The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1902, Page 1

SAN FRANCIS CoO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ELEANOR FULLER A VICTIM OF HIDEOUS DEATH AT HANDS OF BRUTAL STRANGLE R +* = | T developed yesterday that Eleanor Fuller was strangled to death by a man with whom she had been acquainted before she answered the advertisement which he had placed in the morning papers simply to meet the girl | S A R : ¥ ; is hellish plot. under its protection and thys allay the suspicions of Mrs. Fuller, so he could successfully carry out his ! v i s 1 T“er police are now ‘concc:mating their efforts toward discovering the identity of John Bennett, the man who lured Eleanor Fuller away from home. In his elaborate plans to avoid detection the murderer made v er several ers and left clews by which Captain Seymour hopes to eventually track him down. » ¢ 4 iy Ry The police are convinced that John Bennett is the man who rented the Sutter street flat under the name of C. B. Hawkins and later, under the name of Scott, bought the bed on which the girl was murdered. | | | i | | | | | | : | | 1 | { ) ! 1 | | | | I ) r/// 7 \ TS -G URO © - ////f// | o & ' 3 7 I > . ) i | | CAUSES TEN MILLION DOLLARS’ LOSS | U - i ;, |1 | it | s . Flames Cut Off the Escape of Smoldering Ruins Cover Acres a ' i - of Land in the Heart of | Guests in a lodging | of Land in the Heart of House. | the City. | T. LOUIE, Feb. 9. early morning | <= - ATERSON, N. J, Feb. 9.—A great fire, which destroyed the Empire | | fire swept through Paterson to- Hotel, a large three- ELEVEN V'CTIMS | day, and in its desolate wake are | house at 2700 and 2702 O % | the embers and ashes of property | e Siath ‘ot hevi | OF ST. LOU'S FIRE valued at $10,000,000. It burned its | " ten men and one woman- | . way through the business section | ! gerously 1 4 eight others. |of the city and claimed as its own | smore who had narrow escapes from deatt MORRISS YALL, senior a majority of the finest structures de- received less serious injuries or were| | member of the firm of Yall, voted to commercial, civic, educational frost-bitten. It is estimated that there | | Clark & Cowen, manufactur- and religious use, as well as scores of were between thirty-five v per- | | ers of fine cut glass; formerly { dvrellings. Hundreds of persons were left €ons in the building last night, it is| | of Chicago; burned to death. | homeless and thousands without employ- ‘i ” believed been accounted for. The | | TOBIAS DAVIS, manabout | |ment. A relief movement for the care of | ; - fin ominal. Twenty thou- 4 i | those unsheltered d vided 1 | : cover the damage to the | | JOEN O TEDERS, skull | | hae aireeds e copumprovided for| [ NPIGHBORS COMFORTING DISTRESSED MOTHER AND PRINCIPALS AND SCENES IN CASE. | * contents, which were en- fractured in jumping from John Hinchcliffe said to-night that Pater- £ tire || Lhird-s(ory window. son would be able to care for her own, ose v were the most seriously in- | | GEORGE witho'it appealing to the charity of other | Cline, , hands badly burned: hands burned, both legs internally; Henry night porter, badly H ured Kle window: Harry Thomp- ally, manager Empire Con Ryan. turgeon, medicai k sprained in jumping from ned urec ing bruised, burned or r rom exposure. Delay in Giving the Alarm. The fire started at 3:3 o'clock, when few pers were abroad, and gained much headway before it was discovered and the alarm given. There was consid- medical stu- | he. medical student, | sprained in jumping | Nashville, 111, ankle | g from second-story | | twelve others were less | | VANCE MARTIN, civil en- THOMPSON, switchman Terminal burned to death. SARAH HARRIS, colored chambermaid, burned. B. F. WOODLEY, employe Hamilton-Brown Shoe Com- | | pany, burned. J. A. McMULLEN, carpen- ter, burned. S. T. COREY, telegraph op- erator Merchants’ Terminal Association, burned. yards, gineer, Indianapolis, burned. { A.J. ALLEN, Sedalia, Mo., stonemason, burned. C. E. CANTROUT, carpen- ter. — erable delay in turning in an alarm, and when the engines finally reached the communties and States. The great man- ufacturing plants of the place are safe and the community, temporarily dazed | by the calamity, has already commenced the work of reorganization and restora- tion. The fire came at last midnight and was | checked only after a desperate fight that lasted until late this afternoon. Every | ci*y and town within reach of Paterson sent firemen and apparatus to the relief of the threatened city and it took the united efforts of them all to win the bat- tle. Gale Spreads the Flames. A northerly gale gave the conflagration its impetus and carried its burning brands to kindle the blaze afresh at other points. The firemen made stand after ¢tand before the wall of fire, but were repeatedly driven back and when aid LEANOR FULLER was strangled to death. This was determined yes- terday by the autopsy. The mur- dered girl was lured tb her death by ahuman fiend with whom she was on friendly terms, and the advertise- " ment which her murderer inserted in the morning papers was simply a ruse to allay the suspicions of Mrs. Fuller. These facts were definitely established by vesterday's developments in the case of the young girl whose dead body was found in the house at 2211 Sutter street Saturday. Logical reasoning and investi- gation substantiate these conclusions, and 7 Continued on Page Five. Continued on Page Five. upon them the police will lay their plans Assassin Makes Several Blunders in His Elaborate Plans and 'Leaves Clews by Which Detectives Hope to Eventually Track Him Down. The identification of the body of Miss Fuller was made absolute yesterday when Lewis Parlane, the girl's brother, visited the Morgue. A vaccination mark on the left leg just below the knee and another scar made on the big toe by a nail re- moved every possible doubt in young Parlane’s mind that the remains were those of his sister. The police are diligently searching for John Bennett, the middle-aged man who met Eleanor Fuller at the Popular Res- taurant on Geary street on the day she disappeared, and when they locate him they are satisfied that they will have to briug the unfortunate girl’s murderer | found the foul fiend who lured Eleanor to Jus Fuller away from the bosom of a loving mother and subsequently crushed out her | girl and had met young life in the vacant dwelling on Sut- | downtown. ter street. Rivals Durrant Case. It was a cowardly deed, one that rivals even the horrifying one for which Theo- dore Durrant sacrificed his neck.on the galiows. The murderer .laid his. pians | appearance. Both had heard her talking with studied accuracy. - He nursed his ac- | {0 Bennett over the 'phone. To Madge quaintance with the young girl with al- | Graham she admitted. that she had 1 luring intrigues, and his schemes worked | friend named Eennett, who was always well. | well dressed and plentifully supplied with The man who sent the note to the Ful-| money. On two or three occasions abous ler home and signed himself John Bennect | two or three weeks before the murdered when he notified the girl to meet him at | girl dropped out of sight Madge Graham the Pepular restaurant had held several conversations over the telephone with the her at various places This fact is established by | the stories of Madge Graham, the 15-year- | old companion of Eleanor Fuller, and a young man who works in the grocery store near the house where the Fuller family lived at the time of ‘the girl's dis- ‘oM, 98eg uo penupuoy