The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1896. THEMYSTERIOUS “PETE" HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED F. W. Brooks Was Called Such by His Two Mar- ried Sisters. A SWEETHEART ENOWN AS “DOLLIE.” The Letter Found in 0. W. Win- throp’s Possession Was Written by Her. HOTEL CLARENDON'3 TELLTALE BLOTTER. It Has Easily Led to the Discovery of Winthrop’s Correspondence With the Cramers, and Clears Away Many Cloudy Points. Millionaire James A. Campbell, who claims to have been kidnaped by Oliver Wintbrop and shot by Winthrop’s accom- plice, known at present by the name of “Pete,” is quietly resting at the Hotel Vendome, Ban Jose. Oliver Winthrop, who denies Campbell’s sensational story and any association with said “Pete” in a dastardly attempt to ex- tort $20,C00 from the Hawaiian planter, is eafely beld in tank 34 at the City Prison. Captain Lees is sitiing contentedly in his upper office, reaching around and pat- ting himself on the back for having cap- tured Winthrop, whom he believes to be as villainous a bandit as Campbeil would make him out to be. The mysterious *“Pete’” is at large, pre- sumably as securely hidden as are Blan- ther and Dunham, two gentlemen who bave made their mark in this worid and whose whereabouts Captain Lees would like to know. Mrs. Dunton, the owner of the cottage, 4109 California street, who, the detectives say, reccived money from Winthrop for the rental of the place, declares positively that she did nothing of the sort, and that the man under arrest had never been seen by her until Monday, when she was brought to the City Hall to identify him. Joseph Douglass, a former resident of | Honoluly, in a position where he could study the intimate habits of James A. Campbell, declares the latter was a fre- quent tippler; that on many ocecasions to his knowledge Campbell absented hirmself from home for several days and nights, enjoying himself immensely with friends or strangers, it made no difference which, providing the wine flowed freely. On these occasions, so says Douglass, Camp- bell invariably returned hbme disgrantied, sick and sore, but with some sensational story of having been abused, held ap, tor- tured and robbed. s The Campbell faction, headed by Cap- | tain Lees, deny all through in .the face of | overwhelming evidence to the effect that | Campbell does drink, drinks Tright | roundly when he does drink at all, and | that is often. They claim that venom or spite causes Douglass to talk as he has, because when he was steward aboard the inter-island steamer Liki-Liki he led a merry dance in the wineroom and Camp- bell caused him to be discharged. These are a few puzzling features of the Campvell-Winthrop case from which any one may pick bis choice and follow up any kind of a theory. In other woras, while the chief actors in this modern drama, not to say tragedy, are more or less located, the great, good and confiding public are completely at sea. To be sure there were new developments yesterday. Winthrop consented to open his mouth a little wider than usual, but it is not quite certain whether it was not his desire tc laugh at his accusers that made him do so. However, some words of ia- formation dropped from him. ¢ His wife, accompanied by a mutual {riend, one Private Detective Hicks, called on him during the early morning and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. They greeted each other most lovingly with a resound- | ing kiss or two, and sat in the corridor engaged in busy conversation. Attorneys Quitzow and Mathews, two friends of the prisoner, and the former, at least, a brother in the American Protective Association, met and advised him to keep his own counsel and not speak of his case to any one, especially the newspaper men. As a finish to the day’s doings, an in- formation against Winthrop was filed with the County Clerk charging him with rob- bery and assault to commit murder. His case will be tried shortly in Judge ‘Wallace’s court. TALE OF A BLOTTING-PAD. It Strongly Indicates F. W, Brooks as the Mysterious “Pete.” ‘When Detective Charles Cody so cleverly arrested Winthrop Monaay morning in Oakland, he induced Detective Holland to search the prisoner’s room at the Claren- don House. : “There is no use your going there,” Winthrop said, hearing the request made by Cody. “You will find nothing there but a razor ana a strop.” The search was conducted anyhow, prov- ing that Winthrop was only partially cor- rect. The detective, in addition to the shaving paraphernalia, found a well-used blotting-pad, which was taken away for examination. Captain Lees has had this pad for two days, but declines 1o tell what he has made out of the muchly biurred surface. Yesterday he had a looking-glass placed in his office and the blotter was placed at the disposal of the newspaper men. Plaeing the pad before the mirror and deciphering the ink-stains as reproduced in the glass, some words and even parts of sentences could easily be read as fol- Jows: JIM: Strong heart and all will be well yet. Money for you. * * * Fifth car from the engine * * * for this dirty work ol the scheme with Nina * * * identify him, * * * MR, FREDERICK CRAMER, General Postoffice, San Francisco, Cal. Epecial Delivery Department. Of course, thess snatches of writing, criss-crossed as the blottings of scores of letters, tell no particular tale as a whole. They serve only as detached clews thay must be worked up to arrive at a solution. Mrs. Winthrop’s name is Josie, but her hu_sba’xvxd's fond appellation was plain ;":hm, the name at the head of the blot- T. It is evident from the second line that the writer was endeavoring to cheer u his wife. The other lines can only furnis! food for theories. It is evident, however, from the last rart of the blurred pad that Winthrop was 1 communication with his brother-in- law by marriage. Both he and Cramer married the Brooks sisters, the brother of whom is F. W. Brooks, the head janitor at the Emporium, who, one week ago Sa urday, suddenly disappeared with $600 wages he should have paid to the men working under him. Taking all these things and others into consideration, it is not quite improbable that the mysterious *“Pete’” may event- | ually be located. | Although Captain Lees and Winthrop | declare positively that F. W. Brooks had nothing to do with the Camybell nt~‘ fair, it is just as positively asserted by | others in a position to know of what they speax, that both Mrs. Winthrop and Mrs. Cramer, as well as their respective hus- bands, never addressed F. W. Brooks by any other name than “Pete.” 5 Itis also asserted that subsequent to his disappearance from this City Brooks was seen at the Cramer lodgings in this City, and the theorists see no reason why Brooks, short of funds and a fugitive any- way, should not have joined with Win- throp to recoup himself by torturing Mil- | lionaire Campbell into giving them $20,000. — - WINTHROP DENIES DOLLIE. He Clalms She Is Only a Creature Born In the Minds of the Police. Winthrop is being treated with dis- tinguished consideration by the police. He has been #®¥igned to tank 34, away | from the rude gaze of the throng, Jackson, the murderer, being his sole companion in the large airy steel box they use as their drawing-room and bed chamber. Unlike Dean, the §20,00 forger, who quite recently was Captain Lees’ star boarder, however, Winthrop has been un- able to procure himself a comfortable camp cot of his own, with his own blankets, mattresses, sheets and pillow- cases. Neither is he allowed to wander out during the sunshine, lunch in town and take his pousse cafes in fashionable saloons in the company of detectives. But he has no complaint to make. He is al- lowed to receive visitors, and the trusties of the prison give him the choicest pieces in the plain daily menu. “I’'m esatisfied,” he declared yesterday. “So long as I have the necessary where- with I suppose the trusties will keep on being kind to me.”” Winthrop looked better than he did the day before. He was less pale and far more composed, but almost as reticent. “Who is Dollie?”’ wagd asked of him, al- | lusion being made to the letter addressed | to Al Brunson which was found unopened in his pocket, according to the detectives. “Is Dollie the name under which your wife wrote to you?"’ *No; my wife’s name is Josephine, and that Dollie affair is a creation of the | police. right.” *‘Do you mean to say the Doliie letter was simply a decoy letter written to you | by the poiice?” “1don’t want to talk any more, so don’t ask me,” “Where does Frederick Cramer live?'’ was asked. | Winthrop drew himself up in astonish- | ment, but with an inquiring look. If those bright, sharp eyes of his could have | uttered words they certainly would have asked: ! “Why do you want to know? Where did you get that name?’’ “The blotting-pad you left behind at the Clarendon Hotel, Oakland, aithongh somewhat blurred shows you wrote to Cramer.” | “That may ve,” said Winthrop, aftera | moment of silence, “but I don’t see why you want to bring him into this affair. | He is a very nervous man, and I would not like to mix him up in my troubles.” “Who is he, then?”’ “He married a sister of my wife. That is our only relationship. But I wiil insist that you ask me nothing further, for I cannot afford to go deeper into the subject | without jeopardizing my position. I claim to be innocent of the crimes charged against me, and 1 will show myself so when my case comes up in court.” | After a while, Winthrop denied that the Cramers lived in Oakland, and, looking earnestly intp the eyes of the reporter, he said : ow, I am speaking the truth to you, they live in this City.” This unlooked for burst of truthful con- fidence was not backed up by any more definite address, and must be accepted | | with certain reservations in view of the | fact that other people who know the Cramers assert positively that their resi- dence is across the bay. These people have noreason to either conceal nor expose | what they know, but prefer to not divulge the exact address, not wishing to bring | their acquaintances more prominently into the present sensation. ‘This being the case, both the Dollie and the Cramer statements of Winthrop may be safely cousidered at an inverse ratio of truthiulness to the earnestness with which they were made. : Captain Lees, who, in his anxiety to bring criminals to justice, and who always blows cold when newspaper men are on the hottest trail, poopoohs the idea that F. W. Brooks is “Pete,” and Winthrop likewise aoes the same. This is not a bad indication that much credence may honestly be given to the correctness of the surmise. ey BROOKS KNFW DOLLIE. This Is the Positive Assertion Made by an Emporium Em~ ploye. In connection with the Campbell-Win- throp case, Mrs, A. Marshall, who con- ducts the Normandie on Eddy street, was seen last night and said that some time ago she conducted a boarding-house at toe corner of McAllister and Laguna streets. While there she had among Ler boarders Mr. and Mrs, Cramer and F. W. Brooks, his wife and two little children. “They were not divorced at that time,"” said she, ‘‘but a divorce between them was pending.”’ *How did Mr. Brooks impress you?" “‘He was a scoundrel—a scoundrel. The way he neglected his wife, who. was a lovely lady, and nis two little ones, was shameful. “He was a window-cleaner by trade, He was a great talker, a smooth-faced man, and, I think, of dark complexion. “What cauced the trouble between him and his wife?” "\Vh?', he was going, I believe, with a typewriter girl, whom I employed at the time. I can’t think of her name, but she had a great influence over him. I cannot remember the girl’'s name, which wasa peculiar one, but I think if you go over to the Emperium they will be able to tell you there,” Mrs. Marshzll said she was never well acquainted with Brooks nor with the Cramer family. “The Cramers,” said she, ‘‘were excep- tionally nice people, and Mr. Cramer was an honest and upright gentleman, who held and holds now a responsible position. I never heurd Mr. Brooks called by his first name.”’ An employe on the night watch at the Emporium was afterward interviewed. He said that Brooks was a smoooth- faced, dark-complexioned man and a volub'e talker. He was, moreover, a cigarette fiend. He made his cigarettes himself and smoked them incessantly. Heused brown They know who Dollie is all | prominence of that organ, and was rather stout in build. He was a great blusterer and told blood-curdling tales of his adventures while at sea. He was once a sailor, and also worked at the Pacific Mail dock. He cruised down along the coast to South America and boasted of deeds of daring he had done in those southern ports. The most singular part of this man’s story regarding the Brooks connected with the establishment is the following: “One evening,” he said, "I was standing at the door, when a young woman of not very prepossessing features came to the entrance. Brooks was going out at the same time. He said ‘Goos evening, Dolly,’ and the two went away together. He was going with this girl. I forget her name; it is something like Plimper—an odd name. She wasa typewriter and had a hypnotic influence, believed, over the man. “When I saw the statement in THE CALL this morning that Captain Lees had a let- ter in his possession directed to Brunson and signed ‘Dolly’ I tallied immediately the Brooks who had skipped with our money and the ‘Pete’ connected with the Campbell case. “I have not the slightest doubt in my mird but that the two are identical. “I think Brooks would be just the kind of a man to do something of the same kind as what ‘Pete’ did, He is just that kind of cattle.” It was also learned from others who were boaraing at -Mrs. Marshall's at the same time Brooks and his wife were there that he was called ‘‘Pete” custom- arily by his wife and sister. It was stated also by one that he had often re- marked that he would make his vpile and then go to Lima, Peru, a place with which he was well acquainted and where he could enjoy himself. These same parties are of the opinion that *‘Pete” or Brooks, which they hold to be the same person, is fow on his way to that part of the world. e Urquhart Is at Home. OAKLAND, Car., Aug. 11.—A visit to the residence of Archie Urquhart, 1278 Fifth avenue, to-night found the gentle- man at home. No lights were visible from without, but a ring of the door bell brought Miss Urqubart to thedoor. In answer to a query she admitted that her brother was at home, but was in bed asleep. She said none of the family had a word to say upon the matter of the Campbell affair. She retused positively to allow her brother to be awakened. She was then asked if Urquhart had admitted to her and her mother that he had been approached upon a proposition to kidnap Mr. Campbell. Bhe turned from the door and, after stepping back a few steps, she was heard to ask, “What shall I say?” A male voice within replied, “Say the family have is a Scotch Presbyterian.’ ‘Well’ he said, ‘we will be married by a minister. Put your shoes on.” 1asked, ‘To-night?’ and he said, ‘Yes; Iknow where there is a minister.” “I put on my shoes and rain-coat and we started. We wentto the house where he said the minister lived. It was on Sut- ter street, near the corner of Leavenworth. Idonot know_who the minister was or what he was. We_went up the steps and he rang the bell. I did not see how we could be legally married without a license, soIran down the steps and ran a block away. I did not see how we could get married withous a license. “I wanted & license, as I started out witn the proposition that he did not stop to think. aybe he had a license, but I did not stop to inguire. Anyway, I went away down to the end of the block. He looked both ways and walked down to where I was. I said, ‘You have nolicense,’ and he said, ‘It would be only a mis- demeanor for the minister to marry us, which would be only a fine of $200, and I guess a check of §500 would fix that.” We did not go back to the minister's house. Senator Fair took me to my home. “He was angry at the way I had acted about it. The subject was dropped at that time. The subject of marriage was fre- quently proposed after that by him uatil the marriage contract was drawn. It was always introduced by him. T consented to the contract marriage after my mother died.” Mrs. Craven-Fair then testified to what Senator Fair had said to herabout his sons. | *‘He said that James had a business edu- cation, and if he would only quit his one bad habit of drinking he would be one of the brightest men in the country and a companion for him, but that Charles had no education and the same bad habit. If Charles shou!d quit this bad habit he had no hopes for him, because he had no edu- cation.” Mrs. Crayen told about her parents. They were both Scotch and Presbyterians. She ‘was born in Ohio. The testimony con- cerning the making of the marriage con- tract was repeated. that Senator Fair signed the contract §irst. She drew it_according to the instructions of Senator Fair. X “Senator Fair saia that if the children knew about the marriage Jessie would tear her hair and he thought that Charlie would stab him in the back. He said that he hoped that if he died before I did L would take the secret to the grave with me. If I died first he would take the secret to the grave with him for my sake.” Mrs. Craven also_testified that Notary Craig acknowledged the signatures to the marriage contract. ‘She and Senator Fair met him on the street and beckoned to him and he stopped. Whether a fee was paid Mrs. Craven testified that she did not know. e Mrs. Craven said also that she went out eoon after and spoke to her daughter abous nothing to say.”” She then returned and .delivered the message. When told tnat she was the one to answer such a ques- twn,' she replied, “We have nothing to say.” HOW SENATOR FAIR WOOED MRS, CRAVEN Filled Her Pockets With Gold and Called Her “ Dearie.” ONCE SHE RAN , AWAY. They Were to Have Been Mar- ried by a Minister, but She Escaped. FOR THERE WAS NO LICENSE. Th Fair Deponent Was Plied With Searching Questions and Was Unshaken to the End. Mrs. Nettie R. Craven resumed her deposition in the Fair will case yesterday at her home on Guerrero street. Mr. McEnerney asked her many questions during/ the forenoon. He asked her how she fixed September 24 asthe day uvon which Senator Fair made his will in her house. She explained that she had sev- eral ways to do this. One circumstance by which her memory was refreshed was that she was absent from school that day. She had been absent at other times, but a particular happening fixed this absence in her memory. Senator Fair had told her that he would call on Beptember 24, The day preceding, namely, September 23, Mrs. Purcell, her dressmaker, came to the house and remained there all night., She told Mrs. Purcell that she would be busy the following day, and more conversation took place oun the morning of September 24, which ran, according to the meuiory of the witness, as follows: “I told qier that an important person was coming, but I will not swear that I mentioned the name of Senator Fair. Mrs, Purcell said: ‘I know who it is; it is Sen- ator Fair.' I did not deny that. -1 sent word that day to the school by Mrs, Pur- cell that I wouid not be at the school.’” Some questions were asked as to whom this message was sent, but nothing of spe- cial interest was drawn out. Mrs. Craven said that she ordinarily would have noti- fied the vice-principal of the school. M. Purcell was living at that time on the cor- ner of Howard and Thirteenth streets. Mrs. Craven iwas led also to testify con- cerning the persons who saw the will which Senator Fair drew at her home, Mrs. Craven thought that she showed the will to Mrs, Haskins before she sent it to her daughter in New York. She could not recollect whether she first showed the will to Mr. Lloyd or Mr, Roberts. The last named knew that she had the will. Of course Mr. Roberts, who went to Sac- ramento to talk with Governor Budd, knew about the will. She told him that she had the will before he went to Sacra- mento. - When she told him he asked, “Why didn’t you tell me before ?"” “I told him that he would have told me to file it immediately, and I did not want any gnhlicny. I do not_think that he would have let me send it away, so I think that I did not show it to him’ before I sent it to my daughter.” During the forenoon the condition of Mrs. Craven’s health was inquired about. Dr. Clinton, her physician, who has been the marriage contract. “What did she say 2" “She said something like mamma, mamma.’ " “Did she object to the secrecy ?” *‘She objected to the secrecy and said that she did no. want to divide her mamma up with any one. I said, ‘Birdie, 1 had your welfare in mind,” and told her of the advantage which would come to her.” k The witness also deposed that she re- moved from 823 Sutter street to 2007 Cali- fornia. The rent was $90 a month, which Senator Fair paid. Senator Fair gave her as high as $500 at one time. He wasnever inclined to be niggardly with her in money matters. She was the one who drew the line of economy. When Senator Fair came to her home June 24 he said that they wanted him to sign another will. They had been bothsr- in knguw but that he would give them a will and fool them. Mrs, Craven also deposed that she had a play embracing many pages of manuscript, which had been written by her daughter and which the witness had undertaken to revise. There were blank sheets in the package and upon two of these Senator Fair wrote his will. Senator Fair said at that time that he did not want to give Charles any- thing because he drank and because he had married some one that he did not like. *I said, ‘Senator, you know that he may have inherited it, so far as drinkin, is concerned. He is your own flesh an blood.” ‘Yes, he did,’ he said, ‘from his mother.’ ] said, ‘Perhaps he inherited a little of it from you.” He said that he did not like the woman that Charles had married. I said, ‘Before he was married he was run- ning over across the bay with his night- clothes on. Perhaps you ought to thank this woman for what she has done for Charles. Now he is waiking the streets like a man. If he has any faults gemnps he inherited them.” He said, ‘Well, don’t know but that you are right; that is so, that is so, Charlie used to do so and now he is doing better.” ¢ said, ‘Why don’t you right it and put him on an equality with the others?” He aaid, ‘Well, write out a clause.” I wrote a clause. He said that to make Charles ‘Mamma, equal he would have to give him $500,000. | 1 said, ‘Give it to him. Mrs. Oelrichs has a husband to support her and Virginia has money enough-to buy one. Chariie has a woman who is trying to make a man of him now.” He said, ‘That is right; that is right. Now write me out a clause.’ knew something about the inequality of the children in the mother’s estate. He wished to give Charlie §500,000 more than the others to €ven up on the mother's estate. ; I said to Senator Fair, ‘While you'are giving to all these charities come down and think of the teachers. You have al- ways thought a good deal of one.’ He wanted to_know how much and I said $50,000, and said thut I was the chairman of the committee. He said, ‘That goes.’” Mrs. Craven testified also that Mrs. Haskins came into the room and said, “Why, Senator, you have not made any provision for Mrs. Craven,”’ and he said that he had made provision in another way. - ‘At the first conversation about deeding roperty, Mrs. Craven said that she told genamr Fair that she wanted the property opposite the Stanford and Hopkins prop- erty on Nob Hill. Senator Fair said: ‘You silly woman, you would need a fortune to keep that up. What you want is income- paying property. Iam going to give you the property you have been in the habitof passing so often and the Pine and San- some streets propert{. That was some time before the will was drawn. There bad been_ talk of putting me in the will, which I declined. After the will was made’ he pulled out two papers and said that was the way he hnrl*)rovided for me. I looked at the papers. They were the deeds which have since been put on record. They bad not then been acknowledged. He told me that they were perfectly vaiid. I wished to have them acknowledged, and he said that he would have them acknowieged. Then the talk about having a discreet no- tary occurred.” After the will was drawn, Mrs. Craven also testified, she asked Senator Fair if the will was valid written in pencil. He said that it was verfectly good. It was very difficult to write in ink anything except - She felt quite sure | him so much, he said, that he did not | his signature, and he did not like to write in ink. The will was then copied in ink. Senator Fair then left the house, leaving the will and the copy in her possession. The witness told of her introduction to Governor Budd. She was in Bacramento in reference to the teachers’ pension bill. Governor Budd said he approvea of the bill and thought it a good one. She said, *‘Well, I shall want your fist on that,” and he said, “Well, you shall have my fist on it.” Then she said that as the Governor was so nice about it she would go a litile further. She was afraid of the Demo- cratic members, and feared that the bill would not pass. He said that he would speak to them, and she said that if he would do this the bill would pass. She was going away, and Governor Budd said: ““Wait a minute; you are the woman I have been looking after. Where is that will Senator Fair has left with you?” *I said, ‘What will?” He said, ‘That $50,000 that Senator Fair has left for the teachers’ ension fund.” My answers were evasive. e said, ‘I know that you have such a will.” He tapped a bell and sent away a messenger and called for Dr. Levingston on the telephone. He asked me who the executors were, and I told him that I would not answer that. He asked me if I did not know that he could send me across the bay. He said that he was Charles Fair’s attorney, and that Charles had toid him that his father bad said that he had | made another will.” This testimony was & repetition sub- stantially of some of the testimony of the preceding day. Mrs. Fair said that she was frightened by the threats coming from the Governor of the State. Mrs. Craven spoke of an occasion when Senator Fair filled herlfockets with gold in the presence of Mrs. Haskins. She was at the Occidental Hotel. This was just before she started for the East and Mrs. Haskins was packing some dresses for her. The occurrence, as Mrs. Craven recalled it, was as follows: z “‘Senator Fair came in and ssid that he expected that I would want some pin money. I had on a jacket and he filled the pockets with small gold.” “What were his exact words?” “He said, ‘Well, dearie, I guess that you might want some extra money 2’ ”’ ““Was that the idea?” ““Well, I recollect that was the word and his putting it that way.” “Well, give us the exact wording, madam; did he use the word dearie?* "’ “He did.”” “You have no doubt that he used that word 2"’ “I have no doubt about it.” The testimony was very long and covered some matters already gone over in more detail. At a late hour yesterday afternoon Mrs. Craven’s deposition was completed. ————— To Take New Testimony. Delmas & Shortridge, attorneys for Dr. Marc Levingston, have filed a notice to the other attorneys in the Fair case that on August 13 they will move in court for the appointment of a commission {0 take the depositions of Miss Virginia Fair and Mrs. Theresa A. Oelrichs. The affidavit accompanying the motion, states that a question of fact has been raised by Charles L. Fair, and that the testimony oi the two ladies mentioned, who are now in New York, is necessary. Dr. Levingston’s Default. The default of Dr. Marc Levingston, who was made co-defendant in the suit of the special administrators of the Fair estate, to quiet title to the propart{ named lin the pe.cil deeds recorded by Mrs, Craven, was eaotered yesterday. No answer was filed by Dr. Levingston within the required time. BURGLARS KEEPING BUSY, The : Residence of Mrs. B. M. Wilson, Eddy Street, Broken Into. Valuable Diamond Cross, Lady’s Gold Watch and Other Articles Carried Off. A daring burglary was reported at police headquarters Monday morning, and detectives are busily engaged trying to capture the men. Mrs. B. M. Wilson occupies the lower flat of the house, 318 Eady street. The family went out of the City Sunday for a day’s enjoyment, and she was left home alone. About 6 o’clock in the evening she went to the upper flat to have a friendly chat with the family occupying it, and re- | mained until nearly 8 o’clock, when she ex pected the other members of her family | would return from their trip. She was astonished to find a piece of candle burning on the top of the bureau drawers in one of the bedrooms. It haa burned so low that in a few minutes more the flame would have, in all probabihty, set fire to the bureau drawers and burned down the house. She blew out the candle and lit the gas, and saw at once that during her ab- sence some one had been in her apart- ments. Bureau drawers had been emptied of their contents, which were strewn over the floors; the bed clothes had been pulled onto the floor and the mattresses ripped up in the search for money or jewelry. Mrs. Wilson found that a valuable diamond cross, a lady’s gold watch, a number of valuable coins and other ar- ticles had been stolen. A rear window was open, which showed the mode of in- gress, and it bore the imprint of a “jimmy.” A paper mask was also found in one of the rooms, which in their hurry to zet away the burglars had drogped. Two men were seen by one of the neigh- bors leaving the house by the rear win- dow, but it was too dark to get a descrip- tion of them. ———————— A Tribute to the Dead Contractor. Ata meeting of the Stonecutters’ Assoeia- tion held yesterday the following resolution was unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, It has pleased the Almighty to re- move from our midst our 1ate employer and friend, James S, McGlilvray, who was_ acciaentally killed in this City by & falling aerrick; and whereas, we have alwavs koown him by his noble deeds of charity and kindness, and realizing the terrible blow his widow and family and relatives have recelved through this sad occurrence; therefors De it Resolved, That we, the members of the Sand- stone Cutters’ Assoclation of San Francisco, ax- teyd to the widow and family and relatives of our Iate employer and friend our deepest sympathy agg sincers resret in this their sad hourof be- reffivement. i Thomas McKnight, Danlel McHugh, J, H, Mc- ‘Gregor, Jumes Y. Neish, W. Pollock, committee. e To the Asylum. Judge Sanderson yesterday committed Mrs, C. F. Corbiere, aged 68, to the asylum at Napa. She is subject to delusions, She lived at 1214 Mission street. NEW in constant attendance during the deposi- tion, said that she was well enough to go on. The testimony was therefore re- sumed yesterday afternoon. At the afternoon session Mrs, Craven was examined by Mr. Delmas, Mrs. Craven testified that when she Iwved at the Occidental Hotel Senator Fair often dined at her table and often visited her in her room. % “Was there any occasion before the exe- cation of the marriage_contract was made upon which Senator Fair proposed that you should marry him?” “Yes, sir. This was some time in the 1atter part of 1890 or 1891 when I was liv- ing at the Llngdon Hotel. He said: ‘Wel!, we have talked long enough about getting married. Why not get married?’ It was a rainy might. I said, ‘Why, Senator, paper and fine-cut tobacco. e was called ‘Nosey'’ because of the what is the use of talking that way? You know that we can never agree. My mother ; Hunyadi Janos Dr. B. Monin, Secretary of the *‘Socits Francaise d'Hygiéne,’ writes: It is THE remedy VALUED BY SEDENTARY work- ers whose functions it regulates Most valuable to prevent hemorrhoids. CAUTI(‘)‘N: None genuine without the signature of ,thefirm " Andreas Saxlehner” on the label TO-DAY. [l S ol &9 o &7 g 8 Ll S 2 ] The World’s Best Natural Aperient Water é % NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. GREAT CLOSING-UT SALE STYLISH GARMENTS The imperative necessity of clearing out EVERY DOLLAR’S WORTH OF SURPLUS STOCK AND ALL BROKEN LINES, preparatory to the open- ing of Gigantic Fall Importations now in transit and arriving, forces us to mark down the lines SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR CLEARANCE TO0-DAY Regardless of Sacrifice! LADIES’ CAPES. At 81.85. LADIES’ SINGLE RIPPLE CAPES, of navy Llue 1adles’ cloth, neaiiy embroidered; also Single and Double Capes of black, navy and brown cloth, embroidered and braided; worth $6, will be closed out at $1 85 each. At S2.95. LADIES’ DOUBLE RIPPLE CAPES of plain cheviot. in shades of tan, black and navy, both capes and rolling collar trimmed with soutache braid, upper cape trimmed with stitched bands of cloth and small pearl buttons, worth $750, will be closed cut at $2 95 each. At $3.485. LADIES’ RIPPLE SINGLE CAPES of black velvet, lined with twilled silk and trimmed with ribbon and narrow passementerie; also Ripple Capes of black velvet, neatly jetted and neck finished with ribbon ana lace, worth $8 50, will be closed out at $3 45 each. At $£3.45. LADIES’ SINGLE CAPES, of light weight Kersey cloth, in shades of scarlet, black, navy and tan, finished with stitched bias bands of cloth, trimmed with small pearl buttons; also Tan Ripple Capes, neatly braided, collars finished with either ribbon or fancy ruching; worth $7 50, will be closed out at $3 45 each. LADIES’ SUITS. At S2.985. LADIES SUITS of broadcloth, cheviot and serg;, in shades of navy, black and brown, in a variety of styles, worth $7 50, wilk be closed out at $2 95 each. At $3.95. LADIES' DOUBLE-BREASTED SUITS, in moitled eflects, in shades of gray, brown and tan, excellent value for $10, will be closed out at $3 95 each. LADIES’ JACKETS. At 82.45. LADIES’ DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, in tan, navy and black, in a variety of styles, worth $7 50, will be closed out at $2 45 each. / At 83.95. LADIES’ DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKETS, in a variety of materials, colors and styles, worth $10, will be closed out at $3 95 each. LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, At 258 Cents. 200 dozen LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, laundered collar and cuffs, in fancy checks and stripes, will be closed out at 25¢ each. At SO Cents. 150 dozen LADIES’ PERCALE SHIRT WAISTS, fancy stripes, full sleeves, laundered collar and cufts, regular price $1, will be offered at 50c each. At 65 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ PERCALE SHIRT WAISTS, in fancy checks of blue, pink and black, regular price $1, will be closed out at 65¢c each. At 75 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in tan and white stripes, latest style, regular price $1 50, will be closed out at 75c each. . Marks S, o of Jos EXGURSION AND AUCTION SALE! e - SATURDAY, Saturday.... ..August 22, 1896, At 1 o'clock P. ., on the premises, " MARTIN MURPHY'S HOME- STEAD TRACT, D Subdivision No. 6, AT AUCTION memross s gn o S50 ACRES Santa Clara County. Of the Choicest and Richest Land on the Renowned MARTIN MURPHY’S Historical Homestead Tract Which is acknowleaged as the selected portion for residences, as well as containing the richest, deepest and most fertile soil in this world-beater for fruit—Santa Clara Vllle{. Here are grown to perfection, not only for coloring and flavor but as to size, and is beyond question the literal home of the Apricot, Pear, Prune, Peach and every variety of deciduous fruits. Berries thrive to an astonishing degree of perfection, and Grapes in every variety grow and flourish beyond the most sanguine hopes of the grower, and for which the extreme highest prices are obtained. This section of the great Santa Clrra Valley is appropriate for any variety of fancy farming or hobby of the fruiterer, AND WILIL BE SOLD IN 10-ACRE w0 TRACTS. PWARD WHEHE IT Is A"n WHRT "‘ |s About six mites from the Stanford University « fronts the Southern Pacific railroad, nine miles from San Jose, six miles from Palo Alto, forty miles from San Francise bout half a mile from rafroad station at Mountain View, and about one hour by rail from San Francisco. This tract fronts on the main San Jose and San Francisco Boulevard, or County road, Whisman road, Evelyn avenue, Mountain View and Alviso road (w{:ich are main thorougnfares), and is covered with a dense growth of large, stately oaks. WE WILL RUN A SPECIAL FIRST-CLASS EXCURSION TRAIN To Martin Murphy’s Homestead Tract, Bubdivision No. 6, Half Mile from the Town of Mountain On Account of This IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE, Which wiilleaye the Third and Townsend Strees Depot, San Francisco, at 10 o'clock a. ¥, SATUR- DAY, August 22, 1896, stopping at Valencia-street Station, San Mateo, Redwood and Menlo Park, re- turning leave Murphy Ranch at 3:30 o'clock P. 3. same da; $1.00—ROUND-TRIP TICKETS—81.00. Tickets ohtainableat our office on Friday, August 21, 1896, all day, and on Saturday, August 22, day of the excursion, up to 9:80 o'clock A. ., and at the depot, Third and Townsend streets, and Valencia street, up to hour of leaving, 10 o’clock A. M., from our representative and ticket office at depot. From other stations on the train, from San Mateo, Redwood and Menlo Park, round trip 50 cents. Free Collation on the Grounds. TERMS—One-Fourth Cash, balance in 1, 2 and 8 years, in=- terest 8 per cent per annum. EASTON, ELDRIDGE & €0., Auctioneers, 638 Market St., WOOSTER & WHITTON, Real Estate Agents, 7 West Santa Clara Street, Or WALTER A.sél'::lgi(e,' Mountain View. Baja California Damiana Bitters SEM, ALFS & BRUNE, Agents, N 3823 Market St., S. F.—(Send for Clrcular) & non-, remedy for Gonor?} Blect, Spermatorrhmar Whites, unnatural dis- charges, or any inflamma- NEW WESTERN HOTEL. EARNY AND WASHINGTON STS.—RE- modeled and renovajed. KING, WARD & CO. plan. Kooms 50c