The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1900, Page 14

Ja FRANCISCO TESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1900. SCANDAL GATHERS ON SCANDAL IN THE BATTLE FOR THE TOWNSEND ESTATE 2 s 4 8 -6 R4 e e 1@ e e000000000e0e0eb000000000000000000080000000000 0000000000 4 -*& ’ - - | * P =i | Mrs. Bessie Smith|: $ | o 3 and George H.|: ¢ * L4 Pippy rust|; ! - * + the l— t Inte the Fore=|: 5 ® | 3 + - . cround of In=|} 3 . : ; uiry. 4 - J . g b b Supreme Court,| : 2 . - : 2 g 2. o “ Grand Juryand|: ! - ° * 13 4 the Police Take|- : a Hand in the|; ; ! [ WITNESSES L - 3 + |2 WAITING $ Bitter Fight for|: / 1 . - | * P » ¢t =1 | @ ANTE ROOM a Fortune. |4 s | + == |t @t st sttt esrsesrsese® FEIHE litigation over the rich es- | | + | dte the day atter making 1t. They shed a 5 o Alashen - EerEcl S & | peculiar light also on the conduct of Mrs. - ~e giver every, indicatl » + | Murray in taking dramatic possession of 2 . & | her mother’s house and effects and insti- . tuting a search for a will from which she local pr C ; excluded every one except her own con- v » e hsrges of frand, )¢ fidants. % S o S S T Hassett Provokes a Sharp ort. i AR | 9| Under cross-examination Mrs. Ella F. - > police | o 4 | Murray attempted to relate the incldents ond « y have Salcen &8 | L @ | of her life even from her earliest years. 1 tere in the affatr and de- | | ¢ | The purpose of the inquiry on the part e - - writing experts are | | & | of Attorney Hassett Wa; nn; nlfll[n i y.3 P RSN either to the court or to the other at- Bl kh d d » e Se Brevinseels ; torneys. It was long, wearisome and un- lll es, ac eadas. € i n arg! " q S U | interesting. Finally the attorney for the 0 S matton and xe- |l 4 | Public Administrator unburdened himself . - e ST S R 3 | Geare s e was pecessars for ou Oily Skin cour nd at the very beginning of 4 | Mrs. Murray to prove not only a bona fide ’ * zc) batile the greatest bitter- | $ ¢ | residence in Calffornia. but also her al- * . ol » » B leged relationship to Mrs. Townsend. e -~ n played. A 1 14 Be - A nagge - oy | 8 I pleadings in the case accepted as a fact PREVENTED BY $G00,000 appe w1 [ 4 | that Mrs. Murray is the daughter of Mrs. . i oF & AbFiEs OF BN e o ? | Townsend. It was not readily understood cn rached o certain climax @ | therefore why Hassett insisted upon ask- ° terest last 1t when the con- | ¢ % | ing questions which apparently had abso- tending factions were summoned be- | ¢ & 1‘1\“‘-1!5-' no hm‘flnfi on the mso,] ,-\;;“a, 1aw‘; . e Grand ¥ to e wh » ¢ | ver Hassett is, however, wonderfully an ’ "»“ s J‘PI::“ ien | @ & | fearfully made and he pursued his policy g e o < | until peremptorily overruled by the court. has appeared so mysterionsly in the In pursulng his inquiry Attorney Has- ey police and the attorneys | ¥ @ | cett became positively original in a cer- for Mrs. Elia F. Murr insist that | ¢ 4 | tain peculiar way. In apparent sincerity this clumsy instrn t was forged | ¢ ¢ | he asked Mrs. Murray: by re. Bessie Tracy Smith at the | * 4 | “Have you any knowledge of the mar- e hrmne sttt vy B S & | rlage of vour mother and father from a - P e e, + | recollection of the event?” o e Mrs. Bessie Tracy| | & |, The attorney meant no insult. It was s = an employe of George H. | his peculiar way of expressing himself. L] y v. who was appointed to repre-| & * | He did not realize that he had commit f 4 e sbsent heirs in the ease. Un-| ¢ ': | ted a Mund]or until hehwas awakened h); r employment by Pippy =|2 | a general laugh in the courtroom and s ik '-.»l 1 "l::":’h‘;:r; ® & | the answer of Mrs. Murray, which was: DA SUE NSRRI 5 s [ | “No, sir; I have not. I was not present ok St Sihieh P R ; 2 i"' e S preae MH,LIONS of Women Use CUTICURA SOAP, ezzlusively, Sacind Bis nagertons Seslite e Wl Mrs. Murray has a habit and a faculty & . R s s o anding of Chimese. | ; ¢ | of giving sharp answers, and when she 4 S:&;mgf’ punfymgl, and beastifying the skin, for . Y . ras | Y13 & | made this one she was in her best mood. 1N € SC. of crust: 7 Figps wor wrs. smuen was| $ MRS, BESSIE TRACY SMITH WAITING IN COURT TO TELL HER STORY. § |mafe o oue ivemacl v vt vt | cleansing the scalpof crusts scale, and dandrf, acd the stopping el o pemE v | A lite, telling where she lived and with alling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing red, rough, althonsh hoth had Deen AUm- | @049 4000840409504 00 000000008000t D st soe0sdeoebeoe® [0 CIE FONC S VES Gnd and sore hands, in the form of baths for a foe feritald by the Grand Jury. T ~ L : - 2 nnoyin Grand Jury. The In-| .4 very readily have been demon- | insisted vesterday in escorting her to the | not only one will but two was made under | Was developed. Mrs. Murray said tI nflammats d chafi 4 i Brnes itors made slow progress and| .. ,ie3. If the document i been de- | Grand Jury rcom. She is accused of no]crn&s-u—xumhmnnn by Mrs. Murray. she lived with her mother in New York in ions, and chafings, or too free or offensive perspiration, er examining three witnesses an- | stroyved Miss N € lie Rattigan might have | crime and having been served with a sub- | The witne: a tenement house in 155 declared that when she was , and also in a in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and many sanative nounced that the inguiry would be | k the witness stand if she | pe nded to obey the summons. |a child she saw a will which her mother | lodging-house which Mrs. Townsend kep: PR . > cramand ot & lalls Bor. .S nkd Bans 1 r seen a document purporting to | She upon the incident as persecu- | had made and signed. Later, in 1803, her | before she came to California in the s antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women exciting day in the case. Mrs. | 1 of Mrs. Townsend. Her answers he and her friends are loud in | mother told her that she had made a will, | Baltic. Mrs. Murray also told what had testified before | had meen one | would rray i reason to have brought icing it Mrs. Murray Saw Her Mother’s Will. | Several po be the av but would not sign it until Mrs. Murray had y ray sai knew of the relations of her mother i\:v.\l father durlng her early years, and il- lustrated the fact that her parents even sed judgment upon it. Mrs. Mur- d that she had been consulted by and mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have discnssed with her parent the mak- | t were phot b Ells visions ‘o 5t a ha she lived with her grandmother until the ‘ 0 . P . T & is plan in.view. before they were g the ion of Mrs. Ella | spoken significantly to her Eastern rela- | latter's death: The answer seemed to b fying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. CUTI- R 66 SRl St SR . . Ratti rray before nk H. Dunne, | tives about it, but she had never seen the il t . « eyl ok, it e meaiieh k] Miss Rattigan, = before procecdings were stopped by | fhen about It but she had never seen the | plain enough, but It was apparently not CURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from the dend woman, the Supreme Court | Goorge X Plppy i the same office ¢ ot IR Sroii s Sapuimp | ever receivea the force of law by being| “When did you ceass to live with your| CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing enjoined Judge Dunne to suspend |'s startling, and the police profess to take he atmosphere of the case has | giened grandmother?” he repeated. tnoreds d th v p 3 further proceedinzs and to-day the | from it a sinister meaning. Mrs. Smith These disclosures, which were in the na- | *When she died.” was the reply. 1| IDST ients and the most refreshing of flower odors. No other Bitter el will be heard by the | continues positively to deny that she had ture of a surprise, settled the argument | have not lived with her since.” B medicat 2 . . D e | eard By €he | o nything to do with the bogus will. She Thie as” | that Mrs. Townsend never made a will | Gonsulted With H Mflh AL ed soap ever compounded is to be compared with it app buns ly the fact that the police the dead woman had made | because of her superstition that she would - er Mother About Bequests. Attorney Hassett tried another tack. “Did you ever see a will made and signed by vour mother?” he asked. “I did,” was the answer. “I saw one when I was a little girl. Tt was made by Judge Pond and signed by my mother. for preserving, purifying, and beactifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, viz, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, the BEST skin ; Ihat was long before my marriage in| and complexion soap, and the BEST toilet and BEST babv soaa “Did you not tell your aunt, Eliza Craw-| in the world, i that you had seen your moth- er's will and that in it your aunt and the corridors : mel Pippy. Mrs she had consulted rie. She had taken . AXD C. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. * How to Cure Face Humors and all other Humors . » ;‘1“,” . m counsel with me in reference to the provi- a ury tribunal slons of the will, but I most solemnly he excited ex- rney Byington | ¥, to and from | other relatives had been vided for by your mother?"” “I did not tell my aunt anything of the sort. I told her that on my visit here in 1564 my mother had told me that she had made her will, but would not sign it until liberaily pro- swear that I never saw that testament if | it ever existed.” Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humor, consisting of CUTICURA S0P (Z5c.), to cleanse the skin of cruats a; scales and soften the thickened cuticle, CUTICURA ONTMENT ’qud to instantly allay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and heal, and CUTICURA RESOLVENT (50c.), to cool and cleanse the biood. A SINGLESET s often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring, P blood humors, with loas of hair, when all else fails. I 3 (iticura The Set, 81.25 snd humiliating skin German Government to a horses at Baden for service st in breaking in China, wa PREFERRED DEATH TO = Hassett tried dn a variety of ways to A HUSBAND" REBUKE rown from a mustang which was | induce the witness to change this testi- o rying to handle y rday afte cused of the Fraud. | The abso]ute]y pure iy ot ol e L i Sustainea ' fractere of the lert g, He At > de Miss Nelilie and an adjournment was taken for the | Mrs. Edna Stock Swallowed Opium | %as sent to the Receiving Hospital. where s et oot | e injured member was set by fe ous bogus ned no detall w The young wo- received the the maifl and envelope had n for Mrs. iss Rattigan through one of Mrs. Murray's at- BAKING POWDER ROYAL —the most celebrated of all ening strength and purity. noon recess. Before court reconvened the Supreme Court, upon the application of Thomas T. Townsend, the divorced hus- band of Mrs. Townsend, issued a writ of prohibition forbidding Judge Dunne to proceed until the appellate tribunal passes upon the merits of Townsend's applica- tion. The ex-husband claims that Judge Dunne has discriminated against him by assigning his application for letters of ad- ministration for August 30 and then hear- ing the applications of the Public Admin- torney Shortridge in a brief address of- fered to represent the court before the ap- When She Heard Her Spouse Was in City. & Mre. Edna Stock, residing at 426 Minna | ADVERTISEMENTS. street, took a dese of “yen she” with sul- | st cidal intent last night. She was treated at | the Receiving Hospital for opium poison- | ing and will recover. | Mrs. Stock learned yesterday that her husband had returned from the Klondike. | She had been dissipating during his ab- | sence and feared to meet him. Last night | che left her home to avoid him and visited a saloon on the corner of Mary and Minna “ nnell “We Are Giving s . While there some 'St vhos istrator and of Mrs. Ella F. Murray. |StTeets, JWo 0 L€ the police “;‘a‘,“;h‘:i‘ fef of Police, . Townsend insists that he has the right to | the oplum, which she took to end her ex- | times ar . . in wh r was opened be heard at the same time as the other | istence. [ s : : the baking powders in the world—cele- e e st i e o ———— | 3-% Premiums 3 day at 2 o'clock by the Supreme Court. All Must Go. | £ 3 When Judge Dunne reopened court in| g, .nv gne who has not a piano there | ra: ament, pro- b d f l the afternoon he ‘was informed of the | 0% 8TF 00 B O Mfetime. ornere | wWITH ¥ d Mrs. rate or lts reat cav- action of the Supreme Court by Attorney | p, gldest firms in that line, the Hel : B J. F. Sullivan, whereupon the case was | pjano Company, are going o close out | ~d continued until to-morrow morning. At- 7eas, Cofiees, their entirestock of all makes of pianos at | 136 Ellis street. Sale commmences to-day. | Over seventy pianos will be sold before September 1. after which they will re- Spices, Extracts, - pellate tribunal, but Judge Dunne took no | pil ™ ," their beautiful new store. 217 Sada. Baking Po " Sl et e o i It makes your cakes, bis- soton 1 the e 3 e he ¥ met with no success , ‘ - | and Place to Bu -4 For the Convenience of Passengers ' Killed by a Fall. | _Good Time ¥ sported An office has been.established in the Oak-| Charles Kropp. an asphaltum roofer, o Tr :l )\lm'-' CUIt, bread, etc" health- land Ferry Depot (on the ground floor in |died in St. Luke's Hospital yesterday | Bml Anericas IIWIII h c., et the center of the building), where passen- | morning from the effects of a fall from MONEY-SAVING STURES. Grand Jurs & H gers can léave thelr bagsage checks, | the Toof of a4 bullding on Commercial | sz Grant Ave. (et Sutter uad Poaw - s : O ne was working. about | § . 4 - nd chagrin ¢ flll, 1t assures you aO’alnSt thereby saving in the transfer of I;he’,' week ago. He was unmarried. 5 years | s Soiage \Opp. Fowsly the inquir el baggage, our rates being lower. o't | old and a native of New York Oi - = TS & anpounceme give up vour checks on the trains. Mor- L e will again take nesses were ex he will probably be the next witn Tell-Tale Private Marks. positively that Mrs. Smith! spurious document. He claims d in the will, on the envelope closed it and In letters written Smith since the date of the will ks of identification which in | instance are the same. These | marks, it is claimed, were made for a pur- alum and all forms of adulteration that go with the cheap brands. ton Special Delivery, 408 Taylor and 650 Market st. - Carl Hermann, who claims to be the owner of the comic opera “The Beggar Student,” has brought suit in the United States Circuit Court against Thomas J. Clunie and George W. Ficks of the Clunie Opera-house in Sacramento to recover the profits of six performances of that opera given without the owner's permission at the Clunie Opera-house. —_—————————— 40% discount on taflor-made sults to order; .30 621 Montgomery A 6 Larkin St AT Peralta Case Appealed. 18i3 Devisadero St. b SRS DO P Mrs. Mary E. H. Gwin bas been allowed | 146 Ninth st PRI e < ka v Q | Filimore 3 2285 38101 Kytka can- Suit for Royalty. to take an appeal to the United States | 4 FLimer® 7122 24th St Supreme Court in the case of the United | States case M OAKLAND STOKES. 10632 Washington St 616 E. 12th St 1237 Broadway. 1185 23 Ave. 110 Seventh St. 1355 Park St.. Alameda, B St, near 4th, San Rafael. Peralta and others. in which . Gwin appeared as intervenor. The action was to quiet title to the tide lands of Oakland, and was decided in ago in the United States District Court. —_—————— They bind all kinds of books in any style. Mysell-Rollins, 22 Clay. premidbanc ol -0 SRR Fell Down a Hatchway. A Big Premium Given With Every Purchase. which, it is asserted, explains the! for the fabrication of the bogus | days on'y; fit guart'd. R. Stdeman, 107 Hayes. —_—————————— Discharge in Bankruptcy. A. B. Patrick flled a petition yesterday in the United States District Court asking to be discharged in bankruptcy. The hear- pose mo Douglas Brophy, employed at the Gov- ernment docks at the foot of Folsom street, fell down a hatchway on one of the transports last evening. His right leg was fractured and his scalp lacerated. He was treated at the Harbor Hospital Alum baking powders are low priced, as alum costs but two cents a pound ; but alum is a corrosive poison and it renders the baking powder dangerous to use in foud. MCNULTY . PHIS WELL-KNXOWN AND RELIABT. Spectalistewres Privi rvous, and Blood L eases of Men oniy Book on Privaie Diseases Weaknesses of Men. free. Over 20y 'rv’ experience. | | | | | | | | favor of the United States some months | 1 | he police belleve that the consplirators, | ver they may be, expected to profit i by one of two mistakes which it was pos- wt If you want a heaithy drink try Jesse Moore « “AA" whiskey, ‘Horse-Breaker Injured. John Logan, who-is employed by the fered for probate its worthless by Doctors Dorr and Alexander. Patients curedat Hq 3 a0l sible for the attorneys for Mrs. Murra: ing of the matter was set for September 1. | P gl Lot ceradal ol Aty a0t a e, Torms reasongble; Hoursd 10 make. If the bogus will had been of- s tation ffee and sacredly confidentinl. Call.oraddress ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW.YORK.