The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1900, Page 23

FTHELL 4444924444242 444443 Pages 23 t0 32 - - - - - - . R + + + + + -+ “+ The FEELFHT 4424424222250 40 Pages 23 10 32 LRSS S R 2 2 S S R R R s tete e + - + + + + - SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1900. LURED TO HER DISHONOR AND LEFT TO HER DEATH Amy Murphy Was the Victim of the Mysterious Tragedy in Golden Gate Park. Horace Poulin, Who Professed to Love the Girl and Then De- serted Her, Interrogated by the Police-——Wound May Have Been Self-Inflicted. Dt P+ 0000900000000+ + 200000+ 000+0+0@Q . 827 Bush street. The lady who co: = that place said v, storday she wag coni: dent he b occupied his room every night since he had taken it. She heard him in his room Thursday night about 10 o'clock. No one had ever occupied it with him, she Result of the Autopsy. itopsy to determin girl's death was held Dr. Leland, autops; c er Cole present. The bullef was found in a flattened state, pressing nst the skull just above the left eas had entered in front of the right ear. Imost the entire skull shattered and the bone about the entrance and bed of the bullet was greatly splintered. marks were found inside the gap- of entrance nd said the large entrance ave been made through the sged closely against the the cause of surgeon, with PB4 0400548000938 000009 - SR = B e e e R S R S 2 % § ji } i i : ; : + | ! VICTIM OF PARK TRAG:DY AND HER FALSE FRIEND. his opinfon the shot thaf caused have been fired by the person tectives Cody and Dillon advance the ry that the girl pawned her gold uy the pis The Detectives’ Search. Detective Coc i ® the price of the ¥ also the revolver may : by some one of the : red around after the . runk at her home were 632 Laguna. stre. FRANCISCO, Jan. 30 900" letter this hear and SAN e she ha hat I know is a salesman me 5 and and was | nd and wa ery good this a, so we had change. I for the invitation, and t way to manage it. I have | s to tell you of happenings n away. A little girl you ee me lately. e on ey k- Sant ¥ou had a good trip and made ine . e on Fridey of last ey, You might send me @ fow » the telephone company ould use them at present. ‘Write 2 - trouble she had had with £ you are promot. - s You L Tv g}‘;yw d me what L topp taking music lessons for th e the letter discharging her. | present, but Win. still continuerors for the in a hand that I now be- | Mama and Win send their regards ana oo % | some of his writing. t this document to v L glad to see you. Yours sincerely, A.'DART. Plenalp said he only knew the ent downtown and we | pleasg il s & 3 pleasant companion, having me: = ng more of her until | ple in a business way. }i(‘omhatd ;‘;n?aen«' and said he would give | thought her a good girl. He had et ame back, but | Poulin but twice, : and when she k She said she | Visitors at the Morgue. Pete' the nick-| Ex-Senator Frank McGowan, ex-Sur- om she had worked s. Fallon, the wife | n-Keeper. Bought a Pistol. t of the week Amy | for anything until | told me she had 2 phonograph parlor | was going to see i just my luck,’ she 1y out to be might work!' hat day and I.did not see her again alive. I just learned to-day from my son | Freddy that Amy told him she was going veyor General Pratt and J. J. Mc ex-residents of Humboldt Coum?}kcr;'uig at the Morgue yesterday, and after ex- amining the remains, declared the dead girl had been murdered. They telegraphed this bellef to her father in Seattle. _The Murphy family formerly lived in Eureka. The father, Dan Murphy, was one of the most prominent politicians of Hum- boldt County. Four years ago he and his wife were divorced. ~He now conducts a liquor business in Seattle. Mrs. Murphy moved to this city and subsequently mar. ried Captain J. C. Dart of the schooner Sparrow. Harvey Murphy, a brother of the dead girl. is an artist on the Seattle Post. Dan Murphy was at one time worth 1" She said she had been | $100,00, and was prominently identified in the papers about a man who | With Tom Geary In the latter's fight for d himself and asked Freddy | Congress. questions about how he thought| The following have been selected as | jurors to hold an Inquest into the cause | of_death: ’s Statement. t s Murphy ne op e gi ser folks treat- pity on her and | me with me she | telephone nted many people could best kill themselves with a pistol. 2 jalen Asylum for _ Amy was a headstrong girl, but neither | _J. W. Walkington, 135 Geary street; owledged this to myself nor my husband scolded her to | Liebes, 133 Post street; F. G. Gantner led. In justice any great extent. We talked to her often | Market street; G. Harris, 31 Grant avanu about her wilifuin She never seemed L. Waldteufel, 125 Geary street; W. W to take these matters to heart, but passed | Coulter, 227 Sutter street: M. Latham, 235 them off with a laugh.” | Sutter street; Albert Andrien, 223 Kearny Winifred Murphy, the little sister of the | street; Harry Corbett, 118 Geary street. - dead girl, said the latter accompanied her | It has developed that Miss Murphy vol- on her way to school Wednesday and | untarily quit the employ of the telephone spoke to her on the trip about buying a | company last June. revolver and committing sulcide. . Fred C. Hergen, a contractor, who {s R. W. Merino, a Hayes-street car con- | 40ing work in the park, said yesterday to ductor, who lives at 604 Broderick street, | Tom Klink, proprietor of Uncle Tom's sald yesterday at the Morgue that on | Cabin, at the Fell-street entrance to the Thursday night about §:3) o'ciock a girl | Park, that on Thursday evening he saw who he believed was Miss Murphy—his | & couple answering the description of opinion being_formed from seeing her | Poulin and Miss Murphy sifting on a body at the Morgue—got on his car at|bench in the panhandle. The man was us and helped me | Powell street and rode to Baker street. | then dressed in a bicycle suit. Later on attempt suicide. | There she got off and ran rapidly into the | Hergen declares he saw the same couple Sunday morning appar- | panhandle. She was eating dandy from a | and that the man was attired in a busi- small bag while running. Merino said the | ness suit. __§ giri acted as }f she was going to meet | e —— " et >d | some onenn‘nd was in a hurry to fill the Poundkeepers Are Balked. wer accepting a posi- | engagement. o Eiate T advised her | < Mide Murphy’s former chum, “Pete,” 15 | James Hughes and P. Hughes, Deputy Wfered to send her to her | Miss Nellie Peters, formerly in the employ | Poundkeepers, attempted to scoop a set- reka or to her father in | of the telephone company. She lives at | ter and poodle do%lnlo their net on Van id go to neither place. | 1157 Market street with Mrs. Patrick Fal- | Ness avenue and Hayes street yesterday and have mever seen her lon, whose husband conducts a saloon un- | morning. The setter showed fight and " When I left her Tuesday | derneath at that number. Miss Peters | during the mixup the poundmen had their What she was going to do, | said that for several weeks Amy had com- [.hands severely bitten. The setter es- and she said 1 would better go out and | plained about the way her mother had | caped. but the poodle was captured. The &sk her little sister, Winnle.” treated her. poundmen went FPoulin sald Miss Murphy had once tried| Poulin took a room on January 30 at|tal and had their hands attended to. elations of last and Sat- | Carrolton avenue and for Mr. one of the of busix He found xicated condition and she was going to end it'all. He | went to her room. I found wed on. I told her not | rself and took her to went to get her some- my return found both got my brother and f Golden ernoon she called me out ! 114 Sutter street and asked | asked her sterday even- | to the Receiving Hospi- 1 BARRY POINTS 0UT MISTAKES OF PHELAN EditorWarns the Mayor That It s Time | DENDUNCES THE CONSPIRACY ?Tells the Litle Despot - Abandon His Policy of ' Rule or Ruin and | | Redeem Himself. fo | | . AYOR PHELAN has yet a few hours left before he car- ries out his expressed deter- mination to read to himselt his own political death war- rant. In other words, he has fromn now till Monday to reconsider his threat that before that date he would have ousted Police Commissioner Biggy. The Call sugge that in the few re- maining hours the Mayor put his ear to the ground to hear the rumblings of pop- ular discontent at his actio his eyes to read the published statements of men, now nged from him, who until his shameless association with con- spirators were his sianchest friends; that he make an effort to balance his appar- ently disordered brain so that he may calml gh the warnings of Joseph Brit- ton and He: Clement and Stewa:t Menzies a Isidor Gutte, all public-spir- ited citizens, who once believed he was a man and now admit he is only a sorry tool Their warnings are pointed. He can read them on the ru They are given in sor- row and they all convey the hope that he may profit by breaking off with the Esola plotters; that he may let his appointed Commissioners act as free agents, as in- tended in the letter and spirit of the char- ter, and that he may take again to good courses. Or, if the Mayor be not convinced by popular discontent, let him read the sad story of his official vagaries, penned by | another and probably closer friend, James | H. Barry, editor of the Star. Throughout | his political career Mayor Phelan has had ! no more consistent supporter than Barry. Even when the Mayor's order went out to his henchmen to knife James G. Magulre at the polls, Barry d-in-the-wool Ma- guire man though he was and 1s, fought on with voice and pen for Phelan. Through thick and thin, in'season and out, he was for the Mayor, first, last and all the time. Phelan overstepped his prerogatives when he ousted a Board of Supervisors, but Barry was with him; he was still with him when he knew the little plotter was sa rificing Maguire, and it séemed as if noth- ing could cause him to desert. | Ana vet, although it is the eleventh | hour, Barry has hoisted the flag of revolt The little Mayor's continued wrongdomng has turned the heart and the stomach of James H. Barry, and in yesterday's fesue of the Star the result is apparent. In an editorial, marked with reluctance and re- gret, the editor of the Star joins the rap- idiy increasing ranks of those who cry to the Mayor, “Hold! You have gone too far!” He calls upon him to stop, to turn back and redeem himself in the eyes of the people. The editorial in its entirety here follows: ALLEN FROM HIS HIGH ESTATE.” We have ylelded to none in our admiration for Mayor Phelan. We have devoted almost whole issues of the Star to his cause, and have spoken from nearly every platform in the city— sometimes at three or four meetings in a single evening—in his behalf. All this we did without | reward or hope of reward. We did it from | princtple. ‘When, near the close of the last State cam- paign, Mayor Phelan was shamefully attacked at a Catholic church fair in Oakland by Peter C. Yorke, we did not hesitate to speak aloud with voice and pen in his defense, although we wece conscious of the fact that by so doing we | were jeopardizing, if not ruining, our chances | tor Congress, for which (God forgive us') we | were then a candidate. We knew that ig- | norance and prejudice would visit their wrath | upon us, and they did. | We have known Mr. Phelan since boyhood days. As boy and man we have always consid- ered him the eoul of honor—true to his friends and falthful to every trust. As a public officlal | he was to us an ideality. Personally, we are still friends; but politically we can no longer be, unless he changes his course, for since his inauguration for his third term his methods have not been those of a high-minded, broad. ze statesman, but the methods of a po- | litical “boss. | Such methods we have fought for twenty | years. Shall we, can we consistently, fgnore them now? These are the first disparaging words we have ever written or spoken of Mayor Phelan; they are printed reluctantly and regretfully. Primarily, they are prompted by Mayor Phe- lan’s attitude’ in the matter of Chief of Police, but there are other things deserving censure, on which we shall not now dwell. First of all, let us say that we have no syfn- pathy whatever with John D. Spreckels and M. H de Young—proprietors cf The Call and the Chronicle respectively—In their diatribes against Mayor Phelan, for they are prompted by base motives. Both of them asked favors rom the Mayor, which Were not granted. Spreckels begged to be appointed Police Com- missioner, agreeing to oppose Phelan, 1if at all, only in a nej payment for the De Young asked to have a friend, or relative, placed on.one of the commissions. Both requests were denied. They are fighting Phelan for the same reason that they are fight- ing Burns—they did not get what they wanted. The cause for regret is that the Mayor, by his course, has furnished them with ample ammunition for their revengeful attacks. Andy Lawrence, managing editor of the Ex- aminer, wants one Frederick Esola appointed Chief of Police. He and Mayor Phelan have both practically stated in print that the posi- tion was promised him before the appointment o6f the new commissioners, and that the ap- pointments were made With that understand- ing. 1If such a promise was made, it was in vio- | lation of the new charter and against public morality: also, in obedlence to the will of Andy Lawrence. : The Examiner gave the whole “snap” ay In its issue of last Sat- mrday. when it sald that Rices that he use | these warnings and by the rumblings of | DISCLOSED A SECRET LONG AND WELL KEPT Widow of Senator Mahoney Says Marie Belle Ewing Is Not Her Daughter. Supposed Son-in-Law Sues for Possession of Valuable Jewelry, While His Wife Says She Is Glad That Mrs. Mahoney Is Not Her Mother. .H—H+H—©—0—o+¢+@+—o—o—¢-¢—m+—o+@+mw—o—o—o+y¢-g+ = = SR SDa . } + . L4 > ‘ * ® ® ? * t * ’ * ® Y T * ) > . . PS ® * . 2% o . . & & * - ® > . . & > * - {- & P . & o 8 g * It - | e > B . | & MRs. DELIA G. > 2 MAHoNE Y. i . ® — A ¢ \ Ed &.W@*W‘WM—MM+@+€+®+§+§WH@+ sodoietese® ! Three Persons Who Figure in a Sensational Bit of Gossip. | CARCELY six months have passed | garding the trouble which has arisen. | to his pecu- | away since the marriage of the| “You see said , “it was th eart was bent on | beautiful and accomplished Marie | Way: Mrs. AMahoney mised \ me t yreed to consen | Belle Mahoney to W. Baer Ewing | ¥hen I wedded her daughter she would nought she wa set me up in business. She has not only gone to the rec | of New York and yet the prophecy of| disre v & | sregarded this promise, but has retained rce then and § Mrs. Delia G. Mahoney that discord and | possession of jewels and trinkets belong- ears of age on M sorrow would be the result of the union | ing to my wife. the value of which will ap- 24 next, sc hen 18 years old marriage 22 | has already been fulfilled. When the! Proximate $2000. We asked her for th S b ®/and when she refused we filed suit for | “My fea pressure of circumstances forced the| their value. A few days ago I went to her | the union by widow of the late Senator J. H. Mahoney | rooms at 222 Powell street with Policeman | i to sanction the marraige of her daughter | Joy and under authority of a s tain to Ewing she did not swallow the bitter | Tant tried to find the jewels M tel » borrow $6500, 1 paid when pill in silence. L R e e i Mrs. Mahoney’s foresight is demon-| o sirike me. o es A strated by the fact that her supposed | “She there astonished me b: daughter, for the girl's parentage has|that my wife is not her daug never hitherto been questioned, has be-|and that Marie was taken o come almost completely estranged from || )ld. 1 asked her why the woman she called mother and is noW | Thse b aoe o, Pene T 1 T am suing her for the possession of jewelry | no reply.” a and other trinkets vaiued at $2000, while| Mrs. Ewing bills pald Ewing .imself has threatened to bring | ¢OVer she ng for the sult for slander against Mrs. Mahoney. | (50 SF¢ Sa7s o Search warrants and other legal pro- s belleved t cesses have been resorted to in the sult used to caress and have brought about many dramatic | often in my prese I got tired of it - situations, but the greatest sensation of nce id her to q —that I didn’t like 310 and I 2 it. She has said 1 may return d have but a all is yet to be sprung. | 1 home whenever I am wil to re- tdolizes Mrs. Ewing, according to the statement Sh Ty hasband. sod 1 Rave sebd i = of the woman she has always called | response that where my husband went mother, is not only not the daughter of | there I would be f and that any [ the deceased Senator—something which | floor closed to him would never be passed | inttmate friends of the family have| ‘Mrs. Mahoney evidently dearly loves | known and others suspected—neither is | she the daughter of Mrs. Mahoney by a former marriage. Mrs. Mahoney declares | that she took her supposed daughter from a private lying-in hospital when she was only five days old, and that her refusal to give up the Wttle walf caused a tem- | never adopted. [ loved her and sent her porary breach between her and the Sen-| {0 the best institutions of learning in ator which threatened to cause their en-| San Francisco. glving her more than 2 gagement to be broken. oods than falls to the lot of mo 1s. In justice to Mrs. Mahoney it should be [ Senator Mahoney objected to my keeping ' she has always called “daughter,” he could not keep the tears fro flowing as she furnished her version of the_affair. s’ she said gir! t is true that I took Marie out of a lying-in hospital when she was only five days old, though she was earch war- from me. parentags eard r of to protect making it a | stated that publicity regarding the birth | her. and our engagement came near being | matter of public comm The talk « > och | broken by my refusal to yield her up. out jealousy is too absurd to discuss of her supposed daughter was not given | “IO{YL PR RN MCame to this city last | w by her, but by W. Baer Ewing himself. | year Marie fell in love with him and I the most of Mr. and Mrs. Ewing are at present re-| tried to make her cease to think of him | Mrs and Mrs. siding at 622 Post street and it was there | because I discovered that he was not Ewing's b t. despite the that the first statements were made re- | worthy of her. I knew he thought a mar- | changed con r Iif promised. both BEFORE and AFTER | Honoluly handlea He says upon Commissioner Biggy which is being mnde by the Examiner is a sample of what honest men may ex- | ;‘:p»fl:_-‘i ;:nrih:r;x? s pect from a mewspaper which s a| 00 Re BAnds OF 07 the plague rit id all that was natter was taken who went to stamp that while the av | his appointment to vote for Exola | for Chief. That statement proves | that there was a compact to make | Exoln Chief; and the further remark | despot whenever it can be, and a| R e s R 4 | that Biggy had betrayed Mayor Phe- | thug all of the time. Even If| 5 o highest o Neither lan proves that the Mayor was a | every Examiner charge agalnst |ahor nor cxpense d and as a party to that compact, in considera- | Biggy were true (and he has| consequence the s been placed | tion of services not rendered by the | pretty conclusively proved ° that | under control- and its spread confined Examiner and Lawrence. they are as false they are hrnunf hin the limits of its - x-.}r‘:v Chna Here are the Examiner's own words his course as Police Commissioner M"r;['fha! destroyec S 3;; The man (referring to Commissioner Biggy) | Would atill be commendable. To | [\ 05 5 e who would desert Mayor Phelan and the new | prove BIg&y to be a bad man would | [\ .liion « the fifty-six or peared in Hone r have recov- ered. Mr. Sewall says that outside of the plague the affairs in the islands are in good shape and that all the people living there are a looking forward to the territorial government. The only ones who prefer that the islands be ruled as a colony are those who are foreigners by birth and who have never been natural- ized. charter would not scruple to desert an honor- ably ambitious young Police Lieutenant whom ke had promised to help secure the office of Chief. Wiil some one tell us, if any one can, how Biggy has deserted either Mayor Phelan or the mew charter by refusing to vote for the Exam- iner's Mr. Esola? Even it Esola were the most competent and the best of men, the position should not have been pre-empted to him. That he is Incompetent, and worse, was proven In the recent investigation of charges preterred against him, of which, on a com- promise that he would withdraw as a candi- diate, he was exonerated; but his own testi- mony everlastingly ‘damned him. He stated, not be to prove Lawrence and Esol to be zood ones. As Joseph Eritton has =2ld in & newspaper Interview, in the Esola business Mr. Biggy has been manly, true and faithful te the public interests. It is not yet too late for Mayor Phelzn to withdraw the name of Esola and. by steering clear of false ligh regain the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. The Star cannot be with him when wrong, but we will ever be with him when we think he is right, as he always was until, unfortunately, he was clothed by the new charter with absolute power. No person will doubt the statement of Editor Barry that that editorial was pub- lished with regret and reluctance. It is the warning of a friend. Will Mayor Pie- —————— Music at the Park. The Golden Gate Park Band will render the following programme to-day at the Park, commencing at 2 p. m. Prophet’ Overture, march Meyerbeer “Dedication af the Temple v Bela under oath, that he did not remember having X a . et the Commissioners and the Mayor In the | 1an heed it? ~Christmas, Meiodies Kagper Jatter's office, the day after the commission - S OF THE PLAGUE el (Christmas Bells)....Smith ristian Endeavor hymns was appointed, although only ten days had psed; that he did not ‘‘recollect” having et e x Spadina :ll:c\uud e matter of Chief of Police with | Arthur M. Sewall Tells How Hono- | overturs. “Jube! iy e them. Robinson rusoe Lawrence followed his lulu Handled the Bubonic | Sous. “ime Event Sar.” fom “Temw Grand fantasia on the national songs of the ‘ereatest nations of the world Sousa Hallelujah rus from the “Messiah™ . Handel ————————— Davis on His Muscle. There was a lively little scrap near the water front yesterday in which Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner John Davis punched the nose of Joe Barbettl. who is interested in the fish business. Davis had arrested A, Fraszzini for violating one of the State laws which prohibits the tak- ing of female erabs, and took him to the Harbor police station. Barbetti was in no way interested, but he.stuck his nose into the trouble and expressed his opinion of Davis, who is one of the best officers on thé commission. Davis paid no attention to the fellow until the latter applied a foul name to the deputy, when Davis gave him a straight from the shoulder blow that made the man see stars. When he had picked himself out of the gutter he declared that he had enough. man Friday, and testified that he accompanied Esola to the Mayor's office, on the day speci- fled, to let the Commissioners see what kind of a man he was. They saw, and but two of them still support him. 1f Esola told the truth, and did not remem- ber, it is clear that he Is incompetent. A man with so treacherous a memory would be most dangerous as Chief of Police. He is dangerous even as & leutenant, and should be dismizsed from the department, which he is unfit to serve in any capacity. If he did not tell the truth— which is very certain—he is a perjurer and ought to be an inmate of the same prison of which he was once a xuard. But, says the Examiner, Esola was found guiltless of the charges preferred against him. Suppose he was. Does that make him the man for the responsible office of Chiet of Police, where rare executive abllity, skill, tact and a human _nature are isites ? 'llnm'yl'g.wnm“ Taan (which Esola is not) lacks the qualifications to make a good Chief of Police —one of the most important offices in this or any other great city. The vicious and unjust attack Scourge. Arthur M. Sewall, the distinguished Maine statesman and millionaire ship- bullder, is a guest at the Palace, to which hostelry he went yesterday after being released frum the quarantine to which the passengers of the Australla were sub- jected. Mr. Sewall left here on the 25th of last December on a trip which he expected would extend to the Orient and down to Manila. He arrived at Honolulu, how- ever, just in time to meet the plague, and 2s no steamer bound out would receive any passengers from the iInfected rt, he was cooped up with the rest until the departure of the Australla, . when he seized the opportunity to return to the United States, Owing to the delay he was forced to undergo at the islands he has | abandoned his trip to Asia and will resurn to his home in the East within the next few days. Mr. Sewall speaks in the highest praise of the manner in which the people of