The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1903, Page 14

14 FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, WILLIAMS AND BEALE AGAIN VISIT THE MARRIOTT HOME Made the Target of Burning Eyes While the Jury TELLS PATHETIG TALE OF DEGEIT Mrs. Yates Is the Victim of Husband’s Du- Views the Scene of the Shooting. B plicity. ;iChildren Taken From the Custody of Father by Police. Lol i | Through a report made to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children by Mrs. A. W. Yates of 2219 Fillmore street, there has come to light a pa-| thetic story of a trusting wife’s mis- placed confidence and a husband’s du- plicity. . | About two weeks ago Mrs. Yates came | to this city from her home, Peoria, IIL, | in response to a letter from her husband, ! from whom she had not heard for over two months. She brought her two chil- | dren with her and $260 in cash, according to the instructions of her husband. Hav- ing implicit confidence in her husband she placed no particular significance in the fact that she was met at the depot by a woman who stated she was a friend of Mr. Yates. And even when informed by her husband, who is an expert book- keeper, that he was tending bar owing | 'to the lack of work in his line, she did | not become at all suspicious. But the sudden disappearance of her husband with the two children and all her money and the subsequent discov- ¢ that he had been consorting with a i woman in an O Farreli-street rooming- house; where the children were found, at last opened her eyes to the truth. | | Mrs. A. W. Yates then made the fol: 1 ng- statement in resard to her diffi- cuities with her husban years ago at a bookkeeper of the time. We were married pearly ten My husband W a Ts, ‘althougt o SOF account of his people + "very well to do, are poor. One of our boys was born in 1 \d 'the other in 1894, HUSBAND DISAPPEARS. ! About the 1st of November of las We never we did di disappeared, and I knew nothing of his where- abouf about a month he wrote to me trem He sald he was sorry for what had happened and wanted me to come here to live with him again. He told me to get all the money together I could and boys with me. and who later said She explained that working and tnat he had I wen at o M: her real name was F her name as my husband w: sent her to meet me. and we met my husband In a day or two we went to in a house | at 2219 Fillmore street, where I am at present, Aibert, my husband, told me he could find ! no work In” his regular line of business, but was tending night-bur at a saloon at the cor- ner of Sixth and Misston ot around home most of the dayt 50, the money I had brought Then he | took the two boys and disappeared. | I found out that he had been living with the woman who met me at the ferry at 333 O'Farrell street. This woman came to see us two er three times while we were living | on Fillmore street. acted In a very friend- Iy manner with me, and at last got me o copy a letter she had written. It compromised | | the writer, if it had been true, and my name | | was signed to it. The woman took the lat- | ter to my husband and they will try to prove by that that I am not what I should be. WANTS HER CHILDREN. I want to get my children, Bruce and An- drew, and take them back with me to Peoria, I went to the District Attorney’s office and | they told me to see the secretary of the So- | | clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. | Mrs. Yates Is a woman about 30 years of age and of very prepossessing appear- ance. When she had told her story to the officials of the charitable society Officer McMurray and a uniformed policeman ac- companied her to 538 O'Farrell street. Mrs. Estes or Fay met the party at the | WILLIAMS AND TRUXTI . THE JURY WAS FROM A DOORWATY; ING {E PRE ALSO A DIAGRAM C THEM BEALE STANDING IN THE HALLWAY OF THE MARRIOTT HOM.E | tol In my bureau drawer. JANUARY 3, 1903 ENRAGED YOUTH SHOOT3 BROTHER David Robertson Fires Four Shots at Per- secutor. Tires of Daily Beating and Protects Himself With Pistol. Because his older brother Henry was | constantly beating him little fifteen-year- old David Robertson of 239% Webster street | seized a thirty-two caliber revolver last | night and fired four shots at his perse- | cuter and succeeded In wounding him in the hand. That the elder Robertson was | not instantly killed or fatally injured is| a miracle, due to the fact that his brother | was excited and running upstairs at the | time he did the shooting. g The Robertson family, -consisting of Mrs. Henry Robertson ‘and six children, were about to sit down to supper last night when Henry, aged elghteen, accord- ing fo little David's story, struck him without the slightest provocation. The little fellow, enraged by the beating he received, ran upstairs to his room and got a revolver which he had in his bureau drawer. Returning downstairs he en- countered his brother in the hallway. The older boy made after his younger brother, intending, David says, to hit him-again. | The little fellow became terrified and ran up the stairs, at the same time discharg- ing his pistol toward his pursuer. Just as he reached the door of his room he turned and fired the fourtn shot, the bul- let hitting his brother in the hand and inflicting a painful wound. The members of the family were terror- ized by the unexpected shooting and sev- eral of the younger children ran scream- ing to the front door. Officer J. J. Alvares was attracted by the commotion and placed young Robertson under arrest and took him to the North End station, where the lad was charged with assault with intent to commit murder. Dr. G. W. Fuller of 2101 Webster street cut the bullet from Henry Robpertson's hand and pronounced the wound not dangerous. Little David, when seen at the prison last night, gave the foHowing version of the affair: 5 My brother Henry dces not like me, and for 2 long time has been in the habit of hitting me every time he saw me. He is almost six feet tall and about twice as large as I am. We have had several quarrels. He does not like me, that's the only reason I can give for his cruel treatment of me. Last night as usual when he came Eome he came over to me and_commenced to pcund me. I broke from him'and went to my room, where I had a pis- It .was one that I hased to go hunting with two years ago, never used it before to-night. 1 did not irtend to shoot him, and when he chased me from the hall upstairs I only fired into the ceiling to scare him and did not aim at him at all. . As I reached my room door I stumbled and fired a fousth shot, which struck him in the hand. The lad was heartbroken over his trouble and wept while telling his story. He attended the Pacific Heights School and was never in trouble before. His father, Henry Cook Robertson, has been dead for two years. He was formerly a prominent contractor in this city. The injured brother is a clerk In a downtown wholesale house. The most delightfully blended whisky know: to the human palate is ‘‘Jesse Moore’—the standard for over fifty years. . @ ettt @ person to have-them in charge, but they were finally taken by the officers to the Little Sisters settlement of the difficulty. The husband was not present and could not be found by the officers. Later in- quiry at the house elicited the informa- tion that Yates and the woman had gone out early in the evening and up to a late hour last night neither had returned. A warrant for the arrest of Yates will be sworn to to-day by the deceived wife. i | | T ¥ ceedings furnish | Mr. Dunne and Mr. Johnson took the | w ure of dramatic in- | jury in tow, pointing out the important = trial of Thomas H. | locations in the lower hall, the bullet < and Truxtun Beale for | MATKs on the wall of thestairway an the ohing of Saliator Mar- ~xlv1_alinn of the rooms on the floor ubn}"u While they were =o engaged Mr. Wil- was resumed in yesterday morning | liams and Beale remained at the foot of the stairs, engaged In half-whispered con- profosed that the | versation and cxplaining to each othér visit the scene of the | thelr various positions at the time th premises, There | ShOts Were fired. Mrs. Marriott stood in a doorway near by, rigid and white, bu court was suspended | yyy watchful eves fixed in a burning, companied by Judge Cook, | revengeful stare upon the two men who I sides and the two defend- | were rehearsing again the scenes of that night of battle, unconscic ne to t » objectior ury started for ts the Marrott home at | s of her pres 1018 Green street. The prosecuting wit- | ence or their unique pos . alone in ness was the or | that hallway with the wife of the man re who seemed at all = proposition, and as the eaving the Hall of Justice heard to remark to a friend: w what my wife will do those two men in the they had so summarily punished. Not once did Mrs. rriott move, not for an instant ‘did she shift her search- ing, deflant gaze from the accused men, vntil the inspection was concluded and the remainder of the party returned from the floor above. DEFENSE OPENS CASE. With the opening of the afternoon ses- | sion Mr. Dunne made his opening state- ment for the defense, in which he said evidence would be introduced to prove that Mr. Marriott was not attacked trom | behind without warning and that he | would never have been shot at all if he d not made a move as if to draw a | weapon himself as he ran up the stair- | way. “The evidence will show,” said Mr. Dunne, “that these defendants went to the house of Frederick Marriott on the | night of September 3 for the sole purpose of demanding a retraction for the publica- tion of a cruel and slanderous article in the News Letter about Miss Marle Oge, to whom Mr. Beale was engaged to be married. Mr. Marriott knew they were coming, for Mr. Willlams had- telephoned him that they would be there at 9 o'clock. They arrived precisely at the hour and Mr. Marriott greeted them both pleas- antly, taking Mr. Beale's hat. Mr. Wil- llams, however, placed his own hat on the rack at the further end of the hall. As he turned from this he saw and heard Beale demand a retraction from Marriott for the article referred to. “Marriott made a slurring response, and then Beale struck him twice with his fist, orce on the jaw and once on the eye. The blows were delivered frdom the front, too, and not from behind, as the prosecution claims. Marriott grappled with him at once, and Beale drew g revolver during the struggle and struck Marriott two blows with the butt end, once on the forehead and once on the left hand. “After this Marriott broke away and ran for the stairs, while Beale restored his revolver to his pocket. Willlams had taken no part in the fray up to this point beyond exclaiming, ‘Give it to him good, Trux.’ When Marriott started up the stairs, however, he turned and made a | move ‘as though to draw a weapon. Be- fore he could do so Willlams whipped out his own pistol and fired three shots, two of which struck Marriott, wounding him in the thigh and lower leg. The location of the bullet holes in the trousers worn by Marriott at the time will prove that he was not shot from behind, but that he had partly turned and was practically | facing Willlams. ONLY THREE SHOTS. “The evidence will further pAove that only three shots were fired in all, and that these were fired before Mrs. Marriott left the room: on the floor above. She therefore could not have witpessed the Arriving led the way the residence Judge Cook d all filed in, two by two, faces and constralned rners at a funeral. Then a Sieep for Skin Tortured Babies and Rest for Tired, Fretted Mothers in warm baths with CUTICURA SOAP and gentle applications of CUTICURA OINTMENT, purest of emollients and greatest of skin dres. This is the purest, sweetest, most speedy, per- manent and econcmical treatment for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, | bleeding. scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humours, eceema, rashes and irritations with loss of hair, | of infants and children, ever com- pounded. Soid throughout the wortd. NEW WESTERN HOTEL, K BARNY AND.WASHINGTON STS.—Re- = mgdrled lndhnnm;ud, K‘IOX::'G, WARD & . European plan, #5 10 85 week: §6 o 820 month ‘;’r'-lewu“ bot and eold r every room: fire grates in cvery room: elevator runs all night. THE CADETS OF THE HITCHCOCK MALITARY ACADEMY fael will return to the academydon | ral rooms for cadets has been added and will be read: eccupation. . o } G. W. McMann, Policeman Joseph F. door. It developed that she was living v = = < | with Yates under the name of Allison and | | that they passed as man and wife.. She o ME 1 | refused to surrender the children on the MARRIOTT WATCHING | ground that their mother was not a fit | & shooting, which we do not deny, but| which we claim was done in self-defense. | In the light of this evidence, which we | shall now introduce, there can be but on result, and that is a verdict of acquittal.” The defense then introduced several | witnesses to impeach Mrs. Marriott's tes. v that Mr. Williams fired thr shots ‘at her husband while she was on io stairway, these having, been the only hots fired. Sergeant Lionel Shaw, De- | ective Sergeants Thomas B. Gibson and | A Little Talk best the season offers, in generous nsed but {o hear your requsst to 1 cett, Bernard Jeffrey Jr. and Fr A P W. ' Bishop told of interviews with || #aps.you prefer violets; just name Mrs. Marriott shortly after the shoot- || artists will do the rest. ing, in which she stated to them ! that there had been five shots 9 To-day for Luster Taffeta Ribbon, fn all and that she had heard the C three inches wide. first three while she was still in the nur-| sery upstairs. These witnesses all agreed that Mrs. Marrfott was quite calm and | by no means excited when she made the | statements in question to them. | Thomas H. Willlams was next called to | the stand to give his version of the af- | fair, but one of the first questions asked of him brought an objection from Mr. Johnson on a point of law, which con- sumed the rest of the-afternoon in argu- ment by counsel. The question concerned certain circumstances connected with an article published about Miss Oge, and Mr. Johnson contended that it related to a predisposing motive and had no bearing upon'the plea of self-defense which had been offered. Judge Cook finally reserved | his decision upon the mooted point until | this morning, when the examination of Mr. Williams will be resumed. — Comes to Be Laid Up. The army transport Warren arrived here | yesterday from Seattle, where ghe has been | lying for some months. In company with al | the other idle troopers except the Kilpatrick the Warren will be towed to Martinez and lajd up indefinitely. FREE T0-DAY To advertise our location, We will give a cake of Curative Soap To each person buying either of our Two Leaders : TO-DAY: A Z-Quart Fountain Syringe, cut ts» 50c Or a 2-Quart Water Bottle, cnt t: 50c Other sizes 70¢, 9Oc and $1.10. To-day for Satin Taffeta Ribbon, five inches wide. 23¢ To-day fer Children’s 20c Hose, double heel, knee and toe, all sizes. 11c 15 To-day for Children's 25¢ Fine C Biack Dress Hose, all sizes. 15¢ for 50c Just a few loft—you wouldn't gat 850 For $1.25 Eicerdown Dressing Sacques. A!l colors; extraor- dinary values. 69¢ . ety Fannelette Wrap- ¢ pers. ly trimmed. dark. s, 75 For Women's $2.50 French . Flanne! Waists. Nobby styles; fashionable colors; fit perfectly. Superior Spanish Castile Soap, 20c bar; same In cakes, 10e each ar § for 25e DT McDONNELL'S PHARMACY 803 Market 8t., 2d Door From Fourth, 1220-22-24 M. Between Taylor and Jonss. Our Ribbon Department is second to none. popular prices, gives it this well deserved rank. Clever ribbon artists made, and presto! your wish is gratified. est ribbon fad. Ask one of our artists to make you a rose for your . hair or a spray of them to wear with that pretly evening waist. Roses, Bows and Jabots Made Free of Charge. Big Sale of Hosiery line. 1000 of Them at 18¢ Each 18c for Viomen's 35¢ Long S eeve Maco Ribbed Undervests. 98c for Women's $1.50 All Wool, Pink, Blue and Gray Undervests. e Lined to waist and nice- | Choice colors; light and_| 5 : and neatly trimmed with braid. $1.39 To-day for $2.00 Erect Form Corsets Perhaps you don’t realize the secret of bringing out the best lines of your figure lies in the make of the corset you wear. fails to try an Erect Form Corset makes a big mistak: funded on any corset bought at our store which proves unsatisfactory. MARKS BROS. About fl/bbons A goodly stock of the assortment of colors and styles, at havs a pretly bow or ribbon jabot Ribbon flowsrs are the new- Per- ths flawer you like best, our ribbon Ribbon Roses at 35¢ each. Ribbon Hair Bows, 25¢ each, . Ribbon Jabots, 65¢ each. These are new fads at wee prices. To-day for Women's 35¢ Fancy Hose, all s'zes. 19¢ 2 3 To-day for Women's Fine Lisle € Fermsdorf Hose. Beaded Belts them at this price if ws had a full .For Women's $2.50 Walking "’ 40 Skirts. They're the proper thing fo wear when “out to shop" or “just for a walk.”" They're neat and styl- ish. Who couldn't have one at $1.402 s , 2 5 For Childien’s $2 Weol Plaid 4 Dresses. Lined throughout® 85 For Women's $1.50 Sateen Pet- 4 ticoats. Gray and black stripes; deep flounce trimmed with ruffle. The woman who Monsy re- RKET STREET : ¢ Open To-Night Until 10:30 Infant Shelter pending a | Hale’s. not? The Short Coats—In the box style of Melton cloth, double breasted, with inverted plait in back. Tailor stitching. Comes in red, castor and brown. At $8.00—Is a kersey coat, all wool, med with bands of self material. Epaulets; comes in tan, castor. irls’ Dresses 95¢ to $2.75 ‘Fancy material—some solid col- ors, others plaids, all nicely trim- med with braid, buttons or with lace. It is a broken line—we have not all sizes, but if you can find the size you want it is a splendid chance—a most unusual value. There are others of better mate- rial, but no better made, at’ still higher prices. ur H.B. Glove $1.00 Best dollar glove we know of. Haven't worn it? There's a treat in store for you. Snug, comfortable as can be. Perfect in style, fit and finish. Of course they'll wear out, but || they will outwear many $1.25 and $1.50 gloves and give better satis- faction. They're two clasp, overseam, glace gloves. And the latest styles and shades are here. We ‘fit and | guarantee each pair. Hale's Open at 9— Close at 6—Saturday Girls’ Coats $3. Such a low price you'd never guess their worth. Splendid styles gotten up in the very latest way the little girl can start the new year in a swell new coat. s Included. 935 Short or Lond And Why Best chance yet. Coats—Three-quarter Carlo back, satin down the front shoulders and collar. Red, The Long length, Monte bands running and over _ the around cuffs and blue, castor. 4 2 has inlaid velvet collar and is trim- ngs 15cyd This Morning with a can be, Veili Beautiful silk Tuxedo, mesh fine and delicate as spotted- with silk chen black on white. with chenille black on white, white on royal. Made Veils 87c— Worth S0c—and you'd pay that gladly most places. Chiffon with thenills dots or starred with velvet—one yard long and with fancy hemstitched border. You'll be surprised when you see what fine values they are. But we made a most unusual buy and are quick to give you the benefit. etticoats 25¢c Good Saving white on black, What is the matter? They're mussed, soiled, dust-marked here and there. The saving you make will more than outweigh the dam age twice over. Only about 36 of them—and 25¢ for any one this morning. Other Petticoats 75¢, 85c—Good quality black mercerized sateen, made very full, with a wide ruffle—an excel- lent value. Still _more_at $1.25, $L45 to 2.4 and highe: GLAIMS HOUSE BELONGS T HIM Samuel Thompson Files Suit to Recover Property. | | | | Amanda Goebel, an elderly German | 1ady, who conducts a lodging-house at | 1243 Polk street, was yesterday made | plaintiff in a sult in equity, brought by | Samuel Thompson, aged 70, to compel her | to convey the property to him, which he | alleges she holds in trust for him. The ling of the complaint discloses a peculiar | state of affairs. g Thompson alleges under oath that Miss Goebel has been false to her trust; that she has failed to live up to an agreement | entered into between the pair two months | ago. ¢ According to the complaint on file in | the County Clerk’s office the defendant | gained possession of the sum of $1360 by | promising Thompson that she would use | the money in a lodging-house and allow him to be the star boarder. Having failed in her agreement Thompson seeks to se- cure possession of the house and turn her out. Thompson came down from the country six months ago to consult physicians { about his failing health. While here he met Miss Goebel. He became impressed | with her business acumen, it is alleged, | and at her suggestion he drew his savings amounting to $1360 from the bank. Thomp- | son wanted a home in his declining years | and believed he had found a woman who would look after his every comfort. His | dream was sadly shattered, according to | the complaint_ as Miss Goebel gained pos- | session of the money, secured the lodg- ing-house and is in proud possession at | this time. She negotiated the purchase of the property and had the papers made | out in her name. Thompson alleges he was not permitted to have a room in the house nor was he | allowed to go near the place. He consult- | | ed Attorneys R. V! Whiting and C. E. | Arnold, and at his request suit was brought to force Miss Goebel out. | Judge Cook yesterday appointed a. re- | ceiver and the latter is now in posses- sion. Miss Goebel denies all Thompson's charges and is ready to give the aged plaintiff a hard battle in court. CHIEF WITTMAN TALKS PLAINLY TO DETECTIVES Advises Them to Be Energetic and Faithful in Discharging Their Duties. < The disrating of Detective Sergeant Crockett and the retirement from special duty of his partmer, T. P. Riordan, for being derelict in their duty in not arrest- ing bunko men, caused a feeling of un- easiness among the men in the “upper of- fice.” Some of them became impressed with the fact that their turn might come at any moment and they would share the fate -of Crockett and Riordan. Chief Wittman called all the detective | sergeants and special duty men into his office yesterday morning and spoke plain- Iy but kindly to them. He told them that so long as they did their duty ener- | getically and effectively they need feel no | alarm, but some of them ha’ become lazy in the discharge of their duties, and that must be stopped. He wanted them-to be energetic and faithful, and they would al- ways find him their friend and need fear no one. Later the Chief was asked if there was any truth in the report that other changes were contemplated, and he made an em- phatic denial. —— e To-Day’s News Letter. The leading story in to-day's issue of the San Francisco News Letter fs by W. O. Me- Geckan. It is entitled “Utilizing the Class- ies.”” and is a highly amusing sketch. ““The Annual Meeting of the California Hatchet ciety” Is a satire that will appeal to eves body. The Looker-On department has some inside talk about the Bohemian Club jinks and a number of good stories on prominent people. There_are good verses and the paragraphs and comments are bright and to the point. Editorially the paper deals M an Intelligent manner with all the leading questions. Its tomobile, literary and | dramatic departments are ably conducted. Tts society department full of gossip that can be fourd nowhere else and contains a com- plete and authentic record of the doings and movements of the upper ten. . —_— Overrules Demurrer. Judge Kerrigan yesterday overruled the demurrer to the answer of Chief of Police ‘Wittman to the petition of Henri Lair of 1027 Dupont street for a writ restraining the police from raiding his saloon. He also denled a motion to strike out parts of the answer. - CHINESE CREWS MAY BE TRANSFERRED HERE Secretary of the Treasury Says That Exclusion Act Does Not Af- fect Them. The reason why certain Chinese crew: were permitted to be transferred im this harbor from one vessel to another recent- ly was made public yesterday by Cus- toms Collector Stratton- for the informa- tion of the public. The Collector acted uper the following dispatch from -Secre- tary of the Treasury Shaw, received.on New Year's eve: 3 o e The Department of Justice has rendered -an opinion of this date relative to the transfez of Chinese érews from one steamship to a of the same line, In whick the ¢ August 29 last . is stated th no applicatio are engaged in porarily_withih pose. where the evidence ¥ conclusion that the persons so regularly employed seamen of the steamtahiy company owning both the vessel on which they arrived and the vessel to- which they .are transferred. e ADVERTISEMENTS. As a guarantee of ABSOLUTE' PURITY and SAFETY the Label below printed on BLUE PAPER is pasted on every Kitchen Utensil of GENUINE AGATE NICKEL-STEELWARE A full assortment of these goods for sale ‘ \ by all the leading DEPARTMENT and HOUSE FURNISHING STORES. LALANCE & GROSJEAN MFG. CO. NEW YORK. BosToN. cHicaGo. (Sustained by U. S. Circuit Court.)] HoLIDA : OLIDAY PRESENTS. lasves. They strengthos al lm:lii:{"m Jee- ute, Market —— bhene Eratayrle's Germas e "'l "—'-I is on every box of the geneiee