The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1897, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY KEEPING [P THE RECORD ) Buvrglars and Pickpockets | Ply Their Nefarious j Calling. | dences Entered and | | cked on Ellis and < Streets Mrs.Allen Has Her Purse Containing $208 Stolen F Her Pocket at the ? Hou Jockets continue to ess in the city | m the police, nts are being received | rters from people who | ized. | nd 2 oclock Monday rs entered the residenc hlesinger, at 613 Eillis | obtained an entrance by | the catch on a window in | ment. The servant girl, who in a room in tne base- the noise of the window | but she was too afraid | n, and lay in bed quak- | s she listened to the | ng their plans. had a dark lantern with i > their gathere , Which they and had aiso and pi W and:daily comp &t police he Betwes ard uments and _bric- were left behind, and | they were frightened > the s 2 and the | | as committed the | | he re ence of Mrs. | urk street. The bu- | > ransacked and the | tered on the floors. Among | cral valuab sSome mone, | s had been in the i ti the fam- ng, and the po- and of almost reported was dy on a v r Christmas | riend | about $3 in silver. king at the to 1 nt tad oli r ts to have them a . Maria Kip Orphana, r toys will be very thank- | by the man s of the | ) d dolls n & Vail Colusa Oranges. ade at 16 yme of the fine en 1 for many from the orchard c 1gton of Colus: s an orchard ve inspected ny in the from these | rom pul Fine Po: 3 NEW TO-DAY. TELEPHONE—GRANT 33 and 38. & €0.« PALATABLE NUTRITIOUS NONE BETTER TO-DAY ONLY! Finest French Mixed CANDY, Our regular 35¢ goods, | 25¢ per Ib, * Close Qut— FIVE 0°CLOCK TEA KETTLES. A Reduction of 25 Per Cent. | Most Select Assortment of Xmas Tree | Ornaments and Bon Bons in the City. | | | CIGARS— Golden Eagle ‘‘Perfectos,” 25 in box, $3.0), will be appreciated by most men who smoke. Other goods—imported and Hey West—at prices to suit all purses. | dodge, then he View Holloa! on the City Hall Rooi,» When Reynard Was Pursued by the Push. PUZLING MYSTERT OF A GRAY FOX City Hall Employes All Living Ques- tion Points. Animal Got Upon the Roof. Was Wild as a Deer and Gave Its Pursuers an Excit- ing Chase. | DIED FOR FREEDOM’S SAKE ‘Where It Came From Is Unknown. | To Be Stuffed and Preserved for the Recorder. The employes of the City Hall have seen many strange things and, doubt- been told of many they never saw, but the one that caps the climax in interest and has kept them a wondering for the space of two d les: | is the fox hunt which occurred Tues | day morning on the roof of the Hall | of Records. Everybody that has heard of the affair is wondering about it, and the more each one thinks it over the more his wonder grows. It was about 9:30 A. M., and all the | copyists had just got down to good, earn work, when young Charlie O’'Byrne happened to glance out of the window near which he sits. What he saw caused his jaw to drop in aston- ishment. “Boys,” he fairly yelled, “either I've got ’em bad or there’s a fox out there on the roof.” Instantly every desk was without an occupant. O’Byrne bolted out an open window, closely followed by Tim Mc- Carthy, and then began an exciting chase round the roof. McCarthy ran around the dome in one direction and O'Byrne took the opposite direction. But they couldn’t catch the fox. He was a young fellow of the gray variety and as wild asthe untamable onager. Not only that, he was “foxy” both lit- erally and figuratively. First he would would stand still for a moment and dart off at an angle, sometimes running right along the edge of the coping. Seeing that re-enforcements were Frank Foley and Jack Ben- nett were called to join the chase. They both came with a will. Then came the sad feature of the pecu rence. The little fellow d. There was only one way of ape, and he took it. With a swift movement he suddenly shot between the leg of his nearest pursuer and made a flying leap off the roof to the pavement fifty feet below. With a simultaneous movement the boys all rushed to the edge of the roof and gazed down with expressions of regret. There lay the little fellow on pavement below, O'Byrne not have his game even after the leap, for the fox started to creep away as he gained breath. A coat was slung over him before he had got far, how- ever, and he was taken into a neigh- boring drugstore, where he soon dled. O’Byrne has now taken the animal's body to a taxidermist, where he will have it stuffed and placed in the Re- corder’s office, both as an ornament and as a reminder of the strange oc- currence. ‘What puzzles everybody most is how the fox got upon the roof of the Hall of Records, though where it came from originally is no small mystery in itself. It was wild as a deer and had apparently never been captured. Advances made on furniture and pianos, with or without removal.J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. ———————— Sandwich Island Sugar. The Secretary of the Treasury has no- tified Collector Jackson that sugar from the Sandwich Islands need not be sam- pled for immediate transportation. ———— No waiting at Townsend's. Cal. glace fruit, plum puddingandcandy; allready.” e | | No Solution of How the | bpamaging Evidence Introduced as to | Coroner Hawkins Hoff stocd up. | with George W. Baker, special coun- sel for the prosecut Then the Ak al i 7 | % Al ceedings exhibited signs of nervous- n shifty eyes flitting from v 7 | Clute Chief of Police Lees, his 1 N hands twitching, and it was evident, | | | in spite of his attempts to appear un- il j & | concerned, that he was very much d. frighte | There was | produced not m uch new testimony sses were Mrs, Cecil Master- Eugene Whelton, der who gave Hoff whisky with which to bathe his wounded left i; Joseph Donochue and Joseph Fo- v, the carpet layers who left the se shortly before the murder; Miss He Behaved Flippantly While the Witnesses W ere Testifying. = Statia R. Bl rd, the landlady of he Guerrero-st the two lit- An Air of Bravado Assumed | boys who leaving the ne of the murder, and C. W. Mark, -principal of the Everett School, fixed the time when the alarm n immediately after the dis- of the body. on a Most Solemn Ocecasion. | was J. G. Zimbel- mann, uph He told how he had done. two jobs of work for Hoff about two years ago, and that while search- ing in Hoff petsack of tools for a nail with which to take the twine out f a mattress he found a couplingpin | resembling that used in the murder. = % Y At noon an adjournment was tdken Albert Hoff did not conduct himself | yntil 10 o'clock this morning. His Possession of the Coup- ling-Pin. before the Coroner’ jury yvesterday as| The prisoner was represented by a man accused of a most cold-blooded | George K. French and Walter Galla: and revolting murder. While the wit- | gher. :re giving testimony the most RGN+ 53T, T TE T against him his small mon- | The Decision. Affirmed. snapped, and he nodded his| Governor Budd has afirmed the. deci- mim e S sion of the court-martial of Captain When she told about his quickening | {1 Mapve The araer 1o 1o the Heci roe: when her father called to cavalry officer is discharged and f; to be a member of the National him asking what was the matter up- stairs, and when she said that he did not run but only walked faster, Hoff, who had been leaning forward intent- ly, sat back in his chair and smiled. In obedience to a command from NEW TO-DAY. you ean’tsleep at nighty When “Do you recognize this man as the you are ail ‘unstrungj man you s o ving the house?” A it tired and bloe; eheod Her. . ¥ you are nervous, aund To the best of my knowledge and L f b d . belief 1 th k that is the man,” an- l e 's a ur en, swered Mrs. Leg 1 Hoff sat down and smiled With 2 | when you cens corisr ooy anpiian sifve; | bx(EEK15134 air, you are all outl of ser with everybody E. R. Clute, husband of the mur- | and yourself in particular. then your aervous sat on the back of a |*vsiemisat fsult; then your brain does not . the bast | st gmperly, you{ stom- a ¢ of the witnesses | by Ty ofke btk 52 oulders of the men stand- a e ;;"u'rd h‘."fi".':m:‘“'fl'."' ing in front of him. His attention v % = about equally divided between the r i es, 4 and the prisoner, and he D M I N note particularly Hoff' X ervine. cynical smiles. Hoff did not appear | Book on the heart and nerves sent free by to be the got of his presence until at | PR- MILES MEDICAL CO., Eikhart, Ind. of the session, when Clute a yard of him consulting MONEY CAN BE HAD For Building Purposes from either The Pidelity, Empire, Mechanics' or California Mutnzl Building and Loan Associations ON VERY FAVORABLE TERMS. ‘WILLIAM E. LUTZ, Secretary, 205 Sansome Street. NEW TO-DAY. 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HEAD Noises cuen. elp when all else fails, as glasses heip eyes. Belf-nayurting. No Pain. Whispers heard. 8end o £ & NOTARY PUBLIC. A. d. HENRY, NOTARY PUBLIC F. Hiseox Co., 853 15 way, mmk..mmx.FflEE Retail Agents: No Percentage Pharmacy, 5% @38 MARKET ST. OPP. PALACE Market st. Wholesale: Mack & ., Langley & Hotel, Telephone Residence $09 Michaels, Coffin, Redington & Co Valencia street. Telephone, “‘Church” 15. DECEMBER 23, 1897 NEW TO-DAY. DON'T_MISS THIS! GIFT DAYS AT WALLER BROS. Commencing To-Day aud Continuing Until Christmas Night CANDY FOR THE CHILDREN ‘With Every 5¢ Purchase. SACHET AND PERFUME For the Ladies With Every 25¢ Purchase. COME ONE! COME ALL! Every Patent Medicine in the House WILL BE SOLD AT COST. WALLER BHOS.:an-Hate Druggists | 33 Grant Av Corner Geary Street. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. CALIFORNIA THEATER. FAREWELL ENGAGEMENT—TWO WEEKS THE FRAWLEY COMPANY! TO-NIGHT, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Saturday Matinee, Bronson Howard's Drams of the Civil War, “SHENANDOAH.” Reserved Seats, 25c, 50c, 75¢ and $1. NEXT MONDAY, LAST WEEK OF THE FRAWLEY CO.—"“An International Mateh. BALDWIN THEATER. EX'TRA 1—8ALE OF SEATS RoBsolN In AUGUSTUS THOMAS' Play, Suggested by Ople Read's Novel— THE JUCKLINS BEGINS TO-DAY—-THURSDAY. Orchestra_and three rows Entire Balance Dress Circle, cents and 50 cents. PRIC! Dress s COLUMBIA THEATER. DON'T | A MILK-WHITE FLAG! Witn all the Original Splendid Scenery. Proper- ties, Costumes and a Full Brass Band on the stage. 50 A GRAND PRODUCTION 50 PEOPLE IN THE CAST NEXT MONDAY—MATHEWS & BULGER IN | AT GAY CONEY ISLAND. Seats Now on Sale. MAGNIFICENT BALLET SPECTACLE. —THE BIRTH OF THE PEARL— Grand Opera Ballet and Nilson's Aerial Ballet! 36 Coryphees! 3 Premier Danseuses Gorgeous Costumes! Enchanting Scenery! The Three Avolos, novelty acrobats: Caroline Hull, triple-voiced v alist; Orphelita, chic char- ; De Filippis and Doherty's Canine Ci tet and Reserved seats, Chairs and Box seats, TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Mas. ERNESTINE KRELING, Proprietor & Manager This Evening—The Success of the Season, | “MOTHER GOOSE,"| —OR THE— “Strange Adventures of Jack and Jill.” Sea the Educated Donkey. The Goose That Laid the Goiden Egg. The March of the Mermen. The Butterfly Ballet. A POSITIVE NOVELTY—HELP IT ALONG! A Delight for Young and Old. POPULAR PRICES.. 25¢ and 50c ALCAZAR-- Never Before Has There Been Such a Pro- duction at Our Prices. THE IGIRL— —LEFT BEHIND MRE!— EVERY NIGHT—SUNDAY INCLUDED. MATINEE SATURDAY—CHRISTMAS. Prices—50c, | 35c¢, 25c¢, I5¢. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. WALTER MOROSCO, Sole LesSee and Manager, TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! Magnificent production of C.T.Dazey's grand Melodrama. “THE WAR OF WEALTH.” Great “Run-on-the-Bank” scene. Stupend- ous bank-vault explosion scene. An ex- citing plot well spiced with clever comedy. Evening prices, l0c, 25 and 0c. Matinee every Saturday and Sunday. GRAND MATINEE CHRISTMAS DAY. RACING; RACING! RACING! —CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB— Winter Meeting, 1597-93, beginning MONDAY, December 13 to December 25, inclusive. OAKLAND RACETRACK. RACING MONDAY, TUEEDAY, WEDNESDAY, ‘THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. FIVE OR MORE RACES 1 DAY. RACES START AT 2:15 P. B Ferry Boats leave San Francisco at 12 M. and 12:39, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30 and 3 P. M., connecting With trains stopping at the entrance to track. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound. Returning—Trains leave the Track at 4:15 and 4:45 P. M., and immediately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President. B. MILROY, Secretary. R. VELODROME—*gz; Beferane —NOVEL ATHLETIC EVENT— CHRISTMAS DAY. LADIES FooTBALL GAME! OAKLAND BROWNS vs. FRISCO GRAYS. Auspices Pacific Ladies’ Football League. Gates open 1:30. game called 2:30 P. M. Admis- sion 50c; reserved seats 7oc. CALIFORNIA MARKET. THE SECOND REGIMENT BAND WILL FURNISH MUSIC FROM 6:30 to 10 P. M. THURSDAY EVENING. EVERYBODY COME. BUSH-STREET THEATER. THE THALIA GERMAN-HEBREW OPERA CO. Saturday and Sunday Nights, Dee. ud 26, .. .. KOL-NIDRE . ..t OF the ‘Persecution in Spain, by Sharkansiky: Box-office open daily from 10 A.M. t0 6 P.M. 0 B E Ro N —_O'FARRELL STREET, Near Stockton. Grand Coneert Every Evening by ARL MARTENS And the COSMOPOLITAN ORCHESTRA. OLYMPIA— Comar of Mrson and e e e e+ ddy Streets. (Comfortably Heated Throughout). STARK'S VIENNA ORCHESTRA. 1In Conjunction With Operatie Vocalists. THECHUTES AND FREETHEATER Every Afternoon and Evening BOSTON LADIES' MILITARY BAND And a Great Vaudeville Show. Admission and performance, 10c; children, . Entertainment and Dance. | a $6.50 music cabinet. Of the Young People's Prog-lvc Soctety will be given at Social Hall thian Castle), Saturday evening, January l»( 1898, at § p. m. Dancing, 10 p. m. Tickets admitting lady and NEW TO-DAY. L o e LAST DAYS. Time to decide, now. .~<. We remind you once more of the all- around appropriateness of furniture. It is like a kind word that never dies— a lasting pleasure, Women say it’s easy tofinda gift for a woman, but so hard to find one for a man. Here’s a splendid gift thought : Shaving Stand. $12.50 buys a handsome one — (mawed prettier than the picture shows.) Last week we said a word about Here it is. Half a yard of silk and nimble fingers can soon fit it with a pretty curtain. Can’t afford to forget the little folks. They’ll be big folks bye and bye, with houses to furnish. .Can’t get their good-will too soon. Children’s rockers $1.50, and by skipg of two and four bits, prices reach § Rocking-chair for all-around com- fort. #3.50. Solid oak or dark; splendidly polished; broad arms; high back—but that's enough; the few that'are left will find quick owners. We’ve made looking as easy as possible by gathering the most- wanted givables on the first floor.’ Pedestal. 3 For lamp, vase, statuette or bust. Polished quarter-sawed oak or dark. $4 is the price and that in the thick of gift-making. If you're undecided what to give, tell us what you want to pay and see what a dainty gift we can fit to your price. China closets. Pretty in themselves — doubly pretty when showing off the nick- nacks Christmas is sure to bring. Easy prices this year: Like pic- ture, $12.75, and oak, too. Several people have asked if we raise prices Christmas times. No, Siree! We’ve one pricethe year through, same to everybody, and your money back if you want it. Another rocker. Comfort, style and good-looks all at once. Oak or dark. Polished like glass and the price 18 the littlest thing about it Come early--as near nine as possible--un- less youlike the crowd OPEN EVENINGS, California Furniture Company, N.P. COLE & CO., - 117, 119, 131, 123 Geary St Mattinen