Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 339, 20 January 1908 — Page 1

LABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. vol. xxxi r. 'o.m K1C1IMOXI), IXD. MONDAY K VEX INC i, .JANI'AISV 1!MS. sin(;le copy, cents. AGAIN BURNING STORY OF HER DOWNFALL IS TOLD GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES ENTER " THE FINALSTR!"TCH NEGRO FIGHTERS AHf THBOWI-OUT OF DOORS Men Giving Names of Smith And School Arrested. THREE MINERS ARE RESCUED FROM HOLE AETER CONFINEMENT The Search for the Victims Who Perished In the Terrible Boyerlown Fire Ccmtinues

THE RICHMOND

FAT,

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Takes Place on Witness Stand To-

. day to Do What She Can to Free Her Accused Husband. SWING AND BEDROOM SCENES ARE DESCRIBED. Her Relations With White Were Told to Thaw by Witness Who Promised to Marry Him Under a Threat. New York, Jan. 20. A large crowd fought for admission into the court loom when the T.aw trial was resumed this morning. Eveljn Ne.-ibit Thaw was the first whnes; called and I'ro-j-ecutor Jerome renewed his motion to exclude her testimony from the public. Justice Howling overruled die motion however, and tin; examination of Kvelyn was continued in public. Justice Dowling in passing on the motion of Jerome said that the law in New York state requires that the defendant be given a speedy and public trial. It 'appeared that Jerome's mo1 ion was additional play to win the sympathy of the jury and to influence its members against the defendant and his wife. Attorney Littleton for the defense took up the examination of the star "witness. In answer to hjs questions livelyn Thaw said she told Harry Thaw, when he asked her to marry him that she could not on account of lier relations with Stanford White. Prosecutor Jerome objected but his objection was overruled. Evelyn told liiui how she was first taken to "White's studio in Twenty-fourth street ly a girl, whose mother knew hers. She also visited the places in the tower und had lunch there. In another, room White had a velvet swing in which he swung the girls. White she fiaid in a few days sent her mother to Pittsburg and her mother, before leaving told her to go out with none but "White. White sent a carriage nightly to the theatre for her, she claimed. After being asked one night she went to the tower, expecting to meet a number of other girls, but found only "White there. They went through the different rooms and 'finally to the bedroom where there was a table and a bottlo of wine. After offering many objections she drank the wine. Prosecutor Jerome objected to Attorney Littleton asking the witness nny leading questions, and the- court upheld him. Harry Thaw sat with his iead in his hands and was much affected by his wife's story. Evelyn paid that after drinking the wine she remembered nothing for some time. When she recovered she found her clothes had been taken from her body. She dressed herself and reached the liotel early in the morning. White then had a seat with her in the cab. He later told her to say nothing about what had happened as he would take rare of her. She said Thaw was greatly affected by the story, when she told It to him. She finally accepted his offer of marriage because he threatened to kill himself. When young Mrs. Thaw has concluded her testimony and has been put through the fire of cross-examination the elder Mrs. Thaw probably will conclude her evidence. This will leave but threw or four witnesses rjfore the ix alienists retained by the deTeiifce are put upon the stand to auswer a hypothetical question covering all th? testimony. Two of these physician Brs. Evans and Wager, will tell of the examination they made of Thaw in the Tombs prison following the tragedy. From one who is closo to the district attorney s office it was learned tonight that Mr. Jerome expects Thawwill either be convicted of murder in the second degree or found insane and sent to Matteawan. In the eveVit of a disagreement, however, it is . ,said Thaw will not be released, but wilhba sent to the Tombs for a third trial. GUILFORD COLLEGE SUFFERS LOSS King's Hall Valued at About $7,000, Burns. In a letter to the Rev. Allen Jay of this city, an account is given of the destruction by firo ,r Kings hall, Guilford College, Guilford. . C. The origin is not known. Flames were discovered first emerging- from the windows and doors of the basementThe loss is estimated at about $"0,000. The college carried bur $7,000 insurance. $5,300 on the building and $1,500 on the furniture. MISS DONEY IS SICK. Miss Edith Doner, of Cambridge Oity. a student at Karlham. was ,obliged to leave school this morning, suffering from a severe attack of the jfrin. i

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Here are two photographic views of the search for victims of the B overt own. Pa., opera house horror. The picture at the top shows the h liding of bodies of victims from the second floor of the ruins. The picture below shows firemen bearing the body of one of those who perished in the theatre from the scene uf the disaster.

GOLDEN

WEDDING

WAS CELEBRATED Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mitchell Figure in Happy Occasion Saturday. MANY GUESTS RECEIVED. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN WERE SERVED AT DINNERWERE RECIPIENTS OF MANY PRESENTS. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mitchell. North Seventh street, celebrated their golden wedding auniversary. Over one hundred friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, attended the reception held at their homes and showered congratulations and gifts upon them. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were married at Abington in isr.s and have always lived in this county. Mr. Mitchell is J years of age and his wife is t.S years old. They have lived continuously in Richmond for about thirty years. Mr. Mitchell was for twenty-eight years foreman of the wheel department at the Hoosier Drill works. He is now retired from active business. The reception held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Saturday lasted all afternoon. Luncheon was served from o to ." o'clock in the afternoon and a dinner was served in the evening from 7 to U o'clock. One hundred and twenty-seven guests were served at both meals. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell received from various relatives in gold. Pres ents received from friends included various articles of gold, souvenir spoons, chinaware. etc. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Mitchell and Mrs. Charles Hanes and daughter. Miss Kern. assisted the aged couple in receiving the guests. The out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mitchell and daughter. Miss Margaret, of Liberty. Ind.: Mrs. Nettie ; Gibson of Columbus, hid.: Mr. and Mrs. Gibson of Peru and the Rev. L. V Jones of Greenville. O. TWO MEN IN FOR - DRUNK! - , Dr. John Pauley, a veterinary surgeon. and Ed Hiatt. faced Judge Converse in the city court this morning in answer charges of being drunk on Sunday. Pauley entered a plea of j guilty and was fined S5 and costs. ' Hiatt plead not guilty end his case was! eout iuiied. untjl tomorrow.

TO FROLIC AS IN DAYS OF CHILDHOOD Members of Tourist Club Will Don Costumes of By-gone Days and Play Games of Olden Times. ONLY ON ONE EVENING WILL FROLIC BE HELD. Fair Members Will Wear Pinafores and Braided Tresses And Men Will Don Little Lord Fauntleroy Suits. 'school days, school days. Dear old golden rule days: Readin aud "ritin" and 'ritbmatic Taught to the tune of a hickory stick!" Members of the ''tipper" social set. commonly known as Richmond's "Four Hundred." will have a frolic on the evening of February 14. which is St. Valentine's day. Hack to the scenes of their childhood will the society people go on that date. Father time will wave his magic wand and they will all be transformed into children for St. Valentine's evening only. Members of the Tourist club, the most exclusive social organization in the city, have arranged for what they call "an unconventional evening" on

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reDruary 14. it nas icaneu out mat ; Slale against Alva J. Hunt, charged this "unconventional" entertainment j wit:i Rrand larceny and embezzlement will be a children's party. All the:win be heard next week. This rP

club members will attend the affair dressed as lads and lassies. Society queens will be seen dressed in pinafores with hair done up " in braids and hanging gracefully down their backs. The men will be attired jn becoming Little Lord Fauntleroy costumes. Staid conventional manners will be cast aside and all the grown-up children will romp to their hearts content. Old uu-nioned games - as "postoffice," "pussy's in the ner. "hide-and-go-cck" and others. which in the minds of some of the club members are but dim. hazy recollections. may be piayeu ITHE WEATHER PROPHET. N INDIANA Fair and warmer. Tuesday. .OHIO Fair Tuesday.

ACCUSED MAN CHAFES UNDER CONFINEMENT

William Lett Charged With Petit Larceny, Does Not Like Jail Life. PLEA OF NOT GUILTY. HE WAS ARRAIGNED IN CIRCUIT COURT TODAY. BUT HEARING OF THE CASE WAS POSTPONED FOR ONE WEEK. William Lett, colored, will be tried Tuesday of next week in the circuit court before a jury on a charge of petit, larceny. IajH was arraigned in court this morning and entered a plea of not guilty. Judge Fox read a letter from a Portland. Ind., attorney stating jthat Lett had always borne a good reputation in that city and that he was confident the young mn was not guilty of the charge preferred against him. Lett will be defended by Pauper Attorney P. J. Freerur.n. Lett is charged with having stolen a watch from the home of George R. Dilks. Spring Grove. I!" has been confined in the county jail for some time awaiting trial ar.d this morning when the hearing of his case was postponed a week longer the youn man was considerably vcseJ. "I'm tired of the jail. I want to get out." he said to the court. Mr. Freeman then stated that this week he would be out of the ci'y most of the time and that it would be impossible to defend Lett until next week. Anomer criminal case, that of the is called for trial Monday and it is probable that it will not be concluded until Tuesday or Wednesday. If this be so L,ett will again be disappointed by having his trial postponed. BOOKS FOR THE. LIBRARY collection of Eariham college Is Increased. Through the kindness of - the Iatej Zaccheus Test, the library at Earlham j was the recipient ot a number of good books on mental philosophy and other topics. This collection with the new books that have been bought lately, runs the total of new literature up to ,0X volumes!

With the Call for the State Convention, Charles W. Miller and James E. Watson Sprint for Finish.

SIXTH DIST. CANDIDATE IS APPARENTLY LEADING. Many Politicians Say That Ifj The Convention Were Heidi TnHav Hp WnitlH Rp Nnmi- I nated Beveridge Shaky. With the call for the state convention issued, the entries in the republican race for governor are now settling down for the finish. The party workers front one en 1 of Indiana U the other are deeply interested, and the convention promises to be he most spectacular in the history of the party. As matters now stand. Congressman James E. Watson, of'ltushville, is generally regarded as the leading candidate, and five out of every six politicians are now saying that if the convention should be held within the next week he would receive the nomination. Hut the convention is not to be held until the first week of April, so there are more than two months in which the other candidates may close up the gap, if such exists. As far as sentiment is concerned, politicians generally say that there is more in favor of Watson than either of his opponents. He is popular perI sonally ami a grand campaigner. The i expression is heard on all sides, now that he has a fine chance ot landing the nomination early in the convention if his forces are well organized. On the other hand, Charles W. Milganizer. He is ered'ted with beln.1? able to marshal his forces so that it will be difficult to get away from them. Taylor is also looked upon as a good campaigner, but not the equal of Miller as an organizer. However, he is said to have put that end of his campaign in the hands of men who know the game. From almost any point of view that may be taken the race is one of the most interesting that has taken place in the party. There i less factional strife connected with it than was anticipated. Some of Watson's opponents among the radical Beveridge men have recently caused the publication of stories that he proposes to run against Senator Reveridge two years hence if he is elected governor, but his closest friends say that any statement to that effect is lidiculous. Watson is not a candidate for the senate and will serve out his term as governor, if lie is nominated and elected, it is said, and this would take him two years beyond the expiration of Senator Beveridge's t?rm. It is rumored frequently that Senstor Beveridge has more to fear from a combination between Governor Hanly and Lieutenant Governor Miller than from Watson and his followers. as it is said that the .governor, who is very friendly to the lieutenant governor, might become a candidate for the senate if the lieutenant governor should be elected to succeed him. Vice President Fairbanks and his political manager, Joe Kealmg, are keeping their hand off the governorship race. 1'p to this time there has not been as much said about the Beveridge and Hemenway-Fairbanks factions as usual, and it is not likely that they will be drawn into this fight, as in former campaigns, for places on the state ticket. KILLED MAN WITH A BEAN SHOOTER Man Thought So and-Then Suicided. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 20 "I kiiled a man with a bean-shooter and I will pr.y the penalty," written with a pencil on blood spattered paper, was the note left by Charles Deskell, aged IS, a shoe cutter, who killed himself here today by slashing his throat with a razor. His body and the note were found by hia mother. It is thought from the note mat ne Dexame suoaen3v insane.

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FROM CHURCH TO SALOON.

Two negroes giving the names of School and Smith started a street fight Saturday night in the north end of town. After battling with each other iii front of a church they retired to a nearby saloon and resumed hoptlitios. The irate saloon keeper and bartender took a hand in the trouble and threw the scrappy colored men out of the side door, where the poHcf gathered them in. CM lini V Ull I flf UlT U liLL 1 II ILL DL ACTIVE CANDIDATE Will Seek the republican Nomination for County Treasurer. OTHER CANDIDATES BUSY. ARE WORKING HARD AND THERE IS GENERAL INTEREST IN WAYNE COUNTY POLITICS AT THE PRESENT TIME. Today Jerome Shurley, a well known resident of this city, announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for county treasurer. This an nouncement will be received in the nature of a surprise as it was generally believed that Albert Albertson, who for several weeks has been the only candidate in the field for thfs office, would have no opposition. Mr. Shurley has for twenty years been connected with the live stock buying and shipping firm of Gaar & Shurley. He resides in the first ward and four years ago represented that ward mittee. He takes a great interest in politics and has always been an active party worker. It is the general opinion that there will be no more candidates to take the field for the county treasurerBhip. The candidates for the various offices are working hard on their causes at the present time, and there is general Interest being taken In politics. The most interesting fights that are now on are between the candidates for assesand trustee of Wayne township. FIRST VICTIMS OF LOITERING STATUTE James and Walter Mack Ar raigned and Fined in The City Courut. SCOPE OF LAW VERY WIDE. James and Walter Mack, arrested Friday for vagrancy, were arraigned I in the city court this charged with loitering. morning and' Both men en-! tered pleas of guilty and each was,

fined $3 and costs. The two Macks clothes and put on those left In th are the first victims of the 'loitering change room just before going down ordinance recently enacted by the city ; the shaft on the morning of December council. When arraigned in court Sat- 4. Here in the small room Was held urday charged with a violation of the tfte first reception. The rescued meu state vagrancy law they both plead were greeted by the hand clasps of old not guilty. The scope of the loitering friends. The eyes of all were banordinance is so wide that the two men daged. for their long term of Impristoday evidently recognized the futility :0nme-nt in the gloomy drift had sa

or pieaaing not guilty to its violation. GRIP CLUTCHES MANY STUDEKTS AT EARLHAM Nurseries in Both the Dormitories Crowded. COACH VAIL IS A VICTIM.

rescue of the three miners. The mea There are twenty-five cases of grip re m"cb wrought up over their esc-ap at Earlham at present. The nurser- and attending excitement. .Being reles in both of the dormitories are eipient of attention from every on crowded and the nurse for the girls is has prevented their teilicg any con

herself quite ill. Coach Vail is one of the afflicted ones and the different teams win na-ve to aepena upon themselves for some time.

Forty-six Days Spent by Three Men in Pit Over a Thousand Feet Below the Surface of The Earh.

WAVE OF REJOICING SWEPT THE TOWN. Public Reception Will Be Tendered the Men Affectionate Greetings With Their Families. SENTENCE STORY OF 4fe DAYS IN MINE TOMB. PLACE. Alpha shaft, Giroux mine. Ely, Xev. VICTIMS. A. D. Bailey. P. J. Brown. Fred McDonald. FEATURES OF CAVE-IN. Miners wrfe caught iQ shaft 1,03 feet below imrlace on morning of IVc 4. Cable of cage broke and thousands of tons of debris fell down shaft. Five men struggled up ladders to pumping station, eighty-rive feet from place men were working, but half way up iwo Greeks were dashed to death by falling timbers. Three leached the pumping utation, where a strong roof withstood the falling debris. Victims madethemselves heard by pounding on six inch water pipe. This pipe saved the prisoners' lives. Food and t'rlrk were lowered through the ple and telephone communication wat established. Work of removing the debris has been carried on constantly. ! the . JUeu .. , being ... liberated Saturday night. Jan. 18. Ely, Nev. Jan. 20. This city is still all excitement and rejoicing over the rescue of the three miners from the Alpha shaft of the Giroux mine. Simultaneously with the signal "hoist away, given when H. A. Bailey stepped Into the bucket at the 1 foot level, a ringing cheer broke forth on the surface, echoes ran riot through the hills over and over again, proclaiming the glad tidings. ' Two hundred people greeted the rescued men as they stepped from th mouth of the shaft. Bailey almost fainted as he was helped from th bucket. When being led from th shaft to the change house he inquired for his wife. Hexwas told that sh had been kept at home on account of the illness of one of their children, also that she preferred to greet her hutband in her own home. MacDonald'4 brother stood foremost from the crowd when he was hoisted, and MacDonaid's first words to him were, "Is that Arthur?" adding, "God, it's good to gel out of that hellhole." Matter-of-fact Brown's first word were: "Give me a chew of tobacco; 4M on the bum already." and, laughing, he was taken to the change room. Her all the men removed their working weakened their eves it was necessarvto shield them from the light. Bailey's eagerness to be again wi'.h his family soon led him to say he wa. able to walk home, a distance of half a mile. Two friends accompanied him. His welcome there Is a story for the reader's imagination. but there is no happier family in the Robinson district. There has been no work of any kind done In the vicinity today. In fact it has been a "legal holiday" by general consent. Apparently every man and child la the tity of Ely has made an effort la imake known their happiness over th nected story of personal cxptriencei under ground, and they have ake4 that no such requests be made of them. MacDonald said: "We thought we would never get out alive, but I ha been. oh. so happily disappoints ia that doubt that I can only think and feel my happiness now." The widespread Interest felt throughout the whole country for the welfare of the heroes is evidenced by the great number of telegrams reselv-f-d and sent out from the city concerning their rescue- A public reception is to be given the men at the Steptoe near the middle -of the week. Other demonstrations in their bocor will fol-