The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1897, Page 1

1L NO. 1 LUME MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1897. XXI SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY E POLICE ARE CERTAIN THEY HAVE THE MURDERER OF MRS. MARY C. CLUTE IN CUSTODY LX PRICE. FIVE CENTS. THE MONARCHY BUGABOO 1S SPRUNG AS A SCARE TH BY ANNEXATIONISTS el B S e o e e e e e T o THE START OF THE SCARE. HONOLULU, Dec. 9.—There is just now a pretty mess n the Hawa n republic’s fryingpan. It seems that the United States Minister was closeted with P. C. Jones and the result of the confab was that the telephone called Samuel Parker to an interview with Minister Sewall. Upon arriving at the United States legation Mr. Parker was asked if he had any knowledge of the fact that Mr. D -Mr. Dole’s Minister of Finance—had been concerned in any way in bringing the Princess K i from En confide Mini fact th Mr. Sewall was probably U land to Hawaii. Mr. Parker was astounded, and could only say that he was not ling. Further questioning on the matter acquainted the P eking information upon which to base a Briti e end of this grata, or that Mr. Damon will with rincess was not in the habit of teliing Mr. Parker about her affairs. — 00 T X 2% 0 o o o k02 0 0 0 0 2 24 o 1 scarce, as a companion to Mr. Sewall will be raw from Mr. Dole’s Cabinet. ece of bungling dip lomacy may be that rson non FEAK KKK EIAKAARERAKZTEAKKAAK HARA KKK KAIH XXX KXARKKRRKRAKARAKRRK KXKAKAK XX RAR KKK A Ak HERE'S THE 'LABORERS MONARCHY - | DENOUNCE CANARD Harmsworth Gwes the Arctic Ship Windward for the Lisutenant’s Aext Expedition, | | may be consider delay and they m | be prepared ‘or i PRESEN.ED 10 FEARY. W YORK, Dec. 16.—The Washington | FITZGERALD. ALBERT F. G. HOFF | ACCUSED OF THE HORRIBLE CRIME Positively Identified as the Man Who Hurriedly Left the House After the Assassination. Dee 1a - LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16.—Every com- | correspondent of ,n‘ Herald Ae.egram;si NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The Sun’s Lon- | mer yin Los Angeles has now The downfa Dole Government J"; aon special says: A. C. Harmsworth, | taken a pronounced stand against Ha- the re-iorati he monar with * % 3 T A c cland’'s patron of Arctic exp oration, | waiian annexation. The last organization Kaiulani Queen, Tals- || LnElnodis patro) has presented his Arciic ship Windward | to take aciion was the Board of Trade. At Seen by Mrs. L. A. Legg Leave the Room When the Body of the Murdered Woman ns | - Was Found a Few Minutes After HOLRIRL:, TElt *h aoming: | ) eutenant Peary Il have her |8 recent meeting the subject was dis- | tion, is the future predicted by the advo- | ' o houjed und sent to America for use in | cussed in all its bearings aud by unanim- | cates of annexation in the event of the | ;i coming expedition. ous vote the board of directors was in- | rejection of the g treaty by the | Harmsworth is the proprietor of the | firucied 10 prepare a set of resolutio ate. Leading members of the Senate | London Daily Mail. He equipped in 1894 | ZER000 10 PIARARS B =oh O 10e0litions >mmittee on Foreign Kelations appear | he Jacksen - Harmsworin expedition | 55, "l = 0 0 Tr ol OF B be in earnest in this belief, and wh-n | Which, after spending three winters in = A oy g in earn iis belief, Rt Josorilana: ted to England in | Tesolution~ were very car-fully drawn up e v is called up after tue holidays, 1t of tiie A iabo! Sepiemver las . by President Dannals and was told 1 evidonce will be fur- | 4iniost the whole of Franz Josef Land ba~ | kins to-duy, and the directors npproy-d shed to pr there is some secret | been carefully them. Copies were forwarded at once to ok now going this direction. | e | President. McK.nley ana to ihe Pacific | he S d of the S 1 hat the ten Hawsiiansnow | MAY BUCKLEY VERY ILL | Coont Seamiors and Romressnimin e the Sound of the Struggle. test a-alnst the ratifica- | - Congress. The resolutions were as fol- | y are here in the interests | The Sgn Francisco Actress Worn Out | ioxs: | Kaiulaniand that English influence is : < : | 2 e movement. | by Flying Trips With the “First the jndgment of the board Mk e aauittes deblaveibere c e Los @0 Trae | The police are certain that they bave the | coing boats and trains early yesterday | Born" Company. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Miss May Bu ley of San F who was recent engaged by Cuarles Fronman for his I pire stock company, is seriously 11l at her the annexation of the H ed States would be d iterests of the country. arguments in favor of anuexation & £ n the pos:ibility that fu ake the poss of the isls ot more substantial than the failureof the United to 1ake Hawaii means European i ncisco, ormation is the mem- | gl pot R o8 the other si It is on account | CAUSED A GREAT STIA. “First Born” company. 1 | Secretary Per- e iiE Iked | bot ie dangers of annexaton are with whom I talked | "OR . g tiey’s illness was camsed by e mads the $ig- | ;o irain imposed upon her by the flymng [ ——— — when the facts | i from San Francisco to New York, executive session of | then to Loalon and return with tue bri > the support | treaty several Senators who are | She Had Heard the Screams and murderer of Mrs. Mary C. Clute safely in | morning to apprehend the man should he | the tanks of the City Prison. The prisoner | attempt to leave the city, and prepara- | gives the name of Albert Hoff, but says|tions were being made to irstiute a his full nume is Albert F. G. V.renssen- | search for him in the cheap lodging- eckock ck off, und that his father was a | houses and places where a forelgner | Russian, and thet he was born in Baden | would most likely attempt to secret him- of this secret iniorm in the pos- — f the commiitee that Benator| New York Detectives Working on a oppose the discussion of the open Senare. He will insist on | Case That Kay Develop a [ Sensation. | NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—According to a morning paper a case was reported to the terday aiternoon wh Wien Captain McCl : es, had heard the story ives were immediately sent out. The officials are reticent, but it is stated the case may DIOVea greater ser sation than the Z.noli case. ind closed docrs and | ed in this vproposition | members of the committee. | tion to call the treaty up afier holidays. Mr. deny that there are a Senators at present 1 against the trealy to preventits | , but he expresses the utmost g over enough votes | He will not now talk | ility of abandoning the | an resolution, for he | nie the es not Civi CINCINN i form Leagwe. 16 —The six‘eenth | the Mor € g necessary two-thirds vote | annuul meeiing of the National Civil Ser. . | vice Reform L agu: an a session o s IjEatiioation; | two days hLere to-day, with Hon. Carter Chase pre<iding. DISHONOR. What Speaker Rzed’s Paper Thinks | Qmflumvnnrnmg cf the Proposed Annexation | e = of Hawatl | o NEWS OF THE DAY BOSTON, Dec. 16 —The Transcript says | (& bi, editorially: Speaker Rerd is| arently not looking for opportunities , deliver broadcest opinions upon the tion of Hawaiian annexation, out it is a reasonable osition that the Port- well in touch with well as other la. 1o a consideratle | 1ol policy. | , in its columns | have s+ veral significances. i INVOLVED IN Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco—Fair on Friday; continued cold weather and probably heavy frost in the morning; light west- erly wind-. FIRST PAGE. Hawa'ian Mnarchy Bugaboo. Mrs, Ciute’s Murdere: SECOND PAG Murdered by a Ka questior and opts ka y be said L at annexation of Labor Federativi at Work would involve us in war. Very Interstate Commerce Necds, But the annexation of Hawaii in | THIRD PAGE the way that we are proposing to annex it, without first gett the consent of the people, is going 10 involve us in dishonor.” S v JUBILANT IN Quiet Annexationists ted McK Danzers on Dawson Battle With Dynamite. FOURTH PAGE. Aiphonse D.udet Dead. Uber's Lynchers Angered. na Nom PUELIC. But on the Realize the Delay and Op~- Suifide o 'a Hermi(; :’ moREol: - { SIXTH PAGE. | HONOLULU, Nov. 9.—In public and in | ; Editorial. The Charter Contest. An Opportunity for AllL Postal Service Raform. A National University. Mmie. Dreyfus an . Examiner, Personals and Querie the r press the annexationists are jubilant over the ciamor of an assured annexation in February next, but it 1s kncwn that tieir private information isto the effect that they must not be overconfident, but must be preparea for the contingency ot reverses and for probable long drawn out screams of the murdered woman. S—— selt, when Hoff walked into the office of the Chief of Poice, and said he wanted to tell what he knaw of the murder. He was closeted with Chief Lees, Captain of De- tectives Bohen and Detective Seymour for about three hours, and put under the sweating process and accused of being the eriminal. He maintained his innocence, | of her flat an Jocked the back door, fear- | | that entrance. | the stairway at the rear of the house and | | flat, but H.ff hasiened his steps and | but Chief Lees said he was sure that he — MRS. L. A. LEGG, Who Identifies Hoff as the Murderer. had the murderer in his custedy. During | the afternoon he was taken to the house where the crime was committed, and Mrs. Legg po itively identified him as the man | she saw running from the house atter she | ana her father had been aroused by the Mrs. Lezg <aid that when she heard the | screams and the sound of a heavy body | falling to t e floor she realiz d that th-re | was something wrong, and she ran into | the bedroom of the flat where she and | her husband lived and secured her hus- band’s revoiver and started up the stairs to the floor above. She had gone a little more ti.an balt way up the stairs when the door of the room where the body of the murdered woman was found was opened ana Hoff rushed out. He was excited and he started when he saw her. | He stood irresolute for a moment, then crossed the hall and hastily entered the front room, slamming the door behind him. Mrs. Legg said she realized that she | would be helpless against the man and she turned to seek a:d from some of the neighbors. Sne had reached the bottom of the stairs when she heard the door of the front room open and the man walk toward the rear of the house along the | uncarpeted hall. e rushed to the rear | | ing the man mig .t enter her rooms by | She heard him start down | then she rushed to the front door along with her invalid father, and while they | stood at the front door they saw uon; emer-e from the side gate and start up tke hill toward Liberty street. | They called after him, asking him what was the matter in the rooms on the top when he was called to again be broke into arun and disappeared around the corner | of Liberty street. C. B. Legg, the father- in-law of Mrs. Legg, also positively identi- fied tue prisoner as the man he saw run from the house after emerging from the side entrance. Hoff had a cut on the palm of his right hand that had the appearance of being recently inflicted. He told many contra- dictory stories of how he had received the | wound. To the volice he said it was | caused by the rough edge of some matting | he was handingin the rooms Mrs, Cluis | bad vacatea on Tuesdav at 230 Page | sireet. Jobn Freyer, wio keeps a saloon | at 119 Seventh -treet, said that Hoff had called at his place some time on Wednes- day evening, bnt could not remember the exact time and he noticed the wound on his hand. Beyond that he could net say anythineg, but Mrs. Freyer, who wasin the saloon at the time, said hoff told her that he received the wound while handling a plank in which there was a nail and that it was the nail that had scratched him Freyer said the prisoner was a friend of hisand ne d d not want to say anything that would cause him any trouble, Some whisky was poured in ithe cut there as an antiseptic and a cloth was wrapped around his hand. A few min- utes after 8 o'clock on the night of the murder Hoff visited the grocery and bar of Mohrmanua & D.erks, at Van Ness ave- nue and Turk street, where his wound was commented upon, and he said he had re- ceived the cut from a tack that had caught in a piece of carpet he was taking up, but be did not say where, The police believe the wound was in- flicted by the coupling pin he used to kill | Mrs. Clute. The weapon had a rough edge and one sharp point of iron stuck up from it near one end. It is thought that the weapon was wrenched from his hand in the struggle and that the cut was made in his hand at that time. A spot of blood on the weapon near the sharp point and ata spo: whege the pin would be grasped if used to strike a blow bears out the belief. The police, supported by the opinions or Police Surgeons Bunnell and Kearney, who say that the wound could not have been caused by a tack or a nail or the rough edge of a piece oi matting, bslieve that the wound will be a strony link in tbe chain of evidence they will weave | around the prisoner, and had the wounded hand photographed. The wound is about one inch from the wrist, one inch in length and about a quarter of an inch in depth. During the process of taking the pho- tograph the prisoner showed considerable nervousness. His hand trembled so much that the photographer was obliged to provide a rest for hisarm. Foratime in the gallery Hoff gave his gu:rds the im- pression that he would collapse, but by an effort he recovered some of his com- posure, but he was led back to the prison with his face almost as white as chalk and his knees trem bling under him. After .18 visit to the gallery he was taken to the City Prison and formally cbarged with the murder. H was con- finedin a steel cell, and during the even- ing he made arrangements with Attorney Gailagher to defend him in the prelimi- arv examination. Hoff in his statement to Chiet Lees, Captain Bohen and Detective Seymour said he had resided in San Francisco for about twenty years. He knew the dead woman as Mrs. Cu'e. Hed d some work for her at Page street some months ago. “It was only a small job,”” he said, “and I never returned to her house until a note was left for me at my lodgings, telling gpe she had some work for me. On 'ruesdg’mommg I called at her house and ad.isted her in taking down some pictur She told me that she had pur- chased some linings for her carpets and o delay. In this connection it i.s Cu.rlun.:x‘ SEV TH PAGE. 1H0FF BEING QUESTIONED IN THE CEIEFS OFFICE, that a certain commercial circular whicn New Oprosition to the Charter- i 3 SR B e e . red by a few is not only kept mys- News Miom lie Wator Pront. | ived by s fow.fe e e News From the Water Frout [ present, easily perceived, and affect the com- | in 1530. The identification of the prisoner teriously secret upon this oc - One-Legged Juck's Money. mereial, social, moral and po L interest 4 most important paragrapi has been with- Jrouvles of the Drummers. as the muraerer is almost complete, | of our country. We believe that no o'her i i licat even in e jo als oug! L ory of his in ence neld from publicaticn even in the journal EIGHTH PAGE. | foreign rower should bs permitied to annex | \ QUM be tells a story = nocenD of their friends, on account, it is strted, of e % the islands, but do not belicve that tnis |29 1ays the blame of t'e crime on an un- its tendency to lachrymose melancholy. Submarine Navieation. argues anything in favor of thelr annexation | known well-dressed man who was ap- On Saturday next the Hawaiian oppo- | Prince Henry Suails for China. | by these United States. | parenily well known to the murdered | nents to ann: xation give an immense juau | o | Resolved, That the upbnilding of the variea | W03 in the grov djicent to Washington | Revoit Threatens Spain. | industries of cur own country deserve and de- Mrs. L. A. Legg, wko resides in rooms Tacaiardsi 10 a!l v.sitors to Hono- NINTH PAGE mand the fullest considera'ion. To fajl n | On the floor below the one where Mre. 2 u’ B‘fl the D. sicKibbin place, the house e this regard would be to withhold from the | Clute hzd engaced apartments at 803 Bahrs and Deuprey at Outs, Irene Tvler Wants Damages. Contractor Raish Arrested. Adams-Haskel' Wedding, Congress 1o Hely Kiondikers, TENTH PAG Commercial Intellizence. ELEVENTH PAGE, News From Across tie Bay. which in exiernal appearance so much re- sembles the frontispiece to theearlier edi- | tions of Orley Farm. The receipts from | are to be devoted to the patriotic | ands, or, in plainer language, 1o assist in tefraying the expenses of the Hawaiian clegation at Washington. In conneciion with this matier THE | CaLL correspondent is authorized to state | that J. O. Carter and others have no pres- to Washing on. is ent intention of goine t WELET . Circims ances might arisé next month or TWLLFTH PAGE, in February which m ght cause a chunge Racing at Oaklund. in the programme, but present advices do not tend in thut d.reciivn. THIRTE NTH PAGE. TaE CaLL correspondent isinformed that 3irc: s, Marriages, Deaths, Minister Hateh made the mnowinx‘:ir:;:: FOURTEENTH PAGE, lar siteamen: to a mutual friend: pose our friends in Honolulu would feel | much chagrined to earn that there even a remote possibility ol delay in an- nexation; but 1 am sfraid that that po-si- bility is nol so rewote alter all, for ihere A New Shipyard Steriea, Grand Jury Scores the Police. Hawkins Bests Connolly. E R R R R R R R R R R R AR R R R R R R R R R A R R R L L R R L R L L R R R R A R R R R R R R L LS E | | GWKUMWLQUEMMU}UMWRH 22R2020200022200200202000000202000000002002202R000200200000200008 citizens of our republic that to which they are justly entitled, To thix end the exisiing reciprocity treaty with the Hawafwn Islands should be immedintcly repesled and tne propusition of annexation deelined. Among the representatives of organ- ized-lsbor in Sonthern California the feei- ng 18 very prononnced sgainst Labor Commissioner E. L. Fit ra.d, whom, it has been stated, is in Washinzton lobby- ing to securs annexation and claiming to speak in favor of such a policy as a repre- sentative of organiz d labor of the Pacific Coast. “Mr. Fitzgerald certainly has no rlght to advocate annexation and claim to be voicing the sentiment of the workingmen of this State or coast.” This was the re- mark of Captain F. B. Colver, editor of Continued on Second Page. Guerrero street, will be the main witness that Hoff was the murderer. Shortly after tie crime was discovered on Weanesday night she gave the police the description of a man who she beiieved was the last person who was with Mrs. Clu‘e, and his actions gave her reason to believe that he was the murderer. She said the man was short, about five feet six inches in height with a full dark beard and moustache, and apparently a foreigner. He was engagea to assist Mrs. Clute to move her furniiure, and he was to make over some maitresses tor her and to do much of the hard work in arranging the furniture. The police found that man was Hoff, and that he had a room at the Lindeli House at 202 Eixth street. A detective wuited all last night in the room for the man to come home, but he ws* unre- warded. A guard was puton all h out- FAC-SIMILE OF MRS. CLUTE'S CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT,