The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1898, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO' CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1898. 9 DURRANT WEAKENS WHILE HE COUNTS THE FLYING HOURS When Left Alone He Gives Way to Over- whelming Despair. HIS GUARDS EXPECT A COLLAPSE. Another Disappointment From the Circuit Court, Another Appeal to the Governor, but Little Hope in Either. e baleful influence 1t gallows is telling on Durrant nd it is the belief of those who are sest to him that he will not be able ssisted, should nothing occur to pre- the execution to-morrow. ere are two sides to the prisoner's character, and but one is shown to thiose who call to see him; when alone with his own thoughts, or with the of an ever | consider the facts. | watchful guards who by their presence | the horror of his situation gets the better of him, and the men of the death watch ha seen him writhe on the floor in his anguish and they have heard his cries of despair resound through the cell. It has been evident to every one who has seen Durrant since he was placed in the condemned cell that he was breaking down, but beyond the mem- bers of the death watch no one knows how greatly he has changed. They say his outward calmness is assumed for the benefit of whoever is coming to sée-him; that when he hears the ap- proach of any one he pulls himself to- gether, strides up and down his cell for a few minutes and then meets his vigitor with something of his old time bravado; and when he is left alone sgain the horror returns, and he thtows himself on his mattress and sobs bitterly. The guards over Durrant are exper- ed in the ways of criminals; they = sat by more than one man wait- OO0 NO WOMEN s ances, Tais is final and positive. nd him always of the approaching | In accordance with the resolution passed by the Board of Prison Direct- ors and confirming the statements heretofore given by me in person, that no temale will be present to witness the execution of W. H. T. Durrant, I now reiterate that declaration---No woman will be admitted under any circum- COCO000000000C00C0CX0000I00000000 | would be dealt It will not be the first time the Gov- ernor will have considered the facts of the Durrant case, and he is nearly as | familiar with them as the attorneys. time is to try the Williams case, and that was made the burden of the prayer for delay. Should the Williams case come to trial and should Durrant be acquitted of that charge of murder the conviction on the Lamont charge a moral blow which might redound to the benefit of the prisoner to the extent of avoiding the Supreme Court had already decided | gallows, even though the conviction stood. The Williams case was always | considered the weaker of the two, and one of the first lekal fights in the case | was over the attempt of the prosecu- tion to try the Lamont case before the Williams case, because the Lamont case was the stronger. It has already been settled that there can be no legal connection between o cases, and the Governor has intimated by his attitude in appeals where the same point raised that he considered that the Willlams case was one of secondary importance when the Lamont case was being considered. It is generally be- lieved that he will take the same stand | nas taken before and will not in- | he terfere in the course of justice. His decision is expected some time to-day, and there is little doubt but that it will be the dying of Durrant’s last hope. LA~ i HIS HOPE IS GONE. The Condemned Man Prepar- ing for the End To-Morrow. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., Jan. 5.—Durrant has lost all hope and all ADMITTED. 0000000000000 ing for the hour when a legal death | to-day he was preparing himself for vaited him, and they say that unless he is different from them all, Durrant never be able to climb the gallows’ airs; the strain has been too much or him and when the end finally comes th believe he will collapse. A sensa- tion is looked for when the fatal hour arrives to-morrow. Yesterday another disappointment as added to the already long list of se gone before; the United States Circuit Court denied his applicaticn for a writ of habeas corpus, and what was worse still, when his attorneys wished to file papers on appeal, the court re- d to allow them to be placed in rge of the clerk. He has a repre- tive in Washington, however, who nt to the United States Su- ourt an application for a writ r on the proceedings in regard to ncing of November 10, but the urt passed upon the very point e trying to make before the the ruling was Governor is the last hope and an was made to oon by General Dickinson. Wil- Hoe W. Foote and ex- e Sanc The gentlemen ap- TSOn. the house of a relative. Governor was not asked to com- the sentence; the plea was one in the case, for the only r Fest was one for time. General Dick- on urged the trial of the Williams for he said the two cases had :n so closely connected by the pub- 1t people were trying to hang the r for both crimes and on the lence of but one. “Suppose,” sald general, “that Durrant should L= iitted of the murder of Minnie Wil would it not have a decided ef- pon the sentiment in regard to the ont case? We don't ask for e, we ask for time—time to try the time to perfect the legal poiuts before the courts—time to sec pavrs Y one.” Mr. Foote, Judge Sanderson and Mr. Hoeffler als remarks being that they did not think Durrant had had a fair and impartial trial. Chief Justice Beatty of the Su- preme Court spoke to the Governor on behalf of Durrant on Tuesday evening, 1 the Governor has received numer- ous communications on the subject. The petition was listened tc vith at- tention, and when all the lawyers had spoken the Governor said he would carefully consider all he had heard. m the Governor's manner, General kinson says he has strong hopes hat the prayer will be granted. Mr. Deuprey conducted the proceed- ings before the United States Cowrt esterday. morning. At 11 o'clock Judge Morrow and Judge de Haven ap- peared on the bench and Judge Mor- row rcad his opinion denying the appii- cation for a writ of habeas corpus. The opinion recited the facts of the case in detail and then dealt with the contention of the prisoner’s counsel that the defendant had an absolute right of appeal. This contention was based on the action of the Federal Judges after ‘the sentence of November 10, when they refused even to allow the clerk to handle the papers. They decided that an appeal was not an in- : 1 herent right when it was prosecuted for | the evident purpose of obstructing the process of the law. The court consid- ered that the Judge had discretionary powers to the extent of refusing an ap- preal when such a state of facts was apparent It 18 ‘plain the attorneys have not much hope in the further process of the court; their energies are all bent on the Governor,. and the only ray of light 4 that glimmers in the darkening hori- zon comes from him. General Dickin- s0n was much encouraged by the Gov- €rnor's manner when listening to the petition for a reprieve, and places great him yesterday | ed before him, where he is lying | that direction, and when “the truth of both cases instead of only | 0 spoke, the burden of their | | the final moment. Rev. Rader and Prison Chaplain Drahms called on the condemned man early in the afternoon and offered religious consolation. To them Durrant earnestly asserted his innocence of the crime he is doomed to | dle for. After a brief prayer Durrant asked them both to be with him on the | scaffold. To that they assented and as they went away they promised to | call and be with him most of to-day. When they left Rev. Father Lagan went to the death chamber and bid the murderer farewell. The reverend father and the prisoner have become close friends since Durrant came to | San Quentin and the leave taking was not without tears. Later in the day the father of the doomed man called and for a seccnd | tirne he was compelled t> taik to his | son with the bars and the heavy | screen separating them. The | Durrant told his son of the refusal of | the District Court to grant anyv fur- | ther delay in the punishment for the | murders of Emmanuel Church and the news took all hope from the condemned man. The father told him that the | Governor might interfere, but the pris- | | oner said he had little to look for in his father | went away he said he would be brava | to the last and die on the scaffold in- 2 | nocent of the crimes attributed to him. ~ | Later in the evening Durrant's guards | sent word from the death chamber that | the condemned man was fast losing the | composure that has characterizel him | sitce his arrest, and they predicted | that the murderer would break down | completely before the supreme moment. | Two guards were stationed in the | death cell w ith him last night, and an- other watched him through the Leavy | bars in the room in which he is con- fined, waiting to be led to his death. The prison physician has been caution- | ed to be within call at all hours of the day or night at a moment’s warning, in | case the doomed man may attempt to | take his life to cheat the gallows. No move of the murderer is unheed- ed, and the prison officials are taking | the death penalty. After the elder Durrant came from the death chamber he called on the Warden and requested that after the body of his son was cut | down after the law had been satisfied it be immediately placed in a coffin without the black cap being removed | from its face and the casket closed. He said he requested it so that the | features of his dead son could not be gazed upon by those who witnessed the execution. He asked that the body be given into his care as soon as possible after the execution, and that no inquest or post-mortem examina- tlon be held. He also requested that the Warden take the rope with which his son was hanged and burn it, as he or the mother of the condemned mur- derer did not want it to be cut up and pieces of it distributed about the coun- try as mementoes of the event. The Warden granted the requests and promised that they would be fully car- ried out. After the Warden had given his con- Psent to the requests Mr. Durrant in- formed the Warden that he had de- cided not to witness the execution of his son. He said he had taken that resolve on the advice of Rev. Dr. Rader, who he sald would be at the side of the condemned man on the gallows. To-day the death machine was placed in readiness, and the room wherethe gallows stands was prepared for those who will witness the execu- tion. Warden Hale all day was in con- stant communication with the Attor- riey-General, and if any stay of execu- tion is granted the Warden will only recognize a communication from that official. LS No One May Enter. In speaking of the Durrant case last evening General Dickinson said: ‘No m‘*\uce in the promise to carefully one will have permission to Interview senior | no chances to let the murderer escape | the condemned man before he is hanged, as I have authority in the matter and have given strict orders that no one shall see him. If the un- fortunate man must die, I believe in ! letting him spend his last hours in peace, and will not submit to having him pestered. If any one does permit him to be seen it will not only be con- trary to my orders, but will also be a violation of faith and the breaking of a solemn promise." Another Gullty Man. The crank has not finished his work of attempting to divert suspicion from Theodore Durrant. Yesterday morning Coroner Hawkins received the follow- ing letter scrawled with lead pencil on a soiled sheet of note paper: Jan. 4, 1898. Coroner Hawkins you will find the last of me in the Park near the Museum { was born in Mayfleld. Theodore Durant is innocent | am the man who did it remorse has seized me. You will find credentials in my pockets locate Donald Ross. No autopsy to be held. BYRON K. The Coroner only laughed at the note, but telephoned out to the park police station and advised them to look for a suicide, but has nothing from -that quarter. The letter is evidently the work of some insane person who has let the Durrant case work on his nerves. ————— Can Do Nothing. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 65—In discussing the report that one of Dur- rant’s attorneys would arrive here to » mount the steps of the scaffold un- | The purpose of any continuance at this | make a last appeal in the case, an of- ficer of the Supreme Court said that | he could not imagine upon what grounds an appeal could be made, and he did not believe that any appeal or | any sort of motion would be enter- | tained by the Court. He said that any | further action would have to be in the Circuit Court, for the United States that it could do nothing. Bl s e Sends for His Mother. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Jan. 5— Late to-night Durrant sent a note from the death cell to Warden Hale asking him to send word to his mother in the city asking her to come and see him | early in the morning. l —————— | THE STORY OF THE CRIME. Rev. Frank C}-essey, ex-Pastor | of Emmanuel Church, Tells | of the Great Case. BOSTON, Jan, 5.—The following arti- cle was written to-day by the Rev. Frank Cressey, now pastor of the Bap- tist Church in Weymouth, Mass, He was pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco, where the Blanche Lamont murder was com- | mitted, up to within a few months of | the terrible double crime. He knows | all the parties concerned from having | been their pastor, and his narration of | the crime, as told from personal knowl- | COC000OEIO000I00000000000000000C0C0COON 9 edge, is such as has never before been given. Here are the words in which he | describes it: Four times Theodore Durrant has stood before a San Francisco Judge and heard pronounced on himself the sentence of death by hanging. The last date set for execution is January 7, 188, and the present probabilities are that he will then surely die. From a legal point of view the case has become one of the most in- | in the | Jurispru- | teresting, not to say notorious, history of American criminal dence. It may be said that the moral character of each of these three persons was en- tirely above reproach, and each among the foremost of religious workers in the Young People’s Soclety of Chris- tian Endeavor connected with the Em- manuel Church. Durrant’s father has long been a fore- man in a_large shoe factory, a man of quiet and , exemplary life. Durrant’s mother, scarcely sixteen years older than her son, is a woman of refinement, and, like the mother of Gracchl, delights in her children as her jewels. i The elder Durrant, together with fhis parents, was a member of the Metropoli- tan Temple Baptist Church, San Fran- clsco at the time of its collaps dozen years ago, and In I bership” he was baptized a few Ru:.rs previously by ev. Isaac 8. alloch, once pastor of Tremont Temple, Boston, whom Editor de Young of the San Francisco Chronicle once tried to as- sassinate. Editor de Young was after- ward shot dead in his business office by |a son of Dr. Kalloch, which son was | once Eastur of the present Emmanuel Church. Theodore Durrant became a member of | the Emmanuel Church five years ago. He was received by myself, ‘as pastor. 1 had at that time the utmost confidence in Durrant’s Christian eharacter. 1 had always found him an unusual hglper in church work and even now can hardly | bring myself to believe in Durrant’s guilt. | “At the time of the murders Durrant was studying medicine as a_student at one of the medical colleges of the city. Miss Lamont's home was in Montana, | but on account of poor health she was | spending the winter with *her aunt and | uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Noble of San Fran- | cisco, ~members of the | Church. She was at the time of her | death attending the Girls’ High School, about four miles from her aunt's home and the church. Theodore Durrant wi less frequent caller on Mis: er temporary home, wher calls and companionship, were so frequent that some people began to whisper of a possible engagement. Miss Willlams was a young woman of large and recognized worth, though ex- ceedingly unfortunate in her life. By | her own observation she became con- vinced six or seven years ago of her father's alleged infidelity to her mother, and a seputration of the parents was the result. After some months of painful struggle by Mrs. Willlams, the Em- manuel Church sent her and her three | young children to her parents’ home in | Canada. Minnie remained in San Fran- cisco to earn her own passage money eastward. Miss Willilams was of short and deli- cate physical frame and was very quiet | and retiring. She was hagflled by me at nearly the same time that I received | Theodore Durrant into the church and | soon after I had recelved Mr. and Mrs. | Noble, relatives of Miss Lamont. Now as to the murders. On Wednes- {day afternoon, April 3, nearly three years ago, Blanche Lamont did not re- turn from school at the accustomed hour. | Nor did she come that evening; she never came. Nine days after Miss Lamont's disap- | pearance, on a Ffldn" evening, Theodore Durrant and Miss Williams were bothex- ected at the private residence of one of he Emmanuel members to attend a | meeting of the Christian Endeavor So- | clety. iss Williams did not come. Dur- | rant came, but he came late, at perhaps 19:30 o'clock. When Durrant came it was | with disheveled hair and general disar- rangement of apparel. To the host of the | evening, a chum-like friend, he explained | his condition by saying that as a mem- ber of the State militia he had to go to Mount Diablo, thirty miles away, early the next morning on a hellographic_ex- pedition. When asked: “Where's Min- nie?” he unconcernedly answered that he didn’t know. At midnight Durrant was met by one of the young men of the evening's com- pany near the Emmanuel Church. The next morning, Baturday before Baster day, Durrant went away, as intended. The same mumlng young women went to Emmanuel Church to adorn it for Easter festivities. One of them wished to see the new library, one which Durrant had been arranging. The library closet door was opened. Horror of horrors! There lay Minnie “:‘l_l}lllnn‘s ma:rddered! already deeply stirred city because of )fiu Lamont's disappearance was now at fever heat. Who was Miss Willlams" murderer? For some reason suspicion pointed immediately in one direction. Durrant was arrested. ‘What is the theory as to Miss Williams' murder? This: She left her home on the Friday even- ing in question ostensibly to attend the Christian Endeavor meeting, but really to meet Durrant at the side entrance to the church, and where, it Is said, they were seen to meet under the street gas light. Thence they went into the great dark church together. There he killed her by was | Emmanuel | s welcome for his worth's | choking and throat cramming. Then he went to the Endeavor meeting, spent the evening cheerily, went home wi one of the young women and then, fearing that his. deed was not thoroughly done, he returned to the church at midnight. He entered its sepulchral gloom, gmped his way first into the kitchen of the church, bro)ke open the closet, took one of the case knives kept for use at socials, groped his way to where he had left the body two hours before, dragged it into the library room and there cut the wrists and stabbed the heart, and then with his hands threw the blood on the walls. Why was Miss Willlams murdered? The generally accepted theory is because she was supposed to know too much about the me earance of her friend, Miss Lamont. ‘‘Dead men tell no tales.” Easter morning came and the detectives resumed their search in Emmanuel Church. They burst open the gallery steeple door, they mounted stair after stair, and on the topmost floor, fully seventy-five feet from the street, they found what was once Blanche Lamont. The mystery of many days was solved. On what evidence was Theodore Dur- rant convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont? Various persons testified that they saw him waiting in front of the Gh‘rfl‘ igh School on the afternoon of her disappearance; that they saw him join her as she came out; that the two rode together on the street cars to the Emmanuel Church; that they got off to- gether, entered the church about o'clock; that she was never seen allve | afterward, and that about 5 or 5:30 | o’clock that afternoon Durrant came down from the upper part of the church, evidently very tired and comrrlnlnln of | being faint. To a church friend whom | Durrant found playing on the piano | when he came down he explained that his | faintness was due to some exhausting work he had just been doing with the | electric wires in the church, but at the | trial it was testified that the wires had | been untoucheg for weeks. | Durrant’s conviction was in the main if not entirely on circumstantial evidence. | As to possible or probable motive it had been strongly contended that as a medi- | cal student he was of morbldly sensual | nature, and that he killed Miss Lamont | that he might feast his eyes on her nude | body; possibly, that he might have a | fresh’ subject for dissecting purposes. On | the other hand, Durrant’s friends point | to his former character and manner of 1ife as proof positive that he was a man incapable of such motives and conduct. | “The relations between Durrant and his | pastor, the Rev. J. George Gibson, have | | from the first of the murders been pecul- | |farly unfortunate. The pastor has sel- | | dom or never called on his sad and | | accused parishioner. This partly, perhaps, | | because of a rumor somewhat current at | ‘ the time that Pastor Gibson knew more | about Miss Lamont’s death than he cared to tell. Indeed, in a letter. the Rev. Mr. Gibson, referring to Mr. Deuprey, Dur- | rant's law said: “What do T know? | | Mr. Deuprey has not the genius to find | out. Had he made a friend of me instead | of an enemy, he would have succeeded | | better. If he had only taken me into his | confidence, as he did the other witnesses | of the . how different his case | | would ha " Yet further, Mr. Gib- = son's assertions as first quoted are held o furnish not a little reason why the Governor should commute the death sen- | tence to tmprisonment for life. | Durrant a month ago wrote a letter to | | nis pastor on the basis of the above as- | Berthon but so far as is known Mr. Gib- Son has made no reply to the letter, | though it was printed in full In the daily | papers. | he police have warned the Rev. Mr. | | Gibson_that he is in danger of assassina- tion. The theory is that some of Dur- rant’s friends may kill him and then give out that he committed suicide through | remorse at having himself murdered | Miss Lamont. The warning has been ac- cepted by the church. One of its mem- bers armed is with the pastor by night and by day, and detectives attend all services of the church. 1 have written Durrant, expressing no opinfon as to his guilt or innocence, but begging him, if guilty, to confess it and not goierflu his Maker with a lie on his lips as well as the blood of murder on his hands. [ | "Durrant has replied by autograph | letter asserting his innocence. I have | again written the condemned man, and expect a final declaration on the scaffold | if the worst should come. DELIGHTED 7WITH ROHNER. | | | | | \ The Composer Gives a Private Recital at Metropolitan Temple. Those present at the private organ recital of Prof. F. G. Rohner yesterday | afternoon at Metropolitan Temple were delighted with his rendering of his own | composition, the Golden Jubilee March. Professor Rohner is a resident of Chi- cago and one of the best organists in the United States. The Lincoln Monument League in- tends to give him a reception next Sunday afternoon, to which the public | in general and music lovers in parti- cular are invited. A very entertaining programme for the occasion has been | prepared. There will be a chorus of | fifty voices. The Knickerbocker quar- | tette will sing and the professor will render the “Jubilee March,” which was | written in anticipation of his visit to | this coast during jubilee time. | Professor Rohner is a composer of | some note, having written several very | pretty lullabies. His new march is full | | of fire and_ written in a style of his | own. Mr. Rohner intends staying in | | California several weeks and during | that time will be heard at several of | the prominent churches of this ecity. | The reception Sunday is being given at | the special requests of the Germans of | this city, of whom he is a countryman. | ———— SWINDLED HIS FRIEND. Charles Blackburn Wanted for Burglary on Complaint of William W. Miller. Willlam W. Miller, editor of the ‘World, swore to a complaint in Judge Low's court yesterday for the arrest of Charles Blackburn on the charge of burglary. Miller has just served a sentence for criminal libel while running a paper in San Jose. While in jail he alleges | that Blackburn went to his mother and represented that he had been | commissioned by Miller to get from her $250, to be pald to Attorney More- | house. Blackburn got the money and | went to San Jose,but instead of giving ;»lorehouse the $250 he only gave him 150. On November 23 Blackburn again called upon Mrs. Miller and told her that Attorney Morehouse was to apply for a writ of habeas corpus and $25 was needed. He got the money, which | he appropriated to his own use and purposes. He did more. Before leav- ing the house he went into Miller's bedroom and stole his gold studs and other articles of jewelry. Mrs. Miller will also swear to a com- plaint to-day for the arrest of Black- burn on a charge of embezzlement in getting away with the $100 and $25. ——————— BROKE INTO A CAR. Arrest of Fred Allen on a Charge of Burglary. A well dressed young man, who gave his name as Fred Allen, was arrested last night by Detectives Bee and Har- per and charged with burglary. On December 20, it is claimed, he broke into a railroad car at Port Costa, and stole a number of pairs of trousers, valued at $200. Allen, it is charged, brought the stolen property to this city and sold it to a pawnbroker at 608 Montgomery street, where it was re- covered by the detectives. Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J:Noonan,1017-1028 Mission. ot amirhingib oo mdnti An Insolvent Debtor. ‘Walter 8. Morrison has been declared insolvent. His liabilities are scheduled at $14,34 8. The fac-simile signature of is on every wrapper of CASTORIA. | the commission of the deed, and the | that he had nothing to do with Dow’s | death. Hayes is employed by the Mon- | favor of suicide is that the man could SUICIDE THE COMMON THEORY John H. Dow Was Very Despondent Friday Night “Babe” Wilson Proved by a Presidio Soldier to Be in China. A Willlams Woman Now in the Case—Evidence of the Keys Favors Self-Murder. | ‘Whether John H. Dow, the proprie- tor of the shooting gallery at 815 Kearny street met his death at the hand of an assassin or killed himself may never definitely be settled, but one thing is certain, as each day goes by the evidence seems more and more to shift toward the suicide end of the balance. The absence of a motive for murder, the presence of several for suicide, the manner in which those who fell under suspicion have man- aged to acquit themselves of any con- nection with the affair, the condition of the room and body at the time the man was found dead, and other small- er circumstances, all tend to convince the impartial investigator that the man had tired of life and made way with himself. In the first place there was only one entrance to the gallery, and this door had a double lock, different keys being used from the outside and inside. When the body was found the door | was locked from the inside, one set of | keys being in Dow's pockets and the other on a shelf. No way can be found | to explain how the murderer, if such there be, could have locked the door on the inside and made his way out except through the transom, and in this case the circumstnces are such as | to make any transom theory out of the question. The pistol lay in just such a position as it would have been if dropped from the manm's hand after hand was stretched out over it. The fact that the man had carried the pis- tol himself, as is testified to by the Dazel woman, is alsc a strong point. Then it is known that Dow’s finances | were in a bad condition and that he was sick and despondent. Only the evening before the death occurred he went into Peterson’s Cafe at 623 Kear- ny street and ordered eggs, soft boiled, | from the walter, Frank Martinson. ‘When they were done he was unable to | eat them, and in response to a query of the waiter, with whom he was well acquainted, as to what was the mat- ter, he said he was {ll. He seemed to be not only unwell, but in a very de- spondent state of mind. Frank S. Hayes, to whom the anony- mous letter referred as the ‘short, stout, red-headed man,” has shown arch Business Exchange, 1346 Market street, and has demonstrated that he only saw Dow three times, once going to see him about two months ago to inquire for another person if the place were for sale. It is now proved by the testimony of a soldier at the Presidio named Ran- kin that the woman, “Babe Wilson,” who has figured somewhat as a su: pect, has been in.China since last July. Bohen sent for Rankin last night, and he said he had known the woman inti- mately for a long time and produced two letters which he had received, one of them being received from Shanghai about two weeks ago. The only theory so far advanced in not have shot himself a second time. But a man has been known to have lived with two thirty-eight-calibre bul- lets in his brain. These were only of twenty-two-calibre, and it may have been that thé third one was the only bullet that produced instant uncon- sciousness. At least the police incline to that theory. Mrs. Dazel again visited Captain Bohen's office yesterday afternoon and made an additional statement. She claimed that a woman, who is known | as Mrs. Willlams, was in the habit of | visiting Dow. She saw her Christmas | night in Dow’s shooting gallery. After | she had left Dow called Mrs. Dazel and told her that in the future not to recog- | nize the woman. i “She always wants money,” he re-| marked. “I am getting tired of her| constant demands.” Mrs. Dazel describes Mrs. Wililams as being about 40 years of age and| rather tall. She does not know where | she lives. After hearing her statement Captain Bohen at once detailed Detective Crockett to find Mrs. Williams. He be- | lieves that she may be able to throw | some light on the death of Dow. Englne-Driver Injured. | ‘While engine 5 was coming down the steep hill on Pacific street, between | held, one in Agricultural Park and the | | terday, one for the arrest of tion, but at the same time he had the gnod sense to resign from the office he | eld. Judgll;f from the reports received yesterday r. Carman had but little trouble in freeing himself from the | chm}gel of fraud made against him, for | the following telegram has been received | from Mr. Carman at the Alaska Trade Committee’s rooms: “Case dismissed on prosecution's testi- mony. Court refused to entertain other cases. The other charges are equally groundless.” —_———————— COURSING AT LOS ANGELES. Great Sport Witnessed at the Two Parks on Saturday and Sunday. Coursing has taken a firm hold in Los Angeles and evidently it is there to stay. On Saturday and Sunday last two largely attended meetings were other at the new coursing park near Sherman. In a sixty-four dog stake run at Agri- | cultural Park the winners were: Trip first prize, Downing second, Juliet third, Lady Angeline fourth, Sallor Girl fifth and Romeo sixth. In the match races Fannie C beat Klondike and Flying Jib beat Blue Chief. At the new grounds the result of a forty-eight dog stake was as follows: Border Valentine first, then came in their respective orders Santa Alecia, | Doncaster, Sans Souse, Duke, Kitty Scott, Morning Star, Peachie, Silk Jem, Antelope, Don L and Rellance. Considerable money was wagered on the final courses. —_——— LINCOLN DAY. 12 Set Apart at the Mining Fair. The Lincoln Monument League met last night to discuss what they should do for the celebration of Lincoln day at the mining fair, February 12 being the day set apart. This will be the first time the league has ever come be- fore the public requesting aid from it. On this day subscriptions will be re- ceived and the objects of the league explained. It was decided at'the meeting to send circulars to all the editors of the various papers in the State and inter- est them in the work, and also to send them to the teachers that they may ex- plain its object to the pupils of the schools. February —_——— WAS HE ROBBED? Lee Wah Claims to Have Been Held Up and Hit With a Poker. Lee Wah, a Chinese laundryman at 436 Fourteenth street, swore to two complaints in Judge Low’s court yes- Henry Cornell, 1803 Folsom street, on the charge of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, and the other for the arrest of ‘“Jane Doe” Cornell on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Lee Wah's story is that Tuesday night he visited the Cornell house to collect a laundry bill of $150. Cornell asked him if he could change a $20 gold picce and Lee Wah produced the neces- sary change of $1850. = He alieges that Cornell pointed a revolver at his head and compelled him to deliver up the money. He was then ordered to leave the house, and when he demanded his money back Mrs. Cornell hit him over the head with a poker. —_———————— * Back @fter Many Years. Lewis 1. Kent yesterday received an appointment as examiner of merchandise in the Custom-house. Kent is an old veteran, and ‘held a position in the Cus- tom-house thirty years ago, but was re- moved under a change of the political reign. His reappointment is under the law providing for the appointment of veterans to Government offices. NEW TO-DAY. FRILLSTS FOR BILIOUS AND NERVOUS DISORDERS such as Wind and Pain in the Stomach, Giddiness, Fulness after meals, Head- ache, Dizziness, Drowsiness, Flushings ot Heat, Loss of Appetite. Costiveness, Blotches on the Skin, Cold Chills, Dis- turbed Sleep, Frightful Dreams and ail Nervous and Trembling Sensations. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. Every sufferer will acknowledge them to be A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. 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For sale in San Franciseo by Leipnitz & Co., 250 Sutter street, and No-Percentage Pharmacy, 953 Market streef. ? ,0 0. .\o Wi ° ) “Oh George! I don't know™ what to do, I'm sure. Pasayshe will never consent to my marry- ing a man as extravagant as you are. He says you never chew anything but that cxpensive Piper Heidsieck Tobacco.” The new five-cent piece of Taylor and Mason, yesterday afternoon, thesbrake on the rear wheels slipped, | and to check the speed the driver, | Charles Cosgrove, made a half turn, in- | tending to zigzag down the hill. The rear | wheels, however, struck the curbstone | and upset the engine. Cosgrove, who | was strapped to the seat, was badly | shaken up, and it is feared that he has | sustained internal injuries. The engine was badly battered, but no serious breaks occurred. ———e——— To Be a New Olympla. The Olympia Amusement Company yeg- terday decided to close the blg music hall at the corner of Mason and Eddy streets, and it is now the intention to tumflt into er. A lar stage, rfect in :vt‘rhyenntpmlntmenl.s;fll be built and at- tractions of a high order will be contin- ually presented. What their nature will be has not yet been decided. —_————— D. M. Carman Exonerated. The arrest of D. M. Carman, formerly secretary of the Alaska Trade Commit- tee, while in Chicago with the special car, was considered by many as spite work and a blow at the efforts of San Fran- cisco merchants to secure the trade of those who are bound for the Klondike next spring. He assured the committee that the charges were without founda- Tremendous Exodus to the Kiondike. Dervite the warnings of those who have been on the spot, and predict suffering in the Klondike region, thousands of adventurous Americans are wending their way thitherward. 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