The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1902, Page 3

.THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1902. THAC N6 IMPELLED TI OTY CHARNAL HOUSE HORRIFIED AT MURDER TALE STREAM OF THE MORBIDLY CURIOUS VIEWS THE REMAINS OF DEAD GIRL 2 constant | nearly ever: ted the Morgue | | h horror on the| | ins of the unfortunate Nora | | r 2 o'clock Lewis | er of the murdered ' gue to identify the | was in doubt as to hat of his sister, | E on mark on her | e exclaimed, “Yes, that is poor | re can be no mistake about it.” lete the identification Parlane | to police headquarters and | | clothes which had been worn e dead girl | se are Nora's garments,” he ., pointing to the heap of cloth- | the house in which the un- | 1 had met her death. “I am | ghly satisfied that the body in the gue is that of my poor sister.” Others Identify Remains. yesterday r viewing the remains fied them as those of‘ | elderly woman, dressed in black, one of the deputies and asked see the be sked the deput: n she answered, | to see the remains.” with tears and | | to escort her | | she tearfully ex- ‘ could have slain | have daughters | I pity her | en that the flend soon meet his of morbid visitors was | s Captain of Detectives in his office listening | | Sherlock Holmes, tried | | A of the detective de- | e necessity of arresting cter in the city. | to get at the| " he remarked | of an experienced sleuth. | all in and you will have lit- | picking out the murderer.” became =0 emphatic in hi ow to be a successful Captain Seymour finally | | him from his office. | —_——— | MRS. FULLER IS H CONFINED TO BED, Says Serebrenek Sailed on| + Same Day That Nora Disgppeared. | YOUNG LADY OF SAME HEIGHT } DONS THE MURDERED GIRL'S TOGRAPHED FOR THE CALL. Alice Maud Fuller, mother of the s (Photo by J. A. Cahill.) AND BUILD AS BLEANOR FULLER® CLOTHES AND IS SPECIALLY PHO- ter street, is down with on at her home, 14 St. The mental anguish suf. during the period of search nd the shock that y find in the silent serted house on Sut- too much for the t to stand. Kind and sym hbors waited on her yester. ry sound at the front door er would spring up in bed Vi fresh news, or -9 in January. He arrived, 1 believe, | ::?:e%‘ednesday, and the Friday following I called on him at the Palace Hotel, ac- companied by my daughter Nora. Ie safled on the City of Peking at 1p m, | January 11, for China. That was the day | my daughter disappeared. My son, Lewls J. Parlane, went down to the whart and | v the Count depart.” ‘*’*Xv‘r'?m did you first meet Hugh C. Grant, and how did you bappen to em in galning a clew | ploy him as your attorney?” was asked. aerer. | " “I was having considerable legal work occurred yesterday | done in connection with my divorce,” M , the brother of the | Fuller replied, “and the attorneys I was rned from the Morgue mother that there doubt that the body s that of Nora. I casually noticed an advertisement in some paper of Attorney Grant and 1 was impressed with the name, as I once had uEt ot go down and see it,” | a dear friend by that name. I called on : e not strong enough to | him and he attended to my legal work. | During the months of July and August | ora Fuller disappeared her hopes that some day she r home safe and sound. een kept in readiness for le white iron bedstead with | t, the pictures and c: 1st such as a girl | are all as she left On the table near the | nely bound Bible and near | favorite song: she would never | ows that the mur- | d been brought 1 boarded his 1l-year-old daughter Eth at her father’s reques paid me in full for the board of the child and was in debt to me for this ar- rangement. 1 can thus easily explain | Nora’s going into his office and borrow- ing car fare from him. Grant used to come out to the house, but T am not aware that he ever went out with Nora. Grant and Count Serebrenek never met and were not acquainted. A “The papers said to-day that Nora was sixteen. This is a mistake. She was oniy like fourteen than her real age. She | a very studious girl, and the only time that she went down town was to exchange books at the Free Public Library.” “Did your daughter ever work at any h the house | time?” was asked of Mrs. Fuller. from top to| * ghe worked during the months of ght have even | October and November of last year for a family at a pri children,” the bereaved mother replied “When she answered theadvertisemznt ust before she disappeared she and 1 de. | ¢ided that she should come home and sleep every night. good girl,” she she was crueily | to secure her | I do hope | n SRR 'HOUSE PROVIDES FEW NEW CLEWS "| The house at 2211 Sutter street, in which | poor Nora Fuller met her death, consists been the advert suggeste ment was to w you became acquair t Serebrenek, the R Hotel?” was of four rooms eon the lower floor and je came from China, four on the upper. The approach, from m my brother, whose name | the street is up a flight of about brother and Serebrenek | ten steps, and the doors open into yed by the same mercar a hallway from which runs the flight ount went to Russia and re- |*of stairs leading to the upper story. On SECOND ANNUAL AUCTION OF ABOUT 1000 GEMS IN ORIENTAL RUGS —COMMENCI 14 U NDAY, February 10, M 10:30 A. M. AND 2 P. & C0.,230 POST STREET EETWEEN GRANT AVENUE AXD STOCKTON STREET. A. W. LOUDERBACK, Art Auctioneer. uAGOPIAT % GATALOGUES, employing did not give me satisfaction. | Grant never | fifteen and a half, and she looked more | te hotel, taking care of | o the lower floor is a front and back par- lor, a kitchen and servants’ room. On 1 the second floor is a front and side bed- | room, a bathroom and rear bedroom. Tt | was in this latter room that the body of the girl was found. | The walls are papered in red and give | evidence that at one time the room | might have been occupled as a kitchen. Tack marks in the wall seem to show | that a strip of some materfal was put in the wall to protect it from injury. There is a daub of grease on one of the widths of the paper, which is evidently of long | standing. Many of the houses in the immediate vicinity overlook from the rear the room | in which the girl's bocy was found; yet } 2 patlent Inquiry among the neighbors | 6id not result in the finding of any one who ever saw a light or heard a noise n | the house after the previous occupants moved out about the first of the year. The house is built onto the one next to it and the partition between the two is of | such Jightness that any unusual noise in the one could be heard in the other. The 1esidents of the houses on either side of that in which the body was found are positive in their declaration that they never saw any one in or about the prem- | ises or saw any lights at any time in the house. An examination of the premises was made yesterday by the detectives and others, but not the slightest trace of a late occupancy was found. Tie flues in | the grates and chimneys were filled with | 0ld papers, some of them bearing dates | of two years ago. The detectives tore up | the tollet and took out the contents of | the trap, that an examination might be made, that a scrap of writing, poison bot- tle or other clew might be revealed. | The washstand in the bathroom gives | no_evidence of having been used lately. | Neither is there any evidence of the house | having been occupied for any length of time. Had the occupants had their meals sent in, or had they purchased a cold | meal at a delicacy store, some trace of | paper, twine or wooden plates would have been found. - coatloelie o CARD FURNISHES IMPORTANT CLEW Signature of C. B. Hawkins Resembles That of . Serebrenek. The signature of “C. B. Hawkins” ap- pended to the lease of the house at 2211 Sutter street, where the body of Eleanor Fuller was found, is declared to resemble that,of M. E. Serebrenek, the name of the young man whose card was In the dead | girl’s purse. The statement was made by | friend of the Serebrenek family fully acquainted with the son’s chirog- raphy, and when shown the lease had no hesitancy in saying that the signature was very much like Serebrenek’s, who was | popularly called ‘““Mooney” by his friends and relatives in the Orient. His description ta]lies with that given | of the man who purchased the bedcloth- ing and articles at the Mission-street sec- ond-hand store. Serebrenek was spend- ing a vacation in this ecity, having come | here from Port Arthur, where he was em- ployed by the Oriental contracting firm of Cornabe, Eckford & Co., which is engaged in erecting the enormous warehouses at that place for the Imperial Russian Gov- ernment. He had received his education in England, and for his age, he fpeing but % years old, he was recelving ‘the large salary of $500 Mexican per month. This an old ‘who is BENNETT'S EYE STRONG GUIDE Mysterious Man’s Right Optic Contains Well Defined Cast. Sometimes Takes Up Evan- gelical Work and Dons Clerical Garb. HE police have been furnished with a complete. description of Bennett, the man who is belleved to be connected with the disap- pearance and death of Eleanor Fuller, and it will be sent broadcast over the country. ° Bennett is described as a man five feet eight inches in height and weighing .about 160 pounds. There is a well defined cast in the right eye, and his rather prominent nose is flattened at the end as it the result of some accident in his youth. He is rather bald and has the habit of walking with bowed head at all times. He has a light brown mustache and florid complexion. At the time he met Miss Fuller at the Popular restaurant he wore a tight-fitting cutaway coat of dark material, blue over- coat with velvet collar and black Fedora hat. He disappeared from his haunts in this city three years ago and did not re- turn for six or eight months thereafter. At that time he was attired as a minister, and in answer to inquiries he said he was traveling through tne country preaching the gospel to benighted people. That this was a subterfuge was suspected by many, but there was nothing at that time to render the suspicion conclusive. L e e e e Y ) was due to his knowledge of the Russian language, laws and customs. He is de- scribed as belng about five feet nine inches in height, stocky build, black hair and very dark brown mustache, and al- ways well dressed. His family are Russians who made a fortune in the hotel business at Singa- pore and who, upon their retirement, re- moved to Shanghai, where the lad's father, F. Serebrenek, ranks as one of the capi- talists of that opulent Oriental city. “Mooney”” has been a source of anxiely and care to his parents on account of his extravagant tastes and love for women, and despite his large salary his father has had frequently to go to his rescue in order to extricate him from numerous escapades and save him from his_ creditors. His family expected his return to Shanghal early In December, but instead he loitered here and then suddenly dis- appeared. He is distantly related by marriage to a dealer in furnishing goods named Goldman, living in Oakland. His only sister, Mary, i{s married to David Goldman, an inspector of the im- perial customs at Shanghai, whose broth- er is employed in the Yokohama branch house of the importing firm of Mendelson Bros. at 7 Battery street. pulih Bl i L ATTORNEY GRANT MAKES STATEMENT He Tells of His Connection With the Fuller Family. Attorney Hugh C. Grant, who has at- tended to the legal business of Mrs. Ful- ler, the mother of the murdered girl, called at the Morgue yesterday to see the body of Eleanor Fuller. Grant was well acquainted with the unfortunate girl, and his identification o? the body was positive. The attorney haa visited the Morgue in the early hours of yesterday morning and at that time he had some hesitation in saying that the body found in the house at 2211 Sutter street was that of Eleanor. “I looked at the face of the dead gir! carefully,” said Grant last evening, “ani with the identification of the clothing found near the body, I am now positive that the remains are those of Eleanor Ful- ler. “I first became acquainted with Mrs. Fuller three years ago, when she retained me as her attorney. Her daughter Eleanor has often visited my office bringing mes- sages and notes from her mother concern- ing legal business. The girl often dropped in to get car fare from me. As regarcs the statement that I bought a dress for the girl, there has been some misappre- hension. My daughter Ethel was boarding with Mrs. Fuller and I noticed that Elean- or Fuller was not as well dressed as she should be. I told Mrs. Fuller that the child ought to have a new dress and I gave her $12 50 to get one for the chill. The amount was credited to my account for the board of my daughter with Mrs. Fuller. ‘% never took the child of Mrs. Fuller to a theater or to a restaurant, and I do not know of any men that Eleanor Fuller was acquainted with. The last time I saw Eleanor Fuller alive was just before Christmas. “I do not know the man named Sere- breneck, who was stopping at the Palace Hotel and who is supposed to be a friend of Eleanor Fuller's uncle. I do not know any man named Hawkins or Jennings that the murdered girl might have known. #From what I saw of Eleanor Fuller she impressed me as being a quiet and well-behaved girl, and one who is not likely to make chance acquaintances with strange men. “The murder of this young girl is a ter- rible affair and it has affected me very much. My relations with Mrs. Fuller are not as friendly as they were a few weeks ago. I took my daughter away from her house and placed her with some friends of mine named Whitney. Mrs. Fuller has also asked to substitute another attorney to act for her In my place. There has been no great difference in our relations, only that I think Mrs. Fuller did not like my action in removing my daughter from her house. 1 cannot throw any light on this terrible affair. I saw the police to- day and gave them every information it was in my power to give. I hope that this "crime will be sifted to the bottom and the murderer of Eleanor Fuller caught and punished.” —— Furey Caught in Arizona. Edward Furey, the former special po- liceman, who was arrested for an assault to commit murder, and who jumped his bonds, was apprehended yesterday at Prescott, Ariz. He was identified by a tattoo mark .on his left forearm. An offi-, cer will leave to-day to bring him back. —_—— Magil The way Salva-cea cures Plles, TWO YOUNG GIRLS RUN AWAY FROM go— ‘NG SUDE | HOME AND POLICE SEARCH FOR THEM | YOUNG GIRL WHO DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOIE WITH A FRIEND e ‘WO more, young girls have dis- appeared from their homes and thus far the efforts of the police to lgeate them have been futile. \vxigifier they were enticed away and met the fate of the several unfortu- nate girls who bebame the victims in the city’s most famous crimes is yvet to be determined. . Grace Langford, aged nearly 15, and Norma Dobson, aged 14, left their homes , Tuesday night and have not been located | since, although they were seen a _day later on the streets. The first named girl | lived at 124 Rose avenue and the other at 165_Valencia street. ‘When they passed from under their parental roofs the girls intended to at- tend a dance. This they did, but where théy went afterward is the mystery. f th girls were employed as seamstress- n the California Casket Company on | es e Mission street. While in this empioy- ment they met and have been fast friends for over seven months. Neither hinted that she was about to make a sud- den departure from home and there seems to be little cause, except slight restrie- tions, that would cause a desire for them to part from their homes. Grace Langford was passionately fond Continued on Page Five. money saved, second because the suit. the pattern you want. 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