Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - February 15, 1905, Oakland, California Associated Press LST WEATHER AND THIS TONIG HT AND NOR THEAST VOL WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY NO. 18O HE PLUNGED KNIFE INTO HER FACE Beautiful Lawrence Will Bear Scars For A REPRIEVE Her a Board of Pardons Want Her Testimony m Case of Her Mrs. Laura I. of B. club man and stabbed in the neck and cheek by her 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in their Piedmont NARROW She had a narrow escape from most instantaneous death and will be for The attack upon her is said to have been inspired by Mrs. Lawrence being ered a. beautiful She says her husband intended to kill SUIT FOR Owing to domestic infelicity and a pending suit for divorce Mrs. Lawrence brought only a few days the couple have been living apart for about two Mrs. Lawrence to live with a Mrs. a next door Mrs. E. a friend of Mrs. also boards with Mrs. Mr. Lawrence has been occupying the family residence with an old man ed who has lived with the family several working around the house and SHE WENT A few 5 o'clock Mrs. knowing her husband was not at went over to the house to set some her personal effects and some clothing for her infant daughter While at the telephone ing some one down Mr. rence came home and entered the Mrs. Lawrence's story of what as told afterwards to Mrs. Burton and Mrs. is that her husband at- tacked her with a knife while her bank partly turned toward She had no and no knowledge of Im- pending danger till she felt the keen knife cutting through her face and Mrs. Lawrence dropped the telephone receiver and sank lying partly on the floor and partly on a Mr. Lawrence then hurriedly left the She says he was DOCTOR one of the house physicians of Fabiola which is only about two blocks away from the Lawrence was soon on the The flow of blood was soon and the wounds Dr. Bell said this the old came Into the shortly after 5 almost out of He Mrs. Lawrence had been stabbed by her husband and entreated us to come Im- Mrs. Lawrence was greatly excited and bleeding The wound is a superficial one extending from below the right eye down across the It is jagged and of varying leave a At the jawbone the knife jumped to her neck a no. making a cut just over the collar and missing the carotid artery by a fraction of an The cut then extends down over the shoulder Mrs. Lawrence evidently turned she felt herself being probably caused the knife to miss the carotid one of the arteries which feeds the If that artery had been Mrs. Lawrence would have been dead before we could have reached IN POLICE In the police court this morning on Page 2.) GOVERNOR Metcalf Ordered to In- Standard Oil Asked to Get Facts for United States to Bring i February 15. resolution adopted in the House to petroleum was Representative Campbell of and is as That Secretary of Commerce and he hereby to investigate the cause or causes of the low price of crude oil in the United and especially in the Kansas oil and the un- usually large margins between the price crude oil of petroleum and selling price of its arid said conditions have resulted in whole or in part from any con- combination in the form of a BABY EDWARDS BORN FEBRUARY WHEN THE NEWS OF THE RE- HEARING IN THE GREASON CASE AND A CONTINUANCE FOR MRS. EDWARDS WAS SENT TO THE ROPE BROKE AT HANGING AT Body Falls to Ground and People Turn From Gruesome February was hanged here today for the murder of his The rope broke as the body and the back of head struck a of the scaffold and broke The physicians present said death was It was therefore not necessary to raise the body again the Shudders ran through those who h ad assembled to witness the the rope parted and body fell to the Nearly every one present turned head from the gruesome Sheriff Dement said after the hanging that he was unable to account for the snapping of the had been tested with a weight more than 100 pounds heavier than BITTER DISCORD BETWEEN STOESSEL AND Indications Are That There Will Be riany Charges at Court Martial in special correspondents sent to meet the French steamer having on board General Stoessel and others of the ors of Port forwarded de- tailed accounts of discord among the Russian The army officers are particularly hostile to the habitually it the Admiral who was commander of the torpedo defenses at Port is lengthily as making bitter criticism of General Ad- miral Alexieff and BED CHAMBER The Matin quoted as characterizing Vice-Admiral Stark and Rear-Admiral Withoeft as chamber Admirals not quainted with their duties and sick whenever The Admiral added that Vice- Admiral prudently himself ashore at notwithstanding his op- to break the ineffective blockade of Port insky and Alexieff before the court martial as he did not let himself be made scapegoat like Rear-Admiral now trembles MRS. JAIL MRS. EDWARDS WAS LYING Ort HER MOANING AND AND GIVING FULL SWEEP TO HER IT WAS EXPLAINED TO HER THAT SHE HAD AT LEAST BEEN GRANTED A NEW LEASE OF IT WAS HARD TO MAKE HER UN- HER REPLIES WERE IT WAS A LONG TIME BEFORE SHE COULD BE MADE TO REALIZE THAT SHE WOULD NOT HAVE TO HANG SHE SAID THAT IT TO HER AS IF HER LIFE WAS ONLY SPARED TO PROLONG HER SHE APPARENTLY REALIZES THAT ONLY SAVED THE GALLOWS TO ENABLE HER TO FAVOR OF WHEN OF or or conspiracy in restraint and commerce among the several and or with foreign also whether said prices have been whole or in by any stock or corporate com- bination engaged in commerce the several States and or with foreign also whether such joint stock company or corporate in purchasing crude oil or by any order or practice of in any manner discriminates against any en 1} with fear in a Chinese cited many instances of the unpreparedness of the land and naval frequent conflicts authority and demoralization ing critical STOESSEL Substantially the same account is given by four French describe General Stoessel and Admiral as refusing to speak to or salute each The say the discord among the officers shadows grave scenes before the court The Parisien quotes eral as sarcastically better not establish too secure a along the route like the naval officers Jit Port it will be ble let them venture The correspondent of the Petit Parisien RETURNS Stoessel cannot don the navy's failure to succor while navy returns his The French special ents conclude that the fortress fell largely because of the regrettable quarrels among the THAT'S SAYS THE February Elsie Brucker of Chicago today created a scene at the inquest of Mrs. Marie Walcker Hoch by exclaiming that's and pointing her finger at She identified Hoch a man who had swindled her out of two years ago on of selling her a farm in Hoch smiled at Cie man but in contrast to his nervousness at the opening of the inquest last week Hoch today ed a neat appearance and wore a self reliant When the hearing was resumed after the interruption Coroner Hoffman an- that the expert medical mony would not be pressed until next when all the evidence regarding analysis of the woman's stomach in connection with the theory of poisoning will be AFTER BIDING IN MANY LANDS OWEN KELLY IS LOS February the former grocer of- who was arrested on the streets of tais city Monday is still confined in. the city prison ing advices from the East. The police are holding Kelly on in- formation from the police authorities of Philadelphia stating that he is wanted hut since Kelly was ken into no further advice as the exact nature of the charges against have been DECLINES Kelly admits his and con- fessed to the police that Cie left the Eastern city under a financial following which he fled to Europe and thence to before finally re- turning to this He refuses to give further information concerning his affairs and declines to be Interviewed in to the charges against HE The police say that Kelly sits in his weeping constantly and appears to he on the verge of nervous He has asked for an interview with Bishop of this Roman Catholic but so far it has not been ar- HE Captain Donahy of tho Detective today received the follow Ing telegram from the Angeles Conaty has positively the man under arrest as Owen Advise us what action to Captain Donahy at once sent a sage requesting the Los Angeles to detain Kelly and stating that he would send a member of his force to bring him to Detective Duey will start for Los Angeles Kelly is not wanted by tie police but his ily and friends been searching for him since October he dis- FAMILY HURT IN RUNAWAY Attorney Wife Seriously Children The family of Attorney B. A. man a well known practitioner at the Alameda County was thrown out of a cart m a runaway this Ing shortly after 10 o'clock at the corner of gallon and Twelfth streets and Mrs. Holman U lying in a. pre- carious condition at the Receiving Hospital in Her little six-year-old son had his collar bone while the little girl aped twelve and the aged sixteen escaped with only a few The mother and her three children were driving in a little two wheeled pony cart when the animal took fright at a peanut I stand they came up Twelfth street from Lake Merritt and ran He made a short turn Into Fallon street and the cart and horse went over in a Mrs. Holman struck on her head and was taken up unconscious by Dr. J. who placed her in his huffy and drove her immediately to the Re- The children were cared for by liam White the who put them into his wagon and took them to the Hospital after the An examination of the children showed that only one of them was iously baby began to laugh at his crying brother and tried to at- tract his but the lad was In considerable pain and the bone had to be set by Dr. C. E. who re- quickly to the emergency In regard to the condition ol Mrs. Holman he is unable to state how ious injury may The brain is affected and some hours will have to elapse before the conditions will enable an Intelligent diagnosis to be Attorney Holman was summoned by telephone from his office in Blake Building and was soon his children and took them Nune of them would ride after pet after its stumble to its feet was afterwards captured with tht cart still although somewhat The pony was in numerous places but not seriously The child Dorothy stated that her mother had the baby in her lap and held to it when she fell and 1t is be- that Jt was in her child that she received her own injury as she Vas unable to put out an arm to save her striking the CAMPBELL TAKEN 10 BERKELEY CLUB IN Feb. the meeting of the North Berkeley Improvement Club last night was presented with a handsome for the in- terest in and the attendance the club meetings were it gested that a might prove appointed the following committee to recommend suitable Thomas and C. H. A to Investigate the for Arm alarm system This consists of A. P. P. sod W. O. MANY FRIENDS OF CONVICTED WIFE MURDERER BID HIM Lemuel D. who on Monday morning was sentenced to ten yson ft Ban Quentin tor the murder of Us wile was taken across the bay this moraine by Jailer Harry There were a number of his relative a and the jail to say goodbye to him and be left in good spirits with the anticipation that at the end of his term he will Under tlie rule evolved by the convicts for calculating the length of terms with the allowance of credits Campbell can get out in and The rult Js to multiply the number ft yean by add eight and by sentenced to ten which seven would maks would be seventy by twelve will give a result of sik and me Ore and
