The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1898, Page 12

12 FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1898. TWELVE RIVER BOATS BOUND FOR DAWSON MAY BE WRECKS Left Seattle for St. Michael on June 2 and Although Long Overdue Have Not Been Heard From. Lowness of the River May Prevent Further Navi- gation of the Yukon-Storms Scatter a Pas- senger Fleet From the Sound and Many Tows Are Lost. The appalling news has reached this city that a fleet of twelve river steamers designed to ply on the Yukon between St. Michael and Dawson have disappeared on the high seas somewhere between Seattle and St. Michael. of sight of land on leaving the Sound. They are more than a month overdue, and they have not been heard from since they passed out Other steamers and sailing vessels have met with misfortune on the way up, and many of them lost the barges laden with valuable cargo which they had in tow. The river steamers built for the Yu- kon trade have been wonderfully un- fortuna far out the dozens that were constructed h in Portland and on Puget Sound only o will reach D: C this ye: e are the put together at Unalaska, and built at St. Michael for the mmercial Compa: Accord- c ing to the report of E. Anc , Collec- St. Michael, the lost her tow, the Eva; t maugh lost a river and 8 a barge, the bark Rufus E. Wood lost her river steamer over- board, the ol ug Governor Sgtoneman lost a bar with a large quantity of freight when the river broke up, and welve stea sent out from Seat- le by the Moran Brothers were counted ong the missing when the St. Paul left St. Michael. Apart from all this e very indignant because r Wood of Seattle had failed x of mail that had mer Alllance, and been for the military there probably have been a lynching i to the woes of the miners was so low that it was the m of eve ody who ry that unless there are v rains the only boats that » to Dawson will be those that loaded and ready to start when Faul sailed. L about the state of affairs 1 when he left, Collector of s Anders salid yesterday: “The 1 schooner Alliance left Seattle the middle of June for St. Mich- h about six tons of mail aboard. yor Wood secured the contract overnment for carrying the artered the Alliance to do Instead of going direct to el she stopped at Dutch Har- there waiting for her river be completed, which ghe was Michael. The steamers St. , Grace Dollar, Bertha red to take the mail on rs v beer had it not would sent “The majority of the miners on the | re {londike working on shares and 1 were anxious to know what they to do during the coming year. Many were anxious to come to San ancisco and were expecting instrue- tions by the first steamer up. In order to be on hand when the steamer ar- rived hundreds of the miners had worked their way down the river and had been living in the hotel or wher- ever they could get accommodations at St. Michael, awaiting the arrival of the mail. When the news arrived that the Alliance as lying in Dutch Harbor with six tons of mail on board awaiting the completion of a river steamer the | wrath of the miners knew no bounds. ‘When told that the St. Paul and other steamers had offered to bring the malil on to St. Michael and see that it was forwarded up the river it made matters even worse. The only explanation of- fered was that the river steamer had to be completed in order to take the ADVERTISEMENTS. FALLING HAIR RESTORED Soon after I was taken ill my hair com- menced to fall, 8o that each day more came out than I thought I had in my head. Iwas turning gray rapidly. FinallyIbecameatraid to have it combed, but the nurse said that wouldn’t do, and used vaseline to keep it in, then used beef’s marrow, then quinine tonic, and finally (CUTICURA ointment), which helped it ‘mmediately. Tho nurse said she yubbed up a fine white dust from the scalp where she could see nothing before com- mencing, and the scalp looked healthier and more natural every day. Now I haven't as many gray hairs as when I commenced using CUTICURA, and I have a crop of fine brown hair all over my head about an inch and a half in length. I only lose afew hairs when combing every day, and always more gray than brown. My nurse is delighted because the new hairs are brown. I never had very Juxuriant hair, even in my youth. It is as thick on my head today as it ever was, and CuTICURA did it. Mrs. J. M. LAWSON, March5,1808. 302 Hamilton St., Albany, N. Y. LUXURIANT LUSTROUS HAIR ‘with a clean, wholesore scalp, free from irritat. ing and scaly eruptions. is gmduwd by warm shampoos with CUTICURA EoAP, followed b light dressings with CUTICURA, purest of emol- Hent skin cures, the most effective skin purifiers and beautifiers in the world. Thcs' clear the scalp and halr of crusts, scaies, and dandruff, Qestroy mieroscoplc insects that feed on the hair, eoothe irritated, itching eurfaces, stimulate the hair follicles, and supply the roots with energy and nourishment. Bold tthe world. PoTTsR DRUG AND CHEM. Co Bosto. & uce Luzurisnt Halr,” malled free. | were all in bond there was no chance | Bering Sea she had to face a regular | mail on up to Dawson, and that there was no use in bringing it on to St. Michael until the boat was completed. The miners wanted to compel ex-Mayor Wood to send after the Alliance at once, and one word led to another un- til the ex-Mayor of Seattle would have been roughly handled had it not been that the soldiers interfered. When we | left St. Michael the mail had not ar- | rived and the majority of the miners had gone back up the river again. “I have been stationed at St. Mi- chael for four years and during that time I have never seen the river as low as it was when we left, while old residents told me that in ten years they had never seen so little water in the Yukon at this time of the year. There were about forty vessels lying at St. Michael and those who had dis- charged their freight and passengers into the river boats would be all right. They will get back to their home ports. Those that had not discharged, | but were waiting for river boats to come along, will probably have to re- maln there over the winter or else come back with their freight and passengers. The big British steamer Garonne from Victoria, with 3500 tons of freight, was Iving five miles outside of St. Michael harbor. Owing to her draught she could get no closer, and as her goods of discharging them, so she will have to take her load back to Victoria, B. C. “The steamer National City arrived in port after a stormy passage. After getting through Unga Pass and into Arctic storm. They say that the river steamer James Eva, which she was towing, broke in two and went down. | Her hog chains snapped with the work- ing of the vessel, and when they went there was little to hold her together. | | Captain Hatfleld, his wife and the other | passengers, who were on the James Eva, got aboard the National City in safety. When we left St. Michael they were on board the bark Rufus E. Wood, which the Alaska Yukon Trans- portation Company is using as a ho- tel.” Continuing, Mr. Anders said: “Among the safe arrivals was an outfit | on which I wouldn’t travel very far by water. It was the river steamer Clara, which was towed up by the Samoa on the barge Monarch. They had a rough time of it, but got there all right. All the transportation companies will lose | mcney this year and the chances are | that very little freight will get up the river. None of the steamers being built at Dutch Harbor for the Alaska Explo- ration Company will be ready in time for this year's trade, and only one of | the Alaska Commercial Company’s steamers will be ready in time. The latter company is all right, as far as trarnsportation goes, however, as it has | all its last year’s fleet on the river.” In a letter to the Lynde-Hough Com- pany Captain Herriman says that the James Eva broke in two and went | down and that the steamer Port also lost her tow from Dutch Harbor. The ! captain of the Grace Dollar and the captain of the bark Rufus E. Wood | wrote to their owners to the same ef- | fect. Robert Don, who bullt the river steamer Leah for the Alaska Commer- clal Company, also says that the James Eva went down, while Captain Haynes of the St. Paul and Captain Erksine, | the pilot, state positively that the river | steamer is lost. In the face of all this | the Alaska-Yukon Transportation Com- pany asserts positively that the James Eva is safe and sound at St. Michael. They say that the purser of the St. Paul has reported her safe arrival there to Louls Sloss Sr.; that four mi- ners who came down on the St. Paul saw her at St. Michael, and are hurry- ing through their business here in or- der to catch her on the return passage. Captain Hatfield has been heard from indirectly by the officers of the com- pany, but not a word comes from him in regard to the loss of the vessel. This the president of the company considers as conclusive proof that nothing had happened to the steamer. The bark Rufus E. Wood had a stern- wheel steamer on her deck when she left San Francisco, but it was washed overboard in Bering Sea. The lashings broke and away it went. It belonged to the Osborn party of gold hunters from Redlands. The Conemaugh took on several river steamers at Seattle, They were built of iron and were piled up higher than the steamer’s pilot-house. They were washed overboard in a storm and a barge that she was towing broke adrift and was lost. Robert Don, who left here last Sep- tember for St. Michael, came back on the St. Paul. While he was away he superintended the construction of the steamer Leah and two 600-ton barges | for the Alaska Commercial Company. Mr. Don thinks the chances for pas- eengers and freight getting up the Yu- kon are, to use his own words, ‘“very slim.” “If they get rain all will be | well,” said he vesterday. “If they don’t there will-be no more river | steamers get up the Yukon this year. The first boat down was the St. Mi- chael, and when she crossed the Yukon flats there was only two feet of water on them. The next boat reported two and a half feet of water and the last one down, the Belle, had three feet in which to navigate. At that point the river remained stationary, but will be- gin to fall right away If there is no rain. You see, the ice went out very early this year, and that means very little water on the flats, or, in fact, anywhere else on the Yukon. With three feet of water the first lot of steamers may be able to work over the flats, but should the river commence | to fall there is a very poor outlook for | getting passengers and freight to Daw- son. ““We left St. Michael on July 7 and at | that time there was no sign of the | but all I know were Harry K. Struver: J. H. Light, Captain Frank Grounds; D. R. Campbell, Cap- tain C. D. Brownfield; F. K. Gustin, Captain W. D. Dobbins; St. Michael, J. L. Fisher; seattle, Captain R. McFar- land; Victoria, Captain C. F. Gilmore; Oil City, Captain S. W. Wheeler; Rob- ert Kerr, Captain F. H. Berher; West- ern Star, Captain S. Hodgson; Tacoma, Captain J. E. Drisco; Graff, Captain E. E. Stanford. Moran Brothers' fleet of river steamers. They were all to go to St. Michael under thelr own steam and after getting into Bering Sea they must have caught it. Everybody at St. Michael had given them up for lost, as they were then more than a month out from Seattle. | There were twelve of them to ply on the Yukon, but whether they all left Seattle or not I do not know. I do know, however, that there have been some terrific storms in Bering Sea, and it would require a good steamer to live through them. Of course, the steamers may be at anchor in some safe haven, The Call’'s correspondent at Seattle sends the following in regard to the fleet: The fleet of twelve Yukon River steamers which Moran Brothers of Se- attle constructed left the Sound on June 2 with St. Michael as their destination. Their ocean convoyers were the tugs Resolute, Captain Tom Richard Holyoke, Captain Klinger, the steam schooner South Coast. Kilton, and | and | The steamers that composed the fleet (each vessel manned by a full crew) as follows: Pilgrim, Captain and Mary E. The flagship of the fleet was the steamer Pilgrim, on board of which was Robert Moran and Captain J. E. Len- non, chief pilot, who was to direct the course of the boats from the Pilgrim. The other steamers were to report to her at stated times by flag and whistle signals. The Resolute had no tow and was to | act as messenger steamer betweer he | Pilgrim and the remainder of the fleet. The Richard Holyoke had in tow flvi big river barges, each of which had 150 tons of coal aboard. The South Coast was Joaded with coal. At Dutch Har- bor it was the intention to pick up the four boats that the Morans bullt there for the North American Trading and Transportation Company. They are the J. C. Barr, Klondike, Power and Cunahy. The twelve river boats built by Moran Brothers were all on the same pattern, and each cost $50,000. In length they | were 175 feet, beam 35 feet and depth 6.5 feet. These boats are intended for passenger and freight purposes, having a capacity for 250 passengers and 400 tons of freight. i “Of the river boats that went up last year,” said Mr. Don, “some of them did | not get along very well. When the river broke up the steamer Governor Stone- | man lost her tow with all its freight | and nearly was wrecked herself. old Mare Island, that used to ply be- tween Berkeley and San Franclsco, is still tied up in the canal where she| made her home for the winter and will never come out of it. She has been con- demned and her passengers got up to Dawson the best way they could. The Seattle No. 1, that went up with the Wood outfit last fall, went on a sand bar near Tanana when the river broke up and was nearly wrecked. Luckily she got off again and is now at Dawson. All in all this is going to be a decidedly off year for gold hunters and transpor- tation companies.” When the St. Paul left St. Michael the steamer Grace Dollar for Kotzebue Sound was there awaiting the arrival of the steamer Humboldt. Among those who were going to Kotzebue on her were Captain A. H. Herriman, who goes up to look after the barkentine Jane A. Falkenberg; C. Dickey, who goes up to look after the barkentine Catherine Sudden, and J. L. Wilson. Of all the vessels that left here for Kotzebue the only one sighted was the Falkenberg, and she was spoken on June 18 by the revenue cutter Bear on the east end of St. Lawrence Island. The captain asked to be reported as “all well.” If the river steamer James Eva is lost the passengers who left here on the Dirigo will be in a bad box. It will be remembered that when the steamer City of Dawson, which was to have been towed up by the Dirigo, was attached, arrangements were made whereby the James Eva was to take the gold hunters up the river from St. Michael. In the event of the steamer’s loss the miners will have to get up the Yukon the best way they can. MRS. MARCEAU’S HEADGEAR. The Fresno Lady Sued for an Unli- quidated Milliner’s Bill. A complaint was filed in the Justices’ court yesterday afternoon by Charles A. Lane, who holds an assignment from Mrs. M. J. Turner, a milliner on Sutter street, against “Mrs. Amanda J. Fennell, some- times known as Mrs. Amanda J. Mar- ceau,” such being the phraseology of the complaint. The person sued is nene other that the ex-wife of the gallant Colones Marceau, whose matrimonial differences were adjusted in the San Francisco courts a short time ago. The attorney in the case is Frank Schil- ling, and he is warm on the trail of the dashing Fresno beauty, who, he says, has | neglected to liquidate her milliner's bill, and even worse, if anything could be worse from a milliner’s point of view, as | the lady when walited on b; lawyer simply laughed loud and long in his face and said she. did not care fo, court notoriety, and especially from the milliner in the case, as the latter did not belong to the “smart” set, but rather to what soclety people call “trash.” This method of liquidating & bill for $49 55, for the cholcest tints in ribbons and the most. costly tips from the plumage of pretty the patient is that the people at St. | Michael never expected tc see them.” The | birds was not quite to the liking of the attorney or his client, and as a conse- quence the suit was commenced and the power of the Sheriff’s office invoked to collect the amount, with costs, of course. The indebtedness was created about four months ago, when the dashing widow was on the eve of departing for Chicago. She telephoned to Mrs. Turner for the oods, which were to be delivered C. O. ., but just then the banks were closeq and would not open before the next day. When that time arrived Mrs. Fennell, sometimes known as Mrs. Marceau, was speeding on’ the way to Chicago. She re- | turned a few days ago and took rooms | at €20 Sutter street, but only remained | there a short time. Her present where- abouts {s unknown, much to the discom- fort of Attorney Schilling, as he is most | anxious to make the acquaintance of her | trunk, in which he believes she has her | diamonds and other valuables sufficient to | pay both himself and Mrs. Turner. | —_— A NOTED ASTRONOMER. Professor Geelmuyder Will Examine Our Observatories. A noted Norweglan astronomer, Profes- sor Geelmuyder, arrived in this city last night from Christiania, where he is con- nected with the university of that name. He has been sent by the Norwegian Gov- ernment to make investigations concern- ing the construction of isolated observa- tories. In Chicago Professor Geelmuyder spent a few days with Professor Bar- nard and studied the setting of the great Yerkes telescope. He will go to Mount Hamilton to-morrow and make a_detailed examination of operations at the Lick Ob- servatory. It is the intention of the Nor- wegian Government to build a new ob- servatory on a mountain back of Chris. tiania about 1500 feet high, and Professor Geelmuyder is delegated to make observa- tions on our observatories and report to his Government. —_——— THE RAILROAD CASE. Further Examination Will Be Re- sumed in Two Weeks. When the taking of testimony in the railroad case before Commissioner Hea- cock closed yesterday an adjournment was taken to August 4. Expert Curtis occu- pied the witness stand in the office of R. Y. Hayne in the Parrott building, where. the case is being conducted, and was cross-examined in detail as to the cost of adaptation, that is, of removing side- tracks, stations and other buildings. He also told of the cost of the floating equip- ments, steamers, dredgers, ete, which he estimated at a_valuation ‘of $2474471, or ;5135 per mile. The value of each bottom | was given in detail. The big Solano he considers to be worth $351,000. The matter | of the substitution of masonry and steel for wooden piers was also gone into. So POLICE SLEUTHS CANNOT UNRAVEL THE CARPENTER MURDER Much Valuable Time Wasted in Un- necessarily Looking for Evidence to Support the Suicide T}heory. The Watch Owned by the Murdered Woman and a Small Sum of Money She Was Known to Have in Her Trunk Are Missing—An The Police Department is hopelessly at sea in the work of unraveling the deatn of Mrs. Sadle Carpenter, who was stran- gled in a room of the Hubbard House, at 139 Fourth street, early Sunday morning. Chief of Police Lecs Is satisfled that she is dead, and holds as evidence the certifi- cate of Autopsy Physician John Galla- | gher, Beyond the positive knowledge that the unfortunate woman is dead Chiet Lees is in the dark. He started off with the theory that Mrs. Carpenter committed suicide and when the autopsy showed that such was not the case he turried his attention toward securing evidence to prove that Joseph von Lochner, the last (WHERE MRS. CARPENTER WAS STRANGLED. The Room Was Securely Locked When Night Clerk Prieur of the:Hub- bard House Gained Entrance to It by Means of a Duplicate Pass Key. The Murderer Passed Out of the Door Secured by the Snap Lock. The Door Which Was Barred by a Pair of Curling Tongs Passed Through Two Eyes Led Into the Room Occupied by Joseph von Lochner, Who Is Being Held by the Police on Suspicion. close was the examination that the At- torney General even went into the subject of the witness’ salary. He said- that when 18 years of age he earned $% per month while superigtend- ing some tunnel work. When on the San Joaquin Valley Railroad he got $200 a month. On the Arizona division his salary was $000 a year, and as track superin- tendent he was paid $5000 annually. This as increased. to $6000 when he became stant to the general manager, but he begged to be excused from answering when questioned as to what he Is getting now, stating that his salary had never been decreased. NO ORDERS AS YET FROM THE CZAR HENRY SCOTT NOT INFORMED OF ANY CONTRACTS. TUnion Iron Works Officials Have No Information as to I. M. Scott’s Success in Russia. The press dispatch from Berlin on Sun- day announcing the arrival there of Ir- ving M. Scott of the Union Iron Works of this city and that his mission in Rus- sian had been wholly successful is not credited by his brother, Henry T. Scott, in this city. “The dispatch is in error when it states that my brother was summoned to Rus- sla to confer with the Czar In regard to Russian naval construction,” said Hen- ry T. Scott yesterday. “We saw some time since that the shipbuflding firm of Cramps had secured contracts from the Russian Government and we decided that if there were any more ships to be built we would be prepared to bid upon them. It was in_ keeping with this determina- tion that Mr. Scott went abroad. “Since he left I have had but two ca- bles from him. Both of these treated of his health and movements, but not one word about business. He reached St. Pe- tersburg early this month and we have no advices of his movements since that time. I do not think he has closed any contracts for several reasons. In the first place he would hardly close a big con- tract without consulting us or telling of the progress of his negotiations. Had he closed a deal his first thought would have been to mnotify us of the success of his mission. Russia may not be In need of any fighting ships, so that his pilgrimage may have been for nothing.’” —_—— VALLEY ROAD MELIING. The Yearly Election and Submission of the Annual Report. The directors of the Valley Rallroad will hold their annual meeting this after- noon to receive the annual reports which will be submitted by the heads of depart- ments. The trustees will also meet for the electlon of a new board of directors for the year 1808-99. It Is generally thought that no changes will be made and that the present board of directors in its entirety will continue in office for an- other year. The present officers of the Valley's Road are: President, _Claus sé;rec els; first vice president, Robert att; second vice president, Captain A. H. Payson; directors—John | Leon ‘Sloss, Alvinza Hayward, Charles | Holbrook, Thomas Magee, J. D. Stetson, John A. Hooper and Js»ac Upham. The annual report it is claimed will show the road to be in a very healthy state. —————— Ladles’ tallor-made suits; latest designs; we Bive credit. M. Rothschild, 211 Sutter, r, 6 & 7. . Spreckels, | | ‘rested on suspicion, | attempting to blind him, for he has been | After remaining at her room door for a person seen with her and who was ar- is the murderer. There Is not at present the least particle of evidence against Von Lochner, but stilt he Is locked up in the City Prison. An investigation made by Call reporters yesterday brought to light the fact that Von Lochner, as far as known, was a friend of the murdered woman, and that there was no reason for suspecting him of the crime. The same investigation showed that there were two other persons who might have committed the murder. There Is always a motive power back of murder. In Von Lochner's case there is no-motive to be found. In the cases of | the ‘other two jealousy and anser play an important part. It may be tnat neither Jealousy nor anger pronlfited the murder. The dead woman’s watch is missing and 80 is a small sum of money she is known to have had in a_trunk. She may have been the victim of a robber, or it ma: have been that the money and watcl were carrled off to blind the detectives | and cause them to work on the robbery theory. If the latter theory attains the murderer unduly credited Chlef Lees with detective ability. There was no need of blinded since the murder was committed. The fact that he first took to the suicide theory proved that he was unequal to the work of probing the mystery. While ‘working on the suicide theory much valu- able time was lost and the murderer given an opportunity of covering up wie clews, that if at once followed might have result- ed In nis speedy capture. The murder was committed some time after 1:15 o’clock Sunday morning, for roomers in the house were awake at that time and they did not hear any disturb- ance. According to the statements made by others, they were awakened about 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning by scremms, but the night clerk in the office not over fifty feet away from the room says that he did not hear the disturbance. Lizzie Riley, another woman of the lower class, who occupied the room adjoining that in which the murder was committed, says that she did not hear the screams. She says that she was awakened by a scuf- fling and that a minute later she heard a gurgling sound as if some one was chok- ing. She did not venture out of her room until she heard the door of Mrs. Carpen- ter’s room closed with a bang and as she got out of bed she heard some one with creaking shoes pass along the corridor toward the stairway leadine ‘o the street. short time she ventured outeinto the hall- way, and not seeing any one in sicht, she hurried alor~ to the office to notify the night clerk that she belleved there had been trouble in the room occupied by Mrs. Carpenter. Night Clerk Alphonse Prieur accompanied her back and rapped on the door. There was no resnronse. He then turned his attention to the adjoining room occupied by Von Lochner and rapped on_ the door. Von Lochner an- swered and asked what was the matter. Prieur requested him to get up as he feared that Mrs. Carnenter was ill or that something had befallen her. Von Lochner stepped into the hallway and remained there while Prieur went back to the office to get the duplicate key of the snap lock on the door of Mrs. Carpenter’s room. They entered together and while Prieur was getting a match to light the gas Von Lochner stepped to the side of the bed. * Prieur says that when he struck the light Von Lochner was untying the double knot in a piece of shirt waist tied around Mrs. Carpenter's throat. That is the-most damaging plece of evi- dence the police have against Von Loch- ner, Chief Lees looks wise and asks how it was that Von Lochner should step to the bed and begin untving the knotted piece of cloth before Prieur struck a light. Von Lochner's "fi‘y is that the blinds of the windows of the room, which face on Fourth street, were thrown back and that the from an electric light on the op- posite side of the street illuminated the apartment. Von Lochner admits that he was in the room about 11 o'clock Satur- | Autopsy Held. day night #nd that he assisted Mrs. Car- penter in preparing a flaxseed poultice. ‘When the police arrived the poultice was | on the washstand. This would seem to | indicate that Mrs. Carpenter had a later | visitor and before opening the door threw | off the poultice. Lizzie Riley, who is better known as| “‘Spanish Lizzie,” says that the scuffil in the room awoke her. It was then 1 o’clock. When Prieur and Von Lo entered the room they found Mrs. Cary ter in bed. The bed clothing was not di turbed in the least and there was no ev dence of any struggle having taken place | on the bed. The counterpane was drawn up close under the chin and the right arm thrown across the chest. The piece of shirt waist around the throat was evi- dently placed there after Mrs. Carpen- ter’s death. The only reasonable theory, judging from the stories of the roomers in the house relative to the scuffling, is that the | unfortunate woman was placed in the bed | after having been strangled on the floor | of the room. The cloth taken from the | throat is soft and flimsy and would have torn had there been any resistance when | it_was being tied. There is a door leading from the room occupied by Von Lochner into the room in which the murder was committed. 1t has not been locked by key for several months. There is a screw eye on the door and anothgr on the jamb of the doorsill, on the infide of the room occupied by Mrs. Carpenter. To secure privacy when she had company Mrs. Carpenter would drop a curling iron through the two screw eyes, thus bolting the door and ere\'enllng and intrusion of any one from Von Loen- | ner’s room. The curling iron was in piace when Prieur and Von Lochner entered the | room. ‘“‘Spanish’ Lizzie says that Von Lochner and the murdered woman had a dispute about two weeks ago, but that they soon | made it up. Mrs. Carpenter upbraided | him for taking a dollar out of her trunk, and when he acknowledged that he haa | acted wrongly she forgave him. Mrs. J. O. Anderson, mother of Mrs. Carpenter, is a strong defender of Von Lochner. She arrived here yesterday from | Monterey. She says that she has known him for years and that he is a friend of the family. ““He was the best friend Sadie had,” said she yesterday, “and I think it is wrong of the police to keep him under arrest. I am certain that he knows notn- ing more of the murder than I do.” “Do you suspect any one?”' was asked. “T don’t think it would be right for me to suspect any one,” she replied tearfuily, “but 1 would like to know where Her hus- band was Saturday night. He treatea Eoor Sadie in a shameful way. He marriea er last Thanksgiving, believing that she had piles of money. When he discoveres that he had made a mistake he desertea her. Oh, how I would like.to know whers he was when my poor, unfortunate girs was murdered.” It is known that Carpenter was here | about ten days ago and that he had an interview with his wife. The police ares now endeavoring to locate him, but pron- ably will not do so unless he volunteers to call upon Chief Lees. The dead woman appears to have been dealing largely in ‘“future husbands.” ‘When her effeets were examined Sunday a letter was found from Sergeant George Gilligan of Company F, Michigan Volun- teers, stationed at Chickamauga. He signed himself, ‘“Your future husband.’” Another of the ‘““futures’” appeared on the scene yesterday and fell in a fainting fit when he learned of her death. He next became hysterical and it was fully an hour before he could tell his sto: “My name is Albert Davis of C mpany A, Sixth Regiment, stationed at Alca- traz,” said he, between his sobs. ‘I have only known Sadie three months,” he con- tinued, “and I Intended making her my wife. I am a widower and I felt after a short acquaintance with her that she ‘would make a good woman if she had a good husband. 1 have given her money to help her along and only a few weeks ago gave her $60, as she said she was in need. I bet I could put my hands on the —— well, I'm not going to accuse any one. I would like to know, however, just where Fred Carstens of Company D of the Sixth was Saturday night. He was jealous of me because Sadie showed me more favors. One night about two weeks ago she lured him out of the room when 1 came In and that made him angry. If the police are unable to find the mur- derer 1 will devote the remainder of my life in a search for him. If I ever find him I can assure you he will never be tried.” Carstens denied all knowledge of the murder, and claims that he was in camp at _Fort Point all of Saturday night. The report of Autopsy Surgeon Galla- gher ought to completely dissipate the vislon which came from the befogged brain of Chief Lees, that Mrs. Carpenter committed suicide. 3 Dr. Gallagher worked for three hours on the body yesterday morning to deter- mine the cause of death, but cannot state definitely whether it was caused bv suf- focation or strangulation, bui seems rath- er inclined to think it was a little of both. He found marks on the throat over .the windpipe. Underneath the marks the lar- ynx was badly injured and the trachea was filled with loamE blood. There was an extravasation of blood below the left breast and the eyes were congested. In speaking of the case he said: ‘Judg- ing from appearances I would say that the woman died from suffocation, caused either by the flow of air being shut off by gressure on the windpipe or by somethin eing placed over the face which woulg shut it off from the mouth and nostrils, The injuries to the larynx would indicate that the head was thrown well back and the muscles of the throat drawn tense. Strangulation and suffocation produce practically the same effects on the lungs, ?“notm% cgnll;te ?'mwn from their con- on. e heart, liver and lun @ healthy. Py .”‘ ““There are rare cases sons strangling themselves, but they are s0 'very rare that when a bona fide case is discovered it is generally the subject of discussion at medical societies.” To show the utter absurdity of the sul- cide theory, which emanated originally from the incompetent Chief of Police, a on record of per- | | Call representative last evening asked a dozen or more reputable physicians of this city to give thelr opinion on the case of Mrs. Carpenter. This question was put to the doctors: “Is it possible or prob- able that a weak, fragile, delicate woman, welghing less than 100 pounds, could strangle herself with a piece of cloth wound once around her neck and tied in a simple hard knot?"” All answered in the negative. The re- glies of only a few of the doctors are ere given, and these only to convince the public that the senile Chief of Police, real :lnf his inability to catch a criminal, originally desired to show that no crime ‘was committed. Following are statements by several physicians: r. Robert A. McLean—It is very un- likely that a woman could kill herself in the manner you describe. In the first place, she would not have sufficient strength to draw the cloth tight enough around her throat to suspend respiration. It is possible for a _strong person to mitted suicide. The report of the guto surgeon is conclusive on this point. person might produce self-strangulation by using a small string, which would slip between the rings of the trachea when tightened, but this would also cause con- | gestion far greater than that found in the se of Mrs. Carpenter. I do not think- it possible to produce this effect on one- self. Great pressure must be brought to | bear on the windpipe to produce strangu- lation. and where a rag or a towel in used more strength is required than the dead woman seems to have had. As I under- stand her condition, she was slight and weak eighing not more than ninety or ninety-five pounds, and her vitality was greatly impaired. It would not have been a difficult task for a man of ordi- nary strength to choke her to death with a rag, but she could not have done it her- self. Dr. Fred d’Evelyn—The facts in the case surely indicate a murder. It would have been a physical impossibility for the wo- man to have strangled herself in the manner described in the émpera. Her vi- tality was very low and she could not have drawn the towel tightly enough to have prevented air from reaching her lungs. The position of the rag and the knot_also bear conclusive evidence that the force was applied by some person other than herself. Then, too, the cloth was too short for her to have got a good grip on the ends after it was wound around her neck. . The knot being tled in front does not indicate that she tied it herself. It is possible that the murderer choked the woman to death and then tied the rag on her neck to lead to a theory tnat she committed suicide. Dr. George Tate—The suicide theory is ridiculous. I base my oponion on the facts as published in the -apers. The woman could not have strangled herself. Another point which the police over- looked in this case was to secure a de- scription of the missing watch which was taken from the room in which the murder was committed. Last evening Mrs. An- derson, mother of the deceased, gave w definite description of the watch to a Call reporter. It was an old fashioned huntiny case lady’s gold watch, key wind, dlightly worn, with a stork on one case, the other being left plain for a monogram. The im- print of two baby teeth is on the rim. A Coroner’s jury was impaneled'yester- day, and after viewing the body was ex- cused pending the result of the police In- vestigation. The following jurors were sworn in by Justice Groezinger as Coro- ner Hawkins i{s out of the city: Frank Bere, F. Schoettler, O. Brewett, F. J. Flynn, F. A. Lane, Paul Ruegg, H. Petti- nelli, A. Schmuliar, Paul Ottnia. THE TIME FIXED. So far the police have been unable to locate the hour when Mrs. Carpenter was murdered, but last evening a Call man succeeded in doing so. The woman was killed between 1:230 and 1:50 a. m. When Von Lochner and the niiht clerk ascertained that she was dead both left her room. Prieur, the clers, went after an officer, and Von Lochner went to the Bellevue saloon on the corner or Fourth and Minna streets. Von Lochner told the bartender that Mrs. Carpenter had been murdered. The bartender looked up at the clock and the hands pointed to 1:50. In the statement made by Lizzie Riley, Von Lochner, Special Officer Gilfoy and the night clerk, all guessed the time be- tween 1 and 2 a. m. They did not know exactly. 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