The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1901, Page 12

o 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901. HEIRS OF CUOCO WILL LOSE Small Hope That They Will Ever Recover the Amount of Which They Practically Have Been Cheated. nt Cuoco have been a1 hundred thousand w ¥ jollars’ wor erty & there is of them ever secur- g which s ypno- They did ic robbery It is true “uoco have e story of the ay is that the bility to prevent | A BIG FORTUNE i ; _“I am anxious to have this matter dis- posed of as speedily as possible,” sald RS. F. H. OSGOOD, wite of Ruef, “and so is Mr. Drinkhousé. We President and Manager Osgood ant to protect the interests of the heirs. | | We are satisfied that if bids are again invited we will receive a much higher bid than that.of Bohls, to whom we sold the land, but who has not yet received a deed, as your Homor has set aside the order of confirmation of sale.” “I do not care to act until the attorneys of all the interested parties are present.” replied Judge Troutt. ‘There is some- thing ami I understand that the prop- : very valuable.” nt the appraisers to-day,” urged “and I will pay their expenses. 1 to get at the bottom of this matter. | I am anxious to see that the heirs get | their rights and that the land brings the of the Seattle and Renton Ralil- | way Company, Seattle, Wash., | was robbed early yesterday | morning of jewels sald to be valued at | $5000. The robbery was committed on the Oregon express, north of Sacramento, while Mrs. Osgood was asleep in a crowd- ed Pullman coach. The stolen jewels were inclosed in a small bag. which Mrs. Os- good wore about her neck. A negro, who made his escape, is be- lieved to be guilty of the robbery, though a white lad who gave the name of Law- rence V. Hill Is in custody at Sacramento highest possible price.” | on suspicion of complicity in the theft. “I am in doubt,” replied the Judge, “as | A third party, a woman who occupied a to whether this court has any power to | benth on the ‘train, also underwent exam- act in that matter. If the Italian Consul | ination on her arrival in this city, but as has, as attorney for the helrs, sold the ¥ property to Bacigalupi, I do not think we can go b of the'vecord unless fraud is shown proved that the heirs acted If the Consul | i come forward and ask sale set aside matters would | It now looks the heirs | sally thrown themselves out of | ¥ Ruef again pleaded for the ap- of the appraisers and said: et of raisers who under- S State Mineralo- | | hey will be able to jay. I will pay ned to,entertain the but instructed Ruef | | ed counsel to be in morning, when he arguments ers are appointed at that “I will ask that the aring _be postponed until rt. If the Baoigalupi pe- on of the estate | | the hefrs will be from chance they ve of securing | time that ¢ the land he was asked order of to Bohls “I have id he, “that there > now willing to pay g on our right endorfer, who ‘“We were the highest e land was sold to us. We d over the amount of the pur- to Mr. Drinkhouse and we ex- . The fact that Judge Troutt he order confirming the sale b us in the least. We| | ranting him such power. it is necessary we will appeal from that ruling t “curt. We feel entirely safe ar position and it would r us if the land was reappraisea | | jed a ollars. We in e complied | 2w ng posses- | epresenting Bacigalup! Adent that the deed _the Italian Consul nothing connecting her with the crime was found on_her person she was dismissed by hen informed that 000 had been of- rney Lamberson | Captain Seymour. The woman upon whom eplied: “T am not | suspicion fell is known to the railroad There are people who | detectives, but for the present they are | er $100,000 for the j withholding her name. She was attended | injure our title by a man belleved to be a Mr, Barrett | m the heirs and when he settled the transaction.” Consul holds the power | of Portland. lad in custody at Sacramento were found in hiding aboard the traln, but the negro The negro and the white LEADERS! LIKE SOUSA Thrill youw with their souwl-stirring marches. OUR LEADERS $5.00 I'len’s All-Worsted Trousers For $2.15 The greatest of valwes, the handsom st of eslorings Our leader, $2.75 For Friday and Saturday will thrill yow with their soul-stirring prices. Sail, Ho! 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SIL00 KEARNEY ST e A W o STARTLING DIAMOND ROBBERY ‘ - ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN Mrs. F. H. Osgood, Wife of Seattle Railroad Manager, Loses Jewels Worth Thousands. ; 'ROBBER’S IDENTITY YET UNKNOWN TO THE POLICE Plucky Fight of Adam L. Vercevich for His Life May Clear Up -Mystery of Similar Assaults on Pedestrian;». Yon street to Portsmouth Square, oppo- site the Hall of Justice, and resting on one of_the benches. Yesterday afternoon he was seated as usual on bench, when Matthew Dal- ton, a husky young fellow, took a seat beside him. Dalton entered into conver- sation with the old man and bewatled the fact that, although young and strong, he could not find work. “That's all nonsense,” sald Harold. “When I was about your age I left Ire- land for this country and when I arrived I had only sixpence in my pocket. I look- ed for work and got It, and if you were anxious to work you could do the same thing and save money, as] have done.” Dalton sneered at the ol he .did not_ believe Adam L. Vercevich, who made a plucky fight on Wednesday night for his life in | the liquor store at Grove and Laguna | streets, is the hero of Hayes Valley, and the Police Department feels more than grateful to him for leading up to a solu- tion of the mysterious holdups of the last | three months. Vercevich has three times been the vic- tim of a footpad's pistol. 3 The Police Departmefit has come to the conclusion that Green 1s one of the same gang that last October held up a man in | front of his residence on Turk street, be- tween Franklin and Gough, and then pro- | ceeded to the corner of Page and Octavia | streets and badly battered a fruit dealer on that corner who was returning home, Green, the wounded robber, lies on a cot in the Recelving Hospital. He Is con- stantly watched by the police officers, and, as a result of his ppinful wound, is accept the bet. A man who was pass was called and the two 50-cent pieces placed in his hand. Dalton at once grab- bed the money and started to run, but & MRS. F. H. OSGOOD, WHO WAS ROBBED OF VALUABLE JEW- ELS, AND HER HUSBAND. E3 Ity b ul’ made a succesful dash for liberty. The robbery, considering the value of | the stolen property- and the daring and successful manner in which it was exe- cuted, has caused considerable excitement in raflroad circles. Where the suspects boarded the train and how they succeed- ed In gaining entrance into the sleeper is | a mystery. Their knowledge of the apart- ments of the car supports the belief that the negro had been a porter. F. H. Osgood, his wife, their attorney. W. A. Peters, and a party of friends were on their way to Southern California on a pleasure trip. They give the fol- lowing account of the robbery and subse- quent search: Mrs. Osgood was sleeping in a berth direct- Iy under her husband’s. She woke in the early morning and immediately ‘reached for her ‘jewels, which she always placed for the night while traveling in a small bag tied about her neck with a plece of tape. When she found the jewels were not in the accustomed place, she “searched the berth, thinking that they ‘might have become detached during the night. During her search she looked out into the car and saw two men walking down the aisle. Thelr presence. even at that early hour, did not arouse her suspicions. After having completely searched her berth without result, she aroused her husband, who went for the conductor. A thorough search of the car was made. They discovered a white youth ‘hiding in a closet in the men’s dressing room. He was searched, but nothing that could connect him in any way with the crime was found on his person. 4 Mrs. Osgood had arisen in the meantime and went to the ladies’ dressing .room. In the dressing apartment she found that a door to the closet In which a portion of her clothing was hanging was secured from the inside. She started to go for a porter, but no sconer had she turned around than a negro darted from the closet and ran out of -the car, making his escape. Before the conductor and Osgood had been notified of the presence of the negro, the train had stopped at a small station. In all probabllity the negro took advantage of the &top to escape. He undoubtedly is the thief. He is de- L A 0 e i ARMOUR GAINS FULL CONTROL Earl's City Representative Claims Car Sale Was Made Weeks Ago. AT The rumor that has been current for some time. in aflroad circles that'Edwin T. Earl of Los Angeles was anxious to sell | all his fruit cars and that he was going | to retire from all mercantile life has at last been substantiated. The Armour Company of Chicago purchased the entire rolling stock from Earl some time ago, but it was not until a day or s0 ago that the matter became public. The Armour Company has already 2300 fruit cars in Southern California, and with the recent addition it has made it will certainly have a monopoly on fruit haul- ing from this coast to the Eastern mar- kets. Earl's representative, who is in the city, stated that the sale had been made, and that in fact it was made some time ago. He would give no reasor for Earl's re- tirement from business, but the generally accepted opinion is that Earl wishes to have no further business troubles for Some tme, owing fo his recent divorce suit. The private-car system of hauling fruit East from the southern portion of this State has_developed. into a wonderfully lucrative business. With the retirement of Earl from the fleld, the Armour Com- gany will have gomplete control of the usiness. From present indications, there are no Drospects of the Banta Fe or the South- ern Pacific Company investing any money in the buflding of fruit cars, and ‘untfl this step is taken the Fruit Growers' Ex- press will be in complete control of the situation and they will be able to dic- tate their own terms. As an example of what an enormous business this fruit traf- fic has developed into, comservative rail- road Ten claim that this year’'s shipments from California will be not less than 25,000 cars. Accused of Embezzlement. George W. Johnson, a collector for the Emporium, was arrested yesterday a(tert ‘noon by Policeman Love and Special Of- ficer Allen on a charge of felony emblez- zlement. He is accused of embezzling $58 e collected on January 28. It is sald there are other sums not accounted for. il no . Ol e Compelled to move by March 1. The % | scribed by Mrs. Osgood as being a short. | heavy-set man, wearing dark clothes and a blick hat. The missing jewels include: One opal set in twenty-five or thirty diamonds, sim- ilar in size to a pecan nut; one three- | stone, three-carat diamond ring; a _fire | stone diamond ring and a sapphire ¥ing with Cingalese setting. P. H. Maloney, detective for the South- ern Pacific on the Oakland side of the bay, made the following statement:’ I asked Mr. Osgood if he suspected any other person than the negro and the white lad in the train of having-committed the robbery, and he eaid he suspected a woman who occu- pled the lower berth of section 7 opposite that of section 6, the lower berth of which was | occupled by Osgood and his Wife. The woman under suspicion was about 25 years of and was attractively dressed. On leaving the train at the Oakland mole | the suspected woman was joined by a man | from Port Townsend who had occupled the | unper ‘berth of section 7. He left her on the | ubper deck of the ferry and went below. On j the San-Francisco side he rejoined the woman At and placed her on the Russ House 'bus. | th Ellis of San Francisco and told them of the robbery and the woman suspected. Egan sall he would follow the woman and find out what | room she was assigned to. . Ellis and myself went to the Palace Hotel | and got a full descriptior of the stolen jewels | from Mr. Osgood. e man who had atiended ferry depot I met Detectives Egan and surly and morose. Of his antecedents he will not speak. He has all the manners of a hardened crimjnal, though apparent- ly_young in years. Y1 s beeh nscertained that before com- mitting the deed Green purchased a new outfit gr clothing from Edward Harris, 628 Kearny street. Harrig and one.of his salesmen identified the property at the office of the Chief of Police. Detectives Reynolds, Thomas, Gibson and Baily, who have been working.on the case in an endeavor to ascertain the man’s identity,. are awaiting information from the military authorities. Several of- ficers charged specially with the duty of looking for deserters and escaYed prison- ers have'seen the man and will endeavor to ascertain for the benefit of the police whether or not he was a member of the army. The only connectlon so far estab- lished is thas he wore a blue shirt similar to those worn by soldiers. Harry Harringten, who was driving the mail wagon that was held up at the cor- ner of Washington and Front streets ear- ler in the evening, was taken to see Green at the Receiving Hospital. He thought he resembled the man who held him up, but would not positively identify him. George C. Farrell, a grocer, who was also held up by threé men,is positive that the prisoner Green is one of the same gang. His description furnished the po- lice before seeing the man is similar to that of the man in custody. All_around the immediate vicinity. of the place where Vercevich so gallantly fought for his life are the marks of the desperate struggle. The left hand of the brave saloon-keeper is swathed in band- Harold was too pled with him, Before Dalton could use his fists Harold pulled his revolver out of his pocket brought the butt end down with ning force upon Dalton’ blow made Dalton quit, and with sistance of the stakeholder Harold Prison and book: tty larceny. Dalton to the ¢ on a charge of pe Harold was retired from the for pension on July 31, 1895. had cellent record and was noted for ing up a gang of hoodlums Dupont street. — MRS. MOORE'S RIGHT TO quick for him and grap- head. An. ce on He ha > t terrorized BROOKS STREET DISPUTED Jeanne Lydie Sawyer Files Action Asking for Removal of Ob- The right of Florence E | Moore to maintain a £ street and her title to tr lines will be determined in an action filed yester: | Lydie -Sawyer. | &5 defendants are structing F: her the United Si and Trust Company and the Mutv ings Bank. The suit 2iso t title to a small gore lot on the of Brooks street. e plaintiff alle; hat" on y 15, 150® SISInUE alleges that' oo May 1 Spence a small side of Brooks street line of conveyance: Ry Joined wit of iand on the h tates o es. There fs a broken three-gallon £ con a 3 a8mitohn, with a bullet. hole through it, | L now s g tr;fi:;e";r;?:p; 1 kept as a memento of the fight. A bul- | FIRIRGS CENY 10 the Proverty ia gues let mark in the oaken keg near the place where the demijohn stood also shows that there was - a battle. Across the street diagonally the windows and the glassware In the grocery store and the moved. threatens her rights and ‘she asks that be adjudged a nuisance and ordered injunction asked restraining the erection of a fence at any future time. A _perpetual is_aiso lamppost show Wwhere some of the bul- e Casoxitig T dakall 18 truggle . i v vom. R - SEMENTS. with th- u:aum{, Vercevich said: ADVERTI it was one of us up and then We rolled around, fighting for sessfon of the pistol. ~When I got Ptosnwuy the fellow started to run. I fired the four shot left in the pistol at “First the other. the suspected woman was reistered at t| Palace. Ellis and myself went to the Russ House and ascertained that the woman had not reg- taken away by De- istered, but had been he | him. He ran.dlagonally across the street. One ball - struck the lamppost and two others went through the windows of the grocery store in the same corner. It was Lamps ‘tective’ Egan, who had- by means of a etreet car arrived there before her. I was afterward informed when Egan told the woman he wished to speak to her that she objected on the ground that she wanted to go to the tollet. Egan then became suspicious and informed her that she would have to ac- company him to see Captain Seymour. Egan | took her to the captain’'s office and the cap- tain thought the circumstances warranted him | in ordering the woman to be searched. The | woman again expressed a desire to be allowed to go to the tollet. She was turned over to the matron and searched, whether before or after going to the tollet I don't know.: After the search It was announced that no jewelry answering to the description of that missing had been found on her person. The woman was discharged from custody because there was no evidence against her. Soon after she appeared at Captain Sey- mour's office the man who had attended the woman on the ferry and at the 'bus made his appearance at police headquarters. How he learned of the woman's detention I don't know, unless he went immediately to the Russ Housé after he had registered at the Palace and was informed of the woman's having ‘been taken away by Detective Egan. i SACRAMENTO, Feb. 14.—Lawrenca V. Hill, who was taken into custody on sus- picion of compiicity in the theft, told De- tective Ahern of the railroad .company that he got on the train at Lincoln and wanted to reach Santa Ana, where he has the last shot that caught the fellow, I think. I do not know whether he yelled or not when he was struck. ept my eye upon him until he ran up the alley and hid. Then Officer Sawyer came along and found him."” In his statement to the detectives Green said he had arrived from Los Angeles the same afternoon, after riding a brake- beam; but Clothier Barris’ testimony dis- poses of that statement. Among the ef- fects found on him were an aluminum comb with the name _‘Bozeman' scratched in, part of an envelope bearing the name and address, “Mrs. H. Hinchy, Clancy, Mont.,” and a_ memorandum. “Minn. V. T. 11-1-1900.” His shirt bears the laundry mark “H. F. 1110.” “James M. Beasley. Bryan, Fremont, saw- mill in yard; Lewis Mulligan, H. H. Hop- kins, Bill Brydon, Phil J. Mulllgan, Fre- mont, Wash,,"” are a series of disconnect- ed entries in a memorandum book. All that was secured from the store by Green’s_confederats was a box of tele- phone checks. Thess were taken as Ver- cevich marched out from behind the bar at the point of Green's pistol. The rattle of the brass checks makes Vercevich in- cline to the belief that the second robber thought he had struck the till. Young Svenitch, the student, who was early on the'scene, now says that before | an uncle. He said he had got on the train by mistake. The colored man left the train between Davisville and Suisun, and has not yet been located. The police are inclined to belleve he is the thief. but, nevertheless, Hill will be developments. * SEATTL H. Osgood is president and manager of thé Seattle and Renton Railway Company. It is an elec- tric line fifteen miles long. Mrs. Osgood is a foclety woman of Seattle. going Into the store he saw one man pass a number of cartridges to another and now thinks that the man that recefved them was Green. He patd but little at- tention to the matter at that time and can give no clear description of the men that he passed. 2 Green has been charged by Vercevich, in warrants sworn to before Judge Ca- Police Sleuths Trying to Locate Much Wanted- Criminals. Detectives are searching for the authors of a number of burglaries that have oc- curred within the last few days. The store of O'Connor & Kelleher, 33 and 35 Fourth street, was entered on Tuesday morning. About $500 in merchandise and jewelry is said to have been stolen. En- trance was effacted through a rear win- dow. Mrs. Laura Badaire, 323 Montgomery, who so pluckily fought a daylight. burg- lar a few months ago, has reported that burglars again entered her place on Mon- day morning and carried away some jack- ets'and capes valued at $100. Mrs. Bau- daire conducts o dyelpg and cleaning es- tablishment. 5 Charles_Scheggio, who conducts a sa- loon at 527 Broadway, is the loser of 1000 cigars taken by burglars after closing hours on Monday morning. Cashier Wilson of the Emporium Restau- rant at 132 Fourth street is also wanted by the police for the alleged embezzle- ment of $100 from his employers. Wil- son d(sapgenred on Monday and when he aid: not show up for a couple of days a description qf him was furnished and a warrant sworn out. It is said that he took the money from the cash register. —_— MAKES A PLUCKY FIGHT. James Harold Arrests a Man Who Tried to Cheat Him. James Harold, a retired policeman, 76 years of age, who is a cripple from rheu- matism, proved vesterday afterncon that age and decrepitude had not stilled the old fire that made him the terror of gangs of hoodlums when in his prime. On sunny days he has been In the habit of walking from his residence at 703 Stock- UNION BANK MUST PAY DEPOSITORS Commissioner Barrett Says They Will Receive Every Dollar. There are bréakers ahead for the direc- tors of the defunct Union Bank of San Jose, judging from the forcible way in which Bank Gommissioner A. W. Barrett expressed himself last evening at t¢he Cal- | ifornia Hotel, where he is at present stop- ping as a guest. % The Bank Commissioners held a long executive session yesterday at their of- | fices. At this meeting James Rea repre- sented the Union Bank directors and At- torney Welch of San Jose was present and made a strong. plea on behalf of the de- positors for the settlement of the bank's affairs. Attorney Anthony was also pres- ent on behalf of Oakland depositors and pleaded for a gubllc meeting in the near future, in which the directors of the bank should be compeiled to be present and tell E the long-suffering _deposifors what the actual amount of the assets was. At the close of the meeting the Bank Commissioners firmly instructed the offi- cials of the bank that they must at their next meeting produce a detailed account of the assets. 3 In an interview last evening Bank Com- | missioner Barrett said much of interest to those who had money deposited in the bank when the institution closed its oors, 7 “I think that the depositors will get Suit, reg! nearly dollar for dollar,” sald Mr. Bar- now. ... rett. ‘““The bank has some good property, Elegant Chiffoniers, highly pol- which is worth a whole lot of money. 1 mean, for instance, the bank building property. On the other hand, however, they have such security as the Howard claims, which are not worth the paper they are written on. The first thing to be done, and that ought to be done mighty quick, is for the bank to produce its se- curities and for us to find out how much the real assets are. “‘One of the chief duties of Bank Com-. missioners is after a bank closes its doors to find out how much money the deposit- ors can get back and then go after it. We never rush these things any more than we can help, but the sooner the depositors Zet thelr money. even If it is only 50 eents on the dollar, the better they feel. ‘At the next meeting we want to hear from the directors of the bank .the exact amount of the assets, accept their state- ment fin% Pay off the depositors as soon as possible.” H.0 entire stock of the Monarch Shoe Com- s:ny. 1334 Market street, will be.on sale turday, February 16. 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