The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCILI—-NO. 120, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ISTOUNDING ~ WIFE FLEES - | IMMIGRANTS CRIMES HILL CORFESSION Convict Writes of Mrs. H. W. Hutton|Army of Europeans His Half-Dozen Murders. Extraordinary Docu- ment in Walla-Wal- la Prison. Negro Reviews an Appall- ing Career of Outlawry in Many States. spatch to ca March 29.—By his gger” Baker Wash a ias Frank Loftus, alias s Robinson, an th mes, a negro con- a tentiary at Walla ed the most ring criminal in the Wes: rimes, including b: & hway robber: istering knockout sing which by the cony covers thirty-seven re condensed rarely writ- se on what he thought handed it of the peni- he recov- prison cell remaine on record. sibly the most tri- s, Baker was up for A m and warden ecte and sent s porr FAMILY OF CRIMINALS. father m r were ays Baker. “My m ¢ State prisons. ing left for me but to be- i sod I glory in it. 1 I'm an expert at it. I've 1 luck, too; got caught oc- I've epent over half my walls and thatis not bad from here I'll go at ms e fession e Baker's six murders were mmitt New Mexico, the Atlantic sarde New York City and e robBeries in Old Mexico s other deeds in a score Baker started his at on his bed of sick- s how and reared up amidst thieves and nd low degree, the sticed herein. My native York City. 1 was born Murderers’ alley, which Thompson and Sullivan M3y her, to the best of my e. was a native of South Amer- ver was of mixed descent; h and negro, and well Annie Robin- were criminals and different prisons, in- and Auburn. my whole life g, but merely a from 1857 up writ past ac to perr O g the con- etrated an atroclous N. M., where he gave oldier knockout drops, took transportation and. over threw his body in the With the cunning of had trailed this man pache, Ari Marcial. Trooper Charles A Cavalry, discharged murderer of Green RECORD. most important by this negro from these crimes police records thousands of dollars outstanding St. Louis, 1887 most fatally beat unknown Louis, February, 1888, April, 1888 5 at Greenhouse, shooting BAKER'S RED ries in the Jungs in a ap, Christmas holidays, 1888 # Newark, January 20, 9889. ry, New York f dollars stealing on the quarters at Joe Gorman's unknown sallor at Red Atiantic Beer Gerdens, from blown safe in St. Fled to Omaha. % from March 26 for hardware on same day Per- n Council Bluffs. money - at - Fort ed Paumpin in quarrel &t Nebr. Wyo., getting §75, t Buffalo Robbed Creale Pearl at Buftalo of $160, Jumped to Kansas City and stole $800 out of ams block, May, 1889, Hobbed and cruelly beat 3 Jew In Topeka, June, 1859 way Tob Smith County, Kan 20, 1889. Was caught and got six years ed twenty-five months sporting house in El Paso; perpe- burglaries in that town. Fled xieo bank in Pa ne $1900. > Del Norte, Mexico, get.- cond-story. rolling, six murders ars | years ago | That survelllance of a deputy sh to the | de in Albuquer- | noted - Baltimore | FAOM HOME WTH B0LD Is Located in Salt Lake, | 3— | | | | BAN FRANCISCO POLICE COM- | MISSIONER, WHO WIFE HAS FLED. | | | i Special Dispatch to The Callé ALT LAKE, March 29.—Taking $3, 000 and hiring a woman attendan: accompany her, Mrs. H Hutton, wife of Police ‘ommis- sioner Hutton of 8an Francisco, away from her home and husband weeks ago and Is now occupying to ran two rooms in the Manitou in this city, under | eryf Mr Hut- ton, learning of his wife’s presence here through the police, followed her and at- | tempted 1o indudg her to return home, bt | @ suututedututuiufuiufufofololnimieiuimtetei anything to do with | she refused to have him and he was forced to return to San Francisco last night, leav the officers to look after his wife and attempt to get her back home The cause of Mrs. Hutton's secret flight from home and her refusal to return with her husband, according to a statement | made to the Salt Lake Chief of Police by Mr. Hutton, is that she is suffering from temporary firresponsibility as a result of ill health, from which she had been suf- fering for some time past. The money which she tock was her own, and her husband is having her watched to prevent the possibiliff of her being robbed and that he may be kept posted as to ner | whereabouts until she can be induced to return home.. A strict watch is being kept at the hotel to prevent her slipping and the police and others appealed Mr. Hutton when he was here ‘are dging all they can to persuade Mrs. Hui- ton to return to her home. HUSBAND'S APPEAL FUTILE. Mrs. Hutton will give no explanation of her conduct in running away from home, but in the presence of Chief of Police Sheets she told her husband that she re- fused to return home and would have nothing more to do with him. All efforts to persuade her were unavaliling. Mr. Hut- ton, after consulting an attorney and’ be- ing that nothing could be done without commencing legal proceedings, de- cided to let his wife do as she wished, with the hope that she wiuld soon changs her mir advised It was nearly two weeks ago that a rather stout woman of some 50 wearing clothing and jewels that bespoke weaith, appeared at the Manitou Hotel, and, accompanied by a younger woman, engaged rooms registered from San Francisco. They came and went as the other guests, and no particular note was taken of their actions until a few days ago, when Chief Sheets recelved a mes- sage from Commissioner Hutton saying | that his wife had disappeared from home | and asking if she were here. An investi- | gation by Chief Sheets resulted in the discovery that the wealthy guest at the Manitou was the missing wife. A mes- | sage was immediately sent to Mr. Hutton giving him this information. Yesterday | mornpg Mr. Hutton arrived in the city | and immediately sought out Chief Sheets | and related. to him the circumstances of s wife's disappearance from her home. HUTTON MEETS HIS WIFE. “He told me,” said the Chief to-night, “that she sudderly disappeared from her home about two weeks ago and hethought at first that she had gone to his rela- tives at Los Angeles. He telegraphed | there, but found that she had not been there. Further investigation disclosed the fact that she had drawn $35,000 of her money from the bank before leaving. Learning gails, he became alarmed about her safety and began a search. He found that she had got a ticket toward Salt Lake, and this resulted in her being lo- cated. He said she had made other at- tempts to run away from home and the physicians had told him that she was suf- fering from ill health that made her temporarily irresponsible. He could not account for her action in any otner way, and all he wanted was to see that she was safe and try to persuade her to return home with him. He asked me to €0 to the hotel with him and we went to Continued on Page 3, Column 2. sec her on Saturday afterncon. In the . w. T ARRIVING BY THOUSANDS | Pours Into Port of New York. 'All. Former Records| | for a Single Day < Are Broken. |Good Wages the Lure That Atiracts Horde From | Abroad. pecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 20.—The immigrant arrivals at Ellls Island to-day broke all By nightfall when Commissioner staff had sifted through the brought’ in by the Philadel- ia, the Campania, the Savole and the af Waldersee, it was found that 4569 men, women and children had passed through the chutes. records. Williams' mass This is the beginning of the rush season | for immigration and this year's record is | expected to exceed all others by many housands. During March of last year, 000 foreign-born persons were passed through the bureau. This year March, | with two days yet to come, has brought the number up to 64,000, while to-morrow and Tuesday will add perhaps 10,000 to the list Returns from steamers due this week indicate that there will be nearly 30,000 ar- rivals before next Sunday night. Of these | 10,000 will be 1talians. The rush of men from that couniry is unprecedented. | most all, of them remain in this city. who bring little baggage and they are in- variably met by friends, who take them at once to several “Little Italys” growing up throughout the city. The reason for this, | is that men are flocking to this coun- | try to work on the great railroad and | city improvements now under way. The news thar there is work at $1 #0™a day for men willing to toil in the subways has been widely advertised throughout Italy. | | | | [ day, companion of his wife he recognized a Los Angeles woman, the wife of a South- | ern Pacific bridge bullder, who had been | employed by Mrs. Hutton to accompany | her, | MAKES WILD ACCUSATIONS. | *Mr. Hutton tried fo persuade his wife | to return home gith him, but she made | some wild remarks about his having | failed to buy her a dress for a year or | more and having done something wtih | the_rents that did not suit her, and de- | clafed that she would not go home with | Lim and wanted nothing more to do with | him: |@ny way. I left them together and later | he came to the office and told me that he had been unable to dissaude her from her course. He. consulted an attorney, but was told that he could do nothing unless he commenced legal proceedings and that would have been unpleasant to ali He precautions to see that she met with no harm and then leave her alone until she consented to return home of her own free will. “Mr. Hutton was afraid that, with so much money in her possession, she might be made the victim of plots to rob her, concerned. was on deposit at Walker's bank, in the form of certified checks, How she spent ‘S;’mfl in two weeks, he was at a loss to ex- | plain, but with the rest of the money in | the bapk he felt that it was safe, and, | asking the officers to watch that she met | with no harm and to endeavor to per- suade her to return home, he left for San Erancisco last night.” DEPUTY SHERIFF ON GUARD. Deputy Sheriff Steele was stationed at the hotel to keep watch on the runaway | wife. ANl da} to-day Mrs. Hutton and her gcompanion remained in their rooms in the back wing of the building, except for a while in the afternoon, when they went out for a sfort walk in company with Deputy Steele. The side door to the hotel was locked yesterday, leaving the way through the office the only o:\) of egress from the building. The deputy Junnoticed by the other guests at the hotel, occupied a place in the office where he could watch every one who wen: out or in. The offi- cers encGeavored to maintain strict secrecy about the affaif, but Sheriff Emery; when questioned about the employment of his | deputy, said: | *“Mr. Steele has simply been detailed to wateh Mrs. Hutton to see that she gets into no danger and to prevent her slip- ping away to some place where she might be in danger of foul play on aceount of the money she has.” Mr. Hutton will be kept informed about the movements of his wife, it is said, and the officers will try to induce her to re- turn home. They believe that after ;a while she will of her own accord consent to return. Mrs. Hutton could not be seen to-night. A 1 TR L MARITAL TIES ST_.AINED. Mrs. Hutton Had Recently Threat- { ened Suit for Divorce For some time there have been rumors of marital differences between Police Commissioner Hutton and his wife. At Continued on Page 5, Column 2. A as explained to- | He could not reason with her in| was advised to take | but he found that out of the $35,000 she | had spent $5000 in two weeks and the rest | “THAT'S THE BRUTE THAT BEAT ME,’ MRS. MATHEWS CRIES, THEN SWOONS | { Nearly &1l are men of the laboring class, | | | | | VENTS bringing the sifdow. of the penitentlary upon Bernard | Whitelaw, John 'Gllmore and Mi- chael Nolan, the three men ar- rested for the brutal assault upon and robbery of Mrs. T. V. Mathews at her daughter’s residence at 543 Haight street on March 4 last, crowded quickly upron each other yesterday. Before the sun had set there was woven about them such & web of evidence that the efforts of all the king's king’s men will not avall to clear the ac- cueed criminals of the dastardly deed. | First, Mrs. Mathews positively {denti- fled the three men as the ones who forced an entrance into her house in broad day- | light, beat hér nearly to the point of death and escaped with $7 they had se- cured from a drawer in a chiffonier, Next, Ruby Gilils, the female companion and dupe of Whitelaw, told of a con- versation she overheard, in which Nolan's female companion proposed to’the: three men the robbery of the Haight-street house. ' Finally H. Webber, a bartender at the saloon and grocery at Haight and Fill- more streets, identified Nolan and White- law as two men who looked through the telephone book in that place on the after- noon of the commission of the crime, and thought that Gllmore was the third one. The identification by Mrs. Mathews was as’ dramatic an event as has ever been witnessed in the City Prison, where trag- edy and comedy follow so closely upon each other's heels as to beécome matters of passing moment. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. Mathewd and Mrs. Tuttle arrived at the prison under the escort of Detectives Dinan, ‘Wren and Bailey. It was the first time that Mrs. Mathews has been able to get outside of the house since the day of the crfime. In fact, her journey yesterday was made against the advice of her physiclan, but, so great was her desire to face the cowardly thugs who had treated her with such uncalled for brutality that she acceded to the wish of the detectives. IS FAINT WITH HORROR. The two women were taken into Sar- one time their relations were so strained geant Bidwell's room in the jail while the suspected prisoners were being summoned from their cells and lined up on.the floor. lawyers and all the | Positively Identifies Whitelaw and His Pals, and Evidence Against Them Jeems Conclusive—Ruby Gills Makes Confession. [ S ! \\ M /7% o, Moth Thals !%:‘%f‘u e it thot Beal, i 77e. i They were made to put all their wearing apparel on, o as to present as nearly as possible the same appearance they did on the day of the assault. Then the two women were brought out to see if they could recognize them. Detectives Dinun and Wren preceded them until within a few feet of the prisoners, thus shutting off the view of the women. Suddenly they separated, leaving Mrs. Mathews, who was a few feet in advance of her daugi- ter, facing the trio. < ‘With a half-stifled scream she placed her left hand to her throbbing heart and pointing the forefinger of her right hand directly at Whitelaw, who stood in the center of the criminal group. she shrilled: “That is the man. That's the brute that beat me. You are the man.” Then the horror of that terrible after- noon rushed upon her, when with blood flowing from a dozen wounds she lay on the floor of her home expecting death, which she firmly belleved was being de- layed only by moments of useless tor- turg, Recoiling from the trio as from a den of snakes, she placed her hands over her eyes and would have fallen to the floor had not the ready arm of Detective ‘Wren caught her. A chair was brought and she sank into it in a swoon. Then she moaned: “Don’'t make me look at him. make me look at him. In the meantime Mrs. Tuttle, the daughter, had advanced upon Whitelaw, whom she readily recognized as the man who had called on her the day previous to the crime and had represented that he bhad a lodging-house to sell. With her dark eyes blazing in anger, she upbraided him for coming to her house and beating Don't her mother so brutally. . Throughout this ordeal Whitelaw, his face pale from the effects of long dulgence in opium, stood like an imass graven from ivory, and not by the slight- est movement of a musgle he betray an emotion, although th& positive identit- | cation made it almost certain that th doors of the penitentiary would clos upon him perhaps for all his life. Within a few minutes Mrs. Mathews had recovered sufficiently to face the t again. Her glance rested on Gilmore, who stood unshaven and cringing at the end of the line. “There is the man he sald was his | brother,” she exclaimed, and turning to Nolan, she cried, “And that is the man | who bolted the door. I know them all.”” Nolan grew white to his lips ahd Gil- more cringed under her accusing gaze. When she shifted her look to the immo- bile villain' who had ruthlessly beaten her to the verge of death with a revolver, she shuddered and wovld have (ainledi again, but she was supported and led back to the sergeant’s room. Onec there, shut off from the view of the men who had nearly done her to death, she quick- ly recovered under the kindly ministra- tions of Matron Fabian, and when she left the prison she said she felt better than she had at any time since the commis- sion of the crime. “You cannot appreciate,”” she said, “the rellef I feel at the knowledge that these three men are In custody. Every day and night since they forced their way into my | house 1 have been in an agony ‘of dread | that they might return and complete their castardly work by killing myself and my | daughter.” v BRUTAL ‘BEYOND BELIEF. She told in detail iow Whitelaw had first forced the partly opened door, ad- mitting himself, Gilmore, who he said | > || i i | ! L5 ; W 'raNAN \ il | \ i ) 4 VICTIM OF ASSAULT, HER DAUGHTER, A SUSPECT AND FEMALE COMPANIONS. -+ o was his brother, and Nolan, the latter turning as he entered and springing the bolt. Still talking they forced her inta the parior. where Whitelaw drew a re- volver, and, placing the muzszle rudely to her face, demanded to“know where she kept her money and dlamonds. At her reply that she did not know he began to rain blows on her head ‘with the heavy revolver until she sank to the floor, with a torrent of blood from her wounds blinding her eyes and choking her voice All thiree set to work ransacking the crawers of a chiffonier and” two desks that were in the reom. They tossed all the articles they found on - (hew floor, among them being the coveted diamornd and some expensive jewelry, worth in the sgeregate severat thousand dollars, Wwhich were overlooked In their hurried seareh. In a slipper belonging to Mrs. Tuttle's Continued on Page 5, Columa &