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TEDDY'S SPIES Sent Out to Mannfsctura Testimony Against Mfcn That HE COULD HOT BOSS A Aa Arizona Man Files SenHutional Statement With Senator Clay. Kays an Effort Was Made to Involve Senator Morgan in a TIiiiImt Scandal?Perjured Evidence Used. Washington, Feb. 6.-?L. S. Williams, the Arizona man Who %pe to Washington to press charges against the secret service and who claims that his room at the Raleigh hotel was entered Sunday night and valuable papers taken, has filed with Senator Clay, a member of the investigating committee, a sensational statement enumerating his charges against secret service agents. The statement revolves around the conviction of E. B. Perriti, a millionaire land owner and sheen rais <er of Arizona, for conspiracy against the government, but^.according to Williams, the originin purpose of pressing^the house was a groundless and unsuccessful effort to implicate the late Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, in a scandal involving a large tract of valuable timber lands in California. Williams charges also that the department of justice lias made an investigation since the conviction of Perrin which completely vindicates him of conspiracy and shows thai the conviction was scoured by unquestionable means. The report of this investigation, Williams claims, will l.ot be divulged by Attorney General llonaparte. Senator Clay will lay the statement of Williams before the investigating committtee if he can get a meeeting. lie states that the investigation has been delayed by Senator Galliger, whose th^* for the present is required by the consideration of business of the District of Columbia. Another of Williams' .rges is that 10. H. Harriman obtained several years ago a vast tract of land in Utah by the same means as Perrin contemplated using. The lands were patented to the Harriman interests, by claims under the Hitchcock administration. Subsequently, when there was talk of an investigation, -Mie Harriman people deeded the lands back 'to the government and and there were no prosecutions as in the case of Perrin, whose methods were identical. The prosecution of Perrin grew out of a transaction he contemplated ?fUU A I) o/Mt f On ? L^ttn ?i villi u wuii /\# iiciiouii, wi oau r i ?ucisco, involving sixteen thousand acres of timber land in California. When the government investigated the case prior to Perrin's indictment, Inspector George C. Hunt advised against a prosecution. In his report was an affidavit hy C. P. Suell, a secret service agent, who was prev usly in Perrin's employ as a lawyer, and this affidavit sot forth that Ferrin remarked to Benson, the alleged conspiracy that he (Perrin) had great influence at Washington with Senator Morgan, and that he could get him to assist in geting the lands. The lirst question asked Perrin hy Inspector Hunt was: "How much money had been paid Senator Morgan hy Perrin," and for what purpose had it been paid, according to Williams' statement. Fight months later Secret Service , Agent William J. Burns appeared H&fore the federal grand jury and declared that he was just from Oyster Bay, and that President Roosevelt wanted Perrin indicted." Snell's affidavit, In which Senator Morgan was mentioned, grew out of a conversation which he overheard between Perrin and Benson, in which the former spoke of the Alabama senator only as a friend and not as a legal adviser, and the impression conveyed was not justified, according to Williams, and was malicious. In this connection the Arizona man states verbally that the investigation grew out of a desire on the part of the president to implicate Morgan because of Morgan's persistent fight against the Panama Canal. It is charged by Williams that the records of the secret service will show that about $4,000 was paid to Snell by the government and his only services consisted of testimony against Perrin. Snell had previous to his employment by the secret service been Perrin's lawyer. The statement charges that Snell's aworn evidence against Perrln on trial of the case has since been proven by Snell's confession to have been perjured. Williams claims that In spite of % mmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmrnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn d Sl)B * SCORES TEDDY BitYAN SPEAKS TO BIG CROWD AT TAMPA. In Address at Fair Declares President Has Delegated to Himself the Authority of a Czar. Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4.?Speaking to an immense throng of people from the grand stand of the race track this afternoon, Win. J. Bryan said he brought to the Democrats of the South a message of good cheer, that there Is a steadily increasing sentiment that makes for the growth of the Democratic party in the United States. He commented on the world-wide spread of Democracy as one of the "signs of the times." when the masses would demand their rights of aristocratic class, which is now using every endeavor to hold its own against such a growth. He cited the recent charges in the government of Turkey and declared that the downtrodden masses of that country had forced the most auto-1 cratic monarch of modern times to grant a democratic constitution. He commented upon the usurpation of power by the "aristocratic party," the present administration, the head of which he referred to as delegating to himself all the authority of a czar in the manipulation of his high office. Hut a change is surely, if slowly coming, he declared and added that prospects were Kl-I.rllt...- ? - ? - /.ift'nci tu <111 cut iui ueniocratic victory in 1912. Mr. Bryan injected considerable humor in his remarks by saying that he knew there were entirely too many Republicans in the country for their own good and for the country's good, saying that he had been "telling them about it" for a long time. In reply to a question, Mr. Bryan declined to say whether he expected to be called upon by his party again "to tell them about it," passing the query with a broad smile. Mr. Bryan was the guest tonight at a banquet given in his honor by the state mid-winter fair association. Mr. Bryan spoke on the "Future of the Democracy." Other speakers were Hillary A. Herbert, secretary of the navy under President Cleveland; Governor Albert W. Gilchrist, of Florida; Ex-Gov. Napoleon B. Broward, and "private" John Allen, of Mississippi. Touching upon the labor question. Mr. Bryan reviewed the recent decision of the supreme court of the Dlst-ict of Columbia, sentencing Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank B. Morrison to jail, and declared that "these great and royal leaders of organized labor are entitled to the sympathy of the entire people." Mr. Bryan said that the trust question remained unsettled and would he a controlling issue in the next national campaign; that it would remain for the Democrats to give the American people relief. Planned Ahead. Quitman, Miss., Feb. 4. ? R. I. McLeod, a prominent citizen of this place, committed suicide last night by shooting himself through the heart. His body was not found until this morning. He left a note to his brother-in-law, A. S. Mason, stating that he had planned to take ills own life for the past two years.* Divorce Mill Shut Down. Carson, N'ev., Feb.6.?The Nevada assembly today pased a bill making the term of residence of applicants for divorce two years instead of six months as at present. The senate is pretty sure to pass the bill. * Passed Over Veto of Governor. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 4.?The bill prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicating liquors in Tennessee was passed by the house over the goveronr's veto. Snell's confession to perjury, the government refuses to indict him for the offense. He claims that Perrin was notified only last week in San Francisco at the door of the grand jury room that no indictment would be returned against Snell, unless it was ordered by Attorney General Bonaparte, no matter what evidence might be submitted. This statement, he claims was made by Assistant District Attorney A.. P. Black. Williams' statement is subdivided Ittwlfii* ninntnnn Kno e\ a r? ? A ? ftnn no oti iiiii^vuvii iiunuo, uuu oilui 11 allegation he cites references, letters, affidavits and court records to substantiate them. If the investigation committee goes into the matter, much time will be required to investigate the citations unless Williams has certified copies of all the records as he claims he have in the safe at Raleigh hotel. * SCRIBE P LOSS OF LIFE A Death Dealing Tornado In South Control States. MANX TOWNS HIT The Storm Was Accompanied by I tain, Hail, Lightning and Impenetruble Darkness?In Addition to the Lives Lost, There Was (irent ! Destruction of Property. | Louisville, Ky., Feb. 5.?Death for probably a score of persons, loss of hundreds of thnns?n<i? _ __ wi UUIUU S 111 property and the crippling of many telegraph wires resulted between noon and dusk today from a series of small tornadoes which swept the south central States from the Tennessee line to the Texas Panhandle. The storms were accompanied in most cases by hail, darkness, terrific lightning flashes and sheets of rain. Most of tin? towns where loss of life occurred qp-e off the railroads, so that news front them has been coming in slowly. Known casualties a re: Stuttgart, Ark.?Mrs. Garfield and a child of Will Story is reported fatally injured. Sulphur Springs, Texas?Mrs. C. Caldwell, from Rolling Fork, Miss. Just before the telephone wires broke word came that four had been killed. Booth, Miss., reported to Brirming nam. Ala., that six had meet death there. In other towns such as Ennies and Waxahachie, Texas, and Boscoe, La., many dwellings are said to have been demolished by the wind. Arkansas and upper Louisiana rice fields were injured to the extent of many thousands of dollars, while tlu* larger cities experienced rains and darkneass and lightning bolts that made large buildings quiver. At Chattanooga there was a terrific storm of hail. Houses Blown Down. Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 5.?The third destructive cyclone to pass over this community in the past score of years came this afternoon and left a trail of death. The home of CJeorge Stewart, seven miles east of here was totally destroyed. His-two-days-old child was blown half a mile and killed. His two-vear-old child was blown into a grate and probably fatally burned. Mrs. Stewart was caught under some rafters in the house and so badly injured that she will die. Mrs. Tom Ilowner and child who were in the house were fatally hurt. Among the homes destroyed are the following: C. J. Whitaker's house, four tn jured. Tom Hughes' house blown down. Mort Grimes' house blown down and Mrs. Grimes injured. I)iek Ham, who lived with the Grimes, badly injured. Many horses were killed and barns and their contents scattered by the winds. Seven People Killed. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 5.?Mayor George H. Brier, of Cullman, Ala., said that seven people are known to have been klled in that county this afternoon by the cyclone which passed over this section of the State but that wire communication is impossible with the stricken locality. At Kayosa, a mining camp west of Birmingham, on the Southern railway, today five houses were blown down, but only one man was injured, a Mr. Logan. The properly loss in the territory north of Birmingham appears to have been very large. Numerous trees were bolwn down on lied Mountain within a mile of the corporate limits of Birmingham. Telephone communication to the north Is Impossible tonight. Three Negroes Killed. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. f>.?The residence of Mr. Stone was damaged, the wind carrying away the roof and a portion of the porch; the residence of a Mrs. Herbert suffered damage, the roof and chimneys toppling in the gale. Six or eight, negroe cabins on the Stone plantation were destroyed and the inmates who had gathered in the houses during the storm were buried in the debris. Sixteen negroes were more or less severely injured and three crushed to death. Two Killed in Arkansas. Brlnkley, Ark., Feb. f>.?Two persons were killed and a third fatally injured in a tornado which struck Stuttgart today. The tornado carried away one residence and five barns. The residence destroyed was that of Will Shorri. His wife and child were crushed by the fal.Mng | llIIltHTH. t row to THREE LIVING WIVES SKNSATIONAIi DKVKLOl'MENTS I IN XKW JKItSFY CASK. A Twelve-Year-Old Bey IttHOKuized I His Father's Picture in a Newspaper. Newark, N. J., Feb. 4.?There were sensational developments today in the case of Frank Wilhelm, the < contractor who was found nmrr'or ed In his home here Monday. The revelations include the charge that 1 Wilhelm had three wives living, and that ho had never been divorced. Another occurrence of interest was the action of the police in suddenly bringing Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm and Nicholas Sicca, a hoarder in the Wilhelm home, both held in connection with the murder, into the presence of the body of the murdered man. Mrs. Wilhelm, though she became hysterical, withstood the test fairly well, but Sicca was so disturbed that his arraignment in court, set for today, had to be postponed. Mrs. Frederick Wilhelm, of Now York, claimed she was married to Wilhelm in Jersey City in 1894, soon after he had deserted his llrst wife, Hannah 11. Wilhelm, who was also his step-sister. Two years later, she said, she discovered his pertidy. When she accused him, he deserted her, she alleged, and her year-old daughter and a baby soon to be born, and lied with his step-sister wife. Since then she had not heard from him until the child, then unborn, and now a lad of 12 years, read of his murder in a newspaper Tuesday, and recognized his picture in the paper as that of the man whose picture, in their home, he had been told was his father. Mrs. Frederick Wilhelni does not know what hecame of Hannah Wilhelni. Mrs. Frederick Wilhelni and her sister, Mrs. Maria Armater, of Now York, fainted at Wilhelm's bier today, while the funeral was in progress, and when, as they declared, they identified the dead man as the husband of Fredericka Wilhelni. The last named fell dramatically across the collin in a complete state of colapse while her siter slipped to the floor in a faint. Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelni, the wife now held in connection with the murder, was not permitted to attend the funeral, although she had requested permission to do so. * About a .">og Fight. Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 1.?Steve Bridges and Alex Locke, brothersin-law and well known farmers, engaged in a bloody tight near Jeff, Ala., today. Locke was chopped in the back with an axe and will die before night. Bridges telephoned that he would come in and surrender. The difficulty arose over a dog n .. >. ? lift 111. Two Hrakt'iucn Perish. Waxahachle, Tex., Feb. 1.?L. B Smith and T. L. Galloway, brakemen on the Trinity and Brazos Vailey Hailroad, were crushed to death under a locomotive near here today. Galloway's head was severed from his body. The engine was derailed. . . Costly Banquet. New Orleans, Feb. 1.?It will cost $2.1 to attend the Taft banquet here on Saturday night, February 12. This was decided upon today by the executive committee in charge of the details of Taft's reception on his approaching visit here. JOXHtt FOl'XI) CillLTV Of .Murdering; His Wife by Poisoning Last July. Union, Feb. 6.?-"Guilty of murder, with a recommendation to mercy," was the verdict in the case of the State vs. \V. T. Jones, rendered here at three minutes after 3 o'clock this afternoon, the jury having deliberated since 8:45 last night, in all eighteen hours and eighteen minutes The law has answered affirmatively the question propounded last July, "Did W. T. Jones force his j wife, Marion Jones, to take strychnine?" Thus has ended one of the most interesting criminal cases ever heard in this State, and by far the most remarkable in the history of this county. To some the verdict was a great' surprise, the jury's lengthy deliberation giving promise, and to some nope, 01 ? iniHiriiti. However, reliable Information Is to the effect that the jury hesitated between an extreme verdict and the one rendered, there being for some time nine members in favor of inflicting the death penalty. THE H i?Tk I THREE HOBOES ROOK ACROSS TIIK CONTINENT ( IN CHEAT STYLE lly I'sing tin* Household Kffwts of Col. Join's, Who Wns Moving From the Pacific. Atlanta, Feb. 6.?The Journal of yesterday published on amusing story ;>f how three tramps crossed the continent in palace car style at the expense of Col. S. It. Jones. Chief Quartermaster of the (Julf Department, who was inovelng his household goods to the East. About one week ago the Colonel ordered his household goods to be shipped here from Vancouver ltarracks, which is in Washington State, towards the northwest end of the continent. After the car had neon packed, but before it had been locked, three tramps who felt the nip of the north, peeped in through the crack of the door, then crawled in cautiously. When the car began its long trip southward, they were ensconsced snugly inside. The first day on the road they unpacked Colonel .tones' white iron bed and set it up in one corner, then they equipped it with warm blankets and a fringed counterpane, and one drove a nail into the side of the car and hung up a copy after Titian, and unpacked a box containing the creatn of Colonel .tones' library. One seemed to take a liking to a are copy of Omar Khayyam, another selected Huton's 'Anatomy of Melan cnoiv, and the third turned his attention to Bernard Shaw. Through the day they regaled themselves on pure literature, hut towards evening, when the train stopped at a town in the northwest, one slipped from the car with a few of (lie books under his arm, and returned with a round bottle, rye bread and bologna sausage. Then it was that they discovered a collection of claret and champagne glasses Colonel Jones had stored away. While the train flew southward, they ate and drank, and as each glass was emptied, carefully smashed it. The tramp who had selected the copy of Omar Kahyyam, marked this quotation: "Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go nor where." Then they appropriated the only two nighties the car boasted, and, since there was not a third, a dress shirt was donned as substitute, and the three snuggled into the white iron bed. More books were sold, more food was got, and the joyous life of the day before was continued. One by one the claret and champagne glasses were smashed, and steadily the books dwindled Wi Hi em;u ?IU|I lliuru l)OOK S were sold, and at each draught a glass was smashed. The philosophy of this seemed to ho that use of the same glass twice took the flavor off the liquor. The second night there apears to have heen some dissension over one of the nighties, for it was torn from neck to hem; then another dress shirt was pressed into service. The train veered southward toward New Orleans, and the care-free life of the three men in the boxcar continued. They sold more hooks, bought more to eat and drink and lived like true epicureans. One must have had a touch of the aesthetic, for he unpacked all the pictures and carefully hung each, then tore off the wrapping of chairs and arranged them about the car. The final effect was that of a drawing room or saloon. At New Orleans the last of the books, with the exception x>f the copy of "Omar Khayyam" and "Hernard Shaw" and Huston's "Melancholony of Anatomy," were sold, and the remaining glasses were smashed. Then the three tramps slipped quietly out and disappeared. It was at some station between here and Now Orleans* that they alighted. The car arrived in Atlanta and was switched to Fort Mcpherson, and there Colonel Jones found it as it had been left by its occupants across tho continent. The three books lay on the floor; in a little pile were the smashed claret and campagne glasses, and on the bed were the two nighties and two dress shirts. Abotit the walls hung the pictures. Two Old Women l>ie. Milledgevllle, Ga.. Feb. 1.?Two ante-bellum negro women met tragic deaths from opposite causes in this county yesterday. Kach of them was a hundred years old. Sarah Reeves was caught In the flre that burned her home and was lnclner-| ated. Florine Davidson froze to death in her Isolated home and was found soon after the death of Sarah Keevea. ORRY HE THE RACE ISSUE Senator Newlands of Nevada Says Its a Serious Problem. SHOULD BE SETTLED In Di*<us*iiiK the "Vellow Peril** He Declare* That Congre** Should Not l<enve the Viiration to Diplomat*, Hut Should It*elf Take Ste|?s to Preserve White K?cc. Washington, Fob. 7.?Senator Newlands, of Nevada, in a statement given to t lie Associated Press tonight, asserted that there should bo htoad, national legislation, covering the whole Japan question. "The legislation proposed by the Pacific coast States, intended to meet certain purposes of what constitutes a national peril, had been opposed by the President as involving violation of our treaty with Japan and imperilling her friendship," he said. "Whilst the Western States will, in all probability, practically yield to such suggestion, there is danger that the abandonment of such legislation may be misunderstood by the Eastern States, whose people are unfamiliar with tho ?wr? Iinniin rial dangers attendant upon Asiatic immigration, and that they may think we acquiesce in the view that a groat question of national and domestic policy, should bo turned over to the negotiation of diplomats. No question involving such important consideration as race honiogenity and domestic industrial peace can safely be turned over to diplomacy." Continuing the Senator stated that "the Nevada Legislature should adopt resolutions making the following declarations: "That the race question is now the most important question confronting the nation; that already we have drifted regarding the black race into a condition which seriously suggests the withdrawal of the political rights heretofore mistakenly granted?the inauguration of a humane national policy, which, with tho co-operation and the aid of tho Southern States, shall recognize that the blacks are a race of children requiring guidance, industrial training and the development of selfcontrol, and other measures intended to reduce the danger of the race complication formerly sectional, but now becoming national. "That our duty to our race and our institutions and the maintenance of friendship with races differing in color, till demand that we abandon the attempted adjustment of these questions by international treaty and pass a national law to take effect upon the expiration of existing treaties, emphatically declaring that our country is onen to white immigration alone; that such immigration shall be restricted to those of a constitution, character and training that will ultimately fit them for American citizenship; and that other races shall be excluded from immigration except for purposes of trade, travel anil education." TILLMAN'S FICHT SUCCESSFUL Leading Republican Says Cruni Will Not lie Confirmed. Charleston, Feb. 6.?The Evening Post says Crum will not be confirmed at this session. The Post SA.va its Washington correspondent gets this important information from a leading Republican Senator. Whether Mr. Taft will reappoint Crum to the coilectorship is problematical. There 1s some talk that Crum might be appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, a position which for years has been held by a negro, or he might be appointed register of the treasury. The Post's Washington correspon miii ?uy? me nepuoucans would vote to confirm Crum, but if the Democrats continue to debate the confirmation as they have done, then because of pressure of other important matters the confirmation will not be passed by the Republicans to the exclusion of other business which means that there will be no vote on the nomination this session. No combination has been made with the Republicans because it is not necessary. It is known that Mr. Taft would like the Crum case disposed of but it can not be done for want of time, and so it will go over. Ingratitude covers more than half the sins mentioned in the Ten Commandments. :RALD