The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1902, Page 14

14 1HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, COPYRIGHT 1008 BT¥.C BOTH ‘Not = = every knight of the shears is an artist The men that build our clothes are artists. APRIL, 18, 1902 DIMMICK GAGTS - BLAME ON COLE Tells Sleuth Burns How Cashier Could Have Stolen. Clever Theories of Some One Elge's Guilt Advanced by Defendant. W. J. Burns, one of the brightest and keenest sleuths in the United States Se- cret Service Department, occupied the witness chair in the United States Dis- trict Court yesterday afternoon and re- | lated several conversations he had had with Walter N. Dimmick, chief clerk of the Mint, in which conversations Dim- mick practically cHarged Cashier Cole with the responsibility of the loss of the missing $30,000. Mr. Burns said: Mr. Dimmick said that the $30,000 had un- doubtedly been taken by the cashier, Who was & careless, incompetent man, and that owing to a series of overpuyments the cashier had begn compelled to take a sack of coin and go | to! certain unknown persons for advice, and when thos> persons learned what he had done they jammed him. For instance, say that Cole was three sacks short, and Lis advisers saw an | opportunity of compelling him to take three sacks more. Dimmick on the Art of Larceny. Burns, in order to draw out Dimmick still further, asked him how it was pos- sible for Cole to get money out of the Mint without being detected. Mr. Burns added: Dimmick told me that Cole could slit the back of & sack and take out the money and substitute something else. Or he could cut ©——o REMNANTS OF BLACK DRESS GOODS © WE OFFER FRIDAY ONLY Thousands of Remnants. ' FROM MARKED PRICES. o : o Remnants of | &g . Remnants of Laces. Dre:s Goods. Remnants of o Remnants of =3 5| stk LoceHbuseCo: ) |ums. - = '1=| Remnants of e e Remaarts of % Enleaiderien Cor. Sutter Street and Grant Avemue. Cinghans. :’ - Friday, April 18th| Samels’ Lace Department For Friday For One Day Only Exquisite | Waists Made of Taffeta, Peau de Soie, Moire Velour, Shantong Silk and Pongee. They have that sheer and brilliancy de- noting the highest grade of silks. o REMNANTS SALE FRIDAY 6——o o — ng new every day. © SA009 3L1IH | And everything that is absolutely smart, You are attracted to our clothes because they are smartly built. Every curve, every line is graceful, upon the form with grace- fulness. . Clothes that drape the colorings represent Our window display to-day tells the story more ’ vividly about these $12.50 ~ Don't do anything ufl_t—iIW Makers of Fashionable Clothes. Corner Kearny Street and Union S suits see ‘em. RAPHAEL'S, Inc. quare Avenue. Friday and Saturday Shoe Specials On Thursday evening we take shoes from our regular, up-to-date stock and reduce the prices. The shoes are sold at the reductions for two days—Friday and Saturday. Monday the prices go ‘back to'the , original figures. The "shoes:are the latest styles—just what are being worn by the most stylish dressers. Every pair is this year's make, and the making ‘s ‘high-grade—in fact, it's the best workman- ship_possible for the money. These are facts. And a lot ‘of people in San Francisco krm;\' them to be .so—they have bought shoes at the sales. Have you? Men's patent Colt bluchers, guar- anteed not to break through for three months, and likely they are good for ten monthe: a stylish shoe for stylish @ressers; Fridey and Saturday only.. .es $3.15 Men's soft box , calf - blucher ox- fords, extremely stylish: Friday and Ladles” fine kid oxford ties, patent Saturday only . “pomssnds .15 tip and Freneh heel Frid: and _ Men's tan lace shoss of good-coior, | Saturdas oy . 8235 full round toe; Friday and Saturday three-strap kid slippers, Tadles' patent leather lace shoes, extension soles, medium broad_toes: Friday and Saturday only..... $3.15 Ladies' tan calf Jace shoes, extend- ¢4 soles, new round toes; Friday and Saturday only Ladjes’ only seeenaan c-----88.35 | with French wood heels; Frid d Boys’ and youths satin calf Jacs | Baturdes emly e shoee, quilted bottoms; Friday and | . Rty 40 | Children's and misses’ kid lace 02, $1 £hoes, fairly full toe, extended soles; Friday and Saturday only; sizes 8! to 11, $1:15; 11% to 2. .;1.3‘3 $1.60 and youths' patent Colt lace @ shiny, Justrous leather, like leather, but it wears We give mail orders our careful at- r: ¥riday and Saturday | tention, and as our stock is very s 0 to 13, $1.80; 13% large we are most sure to have what- iz $2.10; 2% 1o bla... ever you want. Write for catalogue. KAUFMANN’'S 832 MarkKet Street Banquet by L’Allegro Club. L'Allegro Social Club tendered a fare- well banquet at an uptown restaurant last Tuesday evening to Charles Kells on his departure for the north. Phil Martin was toastmaster of the evening. On behalf of the club the president, Richard Cooper, after an excellent speech resented Mr. Kells with a beautllurelov- n% cup, the gift of the members, he_evening was enjoyably spent and Mr. Kells was wished a pleasant journey. —————— Board Awards Contracts. The Board of Works received bids yes- terday for making alterations and ad- ditlons to the Columbia _ School and awarded the contract to James B. Mec- Sheehy for . The contract to grade the lot adjoining the Fremont School was awarded to Frank Stmonarb for $354. Tilltapper Sentenced. Martin Oates was sentenced to one year in the County Jall by Judge Mogan vesterday, six months for till-tapping and slx months for attempt at till-tapping. He s sald by the police to be one of the two men who have tricked a number of storekeepers recently. One would get the storekeeper outside on some pretext while the other rifled the till. Bekins Van and Storage Co.'s business is packing, moving, storing goods. 630 Market, * BADEN COMPANY INCORPORATES.—The Baden Company, a firm organized to transact a general business in realty, was incorporated yesterday with a capital stock of $500,000. The directors are C. €, Burr, L. B. Holman, E. W. Burr, E. C. Burr and Mary N. Allyne. They have' each subscribed $1000. : PALL LONDON‘C NATURAL SHAPE CORK TIPPED MALL IGARETTES the strings tled around the necks of the sacks, | and as the strings were wrapped three times | around them he could re-tie them twice. He | sald that the cashier could have carried away | a sack at a time by putting it into his over- coat pocket and folding the coat in the usual | way upon his arm. I told Dimmick that I did not think his theories plausible, and Dim- | mick said there was another method by which he could pay_the money to a confederate on the outside. For instance, Cole could tell Cap- | A Notable Assortment Fully 350 of them. find them elsewhere. They are exceed- ingly stylish, and distinctive. ‘We recommend them as being very rea- It _is impossible to Irish Point and Venetian: s; all this season’s impor- % o y 3 played for ea: 25e 50¢ [l tain Fitzpatrick to bring out forty-one sacks | sonably priced. Disp 4 35¢ and 30c when ne wanted only forty, and the captain choosing on our second floor; the $11.00, Sondegadorg. { wouldn't know anything about it. When I'| $10.00 and $7.50 kind 0 BivetE vorth 63c and asked him about the dress suit case Dimmick | o B and said that he never had a dress suit case and *80c Friday—Sa'e Price J | $4.75 Each |=swmiis=si= | ——CREWNANTS OF TABLE DAMASK6———& what Watchman Mauller saw him with on the | 25 worth §1.00 and Oakland boat were his private books, which | $1. Friday on IS¢ he was taking home to work on at night. Dim- | T plai A N mick explained his presence in the Mint as | late as midnight by saying that he was getting | out a book for Mr. Leach showing the condition | of the melters’ and refiners’ department. | Blame Dumped on Cole’s Shoulders. | Louis M. Slater, private secretary of = Superintendent Leach, was recalled and Committee Sends Invitation. read from his stenographic notes a state- | ment made by Dimmick July 10 and 1i,| The promotion committee of San Fran- | 1801, in the presence of Mint Director Rob- | cisco has sent out postals to business Interesting Church Concert. An interesting concert took place last night at the Park Congregational Church, erts and Secret Service Agent Hazen. | men calling attention to the letter malleG | h.ayes street and Central avenue. The During that investigation Dimmick sald|jast week in which funds were asked for | affalr was held under the direction of that he had known of several Instances | o=t WEOC I8 WICT TURCS were asked Tor Jessie Dean Moore and was enjoyed in which Cashier Cole had made short payments and over-payments. The first - large audience. e followt o= motion. With the postals IS a SUEEeS- | Diammes Seas Toncrg. he following pr shortage he had discovered was one of tion that the committee hopes to get in| Organ selection, Leo B. Pomeroy: bary- $120 in November, 1900, after Cole had | pledges immediately. Rufus P. Jennings | tone solo, Dr. A. J. Brown: reeita y been officiating as cashier for about!|gayg that the committee will not be able | Miss Esther Macomber; violin solo, Mrs. two.months. When Dimmick called the cashier’s attention to the matter Cole sald, ““Yes, I am $120 short, but I expect to find it because 1 know where I paid it out.” i Dimmick marked this matter on his | Charlotte G. Gwynn: soprano solo, Mmae, Yda de Seminario: tenor solo, Algernon Aspland; solo, Mrs. Jessie Dean Moore; :;ua\i‘tfiti Mme. ISammar!rv. Mrs. Moore. 4 spland and Dr. Brown; accom anist, Mrs. W. J. Batchelder. v ———— Business men are satisfied when they unch at Cafe Zinkand. < to call personally upon all to, whom fet- ters have been addressed, and will have | ta rely largely upon action of those who | are public spirited. The subscriptions to | date have not been as large as the com- | mittee hoped to receive. The invitation to | daily report and called Superintendent'subscribe is signed by Andrea Sbarboro, | Leach’s attention to it. A few days later | Charles Bundschu, W. H. Mills, A. A. Mr. Leach asked Dimmick whether the | Watkins and Rufus P. Jennings. 1y shortage had been paid and Dimmick re- | plied in the negative. Cole remarked (o | Dimmick_that it was a little expensive | plece of business and had cost him haif | a month’s salary. | Three months later Dimmick, as chief clerk, found that Cashier Cole had $i00 cash over and above what should be there. Cole looked through his accounts, but could not find where the mistake was. Dimmick tried to trace the depositors, but as many of them were Klondike men and had no fixed place of abode he was unable to find them. The money was/ always counted in stacks of $400 each, and that mistake might have been made by counting one of the stacks twice. The $i20 shortage was deducted from the $400 over-cash and the $280 remaining was placed in the cashier's safe. On another day at the close of work Dimmick discov- ered a shortage of $27, and Cole said that he knew where it was, and, stepping into the vault, he returned with the money and put it into the tray. Dimmick said to Cole, “You can't do that; because, if you do, your vault account will be wrong.” In a few days the shortage was made up, and the cash balanced to a cent. At other times there was a.ten- dollar shortage and $300 over-cash. “If a man will make these mistakes,” said Dimmick, “it is reasonable to suppose that he will make others. I am satisfied that Cashier Cole is $30,000 short in his accounts. T knew it the moment I figurad it up that Saturday afternoon.” | How Cole Recovered a Sack. | Dimmick, on the same occasion, told | Mint Director Rpberts that Cole onte paid out a sack of gold too much, but discovered it a few moments later, | and ran out to the gate where the money | was being taken out on a truck and | brought back the extra sack of gold to | the vault. “I have been fearful,” proceeded Dim- FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS GOLDEN GATE CLOAK s SUIT HOUSE Tailor Suits . Silk Coats tenle e CUT RATES. mick, ‘“ever since Cole was appointed tamae T shcomething would happen o\ B NAVY BLUE STORM SERGE TAILOR SUITS, double breasted markable that his carelessness ceased all | Eton with Peplum, silk reveres and velvet collar, silk-lined skirt with at once. T told that to Mr. Day. I called | Mr. Leach's attention to whatever actual error 1 learned. * * * I suspected that if anything was wrong the cashier would pile it on my head.” W. K. Cole, the cashier, was recalled to deny certain’ statements’ made by Dim- mick about shortages or over-cash. The witness admitted that he had been short | $120 on one occasion, §20 on another, and on another he had $00 over-cash. He, emphatically denied Dimmick’s statement | as to. Cole having taken a $20 piece out of | the vault, and denied the story about his | taking a sack of $5000 frpm a truck that he had overpaid by that sum. Cole Strikes Back at Defendant. The witness stated that Dimmick had a | disagreeable habit of drawing money on | his check and allowing it to lie as cash. | HE gave his check one day for $20 and | counted it as cash for several days. Then he gave Cole his check for $40 and took up the $20 check. He paid up everything | finally. “This last answer was in response | to a question by George D. Collins, Dim- mick’s attorney. Superintendent Frank A. Leach was re- | called and testified that when Cole was | appointed cashier, he (Leach) suggested to Dimmick to procure a locksmith to.in struet Mr. Cole how to make a new com bination. Then the witness called upo Dimmick for the combination that had been used by him as cashier, and Dim- | mick replied that he had taken it out of | the safe, and when Leach spoke to him | sharply and inquired by what right he | had taken it out, Dimmick replicd_‘here | it is,” and produced it out of his coat | pocket. | The witness denied that Dimmick had ever reported to him that Cole had made { an overpayment of $5000, or that anything | serious had happened. He made some | complaints to the witness about minor | affairs, but never about anything of grav- character. At the investgation Dimmick denled to him that he ever had a dress | suit case, and said that he never ow-nedi newest graduated flounce lined with amisilk, ment; full value $20.00— Cut Rate $15.00 BLACK VENETIAN TAILOR SUITS, new box effect, with fa stitched silk reveres, flounce skirt with 30 rows of stitching; a $17.50 Cut Rate $13.50 ANTIQUE MOIRE COATS..... vre....$8.50, $10.00 and $12.50 YLISH SILK COATS.............$12.50, $15.00 and $17.50 TAN COVERT JACKETS, short, jaunty effect, new dip front, heavy satin lined throughout; a good $8.30 value— Cut Rate $6.00 100 Extra Quality BLACK CHEVIOT AND VENETIAN DRESS SKIRTS, strictly tailor-made, well lined, perfect hanging, regular $6.50 value, at crersistrnerense. $5.00 1280-1232-1284 MARKET STREET. a perfect fitting gar- one or borrowed one. Dr. Arthur P. Mullen, the physician | who had attended Cole on June 7, 28 and | 29, 1901, testified that Mr. Cole’s complaint ‘was bronchitis, but that his nervous sys- tem was not lmgl.h'ed. although he was anxifous to get back to his office. The rosecution will close its case this morn- | ng. Window Cleaner Injured. Cornellus Harrington, a window cleaner, residing at 529 Misslon stfeet, received se- | rious injuries yesterday by falling from the second story of a building at Devisa- dero street and Golden Gate avenue, Har- rington lost his balance and fell to the sldewalk beneath, 1eceiving injuries which may prove fatal ———— Saracco Held to Answer. Here is another of the stylish things we show for Body, Rubber Tires. Whipcord Trim, Come in and examine our stock. Ask for 1902 catalogues. i 1002. Basket Just the thing for summer usg. § STUDEBAKER BROS. (OMPANY OF CALIFORNIA. 8 Market and roth Streets. San Francisco, The preliminary examination of Jerome | M, Saracco on the charge of criminal as- sault upon his stepdaughter, Madge Gra- ham, was concluded before Judge Caban- iss yesterday afternoon. The Judge heid him to answer before the Superior Court in $2000 bonds