The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1902, Page 2

(-] / THE - SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1902. MOTHER TAKES A LAST LOOK AT NORA’'S R SEARCHES THE WALLS | FOR CLEWS Mother Finds Nothing to Temper Her Sorrows. ————— Believes Her Daughter Was Taken to the House After Death. g the Morgue Mrs. takten by Detectives » and Coleman 'at her re- Y to 2211 Sutter street, where as r met her tragic | Fuller said-that it had been N stom for years to write vagrant | walls, particularly fa- She thought that if her | here alive she would | message that e results. | Is were carefully | uld be found were numbers and a few nk apparently by who had used the room. | were on the wall e hung during the nants. None, ed to have the case. [ n subjected to a ne reached the cham- moaned and sobbed er emotions. The rowing as that Morgue_o 'g herself fi a ween her sobs would have might have been tairs, but I taini seen her going 1 went in there alive. nk it will be fo as killed somewhere carried there in sack maybe. I could ha listen to YSTERY STILL SHA . N ued From Page One defined n the soiut Grant may There are cir: n with the F belief visits she pa:d s office or that Grant red girl speak of the fiend rms be- e on Sutter Many un- d. said of the attorney, rected in horrify ne no place in the story of Nora | e rs-to tell that thre records of unsolved vesterday and s barkeeper, whose w Attorney Grant a Fuller's de- vior street about four apman of 899 Capp street added mystery by stating that on | 7 16 he accidentally bump- | accompanied by a your reet near Brook. Chap. e pair very carefully and he girl was Nora Fuller. Police Get Another Clew. Vance, proprietor of a furniture store 864 Mission street, held four | lengthy conve: tions with the supposed wgler 2 the secon: ut the time he was scouring stores on Mission street the furniture found in the room where the girl was murdered. positive that he talked with | who bought the bedding at 1 search c er in every purticular. He | ance's store on the same day | | unlike EMAINS MRS. ALICE MAUDE FULLER WEEPS BITTER TEARS AFTER VIEWING THE REMAINS OF HER DAUGHTER AT THE MORGUE bedding at Cava- naugh’s. Van the man asked to be shown some cheap articles of furni- The man thought the price he purchased ture. asked for the articles he did not make any purcha is a keen o er. He remembers incident distinctly and 1 the police one of the best descriptions of the strangler that has been given them body who had dealings with him ced with the strangler seve! hed aif: positively that he saw the man on Mission street not more than ten days ago. tain Seymour is inclined to place great cred in V. him to believe th still in nce he city. May Be Bennett. The polige have discovered that on the night of January 11 a man registered at the Golden West Hotel under the name of E. C. Bennett. He gave his place of residence Port C but further than that nothing of his identity is known by the hotel people. Attorney Grant was brought down to police headquarters yesterday morning and again questioned by Captain Sey-| mour. Grant was asked if he ever knew a man named Bennett, and he answered that he did. He said that he once tran- sacted some legal business for a printer named George L. Bennett, but it was years ago. The Bennett in question proved to be a respectable citizen living Broderick street. He called volun- at police headquarters last evening ed Chief Wittman and Captain Seymour that he had no connection with the case. Traveled Under Aliases. The detectives are satisfied that the names the strangler gave to the different people he spoke to in carrying out his horrible plans are fictitious. It is quite y and unnatural that a man bent on committing such a heinous crime as he had in view would be so indiscreet as to give his right name. Although the strangler dropped into the Popular res- taurant for his meals off and on for some years back F. W. Krone, the pro- prietor, did not know him by a name until Compare Notes And you will find that the planos we offer ‘for sale are more valuable and more artistic than you can find in any other wareroom, no matter how repu- table the other pianos are. We sell the EVERETT, STECK, HARDMAN, PACKARD, LUDWIG and many other most popular makes. We handle also the CHASE & BAKER PIANO PLAYER, conceded to be vastly superior to any other player in the market. Our new warerooms are NOw open and we Invite a careful comparisorm. Prices popular and terms liberal. " The WileyB. MlenCo, 931-933 MARKET S7T., OFP. MASON. NOTE—All Market street cars stop in front of our building, times and in addition he states | ap- | It has caused | trangler may be | | the day he walted in the restaurant for Nora Fuller to meet him. | His disposition to cover his tracks and avoid police detection, which is evident in every important step he took before the tual commission of the crime, is enough to convince the most skeptical the stranger mnever disclosed his ame. is one feature of the mystery s a stumbling block in the way blishing the identity of the mur- There are any number of people | in the city who fit the description of the man who masqueraded under the name { durer. of John Bennett, C. B. Hawkins and | Scott The detectives have been kept busy running down clews growing out of the | similarity of appearance of several peopie | to the man who bought the furniture. | When the police once get the strangler in their toils they believe that it will be an easy matter to fasten the guilt upon him. { Mrs. Fuller was taken yesterday to the | house where her daughter was murdered. | Detective Coleman was detailed to ac- | compaiiy her. Upon arriving at the place | | the broken-hearted mother looked at it steadily for a moment and then salid: “No, was not murdered here.” Coleman opened. the door of the house and Mrs. Fuller entered. She seemed dazed, and, after looking at the bare | walls for a moment again expressed the belief that her daughter never entered the house voluntarily. She is inclined to be- lieve that Nora was murdered somewhere else and her body was placed in a sack | and carried to the Sutter-street house. BACTERIOLOGIST MAKES A REPORT Keilogg's Discoveries Add to Horror of thi_(‘ia_se. Dr. ' W. H. Kellogg, cfty bacteriologist, made a report vesterday to Coroner Le- land as to the result of his microscopical examinations of certain portions of Elea- | nor Fuller's body. Dr. Kellogg's report causes stronger belief in theories regard- ing the fiendishness of the murder. Frank T. Green, ecity chemist, and Dr. Charles L. Morgan through the latter | made a report of the chemical analysis made by them of the contents of the girl's stomach. They reported that they could not find a trace of poison. The stomach was practically devoid of food, save for a small portion of apple aé)par- ently eatén only a few hours before death occurred. There was a slight congestion of the stomach such as might be caused by the use of stimulants or alcoholic drinks by a person not accustomed to them. 7 A quart bottle containing a small quan- tity of whisky or brandy was found in one of the rooms. The bottle is of the kind ordinarily known as_ ‘‘vermouth” bottle. Part of the neck had a white bot- tle capsule on it, but nothing to indicate where it was bought. The bottle had also been used as a candlestick, a partly burned candle being stuck in it. On the sides of the bottle were stains of candle grease. The contents of the bottle were examined for traces of poison, but none was found. ; The chemists have not as yet completed my daughter Dr. | | their examination of the blood for traces of poison. They expect to do so to-day. But from the results of their examina- tion of the stomach and its contents they are doubtful if any has been absorbed into the blood. DECLARES HOUSE WASfiE VACANT Mrs. Hernan Says Windows Were Curtained Until a Week Ago. Mrs. M. H. Hernan of 1728 Lyon street made a statement to the police yesterday in which she says she was sent by a clerk in Umbsen's real estate office dur- ing the latter part of January to inspect the house at 2211 Sutter street, he think- ing that it was vacant. She positively declares that at that time she noticed lace curtains over the windows in the front rooms. of the house. She is equally positive that people were living in the house between January 31 and February 6. Mrs. Hernan says that she cannot ex- actly remember the date when she was sent to 2211 Sutter street, but before ring- ing the front door bell she noticed the lace curtains over the front windows in the upper vart of the house. After ring- ing the bell several times and not getting an answer Mrs. Hernan concluded that the occupants were out. That night she told her husband that Umbsen’s clerk had given her the number of a house that was still occupied. The next morning Hernan went to the real estate office and said that the house was not vacant. The clerk insisted that it was and on Monday, February 3, Mrs. Hernan paid another visit to the place. The lace curtains were still up. On February 6 Mrs. Hernan paid a third visit to the house and was ac- companied by Mrs, Day of 1730 Lyon street. They found the blinds drawn and after ringing the bell several times ana not receiving an answer they left in dis- gust. BELIEVE BENNETT Wl{S IN ATLANTA Rancher Carter Tells of Strange Actions of Masked Man. STOCKTON, Feb, 11.—The story of a strangely. acting man, wearing a mask, either to .hide his identity or as an in- sane whim, was brought to the city to- day. The man passed through the couns try seventeén miles south of this city about ten days ago, headed for the moun- tains. The farmers who have since read of the death of Nora Fuller in San Fran- cisco now claim that the fellow resembled some of the descriptions that have been published of ‘“‘Bennett” or ‘“‘Hawkins,” whom the reports have mentioned in con- nection with the tragedy. The stranger stopped at the home of J. W. Carter near Atlanta. James Carter, a son of the rancher, who was in this city to-day, claimed that so far as they were able to see the fellow closely resembled e e e R e e el ] This Is Your Time, Before all the clothing of A. Brick will be gone. The room is wanted for the New York clothing that will arrive here next week. So you had better get your men's suits and overcoats that are worth $18 for $4.65 at the bankrupt clothing sale of the: Bosto treet, near Fourth, m, 773 Market s ) fCS— YT the descriptions sent out of the man the San Francisco police are looking for. He | says the man had his face concealed in | what! appeared to be a light pastebodrd | mask.” He acted like a badly fiightened man, anxious to avoid contact with every one. He asked for food in an unnatural voice and as soon as it was given him he ran rapidly away, lgoking back over his shoulder as if in fear of pursuit. He was seen by several farmers and had evidently come from Livermore and was headed for the Sierra Nevada foothills. Severat times when he saw people approaching | him on the road he jumped a fence and | ran through the fields One farmer, who was driving with his family, met the supposed insane man in the road. The fellow raised his mask ana took one look at the approaching rig and then broke and ran across the fields. The farmer drove back home, got his saddle horse and a gun and started out to cap- | ture him. No one saw the fellow again | The man’s _conduc the thought to be simply that of an insane | man, but since he disappeared the farm-i ers are speculating as to whether his ac- | ]tions were not feigned. PRINTERS KNOW A JOHN BENNETT Say That He Has a Cast in One of His Eyes From a Wound. A number of local printers are ac- quainted with a John Bennett, a printer who worked with them in #ther cities. Some of his old acquaintances stated last evening that the Jack Bennett they knew years ago answers the description of the Bennett wanted by the authorities. “I knew a printer by the name of Jack | Bennett in Los Angeles in 1886, said onc | of the craft. “He was a clever, dapper fellow, who walked erect and gave you the impression that he was a military | man. He worked on the Los Angeles Times with me. He was married, but did not get on well with his wife. One night he attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head. The bullet lodged near his | eye and he became blind in ore eye as a | result of the shooting. There was a cast in the eye after that. “‘Bennett soon after went to Denver and worked on the papers there. He told | people at Denver that his eve had been | injured by a wound received while in the English navy. The last 1 saw of Bennett was in 1889 at Denver."” Another printer said that he. worked with Bennett on the Salt Lake Tribune from 1891 to 1893. He says that the de= scription of Bennett and the man wanted is perfeet. time was_ at i —_— I THINKS HE SAW MURDERED GIRL John E. Chapman Positive That He Passed Her . on Street. John E. Chapman, who lives at 89 Capp street, believes that he saw the murdered girl on Market street about a week after her disappearance. After viewing the body at the Morgue yester- day Chapman made the following state- ment to Captain Seymour: “About January 16 I was walking down B e e e el To Cure Grip in Two Days. Laxative Bromo-Quinine ‘removes _the_ cause. E. W. Grove's signature on every box. ¢ t street and had gone as_far as Wood & Co.’s store, when I met a se name I do not remember. Ik up Market > got opposite Brooks ally ran into a man and Before sufficiently to on. Marke S. N I" could re apologize they had g remember the e of both. have seen the clothi 1 by Nora Ful- ler, and I am quite e that the girl I saw on that date wore As 1 remember her, she had a_sort of that clothing. reddish hair, which was comled her forehead. My friend and I r at the time that she was a pretty gi She appeared to be between 15 and 16 years of age and just budding into wom- anhood. As I remember, the man who was with her was about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height, weighed between 150 and 0 pounds, had a full round stomach, a hang dog look and an ea straight walk. He wore a Prince Albert double- ed coat, turndown collar and stove- at. I would know him if I should m again. I have just seen the body of Nora Fuller and I am quite positive that is the body of the girl I saw with the man on Market street.” |INQUIRY AT MANY POSTOFFICES FAILS Detective Riordan Works With Posta! Officials for a Clew. Several letters found at the Sutter- street house, it will be remembered, were redirected and the supposition was that the mail had been forwarded by the postoffice, but investigation yesterday dis- closed the fact that the officials at the general postoffice have no record of hav- ing been.requested to forward letters to “Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hawkins” at 2211 Sutter street. Chief of JPolice Wittman and Captain Seymour detailed Detective T. P. Riordan on the case yesterday, and Superintendent Cox gave the officer every facility at the general postoffice. Realiz- ing the importance of the investigaiion, Mr. Cox gave Detective Riordan-a letter to Superintendent A. Tyler of Station F postoffice’ requesting that everything should be done to aid the officer in his inquiries. Riordan then visited Isadore Coleman Levey, the postman who deliv- ered the letters addressed “C. B. Haw- kins, Esq., 2211 Sutter street,” and *“Mrs. C. B. Hawkins.” Levey was unable to throw any light tery. He had neither seen nor v one at the Sutter-street house. Not getting a reply to his repeated ring- ing of the bell he pushed the letters he had to deliver under the docr. At the Golden West Hotel, from where the letters were redirected, inquiries were made, but all knowledge of them was disclaimed. SPEAKS HIGHLY - OF SEREBRENEK E. H. Parrish Says Russian Is a Refined Gen- tleman. E. H. Parrish, vice president and secre- tary of the Gorham Rubber Company, a: 392 Mission street, introduced Serebrenek at the San Frageisco Club and acted as nis sponsor. Parrish states that he knew nothing of the man until he was intro duced to him oy Will Bryson of the Fi Mercantile - Company some time agv. After the introduction Serebrenek visited | 1 distinetly | I | up all hope of seeing him aga SATISFIED HE KNOWS STRANGLER Furniture Dealer Saw Him Since the Murder. A. W. Vance Talked With the Man of Mystery Several Times. W. VANCE, a furniture dealer at 864 Mission street, says he has a distinet recollection of O a man closely resembling tl published descriptions of Ber nett, Hawkins or Scott, who called u bim several times during the early D of January to negotiate for the purchase of furniture sufficient to fill a house the size of which he did not know, nor was he able or willing to give an idea of iis prospective location. i “It was early in January,” said Vance, “when the man came to me and inquired about a sign on the outside of the. store. He said he was thinking of furnishing a house. The first question I asked him was whether he had secured a house or not. He sald he had not, but had se locations in view. He looked at some f niture, mainly of the cheapest kind stock, and we talked about the terms. sald he did not have much ready cash, and I referred him to an investment com- pany in which I am interested and which handles installment busin “Wkhen the man first came to my place he wore a dark suit, a long dark over coat, which might be either gray or black, a dark Fedora hat with a rather broad brim and glasses. I was surprised that a man of his apparently prosperous appearance should want such a cheap lot of furniture. “A few days later wearing a Derby name and he said that it was Bennett. returned, this time I asked him his fter some hesitation I _asked him if he had seen the people I had sent him to and | he answered that he had, but did not like talked the terms they offered. We some time, but came to no a I noticed him I occasion. He military style an would give a convulsive t He was about five feet inches and well buil weigh “Su not been near the g and I thought his ac About four weeks : for to the store next door. About two later I saw him standing on the o side of the street, some distance dowr I approximately fix the time, but thir it was about the en the mont Januvary. I would again saw him.” the East and r previous to his on Januar; stituted 'a thorough ciated with hi a the Pacific cussed ma ting e g to mercan fairs. The description of Serebrenek, as given by Par is A man weigh- ing about 1% pounds, 1 nesin height and w round, and jovial face. Parrish is sure that the man departed for the Orient on 1. He was not in the city w > Steamer sg but one of his clerks sons, . accompanied wharf and bade him states further that the Fuller was never mentioned their conversations. mooth Zood-by. URGE THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE MISSION ROAD Representatives of Improvemens Clubs Petition Mayor to Take Favorable Action. A delegation from the Mission Road Tm- provement Club waited on Mayor Schmitz yesterday to urge him to take faverable action on the proposition to accept Mis- sion road, from Crescent avenue to the county line. This course is necessary, as under the laws of the municipality the eity cannot spend any money to improve a street unless it has been accepted. The delgation was reinforced by a deputation from the executive committee of the Mis- sion Federation of Imorovement Clubs. The delegation consisted of W. R. Pease, president of the Mission Road Club; M < Popper, A. S. Lillie, George Center, Jo- seph Fassler, W. Hulme, J. Gilfeather and A. Luttringer. | The Mayor was informed that prelim- inary steps had been taken by the Board of Works to repave the street, the com- tract having been awarded after the in- vitation of bids. The city had appropri- ated the sum of $15,000, and $7500 had been raised among property-owners for the im- provement, 5300 of that amount being now in the city treasury. The contract price was £29,000, but the contract had to e rescinded because the street was not accepted. Commissioner Casey of the Board of Fublic Works favored accepting the street in crder to go ahead with the work, but exacted a promise that the Board of Su- pervisors be urged to appropriate funds in the next budget to pave the road om College Hill. Mayor Schmitz also ap- proved the plan, and the Board of Super- visors will undoubtedly pass an ordinance accepting the street. e Aol Moebus’ Fine Is Remitted. The fine of $500 imposed by Customs Col- lector Stratton upon Charles Moebus, owner of the gasoline steamer Bolinas, for navigating the vessel without it hav- ing been passed by the United States local inspectors of steam vessels, was remitted yesterday by permission of the Secretary of the Treasury, Moebus having explained that he had been deceived by the person to whom he had given the boat in charge. SIS Je Sl it 8 Wong Bon Convicted. ‘Wong Bon, a Chinese ex-conviet, was convicted by a Jury in Judge Dunne's court yesterday on the charge of asa to murder, and will be sentenced Satu day. On December 6 last he stabbed Wong Lee in the back at 12% Waverley place during a dispute about rent. Salt Rheum m:'otu may call it eczema, tetter or milk st. But no matter what you call i, this skin disease which comes in patches that burn, Itch, discharge a watery matter. dry and scale, owes its existence to the presence of hulmors in the system. t will continue tq exist, annoy, and per- E:gsfl‘:gonlze, as long as these humors It is always radicall anentl; 3 by ly and perm: y Hood’s J'ar"sap_arilla Wwhich'expels all humors, and is positively unequalled for al cutaneous mmpo-