The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1903, Page 1

Call, ' to bs ey VOLUME XCIV-NO. 24. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDKESI,)AY. JUNE 24, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEAD BODY OF EMMA K. LORING, RICH AND ECCENTRIC WIDOW, FOUND IN HER HOME, WHERE IT HAD LAIN NEARLY A MONTH MOB HALTS AT GUARDED PRISON DOOR Plucky Sheriff in Illinois Saves Murderer. Stands Off Would-Be Lynchers of a Negro. Jail’s Defenders Ordered to| Shoot at the First Advance. | | | | | b the Fire De- made a run ruse partially succeed- & wd followin; the Chief had ordered B 2 ghts in the city »a ess Menzy woe hur | O Jail a - hat it had ront of the e force of REPENTANT OFFICIAL | SAYS HE WILL CONFESS | Promises to Tell of Boodling in Up- | per House of the Missouri Legislature. Folk vehs(" to d he ance companies 0 during the past twenty years to defeat and pa tion id Jefterson ( The biennial assessme a drain on the comp + ago they rebelled al % was made to defeat the | law. Since then no money | the insurance compa- | became suct demand for $4 valued poli been nies —_———————— FATHER KILLS HIS SON | WHILE SHOOTING FISH | ING, June 23.—News reached here | - Wiiliam Petree, formerly of , accide y shot and killed his | on near Warner Lake, in Southern Petree, with his son engaged in shooting | the father on one side ren on the other. The father | but the cartridge stuck | the gun it exploded. The | pullet struck his 17-year-old son, Russ killing him instantly. The boy fell head- Jong into the creek, where he was found whern - 7 assista ved ————————— Wondrous Gold Find Reported. SPOKANE, June 2.—A speclal to the kesman-Review from Kaslo, B. C., | s that & wonderful gold find has been made the Lardeau Duncan country, | which shows quartz half of which is gold. | The locators, Frank iiarquis and umrgel Gilbert, brought a frujt can full of sam- | ples o Kaslo, which is estimated to| arry $1900 worth of the precious metai. | They claim thet they have ready for sacking at th‘t mine & ton of the ore, which will run at least $190,000 last Fri | to-morrow, CATCH MEN WHO 5TOLE RARE GEMS Chicago Police Ar- rest Los Angeles Robbers. ——— e Hope to Recover Most of Mrs. Weber’s Jewels. | Leader in a Hotel Robbery Is Traced to San HANNA'S ERA 1 MANAGER NEARS END Senator Lodge to Conduct Next Campaign. Closest Friends of Pres- ident Will Act as Lieutenants. Secretary Heath Must Re- sign From National Francisco. Committee. Special Dispatch to The Call. Special DI to The Call. CHICAGO, June 23.—Some siren sang| WASHINGTON, June23.—Thereis some- uch 2 sweet song in the c-r of Charles | thing more than summer gossip in the of a crime he | report that Senator Henry Cabot Lodgs result that to-|.¢ wassachusetts will succeed Senator ed, charged with having f the Hotel Melrose, in jewels valued at $15,000 eight months detectives have been & for the thieves who robbed Mrs. D. Weber of Brooklyn, N. Y., who 3 t the H Melrose, of one s pearl necklaces in the by The detectives Detectives | | Marcus A. Hanna as chairman of the Re- | publican National Committee before the opening of the campalgn of 1904. Republicans who profess to know the | plans of President Roosevelt and his closs | friends and political advisers express the belief that the next Republican National | Convention will be dominated and con- e Betnioin B who | trolled by Senator Lodge, Senator For- the robbery, were arrested | 2ker and other promounced Roosevelt men, while Hanna and his particular friends will be given a back seat. Tt is | positively known to many Republicans in expected that | the police of San | Washington that no agreement has been have & third man, who | Feached to continue Hanna at the head of planned the robbery, in custody. — o g to confessions made by the &s three weeks ago, ves believe they will be able to r ver o great pest of it men arrested here say, the pear]l mecklace has been that ollected ag: Reinlein t him, at into the hotel safe every night. to take him third man, who gave us a little money, the gems.” the plan, —_ - WARRANTS IN LOS ANGELES. Southern Cahfumm Police Action for Requisition. ELES, June 2 received info nt aged 23 years, respectively, at the Pacific hotels, for the theft of $15,000 worth of jewelry, principally diamonds, | | from Mrs. J. D. Weber of Brooklyn. The | |, ft was committed October 26, while| rose in t ity. the woman, ow, declaring I the jewelry than have know of her loss at that time. who is a very wealthy | do with the case. ght warrants secure requisition papers. ed to-night that the men under ar- rest were Hotel Melrose at the time of the theft. . OPPOSITION TO IRISH LAND BILL WITHDRAWN Compromise Is Reached Between the Nationalists, the Landlords and the Government. LONDON, June 22.—A compromise was the Chicago police, man had much of their plunder and the however, un- nounted and the pearls sold separately. here is small chance that they can be d how the man for whom the San Francisco police were searching came | the time he was clerk of the Melrose, and told him Mrs. Weber | ed jewels worth several in a little case which either of * said it over with me for 1 agreed to go into the case out . but kept all of Begin | | —The police de- nation late to- ht of the arrest in Chicago of Charles , and John Eng- boys employed, Victoria and Grand | Weber was a guest at the Hotel Mel. It was never made pub- that she would rather the public She em- d detectives to trace the thieves, and e local police department has had little for grand larceny ued for the two prisoners, and an er will start to Sacramento to-morrow It was employed as bell boys at the | | the Republican committee, and the opim ion is becoming general that there will be no such agreement. Senator Hanna's connection with the | movement to prevent Mr. Roosevelt's in- dorsement by the Ohio convention has left its scar, and it is predicted that Mr. Roosevelt will never be convinced of Hanna's devotion and loyalty to him. ‘Without such faith Senator Hanna could not act as chairman of a campaign in which the President’s political future is at stake, and therefore it is expected that at the proper time he will announce that the state of his health compels him to give up the chairmanship. There is said to be another and quite as potent reason why Senator Hanna cannot continue as the Republican figure- head. This is the fact that in order to do so he will have to part company with one of his most trusted lieutenants, Perry 8. Heath, secretary of the committee, and publicly express his lack of confidence in | him. Heath must resign the secretary- ship in view of the disclosures of the reached to- between the Nationalists, landlords and the Government whereby | Postoffice Department investigation, serious opposition to the Irish land bill | Whether innocent or gullty. is withdrawn and, unless unexpected TS AN g T TN d@ifficulties arise, the measure, %hich will | SALESMAN KILLS HIMSELF come up again in the House of Commons is likely to be speedily passed. The compromise consists in the land- lords’ acceptance of an amendment of a clause, enlarging the purchasing rights of te A SHERIFF ADVERTISES CRUISER FOR. SALE Expects to Dispose of an American Warship to Satisfy Claims of Creditors. NEW YORK, June 2Z.—A legal adver- tisement, published in an Elizabeth, N. J paper, gives notice that the cruiser Chat- tanoogo will be sold by the Sheriff within three months for the payment of claims against her, unless these are liquidated. A deputy Sheriff, who captured mand, but work is proceeding. the cruiser a few days ago, is still in com- ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE NEW YORK, June 23.—Archibald Mor- rison, a silk salesman, committed suicide to-day in a novel way from the Brooklyn bridge. He climbed the platform railing south of the Brooklyn tower, jumped on top of a train bound for Brooklyn, fell off the last car, struck the third rail, was flung across the track, fell through the ties and landed on Front street, more than 100 feet below, a mangled corpse. Morrison was not seen by any one be- fore he landed on top of the car. A pas- senger on the rear platform of the last car of the train saw him jump and yell- ed. As-Morrison jumped part of the car ran under a bar crossing the trestle work and he was hit by it. It swept him off the car, landing him on the third rail. He was probably dead before he fell to the street. bedroom of her home on Sacramento street. entered the house at the request of a colored man who had known the aged woman. each night the flame shone.through the window and, like a never-closing eye, watched the dead: The gas LedRoOCNY WHERE TEAIRIKS G5 /XR3 LORING WERE SOl D., EARLY a month ago Mrs. Emma K. Loring, famous as an artist, wealthy and eccentric, died suddenly and alone in an upper Her remains, badly decomposed, were found only yesterday by a policeman, who was burning when she died, and - Evidence of a Sudden Demise. Coin and Jew-= els in the Room. Doors Locked and Uas Burns. @ i b @ er and daughter, but without resuit. Only recently he says he wes to the daughter and warned her tha: her moth- er was getting very weak and needed some one to attend her. Mrs. Attenbor- ough, however, refused to respond to his appeal to join -her mother and comfort her in her old age. VALUABLE JEWELS FOUND. A search of the room in which the body was found revealed a bag of valuable jewels, which Mrs. Loring had worn dur- ing her early life when she was sur- rounded with luxuries, and about $5 in cash was also found in a bureau drawer. learned that Mrs. sed of some property a few weeks ago, for which she had ceived something like $3000 in cash. What has become of this money is yet to be ex- plained. Two bank books were found in the room, showing that the deceased had re- XN Dead Woman and Interior Views of the House Where the Body Was Found } (¢ Tlra picture of Mrs. Loring is from a photo taken a number of years ago.) Through William Martin, Colored, Police- man Makes Ghastly Find. HE badly decomposed body of Mrs. Emma K. Loring, a wealthy and eccentric woman residing at 2407 Sacramento street, was found in an upper chamber of the hLouse last evening by Policeman John Attridge. The unfortunate woman had been dead for weeks, and her death was as strange and mysterious as her whole life had been. Shortly after 5 o'clock Patrolman Att- ridge was approached by a colored man on Sacramento street, near Webster, and informed that some mystery was con- cealed within the three-story frame dwelling at No. 2407 on that block, which was owned and occupled by Mrs. Loring, with whom the colored man, who gave his name as William Martin, said he was well acquainted.. He explained that he had been trying to see Mrs. Loring for several weeks, but that no response to his rings at the bell had been made. Attridge accompanied Martin to the house and, failing to secure an entrance through the front door, climbed through a window. As if guided by a premoni- | tion, Attridge immediately proceeded to | the second story of the house and, enter- ing a room just off the hallway, was sud- denly confronted by a spectacle that al- i ’ most unnerved him. Beside a bed, partly crouching on the floor, was the badly de- composed body of @ woman, clad only in a night_robe. Her features were almost destroyed, her hair had fallen from her scalp and the flesh upon the fingers of her right hand, which had tightly clutched the bedclothes in the last par- oxysm of deathy had disappeared from the bones. MARTIN IDENTIFIES BODY. Above the specter-like flgure burned a Jjet of gas, Whose glow only added to the horror_of the scenme. It was apparent that the womany had been dead for sev- eral weeks and,’ realizing that it was a case that demarffled the attentlon of the Coroner and the detectives, the officer hurried out of the house. Hailing Mar- tin, he ordered the colored man to go up- stairs for the purpose of identifying the hideous remains. Complying, Martin soon returned with the statement that the body was that of his friend, Mrs. Loring. LIGHT BURNED NIGHTLY. Later and further investigation devel- oped the fact that Mrs. Loring‘was last -een by Martin on the afternoon of May 25, when he called at her house. The ac- cumulated mail matter under her front | door, the fact that her bills for gas wera also there and other facts gathered by the police cause the belief that the woman died on the night of May 25, or within a’ few days of that date. The gas had been burning in her room ever since. It had been noticed at night by the pa- trolman on the beat and by Martin, who had often passed there at night and it was this fact, in connection with his failure to gain an entrance when he sub- sequentiy called" at the house, that arous- ed his suspicions and led to the discov- ery of the body. Mrs. Loring had lately complained of many ills to her friend Martin and it is supposed that during the night the un- fortunate woman, taken suddenly ill and having no one to attend hér, died while trying to leave her bed. The woman is survived by a daughter, a Mrs. Attenborough, living at 410 Leav- enworth street. Mother and daughter had been estranged for many years, ow- ing to Mrs. Attenborough’'s matrimonial ventures, to which Mrs. Loring had ob- jected. Mrs. Attenborough could not be found at her home last evening, but it was later learned that she had gone across the bay. Several times lately Wil- liam Martin says he has tried to bring about a recounciliation between the moth- | The to her credit in this city about $700, but there were no receipts or other documents to suggest that she had used the other money to settle any of her persomal debts. Martin, who is familiar with the woman's affairs, says she possessed con- siderable property, but that all of it is heavily mortgaged. He stated last even- ing that Mrs. Loring was very careful to close her windows and the side gate to her house every night, and the fact that a window and the gate were found open yesterday when he called has aroused his suspicions that some one has been in the | house since the woman died. The case will receive a thorough Investigation by | the police. WIDOW OF DR. LORING. Mrs. Loring was a native of Germany and about 67 years of age. She was the widow of Dr. Loring, a retired British army officer. Years ago the Lorings were quite prominent in San Franelsco. He possessed a comfortable fortune, and to this his wife added $130,000, which she inherited from relatives after marriage. couple accumulated corsiderable property In the city and Oakiand, and when Dr. Loring passed away ais widow was regarded as a wealthy woman. The fruits of their marriage were two chil- dren, one of which, a boy, died years ago. The daughter and the mother ap- parently never got along wel!, a fact which the dead woman's frienls aseribe to the young woman's wilfullness. Finally came an estrangement, when the daugh- ter, against the protests of her mother, Continucd on Page 2, Column &