The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1897, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1897. MAD ACT OF A JEALOUS JAPANESE: He Fired Four Shots at a Woman With Whom He Lived. She Expires From Fright Superinduced by Heart Failure. Pathetic Letter Received From Her Mother, an Estimable Woman. HER ASSAILANT AT LARGE. Fearing Violence at His Hands She Determined to Return to Her Parents. Prompted by jealousy a Japanese, who is known as George Tauchi, late yesterday afternoon fired four shots at Mary Castillo, with whom he had been living. In trying to evade the bullets the unfortunate woman was stricken with heart failure and dled a few minutes afterward. The scene of the shooting was in a lodging house kept by Louis Tau at 801 Bacramento street. Immediately after the strange fatality the Japanese left the house, and up to a late hour last night he had not been arrested. About a . year ago the unfortunate woman met Tauchi, who conducted a “Japanese Immigration Bureau” in Prospect place. She fell in love with him, and he promised to make her his wife. They rented a room in the house where the shooting took place, and ac- cording to the proprietor they seemed | to be devoted to each other. Shortly after 7 o’clock last Saturday night Tauchi, fired by jealousy, went to the room which he and the Cas- tillo woman occupled, and .was sur- prised to find her gone. Thinking she had deserted him he | lt!old a friend that he intended to kill | er. “She knows I love her,” he remarked, | “and rather than see another man | have her I have concluded to make her | & subject for the Coroner.” After visiting several saloons and | having various drinks the murderous | Japanese placed two revolvers in his pockets and started out, as he claimed, | to murder the object of his affections. | Failing to locate her he again visited their room, but failed to find her. Maddened at what he termed her perfidy, he took out his knife and cut two of her best dresses in shreds. He also destroyed a new hat which she had bought several days ago and a pic- ture of her sister's baby, which was hanging on the wall. Evidently real- izing that the Japanese intended to in- jure her, the unfortunate woman con- cluded to spend the night with a friend. Shortly after he had left the house the proprietor received the fol- | lowing message from Mrs. Castillo: “Mr. Tau—Dear Sir: Will you please | | the desperate Japanese had fled, she | shooting | answer it sooner as I wanted to send | cause you did not send her a dollie. Japanese, without a word of warning, drew his revolver and fired four shots at her. So sudden was the attack that the unfortunate woman remained ap- parently motionless, while her blood- thirsty assailant vainly endeavored to fill her with lead. As the last shot rang out Mrs. Castillo dropped to the floor as if fatally wounded. Evidently think- ing that she was beyond all human aid, Tauchi, after replacing the revolver in his pocket, ran from the house and dis- appeared down Bacramento street, The wife of the proprietor heard the shots and after convincing herself that went to her assistance. Bhe found her lying on the floor, her head resting against the door of her room. Bhe was unconseious and apparently in a dying condition. Thinking she had been fatally wounded Mrs. Tau at once summoned a policeman, who had the woman removed to the Recelving Hos- pital. As she wae being taken into the operating room she breathed her last. Dr. Howard, who was in charge, gave as his opinion that the woman had dled from heart failure, superinduced by fright. As soon as her death was reported to the police Detectives Anthony and Dil- lon were sent to find the Japanese. They visited the house where the occurred and thoroughly searched the woman’s room. In a bu- reau drawer was found the following letter ment to Mrs. Castillo by her mother, who lives in Watsonville: “My Dear Little Daughter: I will answer your letter to-day. I did not Yyou some tamales. We received your box of presents and am very much obliged. Clea sends her thanks to you and also Joste for the nice presents you sent them. Tutzy is just playing with her plano. Well, my darling daughter, I must close with my best love. Remember me to Lulu and also to George. Sammy Littlejohn is here to-day. He sends his love to you. Baby is very glad that you remembered her. She is very much pleased with the nightgown. She is just as pleased as if it were silk. Georgie is mad at you be- Your devoted mother, “JOSIE CASTILLO.” “P. S.—Papa thanks you for the split peas. Please send me Lulu's address so I can write to her and send her some tamales.” It is said that the Japanese some time ago conducted a cheap lodging- house on Dupont street. Recently he =old 1t out, and, according to one of his friends, he gave the money to Mrs. Castillo. He declared that she squan- dered it in riotous living and refused to give him a cent. As he s well known the police are hopeful of catch- ing him. TWILLBEA GREAT SHOW Nearly Ready for the Great Historical Pageant “Co- lumbia.” Society Almost Through Rehearsing, and the California Box-Office Opens Wednesday. Soclety is nearly through with its work of rehearsing for the great his- torical pageant, “Columbia,” which will be presented on January 3, 4 and § at the California Theater for the benefit of the Hospital for Children and, the Training School for Nurses. Never has society been more deeply interested in the work of charity than at present. Indeed, charitable work has usurped the place of the usual holiday amuse- ments this season, and it has all been done to raise money to furnish a new building of the hospital. The entertaln- ment will be one of unusual interest. MARIE COSTELLO, WHO DIED OF FRIGHT. T take care of my room until I come | back? Please do not let George take | or destroy anything, as I know he is | in an ugiy mood. I will be home to- | morrow (Sunday) night. I am going | to Oakland this afternoon. Yours, “MARY C.” In some way Tauchi learned that the woman had not gone to Oakland. To the proprietor of the house in which they lived he declared that he was go- ing to kill her, and begged him to tell him where he could find her. Fearing that he would carry his murderous | threat into execution one of the lodg- | ers seized him, and after a short strug- gle took possession of his revolvers. He then left the place, after threatening to return and kill the man who had disarmed him and also Mrs. Castillo. Shortly after 4 o’clock yesterday aft- ernoon the unfortunate woman re- turned to her room, and was surprised to find her new silk dresses cut in pleces. Seeing the picture of her sis- ter's baby mutilated beyond repair she summoned the landlord and demanded an explanation. He told her of the visit of the Japanese, and suggested that she have him arrested. Amid tears the woman sald she loved him, and em- phatically refused to have him thrown’ in prison. About an hour later Mrs. Castillo left her room to see a friend who lived in the acjoining apartments. She re- mained only a few minutes, and start- ed to return to her room. Tauchi, un- known to the occupants of the house, e e e A e e e e e e Over 200 people, who form the upper crust of the soclety of the city, will take part in tableaux llustrating the history of the United States from the time of the landing of the Pilgrims through the revolutionary period and the stirring times of the Civil War cdown to the present time. The box office for the sale of seats will open on ‘Wednesday morning. § | VOTE FOR THESE. If you wish to secure a sensible, effecttve working charter vote for these candidates: 7. Thomas V. Cator 13. George E. Dow 17. Joseph D. Grant 18. Wolcott N. Griswold 22, Theodore H. Hatch 24. Reuben H. Lloyd 28, William E. Lutz 26. John McCarthy 33, George M. Perine 35. William M. Pierson 36. Joseph Rosenthal 39. Albert W. Scott 42. George D. Squires 43. Charles B. Stone 44. Patrick Swift A aasaassanan s s s S S AR POOR MEN LIBELED BY EXAMINER Only Rich Wanted by the One-Man Char- ter Combine. Fusion Candidates Bitterly Assalled Because Not Wealthy. Phelan-Hearst Ideals Must Have Been Born With QGolden Spoons. ELEVENTH HOUR INSULTS. Honest Voters Denounced and Shame- fully Maligned by the Circus Poster Journal. . The friends and special pleaders for the one-man charter are driven to the last ditch for arguments against the has exposed the hand of the allled powers of evil. It has held the man in moderate circumstances up to ridi- cule. It has published the names of honest men as ward heelers. It has accused respectable merchants—such men as W. S. Greer, James Burke, E. S. Barney and Reay—of crimes com- pared with which the pilferings of chicken-roost robbers would be vir- tues. And now, at the last moment, it puts forward in all serlousness the strange argument, indorsed by libels and cunning lies, that the fusion candi- dates are all on their way to the poor- house. While the men assafled and denounced for being on the fusion tickets are not so poor as the bosses’ tools have alleged, it is a fact that the argument shows that the only people who need apply for a place on the Ex- aminer ticket are the rich. George D. Squires, who was libeled by the Examiner Saturday could not be found that day to make an afiidavit. He was In the city yesterday, but he declined to answer the accusations in S0 solemn a manner as the taking of an oath before a notary. To a Call reporter, however, he made the fol- lowing statement: “I do not care to dignify the Exam- iner’s assertions with respect to my qualifications with an afidavit. Had that paper desired to be fair it could have ascertained the truth by tele- phoning or calling on me any day dur- ing the past week. The fact that it has published the detalls of Its as- sessment-roll search for freeholders without the slightest effort to learn the facts removes its assertions from the domain of legitimate controversy. “I am indifferent personally as to the result of the election for freeholders and I would refuse altogether to no- tice this campaign canard did I not feel under obligations to the political organizations which have honored me with their nomination to explain it. I STROI'S PAL ‘CAUGHT BY THE POLICE Frank Moss Taken Into Custody Last Evening. . He Refuses to Tell Any- thing of His Own Career. The Captured Burglar Took Daring Chances to Escape the Officers. LEAPED TO A SMALL WIRE, Entered a Servant's Room in His Mad Flight—B. Gardner Still Allve. Officer George Douglas arrested Frank Moss, an ex-convict, last even- ing in Abbott’s saloon, 214 Grant ave- ADAM STROH’S DARING FLIGHT FROM THE POLICE. opposition to their inelastic document. Not content with advocating the adoption of an unwieldy organic law, | hard to change and full of features | that will bear harshly on the poor, they have gone into the business of de- nouncing, holding up to ridicule and otherwise assailing candidates whose names appear on the fusion ticket. Their chief objection to these honest men, some of whom own but little property, is that they were not born with such golden spoons in their mouths as those with which Willie Hearst and Mayor Phelan first learned to sip the rich diet of the mlillionaire. Though shown, by the affidavits of all whom they accused of owning noth- ing, to be guilty of eleventh-hour libels and its crowd of tin-horn clackers still keep up the yell that the fusion candi- dates are poor men. If the test proposed directly and by inference were to be held up as a model all over the country the people would soon have no power left. Those who have been advocating for years that the people should have more power and the corporations less would live, like Macaulay’s New Zealander sketch- ing the ruins of St. Paul's, to hear the death knell of popular rights and see the decay of every form of self-govern- ment. Under such a system as that which is proposed by the nts of the cor- rupt there would havebeennoopportu- nity for a man like Lincoln to assert his power. His Iimmortal statement that this is a Government of the peo- ple, by the people and for the people would have never been made. They would have made sucn a man fheligible for the humblest office simply because he had no worldly goods, and even had he possessed as much wealth as the friends of the one-man charter they would have bound him by stringent rules that would have made him the messenger boy and supple servant of the corporations. But it is a fact that the masses are thinking. They no longer belleve in the honesty of a newspaper whose col- umns were bought by the railroad combination for a thousand dollars a month. They are beginning to see that there are many political wolves posing with the faces of lambs as white as the one that followed the fabled Mary of olden days. A paper and a cause that prosper by yellow methods, by lies about the sim- plest facts, cannot expect to win the votes of thinking men. People all over the city have read the refutation of the fallen journal's lies about the fusion candidates. Wise men are asking “how much there was in it” to cause the cir- cus poster daily to fill its columns with such base lies. Ever pusing as a purist, the lurid sheet still pursues the meth- ods of Barnum'’s barkers, those souls bereft of every touch of honor, who stood before the side show doors and proclaimed that a woolly horse was in- side when they knew that the strange 3 | ‘was in the hallway, and as she emerged from her friend’s room the murderous Low’'s Horehound Cough 8; oos; yrup for price 10c, 47 st | creature on exhibition was merely an ass on which the hide of a ram had been glued for revenue only. Quite wnconsciougly, the Examiner and base political lies, the Examiner | | | | | came to San Francisco In 1878. Since /1878 I have been almost continuously a freeholder. At the present time I am | not so much of a freeholder as I have been, but I own three pleces of real es- | tate In San Mateo County and an un- divided Interest in one plece here. This latter is not recorded in my name. My partner in the enterprise pays the taxes and stands off the street contractors, | assessors and tax collectors. This ex- plains why in searching the assessment | roll of last year the Examiner has not | found my real estate. ! located on Clement street. I have a deed representing my interest, which I am willing to exhibit to anybedy. If | recording this deed would make me any | more of a freeholder than I am I would record it for the | aminer. make freeholders any more than being onthe assessment rolls makes them. A freeholder is one who owns an estate of inheritance or a life estate in real | property. A person might own a life | estate with millions and not be as- | sessed for a dollar. If I had bought the | Palace Hotel since the first Monday in | March I would not be on the assess- | ment roll searched by the Examiner. “The fact is the whole thing is a cam- paign dodge, and is unworthy the at- | tention of respectable people. The word ‘freeholder,’ as used in the consti- tution, is a mere designation. The qualification presented for eligibility to the charter board is a flve years’ resi- dence in the city and county. This was decided by the Supreme Court in the cage of Hecht. The constitution does not say that the charter-makers shall be freeholders. The word ‘trustees,’ ‘supervisors,” and ‘commissioners’ are used. The law says that Supervisors shall be elected in the different coun- ties. Does this mean that no person is eligible unless he is a Supervisor? It says that railroad commissioners shall be elected. Must a person be a Rall- road Commissioner in order to qualify? Certainly not. A man becomes a Su- pervisor, a Trustee, a Commissioner, or a freeholder in the sense of the con- stitution after he is elected. “I regard the charge of the Examiner as a mere campaign trick, sprung on the eve of election so that it will be im- possible of refutation. Such tactlcs ought not to fool anybody.” —_— Who Owns the Hose? A man giving the name of George Mc- Donald was arrested yesterday after- noon by Detective Ryan on a charge of petty larceny. Ryan saw him with a valuable . garden ~hose, ‘and __suspected that he had stolen it. He followed him for three blocks till he caught him. Me- Donald said he took the hose from the corner of Page and Webster streets, and the police would like to hear from the owner. e Griffo Flahts. Young Griffo last night accepted the challenge of a man by the name of Starr to engage in fisticuffs, and in company with a select crowd of fighters repaired to the Golden Gate stables, where they stripped to the buff and went at it. Al- though intoxicated,” Griffo soon had his man wishing he was not there. In the middle of the second round Young Mitch- ell, who was acting as referee, taking g;tuy" on Starr's condition, stopped the The property is | benefit of the Ex- | But recording deeds does not nue, on suspicion of having been a | “pal” of Adam Stroh, the burglar who | shot Baldwin Gardner in his residence last Saturday evening. He Is reported by the police to be a dangerous and sullen character. He was sent from Los Angeles to BSan Quentin for two years on a charge of burglary and was released last Janu- | ary. He has a long criminal record, | and the police are elated at having him safely stowed away in the tanks in the City Prison. After his arrest he was taken to Cap- | tain Bohen’s office and questioned, but he refused to say anything regarding Stroh’s career or his implication in the recent shooting. He is known, however, to be a “pal” of Convict Collins, who is mow serving a fifteen years’ sen- tence at San Quentin for burglary. Last evening Stroh’s rooms at 827 Ellis street were searched and lock picks were exceedingly conspicuous. An eight-ounce bottle of strychnine was also found in the room. Charles Biers, whose house was first entered on Saturday evening, was un- able to identify Stroh as the burglar when he was taken to the tanks last evening. The houses of Charles S. Bler and Baldwin Gardner were not the only ones entered that eventful night, for the residence of Charles Brown and son received a visit that almost ended in a killing. The detectives discovered Stroh hid- ing on the roof of the Bier residence from a window in the Brown home. While the officers were searching for a means of reaching Stroh, the des- perate burglar made his way into a room of a servant in the Brown house- hold. The girl had, after barricading the door with her trunk to prevent an incursion from the interior of the house where she supposed the burglar to be, opened the window. Stroh, seeing the light in the win- dow, sprang inside and confronted the frightened woman. She screamed, and then attempted to drag the trunk from the door. Stroh begged her for his mother’s sake not to make an outery, and when the door was opened slipped into the hall and into the dining room and made several efforts to light the gas there, as shown by half-burnt matches lying about the floor. He ap- parently found the rear entrance, for he made his way into the yard from the réar of the residence. Attracted by the noise a crowd had collected In the rear of the houses and Stroh evidently feared capture from that direction, for he climbed the fence separating the Brown yard from the area of the next house and thence made his way again through halls and rooms to the roof. Being a second time discovered by the officers he took a desperate chance to elude them. A telegraph wire extending from the roof on which he stood to a telegraph pole some distance away was his only means of escape, and he unhesitat- ingly jumped from the roof and start- ed to swing himself toward the pole. Fearing to lose their quarry the officers fired two shots at the daring crook, and the swaying body dropped into the yard below. The yard into which he dropped was that of Baldwin Gardner, and while the officers thought his body was lying lifeless on the ground he was making his way into the residence of the man he shot. Gardner saw him on the porch of his NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. sl espesdivtote St SO PSSR i SPECIALS —FOR— 'The XFolidays. An Elegant Stock A Very Low Prices:. St SILK AND SATIN EIDERDOWN LADIES' FANCY LAWN APRONS. LADIES' AND GENTS' SILK U LADEES’ AND GENTS' LADIES’ SILK HOSE. LADIES' AND GENTS' PURE GENTS’ SILK INITIALED HANDKERCHIEFS. LADIES’ FEATHER COLLARETTES AND BOAS.. CONPORTERS... .. Lo e 300 0 S50 each SILK AND SATIN EIDERDOWN PILLOWS.....SL50 to $6.00 each LADIES’ FANCY SILK SKIRTS...................$5.60 to $25.00 each -4 o256 10 $3.00 each NDERWEAR—shirts aand draw- corerennnnene-§3.50 to $9.00 each SILK UMBRELLAS.....$2.00 to $9.00 each $LT5 to $3.50 pair -I5c to $L.00 each LINEN INITIALED HANDKERCHIEFS ..... 163c to 50c each e §3.00 t0 $25.80 each THLHPHONHE GRANT 124, E m, u3, us, uv, 19, ¢ 121 POST STREET. ficers that their man was in sight Stroh drew his revolver and fired the shot that will probably cost Gardner his life. He quickly made his way in- to the house and hid behind the por- tiers, where the officers found him. Since the first statement made by Mr. Gardner the doctors in attendance have refused to permit him to be seen by employes of the Police Department and an ante-mortem statement that would stand in court has been impossi- ble to obtain. Chief of Detective Bo- hen is much exercised over the fact, as he made every effort to render the case against Stroh-a good one, remaining in his office: until 12 o'clock on the night of the shooting in order to prop- erly direct the efforts of his men. The pistol with which the shooting was done has not yet been found, though a diligent search has been made for it. BOWE & CO. HAPPY NEWYEAR'S Compliments of the Season SPECIAL SAVING SALE MONDAY—TUES?AY—WEDNESDAY regularly 15c tin ‘We have just received a car direct from Maine of the finest corn and succotash packed in that State—Sea Foam Figs (Smyrna) regularly 20c Ib Wm Penn Malt Whiskey 75¢ regularly $1 boftle You need it this time of year Sauterne regularly $5 dozen quarts Californian—Sweet Sardines 15¢ $4 medium 20¢ large 25¢ regularly 25c and 30c 1 New catch Lazeran—none better Radway’'s Ready Rellef for Sprain: Bruises, Sore Muscles, Cramps, Burns, Sunbulr‘ns. Back- he. Headache, Toothache, Rheumatism, New. Lumbago. 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