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In Spite. of Bullyragging Meth
Mrs. Stetson's Conception of
Big Four Treasurer Had Too
Many on His List And They
Only Minor Events Run at
ods of Court Witnesses
Favor Her
Animal Magnetism Not
The Kind She Taught
Atlanta But Records Again
Were Sent limping
Led to His Undoing
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INTHRILLiriGRAGE
OLD DREYFUS TROUBLE
BOBS UP ONCE MORE
Antl-semltic Papers Insinuate
That Trial is to Cover Up
an Old Scandal
PARIS. Nov. 10. The testimony
today In the trial of Madame Stelnheil
charged with the murder of her hus
band and her step-mother, watt dis
tinctly favorable to the defendant.
Murletta Wolf, the couk in the Stein
hell household, and her son Alexan
dre, whose appearance wan awaited
with profound Interest, threw no new
light on the mystery, but by a further
maj of contradictions strengthened
the impression In the accused's favor.
-Madame Stelnhell's nurse also retract
ed her previous deposition In which
she expressed" the opinion that the
defendant's Illness after the crime wa
simulated, and Maurice liorderel, a
wealthy merchant, whom the state as
sumes Madame Stelnhell desired to
marry, testified to his absolu:e belief
in her Innocence.
Dr. Archer, the old family physician
of the Stelnhells, told of the defend
ant's devotion to her hiwband and his
mother. As he entered the room, her
first outcry was: "Save mamma! Bave
Adolphe! what has happened to
them ?"
Maltre Aubin,
Stelnhell, asked:
representing Mme.
'Was she simulating
illness?"
"Impossible," said the witness.
"She was seriously ill."
Dr. Souffit, who examined the slain
the day after the tragedy, was asked
if the crime could have been commit
ted by only one person.
The reply stirred the courtroom:
"I am convinced that would have tecn
Impossible. The crime was committed
by several persons."
Prosecution Weakening.
The i atoAe'a - etreumstanttar case
aVlisttadamBrinheil seems to be
rapidly breaking down, and It Is al
ready rumored that the trial may bo
abandoned and a new investigation
ordered. Anti-Dreyfus papers like
the Libre Parole and the Pntrie have
again begun to revamp their previous
Insinuations that the crime involved
(OontUnicd on page, tour.)
"ICE KING" APPEALS TB
I0URT TO SET
OF
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Counsel Declares Indictment
was Full of Errors and
Sentence too Heavv.
EXPLAINS DEAL.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. A peti
tion for a writ of cCYtiurarl to have
the Supreme court of the fulled
States review the Judgment of the
,. - A.w.tw.1.. tr, IV. .ve Vllfl
Urcilin.""" ia. "I.l.n.,1 1, ml,lu. t M-.l., -.,1.., I.,.,
in
the case of Charles W. Morse, the i
"Ice King" convicted of misapplica
tion of the funds of the National Bank
of North America, was filed today in
the higher tribunal by Martin W. Lit
tlejohn, counsel for Mr. Morse.
Formal presentation of the motion
will be made by Mr. Littlcjohn next
Monday. Mr. Mor.ie Is under sentence
of fifteen years imprisonment in the
federal prison at Atlanta.
'The Supreme court will search the
records of criminal cases in vain to
discover a parallel to this case," de
clared Mr. Littlejohn in his petition.
He charged that the naked facts in
the case were "overdressed In the in
dictment of Morse," that when prop
erly understood and clearly stated
thev "show that the petitioner did no
more than procure others to make
loans at the bank, supported by ample
collateral, ,,which loans he Informed
the bank were his in fact, and pledged
his then sufficient fortune to their
payment; that these loans were from
time to time paid off, and the bank
allowed to take the. profit In the rise
of the collateral which took, place
from time to time."
The freedom allowed to insert '.n
the indictment fieveral counts, ho
urged, had been perverted into a per
fect debauchery of pleading."
Mr. Littleton claimed that the sen
tence was void, because Morse had
been sentenced to imprisonment for
fifteen years on the count, when under
the statute he could only be sen
tenced not to exceed ten years.
ff r GEORGIA S; CLEM SON 0.
ATTGUSTA. Nov. 10. In the foot
ball match played here today between
the University of Georgia and Clem
on college, Clemson won by a score
of 5 to . the point .being made-in the
first half by a touchdown from L'lem-
on whose man made a fine dash for
the Qeor-gia line.
EXCOMMUNICATION
MAY BE THE NEXT STEP
Head of Publication Commit
tee Issues Statement Show
ing Leaning of Authorities
NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Mrs. Sttt
son's answer to the charges of Virf.il
(). Strieker, that she practiced malic
ious animal magnetism on her . oemles
and taught falsehood by testifying
from the fourth dimension oi BpIrR,
has proved unsatisfactory to tho dl
rec tors of the cnristiun .-dome ch:ir h
in Boston. Leaders in the anil -Stet
son faction here daily expect Alls.
Stetson's excommunication.
Tho statement Issued l,y M.-. cox.
head of the publication i oiumitl-e,
who is in daily communication with
Boston, Is significant.
"While the menial pri.Uce d.sdib-
ed by Mrs. Stetson in this ir.ornin.'-'s
papers is not the practice of Cln latian
Science," he declared, "It M I ) be ob
served that there is a wld.i difference
between her practice :ts described by
herself and by her students.
"Even the most partisan students
admitted in Boston lliat she v.is In
the habit of making mental and Midl
ble attacks upon persons in the nature
of Imprecations and curses.
"Tffe distinction sh- attempts to
make in favor of mem il practice,
which, she claims, is l-'sltlmate .'.a
self defense, is unknown t Christian
Science. A Christian Scientist defends
himself from ull forms of evil bv k- p
ing his own consciousness free from
It, and not by hulling thoughts nl a
supposed enemy.
Says Klio Treated (Sold.
Yesterday the real gnea:j of the
trouble, together with tho lestinuiiy
that caused the Investigation to be
started wds revealed for the first time
Mr, Cok announced that onus should
not be laid on Mr. Strieker and th it
seven practitioners who rebelled at
Mrs. Stetson's teachings last winter,
had been the ones to open the eyes of
the mother church.
Two of these, George Slroehcl an 1
George William Otis of No. 101 Ve.-t
7Xth street, last night made public
(yiitlntie1 on page, four.)
CONFESSES GUILT AND
JMPLICITES OTHERS
Investigators Refused Con
fession Because it was not
Within Legal Rules.
JURORS WERE FIXED.
CHICAGO, Nov. 10. When the
Judge's committee investigating the
Jury commissioners convened here to
day. State's Attorney Wayman offer
ed to introduce ail alleged confession
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to tampering with jury drawings in
the commissioner's office. Martin is
the private secretary of Alderman
Michael Kenna of the first ward, and
Is now under indictment with Jury
Commissioner John J. Holland and W.
J. Kaybtirn for complicity in alleged
illegal drawing of grand and petit Ju
ries. Judes names. Honore and Rinakcr.
the investigating committee, decided
thnt the Investigation wa a Judicial
and court procedure, and the expecta
tion Is that It will henceforth be gov
erned by the usual legal rules In the
presentation of evidence. The Judges
refused to regard the alleged confes
sion as evidence and declined to per
mit it to be read.
The prosecutor asserts that Martin
admitted that he had agreed to fur
nish liayburn with a lirt of names of
men who would be amenable to out
side influence should they be called
as Jurors in the trial of Police Inspect
or MeCann, who was recently found
guilty of accepting money from im
proper persons for protection pur
poses. The Judges gave State's Attorney
Wayman permission to file the alleged
confevwlon, but would not allow him
to read it as evidence. The state's
attorney then withdrew the document
and declared his case closed.
When the hearing is resumed next
Wednesday the Judges will inspect the
office of the jury commissioners and
the commissioners will present rebut
tal of the allegations made by the
state's attorney.
E. CAROLINA LEAGUE.
WII.SON. N. C. Nov. 10. A meet-
I'ing of the directors of the Eastern
Carolina league today has been call
ed to meet here on Friday to elect
officers end make arrangements to;
next season.
NOW THE OTHER WOMAN
WILL TELL WHOLE STORY
Shortage Estimated Now at
Something Over 6 Hundred
Thousand Dollars
CINCINNATI, Nov. 10. Mrs. Jenn-
elte Stewart also known as Mrs. fold,
one of the women accused by Charles
I.. Wnrrlner, defaulting local treasurer
0f ln0 jJtg your railroad of having
shared In Viis peculations by black
mulling him, declared tonight she
would tell the whole Inside story of
the JC43.000 theft when the case came
to court. Mrs. Stewart denied she
hud ever received any money from
WarVinor.
The sudden breaking of her silence,
was caused according to her, by u
quarrel which she had with another
woman, who has also been mentioned
by Wurrlner. This quarrel resulted
In the attachment of Mrs. Stewart's
furniture today. The officers who made
the attachment were quickly followed
by reporters, and In the stress of ex
citement, Mrs. Stewart's reserve broke
down.
"I never received a cent from
Charles Wurriner." she said, "and I
never gave any information to the
railroad about his shortage. It was
another woman that did It all; a wo
man I thought was my frknd. I
know the whole story and will tell It
in court too."
. Where Did Money Go?
One of the women said to be In-J
vnlved in the case started to leave
Cincinnati tonight, but was advised
i.v deteetivcB that if she left the city
her arrest would follow. She then
abandoned the plan.
At present the question that is pus
hing tho railroad officials Is: "What
has become of the $643,000 which
WiMriner admits having stolen?"
Warrlrier says he Inst it In stock
speculation, and in satisfying the de
mands of blackmailers, hut that ex
planation Is not satisfactory to the of
ficial!!. Warrlnnr says he Is penniless and
hlg neighbors at his home in Wyo
ming. Ohio, declare that he Is a sti-k
man.
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KEYNOTE OE RAILROAD
MEN AT CONFERENCE
'More Legislation, ? Cry Leg
islators 'Fair Dealing,'
Demands the Public.
DIFFERENT VIEWS.
NEW ynitK, Nov. 10. George A.
Post was re-elected president of the
Hallway liusiness association at its
business session here this afternoon.
Charles A. Moore was re-elected treas
urer. W. G. Pearce of Chicago was
chosen to (ill ft new vice presidency
created at the meeting. The other
vice presidents were re-elected as fol
lows: H. H. Westlnghouse, ft. H.
Sutler, W. II. Marshall, E. S. S. Keith,
A. H. Mulliken and . P. Letchworth.
A banquet was held tonight at which
a number of addresses by prominent
railroad men were made'.
Legislation enough for the present
argued men who manage railroads;
further federal control pleaded legis
lators, corporations In the Interests
of fair dealing proposed shoppers and
others.
These varied views on behalf of the
common carriers of the country were
expressed tonight at the first annual
banquet of the raMway business as
sociation at the Waldorf Astoria. The
association had as Its guests at the
table tonight more than six hundred
men Interested in railroads.
The key. note of the address of
George A. Post, president of the asso
ciation, who acted as toastmast was
conference, conciliation and conces
sion by all concerned." Representa
tive W. P. Hepburn of Iowa, author
of the Hepburn act, however, suggest
ed that there wcTe yet railroad matters
over which the government should
have control.
William C. Brown, president of the
New York Central lines; W. II. Mar
shall, president of the American Lo
comotive company and President Itlp-
ley of the Santa Fe was among the
others who spoke, while letters were
sent by Presiilent McCrea of the Penn
iylvana and Finley of the Southern.
GOTt'H SIGNS MATCH
nUFFAIO. N. Y.. Nov. 10 It was
announced here tonight thnt Frank
Gotch, the world's wrestling cham
pion, and eyboscn. the Polish cham
pion, have been matched to meet
Thanksgiving night. It Is believed It
wot w iinu u..v.
PRESIDENT TAFT HOME A GAIN A FTER
TWO MONTH'S TOUR OF
In His Final Speech at Richmond He Outlined Some of the Recommendations Ho
Will Make in His Message. Received at Capitol by His
Cabinet and Large Crowd.
WASHINGTON. Nov. SO. After an
absence of more than three months
during which he' made a 13,000 mile
trip through the West and South,
President Taft sleeps tonight In the
white house.
He left the capital August C last
with the cheers' of the crowd ringing
In his ears. He returned tonight to
the tune of the same cheers, but he
tarried only a moment with the vari
ous welcoming parties. His objective
point was the white house and Mrs.
Taft, and as quickly oa he could get
away from the brief speeches of wel
come he climbed hit his hlg automo
bile. .The chauffeur broke all the
speed records of the district on the
last leg of the president's road mak
ing journey.
' When the train rolled In from Rich
mond on time at X :i& o'clock there
was an Imposing throng of persons on
the platform.
When President Taft spoke at the
city auditorium in Richmond this af
ternoon, he made hlH 26Gth speech of
Ihe long trip, which according to the
Itinerary consisted ( 12,750 miles but
with side trips amounted to more than
13,000.
Mr. Taft's slay in Washington will
be brief as he leaves tomorrow ofter
noon for Middle!. . it and Hartford,
Conn., and In the meantime must de
liver an address in Washington to
morrow before the Laymen's Mission
ary society. The president returns to
Washington shortly before noon on
Saturday, and Monday morning will
settle down to the
office.
Middle West Fears
Fran
Into
clnses are
(Joing
Hopper of 1!H1 rompany.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Nov. 10
James S. ISrkilev. ir . of Toledo. ).,
today acknowledge I that be had
fought a controlling Interest in tin
New Long Dlstaie .- T. lephoni compa
ny of Indiana. II. . .iibl not say with
whom he was ass... i. .led in the deal.
Mr. lirulley, It iv understood, has
bought seventy-l!e per cent of the
company at sixty cents on the dollar
and the purclume pi i' . bas been paid.
Mr. Uralley denied that ho represent
ed the Hell interests.
"Then do you represent the. Postal
Telegraph company .' ' Mr. Drailey
was asked.
"That Is a matter of which I shall
not speak," he answi red.
Among business u.en that have
been concerned in i tie development
of Independent telephone lines. It Is
said that purchases of the stock of
different companies in Indiana and
Ohio by Mr. Rralley and his associates
will reach 1 0.OflO.ono.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 10. Forecast
for North Carolina: Fair Thursday
warmer in the'lnterior Friday, warm
er in east portion, moderate east to
southeast winds.
In his speech at Richmond before
an immense audience President Taft
said:
"During my sixty days of travel,
there has .been a moment or two of
deliberation ami during that time I
have been studying what It Is the
duty of an executive to recommend to
an Incoming congress In respect to
future legislation, and when 1 think
of the number of things congress
should do, I am staggered lest It may
not rind time to do them."
He declared himself in favor of tho
reclamation of arid lands in ths West,
and of tho Issuing; of bonds Wilis
purpose, and of soma government
control- over water power sites and
coal and phosphate lands. "Ho that
they may not come Into the hands
of one controlling corporation, but
may be retained by the government,
with the power to restrict the prices
at which the coal, or at least at which
the power Is sold to prevent tho ab
sorption into one command of all the
power on the continent."
The anti-trust law he declared,
needs enforcing and th Interstate
commerce law amendment "In order
to give the interstate commerce tri
bunal to prevent the delays which
are now Incident to appeals to the
courts."
Ue voiced his favor of a postal sav
ing hunk and declared "that we must
Improve our legal procedure so as
to make It both In criminal and civil
cases mote simple, more rapid and
less expensive, and I mean to recom
mend to congress tho appointment of
nine work of his 'a commission to talis up that subject."
WIRE TAPPERS iOE RICH
lookniak'i's Caught
on
Heavy Odds through False
Reports Scut to Them.
DKWKIt, Colo., Nov. 10. Denver
and Salt Lake bookmakers yesterday
lost J'.O.OaO mi horse
races at the
Liioiila race track near Cincinnati,
through a cleverly executed tapping
of t'-Iegrapb wires near the Latonfa
ran- track. The odds on Howard, the
winner In the sixth race yesterday at
that track were boosted from 7 to 1,
to 20 to 1, and evtsu as high as 40
to 1.
Hatidbookmakers reluctantly ad
mitted tonight that they lost heavily
on the race and many of the Denver
bookmakers refused to pay bets on
th.- race. Two of them It Is said, were
forced out of business.
According to. a local bookmaker,
the odds apparently were changed be
fore post time and "the boost," from
7 to I, to 20 to 1. did not cause sus
picion. When the wire was tapped,
the i)Bt odds were held back and the
false odds were, sent out. Then the
plunge was made. It is said, that the
operations extended to Chicago also.
;i.;k(i roi congkkks.
ATLANTA. Ga., Nov. 10. With rep
resentatives from nearly every county
In the state present, the good roads
club of Georgia opened Its convention
here today. The question of govern
ment aid In the building and main
tenance of roads was the principal
subject under discussion. The ap
pointment of a state highway com
mission was also urged by the convention.
THE COUNTRY
"We have reached a point In this
country when we can look back, not
without lo, not without Intense
pride, hut without partisan passion,
to the events of the Civil war," con
tinued the president. "I am (lad to
suy that In my own almo mater of
Yale we have established an assocla
lion for the purpose of erecting with
in her-academlo precincts a, inemort
lal not to ths Northern Yale roan who
died, not to th Southern Yal men
who lled, but to th al men. who
-died In the Civil war. And ao It la
that I ventura to hope that tho pro
Ject suggested by my predecessor,
president Roosevelt, may be alluded
to by me with approval and tho
presalon of tho hope that It Is com
ing tocultlon, to wit, that there
should be a great memorial In honor
of General Robert E. Lee, In tho
establishment ot what he himself
would value most highly, a great
school of engineering at Washington
and Lee university and I take this op
portunity to express my deep sym
pathy In thut movement and my de
sire to aid It In every way possible,
and proper." '
Took In the Bight
The president was the tuest of
Governor Hwanson at breakfast to
day. At 10 o'clock he addressed tho
Virginia State Press association and
the Times Dispatch Correspondents
association, in the hall of the house
of delegates at the rapltol. In anoth
er room of the capltol Immediately
(Continued on nago four.)
ALORICH IS TRAILING IN
THEWAKEOFHIS ENEMY
Is Given Pair of Leather
Breeches but Fowler prob
ably Has All the Buttons.
OMAHA. Neb., Nov. 10. That Sen
ator Aldrich Is becoming rapidly West-
fernlzed, his friends will be convinced
when he returns to New York and
Washington If he wears a pair of
fringed leather breeches, such as the
cowboys call "chaps." They were pre
sented to him today by former United
States Senator Anderson. Ths presen
tation formed the merriest feature of
a. noon-day luncheon tendered the
'senator at the Omaha club by Luther
! Drake, the banker.
Mr. Aldrich did not know what to
'call the trousers, nor did he make
I explicit promise to wear them, but he
accepted them with evident pleasure.
Mr. Aldrich arrived early today on
his tour of the West In the Interest
of monetary reform and In addition
to the Informal speech at the Omaha
club, he delivered an address tonight
before the Commercial club.
Senator Aldrich has been advised
that here he would be In the heart ot
the "enemy's country." In addition
he had been preceded by Congress
man Fowler of New Jersey, until re
cently chalrmon of the house commlt-
jtee on banking and currency, who was
represented to have severely criticised
what are supposed to be some of the
Rhode Island senator's banking Ideas.
The hope had been that Mr. Al
drich would give some attention to
these opposing elements, but all he
did was to refute the Idea that hi
efforts as a legislator wsr purely In
the interest of the Eastern states. He
asserted that hi efforts had ever been
to serve tho Interests of all section and
all classes.
HEARTBREAKING WAS
HUNDRED MILE RACE
Was Won in Last Lap After
Sensational Changes
of Leadership
ATLANTA. Nov. Is.Two heart
breaking flnUhes, the lowering of two
track records by Strang and rain
which caused ths postponement of
two events wero the leading feature
of the second day of tho automobllo
speedway meet here.
After many disappointments yester
day, Harding drove on Apperaon
"Jack nabblf to victory In a 10-mll
contest. " ."I
The Uulck car won the amateur JO
mllet free-for-all by 1-100 of a sec
ond, but lost tho feature event,, ono
hundred miles on the last lap. Tho
Bulck waa driven by Joo Nelson.
Chevrolet' mechanclan, and ho lost
on tho last lap to Will Xnlppsr when
his lubricating oil became exhausted. .
Btiung's Great Spend. '
Lewis Strung wns compelled to
withdraw from the 10-ml Is race for .
large stock cart after ths Drat tap In '
which his Flat 'Bljrty had assumed
tho lead. Its captured two other races
in nis zoo-horse power Flat wuh ease.
He defeated OldQeld and Christie In
a specially arranged 10-mMs race in
the remurkable time of :07:01.04. av
eraging about ;. to themlls.except
in mo last lap when ha "blew" a tiro v
and had to reduce speed at th turns.
Thl alone prvntd him from nego. ,
listing the dlstartc la less than seven .
minute. At It was his Unit broke a
Aiken's new record mad yesterday of
In th four, mll event Strang av
waged :41.11. Ooorgs Robertson. wis
compelled to Withdraw' his Flat from
both event In which h-was entered,
fl-fl TerriHc Finish. '' i
THo'featuro-avant of th dfiyVtha'
100-mile light atock' car race, ended '
In first and second places goinir to
the Chalmers-Detroit drivers, Knlp
per and Mataon respectively: At th
Mart Nelson fought Mstson for aee '
ont! plac eventually winning It when,
the latter (topped for repairs. A thirty ,
mil chase of Knlppar put him In ,
first position, where he huld until th .
eightieth mile, ; when iKnlpprtv who T
took brilliant advantage of the curves -
swooped past him at th grand stand i
bringing th crowd to It test with . f
a great roar of applause. ' .
At th eighty-eighth -mil another
thunderous outburst ar'oss, but thl '
time It was Nelson who had re-cap- t
t tired th van. Knlpper clung close to
his heel until th lap and then to the
surprise of the spectators, Nelson
slowed up.' His machine had been out
of lubricating oil for ten minutes and
moved at greatly reduced v epeed.
Knlpper shot past him and cam in an
easy winner.
THREAT!
SUSPECTED OF KILLING
GIRL
Aetion of Poliee in Dispers
ing Every Gathering Prob
ably Averted Lynching.
EVIDENCE STRONG.
CAIRO, III.. Nov. 10. Becauae of
reports that an organised effort would
be made tonight to lynch Will James,
a negro suspected of murdering Miss
Annie Pelley, a shop girl, ths prisoner
tonight was placed tn th steel cage
of th county jail surrounded by a
strong guard of policemen and depu
ty sheriffs. Many person-arrived to-
day from nearby Illinois and Kentucky
town and tho police feared that
many of these wanted to lynch th
negro.
Before daylight today. Chief of Po- '
lice Kgan, twice dispersed crowd of '
men and -boy who - had started to
wards the city jail. In one ess h '
tore a mask from the face of a man
whaaeemed to be leader of tho gath- -erlng
and then prevailed on the oth
ers to disperse, pleading that the ev- .
Idenee against James wa only circum
stantial. .....(,
Many cltleens. after ah outburst of
Indignation, tonight wr ready to let
the law take It course. For thla rea
son It wa tonight thought that th
situation would be controlled.
James, who Is known a "Froggle"
because of hi facial resemblance" to
that animal, wae "sweated" by the
police today. While alt clrcumetan- ;
ce point to him aa the slayer of Miss
Pelley Including the action of blood
hound, which went from the - alley .
where Miss Pelley's body. was found.
to several places where James had
been on the night of the murder, the
prisoner refused to confess. ,