The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1896, Page 8

8 N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1896. : . . - the manner of reaching that pointas re- lated by the former did not tally with that told by his then companion when miving her testimony. The doctor ex- vlained this by saying his young friend was mistaken,” Once in_the study alltbe horrible details of Mrs. Davidson’s scheme were laid bare. Miss Overman was indig- | nant, excited and determined by turns. She would have nothing more to do with her old friend unless she would re- pent and turn over to_the rightful owner the sum of $500. As is weil known, this was never done, Mrs. Davidson and Miss Overman parting company then and there. | Five days later the last-named lady took | up her residence at the home of Dr. Brown, and two days after this her former roommaste became an inmate of the City Prison. When Dr. Brown_had finished his state- | he council adjourned until Tuesday | 0 o’clock, when the pastor will be | d for cros®examination. In the afternoon a committee, consisting | of Rev. Dr. Hoyt, Rev. Mr. Sink and Mr. | is, visited Miss Overman for the pur- a deposition concerning | ndition before leaving for It is Brown and Mrs. tions covering this i PASTOR BROWN AGAIN A WITNESS, He Makes an Earnest Ap- peal to the Church Council. EMOTIONAL AT TIMES. The Doctor Make a General and Sweeping Depial of Mrs, Davidson's Charges, her 1 Tacoma and during her stay there. d that derstoo: Mrs. n The committee on charges has in its| po on a statement fiom A st de | Gay, now an inmate of the Veterans'| Home at Yountville, which may cut quite igure in the case. Mr. de Gay states| ely that there is not o but that he knows October De Gay says he was wo ion D of the Pleasanton ext to him was a woman who gave her name as Mrs. Bad She b two children, one of them { twelve yearsold. At the en weeks Mrs. Baddin left the hop fields the avowed intention of comin, | Francisco. Since that ti he has not seen or heard connection with the Brown de Gay maxes oath that th person exists not in the | flesh, or at least she di WILLIAMS MOTION WITEDRAWN John Bickford and Mrs. Barton Make Startling Statements—Miss Over- man Files an Affidavit. mysterious | d, but in the ess than six| is practically the same 355 hea in THE CaLL January 8. n was traced to the Pleasanton hop fields, but there all trace of ner was lost. M e resolution pastor was no or making clan her with the sis- others rated edifice. to the peculiar Brown was found ated | ! | | Hilda Barton has told the com- ch 1 she knows of the andsl. Her testimony at Mrs. Tunnell told her it relations between Dr. | Overman. Mrs. Tunnell, | to Tacoma to nurse M { cal iliness, the | Mrs. Barton | ing witness told her | uch more immediately after | m Tscoms. i in the unaccounted ab- | ch for Miss Overman, and to her bed, though she will ble toatiend tho next session hool a geatleman as Dr. Brow see Miss Overman, lady asked to be She never came | d Miss Overman 3 bably conclude i Brown will be follow! b se le On el sll that I case I have no more in- he other and ow. rest on one side thsn on t in the pay of any one.” { it fair to ask where you got the letters?” “That is sleadinz question,” said Mr. | Bickford. “Iwill teil the council where v were obtained.” | “Did you get them in this City?"’ | They were found in th in & rab- | eara tale of | Dish heap. They were not en or pro | - e in any mysterious way. No houses The: raided or trunks broken to g , 1894, February | : i They wereall of a cter, and the doctor | Did you offer to sell them to Bro “I did not. Now let me direct tention to something TrHE Ciarr Tuesday. Hereitis Brown declared last ed how the Overma wn " remarked some- | ow reached that | figures prom The witness repeated old by Mrs. David- d 10 m calls at the alleged He however, e 3 a = = t he bad | man lasi Tuesday as he promised ?” said | pose of | Mr. Bicl g hall demand that the | pieteness | man be a talk in **Are the Overman letters genuine ?”’ for e s Overman | Mr, Bickford replied: “I am sure they the theme of conversstion. “I can|are. Forged ters do not bear the w,” added the wi *‘wbat I| Government postmark on the envelopes. then, that Mrs, from me my opinion of Davidson was | I know that other Overman letters are in nder the guise of | existence.” ss Overmsn, | “Did any one offer the letters to Brown | 0 be used against me later. for a consideration { Dr. Brown then made an earnest appeal | “That I do not know,” said Mr. Bick-| to the council to put themselves in his | ford. It is possible that some one know- place and see what they would do. The | ingof the lesters may have made proposi witness declared that be had never called | tions to seli them."’ i Mrs. Davidson hismotberin Christ, saying “Is is fair to ask if your testimony will | ilege for ker to put such licate Brown?™ i | I cannot say that Brown will be tor re. A how Mrs. Davidson { implicated by my testimony. What I came t0 him snd borrowed various sums | shall testify to may by corroboration | of money, until the amount reached $3). | throw some light on the case.” It was not offered in evidence whether| ‘“Have the letters been purchased by| money was ever repaid. It might have | any one?” = ne to pay Miss Overman’s tuition, so far Mr. Bickford he kpew. been purchased. ss money publishing them ] *“That I cannot say,” replied Mr. Bick- fora. Mr. Bickford was formerly connected | with Thiel's Detective Aqenq' of Portland. He impressesone asan als who understands himself. He genies the im| l'!'plid: “They bave not as Dr. Brown then told in a graphic man- ggid for the privilege of ner the events leading up to and following the payment of §50 hush-money to Mrs. Davidson. The story. ss related by the ‘pastor was substantially the same as that slready published, though he gave it an altogether new coloring. He advanced,as a reason for treating Mrs. Davidson so kindly after becoming convinced that she ed money from him, that he man's curiosity would pmlngl in to come and see the man she and Mrs. Buckley, and seems to be ex- | Mrs had victimized and thst Mrs. Davidson would give some sign of her presence. He | bas known all about the Overman letters | testimony. wstched closely, but it never came, and he was convinced thereby that his erstwhile 8 friend had wronged bim. ‘hen it was that he determined o see Miss Overman. He went to Ayers School, but, seeing {pst his young triend was engaged, made a pastoral visit, returning about 4:30. He maw Miss Overman in company with three young ladies and so walked hastily to the corner of Pineand Kearny streets, intending to intercept her there. Half & minute later his yeung friend came slong, and, without mincing matters, he asked her if she knew that Mrs. Davidson had secured §500 from him for her. Miss Overman almost shricked, the pastor said, and he was greatly afraid there would be s scene on Kearny street. The pastor and Miss Overman went im- mediately 10 the church siudy, though from the beginning, and says that the let- ters, saving a few typosraphical errors, ‘were published correctiy, as he comvpared the published letters with the orizinals. I T A | Dr. Brown at Last Explalned Why He Pald $500 to Mrs. day at 9:30 A. 3., and spent half an hour in getting itself disentangied from a par- lamentary snari, created by a motion to rescind the following resolution adopted ou the evening before, on motion of Mr. Beoired, That the councll is convinced that AlM i aid o | walzed ! made religio 1 | givey | are persons in this City to-day who have had ot me from §15 to $20 and §25, of which I | bave never ye: been repaid s doilar, and I wish some of them were b G | bim that she expected the early arrival of { taking or was sbout to take a course in | stenography, and the doctor expressed | knelt and prayed with her in private. | very sizange, but I thought that perbdaps it ert, resolute man | statement that he introduced Mrs. Tunnell | “Dr. Brows, the story tremely anxious that as little shouid be | was said as possible concerning hisfortbeoming ! He svers distinctly thst he ' jin Al i [l Dr. Brown has notibeen in qufl( of making clandestine appointments with any woman, ex!herflin the pc[:urcn or in the streets of this City, or going to or from the church with any ‘woman other than his wife. Some members thought that the resolu- tion was premature, and it was accord- ingly ordered expunged from the records. Dr. Brown resumed his testimony and spoke of Mattie Overman having told him that Mrs. Davidson had asked Miss Over- man whether she had any of the letters written to her by the doctor. She replied to Mrs. Davidson that the doctor’s letters were colorless, and would not serve the vurpeses of the plot. Miss Overman sent to Tacoms, to her family, to gather up all the letters that Dr. Brown had written to ber, and she thus secured all the letters, save the one which she aestroyed in her anger. Dr. Brown, therefore, handed a bundle of letters to the council with the request that the last page of one of them be with- held from publication because it referred to s family matter whica had no bearing on this case at all. These letters, he ex- plained, were between the dates on which Mrs. Davidson said that Dr. Brown had been confessing his love for Mattie Over- man. The letters had been shown by Miss Overman on December 22 to Deacon Dex- ter and Mr. Morse. They were read be- fore the council by Judge Advocate Wood- hams, and were devoid of any expression of tenderness. They were addressed “‘Daar friend"” and i Yours sincerely.” They treated h matters and of the contents of certain philosophical and religious books which Dr. Brown had sent Miss Overman to read. The language which he used in the let- ter rebuking Miss Overman for her tender expressions was, as near as he could re- member, the foillowing: *If you enter- tain such sentiments it would be mani- festly improper that I should write to you again, and I desire this to be understood to end the correspondence.” The witness next told of Mrs. Davidson waiting for him one evening in the meet- ing-room of the church in the absence of 3 Brown. She took his arm' and waiked with him toward the cars, and on the way sbe began to praise Miss Overman .2 o very highly. The doctor continued: “You must greatly miss Miss Overman from your home,” suggested Mrs. Davids frankly stated that we did, and th been very pleasant company in our home. 1 2ot think then that I was committing my- 10 & designing womsn. 1 never said to rs. Davidsen that Miss Overman was the most intelligent woman I ever met, orthat her read- ing was the widest of that of any/woman I ever met, or thst she was a completely educated woman. 1did say that for her opportunities and her age she was the best read woman that I'knew, and I don’t know another woman of sge who can discuss so intelligently pencer, Darwin, Huxley, Motley, and others. She o shame by her superior me of those important writers. ident was a visit made by the doctor to the Co-operative restanrant on Mission street for the purpose of being young man named Meyer, dson_said, needed spiritual After his introduction to Mever t down to lunch at one of the pub- les, and after that Mrs. Davidson p toward home with the doctor. ‘When they arrived in front of the Y. M. C. A. Hall she expressed a desire to inspect the interior of the building. Dr. Brown olunteered to show herthrough the baild- They went up to the secretary’s Hice, and Mrs. Davidson began talking abeut Miss Overman. At every point she discussion and the affairs of the church a vehicle for a discussion of Miss Overman, said the witness. “She f; me, under the guise of that could be con- ion of friendship for He added: ntroduced to a who, Mrs. Davi advice. c ta calm, intelligent snd ng dee aark de picion of her The witness next told of several inter- | views be had Davidson at her The visits were in con- class Soe and only one iebes block and Mrs. David- she hoped that her busi- would enlarge so that she could ra room for herself and Mrs, doctor continued: ¥ me to have a room block, or that she was com would be is allowed to ng purposes. Geary street, moved thither. s Overman )verman has testimony what I ¥ between herself 0 her ai that door, and I h was a change in her Ze- he a1 once went to the corner of the down with Mrs. Davidson’s class. eam that I had written snything to cause of ofense to Miss Overman. The next episode was & narration of the manner in which Mrs. Davidson borrowed some mozney of him, with incidentally a littie speech on his benevolence. Mrs. Davidson came one day into my ofice and ssked me to lend her some money. There returned fr correctly & e now that I was told that a certain deacon had ssid of me that Dr. Brown was a very benevolent man and had given awsy half of his salary as pastor of this ¢ 1t is literally true that I have not dollar of my salary. In the relief pie and people related 1o me by ties bave given swey neariy half my salary The doctor apologized for baving ren- dered this tribate to his own generosity, and went on to say that he let )fm David- | son have $20at one time, $40 at another and $3U at another. Mrs. Davidson toid certain dividends from the East, and that she would repay him when they arrivea. She tqid him aiso that Miss Overman was pleasure on hearing this statement. The witness emphatically denied that he bad ever thlked with Mrs, Davidson about the Temple League, orthat he had ever Inever cslled Mrs Dsvidsen my mother in Christ. It pever occurred 30 me to use that sacred name excepi in relation totwo women— my own mother and that other mother, who is slmost as dear 1o me, who died in Oberiin. Whatever opinion you may be inclined to bol Tegard to my knavery I certainly think th bas been made evident that Iam notafool to Go and say sueh things ss that women ssys Isaid and did inmy interviews ith her. The doctor then ed to relcte what took plsce when, in obedience to the re- quest of Mrs. Davidson, he called upon her to discuss a matter connected with the Bible class. Mrs. Meyer was in the room | when he called, but she left immediately | afterward. After Mrs. Meyer went out Mrs. Davideon arose snd locked the door. I thought that was was on sceount of her desireto be very vate—thst she had somethin, o se¥ to me which should be overbeard. Whem I was chanee came in her mazper I have long one. When we were ing with s ladr who me sad the sabject was her soul : “Why are ¥ou not a Christian® replied: “Mi i name Paddin was of b | hole i “Dr. tifies she has identified m!hmh Overmaxz as the Yyoung womsa WS your . s2id 1nai she will swear 10 whas idst lodging- house keeper an lace in -y mm?'? d her lodger saw take p! Daring this recital every eye was turned upon Dr. Browu, and the silence was almost oppressive. Ilooked upon her with utmost astonishment, and I do not deny, with a great deal of terror. 1 want you to remember that at that time we yerein the midst of the revelations of the North Beach crimes. This City was wild with excitement about the things that had taken Elm:e at North Beach. Mcetings were being eld at that time all over the City and in this church to protest sgsinst the state of im- wmorality revealed by those disclosures, and pnhlh:_heungwu very high.% 1 said to Mrs. Davidson: “Where is the woman that alleges such a thing with regard tome? Lwant youjto take me to herthatl Inay say toher face that it is an infamous lie. She told me 10 calm myself, and she said, “Dr. Brown, you know whatthe siate of feeling is with regard to those things. The public is in uo mood to be trified with in matters of the Violation of the seventh commandment. The publie is willing just now to_believe such things.” Irealizedthen what Ihave experi- enced since, that if such an sllegation should be made in regard to me the first disposition of the community at large would be to believe rather then todisbelieve it; that & quarter ofa century of an honorable record would be noth- ing as against the flood of scandal that wonld be. l;;onre\fl out against me. She then went on tosay: “You have a good many enemies. First of all you have an- tagonized the Church of Rome, and the Roman Catholic church in this City would be only too glad to see such a charge made against you.” This gave the doctor an opening for an- other little speech to the council and the newspapers, and he made it. I don’t think that Archbishop Riordan will thank me for doing it, but I will say that from my childhood up Igb;ve been taught to regard the church of Rome as the antagonist, not only of Protestaniism, but of many other things tbat are good, until the present time. Ihave been drawn in such a way that it would be ai- most impossible for me to think that it wouid be possibie for a Catholic citizen to treat with {airness & Protestant whose interests would be committed to his hands. The sentiments of & lifetime have been revolutionized by my recent experiences. Detective Seymour has been my friend by night and by day. Heisan ardent Catholic. He said to me, “Dr. Brown,I am convinced that you sre an infiocent man, and from first to finish I am your friend in this matter.” Dr. Brown exhibited considerable emo- tion while speaking of his Catholic friend the detective, and he went on to say: I want to say thatcertain names which never had any music to me before have become yvery musical to my ears, such as Mahoney and Mul- ligan and Halligan, and so forth. The witness spoke of & man named Ma- honey, a lodging-house keeper on Sixth street, who said that he never saw Dr. Brown in his house, and who sympathized with him. Mr. Mahoney had never heard of a woman named Mrs. Baddin. Mrs. Muiligan, wno keepa furnished rooms at the corner of BryaMt and Sixth streets, told Detective Seymour that Dr. Brown had never been in her house. She also sympathized with the doctor. Here arose another opportunity for a whack at the newspapers and the doctor took advantage of it as follows: 1was told by a friend thst onc of the leading morning papers of this City had scoured San Francisco, itsemployes going to every restau- rant where such a thing coald be possible, and every hotel and boarding-house where such & thing could be probable, making inquiry for the purpose of findi where a shadow or 8 fooiprint of C. 0. and they were unable to I want to nhere to-day in the light of the suffering that you and othersof the bave compe to undergo by s, u reached that & newspaper City way didn’t orid kunow that end your de- nable to find against me? I n, but I would u bad published you publish it and let with all your reportorial abili tective instinct you had bee: the slightest shadow of evi thank you for the investigat have thanked you more if 11s resulis. Aiter glaring savagely for a moment at the reporters, including the good-looking young woman reporting the trial for a morning paper, Dr. Brown took a sip of water and a fresh breath of air, and went back to the Davidson episode. Mrs. Davidson sai Brown, that lodg- g-house keeper & 1o make you some ouble,” that the surely p! ish me. and that erman and the lodger would stand with ber in the publication. Then thing can be remedied, take & very large sum of money.” to unfold how much money She demanded that I should sbout noon the next day $2000, d for ten successive yi I said to her, “that isasim- e to do as 10 take wings and £ ink of it.” 1 had not made up my mind that Mrs. David- son was altoge ssid of me thet I was sometimes crazy must have been crazy at that hour, for had I been in possession of mv right mind at that time I should have called in edvice snd lo- cated spies and trapped her. The awiulness of the situation in which I was seemed to have dumfounded me. The certainty that if the three women swore to & story that I s guiliy man they would be believed in this community and the absolute impossibility of fulflling the paymen: of the sum which she nad imposed upon me ost drove me mad. She said: ““Dr. Brown, you know you have enemies inside the church.” I thank God that they have not been enemies during this terrible exgeflenu that I have been passing through. She put all that talx about the pres- sure ot the power of the Roman Catholic church, my trouble with the socialists and with Herron, and she skilifully intimated that those men wnu!yhd!y PSY any sum of money rather than submit 1o & resewal of such expe- riences in the church. 1 told Mrs. Davidson, “If those are theonly conditions that your lodgivg-house keeper makes, you can go 1o your lodging-house Keel Then she took another tack. She 'Dr. Erown, I think the case is not so I will undertake to see her agsin.” 22 an oppo escape from that comversstion, 1 1 would meet her that evening at 8 o'clock in the cffice of tbis chureh, and she, meanwle, would see if there couid be more favorable terms. At7 or 8 o’cloek in the evening—I don't re- member which—she came in end wentover | the same groundsof the danger to be encoun- tered from public sentiment in the then ex- cited state of pub jon. Thea she produced:a little roll of paper sn s *This is the ultimstom; she will take $1000 down, stnoon to-morrow, §73 the st of the next montd, $45 the 1st of the next month, a5d 50 alterpetely 75 sand $45 per month for the period of ten years” (I believe—either ten or £ve years). I represented to her that such conditions were utterly beyond me snd Ibegzed her to tell me the name of the woman. Isaid, “Take me to thai woman and let meafirm to her that it is absolutely falee.” Mrs Davidson said, =1t would do you no She has committed this matter absolutely to me; I am her sgent.” She said, “I hold the secret of thatiwoman's life, and I ean give vou the absolute sssuranee thatlcan keep her still.” I cannotdeny thst I wished to silence s woman who could talk about me in tha: way. Issid toMrs. Davidson, “It is utterly nseless, I never shall attempt to meet those conditions.” She pamed three of the most minent trus- urch and asked that Ishould go “They helped you in the Herron ssid, “snd_they will belp yom sgain” 1 ssid “No; I will lay no such donden upon them.” Then she said, “Now, Dr. Brown, be patient and I will go sgain and see this womsn, and I will meet you at 10 o'clock, at my own doorsten” She explsined that Mrs. Beddin lived two or three blocks from there. . At my reguest she threw the paper contain- ing the conditions into the 22d destroyed it. Tsaid, T don't wans to have that pdper in existence.’ At the appointed hour the doctor was in iront of Mrs. Davidson's house. He said: Just es the pointer of the Chroniele clock in- 10 o'clock Mrs. Davidson came out of ,bis time om, pad - her & wicked woman. She once | words “Agent for Jane Elizabeth Baadin.”’ Dr. Brown continued: As soon as I got that name I handed her the money, put the receipt in an envelope and plac itin my et. While she was leis- urely and with a business-like air placing the money in her shop-bag I opened & directory, and she grew asnen ebout the lips. She said to me: “You needn’t look in the directory for that name, for the lady has recently been mar- ried.” Iseid: “That would not prevent her | husband from having his name in the direc- tory. He hasn't changed his name; her pres- | ent name is Baddin, and that must be his | name.” Ilooked back in the directories for two or three years but found no Baddin. For twenty-four hours after that 1 scarcely knew what I did. I tried to believe that I could mot have been so entirely deceived in Mrs. Davidson. She came to the church next Sunday with her Bible in her hand, her face in & glow and almost & nimbus about her fore- head. She had so completely resumed her pious demeanor that I said to mysels, “Can it ible that this woman is the only Mrs. Beddin?” Aftera time I came to think that it wes certain that Mrs. Davidson had acted in | faith and out of a friendly feeling for me. said if there is any Mrs. Baddin ber womanly curiosity will bring her to some of the services | of this church to see the man whom she has vietimized, and Mrs, Davidson cannot keep from turning her head around to look at her. Dr. Brown next narrated how he had watched Mrs. Davidson in chaurch to see it she would look around for Mrs. Baddin. He oiten went in the vicinity of Mm. Davidson’s house to see whether she haa any callers, and he cailed there orce at an hour when a woman visitor weuld be likely to be there, but these efforts in the de- tective line were fruitless. The doctor proceeded: 3 After three or four weeks I came to the con- clusion that no Mrs. Baddin existed. Then I said to myself: *“The whole responsibility for this awful lie rests upon Miss Overman. If Mrs. Davidson hes no ground for approaching me through other than her own person, that responsibility is with Miss Overman,” and I said, “I don’t believe that could be possible.” Prior to this time, feeling that ii what Mrs. | Davidson had said was true of Miss Overman | | being in the plot, I didn’t spproach her for | {fear of raising & scene. The witness went abruptly from this| subject to the following declaration: ‘We know the names of three Mrs. Bsddins that have been Apgm-ehzd withdistinct temp- | tations to buy their souls to perjury against ‘ me. Then the witness went on to say thaton December 19, he made up his mind to see Miss Overman, whom Davidson had skillfully kept apart from himself and his wife by falsehoods. He went to the steno- graphic school and caught a glimpse of Miss Overman through the glassdoors. Not desiring to wait there an hour for school to close, he went on a car and made a call on a parisihoner, returning at about 4:10 o'clock, when he saw Miss Overman coming down from the elevator on Sumner street with several other young women. When she left them, and he met her on Kearny street, the following occurred: Isaid to her, ‘“Miss Overman, I jwant to see YOu on a matter of interest.” She resented me when I approached her. She was indignant, and wanted to know why I had epproached her on the street. Isaid, “I hoge you will be patient and listen to me, for I have a matier of great interest.” While we were crossiag Kearny street I said, “Do you know a Mrs. Baddin®™’ She said. “I never heard of such woman until now.’’ I said, “Is it possible th: you are unaware that I have paid Mrs. David- son $500, in your name partly asd partl the name of 8 woman named Mrs. Badd: She literally screamed, and I was fearful that | she would attract attention. It was sprinkling | at the time, and I put up my umbrells w bide | | our faces. She protested her utter igmorance | of what had transpired. She said must tal with you s minute more. Perhaps it will be | best o step into the study.” I unlocked the | door, and we were there possibly five minutes | and possibly longer. She said: “You and I/ must see Mrs. Devidson to-nignt. Oh, how I/ have been deceived in that womean!” At 8 o’clock in the evening they came, and we went upstairs and ‘1 locked the door on count of tramps. When by A Qverman’s request Dr. f | Brown told Mrs. Davidson what he bad | told her about the $500, Miss Overman sprang to her feet and said to Mrs. Dav son: “Youarean infamous woman. Di you ever say anything like that about me? You have lied to this man. Where is that Mrs. Baddin? I demand of you to take us to that woman. You yourself have robbed this man of this mosey, and you have got it this minute sewed up in your skirt.” Dr. Brown continued: It was 10 o'clock or a little after when we got tarough, snd when we came downstairs Miss Overman whispered to me, *‘Ishall leave ber house to-night.”” Isaid, “Iden’t thinkit wise to remain witn her.” The next morning the doctor received a telephone message from Mattie announe- ing that she had left Mrs. Davidson's house. He thereupon told Mrs. Brown of what bad taken place ‘the night before, and on the pext morning bhe and Mrs. Brown went to see Miss Overman. Mrs, Browr on that occasion 1nvited Miss Over- man to her house. We foresaw that if there should be sn arrest and the consequent exposure of the plot against me Miss Overman would be besieged with vis- itors, and thst in face of the publicity no lodging-house keeper would want 10 have her in his house. The doctor explained that he had not stopped Mrs. Davidson from teaching the Bible class because it would have precipi- tated matters too suddenly. He had de- termined to put the whole" matter in the hands of the police, and did so, by advice of Deacon Dexter and Mr. Morse. Here an adjournment was had until 10:30 o’clock next Tuesday morning. g NOT THIS DR. BROWN. The i Inquiry of the Melbourne (Canada) Postmaster Is Answered. FRESNO, Car, March 6. — Professor George S. Ramsay, of the Fresno Business College and Nprmal School, explains to TaE CaLL’s correspondent here the reason for the pointed letter of inquiry from the }poszmss:er of Melbourne, Canada, in re- | gard to Rev. Dr. Brown, in to-day’s Carr. Professor Ramsay was formerly s mem- | ber of the First Congregationai Charch at Melbourne. In 1888 this church had for its pastor one calling himself “Rev. Dr. Brown,” but whose resl name, as afier- ward disclosed, was J. P. Waters. Rev. Mr. Waters, alias Brown, went to Meibourne from Belleville, Ont., in company with a supposed “Mrs. Brown,” but who in reality was not his wife but a servant in whose company he had deserted his real arife in New York. Near the close of this gentleman’s pastor- ate of over two years “Rev. Mr. Brown™ got into scandal with the organist of his church and skipped—to what place no one there ever knew. After leaving Melbourne letters were received from the supposed Brown’s wife from New York State telling | of her hosband’s change of name and du- | plicity. These letiers were si ~Mrs. | Drg u:lulgj" for it seems that u:;h;smch- jers wife was a_practicing sician. | This “Rev. Mr. Brown” was a much ' younger man than Rer. Charles O. Brown |ct San Francisco. Professor is 1 quite certsin that this affair is what prompted the Canacian 'sletter. i e TEN YEARS FOR TURNER The Convicted Forger Given a Long Sentence] by Judge Wal- lace. J. F. Tarner, who was convicted of for- gery before Judgd Wallace, has been sen- | such an s of. He itwasa dehgfl:“?usfinu and that | the Supreme Court shoald decide upon it. Turner was convicted of forzing the neme of the Recorder of Fresno County 1o a deed and then mortgaging the land. | these show it to be feasible and financialiy 8 warrantable proposition to buiid this line into the valley. The scevery along the way is said to be equel in man; places to that of the valley itseli. As aDbusiness roposition the new Yosemite Valley and Rleroed Railway Company is 3 vers at. tractive ome. Tourists will be able 1o zo to the valley at all seasons of the year, tie Merced Canyon being so_low that zhe line will never be blockaded with snow. A the present time tourists can only go to the valley during three months of tie year, and that durinz the hottest season. Owing to this fact Eastern tourists wio spend their winters on this coast have no means of seeing the wo_naer[ul scenic gran- deur of the Yosemite Valley. : It takes three days to get into the val. RAILWAY TO YOSEMITE, A Standard Gauge Line to Run From Merced to the Valley. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATIORN. le{ now. You leave here n' xyght, té‘v;. i irec- | all night and portion of next day and ge: capinal Stpkaf 51,500,000—1'!!5 Direc :o ]g;fand? hen you have to stage one and a half days longer over a rough mount- ain road. Returning three days more are consumed, or exactly six days in all going d ing. 1 Phe cost of the round trip is about $55 “Phe cost of U for transportation alone, to say nothmgBovf Pullman-car charges, hotel bills, etc. the new Yosemnagevnlley Railroad route a passenger can go there from San Francisco in from fifteen to seventeen hours, at an expense of one-thira or less of the above charge. You can then leave here late in the afternoon and be in the valley next to?s Are Well-Kcown Capi- talists. Articles of incorporation were filed yes- terday in the County Clerk's office by tl?s Yosemite Valley and Merced River Rail- way Company. i The directors are James B. Stetson, John | D. Spreckels, Robert Oxnard, 0. D. Bmd-! - win, James Cross, Albert L. Stetson and | morning, and you can do this at ail sea- G. A. Wulkop. The capital stock is| s?r:; of the year ov:&urx; rg’ndw)lgsn: tthalx;‘rk £ i | o e immense nu: - ::;‘osgco;?zoe‘d of which sum §90,500 has been s whoh e tudSotl_tllee;n‘C:eiif:rllti:ee:;;y ¥ Vi , but aredeprived of - The stock, however, has not yet been | :;?::‘; Yosemite !pnAnd they will have an offered for sale, and so far, although men opportunity of seeing the valley in its of millions are pack of the enterprise, | sublimity, mantled with snow, perhaps, or Albert L. Stetson and G. A. Wulkop are | wonderful in its wintery moods. These | of the year. the largest subscribers. | tourists would make it a point to see the It is stated by promoters of the railway | that a most picturesque and productive | part of California will be penetrated by the | new line, and consequently the enterprise will have a dual significance. Thatis, it | will afford a delightful route to the Yo- | semite Valley for passengers, to whom will be presented the weli-known beauties | of the Merced River Canyon at all seasons The region about to be opened is also rich in mineral and lumber vroducts now | waiting for communication with tbe out-/ siae world to develop them. With both features combined the Merced River Rail- way will be s valuable feeder for the San Francisco and San Joajuin Valley Rail- | way and the Soutiern Pacific line, neither | of ‘which, however, will have any prefer- ence with its owners and managers. The new line is to have its principal | terminus in Merced. From there it will e run practically northward to Snelling, at which point it will turn eastward to Merced Falls and then follow the river canyon nearly all the remainder of the way to the Yosemite Valley. At Horse- shoe Bend it will almost touch Coulter- ville, and a station will be established for the mines of that region and for the prom- ising town of Coalterville, situated in the beart of the great mother lode. There will be another station at Benton's mill for Bear Valley and Mariposa. The term- inus at the valley will be The Cascades, just outside the Yosemite reservation. The road will be standard g heavily constructed throughout. “The Cascades,” said Albert Stetson, “‘where our depot be, is one and a half ! miles from the entrance to the valley and six miles from the Stoneman House, the acknowledged center of the Yosemite Val- ley. We have no idea of trying to get into the valley, as we fully understand that a railroad would detract from the natural scenery; and we also have other good reasons for not gomng beyond the point chosen as eur mountain terminus. “The project was started two years ago by a man from Chicago, G. A. Wrikop, who was interested in lands about Merced, and he had a survey made for an electric line. Afterward he found it was hardiy practicable, because power could not be transmitted economically over long tances. Then the proposition of a steam road was started and I became interested est part of the rou and excavation: Yosemite. “From Merccd to the valley over the line is eighty miles. The last six miles bavea grade of 23 to 3 per centum, curving around the mountains as the road climbs the Sierras. Those curves will be more pronounced than on a transcontinental road, for the reason that we are not in so much of a hurry to get over distance, and this curving wil add to the novelty and | wild excitement of traveling in the moun- | tains. There will be only about 100 or 200 feet of tunneling, and that will be at the Devil’s Gate, a rugged and wild spot in the canyon. The building will be canyon or sidehill work most of the distance.’”, “How soon do you propose to begin act- ual constroction "’ ¥ “We expect to bezin building as soon as the rain stops, and we find the way open for the work. It is not to be a passenger road solely. While tbere is no doubt that the Yosemite travel alone would make this railroad a good-paying proposition, there will be the freight and passenger traffic to Enelling, Merced Falls, Hornitos, Bear Valley, Mariposa and Couiterville. “We will tap the mother lode. The mining industry in Mariposa County has taken a fresh start. Old mines are being reopened. New methods of work‘.ndg ores and mines by electrical power and new process are being applied, which not only makes it profitable to work these lonz- abandoned mires, but is helping those already operation and is encomraging prospecting. One company alone has spent $600,000 in developing 2 mine there. At present machinery and supplies have to be carted forty miles to the mines at great expense, so the railroad will be a wonderful factor in developing these mines. Indeed, I would not be surprised to find a second Cripple Creek up there. Such has been the result of the mining boom in that vicinity that the population f Couitervilie has increased from 300 to 2000 within one year. There are vast forests of sugar pine, the most valusble wood in the market, along the line, and this railroad will get ons and millions of feet of it to the market. Besides, there are great quarries of fine building stone, marble, granite and lime deposits on the route. One man guaranteed us one trainload a day of stone. The road will reduce the cost of freighiing to the Yosemite fully35 per cent.” THE‘GOUT WATER. PHYSICIANS AT HOT SPRINGS Use Buffalo Lithia Water Personally and Prescribe It for Others, IN URIC ACID DIATHESIS, GOUT, RHEUMATIC GOUT, RHEUMATISM, NEPHRITIC COLIC, CALCULL ETC. Its Valug in Bright’s Discase, Especially in Go or Rheumatic Subjects. - uy «A NATURAL TABLE WATER AND THE BEST OF ALL."™ Dr. JOEN ATTFIELD, (e ealedrated Loaim| eemisi mry: I3 strongly commended by ity remariadle purity.™ Dr. ROBERT§ BARTHOLOW, M. A, LL D, prafessor of ‘s medica and gemeral thera- “I% i3 fhe Dest tadle waler kxow: fome, g2d1 Bave smme expetieace of them all™t Tis lats Dr. WX P. CARRINGTON. Restdeat Flirsiciaa Hat Springa Ack, Serpess 1s limited ts e trestmest of Gest RMesmatism | PMURS smiacly sfecing wih e mes & €23 Dat hririd sesse Rdewmatic Gour (o | O3 Bimefenl remits T take please faoade callef), which i3 i3 coatndistincrin to the | TES8 Gesly palieais 1 Chese Spriagn Riewmateid Arthritis of Garrol. Dr. G. W. LAWRENCR Resdest *T ave Bad excellent resits from this water | Hot Sprmgs Ak: T—— 2 fhem afecticas, 3ot iz my owa persa ang{ T prescie 3 the traimest of patienis for whem I Bave 4 precrided . Of coarve the remelial agemt :—u-umuu.-—m’: m w‘m P : WA great coafiesce 3 Tre Asid Hem R 13 o preodylactie as well s o rem- [ Gout, Remmati Goet a5t Rrvematn T