The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1903, Page 33

—_— Pages 33 to 44 PR + Call SAN FRANOCISOO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1903. Terr pAMACe |LOUISE FLORENCE PROBERT , - |AUTHORITIES WEAVE A STRONG WEB 'USEE EUMES ~ WEDS CHARLES WILLIAM HU_G-Q,WES PMHWM OF DAMAGING EVIDENCE ABOUT TWO BUT 15 SILENT | 15 4 AOUGH ONE WOMEN CONFINED AT CITY PRISON Mining Mun Declines to Discuss Incidents at Bar Harbor. — i1 valrous Defender of Mrs. | Baxter Tevis Is Here [ on Business o+ - = = s = So Claims Wife of Capi- talist Howard in a | Divorce uit. Charges Him With Treating| | Her in a Cruel and Inhu- J man Manner. rbor brought him ———— 2hg B o 2o wel o min- W. D. M. Howard, capitalist, clubman m ent act chivalry and mechanical englicer, IS the defendant ; | £ M Cor Baxter in one of the most sensational divorce | - persistent attentions of | | suits ever flled In the local courts. It was | dle of the battle- | flea yesterduy by Grace Howard, to| | g the heigiit of the so- | | | whom he was married at Los Angeles in | { | April of last year. The charge is cruelty, ; | | and the ccmplaint, which consists of ten er twelve closely typewritten pages, con- | tains allegations w’ ich if trie show that the couple have had « merry time of it during the sixteen months they have lived I together. He is even accused of attempt- | i - the furniture of their | | flat at 42 Steiner street, and on Mrs. “ ! | Howard's sworn statement to that effect Judge Seawell iscued an order restrain- ing him from despoiling their pretty home | until such time as the court can deter- | | mine the resgective ts thereto of the| | coupl | Acs rdiiig to the complaint their trou- | bles commenced last June while they were I 7ing at the McAllister Hotel, corner of Van Ness avenue and McAllister street. On the night of the 9th of June, com- | plains Mrs. Howard while she was il her | husban¢ came home slightly intoxicated | znd threw hes about the room. She =avs | the next day he accounted to her physi-| | an and nurse fer the bruises she sus- | tained Ly tellin them - that she had | | aressed ana out the night before at | | | midnizht. When her physictan told her!| | sne was endangering her r leaving | he~ rooms she dered having done so, but | was prompt! shut vp by Howard, who, she says, tu.ned on he and angrily said, | | “You aid so; you are cra | SAID SHE WENT OUT. i | That nishy, continucs Mrs. Howard, her | husband, whea told the dcctor thnat | she must have peace and gulet, told her { | he would spend the night at the Univer- | | siey Cub. He packe his grip and left | | | the house, but re‘urned, she says, intox! | cated a’out 3 o'clock in the morning. He | made his prese-ce felt, she says, by atis- | |ing her and her n.rce and by ordering | | the latter to get cuit, notwithstanding | that he knew she could not reach her | hcme at that hou of the morning. All of | this caused he;, Mrs. Howard avers, ex-| treme menta! torture, and she tays her | humiliation was completed when she learned that the su-sts of the hotel | shunned her because o: the false and de- | f.lmatory charges made against her 1a the | s ABE RUEF AMBITIOUS ro sx THE cmaremax | Home of Bride’s Parents | Honor of Pre- the Scene of Pretty || Munic- Ceremony. change Her | , 80108 Wwith her husband to the | Fome of Mre, Bellarmore, at 8an Mateo. They were there but a short time, she | avers when Howird re d his former | brucal actics. She says he came home { drunk December She met him, she s 8, in the garden surrounding the Be amore residence, as she did not wish | | him fo be seen in the condition he was d in. She save his grecling wa= anvthing i PRIDGF SEN oW : ’L vt kindly and ended in her being knock- WADOWLOX (HBIDOH < CARFENERE BEW RS ed blecdiug and almost senseless to the CAUSED HIS DEATH BY ADMINISTEXI ground. He struck her, she says, be BEEN AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIME. .use she sald she wz3 insulted because ‘ demanded to know if sho loved an-| - e — SIS e e ol % | Sisters - Maintain, =t o0 T ACtS of Murdered 1 | I3 | | w. was the and fea: ing, whe Pr = Rt A —— R CHARGED WITH MURD HAVING ‘ AND HER SISTER WHO IS BELIEVED TO HAVE | e of ‘music, flowere Wedr nvited guests sembled to witness W. Hugg. At notes of the w F. W. Duden, of the guest: fce Vog entered the couple, who GIRL WHC 3 OF LOS AN- |ard’s scheme to prevent the occupants | ing the police found | | Man’s Brother p 0 secing her husband evidently : F".E A PH[”EST riskenind i) That They Are . ¥, | oy the angry tones of her husband, wh ! < i | o e ey S o€ Rec hustend, wh | [ 8, blacks Baske omon ) < s OnoaBiONSY. erved grasped a shotgun and ran wild |nnqcent “ | which was torn the fatetul | | | | { |13 dow:. the stairs. Before doing so, hnw | Haggr . | | A AINS HI-AS |NE ever, che-ges Mrs. Howard, he had en- | slip of paper on which was joye himself fo. several minutes by re HIEF OF PCLICE WITTMAN and | oy scription call- | peatedly commanding her to take off and | ‘ his subordinates are gradually | the forged prescription call | B. Wilson spoke the words that made them husband he bride was ch te silk with old aquet w — in the slightest degree from her pre- wes. Pha us statements in reference to the pur- of very dainty i = | ‘ < | s : A < | chase of the arsenfe. T were que: v r k, an rried pink car- | puf on her wedding ring. comiug to a solution of the mys- | 1ng for the arsenic that iS | | tioned separately and although thers The wedding gifts werc | } VISITS HER MOTHER te g the iliness and | | = | were seve onflicting stateme . autif r re. 3 ry surrounding th ess and | | peliaved to have killed Mar- | re sev conflicting statem: bty “\_’N_h, “‘“,, ;OWDPT‘S of Potrero P!‘Op-l ¥rom San Mateo Mrs. Howard went | death of Martin L. Bowers. The impris-| | ! ¢ I storfes In the main agreed. Both are 3 1 nervous now and at times almost ical. The autho: them will soon b: a confession A new t Bowers and % than t tin Bowers. The identifica- tion was complete. Hand- | pert Kytka has convinced the authorities that Mrs. Martin Bowers - g | to ®alistoza (o visit her mother. Her | oned widow fs becoming further entangled | jpon thelr return wiil | erty Lodge a Com- imu was an unpleasant oue, because or | 0o TIGE R PR LRI i | “ % = th st ries o her alleged misbehavior | i as b | plaint. | rife in the town. They g‘w” ‘,,,fu'm‘li'; | on several theories, however, and the as- of three months the s " pect of affairs may change at any time. | She returned to this city and went with | In the early hours of yesterday morning | | v Lwners of the Potrero filed | Howard ta 1 /e at 42 Steiner street. In| (et of Police Wittman, Theodore Kyt- | | es feel that one k down and make | wrnting has arisen, that Harry wife may know more already told. The police begin another year of | an_important meeting hav i | brooms, Young Men's [ The pr 2 | Hebrimsy: ol ciis ek 4 aining fon bullding, on Tues-|® Protesi vesterday w'h the Boa=d ot ‘I"hr‘“"" “‘, 'h“é““rk”"c e her b's- | o the handwriting expert, and Detec- | | | are ai vestigating this feature of the - tember 1 The chief | Public Works ageinst ine biasting now | band came home drunk, amd she, fearing | oo "B D » he house s - | | case. pointed out that Harry Bow- o S ol R e e el ["n carried on on Minnesota street, | MoTe trouble, went out, taking with her | tves Ryan ""d“ "“’_’:‘r“;[“n‘)‘r:e‘fl‘y house| | wrote the prescription. An b O Ay i B 2 ot chiet of the | between Eighteenth and Ninetes by |Iicw child by a former marriage, a son |at &0 Clementina S7ech WIOERY PN | other scrap of the same | | few Xours atter the deatn of Martin Bow- O Mont < i e | Lantry Brothers, contractors. aged 11. She says she returned about | pied by the Bowers “imily e 2 st et iy, Thal Aot oF Meni clock and was taking off her street | more thorough search of the place than clothes kind of paper on which Was- * | nag been poisoned. He gave no reason inscribed a brief note to for entertaifing this belief éxcept that on @i |in th inity is being graded for tt » economics of | Santa Fe Railway system which has.ac- ot iz @ recognized tters pertalning to t » when her husband roughly grasp- | had heen made before. It resulted in the forestry, & subect of vital iuterest to the |Quired extensive terminal scilities for | ¢ her, dragged her out of the room and | gyseqvery of about 200 letters and a blank | ! E e Tatit hie: alatar<in-awk members of the California Club. This or- | it7 transcontinehital tne. =~~~ [t her She aava hiat she Topeae.a’%% | book, from which the paper on which the | | Harry Rowers from the || Hurry ! wife and Mre. Martin ganization of public spirited women has | Tho protestants held a meeting Friday | ¢, captain of a fire company on Waller | fateful prescription was written had boe“‘ { s ridow was also | | Bo™ers v e only persons who are st for the ose jEae Deane e y el i | S| widow als pelieved svie i e deceased bridge iwaus been zealous in the promotion of | Night last for the purp f taking actlon | Ji7 BP0 When he remonstrated with | torn, as the police belleve. A mote writ- | | St pected wid was 0 | | bet 1 to have fed the deceased bridg any movement tending toward the im- |in reference to the bl . and it was | provement of forestry conditions on this | Tesolved that tie following protest be | coast and was the inaugurator of the |submitted t> the Board of Works, wun‘ campalgn to secure mational legislation |an earnest petition' that It be glven v: v v i1 2 ’ - builder during his last illness. Howard the latter coolly informed him |ten on the same kind of paper to Harry | | unearthed yesterday. thet she wz; drunk aod that he was but B':w"s from Mrs. Martin Bowers was | | 7 4 WIDOW MAKES STATEMENT. dr 1gging her into (he house to preven’ ! also secured yesterda, — - | Harry Bowers and his wite did not ap- her making a scene. for the preservation of the Calaveras Blg | prompt and favorable consideration: Howard's crowning act of cruelty, com- | The blank book was about cight by five | that he noticed that Bowers' feet and pear on b':\; v lq‘il-“::”- - Trees and the conversion of the grove protest in dotng their blasting the | e an o ¥ o o and had a glazed brown | hands drooped, as is frequently the case | Bowers had been sick for m han two Sts & matiensl park. The. ciub will cen-} [ plains his wife, occurred last June, when | inches in size an & D g e | It T it A | she refused to go to the California Thea- | cover. The par-r was of inferior quality, If of the Big-Trees | anc ‘Um‘surruundhwk‘ ter with him because he had been im-|pyled. The fragment on which the pre- 5 aroung. - | bibing too freely. She says he left the | . oription was written fitted the leaves ar, with good prospects of success. | property n addition to Mr. Pinchot's address there | ar aroun ; : the ‘ e e g e, L | e . Tollowed "I, She went. 1p | 1eft In the ook in respect to both the Tor Mra/ Bowers and . Attorney | Martin Bowers and stabbed him with T will be short talks by the president of the | ruidents 't the Jmmediate Viclaits of the o s ar o S e the theater and learned that he had not | corners and the rulings. The book was | Charles A. Low for Mrs. Sutton petitioned | Mrs. Sutton has intimated in her Mrs. George Law Smith, and by | are in constant ®error of thelr lives from fiying . 3 i of departments and sections con- | depris. been there and then ‘*elephoned home. | stitched together and one end of the pa- . for Writs of habeas corpus for their cilents | . to_the roof of Bowers’ mouth | brothers were not on good terms for many Harry Bow- observed that was white, as from lead polsoning. | years. The former wife Y morning Attorney Frank | ers once threw pepper s efforts in b ed by Dum e in and greeted her roughl: d | i a great de: abusively 4‘!"0 vg\'a.s to.d by ‘he hgo‘:dywi:‘t. book were corresponding notches In. the | o'clock to-morrow morning to show cause. | and Mar <p auiet, but relised to do so| prescription slip. The te.ture of the pa- | The proceedings will probably result in | think they =poke & hereforo beg that you will give the|and finally commanded her to go home, | per In the book and that on which the | the formal charging of Mrs. Martin Bow- o prampt, and serioos attenlien end | nccompanying the command With the re: | breseription was written fs the same. | or2 of the crime of murder, and Mra. Sut- public safety that you delegase | MArk, uttered in a loud voice: “This is | P o0 (0% Frr b Bowers, written on e At orgom - e etent person to supervise the blast- | my wife. I found her with other men. & ts as followa: | STORE evidence {s secured meanwhile that | destruction of | You come home.’ the same kind of paper, is a ¥ the two women are gulltless. The attor- | as was |, East later to go to school. A TN i e Mrs. Howard winds up her long state- | “August 7.—Dear Brother Harry: As | neys have cautioned their clients not to | of “the sexecutr As it (P S g * ¥ | ment of matrimonial difficulties by alleg- | Martin is awful sick and would like to | have much to say, and they are less free e document devises only $1 Mrs. Henry P. Bonntag will leave for hpme C. Bendmore has petitioned the | ing that though Howard is worth $150,00 | gee you as soon as you can come. Your in thelr statements than heretoforé. who proves herself to bo| the East about the mmiddle of Septembr | Bosra of Works to remove the fences for the last fifteen days sho hias received | giger, Mrs. M. L Bowers." Handwriting | QFFICERS VISIT DRUG STORES. | the deceased, &s.the will| f’“h\fl;: ifi;fi]x‘t}t!OQno"(']fra\":-tc;:zu*];zl;ld:l:’f‘_;' from Green etreet, between Baker and 1 from him and that he has stopped | 0 o' Kytka has examined several hun- , Two of the detectives on the case were | hici e testatrix | ter, Miss Edith Sonntag, . e 7 T s | % which the testatrix Lyon, and on Lyon street, between Unfon | her credit at all the stores. dred specimens of Mrs. Martin Bowers' | busy all day vesterday visiting the drug | a widow without | The Sonntags have been spending the | 0% 00 °% W oo oo et P od ; _ i to polson es @ dollar to any one | summer at San Rafael. el e atvate O the Mt eaile Taat POSTAL CLERK SUED. chirography, and he asserts that there is | stores of the city to see whether Mrs. | [ “emetes 1o, POICD, hich refreshments will b erved. which refreshments-will be served severe concuesions, and the inhabitante of the homes having been kept in | t fear of their lives, o Wi vork f t houses and other property in the im- on the ground that they were not legally | s g cerning proposed of work for the Vicinity Of the work have already been | He answered the phone and .old her (o | per, on which was the order for the cunce | o1 the ground that they were not I inchl tempt to | COMIng year.. The programme will be fol- om fiying rocks, win- | meet him at a cafe. She savs she was | o¢ arsenic, was ragged. At the intervals | detained. 2 dve : . : MPt 10 | ; wed by an informal reception, during ken, roofs of buildings | gftting quietly at a table when Howsz-d| " ¢ a i he | Case was granted. and the Chief of Police | e n a persecution. | tering ~ of houses badly | at which the stitches appeared In the |jnugt appear before Judge Cook at 10| | Leaves Out Name of Heir. Mrs. William M. Herrin and Miss Her- e will of the late Esperance Habich | rin have returned from Shasta Springs, T where they have been spending the sum- mer montk Miss Alice Herrin s ex- | U pected from Europe this week. She fs en the 1l was drnv.n much benefited in health and will return t. . cMahon, chairman; forward and prove kin- i Frederick T. Arnold of the|lly, which has been purchased by the k“’z;r;y;:{ ::2:::;“? lq’:':-.lmc::::kbr;s: absolutely no doubtblha;isr,l:rmr.se::n J;::;H rr:::w;‘;l!z; Mp::vh?:;tol: {1;:1 st Jvanted @ take € at any < PRI LA Fourth United States Cavalry will take | CitY to open the strects named. husband, 1f the allegations made in the | TOF8ed, Prescription by whic | When the murdered man first became fIl, | and bis wife tried time and tim Martin away from me. I befieve them capable at they | for his bride Miss Bessle Haynes, daugh- g T g SR complaint for divorce filed by Nellie Mar- | Wa# secured. ) . % The officers are not hunting for the pur- St. Michael's Parish Picnic. |io' o' Mr. and Mrs. F. Jay Haynes, Sep- | BIGET-DAY-OLD INFANT tin are true. Thelr troubles began at the| DOCTOR MAKES STATEMENT. i chase of arsenic alone, as it is thought | g e parish of §t. Michael's Church, | ; per 15 at Yellowstone Park. Captain ACCIDENTALLY SMOTHERED | postal clerks’ picnic a year ago, when, she| pr, McLaughlin visited the office of the | that Bowers may have been dosed with | ¢ - 't revenge oa me. It oy gt O o | 4nd Mrs. Arnold will reside at Fort Riley, 3 Under avers, Martin cursed and abused her, 1 Police yesterday morning and | another poison at first. The chemists who | Ml all come opt, TUht, in 1oe S04 _Sod, e and outing at Unlon | guneas. Slips Its Head Under Its Mother’s | knocked her down and jumped on her | Chief of Folies ¥esieRiy WO IE JU | are analyzing the contents of the stomach | L' Sty o Chivee thelr minds. 2 " -abor da Bt e, Arm While She Sleeps and prostrate form. She charges also that for | told all that he kne 3 e | &re also endeavoring to-discover traces ot | THE T L S T e S 1 be 1 Mr. and Mre. R. H. Pease, Miss Pease, Is Suffocated. the last year he has at least once a |li¢ again pronounced the signature ?.n the | geveral kinds of poison. A, o e ‘f”. s on ; b d R. H. Peasc Jr. and Mrs. R. L. Ogden, ocated, month taken his wages and caroused un: | prescription to be a rank forgery. “I al- |~ Protessor Green, who Is supervising this | Y BOWrs and his wife may have a deep- charge has | who have been spending the summer at| Charles T. Brown, a conductor on the| il every cent was spent. Mrs. Martin ways commence my preseriptions with an | portion of the work, said last night: “We | er lr;ltr:‘nt“in‘ the matter l%)n‘an has thus ) of valuable | the Portland, in Portland, Or., expect to | Hayes street line, called at the Coroner’s [ says further that during the months of | ‘R,’ and would know that this was not| ghall not complete our quantitative analy- | far been disclosed police are strong attendance | 1, to town early in September. office yesterday afternoon and reported | § r, October and Novembe, enulne on that account aione, even if the | Sig for three or four days. We are search. | In the belief that the guilty ones are now t et—n S that his infant son, Llovd Francis Brown, S:g:.cmwl;‘:uc she was visiting her !‘rcfgcml.; :I‘nnnturs was perfect,” sald. the physi-!ing for all kinds of poisons. Whether we | behind the bars. Patrick O'Leary is stiil —————— | Mr. and Mre. Martin E. Tew of 1616 | cight days old, had been accidentally |at a hospital, he frequently locked her | clan. { have detected a trace of any fatal drug | detained, aithough he is belicved to be Sues Rival for Damage, Larkin street cnterisined last week ex-|smothercd by the mother. He said that| out, and that once he was prevented from | He then told of the murdered man's | liesides arsenic I cannot state. I will say | innocent of any participation in the crime. rele of the Ge rect Goverpor A. E. Rice of Willmar, Minn., | he went home at 1:10 o’clock in the after- | strangling her by her mother. “I'll make symptoms at the Waldeck. He asserted | that we have found a very large amount Chief Wittman ha:\ been hard at work whic : and Professor Frankforter of the Univer-; noon and saw the mother iying asleep in | you come to time,” according to Mers. | that Mrs. Bowers had told him that cer- | of arsenic in the dead man’s stomach. | on the case. o left hix offier yesterday art few day sity of Minnesota. Mr. Tew is a former | bed. He went into another room for u| Martin's complaint, is a threat frequent- | tain medicines which he prescribed had | We are working us hard as we can at it, | morning after hearing br. McLaughlin s < da M. Ella | Minnesotan. His wife is a native daugh- | few minutes and when he returned his |1y used by her husband. on effect which could not have been pos- | but it is a tedious task.” Ao traments Wa el 3ok It at. o nte - for 000 damages | ter. wife was awake. He turned to look at| The Murtins were married September 5, | sible. He felt that the sick man could | The fmprisoned women were given an- | hour last might. Detective Ryan was in : er rival the art of remov- —— tho baby and found that it was dead.|1594. Martin has considerable cash on de- | never recover at his home and told the | other “sweating” yesterday morning and | court all day yesterday. but resumed his e wrink ¢ The defend-| A Chicago tereal food company re- | Mrs. Brown had been lying with her arm | posit in a local bank, and he has been | wife of his opinion. She replied that the | were. confronted -with the new evidence | investigations last night. Detectives the suit are L. \M ame and Delia | cently ordered fifty tons of ink for use | above her head and the baby hld slipped | restrained from withdrawipg it pending | expense of keeping the patient in @ hos- | in the shape of the blank from which the | Braig and Coleman are alse eadnnfln‘ Ah‘u! her. - 11in printing their packages. under her arm the eutcome of the divorce proceedings. |pital was too great. The physiclan says | prescription slip was torn. Neither va- ! to solve the mystery ~