The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1896, Page 7

+22eese... AUGUST 9, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER. — “The Masqueraders,” ©@-morrow night. CALIFoRN1A THEATER.—“Mavourneen” COLUMEIA THEATER—“A Gold Mine"” MOR0Sc0'S Orxxa-HOUSE—“The Danites” T1voLr OrEra-HOUSE.—* Pagliacel” OrrEEVM—High-Class Vaudeville. EUTRO BATHS—Bathing and performances. SHoOT TEE CHUTES—Dally at Haight street, ue block east of the Park. BasEBA1L—Sixteenth and Folsom streets. GOLDEN GATE PARK—Golden Gate Park Band. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. P1ox10—0f the Retall Grocers' Protective Asso- Qation Union, at Scheutzen Park. Sunday, Aug. 9. AUCTION SALES. By L H. Burp—Monday, August 10, Furniture, ®c., at 1915 Franklin street, at 11 o’clock. By JosErnt T. TErRY—Monday August 10, Furniture, a: 1814 Bush st, at 2 o'clock. BY EASsTON & ELDRIDGE.—Saturday, August 92, Real Estate, at Mountain View, Santa Clara Go., &t 1 o’clock. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. A fair Sunday with fog in the morning snd summer winds is forecasted for to-day. The San Quentin jutemills have turned out 4,951,000 grainbags ‘since the season opened. Governor Budd has refused to grant the etition for the pardon of John H. Hurley, the fm_v-bnbu. At the Theosophical meeting at Golden Gate Eall this evening Dr. Jerome A. Anderson will lecture on suicide. Ceptain William E. Van Reed, U.S. A.,Te- tired, died at his residence in this City yester- morning at 5 o’clock. Elder Lorenzo Snow, president of the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon church, is visiting this City and Ventura. Further investigations of the tariff on iron show that free trade is bad for employers and employes alike in America. Archdeacon Conham, for fifteen years in the missionary field of Alaska for the Church of England, arrived here yesterdsy. The residence of J. L. Breyer, 784 Steven- son street, was entered by a burglar yesterday afternoon and thoroughly ransacked. Among the wills filed for probate yesterday was that of Pasquale Breschini, which con- tained a provision for keeping his grave green. The Civic Federation proposes to purify local | politics. If it canuot be done peaceably then the organization will resort 1o drastic meas- GUILTY PERSON? Some Facts That Weaken Capitalist Campbell’s Story. AT HOME MONDAY NIGHT The Accused Seen by His Wife, His Landlady and Her Daughter. EVIDENCE T0O THE CONTRARY Tale of Two Mutilated Newspapers and What Their Partial De- struction Meant. More than three days have elapsed since James A. Campbell, the Hawaiian million- aire, staggered into the lobby of the Occi- dental Hotel, feebly made his way to his apartments and to the arms of his almost distracted wife, and there, in explanation of his two days’ absence, related a tale which has set this City by the ears. Never in the bistory of San Franecisco had occurred such an act of bold brigand- age as that told of by Mr. Campbell. The scene of his story might well have been laid in Greece, and his assailants have been the picturesque outlaws of its wild mountains. Not even Dumas’ tale of the | adventures of Monte Cristo outrivals the stariling narration of the sugar planter. Three days and three nights have glided ures. Captain Tuttle of the revenue cutter Bear| reports that on account of the unusually thick jce he could mot reach Point Barrow last onth. Ckristian Bander. s laborer, living at 16 or street, attempted to commit suicide sterasy morning by cutting his throat with able-knife. e hearing of the charges of battery and urbing the peace against “Dave” Neagle continued by Judge Low yesterday ull Wednesday next. A new club was formed last night by prop- erty-owners of the section surrounding the nospital block to secure the condemnation of ‘Blackman’s Camp.” of agreement for an_ eight-round nski and McAuliffe for ned with the New Ocei- judge Coffey decided yesferday that the Dbaoks of the Cold Storage’ Company must be pmduced in court in the examination of the Louis Corriveau estate. The cases of the men arrested lastSunday for maki sterday continued till mext Wednes- 1o be tried by & jury. County Committee of the People’s party 1 e long on last evening upon the y of A. B Kinne as a member of the Executive Committee. Erobably the most gigantic scheme ever evdlved fo beat the Government has just | cope 10 light. It is nothing less than tne ille- ga| landing of Chinese men and women. When Mary Brockwell wes arraigned in the Court_yesterday on the charge of Katie Keenan, June 21, she pleaded Her bail was reduced to $10,000. | Macdonough's Theater in Oakland over- flowed at the Republican Alliance meeting t night. Hundreds were turned away. It | the most effective meeting of the campaign | L suit by Margaret Byrnes vs. Louis E. | Sed &d tale of the alleged criminality of | sertion ¢f his wife. A mengiving the name of George Webber was arresed at an early hour yesterday morn- 1g while attempting to break into the resi- ce of Reuben H.Lloyd, the attorney, at 1030 Folsom street. Edwsrd Gressler, an emplove of Mose Gunst, 7500 in the Little Louisiana lottery a | ays eg), but his tickeis were rejected at spurious, though purchased at the headquar- ters of the company. john H. Harley, convicted of jury-bribing and now in San Quentin prisoh, assauited an ged invalidconvict last Thursday. His viv- | tim is in & serious condition. The weapon he | used was & hesyy stove poker. The recent decision of the Supreme Court efirming the velidity of the fee biil has greatly confused the City officials, who do mnot yet whether they are to gooui of office this | r hold over for another two years. An office has been opened in this City by | the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, which will compete | igers and freight from this port to | 1 points against the Pacific Mail and Occidental and Oriental Steamship companies. General Barnes’ speech at the Oakland Re- meeting last night was one of the e ever delivered. That it was appre- ated by the andience was evinced by the lib- eral appisuse which frequently interrupted ontented minersreturned from Alaska on thesteamers Umatilla und Bertha and the bark Theobald yesterday. They had all lost money and are now anxious to meet the perties who persuaded them to leave good positionson a wildgoose chase. A deserter from the whaling fleet that win- tered at Herschell Island reached Circle City while the Bertha was there. He says that five or six out of fifty deserters were shot down by the officers of the ficet and that the others were driven back aboard. The Atlantic and Pscific Aerial Company was incorporated yesterday to build and navi- gate airships, to carry dispatches and mails through the air, etc. L J. Truman, George T. Gaden, C. A. smith, R.C.Smith azd M. A, Terry are the directors. The Richisnd Gold Mining and Milling Com- pany filed articles of incorporation yesterday. The directors are: L R. Wilbur, Joseph Rosen- thal, Theodore Fox, E. D. Farish and L. Shores, The capital stock is $500,000, of which $125 has been actually subscribed. L Otis F. Willey, who has been doing business | ity as@ dealer in carriages and har- | as been iorced to surrender to eredi. | His lisbilities are $34,000, and_practi- cally his only assets are his stock, which cost $17.000, but which would now bring far less. A further mystery has been developed in the case of Capitalist Campbell, who claims to heve been robbed and tortured at 4109 Califortia sireet early in the week, by the discoveryof | the fact that the man accused of abducting | Campbell was at home on Monday eveming at | the time of the alleged abduction. | The Democratic State Central Committes vesterday heard reports to the effect that the Republicans were making a vigorous and ag. gressive fight in almost every county in the Siate, and that the Democrats were sadly in need of silver literature to brace them up. A committee was appointed to confer with Popu- lists on the proposition to fuse. e ] The Charge Dismissed. The charge of beating Maurice Stannehr, for which Mr. Dubois of 3508 Sixteenth street was arrested, was dismissed by Judge Conlan upon the testimony of the complaining wit- ness, the Judge holding that the allegations were unfounded. oS BN PBatzner Wus Absent. When the case of W. Batzner, charged witk the embezzlement of $2000 from H. Levy & Co., was called yesterday in Judge Bahrs’ court Batzner failed anrenr for arraignment. A bench warrant for his arrest was issued. He was out on bonds, ————————— Johnson Changed His Plea. Gus Johnson, who shot John Canme in & waterfront boarding-house July 7, withdrew h:s plea of guilty yesterday when arraigned in the Superior Gourt, He is charged with as- savltto murder, and his case on his plea of not guilty was set for August 15. ———————————— Tranks Moved 25 Cents. Commercial Transfer Co., 43 Sutter nreet: Weinone Main 49. Keep your checks for us. ing preparations for & cocking main | der, fiied by A. Ruei, the attorney, dis- | s husband and his subsequent heartless de- | into the past since Mr. Campbell returned to the bosom of his family and unfolded | to the sympathizing police his tale of woe. | During those three days the entire avail- | able detective force of the City has been | trying to find the man alleged to have | perpetrated the gross outrage. i From the very heart of this City of | 800, 000 people that man is said to have m- veigled James A. Campbell to a lonely houss in a surburban district and there subjected him to torture. He 1ssaid to have traversed with his intended victim | several crowded streets of the City and to | have taken a long trip on a streetcar, leav- | ing, no doubt, a piain trail behind him, | and yet he is at large. The police say they know the cool vil- | lain. They say he isa man who has once | been in their hands on a charge of murder, | from paying the penalty of which crime he escaped because of a lukewarm jury. | They say his name is Oliver W. Winthrop and that they have not captured him. The police also assert that Winthrop | left the Occidental Hotel, on Monigomery | and Bush streets, about 4 o’clock, and that the brigand and his victim pro- ceeded by a somewhat circuitous route to 4109 California street, near Third avenue. That trip cannot be made in less than fifty minutes. Oliver W. Winthrop lived at 354 Grove street, near Octavia, and three witnesseS will swear that he was at home between 5:30 and 6 o’clock last Monday evening, when the police say, and Mr. Campbell backs up their statement, that he was at 4109 California street. Campbell says that Winthrop never once left his presence for more than a few min- utes during over twelve hours follow- ing their meeting on Monday afternoon. Granting that Campbell was mistaken, ‘Winthrop could not reach his home from 109 California street in less tnan an hour. noon is asserted by his wife, by Mrs, Sopbie Schadde and by Miss Emma Schadde. Mrs. Schadde is_the owner of the Grove-street house and occupies the lower floor. Her family consists of three ons and one daughter. The Winthrops live upstairs. 0. W. Winthrop is a member of the American Protective Association and has been trying to induce the three sons of Mrs. Schadde to join that organization. They bad put him off several times and the matter was on Monday last still in abeyance. On that evening, beiween 5:30 and 5:45, as Mrs. Schadde was preparing dinner, ‘Winthrop, so she says, came down the stairs and, opening the kiichen door, asked her if her sons were at home. She answered in the negative, and Winthrop went back upstairs. Miss Emma Schadde was in the kitchen with her mother, and also saw Winthrop. Both are positive that this meeting oc- curred on Monday evening, because on that evening one of the brothers, who is a plumber, did not get home until quite late, having been detained by a job which kept him untii after 9 o’clock. here 1s further evidence that Winthrop was not at the California-street house on Monday evening. A member of the A. P. A. lodge, of which Winthrop was pre- siding officer. says that he was positively present at a meeting of that lodzeon Mon- day evening. Other members of the lodge corroborate this. Mrs, Winthrop, when seen yesterday, refused to be interviewed, but said she has absolute faith in her husband’s innocence, but acting under instructions of a friend of the family, C. W. Kyle, she refuses to tell any one anything she knows of her husband’s movements from Monday up to the present time. The Schaddes say that the last- time they saw Winthrop was on Monday even- ing after 5:30, as has been related. They also tell another story, which would in- dicate that Mrs. Winthrop is fully cog- nizant of her husband’s present where- abouts, and that she knows all about his connection with the Campbell affair. The house at 354 Grove street is an old- fashioned edifice, which stands well back in the yard. The front fence is overgrown by an | between 5:30 and 5:45 on Monday after- { l evergreen hedge and there isa little, old- time portico before the door. Mrs. Sophie Schadde owns the house. Three months ago Oliver W. Winthrop rented the upper floor from Mrs. Schadde, and with his family, consisting of his wife and two small sons, moved there from 26124 Sut- ter street. Mrs. Winthrop is the daughter of W. P. Brooks of 1108 Steiner street. It was her brother, F. W. Brooks, who one day.last week left town, leaving a number of jani- tors at the Emporium building with a month’'s wages due them. It is this cir- ¢umstance regarding the brother that fastens on Mrs. Winthrop a suspicion, amounting almost to certainty, that she isand was acquainted with her husband’s peculiar movements. Eoth the Winthrops and Mrs. Schadde are subscribers to THE CArL. The papers are left together on the portico each morn- ing. The day F. W. Brooks’ escapade became ublic, the paper of the landlady was ound in & mutilated condition when Mrs. Schadde brought it into the house. An entire leaf bad been tornoff. Anxiousnot to be deprived of any of‘the news of the day, a member of the Schadde family went to the corner grocery and borrowed a Carr. On the leaf corresponding to the one torn from their paper, was founa a fuil account of Brooks’ shortcomings. On last Thursday morning the Schaddes again found their paper mutilated. Once more a lesf was missing. On procuring. another paper they found on the missing leaf an account of the disappearance of Millionaire Campbell. _The piece of paper That Winthrop was at 354 Grove street | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1896. The Gunboat Bennington Came Down From Slips. Later She Dragged Her Anchor Was in Close Proximity to a British SN = S and Drifted Below Mare Island Yesterday and Anchored Off the Ferry Jackson-Street Wharf. She Steamer and a Bark and Had to Be Moved. B NEW TO-DAY. SEOE SIS S O SV CIT S T OV S should you ? sarsaparilla. & arsaparilla Any sarsaparilla is sarsaparilla. True. So any tea istea. So any flour is flour. But grades differ. You want the best. It’s so with sarsaparilla. There are grades” You want the best. If you understood sarsaparilla as .well as you do tea and flour it would be easy to determine. But you don’t. How When you are going to buy a commodity whose value you don’t know, you pick out an old established house to trade with, and trust their experience and reputation. Do so when buying Ayer’s Sarsaparilla bas been on the market fifty years. Your grandfather used Ayer’s. Itisa reputable medicine. There are many sarsaparillas. i LRURLRYABABABABALABR Sense. (%But only one Ayer’s. IT CURES. P D IO P e PO RO R O torn from the Bchaddes' CALr was found crumpled soon after beneath Mrs. Win- throp’s window. That paper was mutilated before any- thing was published in THE CALL connect- ing Winthrop’s name with Campbell’s disappearance. It would seem that the person who was interested in keeping the neighbors unin- formed upon the Brooks matter took the same course to leave them in the dark about Campbell’s disappearance, and that before Winthrop’s name was connected with the affair. Mrs. Winthrop could not be seen last night regarding the story just related. She was at her father’s home and it is said she was suffering from extreme nervousness and not in a condition fo see any one. e T o CAPTAIN LEES’ EFFORTS. What the Police Are Doing in Thelr Endeavors to Capture the Criminals. Yesterday Captain Lees sent descrip- tions of Oliver W. Winthrop and *‘Pete,” his supposed companion, broadcast. The descriptions are given by Millionaire Campbell, together with the description of Winthrop on the records at police head- quarters at the time he was charged with the murder of Mrs. Jennie Mathews. They are as follows: ‘Winthrop, age between 40 and 43, height 5 feet 8, weight 170, well built, sallow complex- son. strong, coarse features, nsilng voice, dark hair and mustache, wore a dark cutaway coat and vest, dark pants, light drab soft hat, fedora style, large hands, muscular build. Pete—American, age about 23, 5 feet 5 or6, slim build, about 130 pounds or -140, smooth face, dark hair rather short, psle face, and uses guage when talking and talks in a brag- zing manner; dressed in biack sack coat and vest, well worn, dark pants, brown drab hat, squeaking shoes, long slim fingers, soft hands; mask worn looked as though it were black silk handkerchief with two holes bored out for the eyes. Police description of Winthrop—Name, Ol1- | ver Winfield Winthrop; charge, murder; age, | 42; born in Massachusetts; can read and write and is married; height, 5 feet 8 inches; hair, dark brown; eyes, blue; arrested in San Fran- cisco June 10, 1895, by Captain Lees and De- tective Ross Whitaker for the murder of Mrs. Jennie Mathews by giving her & poisonous pill while in Laurel Hill Cemetery; conspicuous dimple on right cheek; claimed 'to be & civil engineer; was assistant superintendent of the Leurel Hill Cemetery up to May, 1894; has not been employed regularly at any work siuce the above date. Mrs. Dunton, the owner of the house at 4109 California street, where the aged mil- lionaire was detained, made a statement to Captain Lees yesterday. She said in in a Sunday’s paper. She had two callers, the secona giving his name as Archibald. She was shown Winthrop’s photograph and at once identified it as that of the man who so called himself. ‘“Archibald”’ ex- amined the house, and- was more pleased with the front and rear entrances than with anything else. He agreed to rent the house and paid $2 50 as a deposit, and she gave him a receipt, telling him to call upon her agents, A. M. S8peck & Co., and if they were satisfied to pay the balance of the rent to them. Winthrop called agamn next morning and brought a receipt from Speck & Co. and a note that “‘Archibald” was unknown to them, but was well recommended by the bearer, his friend. Speck ‘had known ‘Winthrop, so that he had to tell him that he wanted the house for his friend Archi- bald, instead of for himself. Winthrop told Mrs. Dunton to hurry out of the house, as he expected his wife, and as she was extremely nervous he did not want any one to be in the house when she came. In'her hurry to get out Mrs. Dunton left her cloak, which was found by Captain Lees Thursday night. Winthrop was seen downtown on ‘Wednesday evening abéut 7:30 o’clock. A gentleman, whose name Captain Lees Tefuses to disclose, spoke to him for a few minutes in a ball entrance previous to a meeting of a council of the American Pro- tective Association. The gentleman did not see him at the meeting. It was re- { ported that a young man was seen going up to Winthrop at the time and whisper- ing something in his ear, which made him leave hurriedly. Captain Lees says that is not true. The captain hinted that ‘Wiathrop had been seen later, but he would not say where, when or by whom. On Wednesday evening Winthrop had bis mustgche and side whiskers shaved off, apparently with the object of disguis- ing himself as much as possible. A story was published that Winthrop was seen riding to his house Tuesday evening on a bicycle and riding hurriedly away again. The captain says it is not true, as he has proof that W’i’nthmp was not at home all that evening. Archie Urquhart, who first gave the in- formation of Campbell and Winthrop hav- ing been seen by him on Montgomery street Monday afternoon, will return to the city on Tuesday. The police are eager to see him, in view of the statement of his friend Koch, that Winthrop had made a proposition to him to join in the scheme to kidnap Campbell. No one seems to know anything about "Plgm,"hlnd "i“ otx':ly glew to bim that the police have is the description given b; Campbell. 5 2 it by MR. CAMPBELL’S FRIENDS. They Belleve That the Wealthy Hawallan Would Not Decelve His Wife. In Honolulu, where James A. Campbell has lived so long and is best known, he is reputed to be a man of sterling character and of great wealth. His property con- sists of Honolulu real estate, sugar planta- tions and island securities. He did not take an active part in the revolution which aethroned Liliuokalani and established the republic, but it is known to Hawaiians that his sympathies were with the ‘‘old Government,” as it is now called. Paul Neumann was in the City yester- day, and snnklniof Mr. Campbell said: “In Honolulu he is known as a man of high character. He is reputed to be worth $2,000,000, but he does not spend his mon lavishiy or make a display of his welI:K. He isa Scotchman who married after he went to the islands and has brought up a family there. “I should take no stock in the story that he left the Occidental Hotel for a lark or that he knowingly sought the company of dissolute and fast men, I have never ‘heard of him fii'ngofl on a ‘bender’ a accounting for absence effect that she advertised the house to rent | nd by mysterious Josephine udventure, It is my belief that he has told Captain Lees the straizht truth, without embeilishment, concerning his re- cent experience in San Francisco.” William Foster, another well-known man, who lived quite a loufi time in Honolulu, =aid yesterday of Mr. Cam bell: “I knew him there as a well-to-do and honored citizen, whose reputation for veracity was never called in question. He was a friend of the ‘old Government,’ as many other good citizens were, but he did not take any part in the revolution one way or the other. I think he was prosperous and satisfied under the old order of things. “He is a rich man without doubt. I never heard of him going off on spreesand associating with dissolute fellows. I am convinced that the story which he told to the police is true.’” A member of the Grand Jury who listened with the deepest interest to the narrative told by Mr. Oampbell in ‘the jury-room last Frid:g remarked yester- day: “Iam convinced that Campbell was shadowed at the Occidental Hotel, and the plot to lure him away was concocted before he went to San Jose. It is my beliefalso that more than two were concerned in the plot. Campbelt was seen about the hotel, and it was easy enough to ascertain that he was a man of means. Having nothing to do but put in his time before the steamer sailed he prob- ably made some acquaintance at the bar by spending his own money in an easy, off-band, generous way. *“It was part of the scheme. I fancy that one of the gang of robbers went to San Jose, and there picked up what seemed to be a chance acquaintance with the old gentleman. There did not seem to be a weak link in the chain of his story, and the marks of violence indicated the ordeal through which he had passed. “Mr. Campbell did intend to sail for Honolulu on tne next steamer, but to dis- prove the stories afloat he has decided to remain here indefinitely.” i A CAMPBELL’S STORY. Strange Account Given by the Mil- lionaire of His Meeting With Winthrop. Yesterday evening in a long conversa- tion with a CALL reporter Millionaire Campbell went into all the details of his capture and captivity, During his narra- tive he said: 1 first saw this man Winthrop on the porch of the Hotel Vendome on the even- ing of the 1st, I think it was. I was in conversation with two men when he moved his chair a little closer to the group and joined casually in the talk. He wanted my advice on investing money in a coffee plantation on the islands, and then he wanted me to assure his invalid wife that the climate ~would be beneficial to her. I told him that would not advise any one to invest money down-there and perhaps blame me afterward if 1t proved unsatisfactory. I told him he had better see the place for himself first. As o his wife, I informed her that not being a physician and having no knowledge of her silment I would not recommend the island climate. Then he left. I have positively identified him from the pic- tures in the possession of the police as ‘Winthrop. ® “Monday afternoon, the 3d, he came into the Occidental and spoke to me again about talking with his sick wife. He is a powerfully built man about five feet ten or eleven in height, a face once seen not easily forgotten, yel- lowish white, as though there was no blood in it, a dark mustache and thick, coarse hair. He first wore a light "brown Fedora hat and a dark suit, but when he last came into the house before leaving, as he remarked, for Mexico he had a black hat. “His companion, the man who had the pistol and who wore the mask all the time, was ‘a fellow about five feet six in height. The other man called him ‘Pete.’ I think that he must have known me be- fore, and that is why he was so care- ful to conceal his face from me. He wore squeaky shoes, and I could always tell by them when he was about. He would walk up and down in the hall dur- ing the day. He did not remam in the “‘Pete’s’” conversation that of these men who is a friend of Mrs. Dunton, the owner of the premises at 4109 California street, is the only person who ciaims to have seen ‘‘Pete,” the smaller man, face to face. Josephine is at present engaged as a do- mestic in_a family residing at Ashbury Heights. Up to Tuesday afternoon she had not been apprised of the removal of Mrs. Dunton, and called at the residence to get some of her belongings. “I went to the back door,’”’ she said, “and was met by a young man who just looked at me and grinned. He was awfully dirty, and his clothes were ragged and filthy. He had a cigarette in his_mouth and looked just like a tough. He had black marks down the sides of his face. “I asked him where Mrs. Dunton was,” she continued, ““and he just grinned and shut the door.” Such was the story Josephine told Mrs. J. J. Maloney on Wednesday aiternoon, when she called to find where her mother, as she called Mrs. Dunton, had moved. Later, when the girl had heard of Camp- bell’s story, she made some additions to her tale. She then said she had lifted up a window-shade and gazed into the kitchen for a moment. There she saw what looked like the body of a man on a Jarge arm- chair. It was covered over with a cloth. Campbell, however, says that he was not in the room which she indicates, so if she saw anything it was not Campbell. Mary Ragatto, the 13-year-old child of the neighbor on the immediate left of the Dunton premises, claims to have seen the men leaving by the back en- trance about 8 o'clock Wednesday even- ing. The Racattos have a porch over- looking the Dunton rear entrance. Here Mary says she was standing Wednesday «vening, when ske saw a tall man and a short man pass through the gate, and, crossing South California street, disappear toward Geary. J. J. Maloney, who is employed as a deputy in the Recorder’s office, says he noticed the curtains of one of the rear windows parted Tuesday morning as though some one was peering out. He also noticed a light Tuesday evening in the room where Campbell claims to have been confined. Mrs. Maloney 'says the only signs of life she heard about tie place was a hammering Monday after- noon. She remarked at the time the neighbors were chopping kindling wood, but never saw any smoke. Campbell’s statement that he was un- able to see distinctly the features of tle man that guided him toward tbe Geary- street car seems remarkibie when the locality is viewed at night. Only a few feet from the rear entrance of the Dunton residence an electric lamp on the corner of California street and Second avenue throws out a flood of light. To have taken the course he describes and as cor- rovorated by Mary Ragatto, he must have walked in the full glare of this light. Maloney says he remembers the light was all right that night, for by it he recognized several of the party of detectives wbo came about midnight when Campbell had reported the matter, The light through which Campbell must have passed is nearly as strong as daylight and in it a person could easily be seen distinctly for twenty or thirty yards at least. The house, although closely crowded by neighbors on each side, 1s in one respect admirable for the purpose of confusing a stranger. Both ends face on a street, and either might be mistaken for a front en- trance. A flower-plot graces each. 0010 Ui San Jose Testimony. A dispatch was received from San Jose last night stating that no one at the Ven- dome remembers seeing Winthrop or a man of his discription with Capitalist Campbell. Winthrop was not registered in the Garden Uity during Campbell's stay, at least not under his own nams, Gopcheivich to Be Tried. Eaditor Gopcheivich of the Servian-American will have to staud irial on the charge of libel- ing Spiro Radulovich. His attorney; Carroll Cook, argued on a demurrer to the complaint that the article was not malicious, yesterday, in Judge Bahrs’ court, but the demurrer was overruled and the case set for trial. ————————— ‘Witnesses in Pennsylvania courts will not be required hereafter to kiss the Bible when being sworn. This change is in the interest of health, to prevent the dissemi- nation of microbes and other unwhole- some things. THE BENNINGTON DRAGGED ANCHOR, Drifted Into the Fairway and Was Near a Collision. SHE HAD TO BE MOVED. Tramp Steamers Are Taking the Wheat Trade From Sailing Ships. FREIGHT OF THE VALLEY ROAD. In Future It Will Be Carried by the California Navigation Company’s St.amers. The United States gunboat Bennington came down from Mare Island yesterday and anchored off the ferry slips. Soon after everything was made snug the war- ship began to drag her anchor and in the course of half an hour she was opposite | Jackson-street wharf and in close proxim- ity to the British tramp steamer Stratu- garry. An iron ship was anchored close by and from Clay-street wharf it looked as if all three vessels were in a cluster. The Bennington was right in the fair- way of the Sausalito and Tiburon ferry steamers, so Chief* Wharfinger Root lost no time in ordering her out of the way. He got on board the tug Governor Mark- bam and went out personally to serve no- tice on the captain of the gunboat. Shortly afterward steam was got up on the Bennington and she was moved out of the fairway. The anchorage off the ferries is not as good as it used to be and all heavy vessels anchored there drift more or less. When the Philadelphia was there two months | ago she picked up her anchor and only manage d to find holding grourd when she was off Lombard-street wharf. Another tramp steamer arrived in port esterday. She is the Cedar Branch from okohama and she will load wheat at Port Costa for Liverpool. Nearly all the grain crop is heing handlied by steamers, and it ooks as though the sailing vessels will have to remain at anchor for some time to come before they get a charter. The Umatilla got in from Puget Sound ports yesterday. Captain Hunter was in his element, as there were three bridal couples on board. Professor Anderson of Stanford University was also a passenger. He was accompanied by his wife and they spent a most enjoyable month among the Alaskan glaciers. W. Lawson, the repre- sentative of R. P. Rithet & Co., Victoria, B. C., agents of the Pacific Coast Steam- ship Company, also came down to spend a holiday in San Francisco. The Hawaiian ship John Ena arrived from Newcastle, N. 8. W., last Friday night. On June 11 she was caught in a heavy southeast gale and lost three lower topsalls, a staysail and fore and main sail. The eargo shifted and the ship had a narrow escape. , It was the only inci- dent during the passage and fine weather ‘was experienced from that time on. There were some lively times on Jack- son-street wharf yesterday. The ‘‘hoboes” have been making a camping und of the piace. They invaded the wharf early that work round a racetrack—not the jockeys—but that may have been feigned. fi' had no peculiar or foreign accent. From hisactions at the time they were robbing me and after that I decided that he was not an old hand at that sort of business. He seemed to be nervous. “It is not possible that Winthrop was at his home between 5 and 6 o’clock Monday night; [ don’t care who says he saw him there. He stayed in that house all that night—all the time after we got there. He passed in and out of the room, put he never was gone long. “Soon after we got there, soon after I was bound to the chair, they were busy preparing the papers, and 1t took them some little time. Then he tried for a long time to get me to sign them. We started from the Occidental about 4 o’clock. “The next morning Winthrop told me that he had orders to torture me if I did not give in. They closed the folding-doors to the front room, and I heard them pounding in there and I heard the sound of metal. g I decided that they were getting ready todo the torturing.” But when they un- fastened my_elbows and took meinto the next room I saw my mistake. They put me on the bed, sprang handeuffs upon my wrists and then remoyed the rope. “They ran a chain_about four feet long through the handcuffs and the other end was fastened to the floor. Then they tied a rogc about my waist and fastened the handcuffs to it and took half-hitches about my thighs and bound me down to the bed. “T could only lie on my back. I would not eat or drink though they asked me if 1 wished to. All this time I was gagged. “When I was released I walked two or three blocks before getting on the cars, hoping that I might see 8 policeman and return with him at once, but I saw no one. I dared not go up to one of the houses, as 1 knew nothing of the people there.” = A et e WHAT THE NEIGHBORS SAY The Abducted Planter Should Have Recognized His Gulde When He Was Released. Dunton, & 154year-old girl NEW TO-DAY. DON’TMISSIT! The Creditors’ Sale of the $92,000 Stock of New and Fine Dry Goods of J. SAMUELS, 104, 106, 108 G00DS SACRIFICED AT 42; CENTS ON THE DOLLAR! Checked Taffeta Silks, 20c a yard. Silk Velvets and Plushes, 25¢ a yard. Elegant Black Brocaded Silks, 65¢ a yard. . 40-inch All-Wool Plain and Striped Cheviots, 20c a yard. 46-inch All-Wool Serges, 25¢ a yard. 54-inch Genuine Scotch Serges, navy and black, 50c a yard. KEARNY ST. $2.50 Blankets, $1 a pair. $3 Lace Curtains, $1.50 a pair. And corresponding bargains in every department. SALE INOW ° ke OIN And will continue until the entire stock is disposed of. The stock must be turned into money ; prices do not count. in the morning and made three meals a day off ' the fruit stacked there. Nelson & Anderson, owners of the river steamers, got tired of having to pay for the stolen fruit, so yesterday they employed a watch- man. The latter drove the loafers off the wharf, but many of them showed fizht and blood flowed in consequence. A num- ber of arrests were made. In future tramps will be wary of making a free meal off fruit brought here by the river steamers. The California Navigation and Improve- ment Company’s steamer T. C. Walker, was back in commission yesterday. Re- pairs to her engines were made and she is now as good as ever. In future the steam- ers of this line will carry all the freight of the Valley Road from Stockton to San Francisco. All the delayed 'ships seem to be arriv- ing in port. Last night the Italian bark Oriente from Swansea got in. She was fifty-four days off the Horn. The British bark Ravenscourt from London also ar- rived. She had light winds all the way. Ran Away at Thirteen. Chief Crowley received a dispatch yesterday afternoon that Eva Dougherty, a girl 13 years of age, had been arrested in Napa. Eva was employed in the house of Mrs. Loesecke, 567 Howard street, and last Thursday she disap- peared, taking with ner $30 in coin, a_pair of shoes, a gold watch with diamond setting and a pair of gold sleeve-buttons. KEW TO-DAY. “Are there different grades of Sc/ulling’s Best tea?” you may ask; “if not, why are the prices dif- ferent ?” Why is there a difference between the prices of figs and oranges and peaches, even when they come from the same ranch ? Schilling's Best is the highest standard of our tea “ranch.” Different flavors are different fruits. Pound Half-pound Japan, 50¢c 25¢ English Breakfast, 6oc 3oc Oolong, 75¢ 40c¢ Ceylon, 8c 40c Ideal Blend, $1.25 65 ¢ Sold only in packages ; your money back if you don’t like it. A Schilling & Compan; SanFranchice T Philadelphia Shoe Co, No. [0 Thio Sr, STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT BARGAIN SEEKERS Are always pleased with our shoes and prices. We have to sell cheap on account of that HIGH FENCE, and our customers are willing to walk around it 8o ss to take advantage of our cheap prices. This week the greates: bargain ever of- fered In the United States That’s a big assertion, but we can back it up. Ladles’ extra quality Vil Kid Lace Shoes, with the very best black cloth tops, latest style razor toes and patent leather tips, flexible soles, reduced for (his week to 82, never sold before for less than $3; all sizes and widths, This week money in your pocket. Special Sale of Ladies’ Extra Fine French Vier Kid Button Shoes, with either cloth or kid tops, latest styie razor toes, halt Tokio last, flexible soles and patent-leather tips. Special price $1.85. Nothing Jike it ever offered before. Regular price $3 50. A&~ Country orders solicited. 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