Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 1

7 r2C 7 RxR A a 1 1 rt I A )ff Detroit Jfm 33 EI 7 75 IMPROPER MT CRIME DETAILS ARE REVOLTING Decide Bs leaner AeKGts to Influence our of Barcroft's Experts Not Such as Would Justify Court Appeal AIDAVITS signed by engineers presented Immigration Be port on White Slave Trade' Made to Congress Sets orth Details Too Vile to Publish MOST PROCURERS ARE OREIGN HE STATES Each swears He Was Urged Not Have Anything to Do With Appraisal but Neither Threats yor Bribery Used of the unsuccessfully to ur men connected with ft appraisal of the com oi erty and that it was but not criminal nor uijl 'justify an appeal to the substance of the executive comtnit of 5J at a long tuierdav afternoon 1'lvde I Webster who I to Investigate the i preferred by Bar y'pted affidavits from four alleged to have been ed 'ii which they stated the u': I 1 ti conversations D' 'svntatlves had had with ie circumstances men who signed the re William Richards of Toledo and of Chicago all jneers of nautical tnd rank Hall of employe in of says he was unable to I 1 Itav of Hammond Ind igin'eer alleged to have rtclied ese artidaits it appeared tl Manager Brooks a rintendent of motive ester Potter master me John Kerwin superin 'Jri'i tracks were the ones sought interviews with in each instance they 4 el to convince them Barcroft appraisal was discredited and would thing to have nothing to hut that there were no ft money or positions threats and nothing that construed in a court of on attempt at bribery Affair Sow Ended tins tene entirely within ttcr tile law so far heth? find out was the i IV report 'ceim ub the report and the i stifr that that ends so far as they are co a tits report says: case ne affidavits show made to get these sign any papers' in con tae appraisal In theo Air on lards the reason wag i i was crooked work os Mr roehlich theyI tor his figures They ne very careful and tn anv papers that he necause the papers that nt him were very mis ase of Mr Johnson they io mm not to see Mr mini representatives of I mid first talked with of Mr Hall tiiey cin with any of the told him that the re 1 discredited and he i to be connected I also told him that the ri were wrong The ued to get an inter sim was anything but I npropi A'o More i i not attempt to analyze affidavits or comment 1 ney speak for thern riuve come to these con rrlieve there is any of the affidavits show rlirlnai conduct re the things done trott united Railway ofll wti by these affidavits it to furnish the foun an injunction bill Many of the Women Are Inno cent of Their ate Others Come of Own Accord' Traffic Now Extends to Boys and Men Washington December 10 All but incredibly revolting are the dis closures of an international system of traffic in both the enforced and the voluntary degradation of men and women contained in the report on the so called slave submitted to congress today by the United States immigration commis sion Shocking as is the tale of volun tary shame told in the report im mensely more so is the setting forth of well attested facts as to the compulsory consignment of innocent immigrant girls to the life of the bawd Much of the subject matter of to report was covered by the commission in its 1400 page pre liminary report published and wide ly discussed a ago Today's report is briefer containing but 60 pages and a large part of it Is unsuitable for newspaper publica tion Too Bad to Print an Document' When the report was presented in the house of representatives today by Congressman Bennet of New York Champ Clark the minority leader objected to its being printed ns a house document out later withdrew his objection It '''b 8 promptly renewed by" Mr Saoath of Illinois Mr itzgerald of New York wanted to know if the report contained sensational matter that which he implied was contain ed in the report of the Roosevelt homes commission upon which Bennet evoked laughter by the tart matter calculated to appeal fy been elim inated t' 7 The report begins with an intro duction explaining the nature" and terminology of the slave traffic and concludes with a sum mary of the effects moral and phys ical especially upon the victims and a series of mostly of an administrative char ac The commission says that the ef fect of the importation of immoral women into this country is one of increased degradation and death for the women and of contamination and corruption by means of the spread of disease for those with whom they come in contact Economic boss is Great economic loss coming the shortening of life and from the expenditure of the large sums of moneV' in all the multifarious waj of vice and which is mere waste from every point of view is great says the report is unnecessary to comment on the ruinous Influ ences of prostitution upon domestic and social life or on its horrible effects which come alike to the guilty and the innocent The commission says that the im moral traffic is notconfine'i entire lv to women but it is clear that there is a beginning at any rate of a traffic in men and bojs for im moral purposes The need of checking this importation is es pecially continues the re Sort vilest practices are here from continental Europe and beyond doubt there has come from imported women and their men the most bestial refine ments of depravity Worse Than Tuberculosis approve the things Detroit United Railway by these affl methods used and were highly they are ground auii affidavit is a fairn of them Shorn of1 iegal verbiage it in November 1909 de iictI a telephone call Potter master me i Detroit United rail deponent coulij be uoeiifs office at Toledo 1: that deponent told see him for a short 1 ter arrived about 7:30 Mated that deponent a ked to sign certain pa mem to the appraisal very misleading: that omit ted to the com were not correct asked deponent not to and to be cautious 1 his guard and Potter to deponent for a copy es nr statements that de we bearing on the iv rk: deponent told Pot would not give him 01 statements on the ver that later de ived a telephone call Brooks general man f'etioit United railway who stated to depon 'ntially the same things Im by Potter except that isk deponent for any dd ask deponent to be and cautious in any 'cent might sign giving that the papers that nt to deponent were very that deponent told potter's visit and of his and that he Potter what his reply iXOW EXPECTED TODAY rem Kansas is Headed This Way i Kansas an atmos ii bane? js spreading aiding to the weather tlie local Office North warnings have been si rug line of south it irou central and south san and western Lake igilier with snow and temperatures is what 'Jj expect today The lorn Minnesota to Mon a uhl i1 the grasp of the The diseases generated and spread by these importations says the report should be guarded against more than tuberculosis typhoid or any of the other infectious The commission in describing the manner of "its investigations re counts' the experiences of many of its agents Tn some cases they were attacked and beaten and actual murder was narrowly averted inancial profit is the basic mo tive for the traffic but of the wo men and' girls abroad induced by various method into the net of the procurers many human attributes operate to accomplish their destruc tion Sometimes' it is merely a deire for financial improvement Again it mav be an affection for the male procurer sedulously cul tivated bv the man Many of the girls are innocent and ignorant but a far greater number it is declared are not of that Inexperienced class and come largely of their own ac cord Most Come by Big Seaports Most of the women it is said come by wav of New York San rancisco and Seattle although manv are coming lately by way of Canada requently they are brought into the United States dis guised as wives and sisters of their procurers and so pass the immigra tion officials The exploitation of these women after their arrival in the United States is characterized In the report as pitiful for the women and most brutal on the part of the Not only the innocent and betrayed young7 girls but the more experi enced women are made the victims of virtual slavery Ileconimendatlonn for Abatement The commission recommends chiefly that efforts be made through government agents abroad and on board steamships to prevent the im portation of women to this country that more assiduous efforts be made in the United States to arrest wo men known to be engaged in im moral practices rand to deport all possible that the limit of three rears after landing within which such persons may be successfully prosecuted be removed that any de ported person returning to this countrv be imprisoned: that the keepers of immoral houses in whicl alien women are found be subject tn deportation and that the state and municipal governments be urged to co operate for the stamp ing out of the eyil Administrator's sale of Robert Hoplcin's Paintings December 6 to 28 exclusive 13 Woodward Ar cade DETROIT MICHIGAN SATURDAY DECEMBER 1 1 1909 PAGES PRICE: TWO CENTS I I NEGRO KILLS 2 WITH AX Another Woman Victim is Dying in Hospital Jail illed With Suspected Blacks and Posses Are Searching for More ONE OLD WOMAN STRUCK DOWN IN ROCKING' CHAIR After Submitting Last Victim to Gross Indignities iend Crushes in Her Head All in Busy Center of Savannah Savannah Ga December A ictims of a revolting crime Mrs Eliza Gribble 70 years and her daughter Mrs Carrie Ohlander were found dead in their home 401 West Perry street here today while Mrs Maggie Ilunter 32 found just inside the front door of tlie house is at the Savannah hospital dying Physicians state that Mrs' Oh lander was the victim of a criminal AN URGENT APPEAL SjsBMphi oppiNq assault before she was killed 150 Negroes Arrested One hundred and fifty negro men caught in the meshes of the police dragnet through Yamacraw a negro section of the city are prisoners in the police station the theory of the police being that a negro man hav ing planned an assault upon Mrs Ohlander was compelled to commit the other crimes in order to escape Other arrests will be made until every negro in the city who in any way resembles the description of a negro who during the last three days has been seen frequently about the premises of the house of the murdered women is a prisoner The police believe that this negro" using an ax taken from the wood shed jiti the rear of the Gribble homebeat Airs Gribble to death struck down Mrs Hunter and after assaulting Mrs in the wide long hal Iway where the bodies were found finished terrible work by beating in her skull with the weapon Slain rom BeMndk Mrs Gribble evidently was at tacked from behind as she sat in an easy chair reading On ihe floor beside her body were JfdirnHnew spa per "sJ sheading an spectacles Onfr or possibly' twd niows were aeait ner tier gray head blood matted shows the im print of the blunt ax It is probable that Airs Hunter was the first to H7 down that i she met the murderer at the door as he entered and was struck before she could escape Then the murderer steathily proachd aged Mrs 1 Gribble and killed her It is believed that Airs Ohlander was attacked as she left her room to enter the hallway was assaulted and killed Mrs Hunter's skull was crushed in and her death is a matter of but a few hours The motley horde Of prisoners is quiet and frightened in the police station and jail 'It is believed that if the negro suspected of the crime is caught he can be quickly Identi tied Bloodhounds have been at work in an effort to take the trail: from the woodshed where the ax was found by the murderer but as the house Is almost within the heart of the city and as the murders were probably committed several hours before the discovery "of the bodies the dogs will be of little use A reward of $1000 has been is sued A BACKS THE SWITCHMEN Trouble May Spread to Other Bailway Unions Unless De mands Are Granted Cincinnati December The American ederation of iDabor will support the switchmen Who are on strike in the northwest to the ex tent of its powers according to ah announcement' Tnade tonight by Samuel Gompery' president of the federation afters an extended con ference with rank Hawley presi dent of "the union of North America This is said to mean that' if the railroads do not concede the de mands of the strikers the trouble may spread until It Involves other railroad unions connected with the American ederation of Dabor' Mr Gompers refused to say whether there would be an exten sion of the strike but he 'asserted that after a full investigation he was satisfied that the demands of the strikers were "treasonable and that thev would receive the support of all affiliated unions? "Mr Hawley was jubilant over the decision of Mr Gompers He ridi culed the assertions of railroad officials that the strike was ended and exclaimed: "They cannot beat us now that the great ederation of Dabor is be hind us" SENDS SMALLPOX BY MAIL Miscreant Ships Package of Hu man lesh to a Judge Colorado Spijs Col December 9 Two piecesWr human flesh were sent through the mails to Justice of the Peace A Tombs accompanied bv a note explaining that they had been taken from a smallpox patient the writer expressing the wish that the judge might catch the disease and die County physicians and the city chemist both examined the grue some contents of the letter and pro nounced it human flesh There is no wav they declfrre to tell whether the' flesh contains contagion until some animal Is inoculated This will be done 'Judge Tombs has reported the matter to the federal authorities for investigation and a member of the city detective department also has been assigned to work on? the mystery Judge Tombs is unaware of the existence of any enemy un less it be some one upon whom he has inflicted punishment In his offi cial capacity ALL CLUES AIL IN KIDNAP CASE Louisville and Southern Indiana Police at Sea in Search for Alma Kellner Louisville Ky December 10 Though story after story has been by the Louisville po lice "the whereabouts of Alma Kell ner 8 who disappeared from her home lVednesday remains unknown Nothing was accomplished today in tracing he kidnapers Kellner i'aiher of Alma said lie believed hig daughter was look ing al toys in shop windows when somebody lured her a'waj The child was returning home from church cslno xv Or Lr i ynoI The city Jias distributed 500 circu lars' offering anjunspecitied reward for the recovery of the child and the entire police force of Louisville and of southern Indiana towns are working on the case rank ehr a millionaire uncleo Xt he ihl i 1 child said that the wa sJ not ab Jc Ao pny a ransom for Alma The Kellners deny a story circulated last night that a meeting between and the alleged kidnapers had been ar ranged Ut" SPITZER DENIES ALL CHARGES Never Knew of the by Which Sugar Sales Were ixed Special to Die ree' Press New York December 10 The de fense opened its case in the sugar trial in the United States circuit court today with' a long address to the jury by Henry Cochrane on behalf of all the defendants The only witness called today was Oliver the former dock In Williamsburg and one of the defendants in the pres ent Spitzer was on the stand most of the day and when court adjourned Mr Stimson was still cross examining the witness i It was severe gruelling 'that Spitzer was forced to endure Spit zer said that he knew nothing what ever that went on in the trust of finffcMn a 1 1 He admitted that the scales 'on the docks used "by the government weighers had beeh 'changed while he was ip charge but that so far as he knew only three of them (had been altered He denied all knowledge of the device which Rich ard xParrr says he discovered 'on November The witness previously' told Mr Cochrane that there had been frequent strikes on the docks and that he had many bitter enemies who had sent him threatening letters Mr ftStimsoh next took up the ui Ji it a i hc 1 1 eu i it i ea 1 1 1 1 1 wages paid to the checkers known as the and the checkers who worked with the city or nier chantXwbighers The six men re ferred to wereDoyle Boyle Kehoe Hennessey' and Halligan who were always assigned to check the: government weighers The wages? of menSwere raised at the same time from $18 a week to $20" and Spitzer admitted that he always kept slx men who were paid higher Swages than the other checkers 'ft i When the prosecutor wanted 1 to know why this was done the wit ness replied it was because they had double' the work to do and that they had to watch the govern ment weighers: i This statement gave the govern ment an opening which Mr Stimson was not slow In taking advantage of He to know first why the checking of the city weighters' weights on which the sugar com pany paid all Its bills "on imported sugar was left to the checkers who were apparently the less skilled or less reliable and certainly the more poorlv paid' In a period of sixyears Mr Stimsondeclared the company had paid for 35i0000 pounds more of sugar than It would have done if It had taken the government flo nros ns checked no bv the big six and' as recorded In the pink dock books government weighers weights were never taken as basis "on which to pay these bills he added and remarked sarcastical ly that the sugar comnany would prefer tojake the weights recorded In distant Java in the consular in voice than the weights The direct examination Spitzer bv Mr Cochran for the defense brought out 'only general denials drninist sale of Robert Paintings December 6 to 28 inclusive '203 Woodward Ar cade Special J'eut tbla Week In Crating and 4" Packing Hoards RESTRICK LUMBER CO a XVv "Yj PASTOR UNARAID Them Declares Bev Pasquale De Carlo Can Defend are these men wno $1000 from am sureT do not know' urthermore I do not care If they want tho money they can come to me and get it if they can I think I can take'" care of myself have to come from behind and have to come 'rather strong even from the way Rev Pasquale De 'pastor of the Italian Presbyterian': Sherman street? troubles Dr De Carlo regards the demands of he extortionists with as much concern as he would sermon on Sunday has been said that I know the men who made the demand on he do jiioR knTjv In ttielr letter they me they are perse cuted Then'? sayT they are driven from one city to another and have to eke air' existence as best theycan If'" it be true are persecuted and that they are driven from one city to another I should Indeed be glad to them and give them what spiritual assistance I But to give them $1000 on the' conditions they ask is out of the question have taken their communica tion to the where it belongs I know that such a proceeding Is entirely distasteful to all so calledblack societies I am will ing to take my chances I am not at all Dr De Carlo has been in Detroit about five vears 'His work on Sher manstreet was instigated by Rev A Barr of the Jefferson Ave nue Presbyterian church of which the Italian Presbyterian: mission is an outgrowth Seven Italians wiere brought into Central station at an early hour this morning charged with sus picion They are thought to know something of the "Black let ter received "by Rev Pasquale De Carlo STATE AIR DRY? SAYS POSTAL President Invites Those Who Want Liquor Sale Abolished to Take Up? air's Notes "If they? want to run 1 State fair that way better come down here and take up $3000 or $C000vof? those State fair notesover in the bank CThey do it while I have anything to say 'about: i jjThis is the oimnentotjreJ Postal president' of the State fair board on the announcement ited to A I Doherty 1 director and retiring general "superintendent of the State fa 1 before 4 he and ciiibsHn' Lansing that he would do every thing in his power to abolish the sale of liquor on the State fair grounds next fall "I believe in a man ihaving just as 'much? libertyfion the State fair grounds as he down continued Mr Postal? "We have just as much right to sell liquor oh the State fair grounds as anywhere? elsev in Wayne county The public may as well known just where I stand? in this matter 1 affordi'to? conduct my' own business in that way rand do anything? in: the business that I do in my James Slocum retiring general manager of the State fair takes the ground that an nouncement means the fair will be dry next: fall asserting that the other (directors of "the State fair board will support the movement tn the sale of' liquor on the grounds He says the Grangers' and clubs demand this action and the' State fair board would have cut off the sale sot liquor some time ago had it felt ableto sacrifice the $7000 received for the privilege Next atx Battle Creek Lansing Mich December The next annual reunion of the mem bers of the constitutional convention will be held in Battle Creek as a compliment to Nichols who was elected president The latter extended a very cordial invitation to his'feilow members to accept the hospitality of his city and an exception will made to the rule meeting outside of Lansing Colonial Hotel Cleveland Modern ireproof Homelike American and European Plans Reasonable rates I McCREARY URST Proprietors 7 cent Table Lunch eon inest Restaurant' Splendid Music Penobscot LIE TOLL NOW 52 CAR TERRY LOST IN GALE PHONE STOCK MARQUETTE BESSEMER SOLD TO BELL CO NO 2 LATEST VICTIM President Goff of Cleveland Trust Co Testifies He Handled 4 19000 Shares TOLD BY BB AILEY THAT C0NTB0L HAD PASSED Shares Taken to New York and Disposed of to Remick of Day Co Cleveland December 10 The name of President Vail of the American Telephone Telegraph I company and other officers of the Bell telephone organization 'were linked with the recent sales of independent telephone stocks when President Goff of the Cleve land Trust company testified in a local hearing today President Goff said that he vls ited the New York offices of the Bell company bearing witn him op tions on 19000 shares of United States Telephone stock given him he said by the voting trustees to be disposed of According to testimony while President Vail of the Amer ican Telephone Telegraph com pany and Howell of the New York Telephone company declined to buv he was introduced In the Belt offices to Remick of the firm of R' Day Co and after a conference with Remick and At torney Leverett a director in the Bell company Remick agreed take the 19900 shares President poff exhibited the con tract of sale then" into in which1 the 'price of the common stock was fixed at 40 and the pre ferred stock at 80 Jt was stipu lated in the contract "that Goff should obtain the resignations of the seven voting trustees upon de mand this demand to be made up on notice from Day Com KNOX UNJUST IS Goff was to? take in the stock the Day company to furnish the money: While at the offices of Day Company he sail he met James Brailey whose name has been: connected with 'these transac tions and Tey Ztoid '3iirji he had handled the Day more than enough Independent stock to assure control of the United States concern PLAINT Nicaraguan' President Says United 'States is Hostile to Him and Sought Pretext to Act Managua Nicaragua December 10 "The United' States unjustly con demns my said President Zelaya in an interview to day? "1 proposed secretary of State Knox that he submit the case to the' investigation of a com mittee of his own cnoosing agree ing to surrender my rights to the presidency if The charges in his letter to Isidoro Hezera former Nicaraguan minister to Jhe united States were sustained Secretary Knox has not replied: Defenseless against the hostility of a' powertul: nation '1 must sub mit although I have been 'Con demned unheard jcoercion of the United States will not redound to the credit of that' nation whose motives are questioned in all Latin America The' shooting of Groce and Cannon was a pretext EJotiT were amenable the laws of Nicaragua which distinctly" authorizes the shooting of individuals? commanding rebels It' is different if a person Is cap tured during the course of an in ternational war The attempt of Secretary Knox to establish the In violability of the persons of Amer icans participating in foreign revo lutions will result in constant revo lutions led by immune Americans The initiative in the shooting of Groce and Cannon was1 not mine I simply refused tor extend clem ency to them after? a properly con stituted? i military tribunal had passed upd'n i President Zelaya then recited sev eralinstances of alleged hostility against him in the United states through paid articles appear! ng ln American newspapers dr one or these instances he declares he was endeavoring to raise a loan tin rance when his enemies persuaded the United States to Interpose an objection through the rench am bassador at Washington on the pre text that the money sought was in tended for the purchase of war ma terials when In reality it was to have been used in the construction of a railway Green Yawlboat Seen Is Probably rom Missing erry Which Left Conneaut Last Tuesday With Thirty Cars Sister Boat Weathered the Storm SEARCH LAKE UNAVAILING OWNERS IN DARKNESS AU Hope Given Up or 13 Missing rom Clarion Woman Lost Her Life on the Richardson Damage Reaches a Million Dollars 1909 COST 121 LIVES Tlie death roll of the rreat lakes for the season of 1909 now containN naiueM Lake Erie leads all the other lakes corn blued 5 it Ii 73 lives as toll The list of fatalities for the year follows: Lake Erie: Date Uvea Lost Cause Car ferry Marquette Bessemer Ao 2 Dec 7 52 Storm Steamer Clarion Dec 15 ire storm Steamer Richardson Dec 5 Storm Steamer George Stone Oct 13 tt Storm Schooner Vanstraubenzie Sep 2T 3 Collision Tug Princeton May 24 3 Collision Steamer Janies Hoyt May Id 3 Explosion Tug loss April Storm Total 75 Lake Superior: Dredge Dee 1) 6 Sprung aleak Steamer John Cowie July 12 14 Collision Steamer Adella Shores April 30 13 Storm Barge Nester April 30 7 Storm Total' 40 Lake Michigan: Steamer Louis Pjthlow Nov 15 1 Storm si Steamer Eher "Ward? Aprtl 20 5 Ice Total 6 The curious feature is that while Lake Superior has 40 fa talities and Lake Michigan Lake Huron does not figure in the mortuary lists Usually this lake bears her full share of such an unweleome burden WAY CRAT WAS LOADED CAUSE WRECK? Conneaut December 10 The wives and children of the officers and men of the missing car ferry Marquette Bessemer No 2 are grouped tonight at the wharf awaiting the return of a tug which left Port Dover this afternoon for Long Point The cause of the disaster will be ascribed here in part to the manner in which she wasloaded A' heavy weight of bridge iron piled on top of the cars may have shifted in the heavy seas placing the craft out of control CREW LOST CAR ERRY Master Robert McLeod first mate John McLeod second mate Stone purser Smith chief engineer Wood assistant engineers Buehler and Kennedy wheelsmen Clancy and Wilson watchmen Annis Walker steward Smith seamen Barrett Harvey Hughes Sharp and Ball firemen Olson Wiggleworth Cook and Steele oilers Wirtz Hart A Snyder and Chas Allen coal passers Hine Hing and Couptf second cook Thomas waiter Swartz porter Laurence and one other whose name Is unknown Capt McLeod and his brother the first mate and practically all the crew came from Conneaut GREATEST LAKE DISASTER A QUARTER CENTURY Lake death roll inscribed by the protracted storm of thia week has been placed at the appalling total of 52 by the loss of the large steel car ferry Marquette Bessemer No 2 with her crew 32 The blotting out of the Bessemer No 2 is the greatest marine disaster of a quarter of a century or more Hope of finding the ferry and crew has practically been abandoned by the officers of the Marquette Bessemer Dock Navigation com pany after a thorough search of Lake Erie by tugs and the steamer Marquette Bessemer No 1 4 7 EARLIER VICTIMS SURELY GONE Nothing more has been heard from tho steel lifeboat of the Clarion containing 13 men or from the small boat that left the steamer Richardson near Buffalo with five men in it The deatff hst roE5 the burning and sinking of the Clarion and' the sinking of the Richardson seems likely to remain at 20 persons including a woman washed from the The1 steamers Henry Oliver and Capt Thomas Wilson are safe The Oliver passed up the Detroit river at noon yesterday and tne MARQUETTE BESSEMER NO 2 big steel car ferry and her crew of THIRTY TWO ARE MISSING IN LAKE ERIE 1 wm csfc rf T'iL 4 A 4: 'X i 1 iTx tL 1 Ni 1 1 Z1 A I I A I fl 4 I St li Vu 'L O' i 'V Tt i hhm I 4 i kN A A jl'CA 2 A.