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LAST EDITION
THE RALEIGH EVENING TIME
VOLTJUE S3.
RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1908.'
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A DOUBLE LIFE
Herbert Clark, a Prominent
Yoiing Man Arrested Charged
With Serious Crimes
BURGLARY AND ARSON
Sheriff Chanter and Deputies - Make
. Arrest of Young Man Charged
With Serious Crimes His Life in
Daytime Has Been Irreproachable
- Bat in the Night! Time He Engag
ed In Thievery and Midnight Rev
elrySaid to Have Helped to Rob
' the Huntington Property.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
' Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 26
While setting on the lawn of his
countryplace' at Rhlnebeck, with his
mother and baby, Herbert R. Clark,
son of A. L. Clark, wealthy grain op
erator of New York, was arrested
yesterday afternoon, charged with
burglary and arson. "V
As Sheriff Chanler, District Attor
ney Mack, under-Sherlff Townsend
and Chief of oPllce McCabe ad
vanced toward Clark and Sheriff
Chanler told hit? ne was under ar
rest, : the accused man - fell ' In a
swoon. He was revived and brought
to this city in an automobile. Here
he was placed in Jail.
- The charge on which Clark was ar
rested is concerned with the fire of
mysterious origin which last Febru
ary destroyed the mansion of Robert
Huntington at Rhlnebeck. The man
sion and 75,00Q. worth of , furnish
ings -were'' destroyed.' .The burning
of tool house on Clark's $30,000
estate recently led to an investiga
tion in which Clark's name became
connected with those of Roy Traver,
19 years old; Sterling Traver, 15,
and A. B. Ellsworth, 21, all of whom
have been arrested charged with
burglary.; '
Mr. Mack says he has obtained
evidence -which, unless disproved,
shows that Clark led a life In which
there were contrasts as vivid as those
which existed in the dual existence
of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. That un
til nightfall each day Clark's con
duct has been Irreproachable has
been vouched for by his family and
friends. He has been devoted to his
wife and child and pursued a life of
leisure on his beautiful estate. He
was fond of books and pictures, but
found time to perform many chari
table acts.
According to the story told to the
authorities by the two Traver boys
and Ellsworth, the night life of Clark
was not alt like the life he led by
day. These witness charge that he
supplied them with beer and- whis
key and encouraged them to steal
chickens for the midnight feasts
which they said were shared by him
and them. " ,
They said that Clark had helped
them to ' rob the Huntington man
sion before they started the Are
which consumed that valuable prop
erty,. ' They said that prior to the
robbery and destruction of the Hunt
ington place they and Clark had com
mitted other burglaries.
The police ,acting upon the con
fesslons, went to Clark's estate with'
out his knowledge and searched the
place. They declared they found
there property which had been stolen
from houses In and near Rhlnebeck.
Roy Traver and Sterling Traver said
that the tool house on the Clark es
tate, which was burned recently, had
contained property which had been
stolen.' Beneath , the floor of the
green houBe on the Clark estate the
police found a revolver. . ,
, Clark's father, who owns grain ele
vators In New York, Is 111 and the
news of his son's arrest has been
1 kept from him. ,
BIO REPUBLICAN MEETING.
Mom Meeting Will be Held In New
York Tonight. Beverldge the
I-. -Speaker; ' '
' (BrLeased Wire to The Times)
NiP" York. Sept. . 25 Every as
sembly district in ' Manhattan and
the Bronx will be represented in the
big republican mass meeting and ral
ly in Carnegie hall tonight under the
'auspices of the republican county
.committee. . -
The principal spobch will be dell
ered by United States Senator. Albert
- J. Beverldge, of Indiana, wop will re
ply to William J. Bryan. , . '
THE CLEVELAND
ARTICLE FORGED
Cleveland Did Not Write Much
Discussed New York
Times Article
HOW IT ALL ORIGINATED
Article Was Sold jo The Times by
Broughton Brandcrbnvg, a, Maga
zine Writer, Saying That It Was
Prepared by Him Under Mr. Cleve
land's Direction He Made An
Offer to Mr. Hastings, Executor of
Will of Mr. Cleveland, Which Was
Accepted Hastings Now Repudi
ates the Letter. ;..
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Sept. 26 Concerning
the genuineness of a signed article
on the present campaign attributed
to the late Grover Cleveland and
frledly toward Taft, published in the
New York Times on August 30, the
Times publishes this morning a let
ter from F. S. Hastings, an executor
of Mr. Cleveland's will, in which he
says: . :
'There has come to my knowledge
evidence which leaves In my mind no
doubt of the fact that the article was
not written nor signed by Grover
Cleveland, and therefore is, in my
opinion, no longer entitled to credit
as his production."
It appears that the article was sold
to The Times by Broughton Branden
burg, a magazine writer, who agreed
to pay to the Cleveland estate a per
centage of the proceeds of the sa'e
of not only . the article in- Question,
bat or others whiicSi he oldhad been
prepared by him under the direction
of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Hastings on
behalf of the estate had agreed to
accept the terms offered by Mr.
Brandenburg, which induced The
Times to buy and publish it.
The doubt now thrown upon the
authenticity of the article is likely to
cause the recall of hundreds of thous
ands of pamphlets containing It senr.
broadcast throughout the country by
the republican national committee at.
a campaign document.
Denies Gompers Allegation.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Sept. 26 Broughton
Brandenburg, who was accused by
Samuel Gompers in Washington on
Thursday with having tried to bribe
him In behalf of the National Manu
facturers' Association, denied the al
legation last night. He said:
"Mr. Gompers came to me while I
was at he Hotel Victoria one day.
I was paring a series of articles on
labor leaders, and I had a mass of
very damaging material. Mr. Gomp
srs endeavored to bribe me, instead
of .me trying to bribe him. He and
ilia agents kept after me for a montn
to get me to accede to some proposi
tion. At the end of a month Mr.
Gompers and I met again at the Hotel
Victoria and I said things to him then
which put a stop to his efforts to win
me over."
SIXTEEN PERISH AT SEA.
Captain. and Crew of Norwegian Bark
Lost In Mid-Ocean.
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York,, Sept. 26 Reports re
ceived here indivate that the captain
and crow of fifteen men of the Nor
wegian bark Fox, the hull of which
was seen half submerged at sea, per
ished after a mid-ocean collision.
Captain Sherubln, of the Australian
steamer Argentine, on arriving last
evening, reported he sighted the hull
if the Fox In latitude 41 minutes, 9
legrees and longitude 66 minutes 22
degrees, and when he sent his mate
und three men to board the wreck
they could find no signs of life.
A great hole was found below the
water line, indicating the Fox h
been In a collision. All the recent
napers of the bark were gone but
Captain Cherubln's men obtained
enough of the record to prove that
the bark was. the Fox which sailed
from Rosarlo on July 11.
Earthqnke in Italy.
(By Cable to The Times.)
Foggia, Italy, Sept, 26 A violent
sarthquake Bhock last night threw
'he residents of VIesta Into a panic.
The buildings were shaken on their
foundations and a number of chlm-
leys fell, but one was hurt Many
of the residents deserted 1 their
homes and fled to the open fields. ,
Eloped With Her Father's Coachman
lik: $n -:
I : fc&H J ; 1 CHAMPION HERE
. Atillo Mwrslni and Mrs. Ernest
eloped with her father's coachman, are
picture. To the right is the Mausoleum and at the bottom is the River-
dale guteway of the home of the dead
FIRE THREATENS
THE ENTIRE CITY
(By Leastd Wire to The Times)
Fon Du Lac, Wis., Sept. '26 Fire
this morning threatens six blocks of
the city. Three churches, St, Peter's
Lutheran, St. Joseph's Catholic and
the First Congregational are gone
and a big garage and several resi
dences are among the buildings, com
prising an entire block, which have
been destroyed- A high wind and
scarcity of water renders the fire de
partment almost helpless to ctfpe with
the flames.
The garage contained fifteen auto
mobiles, none of which was saved.
St, Joseph's was a $40,000 structure.
The residence of Mrs. T. E. Mayham
and of Dr. L. A. Bishop are destroy
ed. The loss Is placed at $160,000,
and it roaysreach several) times this
amount before it Is under control.
HUGHES WILL BE
New York, Sept. ' 26 Governor
Hughes will be formally notified of
his renomlnatlon as the republican
candidate for the office of governor of
the Empire State at a meeting to be
held in the Union League Cluo,
Brooklyn, tonight. Immediately af
ter he will open the state campaign
NOTIFIED THNIGT
at a meeting in Brooklyn under the today. Thirteen persona were Un
auspices of the Brooklyn Yung Men's atantly killed and forty-nine were in
Republican -Club.. '.' v J -. Jured, many of them fatally. .
''.',- ' '.' ,V ''".-. ' .',', '('VI - r.'' (!,.V " te'1V'.y trm-. i ' i'
H. Schilling, the Morosini girl who
shown in the upper pait of the
banker.
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, Sept. 26 Arthur Wil
liams, of Baltimore, the 25 year old
son of President Ernest Williams, of
the Durham & South Carolina Rail
road and a prominent lumber man
In Virginia and South Carolina, is
wandering demented somewhere in
New York City, after having escap
ed from an insanity 'Specialists re
treat in Providence. R. I.
The New York police, the officials
of the Colonial Bank, and the em
ployes of the H. S. Houpt automobile
agency, to whom young Williams re
vealed himself on Wednesday, have
all been asked to aid In his capture,
and it is understood that members of
President Williams' family are on
their way to the city from Baltimore
to find and take home the missing
man.
(By Cable to The Times)
Berlin, Sept. 26 A wreck, with
terrible consequences, followed the
Ignoring of a danger signal by the
engineer of a fast passenger train
ARTHURWILL
MS
LOST IN NEW YORK
THIRTEEN KILLED
IN TRAIN
POLICE STOP UNEVEN
' BLOODY BOXING BOUT.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 26 The
police stopped the bout between
Jack O'Brien and Tom Lanahan at
the Ontario Club last night. The
contest was one that should never
have been permitted. Lanahan was
never In O'Brien's class and waB
beaten by O'Brien when the latter
was a novice several years ago.
O'Brien made a punching bag out of
tho big Iron worker and he had him
staggering and falling all over the
ring for four rounds, when the po
lice signalled the referee to stop the
uneven contest.
Jim Driscoli Comes from En
gland to Defend Title
Against All Comers
ANXIOUS TO MEET MORAN
He is (iame Wants Anybody That
Can be Put Up Is 27 Years Old
and Feels Like 1 Has Cockney
Accent and Wears Green Suit, the
Fashion on the Other Side Now.
I, liked Bowkcr mid Johnny Sum
mers, i
(By TAD)
New York. Scut. 26 Jim Dris
coli, featherweight champion of Eng
land, has arrived In this city reacy
to defend his title against air com
ers. liiKG Knoay, Jim puis ins wui
on the featherweight rock and
chirns. "Come one, come all. This
rock shall fly from Its firm base as
........ t
He Is a dapper little fellow, with a
cockney accent, a green hut and a
green suit. .
"They're all wearing green on the
other side now," said Jim, after the
introductions.
"Yes, I'm anxious to get either Mo-
ran or Alien.- 1 kiiockoq nowKer
out in our last meeting, but In the
first one he went tho limit. Johnny
Summers lost to. me In the second
round on a foul. I beat Charlie
Griffin over there before he came
here, you know. Yes, that was my
last battle. I don't know whether
I'll go west or not.
"My ago?', Why, I'm just 27, and
I feel as though I was 16. When 1
left they told me that Gunner Moor
was coming over to fight some of the
big men you have here. Ho ought to
get on a big match, I think. He
fights hard every mlnuto of the time,
arl Is a terribly game fellow."
Mrs. Mclean Mnkes Ascension.
Worcester, Mess., Sept. 26 Mrs.
Donald McLean, president of the
Daughters of American Revolution,
is to make a balloon ascension from
Springfield with Charles K. Glldden,
If the weather conditions are suit
able. Mr. Glldden, who was In
Washington this week, had a talk
with Mrs. MceLan and found her as
eager to make an aerial trip as when
the subject wai first broached a week
ago. v . v
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BASESOFSOMEOF
HEARST CHARGES
Correspondence With Mr. He
Laurin About His Fight
On Senator Tillman
SENATOR WANTED LOAN
Do You Want Me to Make the In
vestment?" Sibley Wrote Archbold.
"Telegraph Me in Cipher," Stand
ard Oil Man Said in Letter About
West Virginia Senatorship Has
kell Charged With Steel Trust
Connection Affidavits and Letters
Read Hearst Shows Hands of
Archbold. '
Following are some of the letters
and affidavits presented by William
Randolph Hearst in connection with
the recent Standard Oil charges:
"In the court of common pleas of
Putnam County, Ohio, John P. Bailey,
former law partner of Haskell's, sued
the Illinois Steel Company, and the
following paragraphs are extracted
from the complaint:
"Plaintiff avers that within and dur
ing the year commencing- July 1, 1897,
one Charles N. Haskell, who was during-
said time an attorney at law, at
the sneeial instance and request of
said defendant, the Illinois Steel Com
pany, acted as '.agent' and attorney
for said Wondnnt, the Illinois Steel
Company, und about the acquisition
by said defendant of certain property
und in the foi-matlon and organiza
tion of the Federal Steel Company and
In the sale by the said defendant of
Steel Company, and in the sale and
transfer by "said defendant to said
Federal Steel Company of certain ore
properties, . . . - .
50. 000 A FRACTION OF HIS
r profits. v..;-.;;;.
"And plaintiff avers that said ser
vices of said Charles N. Harkell ren
dered to said defendant by him as
aforesaid were and are of the amount
und value of $50,000, and were and are
but a traction of I per cent, of the
profits realized by said defendant from
said services, and that said charges,
fees and comper nation are reasonable
and Just. . -
'Plaintiff avers that afterward said
signed and transferred to this plain
tiff all his said claims and demands
igalnst said defendant, and this plain-
thereof. .
"State of Ohio, Putnam County, ss:
"John P. Bailey, being duly sworn,
says that he Is tho plaintiff In the
above entitled action, and that the
facts stated and allegations contained
In the foregoing petition are true, as
lie verily believes.
"(Signed) JOHN P. BAILEY.
"Sworn to before me and signed in
my presence this 19th day of Febru
ary, 1903. R. L. GRIFFITHS,
"Notary Public'
"So it appears not from my asser
tion, but from court records, that Mr.
Haskell Is not only a Standard Oil tool
and a crooked railroad promoter, but a
steel trust organizer,
"No wonder he can get money for Mr.
Mack, and no. wonder Mr.. Bryan and
Mr. Kern do not want; to relinquish so
Valuable a campaign treasurer. .
HASKELL, PRAISES STANDARD OIL
"Before I rend you a few more letters
regarding the Standard Oil, I want to
read you Mr. Haskell's opinion of that
''corrupt corporation, 'expressed publicly
I in a speech at a banquot at Tulsa,
Ok la., on February 29, 1908:
""Wo often hear for want, perhaps,
hour a speaker assail the Standard Oil
Company... I sometimes think that the
speaker has merely henrd the name
mentioned, and does not know what
the puriose of the company is, or Its
plan of business. The Standard OH
Company has done wonders In the
United States. The .Standard Oil Com
pany, by the application of good senso
to Its business, by the application of
grnlus and discovery of the component
parts of the raw material, has made
oil products reach values that were
never .dreamed of n few years ago.'
"As examples of methods 'that wore
never dreamed of a few years ago,' I
am going to read you the following
letters:
"2 Broadway, Dec. 12, 1901.
'My Dear Senator: I have your
kind favor of yesterday. We have, of
course noted your recent disagreeable
experience with T. with tho utmost
Interest. Think you have done Just
right In not being guided by him Into
doing a foolish thing.
"I am greutly Interested In the sug
gestion of the law practice, and will
see to It that it Is ke'pt in mind, with
tho hope that something may develop
In which I can bo of service to you
In connection thereof.
"With kind regards, am, very truly
yours, , "JOHN D. ARRCHBOLD.
"Hon. John D. McLaurin, Senate
Chamber, Washington, D. C.
McLAURIN'S REPLY.
"United States Senate.
''Bennettsvllle, 8. C, May 29, 1903.
- "Dear Mr. Archbold: I have pushed
. (Continued on Second pggt,)
STEAMER SAWir
IN DENSE FOG
Was Rod Down By Acotbsr
Stealer In Long
Island Scnnd
ALL PASSENEGRS SAVED
Norwegian Steamer Volund in Contu
sion With Fall River Steamer
Goes Down, Sinking in Two MiO- -utes
After Being Struck Her
Crew Picked Up One by One by
Boats Collision Occurred About
3:30 O'clock And Passengera
Were Hurled From Their Births.
(By Leased Wire to The Time) -New
York, Sept. 26 Th Fall
River steamer Commonwealth early -
today ran down and sank the Nor
wegian steamer Volund of Bergen lb -
a collision in a dense fog off Race
Rock, in Long Island Sound near
New Haven. ' ' - 1
The Commonwealth had on board
a full complement of 1,000 , passen
gers, most of whom were asleep in
their bertha when the crash earn.
Only the presence of mind of the cap
tain and crew prevented a wild rash
for the boats and the panic that re
sulted was soon quited. , - ' . j
The Volund sank in two minutes
after the Commonwealth struck; and
13 of her crew of 17 were left help
less amid a tangle of wreckage.0 a
Captain Schutt and four., of sbfa
men managed to gain the - deck -6f
the Commonwealth while' the' sound
liner still had her nose poked against
the Volund's ?!dft, but tb rat afe1
in the forecastle, ..-from ,'; which they
rushed, only to be overwhelmed aatbe
iron steamer swirled to the bottom.
After the disorder on the Com
monwealth had been calmed all her
small boats were ordered out, and for
a half hour search was (made In the
thick murk for the survivors. One
by one all of the 13 of the crew ot
the Volund were discovered cling
ing to bits of floating timber. On
or two were saved by clinging to life- .
preservers, scores of which wefe
thrown overboard from the Common
wealth,""".', The soarch of the small boats took
them a quarter of a mile la all di
rections, the last of the IS men be- '
Ing picked up nearly halt a mile from
where the Volund sank.
The Commonwealth was on her
way from Fall River, which port she
left on her regular trip last evening.
Her commander was feeling his way
most carefully down the sound, aa the
weather waB as thick from fog aa the
men of the boats' crew had over ex
perienced. Sharp lookout was being kept and
the Commonwealth's fog siren was
blown continuously, but at 3: SO hun
dreds of the sleeping passengera were
hurled from their beds by the shock
of the boat ploughing head-on "dnto
the port quarter of the Norwegian
stoamer, tearing a great Tent In her
side. As the Commonwealth surged
back from the reaction of the blow
Captain Schutt and the four men
leaped aboard from their own deck.
The Volund filled at once and almost
before the Commonwealth engines
had been stopped the freight ship was
beneath the surface. Rushinr dAi
deck in their night attlte the. jm' "
monwealth'8 passengers were met i. v
the companion ways by !?i';u of .. .
crew, who, acted flaaiy.
They followed their dri , ; te..,.
lent shape and passed kuUm ..it
frightened men and women, assnfing
them that there was no danger, '.
The Commonwealth Is the crack
staamer of the Fall River line, owned
by the New York, New Haven and -
Hudson Company It is one of the
most palatial coastwise ships evr '
built, and is largely patronlked, as Is
ner alternate poat, the; PrlscliaL
Orchestras provide entertainment on
each boat and' the apartments aft
equal to the best New York hotel.'
The Volund was voyaging from
this port to Nova Bcotla In ballast. S
She is owned by a firm "in Barren.
Norway. .: . :
oprecues Quit Bactng. - ,r
San Francisco, Sept, 26Rudolpn
Sprecktes, for years a pillar, in th
"'"i wru, win aiBDana nis racing ,
string when It arrives fros ltha geaf i
tie by public sale. SsrJiie riv
his reason in a )ong'utrtf
ing that racing Vtoi tu.Vts ito
waya anddsertes the',trt4o-'n-
of the. bookmaker oa'tfca
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