The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1902, ‘POLICE MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO DISCOVER A TANGIBLE CLEW MORBID WOMEN VISIT MORGUE | T0 VIEW BODY Captain Seymour Directs| Detectives and .Hears Statements. Murdered Girl’s Mother Says | She Never Met Slayer 4 of Her Daughter. ROMPTED by curiosity imber of people, among them morbid women, visited the day pemains es ap- office paper written a ead girl. er name or her the remains | f identifica- her by | declared | r Fuller. | a large | and evening and | of the mur- | shortly | i permission to see | Headquarters. nt Captain | jirecting his n the case was aceom- | Attorney subjected to m satisfied s the compan- Fiend’s Arrest. g wea vietim be- the of St. their ched to and Fol- | a rendition or the Gertrude's nder of Lin- « F 1ed a circular g of the Grand 100ls on hda to- of schools Humboldt irammar, ammar, ow Grammar, cific Heights Grammar and on the e without a | nce yester- | 48 at once | promised to | i pe Jaw in future. | The salary ! lished shortly. | copal Ministerial Union listened to a - T, ATTORNEY HUGH A GRANT TMAKING HIS STATEMENT TO CAPTAIN JOHN F. SEYMOUR AT THE HALL' OF JUSTICE. L 4 GRANT DECLARES THAT DEAD GIRL WAS HIS FRIEND TTORNEY HUGH GRANT was sent for by Captain Seymour last evening and glosely questioned. Grant emphabically denfed that he ever met Bennett here is such a man in existence,” “I don’t know him. It is true well acquainted with Mrs. Ful- nd her family. I knew Eleanor. I her several years ago. on friendly terms with her and My object in presenting her has been so much appreciation friendship. The e about her identi- night that I saw her body MRS. A. M. SMITH DENIES THAT SHE ACTED CRUELI.YI Answers Husband’s Complaint and Still Accuses Her Cousin Florence. M. Smith, whose husband, mith, suing her for divorce ground of cruelty, filed an answer usband’s complaint yesterday. ies that she treated Smith cruelly and repeats the charges she made in the suit for $30,000 damages she filed against Florence Smith for alienation of affections. : T. K. Little, who was married to Letitia A. Little_only three weeks ago, flled a suit for divorce against his wife yester- day. He accuses her of infidelity and names H. R. Shaughnessy of 125 Guerrero street as corespondent. Evelyn A. Davis is suing Charles A. Davis, a practitioner of osteopathy, for divorce on the ground of failure to pro- vide. She asks the court to give her a divorce and $50 per month alimony. rces were granted yesterday to Kate Turner from Patrick Turner for neglect, Annie M. Powers from James Powers for intemperance and Jessie Mc- Guire from John J. McGuire for failure to provide. Suits for divorce were filed yesterday by Lottie Brown against James B. Brown for desertion, Marie R. Rae-Brown t Alexander N. Brown for deser- nd M e Vogelsang against Fred- for fallure to provide. ————— Clerk Sues for Salary. Edward L. O'Connor of 510 St. Rose street, a copyist in the Recorder’s office, petitioned the Superior Court yesterday for a writ of mandate compellipg Auditor Baehr to audit his salary warrant for the month of January. An alternative writ, returnable before Judge Hunt on Febru- v 14, was issued. O’Connor is a civil service employe, who was reappointed t by Recorder Godchaux January 5. fund of the Recorder’s office was not large enough to pay all the help and O’'Connor demand for salary was refused because of the shortage. e — Ministerial Meetings. “A Page or Two From the History of Presbyterianism on the Pacific Coast’ was the subject of a paper read by Rev. James S. McDonald, D. D., to the Présbyterian Minlsters’ Union yesterday. His address was taken from a work he has been au- thorized to prepare ‘which will be pub- The paper was full of in- teresting data and was listened to with decp interest. On Monday next Dr. Wil- liam Alexander will read a paper entitled “Is Organic Union of Protestant Denomi- nations Desirable?” The Methodist Epis- a- per by J. M e e e e in the Morgue was because I had deter- | mined to make sure that the remains were | those of Eleanor before informing her | mother. | *So far as I know she had very few male acquaintances. I think if she had a sweetheart she would have told me on account of the confidence she reposed in me. As I was acting as the legal adviser of Mrs. Fuller she frequently sent the | girl to my office on business errands. It | was not unusual for me to hand her car | fare whenever she came to my office. I | { don’t know that I ever met Miss Graham. “In fact, I am pretty sure that I did not. I am satisfied that if she was in the habt | of meeting this man Bennett she woul | have told me. I knew nothing about her trying to procure a situation.” | Grant emphatically denied that he had | taken ghe girl to restaurants and other | public” plac He said he had acted toward the his child. day to give | the hope of refreshing his memory certain discrepancies between_ this ! his original statement. 7 aptain Seymour intends to- nt another ‘“‘tryout” in on | and | ROWLING EXPERTS RUN UP VERY BIG SCORES | Teams in the Local League Play Fine | Games in the Eugenc | Alleys. | The five-man teams from the Excelsior { and Lincoln clut leys last night, s met at the Eugene with the following re- sults: Excelsiors— 1 _ Lincolns— Kuenzle ...143 148 128|Crawford ..125 164 141 | Levy . 97 125 138| Minot .....185 157 188 R'schm’Ir ..160 106 131|Ettinger ...139 149 160 Krieger ...131 128 122 Brunsing .. 186 Welz ......110 118 84|Carroll 62 158 139 Totals ...641 625 603! Totals ... 3 The doubles on the Central alleys re- sulted as follows: 164 134 184 Eacret 117 153 143 Gott . 281 287 321| Totals 165 302 188 157 184 Harwood 84 167 146 . Theberg . 372 824 330 | Totals ...296 358 315 Messrs. Pike and Egbert, as usual, did not appear to play their schedule games. Mr. Eacret, the diamond expert, showed his skill at tenpins to the tune of 233, the highest score in the tournament. —_————— Grand Army Impostor. George T. Johnson, senlor vice com- mander of Lincoln Post, Grand Army of the Republic, secured a warrant from .Judge Fritz yesterday for the arrest of Henry Bluhm, alias Brum, on the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. He alleges that on September 27 last Bluhm called upon him and represented that he was a member of Granville Thurs. ton Post of Lebanon, Ohio, and showed a card supposed to be from that post. John- son gave him $3, as he clalmed to be hard up, and now he says that there is no such man a member of the Lebanon post. It is sald that several other Grand Army men in tht city have been swi oshn Jn ndled by 152 163 Totals .. ———— Dewet’s Aid Will Speak. The Transvaal League is arranging for a monster mass-meeting to be held at Metropolitan Temple Thursday evening, February 20. General Snyman of General Dewet’s staff will speak on the situation in South Africa, and D. M. Delmas will follow him with an appeal on behalf of the Boers. Rev. Father Yorke will also speak. —_——— Judge Dunne’s Removal. Judge Dunne took up his quarters at the Hall of Justice yesterday, which now places the three Superior courts for the Woodman of San Leandro | trial of criminal cases under one roof. He on “The Manifestive View of the Atone-'| had a Chinese assault to murder case up ment.” for trial. s PLAMBEK THINKS HE SAW ELEANOR RIDING ON TRAIN HARLES PLAMBEK, a sewing machine agent at 1915 Mission street, reported to the police yes- terday that on the night of Jan- uary 2, while en route to Sacra- mento, he noticed on the train a young girl who closely resembled Nora Fuller. Plambek says: “We were delayed en route, owing to the breaking down of the craft that crosses the straits of Carquinez, and we had to go to Sacramento by way of Stockton. This young girl was in the parlor car, and I heard a young brake- man say that he would look out for the girl when the train reached Sacramento. We talked to each other and she said GILLESPIE TO BE TRIED FOR GRIFFIN’S MURDER Jury Secured and the Taking of Tes- timony Will Commence This Morning. A jury was secured in Judge Coos's court yesterday to try the case of George D. Gillespie, charged with the murder of William F. Grifin on the evening of August 20 last. Griffin and his young wife had a room in Gillespie's lodging-house, 119 Ninth street, and on the evening of the murder Griffin was raising a row in his room and breaking crockeryware. Gillespie was called by his wife to quell the disturbance, and alleges that Griffin came at him with a knife and he fired in self-defense. The defendant is represented by Attorneys Ferral and Roy, and Attor- ney A. P. Black is assisting Assistant District Attorney Porter Ashe in the pros- ecution. The jurors selected to try the case are: D. W. Lohson, J. E. Dealey, James Walsh, W. E. Lovejoy, Otto Wellweber, John Williams, Andrew Jackson, J. W. Tamm, M. Stockwitz, Willlam Amick, M. Herman and T. Frahm. The hearing of witnesses for the prosecution will com- mence this morning. ————————— California’s Historic Building. Governor Gage has selected the com- mission which is to have charge of the historic buildings of California. The com- mission was created by an act of the last Legislature, Although all of the ap- ointees have not been announced, it is earned that E. Myron Wolf of San Francisco and Mayor Johnson of Mon- terey will be two of the five members of the body. The legislative act creating the commis- sion_appropriated $3000 for repairs to the old Custom-house at Monterey, one of the most interesting of the historical struc- tures embraced within the act, and S yearly for its care. The United Statcs agreed to transfer the ground and buid- ing to the Native Sons and deed was de- livered September 9, 1900, by Congressman Julius Kahn. Held for Grand Larceny. Peter Gatens was held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Conlan yes- terday on the charge of grand larceny. in $1000 bonds. He is accused of taking $70 from Charles McConnell of Fruitvale in the Manhattan saloon, Jackson and Mont- gomery streets, on the night of Febru- ary 3. $4.85A Man’s Suit—$4.85. Plenty of men's suits to suit at the man- ufacturers’ clothing sale. $4 8 will fit you to an all-wool suit that is worth $20. You may look at them, and if suited you are welcome to one of them at the Lyceum clothing sale, 916 Market street, opposite son. 4 . that she was going to some place near the capitol, but she did not know the name of the parties or the number of the place. “When she got to tacramento she was met by a stout, elderly man, wearing a slouch hat, who chided her for coming so late. She sald she did not know the boat was stopped, and he sald she ought to have turned back at Stockton. She was chatty, and said in answer to the brakeman's inqui ies that she lived at 612 Haight street in this city. I lost sight of her at the depot.” | Mrs. P. H. Livingstone lives Haight street, but disclaims all edge of the girl. She says: 1 can account for all my help, for with the exception of the woman at present in my em- ploy, they have all been colored women. I have no idea how this young woman came to | give our number, as no one in my employ for the last flve years answers either the descrip- tien of the Fuller girl or the woman that went to Sacramento two weeks ago Saturday. 1 did not discharge any help on that date or thereabouts. D Tt 2 2 e el LIVELY FIGHTING GOES ON IN SOUTH AFRICA Series of Surprises and Engagements in Which Boers and Britons Sustain Losses. LONDON, Feb. 10.—A report received to-day from Lord Kitchener at Pretoria shows last week to have been the live- liest week, with the heaviest losses on both sides, for several months past. Lord Kitchener gives the Boer casualties as sixty-nine killed, fifty-seven surrendered and 574 taken prisoners. The British cap- tured 480 rifies, one pompom and the usual grist of munitions and livestock. The most serious British loss during the at 612 knowl- wagons convoyed by 160 troops. At a oint thirty” miles from Beaufortwest, ana Colony, the enemy swept down on the donkey wagons and cut up the con- voy before assistance arrived. oy were able to remove only twelve of the wagons and burned the rest. In this engagement the British lost two officers and seven men killed and one officer and forty-seven men wounded, while the Boers lost twenty- { four killed and forty-five wounded. The Boers also rushed a detachment of 100 men of Colonel Doran's column the night of February 3, when the British lost three officers and seven men killed and seventeen men wounded. Von Donep surprised Potgieter’s 1. er, near Wolmarstadt, Tranvaal Colony, Feb- ruary 7, killing three Boers and capturing thirty-six, as well as twenty-five wagons and i’lves(ock. PESETE- St R 4 Changes Inauguration Day. WASHINGTON, &eb. 10.—Senator Hoar, from the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, to-day reported favorably the amendment to the constitution intro- duced by himself changing the day for the inauguration of the President of the United States from March 4 to the last Thursday in April. The resolution pro- vides that the change shall take effect in 1905 and extends the term of President Roosevelt from March 4 to that date. The resolution also provides that hereafter the terms of Senators and members of the House of Representatives shall begin tho last Thursday of April instead of March 4, as at present. ——— Mounted Police Sergeant’s Suicide. SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—Telegraphic ad- vices to Skagway recelved by the steamer Farallorn state that Sergeant H. M. Jackson of the Northwest Mounted Police committed suicide at Dgwson on January 30. He placed a revolver in his mouth and sent a bullet through his brain. He left no word in explanation of the deed. Brookside Is Burned. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 11.—Brook- side, the suburban summer home of J. H. Bass, the millionaire founder, was burned this morning. 3 000, week was the capture of sixty donkey- 1 KRONE DESCRIBES BENNETT'S MANY CHARACTERISTICS W. KRONE of the Popular res- taurant, Geary street, gave a more minute description of Q Bennett last night than has be- fore been published. “What pecullarity was there about Ben- nett?” was asked. “He had a decided cast in his right eye.” “Did the eyelid droop?” ' “Tt did, slightly.” “Did his hands indicate that he was used to manual labor?” “His hands were always in good condi- | tion; by that I mean that he was not used to hard work, and, I should say, had never done any arduous labor.” “What height was he, Mr. Krone?” “About five feet seven inches.” “Stout?” > ““He weighed about 160 pounds.” “In what condition were his teeth?"” “He had excellent teeth.” “Prominent at all?" “Slightly so.” “Was his mustache gray?"” “No; not at all. It was a brownish color.” “His chin?" “Rather long chin; his face, too, was long.” “Anything walk?"” “Yes, he had something of a military walk; he took long strides. “Did he appear to you to be a business or a professional man?" “He appeared to me to be & man be- longing to some profession.” “Did he show by any act in the years that he had visited your place an inclina- tion to be studious?” “It always occurred to me that he was a studious man; he was always reading, if not the papers, some book he invaria- bly carried with him.” $ ‘‘Anything peculiar about his clothes?"" “No; but he was always well dressed. A picture published of Bennett in a morn- ing paper to-day is not a particle like him, and s perfectly misleading. It has not the slightest resemblance to the man. I have given you near a description of the man as is, I believe, possible.” characteristic about his @ iriniieieieinieieiele el @ | Plans of Beet Sugar Men. ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The American Beet Sugar Association, by its presidenc, Henry T. Oxnard, to-day submitted to the House Committee on Ways and Means a petition urging that a committee be sent to Cuba for the gurpose of obtaining ac- tual in?ulry on the ground and by an ex- amination of the accounts of the Cuban sugar factories the facts in regard to the Cuban sygar industry. The petition sug- gests that the Investigations of the special committee will be facilitated if the com- mittee be authorized to invite a represens tative of the American Beet Sugar Asso- ciation, of the Cuban planters and of the American Cane Growers' Association to accompany the committee to Cuba and to cross-examine witnesses. - The petition says the beet sugar manu- facturers offered to permit thé committee inspect their books, but the Cuban planters refrained from giving detafls of their business. —_— + May Lynch Arizona Murderer. TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 10.—Two Mexicans | who_are supposed to have murdered A. | H. Vail, a well known rancher, near Mammoth last week and burned his body were cagltured at Dudleyville last night. One of them afterward escaped from jail and a posse is now on his trail. There is :uu lynching should the man be recap- ur s < AUTOPSY SHOWS STRANGULATION CAUSED DEATH Dr. Babigalupi Finishes His Examination of Girl's Body. Finds That Murderer Pressed Thumb and Forefinger on Her Throat. UTOPSY SURGEON BACIGA- LUPI last night completed examination of the body of Fuller. Every evidence the fact that the girl wa gled and that the hand that did was skilled in anatomy. Stripp medical terms, the murderer applied thumb and forefinger to the woman’4 thyroid bone, the apple,” the tenderest part of the thr and quickly choked her life out There was no evidence of a strt the room where the body 1 . mains were perfectly compc | autopsy shows how carefu er did his work. ~When Dr. Bacis: the prints of a thumb and forefinger were plainly discernible. While the outside of | the skin was_ only slightly discolored, there was a heavy coagulation of blood both in the trachea and larynx. The greatest discoloration was on the | left side, where the greater seems to have been exerted. | was thickest in the tissues belo | rounding the “Adam's apple.” | sy further than this did n | other signs of violence. Alt ( spots were well defined on the out | the interior surface of the t were more decidedly marked. A | tton of the skin from the front of the throat has been removed and will be ex~ amined most carefully under the micro- scope. | ‘,CLASSES IN MARSHALL | SCHOOL OVERCROWDED | Limit of Enrollment Is Exceeded and Many Pupils Are With- | out Desks. | The report of Deputy School Superi tendent Howard on the condition of the Marshall Primary School on Mission | street, between Fifteentd and Sixt | was flled with Superintendent We | yesterday, and that official has r | in_ consequence to recommend the estab- lishment of another ciass in that school | _ The report shows that the classes in the | Marshall School are overcrowded to | degree hitherto unknown in tI | ment.” Deputy Howard w: | vestigate reports of ove: 1 | several classes he discovered | limit of pupils was exceded by | E | 20 to 30 per cent. Although the lim pupils per class is 55, many cla ed enrollments of over & In one room five pupils were without desks and in an- | other nine pupils were without accommo- dations for study. The Marsi.all School has twelve classes, and in order that the excess pupils may be accommodated a classroom must be se- cured in another place. Deputy Howard reports that a desirable room may be se- cured in a building near by. and Superin- tendent Webster will recommend that this be done. —_———— BLUEROCK AND LIVE BIRD SHOOTERS UNITE Clympic, San Frantisco and Lincoln Gun Clubs Consolidate Into Golden Gate Gun Club. A meeting of delegates of the San Fran- cisco, Olympic and Lincoln Gun clubs was held last night to consider the advisabil- ity of consolidating the three clubs. The question of forming a club consisting three divisions was debated at conside able length, but did not meet with unani- | mous approval. It was ultimately decided | to form a new club with dues of $I per month, the members to be entitled to of | the privileges of the club for this sum. ate t The name adopted was the Golden Gun Club. A communication will be se | to the secretarfes of the Olympic, Franeisco and Lincdln Gun clubs request= | ing them to send a list of their members in good standing to the committee pointed to draft a constitution and b3 | laws for the Golden Gate Gun Club. The chairman appointed a committee of three, consisting of J. Sweeney of the San Fran- | cisco Gun Club (chairman), C. C. Haight | of the Olympic Gun Club and E. Foster of | the Lincoln Gun Club. A draft of the pro= posed constitution and by-laws will be prepared at once and will be ready on | Thursday nigh —_——— ‘Will Present “L’Amico Fritz.” The Del Carlo Opera Company will pra- sent the opera “L'Amico Fritz” at 0dd Fellows’ Hall on the evenings of March 2,5 8 and 9. The following well-known singers are_in the cast: Maria Welch, Guiseppl _Nito, Pletro Buzzi, Giullo Cortes, Edoardo Ferret, Battesta Baron- di and Sannie Kruger. ap- News in Army Circles. Several hundred recruits are expected to arrive in the city to-day en route to the Philippines. The transport Warren is scheduled_to sail for Manila on Sunday with the Fifteenth Infantry and 500 casu- als. The Twenty-ninth Infantry has been ordered to the Philippines and will leave San cisco én March 1. THRESHIE DEFEATS MILLER IN THEIR BILLIARD MATCH W. H. Sigourney of San Francisco and John A. Hendrick Play | Game To-Day. NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Charles Threshie of Boston played a splendid game of bil- liards in his match with Dr. A. B. Mil- ler of this city in the amateur billiard championship tournament at the Knick- | erbocker Athletic Club to-night, but to- ward ‘the close of the game the strain proved too much for him and he only managed to finish out in 45 innings, with a score of to Dr. Miller's 205. Threshie’'s average, 3 40-45; Miller's, 4 29-44. Charles F. Conklin of Chicago defeated John A. Hendrick of this city in the aft- ernoon game, during the latter part of which the winner played safety. Score: | Conklin, 400, average 6 4-66; Hendrick, 257, average 3 53-65. W. H. Sigourney of San Franciseo and John A. Hendrick of this city will cross cues to-morrow evening. —_— Leary and Brewer Win Races. CHICAGO, Feb. 10.—The 100-yard scratch swimming race at the Sports< men’s_show to-night was won by J. | Scott Leary of San Francisco. Time, 1:09. The 200-yard race was won by Brewer of San Francisco. Time, 2:19 1. To Increase Pensions of Veterans. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The Senate Committee on Pensions to-day authorized a favorable report on the bill introduced | by Senator Jomes of Arkansas increasing pensions of Mexican War veterans. The bill applies to the survivors of that war who are pensioned or may be pensioned hereafter under the acts of 1887, 1891 and 1897. It gives each of them a pension of 1§12 per month. ‘