggoner of St. l.ouis. Mo.
and !
Jajed the trial until noon today. District Attorney .le runic may atlenipf. this time, to bar the testimony of Mrs;. Evelyn Xesbit-Thaw. wife of
law. Thaw was at no time suffering from such a delect or reason as to not know the nature or quality of his act. or that the act was wrong. Thaw's
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WERE AUDITED
Auditors Look Into Affairs of German Protective Association.
EVERYTHING SATISFACTORY
the accused man. At the first trial j attorneys will base their defense solely this testimony w?s allowed to go Vie- j upon the ground that Thaw was legally fore the jury w ith the consent of the ' insane at the time he shot Stanford district attorney, who said the preee- White and that he has since recovered
dent, set in the case of the State! his mental balance. They say their against Wood seemed to cover the mat-'client is ready and willing to stand any ler. Several criminal lawyers of test that can be devised as to his presprominence in their profession, have cut mental condition and believe he argued the point with Mr. Jerome win mane an even better showing fdnce the close of the first hearing and than before the commission which, durliave urged him to oppose this line of iug the first, trial, declared him ca patestimony at the trial about to begin, ble of Intelligently advising with bis These attorneys declare a vital princi-' counsel and understanding the nature pie of law is involved and that it : of the proceedings against, him. The fhoutd go to the highest courts for de- former commission's work was limited termination. 'to thet-e two points aud Thaw convincMr, Jerome has given no ('-'finite an- ed his examiners in a striking manfcwer to his fellow members of the bar.ner.
and may feel impelled to consent to j another recital of Mrs. Thaw's story to prevent an appearance of inconsistency with his course a year ago. But the representations made to him as to the importance to the community at large of lesting the legality of such testimony have been unusually strong, nnw many of his closest friends would not be surprised if he should contest against the admissibility of her testimony. Truth Not Tested. Young Mrs. Thaw was allowed to testify at the first trial upon the theory that It was her story, told to Thaw in Paris, in I'.mCI. two years before their marriage, that planted the seeds of temporary insanity in his brain. The
prosecution was not allowed to test the truth or falsity of the story, the court rule being that, regardless of its truth, the issue had to do solely with the effect upon the defendant's mind. Mr. Jerome ottered witnesses who, he declared, would contradict certain of thewife's statements, but they were not allowed to be heard. The prosecution bad its only recourse in a severe crossexamination, but even this was allowed on the ground of testing the credibility of the witness in a general "nay. Refuses to Talk. District Attorney Jerome has con
sistently declined to discuss the Thawrase for publication. His course as regards the all important, testimony of young Mi's. Thaw will be watched, however, with the keenest interest. If Jier story is deemed admissible by Judge Dowling. it. is declared that the rross examination to which she will be subjected will be far more searching even than the lirst one. Assistant District Attorney Garvan spent several months abroad last summer and covered much of the ground included in the travels of Harry Thaw ami Evelyn Nesbut during the two trips abroad which preceded their marriage. The district attorney seemed last year to have every detail of the young woman's life at command, but it is said tnat this year he will be able to confront her with incidents of the European trips not hinted at during the first hearing. Believes Him Insane.
WALKED IN STREETS GIVING THE DARE
One Woman Rights the Entire Neighborhood in Which She Lives.
IS ARRAIGNED ON CHARGE.
POLICE ASSERT THAT RESIDENTS
NEAR HER HOME GREW TIRED
OF THE CUTTING ABUSE HEAP
ED UPON THEM.
SON WILL FIGHT
AGAINST FATHER
Does Not Want the Real Estate of His Mother Sold To Satisfy Claim.
HIS FIGHT IS ACTIVE.
IT ALSO INVOLVES A POINT OF LAW WHICH JUDGE FOX SAYS, IS ONE OF THE HARDEST HE EVER HAD TO DECIDE.
Luther Arnett. a motorman on an
Eighth etreet car, was fined if 3 and
costs this morning in the city court for running his car in excess of the speed limit, which is twelve miles per hour.
Arnett entered a plea of guilty and his
fine was paid by the street car com
pany. Jacob Chapman, conductor of
the car which Arnett was motorman
was also arraigned in the city court on a similar charge, but because he had
nothing to do with the operation of the car he was released. City Attorney T. J. Study, who prosecuted the case against Arnett, said that the cause for running cars on North Eighth street in excess of the speed limit, was the schedule- which has been In operation for the past four years. "There is no excuse for running street cars at a rate of 21 miles per hour," said Mr. Study, "but street car motormen say that it is necessary to run at a high rate of speed on North Eighth street to meet the requirements of the schedule." A South Eighth street car leaves ,Main street every fifteen minutes to
make the return trip to Main street. North Eighth street cars, which have nine more, blocks to run than South Eighth street cars, must leave Main
street and return in the same length
of time. Superintendent Gordon of the street car company, said that' he had asked his superiors to reduce the length of the North Eeighth street
route, making it necessary for cars to
run east as far as Seventeenth street, instead of Nineteenth street, but this
plan was not acted upon.
Mr. Study held that the arrest of Ar
nett was not "spite work" but only the first step taken to protect the public from the dangerous practice of running cars at high rate of speed. "I recommend that the present schedule be changed," said Mr. Study, "for every time a street car is found running
in excess of the speed limit, the motorman will be placed under arrest.
MANY CATTLE WERE KILLED THROUGH ELECTROCUTION
Seventy-five Per Cent, of the Cattle and Live Stock Killed The Past Year, Met Death
By Contact With Wire Fence
COMPANY HAS ISSUED $4,500,000 IN INSURANCE POLICIES, CARRIED IN THIS AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES.
Ou the complaint of her neighbors, who it appears are up in arms against her, Mrs. Ida Graham, living on the New Paris pike near the city limits, has been arrested on a charge of provoke. The woman has retained Attorney Henry U. Johnson to defend her. The case was to have been tried this
morning in the city court but as Mr. Johnson had to leave the city the hearing was postponed until Thursday. The police said that Mrs. Graham was formerly on friendly relations with her neighbors but of late, for some reason the police are not acquainted with, she has been given the
Auditing the books of the German Tri-county Mutual Protective Associa-
The petition of A. L. Hebble to have
the real estate in the estate of his
wife, the late Stella Heubie, sold, was presented to Judge Fox this morning
in the circuit court. Recently the court allowed the claim of A. L. Heb
ble for $6,000 against the estate. The
claim was contested by two of the children, Mrs. Roy Rush and Clifford
Hebble, who is a minor. They are al
so contesting the petition for the sale
of real estate. Y'oung Hebble is making a most act
ive fight against his father and his
contentions involve a case of law
wnicn Judge Jrox says lie Has never before been called upon to decide. The
CONDITION IS UNUSUAL
AND DECIDEDLY NEW.
Statistics by Fire Insurance
Companies Prove That the Lightning Rod Is a Protection to Property.
COMPLETE RESTORATION
OF SERVICE MADE TODAY.
With the City Under Martial
Law and Police in Control, All Was Quiet in the StrikeRidden Town Today.
THERE WAS NO VIOLENCE.
IT WAS FEARED THAT WHEN SCHEDULES RESUMED THERE WOULD BE BLOODSHED AT. TEMPT AT ARBITRATION.
The ever increasing use of wire fences on the farms throughout this section of the country, is becoming a serious menace to live stock was proven during the past year by the various livestock insurance companies. The
recent auditing of
Muncie, Ind., Jan. '.. With this city under martial law, all local street cars and interurbans were running today. The state troops aud the polite are iu complete control. There was no violence up to noon today. The greatest apprehension Is from tne stolen dynamite, and men with brooms have been patrolling in front of the cars, sweeping all the depri from the rails. It is felt that a spuouful of the explosive stolen from the magazine near Muncie Thursday, if spread on the rail ana covered with dirt, would blow a car to atoms. A streak the size of a match, a foot Ions,
i would do the work. Not a half dosen ; people patronized all the cara run yes
the books of thej'"u ur '"u"-
One of the first cars run out yestec-
Gf.rman Rantist. Mutual Protective as-.
, . . . , x on the Went Side line was attacksoclation. revealed the taet that ,o vet- am, gmashed to pWcil cent of the c attle killed on the farms , Another car was shot at by two roea in "Wayne, Union and Fayette conn-1 on the Whiteley line In Riverside, bnt ties met death from electrical shocks no oua was injured. Several bullets
TELEPHONE RATES HAVE ADVANCED
Officials of the Home Company Claim That New Rates Are Not Out of Reason.
SOME DISSATISFACTION.
"icy shoulder.
To retaliate with her neighbors for! young man's father, A. L. Hebble, is
their actions she has, according to the his guardian. Y'oung Hebble has filed police, adopted every measure to show proceedings to have his father removr her contempt for them. If any neigh- ed from the guadiacship and to have a bor passed her house she would curs guardian ad litum appointed. There them and make cutting remarks. At is a doubt in the mind of the court as nights she would pass by a house aud to whether such action would be legal.
tion of Wayne, Uniou and Fayette ' dare the sleeping occupants into the j Clifford Hebble also asks to have a counties, has just Iven completed by j street, Thi3 condition of affairs last- hearing of the petition to sell real es-w-uitor T?itiifr nn,t p or tww the f'd until tne Patience of the neighbors tate taken elsewhere on a change of
auditing committee appointed for 1907.!
was exhausted, consequently a war- venue, because of the decision made by rant charging Mrs. Graham with pro- t?tc Fo In regards to the claim for
The books of the company were found I yoke was sworn out. A long list of juicoo mad bv A L, Hehhle Turtle
AUTOMATIC SYSTEM IS BEING PERFECTED AS FAST AS POSSIBLE AND SOON WILL BE IN GOOD WORKING ORDER.
received from the wiro fences enclosing the pastures. In other words, that per cent of tlie stock ki'.led during the year of 1907 were electrocuted. Dur
ing the frequent electrical storms in
this 8ection, the surplus electricity in the atmosphere Is collected by the wire fences and not infrequently the
penetrated the car. Out lu Industry.
the factory district, another car was stoned, but the service continued uninterrupted after deputy sheriffs wer ! stationed along the lines iu the suburban parts of the city. For two days past it has been charged that the professional strikebreakers! have been Jesting wit., people and making remarks along the lines to Inflame
fences become so charged as to deal them Into attack, in order to aid the instant death to anv stock that comes tympany in securing the martial law
in contact with them. Many miles of
to be in good condition and the committees report shows that the association has been very successful during the past year. The amount of insurance carried by this company during the year was $ l.oOO.Ol'O, on more than 4.000 policies. Daniel Dilling of Hagerstown, is secretary and treasurer of the association and has charge of the accounts aud the pamcnt of losses. The association was unusua'iy prosperous during the year 1907 and no gTeat losses were sustained.
witnesses has been summoned by tha state to appear against Mrs. Graham.
PRESIDING ELDER COMPLETES CIRCUIT
Fox has taken the petition for the sale of real estate and the contentions advanced by Clifford, under advisement. The estate of Mrs. Hebble consists of a farm near East Germantown, whicfi is valued at about SII'.Ocm.
LOSES A LIMB BECAUSE OF GANGREKE
The Rev. Guild Finds Affairs Up to Normal.
WEEK OF PRAYER. The Firfct United Brethren church will continue services this week. Services will begin at 7:30 p. m. All are cordially invited.
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Rain by Monday night;
rain or snow and colder Tuesday.
Presiding Elder Thomas H. Guild, of the Richmond district of the North
Indiana conference of the Methodist j
Episcopal church, has just completed j
his third quarterly circuit of the dis- OHIOFair Mondav. . m .
Strict and reports that the interests of colder, Tuesday. ., , ,, 'the church are receiving the best of j '
There is every reason to believe the I nagerSIOWn. Man UnuergOeS : attention. He states that the statis of HICKS Behind the storr t.i
auairs uiruu&uuut iu unrm,- . -d tonrhin? the 13th t istfc
vw- "w. i iir nv up are tn Mnprt wotta
district attorney still Is convinced that Thaw is medically insane a paranoic, whose malady is incurable. In view of this he was willing at the first trial
that maw snouid be adjudged dement- pher, south of town, who has been sufed and sent to Mattewan asylum for fering for several weeks with ganthe criminal Insane, although he feltjgrene, had his limb amputated Suntud urged, before the jury that upon a i&y.
An UDeratlOn. i:' ;; ;r"", on ana toacams me istu to 15th, nt
" ' men barometric nressnro. ircctorw
Hagerstown. Ind., Jan. 6 Philip Pi . COTTAGE PRAYER MEETING. , gales and much colder. This condl-
tion will pass eastward and touch A cottage prayer meeting will be most parts of the country in progressheld at the home of J. W. Mount, Rich-jive order before the next storm per-
Beginning with the first of the year, the Home telephone rates were advanced to $18 for residence phones and $33 for business houses. While it is thought by some to be high, yet it is argued by representatives of the company, that when it is taken into consideration that $.(0."n.h was invested in the new automatic system and tnat little or nothing was realized on
the disposition of the old appliances, tle ijw- rates are not unreasonable.
The new system is so satisfactory
they have begged for. The deputy sheriffs were ordered to watch the men
wire strands are used on a single cluS(?Iv. As a result one car was nm farm, this representing a large amount : to the police station from Avondale. of metal. A farmer in speaking of the; by deputy sheriffs, and the train crewmatter the other day said, "A law : was taken ff an(1 piad jn Jail, should be passed compelling all build-i jn several churches in the city yesers of wire fence to place a grounding ' terday there was not tne regular minwire every other post and in this way;ister ln the puit, for the reason that the electrical charge could be carried . tney on tbe Btreet corners doing off-' deputy sheriff duty. Bankers and men In this connection another interest- of aU prcfe8Bion8 are being sworn In Ing discovery was made by a pursual for day and aji.night service. of the books of this association. It ... ,. . A . j& m' Soldiers on the Alert. was discovered that of aff the fires 1 caused by lightning, in every Instance; The soldiers today were marched It was shown that the houses were ovtr the c,ty and lnto suburbs lr either without, or improperly provided squads for exercise ln the beautiful with lightning rods. When lightning sunshine, but none have yet done ono rods were first introduced thy were j moment s service for the city other generally accepted as a protection, but than by their presence. Muncie is only a few years ago scientists revers- making a desperate effort to prevent ed their views and denounced the calling on them for aid. other than lightning rod, as a "big fake." Time Knowledge of their presence in case of has. however, vindicated the lightning emergency. The change of living ha
rod, while statistics compiled by the developed some sickness among tbe fire insurance companies prove them soldiers and the hospital corps is get-
Indispensable.
FELL DOWN STAIRS AND BROKE FINGER
ting busy tonight Keeking quarters.
The mob spirit was principally engendered by the shooting and stoning of citizens last Wednesday by the strikebreakers, the hoodlum element taking the cue for destruction of property from the universal condemnation expressed by the masses for the men and company because of this unprovoW. ca act. The saloons remained c!o?ed
Aaed Man Gets Spvprp Fall at Monday- but no olher regu,ar buflne8" nyeu man ueib severe ran ai, di,turbe. exc(,pt that VT9
His Home.
not allowed to stop and converse oa the streets. Three big factories the
j nut and holt works, the Klts-lmaa Warren ahumard, aged T7 vears. fell ' Brof ., wire fence factory and the Uroc-
that but few people complain of the j down stairs Saturday night at his erick A. Quinlan bolter works rfntcadvance iu rates. The new system is j home, fi'4 North I street and Keverelv ri operations today, riving emploj-
being perfected as fast as possible. It will not be long until practically all of the irregularities will be eliminated.
COMMUNION SERVICE 0NNEXT SUNDAY Rev. Lyons to Deliver First Sermon Wednesday.
bruiaed his right sid; and broke a fin- mnt to I.' idle mn. Tbe strikers
ger. It is not thought that tin injuries will prove of a serious nature despite his advanced a.Z'--
MINSTREL MAN HAS TYPHOID FEVER
Frank Buckingham Forced to Leave Theatricals.
made the peculiar proioition to.thu company o arbitrate the proposition whether there is anything to arbitrate or not.
ATTEMPT TO ARBITRATE. The Big Strike Made at AndersonResults Kept Secret.
Anderson, Ind.. Jan. C At the general offices of the Indiana Union Traction company here yesterday. President Brady, General Manager NIcholl
and Board Chairman George F. McCullough. received Banker Carroll K.
McCulloush. City Controller Hardie, Frank RurkinhTn-of Vm-th vtr,- Kawr Tcrfcune and others of a Citi-
Dr. S. R. Lyons will deliver a ser
mon Wednesday evening at the week
night meeting at 7:30 o'clock at the teenth street, who has been with the?zens committee with a proposition tor
auoA avecutt Tuesdax. evenluc
Reid Memorial church. Services will Donnelly and Hatfield Minstrels since arbitration of the strike of motormea
also be held on Thursday and Friday last fall, has returned home owing to and conductors on tne city car line, nights at 7:20 o"clock and Saturday illness of typhoid fever. He was com- After the conference of three hours th
afternoon at 3 o'clock. These services pelled to leave the company at 'Citizens committee declined to make
will lead up to the communion which
will be observed 24:0 o'clock, a. m.
Sbbath next, at
Shreeveport. La. He has been stage i Ftatement until this afternoon, when
carpenter and electrician for the com-'it will. report to a mas meeting of clfc. a nj. ian at the Grand ojera, house.