The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1902, Page 2

2 - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY, FiiBRUARY ! POLICE BUSILY ENGAGED IN RUNNING DOWN CLEWS TO THE MURDERER OF N <SEMEs G TPENNETT. Purchase of Poison by Dead Girl's Brother. S ¥ R brother of ler, on De- a quantity sium the OUIS J. PARLAN the murdered Nc cember 28 purck of cyanide of pot Boulevard Pharm He gave as his reason for want- f street. ing the poison that he had a quantity o silverware to clean. At the same time he bought a tooth' brush with which to apply the cyanide to the ware. He told the clerk he was familiar with the sub- stance, having used it on numerous occa- | | sions in polishing silverware, and realized | its dangerous nature. He signed the| register which is kept for recording the | sale of deadly poisons, giving his res! dence as 1514 Fulton sireet, where Mrs. Fuller lived until after the disappearance of her daughter. Parlane does not deny the purchase of the poison, which he said he used for the purpose he gave when he bought the cyanide. He was perfectly frank in dis- cussing the matter. In view cf the fact that the Tesults of the investigations of the City Chemist feiled to find any trace of polson in the murdered girl's stomach, the possession of cyanide of potassium by Parlane on December 28 and subsequent thereto does not assume the importance that it would have immediately following the discovery | of the body. At the autopsy the abnor- mal fluidity of the blood of the victim was moticed, and as this condition may arise from the administration of poisonous cyanides particular attention was direct- ed to their detection in the analysis of the stomach. Assuming the results of that investigation to be correct, as they undoubtedly are, any supposition that an {liegal use of cyanide of potassium was made by Parlane is rendered untenable. COLORADO PAPER . IS NOT TRACED Mystery of Copy of Denver Post Seems Past So- lution. At one time the copy of the Denver Post of January 9, which was found in the Butter-street house, promised to fur- nish a clew that would serve to unravel the hideous mystery of the Nora Fuller murder, but & full investigation of that feature of the case has shown that in all probebility the manner in which the pa- per was brought to the room where the body of the girl was found will never be :lcesu.lned until the murderer is cap- ured. The paper in question did not reach San Franeisco untfl January 12 or 13. It was addressed to the Union of Rafiroad Em- pioyes, room 211 Parrott bullding. The secretary of the order was in the habit of “saving this particular paper for Charles Hurlburt of Denver, who was in the city between January 5 and 15 as a delegate to the convention of railroad em- gw)'es. Hurlburt was _questioned fully y telegraph by The Call when the paper was first found, but was unable to say where he might have left it or into whose e 'VERTISEMENTS. CONSTIPATION, When your food does not digest properly, the bowels become clogged and the liver inactive. The poisons and impurities that , 1498 Fulton | ~ 3. 1902, ORA FULLER e IMPERIAL PHOTO WITH FULLER CASE AD BENNETT, ALIAS HAWKINS. AN EX-COXVICT WHO IS WANTED BY THE POLICE IN D A CITIZEN WHO THOUGHT HE SAW i i | 7 G 4 CONNECTION HAT was thought for a time might lead to important de- velopments in the Fuller mur- der case was a statement made to the police yesterday by John J. Ibbotson, a solicitor, employed by the Pacific Wine and Spirit Gazette, quainted with a man named Andrew J. McPike, a solicitor, residing at 712 Post street, and had met him at various times during the following three years, and that his description tallied in a remarkable de- gree with that given of the man who rented the. premises at 2211 _Sutter street upder the name of C. B. Hawkins. He was a man of medium height and had a peculiar cast in his left eye. The story was repeated, and, as usual, it grew in the repetition until Ibbotson was made to say that the man to whom he referred had gone under the name of Bennett and had also told him that he once adopted the alias of Hawkins on ac- hands it might have fallen. He said he might have left it on a table in a restau- rant or even carried it to his rooms at The Oaks, a hotel on Third street, near Mission, but his impression was that he never took the paper from the assembly room in the Parrott building, where the convention was held. Inquiry at The Oaks Hotel and a careful examination of the register back as far as December 1 failed to reveal any one stopping there who answered the description of the man who rented the Sutter-street house or any handwriting that resembled his. That Hawkins or Bennett secured the paper in a restaurant is made improbable by the statement of ¥. W. Krone, who says the murderer took three meals a day in the Popular restaurant on Geary street. Hence he would scarcely eat elsewhere. Hurlburt never ate at the Popular res- taurant, and therefore did not leave the Denver Post there. 1f the paper was secured from the as- sembly rooms in the Parrott bullding it was done between the adjournment of should be carried off are thus al- lowed&accumulme, causing nau- sea, Si , indigestion, dyspepsia and biliousness. The best medicine to cure constipation and prevent these diseases is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Try a bottle and be convinced. HOSTETTER'S STOMACHBITTERS the convention in the afternoon and the arrival of the day {lnnnor at 5 o'clock. The jenitor is positive he never took a copy of the Denver Post from the assem- bly room, but gathered up all the papers every evening and threw them into the chute which conveys the rubbish of the building to the scavenger’s receptacle for it. The man who hauls the rubbish away from the Parrott building to a crematory says that he never removed a paper from his load or gave one to anybody that he can recollect. Thus every effort to trace the paper to the individual who carried it to the Sutter-street house at least three days after the disappearance of Nora Fuller meets with disappointment. _&upoct. Sheriff Overhauls a SAN JOSE, Feb. 12.—Some -excitement was m;‘eltted here this. lfrl‘ernoan by a re- port that a man answering the descri tion of “Bennett,” the suspected sgzu'xt Sulicitor.lbbotson Thinks He Recogniied Murder From the Descriptions Given of Hawkins, but Proves to Be.Mistaken. e He said that six years ago he became ac- | 4 er count of some family troubles. All of these latter statements were the incre- ment of rumor and in nowise.authorized by Ibbotson. An investigation showed that the An- drew McPike referred to by Ibbotson is a brother of H. C. McPike, the attorney of this city and son of Andrew McPike of 252 California street. The man in_ques- tion 1s of medium height, has a Brow mustache and his left eye is marked by decided cast. Any possibility of a connection between him and Hawkins or Bennett was de- stroyed by the fact that McPike has not been in San Francisco for several months until about ten days ago, when he came downs from Tuolumne County, where he has been making his headquarters. He was in the city on Saturday afternoon, at which time he was seen by Ibbatson, and hence arose the suspicion that the mur- derer had been recognized on the street. McPike has not been seen by any of his relatives this week and it s supposed he has returned to Tuolumne County. n a B e e a2 0T Y derer of Nora Fuller, was at work on a farm in the eastern foothills near Alum Rock. The information was given to the heriff's office by a farmer living in that vicinity. Sheriff Langford and Deputy Starbird at once went out in search of the man. He was found on the Adams ranch on the Story road near Alum Rock. One glimpse of him was enough to sat. He came from San Francisco two weeks ago and secured work on the Adaas ranch. He gave an account of himself, and besides he did not resemble Bennett. ——————— Brutal Son Beats His Mother. Mrs. Kate Herbert, a janitress em- ployed at the Cooper Grammar School and residing at 2116 Jones street, was brutally beaten by her son Ralph last night. The unfortunate woman went o police headquarters, bleeding from her in- Jjuries, and reported her son’s cruelty. She said he was an idler and forced her to give him money to spend for drink, Upon refusing him money last night he threw Ee; do;‘vig ::l(a kl;:lke;%eh:r on the face and ody, . Herbert chni—’ged with battery. Tnaet g —_—— % Fire in a Factory. Fire broke out last night in the Bart- lett paper cdn and box factory at 434 Jackson street and caused about $3000° damage. The origin of the blaze is un- known.’ This is the second time within six months that the place has caught fire. —_———— To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. All druggists ref the money if it falls to cure. 5. W. Grove's signature is on each box, 25c. Bentley Proves His Innocence to Police. —_— Neither He Nor Williams, the Bird Man, Knew Victim of Murder. i« ENRY BENTLEY, who is also Known as Captain Davis, was taken before Captain Seymour yesterday and closely questioned concerning his whereabouts on the day of the murder. He denied that he ever met -Nora Fuller or that he knew anything about the advertisement - which was inserted in a morning newspaper and which the girl answered. Bentley was accompanied by Richard Williams, who is known as the “‘bird man” on account of having a num- ber of trained birds, which he exhibits at the Cliff House. At the request of both men they were taken to_ the restaurant where Bennett is supposed to have taken his meals. The proprietor and the cashier, after looking at them, positively declared that neither was the man they knew as Bennett. Subsequently they were taken to the furniture store where the bed which was found in the house where the unfortunate girl was murdered was bought. The salesman who had sold the bed was forced to laugh when he was asked to identify either of the men as Bennett. He declared that they did not bear the slightest tesemblance to the man. Thoroughly satisfied of their inno- cence, Captain Seymour refused to fur- ther investigate their movements, after assuring them that he was convinced that they had nothing to do with the murder. READING FICTION HER_AthUSEMENT Matron of the Pratt Home in San Jose Tells of Nora Fuller. SAN JOSE, Feb. 12.—Nora Fuller, whose mysterious murcer is just now attracting the attention of the entire State, w aa inmate of the Pratt Home in this city from February, until the follo Juné. Her younger sister, Sybll, was with her, and the-two attended the Wash- ington Grammar School.. In connection with the Pratt Home !hcre is a children's known as the Sheltering and here it was the children were by ther motner. Mrs. I the & p.aced Gie mation | . but the a. 2 « chidren. informed the At matron that i was not rutler, but that : name of their stepfather the | s unable to recail | ller's former hus- | but she is almost 1d the | 3 and apt to be. | the “home, 2rd used (o remars that Jf sn it Nora for five minute: Nora ol regularly, and, except that she was aifficuit 1o control, was a cheer- | , lovable gl Mrs. Fuller sent for | the two girls aiter a few months and we | Lave nevcr heard of them since. The | news of Nora's terrible death has‘been a | shock to those who knew her while she | was in the home. The pictures of the | girl_as printed in the papers show some | but they are easily recognizable, | those taken two or three years | hirgton Grammar School the | tedcher who had charge of the seventh | grade during the early part of 1849 re- membered Nora Fulle She said: “Nora | Yuiler was well advanced for her age. Here is the date of her entrance, Feb- ruary 6, and she attended regularly to | April 4. Then she was absent for three weeks, and when she returned on April 24| she told me she and her sister had been on a visit to San Francisco. “In many respects Nora from most children of her For one thing, she was inordinately fond of read- | ing. Fiction of any description was her | delight, and she spent many hours in- | tently perusing literature of this descrip- tion when she should have been studying. “‘Again, she - displayed a precoclous knowledge of the world and its ways, which at times was astonishing for a child of her age. She was refined in her | manner, and this I attributed to her| mother's teaching, as Nora had informed | me that Mrs. Fuller taught French and other accomplishments of like nature for a living. { “Nora assumed charge of the other children from the home, taking them back and forth to school. Except on those occaslons she kept very much to herself most of tne time and seemed dis- inclined to associate with the other chil- ren. e S ] ) LINGHERS TAKE TOWNSEND'S LIFE Report of Horsethief’s Execution Reaches Pendleton. different | o i Special Dispatch to The Call. PENDLETON, Or., Feb. 12.—A report reached here to-day from Grant County that. “Tim"” Townsend, who is under ar- rest on a charge of horse-stealing, has been taken from the officers and lynched. ! The report cannot be verified, as there js no telegraphic communication with the scene of the reported lynching. The feel- ing among horsemen in the interfor is bitter toward those who have lately stolen large numbers of horses, and an organized effort is being made to bring the offenders to justice. It is quite prob- able that the rumor of the lynching is based upon fact. SWAINE IS APPOINTED ACTING SUPERINTENDENT Takes Charge of Los Angeles Division Until Muir’s Successor Is Selected. E. L. Swaine, who has been Division Su-; perintendent Muir’'s assistant, was yester- day appointed by Manager Agler of the Southern Pacific Company acting superin- tendent of the Los Angeles division until further notice. Swaine was appointed assistant division superintendent when S\lf)eflntendent Prior was transferred recently to Sacramento. Before that time he was the Southern Pa- cific Company's resident engineer in charge of the Los Angeles-Yuma d.lv“i:ldoany. Superintendent Muir resigns on Sat to enter the Smploy of H. B Huntington in the Los Angeles street rallway system. | would ever get wzil. | poarancz. Now che has a good apge- ADVERTISEMENTS. BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN Made We A Letter From a Grateful’ Mether to Dr. S. B. Hart- man. * Mrs. G. W. Heard of Howth, Texas, writes to Dr. Hartman in regard to her baby girl, Ruth: H ““ifs nttls giri was two years ofd in 1 January. 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Then I could both hear and smell, ‘and the pain left my stomach and limbs. 1 want you to know the grippe had me instead of me having the grippe, and my little girl took the same way. PRINTER BENNETT | SCOOPS THE TIMES Optic Receives injury to While Attempting SAN JOSE, Feb. 12.—John Bennett, the printer of Los Angeles, Salt Lake and | Denver, whom a number of San Fran- cisco printers declare resembles the de- scription given of the murderer of Nora Fuller, was a peculiar individual. A printer of this city who knew Bennett well related to a Call reporter a number of incidents connected with the latter's life. He said Bennett was partial to the fair sex and was a great ladles’ man. Besides this he was an accomplished liar and was at home in the midst of all classes, not because of his likeness to Ananias, however. That the fellow was eccentric and somewhat queer s shown by the attempt he made to commit sul~ cide in Los Angeles in 1586.. Bennett, because of trouble with his wife, had resolved to kill himself. A short time before he had been discharged from the Times composing-room. The Tribuné, & pew morning pager, was about to be es- tablished. In brooding over his self-de~ struction Bennett remembered his treat- ment by the Times and he declared he would not kill himself until after the new paper started and then he would do it 1p such a way that the Times would get scooped. Besides he wanted his death to be a spectacular one. Bennett was not close with this information and at the headquarters of the printers in the va- rious saloons it was common gossip, this suicide of Benrett's. In fact many of the boys tHought the fellow was only fooling and did not pay much attention to him. Monday morning the Tribune was to appear. All that night Bennett hung around town and about 3 o'clock went over to the Times office to see the paper on ‘the press. As soon as the first paper was off Bennett rushed out to kill him- self. He knew the new paper. would be late and in this way he hoped to scoop the Times on his own death. Across from the Tribune office on Spring street was the old United States Hofel, then in the course of being torn down to make room for a more substantial building. Bennett waited until he saw some passersby com- ing and then he hurriedly entered a room on the lower floor and p the revol- ver to his head fired what he supposed was a fatal shot. Many at once rushed into the building, among them a number of Tribune re- porters. The bullet had entered Bennett's eye, and while the fellow was bleeding and in pain he looked up at the news- aper men, saying: “Here's a sensation for tal:e"ncvr paper, and we've scooped the mes. i It is needless to say the Tribune pub- lished full particulars of the atmnp: At suicide and did scoop the Times. Bennett left Los Angeles shortly after- ‘ward and always told a story of recelving the wound in his eye while either in the British or the Chilean navy. He resemblea Krone’s description of the murderer of the Fuller girl in several ways, the print- ers say. @ e e @ GROSS GUILTLESS OF THE MURDER Continued From Page One one of the cars and he placed him under arrest. Gross was then escorted to this side of the bay and taken before Captain Seymour. When asked if he had com- mislcd the forgery Gross replied that he a 1 am gullty all right,” he remarked, “and I want it understood that I was alone in the job.” He then confessed to having erased the name of Ann Kinsella, which was written on the certificate of deposit, and Inserting his own. Taking from is pocket Gross handed the money to the head of the detective bureau with the remark “That is all 1 have left of the money I stole; kindly see that it is given to the lady I so basely robbed.” Gross was then taken upstairs to the City Prison and formally charged with forgery. * The clever manner in which Gross op- erated gives rise to the opinion that this was not the first job of the kind perpe- trated by him. The certificate of -deposit manipulated by him has been placed in the hands of an expert photographer and enlarged negatives were made yesterday. Under the microscope the erasure made by Gross is plainly visible, although under the naked eye the use of chemicals can- not well be discerned. When Attorney Greany wrote the order to y the amount specified in the certificate to Ann Kinsella he used a fountain pen. Gross’ handwriting is clumsy and he has a habit of making his letters very large. On_the contrary, Attorney Greany writes a delicate hand, and when Gross insert- ed his own name In the place of Ann Kinsella's he sought to imitate Greany's handwriting. This he did not succeed weil in doing, but at a casual glance the jm- posture would not be noticed. The color of the ink, however, is quite different and clearly indicates that the name of the payee was inserted at a time other than that on which the order to pay by Greany wnluwrltlten. i As the self-confessed. forger re in a general way the aeufimnofi?b!fig man who met Eleanor Fuller the day she disappeared Captain Seymour sent fop several people who claim to have met her slayer and asked them if they could iden- tify Gross. After looking at him declared that he was not the man whom the police know as Bennett or Hawkins. —_— Accuses Former Tenant of Arson. SAN JOSE, Feb. 12—G. W. Brandt, who formerly resll.i,ed on Minnesota avenue, near ose, was a; B ton to-day on a chxrge"oetn:gs:;rlx.suael‘x‘e complainant is J. C. Arthur, an orchard- ist, from whom Brandt rented a house. The two men had some tro e thur declares Brandt tried rCpand AT house after ‘Brandt he had vacated it. Wil be brought back for n-w.“ e has taken not quite a bottle of | ter Cured of Grip by Feruna. “It looked as though she would die, she was so sick. I gave her medicine, but it seemed to do her very littie good, so I sent and got one more bottle of Peruna and com- menced. to' give it o her. It was only a | short time until she was getting along all | right, so I give your medicine, Peruna. the \praise for what it did for me and my dear little daughter. “I have told every one it is the best medicine for catarrh of head, lungs, stom- | ach and nervous prostration. DR. R. ROBBINS. Mrs. Schafer, 436 Pope avenue, St. Louis, Mo., writes: “In the early part of last year I wrote to you for advice for my daughter Alice, four years of age. “She has been a puny, sickly, ailing | child since her birth. She had convulsions and catarrhal fevers. I was always doc- toring until we commenced to usé Peruna. She grew strong and well. Peruna is a wonderful tonic—the best medicine I have ever used. “I was in a very wretched condition when 1 commenced to take Peruna. I | catarrh all through my whole body, but, thank God, your medicine set me all rlighL I would not have any other medi- cine. “Peruna cured my baby boy of & very bad spell of cold and fever. He is.a big, healthy boy, fifteen months old. I have given him Peruna off and on since he was born. I think that is why he is so weil. I cannot praise Peruna enough. We have not had a doctor since we began to use Peruna—all praise to it.” MRS. SCHAFER. If you do mnot receive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Peruna, | write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a | full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The | Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. MORE DESCRIPTION OF JOHN BENNETT Paints to Aid Observant Peo- ple in Catching Mur- derer. That no stone shall be left unturned in alding the police and the public in having & full description of the man “John Ben- nett,” the following additional character- istics and physical features of the mur- derer may prove of invaluable service the investigations which are being prose- cuted in all directions: Bennett has a long neck. Wears about a sixteen collar. With the exception of the time whem Ko donned clerical garb, which was elght years ago, Bennett has always Worn a turned-down collar. Bennett's chin alw rests upon his collar. His head incline ough in deep though He has a preoccupied air at all times, : Even when walking, with his long military stride, he carries his head down and chin rest. ing on collar. He wore at all times a black sack suft. His overcoat was dark blue With velvet col- lar.: Bennett was accustomed to wear a black Derby hat. His voice Is not deep, but is anywhere bos tween barytone and tenor. I¢ he were to sing he might be described as a second tenor. His reticence is a characteristic which is par- JESSaAY motienabie. The night Nora Fuller met him at the restau- rant he welghed n the neighborhood of 115 pounds. Plot Formed in New York, NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—In a report by the police of this city to the Italian Bm- bassador in Washington and the Italian Consul in New York, the direct assertion is made that the killing of King Humbert was planned here. The police have named the men who have conspired with Bresei, Many of them are still at libert i What Shail We Have for Dessert ? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try a delicious and healthful dessert. Pre- red in two minutes. No.beiling! no ing! add boiling water and set to » cool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp- berry and Strawberry. Get a at your grocers to-day. 10 cts. 4