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Heavy Frost Tonight Fair Saturday II EDITION WASHINGTON FRIDAY EVENING APRIL 9 1909 PRICE OrE CENT I r OChe a hin ton itnC LAST I 6302 NU- 1ffiIER Court Denies Motion of De fense to Dismiss the Jndictment DEFENDANT WANTS TO GO ON THE STAND If Prevented She Is Expected to Make Statement of How Husband Died LYONS N Y April 0 Judge Rich has decided that the jury must pass upon the guilt or Innocence of Georgia Sampson accused of murdering her husband and has denied the motion- of the defense to dismiss tho indict ment on the States evidence The defense will be brief Mrs Sampson wants to take the stand In her own defense and If she is not permlted to do so she may make a vol untary statement after she Is set free The young widow lost all control of herself today and tearfully begged and pleaded with her lawyer Assemblyman Hamm to be permitted to tell how her husband died Her changed attitude is thought to be due to the statements of the tire arms expert who swore that It was a physical Impossibility for Harry Sampson to havo killed himself No one can be found who saw her downstairs within a period of fifteen minutes before the tragedy and ovon the prosecution that It would never have asked the grand Jury to I have indicted her had not Dr Albert H Hamilton the gun expert been brought Into the case and who told the that it was a manifest j impossibility for Sampson to have shot manner alleged by the widow No Personal Feeling I had no personal feeling in the mat ter District Attorney Gilbert stated but I was told that a crime had been committed and the facts as presented to the grand Jury were considered of suf- ficient importance to Indict Mrs Samp- son The only tho house led from the dining room to the upper floor and If Harry Sampson could not have killed himsoif then Mrs Sampson was the only one who was In a TO have fired the fatal shot I am only doing my duty in the caso j But the bitter feeling of the Sampson Throughout the trial Dr Hamilton resumed the stand when court reconvened today and discoursed at length on explosives and re- cited the result of his experiments which he declared Harry Sampson was killed Jury Must Act Aftor half an hours work Attorney Hamm gave up the alterant to confuse Dr Hamilton who had discarded his coat and stood before the Jury in his shirt fleeves brandishing the rifle as the explained his experiments B mm moved for an Instruction by the court to the Jury to acquit on the ground that the State has failed to prove that a crime was committed He that the burning of an outer shirt shirt In evidence which was the basis for the gun experts testimony As Hamm closed Judge Rich said It appears to me plainly to be my duty to tho case Jury on the testimony submitted I therefore dismiss the motion Attorney TInklepaugh then began the opening for the defense The denial of Hamms motion affected Mrs Sampson strongly She shivered- as she to catch th low spoken decision of Judge Rich Brother On Stand Albort E Hopkins a Palmyra pho- tographer the first witness for the identified pictures of the interior of the Allyn farm house He was not crossexamined and Frank S Allyn brother of the defendant followed Frank Allyn testified to the differ- ence In the Inner arrangements at the house at the time the Hopkins photo graphs were taken and at the time of JUDGE RICH RULES JURY MUST PASS ON SAMPSON CASE prose- cuting stairway In I p 1 family against her has out I I I 1 threw a doubt upon Identity ot the I o t I the de- fense ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ > the tragedy The defense then called Dr A Lewis Hall as gunshotwound expert Dr assured jury that it would have been a easy matter for to have killed himself by ex which would have the muzzle of the twentyfour inches from him and prevented powder burns en either his or WEATHER REPORT- A slight secondary disturbance the lower and the Middle Atlanti States has resulted In general snows and rains over those and there were also rains in the Southern States light snows in the Lake region In the West the weather core Low temperatures prevail generally except the and heavy frosts occurred M fear south as northern Texas and northwestern Lou iKlanx Tho weather will be fair tonight and Saturday in the Eat and South with heavy frost tonight except along the south Atlantic and be light Low will somewhat warmer In the Ohio Valley and Gulf States FORECAST FOR THB DISTRICT Cooler toafgfct with heavy fr00t tem fair diminishing TB6IPRRATOTUCS x a m C 9 a m 43- T a m Noon 1 P m 2 p m 41 41 41 SUN TABLE sun rises JiS Bun sets TIDE TABLE Toda HIph tide 1030 a m and I M- T m tide 414 a m aa4 fl p m Tomorrow High 11 w a m mud 32 p m Low tide a m and 4H p m tun on a nail In OUt vea On over re continue ltboush It wUl be p a m u tide 4 I iI Samson pantry iris and t- will northwesterly winds to 41 et n Law i ¬ Remarkable Story to Appear Serially in The Times The Journal of a Neglected WifeB- Y Mabel Herbert Urnef Most Absorbing Piece of Fiction of the Year j Will Begin Tomorrow inThe Washington Times Met By City Officials and Will Lie in State Ufttil the Funeral NEW YORK April body of Lieut John Petrosino the New York detective who was murdered In Paler- mo a month ago arrived today on the Slavonla and was received with marked honors Two police patrol boats one bearing officials and the other representa- tives of various Italian societies met the Slavonla at Quarantine and the casket covered with evergreens and wreaths was placed aboard the boat the city officials and The body will lie in state until Mon day when the funeral will take place The Slavonians colors were at half mast when she arrived The fltgs on tho city hall are also at half mast FAILURE OF HEART Cornelius Kane Said to Have Died While Intoxi- cated April 9 The mystery surrounding tho death of Cornelius Jay Kane wealthy iron dealer Is cleared so far as the coroners office will do it A Jury has returned a verdict that Kane succumbed to heart disease Rumors of suicide were prevalent but there is absolutely nothing to Justify them Kane it is said had been a hard drinker for several years but had lately the habit Yesterday morning however he was found by a friend in a hopelessly Intoxicated con dition Mrs Kane was notified by tele phone and she asked that her husband be sent to Mercy Hospital rather than be taken home in his conditio- nV P Hubbard Kanes friend bun dled him into a cab and ordered the driver to take him to the hospital During the furious drive Kane died his companion continuing the run to the hospital Ignorant that the man had gone p I 1 I BODY IS ESCORTED HUME 9The brought Immediately to the cIty I KILLED MILLIONAIRE PITTS BURG I t PETROSINOS overcome ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ROOSEVELT ARRIVES AT Has Uneventful Trip From in Good Health PORT SAID April The steamer Admiral with Col Theodore Roosevelt son Kermit and the Smithsonian Institution party aboard arrived at 6 oclock evening Tee trip from Mesfllna compara- tively uneventful Roosevelt to enjoy every minute of the Urn Mem bUll of the party are in good health FACTIONS IN CUBA READY TO BREAK HAVANA April 9 The best talent of the liberal party is again tolas called Into play to prevent serious break between the factions headed by President Gomez and Vice President Zayas Q The Znya people accuse the Gomez faction of breaking Its ajfe i ction fusion agreement Tho President and Vice President are trying to effect a settlement 125 To Baltimore and Return Saturdays and Sundays vie Pennsylvania Railroad Tickets good until Sunday night All regular trains except the Congressional Limited PORT SAID TODAY I MessinaAll this was seemed his hers diplo- matic a ¬ ¬ ON THE FREE LIST Ways and Means Chairman Knocks Off 1 Per Cent Duty ACTION PUTS TRUST ON A NEW BASIS Must Be in Open Competition- With All Other Concerns- If Plan Holds Chairman Payne of the Ways and Means Committee created a sensation in the House today when he asked unanimous consent to put petroleum- and all Its products on the free list No objection was made and in the twinkling of an eye the House had ac- complished one of the most Important changes that has been made in the tariff bill The motion of Mr Payne not only permits the importation into this coun try free of charge of petroleum and Its products but knocks out the 1 per- cent ad valorem duty which was In troduded into the bill two days ago by Representative NorrIs of Nebraska As the bill now stands the countervail- ing duty Is eliminated as is also the maximum retaliatory duty and the Standard OH Company which manu factures about 50 per cent of the products of petroleum will be called upon to meet the competition of the entire world unless the Senate restores the old provisions in the bill Why Amendment is Made Mr Paynes amendment offered today in response to an overwhelming demand made upon him by the members of his own party and also for the pur pose of savjng the organization from certain defeat when the bill came into tho House for flnal action this after noon The vote on the amendment fered by Mr Norris of Nebraska for a 1 per cent ad valorem on petro leum and its products ras sufficient to indicate to Payne that he could not carry through his proposition for Continued on Page Thirteen PAYNE PLACES OIL I I waS ol EXPLOSION HURTS TWENTY PERSONS duty ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Part of Palace in Rome Is Wrecked By Fishermens Dynamite LONDON April 9 An explosion St Peters in Rome today Injured twenty persons ad destroyed a part of tho Borgopio palace according to a message to the Exchange Telegraph- It was at first reported that a bomb had been set off but later advices said that the explosion was of dynamite thjt fishermen had stored to be used in tine illegal killing of fish LITTLE STOIC DIES BURNED IN HOUSE SevenYearOld Boy Tried to Save His Mother From Flames NEW YORK April 9 Willie Wil- liams a sturdy little chap of seven died today at the Harlem Hospital from burns received last night in a heroic effort to save his mother whom he claimed to be still In the burning build- Ing on Third avenue where the family lived Willie was known as The Angel Voiced Child at the Church of Our Lady whore he was a choir singer At tendants at the hospital say they never saw one meet death more bravely than he near Wil- liams ¬ ¬ CHICAGO WOMEN FIGHTING TARIFFM- RS W B LEWIS President League Cook County Womens Clubs MISS HELEN NORRIS Secretary I II F Surgeon General Wymans Man Inspects New For Smallpox 1 The 2eW Yopk America Richmond is given naloain bill of health Is the telephonic report received this afternoon by Surgeon General Wyman from Assistant Sur geon Joseph Goldberger who was sent to Richmond his morning to make an Investigation BALL GAME CERTAIN EXPERTS REPORT IN all York- ers a practical ¬ Commenting on the report this after- noon Surgeon General Wyman said Under the circumstances the Inter state quarantine regulations of the Treasury Department would permit of the entire party of twentyone players newspapermen and others to como on to Washington but arrangements will be made for a final inspection of the party before they leave Richmond What Report Says- In his report AssB int Surgeon Gold berger says The party was not especially exposed to begin with and all successfully vaccinated Most of them show A mod erate reaction I have examined the arms one and they all had been previously vaccinated All show gocd are twentyone In the party Chase Is supposed to have been ex- posed at Hampton Ge on the ISth The first symptoms appeared March 23 He left the party entirely on the ap- pearance of the first symptoms on the 23th which only the manager ww exposed The remainder of the party did not come into contact with him after that dateThis is the statement of the man ager and it la chocked up by the rec ords that some of the newspaper men In the party have with regard to their itinerary The newspaper men are in cluded In the party of twentyone- The last exposure of the manager was on April 4 He had a previous vaccination and has reacted to his vaccination after the manner of secondary vaccination Think there is no danger of any of tho developing the disease No matter what final decision is reached by the experts there will be a game Monday between the Nationals and he New York club President Tom Noves of the local team has made up his mind to that and announced this afternoon Continued on Page Thirteen were of every ef- fect ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ LILY FAMINE COMES AN EASTER VISITOR Supply of Favorite Flower Short Owing to Bulb Disease and Other Blooms Must Be Used for the Seasons Decorations A lily famine threatens Washington To the untrained observer the gor- geous arrays In every shop would seem sufficient but there are misgivings among those who know For the first time In years It is prob- able that the florists of the Capital will be unable to supply the demand for lilies or azaleas the favorite flowers for Easter The cause is a bulb disease prevalent with the plants President Kramer of the Washington Florists Club said today florists gen- erally regarded a shortage as and he predicted that by tomorrow which abound in profusion this year ad which gen- erally third with the flower lovors would be as the compromise scheme for decorations tion however according to President inevita- ble l ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Kramer is not alone confined to Wash- ington but a similar shortage of lilies and azaleas IB reported from other cities There is no fault to find with the quality of the flowers Never before has this been better and if the quantity was in proportion the Easter of 1088 would excel all others in floral loveliness The cut flowers of all description are ex- cellent and will also be to when tho late shoppers find that the lilies and are not obtainable Every flower store In Washington ias today with shoppers who have ecstasies over the elabor- ate displays to be on hand hays been on the run constantly to homo church club sum instances the florists have made the sidewalks In front of and adjoining their veritable avenues of flowers finding it impossible to store within their the tempting offerings from Jthousos and gardens every and hments 10 goner found ¬ ¬ > ¬ MRS M HENDERSON MRS FREEMAN BROWNS WOMEN OPPONENTS PUSH TARIFF FIGHT Chicago Delegates Present Petition to Reduce Apparel Tries to Bring Matter Up in House But Mann Objects E I I DutiEsFoss Guided by the principle that success- to their mission will grow out of strik ing while th Iron Is hot the four Chicago clubwomen who have Invaded the Capital to protest against the in crease in the duty on womens wearing apparel proposed in the Payne bill laid siege to of the lawmakers- for the second time today They kept an appointment with Rep resentative Foss of Illinois one of the strong members of the Cook county delegation this morning at 11 oclock and with him talked over their plans- to bring the purpose of their mission before the Sent te tariff makers The party was composed of Mrs Nathan B Lewis president of the League of Womens Clubs of Cook county Mrs E M Henderson chaIr Postmaster General Resigns Frenchmen Will Go On Strike Again PARIS April G Trouble in the ranks of the postmen and who but recently ended a disast rous strike is threatened again to day as the result of a communication from the postal employes to Minister of Public Works Barthou to know when Postmaster SI my an would quit his office The postmen say they would not have returned to work had not Bar thou and Premier Clemenceau prom- ised them that Simyan would retire within two weeks The time is now up and there is not the least sign of Simyan quitting office If Slrayan Is permitted to retain his office the postmen say another strike will be called Barthou submitted the demand to the ministers The is unwill- ing to submit to any further humilia tion at the hands of the postmen yet they fear that to ignore the present demand will another and add to the tho threat- ened May day demonstration The government today an in vestigation f the recent mutiny in prison was not subdued until troops wore called out The outbreak to have been due to encouragement wardens In sympathy with the revolutionary movement the cltadel man civic committee or the POSTMEN DEMAND SCAlP OF SIMYAN- Unless i telegraph- ers I I I I I the or demand- ing Gen- eral w ich I ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ganization Mrs Freeman Brown presi dent of the Englewood Womens Club and Miss Helen Norris secretary The clubwomen expressed their pleas ure at having been able to present their petition to Speaker Cannon yesterday afternoon They feel encouraged by the cordial treatment accorded their petition In Congress and are hopeful that it will be Instrumental in bringing to the at tention of the tariff makers the right of women to be heard on matters of vital concern At the request of Mrs Lewis Repre- sentative Foss asked for the unanimous consent of the House to the petition which has the signatures of some 80000 citizens of Cook county Illinois To this motion resentative Mann of Illinois objected SIXTY Mi LOSE Change in Forest Service Requires Laying Off of Temporary Force Between now and July 1 the services of about sixty temporary employes of the Forest Service will be dispensed with In a number of Instances effort will be made to transfer the discharged workers to some other department of the Government The dismissals are made necessary by the fact that much of the work of the bureau here has recently been trans- ferred to the fix field districts as a matter of convenience and economy The plan Is to employ additional for- esters with the money now paid the temporary employes In the bureau here Inasmuch as the forest area under Federal supervision comprises 193000000 acres target than the England States a large number of is constantly The to make any whole sale discharge but to drop the tempo rary employes in batches Extra Easter Train Service From Atlantic City via Railroad Leave Atlantic City 445 p m Easter Sunday April 11 connecting with special train of parlor cars car ami coaches Broad Street Sta tion Philadelphia 640 m for Ches- ter Baltimore and Wash- ington stopping at intermediate sta- tions for there are passengers Ailvt JOBS New i strenuous 1 GOVERNMENT needed ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ DIES AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER Former Secretary of the In- terior Succumbs to Kid ney Trouble FIRST AMBASSADOR- TO RUSSIAN EMPIRE- His Shrewdness and Enterprise in Administration of Public Lands Ethan Allen Hitchcock greatgrand- son of Ethar Allen of Vermont I hero of Ft Tircnderoga first ambas sador from the United States Rus JEla Secretary of the Interior for nino j years the longest period for which any Secretary held that Cabinet pest died at 11 oclock this morning at the home of his soninlaw and daughter Com mander and Mrs William S Sims 122S Seventeenth street northwest of urae mic and the aliments due to his advanced age Mr Hltchcooks death was expected since he had been III for the last six weeks and had been very low since Sunday last He was seventythree- years old Mrs Hitchcock Commander and Mrs Sims Mr and Mrs John S Shepley Miss Mary and George C Hitchcock were present when the Secretary passed away Mrs Shep ley and Miss Hitchcock as well as Mrs Sims are daughters George Hitchcock Is a relative who lives In St Louis The funeral arrangement have not been made but It is probable that th body will he taken to St Louts tomor row where Mr Hitchcock d for many rears t he came Into the Governments service Intermit will be made there Health Alwayp Good throughout his llfe Mr Hitchcock was an unusually bosy aian up until 9 few ago he enjoyed remarkably goof health and was sel dom III or absent from duts About six weeks ago however while- In St Louis he contracted a severe cold which he was unable to shake off and which ultimately affected tha heart and kidneys Washington several weeks ago he was still ill but at that time his condition- was not alarming On Sunday how- ever Drs Thomas A Claytoi and VV G held a consultation and an nouncNl afterward that Mr Hitchcock Since Sunday Mr Hitchcock had several sinking spells and the phys icians realizing that the end was near telegraphed to relatives who were not in morning the former Secretary began to sink and the end came at 11 oclock The news of Mrt Hitchcocks illness crested a great deal of comment Washington and his condition was a matter of interest and concern to hundreds Distinguished Lineage Ethan Allen Hitchcock best known perhaps through his unswerving prose- cution v r big men who were caugljt in the net which he spread for far western landfrauders was peculiarly fitted for the many important posts in the United States service which different Presi dents gave him A descendant of Ethan Allen the chief tan of the Green Mountain boys who In the war of the Revolution cap tured In spectacular fashion the al New York Ethan Allen Hitchcock brought to his work a knowledge of ail of the country whit made him especially valuable Mr was born in Mobile Ala September 19 ISSi not quite seventyfour years ago Shortly after his birth the moved to New Orleans where the boy stayed one The next removal was to Nashville Tenn where young HJtchcoek attendee private schools completed his edu- cation In the North at a military sehoot in New Haven Conn In 1SS5 Goes To China After graduation at the New Haven school Mr Hitchcock went to St Louis where his family was then liv ing He became interested In the mer- cantile business and then after five years experience in the Missouri me- tropolis he went to China to enter the commission house of Olyphant Co of which firm he was made a partner la 1866 After six years in active business Mr Hitchcock retired and took a lang Eu- ropean trip which lasted two years rind which him the complete rest h desired Upon his return In ISM he again took up active work and was president of several large railroad and mining concerns in the Middle West for the next score of years In 1E97 President McKInlev asked Mr Hitchcock to assume the post of extraordinary and minister pleni- potentiary from the United States to Russia The Missourian left Ute deny of the Plttsburg Glass Company- of St Louis and this countrys diplomatic service First Russian Ambassador- The appointment to Russia was made in August and in December Mr Hitch cock was in SV Petersburg Two months later on February 11 1S9S the Russian was made an and Mr Hitchcock thereby becoming the first ambassador from the United States to Russia On December 21 1SOS Mr Hitchcock was appointed President to the Secretaryship of the Interior to succeed N Bfse The on the same day confirmed the appointment and a few months later he took over the work of the depart ment in which be gained his greatest measure of fame Mr Hitchcock was reappointed Seere HITCHCOCK Still Felt the i tb I I Hitchcock ore When Mr Hitchcock return f d to could live but a few hours mr WashIngton- This most Impre fortress at Tlcondero en- voy emba Senate EAS poisoning for- mer weeks 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