The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1896, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1896. STEVENSON IN 0LD BOHEMIA Quarters Occupied by the Famous Author in San Francisco. TO MARK THE LOCALITY. New Designs for a Monument Will Be Submitted to the Supervisors. A CALn artist complied with the latter request and Mrs. A. Niles, the landlaay, responded to the summons. 2 Mrs. Niles is a pleasant, benevolent looking woman, and she is so great an ad- mirer of Stevenson and so proud that the author once lived there that she probabiy would not exchange the house for any in the building at the time of the Steven- son marriage and has acquired control of the premises since that time. When Mrs. Stevenson came from Samoa | last year sne stayed in that building, which had been her home at the time of her wedding. Her son-in-law, Joseph Strong, the artist, has a permanent resi- dence there. The room that Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson occupied is a large, commodious one, look- ing out upon Montgomery avenue at the Montgomery-street junction. It is com- fortably furnished, much as it was at the BRUCE PORTER IS CONFIDENT. He Believes That the City Governing Board Will Not Oppose the Memorial Project. A dreamy, quiet man in his easy chair before the fireplace in a dim, old room. That is not what a CALL ist saw yes- time of the distinguished occupants. There is a fireplace at one end of the room, and before it stands a large, uphol- stered and inviting-looking rocking-chair, which the great writer is supposed to have occupied. Mrs. Niles remembers Stevenson well, and she speaks of him as the quiet modest-mannered man that the world has known him to be. She has great regard for Mrs. Stevenson, who remained there five months last year. It is on account of the residence of Ste- venson at this place that Portsmouth square, near by, has been chosen as a site for the proposed Stevenson fountain. . ‘h'u\‘\ |From a sketch by a “Call” staff artist.] She occupied a room | BANK FORGERS ARE CAUGHT. SRS / 'A. H. Dean and His Ac- complice Arrested in Minnesota. WILL BE BROUGHT HERE Clever and Effective Work of Captain Lees and the Pinkertons. THE THIRD MAN ESCAPES. : Dean and His Pals Were Adopting the Same Method as With the Nevada Bank When Stopped. | Twoof the mer. whoso cleverly swindled | the Nevada Bank on December 18 out of $20,000 by means of a forged draft are be- air and Fireplace in the Room That Robert Louis Stevenson Occupied at 7 Montgomery Avenue. rday afternoon at Robert Louis Steven- son’s long-ago quarters in Washington block, No. 7 Montgomery avenue. but the chair was vacant, and all that could suggest Stevenson to a visitor of the present time was the book on a table ciose by, or the familiar photograph on the wall at the farther end of the room. It was at the Washington block that | Mrs. Osborne resided before her marriage to the novelist, and when Stevenson crossed the ocean to meet his bride he | took up his residence at the same place. | From this buiiding Mr. Stevenson and Mrs. Osborne went to be married, and later they returned and made their home there until the time for departure to the South 8 The room that the Stevensons occupied is room G, on the third floor of the build- | ing, and it is still known as the Stevenson room, and all that remains there of his- torical interest is carefully preserved. A lady is the present occupant. Washington block is one of the best- remembered rooming houses of the por- tion of the City that was fashionable and of the first business importance many | years ago. San Francisco's society long ago fled from the region, followed by the more aspiring business houses, and only Bobemianism remained. The change was in progress at the time of Stevenson’s sojourn there, and in the new-comers of a less aristocratic type the autnor found some of his literary characters. The house is of the architectural style that is common in that locality. The in- terior is well kept up, and there is a gen- eral air of comfort and respectability that would not ve found in all the down-town lodging-houses. A broad, sweeping stair- case leads to the office on the second floor, and there the visitor is confronted by two noticeable signs. One is a large placard announcing the particular room in which a certain clergy~ Bruce Porter, the originator of the me- morial project, is confident that the Su- | pervisors will permit the fountain to be ir and the fireplace were there, | located there. He says that if one design is not accepted others will be offered, and it is the desire only to erect a fountain or a monument that will be regarded asa genuine art work and of which the City 1may be proud. “This will be the only city in the United States to have a Stevenson monument,” said Mr. Porter. *It is the only American city that has any claim to a portion of the celebrated author’s life. The people in the East concede that point, and, with characteristic, unselfish action in the in- terest of art and literature, they even con- tribute their money to aidin the erection | of a memorial to be located in the City of | San Francisco. ‘““Would it not be preposterous for this City to reject a statue under all these cir- cumstances, with Henry Irving, George | Cable Andrew Lang, John Muir, Bliss Carmen, Louise Chandler Moulton ana | others of that rank among the subscribers | who offer the monument to San Francisco ? Isit not time that the literary and art- | loving people of San Francisco take an in- | terest in this matter and insist that the | monument be accorded a place in the | vlaza, nearest to Stevenson’s old haunts? “But I do not think that the Supervisors will offer any objections when the designs | are properly presented to them, and I do | not think that anybody will be permitted to ridicule away an undertaking as serious | and well-intended as this one, which has aroused enthusiasm even as far away as London.” Artists say that the proposed fountain would be an ornam®nt to Portsmouth Square, and others declare that water | would not be at all out of place there. The wettest piace in America is Neah Bay in Washington. Over 123 inches of rain fall there every year. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE dieved to be under arrest, one in St. Paul, Minn., and the other in Minneapolis, Minn. It will be remembered that a man giv- ing his name as A. H. Dean rented an office in the Chronicle building on De- cember 2, and two days later opened an account with the Nevada Bank by deposit- ing $2500 in currency. He afterward de- posited $795 on December 13 and a draft for $22,000 on December 17. He had with- | drawn on December 7 $400, December 12 $700, December 17 $2200 and December 18 $20,000, all by checks payable to *self or order.” On January 4, sixteen days after Dean had withdrawn the $20,000, Captain Lees was notified that the draft for $22,000 de- | posited to his credit on Decer:ber 17 was a house by the Nevada Bank on December 18, paid by the Crocker-Woolworth Bank, and sent to the Bank of Woodland, where it was pronounced a forgery. The drafi | had been obtained from the Bank of Woodland on December 9 by Dean in the name of A.J.Scott and was drawn on the | Crocker-Woolworth Bank. It was origin- ally for $12, and the $12 hac been raised ‘to $22,000, the date changed from Decem- ber 9 to 13 and the name from A. J. Scott [to A. H. Dean, all in a very skillful and ingenious manner. Captain Lees at once made an investiga- tion and he obtained valuable information from Walter G. Lytle, an office-boy en- gaged by Dean on the morning of Decem- ber 18, and who was with him ina buggy | When he drew the §20,000 from the Nevada ‘Bank. The captain got a description of | Dean from the boy, and also a description | of aman who called at the office to see Dean before they went to the bank. He also got descriptions of Dean from the cashier and paying teller in the Nevada Bank and others. He madea composite description and forwarded it with other data to W. A. Pinkerton, Chicago, and Robert A. Pinkerton, New York, the Pink- j ertons having been over a year ago ap- pointed as the police representatives of the Protective Branch of the Bankers’ Asso- ciation. Since then "the captain and the Pinker- tg)ns have been in ¢onstant communica- { tion, with the object of tracing the forgers, and that end has been attained. W. A. Pinkerton, who is at present in this City, received a cipher dispatch from his brother R9bert in New York, to be given to Cap- tain Lees, advising him to be prepared to i hear of the arrest of the bank forgers and have the necessary extradition papers in readiness for the (govornor of Minnesota. forgery. 1t had been sent to the clearing- |' On Saturday a dispatch was received that they had arrested in St. Paul a man using the name of G. W. Woods, whose right name was probably Frank L. Seaver, and had directed the arrest of a man in Minneapolis using the name of J. M. Shaw, who proved to be Joe McCluskey, alias *Little Joe,” a notorious bank sneak thief, and they were satisfied that both were con- nected with a scLeme to defraua the banks there by forgeries similar to the one in this City. The dispatch also stated that from the description of Dean and sample of bis handwriting forwarded by Captain Lees they were satistied that Seaver was Dean, and the captain was asked to send an official description to Chief of Police Clark of St. Paul, 0 as to hold Dean pend- ing the arrival of the extradition papers, which was done. A dispatch was also re- ceived from Chief of Detectives O'Connor of St. Paul that he had no doubt about Seaver being Dean, and Mr. Pinkerton re- ceived a similar dispatch from Chief of Police Clark, On Saturday night W. H. Crocker of the Crocker-Woolworth Bank swore to a com- plaint for the arrest of Dean and McClus- key on the charge of forgery and the nec- essary extradition papers were prepared. Yesterday Chief Smith of Minneapolis wired for a deseription of McCluskey. His picture is in the bankers’ album of crooks, of which Captain Lees has a copy, and vesterday it wasshown to the office boy | ytle, who recognized it as that of the ma who called at Dean’s office on Decem- ber18. The description and this identifica- tion were forwarded to Chief Smith, so as to hold him pending the arrival of the papers. Speaking of the arrests Mr. Pinkerton said yesterday: ‘‘We issue to every mem- | ber of the Bankers’ Association general in- formation which contains a thorough de- scription of any new fraud, a fac-simile of, the handwriting, a description of the men and every little detail we can think of and | requesting them to be on. the lookout for | an attempted repetition of the fraud, and | in case any suranger opened an account with them to communicate with our near- est office. “Our theory is that these men had gone to St. Paul and Minneapolis to open an ac- count, and as soon as they did so the banks communicated with C. M. Weber, our superintendent at St. Paul, who took charge of the case under the direction of my brother Robert, in New York, and be being fully provided with Captain Lees’ descriptions and other data readily arrived at the conclusion that he was on the track of the right man, as we hud been able to sift it down to five or six men. “So far I do not know anything about Dean, but will have his record and nicture in a few days. McCluskey for the past twenty-five years has been noted as one of the cleverest bank sneaks in the United States, in fact, he is the most noted bank sneak and international thief alive. “‘Let me say that the descriptions and other data prepared by Captain Lees have been the means of leading to the arrest of these forgers, and I have never yet seen anything so minute and so accurate in every detail. It was one of the best pieces of work of the kind that I have ever seen or heard of.” - There is a third party who is wanted badly in connection with the forgery, and that is the penman. He is always difficult to get at, as he is careful never to be seen in the transaction. Both Mr. Pinkerton ana Captain Lees are morally convinced as to his identity, but be has fled since the arrest of Dean and McCiuskey. SRR HOW THEY WERE CAUGHT. The Cashler of the Minneapolis Bank Mistrusted Depositor McCluskey: ST. PAUL, M1 March 1.—Joe Mec- Cluskey and John T. Seaver, the men who swindled the Nevada National Bank of San Francisco out of $20,000 last Decem- ber, have been arrested in the Twin Cities. Their identification as A. H. Holmes and A. H. Dean is complete. Dean or Seaver has practically admitted that it was he who laid down the raised paper at the Nevada Bank. There is no question that ! McCluskey was his partner. The men ar- rived here about February 19. Seaver went under the name of D. W. Woods and opened an account at the St. Paul National Bank. McCluskey presented himself at the Union National Bank of Minneapolis and made a deposit of $3300 in the name of MRS, TUNNELL'S STORY, Miss Overman Vainly Tries to Weaken Its Crushing Force. LOCATING AN INTERVIEW. Dr. C. 0. Brown Prostrated After the Strain of the Past Week—The Council To-Morrow. Mrs. Tunnell is one of the most im- portant persons in, many respects now figuring in the Brown case. Mrs. Davidson, the alleged blackmailer of Kev, Dr. C. 0. Brown, has aftirmed with much emphasis that Mrs. Tunnell is the one person in all the world outside of the accused pastor and his allegea partner in crime, Miss Overman, who can give the inside facts of the interesting case. This statement is born out by Mrs. Thurston of Oakland, Mrs. Barton of this City ana in- cidentally the Overman-Tunnell letters. At this stage of the case it may be inter- esting to reproduce in part at least an in- terview had with Mrs. Tunnell by a CALL reporter while that lady was at the home of Mrs. Hayes in Visalia. Insome few important details the statement made by Mrs. Tunnell at that time differs material- ly from the story told by Miss Overman on the witness-stand. This is particularly true as concerns the mode of exit on the night of her hasty fligcht from the Brown house. Tue CaLL of January 10 contained the following: VISALIA, CAL, Jan. 9.—Under the glare of Mrs. Tunnell, Yhe Witness the Council Would Like to Hear. an electric light on one of the side streets of Visalia is the home of a good Christian woman, and in her safe keeping is Mrs. Tunnell. THE CALL representative has had a tiresome siege of it in following up the trail of the miss- ing witpess. Shortly after 9 o'clock this even- ing word was received that Mrs. Tunnell would see THE CALL reporter. After entering the house she did not delay, but came in with out- stretched hands and remariked: “I hope that all my friends will know to- morrow that I am in the best of health and in safe hands.” “Why did you run away?” was asked. ‘‘From the reporters, and also dread of a subpena, I don’t crave notoriety. I am not sfraid to tell what I know, and if Icould be secured from that I would cheerfully testify. 1 was getting tired of it all and so made up my mind to escape.” “How did you carry out your intentions?” “Well, first I went to Dr. Brown's house, but the reporters were thick and persistent; they ust bung around the house till midnight. hen I left by the rear entrance and went to my friend, Mrs. Eaton, in Oakland. They soon located me there and it was justas bad as at Dr. Brown’s. I leit there in the evening and went to Mrs. Hayes at Grangeville. Was there & week and was feeling safe. * * * “During the Midwinter Fair time I attended Dr. Brown's church and introduced myself to him, and asked him if he lately had heard from Miss Overman. To my surprise he an- swered: “Yes, she is here in San Francisco and visits our home every few days.” S “She called on me at my request and lived with me for several months. She then went to Dr. Brown’s. “Yes, Miss Overman greatly admired Dr. Brown, and told me about the intellectual Joe McCluskey, one of the Nevada Bank swindlers, who has been arrested at St. Paul, and will be brought back with his pal, A. H. Holmes, to be tried for raising a check from $12 to $22,000. [Drawn from a photograph in the rogues’ gallery in this City.] J. Shaw. The cashier of the Minneapolis bank mistrusted the man and upon look- ing through the gallery of bank crooks found his face. Shaw was found to be working in col- lusion with Woods, and both men were shadowed by detectives of the Pinkerton agency. Woods made two trips to promi- nent Minnesota and Dakota towns and bought drafts, which he turned over to Shaw. Ther- was also an interchange of checks between them, showing conclu- sively that their game was the same. Saturday morning Woods went to the St. Paul National Bank and closed his ac- count, saying that he was going to New. York. This was thought by the detectives to be an indication Ehal Shaw was ready to lay down the raised %per in Minne- apolis. Rather than let Woods escape he was arrested after he had made all ar- rangements to leave the city. His arrest in St. Paul forced that of Shaw in Minne apolis. They are now bein% held to awai requisition papers from Sam Francisco. Glass in oven doors is a new contrivance, It enables cooks to watch the food without opening the doors, 4 feasts they held every evening. She was hungry for information. They were greatly attached to each other. I don’t know of any- thing of their so-called holy love: They both conducted themselves properly, as far as I know of.” At this point of the interview Mrs. Tunnell was shown the published letters from Mattie Overman to Mrs. Tunnell. She threw up both hands, and_in her agitetion knocked the lamp off the taple, plunging the room in darkness. On lighting & match the lamp and chimney were found in good condition. She then cried out, “Oh, who has broken into my trunk ?”" :m} immediately left the room in great con- usion. Miss Overman, when asked Saturday night if she had read this interview, de- clared she had, and tben with much ap- parent indignation said: I kuew that interview was not correct when I read it. If you remember, Mrs. Tunnell sent for her clothes by a gentleman friend. I had mever met him before, but knew that he could be trusted, because Mrs. Tunnell had sent him. This gentleman told me he was present at the interview and, further, that it did not take place in a house at a He said that Mrs. Tunnell was fearful reporters would locate her, and in order to avoid this made an ap- K:lnlmem with ‘the correspondent to' meet rata given poiatin the woods & quarter of NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. NEW SILKS! SPRING 1896 We take pleasure in announcing the ar- rival of some of the newest and most ele~ gant styles of NOVELTY SILKS for Spring wear. The assortmen t includes DRESDEN -AFFETAS, BROCHE PERSIAN TAFFE- TAS, PRINTED WARP BROCHE GROS DE LONDRES, in large, medium and small designs, both street and evening shades, qualities ranging in $3.00 per yard. FANCY STRIPED TAFFETAS, extra value...... 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Carroll: Where did interview with | Mrs. Tunnell take place? Mattie Overman says it occurred in the woods. The reply to this message was received yesterday and reads: VISALIA, CAL., March 1.—My interview with Mrs. Tunnell was in a two-story brick building surrounded by fruit trees. Not in the woods. CARROLL. Miss Overman, when asked last night if she had anything further to say about the matter, replied that she had not. The young lady could give no reason why these letters, which she claims to have forged at the instigation of Mrs. Davidson, were not demanded of Mrs. Tunnell before that lady took herself to the wilds of Lower California. There were the usual services at the First Congregational Church vesterday, Professor Lloyd occupying the pulpit at both morning and evening services. Dr. Brown was quite prostrated yesterday when he_learned of the death of Deacon Eaton. He retired early last night, and a telephone message at a late hour reported the reverend gentleman resting quietly. The council will reconvene to-morrow. OCEAN VIEW COURSING. Result of the Stakes Decided Yes- terday at the Popular Re- sort. i After a dozen defeats Lord Clifton showed his quality at Casserly & Kerri- gan's Ocean View Park yesterday by win- ning the sixteen-dog stake on the card in handy style. Electric was his opponent in the final and the result was never in doubt after the hounds were slipped. The crowd, which was a heavy betting one, and numbered several hundred coursing men, saw the best running that has been wit- nessed this side of the bay in months past | and heavy speculation was the result. The day was perfect for good running and the run-down resulted as follows: P. McKeon’s Flambo a bye, Villa kennel’s Electric beat H. Hull’s Jenny Lind, T. Bren- nan’s Lissak beat H. Hull’s Butcher Boy, A. Merrill’s Snowbird beat Villa kennel's Tem- Pelv, W. Murphy's Lord Clifton beat W. Ryan’s E£culptress, T J." Latkey's Spinaway beat 8. Riordan’s Chicopee, J. Sexsmith’s Mission Boy beat J. Dunlea’s Evening Star, J. Byrne’s Mo- hawk beat J. Qune's Captain Morse. First ties—Electric beat Flambo, Lissak beat Snowbird, Lord Clifton beat Spinaway, Mo- hawk beat Mission Boy. Second ties—Electric beat Lissak, Lord Clif- ton beat Mohawk. Final—Lord Clifton beat Electric. The consolation stake resulted as fol- lows: Mayo Boy beat Dashaway, Jenny Lind beat Marguerite, Trilby beat Shylock, Applause beat Sondan, Moliy Bawn beat Belle, Butcher Boy beag May C, Happy Day beat Fearless, Mascotte beat Sculptress. First Ties—Jenny Lind beat Mayo Bay, Molly Bawn beat Trilby, Applause beat Butcher Boy. Happy Day beat Mascotte. Second Ties—Jenny Lind beat Applause, Happy Day beat Mayo Boy. Final—Happy Day beat Jenny Lind. 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