The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1903, Page 14

14 5 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1903. —__wwmmmaes ___IPOLICE AND CORONER SCOFF AT IDEA |-t | - -THAT VIOLENCE ENDED KEARNEY’S LIF | NEW SILKS | | | Spring greets you everywhere thmug!n.mt our big sto:e. Eve.ry department showing its best efforts on Spring Goods, and the price efforts are made to catch a bigger trade. Can’t we catch you? -——AND— 'DRESS GOODS ' SIX SPECIALS. 24-INCH PRINTED WARP TAFFETA SILKS, in munulunre I?nd two-}nned effects. These are some of the newest weaves i for summer dresses:...«.-««-- $|.5U Ya[fl STRIPED AND CHECKED TAFFETA SILKS. in Black and White. Blue and White and a full assortment of other colorings. So much in demand for $|; 81,25, $1.35 Yard shirt waist suits. - . 24-INCH WASH SILKS (Pongee weava). These are in a large varietu of colorings in fancy ‘ str'én‘e;\s/-h als{[]:hBhll\e ar{[r\ll Whil{edand Black an ite ecks. arrante puresilk.-............ 75GYalfl | 44-INCH FRENCH FLEUR DE VELOUR., We ' havel.iusE1 onen?dhalla;‘ue lslhtinnment of this popular dress fabric ina C Jatest Spring shades...-...... Shdd Yall 43 | GENUINE FRENCH ETAMINE VOILE, A inches wide, in the new shades of Tans, Strong Circumstances Tend to Prove That Mrs. Charles B. Harris! Wrote Amorous Communications That Have Been Given as| Cause for Murder but Woman Stoutly Denies Her Authorship? TOURIST The SUIT which we show | in the picture opposite is one | of our latest conceptions of | THE TOURIST. Plaited jacket, for lads between the: | ages of 6 and 12 years. All the smart SCOTCHY patterns, | all brand new, patteras spark-| ling with {freshness. Some| there worth $4.00. A ot of these to-day at 5248 | LA OFFICES oF CRARLES B MARRIS wis sevewrn braeer noTARY puBLIC OFFICE, BLACK 724 RESDENCE WEST 476 w3 o skcanenro, cac. Jan. 12th 7190, Mr Kearney. DEAR FRIEND , 1T has been a Lon8 time since we Another addition to our| Spring Stylesis the SUIT | which we picture opposite. | little chaps from 3 to 7| years, in the HEATHER MIXTURES, which are going to be awfully swel for Spring. Just got in| em; they ought to be $6.00. The front is par- ticularly cute and fetch-| ing; will just cause your| little man to look too sweet for anything. | These are special to-! day at | | “A Trip Through Ireland.” 3 W. L most interesting ast night is subject belng Th Irels The lecturer m views of En the Dublin and, in Ir shown and elicited much < ARMY VETERANS indeed, nd of interest to the ap- ADVERTISEMENTS. IN SELECTING the essential features to be consid- cred are TONE CONSTRUCTION DESICN FIFTY YEARS OF STUDY AND FIFTY YEARS OF EXPE- RIENCE arc embodied in the Tone, Construction and Design of THE VOSC PIANO The results are: Exceptional purity of Tone, superiority of Con- struction, and artistic ‘beauty of case Designs. Sold for Cash, or oni the Monthly Payment Plan, and for Rent. SOLD FOR (6 YEARS soi. GUMAZ <o Sole Agents, OLDEST AND STRONCEST HOUS:z ON TH= PACIF C COAST 16 to 20 O'FARRELL STREET (Curtaz Building) BRANCHES San Jose, Fresno, Stockton, Ala- meda. s PINO | | I SURPRSED There was surprise in Grand Army cir- | | cles last evening over the announcement that Department Commander Hawley bad | | removed C. T. Masteller, assistant adju- | tant general, Department of Californi and Nevada, and appointed to ¥hat posi- | tion John H. Roberts, adjutant of George | H. Thomas Post. At the Occidental Hotel last night department commander in reply to quiries concerning the change said it true that Comrade Roberts had been ap pointed assistant adjutant general of the department, but declined to give any rea- sons for Comrade Masteller's removal. When asked if Comrade Masteller's finan- cial accounts were straight and correct he replied: “The council of administration to-day | examined the accounts and everything pertaining to money matters was found | correct.” { It is gossip in Grand Army posts that | tardiness on the part of Comrade Mas- teller in obtaining and forwarding re- | ports from this department to national headquarters was the chief reason for the change. It is said that the depart- ment was once suspended for his failure to send in reports of its condition, Comrade Masteller has served ecleven years as assistant adjutant general and | one year as department commander. He is a member of George H. Thomas Post | and also a member of the general commit- | tee of management for the Thirty-seventh | National Encampment. | John H. Roberts, the newly appolnted ! | adjutant general, was sworn in yesterday | and now holds the office. He came to Cal- ifornfa in 1852, but when the Civil War broke out he returned to Buffalo, N. Y., | | the place of his birth, and entered the | | Union army. He served with Burnside in | | North Carolina and in the Army of the | | Pctomac. He went to Chicago in 1868. He | | was admitted to the bar in 1869 and wu‘[ | subsequently appointed Assistant City Attorney, He was secretary of the Re- | publican National Convention of 15%. He | returned to San Francisco in 1883 and has sicce taken an active part as a cam- paign orator in State and National poli- tics. The salary num’\(nx to the office of assistant adjutant general of this depart- | ment of the Grand Army is $1500 per an- num. the | in- | | To Visit San Francisco Without seeing the Diamond Palace { would be like visiting Burope without seeing Paris. It is a leading feature of San Francisco, and is conceded to be the most beautiful jewelry store in the world. Visitors or purchasers are equally wel- come. 221 Montgomery st., bet. Bush : and TP £ 2 A very swell affair for | last evening—a big lot of || | enters a strong denial. | pen. { nocent of the entire affair and is nobly =k HE suspiclon of foul play in con- nection with the death of Daniel B. Kearney. a salesman with the Brooks-Follis Electrlc Com- pany, is absolutely discredited by | the 1ocal police and morgue authorities. Captain Martin dropped the investigation several days ago, satisfied that accident was responsible for the young lad’s disap- pearance and the subsequent recovery of his body from the bay, and an inquest, to be held Saturday morning, will bs a al affair, attended by only a few s and devoid of sensation. s, endearing in tone and supposed to have been clandestinely written by a married woman, give no hint as to the cause of death, although they have becn exploited as a possible cause for murder. They appear to be nothing more than the in this city and cut separation the case other than to stir up scandal, and would never have figured at all but for a man’s folly in preserving them in- stead of feeding them to the flames, MYSTERIOUS WRITER. The identity of the writer is the oniy feature of the case that leaves grounds for discussion, but this is not consideved by the police to havegany tendency to- ward explaining the manner of Kearney’s death. All indications point to Mrs. Sua Harris, wife of Charles B. Harris, a prominent attorney, residing at 617 Elev enth street, Sacramento, as the person who penned the words. But the latter short by a forced this denial circumstances are strongly against the woman, and the police 2 inclined to the belief that she met and loved Kearney and that the amorous communications were the work of her Her husband is thought to be in- shielding the woman. Verging on a state of nervous collapse, he stands by her side resenting any im- putation against fidelity, but refuses to give the lic to the.world’s conviction by presenting specimens of handwriting that may be compared with that in the let- ters. The letterhead of his own law firm is a telltale. It was presumably used by a niece of Mre. Harris, Miss Myrtle Beers, to whom the correspondence, by mutual agreement, was to be Intrusted that an expose of clandestine relations of the wife with another man might be averted. The | signatures, as published before, purport to be those of Mrs. Sue Harris, and where the name is not stated the sigpificant let- ter “H" or the family address appears, The contention of Harris, his wife and Miss Beers is_that some one else wrote the letters and made use of their names. If this be a fact both Kearney and his partner in the little episode, Rothchild, were the ones misled. One of the strongest arguments against Mrs. Harris' denial can be found in the letters themselves. They date from the first part of last September, when, ac- cording to thelr text, the two women, Mrs. Harris and Miss Beers, forsook their new-found sweethearts, Kearney and Rothchild, and returned to their homes in Sacramento. The letters show that some of them, at least, were answered by Kearney. In the first missive he was directed to send his answers in care of Miss Beers at the Harris home and as their recelpt was noted in subsequent communication they must have come into the possession of Miss Beers or the latter surely knows what disposition was made of them. Not- They are of no importance in | ¥ have a pecullar fancy for keeping cor- In the face of | | even suicide could be found. aftermath of a foolish infatuation formed | after 1 oNE OF THE | IIYSTERIOVS LETTERS \ FOUND ON KEARNEYS BoDy { YOUNG SALESMAN WHO WAS DROWNED IN THE BAY, AN INTIMATE FRIEND AND FRAGMENTS OF LETTERS FOUND ON PERSON'OF DE- C SED, WHICH GIVE THE CASE A MYSTERIOUS ASPECT. \ withstanding all these circumstances, At- torney Harris persists in his denial. | KEARNEY SHOWS LETTERS.. 3 | i | ridicules the idea of foul play, but owing to the number of theories that have been advanced will cause an Inquisition to be held that all parties may be satisfied, He will not, however, have the attend- ance of Mrs. Harris, according to a dis- patch received from evening, which says: SACRAMENTO, March 17.—Charles B. Har- |ris made the emphatic declaration that if his wife is subpenaed to ap Coroner's inquest upon the death of Daniel B. Kearney in San Francisco, she will not re- spond to the summons. He declared that if any subpena is issued for her appearance at the inquest he will send a doctor's certificate setting forth that her health {s such that it would be dangerous for her to appear before Two letters, written by Willlam M. Rothchild, a salesman for an Eastern con- cern, mention the ‘“Sacramento friends,” | but give no names. The signature on each is different, but this may be ex- plained by the possibility that Reothchild had a stenographer sign one of them. Some stress may be lald on the coinci- | Cence that Kearney had all of the letters, some of them of a remote date, in his ession when he met death. Some men Sacramento last T spondence of this sort and for exhibiting i : 2 o | the Inquisitorfal body or court. Notwith- L to their friends. Keammeygshowed the | fo o ot Ve 3 T ratiom by Der e, letters to one person at least. Charles J. |pand of her precarious state of health, Mrs. Thelen, an employe in the electrical con- | Harris was anxlous this afternoon to correct cern and a bosom friend of the dead man, said that he saw them, but could give no information as to whether his friend carried the letters always or took them on the occasion of the trip that resulted in his death. Kearney says he was go- ing to a shipyard in Alameda gnd was last seen as the ferry-boat approached the Oakland mole. This was on the morning of January 23. He ran to catch the train for Alameda | and no trace of him could be had after- ward until, on March 10, his body was found by two fishermen floating off Meiggs wharf. The coat was tightly buttoned up and there was no evidence of violence. The letters, badly water- soaked, were found in an inner pocket. Captain Martin, head of the local de- tective department, makes the following statement: “The case does not puzzle me in the least. I have investigated it thoroughly and came to a conclusion several days ago. Detective John Freel went over the ground at my direction and no eviderfce whatever tending to- show foul play or The only man interested in a possible murder would be Harris. To accuse this man would be folly as the court records show that he was in Sacramento on the day of the disappearance. DEATH IS ACCIDENTAL. “I belicve that Kearney was drowned by accident. He was probably pitched from the train while standing on a plat- form and fell into the bay unnoticed. Had murder been committed some trace of it would have been left and had Kear- ney committed suicide he would have de- stroyed the letters before doing so. The accident must have befallen him soon leaving this city as he never reached the lumber yard. He could not bave gone to meet Mrs. Harrls or Miss Beers, as the Sacramento police author- ities state that both were In that city on January 23." 5 Coroner Leland will hold an inquest on the statement that she had been rendered ill ADVERTISEMENTS. B. KATSCHINSKI FHILADELPHIA SHOE GO, want vour trade and our shoes are guaranteed for wear. A special offer—Child’'s and Misses Vie! Kid Lace coin Shoes, toes and tips, next Saturday morning. The Coroner durable soles and spring heels, ali ux‘l.‘(;’lxg S(t:m!‘lc(gi& \Vhli!th (] tolE Childs’ sizes, 8% to 00 ADVERTISEMENTS. Misses’ sizes, 11%; to 2. We Closs at (0 0'Clock Every Saturday Nigat OUR SHOES WEAR WELL Youths' and Boys' Satin Calf Lace Shoes, coin toes and tips, double soles and steel circlets in the heels. Union stamped. Boys' sizes, 11 to 2.. 21.00 Youths' eizes, 2% to 5l%. 1.25 Country orders solicited. MILLIONS ase CUTICURA SOAP, as- sisted by CUTICURA OINTMENT, for preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp, and the stop- ping of falling hair, for softening, whitening soothing red, rough and sore haunds, for baby rashes, itching and chafings, and for all pu of the toilet, bath and nursery. Millions of Women use CUTICURA B. KATSCHINSKI, Philadelphia Shoe Co. San Francisco SoAP in baths for annoying irritatjons and imflammations, in washes for ulcerative perspiration, weaknesses, and for many sanative, -ntkelpfic purposes which readily . suggest themselves. Sold everywhere, |® 10 THILD STREET, SAN FRANCISCD, ! LDJOINING CALL BUILDING. | - F e A week's vacation generally means new shoes when school re- opens, and no one knows better than parents how the shoes do ear out.. Now why not stop ex- perimenting with shoes that do not wear well, but try our shoes that will stand any test? We 10 Third St., I | e DL | by the Kearney revelations, and she wanted it with specimen’s of Mrs, Harris' h: | ana discovered no mblance Ww! tween the two. evening ¥ Modes, Graus, Browns, Navus, Reseda, Roval and Cream $l.l]fl Yflffl 43-INCH FRENCH "‘VOILE NEIGEUSE.” This is one of the latest novelfies in dress ma- terial and comes in all the new colored mixtures. ... Qur Mail Order Department is most complete. 85¢ Yard All orders for samples or goods filled and shipped same day they are received. 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. stated that she had always been well enough to talk freely to reporters and that she even intended to go shopping down town this after- noon. DENIES THE WRITING. Last night Mrs. F. C. Beers, her sister, as- serted that she and Mr. Harris had compared the published Sacramento woman found on Kearn b1 of his wi nt to Th asked for a specimen so that it might be c simile of the letter from a | s bod DRIVERS’ G. EXAMINATION STOPPED BY TAXPAYER P. Mouille Obtains Temporary Injunction Against Board of Civil Service Commissioners. On complaint of G. P. Mot payer, fifed yesterday, Judge ) sued a temporary order restra Board of Civik Sgsvice Commis from proceeding with the examir ! cation alongside that in the letter addressed applicants for the positi of pol Kearney. It was represented to him that a | wooon Grivers scheduled to take demonstration of the dissimilarity between the | iy s morrow. In two handwriting specimens would do more than | r anything eise to set at rest the stories connect- | cited the Co ing his wife's name with the authorship of the | him next Satu Kearney letters, but Harris said he had mo | ¢he order should not be made perm: specimen of his wite's handwriting: that in her | T30 LR POl S T 8 TR the Eround present nervous state it would be right to le ba: d ask her to submit a freshly written epecimen, | that the Commiss | and besides, he could not see what good such | minimum h | & comparison would accomplish anyhow Harris is literally In a state of nervous col- lapse. The prominence in which his domestic and before the affairs have been d the unsigned letter: found on the de: man’s body, has over- powered him. He has shown court r d that he was in cramento on the Kearney's aisappearance and on da diately preceding and following that date, bu Sacramento for a moment entertains atter nobody in the thought that Harris had anything with Kearney's death, if, in fact, the was anything save a case of suicide. HARRIS IS PROMINENT. Harris stands well at the Sacramento bar, public to-day he occuples the position of a husband valiantly protecting his wife's good name in the face of every printed or spoken suspicion and with the declaration on his lips that he believes in her absolutely. | He admits that the circumstances are singu- jar, but that they do not prove her gullty of the slightest Wrongdoing. Harris has been known here as a devoted husband to a wife who has long been regarded as an invalid, and. it is recalled that only a short time ago he constantly attended her at a local hospital where she underwent a most critical operation for spinal trouble. He shows | his office diary in proof of his declaration that his wife was in Sacramento on dates when it would appear that the anonymous writer of | the Kearney letters was in San Francisco. Harris appears to have the sympathy of the | entire community and instead of being regard- | ed as in any way explaining the cause or manner of Kearney's death the publication of the anonymous letters is looked upon as having | thus far accomplished no purpose. New Trustees Meet. The newly elected members of the board of trustees of the Machanics’ Institute met last night at the institute building, Post street. Rudolph J. Taussig, presi- year's imprisonment in the penitentiary at San Quentin. The second offense was committed after his arrest for the first , offense. ——————— Baerman’s Bail Forfeited. When the case of Robert Baerman, grocer, 330 Minna street, charged with selling liquor without a license, was again called before Police Judge Mogan yesterday Baerman failed to appear and | the Judge declared his bail jof $100 for- feited. His bondsmen were in court ana pald over the money. A bench warrant was issued for Baerman's arrest. His mysterious disappearance is puzaling his friends. ged by the publication of | raises the point that dated from his house and | | | feet 7 inche numerous would-be a number who for several months past ha in the employ > Dep drivers cannot cc under civil service are less than therefore cannot avail the advantage which their experience them. ADVERTISEMENTS. No Dessert More Attractive Why use gelatine and spend hours soaking, sweetening, flavoring and coloring when ‘better results in two minutes? g in the package. Simply add hot dset tocool. It's perfection. A sur- water prise to the housewife. No trouble, less ex- In Four Fruit Fla- Ora: At grocers. 10c. Demonstration at Emporium rawberry, Rasp- dent, occupled the chair. Routine busi- 3 OPENING ness was transagted, and the new mem- : | bers of the board, Tirey L. Ford and atest’ stylis of Myttng A Byron Mauzy, were introduced to these ! @ g:m:r:?: Woolens. Fine homespun members who had served on previous :s\m o el | boards and had been re-elected. Tai g | 4 & { announced that at the next meeting. | $20.00 alnd $‘25fi.00 > which will be held on April 7, the varfous Newest designs in Top Overcoats, & committees Wwill be appointed. Those ® nd $25.00 ® presnt were R. J. Taussig, George H. 5?,.‘1’,,20?;,,, P =4 2 ‘Wallis, James G. Spaulding, James H. 2 Lyons, George Beanston, Alpheus Bull, | @ $5.00 to $10.00 2 Edward P. Heald, Samuel C. Irving and | § Our Dressy Suits for B . R. Mead. = 3 Lies ——————— $30.00 and $35.00 3 Whisky that sults, that does you good alds Jefy all competition. Perfect fit p your digestion and appetite, is the pure stuff 9 and best of workmanship gus ? —‘Jesse Moore” rye or bourbon. . F1 teed or no sales. » ————i s b4 Escapes Further Penaiey. |3 JOE POHEIM, The Tailor 2 The charge of purchasing Government | @ z e e property from United States soldiers pre- | 3 201 and 203 Mox‘t:ix'!lP.R'-\ ? ferred against A. H. Rehfeld was dis- | § ST. 11107and 1112 MAR- @ missed yesterday by United States Court KET ST., San Francisco. ® Commissioner Heacock. Rehfeld was re- 143 S. SPRING ST., Los Angeles. ® cently indicted and comnwicted of a similar k-] charge and is now under sentence of .one o i BLINDNESS is of by neglecting weak light, painful, s injured eves, ete. G German Eyewater P . __leves anl e [raubles: Ii‘rke‘(w:( E)_;rle German l':ru b | axative Mogfl" Cures a Cold inOne Day, 2 Dq" on every h S 7OV e Do 25 P ]