The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1903, Page 14

14 TH E SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WED NESDAY, APRIL 22, 190 SUCGESS0R 10 GARONER NOT CHOSEN Drs. Ooffey and Ains- wii Take Secret Service Man worth Are Among to Task for a Sharp the Candidates. Note. CHIEF RESENTS MEN'S LETTE | Chief Wittman Does Not | Want to Shoulder the Blame for “Leaks.” e 2 f of Police Wittman resents the in- Influence Is Being Brougbtismlmuun contained in a letter from Se- to Bear in Favor of - Agent Hazen that the local Both Aspirants. is responsible for “leaks The controversy grew out of two counterfeiters and confineme in the City n last week. Information was glven t which prevented the arrest of another member of gang and Hazen laid the fault at Wittman's door. Now Wittman reatens to inform Hazen that hereafter take his pr! to the municipal Appointment of New Chief Sur- geon Rests With General Manager Kruttschnitt, Who Will Ax- rive on Thursday. the cour must prisons as tention Hazen it the Hal Justice early in t d locked them up. On th ¥ publicity was given the case two counterfeiters follow and ' another suspect, whom the secret ser- profes e men were a left the city. F : . ¢ when asked explain the matt . -y g d emphati departmer a3 § responsible and passed 5 . blame to That he might clearly under 1 in the matter he ad- Iressed a communication to the Chief of olice and used harsh words of condem- st the methods of the , appears [ ¢ ¥ erving information. i de artment and al authori- told e that officers knew trated further ¢ they of et ser that there what had fled the arn be ppened Chief no recurrences of of Police Wittman was angered . at the letter. “I don't like its tone,” he “and 1 shall call Hazen's attention 1 propose to have the secret se 5 n come ¥ office that the mat- d out prisoners without to word to »orted by the a id have given any- o > to show Hazen that rmation could have come from no - 1 office and I do not like ising me. 1 will also desirous of becom his prisoners and that of this sort are going 1o 1ad better use another place of SCOTS ENJOY EVENING OF MUSIC AND SPEECH wr . e w APPOINTE s prepare g Gather in Laurel Hpll and Listen to Programme Arranged by Committee. An evening of Scotch song in- B 1tal music was enjoyed by a good- E ly company gathered at Laurel Hall, i o Is bullding, last night. The chair . iAol ccupled by Royal Chief W. Cor- b e o who was supported by Hugh Fraser. Among thoee who assisted to entertain nie King, who sang; Fraser , In violin selecticns; Alexander 1es d judg- k au- - - Smith, recitations; Miss Cutts-Bain, ins t Scotch prima don i Royal Deputy et Kerr, who spoke on Scotch history the hospital h his close ations. Mrs. A. McFarland ssemblage with songs of d clan lighted land, W. Cameron played a violin . . ses Chase rendered a duet b~ a were rewarded with loud applause, e B comic gs were quaintly sung by exander Strang The committee of arrangements con- sisted of Past Chief Hugh Fraser, J. W. King, W. Ray, Maxwell M. Crowe and Willlam Patterson. P s S SRR New Overland Route. From Eouthern Pacific Ferry §tation at 8 v a m, 10 a (The Overland Limited, The While Dr. ( strong backing, | Electrs ed Train), and 6 p. m., three Dr. Ainswor yported by im. | dally traine to Union Passenger Station, Chi- . v ¥ im- | g0, without change. Standard and fourist portant fa e management of the | gceping cars, and reclining chalr cars. Short c fairs uthern Pacific Com- | line. Cheapest rates. Apply to C. L. Canfleld, G. A., C., M. and St. P. Ry., 635 Market st. * L e e e e 2 i e 2 ) and that the lawyer has already given urance to Huntington that he is will- ing to t him in securing the appoint- ment of Dr. Ainsworth. Another import- ant influence that is aiding Dr. Ainsworth comes from the friends of Dr. T. W. Huntington, formerly a member of the board of surgeons of the Railroad Hos- pital and latterly consulting physician of the City and County Hospltal. It was at the time of the reorganization lof the hospital board by Dr. Gardner | that Dr. Huntington retired from the em- ploy of the raiiroad, and since then there | has existed a bitter feeling between tge two surgeons. According to gossip in medical circles, where the appointment of a successor to the late Dr. Gardner is i sup- , for such a move ppreciates, have a e chances of his Harriman, as are not on the best e president of the South- pany began throwing ob- of the former’s street Los Angeles, but the ing his in- worth upon aalf of Dr. A W. F. Herrin. HERRIN AIDS HUNTINGTON. twithsta N d the clash in the south the Southern Pacific and the gton-Hellman syndicate interests, ed that a feeling of friendship = between Huntington and H Dr. Ainsworth has assured Dr. Hunting- ton that if appointed chief surgeon of the | hospital the latter will be invited to re- turn to the faculty of the institution. Dr. Woolsey of Oakland, who also was for- | merly connected with the raflroad and fell out with Dr. Gardner when the chiet surgeon decided to make some changes the Oakland branch of the company’s medical department, is likewise wielding considerable influence in behalf of Dr. Afnsworth. | The bare prospect of Dr. Gardner's en- | emies being given his position and fur- uished an opportunity to change the policy | of the hospital management, which ail agree was a success, has aroused much | sympathy in the candidacy of Dr. Coffey and brought many prominent men to the front in his behalf. | | EKRUTTSCHNITT’'S COMING. " |~ The appointment of a new chief surgeon | will, of course, be made by General Man- | | ager Kruttschnitt, who is scheduled to ar- | | rive here from New Orleans on Thursday. | He would have been here before, and no | | doubt has already decided who is to get the position vacated by Dr. Gardner, tut | for the unfortunate death of his mother, | | which occurred in New Orleans the day preceding the death of Dr. Gardner. General Manager Kruttschnitt had | reached Chicago on his way home when | he received a telegram announcing the | serious illness of his mother and he im- | mediately changed his course to the South. It is realized by the friends of Dr. Coffey that they are at a disadvantage | iz their fight inasmuch as Attorney Herrin will, In his position as chief coun- 1 of the road, have the best chance of first reaching the ear of the general manager in the advocacy of Dr. Ains- | worth’s appointment,- and it is probable that Henry E. Huntington will have other influences brought to bear on Kruttsch- nitt. However, the Coffey contingent is exceedingly hopeful and believes that the past work of the young surgeon in the service of the company will carry more weight with the judgment of General Manager Kruttschnitt than all the in- | fluences that the other candidates can wield ADVERTISEMENTS. 'DR. H. A. CLARKE Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania and an acknowledged authority on musical Instruments, having been chosen a member of the Jury of Awards &t two Great Exposi- tione, writes My Mason & Hamlin pi- ano is constantly growing in my esteem. I am quite con- winced that it cannot be sur- passed by any instrument made in the world.” genj. Curtazason SOLE AGENTS, (Curtaz Building), 16 to 20 O'Farrell St., S.F, BRANCHES—San Jose, Fresno, Stockton, Alameda, Palo Alto. l | | | lived on friendly terms. u he. mmputhe ago e o L Aaroyed 1u | NIl 1s the son of the Iate Michael Ni- IS D ot | bl salo a 3 a commission house on Sansome street ot :‘“_:k 0{;_‘::’\:nsfrf‘a‘?r::dseihvr\:: ddnlef: Tris marriage of the woman he loved - > ef 3 VS a most interesting subject of discussion, | ,, | act of drawing a revolver, stepped in be- INSANELY JEALOUS BARTENDER KILLS HIS FORMER MISTRESS Michael Nihill Fires Four Bullets Into Body of rs. Benefreda Baker, Then Makes Ineffectual Attempt to Put an End to His Own Existence =) | | i 4 2 DENOUNGES THE LOANING OF JURYMEN Supreme Court Declares This Practice to Be Unlawful. Superior Judges Throughout State Alleged to Have Violated Law. Decision Will Affect Numerous Cases in Many Counties and Is Likely to Cause a Sensa- tion. S The loaning of jurors from department to department in the Superior Court is | contrary to the statutes of California ac- cording to an opinion ¢f the Supreme Court rendered yesterday. Numerous cases in various countics of the State will be affected by this decision. The practice of borrowing jurors in criminal cases is said to be common. Wong Bin, a Chinese of Los Angeles, killed a fellow countryman in a high- binder war and was subsequently ar- rested, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree therefor. His attorneys appealed to the Supreme Court asking a | new trial on the ground that the jury | had not been properly impaneled. The Gefendant was tried in Department P | neys objected to this course of procedure, 1 of the Supericr Court of Los Angeles County. The Judge thought that he needed more jurors than were present, and disliking to call for a special venire, he negotiated a loan of twenty-thwee jurors from Department 3. The names were put in a box together and the dra ing was then made. Wong Bin's attor- but to no purpose. The trial went on and their client was shortly afterward sen- tenced to &eath. The Supreme Court Jurors did not belon: holds that the to the same panel and that a judge has no right to use the men summoned another court. It is declared, however, that when a gen- eral call for jurors is made by all the Superior Courts of a county together and men are then used in the different tri- bunals, the case has a different aspect, although that feature of the question Is not settled by the decision. Justice Angellotti writes the opinion and | ey A R, = T MARRIED WOMAN WHO WAS MURDERED BY HER FORMER ! "HEART D THE FIEND WHO FOLLOWED UP HIS | | BLOODY DEED BY AN ATTEMPT TO END HIS OWN LIFE. | — - girl would also be shot, ran into the back | part of his saloon and securing his pis- | ) ! tol, covered the murderer A In @ dazed sort of way Nihill, after he | S had let the woman's body drop to the | terday in a saloon at 1051 HoW- | f50r placed the revolver to his own head street, into which she had rujwd. d pulled the trigger. His alm in this secking protection. He fired four hots, was not true and he only inflicted a | all of which took effect; then, turning the | slight wound. revolver upon himself, he inflicted a su- ASKS FOWKE TO SHOOT. perficial wound on the right side “'k‘ | “Why don't you shoot me2” Nihill forehead. The woman's body was taken | cyouteq at Fowke, who still covered him to the Morgue, while her murderer lles | with his revolver. In a few moments the on a cot in the Central Emergency Hos- | place was thronged by those who were pital, guarded by a policeman. acted to the sceme by the soundyof The murderer tells the old, old story— | shooting. Nihill, with blood strefm- he was in love with the woman, she le’t | ng down his face, coolly lighted a cigar- him for another man, and insane jealousy | €!t¢ and walted for the police to tele- ICHAEL NIHILL, a bartender, brutally murdered a young mar- ried woman, Mrs. Benefreda Baker, shortly before noon yes- t hone for the patrol wagon to convey yrompted him to kill. i Pt I oer. who was ; formerly, | him ‘to :the hospftal. . Thare Dr. Millar Mi ;(:‘” beey Nihill were born in San | ¢X#mined Nihill's wounds and after dres: | g his head sald that the murderer's self-inflicted wound was not serious. The man’s head was swathed in bandages and | he was placed on a cot in the detention J They were childhood friends and lived across the street from each other. Trey came to San Francisco together and a About seven | ago from San Jose, where he had been to attend his father’s funeral. i _On the 16th inst. the man who killed Mrs. Baker was arrested at the request {of H. G. Baker, the murdered woman's hvsband, for assault. The case came up in Judge Conlan’s court the next day, but was dismissed. | caused Nihill intense jealousy. He brood ed over the matter and yesterday came the climax. WAITS FOR HIS VICTIM. Early yesterday morning, while on watch as barkeeper at the “‘Old Corner” saloon at Ellis and Mason streets, where employed, Nihill dispatched bis \ s J. C. Martin, who s also & SAYS. HE ‘WAS INEANS, .".”,T.’?lfl? bt out of work, to Mrs.| Nihill has a room in the Nevada House or Sixth street. He has worked at ‘“The Old Corner” saloon for about three weeks. | Previous to taking his present position he had worked dn and off in different re- sorte in this city. Nihill made the following statement at the hoepital: Baker's home at 1046 Folsom street with a message that he wished certain valuable papers belonging to him returned by the bearer at once. Martin brought back the information that Mrs. Baker refused to deliver up these papers, but had said that Nihill could see her about the matter if he called. When Nihill was through with his work he and Martin went to the house of Mrs. Baker on Folsom street, but she was out. Nihill and Martin went to La- fayette square and, sitting down on a bench, awaited her return. The woman, accompanied by her mother, . A. Petrone, and her little 6-year-old iter, Joan Petrone, both of San were at St. Ignatius Church and returned. MOTHER SHOWS BRAVERY. The moment Nihill saw Mrs. Baker ap- proaching he walked across the street and started a conversation with her. Mrs. Petrone, seelng that the man’'s manner was threatening and that he was in the I had been drinking and was ineanely jeal- | ous. I shot the woman when I was out of my mind and did not realize what I was doing. | We were very much in love with each other and we lived together for several years. I wanted to get back some valuable papers of mine which she had. They bear upon the es- tate of my father, who died last week. I do not care to discuss my case any further at the present time. Mrs. Petrone was frantic over the mur- der of her daughter. She was taken care of by kind-heartedwneighbors soon after the shcoting. At intervals she would rise from her chair and after giving heart- rending screams would curse the mur- derer of her daughter and swear that she would devote every ‘cent of her hard earned money to bring Nihill to the gal- lows to pay the penalty for his brutal crime. tween the two, attempting to shield her - daughter. Heeding the advice . of her | S ———————— niother, Mrs. Baker started to run up AD' Russ street with the little girl. Nthill WW_YAEBTISE“N“' soon disengaged himself from the grasp of Mrs. Petrone and ran after Mrs. Ba- ker. The pursued woman, seeing that her pursuer was gaining upon her, rushed into L. T. Fowke's saloon at 1051 Howard street. “Protect me from this man,” she sgcreamed to Fowke, who for the moment could not realize the woman's. danger. Nihill followed Mrs. Baker into the saloon and throwing his left arm around her neck pressed his revolver to her breast and sent four bullets into her body. Fowke, who was afrald that the little L e e e e ] ] Says Prisoner Is Maltreated. Otto Schultz, head janitor of: the Mer- ritt building at 590 Sutter street, has sent a communication to the Mayor, complain- ing that “Sir” Harry Westwood Cooper, or Ernest Chadwick, who is now in the County Jail, is being maltreated. Chad- wick was recently married in the jail and Schultz alleges that he has not been per- mitted to see the lady, who resides at 1738 Mission stret, and that the prisoner has been kept in a dark cell for ten days by Jail Superintendent Cornyn. B e — For halfa century Heiskell's Ointment been used by careful mothers every- where for purifying and preserving the skin in beauty. Heiskell's Ointment cures , rough "skin, Pimples, Blotches, arns, Scalds, Tetter, Bryeipelas, Sait heum, Scald Head, Itch, Ringworm, Ulcers, Sore Nose, Sore Eyelids. | his_associates all | rowing jurors is the court below in calli- using | twenty-three jurors from another depart- ment in the impanelment of a jury fer | | lessen what from which the saloon is banished. concur with him di In this city the practice of bor- said to have been com- mon. Wong Bin gets a new trial another chance for his life. 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The programme was | just long enough, and cleverly varied, its | chief interest the presentation of Mascag- | ni's one-act opera, “Zanetto,” given for the first time here. | Though the small orchestra—composed | chiefly of strings—of_course, lacked color, the vocal weight of the performers oc- Sprine and Summer Goods all In My ITS 19 RDER for $20.00 ply Per- the youthful principals, the production on the whole was amazingly good. Quite sufficient effect was obtained to give one a very fair notion of the opera—a delight- ful little idyl, and much credit is due to these engaged in its rendering. Miss Helen Colburn Heath, who under- took the part of Sylvia (soprano), the lady of many conquests, who finds her one | great passion in the wandering minstrel, Zanetto, displayed a genuine dramatic temperament and vocally sustained the role very satisfactorily. The name part was sung by Lydia Sturtevant Sterling, who counts a good round contralto voice | among her qualifications. The two sing- ers showed a grace and ease of gesture unusual among amateurs and contrived very cleverly to sustain the interest thioughout the opera. Mrs. von Meyerinck conducted and with onsiderable aplomb, the performance go- | ing with noteworthy smoothness. In the rest of the programme, that be- gan with a somewhat draggy rendering of the Spohr cantata, “God, Thou Art Great,” Miss Lulu Feldheim and Miss Mabelle Craig particularly distinguished themselves. Miss Feldheim has a contral- to that counts and in spite of a tendency to exaggerate nuance—to be noted in most of the students—sang very “enjoyably Gluck (“Che faro”), Wagner (“Traume’’) gnd Mendelsshon (“Aus den Hohenlied") Miss Craig’s contributions were ive dainty old French dance songs that were given with true lyric quality and chic. Miss Jessie Burns' ample and sweet soprano voice came gratefully if a little timidly in “Die Loreley”; and four Men- delsshon quartets were given with dell- cacy and comfortably true intonation by | Miss Burns, Miss Estelle Davidson, L. E. Strauss and Reginald Atthowe. The sympathetic accompaniment of | Mrs. Arthur Lewis should not be forgot- | ten. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. ——————— Stationary Firemen Anxious. Manager George F. Chapman of the United Rallroads received a communica- tion yesterday from Local Lodge No. 6, | International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen, stating that on March 11 of this year it filed a proposal for a new sched- ule of hours and wages and that it would like an answer In rggard to the matter as soon as possible. Manager Chapman sald last evening in an interview that he was thoroughly investigating the schedule, and that as yet he was unable to deliver an answer, but that he hoped to do so in the immediate future. ————— Shoplifter Sentenced. 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