Warren Evening Mirror (Newspaper) - June 15, 1911, Warren, Pennsylvania TEE WASHINGTON Juno Weather indications Un- settled tonight and slightly wanner Friday Only three weeks be- fore the close of The Great Prize Voting Contest Double on All Subscriptions This See Contest Story Today TWENTY-FOURTH YEAS WARREN PA THURSDAY JUNE 15 1911 RULING OF THE COURT ALLOWS EVIDENCE SHOWING A MOTIVE The Commonwealth Presented Seme Sensational Testimony This Afternoon Andrews Was Ordered to Produce Amann in the Day Following the Tragedy TWO TRIBUTE TO HON JOS C SIBLEY From the Pen of Uncle May Irwin It was with a feeling that the day's proceedings would be fraught with much interest that who gathered at the house today approached the ing The of court evening with evidence of a nature were awaiting with derment what today would forth The of evidence showing a motive to the brought forth many at an early hour this morning expecting to hear a thy legal battle and tney were not dis- appointed The early morning ings wore almost devoid 01 interest but shortly before 11 o'clock the wealth their effort of day relative to the introduction of dence to show a motive H B ot was called to the stand and the threatening letter as it is dubbed by the commonwealth was by the witness and it pre- sented to the jury This letter was lead by Mr Cochran and is the one that written by J M Andrews to J H Purely OL he states that if things do he desires it may be necessary to out a lew back of Andrews wheir Andrews went neither the money or the time to lose niQ i i lives Created a Sensation The reading of this letter today though it Avas read yesterday treated a and the audience craned their necks in order that every word might be heard During the reading of this the defendant deep down in his chair and drew ejes down tightly through a slit at the Attorney for the common wealth as he read the evidence was then offered in denee it A us I lo tne admitted f then excused a relative to ot evidence to prove a possible was taken part in by the attorneys on both sides i The admission of this evidence will doubtless tend to greatly lengthen the case and it is not now expected that s the ease wall be finished next week D F A Wheelock Testifies D F A Wheelock who had been summoned from New Haven Conn was the first witness this morning District asked if he had made a map showing the elevations on erty Street and he He stated the distance between Fifth was 526 feet and he had aken elevations every hundred feet for lour hundred feet and after that every 25 feet The total elevation between streets is 33 and feet Mr Wheelock was excused without ing Jake Amann Sworn Jake name was next called and he took the stand He is a brother of- the deceased Jie had slept at the defendants house for six nights in September 1908 when the family was absent He said before the defendant left he had been shown a pistol An- drews Did you ever see a gun like No sir That's what they call a Colt Auto- The gun was kept on a shelf in the house I he weapon was produced and Amann testified that one just like it had been shown him On ation Mr merely asked him You say it was at pistol hut you don't know it is the same sir f That is all William Martin Sworn Mr knew the deceased but does not know the defendant JHe wat in the city hall the uary 5 and o clock and heard Andrews and engage in a very conversation was distinguish was no to speak of examination brought into his home H B Ryan Testifies Mr Ryan of a suburb ot Pittsburg testified that he was m the of die American prior to 1910 Is acquainted with handwriting thinks hex can recognize it Commonwealth's Exhibits U and U2 were offered the witness and lie examined them carefully ing the signature was that ol Jonn Jt Andrews on the letter was also recognized The letter opened and the contents noted as they came n om the by the The letter was then shown the sel for the defense and with them di The letter was in evidence and the defense objected alleging the incompetent and irrelevant The court said it was day but that there Was nothing to pre- clude -An offer was still demanded by the Mr Cochran stated his tei to the stenographer The offer was read to the court and Judge Hinckley overruled the objection and admitted the evidence Air Coehran read the letter to the jury as Pa U July Bth 1010 Mr J H Purdy General Manager Pittsburg Pa Dear As per my telegram to morning i did not receive your letter of the 6th until this morning therefore it have been simply impossible to have made Pittsburg this morning As things financially axe not any to that i cannot afford to spend ey to make the trip and as far as ex- would oe very glad to have you call at my house or to any letters that may come to you as I there is nothing I should be ashamed of and would He only too glau to liave suck interview at housee in the presence ol Mrs Andrews and i do not believe that you would miss the money or the time As to what the result will be from your letter 1 can only from re- ports here at as to my upon upon my friends here for any assistance 1 may need in the future Shall be pleased to meet you at my house should you see fit to visit ren but that is the only place which I shall make any or explanations as I have said 1 have nothing to be ashamed of therefore Mrs Andrews shall be in the rooms when questions are asked and replied to 1 have finished my visits to the Water Office here no matter who may be owner or the manager as my future lies with the i am now associated with they promise me a bright future and my family 1 mean to make good in my position if i can and am not subjected to dismissal as the men here have made me a very bright that in a few years should out as to the reason of the witness be- lieving the two to be angry He saiu their general appearance betokened ex- Gertrude Deible Testifies Gertrude Deible of Xew Yoik City a commercial teacher said she saw ann on JJ Street the ot January with another person she did not then know Her attention was attracted by some loud cursing and swearing and sue that Amann waff creating the disturbance This was about five o'clock This was near the city building and the witness was on Third Street Mrs James Eddy Mrs James Eddy of Warren who lives near Andrews was next called bhe saw John Andrews on the afternoon of January 27 at about 5 o'clock He was moving rapidly according to the witness and the defense asked for a proposition as to what it was desired lor Andrews was moving rapidly Emile Amann was close to the ant and Amann appeared angry went to Andrews home and get in went down town again and appeared angry On cross-examination Mrs Eddy said Amana was about half a square selling same to tne und this would have sibly made me up and take notice nad it not been that I had checks for commissions for selling pipe and as such cancelled checks can be obtained I feel that 1 have done ing bad in this matter As before stated xt feel that I cannot spend the would therefore ask ior correspondence or that YOU take the matter up at your visit to Warren should this not meet with youi ideas the positive assurance from me is that I arrange for a bail bond when the man calls tor the warrant service I should be very sorry indeed as 1 know just what it means loss of money for fees and this i am not in a position to stand and that should things go different ironi I expect them to do at the final ending it will mean the snapping out of eral fives but that is the chance one takes in this world The extraordinary expense I met with in the as I had supposed trying to save the plant has placed me 01 the bum financially in fact have been pretty badly all around this year received the Pittsburg tfank of Savings that as a favor vould allow me to withdraw my count when 1 come to figure out find nat i received a pretty good shot but mean much to me I hope to win out and obtain the reward 1 refused to in any way to become connected with the water question re- fusing money that to some even a pait of what 1 was offered looked big and 1 never was raised to be grateful and ingratitude was with me always worse than MURDER Yours truly Signed JOHN M ANDREWS No- cross examination was made of the witness Following this witness the wealth reversed their offer of day regarding the introduction of dence pertaining to the motive in the jury was then excused and the attorneys indulged in a lengthy ment on this point Cochran part address proved his point regarding the admission of evidence citing one case where the motive produced had been on the part of the de- ceased toward the defendant uing he said The cases that I would call to your attention are cases that Mr Scarlett is fairly well acquainted with eases tried down in his section of the state wherein it permitted to prove that the defendant was a member of an organization known as the Molly to show motive for a That he a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and iii which the evidence of James Ian was admitted that he had become a member of the Molly and had ascertained purposes to be to murder to steal to bear and for tne organization to protect and cover up the crime in these cases they did not offer to show that there was action by the Molly Maguires In the first case of Mr Yost there was no action ot the Molly Maguires in with Yost yet the Commonwealth permitted to show that the defendant Campbell was a member of the Continued on page three The following article appeared in the Franklin Evening Xew ot June 0 and the many lion C will DP pleased to read it in the columns of the Mirror The Franklin has received from Uncle May at Hood River Ore a letter dated June 2 1011 in which he the and lefers to numerous Campaigns in the state large of money spent It is the comprehensive article on that phase of the question that has been but owing Lo the fact that the audit is a thing of the we have decided that it is inadvisable to reproduce that part of the cation The remainder of it however we give herewith My real and impulse it the outset was to express my sympathy for Mr on account of the comt proceedings but because of the broken health that has halted his public career and stilled his splendid energies It is difficult for any personal acquaintance to the change wrought by this lamentable imagine this remarkable who super- abounded in vitality and force and who bore himself so masterfully arena of conflict now cribbed con- in his stricken home by illness The heaits of of friends must go out in sympathy for tile passively in that home JIf who purposed so much and bo ly and achieved so is hard to think of him now seemingly a life prisoner shut in from the great in which he was so active and Yet iii the invalid will not lack attendants who are ent in spirit v Joseph Sibley is en- dowed Math the qualities that command the high esteem and sincere affection of everyone him His ity abiding cheerfulness and good will come from the heart and take a heart hold the trying test of long idism in his mechanic to and let him be assured that he is borne in thoughts and of all those him he man devoted iii sonl and act to social CONSIDERING RECIPROCITY Senate Makes the Un- finished Business TRUST INVESTIGATION President Farrell of Steel Corpor atlon Will be Called When Committee Resumes June The firs day ot the of the Can reciprocity by tins Senate characterised by several events In ad dition to listening to bv Sena tors Curtis ot Kansas and o Dakota in opposition to tin the Senate made tho the unfinished business on the calendar anc without opposition changed the daily hour of 2 to 12 o'clock noon winch is expected t materially assist in disposing ot Today and of Minnesota in and civic betterment a passionate be- turn to the Senator in charge of the last night expressed satisfaction at tin outlook saying he believed there wil he general co-operation in bringing the discussion to a close as -ible Senator introduced an reducing the sugar duty Senator Gore obtained leave to print a speech made in the Canadian ment by J A a member In opposition to the reciprocity agreement Heike is Before Committee WASHINGTON June hours was spent Wednesday by Charles for several years preceding last July the secretary of the ican Sugar Refining Company in telling the House Sugar Investigation tee that he knew nothing about the of inner history ol the company particularly in the years when H 6 Havemeyer was its of- progress a born idealist and optimist goes forward in all and sings as he goes a man whose generous encouragement and help to his knows not condition creed or and not the least a man who in his private lite is to be respected for the practical which after all is one of the first fruits of a true heart and honest faith The intellectual side of personality has not been much ed but is decidedly noteworthy He is a keen and an con- stant taking an eager interest in all things intellectual and ethical as well as political One who is 1 to spend a quiet hour With him j enjoying and by his affluence of discursive soon realizes that the mind of his entertainer has ated with the authorities in ence art political economy agriculture and poetry One night in his library several years ago the talk turned upon poetry and the ot Lowell coming up he recited to me from that bard of freedom and reform In- in an of friendly con- Mr readied to a drawer Mr was explain why President Had con- trol over the American if in his own name a comparatively few shares The stockholders were apparently satisfied to re-elect the from jear to said Mr Heike in ex- planation of Mr power That the American company under administration frowned Continued on page EXCURSION BOAT BY FIRE Burned to Edge In Mid Stream All Escaped PADUCAH Ky June fifty on board the tile John binned to the opposite Smithland Ky at in hour today one safely to The boat caught lire in midstream u lion it wj the driven put out titna the tucky or the nil one tlie and in takin over AMERICAN PARTY RECOVERS MILLIONS OF CHILIAN RICHES Was Cached by Years Ago Crew Many SAX Cal June at lo which was hidden the or a Chilian er ott the of Honduras than ago nas been to here a pill of explorers the Eureka now headed lor The is commanded by Cap i and about weeks ago tuuen from here on by a of San Fi Their movements were made aid su in mystery that it suspected the steamer being for a filibustering expedition For this reason it had considerable bother in getting clearance papers and was carefully watched until it outside the harbor The expedition is said to have been by Harry Kreling of San The map showing the location of the buried treasure was in the sion of a former resident of Honduras who tried for many to attract capital to finance an expedition in quest of the sunken gold He was ful up to the time he met Keiling al weeks ago The result was the tering of tne Eureka for a thirty-day Fear that the Honduran ment might interfere with the i- believed to have inspired crecy which surrounded every act of who a message was received from Salina Cruz about miles south of :iere which Expedition a success in every way San Diego for oil next week us Overhauled as a Filibuster June ments ot the steamer Eureka have KNOX WAS ON WITNESS STAND Cannot Explain a Mystery of Receipt Found VOUCHERS WAS New Receipt In Puzzling Payment For Portrait Enters Into the Situation WASHINGTON June The that in the slate department oi the Day a ago OIL the floor ot the office oft Dis- bursing was not cleared up w hen Secretary of State Knos peal ed Wednesday before the Committee of the house in response to the committee's subpoena the day Secretary Knox explained ly to the satisfaction of the tee the payment of to Frederick son of former Senator Continued on page three ol Maine for in tion with Canadian boundary Matter Not Explained As to the voucher signed by Albert the portrait artist alleging for of which sum Rosenthal goc but ih Knox could give no new explanation lie only that he had started a search for it as soon as he hoard ot the Joss and search failed to reveal any trace of the er or letters that were supposed be with it A week ago Carr hief of the consular bureau brought the voucher and to him saying that they had the floor of Morrison's of- fice t Did you make any inquiry to find out how they got there i asked man Hamlin I did said Secretary and learn nothing the whole case is embodied in this papers Attached to Another Receipt At this point Secretary added a new element to the mystery You will be interested in another receipt from Mr that is attached to the he added to the committee It was signed as Jan IS -.1904 and is for with a notation that Continued on page two Continued on page WARREN COUNTY SCENE OF GREATEST SEARCH IN HISTORY aa those things do not bother vou leither does the lact that 1 had for paid a part of the salary of girl in the office and the rent for Amann as both would and that the bonds for 01 them was paid by myself for same reason things may seem different after they are checked up and I shall be only too glad to answer to any tions you may send to me I am under positive orders that 1 am my entire time to this and not in any way mix up with the Water Works but I can answer questions sent to me from you without violating positive orders The entire matter with you if I am called upon to defend myself will do so the best I can shall try and ar- range matters that any money I shall borrow for attorney fees shall he paid back to the and I shall of course await acquittal but if tion i feel that 1 am simply expressing facts when I say that if such be the case several lives ivill be snapped out for while I felt I was doing was my duty and if I am overthrown ill my convictions of what other men will think of the situation then no man can stare me in the face I am frank in saying that I was loyal to the I was working for reports to the contrary notwithstanding and I can recall nothing that made for me no personal gain matter is witK you for decision I cannot come to Pittsburg aa I have Hundreds of Residents of the City ing in the Quest Seventeen Hundred Dollars Offered As Park Or His Assistants Not Active As Far As Known But It Is None The Less Keen Or Wide Spread Have You Joined The Searching County is the seane of one of the greatest searches in the history of the county and the quest is beins carried to the utmost boundry lines of the rounty and far Sheriff Park ami his are not yet among the active ones but it is very able tliait will get into action before long Xo local Billy la has been kidnapped nor has there been any more murders this v The subscriptions to the barren Daily and Semi-Weekly Mirror and those actively interested are the con- and friends in the big competition for the Flanders -20 Four Passenger Touring Car Bennett Piano diamond rings and goid watches to be given away by the management of the Warren Mirror on the evening of July Jst 1911 The real cause of this commotion can be to the short space of time between now and close of the great competition Every contestant in the race has become active Subscriber if you haven't helped any of young ladies get busy before it is too late The renewal of your old sub- scription means a lot of votes to one of these young ladies as docs any baek payment Get into the game and help some worthy con- testant before it is too late Double votes are given on all subscriptions this week and up to 9 o'clock next Saturday If you are going lo help any con- testant get in before then So Many Good Styles 10 Show You This season that we hardly know what to say most about YOU WANT good quality first WE HAVE IT YOU WANT the becoming color and pattern for you IT'S HERE YOU WANT the style that pleases you WE HAVE so many of SURE WE HAVE YOURS Men's Tailored Suits to JUST RECEIVED another shipment of the SOFT NEGLIGEE SHIRTS with extra collar to match and French cuffs at and You find these exceptional values Our Men's PURE SILK HOSE at are the talk of the town In all colors 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