The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1898, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEr1IEMBER 2, 1898. THE CASE HAS CRUMBLED v - LIKE A HOUSE OF CARD George Haas Sold the Candy That Became the Mess- enger of Death, POLICE ARE AT FAULT. The Evidence Gathered Against| Mrs. Botkin Vanishes Into Thin Air. The fabric of evidence bullt by the local police around Mrs. Cordelia Botkin: has crumbled like a house of cards. Not one vestige of the incriminating testimony re- mains, and the authorities must begin all over again. Thelr energies have been misdirected. ‘Witnesses that believed they knew something of the tragic death "of Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Deane have.la- bored under a terrible . mistake. Thelr knowledge does mot possess . even : ‘the value of a’ coincidence. The poisoned candy that brought death to the two. unfortunate women .in Dover was bought:in this city and:not in Stock- ton. The death-laden confections . were purchased at the establishment of George Haas. This {nformation,. which, unitke hich came from. Stockton, is ab- s correct, was like a thunderbolt to cal police. discovery means more cene of operations. suspicion than a It lifts from ige in the tremendous cloud of Mrs. Botkin, and, while it does not leave her completely free from the shadow of for the last two .weeks: ted only positive front Mr: estimony that remaing otkin s’ the assertion letters to his wife. Even Dunning will not that the address on the package of « was perined by the - accused 1d local experts : are ' positive n in local poiice detectives. were Chiet of Police refrained from corrobor- yns of the Stockton peo- | to the purchase-of the | was waiting, he said, { the -detective from | ective McVey afrived photograplied there was no for delay. The Chief of ent for the| be prietor. & s-of the Wave.candy tore at. Stockton. He detailed a . detec- | ive to investigate among the candy Shops | s City.. Yesterd: murmnfg the: crash | he. prosecu- nd the great:case of ti Deane.. 1 felt sure that the shadow of suschlon that had been thrown over me could not long remain. I believe that in a short time my name will be removed from all assoclation with this dreadful affair, -and I-am more than ever con- vinced that I will not be forced to ga to Delaware. 5 “I.cannot see how f{t is possible for Dunning 'to charge me with the author- ship ©of these anonymous- lettérs, and I refusé to believe that: he -has done so. There must be some. niistake in the, re- ports.’ -My attorneys give me every. as- surance- that the end will not' be long delayed. 1 will tell .the police and-the public that I did not buy the box of pol- soned cand As far as I know I never store in my life. have no. fear of investigation. The deep- er and more. thorough the inquiry the more evident will: my -innocence become.” When the new discovéry was made At- torney Knight called upon Chief of Police Lees and offered to discu: the situa- tion in.a. purely friendly . The law- yer wished to meet ‘the Chief half way, to reveal his client’s deferise and. to learn | what evidence the authorities may pos- | sess. If there Is-nothing serious against Mrs. Botkin her attorney- would like to secure her immediate release, but this is impossible’ in view ofthe. complaints of murder already made. These charges willnot be withdrawn, and the Chief of Police “will' stand by his Nrst determina- tion to have the accused woman.extra- dited to Delaware.” As soon as possible after- the arrival of the application ‘for extradition Chief Lees will appear be- foreé Governor Budd and ask that the application be granted. Unless some- | thing far mnore material appears in the nature of evidénce the application is not likely to recelve favorable consideration from the chief executive. | Anothér stumbling block was thrown in the. way ‘of ‘the. proseeution - yesterday when it became krnown that the official expert ‘on . handwriting - is ‘unable to identify the known handwriting of Mrs. Botkin ejther with the anonymous letters or with the address and noté of the candy box. ‘It 18 now generally admitted that | the anonymous letters were not written by the same person who penned.the-ad- dress. and the. note. ~If they were, the writer was unusually éxpert in disguising her handwriting. - The failure of the ex- pert-on handwriting to make any progress of value to the prosecution is of the most | serious- import. The- uncertalnty of the | expert throws great doubt upon the as- sertion "of ‘Dunning ‘and .undermines the | case of the State in its most vital part. 1| Crime. HERE THE CANDY WAS BOUGHT > LIZZIE LIVERNASH | Witnesses Who Could Tell Nothing to Connect Mrs. Botkin With the Poisoner’s Lees by tearing a piece of the paper and showing~ him the - obverse _side. The chiange in -color is accounted for by the fact that I buy my boxes in a- great quantity at one time and store them for six ‘months.or more. The color is one that quickly fades. candy and the box are from my store.” With the object .of finding one amon the girls in the store who could recal some unusual circumstance in connection with theé sale of the box in question, De- tectives McVey and Gibson called at the store, and besides displ - the thoroughly catechised every employe of the place, but to no avail. - They one and all recognized the box, but that was all. To-day or_to-morrow, as the plan stands now, Mr. Haas .and his employes will be taken to the Central police station to see if there be one among them who can identify Mrs. Botkin a8 the erstwhile cus- that Chief Lees was stunned at of his evidential ssion for the stroke that the head ‘of the department suffered. For a time he refused abso- To say this sudden collapse structure is a poor expr T refterate .that the | ment of the case, including the telegrams | Stockton, told her story, which has re- he had recelved from the Delaware au- thorities, which contained the informa- peatedly appeared in the newspapers. She simply related the circumstances of Mrs. tion that Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Deane | Botkin's visit and illness while she was had been killed by eating candy contain- ing-arsenic, which had been sent to Dover from San Francisco. He also presented a subsequent message asking him to ar- rest Mrs. Botkin, which he had done. The Chief then gave his theory of the crime and Mrs. Botkin's connection there- with. the anonymous letters alleged to been written by Mrs. Botkin to Mrs. Dun- ning, and also reproductions of the note and superscription on the box of candy. The Chief could not present the testi- mony of experts on the handwriting, as comparisons have not yet been made. Detective McVey was next called. He laid before the jury all the evidence he brought from Dover, which consists sole- | stance of several Iy of the remainder of the poisoned candy, | . wrapper containing the address, the {)’é;( (lnd”ihe handkerchief and note in- closed with the murderous gift. Mrs. Rauof, the nurse at whose home Mrs. Botkin visited while she was in | | | | at her home. It was supposed, for a time that Mrs. Botkin had confessed to her nurse, but the latter denies that she was ever taken nto the confidence of the woman now under arrest. Mrs. Loulse Seeley, a former friend of Mrs. Botkin and Dunning, who was ac- He then presented photographs of | cused by Mrs. Botkin of being the author have | of the anonymous ! letters sent to Mrs. Dunning, swore that she had never seen the letters, much less having written them. She declared complete ignorance of their existence until they were referred to_in the newspapers. Miss Lizzie Livernash, a newspaper woman, gave the details of interviews she had had with Mrs. Botkin, and the sub- conversations which took place while she was I wn\mcm}'ls society. BLsiacee As the procuring of an indictment always an ex parte proceeding Mrs. BOE kin was not present in the jury room when the testimony was given. ' ADVERTISEMENTS, This big store has enough ‘‘store paper. We're making history—making i cert, 2 to 5 to-morrow. months he's about to die, and woolens will decreed. We are bubbling over with great semi-poreelain and 3-inch Semi-porcelain Frult Saucer, dozen 25 “inch Din decoration, 7-inch Breakfast r each. 12¢ sale China Fruit Saucers, &-inch, decorated China Fruit Plates, 6-inch, decorated Butter Dish, glass covered. Syrup Cup, of glass, with plated top In addition to above we offer Ladies’ Plaid Crash ‘Suits, Eton effect, sizes 34 to 40; cut We were very pleased with the attention our Lace Curtain window attracted last week. The leading ]!salurx"u was, the latest novelty, the | face “Point de Calais” Curtains, | curtains. 3, yards long, 50 inches | wide, in white and ecru, in three qualities, $6.50, 85.00 and $10.00 per pair. We hang them free and keep all [ Decessary fittings. | We spoke last week about how annoying poor towels. Poor towels mean turkish poor friction, poor friction poor | quality, usually 15c, for cool things for warm days and | colored inches wide prices. decoration, each. 10¢ | Decorated’ Handied ~Coffec dress Cup and Saucer, each... | goods. - :pla g et it avcarated., - | 8004s, e handle 10¢ heavy, especiall | ed for skirts, it 1s to have a good bath and then find |5 claep 1n all shades | and fitted, one of the circulation, ~ poor satisfaction. towel We offer an unbleached towel, | dollar 1lc. 22x40 inches, good heavy 11C | stove. everything that women wear—underwear and outérwear— news” to fill eolumns of s news: t fast. First, then, don't forget our: cor- Remember that although King Cotton- has: reigned. for ascend Fashion's throne. We've g little army downstairs unpacking new goods—hosiery; gloves, véiin millinery, belts, dress goods, ribbons, silks, satins and velvets ; all the gorgeous color combinations that the fall 'season has fall goods with enthusiasm over. our new dress §6ods, We've been talking “good goods,” and now we are opening up better. goois. glassware sale still on! | Glace poplin with hard finish “cord | surface in changeable colorings, entirely -new 'fab . this fall 36 inches widi We've sald before what an important part | trimimings are to play in: Gostumes of fhis We ofter to-day Ladies’ Mixed Crash @] Tall. ‘They . are’ extremely Suits, fly front, nicely made, seams ew tich. © We. “opened:- to-day in jacket made extra | Agiplique trimmings: i crash strong; just the thing for the dress Ported French - goods—used it country: skirts “all lengths, with| ¢tpimmings, for “waist -trimmings, . col- 8uits good deep hem, in sizes 34 to 40. | lars, revers, epaulettes and $1.00 cuffs, Others, better of course, re- duced to.. . $2 © |we show: to 1 inch wide. Black cut bead and spangled gimp; | 21 - % “Zo fo S0c vard | Colored spangled -edging, 1% inch -wide, in all the latest_colorings 25¢ 'yard Black Mousseline de Sole bands and passementerie, ' beaded and - spangled, - 1to 3 inches Wide......85e.to $2.25. yard Black spangled and jettéd Mousselfne ats to mateh de Sofe passementeria in 3.75.t0 §7.00 yard for waist and.skirt,..$3, 5% to 7%, warrasited bost ladles”, gloves we carry. 25 Men's 1-clasp - pique - walking glove in red, :oxblood -and- brown, all sizes, one dollar. .- - warm things for cool nights. 037-030-041-043-045-047 Market Street. JONAS URY WAS A | DISINHERITED SON| | WAS A HEBREW AND MAREIED; A CHRISTIAN. | X = | Came to San Francisco and Enlisted | and Was Murdered at Camp | Barrett. The cause that led Jonas Ury, who was killed at Camp Barrett by James Mez\d-’ ors, to leave New York City and come to | San Francisco was the estrangement of | his father, due to the son's marriage in opposition to the parental wishes. Jonas was the eldest son of Feux Ury, a well-to-do baker and caterer on Lenox avenue, New York. He fell in love with the pretty daughter of a janitress. Jonas THE LEGACY A G‘lFf ~TO THE MOTHER MRS. VERONICA C. BAIRD’S AN- SWER TO HER DAUGHTER. The Stock Transferred by Mrs. Barry Baldwin Jr. Claimed. by the Recipient -to Be No © Trust. ‘When Mrs. Veronica C. Baird goes. into Judge Hebbard's “court to .answer ‘thé complaint of her daughter, youhg M Barry - Baldwin, in-a suit-for the recc ery of some .$43,000 worth of stock, there is likely to be adduced as €vidence somé strong assertions and positive. contra- dictions between mother and daughter. el 10 the ground. : vitnesses from. Stockton’ positively that the box of poisoned candy The suit was filled on July 19 and the | lutely. to. believe that Detective Gibson's general demurrer on July . Argument. was an orthodox Hebrew and the young | clever discovery was more than a coin- woman was a Christian. That's where the | With the failure of the expert.and the crash of the Stockton episode it would NO MORE CHIN |WILL GLORIFY LEE sen Dought from. them. They | seem as if the prosecution had suffered | cidence; and with all the happy faith of trouble arose. | on demurrer has been delayed, owing to o queation that | Teverses enough for one’ day. But the | another childhood, and by the power pur- ESE FOR | S “Jonas, my son, f you marry that|a crowded calendar, Whe that fs dio ° box nor the candy. had come | e for Alomay.~ The stromyest wit. | fors him: W. F. Kuhn, the ' proprietor, THE OMAHA VILLAGE IN MARTIAL MUSIy | Christian girl 11l disown sou” said the | posed of, as it will most likely be by bi- himself precisely where | nesses dxs(:nvowd by the police were ex | a‘ndkF. 1(} h(:u‘l‘l_re[l 2ndd{(&i_!"trl§nndr él‘!(l)li& R L) i by gfpg‘;‘!,‘- uch a marriage w TOVe un: | be fi‘l’ed “{‘m-‘“n"&f;" ;"‘v the*answer wilt leod two weeks dgo.. He|amined by the official inquisitors, and| clerks of the Wave candy store of c S e S e a e AR | statutory- time, at the tnstance-of | Hhiey eoUl, el o o e They | O Buttrelly st will 1 \embered THOSE ON THE WAY WILL NOT | POLICE DRUM CORPS A PALPI-|and sore smough e father Kept his word, |, The chief allegation of the answer will B P ome | know nothing that bears directly upon | Gattrell, it will be remembered, an- : . | be tha otz : 1 ritles, AL helr com- | e commission of ‘the dreadful’ crime: | nounced that he had been approached by BE LANDED. | TANT FACT. despite the pleading of the bay's mother: | be that the stock was transferred by the iad been done ex. | They are acquainted .with ‘the facts of | a woman who wanted an empty candy- R Sl ds Without assistance from the paternai | dau " erely to be held in trust, & had e o ake. | Mrs, Botkin's-career and know of her re- | hox in which to place some of her own P purse Jonas was unable to properly pro- | but as a direct gift to her mothér. N. 5. fmcers had been told that | lations with Dunning. Bevond that they | confections. As to consent to such a re- | Treasury Department Has Notified | The Sextet Composing It Were Once | yide for his wife, who soon after the | Hurd, attorney for Mrs. Baird, in giving t vital character -had | t Mrs. Botkin nthis | ton. She had been | reports declared, as | 1 who bought the candy he nee pictured ‘her at the ferry amps and - send- 1 rom > postal station these unwarranted reports authorities - chargea - Mrs. Botkin with murder. 11 the material evidence, they believed, was here. ‘Lhey had only the unsupported assertion’ of stify them in their action authorities must tell them §0. Chief Lees is more than ever con- vinced -that Mrs. Botkin must be extra- lited. ~He has nothing with “which to ify her trial for murder in this State. 2 the witnesses from Stockton -had told their story and had destroyved all the hope of the prosécution, another witness | as summoned. He was George: Hass > came to tell-the Chief -of : Police had atready told Detective Gib- n, that the bax and the candy had-bee purchased at his establishment. on. Mar- ket “street.. - The D were_dumfourid- ed, “but ‘they. could nothing but ae- sept the inevitable. - Haas gave satisfac- fory reasons for declaring that the. pofs- oned sweatmeats came from his.store before they were prepared for their work of death.” The .box: is: unique and 18 nandled on this coast by Haas: only. The candy-.is: of such & make that the- wit- could casily -identify. #t -as his..own manufacture But George Haas ‘coull #o. no . further. Neither:he nor his- clerks ean. tell when the -box was boughtor .by .whom. -:Hun- reds of similar packages'havé been sold I the last few weeks. Hundréds of peo- le.‘pass’ In and out ‘of the stere.every To the girls who sérve. the. custoni- of the establishment. few people ‘pos- sess_an .individuality: “The giris i the | store haye been questioned- from- every | possible :point_of:view, but they can.teil hing. There .was nothing in the pur- of ‘the box of candy to mike théem- t. These girls do not Irs. Botkin and are quite sure that they- cannot- identify her. They whI be given, however, a_chance.to do so: The sutcome 'is already’ a certainty that -the accused ‘woman -will not be identified. - It seems as If the identity of the cruel mur- eress. -of - Mrs. Dunning and her sister to be lost in the crowd that passes to and fro on the street. < The developments in-the case vesterday mspired- Mrs.. Botkin- with- new hope, *T am- glad,” she declared; “the the police have. at-last obtained somé positive fn- formation ‘of value. Since they know that ihé candy was bought in this city and riot m Stockton they may be able now to get »n the track of the. cruel person who took the lives -of - M Dunning. and Mrs. | ADVERTISEMENTS. . SALT RHEUM FOR YEARS GURE . - Thad Salt Rlieum for years. My leg from knee to ankle was raw and swollen, and the . pain was intense. I tried doctors in Hartford, ‘Waterbury, and New Haven, tonoavail. Cu- T10URA RESOLVENT, CUTICURA (ointment), and a box of CUTICURA SOAP completely curedme. GARRETT T. SAYERS, Hartford Electric Light Co., Hartford, Conn. Curr TREATMEKT PoR TORTURING, Disrig. e R e LYENT. miid doses of a4 Rusouries. = - s A et BLATD, G | themselves. - . The official inquiry will be pursued . further, . however, with @ hope | that some fact of moment may be de- | yeloped. ' Unless' some startlig fact is | brought out it is extremely: unlikely that | Mrs. Botkin will: ever indictdd for | rvertised- as one of the brightest of the 1{ the efforts of the inquisition adduced as are as ignorant of the motive and the perpetrator of the murders as the police sending poisoned confections- through the mails. e LEES’ CHAIN WAS MADE. OF FOG All the Links of Evidence Gathered | by the Venerable Chief Blown Away Like Mist. The “whole fabric of alleged evidence that for two weéks past Chief Leés has beén weaving around. Mrs..Cordelia Bot- kin- wa esterday. 8o rent-and torn that riot one shred remains behind -which. the Chief may.seek to hide his chagrin and disappointment. .The whole wobbly struc- ture of iriconsisténcies that the -prosecu- tlon has:built up -around the ‘woman ac- cused of the Dover murders has fallen and’ its: buildets are sadly-mixed up with the ruins. i 2 Through the - efforts -of Detéctive Gibson the work of weeks s -undone and thé scene of ‘deepést investigation 1s shift- ed from Stockton to San Francisco and from'the candy -store of Kuhn to the store af (. W. Haas. Chief Lees must Begin anew his' gearch for evidence that will warrant the charge of murder against Mrs. Cordelia -Botkin. Since’ the- beginnirig, despite the many absurd inconsistericies that.The Call has pointed out, Chief Lees: and - Detective McVey have pursued the theory of the Stockten candy box, blind to all possi- ble chanpels of information outsfde that theory. .Using the drag net they have this last week gathered in from Healds- ‘burg. and from Stockton thelr witnesses and their. clews, and one by one their witnesses have developed that they knew hothing and their clews have dissipared into thin .air. -~ Mrs. Rauof, who has been largely ad- galaxy of the prosecution’s stars, knew little and toid nothing when on Tuesday she-'was brought by Detective \Wrenn from Healdsburg and subjected to the sweat box by the Chief's board of" strat- Qi)n Miss Lizzie Livernash submitted_all of the evidence that she had not, and much from the other channels, of which Station ‘D of the Postoffice Department was the most important. . i Then, to complete the ruin of the Chief's unique: theory, came, like a bolt from the skies, word from Detective Gibson that the box and its contents, the ribbon and the wrapping, had been fully identified by George Haas, the well-known Market- street candy man, as the output ‘of his store; furthermore, that his establish- ment is the only one on the coast which uses such a. box. For two days Detective Gibson had been dln&layln{ among the different con- fection-shops the X and {its attach- .ments, but with no result until he placed it before one of the ten greu girls of the Haas establishment. Bhe immediate- 1y recognized it as one of the store boxes, as did all of her co-workers to whom it was shown. To clinch his sudden good fortune, Gibson called in Mr. Haas, who corroborated the statements of his em- plqiraa. ‘1 recognized not only the box but the as soon as it was shown me,” said cand r. Haas. e are the onl the coast who se the box. Which s made by Jones & Co, of Philadelphia. 1 was summoned by Chief Lees early tms morning to the City Hall, where, with a strong magnifying glass, I made a most minute observation of the box and its contents, and 1 did not hesttate to say to the Chief that the bex and the candy were without doubt from my store. One feature of the box which muxxu my iden- quest was contrary to the policy of the store, Gattrell procured for the woman another box, .and with it she left. This upon the 28th or 20th of July. Upon this showing Chief Lees had hung his faith, and until 10 o’clock yesterday morning, when Mr. Kuhn arrived, there his faith hung. A glance at the box and another at the candy, and Chief Lees learned that the work and the worry, the star chamber conclaves and the torch- light investigations of a long month were for naught, and that from the hour he must begin afresh to elaborate the same theory with facts from different channel The box was not from Kuhn's—nor was the candy. Of his connection - with the case Mr. Kuhn, who is a busines8 man typical of the hustling San Joaquin Valley, talked freely. *“I saw at a glance,” he said, “that neither box nor candy was of my stock. In faet I came to the conclusion that ‘they were not ag soon as I read the description of the things in The Call, and I so notified the.authorities. It is non- sense_to say that.a candy-maker cannot recognize .his own candies.. ‘He can, just as readily as a_tallor-can recognize his clothing. Chief Lees was positive that he -had .diseovered among the chocolates the t mark of the lopsided mold -which I had described; but I found no trouble in point- ing out to him his mistake. I think that hé is now of the opirion that'the candy did not come from Stockton.” tainly was of that opinion, so much so that Gattrell and -Miller were tendered | their’ expenses and returned to Stockton with not so much as an audience. 3 EVIDENCE BEFORE - THE GHAND JURY Chief Lees Asks That Mrs. Botkin Be Indicted Under Section 847 of the Penal Code. Yesterday afternoon Chief Lees and Detective McVey presented to the Grand Jury all the evidence so far gathered in the Dunning case. The object of their move is to secure an indictment against Lirs. Botkin under section 347 of the Penal Code, which makes it a felony for a person-to send poisoned food through the malls. An indictment for murder will not be asked for by Chief Lees, as that would defeat his purpose to send the ac- cused woman to Delaware, if he can pos- sibly do so. » P If Mrs. Botkin were indicted for mur- der she would have the right to demand a trial here, and should she be acquitted she could not again be placed in jeopardy on-the same charge. The plan of the po- lice is to secure an indictment on the minor charge, thereby taking the case out of the jurisdiction of the Police Court and then hold the prisoner indefinitely. If sufficient evidence to fasten the mur- der of Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Deane upon Mrs. Botkin could be obtained subse- quently, the indictment ‘would be quashed and extradition might then follow. Yesterday's proceedings seem strange from the fact that if the police can show reasonable or even presumptive proof that Mrs. Botkin deposited the death package in the mall her guilt of murder would be indicated and she should be tried on that charge. - The Grand Jury devoted four hours to the case vesterday and adjourned subject to a call for a special session. It was learned that no startling evidence was presented by the prosecution, and an in- timation was given by a juror that a bill against Mrs. Botkin was not likely to be brought unless the police produced mors definite evidence than has so far been presented. Acting District Attorney Hos- mer conducted tne case for Cnlef Lees and Detective McVey. ‘The witnesses examined were Chief Lees, Detective McVey, Mrs. Rauof, the ‘nurse; Mrs. Louise Seeley and Miss 'L ernash, a_reporter who _Interviewed the tification doubly sure is that the box is— or was—pink and not white in color, as has been reported. This I proved to Mr. accus: woman at Heald: Stockton before she was r t:‘('l‘."‘ apd Chief Lees was the first witness, and he gave the Grand Jury a detailed state- Collector Jackson That Its Per- mission Has Been Revoked. The exposures recently made in The Call of the fact that about 200 Chinese ad- mitted at this port on the way to the exposition at Omaha had escaped and were llving in this State as courtesans and laborers, have been taken into con- sideration by the Treasury Department at Washington. Collector Jackson was advised vesterday of the opinion of the department by a telegram ordering him to refuse a landing to the remainder of the Chinese now on their way from Crina tc Omaha. Some time ago, upon the representation of the Mee Lee Village Company, having in charge the Chinese village at the Omaha Dxposition, the United States Government agreed to admit to this coun- try some 500 and odd exhibitors, dancers, | actors, clerks, etc., from China, the Mee Lee Company giving bonds that these- people would be returned to China not later than two months after the close of the exposition. Three hundred and twen- ty have been admitted at this port and twelve more are expected on the steamer from Hongkong in a few da: Two hun- dred and fifty are coming by way of Port Townsend. Under the tele- graphed instructions received yesterday all these will be excluded. The Chinese bureau officials have: not yet succeeded in finding the eight Chi- nese women who came here from the Omaha village and became inmates of disreputable houses. These women were sold for $2000 each and were imported here under the pretext that they were to attend booths in the Mee Lee village at the exposition. Collector Jackson received also a rul- ing of the Treasury Department in the matter of a Chinese who had a certifi- cate of registration, but _who had been absent from the United States for more than a year. He sought admission, despite the one year proviso, on the ground that he/ had been detained in China owing to the serious sickness of his mother. The department ruled that this was not a valid excuse, and that the sickness of no person other than the ap- plicant would relieve him from the oper- ation of the one year limitation clause. —e—————— PATRICK SHEA CONVICTED. Brutal Assailant of Eliza Godecke ‘Will Meet His Just Deserts. Patrick Shea has pity only for him- self. On June 16 last he criminally as- saulted Eliza Godecke, a young girl, and when her aged mother attempted to save her daughter the rough drove her from the room, paid no heed to the pleadings of his .young victim and completed his urpose. Wednesday he was put on Pmu. and many witnesses closed a chain of evidence about him, and yesterday he was found gullty of the crime with which he was charged. When the jury returned its verdict he broke down and cried like a child; for himself he had naught but pity, for others none. As there are two prior convictions against the criminal he will probably suffer a sentence that will mean life behind prison bars. —_——————— Meyerhof Not Poisoned. Autopsy Surgeon Gallagher performed an autopsy yesterday morning on the body of Martin M. Meyerhof, the grocer ‘who fell dead a few days ago at his place of business on the corner of Mason and Geary streets. He discovered no traces of poison in the stomach and found evi- dence that death had been caused by fatty degeneration of the heart. The body had been embalmed, but despite that fact Dr. Gallagher is confident that Meyerho: was not poisoned, as had been suspected by his !rfgnfl!. —_—————— Read the anecdotes about “Soapy” Smith by Cy Warman, in next Sun- ¥'s Call. Butchers, and Now Practice Their Arts on Do, Re, Mi. At last a worthy ambition of Chief of Police Lees is to be gratified. He is to have a drum corps. When he shall ride at the head of a procession, all stately with lace, and like Dante’s boatman “‘hoar with eld,” there is to be a ratapian to his glorification. The noise will be louder than his gold braid, and for all the attention the rest of the parade will attract, it might as well go away from there. It won't be in it. The corps has been organized. So far it is untamed, but the trainer has hopes. It is made up of Policemen Butterworth, McLaughlin, Webster, Evatt, Heins and Bunner. The six were practicing in the shooting gallery at the City Hall yester- day, and the rest of the force was with difficulty restrained from using. them as targets. The noise was enough to wake the dead, and would.have done so_except that the dead know a good thing. Suf- fering fell to the living. By a strange co- incidence each of the sextet was, before his elevation to the upper circles, a butcher. Each . is competent to yank the sheepskin from the paipitant carcass, but at hammering melody out of the same after it has been tanned and stretched, they all are a little lame yet, but expect to be better before Lees has v Mrs. Botkin: b There is still the painful lack of a fifer. Nobody on the force seems willing to yield to others the boon of being a fifer, and so a contest may be arranged. The men will run 100 yards, and the one with the most wind left at the end will be en the coveted position. The fat men eclare this will not be a fair deal, but they must take their chances with the rest. However, there is no absolute need of a fifer, and there is doubt whether any man on force could run 100 yards and have enough breath left to whisper his own name, much less fife to the mighti- ness of Lees. The drums can do the busi- ness all by themselves, and when they once get under way ““The Drums of the Fore and Aft” will never again be thought worthy of mention. Those were fiction drums anyhow, and these awful six are the real article. —_————— WITH RED CROSS WORKERS. Beds and Bedding Donated by Gener- ous People for the Convalescent Home. A public meeting of the Red Cross So- clety ‘will be held in Century Hall, 1213 Sutter street, on Saiurday afternoon. A complete report of the work accomplished by the society during the past two months will be read. All members and friends interested in the good work are invited to attend. Mrs. W. H. Crocker sent a donation of $100 yesterdszngr and pupils at Mills Sem- inary sent Mrs. Lambert of 1615 Broderick street donated a double bed, mattress and easy chair to the Convalescent Home yester- day. Mrs. J. P. King sent a wire cot bed, mattress, bedding, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillow-cases. Supplies were sent Kesterday to the Heayy Artillery, Sixth Calitornia, Sev- enth " California, 'Utah Caval First Tennessee, Red Cross - tent, Fitty-first Towa, Division Hospital, First Washing- ton and Second Infantry. —_— e More Chinese Excluded. Twenty-eight Chinese claimihg to be natives of this country and fifty with cer- tificates as traders, accountants, clerks, etc., were denied a landing yesterday by Collector Jackson. The men with the cer- tificates were excluded because of the re- cent ruling of the Treasury Department that none but merchants, students or tourists for pleasure are entitled to land. These men cannot take an appeal, the judgment of exclusion on the part of the Collector being final, but the Chinese claiming to be native Yankees have the g. ht s ;)vpsu. Ftou:-u ukeddfor writs of S yester and be Inued.m % Y R 1 this morning. birth of their child summoned him into court to answer to the charge of non- | support. The delinquent husband pleaded that in order to supf\ort his wife and child | he would sell the clothes he was wearing | and go naked, but the proceeds resulting from this transaction would not keep the wolf from the door any great length of time. Jonas also set up the plea that his father, the baker, had refused to give him any more money, and that try | as hard as he might he cold earn noth- ng. $onas was dismissed by the Judge and | soon after he came to San Francisco and | appealed for assistance to an uncle liwng here. The uncle, however, took the same stand as the father. He would not help Jonas because he had married a Christian irl. At last the disinheriteu heir of the house of Ury became desperate and en- listed in the Eighth California Régiment of Volunteers. A few weeks after he was | stabbed to death by James Meadors in a quarrel over a trivial amount of money. When the telegraphic announcement of the death of Jonas was received by his father the old man refused to discuss his son’s marriage ana persisted in speak- ing of him as though he had died single. —_—————— 5 A PRINTING FIRM ATTACHED. Francis, Valentine & Co. Could Not ‘Withstand Their Heavy-Losses by Fire and Otherwise. : Several heavy attachments have been. filed against the plant of Francis, Valen- tine & Co., at Clay and Sansome streets. The first given to the Sheriff-was in ta- vor of the Donohoe-Kelly Banking Com- pany to secure a debt for $15112 79. The second, filed late yesterday - afternoon, was by the paper firm of Blake, Moflitt & Tawne, and was for $7357 99. : Francis, Valentine & Co. is one of the largest concerns In the theatrical printing business on the Pacific Coast. ~Saveral years ago the secretary, E. C.-Goggin, ed to Europe, having embezzled a large amount of money. Later came.two fires, which caused heavy losses and- seriously. cflpeled the co.cern. The partners are S. B. Valentine and Howard P. Taylor.Jr. A meeting of creditors will' be -called’ without delay. : SR —_————— Friends of Dumb Beasts. The office of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals has been re- | moved from Sixteenth street to the fourth floor of the Parrott building. To-morrow evening there will be a housewarming, been invited to attend. Hereafter the office will be kept open every Saturday evening from 8 to 11 o’'clock, and the public as well as mem- vited to call. The board of trustees. has at the present time under consideration the advisability of holding at least four meetings a year of the whole soclety as a body, and listening to able addresses’ on the subject of the cruelties practiced on dumb friends, and to discuss as to which are the best methods to be em- ployed in preventing them. Such meet-| ings will no doubt bring the noble-work | engaged In more before the public, and: ggmmuch to advance the society’s inter- — e Suit for Balance Due on Duties. United States Attorney Henry S. Foote brought sult In the United States District Court yesterday on behalf of the United States against the Pacific Commercial Company to recover $§7 43, with interest and costs, that sum being the balance due of duty on 3380 pounss of walnuts abandoned by the defendant in the Gov- ernment warehouse and sold by the Col- lector. ———— Clarkson’s Second Trial. The second trial of Willlam Clarkson, charged with stealing gold bullion from the Mint, was begun yesterday in the United States District Court, Bert Schles- inger conducting the case on behaif of the Government. . T. Spotts, ex-coiner of the Mint, and William D. Carter, a black- smith, were on the stand yesterday. Noth- new was elicited. The trial will go on ‘contended b, | ‘ther- hope and the friends of the organization have | bers and their friends are cordially in-|. a Teason yesterday fof the -delay ‘inthe case, declined to discuss the answer that he is preparing, but he did not deny: re- llance to a large extent upon ‘the-fact, as Mrs. Baird, that she not acting a trustee for her-daughter, although while -holding" the- property. in Her own name the holding was for -the benefit of Mrs. Baldwin as ‘well as her- self. When young Barry Baldwin was. a vis- itor to the. Baird dwelling h -d upon as ‘merély a friendly. visitor, and his marriage with the daughter was not a matter to be considered - seriously: .. So when it came, it came as a shock,.and Mrs. Baird and her daughter, too, ac- cording to the declarations of the defend- ant, thought-the property that theé.young bride held in her own name would be bet- ter in of the mother.. The transfer was made. 2 - Mrs. Barry Baldwin Jr. is of mind that she can take of her.own fortune o le acy from her father, John H. Baird, and she. will stand by. the aligations of her complaint: ° that” the shares of Cali- fornia - Powder Works stock and . 203 shares of -Sausalito Land drd Ferry Com- | pany stock was transferred- to. her moth- er just previous to- the: birth -of-an el to Barry: Baldwin Jr., to-bé held: in- tr for- her, ‘or for.tha ‘child, if the: yc mother ‘should not survive. This she leges she felt disposed to do-in the that it would- reconeile mother to the youthful -san-in-iaw, wh advent -into theé . family caused the trouble. . —_— e A FLAG PRESZNTATION: Fremont Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, Is Given Old Glory in-Silk. ‘Fremont Parlor, Native. Daughtérs . of the Golden st, was: the recipient last night of 4 magnificent silk flag, “donated by Miss Hannah ‘Collins, thé ‘maker, ong of the members. The presentation “took place at a hop given in Native Sons’ Hall: The presentation address on behalf of -the donor -was. delivered. by Past. President Miss ‘M. ‘Bertola, one of the most .gifted orators-of -the’ order. Inlanguage-full: of eloquent, ‘patriotic ‘sentiments which won the ‘hHearts of .the several hundred who were present,” shie-placed -the. flag in ‘the keeping of Mrs..R. D.. Barton, . the- presi- ‘dent: 6f the parlor: * She.responded promised ‘that the members . would the" glorious”. banner. " gnd i and: pre- would - The preserita Tollowed by singing of the “Star-spangléd ‘Banner” Miss” McGrath, and’then dancing ‘midnight.. Mrs.. Barton, “the floor ‘man- ager, and :h istant, M Were aided by Miss ‘M, Cawle Barry; Mrs. J."Glavinovich, M Miss' T. Sablatscham, .Dr. M. E:. Falck. Miss M. Montague; Miss’A. Colller,’ Miss Versalovich. B .~ In Plaids and .Bonnets: A meeting’ of keprésentatives ~of ~the Scottish socletiés of " this -city :and 0ak- land was .héld Wednesday _evéning: in Scottish Hall. to- arrange for to-mOIToW: night's" celebration atthe Irish Fair. -1t was decided that those Who ticipate .will ‘mieet at- thé room L. - Caledonian. Club -in_Scottish . Hall'- and parade In a hody to: the Pavilion headed Willlam by pipers I. S. R. Teveniale and a McDonald in fuli Highland :costume. As can do so will‘don the The, : -follo dered many mernbers- as plaid-and bonnet:. T gramme : will be renc vilion®: % o & 5 Overture, Scottish .médley, band; " pi broch seleetions; Tevendale and McDons ald; grand Highland dance In costums, Miss Sibyl Campbell,. -MIss * Margaret Boyd, James Baxter ‘and:Duncan McIn-. " tosh McKenzie; Highland mfl&.Duncnnv Mcl.- McKenzi td.-dance, Miss. Si Campbell; sailors! hornpipe (in costum uring the c Sco(tls}falrs will be played by the-: tra and stereopticon views of scenery shown. 3 of-the entertainmerit