The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1897, Page 14

AN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1897. JGEL 1S STILL AT LIBERTY All Hands Now Waiting]| for the Coroner’s Inquest. STRONG EVIDENCE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. It Is in the Form of a Receipt‘ in the Hands of the Attorneys. THE BOOKKEEPER'S HOPEFUL FRIENDS Say He Will B: Able to Clear Up the Most Damazing of the Case. Fzature Attorney Ach to-day documentary evidence of to have been emoez Theodore Figel. From the firm of Minor & Co. of Etna, Or., there came a receipt for $1482 75, showing th amount had bee re- ceived by the firm of Hoffman, Rothchlld & Co. on the 1st of June, the day that Isasc Hoffman was found dead in the of- e establishment of which he was received some vhat he claims ement on the part of a Figel 5o far as his employment with the firm of Hoffman, Rothchila & Co., 3¢ con- cerned. Figel has not been formally die- charged. When he went to the store on the3d of June it was stated to him by Joseph M. Rothenild of the law firm of | Rothcuild & Ach that it woald be to his | (Figel's) interest to remain away from t e | place for a while. Figel states that he ‘lnnklhe hint nd will not go near the | office until he isnotified that Le is wanted. | On the 3d of June he went to the office to | work on the books on the instruction of Chief Lees, so asto bring them up to date, as many entries had to be made in no one else knew but he n the inti- d that ms | them of which 1t was a1 this that he was giv mation by Attorney Rotbch services were not required. It was stated by the aitorneys of the firm that the work of experting the books would begin immediately alter the arrival of Mr. Rotbchild trom New York. Mr. Ach stated _yesterday. however, that they would not be placed in the hands of perts until aiter ihe Coroner's inques He also stated that the reason Fi-ei was not permitted to post up the books on the day that he was sent to the office by Chief | Lees was that he was accompanied by W. | M. Taylor, who was not an employe of the | irm—the same man who had been mak- ing bets for Figel on the races. Ach added | that if Lees had put an expert of | tion at wo-k on the books he would made no objection to their being exy Commenting on Figel’s assertion no one but the booskeeper would be abl to fix up tne books in proper shape, At- torney Ach said: ““Lét him come down and give us those items which he says have not been en- tered on the books. In other wor | admits that he bas got to force a bala | That is about what there is to it.” | . Ach does not like the appellation of | “criminal lawyer” applied to him by | Chief Lees. “Inave no idea what Chief Lees means by a criminal lawyer,” he | said yesterday, commen uvon the | Chlef’s reference to_him. *But I want it | to be clearly understood that Iam no | public prosecutor. I nave jure any one in any w 4 if L | evidence produced” to show that th | case of suicide, I will be the first { throw up my ha dence has yet been During the past has had 8 numb of the premis ce. is ne a to But no s ought to light. iwo days C { photograph er in whicu the mysterious nacted on the evening of y witl show the buliet-marks and partition and the various blood-stains on the carpet, floor and office furniture. It was positively announced y that the inquest will be held on Tu next at 10 A. x. Chief Lees ha dence in the sk expects to ge! now about all theev ape of statements that he He says he will take the PRI F g ToTALCR S — no wish to ia- | some and Merchant streets. He was | found dead in his place of business on De. cember 2), 1867. Herman Robitscheck | was arrested and charzed with - is murder on the 14th of January, 1868, The accused bad been the agent of the deceased during the latter’s absence from the City. On Cisner’s return he found the accounts had | not been satisfactorily kept, and there was | recrimination ofa biiter kind between the | There were no eye-witnesses to the killing. On January 18, 1868, Robitscheck was held to answer in the Police Court, | but when the matter went to ihe Grand | Jury it was decided to find no indictment, | the”accused escaping trial by one vote. | The case was dismissed on February 29, 1568, Friends of Figel declare that the state- ment made by E.S. Rothehild that the Hoffman brothers had a surplus of | $47,000 invested in the business and that | thére was no necessity for Hoffman to | bave concealed the fact that he was draw- large sums from the business will not tthe claim put forth by Figel that Hoffman was drawing money out of the business and was endeavoring to conceal i doings in that direction. They say that the strained relations between Hofi- man and his wife had reached such an acute stage tbat a divorce suit was immi- | nent, and that Hoffman, therefore, would nave bad a motive in secreily obtaining possession of all the ready money that he could, so as to getitoutol reach of the law if matters came to the wors: between | him and his wife. | - | GELLERT WILL _NOT.' TALK. is Impervious to Any State- ments Made Reflecting Upon H m. Mr. Gellegt, the assistant bookkeeper of Hofiman, Rothehild & Co., was found in the oflice of the firm yesterday morning, and when questioned regarding Figel's accusation that hany errors in the hake any statement. ‘I don’t care what is said by him or any one else, and I do not care what the papers exclaimed. “If 1 was to ry to (L that is in the papers I | men. He | books, declined to he was responsible for | | I am very busy now, so | you will have to excuse me.”” Whether or not Mr. Figel's accusation is true wi thoroug! xperted, and Mr. Geilert's ransactions will come e | BANK CLOSED ACCOUNT. ¥ |1t Was Through the Order of the | President That Figel's Ac- | count Was Clos=d. | President Murphy of the First National | FACSIMILE OF RECEIPT SENT TO MINOR & CO. BY FIGEL. This paver is in Figel the receipt of this money appears ®n handwriting. nk the draft for which this receipt was given to There is evideuce showing that 1 any of the books of Hoffman, Rothehild & the senior par er. A thoroueh inspec- 00ks and pavers of the estab- cording to the assertion of failed to show that any e by Figel or any one else of this amount of money, which came in the shay draft on the Chemical Bank of New York. On the other hand there is evidence to show that this draft was deposited by Yigel in the London, Paris and American Bank to the credit of a person to whom Fizel owed about $1500. How the draft was indorsed before it was deposited in this City t known, ana 1 not be unti graphic repro been ordered Commenting on thereof, which has om New York. on the receipt which had nt o the Oregon firm which made | ittance, Attorney Ach said: “1 have here a receipt which Figel sent the receipt of a photo- | f next few davs in aivesting these and from them he will be able to form an opinion. This opinion, however, he will not make vublic before the inquest, but all the statements upon which it will be will be given 1o the Coroner’ of these are now b 3 public in compliance wit some of the witnesses. suys Chief Lees, will pu plexion on mauy things and will aceount for, among other things, the unw ness of the Chiei to muke any arrest, The Chief has been engaged in the past few days also in studving up a very sim- case to the Hoffman affair, whic irred in this City about thirty ago. It was the killing of Joseph Eisner, a wholesale dealer in stationery, who kepi his place of business on the coruer of San- ling- redit of a man to whom he owed about $1500. he deposited in the London, Paris and No entry Co. Bank, when bis attention was called to Figel's statement, civing as the reason for closing his account the bank’s not car- rying a sufficient quantity of greenbacks in large denominations, characterizes it as erly untrue. He smd e learned when the booksare | o | quence of Governor B | courts. | trict in the State by the lack of proper | bianks and registers. | we will be able to supp | peded isin the matter of the next State | tary of | sample ‘Mr. Tigel's sccount was closed by my- | self. He used the bank asa convenience, hardly making a deposit before checking against , and while 1he aggregate amount of his checks was large, his daily balance would not justify the bank in re. taining bis accourt, so I instructed the receiving teller to decline any further de- vosits offered by Figel. No; we heard nothing of any crookedness on his pa and the reason I have eiven is the only one for stopping his dealing with the | bank.” MAY MAKE RIOUS TROUBL Results of the Crippling of the Printing Qffice. NEXT ELECTION MAY BE INVALIDATED. Lack of Proper Blanks and Forms Wili Cripple the £ chools. ALARMING EFFECT OF BUDD'S * ECONOMY." An Extra Legis ative Session May Be Nec-ssary to Solve the Difficu!ty. The difficulties which beset the e Printing Office at Sacramento in conse- dd’s veto of the appropriation bill of §275,000, for the run- ning of the office for the two years follow- ing the first of next month, threaten to produce widespread inconvenience and dissatisfactiou all over the State, and vos- sibly to lead to serious contention in the Among the unpleasant possibili- ties which loom up as & result of the Governor's ulira-economical policy are the invalidati n of tue next general elec tion and the crippling of every school dis- | In ali probability before many months have elapsed under the new condition of things the chief ex- eculive will hear such a howl of protest coming toward the execative mansion that be wiil regret heart.ly that he ever posed before an admiring public as the watchdog of the Staie's finances. The State University is not the only in- stitution that wili suffer as a result of the | crivvled condition of the State Printing Office. Every school district in Califo will be a sufferer, and the City schools par- ticujarly witl be embarrassed by the lack of supplies. In reference to this matter Mr. Jobuston said yesterday: “The State Printine Office lins heretofore furnished each school district with report blanks, | gisters, copies of the school laws and other supplies. After July 1 we will be utterly unable to contiue this. “The same is trueof the work for the Attorney-General’s offi After July 1 y none of the ma- teriai which is required for the Supreme Court. “‘Anotber direction in which the State's machinery promises to be seriously im- election. The law direc.s that the Secre- € must make up and jurmsh allots to every County Clerk. These must be printed by the State P rinter, and as matters stand now the law cannot be complied with. 1 would not care to veniuve an opinion as to what effect that would have upon the election. Certainly it would not be an election in compliance with the law to omit this fea- ture City Superintendent Webster that the City schools would seriously handicapped printing supplies. The flculty w 8 stated be very by the failure of most those are kept the data cing up the school statis- Superintendent Webster ed at least 900. Class record b anks are also a prime necessity in the department, and the Superintendent says of these that thev cannot well get along with le<s than 1000, ““We have now blanks on hand, “and it will be without them."” but very few of these id the Superinterdent, tremely difficult to ao 0 the 1st day of Juxe, in | his handwriting, for $1482 No letter was writien acknowledging the receipt of this amount, and this is the only paper that shows that the money came to the vands of the firm. This is one of the strongest proofs that there was embezzle- ment commitied.” The 1eceipt is one that was filled out on one of the lithographed forms of the firm. On the face of it, in the left corner, is writ- ten tie word ““Thanks.” This is one of the transactions that Kizel has said be could expiain but has as yet failed to do so, ex- cept in the eeneral statement that he sometimes omitted to make entries in the books on the day of their occurrence but did so later, Ach was asked to name the person to whose credii the New York exchange had | beea deposited, but declined to do so on rovnd that he nad been pledged to | keep the per. being. ve the information, how- ever, that it was the same man to whom Figel had paid a debt 0. $1000 by means of tne $3500 check be had casned for Hofi- These transaction: would show that ad owed least $2500 at the very ume that be claime winnings on the races. 2’8 name secret ;or the time | lie wus making big Mr. Ach further stated that Mr. Figel ! had made no explanation to him of any of the discrepancies found in the books, and he bed not seen Figel since last Fri- he uad let it be known that he wanted o see the bookkeeper relctive to ce matiers. o lar und E. 8. Rothshuld. This brought up th~ veculiar position of NEW TO-DAY. HAIR HUMORS Ttching, Irritated, scaly, crusted Scalps, dry, thin, and falling Hair, cleansed, purified, and beauti- fled by m shampoos With CUTIOURA Soar, and occasional dressings of CUTICURA, purest of emoilients, the greatest skin cures. . (Gticura Trestment will produce a clean, healthy sealp with luxuriant, lustrous hair, when all else fails. Bold throughout the world. PorTax DEUG AXD CHEM. o) ops., Boston. t Hair," mailed fres. w to produce Lux Eczema instantly relieved SKINS ON FIRE ™ gmmitnizoni a8 he kuew | there had been no meeting between Figel | THE MEETING IN THE OFFICE OF ROTHCHILD & ACH. “SATURDAY” ‘SATURDAY NEW TC-DAY—DRY GOODI b3 =D - G=Z PRIC S MEAN CUT PRICES, a our patrons well know,and they, aswell as all cther who appreciate UNUSUAL VALUES cannot be interested in the following examples of T0-DAY’S EXTRAORDINARY OFFER LADIES' SRIRT WAIS 50¢ ) in the latest style, $1 and $1 25, will be at 50c each. chable, price ced on sale | ~LADIES' LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in fancy figured mate- rials, detachable coliars, regular price §1 75, will be placed on sale at §1 each, $L.0 BOTY SAILOR SUITS. ~2 lots of FANCY STRIPED DUCK SAILOR SUITS, in navy and brown shades, with combination vests, neatly trimmed: blouse and pants for 75c. 00 756 —1lot of WHITE LINEN DUCK SAILOR SUITS, witn anchor | embroiderea on vests and with pear! butions; blouse and pants for $1. HOSIERY “D UNDERWEAR. n CHILDREN’S FINE in fast biack and ox-blood, double heels and soles, regular price $1a dozen, will be sold at 25ca pair. | | BLACK | RIB | % dozen LADIES’ F 1L FINISH REAL MACO COT- TON HOSE, extra heavy heels, worth $4 50 a dozen, will be on sale | at 25c a pair. —130 dozen LADIES' WHITE AND ECRW LISLE VESTS, low necks, silk finished, in all sizes, good valne for $5 a dozen, will be closed out at 25¢ each 25¢ '“W. B.” GORSETS | 50¢ GREAT SPECIAL PURCHASE ——OF THE—— CELEBRATED : —100 dozen LADIES’ WHITF MER VENTI ING (Ol “Vassar” perfect shape, sold at 50c a ¢ will | 500 dozen of the CEL | W. B. CORSETS, black, with fancy | ficure, given by the manufacturer | as a special inducement and intro- ‘ | 63¢ duction to the public of their vari- ous other lines; perfect fitting worth $1 25 each, will be sold at 63c. mra—250 dozen BLACK AND DRAB (90 SATEEN CORSETS, long waists, | suitable for jany fizure, good value for §1, will be on sale at Toc. $1.00 —175 dozen LADIES' CORSETS, mane of sateen, with fancy print flower effect, in handsome de- signs, beautifully finished, per- foct fitting, in white and black value $1.50 each, will be sold at§L. s] 00 5 LADIES . DRAB CORSE tille with sateen lined, worth $1.5 at §1 each. BLACK AND , made of cou- e, heavily be shown S, in black | fine French suteen, 2 siue steels, bandsomely sed, worth $2 will be sold at $1.50. and ING B \ LADIES’ KID GLOYES, doz. LADIES EIGHT NGTH MOUSQUF E KID GLOV tium shade ular value § LADIES’ 4BU rode, » $1.50, will be on RIBBONS ! RIBBOX 1,—No, 30 16, 2-INCH ALL- ORED SATIN AND ( RIBBON, in assorted offered at SILK § COL. —No. 14-INCH ALL-SII ORED SATIN AND GROS- RIBBON. in assorted col be offered at 10c. VEILING! VEILING! At 2 Zach. ER WASHABLE ce 50c, on special nts Each. BUTTER WASHABLE price 60c, al CREAM VEIL| sale at J5¢ each. AND At 50 Cents Each. BUTTER WASHARLE 1 e 85c, on special | Murphy Building, Warket and Jones Strels WCOFFEE" FIGHTS THE BIG AIRSHIP | Treasurer Foster Is Har- assed by an Enraged Father. “The Monster Cannot Sail Untul | I See My Son,” Says McFadden. A Navigation Company Pursued by a Voudoo With a Domestic C. McFadien, commonly known as “Coffee’’ McFadden, because of his lovs ot the drink, which he bas used for years as a substitute for whisky, threatens to bring Airship-promoter W. E. Foster into the courts for hiding from him his son, | Charles Patrick McFadden Jr., together with the lad’s mother. | Foster is treasurer of the Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Nav.gation Company, of which Dr. C. A. Smith is president and | L J. Truman is vice-president. Smith | formerly lived at Salem, Or., according to | W. E. Miller o: San Jose, who knew him well there. Dr. Terry, George T. Gaden, M. M. Estee and others were formerly members of the airship corporation, but Dr. Smith and Foster are now the master spirits of the organization. They are | building a gigantic airsbip. | Foster seldom visits the office of the air. | ship company, according to bis associates, | and they say they donot know where he lives—that is what they tell “*Coffce” Mc- Fadden when he calls. | McFadden b: rievance against Fos- ter and he says: '‘The monster cannot sail untll the treasurer of the company lets me see my son.”’ Smith and Terry say Foster has sold $3000 worth of airship stock lately and thac their project was going well until | “Coffee”” advertised Foster as the man who hid away his son. That fact, they | say, has hurt their business in general | wa! ! y boy is 10 years old,” said McFad- | den yesterday, “and his name is Charles | Patrick McFadden, but his mother and | bis mother’s friend, Foster, have changed his name to Smith. I nave not seen him for five years, and I cannot get a detective or anybody else to find where he, his mother and Foster live. Foster was once | vresident of the Blazing Star mine at West Point, Calaveras County, where my | boy went 10 school as Charley Smith. My | wife and I were divorced all right, but my | chief complaint is that they have changed my boy's name and poisonad him against | me. Itis not Foster's right to change my boy’s name, even if my wife is his | niece. I am going to test the question in | the courts, and see wheiher a great-uncle has a right to change the nameof my son.” McFadden is on Foster’s trail in other ways. By his letters to Messrs, Fruman, Estee and others he has alarmed them, | and the sons of Dr. Terry think ‘‘Coffee” is the voudoo of thesbip, which has never | spread its aluminum wings since he swore revenge against the treasurer of the com- pany for changing his son’s nane. The Excursion to Monterey. . The Young Men’s Christian Association ex- { ve call | Hanley, | brook of the Suciety for the Prevention of | | case further. | a SEEL O O‘C}_‘OCK SATUR. DAY EVENING 81 Monterey and ‘might prop as arrangemenis have been made that children can go for half fare. In pastyearsa I number of families have taken advantage of the low rates tospend a few days at these seasideresorts. Numerous | quiries are being made regardiug.the excur- | 1 and the tickels are seliing repic Five hundred will be the limit of tne excursion | ticke 's aisposed of. train leaves Third and Townsend streets at 7 o’clock sharp Thurs- da Hiil day; Valencia-street station 7:10, arriving at Pacific Grove at 11 o’clock. Tickets for sale only at the association build- ing, Mason and Eilis stre | —— ACCUSES “BLOCKERS” HANLEY. | Monte, arsday outing,” Pacific £ a “fam i His Wife Alleges That Deser! 1f the testimony of } worthy of credence George, alias *'Blockers,” Han- ley, the baseball player, now appears in the role of a deserter of his family. Mrs, who lives at street, 526 Sixtn made her plaint to Secretary Frank Hol- | She Has Been for Another. Cruclty to Children yesterday. She stated thatof late the baliplayer has been paying marked attention 10 a woman living formeriy on Twelfth street, but that at 5:30 . m. Thursday he rose and went to the lady’s house with a peddler’s wagon | and moved ner effects to Broadway, | and since that time has not returned | home. | Mrs. Hanley said that she knew these | facts to be true, because she had a small boy follow her husband’s movements. Besides being destitu e, with four chil- dren to provide for, Mrs. Hanley1s ina delicate condition. Holbrook cailed at the house indicated on Broadway, but no one was at home. He will investigate the FOOD COFFEE. | | NO “SUBSTITUTE” CONSID-—j ERED. Let Each Stand on Its Own Merit. A great many ‘“‘imitations’ of, and “sub- stitutes” for coffee are being offered on the market at present. The fact that such a great number of intelligent people can- not digest regular coffee leaves a fertile field for the manufacturers of so-called “'substitutes,” but in the opinion of the writer, there is no substitute for coftee. Coffee is a distinct delicious beverage, and any substitute for it is inclined to raise a feeling of diseust in the mind of ihe nker; on the other hand, there isa Postum Cereal beverage, ruade from the pure grains, tnat is not offered as a sub- stitute for coffee nor as an imitation of anytning, but is a distinet, separate, in- dividual beverage in the family of bot drinks, being neither tea, coffce, choco- late nor an imilation of, or “'substitute’ for, any of these. Incidentally, it looks exactly” like the finest Mccha coffee and much the snappy, deiicious taste of fine coffee, but the careful drinker | can detect a distinet flavor of the| giains, and this flavor sets up| @ new taste, which as surely takes | possession of the user as coffee or tea ever did. The redeemin: feature of this newly acquired taste is the fact that the | habitis acquired for a pure health-food | drink, made from the gralns nature in- | tended for the use of man, and by the dis- continuance of coffee the ordinary jorms of stomach trouble, heart palpitation, liver difficulty and excessive nervous tability disappear. Natare is assiste the nourishing food for the nervous tem to set up a condition of heaith and strength, not through the medium of | drugs or medicin s, but by the simple, | vlain process of good food digested and | assimilated, taken, to be sure, in a hquid | state—perhaps the most palatable and at- | tractive manner in which it could be pre- | sented. A reliable grocer will never offer a cheap or weak imitation of a genuine orizinal article because he happens to make a lit- tle extra profi.. But it1s well to ol:serve] when genuine Postum Cereal Coffee is ordered that you get Postum and not a | spurious imitation offered as “just as goad.” PosTTTTTTEsyg Wurphy Building, Market and Jones Sir nchy GoN SRS S M\W PSS S S 3OS edora Hats, and shades . aren’s Straw price 50 Children's Sailo o Bovs Siraw I Hats for C C for Golf, Y and B Be sure Traveling .55 Shee e e e S gh-g abouft cost prices. FeldenRulef L EBVLANL ——— R e — L%, s s 718-722 Market St. 23-27 Geary <t PRIVILEGES FOR SALE. MECHANICS’ FAIR. O oty root beer, candy, popcorr canes, optical goods, For further information 31 Post st. Right re i or all bids. OSCAR LEWIS, GEO. H. WALTER, €. J HEALY Management Committee. ject any. NEW WESTERN HOTEL, K BABNY AND WASHINGTON STS_nm modeled and renov: ING, WAKD & G0, EBuropean plan. - kooms 30¢ 1o $150 per day, 3§ 10 38 per week, $5 L 830 per monzn: fres buthys oL aid coid Water every Toom: fire Grates .4 every roow; elevaior rans alluigui