The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1896. KILLS HIS AUNT FOR HIS WATCH, Heartless Murder in Howard-Street Lodg- ing-House. a EATE MEKEEFER SHOT. Peter Ducy, the Assassin, Cap- tured When Leaving the Scene. HE CONFESSES HIS CRIME. Fired a Bullet Into the Old Lady’s Brain and Quietly Started to Walk Off. Miss Kate McKeefer was murdered in cold blood at her home, 817 Howard street, last night. The victim was a single woman, 60 years of age. The slayer was her nephew. Peter Ducy, the nephew, aged 34 years, PETER DUCY, THE MURDERER OF HIS AUNT, (Sketched from life by a *‘Call” artist.] heard the news on his return from work. He could say nothing more than confirm the relationship. Mrs. McKeefer received a call from Ducy during the afternoon and they ate two dishes of strawberries together. She thought he had been drinking and spoke to him about it. Ducy passed it off lightly, saying he had sipped a couple of glasses of beer. Nothing was seid about quarreled with his sunt because he!the dead woman and the news of the MISS KATE McKEEFER, THE MURDERED WOMAN. thought she had his watch and would not return it to him, and almost without warning fired a bullet into her brain. The ola lady fell to the floor and the murderer slipped the instrument of death into his pocket and started to walk away. As he was leaving the basement Police- man Frank W. Smith met him and asked him who fired the shot. It was a simple, pitiful story. No begin- ning, no plot—but an ending. I did,” replied the murderer, ‘‘because she had my watch and would not give it back to me.” Ducy was taken to the Southern station whence he was removed to the cen- tral station in the City Hall. He did not seem conscious of his crime and spoke freely of the shooting to the policemen by whom he was surrounded. ‘‘She had my watch and would not give it back,’” seemed 1o be the dominant thought in his mind and he kept repeat- ing it until the patrol wagon reached the City prison. = Miss Kate McKeefer had kept the lodg- ing-house at 917 Howard street for nine years. She was a woman of simple and rugal habits. Ducy is the sor of the murdered woman’s sister, and was in the habit of visiting her whenever he returned to the City after his trips to the country in search of work. Up to about six years ago he was 1n the employ of the Omnibus Railway Company as a” hostler. Beyond that little is known of him. The story of the bloody deed as told by the other inmates of the house confirms the first guilty admission of the agsassin when he was confronted by the officer of the law. Mrs. Annie Ross, who with her husband and three small children occupy a portion of the second floor, heard Ducy quarreiing with his aunt. It was about ien minutes before 6 o’clock. She heard him say: ““I will ask you once more, do you want me to blow out your brains?” After that high words, though indis- tinguishable, were heard, and then came the shot. Mrs. Nellie O'Connor, who has rooms with her husband on the upper floor, saw Ducy Tuesday afternoon. She talked with the murdered woman yesterday, and the latter told her that Pete was mad because he thought she had his watch and had gone out to get a search-warraut. That ‘was an hour or so before the murder was committed. A few minutes later she met Miss Mc- Keefer and asked her in a jocular wa; where her nephew was with the searc warrant. Peter McKeefer, the brother of the mur- dered woman, lives with his wife and family at 204 Fifth street. - Mr. McKeefer WEW TO-DAY. ITCHING SKIN DISEASES "RELIEVED BY ONE APPLICATION OF (uticura B8rEEDY CurE TREATMENT.—Warm baths with Cuticura Boar, gentle ons of CuTicuRa (ointment), and mild doses of CuT1- CURA RESOLVENT, greateat of humor cures. world. Price, C Boc. o T k. . nd 81" Porres Dive A e Gure fiching SKin Discases,” mailed fres. tragedy proved a great shock to the sister- in-law, Ducey was seen in the City Prison last night after he bad been charged with murder. He is a stout little man, and the most prominent feature of his face is his crooked nose. He has small, shifty eyes, and last night there was a glare in them that made him resemble a hunted animal | at bay. He looked as if he had been sui- fering from the effects of a heayy debauch. To all questions he gave the one answer, “It was an accident.” He was asked to be more exvlicit; to explain if he hud been showing his aunt his revolver, or how it exploded, but he stubbornly refused to say more than *‘It was an accident.” *Didn’t you have a quarrel with your aunt about your watch, which you blamed her for taking from yon?” “f did not. There was no quarrel be- tween us_and nothing was said about my watch. Idecline to make any statement just now, and that’s an end of it.” He consented to talk a little more freel about himself. He said: “I used to wor{ at the Fourth-street car stables when they were running the horsecars. I left there about two_years ago and have been doing odd jobs since. “‘For the past three months I have been working for the San Joaquin Railroad Company at Tracy. I came to the City by the Stockton boat yesterday and last night 1 slept at 772} Harrison street. 1 went to see my aunt this morning and remained with her till about 4 o’clock in the after- noon. Then I went around the tender- loin district with some friends and re- turned to my aunt’s house about 6 o’clock. I intended leaving the City to-night to B8O back to work at Tracy.” SUICIDE OR CANARD? Conductor 8. J. Robinson Tells a Pecu- liar Tale Which Investigation Fails to Substantiate. As car477 of the Jackson-street line was on its way toward Central avenue yester- day afternoon, the conductor, S. J. Robin- son, regaled two or three of his mule passengers with a thrilling story of how a woman had attempted to commit suicide a few hours before. “I was sitting in the same apartment with the woman, who was young; and beautiful,” said Robinson, “when, as the train neared Land’s End, she jumped off. Though the train was running at nearly full speed, she escaped unharmed, and immediately began to clamber down the declivitv. “I signaled the engineer to stop and ran back. ‘The woman had already waded out into the water for some distance, and I followed and pulled her out. We took her immediately to her home on Golden Gate avenue. ‘‘Later I went around and saw her,when she exPrsam penitence for her action and said 1f she ever tried it again she would choose some spot where the water 13 warmer. She gave as her motive marital infelicity, saying she was the wife of a commercial traveler. She asked me to keep the matter quiet and I promised to do so.” ‘When seen later in the evening, Robin- son admitted the main facts of Ige above, but refused to give the woman's name, There are several facts which throw dis- credit on his story, the main vne being the statement of an emgloye of the streetcar company at the carhouse on the corner of Sacremento street and Central avenue, that Robinson had been working all day and cons:quently could not have been near Land’s End, Again, if he were working, he could not have seen the woman at her residence on Golden Gate avenue. —————— A year ago Henry Giuso of Pennfield, Pa., proclaimed the doctrine that those who gave up the use of liguor or tobacco on April 13 will be permanently cured of the habits, As many as fwenty men cut off their liguor and tobacco on the day mentioned, and they say they haveno de- sire to resume the habits. HENDERSON TALKS ABOUT JOBBERY, School Director Is Called Sharply to Order. The ALL OVER A CONTRACT. A School to Be Named in Honor of the Late James G. K ennedy. Charges Preferred by a Principal Against a Teacher Under Her Control. Bchool Director Henderson talked of job- bery at the meeting of the Board of Edu- cation last evening until he was called to order by the chair and ordered to use par- liamentary language if he desired to be heard. It was over the letting of a contract for the enlarging and repeiring of the Bernal Heights School that Mr. Henderson waxed wroth and used language hardly justified by the circumstances, until brought sharply to time by Dr. Clinton, who occu- pied the chair as president pro tem. Mr. Henderson thought that instead of spending $30,000 in remodeling the school the board should expend $45,000 to $50,000 in building a new structure. He claimed that the residents of the Bernal Heights district would be satisfied with nothin, less than a new and modern brick build- ing; that if they received anything else it would be ‘jobbing the people.” H. A. Magendie, who appeared as a rep- resentative of the Bcrnn]p eights people, contradicted Mr. Henderson in this state- ment. He declared that they were not only willing to take but were glad to.get the huildini designed by the architect to re- place the present small and unsanitar structure. Then Mr. Henderson subsided, and the report of the Building and Grounds Committee awarding the con- tract to J. H. McKay for $24,200, with ponds fixed at $6000, was adopted. The contract for the construction of a new sanitary system in the Columbia Grammar School building was also awarded to J. H. McKay for $4140. Bonds were fixed at $1000. The contract for waterclosets, bitumi- nous work and_painting at the Harrison Primary School was awarded to William Lindner for $4937, with bonds fixed at $1250. Bids for the reconstruction of a concrete bulkhead at ihe North Cosmopolitan Grammar School were rejected. Numerous bids for the furnishing of the following articles were received and re- ferred to the comuuittee on supplies: Paints and oils, smtioner{, printing, hardware, automatic desks, brooms, brushes, etc., school furniture, coal, physical apparatus, lithographing diplomas, lumber, maps. The Committee on Classification made the following recommendations that were adopted: That Miss Rebccca Jacobs be transferred from the Lincoln to the Clem- ent Grammar School, the transfer to take effect on August 3; that Miss Edna J. Scott, teacher of kindergarten work and mausic in the San Francisco Normal Schoo!, whose term of service expires on Jurie 6, be elected as a teacher in the school, to serve curing the pleasure of the board; tbat Miss Vira B. McArthur be transferre from the Pacific-avenue Primary School to the Lincoln evening school as extra teacher and assistant principal; that Miss Forest A. Gilmore of the ngiellow School be transferred to the list of unas- signed teachers, without loss of pay, pend- ing investigation of charges against her by the principal; that Mary Leary, teacher in the Garfield Primary School, ge transferred to the Lincoln Grammar School; that Miss Josephine F. Miller of the day substitute class be appointed a probationary teacher in the department, and assigned to the Garfield Primary School. The trouble that has been brewing in the Longfellow Primary School for some time past came to a head last evening, when Miss Jennie Smith, the pn'nclna?. preferred ¢harges of insubordination against Miss Gilmore. She stated that iss Gilmore had refused to attend to_her duties or obey orders given by the princi- pal. The matter was referred to the board as a whole to meet on Monday night next. A resolution offered by Director Barrett was passed, to the effect that no person, not an actua!l citizen of the United States, be employed in the School Department. Director Murdock offered the following resolution, that was referred to the Com- mittee on Rules: Resols ‘Fhat when rmission is given b; either !l':z’bclrd or lh:‘commklel gn B.ulcz for the holding of any fair or other entertain. ment by any school, 1t shall be with the ex- press reservation that no rafile, lottery or like game of chancd shall be held thereat or in connection therewith. Director Murdock offered a resolution making the following changes in the names of various schools: Pacific Hejghts Grammar to Grant Grammas Pacific-avenue Primary to Paul Revere P mary, North Cosmopolitan Grammar to Han- cock Grammar, South Cosmopolitan Grammar to Adams Grammar, Spring Valley Grammar to Winthrop Grammar, Mission Grammar to E.‘“'““ Grammar, Dudley C. Stone to Dudley one. Director Barrett moved to increase the number of changes by calling the school now known as the Franklin School the Kennedy School, in honor of the late James 5 Kennedy, and to rename the South Ban Francisco School the Frankhn. These changes were accepiable to Mr. Murdock and the entire matter was re- ferred to a committee of the whole. MEMBERS OF THE A P. A SCORED, Father Farguson Lectures on the Subject of “Be- lated Patriots.” NAMES ARE MENTIONED First of a Series of Lectures Under the Auspices of the YL CUs THE CHURCH'S RIGHTS DEFINED Opposition to Parochial Schools At- tributed to Protestant Evan. gelical Preachers. Father Ferguson talked to a crowded house at Metropolitan Hail last night on the subject of *‘Belated Patriots.” His lecture was the first of a series of three to be given under the ausnices of the Young Men’s Catholic Union. In introducing the speaker of the evening ex-President Ed Luby spoke as foliows: There are dangers to our liberties and we must not shut our eyes upon them. Every Sunday regularly, as the Monday morning papers tell us, Catholics are made the subject of libelous and scandalous attacks. Our motives are questioned and our honesty of purpose assailed, and our loyalty to our country denied. False doctrines are imputed to us, which, if true, would have left the Catholic church by this time without enough ‘worshipers to fill this hall. During this state of affairs the duty of the young Catholics is plain. We must do the utmost to disseminate the truth, Let me state right here that all who are opposed to us are not to be put in the same category. It must be considered that they have been reared in an atmosphere so dense with ignorance that they are not to be blamed. We should endeayor to bring to their krowledge that the Catholie church 18 not as it is always described. We carry no concealed weapons with which to strike our adversaries while we. are feign- ing sympathy with them. Mr. Luby referred to the work of educa- tion being performed by Catholic societies and continued : The Young Men’s Catholic Union has taken no small part in this and will continue with fresh zeal and renewed determination. But in this we must have your support, which must be given as long as the danger con- tinues. Thanks were tendered to Fathers Yorke, Ferguson, Cavalier, Riordan and McKin- non for their part in the work. As each name was mentioned it evoked long and hearty applause. Father Ferguson was then announced to speak on the subject of “Belated Patriots.”” He began as fol- lows: We read in ancient history that the old re- public of Rome, the great commonwealth of antiquity, was once saved from an attacking force by the cackling of geese. In our time history may again repeat itself. The future historian of the great modern republic may yet chronicle the fact that in the second cen- tury of its existence it was saved from the old man in Eome by the cackling of the modern gosling. The S-mou still continue to do business at theold stand. They are still bent on saving the country, whether it will be saved or not. Reference was next made to the alleged recent organization of a society-in Chi- cago to be called the Burglars’and Thieves’ Protective Association, and the speaker declared that one of the qualifications of membership was that the applicant should have three prior convictions against him. He then mentioned the various patriotic organizations of the United States, and last on the list was the American Pro- tective Association. To the last named he declared one of the qualifications for mem- bership was that the applicant should have beaten three lanaladies out of board- bills. Proceeding he said: It is strange that the dlnferl which threaten the peace and security of society and excite fears in the minds of conservative men for the safety of the Repubiic receive mo attention from them. The increasing despotism of corporations, the concentration of wealth in the hands of & few, the illegal encroachments of capital upon labor, the rapid growth of trusts, all these pass unnoticed. They want to-protect us against evils which “&“5 only in their own disordered and belated minds. When this society first came into existence, it will be remembered, Mr. Sovereign of the Knifhm of Labor, said that it was hatched on Wall street, New York, by American and Canadian capitalists. The great object sought was to prevent all united action on the part of labor. To divide was to conquer. None knew the truth of this beiter than the Canadians. They made it plain to their conferes that the introduction of & religious issue was the satest and only sure means of breaking up the union which™ then existed amongst certain trades, Some events have transpired at different times which would lead us to believe that Mr. Sovereign’s statements are true. It cannot be denied that the American mil- lionaire, the average one_at least, is not above entering into such a combination. He has the strongest objection to increasing the wages of an American workingman, but he is willing to I'Kend millions of his money in paying the gambling debts of titled and foreign princelings, broken-down lords and dukes, if they will only marry one of his freckle-faced daughters. It is the additional cost of sup- porting and paying the gambling debts of the constantly increasing sons-in-law that is fast impoverishing this country. There are no strikes in foreign countries of late years. The times in other countries are better than they are here because the money has been taken from here and is being spent over there. Any one acquainted with the ways of the needy lmc'?.ns who direct the A, P. A, know they are ready sud willing to be the toois of corporations. To plot for the discharge of employes, some frail and delecate girls struggling to support widowed mothers, because ‘h:f worship at the Catholic altar, is without parailel for baseness. The other day I met a gentleman who had recently returned from a trip to one of the in- terior towns of the State. While there talking to & merchant one afternoon the conversation turned on three men who were talking on the sidewalk just in front of the merchant’s store. “That tall man,” said the merchant, ‘“isa resident of this town. I know him well. I have reason to remember him. He owes the house fzoo for a grocety bill. He is the presi- dent of the A. P. A. The other man on the far side was sued last week for adebt, and the case is pending. He will pay nothing if he can get outof it. He has been three times sued for rent within the year. He is the treasurer of the A. P. A. The one nearest couldn’t get credit in this town for a shave or & i l}}'l lodging. He is the secretary of the A. P, Yet it is such men who are endeavoring to antagonize Americans of different religious creeds. Itissuch men as these who pose be- fore the American public as the puritiers of politics and the onll; legitimate protectors of our institutions. Our bl ood-bo\ught liberties are to be preserved, our grand xol tical system is to be upheld and perpetuated by men whose redpuutiom are llrblue and pink on_the edges and red and yellow in the center. It is such men as these who would try to make the American gubl!c believe that the educational system of the country is menaced by Catholics. Itis such men as these who have in season and out of sesson misrepresented the attitude of Catholics toward the public school. Father Ferguson then declared that the Catholic church had no quarrel with the ublic school, but simply asked to be al- lowed to attend to their own business, and added that no Catholic had ever denounced those schools in such terms as had the Protestants themselves, and asserted the right of Catholics to have their children ucated as they saw fit. He argued that the present outery against the parochial schoois was due to the fact that the opportunities of proselyt- ized. Continuing, he said: A Britisher, Henry French, in deflance of State enactments, has ntroduced Bible read- inginto the Normal School at San Jose. He has, besides, removed every teacher with Catholic afliliations. This alien, who became 8 naturalized American citizen a short time before Donald Ross, overridgs the law with impunity because the sectarianism taught is nncl C:tlll;flicv ‘atholics are not gpologizing to any one for toeir parochial uchoo’g.o ’fi}e parochial school system is the crowning glory of the Catholic Church in America. Catholics are not asking for privileges, or rather rights, in this matter of education which they are not willing to concede 1o Protestants the world over. When- ever and wherever Catholics are in the ma- jority they cheerfully grant to Protestants their own schools. The Catholic church stands for Christianity, and it is through these parochial schools that she has preserved Christianity in this country. Those {lrelcnem ‘who rant and rail against the Catholic church to-day forget that if it were Dot for her the Chrhtnnny which they repre- sent would be nothing more than a tradition here at the present time. If the Catholic church were removed from the co\lnll‘fY the preachers would soon become lonely “pelicans of the wilderness.” Their occupation would be gone. How much they really owe to the Pope they so roundly abuse! How thankful they should be that he coatinues to exist! Do they ever reflect what would become of them if there were no Pope to abuse? Perhaps in secret they png(or his preservation. When they retire 10 the evangelical chamber they pray no doubt with unction: *‘Oh, God, preserve the Pope; keep him for thy love for us. For what would become of us, our wives and families if there were no Pope?” Gratitude may yet impel them to erect a church in his honor. Take the local triumvirate of gountry savers, the oracles of the A.P. A. on both sides of the bay—Major Sherman, Dr. French and James Taylor Rogers—and compare them, not with Clay, Caihoun and Webster, but with the leaders of former days, and an apology will be due those leaders for coupling their names with the triumvirate of to-day. | , Sherman the First was proved by the Monitor to be the greatest liar from the Yukon to Terra dei Fuego. His senile vanity impelled him to try to get the Monitor 10 admit that he was the greatest liar on earth. But the Monitor would not concede that. It said he was one of the greatest. To say that he was the greatest would have implied the possession of more brains than the Monitor credited him with. The grip of the teredo ou the Oakland piles is not firmer than that of the Sherman teredo on every society and church organization in Oak- land. There is no tradition in Oakland that he ever did a legitimate day’s work in his life. Only recently, you will remember, he said he was on terms of intimacy with the elder Foote. Skilled in tortuous finesse, & past mas- ter in the art of deception, the old Intriguer for social position selects men as his acquaint- ances who are either too dead or too far re- moved by distance to put in a disclaimer. He dared not claim acquaintanceship with the Attorney-General or Billy Foote. They were alive and near, and the imputation, he knew, would have been indignantly denied. This 1s one type of leader. Dr. French is an- other. Heis the obscure pill-mixer, who, fail- ing to getthe Eubhc to take his pills, wanzed the public to take his Rose on the police force. The public would have neither his pills nor his Rose. History affords searcely a parallel of such unexampled patriotism as this. He is willing to forego the comranmusmp of the artner of his joys; he is willing to live_alone ike a cave-dweller at the foot of Bernal Heights that his Rose, dressed in a suit of navy blue, may save the country by clubbing horrid men off the grass and looking after everybody else’s children, even to the neglect of her own. Now 1 come to the third type. That is James Taylor Rogers, secretary to Mayor Sutro. The speaker ridiculed the assumption by Taylor of his full Christian names and also his aspirations for what Father Fergu- son called literary fame. In reference to the Jatter point, be played all the possible changes of satire on the financial publica- tion of which Rogersis the author. Con- tinuing, he said: . It was reported a short time ago in the news- papers that the Mayor, like some of the preach- ers, had wheels in his head. Various ressons were assigned for this obfuscation which seemed to huve settled upon him. They were all wide of the mark. The collapse of Sutro’s brain power can be ascribed to nothing else than the close relations which he has held with James Taylor Rogers. 1t is this kind ot empirical demagogues who officer the knights of the dark lantern. They are invariably men whose contemptible abilities utterly unfit them for position or place in either of the oid parties. They are in- variably men whose utter disregard for de- dency and insatiable greed for office make them worthy leaders, whose spurious profes- sious of patriotism excite ridicule and disgust in the minds of every true American. They are worthy leaders of uocxeti which is prepared at all times to perpetrate the unspeakable out- lawry of proclaiming one day that it is in ex- istence to prevent Catholics from holding any position of irust or emolument under the Na- tional, State or municipal government, and ready the next day to proclaim that it muakes 1o war on auy man because of his religion. Father Ferguson here related an inci- dent connected with the last days of Web- ster. The dying statesman asked to view his favorite band of cattle. He was taken to the window, and as the animals passed before him he exclaimed, recalling the trials and disappointments of his political career: : I love the honest faces of the animals. They look what they seem.” Father Ferguson then rounded out his discourse as follows: It is appalling to think what might have been the result to Webster in his weakened condition if the A.P.A.’s had existed then and those attendants through some mistake, instead of driving up his favorite herd haa driven up the long-eared band whose initials &s well 8s whose aCts stamp them &s the Ag- gregation of Pusillanimous Asses. If the old atriot had not dropoed from his chair stone Besd from the amomaiy presented to his view on the lawn in the aggregation posing as patriots, purifiers and country-savers, he would have turned his face to the wal nd cried, “Take them away. Take them aw hate the dishonest faces of these an: They don’t look what they seem. They Republicans part of the time; but they are Democrats part of the time—they are dead- beats, spurious and belated patriots all the time.” THE WOOLEN MILLS SOLD. Disposed Of at Auction for a Merely Nominal Price. It is seldom that there is seen sucha gathering of men in this Oity represent- ing as much capital as did the crowd that attended the auction sale yesterday of the Pioneer Woolen Mills, heid at the sales- rooms of Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. A gentleman made an estimate of the wealth represented, and he claxmed to speak with suthority in stating that $150,000,000 was represented by the crowd. Included in the numbgyr present were many old resi- dents, who have grown rich through the growth of the City and State by having in- vested here when values were low. The attenaance of these pioneers and capitalists at the sale, however, must have been merely out of curiosity, and was evi- dently not prompted by a desire to bid in the property at a reasonable figure, and by so doing demonstrate the same faith in the future growth of the City that they did when making investments in years gone by. yThe bidding was of a desultory charac- ter, and the five fifty-varason which the woolen mills buildings are located was knocked down to Fontana & Co. for the low price of $30,500. The improvements alone cost $145,000 to erect, and while some seemed to regard their presence on the land as a detriment rather than an advan- tage, yet, admitting this to be the case, the price was all out of proportion to the actual value of the premises. Fontana & Co. can be congratulated on baving secured a bargain, and many who were present at the sale will doubtless see the time when they will regret not having bid in the place at a higher price. 'The new owners intend to remove the fruit- rflck]nz business to the buildings on the ots, and it will no doubt prove to be a most excellent -location for them. The machinery now in the building s not included in the sale. The two 50-vara lots at the northwest corner of Beach and Polk streets, opposite the mills, were also pur- chased by Fontana & Co. for $1800. The title to the latter is not guite clear, hence. the low price, e — Judge and Attorney. Judge Conlan and Attorney Mack had some words yesterday over the case of Edward Kelly, arrested for battery upon Kitty Stanway, dive waitress, which Mack wanted transferred to another court. Meck wanted the case brought to trial yesterday, but it was continued. 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