The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1899, Page 11

+ B + + + + + + B + + + + + + + + + + + + - + LR R I Y Pages 1110 20 : @j}j IS FLEE4 4447444444444 2 544000 + - : : Pages 11 to 20 + PEE gl 2 b b T R R R S T S PSP S ++ tttte e SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1899 LWOOD BROWN'S PRISON CELL WIFE REFUSED T0 | FOR THE M VE TESTIMON SHE CHERISHE A Letter to Catherine Mrs. Westerfeld’s Ro- Haigh Presented. mance Ends. g o IT REMAINED UNIDENTIFIED SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENTj . —_— | THE TROUBLES OF AN AMADOR SAYS HER HUSBAND THREAT- | JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. ENED TO TAKE HER LIFE. i - B { Adjourned the He Ordered the Young Wife Alleges That While She | W ss to Return, but at Last Danced at the Tivoli Her Better Reports She Had Failed Half Spent Her Meager { to Obey. Salary. [ NO MORE. BIG DEAL. Dwinell Mine in Siskiyou County gh | mother's statement H. for | appeared with the golden cire her daughter left with him, o ar in a week « ing, sans everyth Th culmin eached when « tWo sans ¢ he Califor- fainted on r of Market a st_experience, du It I8 cla ad and e P o us forced to subsist <t d s of love she 1 ne Rtever| prouts of love she still n for S3b . ® investigations Westerfeld has lately been employed by a writer at 717 Market stree; while eyeing the passing throng yes day morning from Ris employe n noticed his wife sauntering by. Iy, mediately hurried to the street and jo; her. Her first words were aging. They were ry they were to ha =ing it at the above 1 and tor- i r not encour- cent clothes.” To which he proper sco mind the clothes, Dot to youn. Dot. it should be explained, was z man's poetical abbreviation of nr,‘\,}‘f;: which he found rather a mouthful in the days he fllled with love Dot, however, walked on, remarking as she did so that he was “a cur.” Just then promised to ' her cousin, David Rosenberg, came up an, »n as possible. The Judge | threatened to call a policeman. With other ! the cases for a week to give|light conversation of this character the me to carry out his promise. 1% Mogan's court yester: | occurred which occasioned | wiched & divoree he we | that would be MAN WESTERFELD, WHO LOVE| e | the stench th hira streets. | T's window | “It's a wonder 10 me you don't wear de. | replied with | | I want | d | Aw ILL PUT ITON RAPID TRANSIT To THE SCENE] 7=\ FFICER JACK COL 7 icoks after the wel | lent shopping dist is a new ac e of this muni 1 has been fired to d. ch in one bound would put front rank of criminal ality. in catchers—something that would place him on a me ual footing with the old- force. The opportunit # last Thursday night. Colen grabbed er was he; x was a_perf ¢ glory. A he whom no woman could re- of such warmth that there is a » laddies that on or eing him pass ight,” never walting an en lled on a horses fireman n was a success. But w for a man of his » too infre ent t He nee; Where could he Yor stimulan: He would a chance moth-eaten 1d do. Jack’s career morals were i up more ter- something m turn i fi The police f get himself 1t showing streets, where Westerfeld, feeling he was outclassed, left them ¢ it wa® that the alleged tnreate ‘he would call d would come pri night that as his stion her left them. telling his ng. prepared to T isfactory —_—————— A DISEASE-BREEDING POOL. Death Threatened at the Potrero byl Land-Locked Filth. Potrero ha 1 to the Board of 1th of the entire c the life and he filled from the Potrero to South ranci tend Arm and the ex the bay over the mud flats a huge sion of Army street made ove: i} slimy . disease-br being no outlet to the bay. All of the r fuse liquids from the vinegar and yeas! works, th and fertilizing works the Army and adjoir streets are ied into this big pool, rises therefrom ¢ no end of sickness in that I Mty Which would be a growing neig borhood Within the past €ix months a number of deaths have taken place there in consa- YUSE SOME DAY, SE N. he who Fifying than an occasfonal drunk or “vag to disturb the quiet of his evening rev eries, -being of the| of Sut- fon to the some from a deadly cesspool that is threatening | wmu. | WILL DISINCORPORATE TO END nity. Some time after Kentucky street n another fill was made to ex- stroet to a connection with the | ghi former thoroughfare. Both fills were nto | Children at the Home Tell of Cruelty, fifteen acres, which Is now full of »ding water, there OFFICER JACK COLEN AND THE MURDERED LADY DE LANDLORD LB GAVE OGP DE KEYe- How Jack Colen Worked Up His First Murder Case. the days passed by and Colen's as far off as ever, until ard and Caples took it_into o help it along a bit. They ¢ oanut, which was fashioned mble a human head. On this they a face, after fixing to_the top a of long raven tresses. Then they stuffed a dumm’y body with straw. and making a pair of legs out of broomsticks and arms from some laths, they dressed | the whole thing up in woman’s clothes | and deposited it on the floor of room 1 in | | the lodging-house at 5% Bush street. The lights were turned low, the furni- ture was disarranged so as to give tne ace the appearance of haying been the of a frantic struggle, and a boy was hed to Colen to acquaint him with fact that a murder had been commit- his beat. The two officers stationed hemselves at a corner which Colen would have to s to reach the place of the tragedy In a few moments they saw their victim hurrying up. accompanied by Officer N son. whom he had summoned to his as. sistance 1lo. Colen. Where are you going in a asked Leonard fellers me ck. “If yo youse in n ft. Bt 1 help from Nelson can argeant tell him wese on er murder case. So long.” and he va ip_the street : £t dging-house. TLITTLE Wl VICTIMS OF A © WOMAN'S WHIMS hCharges Against Mrs. | Reed. R, | THE EUREKA SOCIETY ROW —gt e THE UGLY SCANDAL. g | Abuse and Neglect—A Shock- | ing Condition of Affairs. —_— The Eureka Soclety for the Protection of Children will soon be a thing of the evening it was decided to disincorporate and go out of existence. A policeman was present to see that the members did not fight. A committee was appointed to at- quence of the disgusting pool, and diph- | tend to the dissolution and place the chil- | theria and other forms of fever are now in | Qegree prevalent In the Potrero. A peti-| jtable institutions. The conditions making yn signed by all the people living within many blocks of the place was vesterday teented to the Supervisors, asking tha L"m’u cut be made through the fill in Ken. tucky street o as to allow the tide to flow In_and carry out the fiith of the place. Tt will require a culvert of at least | fourteen feet to secure the desired resuits. | ————————— FRENCH ALLIANCE BALL. Successful Entertainment at Native Sons’ Hall. The concert and ball given last night at Native Sons’ Hall for the benefit of the dren of the Eureka Boys' Home in char- this necessary originated at the very in- ago. The organization was created out of the California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and from that time on It has been in a turmoil, petty factions striving to hold controi. It has been open- ly charged time and again that the desire or power was prompted by such illfcit perquisites as the unscrupulous could “'graft” out of the cases coming to its doors. Suffering, neglected childhood was a second consideration to the dollars and cents that could be filched out of the so- cial position of the body. The immediate cause of the breaking up of the body was the repeated charges that schools of the French Alllance was a suc- | the home on Sanchez street was being cess in every particular. A large audience | conducted in a shocking manner and that listened to the concert programme and | the forty-odd walfs were being inhu- many remained afterward for the dance. | manly treated. In order that last The concert programme opened with an | evening’'s actlons of the soclety ove! by President M. 8. Wetll Famille Grosnichou,” by an addres A comic song. “holastique Giscard and Josephine Rob were the next numbers on the programme. by the orchestra, which was led by Tugene Legallet. This was followad | may be understood it 1s necessary ty tate that at a recent meeting nearly all f the old board resigned and an entire ew board of directors was elected. Then Frnest Lassale, accompanied by Miss | came the charges against the manage- Fmile Lassale, and a Spanish serenade by | ses Blanche Legnllet. Jeanne Enllf. fused to accept tne positions to which n ment of the home and the new board re- they were elected. arles Montgome: | the former president, seeing m.:‘“.om"Z: A Comic song by Paul Girard, a_fantasy | thing had to be done, called together the of “Faut t" by the orchestra, a rendition | old directors and announced that he of the “Artiste Musicien” by Dutch Wal- | thought it time to wind up the affairs of t d a monologue, “The Inventor,™ completed the first part of the entertain- | ment. ly morning | charges and recriminations of blackmall, trio walked up to O'Farrell and Stockton | Bt s ® | briber | the soclety, but before doing so it would be well to have some grounds for such an action, something more than the man: ribery and dishonesty that have disgust- Now Look ouT FER. OE REAL MUROER .: ARE'YA o P the proprietor of the house, fn the scheme, and resisted the entrance proprietor's head as well, w He was given the keys and told to go The door of the room was difficult unlock, but Colen persisted and finally got The sight that met his gaze v have unncrved i . lying on the floor, where | she had fallen in her last agony, was the body of the woman. Tere. Nelson 0 * ring up th' Morgue hurried away In a few minutes he returned, and while terrifying_and guard an’ I'11 id Colen, as | took frequent peeps at the 1 so still and quiet ¢ floor amld the semi-darkness of the room might possibly be some re the body, and suggested that ing the body lath, turned ju. in time to be greete a perfect howl of brother offl the joke and whe athered to see the near future unless the foshing that Col is now recefving is brought to an abr: with the organization. > 1 ought in several little f the home. | were brought into the and questionec of the treatment th. ng but credit and even brutality. All testified to have taken | vermin from | that shocked every | ated that h | into cold water on th bathed, and before t | was whipped with a ruler. Another witness w { who has all along b n. but who was not afraid to tell Heved to be the truth and ac : wet was removed | what she b | fed and suffered for the | the society had paid for and | been converted into luxuries by Mrs. land her family. T itv i| 1SS EDNA E. HEWES and | George Lyman Dealey were ma t the home . a violent tem- | of the latte | pered girl, ad_frequen mother in her abuse of the litt of the society. e According to the state- ment of Mrs. Pettce the matron had, pre- vious to being given home, been arrested for cruelty to chil- stated that the reason d not been pros | 1) pald Frank Hol- ary, $20 to silence harge of the h was that she (Mrs. Reed brook, the former s e the matter. Reed had b iving company | at unusual times of the night and had compelled the children to go out for beer | and whisky for herself and company. s *n a chance story and she denied that | she had been either inhuman or negleet- | ful of her little charges. | the insinuations ~gzainst | stating that was taken into the home. | also an ex-secretary, stated that he had the conduct at home to make him take from its roof the children over which he had been appoint- ed guardian while he was a member of the past. At a meeting of the directors last ;h eI er side of the She algo denied was only root E. L. Wadham ception of the soclety, some four years | oint E. Marchand, a director of three weeks, begged to resign, as he had | had enough’ of | Chairman Montgomery urged him to wait | and help wind up the affairs of the unfor. | tunate soclety, and In order to head off | any further argument on the matter he appointed J. F. O'Brien and Acting Secre. tary Beanston as a committee to atten to_the disincorporation of the society. Mr. Montgomery stated that while thers | | had been rumors of abuse and neglect at the home, the matron had always been rted by Dr. Dalzal and a T8 of the old board, who | would not hear of having her investigated | | or dismissed. On one point the chairman | was emphatic and that was that food suf- ficient for three months had been provided for the little ones at the home. pointed Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Beanston a committee with full power to act to see that the children at the home are distrib- u;edh among the charitable organizations | syvenue and Everett street, in Alameda, | of the city. ‘Wounded a Neighbo;l Cow. John A. Reese, a rancher near Ingle- side, who was accused of puttin, charge of buckshot into Mrs. Lhouillfer's kulg'-‘liz AA‘M. InAlednld o{ ho‘éob. chicken hawk, s case dismissed by The Judge ady more careful in future In taking | soning have been traced to scratches from | were all injured while in the discl alm at a chicken hawk. | upheld and sup | tew other mem FISTS AND GAS T0 BE REPORTED | WERE A WOMAN'S AT WASHINGTON DEADLY WEAPONS |Six Chinese Compa-|Lively Scrimmage on nies Take Action. Dupont Street. HO MUN'S DEATH | WILL PREPARE A STATEMENT | DISASTROUS FAMILY FRACAS e e et HO YOW, THE CONSUL GENERAL, | HIS INFURIATED WIFE BESETS | TO INVESTIGATE. | GEORGE STROWBRIDGE. —_— | SR | Rev. Dr. Endicott Gardiner Defends | After the Man Had Been Covered the Act of Chief Dunn of the | With Bruises His Assailant Chinese Bureau in Refus- | Attempts to Asphyxiate ing the Permit. Him. — e — —_— Rev. Dr. John Endicott Gardiner, Chi- | George Stowbridge, a coachman, has for nese Inspector and Interpreter, has made | weeks lived In mortal dread of his wife. | the defense for the Chinese Bureau. He | He has several times attempted to smus- stated that a Chinese Inspector and Inter- | gle his clothes out of the house, but she | preter, Mr. Da Silva, had been specially | has balked all his efforts. He weighs detailed to visit the Malil dock, the County | about 125 pounds and his wife is three | Jail and other places where Chinese Immi- | times heavier | grants are detained awaiting the decision The Strowbridges live at 406 of the Collector as to their right to |street, and y 3 | 1and and to ask each prisoner whether | started in to ¢ he is sick or well. Mr. Da Silva reported | usual. Strowb | to Chief Dunn that he saw Ho Mun with | UIl the aftern And when _he saw her g0 Into a saloon he ran upstairs to their the others and that Mun said that he was | Foom and was packing his clothes. when well. Dr. Gardiner said also that Chief | «he entered suddenly, grabbed him by the Dunn declined to grant the request of Mr. | hair and threw him across the room. As Costello for a permit for a physician to he jumped to his hit him on the the County Jail because Ho Mun on that | eve, knocking hir 'nder pain of Dupont 1dga th e kept out of her way | very day had denied to Mr. Da Silva that | death she compelled him to be and | he w ick, and the chief did not wish to | B0 to bed 2 allow an opportunity to any one of coach- | After Strowbridge had fallen into a gen- ing Ho Mun as to what his testimony | tle slumber Mrs. Strowbridge turned on should be. the gas and, locking the door, went to The matter of the death of Ho Mun in |llquor up again. The landlady smelled the the County Jafl with no medical attend- | €as and, forcing open the door, discovered nd the false autopsy slip in the | Strowbridge asieep in bed the room fice were the prevailing topics | full of gas. She notified Policemen Keves of conversation in Chinatown and in Fed- | and Snowball, and they rang for the eral circles yesterday. At a meeting of rol wagon and Strowbridge was taken | the Chinese Six Companies held last even- | o _the Recelving Hospital. He was su‘- | ing the detalls of the affalr were pre- | fering more from fright than from the | sented to Ho Yow. Consul General at this | éffects of the gas and was soon out of | port for China, and it was decided to | danger | bring the case to official attention in| Mrs. Strowhridge was arrested by the | Washington policemen and sent In the patrol wagon "he meeting was attended by the Consul | to the City Prison, where a charge of eral and a large number of represen- | “drunk” was registered aga her. She was crazy from drink and created such a disturbance that she had to be put in the dark cell. Her husband will not proh ably charge her with a more serfous of fense tative citizens. Some caus | were made and much indignat express: A committee was app draw up an official \l.}lrvm‘nl of he presented o the Chine Con: | oo e eitiet Tes ture. th Do the Strowbridge has been married elght p officials In refusing Ho M years. He was then coachm the a physi » he was sick in the Crocker family and she was th and after his attorney, Mr. Costello, had | cook. Now he says he wants notified the chief of the Chinese bureau of | from her altogether, as ! fac will be taken In the seat fear of his life ernment later from the statement | — - of facts as detailed by the committee. | gale Made by O. D. Baldwin. = | - Through inadvertence it was announced | Knocked Down by a Bicycle. | tn The Call yesterday that the sale of the [ | A reckless bicycle rider, while spinning | lot and Improvements on the northeast CUPID SCORES ONE MORE | CONQUEST IN LOVE'S GAME GEORGE. LYyM AN DEALEY ried yesterday morning at S Stephen's Episcopal Church, Ful- ton and Webster streets. Rev. Dr. Lion performed the ceremony. The church was ibcauflfully decorated with flowers and | evergreens and was crowded with the relatives and friends of the contracting parties. The bride is the daughter of Mr. |and Mrs. C. W. Hewes and a_prominent ) member of the Delta Tota Chi Fraternity. Mr. Dealey is connected with the firm of Dealey Bros.. the offictal photographers of eircle of friends, by whom they are muen the School Department. Both have a wide admired. along Market street last night at a break- | corner of Taylor and Eddy streets by W | neck rate of speed. knocked down Frank | A. Deane to Mrs. M. A. Skelly for $76.000 Stoddard, a young man, who requires the [ was negotiated by Thomas Magee & Sons aid of a_crutch to help him along through firm declines to claim credit for the | the world. Stoddard was standing on the | sule, which, it appears, was mads by O. D | street at Seventh. waiting for u car, when | Baldwin. the cyclist ran him down. The Injured —_———— | man was conveyed to his home at 33 Pon 3 Trect and attended by Dr. Bail, who ad- | METEORS' ABSENCE EXPLAINED. vised him to go to the City ard County | _ Hospital, where Dr. nmlr,h {irhu»d his € D. Perrine Tells of Heavenly wounds, which are severe, but not nec Bodies and Their Habits. sarily of a fatal character. ——ee————— Thh"-" who peered long and faithfully at the heavens on the 15th, and yet were | FAILED TO AGREE. disappointed had an opportunity of get- Ung even at Academy of Sciences Hall Jury Not Unanimous That Harada |jast night. C. D. Perrine, who fs assist- Kept a Reasonable Lookout | ant star-gazer at the Lick Observatory, for the Train. had photographed all kinds of meteors The jury in the case of Jiro Harada vs. | 84 comets. and a screen at one end of | the Southern Pacific Company remained | (h® hall was converted into a temporary {out all of Friday night and were taken | ifmament across which stereopticon heav- {into United States Circult Judge Morrow's | ®NI¥ bodles flew. From what Mr. Per- | discharged. They stood on the final ballot | switched them out of the terrestial fleld | three for Harada and nine for the rallroad | of vision, and the few that appeared as company. billed were obscured by fog and mist He ap-| Harada brought the sult to recover $20,. | Many admirable charts were shown by as | 25) for the loss of a leg, three fingers and | the ald of the stereopticon. in which the three toes, the result of being run over | &ction of these eccentric bodies was made by a train at the crossing of Rallroad | clear. —_————————— | on October 14, 1898. Harada was crossing To Reward Injured Firemen. track at the time. ene. raliroad's defense was that the | Communications were received by the Japanese did not keep a lookout while | Supervisors yesterday from the Board of he was on the trac Fire. Commissioners recommending the R LT AT RS | payment of $50 to James Walsh ;‘r engine Berlin booksellers are strictly forbid- company No. 31, $150 to James McGibben Idolnhu:"eell school children books stitched | of en Xe company No. 35 and $75 to W. wit . 8 several cases of blood pol- | Frodsham of truck company No. !h;=° e rusty wire. of thelr duty.