The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1901, Page 23

[ TX2 222222 22 H b4 * $ 3 : ; ® Pages 23 10 32! EHOND LOXPXOHOHOX S H OXOROXOROROXOD Call, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1901. RIVIERRE SEEKING HIS BOY MEETS WAITING DETECTIVES Alleged Denver Kidnaper Accuses His Wife of Infi- delity to Justify His Peculiar Acts. wire me. d at once.” the foregoing ye Denver police of- and Detectives Sey is men to bring eged kidnaper, was made columns of and S m Gibson ited for Rivi Rivierre was | be kept in is ob- s and to the nce can be innocent of cred to his story owing about oy | The child | rly woman who | was Res - | coupled the father, | i. Visions of | were recalled the child play sh I o complets d their paper remained for e residence ing of the ctives Keep Watch. Coleman wa the scene as b t was in a qua r neighbors fc refused to allow be taken from the house Ir > bage Coleman felephoned this information to his superior r and resumed his vigil Detective Gi rer cial delivery office an giving his name an order for a at the Lage home at 1| o deliver the baggage at 7il | ¥ Gibson re- ed the com- 1 hour he ho in on the detectives and tone asked s all the trouble?” given a joyful greeting by Who fugged and caressed i him “papa’’ and other en- When Informed that he he police he reluctantly mpanv the officers. As wouse the child’s mournful s ears and made the tempo- ing a sad one for him. Taken Into Custody. tal bef Captain Seymour ht story. He un- in his own defense carried his boy Captain Sey- e teleeram sent by flton Armstrong of ccepted his fate im of an unfortunate e. “My wife led a nd again I forgave Patience ceased to deemed r Lo look after his seemed to care more ment and the little fel- cted. When I removed ome in Denver a“week | g » not now thiak | e against the law. s nol kidnaping for a father to take possession of his child. The is my flesh and blood and dearer to nything else on earth. He loves far greater affection than I can RIVIERRE BISCoVERS DETECTIVES SEARCHING HiS TRUNK MRS RIVIERRE, AND REYNOLD i, POLITAN CITIES. LEADING FIGURES IN THE SENSATIONAL KIDNAPING CASE WHICH IS CREATING A BIG STIR IN POLICE CIRCLES OF TWO METRO- 5 | | show for him. His mother paid little at- tention boy and Revnold nev speaks of her. “It is with the deepest regret and chame that I must tell the world of my unhaouy ent of I deem it my right and duty to relate the facts. Story of His Marriage. “In 18% I was in charge of a big station- While on a visit y wife and rtship we were married. performed on March 8, ‘When I married her I believed her Imagine to Brooklyn after a short co 1896. to be a good and pure woman. my consternation when she came to me a week after the ceremony and told me that two years before she had been the victim of an infamous plot, in which a drug was used, and showed me a_sixteen-months- old child, which, she said, was hers. Be- lieving her story, I overlooked the mat- ter and we took the child under our care. The same year of our marriage I went on a visit to France to see my parents and while there was Impressed into military service. After serving three months I hurried to America and upon my arrival was given to understand that my wife's parents believed 1 had deserted their daughter. 1 disproved this assertion by hunting her up. I found my wife living, as she sald, in a private family, and as I was out of work, she remained there at er own suggestion. Whenever I called | at the place at which she was staying she told me the mistress of the house was out. t th n_dawned upon me that my wife was unfaithful and was leading a_double life. I discovered that she " had been living with an architect named A. L. For- rest and was not, as she claimed, living in | a private family. I decided to secure a divorce, but through bigness of heart, I forgave here and we again lived together. Birth of Reynold. “Our little boy Reynold was born in Sep- tember, 1888, and it was due to his pres- ence in the household that I did not sepa- rate from my wife. She continued in her devious ways, however, and time and aain 1 "decided to ' leave her. Owing to her failing health we came to Denver in January last. We set up | housekeeping and I spent a great deal of money fitting up our dwelling. Her con- duct with a prominent business man of Denver became so bad that I decided to jeave her for all time. A week ago I pre- pared for a hurried trip. She was under the impression that I was going to New York to' testify in a damage case and in my farewell letter I told her that I was going there. Instead, I took my son and came directly to San Francisco. Read- ing an advertisement in one of the papers that a Mrs. Lage at 108 Fell street would care for a child, I took the boy there. I gave the name of “Wall,” which was my Mother's maiden name. 1 took this course to prevent my wife following me and se- curing possession of the boy.” Rivierre claims that he did not tele- graph East to his wife's relatives for Toney. He said the money used by him to come West was paid to him with the understanding that he would use it in'go- | ing to New York to testify in an accident case. He says he did not inform his Wife's relatives that she was dead. He simply meant that she was dead In his 1 affections. * | P | prisoner was given em- | The un g ployment a week ago by the New York | Mutual Life Insurance Company. As he was without money and would not recelve | his salary until next Wednesday, he was | forced to pawn his bicycle and valu- | ables to secure funds with which to live | and pay for the board of his child. He says that if his wife comes to this city he will give her battle. He does not in- | tend giving up his boy without a strug- gle. He intends filing papers for a di- vorce as soon as he regains his liberty. But for the fact that the courts were | closed vesterday he would have tried to | secure his release on 2 writ of habeas cor- pus. He will make this effort on Monday. = & MRS. RIVIERRE COMING. DENVER, April 13—Mrs. G. Emile Rivierre left on the 8 o'clock train to- night on the Denver and Rio Grande Rail- road, bound for San Francisco, to get her{ little boy Rene. She doesn’t want her husband and says she wiff"divorce him. “If on my arrival in San Francisco,” said Mrs. Rivierre to a Call representa- tive just before her departure, “my hus- band promises that he will support me Il will let him go and bring my baby back to I’enver, wnere I intend to live. derstand that the law provides a penalty | of fourteen years' imprisonment for the offense he has committed. I'd like to have him go to the penitentiary for a year or| two, but I wouidn’t send a dog to prison for fourteen years. I'll be uneasy all the time be is at liberty, though for fear he | will try to steal my little Rene again. [ shall never live with him and shall get a divorce. I think too much of my chil- dren to let him be near them. “The most wicked man alive loves something, and he loves that boy. He never would hurt him, but Rene must not be near his father. When I get my two children together I will tuck them under my arms and never let them get out of sight again as long as I live. 1 think my husband’s mind is weak. The fact that he swindled my aunt seems proof of this. At Rotterdam, Holland, he deserted mé four years ago because he did not have mohey to pay our passage over and didn’t have courage to tell me. When he mar- ried me as Nellie Patterson in Brooklyn in 1594 he had fled from France to'escape military service. He told me when he re- turned after deserting me in Holland that the French authorities had arrested him and tried to force him into the army.” Mrs. Rivierre secured money by wire from Mrs. Sarah Patterson, her rich aunt of 33 Munroe place, Brooklyn, whom she seys her husband swindled. She took with her Dolores, the little daughter, who kept ujet for a dime when her father took the BHHie Boy wey. T “L learned to-day,” s: TS. Rivles “that the whole of my husband’s dupll(‘:’itre); did not come out at first. On his message that I was dead my aunt sent him $150 to ay- for shipping my body to Brookiyn, ad a grave dug for me in Greenwood Cemetery and ordered mourning clothes, In order to allay their suspicions until he could get away he explained the failure to ship my body at once by sending to my aunt a telegram signed with a physi- clan’s name, saying that he himself was % in the County Hospital with brain er.” I un- | | 1zens GVE BATILE T0 FORCE OF RALWAY NN Pomona Citizens Pre- vent Seizure of Street, Resist Southern Pacific's Attempt to Checkmate Clark Road. - Firemen Turn Their Hose on Mexicsn Lakorers When Other Methods of Attack Fail, e Spectal Divpatch to The Call. POMONA, April 13.—This has been a day of rioting and wild disorder in Pomona. From sun-up until late into the night the citizens ofethe town have battled with a force of Southern Pacific workmen, who attempted toseize a street and construct a railroad upon it. Heads have been cracked in the repeated affrays, and the more con- servative element of the town was to- night congratulating itself upon the fact that the disorders had not resulted in loss of life. That dire result may follow should the Southern Pacific persist in its plan to seize the street. Every available man in Pomona assisted to-day in the at- tempt to checkmate the pirates of the railroad, and when blows failed the fire department turned out and with a few well-directed streams from its hose gave the Mexicans cdnstituting the railroad force an argument that they could not withstand. Thus the day was won for Pomona, and, incidentally, for the com- peting Clark line. Southern Pacific’s Plot. The route chosen by the proposed Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company through Pomona is along First street. Cit- have been enthusiastic over the competing road, and next Monday morn- ing the City Council will grant a franchise for the use of the street by the Salt Lake line. First street is flanked at points on the north by the property of the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. While the Salt Lake Rallroad Company and Po- mona land owners have planned together, the Southern Pacific has schemed to checkmate compe' aet in the plot that came-off to-day. At dawn this morning a' Southern Pa- cific worktrain, laden with Mexican track- men and rails and ties, steamed into town. When Pomona awoke the Southern Pa- | cific had a freshly made spur lald across its property and headed down First street, on which the Salt Lake company has been promised a franchise. The news that the Southern Pacific was seeking to monopolize First street with a track to defeat the mew railroad quickly spread over the town cnd hundreds of cx- cited men and boys crowded about the new track. The City Surveyor hastily es- tablished the boundary line between the ity property and that cf the Southern Pacific. The laborers were warned not to lay track upon city land. Fire Department Called Out. Ignoring the warning the railroad crew proceeded with its work. Ties and ralls were quickly laid across property lines. Scores of citizens beat the workmen back and tore up the rails and ties and threw them in heaps. The Mexicans rushed for- ward to force progress on the street line. Then the fire alarm bell rang, and in a trice the Volunteer Fire Department dashed to the scenc with water from a fire hose, and the Mexicans were forced to desist in the work across the street boundary. & The work train started eastward and the laborers were dcposited near Ellea -laying operations sireet line were begun. When the workmen laid track across the boundary the angry crowd of citizens beat | them, struck them, tore up the rails and ties, amid yelis of derision and catcalls. while the firemen once more brought their hose into effect. Special. city dep- uty marshals arrestzd squads of Mexicans for trespassing and blockading the pub- lic_thoroughfare. Early _this ‘afternoon another train of several hundred more laborers came from Los geles and track-laying was re- sumed. Suddenly it ceased, as.a crowd of. excited citizens had assumed a threaten- ing attitude. Then the new track was torn up by the citizens and the steel and ‘wood piled up. Armed Men on Guard. There are to-night more .than thirty armed men watching ‘the scene of the treck-laying. It is suspected ‘that the Southern Pacific people will attempt to bring in 1000 laborers and have its track | 1aid along First street before court meets on Monday or before Pomona citizens can be called out to defeat the project: It is arranged by the.citizens that at the first sign-of such ‘a'move an alarm shall. be | given by the watchers and the entire male population will rush out to “repel in- vaders.” GRADERS ARE KEEPING BUSY. Short Line and Clark Company Con- tinue Their Contest in 2 : Utah. ¥ SALT LAKE, April 13.—There is no ex- citing news to-day from the end of the Oregon Short Line track. The contest for supremacy on the grade is still being vig- orously kept up by both sides. A new and Interesting phase of the legal situation is that the Lincoln County Com- missioners now assert the right and title to the grade, by virtue of a tax sale in | 1894, at which time, it is claimed, all in- terest, title and right of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern, the road that originally built the grade, was sold to the county for delinquent taXes of 1893. The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Company claims to hold an option on this tax title. A special meeting of the Board of Coun- ty Commissioners of Lincoln County has been called for April 22, at which time, it is expected, one or the other of the com- panies will procure the title of the county, whatever it may be. Officials of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Cemipany say they have fifty men and teams at work. They are taking posses- sion of the grade at different places and express a determination to hold every available point. fong /It was the first | GAY throng of society people gathered at Fort Mason yester- day afternoon, drank lemonade, bought home-made candy, ate ice- cream and watched with interest a trio of Japanese actors in a Japanese partomime, so that they might fill the treasury of the Channing Auxiliary, for whose benefit and ‘under whose auspices the fete was given. Plcturesque tents and a huge, gayly decorated platform transformed old Black Point into ideal picnic grounds. There were pretty women galore arrayed in all the brilllancy of their Easter finery, hun- dreds of chiidren tumbling about the well kept lawns, a brave showing of men and several dozens of fetching maldens, who werked bravely and well and filled the coffers of the auxiliary in a manner most 8Tatifying to the patronesses. The programme of the afternoon had two strong points in its favor—its pic- turesqueness and its novelty. A strolling barnd of Japanese players proved to be the piece de resistance and won much ap- plause for its pantomime act, culled from an old historical Javanese drama that flourished 700 years ago. The panto- + 29y GEY fcr7r v~ + it | mime was supposed to tell a tale of love | and war. It took four actors to play it—a | doting, tender maiden, a noble hero, a | wicked lover and a seemingly strong- | hearted warrior parent. There was much | trouble promised at the outset, but_all John W. Mackay will shortly begin the construction of a magnificent store and office building on his property at the southeast corner of Fourth and Market streets. The building when completed will be ecual to any structure of its kind in San Francisco. It is to cover an area of grond which will extend 175 feet on both Market and GRANDLY CELEBRATED Cathedral on “Powell Street Hand- somely Decorated and Impres- sive Services Hzld. The Easter Sundav services in the Greek-Russian - Orthodox Church com- menced this morning at 1 o'clock and were most solemn and impressive. A procession, participated in by the members of the congregation, each one of whom carried a lighied candle, marked the commencement of the services. The church was beautifully decorated, and the gowns of the Bishop and the priests added to the grandeur of the ser- v‘g{e service was performed by the Right Rev. I. Tikhon, assisted by the Very Rev. Archimandrite Jiocliros, Revs. Th. Pash- kofsky, 8. Dabovich, P. Popoff, N. Metro- polsky, G. Krassoff, N. Greevsky and M. Bellavin. —_——ee————— Narjot’s Bonds Forfeited. The case of Ernest Narjot, who skot and killed O’Neill Gleason, bartender in the grotto at Turk and Market streets, a year ago, was again called in Judge Cook’s court yesterday, Judge Lawlor presiding. Narjot failed to appear and the Judge de- clared his bonds of $1000 forfeited. The bondsmen are John H. Grady, Fire Com- missioner, and Frank F. Barriss, saloon- JOHN W. MACKAY WILL ERECT COSTL ‘ BUILDING AT FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS The ladies who had the affair in charge are gratified with the liberal patronage that was bestowed upon it. All the booths did a_thriving business, and that, in con- junction with the large amount collected at the “gate,” made the affair a financial | ended happlly, like in. an up-to-date as well as an artistic success. drama. The refreshment booth was in charge of O e e e e e e e e e e S S + 2 o . 2 ETOLL 8 retail stores, while the upper part will be arranged for offices. The definite plans have rot been decided upon by Mr. Mac- kay, but it is known that before he leaves for the East he will' decide upon the de- | sign he thinks the most suitable. | The property where the building is to be erected is considered one of the choic- est pieces of realty in this city. | crime. c | seven for acquittal and five for conviction. | On the second trial there was oniy one juror for conviction. After the second | trial Narjot_left the city and was last | heard of in Los Angeles, but no trace of | him has been found in some months. | NAPA MAN’S WEDDING | PREVENTED BY DEATH John Conniffe, a resident of Napa, died | last night at St. Mary’'s Hospital from a fractured skull, caused by his being run | over by a truck on Sansome street. | Conniffe was subject to fits, and it is ! supposed that he was taken with one and fell in front of the vehicle. The accident occurred yesterday afternoon and he was taken to the hospital. his Injuries late last night and his body was sent to the Morgue. Conniffe has a sister residing at 64 Sil- ver street, this city. He came down from Napa yesterday morning to be married to a San Francisco young lady. pe S Divorce Suits Filed. Suits for divorce were filed yesterday by Catherine Fletcher against James Fletch- er for desertion, Elizabeth Cunningham against Michael Cunningham for faflure to provide and Charles O. Johnson against ‘Mabel M. Johnson for desertion. | A real | He succumbed to | BEAUTY, MUSIC AND MIRTH AT GRIM OLD FORT MASON Channing Auxiliary Garden Party Draws a Swell Crowd and Fills the Society’s Coffers. SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF |\ THE GARDEN PARTY AT FORT MASON. . Mrs. Paul T. Goodloe, assisted by Miss Jennie Hand, Miss Myla Llaly, Miss Ethel Smith, Miss Beda Sperry, Miss Ardella Miss Elsie Wade, Miss Elsie Marsh s Emily Wade. Bradford Leavitt had charge of the candy booth, assisted by Miss Jean McEwen, Miss Ida Gibbons, Miss Carol Moore. Miss Elsie Cook and Miss Edith Bunnell, Mrs. Robert Coilier had charge of ths lemcrade booth and was assisted by Mrs. George Caswell, Miss Abbie Edwards and Miss Marie Wilson. Mrs. Y OFFICE Before Leaving for the East He Will Decide Upon Plans and Let Contracts for Structure to Be Built on Valuable Property. that with the sale of the Blythe property and the erection of the new office build- ir.g by James L. Flood on the old Baldwin ¢ property would be worth n dollars. property at Fourth and Market streets is valuable on account of its location, being on one of the main ar- The tenants on -the to be given notice to keries will then be re- Stevenson streets and 170 feet on Fourth | estate broker in speaking of the matter i1l ‘then be prosecuted street. The lower part will be used for | said the land was a bargain at $300,000, and | with viger on the new buliding. L T R S e e e e e @) keeper. Narjot was twice tried for the | MUNICIPAL LEAGUE GREEK EASTER SUNDAY On the first trial the jury stood WANTS BOND ELECTION Resolutions Adopted Favoring a Peti- tion to the Board of Supervisors to That End. The Municipal League of San Franciseo has adopted resoluti favoring.a pett- tion to the Board of Supervisors to order an election for a new bond issue for scheol buildings, sewer system znd the park pan- handle. The resolutions pledge the league to lend its most energctic assistance o carry the proposal to issuc bonds. The resolutions bear the. following sig- natures: Naph B. Greensfelder, vice president Municipal Leszgue: F. C. Self- ridge, president Western Addition Im- | provement Club; F. W. Van Reynegom. vice president Mission Improvement Union; N. Schlessinger, vice president Municipal Improvement League; J. Hen- | @erson, treasurer Municipal League; Dan- | iel Kelly, Mission imorovement Club; L. A. Rea, North Beach Progressive Im provement Club; Gustave Schnee, presi- dent Sunnyside Club; C. K. Alpers, Hayea Valley Club; B. A. Hagens, secretary Ma- nicipal League. The league has also adopted a resolution advocating the crematiou of the city's ln- digent dead. \ g b APPOINTED CHINESE INTERPRETER. “Doc’* Carlton Rickards has been appointed interpreter of Chinese for the Chinese Bureau.