The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1903, Page 31

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SUBETY COMPANY S " WITHORANS RiK USPECTED ASSAILANTS OF AN AGED WOMAN TRAPPED BY A CLEVER RUSE WHEN POLICE SEEMED TO BE NAPPING | EasternConcern Refuses| Detectives Capture Three of Four Men Toward Whom Circum- to Go Security for, Mandeville. | Action Probably Due to Ru- mors About Mrs. Moxey's Guardian. 4 A | Just what Harry Lester Mandeyille, | guardian of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ga3e H. Phillips-Moxey, who was recently de-| | ctared incompetent by Judge Coffey, wiil do mow that the National Surety Com-| pany ew York has given notice that it desires to withdraw its bond of $100,000 given as security for Mandeville’s faith- ful performance of his duties is guardian, is of ts hard to conjecture. The company i one of the largest of its kind in this country, and there Is little doubt that its action will make it difficult for Mande- ville to secure sureties. Mandeville was | appointed guardian of Mrs. Moxey after a thorough investigation into her actions from the time of her arrival in this city til came the bride of Oliver N.| Moxey and deeded to him property in this | State and Boston worth $220,000. i Notification of the withdrawal of the ety company from Mandeville'’s bond s filed with the County Clerk yester- day by the law firm of Thomas & Gersule, | its legal representatives in this city. The petition for confirmation by the court of the withdrawal does not state any reason for the act, and the attorneys themselves are at a loss to account for the action of their principal NEW RULES IN VOGUE. || rm of Thomas!| | jam Thomas of the T rstle, representatives of the National stated yesterday that| | he had received a telegram from the home office in New York City requesting the| | withdrawal of the bond. | " know he said, “of any par ticular re n for the act, except that the home office in connect $50,000. It be that the w t the company de urity for Mandeville under ma the new rules. The rumors concerning Mandeville th: are supposed to have brought about | are to the he action of the surety company effect that he has made overty x er N. Moxey, his mother-in-law’s youth- ful spou and John D. Hoover, wno| | "o, v, with Moxey is accused of conspiring to| WATAT 7 s e ancient dame of her propert question of conspiracy rights of Hoover sroperty out of court { oxey are willing to sw { ville, and Hoover offered to testify to tha the fon of who shou ated Mrs. Moxey’'s guardian came the admissibilitys of such test ANGERS HOEFFLER. s after Mandeville's appoint- | ment Attorney Louis Hoeffler of the §rm | | ¢ 1 Wheeler & Hoeffler, who rep-| | resented Mandeville in the guardianship| | proceedings, created a sensation by filing | | a suit to set aside the deeds made by Mrs. Moxey and announcing that he was dissat ed with his client’'s action in the suit, it was said at the tme, | was brought about by the fact that| Mandeville had served notice upon the | attorney that he intended changing at:nr-} a notice that made Hoeffler wrathy | i | neys, and caused him to waver in his belief in | the integrity of his client. Though it has understood that | i since the conclusion of the guardians | AFELY locked in the tanks of the proceedings Truman & Oliver, Mrs. Mox- | City Prison the police believe | they have three of the four men | ey’s attorneys, had withdrawn from the | case because of a row over fees with who were concerned in the rob- Moxey, there seems to be little doubt that | bery of the residence of Mrs. Ida this firm, in the light of recent develop- Tuttle at 53 Haight street and | Costello, who was of | the brutal assault on her aged mother, | on the afternoon of staying with their client. v. intend firm, with counsel with them, filed a notice yester- | Mrs. T. V. Mathew: ¥ moving for a new trial of the guard- | March 4. The crime, committed in broad nship proceedings. The motion will be | daylight and in a neighborhood densely ard by Judge Coffey on April 2. | populated, was as audaclous as it In the notice it is stated that they will | ;,ryeq) and at the time created a sens move for a new trial on the grounds that | = " o0 o who entered the were irregularities in the proceed- that they have newly discovered v that the decision is against and that they were taken by surprise. th i house managed to escape and gradually public interest in the matter lapsed. The police, however, have been working | diligently on the , and now have in “SPECTROSCOPE AND ITS custody Bernard Whitelaw, John Gilmore, ACHIEVEMENTS® HIS THEME |alias Davis, alias Woods, and Mike Nolan, | e | whose capture was published in yester- F. A. Ruppert, 8. J., Will Deliver |day’s Call. At the door of these three Experimental Lecture at St. men and of one other who has so far eluded {he vigilance of the police is laid Ignatius College Hall. | one of the most startliig rimes that has In have been extended for an | occurred in the city for several years. experimental lecture on “The Spectro-| All three of the prisoners are well | d Its Achlevements,” to be deliv- known to the police. Nolan, who is sup- | 1 tations ered by F Ruppert, 8. J., professor of | posed to have been the one who planned | e g ~, the crime, has been arrested so many | atursl sciences. Bt us College, in ) natural sciences, St. Ignatius College, In| ymes on various charges that he cannot | the college auditorium, Van Ness avenue, | remember the number of times he has | next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. The | peen in custody. So far he has escaped a | reverend turer has made a speclal of his subject, and the lecture, llius- | 4 as it will be with sclentific experi- will prove highly interesting. Previous to the lecture the college or- | composed of forty students of the le term in thg penitentiary, and if his al- leged .accomplices in this latest crime re- fuse to divulge his complicity in it he stands a good chance of escaping punish- ment again. As a matter of fact, Nolan is prepared itution, will play three selectlons— | to prove that he was not one of the men “Rio Grande,” by E. Bergenholt; “An-|who cntered Mrs. Tuttle’s house on the dante Religioso ¥. Thome, and|day of the crime and his connection with “Storm King,” by E. T. Pauli. The topics | it in any way, despite the faet that the | Mr. Ruppert will discuss during his lec- | police believe he was the planner of the ture are as follows: entire plot, will be hard to prove in a | court of law unless some of the central figures weaken and confess, NOLAN IS TRICKED, It was due to the sense of security which Nolan felt that. the police were able at last to capture Whitelaw and Gil- more, The day following the crime De- tectives Wren and Bailey, who were de- talled on the case, ascertained that a sis ter of Nolan's female consort lived di- rectly opposite the Tuttle residence and was on intimate terms with Mrs. Tuttle and her mother. According to the aged victim of the assault, this woman was shown a large quantity of jewelry which i | was kept in the house only five days be- | fore the attempt was made by the three fhugs to obtain it even at the cost of a human life. It is not thought that she had any criminal intention when she im- parted this information either to her sis- ter or to Nolan, who was a frequent vis- itor to the house. The knowledge, however, that so much valuable plunder, was within apparently easy reach and guarded only by two women, one of whom could be decoyed away without trouble, is sald to have ap- pealed to the predatory instincts of Nolan, and he began at once to plan to secure it. The further fact that Mrs. Tuttle was trying to purchase a lodging-house and the name of the Treal estate man with whom she was dealing were also confided to her reighbor, and with this information it was a simple matter to decoy Mrs. Tut- ysis; action of prism u ; its analysis and synthesis; spectrum analysis based upon this action of a prism. Achievements of spectroscope among terres. trial substances; characteristic tints shed by | elements and their compounds volatilized in a fiame; relation of spectroscope to them; projec- tion of spectra; gaseous spectra: universality, | Analsty, delicacy of test; historic development | of spectrum analysis. | Wonders of pectroscope applied to the heav- | | ens; solar and stellar chemietry; Fraunhofer lines; their origin and cause; law of exchanges | and reversal of spectra; physical constitution of he sun; photosphere; chromosphere; corona; prominences w the spectroscope makes la ter ple at all times; thelr variety and a; pearance. Constitution and composition of stars as vealed by the spectroscope; astro chemistr: astro-physics; displacement of lines in stella | spectra; Doeppler’s principle. —_—e——————— General Warfield Wins., OAKLAND, March 23.—General Warfield, R. H. proprietor of the California a parcel of reaity in Berkeley, formerly owned by P. A, Finnigan, over which law | suits of five years duration have been | hanging. Finnigan went into bankruptcy | and deeded his property in Berkeley to his | daughters. General Warfield brought suit | against the daughters for a board bill of | 33000, contracted by the young ladies in | 1595, ‘while they were guests at the Hotel | Rafael. General Warfield got a judgment for the $3000, but he was not able to real- | ize upon it until to-day, when Judge | Ozgden handed down a favorable decision. . Mathews at stances Point Strongly as Being Engaged in the Brutal Plot to| Rob and Murder Feeble Mrs Her’ Daughter’s Home ——— men disappeared, leaving the women be- hind. They are supposed to have gane to Sacramento and remained in hiding until -Nolan's suspicions had been lulled, | when it is supposed he informed them that it would be safe to return to the city,"as the police were ‘working on an entirely different clew. At any rate they appeared in their usual haunts last Thursday and again took up -quarters at 413 O'Farrell street. Their presence In town was not known to the detectives, but Friday night Po- licemen Pearl and O'Connor became aware that, they were bhck in their rooms and at once proceeded there and placed them under arrest. Both men were heavily armed and had burglar tools in their possession. The women were also taken into custody, but are not supposed to have had anything to do with the crimes attributed to the men. However, they were able and willing to tell what they knew and from them were learned various circumstances that it is belleved will aid greatly in connecting Gilmore, Whitelaw and Nolan directly with the Haight-street -outrage. EVIDENCE AGAINST NOLAN. Both of the girls were shown photo- graphs of Nolan which were taken by Police Photographer George Kelly yes- terday and they were positive he had been a visitor to the apartments several tle from her home and leave her aged mother at the mercy of the thugs. IDENTIFIES WHITELAW. Accordingly a note was sent by a me: senger boy, purporting to be signed by the real estate man, asking Mrs. Tuttle to go to a specified place some distance from the house. The note was written by one of threc men who had becn louns- ing around a saloon at the corner of | Steiner and Haight streets, and was given to Herbert Poplewell, a messenger boy, to deliver.” He was instructed to hurry away as soon as the message was delivered, as there was no answer. Yesterday Poplewell was taken to the City | Prison, where he was confrénted with | Gilmore and Whitelaw. In an instant he recognized Whitelaw as the man who had given him the note. “That's the man,” he sald, positively, 1 would know him among a thousand.” He was unable to identify Gilmore as Whitelaw's companion at tha time he re- ceived the messdge, but sald he jpald lit- tle attention to the other inan at the time. When the detectives learned the fact that Nolan had been seen near the scene of the crime on the day o its commis- sion and that he was a frequent visitor to the house across the streci, he was at once singled out as an object of sus- picion, but he was not aporised of the fact. Instead he was taken to police headquarters, and after being questioned | he was apparently purged by the detee- tives of any complicity in the crime. e was told that circumstances poiated strongly to three soldiers as the perpe- trators of the assault, and upon urging finally recalled to mind that while stand- ing at the corner of Steiner and Haight | streets on the afternoon in question three soldiers had passed him whom he would be able to ldentify if he saw them again. He was allowed his liberty and daily thereafter Detectives Wren, Taylor and Bailey made it a point to hunt up Nolan and question him as to whether he had seen the three soldiers. SUSPECTED MEN RETURN. Previous to the crime Whitelaw and Glimore had occupled a suite of rooms at 413 O'Farrell street in company with Ber- tha and Ruby Grilla, two sisters, who have been employed as waltresses in this city for the last year. The day follow- ing the assault on Mrs. Mathews the two -+ THREE MEN NOW IN €USTODY ON SUSPICION OF BEING ENGAGED | IN BRUTAL ASSAULT AND ROBBERY ON HAIGHT STREET, AND | AGED VICTIM OF THEIR ATTACK, | ) | times previous to the assault on Mrs. K‘Mfllhews and had held long conferences with Gilmore and Whitelaw. ‘When seen in the City Prison yesterday Nolan at first maintained that he was un- ; acquainted with either Gilmore or White- | law. « Further questioning developed the | admission that he was acquainted with | Gilmore, whom he knew under the name |of Davis, but said he had seen him but once in three years. According to the police Woods, or Davis, or Gilmore, to whatever name he may be entitled, was a constant companion of Nolan and many | bear out the statement that Nolan and Whitelaw were together often within the last two months. . Gilmore refused to talk at first, but finally, in answer to questions, said he was a waiter, cook and bartender by oc- cupation, but could not give any place where he had worked during the last year. He said he was a married man and had two children whose whereabouts he declined to give. He has a police record, having beén sentenced to six months in the County Jail in March, 1889, for petty larceny and to two months o the same charge in July, 1898. The police give his marital relations in a manner thit reflects anything but credit on him. They say he married a 16-year- old girl about two years ago and endeav- life. When she refused he beat her and left her to shift for herself. She is now suing for a divorce from him through At- torney Albert F. Wheelan. WHITELAW HAS RECORD. ‘Whitelaw was recognized yesterday by Detective Zeigler of St. Louis as a man who had stabbed and killed another in front of a house of ill-fame in that city about eighteen months ago. He pleaded self-defense and escaped with a four months’ term on some minor charge. He came to this city about a year ago and shortly after his arrival was arrested for burglary committed in a room at 17 Grant avenue, but the owner of the property taken refused to prosecute. The Grilla sisters came with him from St. Louis. It has been admitted by the police that they do not belleve Nolan was one of the three men who entered the Tuttle resi- dence. When Mrs. Mathews came scream- ing out of the house in the wake of the fleeing - thugs Nolan was standing on a nearby corner. His presence there is | | sleeping-room and she ored to persuade her to lead an immoral | ENDG HER LIFE INA BATHTUB Comely Dressmaker De-| liberately Plans Her Death. Reclines on Improvised Bed | and Calmly Awaits | the End. A SIS S Reclining at full length in a bath tub| in a partly disrobed condition, her head resting on a pillow and a quilt and coun- terpane drawn up to her chin, the dead body of Mrs. Willlam N. Dingle, a dress- maker, was found last evening at her | residence, 626 Post street. A gas jét, with | the stop-cock fully turned on, mutely tes- tified to the cause of death. The tragedy bore every evidence of premeditation on the part of the dead woman, but the cause of self-destruction can only be a matter of conjecture. Walter J. Lebrecht, an elevator oper- ator, who rooms in the house, made the | grewsome discovery upon his return |trom work last evening, and immedi- {ately summoned medical assistance, but life was found to be extinet and death had undoubtedly ensued many hours pre- | vious. ‘, Mr. Lebrecht, who occuples a room in | i!he house with Frank Smith, a jewelry | salesman, immediately upon opening the front door detected an almost stupefying odor of gas, and upon investigation found | | that it originated from the bathroom, lo | cated at the rear of the hall. He opened the door of the room and made the hor- rifying ‘discovery. Several of the neigh bors were notified and a physician sum moned. H. Y. Craig responded to Le- brecht's request for assistance, but could | not detect any life in the unfortunate | | woman, and the doctor who subsequently | | arrived pronounced her dead. | | The unfortunate woman was a dress- | maker and according to the young men jronmlng in the house was of a particu- | larly bright and sunny disposition. She | had been indulging to excess in alcoholic | stimulants for several months, but had | never given any intimation that she con- | templated suicide. William N. Dingle, a dancing master at 7 Sutter street, is the husband of the dead woman, but the couple have been separated for some time. It is not known what caused the separation, but it un- doubtedly was one of the main causes | leading up to the act of self-destruction. The occupants of the flat immediately overhead state that the doorbell was rung veral times during the morning, but no response was made by Mrs. Dingle, and it is supposed that she was lying dead in the bathtub at that time. The unfortu- | nate woman had deliberately planned her death and se ed the bathrdom in view of the fact t the room was a small one and the flow of gas from the jet is | larger there than In any other apart- ment in the house. The pillow, quilt and | counterpane had been taken from her had undoubtedly gone from her bed to the bathroom, where | the tragedy occurred, as Mr. Lebrecht | states that she had not arisen when he | departed for work at 7:30 o'clock yester- | day morning. An examination of the house by Deputy Coroner Michael Brown failed to disclose | any. message tending to throw light on the rash act. The body was removed to the Morgue and the husband will be noti- fied. Deceased was about 35 years of age and very prepossessing. She had a large number of fashionable patrons and was well and favorably know: Fireman Struck by Car. Edward O'Donnell, who resides at 235 Sanchez street, and who is a hoseman on engine 27, was struck by a Fillmore street car last evening and suffered a com- minuted fracture of the left leg. O'Don- nell was in the act of boarding a car at | the corner of Flllmore and Haight streets | when he was struck by an inbound car. The injured man was taken to a nearby store and was treated by Dr. Bodkin. Subsequently he was taken to his home. g Phpbusorantun Sl Rob Stationery Store. Louis Greenberg and Willle Knodler, two lads employed by John.Partridge, the stationer, were arrested last evening and charged with petty larceny. It appears both lads concealed themselves In the store on Friday evening and then helped themselves to articles valued at $100. The robbery was traced to them. Some of the stolen property was recovered. —_—— e——— Disrobed on the Street. Stephen Clark, a laborer, disrobed on the corner of Montgomery and California | streets last evening and was taken into custody by Officer O'Brien. The police- man loaned his prisoner his long coat order that he might remove him to the Hall of Justice without shocking pedes- trians. dose of licuor. ol L RS Boy Injufed While Coasting. Bert Moran, a youth living at 2582 Mis- slon street, while coasting down the Pa- cific avenue hill, allowed his wagon to | get away from him and he collided with | a Devisadero street car. The lad suffered severe lacerations of the scalp and was taken to the Park Emergency Hospital for treatment. L. Brian, a companion, escaped without injury. L 20 e o] vouched for by William Durham, 4 press- man on a morning paper, who is thor- oughly reliable. He says he talked to No- lan just previous to the appearance of | Mrs. Mathcws at the door. Nolan board- ed & passing car and came down town at once. So that there must have been a fourth locate him. Whether or not the missing criminal will ever be captured depends largely on the refusal to “peach” of the trio now in custody. All three men are strongly addicted to the use of opium and are said to be fre- quenters of the resorts where the drug is smoked. On this fact the police place their hopes of catching the fourth man, as it is likely he Is also a victim of the same habit and will sooner or later return to his old environments. The prisoners are still kept in detinue and will remain so for several days in or- der that the efforts of the detectives may not ‘be impeded by outside work of the suspected men’s friends. . - Mrs. Mathews, who was severely in- jured by beirdg beaten on the head by a revolver in the hands of one of the men, has been seriously ill ever since the as- sault and was not able to come to the City Prison yesterday to attempt an iden- tification of the men in custody. If her doctor will permit it to-day the three sus- peects will be taken to the Tuttle home for the purpose of giving her an opportunity to recognize her assailants if ghe can. Clark was suffering from an over- | man in the job and, although the police | admit this, they profess to be unable to | HALL TO MEET COMMITTEE OF THE TRAINMEN —e | | k= RAILROAD PRESIDENT WHO HAS AGREED TO MEET GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. e New York, New Haven and Hartford Strike May Be Averted. EW HAVE Conn., The action of Presi Hall of the New York, New Hav- en and Hartford Rallroad in in- viting the grievance committee of the trainmen of the system to anoth- er conference and agreeing that Valentine Fitzpatrick, third vice grand master of the Trainmen's N nal Brotherhood, shall take part in the conference is be- lieved to have cleared for the present, at least, what wa st becoming a very critical situation. Heretofore the road management has declined to meet a rep- organization in dis- resentative of the cussion of schedules of wages and rums, and bas deal with the committee of the employes. After the negotiations of the sub-com- mittee of the board of directors with the trainmen’s committee appeared to have come to an end and strike seemed imminent, the trainmen’'s committee sent a delegation to President Hall. This dele- gation is said to have informed Presi- deny Hall that the committee had come toAhe conclusion that further discussion would serve no good purpose, and to have | President Hall make in writing a state- | ment of just what the company would | do in return and indicate what conces- sions, If any, would be offered, different | from'the wage changes authorized by the | board. This request is said to have been | refused by President Hall. | After the interview the delegatiom re- | ported to the full committee and there | was a brief discussion, at the end of | which the entire committee left their | headquarters and proceeded to the general | office building of the road. Only the four | delegates previously referred to went into | President Hall's office at this time, the | other members of the committee remain- {ing in a group on the main floor of the | bullding. The object of this second visit f the delegates is said to have been to present something, which the men regard- |ed in the light of an ultimatum. Just what developed at this interview has not been made public. | Meanwhile President Hall got into com- | munication by telephone with several | members of the directorate, and shortly only a |a(ler 2 o'clock a new turn was given to the situation by the announcement that word had been received from Hall that | the latter will meet Fitzpatrick with the | committee. Just what effect the addition of Fitz- patrick to the list of conferees will have | on the situation cannot be foretold, but { the men hail it with an indication of a | distinct change of attitude on the part of the road and as a concession to their | wishes. One of the important points of difference between the road and committee is the demand for a ten-hour day. It is sald the company has expressed a willingness to concede an eleven-hour day in place of the twelve-hour schedule now In force, but that the men have refused.to accept the compromise. READY FOR SUMMER TRAFFIC. The California Northwestern Pro- vides Increased Accommoda- tions for Its Patrons. This road. so popular with our people for summer outings, is quickly preparing for this | season's business. It is just in receipt of some new passenger coaches from the Barney & Smith Mfg. Company at Dayton, Ohlo. This is the second instaliment from that company, and these, together with those procured from | the Pullman Comopany, make a total of six- teen new first-class passenger coaches receited within a short time. They are all up-to-date, equipped with the latest improvements for comfort and safety. The seats are covered with plush and the stze of the windows is such as to give an unobstructed vieW of the coun- try, so pieturesque in its varfed aspects. Six new locomotives have been included in their recent purchases and they are all here. ] company was fortunate in_ordering so far e vember no locdmotive nited States wouid contract to deliver an engine before the year 1904. For the accommodation of the freight traffic- over equipment. tes put. in the road the past year, and that is a kind of work which never ceases. Construction trains have been constantly at work until the road is newly ballasted from one end to the other. Some thousands of tons of heavy steel rails have been lald and several thousand tom: more are on the way for immediate use. Ex- tra trains will be put on at the opening of the season and all points on the road will be reached in good time and comfort. The Sun- day travel on this road is quite heavy and nothing shows ore the.desire of the manage- ment to cater to the comfor: and ease of the general public than the refusal of the com- pany to carry up the road Sunday picnies, which, when heavy, necessarily draw on the cquipment, sometimes to the discomfort of its regular vatrons. This road has made itseit popular by the prompt service and act tions furnished the traveling public. is to have its patrons travel in comfort, and specials are always run to relieve the trains when they fill up. The route is a fa- vorite for summer excursions. Every year pany issues a book giving a list of mping spota, hotels, private homes in towns and farms where people can spend the sum. mer. This year's edition, “Vacation 1903, now ready for distribution and contains ov a hundred pages. No one can fall to be suited when there is such a number and verlety places to choose from. I i