10-5 a a The SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916. MOONEYS GRILLED BY POLICE (Continued From Page One.) were referred by Captain Matheson the District Attorney. Coroner Leland announced today that the date for the inquest would be held in abeyance until the full quota of evidence in the form of bullets, slugs, bits of scrap metal and so on, was assembled. Careful comparison must be made between those missiles found in the bodies of the killed and wounded, and the articles seized in the rooms of certain suspects. 'Herbert A.
Wade, a teacher, residing at 1285 Geary street, who corroborated Miss Estelle Smith's identification of Billings, by stating that he also had seen Billings, carrying a black hand satchel, enter and leave a dentist's office, at 721 Market street shortly before the explosion, today added a positive identification of Billings to his previous statement. Captain Matheson this morning sent Lieutenant Steven Bunner and Detective Michael Burke across to Oakland for the purpose of looking into the bomb explosion that wreeked a Southern Pacific limited train at the Sixteenth street depot, a month or so ago. It is suspected that the two crimes may be connected. Thomas Mooney and his wife, Rena, arrested by the police yesterday near Guerneville, after Mooney had telegraphed his whereapouts to Chief of Police White, were brought to San Francisco. In an automobile, which crossed the bay from Sausalito on special boat and arrived at the city to prison at 12:45 this morning.
District Attorney Fickert this morning examined the Mooneys for four hours. Afterward he stated that they stood firm in their denial of all complicity, and that they clung to the statement that during all of Friday and Saturday they had been in the Mooney studio Market street. Fickert said he had evidence to confute this. Fickert also declared that there WAS every indication. to his way of thinking, that the dynamiting took place as the result of a plot, not against the preparedness paraders, but against the United Railroads.
"We have definite evidence." he declared, "to connect the Mooney with the recent dynamiting of United Railroads tower at San Bruno. We also know of the Mooneys' activities in endeavoring to call a strike on the United Railroads. It is clear that the bomb did not explode at the place originally intended. "The United section of the parade was half-block Rallroads, away from the place of the crime, and it may very well be that the bomb was intended for them. owing to their apathy in the strike matter.
Another possibility is that it was the Intention to damage the tracks or cars of the U. R. R. and to hinder the service." "We have evidence," he added, "which I believe will be sufficient to convict all of the persons now under arrest. Chief.
White today said he had known of Mooney's whereabouts since Monday, and had been in constant telegraphic communication with the O' Briens, who were shadowing the Mooneys, ever since that time. The O' Briens had read the Mooney telegram to Chief White almost 88 soon as it was sent, and had arrested them upon finding that the tickets they purchased had not been for San Francisco, as the telegram had promised, but for a small station fifteen miles down the line. Both Mooney and his wife denied complicity with the bomb outrage of week ago today and Mooney stated he could quickly establish the fact that he is Innocent. ARRESTED ON TRAIN. Mooney was arrested on a train shortly after he had wired Chief White that he would come to San Francisco and establish his innocence.
and denouncing the attempt to connect him with the dynamite outrage. "We intended coming to San Francisco," said Mooney. "As to Saturday's bomb outrage, 1 could not have had any part in that, because I was a dozen blocks away, with my wife, her aunt and her sister, and a dozen others, watching the parade from the roof of the Ellers building." MRS. MOONEY EVASIVE. Mrs.
Mooney, who was separated from her husband on arrival at the prison, said: was at my studio in the Eilers city, building and Mr. Mooney was with mne. We can prove that. While we were there a policeman came up and asked us what we were doing. I told him we belonged there, and then he told us a bomb had thrown from: a building near the ferry.
That was know the nothing first of we this had bomb heard of explosion it. 1 and think it Is terrible to try to connect us with it." FELEGRAM FROM MOONEY. The Mooneys were taken in custody by Patrolman William O'Brien, who had been shadowing them since last Monday, The telegram sent to Chief White by Mooney two hours before his arrest was: "My wife and I left San Francisco last Monday at 8:45 for a week's vacation at Montesano. See by the that I am wanted by San papers a Francisco police. My movements are and have been an open book.
WIll EIGHT IN CUSTODY POLICE FORCE BUSY Eight persons are under arrest as suspects in the explosion of one week ago today. They are: WARREN K. BILLINGS, 2410 Mission street, former Folsom prisoner, identified by two persons as having been seen on a roof near the scene of the explosion a few moments before, with a grip in his possession. Mrs. BELLE LAVAN, 2410 Mission street, landlady and friend of Billings.
Refuses to talk. THOMAS J. MOONEY, agitator, 975 Market street, arrested at Guerneville, with his wife. Denies complicity. MRS.
RENA MOONEY, wife of Thomas J. Mooney. EDWARD D. NOLAN, 82 Angelica street. Machinist.
Acids found at home being examined. Tests so far show no dangerous qualities. ISRAEL WEINBERG, Jitney driver, suspected -of having driven plotters from scene of explosion in his car. Denies complicity. ANTONE FEDONE, suspected by police of having inside information; accused of having made statements concerning the crime.
T. J. RYAN, waiters' picket. Held on suspicion of having written threatening letters previous to the explosion. Not considered guilty by experts of having written them.
Not considered guilty of anything except making a lot of noise. He is out on bail. return by next train to San Francisco, "I consider this effort to incriminate me in connection with the bomb outrage one of the most dastardly pieces of work ever attempted. "TOM MOONEY." PORTLAND, July a man who left San Francisco ten days ago, Police Detectives La Salle and Leonard last night sald they obtained information which may help in detecting the perpetrators of the explosion in San Francisco during the preparedness parade last Saturday. The informant was hurried to detective headquarters and interviewed and then taken away.
The police declined to give out anything concerning the nature of the man's revelations, a although they admitted It concerned the bomb ex- Police of Portland Get Some Information for Local Officers plosion. Other Victims of Outrage Recovering in Various Hospitals Other victims of the explosion appear to be on the road to recovery. according to reports from the hospitals where they are being treated. Alvah Powell, whose left leg was shattered below the knee, is progressing finely and has a chance to save the limb without amputation. Powell had a compound fracture of refractory character, and the case has been one requiring much attention.
Miss Pearl Seeman, at the San Francisco Hospital, is regaining her strength. following the amputation of her right leg, but Robert Wywood and John Brady, In the same Institution, may have to submit to amputations. Albert B. Anderson will be permanently Injured, a portion of the bone below his left knee having been removed. The two Van Loo children are progressing as well as the doctors could wish.
Girl Says She Saw Billings, With on the Roof His Suitcase dental Satelle, 721 Market street, yesMiss Smith, an assistant in 8 terday picked out Billings, one of the suspects in custody, as a man who stationed himself with a small black satchel, or grip. on the roof of the building at 1 o'clock on the day of the parade. She says at about ten minutes to two the man came down, still carrying the suit case, and told her he was sick and asked for a and received a glass of water. Atter receiving the water he walked toward the ferry. explosion took place at about five or six minutes after two.
Brought face to face with Billings, Miss Smith took a look at him and said: the fellow." Billings asked her not to Identify him unless she was sure and then to tell the truth. Miss Smith took another look at him and said: would not identify you unless I was positively sure. realize the 1m- portance of the matter, GIRL CORROBORATED. Miss Smith was corroborated later in her identification by A. Wade of 1285 Geary street, who was one of the spectators of the parade in the dental office.
He sald he had a close view of the man before he went on the roof and identified Billings as the person. And now comes the regular "mystery man and woman who appear In all cases of this sort. According to Miss Smith a man about 5 feet 11 inches, with a moustache of the drooping character, black hat and dark clothes, accompanied by 8 stout woman who wore glasses, tried to get on the roof after the man, supposed to be Billings, went up, but she told them visitors were not allowed on the roof. Whereupon, ac-, cording to, her story, the man who had been allowed to go, called on them to come up. But when Miss Smith threatened to call an officer the man and woman went away, first waving their hands at the man on roof.
Afterward the man on the roof came down, said he was sick, sat down on a chair and waited for her to bring him a glass of water, and then went away. Ryan Not Writer of Threatening Letters, Is the Opinion of Expert Thomas Ryan, picket for the he walter's union, arrested because was suspected of having Written a number of threatening letters previous to the preparedness parade, will doubtless be released. It begins to look as if Ryan was guilty nothing more than making a lot of noise and indulging in verbal pyrotechnics Postal Inspectors engaged on the case are said to decline to consider him seriously connected with the affair. Carl Eisenschimel, handwriting expert, after an examination of the postcards sent through the mails, has FUND IS NOW CLOSE TO $6000 The fund for the relief of the familles left destitute by the bomb outrage on Saturday 19 growing rapidly. The donations now total more than $5000, according to Mayor Rolph, who is handling the fund.
The donations received by Frederick W. Ely, The Bulletin office, total $134.60. which has been turned over to Mayor Rolph. Mr. Ely will gladly receive any donations to the fund and turn the same over to the Mayor.
All donations received by Mr. Ely will be acknowledged in The Bulletin. The donations received at The Bulletin office yesterday were as follows: Employes of the T. D. Co.
5.60 Dr. J. C. McGovern. 5.00 Dr.
S. Koenigstein. 1.00 A. Christian 2.50 Mra. W.
H. Jones. 6.00 Mrs. 1.50 T. B.
R. 1.50 M. c. 3.00 1. W.
Widow Clark 10.00 1.00 Previously acknowledged. 98.50 Total $134.60 Donations received by Mayor Rolph up to date total $5202. They are as follows: E. J. MeCutchen.
50.00 Captain E. Hille: 25.00 G. W. Harders. 5.00 M.
G. D. 5.00 Charles H. Merrill. 10.00 Chapman Nauman 20.00 Raphael Weill Co.
100.00 W. H. 250.00 G. Harney 50.00 F. W.
Ely Bulletin. 54.50 The Chronicle 285.50 E. Well 100.00 Charles Felton Jr. and Miss Felton 250.00 John L. Koster.
100.00 Buckingham Hecht. 25.00 A. L. Gump. 50.00 Charles L.
10.00 A. C. Bowles. 35.00 Previously acknowledged 4,633.00 Total SAY BILLINGS TRIED TO BLOW POWER HOUSE Come now John A. Holland and Michael Cowhig, special policemen, with the statement that Warren Billings, dynamite suspect, was the man who, June 29 and July 2.
attempted to blow up the power house the Sierra and San Francisco Company, They at declare Eleventh: when and they Bryant met on streets. the morning of June 29 at 1:30 to compare notes they saw 8 man acting suspiciously in the vicinity of the power house. Holland called out, "What are looking you doing Fifth over there?" am for Howard streets." replied the man. Whereupon he hurried away. No sooner had he gone than the two specials were convinced that he was wanted for something or other and started to find him, but were unsuccessful.
SAY ITS BILLINGS. That same night at 10 o'clock while standing in the same place by the brewery, Bevins, the local superintendent of the Sierra Company's power plant, called both men Into his office and told them that there was report that a plot had been hatched to dynamite the power house. He asked them to keep a close watch for suspicious characters. Nothing happened that night. On the next night Bevins again called in the two specials showed them photograph of Warren K.
Billings and said that Billings was the man whom the Dolice suspected would set off the dynamite. FIRED ON SUSPECT. Nothing developed until the mornIng of July 2 at 1:30 o'clock, when the watchman of the Rainier Brewery came out and told Holland and hig that the man they were looking for was at that moment skulking around the Sierra power house. Holland and Cowhig Immediately went over power house and saw man crouching in 8 corner near a fence. He leaped up when he saw the specials and fed rapidly down Bryant street around the brewery and was soon lost among the box cars of the rallroad yards.
Holland and Cowhig called upon this man to halt and each fired about four shots. This man both Cowhig and Holland positively assert was none other than Billings. They say they are sure that the fugitive was the man now the custody of the police. WOMAN IN THE CASE. To add spice to the story the special officers mentioned a mysterious.
well-dressed woman who haunted neighborhood before and after the shooting on July 2. This woman was seen in the vicinity of the power house on each of two nights before and two nights after the specials pursued. the man they declare was Billings. The woman was fashionably dressed, in black. She was about 30 years of age, of medium height and of graceful carriage.
She black sailor hat, upon which a feather stuck out at an angle. She wore gloves of dark color, but wore no vetl Panama Tolls Fall Short of Expenses WASHINGTON, July Panama tolls were $4,286,551 less than expenses in the year which ended May 31. In the months the canal was closed by slides the losses ranged between $546,000 and $643,000 a month, totaling for the six months from. October to March Inclusive $3,553,627. Tolls collected during May amounted to $368.02 the largest month since August, 1915.
The Lord but helpe those who help themselves. don't let that Intlu. ence you against helping others. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC EXPOSED 1 Scene from "The Little Girl Next sensational white slave expose being shown at Portola Theater (THE Theater attendance at the Portola to "The light the Little Girl terrible Next traffic Door" in brings young that is dealt with in the film is one during the first week of which has been lived by some unengagement of the six-act girls throughout the country. Be- fortunate victim.
film drama, "The Little Girl Next Girl cause Next Door" authenticity, drives home a great The scheming and trapping the of 'The Little Door," has exceeded the fondest ex- moral lesson. I despicable cads in the services of the pectations of the management, which The investigation brought forth higher-ups of the white slave traffic has now decided to extend the run facts and- figures which have gone to are exposed. The chief characters in for a second and final week, to begin make up the dramatic material of the drama all have their counterparts this Sunday matinee. this six drama. Every story In real life.
PORTOLA SHOWS POWERFUL FILM. Verdun Area Inferno Germans Not Hopeful BY CARL W. ACKERMAN. (United Press Start Correspondent) WITH THE GERMAN ARMY BEFORE VERDUN, July 27 (via Berlin, Amsterdam and London.) Germany's master here- at Verdun robbed the French of their greatest chance to co-operate in: the allted drive. positions had not been under attack By the German forces, troops A under mered the there tri-color simultaneously could have with ham the British thrust.
But Germany now dominates the city. German officers say the main thing now is not whether Germany is to take Verdun, but that the Teutonic forces remain as masters of the battlefield. WILL along LAST LONG.A Traveling all German front in this section, talking with officers and men, I find a different opinion as to the war's end from that entertained elsewhere. The belief of all was best expressed tonight by the grandson of General von Steuben, the Prussian hero of the revolutionary war, who said: "The war will last long. RESPECT FRENCH BRAVERY.
Universal respect is accorded French bravery by the Germans here. "French bravery in the under- PLAN BENEFIT FOR FAMILIES OF THE DEAD A big theatrical benefit, backed by Mayor Rolph and a rellet committee which he is appoint today, will probably be given next week for the benefit of the families of those who died or were seriously injured in the bomb tragedy. Miss Claire Rochester, the singer, who is at the Orpheum, called on the Mayor yesterday and offered her services in getting up a benefit. Miss Rochester leaves Sunday for Los Angeles, but she said she would be glad to come back here for the purpose of helping the cause in which she is interested. believe." said the Mayor today, a benefit at this time would be a great success, and will do all in my' power to help along anything of the kind.
told Miss Rochester I was grateful to her for her offer and that when the relief committee was a pointed It would almost undoubtedly take advantage of it." TO PAVE GRANITE STREET. Notice was served today upon the United Railroads that it must reconstruct eleven blocks of track on Granite street. The city has an nounced its intention of repaving Granite from the Embarcadero to Division street with granite blocks. This will necessitate the reconstruct tion of the car tracks in the same manner. CAR SKIDS.
MAN KILLED. machine. SECRETARY TRANSFERRED. VALLEJO, July 2. W.
A Horn, TREKA, July C. W. Holt of Medford was killed when his car skidded over an embankment on the Paeifc highway. five miles north. His body was found under the overturned secretary of the Naval C.
A. left this morning for El Paso, Texas, where he will take, charro of the work among the soldiers OFFICE GIAL GIVES FACTS ON BILLINGS (Continued from Page One.) order to place it room. 4 For God' sirl, don't touch that he said. Why I asked him. 4 It will strain the lens of the camera, he replied.
In his hand. TALL MAN ARRIVES. "Dr. Strub returned at that time and gave the desired permission to the man to 80 on the roof. After that I never heard nor saw him until just as Mayor Rolph was passing by.
The man came down from the roof just at that moment, still appearing extremely excited. I again Inquired it he was 111, and he replied the heat was affecting him and that he could not remain on the roof. thanked me and then shook my hand. AB he started to go down the stairway to the street, he turned his head and said, 'I don't want to take advantage of your From the window I saw him 80 toward the Ferry with the suitcase the young man was on the roof of the building. a tall man came up to the top of the stairs, leaving a stout woman at the bottom.
This man had a straggly mustache. and I asked him what his business was. He answered that he was lookins for a lavatory. told him that there was none in this building, and then he made a few rude remarks, and I finally ordered him to leave. CERTAIN IT'S HE.
"The man in the City Prison whom the police say is Warren Billings is positively the man who was in the office at 721 Market street, who went up on the roof and who came down and walked toward Market street, still carrying the suitcase. Miss Smith stated that Billings had left the dental office at 1:45 o'clock. The oxplosion took place at 2:06 o' clock, about twenty minutes later. There is also the statement of a mechanic that Billings by a sore on face had been in the crowd at Steuart and Market streets a few minutes before the bomb went off, and the statement today of James Crockett. a motorman, that he saw Billings.
whom he knew well: on top of the Ferry Inn Just before the crash. OAKLAND, July That the person who applied at the Alameda county jail on the afternoon of July 19 in search of information concerning W. K. Billings was Thomas Mooney, now under arrest In San Francisco, was the announcement this morning of Deputy Sheriff John Collier. who completed his identification when he was furnished with a photograph of Mooney.
Collier's Identifcation of Mooney Is corroborated by Deputy Sheritt Joseph Soares, who also talked to the stranger. "This man came into the jail about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 19, and asked me it I had a man named Billings in Jail, said Soared this morning. referred hint AUTOISTE MUST PAY. (By Associated MARYSVILLE July 28. -E.
A. Jenkines as been awarded $1000 damages for the death of bin old SOn Letise, who men run down recently by an automobile driven by Weber. a wealthy Butter county farmer. Jenkins quad Weber for BATTLE OPENS IN BALKANS (Continued from Page One.) unfit have been weeded out. Roughly, there are some 350,000 British and French in Saloniki today.
The major portion are British. Now that the transportation of the Serbe has been completed. transports are beginning to arrive every day with new contingents of French troops despite Verdun. General Mahon has gone te Egypt to superintend the selection and embarking of the larger part of the British armies concentrated there when a German attack on Egypt was regarded as possible. According to expert estimates, 200,000 men should be available from this quarter.
Their transportation has already begun. By mid- June, therefore, there will be some 680,000 men on the ground here ready for the Macedonian offensive. Expert estimates hold 600,000 to be more sufficient for every purpose of attack. TURKISH DIFFICULTIES. Since that time, the Turks have at home, and it is doubtful how many accumulated troubles of, their own troops they will have to assist the Bulgars.
There are Austrians in front of Saloniki. The Germans, littie by little, have withdrawn their forces from Macedonia to fill up the holes in the home lines made by the losses before Verdun. Only four German divisions remain in the neighborhood of Saloniki. Even the Bulgars cannet. give entire attention to General Sarrail's armies, as they have to keep a watchful eye on Roumania.
GREEKS ON FENCE. They have, therefore, according to belief here, only some 300,000 men at most to be counted on to repel an attack from the south. The Greeks at present writing are still what they are pleased to call neutral. Ex-Premier Venizelos knows more about the Greeks than anyone else and he said recently in a private conversation: "One decided allied victory anywhere and no power on earth can hold the Greeks back from joining the entente. to Judgment the police Ryan and department the man that who did writing are not the same.
On the other hand, Theodore Kytka, another expert, is continuing his work, and refuses to make any statements beyond the fact that the similarities between the writing of Ryan and yriting on the postcards are superficial in their char acter. Home-Made "Bomb" in Oakland Yard OAKLAND. July Charles N. Gillespie, 3524 Porter street, found a bomb in his yard early this morning with the following note attached: "For your wife's sake I will warn you that you are discovered as having undue relations with a 12-yearold girl and she will be taken up for examination. You will be held responsible for the crime if you don't disappear in a hurry." The note was signed "Mrs.
The bomb was made of a nine-inch pipe bent in the shape of the letter It was wrapped with he baling rope and a long fuse was attached. It was loaded with black powder and could not have done much damage it it had exploded. Gillespie took the bomb to the police station and Inspector William Smith of the local department is working on the case Gillespie told the police that he had no idea who placed the missile or who the 12-year-old girl referred to In the note could be. Wife of Suspect Admits Knowing the Two Mooneys Ada Nolan. wife of Edward Nolan, of 82 Angelica street, the labor leader arrested in connection with the dynamite conspiracy, admits that they have an acquaintance with the Mooneys.
She also says they know Billings, and that the three have visited at the house, but that the acquaintance is merely friendly one. Mrs. Nolan declares her husband is a hard working machinist and said he was attending a meeting of his union when six detectives appeared at her home to arrest him. He did not return until midnight. They ransacked the house and took papers of a personal nature.
At the Nolan home a quantity of acids were found, and these have been under analysis. Dr. Kellogg. who has this in charge, says that thus far nothing has been found to indicate that any of these acids would be used in making bombs. Foreign substances found in some proved to be flour and sand.
Further tests will be made today. Dynamite Suspects Are Not I. W. Local No. 137, Industrial Workers of the World, has issued a formal announcement denying that Thomas Mooney, Warren K.
Billings, Edward Nolan and other bomb suspects under arrest are I. W. W. s. The announcement is signed by the secretary.
THREE VICTIMS OF EXPLOSION LAID IN SLEEP The body of Thomas Henry Turnbull, who succumbed Wednesday night to injuries received in the bomb explosion, was laid to rest at 10 o'clock this morning in the National Cemetery at the Presidio. Military honors were accorded Turnbull, who served as a volunteer during the Spanish-American War. The services were held from the Masonic Temple, Van Ness avenue and Oak street, under the supervision of the Masonic Relief Board. They were attended by brother Masons and comrades of Turnbull, who served in the Philippines in 1898. The body of Mrs.
Kingsley Van Loo has been sent to her home in Fresno for interment. She and her two children, Richard, aged 9, and Marie, 6, were spending a short vacation in Alameda at the time of her tragic end. She is survived, in addition to her children, by a sister. Mrs. J.
A. Sullivan of Burlingame, and brother, W. C. Graham, of Newark, Alameda county. Mrs.
Howard E. Knapp was buried this morning at 10 o'clock. Her husband is said to be recovering from the effects of the disaster which proved fatel to Mre. Knapp. She leaves a son, William, years old.
The Rev. J. Wesley Miller of Bethel, has married 100 couples In the last twelve years, and not one of these has been divorced. There are nearly 500 sulphur mines on the island of Sicily. EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN STIRS GREAT BRITAIN ground trenches." said one staff offcer.
"Is what prevented German troops from capturing the city. TOWNS IN RUINS At dawn this morning I motored toward the battlefield from hill 171 and viewed the famous left bank of the Meuse. Forges, Immedtately below the hill, was crumbled Into ruins. Here was dangerous ground- a no man's land, where no one was permitted enter. Towns near about were in ruins.
In the distance, Dead Man's hill was discernible- its brownish summit decked with white puffs of shrapnel shells in the blue sky. Soldiers go to and from the trenches in automobile transports. Bodies of recruits maneuver on hillsides, being schooled in hand grenade and other attacks from old-line trenches, captured long ago. Little Serbian ponies, burdened under machines guns, scurry back and forth. may be said that the Verdun operations have gone through two stages: First, everything above the ground in front of the trenches was swept away.
Second, German advances carried the strongest points held by the French. SLANDER SUIT NOW BEREFT OF ATTORNEYS New developments were foreshadowed in the slander sult of Mrs. Marmaduke Eskridge, former secretary of the Dixie Club, against Mrs. Charles S. Fitzsimmons, former president of the club.
today. when Attorneys H. S. Nutting and Clarke Clement, representing Mrs. Eskridge, filed with the Superior Court a notice of their withdrawal from the case.
This leaves Mrs. Eskridge without an attorney, as far as the court records show. The notice of withdrawal is brief, and is addressed to Mrs. Mrs. Fitzsimmons and to Mrs.
Fitzsimmons attorneys It read: "Please take Tor good and sufficient reasons we have withdrawn from the case. The reasons are not set out. Clement and Nutting both declined to disclose the reason of their with drawal. We would like to tell you," said Clement, "why we are withdrawing. There are several reasons, but It would be unethical to disclose them.
Our withdrawal leaves Mrs. Eskridge temporarily without an attorney. We understand, however, that she has an old friend in Missouri who Is willing to help her out. The slander suit, which shook the entire Dixie Club, has been ponding in Judge Graham's court for two months. Mrs.
Eskridge, In her complaint, alleged Mrs. it had accused her of tampering with letter addressed to the clubroom, and nad made uncomplimentary statements about her to other members. The sult was for $26,000 damages. A motion of Mrs. to have the trial transferred to Alameda county Is pending WILTON TO TAKE TRIP.
(By A moolated Prese) July President Wilson plans to leave late today for week end trip down the Potomac and Chesapeake on the May He wIll accompanied by relatives. (Continued from Page One.) himself only to treatment as a prisoner of war in event of capture. Reprisals by the allles, it is feared, might be followed by a change in the German submarine policy, which has been satisfactory to the United States since the last assurances that merchant ships would not be attacked without warning or without provision for safety of passengers and crews. Convention No. 10 of the Second Hague peace conference sets forth how the crews of merchantmen who legitimately resist capture shall be treated as part of the armed forces of an enemy, One of the best authorities on the subject says: "In a sense, the crews of the merchantmen owned by subjects of the belligerents belong to the latter's armed forces.
For those vessels are liable to be seized by an enemy of war, and, if attacked for that purpose, they may defend themselves, may return the attack and equally seize the attacking men of war. The crews of merchantmen become in such cases combatants and enjoy all the privileges of the members of armed forces. But unless attacked, they must not commit hostilties, and if they' do 80 they are liable to be treated as criminals, just as are private individuals who commit hostilities in land warfare." Officials here point out that the United States has taken the position that the master of any merchant vessel who sees a submarine approaching has, from the very nature of the submarine method of warfare. the right to presume that he is about to be attacked. Consequently, it is argued, he has the right in turn to forestall that attack by himself ramming or firing to defend himself.
Find Woman's Body Near U. C. Campus OAKLAND, July 28. The body of a woman, well dressed, was found today in the hills about 250 yards from the Greek Theater, just outside the campus of the University of California. The woman was apparently about 60 years of age.
EX-CASHIER AN EMBEZZLER. SAN DIEGO, July 28. -E. Milton Barber. former cashier of the San Diego Savings Bank, accused of felony embezzlement, was found guilty last night.
Barber will not ask for 8 new trial nor for probation, but will throw himself on the mercy of the court. HUGHES' WESTERN TRIP. BRIDGEHAMPTON, N. July 28. -Charles E.
Hughes today continued working on his speech of acceptance and the completition of the itinerary of his Western trip. He plans to start on his trip to the Pacific Coast August 5. to Deputy Sheriff Jack According to Collier, the stranger repeated his request for information regarding Billings, and pretended deafness when who he was and whom he represented. that "Later he he was supplied from the Information Sacramento and was looking for Billings, who had been given a six months sentence In Sacramento," said Collier. is no doubt in Iny mind but that the man was Mooney, although he was wearing a moustache at the time.
He was about 5 feet 6 or inches in height, weighed about 150 pounds and was dressed in a blue suit. soft shirt and black telescope.
