The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1902, Page 2

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(&) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1902 HORROR HOLDS THOSE WHOSE L0SS 15 GREATEST THROUGH DREAD TRAGEDY —f | — |® o PARLANESOBS AT SIGHT OF SISTER'S BODY| CRELES E e Gives Way to Grief in| the Presence of | the Dead. ‘ No Doubt, He Says, That the | Remains Are Those of | Nora Fuller. as the sad duty of Lewis J. Par- brother of the murdered girl, to | | ntify the remains at the Morgue | 18 yesterday afternoon. A careful in- spection of the body enabled him to o tain of its identity, and -, choking' with sobs. | is badly decomposed, but he ed it by the. foreliead, hair and a are on the girl's left Xnee. After he viewed the remeins he was taken to ain Seymour’s office and was shown s clothes, which he at once rec- ized. 1 doubt is now driven from my he said. “That is my. sister. I could tell her in an instant. ‘The. doctors ay what they want.to, but T-am sure she was polsoned and also that she utally beaten. never do for my mother to see y, for if she received such a shock would never leave the Morgue alive. a very delicate woman, and I know t would affect her heart. lane is at present employed at the | s House. He has been working there | r about three weeks. Previous to hold- | & his present position he was employed the holiday season at the Em- i TELLS GILLEN NOT T0 GEJPSTAIRS Mysterious Man Orders the Bedding Left in the Ha||wa1. premises in which the dead body uller was found were viewed Larry C. Gillen of 241 Fifth the purpose of determining | t was at this house that he de- g which was found n found that it was at , 2211 Sutter street, that he de- | for Dealer Cavanaugh.the mat- | nkets which were pur- | him by Hawkins, who told ame was Scott. Gillen | on the eve of Jan-| his last delivery and was | ut to put up the horse when ordered to take the previously named articles out | et. The man who pur- | | from the second-hand | that he was going to move t juse at once and wanted the | ding that night. Mr. Schell said to | that h ad given his word that e stuff would go out that night. ow whom Gillen did not 1 ride rode out on Devisadero carried the things into th he did not see the tenant of the rriving at the house Gillen thought he had mistaken the number, us | was no light there. He rang the ice and was about to go next door n information when he heard steps the hall and the door opened, exposing ew in the darkness the outline of .a about 5 feet 6 inches in height, a silk hat and a frock or Prince rt coat. He places the man's weight bout 160 pounds and his age between d 5. The only feature recognizable | a close cut mustache of a This is 2al! the de ption he | | d the man if he s from a Mission-street | he had forgotten to look at the man asked if he meant d that he did. { , “I had orders to s upstairs, but he told me ave them right there in the hall. 1| . ed him why he didn’t light the hail so that I could see to sign the bili, E the gas had not yet been | He stood with an umbrella in d seemed a hurry to leave As I got into the wagon I the door slam, as though he had o the house. I then heard it slam and although I did not see him I places the time of his arrival at.the hous gs five minutes before § o'clock. The | street lamps had not yet been lit, so il ite dark. ir en was then taken by a Call re- orter to the residence of Emil F O'Farrell street, where the boy in the wagon up to Devisadero | street and from there went home. He | H ihed that on January 10 he cleaned the whole house, not omitting a room. ited the house on January naking a thorough tour of and declares positively that - & = — BROTHER OF UNFORTUNATE GIRL IDENTIFYING HER CLOTHES AND 'MEN WHO WILL GIVE EVIDENCE AT INQUES VICTIM OF DEATH AT HANDS OF A BRUTAL STRANGLER Continued From Page One girl would not home, even if tempted with most glittering prospects. that her murderer was degencrate, Bertrand states that the bed upon | house where he committed his foul deed. | Asher noted his general appearance cas- specting that anything was wreng he did not take pains to notice the murdered girl 1 k room on .the u floor, nor in any-other room in the house, | when he visited the dwelling on that date. Ber- | was both | phoned helr stories. Mr. Bertrand | says a wily-tongued who promised to pay her a flattering sum to take care of the house- hold he probably told her he would es- tablish, and in this way the innocent girl to withhold her quaintance with him from Mrs. until he had inserted the advertisement V. Clift, a gripman on the Sutter- street road, adds a bit of information to surrounding the case ! Last Tuesday know where 1g or from where » young man who drives vanaugh, a 848 Mission street. Gil- he delivered the bed the room where the girl delivery wa | furniture deal gon for J. C, stopping at some is borne out 1t rho once heard th that deepens the mystery, or Wednesday an old woman, carrying a | heavy basket, rede on Clift's car and on | remain away | Peking at 1 o'clock on the afternoon the the | girl disappeared, dispelled all theorles cal- The theory is | culated to connect him with the murder. Hugh Grant, the attorney who was on riendly terms with Eleanor Fuller and who bought her a dress just prior to her disappearance, was sent for yesterday by he jnfluenced | Captain Seymour. The chief of detectives | questioned the lawyer very closely for over an hour, but he made satisfactory explanations of his connection with the | ' DECLARES HOUSE MISS SEARIGHT SAYS SHE KNEW NORA SLIGHTLY Denies Having Had Close Acquaintance With Dead Girl. Says Miss Fuller Called on Her at Hale’s, Where She Worked. 1SS EMMA SBEARIGHT was seen at the residence of Mrs. A. W. Forbes, 2123 Sacramento street. yesterday afternoon, and denied emphatically that she had ever seen or been with Miss Eleanor Fuller since her disappearance. She sald that she had not seen the girl since she (Miss Searight) quit work at Hale's store on December 24 last. Miss Searight met Eleanor Fuller in a casual way one day while at the office of Hugh C. Grant in the Emma Spreckels building, with her father, William Sea- right. She was introduced by Attorney Grant and of course greeted the stranger as any one would and told her that she was in the perfumery department of Hale's and that any time she was down there to call around and get a sample of the per- fumes. It seems that the girl called at Hale's three or four times and nothing passed between them further than girlish talk. After leaving Hale's Miss Searight never saw the girl again. This was on December 24. Miss Searight's mother is dead and she resides with Mrs. A. W. Forbes, 2123 Sacramento street, a lady who for years has taken great interest in Emma and vouches for all that she says Mrs. Forbes cannot account for the rea- son why Emma should be selected as knowing anything about the dead girl, knowing her only so slightly as she did She thinks that the dead girl's school- mates would be more likely to know something of value to the authorities. It is probable that Eleanor Fuller, after baving a sample of perfume put on hi dress at Hale's, went home and her mother, noticing the odor, may have asked her where she obtained it. This is the theory advanced by Mrs. Forbes as to Mrs. Fuller's knowledge of Miss Searight. Miss Searight says she is ready at any time to testify in accordance with her statement as being all that she knows about the murdered girl. WAS UNTENANTED E. F. Bertrand, the locksmith who does repair work for Umbsen & Co., when in- terviewed yesterday by a Call reporter, stated positively that he went through the house at 2211 Sutter street on the 10th, 18th and 25th of last month, and that he is certain there was no furniture in the house on any of these occasions. “There is no chance for me to be mis- taken,” he sald, “for on these visits as is my custom I inspected the house thor- oughly and examined every room. I locked the windows on leaving. My visit on the 10th was on’orders from the real estate firm to clean the premises, that is, to remove the rubbish from the rooms. “Before leaving the house I took the globes from the parlor chandeliers and | locked them in a closet In the front bed- room upstairs. On the 18th I noticed that the globes were taken from the closet and placed in position on the fixtures in the room where the girl's body was after- | ward found. I paid no particular atten- tion to the change and dismissed the fact from my mind, believing that some one who had the right to do so had placed the globes there. “There is certainly a mistake on the part of the furniture man if he says that he delivered any furniture to the house before the 25th. As I recall my visits to the house I am unmistakably certain that I followed my custom on these occasions and went through every room and even the basement. If there had been any ar- | ticles of furniture in the house, especially as many as were subsequently found in that room, I would have ticed them, and to fulfill my mi I would have reported the matter to ““The more I think fair the stronger are my convictions no amount of questioning could make me be- lieve that I am mistaks or create the least doubt in m: JOHN J. FULTON CO. w\_?~Ve Were Too Late Bright's Disease and Diabetes Are Positively Curable. Upon hearing that Charles A. Newton, the yardmaster of the Southern Pacific Company at Sacramento, had a certain case of Diabetes, the business men who were investigating the Fulton Compounds wrote him asking him to take it. But they were late, as he had already heard | ~ pee e t > e - >4 4 1 This evide Benpeti's iodgis gsl,l::ul:‘. 11:«‘«;‘“ "lw‘ Jyas murdered on the night of January 3. | nearing, Pierce street she asked the €on- | i\ the paper and met her under the cloak | matter. of it, as per his letter in answer, as fol- . Bertrand Jelther missed. .3 | from his' mind. ‘s paid little Attenticd | The erticles were bought anaugh’s | QUCLOr o stop at 2211 Sutter street. It Is | ot protection it afforded. After meeting | Autopsy Surgeon Bacigalupi is con- | lows: S 1 S e Mty vied ‘prpnp { £ the il el ~the urniture store by a man who sald his| @ custom of the Sutter Street Railroad | gepnett the day she left home the mur- | Vinced that Eleanor Fuller was strangled “SACRAMENTO, July 21, 1901 i n t ouse until after Jan. ;.w;:)r;' ried on with Bennett over the tele- { name was £cott.. He told the furniture ; Company to leave their passengers off in| gorer in all probability ordered her to, 0 death. He has made a careful axa‘xn]. *“Dear Sirs: Yours of the 19th received and phone. | man that he had rented the house on Sut- | front of any number on their line and | (clophone to her home and say that she ;‘g“mg ‘?l the body and is certain that | I thank you for your Information regarding the M. Webh Ll | " 'Medge Graham Did Not Pry. ter street, and was particularly anxious | Clift remembers distinctly that ° the| o3 boen employed and that her duties | caues The e fro ted from o other | Diabetes medicine made by J. J. Fuiton. I was Ray. who was recently tramaf e o Ad ot bother hurserf | (DAL the scant articles of furniture ho | Woman asked him to stop in front of 2IL | wouiq commence at once. As the un- | of the throat and the congested cooninis® | wmatently cared of Disheton by i ads- the Elghth Infantry to the Seventn, ran oo |& g into the {dentity of the mur- | "0 USht Pe delivered that night. l;;;; e ?fl ¥y nflnd smrlm(flnfttmmrd fortunate girl was telephoning Bennett in | of the lungs induce this bellef. °°§fl"§§2 B I e e ot T S o Seventh, has re- | & o ) , the house next door, and CIift, see- & ; thi b 4 ed taking it March 3d and June 5th celved orders to e 3 | &l Ii-fou 1 o . . 1 lit: stood close b to | other organs of the b 1 commenc aking fires oedecs o Seoceed at omes i Ban Pran. | déred gir's Tll-found friend, so the police | - - StrangeriBitood in ths Dask. ing that she was heading for the wrong | & Propaptily (£100d, CER aps, | healthy, normal condition. The aei s | was pronounced cured. T now enjoy my old plia to take ¥ 15 for | are I g u # 2 the Popular | young Gillen was ordered to take the | number, beckoned her next door. The | Bote "o (ol T iiha) would - thwart | SEolvsis of the stomach dispels the | diet in a mild form. but acvases move on it as x command of his regiment, which ks e Retaty T 3 how in the isiand of Bames. - Which | restaurant, where it is known absolutely | hed and bedclothes to 2211 Sutter street, | 0/d Wwoman turned and started up the . | theory that the dead girl was th ces by, not wishing to attempt too much J l £l Pt et Bhe. tasn. - o 0 2 s _ntentions. This theory ac- o s Poisoned. | time goes by, | that Eleanor Fuller met the man. The |gna he did sn, arriving there about 5:65 | steps of the house where the nudebody | II® Melnous ptentions, AR Nor @ | Poisanomach did not contain any signs of | at once. I was very bad with the disease. Tue® descriptions of John Bempett and the | g'clock that Svening. Fid-Nens motietithe counts | v gravity was 1046, and I was so weak that I of Eleanor Fuller lay dead. That was " man who rented the Sutter-street house | go, 2 “ girl told her brother, who answered the e el < The sl . 2 4 > or of the premises by a man who an- | the last Clift saw of the woman. Why t 1500 Geas could scarcely walk. physicians helped me !gata"'h? E}eaf"ess |and signed himself C. B. Hawkins arc|gwers the description of Bennett and | She Went to the vacant dwelling or who | telePhanc o Pt e Accuses His Stepmother. e, but said there was 1o cure. T then heard Jaeatieal, ;Thare & -no-Ionger any. doubt i " i v b street, and that her newly-found SAN JOSE, Feb. 9—In of and went to treating with the Fulton Com- [that they are one and the same person ,}:“3]‘:‘;2_”:2';' "’;‘.’h:"fl':‘:gel::‘f lxe ’;“n i';en:?v’-fm?;e?Eéfirfméggfa&hggufr‘:;rfig5P‘flve' wanted her to remain there, all| by Frank Awbrey amn“gpif,'"'.’,: flled | 0 und, and only took three bottles when I |and. tini the monster essayed the’duu 1IN08 HEINEY, Thedal gpee o L e AR b night. pointed guardian of the person- ang - | commenced to teel beter, and then kept on im- (A e i he ; - was restored to \ ‘fil;all"m ers to mystlfy the police and cover | (ne 'delivery tag, but . the lutter, who | /Cepiain Sevmour fs convineed that Russian Sailed at 1 00lock. | sensationa Chaeges mer Joseph Awbrey, P e S e | seemed nervous and anxious to leave the | Fleanor Fuller and her murderer did not & z | stepmother, Susan Pruett awpeinst his o the road, who had the Giveas It was a well-lald scheme, but Bennett | house, informed him evctly that ine sag | 1Ive In the Sutter-street house. He de-| M. A. Serebrenck, a representative of & | per’son. Joseph Pruett. Joseph wwbios | years. Ho went to Tucson to die. Wh | blundered in its execution. In signing the | had mot been turned on ‘the 885 | | led six detectives yesterday to scour ¢ prominent tea firm in Shanghal, Was an | who is 72 years of age, is a wellprorel: | Lemug better 1 sent for him to cor od | contract with Umbsen & Co., the agents | The man was fully dressed & oot e e evors boas | noquaintance of the murdered girl and her | Fancher, residing on MeLaughmg SELOWA | Betting better © st (OF him 1o come © Sacra- {for the Sutter street house, the | and caried ou dmbrol ted for the street | wno might be able to give any information ( mother and brother. He came here dur- five miles south of this city. His son Ge. | reeurn he belleved 5o medicine would care him. | murderer probably used his char- sl on the ‘subject. The detectives visited|ing the month of December from the | Clares that the old gentleman has an es- | pc I prevailed upon him to try ft. This was . | acteristic ~handwriting, but he had B;f?:e psuc; gro ':ncllned to believe that | every restaurant for blocks around tb see | Orient, carrying letters of introduction "‘};,‘gr"‘hm* 3 f;rb;“i‘qls;g_fana_hle of ear- | o iay, He 1s now so much improved that he . nes Bl to sign the contract in two places, and | aet f&'x‘née§t°fo°°t;"“th- is trying to pro- | i any of them had delivered meals to the | from the Fuller girl's uncle. Mrs. Fuller . his wife and a son by 2 ormo: and that | .| o; nis engine working every day. Thers a BR. C@TT”\fiflAfl S M the letters in each signature are notice- T the reason that he was | hoyse of mystery or if any one answering { and her daughter visited Serebrenek at A T ethod | 1)\ dissimiiar. In a bold hand he signed | oCrc0 DY his employes to search the | tne descrintion of the murdered girl and | his apartments at the Palace Hotel sev- Discases Positively Cured by propose to dispose of certain prope also two cases of Brigh Disease taking T B & longing to him. Mrs. Susan Awbrey s g | whom I told of it. I hope some syndicate W Regules graduate end expert on EAR, NOSE, | the name C. B. Hawkins, but a compari- house carefully. | her murderer had been in the habit of | eral times. In a little leather pocketbook | Yeras old. get this medicine and bulld sanitarfuns a 3 o B = TALN son of the two signatures plainly show | 5 this was.two days before Eleanor | eating in their dining-rooms. found among the murdered girl's effects Wears Tuanter It B over the country for the treatment of thes 204 Sutter Street, KW. Cor. of Keargy | that he was not used to writing the name. Fuller aisappeared, her murderer had |- Every loth of evidence thus far un-|Was a card bearing the name of the firm | ypyy o Tuquiey In Not Death. | areadrul disea Trusting I have ne probably visited the house to await the | carthed by the poiice and others inter- | Which . Sercbrenck represented. For a!(jupe, a N ; Feb. 9.—Bartholomew, . | too much, your Hours, 912 &, m.; 1-3 and 7-8 p. m, Captain Seymour is working tooth and nail to ferret out the deep mystery. The une, a Yo icide coming of the bed upon which he mur- csted in the solution of the mystery sub- | time yesterday the police thought they FREE Q“Eé‘,?"',fiifi TRIAL OF ONE | giory of Emil F. Bertrand, the locksmith §°‘."“ his girlish victim. Next the mur-| stantiates the theory that Eleanor Ful.|hed a live clew, but the statements of Al- ferather than ‘ Postor ettt of ihe T the #u- | i went 60, e Ristter Aot | met in front of the house by | jer was taken to the house the day she | bert Parlane, the murdered girl's brother, | m. 1 alleged against him . 3000 test Cases, %5 per cent cured. Call o | house on January % and searched s cater ::i::é ?11"2’;,;'23“} l;::rs :l:rds wusfin&:: lof¢ hgme pud thate shy was mrdered and the manager of the Mield Mercantile | | % he went gy . 4 : R . Lo, y L oereal oent | positively recovering. S hlet amce ‘qr write ‘for -£res teatent. fully, adde additional tangle to the mys- | murderer as the lattor was. leaving ‘the | Tt is COmERNY, Who. ¥y At thex Aaw. Seres | i prmes- | oy R o It is quite certain that the murderad | br i use: ) y C “ v peX Thave (s oty gn- Tho".CIfg ‘ot | the mater:. & T T oF Xow0g men. in| Joha, 3. Wolon, Cw, @8 Mongomery

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