The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1896, Page 8

FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1896 8 THE SA _—-——————-———'———“————‘—_————-——-_'——"-_—_—_———_——— DR BROWN'S FATE IN THE BALANCE The Council’s Sacret Session Leans to Condemna- tion. DR. POND'S BOMBSHELL. A Strong Vote on the Grave Charge of Intimidating a Young Lady. MATTIE QUIETLY DEPARTS. The Pastor Made a Dramatic Argu- ment in Defense—A Verdict Expected To-Day. Brown's twenty judges went into ion yest , and for nearl) th the knotty proble Dr. that wisdom which they themselves would like to be ad- judged. 10:30 o’clock they ad- morning at 10. They red that no sion had been ched as to whether the pastor is guilty arged. Jt wasevident from their reti- ner that the subject of their con- vily upon them. Brown’s ecclesiastical concl Not oneof Dr. brethren but bore a look on his face of in- tense sorrow and in some instances a look of extreme sadness. They seemed to ap- preciate the fact that Ur. Brown's life, as that gentleman often expressed it, was in their kee to do with it as they willed. 1f an unfavorable conclusion was reached it meant the utter ruin of the accused pas- tor. On the other hand, a partial exoner- ation would surround him with an atmos- phere which would cling to him the bal- Should a verdict of ac- uittal be handed in they appreciated the ct that not a few would be willing to cry “whitewash!” . Altogether Dr. Brown’s brethren recog- nize weight upen them, and no beiter evidence of s can be found than that : th they labored for nearly eight hours and | inounced that they had determined then nothi Im..ediately after retiring to the library Dr. McLean called the’ council Yo order and then in plain though terse language outlined the work before them. st what happened at the afternoon se is not y known, but it may be said, as one who claims to know, that | entire case was briefly reviewed, not | h a view of reaching a verdict in so in- wi formal a way, but rather with the idea of | the minds of the council as to letails of the scandal. man’s explanation of the in- Overman-Tunnell letters was discussed at great length. bers of the council were outs their belief of the truth or fa T t me im {mkon as to sity of he pressed with 1 cone beiore . in this in- tance at least lausible tale. Then the evidence of Mrs. Thurston was canvassed, as well as that of Mrs. Barton, | M ford and the widow Stockton. s last lady’s statement, ev told by her withkeen relish, was not con- | sidered by the council as worthy of belief. They did not, however, hold Dr. Brown entirely blameless for certain details con- nected with Mrs. Stockton's first appear- ice in the church. It was argped that the pastor would have been much nearer his duty had he told his wife of that first impassioned voluntarily offered by the nsome widow and involuntarily re- ceived by him. This was not considered particularly non-ministenial, for the one probably, that the osculation was not of bis own seeking, but the fact that he waited nearly one month before recount- e this episode to his better half was con- sidered at least a mistake of judgment. At 8 o'clock the council took a tem- porary recess, coming together again one hour later. As the reverend Brown’s ¢ gentlemen filed out of the Mason-street en- | trance, en route to the hotel, reporters vainly sought to learn something of the proceedings. finger to his lips and passed on. The other members of the council took the cue Some few mem- | Dr. McLean merely put nis | Brown, in this one case at least, had been ungentlemanly, unmanly and unministe- rial. This opinion, however, would not cause him to vote, in this one maiter at least, with the majority. The case of Mrs. French, or mor? cor- rectly speaking, the Turkish tea episode, was next consigerezL The council was not at all certain as to just how much impor- ance should be attached to this affair. Some were of the opinion that it should be eliminated entirely from the proceed- ings of the body, while others contended that the charges were vital to the general accusation of nnministerial conduct. At this point further discussion of the matter was postponed until to-day. The balance of the evening was spent in reviewing what had been accomplished since the council had gone into executive session and formulating plans for reaching, if pos- sible, a ‘Tfed’v conclusion to-day. prise to_her friends and members of the council by a_hasty departure for Southern California. Her objective point_is said to be Los Angeles, but as Mrs. Tunneli is known to be on the Mexican side of the border, it is thought that she is making straight for the arms of her aged friend. The significance of this movement fol- lowing on the heels of the close of the case is not fully understood at present. Itis generally thought, however, to secure an aflidavit of some character from Mrs. Tun- nell, return it by mail to the City, but to keep herself aloof from the courts of justice and possibly Grand Jury proceedings. Miss Overman left on her southern trip Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock, but her absence from the City was not related by Dr. Brown to any one until to-day. The council was keptin absolute ignorance of her departure. At the close of Dr. Brown’s address to the council yesterday a most unusual scene occurred. His partisans and a few of those who have bitterly opposed him sent forth yells of applause, shouted all | sorts of congratulations, waved their hats, handkerchiefs and parasols, and behaved in a generally unseemly manner. One ex- Miss Martha Overman has given a sur- | and the other in the Police Court, are utterly unworthy of credence. These charges were made by one of those women only after she had been arrested and placed in jail for extortion, and were made against the man who had caused her arrest, and by the other woman after she had] been gublicly accused of an attempt to commit | blackmail, and theg' were made against the 1 man who had dared to expose her.” Dr. Brown recalled the words of Judge Campbell, who, when holding Mrs. David- son to answer, said that it was the very sence of blackmail that the blackmailer | will lie and swear to her lies to blacken | the character of her victim. And she will | have a story definite and specific ready to | tell to the community if he dares at any stage to resist her demand upon him. The speaker proceeded to comment upon the life’ and character of the woman, to | whom he referred as Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Buck, Miss Abbott and Mrs. | | Mary A. Sturgis, some of which names, he | | said, were legitimate and some of which | were illegitimately gained. He raked up | evervthing of her alleged career that had been published in the newspapers, but he | did not say that the newspapers had ma- | hiciously maligned Mrs. Davidson as he | had said that they had maliciously ma- ligned him. On the contrary, he did not | mention the newspapers atall in connec- | tion with tho alleged record of, that pious | and gray-haired chanter of psalms. The attention of the council was next called to the series of Overman-Tunnell | letters and the Overman-Davidson letters, | whose contents were spoken of as tending to corroborate Miss Overman’s testimony, to the effect that she, at Mrs. Davidson’s instigation, had rewritten and remodeled | the original letters for the purposes of the conspiracy between them. Dr. Brown laid stress upon the proposi- tion that in one series of letters Miss Over- man speaks of him in terms of respect ana in the other series in terms of disgust and reprobation. The letters written by Mre, Davidson to Miss Overman at the sam iod and a‘sthe very time thal Mrs. Da- | vidson declared that tbe doctor was con- e: l |to get in a whack at the newssn e the antagonism of large classes of people. He had made a vigorous canvass among the residents of his neighborhood to ob- tain their siznatures to a protest which he had prepared against . the gropose\l establishment of a liquor saloon almost in front of the church door, and. he had thereby incurred the enmity of the saloon-keepers. He continued: At'that time T was painfully awdre of the fact that the eyes of every retail liquor-dealer in_ the community were upon me, aud that a larze sum of money was lodged with those liquor-dealers to be used against me in any trial in which I might be concerned. Ihave reason to believe that some of that money has been used by the way in_which 1 have been maliciously maligned in the public news- papers of this City, Dr. Brown also mentioned the fact that at the time he paid Mrs. Davidson the $500 a considerable number of members of the church. were arrayed against him. Mrs. Davidson chose her time when he was at his weakest and when his foes were at the maximum of their strength. Of all these things she skillfully reminded him. The community was in a state of mind ready to convict any minister accused of a viola- tion of the seventh commandment, and was prepared to accept without proof any charge against the pastor of the First Con- granhonal Church. Mrs. Thurston’s statement was com- mented upon most severely. She had given her testimony with an air of mys- tery, he said, as if she were keeping back more than she cared o tell. ?ier testi- mony as to Dr. Brown building a fire for Miss Overman was false, because there was neither stove, grate nor fireplace in the room, ner any other place in the room where a fire could be built without burn- ing down the house. He had no doubt that the rest of Mrs. Thurston’s story de- pended as largely upon her imagination as that part of her story had. That is, ne added, observing a good opening ers, Mrs. Thurston’s imagination, ai by the mnewspapers, which had published those matters before Mrs. Thurston had [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] Dr. Brown Receiving the Congratulations of Friends on the Close of His Argument. Brown as a possible Mayorality candidate, s speech being received with loud and | prolonged applause. D:. Brown was im- mediately surrounded with a host of | frienas who assured him of their confi- dence and congratulated him on his mag- | nificent oratorical‘effort. Deacon Morse said last night that Pastor tion of the morning, and had been forced to take to his bed. it f e o) DR. BROWN’S ARGUMENT. He Caused a Number of Women and Old Men to Shed Tears. Dr. Brown made the speech of his life yesterday forenoon before the council. It was the speech of his life because it characteristically picturesque. Strong lights and shadows passed across its skill- fully woven web. In th¢drama which he was reciting there were sunshine, clouas, thunder and rain. The sun shone when he spoke of himeself, of bis unspotted record as a minister of the Congregational church; and the rain | fell from his eyes when he begged the council not to believe the wicked and per- | and did likewise. The evening se something tangible in the w own’s judges feel concerning the evidence intro- duced against him. Enough was said and done to show that the council thought Dr. Brown guilty of unministerial conduct, it nothing more. The layman from Stockton introduced a ion was productive of | jured witnesses against him, but to re- member not only his own innocence but | that of his grown-up sons in the East, his | devoted wife andhis sorrowing parents, | Young women and old women and old { men shed tears when his words began to | flow, but they were his partisans. The eves of half his audience were dry, cold, skeptical and hard. resolution in effect that Dr. Brown was guilty of unminis| conduct in th rial charge of intimidation brought by a young Thirteen on ot opin- lady member of the churc members voted for this expres council will take no definite action until such charge has been thoroughly sifted to the bottom. Williams spoke at great subject. Dr. Williams said Dr. Brown had come to him soon atter ti:is matter became public property and told him the whole E v. He personally did not think that the accusea man meant actually to in- timidate the young woman, but rather to urge upon her a suspension of judgment in his own case. Mr. Scudaer and Dr. Hoyt also took part in the general debate, the latter claiming that anasmuch as Dr. Brown had apologized to the young lady, the matter sh. uld be allowed to go at that. Freeland, however, took quite another v of the case. He said that Brown only added insult ey of the young woman to the urch and her subsequent inspection of the organ. When this witness had ap- peared be'ore the council, the reverend rentleman said, she had shown herself to e modest and unassuming, and one upon whose character not a breath of suspicion had ever rested. Dr. Freeland added that one lady had said to him that people were more angry over that matter than any- thing else. Then another vote was taken on the in- timidation matter, and it was voted as the sense of the council that the accused pas- tor's conduct on this occ s-nse, unministerial. This ion of the council is not to be considered final, but merely a-means of getting things in shape for to-day’s work. Rev. Dr. Pond surprised his brethren by oifering a supplementary motion to the effect that Dr. Brown’s conduct on this oc- casion was unbecoming that of a Christian ventleman. Mr. Barker, who had voted on the previous question, asked the privi- of withdrawing his vote. He thought 1 if the matter was brought to the at- 1ention of Dr. Brown in this way it would Le of lasting benefit to him. tev. Mr. Hatch, who had voted against the original motion, gave another little surprise wh'n he declared with much ear- nestness that, though he was opposed to the council taking the action suggested by Dr. Pond, he personally felt that Dr. | ion, for such it was, for the reason that the | Rev. Mr. Rader, Mr. McKee and Dr. | length on this | to injury in_commenting in any way on | m was, in a | A paid attorney could not_have pleaded better for Dr. Brown than did Dr. Brown | himself. He overlooked no point either | within or without the evidence brought be- | fore the council. He introduced alleged | evidence in his speech, prefacing its intro- duction with the statement that his argu- ment to the council shouid be considered | as testimony under oath. Thus, he de- clared that the retail saloon-keepers were seeking to destroy him and had collected | a fund for that purpose, some of which | fund-be ‘“believed’’ (and doubtless under | oath) “had be n used, by the way in which { I have been maliciously mali;nca in the | public newspapers of this City.” |~ Hisslap ata venerable and respectable | | lady member of his congregation and at | her daughter was greeted with approving | smiles by his Christian friends, male an female, when he remarked that Mrs. Stock- ton had entered the council chamber *‘with appropriate escort.”” Her escort on that occasion were Mrs. Cooper and her daugh- | ter Hattie. g It stormed and thundered in the stento- rian tones of outraged innocence when the cpeaker told the council what wicked women Mrs. Stockton and Mrs. Davidson were, and what magnificent liars were Mrs. Barton, Mrs. Thurston and other wit- nesses against him, who had vilified him and persecuted him for months. It was remarked as an appropriate sequel to this characteristic speech thatone of his gray-haired admirers shonld have nom- inated him as a candidate for the mayor- alty of San Francisco, thus mineling reli- gion, perjury, scandsl and politics in one unsavory stew. The doctor’s argument, or very copious longnand notes of the same, were in a m:\uuscri‘{tl which the doctor held in his hand and consulted at frequent intervals. He began by in(urminfi the council that the trial was one of the most remarkable | that had taken place in the history of Con- | gregationalism, and that the same could | be said of the council, Then he said that it was his province to plead before the | council that he might be permitted to live. The council had been called for the pur- pose of ascertaining the truth of certain grave charges which had been made against him primarily by two individuals and ‘“taken up and iterated and reiterated with strange intensity and persistence by the great daily newspapers of this cosmo- politan City.’” ““These charges were made,” he repeated, “by two women, both of whom on their own sworn testimony, one in your presence | Brown was greatly overcome by his exer- | was on behulf of his ife as a minister of | the gospel, and, as was expected, it was | seyenth commandment show that Mrs. Davidson entertained for Dr. Brown the highest possible respect, speaking of him as “truly called of God to do a great work in the church in San Francisco, and a man titled with the Holy Ghost.” He was not in those letters anywhere referred toas an old reprobate” by Mrs. Davidson, Dr. Brown instanced the tone of hisown | letters to Miss Overman, partly extending | | over the same period, as a proof that no | | illicit relatious existeg between him and | | her. In connection with this matter the | doctor remarked that any be fool enough to have illi be fool enough to write illicit letters. | asked the council whether they considered | | us letters to Miss Overman love letters or | | were they what upon their face they pur ported to be—letters of advice on literar: | and spiritual matters. These slanders, continued the doctor, in a burst of indignation, were circulated against a man who had led a spotless life for forty-eight years; “‘who had never been | known as a ladies’ man and who had rather been regarded and remarked upon as an‘ | fals | Da cited citizen shouted the name of Dr. |fessing to her a series of violations of the | testified anywhere, and *‘aided by a latent grudge against the pastor of a rich church,” ~ comprised her testimony. Stripped of all imagination, the only truth- ful statement that he would admit that she had made under oath wos that Miss Over- man and Mrs, Tunnell had told her that Miss Overman was in love with Dr. Brown. Alleged inconsistencies in the testimony | of Mrs. Barton were taken u; Her story that Miss Overman and Mr=. Lavidson had invited her to sleep at Mrs. Davidson’s house on Geary street on the night before Christmas eve he declared to be palpably becauze Miss Overman and Mrs. dson had had a rupture of their friendly relations on December 19, Dr. Brown’s grows(éue penchant for get- ting funny in the midst of the mots sol- emn things cropped out in his review of the testimony of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooger. He alleged ironically that her statements were as essential to the case as were those of Mrs. Barton. In the first place, she had | proceedea to affirm that some one had | called her daughter ‘“‘a pock-marked thing.” Then she had said that Mrs. Tun- nell had left Dr. Brown’s house through icicle among women.” the back gate, when the fact was that there | The speaker proceeded in his argument | was no back gate on the premises. Ho | to contend that the theory of his guilt | also poked fun at a familiar stanza quoted came into collision with all thie admitted | in Mrs, Cooper’s statement, beginning: |facts of the case. lhe speciiic_charges Right forover on the acaftold, against him by Mrs. Davidson were Wrong forever on the throne. | five innumber: First, adultery with Miss | Overman; second, that his crime was com- | mitted on November 24, 18%4; third, that it was committed at a certain specitied place, namely, the corner of Sixth and Bryant streets in this City; fourth, that that place was a lodging-house; and fifth, that that lodging-house was kept at that time by one Jane Elizabeth Baddin. Here were five specific_allegations cap- able of being proved or disproved. No at- | | tempt_even had been made before the council to prove them, he said. Dr. Brown in commenting favorably upon the testimony of Detective Seymour referred to him with much apparent fervor as ‘“that Roman Catholic, Detective Sey- mour, who, during these months of trial, has been a second brother to me.” Dr. Brown made a very ingenious argu- ment as to the reason why he paid Mrs. Davidson $500 on demand and why he had refused to pay anything to Mrs. Stock- ton. He cited the fact that Mrs. Stockton was her own only witness. She was not backed up by a white-baired woman be- lieved to be a sincere Christian person and | of good standing in the church as Mrs. | Davidson was. When be turned Mrs. Stockton’s lawyer out of his house he had not made so many enemies, except by his position on the public school question, but that enmity was not personal. The church of Rome was not friendly to his course, but he would say that members of that church had given him personal assurances of their sympathy and help ia this trial. He added: In the midst of all the vicious, malignant and slanderous articles ever written about me the Monitor has been silent, and there is a significance in that which I shall not now at- tempt to explain. He should forever honor the men who had been able so completely to bury their prejudices and forget their pride and to remember only the elements of common humanity which bound them toa suffering | man. Dr. Brown proceeded to argue that pub- lic sentiment was not specially alert and | aroused over crimes against the seventh commandment at the time. Mrs. Stockton’s lawyer visited him and made certain de- mands upon him. That was in Novem- ber, 1894, but in November, 1893, he argued, there was a totally different set of circum- stances. Mrs. Davidson was believed to be a noble Christian woman and she pro- fessed to believe the story alleged against him. He was led to believe at that time also that there were three women in league against him, namely, Miss Over- man, Mrs. Baddin and ber lodger, who would swear that he was a guilty man. That was a formidable array as compared with the unsupported word of Mrs. Stock- ton. Public sentiment at that time had been aroused as it had never been aroused te- fore in San Francisco against the offense which Mrs. Davidson had alleged against him because of the North Beach ex- posures. Besides that, he had aroused Having read the stanza in elocutionary style Dr. Brown threw the audience into a fit of merriment by facetiously pleadin guilty to the charge if Mrs. Cooper ha ;umted the stanza as an accusation against him. Miss Hattie Cooper’s testimony was dis- | missed even more flippantly by his remark | that he could not commend anything | better for Miss Cooper’s consideration | than the motto which she said was hang- | ing 1n the Co-operative restaurant: ' PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD. Dr. Brown next turned his attention to the intimation that he was, or had been, | interested in sending Mrs. Tunnell out of | the Ci:{' and keeping her out of the way. | He flatly denied that he had anything to | do with'any conspiracy of that kind. He would be the happiest man in the world, he said. if she would return and testify. He added: She left this C"X at the instigation of Martha Overman,who had been hepeful that she might pass through this terrible ordeal withoui be- ;‘:l‘g obliged to reveal her vwn guilty love for -The charges of intimidation preferred by Mrs. Blanchard and a young woman of the congregation, who inspected the big organ in the church, were taken up next. %he speaker declared that Mrs. Blanciard was not and never had been a member of his church, yet she had voted twice on the tion to intimidate the young womun.' whom he had seen coming out of the organ. ‘With reference to the allegation that he had done an unmunisterial act in continu- ing the church relations with Mrs. Stock- ton after the commission of an act that looked like immorality, the speaker dwelt upon the fact that on the Sunday follow- ing the Stockton kiss Mrs. Stockton had begged his pardan, and for months after- ward had conducted herself with the de- corum of a lady. He asked the council what was there in the forgiveness of one who has erred that could conflict with the standing of a minister. Attention was next called to the arduous nature of the duties for which he was re- ceiving a salary of $4000 a year. On ordi- nary Sundays, taking the two services to- gether, more than 2000 dpeople stood before him, he said. Extra addresses had brought him into contact with large audiences in Metropolitan Hall and Odd Fellows’ Tem- ple. Men whose names he did not know had stopped him on the streets, had taken him by the hand ana_ thanked him for those addresses. In spite of the fact that he was 8o well known the charge had been made against him by Mrs. Stockton that for months and months he used to wait for her ou the street corners with pleasant Kmposilions to her to spend a lovers' our with him on the rock piles of Castro Heights or on the scrap-iron heaps of Rincon Hill, and yet nobody of the thou- sands who knew him by sight had been produced on the witness-stand to say that they had seen him. I1f Mrs. Stockton’s story were true, he said, she could bring a thousand people to prove it. He added: But, instead of that, Mrs. Stockton, with ap- propriate escort, comes into this council with stories of restaurants, etc. This thrust at Mrs. Cooper and her daughter, who were Mrs. Stockton’s escort when she came to testify, was greeted with smiles by the friends of the speaker. He went on to cail attention to Mrs. Stockton’s apparent poverty a short time ago, and he inquired how it was that since then, without any visible employment or compensation, she had accumulated ‘‘a capital 0 large that from the income of it she can dress like the daughter of a mill- ionaire and bedeck herself with diamonds like a queen?’’ The peroration of the doctor's address was eloguent and at times pathetic. When he spoke of his wife, his aged father and mother and sons in the East, his voice broke and the tears came. With him wept his wife and those women members of his congregation who still believed him to be innocent of wrongdoing. Referring to his wife he said: *‘I was married as young as Shakespeare, but far more hap- pily than he.”’ He spoke of his eldest son, a farmer on the plains of Da%ota; the second son, a minister of the Congregational church in Iowa, and the third, holding a responsible position in one of the largest dry-goods houses in the city of Chicago. “Do you think,” he asked, ‘‘that I would wait until this time of life to wreck an honorable career, to sport with harlots and to spoil the virtue of a confiding young woman?”’ He spoke in terms of praise and grati- | tude of the Jewish woman who had come | to him with her husband to express their | confidence in his innocence. ~This ex-| pression of commendation was followed by the reading of a letter from the president of the First National Bank of Kalamazoo | and also trustee of the First Congrega- | tional Church of that place speaking in the highest terms of Dr. Brown as a man and as a minister of the gospel. Then Dr, | Brown referred to his army record, and | said thet he had risked bis life more than once for the preservation of the nation, | and he had imperiled his position by ad: vocating unpopular reforms. He asked whether he, with such an honorable record, was the type of a man who would wait until his gray bairs came upon him, and he, a grandfather of a beautiful child, to become guilty of charges made by two women, one of whom had left a trail of crime all over the continent, | and the other of whom swore that she has nothing to lose when she swore to her own | infamy. His home, he said, awaited with bated breath the decision of the council, and it was a home which, until now, had no shadow of suspicion or scandal. His sons in the East and West, his father and mother, who had consecrated him to ‘the | ministry before he was .born, awaited the | verdict that would fill.them with new | gratitude to God. If the council should | decide him to be unworthy of his trust he would never see again the faces of his | father and mother,” whose gray hairs | would be stricken down in sorrow and in | shame to the erave. He asked; | Have you considered what will be the effect on society if your verdict will be adverse? Have you considered that in the iace of the greatest odds I have undertaken to battle for every man of means suflicient to make him a | target for blackmail? Give me the victory and | the business of the blackmailer throughout | America and throughout the world, for the | story of this thing hps crossed the oceans, the | business of the blackmailer in every city on | the globe will receive such a blow as it never | reccived before. He closed by likening himself to Xeno- | phon’s hosts when they came in sight of | the ocean and cried *‘The sea! the sea!” | So also would he cry in the event of a | favorable verdict **The sea! the sea!” As the doctor concluded there was a | burst of hand-clapping with cries of “‘Hurrah! bravo! bravo!” from the west side of the room near the door, and when the clapping had subsided a gray-haired man_arose in_his seat and shouted: “I nominate Dr. Brown for the next Mayor of | this City. Three cheers for Dr. Brown!” The cheers were given by the old man, | who possessed the husky, stentorian voice | of an old sea lion on the Cliff House rocks. | 'The council then took a recess until 2:30 p. M. dates and see that the caravan is started homeward on schedule time. The steering committee, consisting of Imperial Potentate Charles L. Field, Nobles F. M. Cartan, W. H. F. Titus, John P. Fraser, C. S. Benedict, J. G. Edmundson and J. H. Gray will be held responsible for the proper starting of the caravan and everything else, including all kicks. — - LOOKING FOR KELLY. An Engineer Who Slipped Away From His Captors to Escape a Warrant, The Police Department would like to know what has become of William Kelly, an engineer, who lives at 318 Chenery street. Kelly was arrested Wednesday last by Policeman Carson on a charge of | drunkenness, and aiter having been charged at the Seventeenth-street station he was transferred to. the Central station. While he was sobering up from the effects of his debauch his wife appeared at the Police Court and swore out a warrant charging him with battery. She stated | that previous to his arrest he had beaten her cruelly, and she wished him sent to some institution where hecould be induced to mend his ways. The warrant was issued in due form, but | when it was sent into the prison to be | served on Kelly he was not to be found. His coat was in the cell, but neither him- self nor a broom he had been sweeping | up with could be found. Mrs. Kelly stated yesterday that Kelly had been seen at liberty and was laughing at the trick he had played on the prison | officials. He said that when the “‘drunk” | squad went out to clean corridors and the | Police Court floors he had gone with them, and on learning on the outside that a war- rant had been issued for him he had quietly slipped away from the inebriates and gone to his usuai haunts to get an- other coat. | | SUTRO BATHS OPENING. Elaborate Programme Arranged for | To-Day’s Festivities. | The programme for the opening day of the Sutro Baths is as follows: Exerciges beginning at 2 7. 3.; President of the day, Colonel Taylor; speechés by Colonel | Thomas H. Barne; address by Herry E. High- | ton; address by Hon. Adolph Sutro; 8 o'clock, | baths open for bathers; concert by Cassassa’s California Exposition band. EVENING. Grand athletic exhibition by Olympic Club | with following programme, Legiuning at 7:30 P.M.: Triple bars by Messrs Belen, Leandro and Rathbun; boxing, Ed Carter and J. M Manon and V. Thurmann: perch act, Miehling and Walter Hoag; wrestling, Spiro and Phillips, Butler and Werz, Armbruster and Knight; Kingston and Wand; fencing and sword contest, Professor L. Tronchet and Cap- tain Dilhan; foils, Messrs. Ortion and Lastreto; tumbling, Mess , Toohey, Stalsman and McNally; swimming and diving by members of the Olympic Club; concert by Cassassa’s California Exposition band. AFTRNOON, March, inaugural (Cassasa), respectfully dedi- | cated to Hon. A. Sutro; grand overture (Heut- ner), festival; grand Ameriean selection (Kap- pey), introducing topular melodies; dance a I pigeon (Gilder); gems from ‘“Trovatore’ (Verdi); concert waltz (Rosa’s “Impassioned | Dreams" ; popular selection, “Robin Hood” (De Koven); march, “King Cotion’ (Sousa). EVENING March, “Marines” (Bro lin in Smiles and_ Tears - e); overture, ‘“Ber- (Conradi); ‘‘Danse Fantastique” (Le Thiere); operatic selection Verdi); waltz, “*Espana’” (Waldteufel). Inter- mission of ten minutes. Medley, “Metropolis at night” (Tobani); song for cornet, “Sei Nich Bos” (Zeller); gems irom “Red Hussar’” (Paul Jones Morelli); gavotte, ““Loving Hearts” (Kot- tann); galop, “The Racer” (Missud). Charles H. Cassasa, musical director. NEW TO-DAY. =i, 'HE CAN SEE The value of this wardrobe—so can you if you will leok at it. The price —*‘our Mission-street price”—is but $25 for polished oak, with bevel mir- ror. Also have them with oak panel door instead of mirror. They come in curly birch, too. We don’t need to brag about this wardrobe—it's no more of a “bargain’’ than all ‘‘our 750 Mission-street prices” are. INDIANAPOLIS FURNITURE Co. 750 Mission St. | medicine that I took did me lots of good.” ) 4 RANK INJUSTIGE. If Other People Knew the Truth It Might Be Different. From Weaverville Comes a Note of Warning. IT 18 A PITY THAT THERE ARE NOT MORE people in thi to let the rest of is world of ours who are willing £ us benefit by their experiences. | When a man knows anything that 1s for the | general benefitof his race it is strange that he | does not see how absolutely unfair it is to keep | EXPERIENCE, which cannot be bought with money, to himseli to the exclusion of all others. | And yet the men who do this continually are %o be counted by the thousands. A conspicu- | ously bright example, though, of those whoare | infinitely more public-spirited and of those | who abhor anything like injustice, is Mr. 8. J. Baily, the well-known and highly respected thinker, whose home is mow in Marysville. Like most men occasionally subject to nervous strain, Mr. Bailey became once the victim of an insidious disease, which was gnawing at his very heart's strings, and he was at a 1oss as to what it was best to do. That he did the very best thing possible is now not a matter of doubt, for he applied to the managers of }he greet medical institution which is located in the big white building at the junction of Market, Ellis and Stockton streets, and of what was done for him by the specialists of that grand establish- ment he speaks in plain terms. And he tells ?f what he knows well. Read his letter; it is rightstraight to the point: = WEAVERVILLE (Cal.), August 8, 189 Hudson Medical Institute, San Francisco, Cal. Gentleme I will now state that after two months’ treatment with you that I feel fully re- stored to health and express my gratitude to you for your speedy mid. And I will herein state that any person suffering from any nerv- ous disorders would be doing themseives an | absolute injustice not to consult the Hudson Medical Institute without delay. Publish this . Yours in health. e 8. J. BAILEY. 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She had made a sworn statement in the presepce of a notary public one night, .and when the transcript of the shorthand reporter’s notes of that state- ment were brought to her the next day for her signature she refused to sign it, alleg- ing as the reason that she desired legal ad- vice. _Then Dr. Brown said to her, “If you in- 8ist upon not signing it, but upon going for advice, I shall consult the lice authorities of this City.”” Dr. Brown argued that toat statement could not, by any means, be construed as intimidation. He also denied that it had been his inten- Thirty novitiates have been corraled at the capital, and after the Shriners dine the awaiting candidates will be putto the ' | Arab tests of courage. Some injunctions have been issued, not against the journey, but for its guidance. 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