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GRAVES' GUILT
S CONFESSED.
The Condemned Physi
cian Breaks Down,
but Insists That
BALLOU'S TO BLAME.
He Says He Sent the Poison at His
Lawyer's Instigation.
HIS WIFE LOSES HER REASON,
The Old Mother Is on Hsr Deathbed, and
Lawyer Ballon Is Gone.
An Indictment Against the Latter to Be
Secured at Once The Confession
Made to Two Deputy Sheriffs, but
Afterward Denied Attempted Sui
cide of the Convicted Man in His Cell
A Guard Closely "Watching Him
His Attorney Says He Is a Poor Man
and Lots of Money Is Being Used
Against Him.
ISPTCIAI. TFLEGR'M TO THE TJISPATCIM
Dexter, Col., Jan. 3. A summary of
to-day's ev ents in the Barnaby case is the
alleged confession of Dr. Graves, his accusa
tion making Colonel Ballou instigator of
the crime, his mother on her deathbed, the
supposed loss of reason by his wife, his at
tempted suicide, and Ballou's escape.
Never in the criminal history of the
"West have there been so many sensational
developments in a murder trial as have oc
curred since the rendering of a verdict in
the Grives case last night, when the de
fendant, Dr. Thomas Thatcher Graves, was
found guilty of murder in the first degree.
If to-dav's developments are true, and
Deputy Sheriffs "Wilson and Means can be
relied upon, Graves has confessed and
named Colonel Daniel B. Ballon, of Provi
dence, as the co-conspirator and instigator
of this terrible crime. The confession was
made to Deputy Sheriff James "Wilson and
to Deputy SheriffGeorge "W. Means.
A Confession to the Deputy.
Dr. Graves confessed on the way to the
jail that he was guilty. That is what Dep
uty "Wilson stated to The Dispatch cor
respondent, and what he told to District
Attorney Steens and John H. Conrad
early this morning. A more tragic feature
of this confession, Deputy Sheriff WiUon
averred, was the statement that Colonel
Ballou, :he Providence attorney, who was
one of the defense and who drew the first
will for Mrs. Barnaby, was the instigator of
the crime.
John H. Conrad and Attorney Lafe
Pence called at the county jail at 3:30
o'clock this morning with Deputy Sheriff
"Wilson Deputy Wilson went into the
jail and asked Dr. Graves if he would make
a statement to Judge Rising and Mr.
Stevens. Dr. Grates said: "'So, I will
fir-t see my attorney in the morning."
At 2.30 o'clock this morning Deputy
"Wilson and Deputy Mean were closeted
with District Attorner Stevens and John
IL Conrad at the Albany Hotel. Their
depositions were taken by a notary public.
Deputy Sheriffs Wilson and Means took
Dr. Graves from the court house to the
county jail.
Not a Hard Subject to Pump.
Wilon was seen this afternoon and told
the storv of Dr. Graves' confession. "I
Miegested,"he said, "getting into a carriage
to go oer to the jail, but Dr. Graves
objected. 'Please Jet me walk in,' he said,
it may make me feel better. I shall not be
alive to-morrow.' Noticing the despairing
condition of the prisoner, we began to ply
liim u'th questions. We found an easy
subject Graves v ielded to the first induce
ment. "I said to him- 'Now Doctor, you have
Leen convicted after a fair trial, and your
only hope lies in making a clean breast of
Stand relying on the clemency of the Gov
ernor. Dr. Graves at once exclaimed: 'I
am not to blame, gentlemen, I am not to
Mame. Ballou was the author of the entire
piot. lie came to me ana said that our
finances were at a low ebb. We were be- I
hind with Mrs. Barnaby's account There
was only one way out of the difficulty, he
raid, and that was the way I adopted.
Ballou planned the entire scheme.
Graves Overrome bv His Admissions.
"I then turned to Deputy Means and
Ekcd him t" listen to what Dr. Graves
us both he said vcrv emphatically: 'Yes,
gentleman, I repeat before-you both what I
have just said: Ballou was the author of
this scheme. I wanted to testify on the
stand that I sent a bottle of good whisky,
but they would not let me. If they had, it
would have saved me!' At that Dr.
Graves tottered, reeled, and fell into my
arms, and for a minute he could scarcely
breathe."
Deputv Wilson, at once, after turning
over Dr. Graves to the jailer, notified Dis
trict Attorney Stevens, and the step that
official took is told in detail above.
XJeputy Sheriff Means has corroborated
Wilson's statement
During the day papers were drawn up by
District Attorney Stevens for the arrest of
Ballou as the leading conspirator, and
John H. Conrad, the prosecuting witness,
f-avs that an indictment will be found to
morrow against Ballou by the grand jury.
Colonel Ballou, through some strange
coincidence, left Denver last night for the
East, before a verdict had been reached.
His associate, Judge Furman, said:
airs. Ballon Also Deported Insane.
"Owing to the illness of Mrs. Ballou, in
Providence, it was compulsory, I under
stand she has gone mad."
Immediately after an indictment is re
turned Mr. Ballou will be arrested.
In company with Judge Furman, The
Dispatch correspondent this afternoon
railed npon Dr. Graves, at the county jaiL
His cell is in murderers" row, and it is
scantily furnished. He appeared very j
dejected, and after greeting both visitors
with a "God bless vou for calling," Judge
Furman said:
"Doc, you have been convicted, and I
don't think that Judge Rising will grant
you a new trial. I attribute Ihis conviction
to Judge Rising's manner on the bench. He
has prejudiced the jury against us. The
Supreme Court may possibly reverse the J
decision. I wish to give you the same
advice now as I did when I first took charge
of your case. Tell the truth. If there is
anything you arc concealing, come out and
tell it. You're a poor man, and unlimited
means is being used against you, and by all
means j ou must tell the truth. There is no
keeping up this fight If you are guilty, if
you have got to hang, you ought not to go
to the gallows with a lie upon your lips."
Tho Doctor Denies Having; Confessed.
Dr. Graves, with much effort, then said:
"I cannot truthfully alter any statement I
have told you in the past I never told
either of the deputies a single wold. Dep
uty Wilson suggested to me that Ballou
was more to blame than myself, and that if
I were to confess it would go easier with
me. I heard what they had to say, but
never opened my -mouth. Here, in the
presence of my God, who is the only friend
I have outside of my poor wife and poor
mother, I swear that I am innocent of this
awful crime. fam simply the victim of a
strange chain of circumstances, and if I
ever live to go on the gallows my last
words will be, 'God, I am innocent' As far
as I know, I believe Mr. Ballou innocent,
and think him another victim."
This closed the interview and the reporter
retired. Counsel for the defense have five
days to prove their petition for new trial.
Perhaps one of the most pathetic inci
dents in connection with the case is the
alarming condition of Mrs. Graves, who, on
reaching her room last night, remarked to
a consoling friend: "I wonder what's the
matter with my head? Such strange sounds,
and I appear d'izzy. My God! Am I going
mad? Dear, promise me if I lose my reason
that I will not be placed in an asylum."
Mrs. Graves Lot.es ller Kenson.
With that the poor woman fell helpless
on a bed. Since then she has not uttered
an intelligent or an audible word, and it is
feared she has lost her reat-on.
The elder Mrs. Graves, mother of the ac
cused, has not been out of her bed since the
announcement of the verdict, and it is
doubtful if she will survive.
During the reading of the verdict last
night the perspiration oozed from the pores
of the defendant's skin and trickled down
his face. When the words "First degree"
were reached he started in his chair. Then
he seemed to realize his discomfiture,
and settled back in his seat. His attorney,
Judge Furman, just before him, was appar
ently unconscious to all that 'was transpir
ing. After court adjourned a rush was made
for the convicted man by his friends and
sympathizers. As thev crowded around
him, Mr. Furman placed his hands over his
face and wept. It was some moments be
fore he composed himself. It was a crush
ing defeat. He had never suffered before.
Dr. Graves shed no tears, but his excite
ment was more intense than his attorney's
grief. He jumped from his chair onto the
table, and sat there like a man stricken
dumb. He could not speak for fully five
minutes.
"Why, I am surprised, very much sur
prised," he said. "I did not expect it at
all. I had no idea it would be like this."
The Prosecutor Affected to Tears.
John Conrad, the son-in-law of the dead
woman, was in the room when the verdict
was announced. "When the fatal words
were spoken condemning Dr. Graves to'
death he arose and stepped from the court
room. His eyes were filled with tears. He
would not say a word, but looked sorrow
fully at the man who had been convicted
and condemned to d"c
"My God! To my death!" murmured
Dr. Graves, when Deputy Sheriff Wilson
started with him to the county jaiL The
condemned man on the way there acted as
though thoroughly dazed and bewildered.
Once he said, absently: "The whole 12
said guilty, did they?" He appeared to
hope that one man would hold out for him.
At the jail Dr. Graves gave way com
pletely to the awful effects of the situation,
and he sank down in the chair inside the
iron bars like one in a faint. He cried
softly and pitifullv. All the terrible strain
of the bitter trial at last bore him down.
The dawning picture of his death completed
the wreck. Dr. Graves wept and wzs help
less as a child, aud at one time said: "I'll
never live tor a new trial. J.ne scene was
pitiable, even in that place of iron bars and
iron nerves.
Attempted Sniclde of the Condemned Man.
Dr. Graves was put in the condemned cell.
All the clothing on his bodv was removed
and new garments substituted. About 2.30
o'clock this morning, in a fit of frenzy, the
doctor attempted to commit suicide, and
but for the prompt interference of the
deputy on guard would have succeeded in
swallowing a viaL
Before another day has passed Lawyer
Daniel It. Ballou, the Providence attorney,
will be arrested in Chicago, charged with
oeing co-codspirator in the death of the
late Mrs. Barnaby. At an early hour to
morrow morning Judge Rising and Dis
trict Attorney Stevens will visit the
county jail and take a confession from Dr.
Graves. In this confession, according to
John H. Conrad, the accused will volun
tarily tell the entire story of his connec
tion with the late Josephine B. Barnaby.
He will confess having tent a bottle of
tintar ItTtA tV- nam triol " Th c-nc
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poison, but claims it was done at the in
stieation of Lawyer Ballou, in order to
prevent an investigation as to their waste
ful expenditures of the money received
from the executors. If this confession is
made, the defendant will be at the mercy of
the prosecution. His counsel will discon
tinue all interest in his behalf. In return
for this confession the prosecution may
agree to have the death penalty suspended.
ilic citv is in a torment ot excitement.
Both the acensed's wife and mother are
low, and great doubt is expressed as to
their recovery. A double guard has been
placed over Dr. Graves to prevent another
attempt at suicide.
THE SOUTHERN WAY.
A Street right Costs the Lives or Two
Prominent Villagers, and Another Will
Probably Die A Knife First Used,
Then a General rnsilade.
GltEr2.Vll.LE, Tla., Jan. 3. Messengers
bring the news of a bloody street fight last
Thursday in Perry, 40 miles south of here,
in which Robert Parker and John J. Garno,
ex-County Judge of Taylor county, were
killed, and Thomas Walters so badly in
jured that he will probably die.
Walters and William Parker got into a
dispute in front of J. M. Garno's store, and
Parker finally cut Walters across the abdo
men with a long-bladed pocket knife. Wal
ters then fired his pistol at Parker
-without effect. Parker got his shot
gun from his wagon near bv,
and the firing became genral bv tfie
intervention of Robert Parker, a brother of
William, Marion Murphy (both armed),
and of Judge Garno, who tried to stop the
fight Walters put three pistol shots into
the body of Bob Parker in rapid succession,
and Bob fell dead in the road. William
Parker let go both barrels of his gun at
Walters, but both charges hit Judge Garno
full in the stomach, and he vras taken in
sensible into a store. Walters snapped his
pistol at Parker twice while the latter was
shooting at him with his gun.
Then herari into a store near by, seized
some cartridges from a shelf and was on his
way back to the scene of the trouble when
he became too weak from loss of blood to
travel. He was picked up by friends.
The Coroner's jury in the matter of the
killing or Bob Parker found that Walters
killed him in self-defense. Early this
morning Judge Garno died after suffering
intensely for nearly three days.
MR.' MILLS SKEDADDLES.
THE DISGRUNTLED TEXAN GOES HOME
TOE AWHILE.
Ho MIj;ht Have Sat in tho Speaker's Chair
Had He Stayed Till To-Morrow Talk or
nis Resigning His Only Chairmanship
Cr'sp's Illness.
Washington", D. C., Jan. 3. Special
Roger Q. Mills left Washington to-day
for Texas, to be absent three weeks or
more. He was accompanied by his son, and
they have "gone on a hunting trip"
whether for votes or game is not stated.
Representative Savers, of Texas, will ask
indefinite leave for his colleague when the
House meets Tuesday.
Mr. Sayers says he does not think that
Mr. Mills hasty departure has any bearing
on his relations to Speaker Crisp. There
are other members, however, who state that
the defeated candidate for Speaker has en
tirely washed his hands of aiy responsibility
for or connection with the programme or
business in the Honse, and that this hunt
ing trip is intended to emphasize his disgust
at the treatment accorded him by the
Speaker in the makeup of the committees.
It is said, moreover, that Mr. Wise, of
Virginia, will act as chairman of the com
mittee on Inter-State and Foreign Com
merce until the return of Mr. Mills, who
will then resign the chairmanship, to be
formally succeeded by the Virginian. Thpre
is no definite verification of this statement
obtainable to-night, but it is made with much
positiveness bv those who claim to know
the facts."
Speaker Crisp's restoration to health is
still annoyingly slow, and he will not pre
side in the House on Tuesday. He had a
long chat to-day with Mr. Catchings, to
whom he stated positively that he will not
be able to preside over the House Tuesday,
and with whom he consulted about the
selection of a Speaker pro tern. It is under
stood that had Mr. .Mills remained in the
city he would have beef the Speaker's
choice, but that selection is now out of the
question.
Experts in parliamentary law say that, as
the House is now acting under general par
liamentary law, in the absence of rules, the
Clerk must call the House to order and a
Speaker pro tern be elected. Messrs. Mc
Millin and Springer are the only persons
spoken of in this connection, and it now
looks as if the Tennessee man would be
chosen.
LIZZIE SMITH DEAD.
Tho Popular Variety Actress Takes an Over
dose of Medicine Put Up in Pittsburg
Harry Williams' Troupe Loses a
Favorite.
Cincinnati, Jan. 3. Sjxrial Lizzie
Smith, a well-known variety actress with
Harry Williams' Own Troupe, died sud-denlj-
to-day from an overdose of aletris
prescribed by Dr. R. D. McArthur, of 117
Clark street, Chicago. She got the pre
scription December 19 and had it filled in
Pittsburg. Instead of taking the medicine
by the teaspoonful she took it in a wine
glass. The mixture is a preparation of ergot
and chloral hyiVste. It fs "supposed the ex
cessive quantify affecVd her heart. .
Mrs. Smith was taken sick at the theater
last night. About 2 o'clock to-day she be
became unconscious and died shortly before
5 o'clock. She and her husband formed the
sketch team of Larry and Lizzie Smith. The
remains will be shipped to New York.
EX-MAYOB WHITNEY'S BETBOTHAL.
He Is to Marry the Consin of a Vanished
Boston Broker.
Nr.vy York, Jan. 3. Special Close
upon the news that ex-Mayor Daniel D.
Whitney, ot Brooklyn, had lost money in
vested with Broker Henry E. Titus, of
Glen Cove, who disappeared so mysteriously
two weeks ago, comes an interesting rumor
that the ex-Mayor is soon to marry Miss
Henrietta Titus, a cousin of the broker.
This report was confirmed to-day by one of
Mr. Whitney's sons, and also by two mem
bers of the Titus family.
The ex-Mayor's intended bride is about
45 years old. Mr. Whitney was born in
Oyster Bay 81 years ago, but he went to
Brooklyn w hen he was 10 years old. He
has been in business and is said to be
wealthy. He married early, and has lived
nearly all his life at No. 10 Poplar street
He was Alderman for four years, and in
1885 was elected Mayor. His wife died
three years ago. Two" of his sons are in
business and the third is in the Corporation
Counsel's offices. Mr. Whitney was out of
town to-day, but one of the sons made no
concealment of the engagement
ABK0E FOB THE H0HTEBEY.
The
Battle Ship's BIc Iron Plates to
Be
Tested Soon and Then Shipped.
San Fp.ancisco, Jan. 3. Irving M.
Scott, of the Union Iron Works, received
official information yesterday respecting
the armor of the new battle ship Monterey.
Her barbette plates are all forged, bent,
tested and cut to rough lengths. They'are
all sufficiently uniform in quality to stand
or fall by ballistic test, which will talce
place at the proving ground near Washing
ton soon. If the plate passes through the
ordeal the last of the barbette plates should
be shipped by February 1 to San Francisco.
The remaining plates will probablv be
ready during the early part of this month.
If the sample stands the test, shipment
will be commenced next month, and rapidly
be followed by the remainder of her armor.
Assurance is given that there will be no un
necessary delay in the completion and for
warding of material When it arrives the
Union Iron Works will make all speed to
place the armor in position.
A FEW WAB BTJM0ES.
Some Big Tnlk of NaTal Preparations
Against Chile at San Diego.
San Diego, Cal., Jan. 3 The cruiser,
Charleston becan taking on supplies of
ammunition from the cruiser San Francisco
this morning. Xo order has been received
yet beyond requiring the vessels to be
Teady for sea at a moment's notice.
It was stated yesterday that San Diego
would be made the base of supplies and
operation in event of trouble with Chile,
and that the entire Pacific squadron, includ
ing the Boston, would rendezvous at this
port. It vras also reported last night that
General McCook had made arrangements
for quarters for three companies of artillery
which would shortly be ordered here.
A COLLIEBY FLOODED.
Water From an Old "Working Bursts Out
and Drowns Nine Mules.
Ashland, Pa., Jan. 3. A large body of
water imprisoned in an old working at the
Reading Company's Preston colliery burst
this morning and, filling up to the collars,
drowned nine mules stabled near by.
No person vras injured, there being no
miners at work at the time. The colliery
will be idle for several days.
BLAINE MAY REIN
As a Besnlt of Harrison's
Anger at the Secretary's
Handling of
THE AFFAIR WITH CHILE.
Sensational Rumors Creep Into Print
in a Washington Paper.
BLAINE IS NOT AT ALL A JINGO,
And the Gossips Have a Peculiar Explana-.--.
tion Prepared.
THE PRESIDENT EEALLT WARMED VP
rSrECTAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Washington, D. C, Jan. 3. There is
a great sensation in administration circles
over the report that President Harrison is
angry over Secretary Blaine's recent
action in the Chilean matter, and a
crisis in the Cabinet, which will
probably be reached, may lead to the re
tirement of Mr. Blaine from the State Sec
retaryship. The Sunday Gazette of to-day
publishes the following story with strongly
displayed and exciting headlines:
The rumors which are current in Wash
ington may have a national effect in their
ending, which will be most sensational in
its character. Ever since the dinner given
by Minister Montt to Secretary Blaine there
have been very ugly whispers abroad that'
vitally affect the official and personal char
acter of the Secretary of State. William
R. Grace was a prominent guest at that din
ner. With him were Richard xrumbuli
and Mr. Foster.
Jingoism Traded for Peaf e Talk.
Since that dinner there has been a marked.
change in regard to Mr. Blaine's actions as
regards Chile. From being a "jingo" of the'
first order, he has become a straightout
advocate of the peace-at-any-price order.
The Washington Post, edited by Mr. Hat
ton, who was Mr. Arthur's Postmaster Gen
eral, astonished all Washington by print
ing conspicuously 'a carefully prepared ar
ticle to the effect that Mr. Grace was large
ly 'interested in the Iquique nitrate
beds, and did not want them seized by
Chile, and had somehow succeeded in con
vincing Mr. Biaiue that a peace policy
would be the best thing for him personally.
A Dispatch From Grace to Montt. '
Next day, which was Friday, the Post re
peated the charge that Grace was running
Blaine, and called attention to a dispatch
which Grace had sent to the Chil
ean President, saying the Secre
tary of State was the only
friend that Chile had in the American
Cabinet, and declaring that this telegram
was read by President Montt to his Cabinet,
and intimating that Mr. Grace could tell, if;
he would,just wh
1"?r,l2.?-?f1S5?i0S--ad-tostalkDuUik6 RomaQk. amid the ap
had been so sudden ana plause of their partisans. This, it was
to a peace, view
effective.
This set the town talking, and the Presi
dent was indignant at the attitude of his
premier, and he wants to know how it has
happened.
Mr. Tracy denies that he has been trying
to crowd SChile into a fight, but all this is
dwarfed by the ex-Postmaster General's
bold intimation that Grace had a hold of
some sort upon Mr. Blaine, and is using
him as a means of protecting his nitrate
interests.
President Harrison Warmed Up.
The Post, as read between the lines, makes
some assertions.which Blaine must answer
definitely, and at once. It hints at the
former episode in the Secretary 's career that
the magnetic man from Maine would gladly
have buried in oblivion, and,with a scarcely
concealed sneer, substantially inquires if
these things are to be repeated.
These hints have thoroughly worked
up President Harrison, who has
never liked Mr. Blaine, and
Mr. Harrison says that Blaine said three
times to him that he (Blaine) would not be'
a candidate for the nomination in 1892.
No one believes Mr. Harrison to be tell
ing anything but the truth.
The man to whom the President has told
this is of the highest official position and
holds a national reputation, and any state
ment he makes is absolutely reliable." .
"What will Blaine do?" is a question
asked by nearly every public man iu Wash
ington since the facts above stated have be
came appaient.
Wliy Chile Is Disposed to Smile.
There is no doubt that the dispatch sent
to Santiago by Grace has had the effect of
making Cliile more difficult to
deal with, as it encourages the belief
there that the American Cabinet is not a
unit in sustaining President Harrison in
his demand for apology and reparation.
ait. isiaine s own inends agree upon
three propositions: The fust is that he must
publicly disavow the statements made by
Mr.Grace.with its concomitant insinuations;
then, he must immediately get from under
the magic influence of the ex-Mayor of New
York, who was Balmaceda's close friend as
long as the dictator had anything valu
able to give away. The Secretary of
State mut then purge himself of the
charge of encouraging a policy toward a for
eign country that is directly opposed to
that of the President and his Cabinet.
There is too much at stake to permit this
condition of affairs to continue for another
day.
The President does not conceal his per
sonal anger and his dissatisfaction at the
existing state of things. So acute are his
sentiments in regard to the above question
that he will not hesitate to demand of Mr.
Blaine some definition of his position un
less he is satisfied that the stories which
are current are absolutely untrue.
AN ENIGMA TO PHYSICIANS.
AToungGirl Who Keeps Well and Hearty
Without Eating a Bite.
Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 3. Special
'May Crass, the 16-year-old daughter of Ed
ward Cross, a carpenter in Jordan, a vil
lage 17 miles from here, is an enigma to
physicians. She has lived 67 days without
apparent nourishment, and yet she weighs
about 110 pounds, and was strong enough to
sing at her grandfather's funeral three
weeks ago. She wai under Dr. Van Duyn's
care in this city for six weeks in June and
July, but little could be done lor her, and
she went home. Her peculiar condition
has been coming on for two years, since she
had the grip. During all tne time she was
in this city her mother says' that she had
only a teacup of nourishment She began
her long fast immediately upon her return
home. h
She was unconscious much of the time,
am! had hysterics toward the end of the 67
days. She suddenly regained conscious
ness and some strength. At that time the
doctor tried to gjve her milk, but it curdled
I in her mouth before it could be swallowed.
Food in any form would remain on her
'stomach an instant only. Then the phy
sicians moistened cloth in mutton and beef
broth and laid the cloths on her stomach,
and the nutrition was absorbed by contact.
Another peculiar phase of the case is that
she does not sleep, with the exception of an
hour in the morning. Opintes and chlorals
act only as stimulants. She talks with her
mother about dying, but she has generally a
happy temperament. Her physicians and
friends are anxious to know what keeps her
alive.
ANOTHER RIO GRANDE FIGHT.
UNCLE SAM'S BOYS STJKPBISED A CAMP
OF GARZA'S REBELS.
The Mexicans Run, but an Officer, War
Material and Valnablo Paper Fall Into
tho Americans' Hands A Nuevo Leon
Man Issues a Proclamation.
San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 3. The latest
news from the border where United States
troops are in the field against the Mexican
revolutionist Garza, is included in a tele
gram received at the military headquarters
here to-day from Captain Wheeler, the com
manding officer at Fort Ringgold, and re
ports that Lieutenant Langhore, with a
detachment, surprised a camp of revolu
tionists - three miles from Los
Cuevates, who ran vat the approach
of the troops and escaped into the
dense thicket, not, however, until
one of Garza's officers, Colonel Pablo
Munaz, had been captured, as well as the
horses and equipments of nine revolution
ists, two guns, ammunition, badges and
many important papers. Great credit is
given Private Walker, of Troop C, Third
Cavalry, for his services as as courier.
Juan Antonio Floues, a follower of
Garza in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has issued
another proclamation, calling upon all pa
triotic Mexicans to take up arms with
Garza, assist in overthrowing Diaz and re
storing the Constitution.
It denounces the Diaz administration for
overthrowing the constitution and usurping
dictatorial powers. It attaches no import
ance to the action of the United States fur
ther than a desire to enforce the American
neutrality laws, which, it says, ought to be
disregarded in a case of revolutfon for the
preservation of liberty. '
The revolutionists, while evading battle,
are still in the field, and their cause is
constantly augmenting, both in active sup
porters and moral sympathy.' Within the
last two davs wide but surreptitious circul
ation has been given to a proclamation
issued by Juan Antonio Floues.
AN INDEPENDENT'S POWER.
The New York Senate Can Only Organize if
Dr. Edwards Allows It To Piatt Trying
to Checkmate Some of Senator Hill's
Schemes.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 3. Special
Whether the Republican Senators go
on a strike on Tuesday depends on the atti
tude of Senator James T. Edwards, of Cat
taraugus county. The Republican Sena
tors have been summoned to New York by
Sir. Piatt. Not one of them is in Albany,
and the Republican caucus meets to
morrow night. The Republican Sena
tors who were here have gone to New York.
It is in their power to prevent the organiza
tion of the Senate by leaving the State or
by not being sworn in.
Their original plan is changed. It was
for them to go to the Senate and be sworn
in, then to wrap themselves up in their
dirrnit.y and nvprmnts inctofirl nf tAnme
louna, would not worK. lne Senate could
at once organize and a Sergeant at Arms or
the local Sheriffs could catch them before 1
they left the State and bring them back.
With one captured Republican Senator
guarded bv the Sergeant at Arms in the
Senate chamber the Democrats could have
a quorum present.
Dr. James T. Edwards, of Cattaraugus
cpunty, the independent member, holds the
situation in his hand. If he goes in and
qualifies, the Democrats control the Senate
and the Legislature of the State. If he
stays after he takes the oath the Democrats
will have no trouble. If he does not stay
the Democrats can have the Sergeant at
Arms arrest him at once and keep him in
tho Senate chamber until they unseat one
of the Republicans whose seat is con
tested. This situation developed to-day
with Mr. Piatt's summons to the Repub
lican Senators.
CHICAGO'S BIG BABY FARM.
Its Proprietress Will Be Obliged to An
swer for Many Crimes,
Chicago, Jan. 3. Mrs. Annie Hanson
was arrested on a charge of manslaughter,
it having been discovered that she runs a
baby farm on Calumet avenue. Her deal
ings in the traflic,it is said, have been exten
sive. Six babies are known to have been
taken to her house during the last five
months, while five dead babies have been
found during the last six months within a
half mile of her place.
Mrs. Hanson professed to find homes for
fatherless children, and her advertisement
has been running in the daily papers for
several months. The police claim to have
a chain of evidence that will be sufficient
to convict her of many crimes.
A IIXHOGBAPHING TBUSX
Will Try to Control the. Cigar Box
and
Show BUI Business.
Philadelphia, Jan. 3. Yesterday rep
resentatives from most of the leading litho
graph firms ot the country met in New
York and formed a company with a capital
stock of 12,000,000. The "principal busi
ness of the firms represented is the engrav
ing of cigar box labels and theatrical post
ers, and it is to control the business in these
two branches that the corporation is to be
formed.
The meeting yesterday was merely a pre
liminary one, but it was decided that each
firm was to take a proportionate allotment
ofstockinthe company and that its name
would be the American Lithograph Com
pany. HISSED THE DOG, SHOT A CHILD.
Serious Results of a Hydrophobia Scare on
Windy City Streets. .
Chicago, Jan. 3. A mad dog raised a
sensation on South Wafer street this morn
ing. Two citizens, George Paul and Will
iam Marte, were bitten and several others
had narrow escapes.
Police officers chased the dog and made
several attempts to shoot him down, but
none of them were able to bring him. One
shot, fired from the revolver of George
Hays, of the Pinkerton watch, took effect
in the thigh of a two-year-old child, the son
of C F. Thomas. The child, it is believed,
cannot recover. The dog escaped.
HE DIDH'T STAY CUBED.
A, Discharged Maniac Suddenly Attacks
and Carves His Wife.
Gbeenville, Mich, Jan. a' James
Taylor, one of the best citi
zens of the town, became suddenly in
sane and attacked his wife with a razor,
cutting a gush from the left ear to the
right shoulder blade about seven inches
long and deep enough to hold a folded
towel. He was only prevented from killing
her by the intervention of neighbors
There "is but little chance for her recovery.
Taylor was formerly an inmate of an
insane asylum, but vras discharged as cured
three months after his incarceration.
GOULD' HAS A CRANK
Who Demands $10,000 and
Threatens if He Doesn't
Secnre It to
BLOW UP THE FIMNCIEE.
The Money Must Be Sent to a Place
Over on the Canada Side,
TO COME BACK AGAIN TO NEW TORE
The Writer of the Threats Describes the
Goulds' Movements.
HELENS CRANK SENT TO BELEEYUE
fRPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO TOE DISPATCir.l
New Yoek, Jan. 3. A professed dyna
miter is threatening Mr. Jay Gould now,
and wants that gentleman to pay him S10,
000 or thereabouts, or suffer instant death.
This man signs himself "A. B. 33.'"""'
there is reason to believe that he is n
of the ordinary sort of cranks.
quaintance of Sir. Gould's family declareCi. O
to-night that the man had succeeded in
alarming the members of the family, and
Mr. Edwin Gould himself admits that the
family is alarmed.
A letter from A. B. 33 was received by
Jay Gould seven or eight days ago. It was
very long. It began away back in 18G8, at
the fight of the Exchange with Commodore
Vanderbilt. It followed the railroad king's
career down to the present d3y. It spoke
particularly of "Black Friday," and told of
the hundreds of men who were ruined that
day, and it blamed Mr. Gould for it alL It
accused him also of "being responsible for
many Wall street failures since then.
A Detective Shadow Crank.
Finally the writer said: "I know how to
get near you," and to prove that he did he
detailed the goings and comings not only
of Mr. Gould, but of his family. This read
like the report of a detective shadow.
Every movement of the members of the
family, visits to the opera, friends, business
visits where Jlr. Gould ate and what he ate,
whom he saw during a day, and all that for
three weeks past was described.
Then the writer went on to say that if the
money was not forthcomingdvnaraite would
certainly be thrown under Mr. Gould's car
riage when he took a drive, and it would
not fail to explode and blow him up. The
letter contained instructions about sending
the money. It was to go to a certain post
office in Canada, thence it was to be sent to
some address in New York.
The man who gave to TnE Dispatch re
porter the substance of the contents of this
letter, as given above, said that the writer
had disguised his handwriting to look much
like German script
Not a Poorly Posted Follow.
"He is, without doubt," said the in
formant, "a man of education, sharp and
shrewd, and some one who is very likely ac
quainted with Mr. Gould, or who has been
acquainted with him, and therefore is in a
position to know of the things he tells
about"
Mr. Edwin Gould was seen bv a Teporter
about the arrest of a crank calling himself
Prinz Von Michaels, who had an insane
idea that he could marry Mis Helen Gould,
and who was to-day committed to Bellevue
Hospital. This man, young Mr. Gould
said, was harmless.
"The man we are afraid of," he said, "is
a fellowwho calls himself 'A. B. 33.' He
is cunning and industrious, and usually
persistent. Of course, hundreds of cranks
send letters to father, but very few of them
.fall into his hands. 'A. B. 33' succeeded in
sending a letter to father a week ago, which
has worried us all very much. The crank
wrote that he had been watching our move
ments and our housd very closely and care
fully for the preceding week. His letter
described our movements accurately. Tnat
is just what alarmed us.
Must Have a Few Thousands.
"Then he went on that he must really
have a few thousand dollars or he would
blow us all up with dynamite. He carried
this dynamite in his hat, he explained. 'I
know how to get near you,' he said, 'and if
you don't send me a few thousand dollars I
will certainly throw my hat full of dyna
mite under your carriage and will blow you
all to atoms.'"
Inspector Byrnes, it is understood, has
three men at work looking for A. B. 33,
although he will not admit it. The men
are said to be Detective Sergeants Crow
ley, Titus and McCloskey. One, and maybe
two of these men, have been sent to Canada
to the potoffice address mentioned in this
letter, with instructions to follow that clew
to the end. The man was undoubteely in
New York when he wrote the letter.
Dr. Munn, Mr. Gould's physician, was
asked to-night for an opinion as to who the
writer of the letter was. He professed not
to know anything about the letter, and he
was very certain, he said, that Mr. Gould
himself was not frightened at the threats.
Gould Not Very Much Afraid.
"He goes out alone for walks and to busi
ness," said the doctor. "He has no body
guard, and no detectives hovering near him,
and he is not in the least afraid."
Dr. Munn would not say whether or not
he knew there were detectives stationed in
the Windsor Hotel watching Mr. Gould's
house, which is right across the street, but
that one thing Inspector Byrnes did say
tnat tnere were not
Mr. Edwin Gould was in the Yorkville
Court to-day with Detective Sergeant Mc
Closkey. He was to appear as complain
ant, if necessary, against Prinz Von Mich
aels, who was arraigned by Policeman Sand-
heimer. rinz von jviicnaeis is a crank,
who says he is in love with
Miss Helen Gould. He has been
writing letters to her and making
a nuisance ol himself for a week or more.
Early on Saturday morning he called at
the house of Mr. Gould's next-door neigh
bor, Dr. Henry, and rang the bell. Katie,
the maid, answered. He asked her if she
did ifct want to have her fortune told. She
told him to go to the basement door, which
he did.
An Abrupt Proposal of Marriage.
Then he told her who he was, and said he
could tell her fortune by phrenology, by
palmistry, or by cards if she would ltt" him
come in. She would not let him come in,
but she let him read her fortune from the
palm of her hsnd, held out through the
iron gate. He got to talking wildly before
he had finished, and finally declared ab
ruptly: "I want a wife. Say, don't yod
want to get married? Ain't you He'len
Gould?"
The girl cot frightened and ran into the
.house. Michaels went away aud came
back again in an hour. Another maid
answered his ring, and he poked a
long, pink envelope at her, and
said: "Here, you give this to the
girl r was talking "to awhile ago. The girl
wouldn't take it. "You giveittoher to
give it to Helen Gould," he insisted, and
then she told him Helen Gould lived next
door and slammed the door in his face.
She told Dr. Henry about it, and he sent
his son out to tell a policeman.
NabDerl bv a Policeman.
Policeman Sondheimer was around tho
corner. He had seen Michaels, and in half j
an hour saw him making for Mr. Gould's
house. The crank started to go np the
steps, and the policeman ran up and caught
him by the coat. "Here," he said, "what
do vou want about here, anyway?"
Michaels turned a pair of innocent eyes
on him and said mildly, "Why, I am going
to see Miss Helen Gould. I'm going to
marry her."
Sondheimer walked up the steps with his
prisoner and went into the vestibule,
where he met George Gould and began to
explain the matter to him. Michaels
looked half starved and fainting,
and not at all as if he could
run, but suddenly he swung around his
right arm and swept the high policeman
up against the wall. Then he dashed out
it the door and down the steps,
with the policeman after him. He
was captured after a run of two
blocks and was taken back. Edwin Gould
went with him and the policeman to the
station and made a complaint of disorderly
conduct
Contents of the Crank's Pockets.
Some of the things Michaels had in his
pockets were a pawn ticket, a big envelope
containing a proposal of marriage to "Fair
and Esteemed Young Lady," and a lot of
handbills with his advertisement as a for
tune teller on them.
Some one had an idea that Michaels might
be the man who visited Russell Sage's
house and demanded 52,500 three weeks
ago, and who was put out by Mrs.
Sage, so in conrt to-day the Justice asked
him if he had ever visited Mr. Sage. He
said he had, but he would not admit that
he had threatened to blow up the house.
Policeman Sondheimer made a complaint
against Michaels, and thus relieved Mr.
ud. The crank was committed to Belie
V
ve examined. Dr. Munn called at
-dlirinfl thi ftftfrnnnn nnii Rftw
Jo -r-as very certain that the
TsUfn,
:
ne who visited Mr.
Sage's
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Prinz
Voir-jJ r. .s is doubtless a fortune-
telling name. TJ.L prisoner went by that
name, however, at 286 Furman street,
Brooklyn, where he once lived. He left
there a week ago because he had not a dol
lar to pay his rent.
DEPEW TAKES THE CAKE.
A PRESIDENT SIX TLucS AND HE'S
RUNNING AGAIN.
The Union Xeagne Club Can't Begin to Get
Enough or the Doctor An Effort in Be
half of Cornohus Bliss Couldn't Be
Carried Through.
New Yop.k, Jan. 3. Special Dr.
Channcey Mitchell Depew has served the
Union League Club a3 President for the
past six years, and was again nominated for
that office by the nominating committee
January i. Until the nominations were
posted it was generally understood that
Cornelius N. Bliss would be the next candi
date for the Presidency, and there was gen
eral surprise when Dr. Depew's name
headed the ticket for the seventh time.
To-day there was an unusually large num
ber of men at the club house, and the nomi
nation of Dr. Depew was thoroughly dis
cussed. Dr. Depew is so popular that no
man in the club would accept a nomination
on an opposition ticket, for the only argu
ment against Depew was that he had held
the office of President six times already.
It has been customary until this year for
the President aud other officers of the club
to make up the ticket, but this method wqs
found to be unsatisfactory, and on Decem
ber 11 a nominating committee was elected.
The question 'as to what character the or
ganization should maintain came up at this
election. One set wanted more social
features and less Republican politics. The
others et dissented to at least the latter of
these propositions, and it won. The "po
litical ticket" was elected, and on January
1 posted their nominations, headed by Dr.
Depew. One of the members of the Unjon
League Clubv who was opposed to Dr. De
pew's nominatiod, said to-night:
It was generally understood that Dr.
Depow was not to bo renominated, and Mr.
Bliss was"mentioned as his successor. Dr.
Depew has servod the club as President for
six years, with honor to himself and the
club. I and many others believed that this
was long enough, and that it was time to
honor some other man. This was so general
ly understood that when tho nominations
woie posted there was great surprise. I
havo since learned, that he was nominated
because the members of the committee
could not agree on any other candidate. Dr.
Depow is personally very popular in the
club, and after discussing the other candi
dates, and finding that it was impossible to
unite on any other man, ho was renomi
nated. A MAINE POLITICIAN SHOT.
Ex-Senator Gnshee the Victim of an Angry
Husband's Wrath.
Rockland, Me., Jan. 3. Special
Ex-Senator Stephen J. Gushee is lying at
death's door from a gunshot wound, in the
little village of Appltton, and a young man
named Weed is under arrest awaiting the
result of the wounded man's injuries. There
is a scandal connected with the shooting,
the full facts of which are not known, but
young Weed's explanation of the affair
places the ex-Senator in a very unenviable
position. Weed is a sportsman of some re
pute, and on Thursday he started out on a
hunting expedition, announcing that ie
should be gone several days.
That night, however, a severe storm arose
and Weed, who had left his pretty 17-year-old
wife alone at home, decided to return at
once, lest she should be alarmed as to his
safety. When he reached home about mid
night he was stunned to find another man
in his room. This man, according to Weed's
story, made a break for the window.
Weed's wife was speechless, but no excuses
were offered. Weed deliberately lifted his
gun and fired. By the flash of the gun he
identified the man as ex-Senator Stephen J.
Gushee, a politician widely known in the
State) He was badly wounded, but made
gopd his escape to his own home.
KANSAS CITY W00S THE DEH0CBACY.
Making Most Strenuous Efforts to Secure
the National Convention.
Kansas Citt, Jan. 3. Kansas City is
doing her utmost to secure the Democratic
National Convention. Sixty thousand dol
lars has been raised, and enough more jis
assured by the representative business men
to swell the amount to ?100,000. Senator
Vest has pledged his efforts in behalf of
this city, and to-night a committee of three
left tor Washington to lay the claims of
Kansas City before the Democratic National
Committed.
Later in tho month a committee of 19 or
20 will also go to Washington to press still
further the claims of Kansas City. The
facilities for entertaining the convention
and the attendant crowds are excellent
WRECKED BY A STAB LINEB.
Fifteen Sailors Go Down to Death, Irat the
Big Steamer Passes On.
London, Jan. 3. A steamer believed to
be the Red Star Liner Noordland, which
sailed from Antwerp yesterday for New
York, ran down the British bart Childwell,
off the Wielingen lightship, and cut her to
pieces.
The bark sank and 15 of her crew were
drowned. The steamer continued on her
voyage without offering assistance. The
captain and the remainder of the crew, who
were found clinging to the only remaining
mast, were picked up by a passing vessel.
Six Thousand Dollars In Jewels Gone.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 3. Highwaymen
held up a stage near the Idaho line Satur
day night, and received $6,000 worth of
jewelry and 5100 in cash.
11 HIS LAST DITCH.
Foraker Eires Several Shots
at Senator Sherman
on Snnday.
THE USES DBATO TAUT.-
A Contestant for a Senate Seat to Be
Kept Out for Awhile
BECAUSE HE IS A SHEEMAN MAN.
A Senator Accused of Beinsr Forced to Tota
for Honest John.
OTHER SCHEMES THAT AEE YET ON TAP
rSPECtAL-TELEGEAM TO TOE DISPATCTf.1
Columbus, O., Jan. 3. It is perhaps
just a3 well for Senator Sherman that he re
mained in Columbus over Sunday. His op
ponents have not respected the day as it
was thought they might, and the Senator
can be here bright and early to-morrow to
counteract to-day's work of the Forafcentes.
It i3 evident that the ex-Governor,
though in his last ditch, means to die game.
He will take every advantage he can, and
in this last deal Honest John will do well
to prevent his young rival from stacking
the cards on him.
The first sensation of the day to break the
Sunday quiet came from the Foraker side.
It was a story published this morning to
the effect that Senator Spencer was coerced
into a declaration for Senator Sherman in
order to save an uncle from financial ruin,
as some of his uncle's business paper had
been bought up by M, A. Hanna, who
threatened to force an immediate settlement
unless Senator Spencer would vote for Sen
ator Sherman.
Senator SneHcer's Uncles All Right.
Senator Spencer smiled when asked about
the story. "If denying it will please any
body I'll deny it,'" said he. "It's an in
famous lie, but at the same time, it is so
silly I laughed when I read it this morning.
To save my uncle" Is a good phrase, but I
wonder which uncle it is the cashier in
the Cleveland National Bank, or the one in
the oil business? They are able
o take care of themselves without
mv assistance, which they don't need.
On,e of them
house on Euclid
is building a ?65,00O
avenue, and 1 guess he
doesn't deed any help, and if the other has
financial trouoies tney are unKnown to me.
I've made one mistake in this matter, and
that is that I didn't say at once how I in
tended to vote. I've always intended to
saved myself a lot of annoyance by saying li
so long ago." if.
Mr. Hanna said about the story: "You
see Senator Spencer and he. will indignant
ly deny the story tho' it is hardly -J
worth a denial.
A CnTnhoga Senattff Settled.
The next gun fired by the Forake;
was the declaration ot Senator Wilbur Par
ker, of Cleveland, over his own signature,
that he would vote for Foraker. He has
been only ostensibly on the doubtful list,
and was generally considered a Foraker
man.
But the londest explosion of the day was
the report late to-night that the Foraker
Senators had determined to prevent Idea
from participating in the Senatorial caucus
or being seated over Gaumer, his Demo
cratic competitor, until after the Senatorial
contest should be settled. Neither Iden,
Republican, nor Gaumer, Democrat, has
been granted a certificate, the courts holding
that the case was one in which the Senate
alone had exclusive jurisdiction, but of
course Iden will ultimately be given the
seat. As Iden is for Sherman, and the
contest between Sherman and Foraker is so
close, the friends of the latter naturally in
sist that there should be no unseemly haste
in seating Iden. The Sherman people, on
the other hand, are preparing to make,
short work on the contest, and to seat Mr.
Iden to-morrow, in which event his vote
would naturally be available in the joint
Senatorial caucus of the following day.
The Test to Be Made To-Day.
It is said to-night that the Foraker Sena
tors will to-morrow first make objection to
the immediate settlement of the Iden-Gau ;
mer case, and move that it may be referred -
to -the Committee on .Elections when ap-'
.pointed. This would naturally delay the
matter two or three days, until after the
Senatorial caucus. It is likely the Sherman
Senators will insist upon-settling the matter
at once by seating Iden. The Foraker men
will vote aeainst this, and, as they will have
the support of the Democratic Senators,,
who are of course opposed to seatin&Ttfen at'-
anytime, however remote, tfie'Republican-;
contestant cannot be seated, it is stated v
to-night that the Foraker men have re
ceived assurances from the Democratfc
Senators that they will support this move-'
ment, but the Sherman men still maintain
that the Tden cae will be disposed of to
morrow, or on Tuesday at latest Some of
the Democrats are in favor of supporting
the Foraker Senators only npon the prom-
ise that Gaumer, the Democrat, shall be-.
ultimately seated.
A Compromise With the Democrats. )
Fill, f ltiT . 4. a w fin--Av r i A-v'n TV Atrmrfffl t
m J.111S COUUIfclUU lliB M-uuvciuuio i.icumpj,
are not willing to accept, but it is said they ',
are willing to pledge that the contest shall i
be finally decided entirely upon its merits i
and without regard to political considera-
tions. It is likely this assurance will be. (
perfectly satisfactory to the majority of the j
Democrats. i J
At the Foraker headquarters to-night no
public acknowledgment could be obtained
of such a plan, neither was the report off-
such an intention contradicted. The re-
nnrt is generally accented as authentic.
Senator Sherman this evening received
the following telegram from the Governor,
of Washington:
Oltmpia, Wasb., Jan. 3.
To non. John Sherman:
TConnhhcans on the Pacific Coast beliava
your defeat would be a great calamity to
tho Nation and to our party. ?
D. Elisha P. Febrt, Governor.-
To the friends of the distinguished Sena
tor the battle is fought and won: to the "ad
herents of the eloquent Foraker the politi- J
cal atmospnere is laaen wun uopeiui augury
and in the woof of the future are still to bel
woven strange results. Thus, the situation
to-niglil is one oi compiaceoi expectancy on
the one nana, oi eternal nope on ine oiner.
An An iljslj of tbo Situation.
The American public, whose interest
this enntest is nrobablv without parallel
the great Senatorial battles of years gone,
by, quite naturally asks: "Why is the re-j
suit longer in doubt.' Why, with, everyj
member ot the General AssemDiy on tne
field or available, cannot the positive decla?
rations of the men who are to decide this
question take the place of the blatant'
prophecy of political managers, and
how this battle is zoinz?"
The answer to this question is that of the,
93 Republican Assemblymen no less than S
have retrained irom puoiic declaration,
preference, and-of these three-fourths in
unquestionably given pledges to both Sid
andarenownt home seeking petitions
"nublic scu.iiaeiit" to break the pled,
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