The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1897, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, e 189 HUDDLED TOCETHER VADSEASE | BRERDING BARN Father McDonald’s Vigorous Denunciation of the Po- litical Methods of the City and County Hospital. DID HE DIE OF TYPHUS OR NEGLECT 1 !lhe men who are accountable for the City and County Hospital can | scarcely be held biamcless of his | | death. The City and County Hos- A Grave Question Raised in the | pital is a disgrace to civilization. o B I'he voice of everydecent man and Pulpit Over Hawkins woman in the community should | Death, stently in protest | | | is the bu-iness of the Supervisors to | see that the poor of the city receive proper eatment in sickness. This duty they | ave ignored and it seems are delerminec to ignore. “They have been accused right- | fully or wrongfully of stealing from corporations, and a big fuss (ES WORSE THAN CRIME. | ds Said at the Month's | Mind Mass for the Brave has been made over it—but when Nurse. | they rob the poor of a few last | gasps, when, instead of helping 1 them towards recovery, or where A solemn requiem of month’s | that is impossible, soothing their mind was celebrated at St. Peter’s Chureb, | last hours in a world which has | Aiabama stre I'wenty-fourtt | given them nothing but hard and Twenty- mornt or | knocks, they multiply th suffer- | the repose of the soul of ¢ e late Willlam | j,,05 and no voice is raised in | Hay d uncer such | iy indignation at the disgrace skranied tences at e | nd the shame of it—which is the City and County H 1 a month ago. = & . | N Hawkins i to attend | 8reater crime before God and | e typhus patient, Miller, who was sent | man? | > the 1 , off the San Bruno | If these poor people over at the | road, a few we before, well knowing v and County Hospital wer: and appreciating that by doing so he was minals, no matter how de- | Hawkins feit ; he answered t he stood by the side t, and when iller his that the ing his praved or red-handed, they would called b be welland comfortably cared for, | but being only unfortunate and | poor, by the gracious mercy of the gangplank and escorted him to a patroi- { wagon which was in waiting to take him to the prison. Coleman said he had no trouble with SAFE BEHIND | sisted in looking after him by D. Druell of | San Jose, who was a rassenger. Benn {t ok h's meals in his room and was only | twice on deck. Bennett was seen in James G. Bennett, Would- | Be Murderer and Sui- cide, Arrives. the City Prison bis sister and orother-in-law. He looks healthy and strong and said he never felt better in 1 is life. *I decline 10 say anything about my be sad, “and I am sorry now I case,’’ Brought From Victoria, B, C,| on the Steamer Walla Walla by Officer Coleman. He Has No Recollection of Escaping From the Receiving Hospital or | Leaving the City. James G. Bennett, the would-be mur- after he had had a long conversation with | Hospital? W now I remember noth- ng about tha'. My mind was a perfect blink from the I time was arrested till I fourd myseif in Poriland. 1 don’t re- member teing in Oakland or anywhere. Itis'a“a blank to me, that is all I can say.” Bennett denied that escape from Warden Jouns of the Vie- toria jail. He sa'd he and the warden took in the sigh's of the town and bad a £00G time together and that was all there was in it. He aiso denied that te had | ever said he would not be taken back to this city alive. Bennett’s assertion that his mind was a blank till he reached Portland is notin he attempted to i | derer and suicide, arrived yesterday on | the steamer Walla Waila from Victoria, B. C., and is now safely locked up in the City Prison. Policeman T. J. Coleman had charge of Bennett, and when the steamer was sighted Detectives Ed Gibson and Crockett | Board of ir-t Supervisors the are | was saffering | huddled together in a discasec- | nt upon | breeding barn and left to die of— | cloped a | soon de scame worse and politics. | th «t he had con- | 3¢ management of the City and | Countv Hospitul 1tself, the medical atten- tion both of the resiaent siaff and the visiting physicians and the nursing—sl | that is of the very highest order. No other hospital can excel it. But science ientious care can do very little ace which defies all laws of sanita- | tion and where natural corruption is | aided and abetted by iis twin devil, peli- | ics, in the work of destruction. *‘All that kind and loving care could do for Mr. Hawkins under the circumstances | was done Two brave young women— Miss O'Reilly and Miss McLean—bravea attended him in hisdying moments, made | he tangers of tent life and possible con- all the arrangements for his funeral, | tegion to nurse him. ]"u-rw_ was nota 1t was just & month ago yesterday that | Murse or a doctor in the whole estabi's - Hawkins died, and a month’s mind mass | ment who was not ready to serve him and was ceiebrated for the repose of bis soul, | Who did not mourn for his untimely deatn. On Sunday, giving notice of the| *“All you who love honesty and foared 10 g Milier had sur er place for him, it was pitched of the County Hos- t rites of the Catholic Church, and Father Lyons of St. Peter’s Church, who | | | in All were anxious to get a look at J. G. Bennett, the man who attempted to suicide. He escaped from the City Receiving Hospital and fled to Victori day. Bennett ched down the gangway between Detectives Gibson and C who came down with the prisoner, brought up the rear. quartet on the wharf. ever left the city, as I would have avoided all the notoriety [ bave got. Now I want just as little as possible. “How did I escape from the Recaivin went out on ntine boat and boarded her. at tie dock the | three officers, after the passengers had all gone ashore, took Bennett down the d, Father McDonald of | hate fraud, who can admire noble ath, will b: pres- | spoke in a feeling ¥ay | jige and heroic d ‘ ent to-morrow out of respect for | Mr. Hawkins’ memory and as a protest against the shameful man- ner of his taking off.” Seldom haa there been a larger attena- ance in St. Peter's Church than there was ier McDonald asked the people—as of them as could conveniern do e present at the mass yesterday (o o £ = of William Hawkins and to pray for the eternal repose of his soul. He n to state the circumstances s’ death; his volunteering to | vesterday morninz at the requiem muss. | ler, who died of typbus in the | The pastor, Rev. Father Casey, was cele- and his contraciion of the| brant, Father Lyons deacon, i'ather M-- f he did contractit. He dwelt | : Donald sub-deacon &nd Father Moms master of ceremonies, Father Lyons, who wasa friend of the | deceased, made a few touching rema arly on the fact that the citv vro- | place where persons -cted agionus diseases may be proper.y Hawkins, he said, hly | on tue character of Hawkins, and paid an nerous ioward the city, was given 1o | eloguent tribute to his devotion to duty. chance for hi- life. He was throwu into | _— atenton the hospital groundsand there iefu to fight a battle which could only end one way. “Place a hea. tion,” said he, prised if he de monia. “Maybe Hawkins died of typhus; doctors 3aid so. monia or | Three Mongolian Conspirators and Perjurers Allowed to Go Scot Free. th Maybe he died of pnen- | common exposure—it matters | very little to him now; he is dead. “But of whatever disease he died | | A Female Slave Tells the Truth on the Witness-Stand and Must Go Back, NEW TO-DAY) Gifts for 50¢. | | } This is the tale of Chow Al Yut, a guile- less Chinese maiden of scarce twenty sum- mers, who arrived on the R.o at the ex- pense of her owner and who must go back again at the expense of Uncle Sam, Her owners swore that she was born in San Francisco, that ihey knew her fatner neckties—suspenders | and mothe: and saw ner only a few . < | minutes aiter her birth. But she was un- night shirts— fancy | sopnist icuted, and when she saw Colone! silk handkerchiefs \gon: l’.dJaclkson.hC mg'gu Blureau Mere i < |dith and the other officiuls yesterdav withipretty bordersEl S B o mas misceilionitlis e s tana | S | she could not understand it all and so cuff buttons enameled told the truth. Mock Shee, a Chinesa hag, swore that and plated | she was the mother of Miss Yut, and that high grade Irish linen handkerchiefs | Miss Yut was born iwenty years ago in a better night robes ior. room in the building, 620 Davont stree:. Ju Nine was the father of the girl and the whole family, the father. the mother, the girl and a brother went to Cuina when the girl was only 5 years old. The parents | gloves ‘r and the brother returned a year after, | s leaving the girl with her grandmother. u Wong Ting, who represented himself to finer neckwear be a merchunt, a member of the firm of Ching Chons & Co, at 1025 Dapont street, swore that e kuew the pirl when she w. born and that the statement of Mock Suee was the truth. Wu Quong. a lsundry- man, was another cheerful peijurer. He swore that he had koown the girl's par- | ents for twenty-one years. The father | and the brother were at work_on a sugar | riantation in New Orleans. He saw Miss suspenders with silver buckle and silk web finest neckwear ;’l;]’t’;’](]\ es full dress protectors full dress shirts $1.50 $2 $3.50 $5 $7.50 1o $12.50 | Open evenings ROOS BROS | Yut immediately after her birth, saw her when sbe left this city at 1he age of five vears, and met her at the boat when she | arrived. She atonce recognized him and he recognized her. Miss Yut, wnen called upon to give her evidence, was very much impressed with the form of cath which called for the whole trath and nothing but the truth. When she was asked for her nawme she re- | plied that the name which she had been instructed to report was Chow Ah Y but that her real name was Hung Ah G Then the guileless maiden continued: was 10 report my birthplace as 69 Dup int street, but I was born at Macao, China. The man who is going to claim me as hi-~ daughteris named Chow Ling, but my real father is An Hung, and both he and my mother are dead.’ Collector Jackson, when asked whether he intenied tringingcriminal proceedings against Mock Shee, Wong Tong and Wu Tong for pe jurny ana conspiracy, replied that he did uot know wh ther they could be heid, because their evidence was not given in a court. silk umbrellas hatters’ hats at our prices bath robes morning gowns grlps_—\*a_hses smoking jackets novelties in cane and umbrella com- bination with changeable handle higher grade house jackets -— For throat and lung troubles use Low's GRINESE FRAUD EXPOSED T T T AT When the steamer Walla Walla from Puget Sound docked at Broadway wharf yesterday there wa Sergeant Tom Mahoney and Officer McGreevy met the | | 1 J | [ | THE DOCK. a big crowd to meet her. murder his fe and then commit a, B. C., whence he arrived yester- ockett, while Officer T. J. Coleman, | a-cordance w While in Oakland ie wrote to his d vorced wife from there and also admitted to the volice that one T O T O SR { hand was «viaenced tectives that he could have touched them with his hand. The police also know who furaished him wiih the funds to leave the city, but they do not yet know who helped him 10 escape from the hospital. It was on the morning of October 13 that Bennett went to the room in the building, 14 McAllister streer, occupied by his divorced wife, and. after getling herinto the corridor, he threw her down and drew a kn:f» several times across her throat. Then he drew the kunife across his own throat. Policeman Coleman ar- rested him, and, after a desperate sirug- gle, took the kniie from him. Bennett and Lis divorced wife were taken to the Receiving Hospital, and two nights after she was removed he made his escape while Policeman Smith, who was in cbarge of him, was away a few min- utes. About the beginning was ocated in Vicioria efforts of Fo icemen P. Sullivan, and Chief Lee- w toria authorities io arrest him. Policeman Coleman, armed with the necessary extradition papers, was sent to Victoria, arriving there on November 10. Bennett made a bitter fight in the Cana- dian court against his extraditicn, but it CTCLERS MNSTREL SHOW The Bay Citys and Olympics Present a Clever Enter- tainment. Oomedy, Music and Terpsichore Prom- f November he C., throuzn the B son and ed the Vie- inent at Native Sons’ Hall Last Night, A crowd which tested the capacity of Native Sons’ Hail packed into that piace of varied amusements last night and was well repaid for the inco: 1ces of the crush in the there pre- sented. It was the occasion of the annual min- strel shows of the Bay City Wheelmen and Olympic Cyclers, who this year com- bined their talent and ener, bappy result of presenun clever minstrel first part and olio as has ev been seen 1 ere. The so'os were well re veni entertainment | dered, the jokes up todate and the chorus in perfect ha mony. The interlocutor was Wlliam H. Hal- lett; bones, Bob Mitcbell, Jack Catbeart and’ Dave Finni illy Hynes, Charley Cathe, m Jackson. They were backed un by Frank Coftin, Ben Tarbox, A. Bendeleben, W. J. Batch~ elder, Co. nel H. Choynski, Huarrv Mona- nan, W am Neison. J. F. Cunningham, Joseph Cocney, W. W. Finnie, S Tucker, R. Fletcher Tilton, J Charles Hildebrecnt, A Hamopton, E; Schnutenhat Louis Werz and Paui Dunphy. The programme was as follows: Cooney, g ne s0lo, “De Disappointea ‘Luss from Wiliiam H. Hallett; ck Cathcal or solo, Mayo,’ * William W. Don’t Care i1 You Ever Come E Ca Art; basso tanto sol “The Scape- . ' Beu Haudicap Murch, William N (Bob McGibben ! tance); conta tenor solo, selec Bendeleben; a few minutes with B lo, “Dreams,” Frank Coflin; * Billy Hynes; Pre ‘Boys of tne Americ The entertainment was directed by Charles Francois Morel, and his master by the smootuness with which everything ‘‘went off *’ After tueeutertainment dancing was in- ‘uigea in until miduight, under ihe direc- tion of George Christensen. The entire affair was a big success, and he cyclers and their many friends passed a jily evening. “DOPE” FIENDS DIE IN JAIL Great Fatality Because of No Place for Victims of Morphine, Half the Prisoners at the Branch Jail Use the Enervating Drug. San Francisco Has More of Such Human Wrecks Thaw Any in the World. it Dr. J. R. McMurdo, one of the city physicians, complains that there are no adequate sccommodations at the Branch County Jail for the large and unfortunate class of prisoners addicted to the use of morphine, cocaine and like drugs. This city’s record beats that of any place in the world for such cases. The doctor makes the startling an- nouncement that fully half of the priso ers confined in the auxi y prison addicted to the use of morphine. death rate among them isvery great from the fact that there are no hospital accom- modations. “There is not anywhere a fit place for the confinement of men addicted to the use of the drug,” said the doctor yesterday, ‘‘ow o the fact that there is no appropriation for the care of such pris- oner-, They canunot be sent 1o the City County Hospital because they are , and as such would need to be ully guarded, but there 1s no appro- priation with which to pay for such guards. Many of them are arrested f vagrancy when they need hospital t ment.” An examination of the gue and Heal'h Offic records at the shows that the -reat death rate at the Brancu County Jail is due very largely 1o the number of victims ot morpiine. 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