The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1895. ness on nis own behalf, what would beeome of him? We have ascertained that important fect thataman went to Oppenheim with a cheap ng on the 13th of April. Mr. Op- 1ot be certain that it was not h and the 10th. He tells you a blue overcoat and & slouch rihan tells you that his conver- Oppenheim was exactly as Op- says it was with Durrant, and as he store he went in the same direction as | 2 s I t went — namely, arrant tells you he y April. M n. He gotit into his b0 must know something about ue here to tell you what was ation with Len ence that Durrant had in bank et did he want to goto a pawnshop irpose of pawning or selling a cheap vou he had money on the rihan tells 1 that he was short., That, Durrant ow L Oppen- | | Here Mr. Deuprey was proceeding to quote regarding cases of mistaken circum- stantial evidence when he was interrupted by Judge Murphy. The Court—With what view do you propose to read this matter? Mr. Deuprey—I propose to read it to illustrate to the jury the danger of circumstantial evi- deunce. The Court—There § proof before the jury that these are fact k10w it is frequently the custom for counsel to cite cases toillustrate their arguments. {r. Deuprey Court lustration, sir. e belore the jur authenticated at alf jury atall as law. as a fact, There btain know!l b ression is 1 do not ed from read- an historical fact ust understand Lustrate the point you en in regard to the on of her own hu ssfully played by another man. , this case of mistaken use too much caution in e can be 8o mistaken akes for her hushand, look ier Mrs. Crosett or s. Leak or rested, b ed to hea. at you his man who is accused > know what he had to e, What ev1 it to s ) you w t cannot give v real canse of dea preserve It or rgans 1o show f to show who Lianche Lamont. that the conditions e which wo couid say d on April L whe or . The nch Te is no proof before you Lamont. There is ere she was killed. Y ko led, or hen s ow come down 10 the proposi- otive. Have you any evic con- Noble. by Miss Mand ted with that chur as related by Lamont, and by all T A m the date of his birth 1o 1 he was brought up among Chris ndings—to the knowl- edge of good and not of bad. Durrant’s character stands unassailed and proven. € placed his character in the balance, he men who forward to ng m; old man, oud ¢ L forward t s to when mply ial evidence, and with other and child is of such be never broken except by s have been withered by cal to the sympa- 5 of the juror: the mother is never exhausted. s tires. Itendures { the world es. She re- r bosom an No love 8 like a n ee and pure, the flame that, lj e, will never know the blush of ile. 1 cell your atten rs that when you come to you will be caréful in weighing ev ik of the mother, who bel i sat by him day and night, to be criticised by some miserable penny- I come to beseech you, gentlemen 7, more than anything to listen 1y to_every word that comes from the lips of the judge of this courtin giving the charge. The law as he gives it must guide you in coming to a conclusion. My part is about done in this trial. My relations with the Dis- tri have been of such a character that the ip between us I can never Tell this father that his son is not a monster. We believe, gentlemen of the jury, that from all that has been submitted to you as evidence in this case, there is & failure of proof, and we have established more than we offered todo in our opening statement. May you in your deliberations come to such a conclusion ou will say 10 this mother that this boy same &s he has ever by a Christian ded to his home, wedded to his o Say by your verdict to this broken- hearted father, crushed by the wrong that the law has done to his and him, that his son is not a monster. Let it be said by your verdict that no unlicensed condition of the press can ‘waive you from your duty. Let it be known to the public and the commonwesalth and to the world at large that you, citizens of this City and County, respect the constitution of the United States and the law of your own State, which gives every man a fair and impartial trial, and by your verdiet of “not guilty,” show forever that you are mindful of your duties to yourse , to your families, 0 your country and to your God REYNOLOS AS A MYSTERY, Supposition That He Might Have | Been Read, the Sunday Suicide. Were Smythe and Reynolds the Same? What the Richardsons Say About Smythe. 3 is the youth w i A statement which was to help establish an alibi for Theodore Durrant in the Blanche Lamont case has just come to light. It was sent privately to the Exam- iner by the writer, and but for the Reyn- olds letter to the Coroner which THE CALL published vesterday along with the state- ment George Reynolds was to have mnd_e to prove an alibi in the Williams case, it might not bave been published for some time to come. Its publication had been withheld at the instance of Captain Lees. The writer of this Blanche-Lamont-case statement signed himself “Richard Smythe.” That such a man did and does exist seems probable enough, though it may have been that “Smythe” and 3 or April | he charac- | y here with | you must acquit. | an assumed name,” said an attache of the vlace yesterday afternoon, so if Reynolas ever was there he must have likewise con- ed his true identity., However, the statement Reynolds was to make wasa thing in prospect, and perhaps the inten- tion was to have him room at the Central House when the time came for him to give )l;m”valunble testimony in Durrant’s be- alf. This City was searched from one end to the other for Reynolds, but no such man was found, nor could he be located in Oak- land where he stated he had been living with Emile Boissen when the latter had his habitation at the foot of Broadway. In the absence of Reynolds himself sev- eral coincidences were taken into consid- eration. The date of Reynolds’ letter to Coroner Hawkins was Sunday, October 27. In that letter he threatened suicide by drowning. He would ‘“seek rest,” he had informed the Coroner, ‘“‘from all worldly cares in the waters of the ocean near the CLff House,” but he promised to do it that night. On Sunday afternoon a young married man cailed “Charles Read” by G. A. Heilleman of 624 Washington street, who gave “‘Read’s” address as *1531 Sutter street,” did commit suicide near Point Bonita by shooting himself while fishing on the rocks. It was subsequently ascertained that Heilleman was the uncle of Read’s wife, and that Read had been the proprietor of the Polypathic Sur- gical and Medical Institute at 1531 Sutter | street. He had been afllicted with stomach | troubles, and the last Federal Grand Jury had indicted him for sending a letter through the m: elating to his business and arrested. Sickness and the despond- ency supposed to have been due to this indictment and arrest were believed to have been the causes of his suicide. He killed himself in a rather dramatic manner. It was while he, his wife and sister-in-law, Heilleman and a lady named Mrs. Doran were enjoying a Sun- outing. ‘The party had gone over to ausalito, intending to continue on to Ross V; changed when Sausalitc ! instead of the party going to Ross Valley Read had the programme alley. o was reached, and a double rig was procure to Point Bonita. It was Read who proposed that they should po to Point Bonita His sister- ! law, Miss Ella Dressell, said he kad anted queerly all along du; He bad | refused to ride £y 1 | wanted to be alone. inally, while he was | standing on the rocks off Point Bonita, he | shot himself with a target ritle, and his and they drove 1 | occan on Yhat same caused Cap- | tain Lees to believe that Read and ““Reynolds” might possibly have been one son. Such at t was » proceeding upon rts to run down the 101ds” ; now statement: Iroom at > 1 ha ¢h at pres mythe. Fir ent for “Rey t, here is h ve on the I saw her Iast 5 ear, when I le pril 5 of this 1 & & Hope in one of i started abos afier 3 0 cloc 1 don’t Know whether they saw M or not, for 1did not not said when they returned. bt evening, but we till the next day, atraid her aunt would be worried about he Idon’t know the exact hour she started home day. the 5th. for I ad 10 g0 to Oakland t day, and 1 lert home early. say about 6 o'cloc and I did not get back till about 3 o'clock. It might have been balft-past 3. Icanuot say. Miss Lamont had gone, however, when 1 got there. S left her booksirap at my house. and my loaned ber one of ours. It seems that boy got her books to play wiih and mispl SLrap, 50 that when she wanted to_go It could not be found. I {dentify the strap as mine. to my little boy, and his initials, R. M on it —Richard It rst and last The name is clean cut, as | ner name in fuil upon it, th | letters being somewha X | mear the buckli p fen: the lawyer on that sic If 1 had got anything in favor of conviction would have taken It (o the police office, because it would bave belonged there. Ihad no oth: for my action. Mr.” Dickinson instructed me to remain silent | and not discuss the subject with anybody, and I | B 3 I ulso gave him the letter my wife { I do not know er since some time § Miss Lamont in Rockford, was there visiting & sister, and remat about six months. Idon’t know how often she saw Miss Lamont there, but whenever 1 heve seen them meet here they have always been extremely friendly. My wife's sister was an intimate friend of Blanche Lamont, and they wrote to each other fter Miss on April 3 she ved during the preceding month ¥ wife’s sister. She also had one or two letiers from & young lady who had been a classmate at Rockford, both of which I undersiood Ler 10 say she had received a short time before. I saw my wife reading these letters that Wednesday evening afier dinner had been cleared away. but I did not pay much attention to them. Miss Lamont appeared to be in good health and was very cheerful and bright while at my house. She did not say nything about any ap- pointment in this City for Friday, or mention an ody's name as far as I heard. I heard her sp of going home. I recollext telling her that 1 was in Butte City, Mont..in August, 1894, for a week orso. I was there on mining business and roomed with & family named Brown on West Broadway. They had iwo daughters who had been to Dillon, and I asked Miss Lamont if she knew them, but she said she did not. I had business with two men there, but only saw one,a Mr. Higgins, on North Main screet. T am not now ving with my wife, but we arenot divorced. We are living apart by mutual consent. She and our little boy are liying with her parents onafarm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, about nineteen miles north of Philadelphia. We sep- arated on May 10, and have not wriiten to each other since. 1haveneverbeen regularly emploved in this City. 1 have been traveling considerabl; buying and selling cattle, mining and in fact an thing 1 could turn’ my hand to. I have a mining claim in Wallapai district, Arizons, and was there working during a greater part of June and July of this year. Ipay ail my expenses bere out of my own fands. I cousider my present home in Tucson, Ariz., where 1 have a room on Congress sireet. ‘1 have no interest in the case whatever, and don’t know any witnesses by the names of Dugan and Stewart. Most naturally the first question to sug- gest itself is “Who and what is this Kich- ard Smythe?’”” That such a man has lived is borne out by the following answer from Butte, Mont., 10 a telegraphicinquiry from THE CALL: BUTTE, MONT., Oct. 29.—The only family of Browns living on West Broadway in_this city in August, 1894, was_that of Adam F. Brown, a young man about 35 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived with the family of John F. Lufkin at 312. There are no girls in either the Brown or Lufkin families, Mr. Lufkin said to- night that he recollected a man named Smythe rooming at his house about & week some time in the latter part of 1894. Smythe claimed to be an electrician, but further than that noth- ing is known of him. This at once throws some doubt upon the statement of Smythe, though it con- firms the existence of the man himself. It shows that he indulged his fancy in his context when he said: 1ling her (Blanche Lamont) that lém‘;lul:fll!:ee, Mogll., in August, 1894, for a “Reynolds” were aliases. Nobody seems 10 know Reynolds or to have ever heard of hin; if he was ever at the Central House, £71 Market street, the books of that lodg- ing-house do not show it. “Most everybody who comes here gives week orso. 1 was there on mining business and roomed with a family named Brown on West Broadway. They had two daughters who nad been to Dillon, etc. The kernel of truth his assertion con- tained, according to the dispatch, was Tt belongs | man named Brown there, that is al There is a belief that possibly “Rey- nolds” and “Smythe” might have been the same person—that if Read was not “Reynolds,”” then Smythe might have been the author of the “Reynolds’’ state- ment and sensational letter, and may still be in the flesh, enjoying the effect of his startling communication upon the public mind; or, possibly, Read might have adopted the name 0f Smythe in Butte, , thus appropriating the identity of the of Tucson, Ariz. But a query arises here, which cannot just now be sat- isfactorily answered, ‘*Was Read the right name of the Point Bonita suicide of Sun- day?” The name of “‘Charles Read, pro- prietor of the Polypathic Surgical and Medical Institute, 1531 Sutter street,” does not appear in the City directories. In the statements of Reynolds and Smythe there is much in their character and formulation that is similar. The mo- tive is the same, the manner of going about it is the same and the style of dic- tion is the same. Most of the sentences are constructed after one fashion. They begin with personal pronouns or names, and each constitutes a simple declaration. This similarity might be explained by proof that, if the statements were made by two different persons, they became much alike in their construction by passing throngh the process of being written out by the same amanuensis, whoever it might have been that played the part of the aman- uensis. Take the first sentences in each and parallel them. *‘My name is George Rey- nolds,” begins one; “My name is Richard Smythe,” the other starts, “and I am at present rooming at the Central Lodging ouse at 871 Market street, below Fifth,’ savs Reynolds, “and I room at the Mel- ville on Market street,” states Smythe. Thus identity, place and tense are estab- lished in the same order of succession, and then follows a qualification as to time: “Where I have been for two weeks since coming from Arizona,” explains Smythe; *I have been there something over a week,”’ Reynolds informs. Parenthetically it might be remarked that the records of the Central House show no such name as that of George Reynolde, and Smythe’s “Melville on Market street’ is not mn existence. The Vendome, form- erly the Marquette, was several years ago called the Melville. In one statement the personality becomes aoubtful if not en- tirely fictitious, in the other the name of the place used throws discredit on the reliability of the story. But to continue with the parallel. Each injects a little of his past history into his story before getting down to the important | features—each with an apparent desire to establish his position and value as a wit- ness as plausibly as possible the peradventure of a doubt. g work | e neigh-| sreater i Migucl|this year L iive uis Obispo|about one | Haywards parallel is as to ability. orps. YTHE some. from 1 E have | Twas re of & means of my own and place for & Mr. Jones, am paying my own way./| My wife and son were with me. Before Smythe gets through with his tement he tells of a Brown, but he doesn’t particularize with Brown any more than he does with Jones. Ina ve indefinite way he locates both these per- sons, and whether they are accessible a this day is not indicated. idd “Jones'" and “Brown’ are a v: in “Smyt ! information. The most startling paraliel comes.next. Bach is_positive and very particular in ending knowledge of one of the prin- mont tragedy, the 1ittle n the objective, one g Durrant and the other Lamont: HE Say I knew ¥ ave been mont in her fin for| Miss Lamon 7 our house, etc. bid |~ Then, of course, t! branch off as to circumstances, one, how- ever, firmly fixing upon Durrant as its ob- - | jective; the other as firmly on Blanche La- mont, but the parallels of motive and style still continue: SMYTHE I have never been reg- this REYNOLDS. i I dou't think Durrant| and I olarly employed City. | y stop with| 1 huve heen traveling | Boisen when be considerably buying and | n Oakland, near sclling catle, mining, s T consider my present Auring the winter home in Tucson, ATiz., months, if T get work. | where I bave & room on I have not talked with|Congress sireet. ither Taylor or Harri ¢ know any wit- about our walk that nesses by the names of Duggan and Stewart. aying all my expenses here,’”” is teynolds endeavors to throw sus- | picion aside as to his needs of money. ‘I pay all my expenses here out of my own | funds.” is the manner in which Smythe describes his financial status for appar- ently the same reason. Smythe says this almost at the end of his story and Re noids soon after the beginning; but Rey- | nolds or his amanuensis had evidently for- gotten that he had already said so, and Reynolds is therefore made to reiterate toward the close: *'1 am paying my own expenses in this City.” See the parallel | thus “Iam the way RE SMYTHE. I am paying I pay all my own ex- | expenses in thiscity. |penses here out of my lown funds. There is this particular attempt at safe- | euardedness in Reynolds’ statement, what- . | ever it might have anticipated, which has My | no parallel in Smythe’s statement: Idon’t know any of the attorneys in this case or Detective Morse or the police. Reynolds did not write like an illiterate man who obtains his livelihood by work- ing on ranches. His spelling was correct, and the simple style of his composition was at least grammatical. His capitaliza- tion was proper; that is, he used capitals where th should be used, and did not use any where they should not be used. His punctuation, so far as his style of composition required punctuation, was all right. His sentences being brief, and none of them worthy to be called complex in a literary sense, only commas and periods were needed, and Reynolds put them where they belonged. And what has been said of the literary qualities of Reynolds’ diction can also be repeated in describing Smythe’s. Anyway it would not have been difficult for one man to have constructed both stories, There is such a lady as Mrs. Mary Rich- ardson in Oakland, whose personality has but his use of her name is not at all borne out by an interview had with her by Tur CavrL yesterday. Witness the following: OAKLAND, Ocr. 29.—Mrs. M. E. Richardson says she was approached over a month ago re- garding the man Smythe, but could give no clews which led to clear up the mystery. She believes it is more likely a scheme of the prose- cution to help out their case than the defense, “There was a Band of Hope in the Emmanuel Church several years ago,” said she to-night, “which I visited Easter Sunday two years ago, but I do not remember ever having seen Blanche Lamont or Minnie Williams. “How my name became mixed up in the plot I cannot understand. It is done by some one who knows me well evidently, because I am called Mery. Inever was known by that name, and néver sign it, but it is my right name. The whole thing is & deep mystery to me. I can recall no one who has ver con- ferred with me about Band of Hope work whiéh could throw the least light on the mat- er,” Miss Mae E. Richardson, a daughter of the Jady, however, gave & slight clew by recalling the fact that & Mrs. Roperts who 11ves about Eimhurst wes a superintendent of the Band of Hope in Philadelphia, and that her husband has been working on & ranch near Haywards for gome time past. She believed that it would be well to investigate the whereabouts of the man and his doings for several months past. “Mrs. Roberts, whose husband has been working on a ranch near Haywards’ ; she a former ‘“superintendent of a Band of Hope in Philadelphia’’—that isall! Fu- ture developments may throw some light upon any possible connection which Mr, Roberts might have had with the affair. What Detectiva Morse Says. Detective Harry Morse is outspoken in his opinion of the two statements which have so suddenly become a part of the famous case. He believes, he says, that they are the work of some insane meddler, ) 1| been dragged into the matter by Smythe,’, I 9 that he had been in Butteand knew a | who, wishing to see Durrant on the scaffold, has _taken that method of giving him a final impetus toward conviction. “The defense in this case has always been the same,” he said yesterday. ‘The attorneys for Durrant would not counte- nance such a state of affairs, and I would not listen to any proposals of that kind from any one. The case as it was pre- sented was just as we made it up. The matter of collecting evidence has been in my hands exclusively, and it was given to the jury just as it was originally intended. Mr. Deuprey’s promises in his opening statement did not relate to anything any man nemed Reynolds or Smythe could say; they were based on the evidence that was afterward submitted. “There is no truth in the statement that General Dickinson’s questions regarding Blanche Lamont's visits to the Methodist church and of her letters from Rockford, IIl., were for the purpose of laying a foundation for the testimony Smythe said he was to furnish the defense. The ques- tions, I suppose, were for the purpose of showing that the girl went with other men besides Durrant, but I do not know really what they were for. As for the strap, General Dickinson obtained it as he stated, and he submitted it for what it was worth. “The defense_in the Minnie Williams case is fully made up. It is just as it will be presented to the jury, and there is absolutely nothing in it relating to either Reynolds or Smythe. They have not been contemplated 1n_the defense at all. We have no use for them.” Mrs. Read’s Denial. Mrs. Read, the widow of the man who shot himself on Point Bonita, denies in every particular the charge that her hus- band was Reynolds or Smythe, or had any connection with a person or persons so named. She denies, t0o, that he took any particular interest in the case, and the only comment he ever uttered was that he hoped the jury would hang Durrant. “The cause of my husband’s death,” Mrs. Read said last night, ““was a fear of being convicted of the charge which was pending against him in the United States courts.” Read had been indicted by the United States Grand Jury for using the mails for illicit purpos “He had been to several eminent law- vers,” Mrs. Read continued, “and every one of them had told him that he could not escape conviction. It is not known, “but be left a note addressed to me telling me of that fact. I didn’t think the Coroner orany one else had any with his letter to me, so I did not show it to anybody. The letter was ad- dressed to me and left on my husband’s de: where my sister found it. In that letter he told me that he was going to | commit suicide, and he stated what I have told you as the cause. Mrs. Read showed several samples of her hu ¥ t from the reproductions of Reynolds’ statements which were pub- lished in the newspapers. A comparison proved at once that the samples of her husband’s writing which | Mrs. Read showed, and the statement pre- pared by t mysterious Keynolds, were written by different hands. Lenahan Contradlicts the Examine Charles T. Lenahan contradicts the aminer’s story that he held his first con- versation with the detectives in Burke’s loon. At the saloon named no trace could be found yesterday to the identity of E. M. Thayer, Abbott Hanks, formerly captain of the signal corps, denied yesterday that “‘be th Mrs. Noble Never Heard of Him. s. Noble, when asked last night, said she had never heard of Smythe; that Blanche Lamont never knew a Symthe in ; and that the only place visited 100! handwriting, and they are | ’ were in the habit of going into | glv Blanche Lamont was a young friend in ills Seminary. She felt positive that Hon. James Lamont of Rockford, IlL., an editor of a temperance publication there, and once elected to tne Illinois Legislature as Assemblyman on a temperance ticket, would not_be able to throw any light on Smythe’s identity or hisassertions relative to Band of Hope connections. HEBREW LADIES' FESTIVAL. Nearly One Thousand Persons Attend the Inangaration of the Event. The festival inaugurated Monday by the ladies of the Bush-street Temple at Union- square Hall on Post street is a success in its inception. Eight hundred ladies and gentlemen passed the doorkeeper. There have been sold 4000 tickets, which will be used during the week. 3 There is a representation in the archi- tectural display of these apartments and in the costumes of the ladies of the follow- ing nations: American, French, Italian, Russiap, Spanish, Mexican and Japanese. In each there is for sale a consignment of such articles as are characteristic of the people of the nations represented. In fact, each booth possessed some spe- cial feature of attraction. 3 The crowd that attended the festival last evening was even larger than it wason the opening night. The ladies who were in charge of the many beautiful booths ‘were busy seeking to induce the visitors to make purchases in aid of the temple, and they were very successful, realizing a neat sum in smali contributions. There are many candidates for the honor of being the most popular lady in the fair, and there are so many who are entitled to be recognized as such that many of those solicited to vote casta ballot for each of a dozen so they could not be charged with partiality. The Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum band discoursed sweet music that was at the close of each number loudly applauded. The musical programme was as follows: Overture, Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum band; vocal solo, “I1 Bacio,” Miss Zelda Lewis; musical selection, “Birds in the Forest,” band yocal solo,‘ ‘Laugh and the World Laughs W You,” Charles Parent; March of Vietor: band; vocal solo (selected), Mrs. J. Fried; waitz, “For Thee Only,” band. This_afternoon there will be a matinee that will be made specially attractive for children, for whose benefit it is to be given. In the evening it will be Olympic Club night, and several members, including J. R. La Rue and the Lansburg brothers, will give acrobatic performances. |~ Friday afternoon there will be another | matinee. The executive committee, under whose auspices the fair is being held, is composed of; Mrs. Jennie Reiss, president; Mrs. A, | Altmayer, first vice-president; Mrs. Leon | Blum, second vice-president; Mrs. J. Froh- man, treasurer; Miss Eugenia Heller, sec- | retary; Sol Adler, assistant secretary. YERKES OBSERVATORY. Professor Barnard to Assist in Testing | Its New Objective. | Professor Barnard, formerly of the Lick | Observatory, has just been at the Yerkes Observatory, on the shore of Lake Geneva, and writes very enthusiastically of the new 40-inch refractor it is about to recei The Yerkes ojective has an area of 1257 quare inches, that of the Lick’s is 1021 quare inches. Professor George E. Hale is at Cam- bridgeport looking after the great objective, and Professor Barnard is on his way to assist him in testing it. 'he observatory (Yerkes) is a grand affair,’’ writes Professor Barnard. “It is the greatest structure ever built for the purpose by Jong odds.” e ——————— Vindicated. The charge of embezzlement preterred by J. D. Hart ag Police Judge Low Tuesday, October 29, was | thrown out of court, as the charge proved | sroundless. inst Charles J. Stolz, tried before | SMOKED OPIUM IN COURT, Chinese and Whites Give Evi- dence as Experts on the Drug. JUDGE HEACOCK WAS BORED. The Fiends Consume Quantities of the Stuff Before Testifying in a Customs Case. United States Commissioner Heacock’s courtroom might have been taken for an opium den in full blast by one unfamiliar with the dignity of that sanctum yester- day morning. Wong Yow was being examined on a charge of having smuggled opium in his possession, and the case finally narrowed down to a question as to whether the 170 tins of the drug seized by Deputy Sur- veyor Ruddell contained any opium im- ported in a refined state or whether it was | all domestic opium that had been cooked |upin San Francisco from the crude ar- ticle. In order to determine this point it was necessary to have exvpert testimony, and the could only be obtained by smoking this drug. Each side produced three smokers, four of them being Chinese and two whites, pipes were procured and ‘the experts fell to with avidity, some of the fiends lying at full length’ on the floor while others utilized chairs and the big lounge that forms a_portion of the furni- ture of the room. Soon the blue wreaths of smoke that arose from the cooking of the opium over the little nut-oil lamps filled the room, and the sweet, sickening odor of the drug penetrated every nook and cranny of the apartment. Judge Heacock looked disgusted as the fumes assailed his nostrils, but he bore the ordeal with becoming fortitude and waited for the opinions of the recumbent experts. Conversation among the attorneysflagged, but still the smokers rolled their 7ime pills, cooked them and looked wise and at the same time pleased as the smoke | pouted from their nostrils and joined the | clouds that already nearly obscured the | ceiling. The smokers evidently thought they had a good thing and were “pushing it along.” Finally, becoming a little bored by the proceedings, the Commissioner asked whether the prospective witnesses were not about ready to testify, but was toid that they were not quite convinced of the | identity of the opium, and the smoking | went on. At last one of the white smokers, hand, gave evidence that his *‘habit” was | satisfied and that he ought to be ready to | give his opinion, and seeing that they could | not carry on their favorite occupation any | longer, the remainder of the experts arose | reluctantly from their positions and put | away their paraphernalia. | .. One thrifty Chinese who had takena liberal supply from one of the cans tostart | with wrapped what he had not been able | to consume in a piece of paper and stowed | it away in his pocket. Before beginning the hearing of the ex- | pert testimony the Commissioner care- | fully opened all the doors and windows, | and’ breathed a sigh of relief as he said, ‘‘Proceed, gentlemen.” The witnesses showed the lack of de- cision usunal in opium fiends, but they | nearly all agreed that it was impossible to | by dropping the pipe from his nerveless | determine whethar there was any Victoria or Hongkong opium mixed with the do- mestic article. One man said that he thought there was a little, but he could not make the case of the prosecution stron, enough to suit Commissioner Heacock, an the case was ordered dismissed. It was brought out in the_testimony, however, that at the time Wong Yon was taken into custody he offered the officer who arrested him $20, and later $100, to let him go free, and he may be re- arrested on a charge of attempting to bribe the inspector. A Methodist Rescue. The Methodist Mission is becoming very active in the rescue of Chinese female slaves. The number of girls in the home is rapidly in- creasing. Yesterday Mrs. Hull returned to the City with a girl whom she rescued on Sunday from & disreputable house in the Chinatown of Pacific Grove. The girl, whose name is Ma Choy, had expressed a desire to escape from slavery. Advantage was taken of her owners’ absence from home. Mrs. Hull met her near the station and_they took the train without molestation, as Ma Choy’s absence was not dis- covered immediately and it was not known that she had gone with a teacher from the mission., TERRY'S SPICY ARGUMENT IT PRODUCED A SMALL SENSATION AT THE BOOGAR MURDER TRIAL. HE REFERRED IN SLIGHTING TERMS TO A SAN FRANCISCO SUPE- RIOR JUDGE. For spicy argument on the part of op- posing attorneys, and the resentment of any improper insinuation on the part of those attorneys by the bench, the trial of Theodore Durrant has had an able ally during the past few weeks in the trial of Michael Collins for the murder of Henry Boogar, which occurred in Oakland a few months ago. The latest instance of this spice and sare casm which has been manifest throughout the trial occurred last Thursday. Reel B. Terry was making the arfiument for the prosecution and incidental yf)aid his re- spect to the press in general and female reporters in particular. He said: “Mr, Knilght has been from the beginning of this trial harping on the fact that Mrs. Boogar, daughter of Collins, the defendant, had at various stages of the Boogar litigation and in the collateral cases, mostly criminal, opposed her thirteen lawyers. ‘‘It has also appeared in the testimony that Mrs. Boogar and her advisers had at one time enlisted in her behalf the col- umns of an influential paper in San Frane i:iucg and also some of the papersin Qak- and. “If I had the newspapers on my side she could have the thirteen lawyers or thirteen hundred lawyers if she wished them, as the press controls the country and can ruin any man. “The public men of the States are afraid | of the papers, and only a few days ago the people of this State witnessed the specta- cle of a Judge of the Superior Court in an important criminal trial defied by a female reporter, who when ordered to answer a question positively refused, and the Judge, after threatening to fine her for contempt of court, took the matter under advise- ment and conveniently found that he was in error in ordering her to answer.”’ At this Judge Frick, who was trying the case, called Mr. Terry to order and said ‘‘he would not haye a Judge of the Supe- | rior Court reflected upon.’” Mr. Terry therefore said: “Well, gentle- men, you can consider the remarks form- ally taken back and apologized for, but it is true just the same."” NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. AN EXTRAORDINARY 0CCASION! Ol CoSy The MARVELOUSLY LOW PRICES that have concentrated the bulk of the Dry Goods and Cloak trade of the city to our mammoth establishment ever since the o MAGNIFICENT AND UNEQUALED NEW FALL AND WINTER STOCK are t pening of our his week re- enforced by a special offering of THE MOST STYLISH LINES OF OUTER GARMENTS and THE MOST STAPLE LINES OF HOUSEFURNISHINGS at sPRICES THAT MEAN A GREAT SAVING TO BUYERS!= CLOAK DEPARTMENT! LADIES’ FALL JACKETS. At 87.50. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS of black and navy Berlin twill, coat backs, notched collar, tailor pockets, bone buttons, worth $10, will be offered at $7 50 each. At $10.00. LADIES’ DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, of black and navy boucle cloth, lined throughout with twilled silk, mandolin sleeves, ripple skirts, large bone buttons, worth $15, will be offered at $10 each. At S12.50. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, of black boucle cloth, lined throughout with silk suran, full mandolin sleeves, notched collar, ripple skirts, worth $1750, will be offered &t $12 50 each. LADIES’ CLOTH AND PLUSH CAPES. At S5.00. LADIES' DOUBLE CAPES of black and navy melton, trimmed all round with satin band with rows of silk stitching, rolling collar of velvet, worth $7 50, will be offered at $5 each. At S7.50. LADIES’ FULL CIRCULAR DOUBLE CAPES of black and navy Roanoke beaver, trimmed all round with several rows of worsted braid, worth $12 50, will be offered at §7 50 each. At $7.50. LADIES' FINE PLUSH CAPES, newest styles, trimmed with Baltic seal, worth $10 50, will be offered at §7 50 each. At S12.50. LADIES' PLUSH CAPES, double and single; Double Capes, prettily trimmed with fur; Single Cepes, handsomely trimmed with jet; worth $17 50, wiil be offered at $12 50 each. At S15.00. LADIES’ PLUSH CAPES, full ripple, prettily embroidered with braid and jet and trimmed with thibet; worth $22 50, will be offered at $15 each. At S20.00. LADIES' FULL-RIPPLE CAPES, of fine plush, jetted all over, worth $30, will be offered at $20 each. CHILDREN'S JACKETS. At $4.50 and S5.00. CHILDREMN'S DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, varying in size from 4 to 14 years, made of fancy brown mixed cloaking, square revers, velvet collar, bone buttons, very full sleeves, worth $6 and $7, will be offered at $4 50 and $5 each, N L@ Our New Catalogue Is now ready for distribution to our COUN- TRY patrons ONLY, to whom it will be malled free on recelpt of address. Murphy Building, Murphy Building, 250 dozen 3{ IRISH LINEN NAPKINS, 1000 dozen BLEACHED HUCK TOWELS S -¥1 20, $1 35, §1'50, ¥1 0, '$2 00, 120 pleces BLEACHED PURE IRISH LINEN TABLE DAMASK ou - 56 inches wide 45¢, 62 inches w HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS! 250 dozen 3{ PURE LINEN NAPKINGS, 21}nches square. . , woven edges, 22 inches square.. 250 dozen 3{ HEAVY IRISH LINEN NAPKINS, 2234 inches square. 250 dozen 3{ FINE PURE LINEN NAPKINS, 23 inches square, 250 dozen 37 IRISH LINEN NAPKINS, 23 inches square,.. 250 dozen 37 FINE IRISH LINEN NAPKINS, 24 inches square. 250 dozen 3{ SUPERIOR IRISH LINEN NAPKINS, 24 inches square .81 23 dozen +es 150 dozen 185 dozen dpseeasasane OUR GREAT SALE OF FINE WHITE BLANKETS STILL CONTINUES---Value for 50 per cent More, At $7.50 a Palr. 800 pairs FINE GRADE PURE LAMBS’ 4 1nches wide, value for $11 75. WOOL WHITE BLANKETS. Theseare extra size, being At $5.75 a Palr. 175 pairs FINE 12-4 LAMBS' WOOL BLANKETS, extra size, value for $7 50, At $5.00 a Palr. 100 pairs LARGE HEAVY WHITE CALIFORNIA BLANKETS, some are solled, fally 72 inches At $4.00 a Palr. 250;;!;; 11-4 FINE WHITE BLANKETS, our “Household” make, 66 inches wide, value for At $1.15 a Palr. One case FULL-81ZE EASTERN WHITE BLANKETS, salid, heavy fabric, value for $1.50. wide, value for $7 50. At 70c a Pair. 100 pairs NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, yards long, nicely made, value for §1. At $2.25 a Palr. 50 pairs NICE CHENILLE PORTIERES, with double dadoes, new fancy body weave and deep fringe, value for $3. At 85¢c a Pair. 4 lots NICE NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS, white or ecru, 40 inches wide ana 3 yards long, value for $1 25. At $1.75 a Palr, ‘broken lots, stylish gcods, value for $2 50. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. Market and Jones Stregts. Market and Jones Streets, CURTAINS, WASH-GOODS, ETC. At 5c a Yard. 3| 2cases CREPON WASH GOODS, in pink and light blue, plain colors only, value for 10 cents. At $1.00 Each. 1lot LADIES' FINE BLACK SATEEN SKIRTS, trimmed with all-wool deep lace, value for $1.50. At 8)4c a Yard. 1200 pieces best grade TENNIS DIANA FLAN- NELS, in a fine assortment, value for 124 cents. At 25c a Yard. 200 pairs FINE NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS, | 2 lots HEAVY TABLE DAMASK, bleached and cream, fuil width, value for 40 cents. GRAND SPECIAL. ABOUT 500 DOZEN BLEACHED TURKISH TOWELS, slightly eoiled, at exactly half value, Murphy Building, Market and Jones Siregfs.