FLYNN OFFERSHIS OWN RECORD

Autobiography of the ManSuspected of Baby

Murder.

ACTIVE IN PORTLAND.

Says He Was Officially Aggres-sive in the Suppression of

Public Abus?s.

MADE FOES AS A KEFORMER.

Aroused by Criticism, tha ArrestedMan Declares His Only Fault

Is Poverty.

The detectives are stillhard at work at-tempting to unravel the pitifulbaby-mur- ider mystery. They are still working on |

the theory that Flynn, the suspect under jarrest, is the father and virtually the mur- jderer of the newly born babe found in aBatchel ina vacant lot last week.

Incontravention of the theory of Flynn'sguilt is the autobiography of Flynn, whichThe Call presents herewith. It is an in-teresting resume of nn aggressive publiccareer in the Northwest.

Intbe absence of George A. Knight,hisattorney, J. T. Flynn was reticent and re-fused to make any statement regarding thetestimony of Mrs. Shane, but when con-fronted with the printed statement in anevening paper referring to his past recordhe consented to give The Call a completehistory of his past career.

"My photograph as itappears in TheCall this morning," said he, "Iconsiderto be the best that has appeared in any ofthe City papers, and in justice to myself,though contrary to the advice of my law-yer,Iwillgive as clear a statement as Ipossibly can. of my past life for the bene-fitof such of the public as have interestedthemselves inmy case.Ifeel bound to say a word or two inanswer

ti>malicious statements affecting mycharacter,which have appeared in one or two papers ofthis City, and while Iknow that these calum-nies are not evidence, Ialso know that theyare published for the purpose of serving thatend in the public mind, and therefore hopethat you will afford mean opportunity to beheard.

For nearly twenty-seven years Iwas a resi-dent of the city of Portland, Ore., and every-thinginmy life from childhood up is known,and, Hside from a financial embarrassment,caused by no particular fault of mine, there isnothing init that 1derire to conceal.

During mycareer there, both as a newspaperman and as an officer of ihe law,Ihave alwaysbeen on the side of law and order. In my re- 1searches as a reporter in that city Ifound a jChief of Police entrenched behind the powerof perpetuity in office, who was accused ofhav-ingaccepted a bribe of $500 for permitting theescape of a gang of murderers, and who wasopenly using the machinery of the law aa aprivate means of vengeance.

Men wtiodared to cross his path ordisturbhis profitable traffic in Chinese women werethrown into the inquisitorial cells withouteven the formality of a charge and kept thereunder the fire of the detectives until itsuitedhis pleasure to either release or shanghaithem. These facts Iput in the proper form,laid them before the proper authorities andafter a stubborn fight of several months' dura-ion 1 finally succeeded in having him re-

moved.Ashort time afterward Iwas appointed Li-

cense Inspector by Mayor Chapman, with theadded power of a police officer,and was jrivencarte blanche authority to correct any abusesIfound in the department. Upon investiga-tionIfound that the special police contingent—

an offshoot of the detective bureau— wasdrawing down about $6000 a month intheorm of tribute from gamblers, fallen women

and other offenders, many of the officers re-ceiving as nigh as $1000 per month. A eoodportion of this sum was set aside regularlye«ch month for campaign purposes, and Imight say it was pretty effectually used, butIfinallysucceeded, through the medium of thepress, in abolishing it.

] found thirty "fan-tan" games running inChinatown withno law to punish it. Icausedan ordinance to be passed punishing the of-fense and during the first night of its opera-tion took a squad of officers and arrested over400 players.Ithen took up the liquor-license question,

which was being vigorously opposed, and car-ried it to a successful issue in the SupremeCourt.Ithen inaugurated a war upon the Chinese

f'jinale-chattel importers who were shippingwomen for immoral purposes from Victoria to

San Francisco by wuy of Portland, and suc-ceeded inarresting on one occasion a consign-ment of eleven women and the rive men incharge. 1 arrested them under a warrant is-sued by the United States Commissioner on a

charge of violating the Scott exclusion act.The women were held as witnesses inthe sumof $100 each and the two principals in thesum of $2000 each. Allof the bail money tothe amount of $5000 was furnished by theprincipals and a day or two later declared for-feited, as the entire party skipped for SanFrancisco.

While Iwas on the way to the County Jail ina hack with the principal, he offered me $5000In greenbacks to let him out of the hack. Onbifl person 1 found an itemized statement ofthe cost of each woman, ranging invalue from$400 to $1000, the amount paid the examiningphysician, the amount paid to the alleeedhusbands, woo were taken fromPortland andregistered on the outward passage at PortTownsend as "merchants" whose wives wereentitled to return, and finallythe sum paid tothe magistrate at Victoria for performing themarriage service. These facts Iafterward laidbefore a United States Senatorial committee.

While engaged Inthis workIwrote the firstexposures of the Beecher opium scandal atPort Townsend, which afterward led to someunpleasant developments at Washington.Inext visited the Steilacoom Insane Asylum

in Washington, taking Dr. Chapman, theMayor of Portland, with me, and exposed themanner in which Verona Baldwin had been"railroaded" out of California intoa Washing-ton asylum for shooting her alleged uncle.The report of her mental condition made bythe doctor, together with the newspaper com-ment 1furnished upon the case, was made thesubject of special legislative inquiry, whichresulted in her release.

1then turned my attention to the flagranttimber land swindles of Oregon and Washiug-tonand succeeded through the honesty of ex-Land Commissioner Sparks in restoring sev-eral thousands of acres of land to the publicdomain.Inext turned my attention to the real estate

business and was more or less identified withvarious enterprises of Oregon and Washing-ton. During my career as a real estate oper-atorIexpended more money forstrictly news-paper advertising than any firmon the NorthPacific Coast. My average advertising ac-count was $1000 amonth, and itoften reached.\u25a0£2500. Imade and lost several small for-tunes there, and finally left there eighteenmonths ago with (28. 1 have a suit now pend-ing in Southern Oregon for the recovery of$11,000 on a lana deal, the proceeds of which1 have always intended to leave with my cred-itors.

A career us aggressive as mine has been i8bound to result in the creatlor, of enemieswho will rejoice in my ruin, but Ithink thatit willbe found, if the investigation is impar-tial, that my only crime ismy poverty.

April21. J. T. Flynn.

Thomas Flint Sr., Grand IHgh Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons.[From a photograph by J. R. Jlodson.]

ROYAL ARCH MASONSElection of Grand Officers for

the Ensuing YearCompleted.

Annual Convocation for th£ Ji ris-dicticn of California

Continued.

The annual convocation of the GrandChapter ofRoyal Arch Masons for the juris-diction of California resumed its labors atthe Masonic Temple yesterday morning.

The forenoon was devoted principally toreports of standing committees. The aft-ernoon session was occupied in the elec-tion of officers with the followingresult:

Thomas Flint Sr. of San Juan, grandhigh priest ;William Frank Pierce of Oak-land, deputy grand high priest; EliTuckerBlackmer of San Diego, grand king;FiorinLeslie Jones ofSan Francisco, grand scri be ;Franklin Henry Day of San Francisco,grand treasurer; Thomas Henry Caswellof S:'.n Francisco, grand recorder.

The captain of the host, grand chaplain,grand lecturer, grand organist and grandsentinel being appointed officers theirnames will be announced by the grandhigh priest to-day previous to the installa-tion of officers.

Grand High Priest Flint is a veteranamong the brethren over whom he hasbeen called upon to preside for the nextMasonic year. He was born ia the Stateof Maine in1824. He arrived inCaliforniaon the 4th of July,1851, and remained asone ofthe permanent and substantial pio-neers of the State. Becoming identihedwith the Masonic fraternity shortly afterhis arrival he was soon recognized as aman born to preside over his fellows.Having passed irom chair to chair in theBlue Lodge he was elected master of hislodee, in whicn his ability was so appre-ciated that he was re-elected and is atpresent worshipful master.

Inaddition to this honor he was elected

Ihich priest of Hollister Chapter of Royal!Arch Masons. Here again the superiorqualities which elevated himin the MasterMasons' Lodge and as high priest of thechapter caused his brethren to again in-vite him to the chair in the East as com-mander of Hollister Commandery KnightsTemplar, and now he bas been honoredwith the scarlet robes of grand high priestof one ofthe grandest bodies of men andMasons in the world of this degree.

There are yetmore honors awaiting thishigh Mason in the office of most worthygrand master of the Grand Lodge of Cali-fornia and probably the honor of reaching

I the exaited station of supreme grand com-I rnander of Knights Tempiar of the UnitediStates.

Some years ago the Austrian Govern-ment issued a decree by wnicn every en-gineer who had driven his engine for anentire year without accident should re-ceive areward of $50, and those who havedone so for ten consecutive years shall re-ceive $500 and a gold medal.

Wing;" Against Steam.Erie and Pittsburg trainmen are talking

about the curious race between an expresstrain and a wildgoose which occurred theother day between Shadeland and theSummit. The veteran engineer, TonyWelsh, was at the throttle, and when theCanadian honker came lazily soaringalongside the engine and challenged theiron steed to keep up with him, Tonyturned on the steam and made itneces-sary for the goose to flap his wines a littleharder, and after getting out of'sight ofthe train ho would settle down in a fieldand wait for the express to catch up tohim. He waited at Springboro, Conneaut-villeand Summit, and starting after thetrain from tliese points, flew close to thecoach windows in full view of all the pas-sengers, who crowded over to that side ofthe train to observe the queer actions ofthe bir4. When the goose at one time gotclose to tbe engine, Engineer Welsh pulledthe whistle and tbe bird was so badlyscared that he turned over in the air like atumbling pigeon.

OFFICER ROURKEIS SUSPENDED.

Chief Crowley, However,Believes That He Is

Innocent.

POLICE CENSURE PURVIS

The Landridge Woman Deniesa Part of Mclntyre's

Statement.

MONEY IS UNACCOUNTED FOR.

Rumor That Mrs. Rose M.French HasTwo Witnesses to Prove That

Rourke Is Being "Jobbed."

The Investigation as to whether Patrol-man Thomas Rourke and Special OfficerW. J. Mclntyre are guilty of embracery is

in full blast. There is no disguising thefact that ifHannah Landridge robbed thefarmer, Bush, some one has part orall themoney. Who it Is, is the question.

Yesterday saw many developments in thecase, but nothing as yet has determinedwhere the money went.

Sergeant Wollweber was busily engagedall day in endeavoring to untangle thematted threads of testimony. The state-ments of the boy Valencia, of Rcurke, Mc-lntyre, Peshon, Wollweber and otherminor officers were taken down byStenographer Heyneman and type-writtencopies are now in the possession of ChiefCrowley. They do noi differ materiallyfrom those that have been already pub-lished.

There is one point, however, that maybe of importance. Mclntyre states thatearly Saturday morning he" walked downBroadway with the woman (Hannah) tothe corner of Kearny, where she left himand walked down Kearny. During thistime, Mclntyre says, she expressed a de-sire to see Rourke. This was while thewoman was still supposed to have themoney, which is alleged to have beentaken from the farmer, in her possession.

The woman was seen at the prison to-day, and stated in a most agitated mannerthat if Purvis, Peshon or anybody elsesaid she was with Mclntyre any time atall Saturday morning they stated some-thing that was not true. The womansaid several times that from late Fridayevening till she sent for the messenger-boy Sunday at 1 a. m. her senses werebefuddled by liquor, and she did not knowwhere she was nor what she did.

She further said that the farmer tried, toinduce her to go to Chile with him, andpromised to dress her in costly garments,make her a present of a gold watch andchain, and in general treat her as thelegitimate partner of his earthly posses-sions.

"But," she added, "Ididn't put aDyconfidence in what he said."

Her reasons in sending for OfficersRourke or Mclntyre in preference to oth-ers is that she thought they would bekinder to her than the rest. The reasonsfor this she would not divulge.

Rourke was seen at the City Hall to-dayand conversed freely about the case.

"There is some one inside or outside ofpolice circles that is trying to 'job' me. Ihave known this for some time. In fact.Ithink there is a clique aeainst me. IfIcan find out who is at the bottom of thisconspiracy there is going to be trouble.

"My friendly feeling for the Landridgewoman is easily explained. About fouryears ago there was a saloon on the cor-ner of Jackson and Kearny streets known,Ithink, as the 'Cityof Stockwell.' Amannamed Morgan was robbed there by acrook called 'Bow-legged Martin' and an-other fellow. Hannah was a hanger-onthere, and when the thieves were arrestedshe gave valuable evidence for the State.Ipromised her then that for this service Iwould befriend her if she was ever inneed.' 1

Rourke called at the Cily Prison to seethe woman at 10 a. m. Sunday, before thepolice knew the details of the case andbefore the messenger- boy sent by her hadfound him, and he hud along conversationwith her in the "half-cell." The onlything known about the details of thisprivate conference is what Rourke him-self admits, that be told her he had oncebefriended her and he did not want her toforget him now.

One of the stories rumored yesterdaywa3 that Mrs. Rose M.French, ex-presi-dent ofthe Women's CivicFederation, hadtold some ore that she could produce twowitnesses who would testify that FrankHolbrook of the Society for the Preventionof Cruelty to Children had made the fol-lowingremark:

"This man Rourke took the North Beachscandal out of our hands and ran itto suithimself. Iflam not mistaken he will be'broke' within thirty days."

To one interviewer Mrs. French flatlydenied that she had made any such state-ment, or one even faintly resembling it.But another person is authority for thefact that Mrs,Trench admitted ihe truth

of the rumor, inasmuch as some memberof the Society for the Prevention of Crueltyto Children is concerned, but denied thatthis person is Holbrook, adding that thesetwo unknown witnesses had not seen tit tocon tide to her the name of the person mak-ing the remark.

Mrs. French emphatically asserted herbelief in the innocence of Rourke. Shesaid:

"For days Iworked side by side withhim in the North Beach case, and in allthat time Inever saw a man more wide-awake and conscientious in the perform-ance of his duty. Iwould almost as liefmistrust myself as to believe that hewould do a dishonorable act. That is. Imean so far as Ihave been enabled tolearn his character from observation andassociation."

"Fat Annie," as the woman is called,had no money when arrested and had toborrow small sums to secure necessaries inprison.

Rourke said during the afternoon thathe bad been suspended pending the inves-tigation by Chief Crowley."Itmust not be supposed," said the lat-

ter, "thatIdid this because IsuspectedRourke. Far from it. He has never beenbrought before the Commissioners on acharge of corruption before and Ibelievehim to be an honest and efficient officer."

The case of the woman willcome up be-fore Judge Joachimson to-morrow morn-ing-

Patrolman Rourke, Who Was Snspendcd Yesterday Pending an Investigation.

THE PROHIBITION PARTY.It Will Name a Full Ticket at the

Stockton Convention.

"Joaquin Miller is becoming quite aliberal-minded man," said Judge R.Tnompson, a prominent temperance advo-cute and well-known member of the Pro-hibition party, yesterday afternoon, afterhe had read the address ofthe "Poet of theSierras" delivered before the members ofthe Woman's Christian Temperance

Union at Pacific Grove last Friday. "Hedoes what he believes is right and he ap-pears to be willing to let others do like-wise.

"He asserts that the people of Italydrink wine and that they are not drunk-ards. Well, that is easily accounted for.The people there drink a light wine andnothing else, because they are too poor toprocure anything stronger. The people ofFrance were at oDe time drinkers of onlylight wines, but that created an appetitefor something stronger and they use in-toxicants. Why could not the Italians

j convert the products of their vines intoIspirits or brandy? Because it costs more

than to produce light wines and they aretoo poor to purchase the higher-pricedproducts.

"He talks of homicides and suicides.Now, it is a remarkable fact that for anumber of years past homicides have in-creased in the United States at the rate of

j 900 a year. This is the effect of aIcause, and the question is, What is thecause? Some are ready to lay it to onecause, intoxication, but there must beother causes. There is for a cause a wantof proper education in the right direction.What is needed is an education that ele-vates, one that tends to eiadicate thespirit of selfishness and produces happi-ness. The individual who seeks to makeothers happy makes happiness for him-self. We who are working in the temper-ance l^ine are striving to that end.

"It is also a remarkable that thepeople of the United States are the lowestin the scale of morals in the world. Sta-

| tistics show that beyond dispute, and whyis it so? Itell you, itis because the powerof government is placed in the hands oftoo many who are ignorant. Joaquin Mil-ler talks of giving the ballot to women. Iam in favor of that; so is the Prohibitionparty; but lam opposed to giving it towomen who are not possessed of sufficientintelligence to understand its use and itsvalue. The ballot has been given toofreely in this country to too many people.For instance, the ballot ought not to havebeen given to the negroes without somequalification ;an educational qualification.Itis true that California has taken a stepin that direction, but itshould prevail allover the Union.

"The Prohibition party is one of educa-tion. Itwillkeep in the field; not thatwe expect to obtain any offices, but wewant to remain to continue the work wehave commenced, for like all great re-forms ittakes a long time to obtain theresults sought. Our purpose is to do awaywith that which demoralizes and doesharm to a people, and by doing that webenefit the people. We shall hold ourconvention in Stockton next month, but

Iwhat will be done has not yet been de-! termined upon at this time that Iknow

of. We shall, however, nominate a fullticket and probably make it up in themain from the candidates on the othertickets. With every election we havegained strength, and in this City, where

Iwe number about 600, we hold the balanceof power.* We willkeep on until we ob-tain our object, and that is total absti-nence."

FELLED BY JACK FROSTFruit Suffers Severely in All

Sections of theState.

HEAVYLOSSES ARE PREDICTED.

Peaches, Apricots, Prunes, Almondsand Grapes Are Almost Total

Failures.

A general calamity howl has been set dp

by the fruit-growers of the State.The frosts of the last ten days, and par-

ticularly the one of Sunday night, wereuncommonly severe; hence the wholesaleprediction of disaster and destruction.

From all parts of the fruit-growing sec-tion have come reports that the crops weremuch hurt, partly ruined or wholly de-stroyed.

The only crumb of encouragement to bepicked up by the fruit men so far is thefact that predictions almost as bad havebeen made in previous years, and whenthe harvest came in proved to have beengreatly exaggerated.

The worst, feature of this bad and un-timely frost business, however, exists inthe belief on the part of the leading com-mission dealers that the reports from dif-ferent parts of the State have been underrather than over drawn.

Said D. C. Allison, commission mer-chant at the corner of Front and Wash-ington streets, yesterday:

"The truth 1am afraid has not half beentold. It is worse than it has been de-picted in the newspapers. The cherries,apricots and early peaches willprove al-most a total failure, and grapes willnot bemore than a third of a crop. Allsectionshave suffered alike. The Sonoma andNapa valleys, Santa Clara, the Visalia andVacaville sections have sustained a lossthat cannot be estimated at this time.Even the upland trees and vines did notescape.

"The loss willbe great to the State, andeven in the event of a short crop in theEast the consequent advance inprices herewill not compensate the growers for theloss they must suffer from these severefrosts."

Dalton Bros., on Davis street, nearWashington, bad a similar reportto make: "From our private corre-spondence it seems that the story hasnot been half told. The matteris worse than has been represented by thepress. Cherries, apricots, peaches andalmonds are almost a complete failure.Prunes will also suffer greatly from thelate severe frosts. The frost of last Sun-day night was one of the heaviest everknown at this season of the year. Howwill it affect prices? Well, prices mustnecessarily go up, but not high enough tosquare the loss of the fruitmen by reasonof the sacrificed crops."

"The reports are all bad," said A. W.Porter of Porter Bros., Davis street, neavClay. "Itis worse than was at first appre-hended. Allthe early fruit willbe almosta dead failure and peaches, prunes andgrapes are sure to be less tban a third of acrop. We have received the most discour-aging reports from Woodland, Winters,Armona, Kings County, Los Angeles, SanJose and so on. My brother telephonedme this morning that the frost had playedgreat havoc among the trees in the Wil-lows district, near San Jose, and also inthe Los Gatos section. Icannot see anyencouraging condition or the promise ofone."

The only encouraging reports come fromthe Sacramento River country, where thefrost was less felt. The almond crop, how-ever, inall parts of the State is almost atotal failure.

Stewart & Co. was the only firm to takea non-calamitous view of the situation."We do not believe things are half as badas tfcey are pictured. As long as any ofus have been in the business we can recallsimilar reports being made nearly everyspring. No doubt the frosts have donemuch harm, though we cannot believethere is going to be entailed such greatloss as so many of the fruitmen seem to

believe. At any rate good prices can bedepended on by the growers."

What the Guard Walked Back For.

'•Notinfrequently," said a citizen, "yousee the guard on the rear car of a train onthe elevated road walk back through thecar and look out behind. Inever under-stood exactly why he does this, but Isup-pose that at night he looks out to see thatthe end lights are burning allright, and inthe daytime he looks out to see that every-thing is all right.

"In a car that Iwent uptown in theother day the guard came walking backin the usual manner, but this time hedidn't go clear to the end of the car andlook out. He sat down for a moment be-tween me and a littlegirl who sat in thenext to the end seat, the end seat beingoccupied by a little boy. The two childrenhad been looking out of the windows, thesmall boy on his knees in his seat, and thelittle girl on her feet, but when the guardsat down the little girl turned at oncefrom her window and put her arms aroundhis neck and the small boy turned fromhis window and smiled.

"The guard had come back not to lookat the end lights or things in general, butto take a little look at the lights of hisexistence."

A salmon measuring 42V£ inches inlength and weighing 35 pounds was landeda short time ago at Great Yarmouth (Eng-land) fish wharf. The fish was capturedin a trawl net on the fishing-grounds.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1896.9

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