ZZ J. STILL THEY GROW. Small Ads for Two "Wecis Ending Sept. 13, 1800 1,917 bept- Vi, 18J1 2,470 Increase, 559. Bettor and Better Each Day FORTY-SIXTH YEAR FilZSIMMOHS FREE, The Daring Outlaw's Most Marvelous Escape From the County Jail. OFFICIALS TCERE WAMED, But They Neglected to Take Any Additional Precautions to Frustrate the Plot. A LETTER SENT TO THE DISPATCH Ihe liberated Murderer Writes to Inform the Public of His Seasons for Leaving the Bastile. $1,000 EEWAED FOE HIS EECAPTUEE. Tha Entire Ctxmtrj lVilI Be Eansicled for the Desperado, but as Tet There Is Ltttls Clew to His Vrhereibwts. TIME KOVEL HZEOES A.EE ALL FAE DISTAKCED ETWEEN midnight and daylight yesterday morning Frederick Car rolltaa Fitzsimmons, who killed Detective David H. Gilkinson, regained his liberty, and within a few hours sent through pthe mails to The Dis. PATCH a letter boasting of his marvelous escape. "With the aid of a few little instruments and his own wonderful ingenuity and courage, he cut his war out of the county jail, and has thus far baffled all pursuers. The affair has caused as much excitement as the famous murder for which he was to &tand trial nex Monday. In police circles nothing else is thought of, and officers are working without rest. . The County Com missioners have offered $1,000 for his capt ure. The prize will be well earned by the plucky man who gets it. Fitzsimmons is desperate, and will kill on the slightest provocation. An Earnest Investigation Promised. "Warden Berlin and other officials of the jail have been accused of seriously neglect ing the proper regulations of such an insti tution. The Prison Board will take active steps toward finding out the responsible parties. The escape was effected abont 2 o'clock yesterday morning, but was not known until tour hours later. The Dis rATOH pave th: first intimation to the public at 8 o'clock, half an hour before others knew of it. The escape recalls many stories of thrill ing events in the life of the most noted Frederick Carrolton ritzsimmons. criminal ever held in the county jail, the murder of Detective Gilkinson and Fitz ijimmons' spirited battle for liberty. Por tions of his life were like chapters in the lurid tales of border life so dear to boyish readers. The. Eent of a Desperate Career. But surpassing all his deeds of daring and shrewd schemes was his flight from jail and justice yesterday. Urged on almost to frenry by an approaching trial for murder, he cut the bars of his cell and crept through a space that to a man actuated by milder motives would have been a physical impos sibility. Thirty feet of smooth -nail were scaled with the agility of a monkey, and with no other assistance than a frail cord ard the shadow of impending sentence. Clinging with one hand to a window, h assisted a friend outride to cut aw iy me bars, and while an unconscious keeper was sitting comfortably a few yards away, he slipped to the street below and disappeared from view. Not all the encrcetic efforts of county and city officers have produced one clew as to his whereabouts, and his chances for finally escaping justice ere apparently of the best. m Ho Writes to the Dispatch. After gaining his freedom, with an assur ance almost sublime, he calmly mailed a letter to The Dispatch telling of his ex periences in confinement and intimating that the plan of escape had been boiling in his brain for many days back. The follow ins is the lerter, as produced in another column in fac samile, couched in terms that can leave no doubt as to the genius and intellect of the man: Bastille de Frrrsntnta, ) August 8, 1891, Soptember14. I or the Public: What constitutes individuality are tho different tratcs, taits, etc. Fate has so de creed that for some five months past I should reside at the Allegheny County Jail. Now this institution does not possess all the comforts or attractions as the Anderson. The atmosphere Is foul and unwholesome. Tho diet not such as to tempt the epicure. The exercise of 2 hours in 24 approach solitary confinement. Tho unchanging programme of each successive day- Make Life Monotonous. Hence if tho instruments of ingenuity and nerve can effect my Irving in other more in-- "r tK?cf X-7- A . - i LrrfS sZlAK& " - X . K 3 .-! S-tiJ 'rrisi . rrrT v Vfa jLurX w - w y? Cr&-c'lt 'VLlytV 1 f J- - r,S- r 7 ZaCfZ lyrJvL '&JLJ: (Uk5 JC-C t4-d riting hostleries, who can blame I? If In the transformation others are sot harmed, why not repeat as appro priate the creat nlaver's words. "All is well than ends well?" This is the first time I was' ever imprisoned and Liberty or Death will be my motto. Let the jslouth hounds loo&o of the lamp-post-Paddy-Murphy calibre and see what it will avail them? Respectfully, T. C. FlTESIMMOHS. The first date plainly shows that the writer felt confident of being able to make his escape as far back as August 8. It was written then and held until he gained his liberty and could mail it himself. A post script written at a later date is as fellows: A Claim of Justifiable Homicide. SlrTEMBEH, It, 1SDL The homicide I am now awaiting trial for, was perfectly Justifiable. Murphy ought to he arrested, for felonious shooting and assault. Prejudice is playing a high handed game, yet in this era of civilization amidst tnis in telligent community they permit this legal enactment which is a perfidy on justice Respectfully, F. C. FrrzsnrMoxs. "Word had scarcely gotten abroad con cerning the escape when the police were ln hot chase. Superintendent Weir, Assist ant Superintendent O'Mara and Inspector McAleese were on the scene and soon had all their forces at work. Men were posted at every livery stable to see that no such man got a team. Every policeman in the two cities was furnished with a description of the fleeing man. Railroads were notified and watchers set at every depot. In spite of all efforts he had not been captured ata late hour last night. HE HAD OUTSIDE AID. DIFFICULTIES FTTZSIMMOIIS SCK MOTJVTED TO ESCAPE. Marks on tho Bars Prove They "Were Cut from Both Sides A Strange Absence of Scratches on the Whlto Walls of the Prison. The surmise that Fitzsimmons was aided in his escape by some person either in or out of the jail is strengthened by an inspec tion of the portion of the prison near his celL There are four rows of cells, running north, east and south from the large circu lar open space in the center. In the last named row, which extends out to the Diamond street wall, are the cells for mur derers. Fitzsimmons was kept in cell No. 8 on the lowest tier of this section, facing toward Hoss street. From his cell door he could look across the corridor through the heavily barred windows into a small yard or court back of the "Warden's residence. A small wing of the "Warden's house, use'd as a kitchen, runs ! ack along the Diamond street side to the jail proper, and, from an interior point of view there is no evidence of the court. The windows opposite "Murderers' Row" extend from roof to floor, a distance of over 40 feet, except the one nearest to Diamond street. This one comes down as far as the roof the Warden's kitchen outside. It is ten feet long and the sill is SO feet from the floor. To this seemingly inaccessible window the agile Fitzsimmons clambered. The highest of the five tiers of cells is just opposite. Between the windows and the walls is a corridor 13 feet wide. This distance is, di minished four feet by railed galleries with steps leading from one to the other at the end of the row. Two of the Bars Sawed Oat. Fitzsimmons' cell door was constituted of half-inch upright bars set inches apart, with flat cross bars every 14 inches. "When Keeper Price discovered the cell empty he also found two bars taken out between two cross pieces. The upper ends had been cut clean through, close up against the vertical bar. The lower cuts had been made a little over halfway through and brokan. All these cuts showed signs of having been made some time ago. The face of one cut was covered with rust and dirt and could not have been made less than two weeks. From this it appears that Fitzsimmons had been taking active steps toward freedom long be fore he finally achieved it. Day after day the jail keepers had passed his door without discovering the work of the tiny saws. A child could have broken the bars without difficulty. The opening made was just 6 by 14 Inches in dimensions. An ordinary prisoner n -r, CC 7 She ,v !??r-cw- - ? cw-. y. Jt: J-r--,0" arv - ''o s -. l touC-r.. L ..- - - , ,,rt -" J yytL4i4r-ta?rfo-X: , ..x ovdy rr" JlJ Jr cji.. t?-i6C' &TTtiC- &-.- would have required three bars out, but Fitzsimmons worked his lithe frame through apparently with little difficulty. Once out of the cell his plans of procedure can be but conjectured. One theory is that he climbed the ropes used .for opening and shutting the windows. There are two of these about the size of ordinary clothes lines, Tunning over The Hole in the Cell Door. some pulleys at the top of the windows and hanging down within reach of persons on the floor. None but an acrobat could have climbed up those two thin ropes to the window 30 feet above. This however, is not put beyond Fitzsimmons' ability. The only thing tending to disprove this theory is the absence of scratches or marks on the whitewashed wall where ropes hung. A Suspicious Absence of Marks. It seems scarcely possible that a man could have made the perilous ascent with out brushing against the wall so as to leave marks. Another theory is that Fitzsimmons, after leaving his cell, carried the ends of the rope to the top tier, fastened it firmly about his body and swung off the railing to the win dow opposite. But in striking the window or wall below it he must' have made noise enough to reach the ear of the gnard. Still another supposition is that a friend on the roof outside the window threw a rope over the platform and the prisoner swung over on tha The upper sash of the window was pulled down to a leyel with the lower, and on the top of these Fitzsimmons had about four inches of standing room. Holding himself with one hand, he must have worked ener getically for at least an hour at the upper end of a heavy bar. The lower end to all appearances had been sawed from the outside. Warden Wright, of the Peni tentiary, who inspected the work closely said he was positive of this. The out was made in such a way as to have necessitated a man on the inside working with his left hand. It is well known that Fitzsimmons was right-handed. The upper and lower cuts slant different ways; In addition to this the dust from the lower cut fell on the window sill inside. Experts say the dust always falls opposite the maker. No One Man Cut the Bars. These facts lead to the belief that while Fitzsimmons was sawing the rodabove,Bome iriena was outsiae wording at ine lower ena. The bar was severed completely below, but only partially above and bent in. The spacn was iust about the same as that made in the cell door. After getting on the roof Fitz simmons pulled np the .window ropes, knotted one to the other and used them as a means of sliding down the wall, landing safely on the Diamond street pavement The descent was perilous. The thin rope must have been' almost brok-n with the strain. In one place where it passed ove'r the sharn edge of the window sash it was fazed and torn almost in two. That it did not break and hurl its plncky burden to death seems almost miraculous. The desk where Keeper Larimer sat while Fitzsimmons was escaping is at the north side of the central corridor. From it he could not see any of the operations, both the cell and window being hidden by the ends of the tiers. Had he moved he would undoubtedly have discovered Fitzsimmons 'climbing to" the window or working at the bars, as the whole interior of the jail is brilliantly lighted by electricity. On the roof of the warden's kitchen four 2c r-rT ss fimi st- -i. f ? l HsaML iPii JJittolntra PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1891-TWELYE 'PAGES. yfez - m - i ferfZ & aZKS .dot&tC. c($kldot&rT' y - r6r - S gMPsfMtjrrfnnf "" " ' -7wUc, A; . tf . tyy" ""j '-"Tr FITZSIMMOKS' LETTER A Fac Simile of Vie Missive Received Through the Mad a Fob Sawn After the Escape of the Daring Robber and Murderer. saws were found, which had been used in cutting the bars. They are of the ordinary stvle, about a foot long and very thin. Each had handles on both ends, made or two small pieces of wood wrapped tightly with linen and thread. They had been greased with butter to prevent noise and were well worn. FITZSIMMONS' OLD PALS Je EVIDENTLY ASSISTED HIM IN THIS BREAK FOB UBEETT. Startling -Discoveries Made When the CrB of Clark Was Searched A Tory Impera tive Message A Dispatch Used as a Signal Torch. Investigation of the escape and the inci dents leading up to it revealed several im portant matters. First of all was the reve lation that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark, con victed of receiving the goods stolen by Fitzsimmons from Schmidt's jewelry store, and now awaiting trial for accessory to the murder, had been actively assisting in plan ning the break tor liberty. Suspicion has also been thrown on Miss Cora Wyatt, who figured in the case and is now out on bail. It was further shown that an intimation of the affair had reached several officers and that tho jail management was warned four days before to take additional precautions. The first intimation of the plot came from Mrs. Clark. Last Thursday morning she F) .,. vuLi ulq n noun mt'W- Where He Left the Budding. sent a telegram to Cora Wyatt, at Union town. The message was intercepted, its contents noted and then sent on to its des tination. It read as follows: A Very Imperative Message. Go and see the party I told you about Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. Don't fail me in this, or never see me again. ' Mrs. c M, Clark. District Attorney Burleigh smelled a mouse aud Detectives Beltzhoover and Mur phy determined to capture it A detective was sent to Unionfown to watch Cora Wyatt On arriving there he learned that she had started for Pittsburg. He wired at once and started back. Half a dozen detect ives worked all day trying to locate Cora Wyatt They were unsuccessful and she met the party referred to in the telegram without being discovered. Late Thursday night the officers discovered she was at the Home Hotel. She spent the night there and all day Friday was shadowed by two detectives. She visited the Union depot and the Pleasant Valley station on Sixth avenue several times as if looking for some person. Later she went to the jail to talk to Mrs. Clark. Friday evening she went to the home of Miss Brown, Shingiss s'treet Miss Brown has frequently visited the jail on benevolent missions and knew Cora Wyatt. The place was watched and Miss Wyatt stayed there over night A Suspicious Coincidence. Going to the jail the detectives learned that from the cell of Charles Clark a good view of Miss Brown's window conld be had. Feeling certain that some movement was on foot they; informed Deputy Warden Soffel of the circumstances. They suspected that some signals were to pass between Cora Wyatt and Clark. Soffel watched from near Clark's cell for a long time, but saw nothing 'that looked like a signal. The detective watching- Miss , I -i ' tri -v uMn2i f tMttMf . 4MdffitA4' xw. dvo - 7C..y IJUK&. h4- ' "" . f a r ' j JV' l$yurtx& ts . t - TO TtiE DISPATCH. Brown's house kept an eye on the jail windows, but he, too, failed to see anything suspicious. Miss Wyatt spent' Friday, Sat urday and Sunday nights with Mis3 Brown. After this affair Detectives Beltzhoover and Murphy -say they advised the Warden to change the- cells of the Clfrks and Fisz simmons so as to defeat any plans on foot. This was not done. Suipectlnganattempted escape by one and perhaps all of the three two detectiyes watched the jaiL from the outside all Saturday and Sunday nights, but "saw nothing. Their fears have proven to have had eood grounds, not only as to the escape of Fitz simmons, tine as -tn tne signals ana otner efforts of Clark to assist in the scheme. After the excitement had cooled "down yesterday the cells and persons of the darks' were rigidly searched. Discoveries In Clark's Cell. Nothing was found on Mrs. Clark, hut the discoveries in her husband's cell were startling. In a corner of the room a copv of "The Dispatch of July 9 was found, rolled carefully into a long taper. A paper rolled tightly in this manner makes an excellent substitute for a torch. In this case it doubt less aided materially in securing Fitzsim mons his freedom and proper assistance for concealing his retreat. One end of the taper was charred and a considerable por tion of it had been bnmed away. In his darkened cell its flickering, blue light could be plainly seen outside. There is little doubt but that signals were passed by means of it. In addition rto the taper a large knife was found. It was sewed in be neath the lining of his pantaloons. In his pocket a small pen kenife and a pair of scissors were also found. He refused to say how he had gotten them or what they were for. One of the jail officials said last night that Fitzsimmons undoubtedly received assist ance of varions kinds at different times while he was in the jail, but how he got it could never be ascertained. Only about two weeks ago he was searched and on him was found a new n'ocketknife as sharn aa a. razor. Other little articles were taken from , him from time to time, but it was never known how he got them. . JUST ONE MAN SAW HIM, BESIDES THE PERSONS CONCERNED IN THE DARING PLOT. A "Woman Was Waiting on the Corner Allegheny Detectives Think They Have a Clew Opinions as to the Murderous Present Whereabouts, Fitzsimmons' escape was conducted so systematically that only one man has been found who had seen him after he got out Detectives Murphy and Beltzhoover last night said they found a colored man, whose name they decline to give at present, who says he saw a man very closely answering Fitzsimmons' description, leave the vicinity of the jail at about 2 o'clock yesterday morn ing. The colored man was walking in from above Shingiss street when he saw a man cross from the jail at Ross and Diamond streets. In the middle of the street he met a small boy whom he caught hold of and spoke to and then released. The man then jumped over the iron fence into the Second ward school yard. The colored man then came down to Forbes street and walked across the Duquesne Traction Company's bridge to Diamond street At the lower end of the bridge he met a small man who wore a sort of hood over his head instead of a hat, and who bade him good morning. The colored man answered the salutation and walked on, but afterward turned and watched the other man go along Forbes street to Shingiss street, where he met and embraced a woman. Together the pair turned up Shingiss street and the col ored man continued on his way down town. He described Fitzsimmons so accu rately that the detectives ere sure he really met the' fugitive murderer. He also told of getting a closer view of the boy whom the supposed Fitzsimmons had met He was waiting at the corner when the colored man came along. -The boy was small, ragged and evidently a Hebrew. The detectives are looking for the newsie, as they presume-the boy was. A Xonng Woman at the Corner. When the last car of the Duquesne Trac tion road passed the corner of the jail pi 12:35 yesterday morning, a young woman was standing on the corner of Ross and Dia mond, in front of the school house and oppo- site the jail. The motorman stopped the car, supposing she wanted to get on, but when the conductor stepped out on the platform she Continued on sixth pagu rr L(iJixf isir '- t T Wlffrf mgmtth BRITAIN'S BIG BLUFF. The Landing Upon the Island ot Mi tylene Was a Temporary One. INTENDED TO SCARE THE SULTAN. Great Excitement Caused Throughout Eu rope by the Incident, ENflUSH DIPLOMATS HAD TO -EXPLAIN LondOit, Sept 15. While it is now ad mitted that a British force has not siezed the island of Mitylene, news to the effect. that the island had been occupied was re ceived from Mityleneand elsewhere by the various embassies at Constantinople and in this and other capitals. The French, Rus sian, Italian and Turkish Governments and the Sultan personally received information of the alleged landing of a British force. These reports concurred in stating that a division of the Mediterranean fleet had landed at Sigri a force of sailors and marines, this force being augmented "by sev eral field pieces and gatling guns; that Sigri has been occupied and fortified, and that British warships had surrounded the island with subarines and torpedoes. ONLY A KEGULAB BOAT DEILL. The Turkish Minister of the Interior tele graphed to the British Ambassador at Con stantinople, sir William White, asun(rne latter to explain the reports as to the n ing of a British force on Turkish ter., ', air wuiiaui, la repiy, biuu mai, ue -- 'inn jl Lham. . 4t, -.1.a1a flP.1 f,t tirely Ignorant of the whole affair, our-v. . added it was probable the crews of some British war ships may have landed on the island ot Mitylene in the course ot tne reg- lllnr nniit drilfo n Tnnrlintr oTProinpc The British Ambassador assured the Turkish Minister that no fortifications had been con structed on the island by British troops. This view of the case' was confirmed bv dispatches received during the night which stated that the force which had landed froih the British warships had re-embarked and that the men-of-war had left the Island of Mitylene for Marmorito. Sir William White made the same explanations to the other embassies. intended as a bluff. Tire affair has caused great excitement lit diplomatic circles for a short time, and itis still asserted that these same "maneuvers" had at least the purpose of showing the Sultan and his advisers how easily England could change her boat drills and landing ex ercises off the Island of Mitylene into a dangerous reality. H. M. a Nile, 10 guns, 11,940 tons, 12, 000 horsepower, Commander Thomas Mc Gill, arrived at Gibraltar to-day after a fias run of 92 hours from Portsmouth. Upon the" arrival at Gibraltar of H. M. S. Nile, Vied Admiral Sir George Tyron, K. O. B.,, hoisted his flag; on board n. m. a. v ictoria, 15 Buns,"i0,470 tons, 14,000 horsepower, the great "110 gunner' Flagship of the British Mediterranean .Squadron, thus relieving from -the? command of that fleet, Vice Ad miral Sir Anth6ny H. Hoskins, K. C. B., who wiU 'return to England and assume the position of Second Lord of the Admiralty, otherwise "First Lord of the Blue" or first Sea Lord of the Admiralty. TEE MOVEMENT AGADTST CHIHA. It Has Been Agreed Upon, and Only One Detail Is Tet to Be Settled Tten Tsin, Sap 15. Tirsforeign Minis ters at T,ekin Jiave urgently"prptested to the Chinese Government against the latest outrages thoSe atlchang, onihe Yang-tso-Kiang, when the British Consulate was de stroyed. The houses of Europeans were burned to the ground, and the church, school and orphanage of the Sisters of Charity were also set on fire and consumed. Consequeatl there is renewed talk of a naval demonstration upon the part of the combined fleets of the powers. The North Coast Government is disnatehine explicit -instructions to the Governors of the Central provinces, ordering them to protect for eigners residing or having business in the interior. A cable dispatch from Paris says: L'Au torUe says that, according to the latest ad vices from China, the powers are deeply affected by the recent outrages perpetrated upon foreigners in China, and that they have agreed upon joint action. The only detail remaining to be determined upon is to designate which of the powers is tb con trol the proposed operations to be directed against China by the combined fleet. HALT PREPABING FOR WAR. Taxation to Be Increased and More 'War ships to Be Built. Rome, Sent 15. In view of the threat ening aspect of the political situation, Sig nor Colombo, Minister of Finance, proposes to increase the amount of taxation by from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 lire. The Government is privately urging the speedy completion of the men of war now being built, and has ordered others to Spez zia and Naples to complete their arma ments. At the same time all merchant men classed as cruisers have been ordered to sail to given points immediately to ship guns and munitions. Cardinal Manning on the Labor Congress. London, Sep. 15. Cardinal Manning, in an interview with Mr. Mj'Js, a delegate to the Trades Union Congress, expressed the conviction that nothing would so help inter national peace and -universal brotherhood as a world's congress. "No subject, after the way to eternal life, is, in my judgment, more vital than the welfare of the world's labor." It is expected that Cardinal Man ning will prepare a paper for the Chicago Labor Congress. An Irish Leper at Large. Belfast, Sept 15. A blind leper named Evans, who was lodged in a suite of special rooms in the Lisburn workhouse, escaped from his quarters yesterdny by lowering himself from a window by the aid of his bed clothing. The result was that the people of Lisburn and its neighborhood were for some hours in a panicky condition. Calm was not restored until itbecame generally known that the leper had been recaptured by one of the physicians. Eleven Thoosa nd Deaths From Cholera. London, Sept. 15. Letters received here from Jiddah, dated August 24, state that the death rate from cholera among the pilgrims to Mecca was unprecedented in the annals of Mohammed pilgrimage. The authorities at that time estimated that 11.0Q0 pilgrims had died during the sea son. At the date of the letter referred to all signs of the epidemic had disappeared. The Distress In Russia. St. Petebsbubo, Sept 15. The govern ment has provided 22,000,000 roubles to be used as a fund for the relief of the distress existing among the poorer classes. Official reports show that the harvests have utterly failed in 13 Russian pro vineesand that the harvests have partially failed in eight other provinces. Troops Massing In Southern Russia. Odessa, Russia, Sept 15. During the coming five weeks 10,000 troops will be SsJgOjs conveyed by the Russian volunteer fleet from Batonn to Sebastopol and Odessa. The Dnke of Genoa and the Fair. Rome, Sept. 15. The.Duke of Genoa has been appointed honorary President of the Italian World's Fair Committee. SPAIN'S GREAT CALAMITY. THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATE. OF DEAD PBOBABLT TRUE. 3,000 Corpses In Heaps on the Blver Banks Starving People In Bags Beset the Gov ernment Belief Agents Heartrending Scenes at the Wholesale Burials. Madrid, Sept. 15. The floods which b.ave caused so much damage and which are already known to have resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, have been general in the south of Spain. Several railroad trains have been derailed and railroad tracks and roads are everywhere washed away. In the Province of Toledo the rush of water from the Consuegra river was so sud den and unexpected that hundreds of peo ple were drowned in their beds. The aspect of the town is positively frightful. Four hundred bodies have already been recov ered, and at least 100 corpses can be seen floating in the swollen rivers. A National relief fund has been opened. The wine and grain crops have been destroyed through out the flooded sections. The overflowing of the Consuegra threat ens to cause further damage. Two-thirds of the houses practically destroyed are still standing, but their foundations are sapped J JP- they threaten to fall at any moment. e families saved from drowning are "t" -.-- .iwi,tuSo.w,vi,j v.i- k '- m. Ann nrf in tht WTPntqft rlis- - 0 ,0 J. .,- o - P-fo, 'f.fb "T'forA of food. iq ssed as a moderate one, r'v7 'rather than over the L s the total of the ripnri " ""-v If actual nUmw7 at 2,000. Larg imbers of corpses still rest where they were found. Unless thev are soon interred an epidemic of fever is ieareo. Along the river banks near the scenes of the most severely visited districts, heart rending occurrences are witnessed hourly as the survivors of almost exterminated families recognize their dead and try to save them from consignment to the common death trench. Unhappily the worst is not yet known, aud months of terrible priva tions and extreme suffering are before the utterly impoverished survivors. The crops are gone, the cattle swept away, houses and household furniture ruined, and all that would enable them to earn their bread has vanished beneath the torrents of water which have rolled over towns and villages, fields and farms. When the Government delegate in charge of the first consignment of bread from the army bakeries arrived in the flooded coun try he was beset by the famishing 'inhab itants, the majority half naked or clad in rags, most of them on their knees with handsplifted praying for succor. A THIRD DISASTROUS COLLISION. Sixty-Five Lives Lost in Another Shipwreck in the Bay of Gibraltar. London, Sept 15. A dispatch has been received here from Algeciras, Spain, on the west side of the Bay of Gibraltar, stating that the third collision between steamers in the Mediterranean within the past week took place off that port to-day, and that 65 lives were lost The name of neither of the steamers is given injh&ytispateh, but one of- them was Greek and the other Italian. Both vessels were so badly damaged that they sank. Stanley's Latest Kongo Project PAEIS, Sept 15. The Temps -says that Henry M. Stanley is planning a new Kongo expedition for King Leopold. TEN YEARS IN PRISON THE SENTENCE METED OUT TO THE BANK-WRECKING KENNEDYS. The Prisoners Take Their Fate in a Bather Cool Manner A Crowded Conrt Boom Witness Their Final Disgrace The Lightest Penalty Given Them. Philadelphia, Sept. 15. Special. Francis W. Kennedy and Harry H. Ken nedy, his brother, the president and cashier respectively of the Spring Garden National Bank, were taken before Judge Butler in the United States Court to-day and each sentenced to ten years in the Eastern Peni tentiary. The prisoners were sentenced on two indictments each, charging them with "wilfully misapplying certain of the funds of aNational bankingassociation as an officer thereof," in violation of section 5209 of the revised statutes, defining embezzlement by officers of National banks. They were given the minimum penalty for the viola tion of the statute, which is five years on each bill. The court room was packed with spectators when the court opened, and among those present were many familiar faces of stockholders and depositors of the wrecked bank. The Kennedys' counsel made an ingenious plea in abatement of sentence, claiming that the Kennedys, while they were wrecking the bank by indisputably criminal acts, were not striving to enrich themsjlves. Judge Butler then summoned both brothers to the bar. They came forward with bowed heads, but afterward while Harry kept his head lowered, Francis gazed the Judge squarely in the face. The latter said that the prisoners had pleaded guilty, and a painful duty devolved upon the Court in disposing of their sentence. The Court said that they had enjoyed advantages different from the ordinary criminal ana could not be treated as such. He could see no reason in making a dis tinction in their punishment The sentence"! of five.years on each of the two indictments was then pronounced. The sentence was the lightest that, under the bills of indict ment, could have been imposed. The brothers took their sentence coolly and be fore being taken to the penitentiary they chatted with a number of friends in the Marshal's office. Later in the day a car riage conveyed the men to their home for the next ten vears to come. For Abe Buzzard's Pardon. HARRISBUBO, Sept 15. SpfciaL The Rev. J. S. Lane, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Royersford, Montgom ery county, will appear before the Pardon Board on the 24th instant and make a plea for Abe Buzzard, the Welsh Mountain out law, who is serving a 13-year term in the penitentiary. Mr.' Lane is convinced Buz ard is not guilty of the robberies for which he is being punished, and will ask that he be pardoned more on the plea of justice than mercy. A Contest Over a Royal Will. SAN Fbancisco, Sept 15. Hawaiian advices say that an action ia now pending in the Supreme Court, being a petition for the revocation of the order admitting to probate the will of Keliiahonu, one of the ancestors of the Kalakaua family, who died in 1849 leaving a very large estate to his wife. This is the third attempt t J set the will aside on the ground of forgery. The petitioner is Julius Koal, who claims an in terest through a deceased wife. The case Involves the title to some of the finest prop erties in the kingdom. A CENT A VORD Keeps You Before the Public Through THE DISPATCH. THREE CENTS. BARDSLEYJS BOLD, He Befuses to Open His Mouth Against ITcCamant and liysey in Conrt. HIS PBOMISE EE0ALLED. He Says Great Wrong Has Been Done Him and He Declines to Testify. STRONG EVIDENCE MADE USELESS By the Ex-Treasnrer's Obstinacy,. and Mc Camant and LivseyAre Safe. GLENDENNING AND MM HELD IX BAIJi fSPr.CIAI.TXLXGRAHS10.2ILE DISPATCH. 1 Philadelphia, Sept 15. Unprece dented in the criminal proceedings! in the Philadelphia courts was the inquisi tion in the new Criminal Court No. 1 this morning, directed against high officers of the Commonwealth, bankers and brokers, who had stood in the pre-eminent line of Philadelphia's boasted financiers, and back: presidents, against whom a year ago a breath, of suspicion could not have been directed, without exciting general ridicule. The audience was no less remarkable. A3 the beginning of proceedings by the Dis trict Attorney against the bankers impli cated in the Bardsley transactions, the event had been broadly heralded and as a supreme official attempt to implicate State officials in the great steal there had been; more recent notification; so that the court rooms were packed with the representative citizens who have other interests than curiosity in affairs so closely embracing the welfare of city and Commonwealth. ALL INTERESTED IN BABDSLET. While Auditor General McCamaut, Bankers Robert Glendenning and Georgo H. Huhn" and the presidents of three na tional banks the Farmers and Mechanics, the Third and th.e Seventh were the cen tral figures in the ensemble of defendants, public interest dwelt largely upon the en forced reappearance of the disgraced ex City Treasurer, John Bardsley, who made the sensation Of the day by his dramatic, obstinate and admittedly preconceived re fusal to open his month for one word of evidence against either the State officials or bankers, with whom he had formerly had. such intimate dealings, thus enforcing the dismissal of the officials for want of evi dence and throwing the burden of testimony in the other cases elsewhere. Mr. Graham began the proceedings by calling the name of Percy M. Lewis. There was no response, and Vice President Meyers was then called. He came forward, and in answer to a question from the District At tory said that he knew nothing of Mr. Lewis's whereabouts. After considerable pause Mr. Lewis appeared. "Are you represented by counsel?" whis pered Mr. Graham, as the ex-president ap proached the witness stand. "I am not," answered Mr. Lewis. "You ou?ht to be," said the District Attorney. "Sou can go back and sit down awhile." Then turping; to a court officer Mr, Graham said, "Brjnjr in Mr. Bardsley." . ' ENTER MR. BARDSLEY. All eyes were turned upon that individ ual's entrance. He had been in the Dis trict Attorney's office, where every per suasion had been exhausted to induce him to consent to go on the witness stand and give evidence to the court. He was quickly ushered to a seat behind the jury box, where he was somewhat shielded from the stare of the crowd. He had never looked better. Prison life, short as it had been for him, had evidently agreed with him. As before, when confronting a courtroom of faces, he glanced quickly and furtively aiound; and then, upon taking his seat, he sank his head upon his hand in his favorite dramatic manner. As soon as general quiei had been restored District Attorney Graham arose, and with considerable solemnity de livered to the court an address, in which he said that in pursuance of his purpose to sift to the bottom the alleged participation of Auditor General McCamant and Cashier of the State Treasury Livsey in the thefts of Bardsley, he had brought Bardsley into conrt in the confident expectation that he would redeem his public promise, made at the time of his sentence, to tell all he knew and aid the Commonwealth to the extent of his power to recover the lost money. BARDSLEY WILL NOT TESTIFY. He then called Bardsley, who consented to be sworn, but who positively refused to answer any question whatever. He admit ted the promise he had made at the time cf his sentence, but added: "Since then a great many things have been said to such an extent that I know 1 am already dishon ored. Great wrong has been done me by those who have the power. I therefore de cline to answer all questions." The failure to get anything out of Bards ley makes ntterly useless a considerable amount of documentary evidence against McCamant and Livsey, and the case3 against them were abandoned. Enough evidence was produced against Robert Glen dennlntr & Co. and Georee H. Huhn, com prising the firm of Glendenning & Co., to cause the Judges to hold them in $10,000 baiL They borrowed several hundred thousand dollars public money from Bards ley and paid him interest on it, snd he lost J95.000 in speculating with them. The cases against the bank presidents who paid interest to Bardsley on public money were dropped. YOUNG EDSOH'B BREAK. He Is Arrested on a Charge of Defrauding; a New York City Bank. Rochester, Sept 15. Special. Henry T. Edson, son of ex-Mayor Edson, of Ne York, was arrested to-day, charged with grand larceny. The young man is accused of obtaining 55,000 on a draft on Franklin, Edson & Co., of New York, although know ing that there was no money to his credit with that firm. Cashier Frederick Allen, of the German-American Bank, where the money was obtained, appears as complain ant Mr. Allen, in his affidavit, says that voung Edson obtained the money with in tent to defraud the bank; that the draft was returned unpaid; that it has not since been paid. Edson's friends doubt the truth of the charge, but the bank officials are determined to press the matter. Tha President of the bank is ex-Secretary of ,. x-aA-i1r fnnlr- "RilqAn waivrd pt. amination, and gave bail to await the action of the grand jury. Ex-Mayor Franklin Edson says that the young man has been ac customed to draw upon him, and had he ' been in New Yorfe he would nave paid tha draft He says his son has lost heavily in recent wheat transactions. Payments to Common Schools. Habbdjburo, Sept 15. Special. The State Treasurer up to date has paid out $1,464,730 67 to the common schools of the State. There are very few more schools to pay, as the entire appropriation for edu cational purposes is but 2,000,000, and much of it is applied to normal schools and kindred institutions. i fi Ja i I i ji,i- .
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