The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1896, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1896 | him especial pleasure to redress any griey- | ances existing. He commended the gen- | tlemen of the jury for their wisdom and judgment in thus presenting the case pri- vately and in confidence. Speaking fo Thus encouraged ihe spokesman enum- | was confid that the directors of the ested that the matter should be put in nd this proposition received as- i duced by a preambl Fire. | that Goodall, Perkins & Co. had a monop i oly on the water front; thata discriminat. 4 5 | co would respect the wishes of the Supervisors and Spring Val- & iy, Finally one of the jurors ley DlrECtorS Under itten resolution was intro- le, setting forth the fact us tax water was levied. The resolution FIXING WATER RATES. follow 1, Perkins & rates sh mmum price 1 contract with Goqc - should be abrogated ; tha be reduced so that the ma y ship supplied at this ot exceed the charges toother consume: ould Conference Between a Committee of the Jury and Herman Schussler. that the directors of the corporation would hold a meeting at once and adopt the resolution. Meany vhile the committee in in efforts to bring about d reduction when the subject of nual rates came up for action in the the matter direcil, on of the Supervisors the Grand Jury | on February 14th sent a communication y 7i und U ri | to the b ing forth that in the or The Jury Will Round Up Supervisors | {8 22 = btor ths year ending June and Directors and Send for Books | 30, 1895, ur honorable body atlowed to e | be charged for shipving at the wharvesa and Bank Accounts. rate of $1 7 per 1000 gallons by water measurement, which was greatly in exces: | of tbe general rates.” | Reference was made in the communica- Jury of the City and | tion to the practice of the water compan ancisco has not been | of farming out to Goodall, Perkins & Co. the newspapers, | the privilege of supplying ships. The Supervisors were inforned that this firm was making arbitrary rates to consumers greatly in excess of the rates allowed by the order. been T » exal ined, of the on sion the Grand Jury wr tions. | We, thereiore, t that 1n mal he and extended of water rates. ice for shipping, r supplied to any ve within the *City limits s k< measurement, and s whether the same I tion, company, firn or collec in the Grand Jury re ur honorable body w igation ctfully 1 y of the Ci ¥ AY, Secretary. EY, Chairman. >, Mel Grand Jury the directors of the corporation would meet on the following day and adopt the estion of the committee. Contidence o grievous burden from toe port. e Grand Jury the Supervisors held a ty-minute session on the following ! ng and re-enacted for the the old, unjust ater ordinance The wrath and indignation of the ju could not be suppressed in the jury but for the sake of keeping a sensation out of the papers the wrath was smothered for atime. Then came the whisper, at first subdued, t the directors of the com- | directors of the corporation had been held, | and at that meeting a report was secured | the water company; he assured the com- | ! | mittee that it was the desire of the cor- | had found that no cause for complaint ex- * | poration to establish and maintain friendly | 1 | relations with its patrons. | | isted. | tive, orderly and discreet Grand Ju erated the reforms desired. Mr. Schussler | endure. Sensation or no sensation it was | the representatives of the water company. .| deeper tne 1ndignation became. The | Grand Jury feels that it was betrayed by for suvplying ships | g the preamble declared that the | 1 | inquiry to place ev port would | | | | Mr. Schussler assured the committee | | | belief is so strong that some of the | ances aiso that theduper- | to the at- | | welcome after which came a orin- | on for hall be a misde- | of kind i sts 01 excessive rates and nation that is now apparent to growth and Friday afternoon, February 14, the adjourned in a happy frame of mind. Members were confident that To the utter surprise and bewilderment | tions which he presented to them. Grad- ually it came to light that a meeting of the | i J hat an expert, after investigating tne Grand Jury charges for ‘‘twelve hours,” 2 i This was too m to resolved to round up the Supervisors and The longer the subjéct was discussed the | the water company and the Supary £ Tast Friday was the day fixed for taking extreme measures, but there was advice then against proceading in haste. Mem- bers of the Grand Jury want to be fortified with as much information as possible | before entering upon the important in- | vestigation. i | | It may be necessary in the course of the ¢ known agent or er of the water corporation on the ness stand in the jury-room and compel the production of books and pap ] visors were corruptly inflnenced in rush- ing the water ordinance through without consideration that they will be called upon | to make a show-down of their individual transactions resources. The Grand | i | Jury fully comprehends the difficulty of | BOTH WERE BEASTLY DRUNK. tracing out corrupt transactions in the Board of Supervisors, but the jurors are | fully convinced that the taxpayers of San | Francisco were shamefully betrayed by | the board and that failure to.investigate | would reflect on the honor of the jury. | paddiatin b, | | 1 THEIR FIRST STAG PARTY. Members of the Caledonian Club Spend | an Enjoyable Evening. The first of a series of social sessions or “stag parties” was held by the Caledonian Club in their new hall Friday evening and was a decided success in every way, | the rooms being packed with members | overflowing with "enthusiasm. W. C. Cook presided and acted as toastmaster. Chief D. R. McNeill mad. n address of D. H. Finnie; a narrative of extensive in Scotland by Y. C. Lawson, which was greatly enjoyed; remarks by Andr appy McGillivry, ex-Mayor of D k Smith, “‘Bonnie Scot- | y the treasurer of the | son; song, “The Cam- | eron Men,” by Archie Lauriston; remarks ffection for sister societie s by W. C. Coo irrine address by Chief McNeill, on **Tt Scotland,” telling of the love of Nova Scotia and Prince ward Island especially for the h all responded to asm. ere abundant and cailed. “‘Auld Lang yne’ closed the festivities and the club dispersed to meet “anither day.” and mother country, wh with unu 105 Dhet » v THE HANDBALL COURTS. A Few Exciting and Closely Contested mes Played. well at- The handball courts were fai tended yesterda ing and clo d, as follo: ternoon and s and J. and P, ). O'Brien anda fcDonald and B. Lawless defeste on, 21—6, 19-21, oh1 in and d M. Morton and J. 1955 7T AND SUICIDE, Morton Street Again Yields Its Ghastly Quota of h for even a conserva- |. DEATH OF MAY CONBOY. James Dolan, Her Slayer, Takes His Life With the Same | The Police Are in the Dark as to the Cause Which Led to the Morton street, in the heart of & progres- i) 7 » 7 i fmj//”/” HANDBALL | | \:’\ May Conhoy and James Dolan, the Two Victims in the Most Recent Morton-Street viewed day after day by children passing to and from school and young girls and women attending the theaters, has again within ten days sputtered its indelible stain on the escutcheon of San Francisco. The latest crime, committed only yester- day morning, when May Conboy and James Dolan were discovered dead in one of the vile dens, created but a passing ex- citement—mystery, mnrder and suicide appearing to be what is expected from this locality. “Who is it?” “Who did it?”’ and “Have they got the culprit?”’ That seemed to be the extent of the world’s curiosity. Yes, the murderer was captured yester- day; his dead body was found bleeding over that ot his victim. The pistol with which he had taken her life and his own was still in his grasp. The name, occupa- | tion and antecedents of the girl are well known, but the element of mystery still remains in the fact that there is no known reason why Dolan and his consort should have sougit the end. But the police are not worrying as they did in the case of unfortunate May Mc- Dermott, who was choked to death a few | doors above May Conboy’s den by some unknown a few days ago. There is no | reason to search for the murderer this | time, and they are content. One more | young woman has been wiped out of ex- istence, that is all; and Morton street will not miss the unfortunate, for there are plenty more to take her place. There are some features in the case, however, that should excite. more than a passing thought.” Four burly policemen were supposed to be on duty in the very street where the killing took place. Yet they did not hear the noise of the shooting. “Lizette,” a French woman, on one side of May Conboy’s ‘“crib,” as these places are termed, and May Raymond, on the other side, slept in their dens during the night, and they did not hear the shooting. Nobody knew anything about the case until after 8 o’clock in the morning when | the Chinaman who usually ““makes up” the | rooms tried to gain admission. Failing, he reported to the Raymond woman who is the proprietress of fonr of the dens. 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Tragedy. oring the acts of Mr. hussler, nop tleman in a false po- y won' two gam to-day. sive City, within a stone’s throw of the | the door, but the dead had no ears for the leading hotels and business houses, | living. pted the recommenda- Boak ;ha heads {n & strong, hot solution or #suds” of) with CUTICURA (ointment), and wea: old loose Z, f ‘4 CUTICURA BOAP. Dry thoroughly, and anoing freely, - Y during the night, For red, rough, chapped, and dise 77, LA b, s colored hanls, dry, fissured, fiching, feve:ish palms, _(’ \ // '?7 ¢ // "//, shapeless nails, this treatmens {3 sin':ply wongderful, 2B\ 1N e R A A R WK B2 A Miss Raymond then called upon Officers Samuels and Murphy who burst open the | door and were confronted by the blood- stained corpses. women, men and children were on the streets waiting for the Washington Birth- day procession. The news of the double killing spread like wildfire and the tirong soon crowded Morton street where it was taught another lesson in crime. left untold. The young woman not over ago was a bright and good girl. ves essayed to bring her up in respectability, but the tempter stepped in and she fell. Dolan, her murderer, likewise came from | respectable parentage, but drink brought him down to her degraded level. Their liaison began in Tiburon, where both were employed, and his spare moments and cash he usually spent in this City with her. The man who first sent the girl on her downward path ceasea his attentions many months ago, and the only intimate friend she was known to have was the man who now occupies a slab at the Morgue be- side her. The actions of the couple from the time the man reached this City on Friday after- noon have been pretty well accounted for. They met in the girl’s den, after 7 o’clock, and began an extended tour of the saloons in the tenderloin district. They spent | considerable time and drank consid- erably in the Manhattan and Gaiety sa- | loons on Ellis street. Shortly afier mid- night they returned to the “crib'’’ at 10814 Morton street, and drank some more. Avout 2:30 o'clock in the morning the girl called upon her landlady and paid her the rent for the night, saying she and her fl_'icl;d would remain there, as she felt very tired. Subsequently, between 4:30and 5 o’clock in the morning, the girl walked into the barroom kept by D. Chesney, at 113 Grant avenue, where she purchased a bottle of beer. She .returned there shortly after- ward and borrowed a glass.. At that time she held a shortconversation with a col- ored man named William Edward Price, who is'the last person except her murderer 8o far as is known who saw her alive. The condition of the room whera the bodies were found would lead to the be- lief that there was nothing in the-nature. of a quarrel just prior to the shooting. The girl, with a bullet 1n her left temple, lay on her back and held a half smoked cigarette in her left hand. The murderer must have silently and unobserved placed the muzzle of the weapor to. her- head while she was half dozing. He followed this by shooting himself in the right temyple. J. J. McMahon of 111 Bernard street and A. D. Keyes of ‘1642 Sacramento street called at the Morgue yesterday afternoon and identitied Dolan. McMahon is a nephew of the dead man. He took charge of the body. Keves is a railroad man and knew Dolan at Tiburon. George Dolan, a brother of the deceased, is also engaged in railroading in Marin County. 7 Mrs. Fisher, who keepsthe lodging-house at 520 Bush street, where May Conboy roomed up to six weeks ago, and a num- ber of other women who had known the dead girl during her lifetime, called at the Morgue and viewed the remains. They all spoke in warm praise of the happy nature of the unfortunate young woman. She had, they said, been drink- ing heavily of late. 1In fact she had given her life up to dissipation, as she had told some of her friends she had grown tired of her life, which she realized was a failure, and did not care how soon the end came, She felt her degradation most keeniy and at times wept bitterly over her fall. In her youth she had been remarkably pretty, and even in her coffin there were still traces of beauty which a life of riotous liv- ing had done so much to destroy. Sergeant Conboy called at the Morgue during the afternoon and identified the body as that of his niece, May Conboy. He was visibly affected. When he recov- ered from the shock he told the Coroner that he would take charge of the body of wne dead girl and would %mve it buried de- cently and respectfully. The sergeant ked feelingly of the dead girl. ‘She was born in Ireland,’” he said, *‘but came here with her parents when onl: a “baby ‘in arms. Shortly after her srnyvnl l It was high noon and thousands of | This murder and suicide is but a story | | in low life, and its horrible details are best | | through going there every summer with | her mother died and she came to live in | my family. She was carefully educated | and trained as both my wifeand I were | very fond of her. She waskind and sweet- i natured. She lived with us for over sever.- teen years. Then oneday she told my wife she had found a place to work and thatshe intended to do _for herself there-| after. It was at Mrs. Hare's hotel in. Tiburon. We protested against her going | out to work. but she cast our objections | aside and went away. | ‘She got uainted across the bay | my family. It was in this way she got the | place at the hotel. Well.since she was deter- mined to go I withdrew my objections as | I thought she would soon return to us | again. “It was at Tiburon, I think, that she first met young Dolan. Lhad known him for some time. He worked about the Post- office at that time. I thought well of him. He seemed to be a nice young fellow. Well, the little girl remained away a year. We heard from her from time to time and, thought she was getting along all right. She also visited us from time to time. Well, one day 1 got a note from her. She was rooming on Fourth street. So I called at her address and found her without money or clothes. ““While I was surprised that she had not saved a little money, as she was earning $20 a month, I said nothing, but taking | her by the hand took her home with me | and my wife received her with open arms and dressed her out nicely again. She re- mained with ussome time. Dolan wasa | frequent visitor. I thought their relations were in every way proper and did not ob- ject to his coming to my house. Finally | the little girl went to work in the home of | a family in the Western Addition. I had already noticed the change in her. Her | visits to my house grew gradually less and finally ceased altogether. She left her place and 1 lost trace of her. “I did everything in my power for the poor little girl ‘and now to have her come to this end is indeed almost unbearable. It is about a year and a half since I last saw her. . I have Eiven orders to the under- taker to take charge of the body. She will be given a decent burial, as she deserved a better fate.” Sergeant Conboy was so bowed with sor- row that he could barely discuss the sad story. At Tiburon both May Conboy and Dolan are well known. When he quit work at the railroad he tended the grocery store of the Kelly Bros. Subsequently he worked | for Mrs. . Delacroix, a boarding-house keeper, until about one week ago when the place changed hands. Dolan was born in Ireland about thirty- | seven years ago, but came here when he | Wwas quite young with his parents, who set- | tled in Nicasio, Sonoma County. Oneof | is | sisters, Mrs..McMahore, is at present visit- ing in this City. As a chambermaid, May Dolan worked for Mrs. John Hahir and then for J.J. Gaffney,where she became a friend of Miss | Nellie Gaffney. The girls encouraged each | other in their wayward tendencies, and when they separated owing to a quarrel over the affections of Dolan, each went her way. The result in May Conboy’s case is well known; thatin the case of Nellie Gaffney islost in the depths of the Barbary Coast. The immediate downfall of May Conboy islaid at the door of a racetrack tout, who enticed herinto the *‘ladies’ entrance” of a saloon at 422 Fourtn street. — A Novel Entertainment. Professor Zanzie, better known as the ““white Mahatma,’” assisted by Madame Zanzie, the | ‘““‘Rosicrucian somnambulist and modern Witeh of Endor,” will give a novel and interestiog Spectacular and magical entertainment on | Tuesday evening at Golden Gate Hall. The | affair is said to be unique in character, all the | manifestations taking place in the full glare of | & brightly illuminated stage. | ¥ - A Bullet in His Hand. Justin Gunnison, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Gunnison, O Twenty-first | street, accidentally shot himself in the hand | last Tuesday. The wound has been probed, but | & /430 17 Fanning 14, Webb 13, Nauman notrace of the bullet was found, and the at- | tending physician is_thinking of having his young patient’s hand examined by mesus of | les—Fanning 9, Bruns 7 g | Jael | Bruns 12, Jon 9, Hughes 6 SMASHING BLUEROCKS, Grand Open Tournament at the Lincoln Gun Club’s Grounds. Winners of Several Races in the First Shooting Contest of the Season. A large and enthusiastic .gathering of portsmen who take an interest in trap- shooting witnessed .the first bluerock tournament of the season yesterday at meda point. It was held under the auspices of the Lincoln Gun Club, and much credit is due the management for the very excellent manner in which the tournament was con- ducted. The day was all that could have been de- sired for trap-shooting, and, as will be seen by glancing over the scores, some very zood shooting resulted. The fusillade on_ the, rocky pigeons con- tinued from 10 o’clock until well into the afternoon, and, as the contests will be re- sumed to-day, it is expected that the de- struction of inanimate pigeons will bea surprise to thcse who think that bluerock shooting is not a popular pastime. Some of the most noted trap shooters who in past seasons managed to capture the fat prizes failed to get in on a divis- ion-of the prizes awarded their rather poor shooting v owing to a want of practice. However, it can be safely said that to win a first or second prize in a bluerock race this year, a shooter must appear before the trap in good form and smash at least seventeen out of twenty birds to place him among the winners. A few years ago a contestant in a blae- rock shoot who could count upon ‘ten out of twelve birds was considered a cracker- jack, but times have' materially changed and the smashers of clay who now figure in trap shooting matches must continue rightalong without a break in their scores, or else they may whistle for the golden pots that warm the pocket. The result of yesterday’s scores is as fol- ow: Ten_singles, known traps and known an- 7, Nauman 8, Slade 7, , Schaefer 9, Johnson Merrill 7, Haight 8, Franzen 3, Foster 10, Webb 10. Hughes 6, on 6, Foster 6. Fifteen ‘singles, unknown_ angles—Fanning 14, Haight 10, Merrill 12, Nauman 14, Feud- ner 10, Trombone 14, Slade 11, & Johnson 15, Franzen 14, Winders 13, Webb 1 E. Foster 8, Allen Hall 10, er’ 1 teen sinwles, class_shooting—Karnev 11, an 15, Fanning 14, Haight 2, Johnson 14 Feudner 10, Trombone 1€ 9, Winders 8 Karney 9, 10, Brans 13, Whitney cksoh 9, on 5, Hughes 6, Johnson 11, o, Feudner 11, Liddle o, Flickinge cveshal 10, Hall 11. sing h guns o win: _Slade 1 Sehaifer 14, Mo Kinger 17, H ), Tromborie 18, Wi o5 "Webb 17, Nauman 16, Joh 17, Daniels 18, Wentworth § 2, MeMahon § e 14, Justins 14, Sharp 1: , Allen 17, E. Ten birds, e 8, Nauman 10, Feudner 3, Fanning 10, J Grubb rill 13, ¢ 3, Daniels 1 8 ade 7, Thom 9, Whitney 7, Jus- en 6, Sharp 5, Juckson 6, Webb 8, Wentworth 5, Grubb 8, Slade 8, 3 erse system)—Schafer 8, Merrill 11, 13, Slade 11, Haight 8, 2 11, Vernon 8, \Wentworth 7, Wetmore 1g 9, Grubb 6, Trombone 5, Wiid 12, 10, Johnson 13, Hall 8, Jackson 12, McMahon | 9, Liddie 10, Justins 9, E. Foster 10, Robbins | Winders 12. the cathode ray, hoping thereby to locate the bullet. The shooting will be continued to-day.