The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1899, Page 12

GREEN TELLS A TALE OF MURDER AND MYSTERY Brands "Plunger” Hill the Swin- | AMBUSHED AND MURDERED NEAR COLMA WHITE HOUSE LR T S R S S it ] b4 pETRAT Joseph Imsand Perforated |+ . b4 ¢ With Shot. + . r ® @resteieieieseiedeig 1 x + . _ ¢ ‘ 54 B In Three Warrants the Australian Is: 3 T H T 2 1 Charged With Felonies That in Two : | & @ s : n | * . Years Profited Him $150,000. : : e b > | & . 2 Jal Jal Ielost Sel Ao el el ey Bal Tef Jel el ju el .C"L.O.W‘ s - =3 8 UGUSTUS HOWARD, the “Australian Plunger,” {s no longer g : g a mystery. He is an escaped convict from Sydney, whose 3 ¢ ® ® real name is Charles Doyle, a forger and a fugitive from justice. [ ] 24 . @ Chief of Police Lees and W. E. Green, the Denver miilionaire, How- 4 & ard’s erstwhile partner, brand him as a would-be murderer, with § « Green as the intended victim. Warrants for his arrest for swind- & L 4 ling Green out of $150,000 have been in the possession of the . + police since Saturday, but were being held up pending the arrival IR S < of the mext steamer from Australia, which is due here on the &, ¢ ©7th of this month with reguisition papers for Howard from tha 3 R Al Ry S e T i s - Australian authorities. Howard got wind of his intended arrest and ® ® ITH his head resting on the ¢ 34 is supposed to be on his way to Mexico, if he is not already 3¢ whiffletree of his wagon and i * there. e his feet on a level with the 2 4R seat, the body of Joseph J. Tm- & b BLBHBVOIVIOTPDOO @900 80esd sand, plugged with buckshot, ¢ . was found ea 2 v me 5 HE balo of ery that thie charges moon Which the srrants ase] 1 rra ronionsy iy LI ¥ b 3 s ihe cragpes Bon NiSch e 3 & red yards from the White 4 . veloped the character of Aug a first of the_compla all ot H c T o ¥ lotherwine |t [know h are sworn to by Mr. Green, is built | ¢ sColma, FTUMC S Eatall e @ e i F V¢ utates was committed there can be no doubt, K L A = that or a ¢ G and the authorities have fastened their ¢ b4 Jifted aside suficlently to reveal a : 9u as Mason, alias ¢ susplcions upon a colored family by ? 5 of affairs more remarkable t | Oszo palige oimous, aliasle m.l- ;mmo of Mitchell, who are the ¢ \ . tion of the fervid kmagination of Con ard, dic isly - take and carry away ¢ N€® 1bo! of Imsand and who have & \ 1 St Rl '3 convert fo his own use money in the | ® Quarreled from time to time with the 4 \ Three warrants charging Howard or personal property of o deceased i A b Doyle with embezzlement have been In t i Dmesnd ‘was. & hop catcingOp gL DAVE AITCARLL. AITCAR L, . Bt o o incaitatornny’ o less than an acre of land along the but for premature disclosures one of the 16 which runs to the west of Col- ¥ greatest pleces of detective work ever | cure to v«’nmlf)-‘nm.- distant from ¢ . . county road. Directly above his % . MWW@WH—@*«»* 9 -9 *+9o>o>e@ o place is the home of the Mitchells, Qoo eiodeiesdseidedsbeisieisieboedesiede "\—0‘ @ | U whose bellicose tendencles have + T e e e el ple who heard the reports. Some say usual signs of activity In the Mitchell b4 R 4 © | ® ma, and whose threats have terrified H”«) rl‘;lf?l\\‘vd in r::;ml su house early in the morning She says 4 + 1|4 e entire community in ana sbout ©Cion Gsoiare fhat there wag that it was an unusual thing for the ¢ e ey ol monthe sgq ticeable lapse of time between the re- Mitchells to rise before 6 In the morn- ¢ S ports. On the ground near First ave- g, | 1 he > hous 3¢ o a dispute arose between Imsand =nd i Brou hed s ing, “hut yesterday the enturo acHscs (& ¢ nue Skeriff Mansfleld found a shot- hold was u 5. The ab: i3 & William Mitchell Jr. over the boundary : g L Mt Daaves e aNE Gu aLE TR 2 3 X , ety e ¥ gun cartridge that-bore evidences of = of Mitchell senior has suspicious 3 + iine which separates thelr respective FU7 G0 CCRE SH N arred : ¢ . i + hoghiananbs, | Tbe: pletoliiwanl isscrtca’ acutUNe SHNLE G eanly (Ghatoed carin/ color o serit Maosteld s ot bn g 3 ridge wad. The wagon with the body the search for the old man 3¢ © to, and Mitchell now wears the marks <& Woce - € Vo8O B jammed o s 2 . $ 4 e i s haneior aince o s dizcove : ja The Mitchell menage and Imsand ¢ ) | L up against a tree and fence on Second have been at war for three years. Last & * & | @ his left cheek. Since that time the gyenue one block nearer Imsand's Apeil e 1 quns was 3¢ | ¢ feud has steadily grown more bitter, oo =0 o - pril a genuine battle with guns was ¢ S, ot E : home and in the opposite direction fought out over the boundary line be- & ¢ | & and the belief of the residents for miles ¢ ® JLCS iior Hravel . WhEthe ; * 2 around iz (hut yestardiy's IIGIEWES. S o UES U HHARE hether tw their ranches. Latlerly the 1 Ti4 ind s 3 Imsand turned when first shot and courts have been called to decide a s ? its culminating episode. Srovelliacky et Eriv o) L @ & - - s bac , being caught again property contention In which the two ¢ % ¢ | [ Not many weeks ago the entire Im- pv e murderer when he reached Sec- were concerned and Imsand won the ¢ i + | * sand family was poisoned by drinking 53 avenue, or whether both shots case. Since that episode of the feud & | ® water from the creek, which flows yere fireq in\quick succession and the the Mitchells have threatened to drive ¢ 3¢ ¢ through the land of the Mitchells t0 porga Il suC i and 2 s hi ater B¢ horse of his own accord attempted to Imsand onut of the country 5 ? | & the Imsand ranch. It was only by the return home is a matter over which n the off wrched Mitchell's ¢ + © | o timely aid of a physiclan that their the police are now conjecturing. * house yesterday a pistol, shotgun and 1 A | lives were saved. This crime the Im- Sheriff Mansfleld, as soon as he rifle were found on the premises. The € , & | ¢ sands declare to have been perpetrated heard of the murder, drove to the weapons were carried to Redwood ¢ ¢ + | by the negro family. The present Mrs. scene and made a hasty investigation. City, the county seat. ) 3 I | ¢ ditchen 15 a white woman, and she He went to the Mitchell ranch for the The body was discovered by Fred ¢ . + | ® bas made herself a veritable harpy purpose of arresting the entire family. Snider at about 5 in the morning and p ’S I |4 totheentire Tisighiborhioo) threatening - Willia s Ritalill was ot atHomeiPut: - nob oy innies . atterrttiar s & . bERS all whu(ha\';‘n‘:‘r;u}; ed her ways with Dave and \\(;llli:m Jr. were on the spread like wildfire through the town. * ¢ | ¢ utter extermination. premises and they were apprehended No ot subjec @ ¢ g Imsand left his home about 3 and lodged in the Colma ‘}’ull, from (::m:ah;:s::»gf;‘nnu mvr‘ifs:\-‘:‘s ;{onl:s: + 3 o | ® o'clock yesterday morning, bound for whish they were afterward removed to talk of lynching among the loiterers & | ¢ San Francisco, where hé was to gather Redwood City. At a late hour in the on the county road resort ) - + | ® swill for his hogs. The trail of his evening the search for the senior William Mitchell Sr., the one who b © PR wagon's wheels can be followed to the Mijtchell was still continuing. His wife is strongly suspected by Sheriff Mans- © | + | & Corner of First avenue and Market gaid that he had gone to San Fran- field of the commission of the crime, * 3 1 | J street, where the murder was undoubt- cisco to attend to some business af- was caught last night while entering @ . > edly committed. Slight wounds from fairs. the Alcazar buflding to attend a meet- ¢ - ¢ | ® a few buckshot tore the flesh on the Imsand bore a good reputation in ing of the colored Masons. Sheriff i¢ & | ¢ right side of his face, but the mortal Colma and was known as a peaceable Mansfield and Detective Ryan located + | & Dlow was dealt after this. Three shots” rancher who worked from morning to him and made the arrest. Mitchell ) ¢ $ |4 Which went through his left shoulder night without disturbing his nelgh- was booked at the y Prison, ¢ + * & and lodged in his lungs are what bors. He was married and had five where his wife visited him. She said * o6 ¢ | ¢ Caused death. children, all of whom are far below that he left Colma Saturday evening % = o % “lwo distinct shots were fired ac- the age of self-support. Mrs. Imsand and was living at 138 Fifth street ¢ ¥ 2| % cording to the testimony of many peo- suid yesterday that she noticed un- since then. ® * ? i» P O e e AR et D S e = =Y > “ 5 v ety 72 Vg o Jlete the pur- | returned to San Francisco about July 25 and | the trip, reversi v his s 5 1 | momey Jrom e R eula arrive in America | saw im the same day. He then xaid that he | true Fepacyersing for histpurposex’ the ¢ | ¢ 9 'm on his arrival | would make further payments in a few days; | The e A | etwee: % ‘sister covering | ple from which he would realize large sums 3% 4 k S + Pro @0+ 6 e Dttt De DD e Do Do e e | CONTacts betwesn ML BJ Slure the land | of money and that he would shortly make me O ok e himRthe Bcontile foroon a h rtorney executed to her to act | some payments. 2l sa 3 on the “PLUNGER” HILL Ll O BTy e, which he stated | i lishury . Will you please make a statement, Alameda, the other two pretended to Mr. about any attack thal r. oW - s CHARLES DOYLE, ALIAS HOWARD, ALIAS undertaken on the coast would have been | of $150,000, also the property of Green. consummated in a very few days. Extradition papers for Howard are ex- amer to arrive from sented to Gre er of and had pow 1 Doyle, or Howard, r that he was the ow | The complaint recites that on November | n | pected on the next st ol : e POWe Australta, which Is dus on the ZIth of this | Grays seats bors, Hiiotai Naown e month, but ¥ the warning he recefved | Wales, Australia, running from Lapstone Howard aordinary | Hill across Govetts Leap to the head of efforts to get out of reach of Chief Leeg' | Bathurst Plains, and approximately 137/ detectives. So far from ordering Green | Miles in length. and sixty odd miles wide, and that F | clent title. | That upon this showing Green advanced the money to make the purchase, but upon further investigation found that Howar not nor ever had been the owner property. The third complaint dates to “shake down” Howard, Chief Lees has ST O i been patie preparing a grand coup which was 1 te tn landing How ard beh pars with the net of ev dence enveloping him so thoroughly that | | compa: escape 1d be impossible. L el peape mould be lmipossinle v <o | b2cK to October 1, a year and a et obtaining money oY false | month prior to the first two charges. The crime alleged is the felony embezzlement - — - | of th of $13.000 by Howard whilo ADVERTISEMENTS. | acting as t for Green. S J : Chief Lees had cabled to Australia to | — ave extradition papers for Howard for. Napoleon, at | Warded, and he was expecting these on S e he next steamer. Until that time he en- deavored to keep the fact of his contem- to be a certal So far from haking down' Howard in the interest of Mr. Green, the Chief has | simply been holding off for the opportune | moment. Mr. Green has recovered $58,000 | from Howard, but the police had no part | In forcing the latter to disgorge. e rooms of Mr. Green's_attorney, v, In the Palace Hotel last the former made a statement of vith Howard which was sup- another from. the lips of Chief Lees, who accuses Howard of be- ing not only an embezzler and a | but a would-be murderer. Detective Tom | Gibson and Officer & ere also present. Mr. Pillsbury made the following brief | these remed life is a fortre. which neithes you nor I Know anything abo ‘Wky throw obstacles in the way of its de _ fence? Its own means are superior to all f 1 ratories. Me i ertain prescrip tions, the resuits of which, taken collect- have t to mankind, E are my chief medicines. At the t he was largel e Y | 1 September, 1897, on dealt K ious and drastic drugs | o Howard, who repre- that did violence to every fiber in the body. | the English Since that date wonderful strides. Dr. Pierce’s Golder Medical Discovery is a medicine composed of native medicinal roots that do no vio- |2 T lence to nature. Its action is gentle and | & patural. It simply promotes the natural | 4 g processes of secretion and excretion. It |l restores the lost appetite, corrects all dis- | orders of the digestion, makes the assim lation of the food perfect, invigorates the liver, purifies and enriches the blood builds new and healthy flesh tissue, tones the nerves and gives sweet and refreshir sleep. It is the great blood-maker a flesh-builder. It cures o8 per cent. of at th leave o Howard ed to r making gas from hale, I3 ret proce ¢ "2’ steam engine. which coud b Derated at a &reat saviag Tor atlliziey. come | Bustion of fuel: Mr. Green interested Rimeelt Howard and these maiters. After this things ont on for a while, Howard representing. io " Green that in order to successtally manu. al : e ai e cas it was desirable to havi cases of all diseases of the air passages t ra ave o Jead up to consumption. It is a wonderful | e imis liloh (lse heothey edieme for all diseases due to insufficient | forthe ‘manufactune -of this. e wog or improper nourishment of body or nerves. | ireen would, advance the m he | Do not deal with unscrupulous dealers 5 ‘rdn”\‘\-“ruml g to Australia and nego Trge wou to take worthless substitutes f e e ovexd Anowed the sake of a few pennies added profit. as Agnes Faul, tending 1 have been using Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ther ‘owned theke lands. scal Discovery and "Pleasant Pellets® for the e Sl L JC2t three years and they have saved my e S DRSNS ove. riics, Mrs, Sophia Frazer, of Okdaic | Mr. Green then dictated the following: » “1 now keep the * Pellets # 3 Rockbridge Co., Va. . 5 He arrived in Australia about the end of No- iil the time and use them .every | (onidr 567 He cabled that he hed lacated ; o ! in My B e need of & laxative. I am fift time T fecl 20 and was troubled with liver com- plair)\fuul;l T used your medicine. Now I am well.” his brother who owned the land, and that he was willing to sell it, but demanded an in- creased price, which was £25,000, and requested my assent to the purchase at that price. I stated that the price was ‘too high, and ad- vised dropping the matter, and suggested that we wait o while, as the land could probably be purchased more advantageously later. Shortly after this I recelved several cables from him on other matters. Finally I recelved a cable stating he had purchased the land for £80,000 ($150,000), and had borrowed additional 2 cick man or woman should send l"::;irnt stamps to Dr. R. V. Pierce, 2 y the cost of mailing Buffalo, N. Y., to pa: t n opy of Dr. Pierce’s great ‘;’;:g;:;aacgsm%f yéense Medical Adviser; or 31 stamps fora heavy clot'h—bnn_nd copy. | | said to Antono- {»laled arrest of Howard a secret. A | @rg-wmarchi, his|hint dropped, however, spofled his plan i By r- ician, “Be. | and Howard Is now believed to be on his ieve me, we | W2V to Mexico via Stockton. That he will | had better| be ultimately captured, however, seems | | him altogether in this a thief, | posa for Ey! ¢ wounded | I found Soon after they fmet | in the uniform of | and tobacco hou sfficer and wearing numerous | ve been received for | ard then opened up borax. s for making this | and never any larg and also told him that he was the in- | intended comin ordance with the Torrens | was necessary in ac land act ‘Atter this time he represe d were being complete 32:‘:"\‘1:::15 be forwarded to America, and that | (e chale from this land was being shipped. He showed cables on all these eubjects in evi- ‘ ence of his statements. e survey papers and other data fafled to | arrive, ‘and about October, 13, it was declded that Howard and myself should procecd to e iralia to see about taking over the titie and osgession of the lands. e ember § we sailed on the Mariposa ou arriving at Honolulu Howard was taken | P 7% rrived there early in the morning and | i the afternoon Howard disappeared. T left I ateamer, belleving he might require assist- | e St fter the departure of the steamer L In | M (elth others, searched in many plac a Howard in a ¢ nted that surveys and the maps and | nd t midnight foun 3 2?!'.‘\'&'“5!;1“‘”“:( from a heavy dose of l|.| which he satd had been given .hlln An i g house. Ag there was no other way of ching D tralia for some weeks Howard insisted upon Amrming to San Francisco. We did return ) on the Coptic in the last week in ovem!| "tr. | e kept promising to take the next steamer for | e K ePlia and continued this procrastination | i ary., when he announced that his | Ul ould arrive on the next steamer. She 518 Dot come, and 1 then told him 1 was going to Australia on the next steamer whether he L0t or mot. He told me his sister was press- ing him for money in repayment of the loan o e him, and he was determined to dis- pose of his interest in the lands. . Onduced me to buy his interest in this land. I paid him at tha! t time for his interest and certain unpaid portiol a L ns of my half, paying nd other indirect ways to Australia I had paid On November 1, 1895, I hecks on Wells-Fargo's $150,000. When he went | him 13,000 in cash. paid him $105,000 by cl 2 onverted this into gold, taking a Bamk. He_ converted this into gold, tokins H wagon to_cart it take anything but cob » and placed in Vi UL anwe wubsequentl Coin. This money he divided rious safe deposit vaults, y learned. which we s 231 departed on the steamer Mari- M df\elv. THoward was to accompany ing over the lands, but he and aesist in turn he did not 0. 0ol terrupting)—He got a race- Chief Lees (O out a filmsy warrant and T fout and_got : track toU o4 on him'at the dock to have an 'or mot KOINK. | excuse fOr N inuing)—1 arrived at Sydney on | pr al inquired for Mrs. Agnes Faul. April 16, and H3ing at Dulwich Hill in_the Her name is Mrs. A‘!h’!d| B F;lxr\'in‘ . a salesman in a large liquor whore husband 1£ & 3 e on the walle of her of Howard in the uniform, of aval officer. She acknowledge tha o B was her brother. 1 inquired of her Hower? she had communications from him by e cable. She stated she had received et & and knew nothing about any lands. ned him money for some years e amount. She had never c to America and had not bheen land for mm'edyna)rs |l mar;’fl” |('h|: . because of Howard's having exhibited Iy e ortink to have been sent by Rer while in New Zealand. Pieade a search of the records as to the exis ence bf these lands and learned Howard did enee o any lands of this or any other kind in | | Phat district, nor did any of the other persons | {hat ad named_ as contributing the chain of | e ve any interest in said lands; that his Whole scheme was fraudulent. e My return to San Francieco by the tonmver Mariposa, June 2 last, I saw Howard-— A me evening—and stated to him the re- e o ny Investigations in Australia. I told S hat T had found the lands and his repre- Mmtations concerning the title to them to be | fraudulent and false. i Pillsbury—Did he deny it? e hiSte aid not go into detalls. He didn't Ao hese statements of mine and admitted the tfacts to be as T stated them. He said he would make it all right—make restitution for the K eys he had received. In compliance with Thone promises he paid me within a few davs eCthat time the sum of 3300 cash and prom- {wed to make another payrhent of $20,00 within ton daye following. At the end of that time oM 4ia not make the payment and, as I was obliged to depart for the East on other busi- pess 1 left the matter unsettled in the form of a promise from him to make other pay- ments by sending the money to me in Denver. He.4ld not make any further payments. I suburbs house a_picture in New | | { | | | | | ard made upon you personaily? departure until the early hours of the following | learned, had people at his house, where I was | and Honolulu. Green, After the arrival of the steamer from Honolulu, Gibs Green—Upon my return to San Francisco 1 n says, the men reported was Informed by various people that, during | to Howard that the deed was done, got my absence in Australla, Howard had been | their money and went to Chicago. ' %0 them and made various statements, the ob- | These two men and the one that sailed ject of which seemed to be to have them re- Greon arc knowi fo the Toiie ool Deated to me and the burport of which Was | are expected fn this city at any time. hat T was about to return to America; that I | Until that time comes their it would be in a great state of indignation, % | not be divulged. These are "m‘;eb::;fl 1 would not have found the lands as he had represented, and that, in all probability, I would be in for a fight; that he was ready for a fight, ang, in fact, desired one; that he had armed himself with all sorts of weapons against me, and that he had manufactured fic- | men who stood up the Wells-Fargo Bank messenger in front of their building. They | also fitted up the specie tank of the Aus- tralia and then robbed the steamer. Augustus Howard, alias Charles Mason, titious evidence against me, which he pro- |alias Bowyer, alias Godfrey, alias Doyle posed to use if I made any attempts to prose- | all Sims, is an escaped Australian cute him. . _| convict. While under committal for trial Pillsbury—You learned after you came back (on a charge of forgery he escaped f from Denver that he had hired men to make | the Braldwood jall. In Australia thin away with you on your way to Australia. nep i s e Piilsbury—Dldn't you learn that the night be- | (G S0 HEmYR as a sentence of fore you left he was down here in the court- His ru'urll) = ':flr:fi![:s;!ll-i\‘;r-lr his {:m‘(], < a Australian crook to- yard of the Palace with two men in a hack | to whom he paid §3000 aplece to do you up cn the dock? Green—That was arranged the night of the salling of the steamer Alameda, the 224 of July last. I was to be murdered on the dock. The steamer should have sailed at 10 o’clock on the evening of that day, but owing to the non- arrival of the English malil she postponed her gether with his picture were forwar | Ehtef Lees by the. Australian antherrcies According to the description given in the document Howard 15 & native of America or, London and he was born In 1566, ¢ arrived in the colonies in 187 N6 profersed 1o be an epgieer. By e first arrested by the Central police. in Sydney on July 20, 1883, on two charges of stealing. He served a term of five months, and on being released he grew too handy with the pen and was arrested on two charges of forgery and three charges of gaining money under false pre- tenses. For these crimes -Howard was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. His sentence was subsequently reduced, and on gaining his freedom the rascal at. tempted to carry on his, nefariots busi- ness again. On April 12, 1858, he was ar. rested on several charges ' of gaining money under false pretenses, and scn: ced to serve s 2 tence: another term of five On July 22 Howard escaped Australian authorities had. siven m g for dead until Chief Lees wrote to them requesting the above reco: i 3 nal life in the colonies. 1f enni o n addition to having a startl: im- inal record In Australia. Howoin® joTim- unknown to_the local police, Detective Tom Ellis, who assisted Chiet Lees to work up the case against How- ard, arrested him on January 17, 1547, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. - At that time Howard was manipulating his Acetyline gas scheme on Sacramento street. One of his many dupes, J. H. Blakeway of 111 First street, swore to the complaint, ‘which was H sequently dismissed. s SR During the time Howard opera city and Oakland he bunkoed fullle;itxvr;;x?fi people, some of whom he subsequenily paid back to avoid arrest. After getting his first money from Green, Howard mads a trip to Honolulu, He returned from the islands in 1897, and practiced deception on L. Peterson of 226 Market street for the sum of $3). Shortly after he bunkoed . J. Starbird, corner of Spear and Market streets, out of $60). Dr. Saunders of Als, meda put faith in Howard's glowing ‘pis ture of the untold wealth there was in his pet gas scheme, and it cost the dootor just $800 to find out that Howard was & star bunko man. The ordeal near] ruined Dr. Saunders. o AHoward’s smogth fongue orney E. K. Taylor of Alamed. from 8650. but the former mm:lea rce:‘!xlnL:l): tion to escape the meshes of the. law Mrs. Apphel of £25 Central avenue, Ala. meda, had an experience with Howard that cost her $400, and the lady was forced to mortgage most of her furniture to keep the wolf from the door. In 1895 Howard_and his wife }Hved with a woman named Mrs. Bowel, who kept a lodging Rouse at 237 Post 'street. Dnstspeciing individuals with a tendency to give u | | | | morning. During this time [ was on the dock. I talked with Howard, expecting him to com- plete his preparations to sail by that boat. Sarlier in the evening, Howard, as I have since in the evening, and at-the Palace Hotel later in the night, for the purpose of seeing and identifying the. These people were to meet and murder me. To these people he had pald $5000 aplece and they were to receive afterward, or did recelve, the balance of $20,000 for mur- dering me, as’ Howard supposed, between here Upon returning to Amcrica and talking with. Howard and taxing him with his decep- tions and frauds upon me, he stated that he hoped there would be no trouble over it. He said that if any attempts were made to cause him trouble or to take proceedings against him he wanted me to understand that he was per- fectly ‘well established here and, in his own lenguage, “‘was set up to meet anything that could be brought against him.” This meant that he was under the protection of officers of the law, both the police and the courts; and that he had detectives and others in his pa ard that there were various public officials an politicians upon whom he could rely for pro- tection and fmmunity: and that nothing could be done here to his injury; also that he had in- fluence with some of the newspapers and that §f 1 started anything against him I would be besmirched in every direction. I also, after my return to San Francisco, heard that Howard had made arrangements upon several occasions to have me murdered; and that he had particularly made such a angements to have me put out of the way both on the evening of my departure for Aus tralia in March and also while en route on board the Alameda. Detective Gibson—~Howard got one of Kelly's hacks driven by John Fitzpatrick and one of the Kelly boys on the seat, and they started down to the Palace Hotel. First they went to a certain bank on Market street and took $20.- 000 out of a safe deposit box. They then drove to the courtyard of the Palace Hotel and had these men in the hack to throw Green over- board. When they got into the courtyard of the Palace the blinds were ‘drawn down on the hack windows. This man Kelly had taken the $20,000 previously into a saloon and handed Howard $5000 of it. After waiting around there several hours the hack was driven down to the Alameda wharf. When they got down there a man named Ed Coffman, & Witness In the Foster case. stepped up to Howard and told him he had a warrant for his arrest i the Foster case; this warrant was ‘‘phon Howard made the excuse to Green that he had to go away. He went to the hack and handed these men in the hack $5000. There was some dispute over the money. It seems 'that the men In the hack were to receive $20,000. Detective Gibson's story_was to the ef- fect that the warrant for Howard was an excdu!evflltohr (;flm nothtfl hsufltgn th:dAl?,é meda reen, who, he afterward to their money readily were scar Georga Adams. mad put up a plot with a | Howard ran several hundred doliars be man named Mitchell to murder him on| hind in his board bill. To avoid paying arted District furnishings. unbleached sheets of fair clean-up prices: S8x90 Good quality Bleached Muslin Sheet, uality the first time. Rroadcloths 50 inches wide. 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Good quality Muslin Pillow Ca with two-inch hem—45x3¢ inches 12ic; 0x36 inches, 16e; & inches 16 2 30 Fine quality Hemstitched Pillow Cases—15x3, 15€; 50x2 inches, 17e Sixad inches oo i "ive Hemstitched Muslin Pillow Cases.. 2The t fall fabrics for fine wear. black and colored silks and dress goods of the new fall styles just come in: shown yesterday for Extra heavy Shower-Proof Cheviots, inches colors are shown in all the new woven and elegant finish at vard new biues and blacks: it Is the wide per vard S1.50 New Black Duchesse something really special for. with Hale's guarantes Black Taffeta Silks, a perfect fabric, 26 § the kind we cheer- fully give your money back for If it gives the least dissatisfac tion eeene B cessescaes .yard $1.00 36-inch Fancy Striped Taffeta Silk Lining: the regular 20c qu: B A . e e yard 12ie lack and Colored Silesia, good value at the regular price of 10 yard, but now. st — s e There are many little economies In our lining department; you will save r ladies’ and children’s underwear how “hosiery by the dozen” does sell ! it means economy along with comfort to buy a Ladies’ Seamless Fast Black Cctton Hose, double heels, a full-length stocking of medium weight and elastic: sizes S to 10, Price by the pair Price by the dozen R sios Ladies’ Flannelette Gowns, goed quality, in pink and white stripe: Mother Hubbard Wide and long, with turn-down collara, sizes 14, 15, 16, 17, onl t 150, and, to close them out, we make the price just about what the material costs, with nothing for making Tham assetiosae SRR e e S 3 each 3Vc 50 dozen Ladies’ Heavy Jersey Ribbed Vests and Pants, 2-3 wool, soft reams all covered, medium and large sizes, and winter, color cream white and natural gra to be closed out at BSoe Cresco We Corsets— close the kind every that 935. night Py 35-937-939-941-943-915-947 : neverbreaks. Markot Stecet. at six. ANANNT wing due e a5e 90, §$1x99, with perfect hem, ready for u of extra heav var: LT wide, s here. soles and toes one of our reguiar 75c and a good garment for fall FNNNAALANNNANNN A NN AN NN AN With Every Pound Good Coffee Big Presents Free At (reat American [mporting Tea (o's Big Value Stores. STORES EVERYWHERE. 100 STORES. | | i <% DB.HALL’S REINVIGORATOR Five hundred reward for any case we cannot cure. This secret remedy stops all losses in 24 hours,” cures Emissions, Impo- tency, Varicocele, Gonorrhoea, Gleet. Fits, Strictures, Lost 2 Manhood and all wasting effects of self-abuse or excesses. Sent sealed. §2 bottle; 3 bottles, $5; guaranieed cure any case. Address HALL'S MEDICaL IN STITUTE, 855 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. Al for sale at 1078% Market st., S. F. All priv Qiscases quickly cured. Send for free book. o Corner Fourth and Market, S. F. Try our Speclal Brew Steam and Lager, 6c. Overcoats and Valises checked iree. so Chief Lees claims, t. vard, he debt Howars o aharHesoh had Mrs. Bowel arreste grand larceny. : The warrant was sworn out by his under the name of Gertrude Howard she alleged that Mrs. Bowel stole hundred doliars from her room. The & came up in the Police Court and was uld- mately dismissed. George Adams, wh figured prominently in many of Howard's criminal escapades, ran away from Aus- tralla some years ago Wwith a woman named Agnes Canary. Previous_to meeting the Canary woman Adams, who is an Australian Jew, lived with a notorious wnmluntllmn;g‘d Charlotte ing. He had a son by the King woman, g, e brought to America. - This child was subsequently turned over to Ho Ard's wife, who placed the boy in a pri Yate school in this city, where he still Temains. Shortly after arriving in_this ity Agnes Canary gave birth to a child Fhe "offspring. of their unnatural In timacy. is recorded in the annals of the Board of Health as the son of George Walcom Adam: Miss Bessie Lee, who has posed as a niece of Mrs. Howard, is caid to be her full sister. Her name is , and believed by the police to be Straile, and | to have been born in| she is supposed Brisbane. . Such is the T the most remarkable ecord of one of criminals ~ with whom - the local police have ever had to | deal. Mr. Pilisbury said that Chief Lees had told him that in order to get the men implicated in the Alameda robbery he did not des| Last Saturday things had come to such a pass that Mr. Pillsbury came to the con Clusion that the attempt on Green's life Was in some way mixed up with the mat- ter of the robbery, and that he could n longer delay. He also thought that if ar rested one of the men would turn State's evidence.and thus the whole matter would be brought to light. E Pillsbury therefore mnotified Lees that he would no longer hold off and proceede:l fo carry his plans into execution. In ex- planation ‘of the affair in the Palace some days ago Chief Le affair of the detectives breaking into the Toom was as follows: Gibson and Eilis had been detailed on the Alameda rob- bery case and had gone up to see Green in his room. Howard had also gone up io see the same party and had got thera first. The detectives were waiting in *he anteroom when they overheard the start of an altercation in the other apartment. Which gradvally grew warmer and warmer. Finally Green said: ¥ou have been acting the traitor all through.” going to do_about it?” Howard replied. “You can't do anything to me in this city. I have the police and courts fixed. I could ruin you with your family. Don’t you suppose I know all about your visifing women of the town 1 have a d—n good mind to kill vou right here and now; then kill myself after- ward. I would do it, too, if it were not for my children.” The man's voi that the officers, fearin threat into execution, brok door and interfered, In explanation of Green’s return from Denver, Chief Lees said that it was made in compliance with a request sent by him. ‘““What are you g he would put his e down the Of the $185,000 acquired by Howard Green | has received $38.000 back, ouce by payment | of $6000 and a little later through the pay- ment of $52,000. Incidentally there seems to be an ex- cellent chance of a conflict between the police and judicial departments before the case Is done with. “I want to make a statement right who | es sald that the whoie | ice was so impassioned | eve, ire to arrest Howard immediately. | Only a few hour here,” said Chief Lees, “right in the pree- ence of Mr. Pillsbury and Mr. Green—that my connection with this case was brought about entirely in my search for the per- petrators of the Alameda robbery. What I have learned of it was learned in that way, statements of certain newspapers to the contrary notwithstanding. HANSEN WAS DESPONDENT. Shoots Himself in the Right Eye and ‘Will Die. Despcndent over his wife's sickness H. A. Hansen, who is employed in the sugar refinery, last night shot himself with sul- cidal intent. The bullet entered his right ranged downward and sed through the left cheek. The doctors at he Receiving Hospital, to which institu- tion he was taken, entertain little hope for his recovery. Hansen's wife some time ago was taken ill and at her request she was sent to the French Hospital. Yesterday he visited the hospital and after leaving his wife he went to his home at Twenty-third and Mississippi streets. A short time afterward a shot was heard and a . police officer was ' sum- moned. 3 At a late hour last night Hansen seemed to be sinking and the doctors gave it as their opinion that he would live ADVERT SEMENTS. DR. 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