The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC-—NO. 70. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS, DETECTIVES BELIEVE "BUCK” TAYLOR S THE CROCKETT BULLION ROBBER +— } CAP Fourao 1~ ToNNE—. PeS O | | - R AT, Bk e s aN PRISONERS : ROt ER sHows Seace. DE'UE | BILLED WiITH MUD SIMILAR. b ToMUD IN TONNR.L.. ~ Block o= wWoo WHICHRITS DRiLL MOLES IN FLoom o VAT i | | | | | | cAP worrN &Y PrisonER | | o PHoTos 87 % | GEORGE F KELLY \f\ OFFIciA ‘ 3 PoLice . PHoToGRARPNE R i' CLIPPINGS OF MINTS | AN | GrEAT BRITIAN AUSTRALIA AMERICA i | YIS iNITY OR H TonnEs | | | | | 1 } I | | | HubsTANED SHoveE FOUND I | SLUSPECTS 1 HoUSE. | | R S g &£ e BockLes i AL FouND 1IN T~ ‘ T\)NNEl—,QIMH_A\R Te 5,\”#_ STove. ‘ FOUND IN BEFBNDANTS Hame. ‘ | Hou! CORESPONDING | WITH THoSE. - | \INFERAme | : | ‘ | ‘ | ‘ : | ] HANDLE SHow NG NEW ) | PIECE OF REDWoOD - i AUSTRALIAN MILLIONS &0 UP IN SMOKE Immense Emporium and Four Lives Are De- stroyed. Employe Prays Amid Flames and Leaps to Terrible Death. Special Dispatch to The Call VICTORIA. B. C., Aug. 8—Advices re- ny, the steamer Moana in- e fire at of the emporium to ed on Page Five. FIRST AT OF IDLENGE DY WORKERS |Steel Strikers Shoot a Non-Union Man in Trust Mill. | Amalgamated Association Is | Striving for Support of Federation of Labor. Bl PITTSBURG, Aug. 8—The contending sides in the steel strike are centering | their energles for a show of strength on the day that the general strike order be- . The United States Steel is reopening mills closed by the first strike call to show its independ- ence of unionism and gathering strength wherever it may, to lighten the effect of trike order, and the Amalga- mated Association is bending its energies SEot Corpora: | Continued on Page Five. PRISONERS 1, AN SHowin o ’ &¥ DRILLING. | JOHN WINTERS, KNOWN AS “BUCK TAYLOR,’’> AND EVIDENCE WHICH MAY CONNECT HIM WITH THE SELBY ROBBERY. * — POLICE AND DETECTIVES ARE CONFIDENT THAT THEY HAVE THE MAN WHO STOLE THE GOLD Many Material Evidences Which in Their Cumulative Force Point to the Guilt of Winters Are Gathered in by the Sleuths Who Pass a Busy Day in the Hills Near Vallejo Junction. Late Theories of the Police in Regard to the Affair Suggest a Single-Handed Robbery OHN WINTERS, better known as | was put throush the “sweating’ process | hazard a conjecture, but they considerat the Hall of Justice, and the detoctives | inc Buck Taylor, whose arrest was‘\Vednnsday afternoon and evening. This | the first part of their work as done. Now | felt t_hen that the first step in the un- | published exclusively in The Call | was repeated for six hours yesterday, | they will devote their energies to locating | earthing of the perpetrators of the rob- yesterday, is the man the police of | with a result that the police now think | the purloined gold bricks. bery had been taken. Taylor, leaves the r"wh two counties and the best of pri- | that the man who committed the daring | On Wednesday night Captain Seymour | But rot until yesterday were the mate- | congratulatory mood vite detectives belleve to be the | and audacious robbery at Crockett is fast | was asked what the apprehension of this | rial evidences forthcoming. Detective Tom | heard on all sides. sole robber of the Selby Smelting Works | in their hands. Much material ‘evidence is | same suspect amounted to. He replied | Gibson. after bringing in his prisoner, | (For some days prior to the robbery Win- vault. Arrested by Detective Tom Gib- | gathered and arraigned against Winters. | then that there was nothing new in the | consulted with Lees, McPartland and | ters acted in a peculiar manner, and when son on WednesGay afternoon in San Ra- | It is all: circumstantial: and = strikingly | great $280,000 robbery and that.he had | Captain Seymour, and returned to Croc- | the discovery of the crime was made hey amaging. The t of the de- Winters, allas n a quiet, seif- Ve've got him™ 1s fael, he was brought at once to this city | cumulative, * Whither it is suflclent to | nothing to glve out. All this time Win- | kett Wednesday evenink and secured Continued on Pege Two. and turned over to Cavtain Sevmour. He ! convict Winters or not the police will not ' ters was locked up in the detectives’ room ' from Winters' cabin evidence which, if not ntinued on Page