The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1900, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 4, FOOTPADS THRIVE IN A CITY WITH STREETS DARK AS PITCH Bortzmeyer May Recover From the Wound Unknown Highwayman, Who Is Still at Large—The Public Is Terror-Stricken. ‘. 7 // J ! 1 /- NE TR i ~ PGB PPIDPPIP VIV P P P22 0040000000000 0900 292308080205 0000500489 bebeieied - O O O txffi//{é.‘(/"u st R S e S SRS SO SO SO SO = inflicted by the 'WOMAN'S VARIED VERSIONS F J.BORTZ MEWER. - - B+ Pttt Pt Pt TP T 6000000000000t PsDI 0090000000000 00000-0 who shot 4 wa e m Ready for Summer. L] Linen Crash Unders! in e natura le they last, $1.15. I.LMAGNIN&CO 840 Market St., Opp. 4% The covered passage- way connecting these two immense tures nd avel ers from every section of the world recognize and preciate the and conveni- ;nm« offered by these 10 American plan. Eu- ropean plan. Hotels LESLIE C. HURST | Will find 1t E‘ruuy to his interest to write to . W. MORANCY. fetrator of F. K. HURST, deceased Versaliles, Kentuc) or to DREW HOR' MIL] BUILDING, Sen| Francisco, Cal. | Any one knowing him to be alive llnu] 1889, or knowing him to be dead, kindl notify the above. 2 . {in agony on the sidewalk. o L Bortzmeyer, Two Late Vietims of Footpads and a Momentary Suspect. the veranda just in time to see Bortz-| e fall face down upon the sidewalk e h. him groan and call five times: t Then a man crossed a, after looking a coat under his | joined by another blowing a p whistle, small crowd to the| sterday | rack of the suspicion | me one reported to the police | f Ginnini and his wife here was probable cause and's account of the | According to reports the wife | sband had left the house im- | or to the shooting and re- after it, but this was s upon the grill by P d Mrs. Gi i was inte; I nm and M e wife's statement to the police and C home This was before in bed about half ard the shooting, r, the landlord, I me the me back too dark; that all the and he came back and uarter of an hour | red t was: I came Post street as walter up to 12 | home with Mr. Galvani, | teacher. 1 left him at his resi- | llis street, between Hyde and I went to my house and | My wife wanted me to get some thing d 1 told her It too late. I did not go out of the > at all. 1 did not even go to the it _door. If my wife says so, she is taken. Between 20 and t » bed I heard one ot _and I think from nor my wife got up. wife wanted to, but 1 would not let | as I don’t care about interesting my- n anything that does not concerr m, When Bortzmeyer had delivered up his N to the highwayman the latter d for his watch. This Bortzmeyer to surrender, as it was a gift his father. but the footpad was in- ent. Whife drawing back he caught of the chain and a slight scuffie en- | gued. Then the footpad used his weapon. Bortzmeyer thinks that the highwayman nd did not intend to shoot. working on the case resterday morning in the Siiis street, the block east of the scene of the hold-up. It is a large silver timeplece and of no great intrinsic value, Whether the highwayman rid him- self of this for fear of possible 1de d it in his posses- that its discovered value made it rthy of the keeping i{s a matter of conjecture, Bortzmeyer's own story es the watch the vital cause of ‘the shootin His father, who gave him the timeplece, speeding across the country to' his side. As soon as he recelved a of his boy's misfortune he ted forthwith from Cleveland, Ohio. ss Grace Hale of San Diego, the sweet- of Bortzmeyer, Is also en y. She will arrive to-day, m of the footpad's mur- n cond:tion to see her she | imitted to his bedside. The police have in their possession a black silk rag which may or may not have been worn by the highwayman. It was more likely torn from the dress of one of the women who gathered around the vie- tim after the shooting. The sik was mpened by water and bore the appear- ance of a mop. On account of this it is supposed that some of the women used it to wipe the face of Bortzmeyer as he lay s bec telegram sta SAME MAN, SAYS HEDBURG. So Black Was the Night That He Did Not Have a Chance. Charles Hedburg, who is the proprietor of the oyster stall of the Foxhall market, | on Fillmore street, near Clay, is a vietim who bears a grudge to the dark nights without lamps. He sald yesterday that were it not for the utter darkness he 1 have had a chance and his $20 not have fled. man who held me up was of mid- and of stocky build,” be said “T ¢ have a chance. It t know what the game n pistol was flashed in my He wore a black mask as fa# down a# his mouth. His clothes were dark, and that is all 1 can tell about him.” From the meager description given by Hedburg is of the opinion that both hold-ups were the work of one man. [ | | we woul St — Closing out sale of fine shoes at the Monarch Shore Store, 1384 Market st. © ONARNOLD HAD | prise be visited police headquarters and . with Jeannie Shurtleff Young, who was | ma | of her child. | | L e e e e T o SR S S 2 S 2 IS AU SRS SN NS S S SO D SO S S STOLEN PROPERTY N HIS VALISE The Bogus “Baron” Ar- rested by the Police of Amsterdam. e i Under the Name of Turkheim He Married Jennie Young of This | City and Basely Deserted Her in London. | | el “Baron” von Arnold, alias Turkhelm, | whose marrlage to Jennle Young in Oak- land some time ago caused a sensation | in certain circles, is under arrest in Amsterdam. He was caught with a quan- tity of stolen goods in his possession and as he was unable to account for them he was held pending investigation. Yesterday Captein of Detectives Sey- mour received the following communica- tion from the Inspector of FPolice of Amsterdam: “We have arrested Charles von Arnold, | allas Baron von Turkheim, for grand | larceny. He had some stolen property iu | his possession and we are holding him pending an investigation. From state- ments made by him and if he can be be- lieved his parents were Charles and Eliza | Van Winkle. He claims he served in the | Royal Saxon Sixth Infantry at Strasburg, but 1 sincerely doubt it. From what in. formation we have he was employed as a private detective in various parts of the | United States with little or no success. In | the latter part of 1869 Von Arnold, 1 s known, passed through New , on the way to Paris. We alion that he was bent on some | gigantic bunko scheme. His plans must have failed, as he lost no time in getting out of Paris and migrating to Amsterdam. He represented himself as a journalist | he was the representa- | evers stern periodicals. i ‘“We learned by investigation that his only claim to being a ‘journalist’ was that he was engaged in selling old newspapers | tnat had been sent from the United | States. Convinced that he was an im- | er, we watched him. To our sur. | -3 8 % claimed that he had been robbed of con- siderable jewelry while in the hotel in which he was stopping. ~ We found out the story was untrue and finally decided to arrest him. In his room we found a lot of stolen property. “There were also documents showin, he had sent a communication to the Consul General of the South African repubilc in Paris demanding money. While there he represented himself as a friend of the re- public and had been specially employed to arrange a suitable exhibit.” Von Arnold assed as_the oconfldential agent of Dr, | _eyds of South Africa. He claimed that e engaged by him to purchase pro- visions and munitions of war for the peo- ple of the Transvaal. “From letters found on him we are sat- isfied that he intended to perpetrate a gigantic swindle on some people at Monte Carlo. Among his victims was a man named Barnes. The latter was stoppin at Monte Carlo, and Von Arnold decide to pluck him. He sent his intended victim a telegram arranging for a meeting, and he replied that he would see him at any time. { “The arrest of the alleged Baron pre- vented him from carrying out his scheme, In"conciuding the writer asked that the police of this city send a complete record | of Von Arnold’s career here. Charles J. von Arnold, or “Baron” Rob- ert Ludwig von Turkheim, will be remem- bered by at least one S8an Franciscan. The Baron on April 13, 1867, while acting in the | capacity of a private detective went | through a marriage ceremony in Oakland | king life miserable for Attorney D. M. Delmas, whom she claimed as the father The pair went East imme- diately. Von Turkheim and his newly acquired feminine incumbrance went to Montreal and from there to London, where the wo- man was deserted by her lord. Von Turkheim was subsequently arrested for obtaining £146 from a halr dresser by fraudulently representing himself to be r to a large estate in Germany. At wington sessions of July 15 he was sentenced to serve one year in prison. The fact came out during his trial that four women. claimed him as husband. The woman who was his true wife sued Von Turkheim here in the meantime for a divorce on the und of desertion and obtained it, together with resume her maiden name, Aaaa s s s s e e et | that she saw Wilson with the pistol in his | woman had said noth | tol and gave the impre | a theory of suicide is the stz | which she said she had been associated B | N0 SOLUTION 0F SOLDIERS TRALC FITE Police Clinging to Suicide Theory, While Evidence Indicates Crime. — S S Miss De Ferreri Was Jealous Rather Than the Man When They ! Went Together Into the Night. | RIS Nothing that would tend to dispel the | cloud of mystery overshadowing the | tragic death of Sergeant Robert Wilson, | who was shot on Lake street Tuesday | night, has yet been brought to light by the | police. Ida de Ferreri continues to make contradictory statements. The police are inclined to think that the | soldier took his own life, and they seem disposed to rest on this theory. Still noth- ing has yet been established that will bear | out their views, while the peculiar char- acter of the wound, the absence of powder marks, the distance the revolver was found from the body, and, above all, the | sole witness' contradictory statements, | are all against them. | That Miss ge Ferrerl is withholding the | ws and saw on truth about what she that fateful night is apparent even to the police. Yesterday she made additional statements, which were calculated to ex- plain the repancies in her previous versions. They only dragged her deeper into the meshes of doubt The woman now makes the statement hand when he rushed from her house. She ES she followed him to the scene of the shooting and was four feet to the rear when the soldler fell. Until this time the | : of seeing a pis- | )n that she was walking along leisurely with her compan- ion at the moment of the tragedy. That this statement is untrue is proven | by many witnesses. Casassa says it was fifteen minutes after the time her sister left the house before the shot wa | fired. Miller. In front of whose house th affalr occurred, says that Wilson and his companion walked down the road quarrel- ing and continued the row at the corner ot his fence. They went on down the road, but returned in about five minutes. Then came the shots. The only evidence that would bear out | the woman that Wilson, on sev sions, had threatened to take his life on | account of love for ner. The only quarrel on that day seems not to have been be- cause the woman did not reciprocate his affections, but ratuer because he did not | keep an appointment with h at 1 o’clock. | That Wilson had slight_re, jealous is clear. Mi married to Soldler ed, and her love for W The revolver which yot from the residence of Mrs. found yesterday on Fourteenth avenue, by 227 Twentieth avenue. The finding of th weapon s not significant, as it was un- | loaded and cut no figure in the tragedy, | except to prove that young Kessack must | have gone to the Erasma house after the shot was fired, as Cuneo says he did, and that the woman's story that he was the first on the scene was false. £ SRR MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Coroner’s Investigations Tend to Es- tablish the Fact That Field Was Murdered. The death of Frank Field, the linotyper, is shrouded in mystery, although the po- lice appear to be satisfied that it was a case of sulcide. Acting upon this theory they released from custody yesterday Mrs, M. A. Norton, the woman who had been living with Field at 209 Kearny street. Before being released she made a state- ment to Detective Ross Whittaker in | n to s de Ferrerl was not | r, as she claim- | manifest. ack took | asassa was | Lake street, near | James Keating of be | with Field for the past eight months and had lived with him at 209 Kearny street for three months. The money he had in- herited had been spent at the races and for drink, which made him despondent, He was very jealous of her and had threatened to kill her and then himselt. Last Sunday he went to a saloon on Ma- son street searching for her with the in- tention of murdering her. She was warned by friends and kept out of his way. | Wednesday he was very despondent and acted as if he were cra He had sent her trunk to her home at 62 Rausch street. She was afraid of him, as he kept telling her that he was tired of life. He had re- tired Wednesday night and she entered the room and sat down on the bedside. Suddenly he took his revolver and aiming it at her fired a shot, She ran out of the room, screaming, and could not tell if any more'shots were fired, as she was too ex- cited. She called the landlady, and she went back to the room with her and found Field had shot himself. Autopsy Surgeon Leland found that Field's skull had been fractured with some blunt instrument just above the right ear. The bullet wound was high up on the fore- head and the course of the bullet was downward and to the right. A significant fact in connection with the fractured skull is that the tips of the fingers of the right | hand are powder burned, thus indicatin; that he threw up his hands to ward o the shot that killed him. He could not have fired the pistol unless he had used | his thumb to pull the trigger, and it is not likely that he would have done that. Dr. Leland is of the opinion that the man was murdered by being struck on the head and afterward shot. Another significant fact that points to the murder theory Is the repose in which the body rested on the bed. The head was propped up on a pillow at the foot of the bed, a book lay to one side and the feet were crossed in an easy position. It is hard to explain how the man could have lain so peacefully if he had made an attempt to kill the woman and then shot himself. It would be easy, however. for a Jperson to step up to the foot of the bed, place a revolver near his head and fire. The revolver shows that but one shot had been fired. This disputes the wo- man’s statement that a shot was first fired at her. I oy L Suspicious Characters Arrested. Two young men giving their names as George Dorman and Ovid Long were taken Into custody by Officer Robl early this morning at Geary and Larkin streets, A small “jimmy” about six inches long was taken from them. The;; told con- flicting stories and will be held at the Central police station as suspicious char- acters. Malt-Nutrine Is prepared at our brewery and is guaranteed unequaled in quality, purity and medicinal vir- t e, ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASS'N. Sold by druggl — Carriage Factory Burned. Atwatter & Brennan's carriage factory at Fifth and Bryant streets was gutted by fire soon after midnight, the blaze starting among the paints and ofls in the second story. A vacant cottage next door, used as a storehouse, was also par- tially burned. The total loss will amount to about $1500. | | Q+4++ 4444444444440 If you wish to marry an Indian heiress—the Chicka- saw girls are eligible, but the marriage licerse will cost you one thousand dollars. The fair Indian meids object, for the men of their choice do not * happen to have the ~ash. Read all about it in next Sunday’s Call, O+ 44444444+ + 44+ 44444 Qe 464060400t eOedsiededededed | other dire ca | ing | ups was discussed. As Mr. Zeile had some | | to 1900. ZEILE AND A “COP” MISTAKE EACH OTHER FCR FOOTPADS Park Commissioner and a Minion of the Law Enact a Comedy of Errors in the Gloomy, of Van Ness Avenuc. R o e S S A Darksome Wilds Gon VHRED UP - . o - missioner and capitalist, is thank FREDERICK W. ZEILE, Park Com- | sioner, like a wise man, sought the mid- | policeman a footpad prowler of the Vetsera type. Friends of that genial gentleman will be surprised | te learn that for a short period last Tues- day night he was In danger of arrest and pad scare which has struck the scintil- lating members of the Police Department and the citizens of this city. Mr. Zelle visited friends on Van Ness | avenue on that fateful evening and dui a game of whist the subject of hol distance tc travel to reach his home, the conversation did not comfort him or pre- pare him for the events that followed. When he departed for home the avenue as dark _and desolate. Mayor Phelan's was Board of Supervisors had doused the glim und although Mr. Zeile was reappointed his position by his Honor, that fact did not deter him from- uttering impre- ations on the members of the board and the Mayor for their parsimony. Believing himself a fit subject for the festive highwayman, the Park Commi; Ban e o o e S e o o o R R e S S S _ | dle d ful that he has cleared himself of | & the suspicion of being a midnight ||y ¢ | crou v amities because of the foot- | y of the road. He had traveled a short nce when he brought up against 2 obslruction of barrels guarding the structed conduits of th Light and Power Company ing to find his way around the'o faintly discerned the figure of hed behind a r’ v era and other d Indeper While try- tacle he a arrel. ciples of C rd rose before him, and with a determination in his heart not to surrender his jewels and lucre with- out a struggle, he seized a heavy plece of wood and bol his supposed foc 1 and Jack She pad. To his s the crouching fig- ure avoided t meeting by sidling round the obstruction. Mr. Zefle follow- ed and for a s of time he and the unknown were playing “tag.” At last the exertions told on the Commt ner and he was “it.” He was gentl a agged” on the hear the word * battle, but was confronted -with which gleamed in the darkness n a policeman’s trousers vy parade. Explanations followed quickly. A wi minion of the law thought Mr. Zeile was a bold bad robber; Zeille believed th('J‘ apel and was startied alt.” He turned to give on a b ed eb ebededeg . . > . » . . B . . . . . . 5 . CONGRATOLATED 4 EACH OTHER oN * BEING HARMLE > \WALKE D ® “ B L4 * logies wers in ner identifled red himself by me. out late the mid he Park Commt: order. T hi the future of nights, r of the ill not s walk in Ames Still on the Stand. Handwriting Expert Ames occupled the witness nd all day -yesterday in the es continued in his the court that all of ) enuine by His o) tnion 1 les but on al- "alities which he pointed out The case goes on again to- —_———— Divorce Suits Filed. 8 for divorce have been flled by Hopki st Peter Hopkins for > mythe against Mary Pau Rowand vand for cruelty a against Frank Pal- to prov and J me YOUNGCHAPS _Are Always Giood Dressers! RAPHAEL'S, »- THE FRISCO BOYS, BUILDERS OF HIGH-CLASS APPAREL, Corner Kearny Street and Union Square Avenue. THE LUN’NON SMOKE GREY Is the newest for them. We picture it opposite in the double - breasted sack, silk-faced, and it’s built with the broad shoulder effect, which builds the yound man out. For young men be- tween the ages of 1} and 19 years. It has our new lapped cuff, which im- parts dressiness. It's built with an eye to beauty, with an eye to fashionableness—in fact it’s one of the swellest yound men’s suits we have ever placed before the public. Were we to tax you $15 for such a suit it would be prime value, but we’re showing in our young men’s suit department to-day on our second floor the com- plete suit for 8% SPECIAL— Friday and Saturday. 0000090036002000000000 London smoke grey is one of the most popular eolors of the day, and especially will it meet with popular @ approval at a popular price.