The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1900, Page 23

IFE SLAYER WILCOX GOES TO PRISON FOR LIFE Lytton Springs Murderer Enters Plea of Guilty at Santa Rosa. — Ul Ju Prompt Him to Waive Infliction of the Extreme Penalty. Call ug. 11.—George F. Wil- Who murdered his wife 2 of the Su- nced to life Quentin. d once before, the nd trial would ace within a few ¥ counsel and He do- i w him 1 come as a he ADVERTISEMENTS. ke to exprss my gratitude fit received from your won- licine, *Favorite Prescrip- Mrs. H. C. Anderson, of sth Britain, New Haven Co., Conn., Box 33). "During the first month of pregnancy I could not keep anything on my stomach. Was so sick that I had 1o go to bed and stay for weeks. I trie t doctors, but with little bepefit. 1 read about many being helped by using your medicine so I thought I would give it a trial. I be- gan to take your ‘ Favorite Prescrip- tion’ in November and I bad & nice little baby girl in February following. My baby weighed over eight pounds. I was ounly in hard labor about ome bour and got along micely during con- finement ; was up and dressed on the eighth day. I mever had the doctor withh me all. My friends thought that I was sick a very short time. I think Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip- u is indeed @ mother’s true friend, it helped me wonderfully.” FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION " AKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG, ' SICK WOMEN WELL. ge Burnett Cites the Reasons That | his | . it has been | @ 2R ECR RO o &7 : NP | X N RSy, R TNy [ ANNAY PP VIO DIBEDIDOPIEDIDeB- — BE* SCHEFER. | | i : j dead of fright and starvation—by the unwitting act of her husband, John Henry Schefer, who is in the Napa Asylum for the Insane, bab- bling of enemies who fire poisoned bullets at him in the night. That in brief is the close of a pitiful tragedy in Ukiah. Schet t showed mental ess in 1804, was committed to the Mendoclno " Hospital. He dis- charged from the institution about a year later and he returned to Ukiah and resumed farming with signs of and he we: was [ ] 1 ‘ ? e :. ® nis wife. L ] ’ Nothing more was heard from r You were ably | @ goneter until a week ago last Fri- @ includ @ day, when Judge Mannon received ? a letter from Othman Stevens, sec- @ retary of the State Lunacy Com- I mission, who, a upon the ad- a ® vice of Governor age, who had received a number of communica- - . tions from Schefer, requested an ® examination into the man's sanity. . 2° ® A warrant for his arrest was is. ® £ 4.7 @ sued by Judge Mannon Saturday o . nstables R. W. Briggs Joul @ omas Lynch went to the @ ¥ aced Schefer under ar- | ° Sl J ¢ found Schefer s [ ] ®=° e bed talking to 6 1 bed and a . @ e P e - t and stuffy. a n @ id crevice was & t papers and cloth. The r b4 Sensnet Hal P re ® hma, @ was ¥ Her right 5 3 ® arm and hand were bandaged. Un- @ folding the cloth the constables ., hes | @ fou skin raw and terribly ® S swollen. Drs. Wyckoff and Stout | ® wore summoned and they diag- @ . nosed the case as one closely re- i | ® cembling starvation. Then they ® [ ohe @ learned that all food of a nourish- ] f this . ng kind had been peremptorily de- i © T for several days, Schefer ‘ magining that his neighbors had ® = + | ® put poison tn it. Mrs. Schefer died 1 @ Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock and ° © next morning the crazy hus- | ® nd was taken to N ¢ () Neigt of Schefer say that on | hen @ several occasions they saw his frafi @ —— wife pulling the plow through the NOT ABOLISHED. [+ 1 k of their house, m’:: hus- Cs the Interlor|J band actits as drves. ana gy hreg steering the machine. Schefer, @ Y10 lived penuriously, s variously @ : estimated to be worth from $10,000 | @ 10 310,000, and it is said some of the @ - ld is burled in the vicinity of the | @ nouse. © e 0060000 0008 KIAH, Aug. 11.—At the extreme northwesterly section of this town, nestled amid a cluster of thicl foliaged trees and sweet- ss is high on either side of - path and what w & ylelding vegetable pa: s and wild flowers. The front entrance of the house is screened by a thickly covered grape arbor. e house itself is a one-story wooden structure, with three ‘rooms—kitchen, g room and bedchamber. A cowbarn of limited dimensions and two or three v served as the home of r and his wife, Anna r a Call representative rd stillng The barn was empty o its cattle and poultry, the curtains of the house were drawn and the screech of a night owl alone disturbed the - of the scene. It was the peace sllows upon a tragedy. < ago next Tuesday afternoon that is without parallel in eed it has Its equal in ire § tragedy the awful realization of which will probably never e to the clouded mind of the living ncipal pr When the Schefers Came to Ukiah. The stc leading up to last week's tragedy begins back in 188. The Schefers had then lived in the town about twelve vears. T came here from Switzerland, and soon after their arrival Schefer bought the little farm. There are about two acres of land, and on this he raised some vegetables, bat made a specialty of stocking honey. Ma He was a_ third_degree , having joined the order in Europe, n consequence many of the promi- became his friends and customers. tie appeared to have traveled and studied a good deal, and though peculfar in manner at times he was well liked by those with whom he came in contact. Nothing unusual occurred until 1894, | when one day, while the Grand Jury was | in session, he requested that he be allowed to appear before that body for the pur- pose of securing an indictment against | Several persons “who. he claimed, were eeking to take hls life, as well as that of is wife, by means of a systematic plan of poisoning. The persons against whom he entered complaint were three of the | prominent Masons who had befriended him | —Judge J. M. Manna, Dr. E. W. King and Dr. T. L. Bar scented shrubbery, is a pictur- esque little cottage, suggesting ail the that the word home implies. | 1l outhouses complete what up to one | ter was enacted in a pitiful | members of the fraternity in Ukiah | THE Scuerer HoME_ -« M L S Their mode of operation, he claimed, | was to feed the cattle and poultry with food that contained poison. This polson, he maintained, was compounded with a chemical mixture which caused the deadly ingredients to affect the milk and egg: The Grand Jury, after hearing his test | mony, referred ‘the matter to Judge Rob- ert McGarvey, who ordered that Schefer be committed to the Mendocino asylum. Schefer seemed entirely sane upon all other matters and talked Intelligently to the physicians and attendants at the In- stitution. He was, after a short period of detention, paroled and discharged. He returned to Uklah and again settled down on his farm and nothing more was heard from him until a week ago last Friday, when Othman Stevens, secretary of the State Lunacy Commission, acting under orders from Governor Gage, Wrote to Judge Mannon, advising the examination of Schefer. g An Awful Sight. Judge Munnon issued a warrant for Schefer's arrest Saturday morning and Constables Briggs and Lynch went to the Everything appeared but the back door was 1d the constables entered ¢ of knocking. The The men proceeded air was fetid and hot to the found fer lying at the which was occupied by his wife. My W very sick and I wish you wowd not turb her,” Schefer sad calmly. He was asked if a doctor had attended on his wife, and he replied in the negative. The constables then informed him that he vas under arrest and that he must come h them to the Courthouse. He went along rather reluctantly. Drs. Wyckoff and Stout were sumomned to attend Mrs. Schefer. ing from » troubled w of nourishment, and she eczema on her h She was very weak and barely above a whisper. On the stove the doctors found a pot partially filled with cold mush. This, with the exception of a few pieces of stale bread, was all there was to eat in the house. It had been intended to remove the woman to the hospital the first of the week, but she sank rapidly and the end came'about 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. Schefer was given a hearing before Judge Mannon on Monday morning. letter which he had written to_Governor Gage was first introduced as evidence. In and attributed it to t being scientifically ad- their enemies. The inside small balls were fired into his These balls, he said, were arge, medium and small. as very critical poison which ministered to her b poison, he wrote, or capsules, which house at night. of the and he ready to submit them as evi- dence. The cat had swallowed one, said, and had refused to eat an three days thereafter. Produces the Poison Balls. i with the letter and was asked to produce | the shells. o proceeded to open it cautiously. was cut with a_penknife and out young wasp. Schefer said he must rde @ mistake in picking up the n Schefer was ordered ate Asylum at Napa. :gged to Judge Man- committed to the Before leaving he t | pon to save him frc conspiracy to get rid of him. He admit- ted to the Judge that he had written over 300 pages of letters to Governor Gage and his predecessor, begging them to protect him from his enemies. | While confined in the hospital in Ukiah awaiting his hearing he wrote a letter to the Governor in which he stated that his enemies had already been partially suc- cessful in their plot, having killed his wife. Then follows a string of accusa- tions in which he singles out those whom he believes are attempting to kill him. | Amorg those who visited Mrs. Schefer most frequently during several L prior to her death were Mr. and Mrs, William Felt. Their acquaintance had covered a period of three months. Mr., | Felt said to a Call correspondent to-day More than two months ago my: 3 & nd took Ginmer with the Schefers ed she emed in fairly good health then. We had | soup, fish and meat, my husband bringing the | fish from downtown. I used to go over quite often and help Mrs. Schefer with her sewing, | She told me “about her husband's fears. and sald that she often denied herself of things | Just to humor him. He liked to be boss and | she always let him have his own way. For fear that the enemy would put polson in the o stuffed the cracks under the win. dows and doors with paper and cloth. Often- times it was so close in the house Mrs, Schefer could hardly breathe. She was troubled with asthma a good deal. Schefer’s Queer Ideas. She told me she used to welgh 170 pounds, but a week before her death I don’t belleve she weighed much over 100. S-hefer had news- paper clippings about deaths and accldents caused by poisoning pasted al! over the house: and he also had a book, a chemical work by a German scientist, from which he read every day. He had a lot of coal ofl cans stored In the ‘kitchen. They were empty and at. night they would vibrate. causing a noise, which he mistook for the firing of the peison and fever balls by the enemy. I believe that toward the erd he convinced his wife that the noise really was shooting. The stories that he abused his wife are false He thought the world of her, and honestly ba- licving that some one was' trying to poison them he kept food from her to insure her safety. It has also been reported that Schefer compeiled his wife to draw a hile he stecred the machine. no plow, the orly thing of the Kind on the farm betng & { small cultivator. He might have had her draw | this along, as many wives would be glad to do | for_their husbands. There were thirteen sacks of flour in the house besides a lot of dried food, but he for- bade her using any of it, as he said It wae (@009 04040004 040+0+04000000e0004+g |WRECK OF WHALING | SCHOONER IN BERING SEA The Minnie, While Trying to Beat Her Way North, Runs on the Reefs at Unimah Pa: SEATTLE, Aug. 11.—The steamer Al- liance arrived from Nome to-day with news of the wreck in Behring Sea of the Victoria whaling schooner Minnie on July 26 in a dense fog. The Minnle was driven on the reefs of Ugamok Island, at the entrance to Unimak Pass, through which sha was trying ‘to beat her way into the North Pacific. No lives were lost, the crew escaping to shore in the lifeboats. Five of them were picked up by the Al- | liance and brought to this city, while the remainder boarded the whaler Walter Ride. The Minnie is reported to be a total loss. She was a forty-five ton vessel owned in Victoria, B. C.. by Captain Vie- tor Jacobson, her master. —_————— - A Kansas City baker has brought suit against a woman for damages for kneaded his spreading a report that he bred with his feet, which he re s as slanderous. The defendant says that at the trial she will put in bread with foot- prints on it. L e e They found the woman suffer- | ht arm and other parts of the body. | could speak | The | ront end of the house, where they | : oot of a bed, | NO CESSATION INHUNT FOR SLAYER KING Sheriff Taylor Goes to We:v- erville to Search for the Fugitive. S Deputy Sheriff Redwine Is at Coveld Awaiting News From His Chief, While a Fourth Posse Takes the Trail. S Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, Aug. 1L | Marin County. announced as mjssing, was in Redding Thursday. He took the stage here for Weaverville to continue the chase | of fugitive King. COVELO, Aug. 12—Five days now have | elapsed since Sheriff Taylor and posse took the trail leading from here into the | Anthony Peak region, hot on the track of both Murderer King and his pilot, the half-breed Indian. Three members of the osse returning Thursday and Friday rought exciting accounts of Taylor's | pursuing party having the fugitives sur- rounded and giving them battle, but Dep- | uty Sheriff Kedwine has mot Since then received any word that would assure him that Sheriff Taylor still holds the trail of the fleeing men, and in consequence con- siderable anxiety is feit here for the wel- fare of the manhunters. Telegrams addressed to the Marin and Trinity County officers seeking informa- tion if any advice had been received from | Taylor brought back negative replies. The second expedition of four experienced trailers to take King's trail from here left | early Thursday morning in charge of Gu Zaccarini, from whom much is expectes owing to his reputation in Italy as a ban- dit trailer. No news has reached here yet from the Zaccarini posse. Sheriff Taylor of | | | Fitzgerald’s Sentence Postponed. Special Dispatch to The Call. REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 11.—John Fitz- | gerald was not sentenced to-day for the murder of John Lennon. At 1:30 this afternoon he appeared in court without his attorney. Judge Lawlor, who presid- ed at the trial of the case, was also ab- sent. Judge Puck, who was present, | stated that the defendant’s attorney, L. P. Boardman, had requested a continu- | ance in the matter for one week. ‘The time for passing sentence was continued | until next Saturday. A A S S S et SCSY SECRY S SRS et Fatal Accident at Vallejo. Special Dispatch to The Call VALLEJO, Aug. 11.—An accident that is almost sure to prove fatal happened here at 7 o'clock this evening. A lad named Ernest Johnson was turning a cor- ner on a bicycle, when he was run into and knocked down by two horses attached to a heavy wagon. The horses became frightened and commenced to kick, frac- turing the boy's skull. The little fellow | was also hurt internally. The driver made strenuous efforts to save the lad ————— THE UNFORTUNATE SCHEFERS, THEIR HOME AT UKIAH AND THE JUDGE WHO HEARD THE P ROCEEDINGS IN LUNACY AGAINST THE MAD HUSBAND. D e B e 0000040400040+ +0 00000000 000000+e0) filled with polson. | B 3 A ank of Ukiah and has some property Wealth of the Schefers. | around the town. Besides money on de- Mrs. Schefer was 63 years old and came | posit in banks it is said he has some from a wealthy family in Switzerland. It | burled under his house. About $1% was is sald she brought to her husband as her | found in the house when he was arrested. marriage portion something like $15000. | Mr. and Mrs. Felt are occupying the He owns fourteen shares of stock in the | place temporarily. Padua’s pligrims to Rome for the jubi- lee will make the journey on bicycles. ““Lucke is selling out.” | A year's shoes for he had picked up several | that had failed to explode | he | ything for | At the examination ke was confronted | He returned to the house in | company with an officer and brought back | | several mud cells about the size of a bean. | Dr. Wyckoff handed one to Judge Mannon, The | he declared a | a days wages | Never in the history of San Francisco have fine shoes been sold as low as they are now selling at Lucke’s. % Enough people have found this out to crowd the store from the opening of the sale until eleven o’clock last night. Oild shoe men say that they have never witnessed such a phenomenal sale '§ of shoes. 3 | The stock is first class—of the very best makes—and prices are cut so low that you can absolutely get *“A year’s shoes for a day’s wages.” : Whether you need them now or not, you should tuy while you can gt three pairs for the price of one. ’ The sale continues at g o’clock to-morrow morning. Thousands more bar- | gains similar to these below. Ladies’ 1 Ladies’ Men’s and Boys’ Ladies’ regular stock goods| Ladies’ satin slippers, peint-| ~ Men’s shoes in bins at $1.00 in button and lace, all sizes— | ed toes only—colors red, yel- and $1.50, are about all gone, will fit you carefully; formedly | low, white, blue, black—sold | but some regular $3.00 goods $3.00 shoe; now as high as $3.50; sale price‘ are being sold for s I $1.05 | They are selling at $3.00 in | g | One of the best bargains in| Ball and party slippers— | every other shoe store in the | the store. l‘huy now—season will be here | city. E Lol e Men’s black Vici kid shoes Ladies’ kid and cloth top) 1 4ieer shoes in bins-have —good styles, all sizes; only |M| ]z'me shodes, };fl?d} 11ee]si \32; been selling at a rapid mte~l $2.35 | sizes and widths from AARX | not many left—small sizes and |. Can’t be duplicated for less to E. i $3.15 | | nati : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1900. 23 MAD HUSBAND OF UKIAH STARVES WIFE TO DEATH, BELIEVING ALL FOOD POISONED DR. KILMER’S SWAMP-ROOT. The Cause of Many S@en Deaths. Thers is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep- —— B2l XYY tive. Many sudden | L= deaths are caused by —F it—heart disease, eys themselves brea® down and was away cell by extraordin realized. gists i sized bottles. Y may have a sample bottle of this wonderful new dis- that covery and a book tells all about it sent free by m: Binghamton, N Home of Swamp-Root. Dr. Kilmer & Co. 1g mention paper. Fappy to make this statement for th | troubled in any way by discases. doctor a gentleman respecttully, and his wonderful cures, herb treatment strong. r MRS. BARLOW, 1 PALACE HOTEL It is universally acknowledged that these hotels possess the attributes appeal to particular people—undoubted luxury an comfort. unsurpassed cuisine and and superior appointments and loe Connected by a cov operated under ome manag American and European p GRAND HOTEL BRUSHES = 27 * FOR BARBERS, BAK- bootblacks, bath- uses, billtard tab brewers. bookbinders, candy-makers, cans dyers, flourmills, foundries, laundries. pape: | hangers, printers, painters, shoe factories, sta. | plemen. tar-roofers, tanners, *allors, ete. BUCHANAN BROS.. 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It will open as usual MON Only boys of good moral e Men’s higfiwgrade shoes Johnston & Murphy's, Banis- | | ter’s, Boyden’s and other fine | - makes—lines complete—this s — last shoes' SiTls. | 50c $1.00 S$L.50 | Prices too low—can't try | them on for you. | narrow widths only. Especinl]_\’; than $3.50. New good good scllmol shoes for young| Lucke bought before he de- | cided to sell out. - season’s styles — useless to Ladies’ hand - turned lace| A lot of ladies’ tan Oxfordg| mention prices—all reduced shoes, kid tops—nice, st_\'!ishi left; if you find your size you | to cost of manufacture. goods—were $4.00; now ! get them for 1-4.- the cost $2.65 | of manufacture; prices, Boys’ and children’s shoes | in bins going fast—parents are ! 50c 75c¢ $i.00 taking advantage of one-quar- A practical saving of $1.35. ] No trying on. ter of the former prices. Shoes in bins cannot be fitted by salesmen—prices so low thar time cannot | be taken. All other shoes are fitted carefullv. 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