The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCQCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1903 CORONER'S JURY CHARGES MRS. MARTHA E. BOWERS WITH THE WILLFUL MURDER 4 DEMANDS CiSH FOR PRISONERS evada to Hold Folsom Escapes for the Re- wards. ‘Requisition Papers Will Not Be Signed Unless Money Is Forwarded. = 4+ —Governor erview stated that the at Reno, Miller t be returned to| reward offered by the | paid, as he did | ers making the | the trouble of | ally follows resent time there were -— APPLIES FOR REQUISITIONS. of Sacramento Pre- Go ¥ vernor Pardee. - FRANCISCANS MAY RECEIVE THE CONTRACTS Bi Por- struction Work at Fort Rosecran s for BUY BREWSTER’S MILLIONS —AT=— —YOUR=— DEALER’S TO-DAY 1'wo sets of people: peopic who like Schilling’s Best anc who like to be hum- the afternoon while the patient was pass- | ©! It was on or about August 20 when the * » w. C B oo artial paraly- | ing away. The wife exhibited much grief | Nad found that ‘hed bridge bullder had | woman whom I now know to be Mrs. Sutton | :“;2::‘}1‘: J‘?palr:w and Er ’Ir“kall- s b symptoms of mineral poi-| and was creating a scene. Bowers asked suffered from fatty degeneration of both|came to the store and presented the forged | U . N Toktal o » pastor o 3 0 2 for water continually, but could not hold | the liver and the kidneys and that tuber- | prescription. I never filled such an order | Ginga Church in Toklo, whose mission to wers 1f he bad o | A 0t ol (\losia was_apparent in ‘the left lung, | before for.any doctor. Xo quaniity of the | this country Is to raise $0.00 to build a d any place where 2 stomach. N 4 drug was specified ana the woman sald to he s sh paint, and concluded| Mrs. Harry Bowers stated - that she| City Chemist Green sald he had opened | o{(g per whatever I wished and that she did | Do . c““:‘-c,:‘ onn:.:ume 01{\ his gresent that there could be | Went to the hospital with her sister-in-| the stomach after Dr. Morgan had re- | not care what it cost. This made me a little | Charse. The convention will meet again . ould not be | WL 10 T ribed minutely what - toqk | Ported to him that there were traces of | careful and I asked what she wanted of the | to-day at 2 o'clock. SR bavend' e “";’I’»K that ptomaines ,“a”‘ there. The pewly made widaw did | mineral polson. He found matter which | arsenic. Shc,snltil it was for a sick man who | AT A | had caused the trou | P ere. : i vzed. 1 gav a i Pot want o have the body go to the | he took to be arsenic and proved that his | as paraivaed. ‘I gave her an ounce and told Charges White With Fraud. | mov —p L | “ E, the jury, find that Martin L. Bowers, aged 43, nativity Pennsylvania, occupation bridge-builder, residence 370 Clementina street, in the city and county of San Francisco, came to his death in the German Hospital on the 25th day of August, 1903, from arsenical poisoning. That the arsenic which caused his death was procured upon a forged prescription, written by his wife, Mrs. Martha E. Bowers, and that we hereby charge said Martha E. Bowers with the crime of murder. We further find that Mrs. Z. C. Sutton, sister of said Martha E. Bowers, procured the poison upon the forged prescription written by her sister, Mrs. Martha E. Bowers, but we do not feel justified frdm the evidence submitted to this jury in charging Mrs. Z. C. Sutton as a principal, but recommend that said Mrs. Z. C. Sutton be compelled to stand trial as an accessory to the crime.”—Verdict of the Coroner’s jury. ] District Attorney Will Prepare Com- plaint. N — Formal Accusation Is to Be Lodged To-Day. regard to giving the dead man's watch to John Cunningham and how the $2500 had been drawn from the Hibernia Bank and placed with the German Savings and | Loan Scclety. IDENTIFY HANDWRITING. Handwriting Experts Kytka and Eisen- schimmel took samples of Mrs. Martin Bowers’ chirography and compared them with the prescription. Both declarel un- | F inds That Arsenic|| Killed Bridge- || Builder. | ——.— Declares Poison Was; Procured by | Accused. e, | RS. MARTHA E. BOWERS was roner's SIS, SUTTON AND Mes BowErRs \WHE ARE CHARGED WIiTH CRIME . litul murder by ¢ her late hus- Bowers, and C. Sutton, was plicity in the crime and y. The ver- jury is given above /“ 7 A & NN N equivocally that the widow fcrged the . T Lo Ser W ¥, \\ NN /& order for arsenic. They indicated “a few | introduced at the inquest, R \ \ ‘\\"'\“"'i\ Y \ of the 500 points” which they say they to show only how N WA \ \\ WONN will bring out at the trial. It waa shown to his death \ \\\\\\ \ \ \\ that Mrs, Bowers had attemptsd to dis- egard to the \ R R guise her chirography when writing at Eedastde £0 AN o\ \ \ | the order of the police. The exhibits were sess laste g \) B | passed around to the jurymen inter- & \\ NVR W Grocerymun Goctjen testified that he aid 1est room \ \\ “ not remember having sold any ham to disinter- \ Mrs. Bowurs, but presumed that he might witnesses cked witk t huve done so. He sall & young man came | to the door one day and told nim that a | man up the street had been po: eating some of the ham which cam the grocery. He could not ascertain who the young man was. Detective Ryan sa John Cunningham was he younz man. Detective Coleman related what he done on the case in company with Ryan. | Coroner Leland said that there was no necessity to introduce testimony showing \ 1 deep- amaging r sister, formally sworn after the case was closed. - | *The jurymen asked many questions d as called upon the case. He | ing the course of the proceedings. They | B | | were highly praised by Coronct Leland E | Attorney Vaughn, for the defense, and | !Dl\'trict Attorney Byington both stated that they would like to have just such | men on the jury at the prospective tria | The names of the jurymen who we present are: F. A. Zane, H. A. Walsh, I. Danziger, J. F. Walters, | . R. Burrows, A. 8. Holman and Thowas | s stom | | chibert. Gy : gl { | | ‘District Attorney Byington states tiat gl R | | he will probably file his complaint to ik MCk man Was vosiing day, formally charging Mrs. Bowers and pr ke e e Mrs. Sutton with murder. | gl e Sibanen i fad | | P | | TITLE TO LAND vESTS | uld not be IN THE SHARP ESTATE | itness s s | ‘“x r;uh i Judge Seawell Settles Dispute Over| icians whe Ve Realty Claimed by the City. | In a decision rendered yesterday in the | | city’s suit to quiet title to a plece of | | realty brought against Judge John Hunt, as executor of the estate of the late George F. Sharp, Judge Seawell decided | | that title vested in Hunt in his capacity as executor. The property is located at nformed daily f Bowers, but when the ave improv r then days from e , symptoms two Tox/cotoG/s7 STomGAN VO Torl THE LEFFECTS OF AarsErC D ITELACGHEIN WHO SAYS BOWERS SUFFLERED FRON AR ISENICRL. FIOISOINING - - him Asserté Deaa 7Man’s. Wife Forged | Order. ‘ | was leaving she said in an adjacent He knew heard that d. Dr. von owers might mical poi- CALLS CASE INDIGESTION. had years mmoned to the man on the the pa that twelve he o sick bridge- ssed bed nt DRUG CLERK FETER oM )i WO SoL O AESENIC To MRS SurTOors - the part of the > of jaughter to! a of the corner of Fillmore and Thirteenth streets and was claimed by the city on the ground that it had been reserved un | purposes. . The suit was commenced in 1894, the city | | T t-f t th claiming that the realty in question was 1 es I y a e | map, adopted by the city In 1854, it was | | designated by brown coloring, showing | Hearin that it had been reserved for public pur- g' | Seawell holds that the mere fact that the lot was colored brown on the map, | S " without any evidence as to the number of e io c the arsenious acid, | gy ‘the inference that it was reserved | for school purposes, particularly as there | is nothing in the report of the commis- ¢ ' Defendants Refuse tg o e Ve Ses Sramanee ex Senoor | IS(‘hlJl)l property because on the Van Ness | e <+ lots so colored, is not sufficient to jus- gloners who selected the lots to show that large quantity phy an caused pass over the such as wasXound in the stomach of Mar- and tin Bowers, might act as an emetic prove less harmful than a sm n Bowers died Dr. £ Sche the house and saw | g b | Cehe’ tenxth Grdine that x ot . but diagnosed the tient .was in. & state of utter| ; R e ‘"‘”_(““.,;’n"‘“j ned man | any of the lots reserved were designated : collap: vomiting terribly. Harry| | SISTERS ACCUSED BY COR- ||lived many months. Arsenic caused ‘a |53, OlT. fhe map itselt was poor evi f\":“'“‘ o then told that if his “"‘)“‘-' ry ONER'S JURY AND WIT- | | degene n of the tissues, which caused | “*"°® e as not rer where | “ n ! | death. The polson w s found in ! | N Z 12 . erey e Jie el e B ] b TPRRES A T - the dead man's stomach aid ne herm | METHODIST JAPANESE d much affection | last long. The bLridge builder H dod Bt i i O ABER. ; Y un e iyt b i G g [ oy . |It was the arsenic which had become MISSION CONVENTION & 0 or three women in| but too late. . roexpl Al seolved. As more than rour grains of e e . ced tw t w ’mrh\“; bt %0, 22k0s: Roffo ’m;(\nn nnvi‘ v::-”s:nt”hy an latter to| the wl)“‘l“{ \ulro (;mml Toxicologist Mor- | Silver Jubilee Anniversary of the » : the ar make 2 statement to the police. gan thought the dose must have been g B s suffering | Oning are very muc Harry Bowers testified to pretty much | large one. by Founding of the Society Is « t ical poi- ’”']'l;] J same facts and gave in addition| Depity Coroner M. J. Brown told how Being Celebrated. 7 . ing o ne details in regard to his knowledge | Harry Bowers had reported that some-| The silver jubllee convention of the Pa- Mel who was called next, | (8 of AuRhst 0 Vlsits heof his brother's sickness and to his own | thing was the matter. The oficial then | cific Japanese Mission Soclety met yes- hat J whom he | 10 W‘N'”wl 8 e \41 ‘l’kpl'rlnm'os at the Martin Bowers home. | telephoned to the German Hospital to | terday afternoon in the Japanese Meth- : cineelyriscribediihy tafinl) houht | sute poid. About how his wife and him-| allow no one to touch the body and sent |odist Church, 1329 Pine street. Bishop Bowers. might have been suffering from | beer purchased by the sick manvs wife a | rororiolanants to the police Earl Cranston, LL. D., presided. Coroner L > 2 N al 2 S Vi various arsenical poisoning. oy e vl and sald that he had been| Reports were read from the variou Sty e G b A e ot G 3 : b en requested by telephone to sign the death | pastors having charge of Japanese Meth- e G e onaet DUTslcia A the pile remembered sceing Mrs. Martin| certificate so that the body would mot it clitiitlits. ABOUENIRE " Ui -Diiclis ed the physiclan to taken to the institution in an ambulance | Lorc s 8ive her husband some white| have to be removed to the Morgue. He | Coast States and Hawail, all of which i the adivice of. the i dying: condition. - Re- :',f,m‘ 'l' The ‘i’“f“::‘”‘i”mhl'nnvd once | replied that he would be glad to do so|showed a prosperous and encouraging was shortly taken to the| storatives were applied and the man sur- | Harry Bowers felt certain ali- ino time | “1Lef his deputies had made a thorough | condition of affairs. Committees were ap- itarium. vived until about 4 o'clock in the after-| that r e 5 investigation of the case. | pointed as follow that poisoned ham had caused the (rouble. v 2 v~ | moon. e o ery v Drug Clerk Peterson’s testimony was| Auditing—M. §. Vail, Z. Hirota. Ch - b\rlxgn’!-n' l?‘r'\:‘ '1.h: witness was very \_uluhln. but the | the most sensational of the day. When | tension—S. Sugehara, H. Saijo, S K.:.;r::l:t Fo ge-builder; WOMEN VISIT DYING MAN. | Coroner could not get any definite reason | asked to identify the womas to whom he | Publication—H. Saijo. Z. Hirota. Education ted and very weak. His symp-| (ar| Schmidt, the ward nurse the | 88 to why he became suspiclous. i 1 ce- of 8 - | Z. Hirota, K. Miura, C. Kondo. Sunday-schools those of FoRBHIE "NSts Sy tc. : 3 rse at the sold the ounce of arsenic on the forged | ona tracts—M. S. Vail, Z i B the man a treatment wiion | German Hospital, who attended Bowers| QFFICIALS MAKE STATEMENTS. | prescription he rose to his feet, pointed | hara. Resolutions—M. S. Vail, C. Nakamura. cht o mattercs i ey | Surine hI:'Lxxt ;'-n"nn:'»]-n':;«,“fshli lhaht tWo| Autopsy Surgeor Bacigalupf testified | at Mrs. Suiton and said: “That is the| The evening session was devoted to ad- Miama, who was converted to Christian- ity in this city In 1574 and who is now portions of the body of tae deceased to City Chemist Green and that ne himself WONDERS AT PRESCRIPTION. Mrs. Harry Bowers, were present during SAYS ARSENIC WAS CAUSE. In the light of developments the phy- t there could be absolutely idea was correct by numerous tests. Dr. Charles Morgan, toxicologist, fur- nished much amusement for the audience | Morgue and signed a receipt turning over | the remains to Undertaker Peterson. The | two women then proceeded to Mrs. Sut- her to let the doctor use it and she said she would_do_so, About a week later the proprietor of the In a petition to revoke letters of guard- ianship over the persons of Isabella and William McKenzie filed yesterday by Dan- o ”, . >, v vl hat the detectives had discov- | Martin Bowers was suf- | ton’s apartments at 154 Eddy street and | by giving a_ technical demnition of pto- | Store t'um e e 1 tdentified tI | iel McKenzie, the children’s father, he rsenical poisoning while at | thence to Clementina street. There they | maines and by denving that he had ever | req Something wrone, pigg t B g . scription when they came. Mrs. Harry Bow- ers was brought into the store first. 1 said she was not the woman. Then came Mrs, Sut- ton and I knew her at once. There could be no mistake. Her face was fixed in my mem- ory mostly because we had such a talk about her purchase that night. She said it might | have been Mrs. Martin Bowers, but when I | saw her I knew differently. That night I identified Mrs. Sutton in the office of the Chief of Police again. She said I was mistaken and told me to ask her sister if the doctor had not prescribed arsenic for Martin Bowers. I did not do so for I wanted to perform no detective work. Mrs. Sutton denies that she made any remark to Peterson about the doctor's prescribing arsenic. Detective Thomas Ryan, who has handled the case for the Felice Department, told of how he and Letective Coleman had secured the in- fcrmation presented to the jury. He told what Mrs. Bowers had informed him in charges that Major White, secretary of the California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, committed fraud upon the court that made the appoint- ment. McKenzie alleges that. White in- stead of serving subpenas upon the rela- tives of the children, as the law provides, suppressed them, thus preventing the per- sons interested from appearing and prov- ing that his charges were wrong. Technical Society Holds Meeting. The monthly meeting of the Technical Soclety of the Pacific Coast was held last night at Mechanics’ Institute Hall. There ‘was a large gathering of civil, mechanical and mining engineers. The principal talk of the session was made by James T. Ludlow, who spoke on the subject of refrigerating machinery. w. a month that they could not stand the ldeck. Mry taken any very great quantity of arsenic to observe the effects. He testified that Bowers said | met Lervey, or O'Leary, and took two or | three drinks apiece in varfous saloons. expense of keeping the patient at the| Mrs. Harry Bowers then went to Fol- sanitarium and her husband was then re- | lis’ saloon and told the woman in charge d home. Previous to leaving the|of the place that the bridge builder was Waldeck he had been able to be in the ! dead. Mr. Follis, who was present, re- garden and was feeling well. | marked that he knew trouble would re- After being transferred home he became | sult from the whole strange affair. Mrs. rapidly worse. The physician was sure | Harfy Bowers said that she then hur- that the sick man was not getting proper | ried to her own house and told her hus- attention, and so stated to the Bowers | band of what had happened. family and to some of their visitors. Dr.| Both returned to Follis' saloon and the McLaughlin went away to the country | proprietor repeated his remark about the about the first of August, as he did not‘ prospect of trouble. Harry Bowers and understand what Mrs. Bowers wanted to | his wife proceeded to the Morgue. When have him do about treating the patient |the husband discovered that arrangements further in view of what had been said. | had been made that his brother's body When be returned he sent his assistant | would not be taken to the Coroner’s of- around to 370 Clementina street to find | fice he demanded an investigation. e out how he stood with the Bowers fam- told his suspiclons to Deputy Coroner after THE CALL’S GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, .1903, and all holders of Atlas Crupens are requested (o pre- sent them immediately, as this great opportunity to secure one . of these splendid Atlases at The Call’s .premium rates will be brought to a close on Septem- ber 24. | new zoology departm ! | p R. D. Mages, | w | OF HER HUSBAND AND HOLDS MRS. Z. C. SUTTON AS AN ACCESSORY TO CRIME - INSPEGTOR FINDS NOTE IN THE BUN Portland Chinese Tries to Outwit Customs Officer. Conceals Instructions to a Detained Mongal in a Sweet Cake. Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 4—Even with the aid of a note of instructions contained in an ordinary eatable bun Gee Fook, al- leged to be a native of Portland, could not secure a residence in the United States. Gee Fook was a passenger on the Oriental liner Indravelll and landing was refused him by United States Immigrant Inspector Barber on the ground that he did not have a Chinese certificate. His father, Loule Yin, for twenty-four years a resident of this city, obtalned a writ of habeas corpus, and this morning the ¢ was tried before United States Distrl Judge Bellinger and was decided in favor of the Gove t The pr! fmony in favor of the petitioner was given the father. Louie fin testified that was the father of two sons, both of whom he had sent to China when they were infants. One came back two yea The second, Gee Fook, aged 15 years, he sald, returned a week ago. but the Federal officers refused him landing. During the examination it transpired that Loule Yin had sent a note Fook on board of the vessel, warn- itious in answering the pectors. The note was first offered ¢o the inspectors for delivery, but as they refused to accept it Yin sur- reptiticusly put it in a bun and then asked them to d the cake to the boy. While the bun was being eaten the inspectors discovered the note and held Gee Fook for examinatio —_——— Makes Present to the University. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 4.— Dr. Jordan has turned over to the univer- sity a collection of about 3000 volumes on fishes, which has formed the nucleus of v to Gee | a motive for the crime. Mrs. Bowers and | % | i | his working library for many years. The terrible truths | Mrs. Sutton were invited to taka the | & VRS SRS e . hd; sglo fab] | stand, but both declined to do So. Their | ,,¢.q jehthyologists, a number of whose wer gotten | attorneys heard the case attentively, but | 120 € THA¥O! 'duplicated. Besk er | d1d not take part in any of tk T drtev it o g 951‘1*’ Y | stons or question the witnesses v mase chary.fu o oullectiingof PemSE. L | dict was rendered in about ten minutes | - mes fn ally contuiilngr Shanaiena fishes. Th books will be placed in the nt. —_———— Footpads Sent to Penitentiary. SUISU . 4—William Heacock and Charles ., who were convicted In the S ourt here Tuesday of high- way robbery, were sentenced to State's rison by Judge Buckles to-day. Heacock as sent s in San Quen- arlson to 1 years in Folspm. They up and robbed an old soldier named George Cooper in Suisun about a month ago. ADVERTISEMENTS. MAGAZINE .8 NEW.. MANAGEMENT SEE THE B sepTENBER c | NUMBER OF THE Overland Monthly STRONG DESCRIPTIVE ARTICLES INTERESTING SHORT STORIES READABLE MATTER WESTERN IN FLAVOR E N 33 S NOT AN EMIGRATION DOCUMENT