Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 6, 14 November 1908 — Page 1
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PROSECUTOR OF SAM FRANCISCO GRAFTERS SHOT Morris Haas, Saloon Keeper And Former Convict Whom Attorney Exposed, Makes Attack.
RICIMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, li)08.
REVENGE WAS MOTIVE FOR THE MAN'S DEED.
Said He Would Not Have Been Man, Had He Not Killed At
torney After Expose Heney
Recovers.
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San Francisco, Nov. 14. Special
Prosecutor Francis J. Heney, who was Bliot Friday, slept quietly last night untl rested easier today and physicians are hopeful of recovery. They will probe for the bullet, which probably is in the muscles of the neck. Haas stands firm on bis statement Khat he committed the deed because Heney exposed his prison career and maintains that no other person is involved.
CRAFTY CHINAMAN MAY BE SENT BACK TO EMPIRE Government Brings Action Against Long John, Formerly of Richmond, Who Stole Long Chong's Papers.
DIPPED PAPERS IN TUB ' TO BLUR SIGNATURE.
WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY LAMPHERE
MRS. BELLE GUNNESS.
saioonist
STORY OF THE CRIME.
Heney Sat in
COUNTESS VON BERNSTORFF. The Countess Von Bernstorff is the wife of the new German Ambassador to the United States. She is an American woman, being the daughter of Ed
ward Luckemeyer of New York.
Fires While Court.
PUBLIC QUESTIONS
TO BE DISCUSSED
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 13. Francis J. Heney, special prosecutor of the accused grafters of San Francisco, was shot and. seriously injured late
ivMnv nftprnoon bv Morns Haas, a
- Jewish saloonkeeper and ex-convict,
while seated in court during the third
.trial of Abraham Ruef for bribery. Mr yaft R00SeVelt tO Hold a
iieney is exijecitm iu
o'clock last evening he was conscious and said: "I will live to prosecute him." Heney? has been the leading official In the prosecution of municipal corruption In this city. In the second Ituef trial Haas had. been passed as a juror when one day in court Heney
dramatically produced a photograph of
him taken at San Quentin penitentiary, taken in convict's garb and crop
ped head and with his number across his breast. Haas collapsed in court, admitted he had been a convict, and was immediately discharged from the
jury. He says Heney's uncoverin of his past had ruined his business. Brain Not Hurt by Bullet.
Th nhvslclans in attendance on
Conference Sunday at White House.
H. H. Englebert Called to Cincinnati as Witness Against Long John Who Fights to Stay in United States.
Ray Lamphere, who is charged with killing and burning Mrs. Gunness and her three children, is now on trial at Laporte, Ind. The defense alleges that the remains of the woman found were not those of Mrs. Gunness, but of a cadaver. The defense also will attempt to prove that Mrs. Gunness still lives-. Notwithstanding these claims the state will attempt to prove that the woman is dead and Ray Lamphere was directly responsible for her demise.
TO BE PRESIDENT'S GUEST.
PRESIDENT DESIRES "TO KNOW
WHAT TAFT THINKS OF 'CERTAIN MEASURES TO BE ADVOCATED IN MESSAGE.'
Washington, Nov. 14. President
elect Taft ' is to be a guest at the
white house from tonight until Mon-
Heney expressed the opinion that he day morning. He is coming here after would live. They had ascertained delivering a speech in New York tothat the bullet, which had entered the d and wm spend all o Sunday with
right cheek, had lodged under the lett WftftRAWi
His visit is declared to be without
j significance, and yet the greatest sig
nificance is attached to it.
It is understood that the president
and his chosen successor will discifss
and agree upon a number of public
ear and had not entered' his brain as
at first feared.
Mr. Henev was taken from the
Emergency hospital to the Lane bos
pital, where he is receiving the care
of skilled surgeons. The shooting ocinrred at 4:22 o'clock in the after
noon. Judge Lawlor had a few mo
xnents before declared a five minutes bearing upon tne policies of the next
recess of court ana tne jury naa ien adminIstration.
the room. The Dresident has completed the
Former Supervisor "Gallagher was in nftrai outline of his last annual mes-
the witness chair, and Heney, seated sage afld ig sald to consider it import-
at a table a lew teet away, was uuk- t tliat its chief recommendations
In with him. Haas came in, walked shall have tne apDroval of the presi
behind Heney, and without a word, dent-eiect in order that there may be when only four feet away, fired a re- agTeement upon those "policies which
volver, hitting Heney in tne rigni. may not be put into effect until Mr,
temple. . 1 Taft has taken office
Peoole Too Stunned for Violence. I In his message the president will
As soon as Heney was shot Judge treat of questions that deal with the t i fh. Honr nf th onurt- future development of the country and
room closedvand no one was allowed with legislation which necessarily will
to leave. The trial has been carried continue into the administration 01 nis
- r9monWS nii inrt Fulton successor
.tree". Th Troon, is small and was Orally, Mr. Roosevelt wants to o.Qt. Tr ws Know what Mr. Taft thinks about
"I .;r:"7 -ard KaasI these questions, and while he does not
he People in the courtroom and the expect to decide Mr. Taft'. Pdlcie.for : : 1Z K, w fho bim, he wishes to be assured that
jm67 kV ' suc'i of his own policies as have the
Tey lay on the dirty floor of the approval of Mr Taft are not to be dis
courtroom. His head was proped up
In the federal court at Cincinnati yesterday, Long John, a former Richmond Chinaman, was given a hearing on a charge filed by the United States immigration officials that he had no registration papers and was subject to deportation. One of the witnesses in
the case was H. H. Englebert, ortnis city, who fcong John claimed, had been a witness to his registration papers. Mr. Englebert testified that he had been a witness to the papers of Long Chong, which papers the federal authorities claim Long John stole. The case is a most peculiar one and of especial interest to Richmond people, as both Chinamen figuring in the case, formerly resided here. The incidents that cropped out during the hearing of the case included the daring theft of registration papers; the story of the birth of the first Chinese baby in Indiana; the method of smuggling Chinamen across the Canadian border into Buffalo; how Long Chong made a fortune in the laundry business in Richmond and lost it playing the races at New Castle, Ind., and other features too numerous to mention.
The tale that was told the federal
judge at Cincinnati yesterday by the I
immigration officers is about as fol
lows:
Several years ago Long Chong came
to Richmond and engaged in the laun
dry business on North Eighth street. He was industrious and did a big busi
ness, so when he left nere aixmt three years ago, he was regarded as a fairly wealthy man. After going to Dayton
he removed shortly to New Castle, where he married a Chinese woman. A year later newspaper correspondents in the Flower City sent out dispatches to the effect that the first Chinese baby ever born in this state had arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Long Chong. Chong later began to develop sporting proclivities and bought a race horse. He wagered heavily on the races and with such uniform ill luck that he soon lost his bank roll. This so worried Chong that his health began to rapidly fail him. New Castle friends took pity upon him and raised
a purse, with which he and his wife returned to China. Chonz was not satisfied at the
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COUNTY LOCAL
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BE REPEALED
OPTION
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State Chairman Jackson Tells
Democratic Editors That Vote Shows State Desires Action.
MARSHALL OUTLINES
PORTION OF MESSAGE
Desires Legislature to Pay
Men for Services to State And Not for Their Political Ability.
State in Lamphere Case Thinks It Will Prove Mrs. Gunness Is Dead.
Slight Snow Flurries Today; Heavy Fall Reported Elsewhere
"It snows," cried the schoolboy, etc. Richmond was given a real hint of winter today. Early in the morning it "spitted snow," as tme man put it, and at noon there was another light snow flurry. Dark, low-lying clouds hovered over the city all day, foretelling of a probable heavy snow storm in the immediate future. C. C. & L. and Panhandle trains ar-
by overcoats while Dr. H. E. Franck, who was the first physician to reach
his side, examined the wounded man
Dr. Franck, after a hurried examination, gave It as his opinion that Heney
could not recover, as the bullet seem
ed to have penetrated the brain.
The wounded man then was re
moved In an ambulance and Haas, heavily guarded by police, was taken
way to jail. Assailant Full of Liquor.
After the crowd in the court room recovered from their first amazement,
they clamored to get at Haas, but the officers had jammed him into a corner of the Jury box and no one was allowed to get near him. Haas was under the Influence of liquor and talked wildly. "Heney ruined my business by exposing my prison record." he said. "I wouldn't consider myself fit to live if I hadnt killed him. I did it for the benefit of humanity. There are thousands who wanted me to do it. I would not have brought my four chil
dren into the world to bear such a brand if I had known that the fact that I was an ex-convict would be
come known." Then, after a moment, he said:
"I have everything to live for. I
Tiave a wife and children. But I
wouldn't help shooting this man even
carded after March 4.
There is the cabinet question to be
considered and the character of resis
tance Mr. Taft will offer to the de
mands of the reactionaries
Mr. Taft and the president have not met since the election, and they are
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riving in the city today were covered with a heavy coating of snow. Traction cars from Indianapolis were also snow covered and their crews report a three inch fall of "the beautiful" in Indianapolis and vicinity. The snow flurries here were accompanied by sharp, bitting wind and the indications are that Richmond is in the path of real winter weather.
questions which will have a strong . f father and he sailed for
Canada. He was eventually smuggled across the Canadian border into Buffalo. Chong was arrested but he proved that he had registration papers in this city and was released. After securing a duplicate of his reg
istration papers Chong went to Day
ton. It is in this city that Long John
makes his entry into the case.
John Crafty Celestial. It is claimed that John secured Chong's duplicate papers, having none
of his own, dipped them into a wash
tub and so blurred the ink that it was nearly impossible for them to be read. It is claimed John then sent the papers with his photograph to the immigration officials at Washington, representing the papers were made out to him. He asked that new papers be
prepared and forwarded to him. The crafty immigration officials by means of the number on the papers and by comparing John's photograph with the one they had of Chong discovered that John was attempting to secure registration papers by fraud and ordered his arrest. He was given a hearing before the United States commissioner at Dayton who ordered
MCLURE INDICTED Federal Grand Jury in Indianapolis Acts Against Richmond Young Man.
TAFT AND HUGHES
PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS
JAWBONE
EXAMINED.
DENTIST WHO DID GOLD BRIDGEWORK ON TEETH OF hKTfZ. GUNNESS AND JEWELER WHO SOLD RINGS, TESTIFY.
DID NOT PAY FOR COAL.
Indianapolis,x Ind.. Nov. .14. The federal grand jury today indicted Albert E. McClure of Richmond on a charge of using the mails to defraud. The
rcharge is he used the mails to get coal
from jobbers without paying for it.
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Watson Being Considered for Consul General to London
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Special to the Palladium. 1 Washington, D. C, Nov. 14. The
good angels of the republican party are busy trying to find places for the
"lame ducks." The latest proposition is that "Jim" Watson, who gave up his seat in congress to run for gover
nor of Indiana, and was defeated, shall be appointed consul general to London, the best paying position Mr. Taft will have " to bestow. Robert J. Wynne, formerly a Washington newspaper man and postmaster general from the time of the death of Henry C. Payne, until Mr. Cortelyou was ready
to take the job, now holds the London billet and is not at all anxious to let go. but as absence from the country
prevented his contributing In any way
to the Taft cause, he has no particular
claim.
"CharUa" Landla. of Indiana, -whose
defeat for congress' was one of the sur
prises of the election, is being urged
for public printer and is very likely to
get the job. Senator Chester I. Long,
of Kansas, defeated for re-election by
Joseph L. Bristow, will expect some
thing good from the administration.
and is likely to land an assastant sec retaryship of one of the departments
Judge Lacey of Iowa, for many years
a member o fthe house and who was
defeated by Gov. Cummins for the
senatorial nomination, is being boomed for commissioner of public lands As he served in the house as chair
man of the committee on public lands
he will prove a strong candidate.
A number of other prominent republicans fell by the wayside, and because they ha"e not yet put in their claims for consideration is no reason to believe the will not be beard from.
JOHN D. MOST
APPEAR IN COURT
To Testify in Suit v Against
Standard Oil.
New York, Nov. 14. John D. Rocke
feller has been subpoenaed to appear
in the hearing before the United
States commissioner in the federal suit to dissolve the Standard Oil Trust. He willingly will respond.
Monument Unveiled in
York Today.
New
New York, Nov. 14. Wm. H. Taft
and Governor Hughes delivered tne principal addresses at the unveiling of the momument to the Prison Ship
Martyrs at Fort Greene Park today. TheJ ceremonies preceded by the parade in which twenty thousand participated including the Tammany soci
ety and many detachments of United
States troops.
COMMITTEE MEETS.
The committee that is making prep
aration for the proposed corn school
to be held at Centerville in February
met this afternoon at the court house.
There was a good attendance. The
plans proposed seemed to meet the ap
proval of the committeemen.
Lanorte. Ind.. Nov. 14. Witnesses
were placed on the stand in the Lam
phere case today to establish the fact that the gold rings and bridge work In
the jawbone found In the ruins of the Gunness home were Ms. Gunness's nronertv. The jeweler who had
cleaned her rings for her and the dent
ist who fixed her teeth testified. The
prosecution is thoroughly satisfied it
will move the identification of the
body as that of Mrs. Gunness.
The state is well satisfied with the evidence which was presented Friday
for the purpose of proving that the
four bodies removed from the ruins of
the Gunness house on April 28 were
those of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her tnYee children.
The exhibits of the day included
the rings taken from the fingers or Mrs. Gunness and the children, a piece of cloth found clenched in the hand of one of the children, three pieces of bone identified by Coroner
Mack, Sheriff Smutzer and Drs. Wilcox. Long and Gray, and photographs of the scenes of the burned house and
the bodies.
Sheriff Smutzer, on the stand, described in detail the positions in
which the bodies were found in, the
ruins and he swore to the removal of the rings from the fingers of the bodies.
Dr. Long conducted the autopsy on
the younger girl, and on the stand described the condition of the burned body, and testified that he found holes
in the skulls of two of the children
He could not say what had cauaed
these holes. He on cross-examination testified that the hands of the girl were clenched, and admitted that this
is one of the symptoms where death
is caused by strychnine.
Dr. J. L: Gray, who conducted the
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UNCLE OF CZAR DIES OF PNE
IA
Grand Duke Alexis Expires Jo-day.
Paris, Nov. 14.-H3rand Duke Alexis of Russia, uncle of Emperor Nicholas died her today of pneumonia. He has
lived here since his retirement from
the cabinet which followed an official criticism. - He was sixty-five years of
Chief of Fire Department Now Has His Office Above His Horse
Ed Miller, chief of the fire department has a new office. It is a real-for-sure hole in the wall but is fitted up so nice and cozy that any girl would call it "the cutest little room you ever saw." Miller has been making a number of changes about the headquarters and the establishment of his office came in time. Upon entering the building, the office does not appear to any but a close observer. But look back behind the sliding pole and beyond the chemical wagon, then look up next to the celling and if the glass doors are open you will see It. It very much resembles a kingfisher's nest in a creek bank.
"The boys" of headquarters have to
indoors now. Sitting In front
of the building or across the street at the livery barn is no longer comfortable. The little front room was found too small for accommodations, because the chief's big desk took up too much room. The chief determined to move, if he could find another location. His Ingenuity stood him in good stead. It was only a shor. time ago. an extra stall had been placed in the rear of the room for "Lanky Jim," the chiefs horse. The chief likes his
horse pretty well and decided he
would not be an unfit associate. So
what did " he do bat pot a partition above the stall, box in the space, cut
throurh a stairway and secure a
couple of glass doors for a front. The
result Is his new office.
lndianaiHlis. Nov. 14. Indicating
very plainly that the democratic stato
organization favors the enactment of
a ward and township unit act which
would repeal the county local option
law. Chairman Jackson at a meeting
of members of the Democratic Editorial Association outlined Its future policy. Jackson was called in by the editors for an expression .regarding 0 course the organization would pursue in the liquor question. Jackson said the ieople had spoken on that subject by a majority of 14,000 and that the party should proceed to put in force the popular verdict by writing upon the statute books the ward and township local option bill promised in the democratic state platform. In the state chairman's opinion. It was
plainly the duty of the legislature to abide by the verdict of the people as expressed in the election.
Some of the most prominent demo
cratic editors In the state were pres
ent, and when Chairman Jackson had concluded they expressed their views.
Only one of them suggested that It would be "good politics" to keep th county option law on the statute
books. The sentiment in favor of
hewing to the line of the democratic
state platform, wa practically unanl- -mous. The editors who attended the meeting were A. D. Moffett. of Elwood; Lew M. Obannon, of Corydon;
W. M. Moss, of Linton; Isaac Straus.
of Rockville; Frank D. Haimbaugh, of
Muncie; J. O. Bebymer, of Tipton; W. S. Chambers, of New Castle; A. N. Crecraft. of Franklin; W. B. Westlake, of Marion; S. Paul Poynter, of Sullivan; Clay Metzker. of Plymouth, and Editor Simons of Monticello. Outlines Message. Governor-elect Marshall outlined last night a portion of bis message to the legislature: "I have not had time as yet." said he, "to cousider fully more than two recommendations, although, of course; I shall have a number of others. "I want to give the legislature an opportunity to put every officer on a salary basis. I want the members of the legislature in fixing salaries, if they will, to pay the mn for his services to t'.ie state, and not his ability as a politician. "I think there ought to be some uni
form system of bookkeeping, and that some method should be devised of -checking up once a year to see that
the expenditures are legitimate and economical."
Marshall said that farther than this
he did not care at the present time to discuss his coming message.
Several hundred job hunters are on
Marshall's trail.
"Appointments." said he, "shall be
made first in the interest of the people of the state, and next in the interest of the Democratic party. The only way
I know to assist the party is to select the very best men to hold the offices. I do not believe there is any other way to help the party." Foreigners Voted Illegally. The manner In which hundreds of foreigners were naturalized In Lake County, Indianapolis, South Bend and other cities and voted by the Republl1 cans may be investigated by the Democratic state organization. Edward Simon, Democrat, who was defeated for Representative from Lake County by Edward S. Wickoy, Republican, expects to contest the latter's election. Simon and other Democratic leaders allege that several hundred foreigners were naturalized in Lake County and voted illegally by the Republicans. If Simon's contest should hold good the vote tr some of the successful Republican candidates on the state ticket may be cut down. Si
mon will file his contest in the House, which will be Democratic.
A contest is to be filed against the election of two Republican Representatives in St, Joseph County on the ground that foreigners were voted illegally for them. In this city the Democratic leaders assert that the Republicans voted sev-
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THE WEATHER PROPHET. INDIANA Fair In south. snow flurries In north portion, . Saturday night; Sunday fair and warmer; light northwest, winds. OHIO Fair Saturday night and Sunday; warmer Sunday; light west winds.