The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1896, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1896. ANNIE PARKER DROWNED, | to s oflice, where the The Missing Young Woman Is! Found in the Bay at Baden. OAKLAND'S MYSTERY CLEARED. ] She Was Identified by Her Letters. | The Coroner’s Jury’s Verdict | Is Suicide. OARLAND OFFICE S 908 Broad RANCISCO CALL,) way, Feb. 15, 1896. ) longer missing. | Miss Annie Parker is no Her brother’s fear ana jon that the unhappy girl ter- wated her life have both proved to be ie. This morning her body was recov- ered rear Baden. A Coroner’s jury de- d tbat the deceased committed sui- unhappy girl to N a mystery as je cause that led the ke her own iife is as ty around the ange story of e told exclu- last day of Janu- e event has not L the Parker was of mem by a family most of | sood standing in Baptist h. She was very 1d well known. She had a f money in the bank. She ve any love affairs, son for his ong that ntuitive fear that his sister had u the ba the search amily, but nothi ow it 1S probable th 3 still a mystery so. e first time since Ann , the sbades were all | tin the win- | the relatives | !v looked for | ors looked | v hour of the 0 that if she did present a for- But the nd now the would unwelcome appea con of love was never see bappy relatives k ood 1 John F. who made ¢ wowing where n home s mu he wer i e a relati ed with Woods del s Parker sa: v Woods k is preserved. th no one living Jeft and it truth will ever Judge E. ¥ { The letters Coroner of San Matec County, was no fied of the finding of the body at noon. He summoned a jury‘and repaired to the ins. He had the ater and removed ‘qucsl) was held. In speaking of it he said: ‘‘On examin- | mimlx of the body I found black tanned | gloves on her hands. | “In the pocket were 55 cents, two keys, a | erocer's memorandum, a book contatning the addresses of a number of persons and | wharf to view the r body lifted out of the a small memorandum containing a few | | items. There was a bill to Miss Parker, | 1169 Jefferson street, Oakland, Cal., of goods bought of an Ozkiand firm; a letter | addressed to Miss Annie Parker, 1169 Jef- | ferson street, Oakland, Cal., signed Mrs. | Wood, 1116 Granmount avenue, Baltimore, Md.; ‘a_letter without cover addressed | “Dear Aunie” and_signed *Mrs. Wood.” | contained no more than | hatter about their mutual friends. | s rothing which could be con- | ny way to show that Mrs.Wood | \ing of the dead girl’s intention. | n we became satisfied the body was that of Miss Parker Inotified the Chief | I discovered something floating in the boat llg to ody water of the bay, I drew my ascertain what it was. I found the with the face down and full under the water, the back of the body projecting out of the water. By the clothes I saw it was the body of a woman. Western Meat Company. up was about two miles. “After reaching the wharf I turned the body over in the water so 2s to see the face, Mr. Patchell, superintendent of the pack- ing-house, being present. Charles Farnum and my grandson to watch over the body until the Coroner could ar- rive and take charge. The bands of de- ceased were placed across the breast and e rigid when I turned the body over.” H. W. Felton, M.D., testified: *I have made a thorough external examination of the body found in the bay near Baden, supposed to be that of Miss Annie Parker, and Ican find no external marks of vio- lence on the body made prior to death ex- cept that are natural under the circum- ANNIE vom a photograph.] PARKER. 1 secured the body, and after fixing my light, brought it in to the wharf in front of the abattoir of the The distance from the shore where I picked the body I then put street, Oakland. The business has been poor of late and she was somewhat dis- couraged. Her family, at about 11:30 o'clock on the evening of her disappear- ance, found that she had left her watch, two rings and a neckpin at home. On the next evening they found under the bed- clothes two purses containing money, also her bank-book and some papers pertain- ing to the business. They therefore had fears that she had committed suicide.”. __After hearing this testimony and view- | ing the remains the jury returned the fol- lowing verdict: That the name of the deceased was Annie Parker, aged 36 years, a native of St. Paul, Minn., and by occupation & dressmaker; that she came to her desth on or about the evening of January 22,1896, at the city of Oakland, | Alameda County, State of California, by drown- ing by her own voluntary act, committed with suicidal intention. D. O. Daggett, M. Foley, George Kuscese, T. B, Black, Richard Harder, Thomas Horn, S. ennedy, William Clesby. At the conclusion of the inquest Mr. Parker had the body placed .in a box and brought to Oakland, where he arrived about 11 o’clock. The theory has been advanced by some of the friends of the deceased that she had not been in the water longer than ten days. It was about that time that the re- port was made that a woman had jumped from the ferry steamer Bay City on her last trip from San Irancisco. This was denfed by the officials on the boat the next day. However, those who know of the re- port hold to the theory that Miss Parker was the one who went overboard that night. At Baden there isa great deal of speculation as to how a body should float from this end of the bay to that vicinity, as such a case has not been beard of here- tofore. —_— e WERE GENERALLY CLEAN A Tour of Market-Street Res- taurants by Inspector Davis. Ordered Galvanized Iron Slop-Barrels to Be Substituted for the ‘Wooden Ones. Health Inspector Ben Davis took up his work of looking into the sanitary condi- tion of restaurants yesterday, by making a tour of those on Market street. In some of the places visited the propri- etors were inclined to object to what they considered an officious censorship of their simply a work for the benefit of the general public, and in consideration of the obvious fact that the public is an important factor in the restaurant business, the explanation was readily acquiesced in. About the only fault the Inspector had to find yesterday was with the material of which the slop-barrels were composed. He found only one of iron and that was with- out a cover. The rest were of wood. ordered the wooden barrels to be replaced | with galvanized iron tanks with tight covers, and was assured that what he re- | quired would be done. >olice at Oakland, who said some one | 1ld come down to identify the remains. waited the conclusion of the inquest M ed. After his testi- thought it neces- on the body. He to any autopsy, was satistied, I did not and, as the jur: press the matter. Atthe inquest S. H, Mariner, United St thouse tender at South San Fra testified: ‘*At about 10:25 o'clock . . I was outside with my boat to trim the outer light, when at a point about ( 300 feet north from the outer lighthouse stances. in perfect order, 1 as she gloves on.” Albert P. Parker, d, identified the body as that of his sister, Miss Annie Parker, that she was born at St. Paul, Minn. left home on the evening of January 1896, at about 7:05 . M,”’ he said. nave made diliger had been found. She was_in Further, that all of her clothes would v appear on the street, even with brother of the de- and testified “\We search, but have had no clew to her “whereabouts until we re- | I ceived netice this afternoon that the body the dressmaking business at 1169 Jefferson | bail |~ Mr. Davis says he will make monthly in- spections of the City’s eating places, and he expects, he adds, that when the restau- to have everything nice and clean, they will co-operate with the health depart- ment. i e LR Pool-Sellers Arrested. Warrants were sworn out in Judge Joachim- sen’s court y v by Policemen 8. B. Brun- and Peter S en, for the arrest of George attle and W rbert, for violating the pool ordinance. defendants are em- The two | They were arrested and each gave $250 cash NEW TO-DAY. 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POTTER DRUG AND - British depot; F, NEWBERY & SONS, London, affairs, but Mr. Davis explained that it was | He | rateurs see that it is to their best interests | sloyes ot Messenger & Co., 20 Leidesdorft street. | DEEDS OF ANCIENT DATE, How the Cemeteries of This City Are Selling Burial Lots. RECORDED AFTER MANY YEARS. The Richmond District Association Will Inquire Into Those Trans- actions. The Richmond District people, after winning the anti-cemetery fight before the Board of Supervisors, are vigilantly guard- ing their victory, and it is not without rea- son that they are remaining awake. Notwithstanding the recent ordinance passed by the board and signed by the Mayor, interments still go on in the City graveyards at the average rate of fourteen aday. During the last four days seven- teen bodies were buried in the Odd Fel- lows’ Cemetery, two in the Masonic, six in Laurel Hill and eighteen in the City Cem- etery. One body came from Sausalito and one from Vallejo, showing that not only are the residents of San Francisco contrib- uting to the mass of bodies that will one day have to be removed, but the surround- ing bay towns are called upon to contrib- ute to the generally undesirable burial- places. Shortly after the passage of the ordi- nance it was reported that the cemetery people would get around the clause for- bidding the further sale of lots for burial purposes by giving away the ground and charging a good round sum for the dig- ging of the grave. But looking closely into the new law it was found that it pro- vided for all such little emergencies, and s0 they castabout for another road out of the woods. ‘Whether they found it is not known, but in the last few days the sales of five burial lots have been recorded. The prohibiting ordinance was recorded February 4, 1896, and all graveyard lot deeds of a later date would be void, but the cemetery companies have provided for that and some of those deeds are hoary with age. In the Masonic Cemetery, lot 6 of sec- tion 12 was sold to S. Hammersmith for $331. - It is dated May 30, 1877, and was recorded February 11, 1896. In Odd Fellows’ Cemetery lot 35, avenue plat section, was sold to W. Munder for §200. It is dated September 17, 1893, and was recorded February 14, 1896. In Laurel Hill Cemetery lot 1161 was sold to isaac Swan for $60. It is dated Decem- ber 15, 1869, and was recorded February 10, 1896. Lot 2752 was sold to Sarah E. Wright for $96. It is dated July 14, 1890, and re- corded February 10, 1896. Lot 2002 was sold to George E. Decker for $200. It is dated November 6, 1895, ana was recorded February 10, 1896, All of these deeds are recorded subse- quent to the recording of the ordinance, but the ancient dates are supposed to save them. “But they are blundering,” said At- torney Charles Hubbs of the Richmond District Protective Association yesterday, “‘because the Supreme Court has atfirmed the decision that a recorded instrument of a subsequent date has priority over an un- recorded instrument of a prior date. This is the law, and even if those lots were pur- chased at those early dates the fact that | they were not recorded till the recording of an opposing instrument—a law—makes them void. \i’hy, the burial lot deeas which those people are paying their money for are not worth the paper they are written on. “Do they think a law may be gotten around so easily as that? If all the ceme- tery associations haye to do is date their deeds back prior to February 4, 1896—the recording date of the law—why, all this noise over the enactment of the ordinance is useless, for the cemeteries can go on and sell iots through all eternity. “Bat I tell you a- man can’t validate a vless act simply by changing a few fig- The ordinance said that no more lots within the City limits should be sold or in any way disposed of for burial pur- poses, and it meant just that. But it is amusing how they go atit. Look at that Laurel Hill deed to Isaac Swan dated De- cember 15, 1869, From 1869 to 189 is a quarter of a century—a long time for a paper to go unrecorded. Mr. Swan was rather careless regarding his valuable papers. Evea Mr. Hammersmith, in the Masonic Cemetery, with his deed dated May 30, 1877, let that instrument lie in the dust of nineteen years before he thought of -Tecording it. “But the cemetery corporations are lay- ing up trouble for themselves, for not only ere they selling lots under deeds of anti- quated and invalidated dates, but if there is any juggling with those dates they will be exposed. Suits may be brought against each person buying a lot, and he will be forced to swear as to when the lot transac- tion took place. Then the cemetery people will be compelled to produce their sale records'in court, so I fancy the truth will come out. You may say that the Rich- mond district folks, after having won so much, are not going to sit down and let this thing make of no effect their past work. ““There is another thing we have in view. The Italian Benevolent Society’s Cemetery, near the City Cemetery, can be removed without any difficulty. The reso- lution which gave them the ground pro- vided that iun case of the removai of the cemeteries or the prohibition of inzer. ments, the City and County will not be responsible for any improvements made in the lots, the use of which is hereby granted. **We have still another scheme in hand for the development of Richmond, and some day we will have that locality blos- soming as the rose. We are going to me- morialize our representatives in Congress to have the City cemeteries removed and the ground laid out in a Government park with driveways, lawns and an ornamental lookout station on or near Point Lobos. It could be made a beautiful spot, fronting the bay, the Golden Gate and the great Pacific. These things will all come when the graveyards are gone and the quick, not the dead, inhabit 8an Francisco.” HOME FOR POOR GIRLS. Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper Warmly Commends the Girls’ Home Director: Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper spoke on ‘‘Iaking care of the girls between childhood and womanhood” Thursdey night during the annual meeting of the directors of the Girls’ Training Home at the First Baptist Church. She warmly commended the noble work undertaken by the society. She said that the method employed of preparing girls to enter Christian famiiies was the only true method of caring for the unfortunate ones. She advocates, however, that the girls be given an industrial training, that they may be taught what is useful to them in their household duties. e ——————— It Was Dr. H. H. Hart. A long, hard fight was made before the Finance Committee of the Board of Super- visors Friday morning, for money to better the sanitary condition of some of the public schools by & short, gooa-natured looking man with a high forehead. He spoke earnestly and answered a voiley of questions in a way that showed he had made an exhaustive study of the cause he championed. 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