The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1903, Page 31

‘Pages31to4 * [ i @all. — + - Pages31t040 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1903, MRS. M. E. BOWERS AND MRS. SUTTON ARE ACCUSED OF THE CRIME OF MURDER District Attorney Files the Customary Formal Charge in Police Court and the Imprisoned Women Will Soon Be Placed on Trial to Battle for Lives and Freedom L. F. Frank, a fish dealer on Haight sire E Friday for selling st The law requires 1 red for sale N but the fish Frank was trying to sell only weighed a pound each. Frank was taken to the Hall of Justice and Judge Mogan fined him $20, wi - iled d x iter a p asion ke s anxious to-have her he wav Sold Fish Under Size. home Srom Mare Isias paramour in t v be no fight, as has been freque The police are sti that the men had a struggle on| itk the wago ties feel connecting Mrs Sutton with the murder is strong | o secure a conviction, but they ng for more information which | made it clear that the deceased’s | tp, husband | n so ably his end and Detective Coleman is deavoring to find a place where ccused women purchased the time Bowers was first he promptly paid. hot that the _——e————— Insolvent Clerk. H and has Court. no assets. evidence | Bowers and | gay tive Ryan, who has conducted the us far, is work- Smith, clerk, San Francisco, ition in insolvency yesterday in d States District He All his | pital by Dr. J. V. Leonard. - MRS, MARTHA E. BOWERS AND HER SISTER, MRS. Z. C. SUTTON, | WHO WERE FORMALLY CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF MAR- TIN L. BOWERS AND PLACED BEHIND THE BARS. — NORTHERN POLICE i K MURDERER | Mysterious Crime Com- | mitted in British Columbia. | VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 5.—News of r just east of the British Colum- 4 boundary line In Alberta has been tel- aphed to the Vancouver police depart- d officers all over the coast are lcokout for the alleged mur- derer. Four weeks ago two German settlers from MacLeod and reached a place ed Stand Off, about twenty miles west there. They bad some money, a falrly £00d outfit to start ranching, & team of horses and a big wagon. They started out for some new land, and it was the | last seen of the two men. Ten days ago One man was seen traveling westward n and outfit. His partner | was nowhere in sight. Another party of settlers came in a or two later with the information that they had found the body of a mur- |dered man. Mounted police constables with the result that body of th German was found th a plece of canvas wrapped around The man had apparently been killed ax and what money he had was it { with a | evidentaly taken, for nothing of any value was found in the pockets of his clothing. A fragment of a newspaper printed in German and dated at Portland, Ore., was found near by. B — Workmen Injured by Accidents. Two workmen received igjuries yester- day which necessitated tr!atment at the Receiving hospitals. Charles Reed, a painter, fell a distance of thirty . feet from a scaffolding on a building at 2118 Pacific avenue, sustaining a sprained back and a fracture of both his legs. His injuries were attended to by Dr. James D. Murphy at the Central Emer- gency Hospital. John Michaelson, a plasterer, while at work at Webster and Bush streets fell from a staging a dis- tance of twenty feet, sustaining a frac- ture of both legs. His injuries were at- tended to at the Park Emergency Hos- Michaelson | | | | debts are represented by promissory notes | was subsequently removed to the City in favor of high interest money lenders. !and County Hospital. l FOSES WEE ISKS. DVORCE Files Suit Against Man Who Invaded May- or’s Office. Lee H. Foise, who on June % last visited the Mayor's office and de- manded protection from hordes of men, women and children he fancled were pur- suing him through the streets for the purpose of taking his life, was married to Elizabeth H. Stoibel of this city Just seventeen davs before his visit to the Mayor. This fact became known yes- terday through the flling of a complaint for divorce against Foise. The unfor- tunate woman brings the suit on the ground of cruelty, alleging that during the three days she lived with Folse he treated her in such & manner that she came to the conclusion that if she re- mained longer with him her life would be endangered. They were married on June 13. He woke her out of a sound sleep at 3 o'clock the next morning and said he would “beat the life out of her.” Two days afterward he proceeded to do as he had promised, but was prevented. On the 1§th he tried it agaln, but she ran away from him and never returned. This is the second appearance of Mrs, Foise in the divorce court, and also the second appearance of Foise. She was di- vorced from Anton A. Stoibel in this city in November, 1800, and Foise was divorced from Martha Foise in New York in 1895. He came to this city in the early part of the present yvear, and on June 30 called at the Mayor’s office and demanded protection from fancied pursuers. He was arrested by Officer Willlams and the next day committed to the asylum for the insane by Insanity Commissioners McGettigan and Rethers. From testimony gathered at his hearing on the insanity charge it developed that he had once been confined in an asylum in England. A suit for divorce was filed by Celia Wise against David Samuel Wise on the gronn4 of fajlure to provide. They were married at Portland, Ore., November 12, 1898. Mrs. Wise claims that for more than a year he has not provided for her, though amply able to do 'so. She asks for a divorce and $0 a month alimony. De- sertion is charged in the complaint filed by M. L. Jncovich against Meta S. Jnco- vich. They were married October &. 1596. | the Oregon Short Line, arrived from Salt FOOTPADS ROB EN CITIZENS Lone Highwayman Suc- cessfully Operates in the Park. A. W. Haight Yields $40 to Two Thugs at Frequented Corner. ey el So far as has been reported to the po- lice, ten persons in all were the victims | of foctpads Friday night, as published | exclusively in yesterday's Call. Nine of | these were held up in the park and the | other was stopped at Bush and Polk streets and made to deliver. The first hold-up occurred about 8 o'clock, when E. K. Stanton and his brother were walking along the main road to the conservatory in the park. They were suddenly accosted by a masked man, with a revolver in his hand, who emerged from the shrubbery lining the road. He gruffly ordered them to lhrowi up their hands and made them empty their pockets of all the money they had, which amounted to $§2 3. They were then ordered to proceed and | not to look back. They hurried to the | station and reported the | robbery. described the robber as about six feet tall and having a promi- | nent nose. Mounted policemen were sent | out at once to watch the paths, but could get no trace of the footvad. | An hour later Miss O. Briggs, who lives at 42 Tehama street, with two other women and four small boys, was riding through the park. When passing the old '49 camp a man stepped from behind a tree and, pointing a revolver at them, told them to give up their money. They | said they had no money and he let them | g0, cautioning them not to look around. | They describe the footpad as being short | and wearing a slouch hat, a sack coat and a mask. | A. W. Halight is the name of the man who was held up at Bush and Polk streets about midnight. He is a clerk and lives at 611 Polk street. He was on his way | home, when he was accosted by two masked men. his head, while the other searched his clothing. They took $40 in coin, but left | him his watch. They cautioned him to proceed on his way without making any | outcry. This he did until he met a po- | liceman, with whom he returned to lhe{ scene of the robbery, but by this time the | | footpads had disappeared. | Notwithstanding the discrepancies in the descriptions given by those held up in the park, the police believe it was all | the work of one man. The different de- scriptions are accounted for by the ex- cited condition of the victims. i | PERSONAL MENTION. : Dr. M. R. Walker of Reno, Nev,, is at the Grand. 4 Rev. M. A. Quirt of Ottawa is registered at the Palace. | L. R. Poundstone, a mining man of Gaston, is at the Grand. F. D. Nowell, a mining man of Juneayu, Alaska, is at the Occidental. E. H. Cox, a wealthy lumberman of Madera, is a guest at the Palace. F. H. Kennedy, a hardware merchant of Stockton, is at the California. Mark R. Plaisted, a newspaper editor | of Fresno, is a guest at the California. W. B. Swain, one of the leading mer- chants of Marysville, is at the Palace. Miss L. J. Hammond, manager of the Golden Eagle Hotel of Sacramento, is at the California. Henry Oxnard of Oxnard, who is men- tioned as a Senatorial candidate to suc- ceed Senator Bard, is in the city. Dr. A. L. Kelton of Des Moines and Dr. C. L. Gallivan of Oakland, Iowa, are among the latest to arrive at the Grand. T. M. Schumacher, traffic manager of Lake yesterday and is registered at the Palace. Captain R. S. Clover, U. 8. N, and Mrs. Clover, who have been spending several weeks at their summer home at Napa, are at the Palace. United States Senator Cullom and his family, who have been at the Palace for severel days, left for the interior of the State last evening. A. McLeod of Shanghai, formerly at- tached to the United States diplomatic service in the Orlent, and his wife ar- rived from the East last evening and are at the Palace. e Seeks Contractor’s Arrest. Judge Fritz issued a warrant yesterday for the arrest of E. Kinney, a contractor, for abusing a horse. It appears from the statement of Assistant Secretary Mat- thew McCurrie of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who swore out the warrant, that Kinney al- lowed one of his drivers, named Coppley, to use a horse that was crippled. Mec- Currie stated that the poor brute was so lame that he was dragging one of his hind legs, being unable to lift it from the ground. ——r—— Makes a Late Appearance. After a lapse of twenty-nine years the estate of Patrick Ring is in court. Yes- terday a petition for letters of adminis- tration upon the estate was filed by James O'Connor. The, estate consists of a supposed interest in realty in this city, and O'Connor makes his aprearance on request of Annle Ring, widow of the de- ceased. Ring dled in February, 1574, leav- inz a wite and ten children. —_————— Chinese Case Goes Over, The petition of the Wee Ong Tong, a Chinese society supposed to have control of gambling in Chinatown, for an in- junction restraining Chief of Police Witt- man from raiding the numerous clubs un- der its control, will, be heard by Judge Sloss next Friday at 2 p. m. It was set for hearing yesterday, but a continuance was granted in order to give the attor. neys time to prepare authorities. ‘William A. Pickering is suing Mary o. Pickering for divorce for desertion, Michael J. Kellner and L. Kellner, a Sixth-street hair dresser, were married in lowa twenty-seven yvears ago. She is now suing him for divorce, alleging fail. ure to provide. Kellner, she claims, spends his time and money about gambling re- sorts. Dr. Richard S. Anthony, who is the de- fendant in a suit to set aside a decree of divorce filed by Christina J. Anthony, filed an answer to his wife's complaint yesterday. He denies that the decree, One pointed a revolver at | which he obtained on the ground of de. sertion, was the result of any fraudulent efforts on his part, and says further that there is no truth in Mrs. Anthony’s charge that during the time it was up for hea ing and when the suit was filed she w; unlawfully restrained of her Uberty, RAILROAD PROMOTER PETTINGELL IS DETAINED IN A DENVER JAIL Police a Trifle Skeptical Schemes, Take Him From a Hotel and Keep Him Behind Y f— JAIL FOR MANY HOURS. WELL-KNOWN RAILROAD PROMOTER WHO WAS MISTAKEN BY THE POLICE OF DENVER FOR A BUNKO MAN AND LODGED IN e E. PETTINGELL of New York, a railroad promoter, who has been a familiar figure about the court of the Palace Hotel during the last few months, spent Tuesday, Wednesday and part of Thursday behind the bars of the Denver jail, to which he had been taken from one of the leading hotels of that city on | suspicion of being a bunko man. A num- ber of letters which he had addressed to wealthy residents of Denver, relative to a railroad scheme with which he had identified himself here, aroused the sus- picion of the police that he was trying to get money on a swindling scheme and he was arrested. After inquiring into Pet- tingell's history, however, the police de- clded that they had no grounds for fur- ther holding their prisoner and he was re- leased on Thursday afternoon. Pettingell is widely known throughout the country, he having been identified prominently with a number of big rall- road schemes. His recent arrival in this city attracted considerable attention, for he announced that he was about to effect a deal which would result in furnishing a new gateway for another transcontinental road to San Francisco. The promoter had been previously connected with the Mon- terey and Fresno road, a project in which were interested a number of prominent men, among them Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan, father of State Senator Flint. AFTER BIG COMMISSION. Pettingell undertook to float the bonds of that corporation in New York, but claimed that just about the time he had succeeded in his deal the promoters of the road abandoned their plans. He and an associate named Finley then brought sult to recover a 10 per cent commission on $7,000,000 worth of bonds, which they were to have floated and in January last a default judgment was taken in the New York courts. It was immediately after this judgment that Pettingell, accom- panied by two representatives of Eastern banking concerhs, landed In this city and quletly registered at the Palace Hotel. Although his traveling companions en- deavored to keep secret the purpose of their visit, Pettingell, in three days’ time, had succeeded in widely advertising thelr presence as well as his own and then as- sumed a mysterious air that for a time caused a great deal of speculation among those who had got an 1nkllxg as to what he was about. It later déveloped that he had paid a visit to Dr. Flint's home in San Juan and interested that gentle- man In a scheme to unite the franchise of the Monterey and Fresno Railway, which practically had been ceded to Pet- tingell on hiy judgment, with that of what is known as the Bay and Coast Railway. The latter corporation was con- trolled by local capital and was originally formed with a view of bringing a road into San Francisco by way of Islais Creek and securing terminal facilities in the very center of the city. HIS PROMISING PROJECT. It was a promising project until the Board of Supervisors refused to give it the privileges asked for, but even with- out them the franchise across the neigh- boring counties and up to the line of this county was valuable when united with another franchise, such as the Monterey and Fresno road claimed. With these two franchises Pettingell's scheme was to have a railroad route from San Fran- cisco to Denver by way of Monterey, Fresno, the Minerat Pass and thence to Pioche, Nev., where he contemplated connecting with the Clark road. Having made some progress in his scheme, with the assistance of Dr. Flint, Pettingell swelled round town for several weeks, in- terviewing various capitalists, and then disappeared. The next heard of him was through the dispatch received yesterday from Denver stating that he had been arrested there. LETTERS TELL THE TALE. When arrestad Pettingell had a bundle of letters in his possession which plainly show that he had not abandoned his Pa- cific Coast scheme. One of the letters, addressed to David H. Moffat, the Utah millionaire and partner of Senator Clark in several big enterprises, clearly outlines Pettingell’s business methods in his at- ‘| cumstances. Regarding His Bars for Many Hours — tempt to dispose of his local holding. The letter reads as follows: | David H. Moffat—Dear Sir: I-beg to offer §ou the Bay and Coast Rallway Company's franchise, granted by the city of San Francisco for rallrcad terminals into the city, with six miles of trackage on city streets. I now have a cash offer from several very strong financial interests who have formulated | plans for constructing a road from San Fran. | cisco to Denver via Monterey, Madera, Fresno, | the Minaret Pass in the Sierra Nevada range, | Ploche, Nev., connecting there with the Salt | Lake road (W. A. Clark’s road to Los Angeles), thence east to Marysville, Utah, to connect with the Rio Grande Western, and through | Leadville to Denver, having a forty-four miles shorter survey from Leadville to Denver than | the Colorado and Southern, and there conneet- | ing with the Burlington, Rock Island and Santa | Fe for Eastern hauling. _Yours respectfuly, F. E. PETTINGELL. BAIT THROWN TO OTHERS. Having tried his game on Moffat with- out success, Pettingell, as is shown by several dispatches found among his let- ters, threw his bait to other millionaires, among them Joseph Leiter of Chicago, who answered as follows: F. E. Pettingell, Palace Hotel, San Fran- cisco: On my return from Mexico to-day I found your several telegrams. If you will re. member, I informed you that if you would gi me sufficlent time to look into the termt proposition I would consider it if it could purchased at a price not exceeding $150.000, | otherwise not. At the price you quote it would not interest us. JOSEPH LEITER. E. H. Harriman, president of the South- ern Paclfic Company, was also impor- tuned and sent the folowing reply: F. E. Pettingell, Antlers Hotel, Colorado | Springs: Your message received and referred to V. P. Kruttschnitt at San Francisco. E. H. HARRIMAN. Evidently Vice' President Kruttschnitt did not think well of the project, for Pet- tingell continued to hawk i around | among those he thought might buy it. In an interview yesterday in Denver Pet- tingell said that he had asked Leiter $1,000,000 for the terminal option and he added that he refused to even consider “the small offer.” Among other letters | in Pettingell's bundle of communications | | were two from G. Forgeus, the weil known capitalist of Santa Cruz, who had seemingly become interested in the new railroad scheme, but was not clearly sat- | isfied with the proposition of bay facil- | ities and wrote to Pettingell regarding the matter. Forgeus also inclosed two letters of recommendation for Pettingell. ——— BRITISH AMD AMERICAN UNION ELECTS DIRECTORS | Organization Hears Address by Rev. William Rader on “The Broth- erhood of Nations.” The annual election and regular meet- ing of the British and American Union took place Friday night in the Academy of Sclences Hall, Dr. F. W. d'Evelyn pre- siding. The Rev, William Rader spoke on the “Brotherhood of Nations,” saying that| Great Britaln and America will ever be friends and that their respective flags will fly side by side in the cause of broth- erhood and civilization, harmony and Christianity. Should it ever come to pass | that the world is at war, as prophesied, | he predicted that Great Britain and | America will stand side by side. The two | countries are politically, commercially and intellectua..y related, he said. At the con- | clusion cf his address Mr. Rader received | an ovation. Later came the election, when the fol- lowing were chosen directors for the en- suing year: F. W. D'Evelyn. J. J Newbegin, William | Pardy. C. B. Sedgwick, Herbert Harris, Thomas Price. R. H. Grey Thomas Penning- ton, G. A. Wright, T. C. West, J. Jenkin, W. | B. Chapman, Edmund Taylor. Willlam Hewitt and George Pennington. Pioneer Passes Away. Michael Nolan. a Mexican war vet- eran and a pioneer of San Francisco, died Friday night after a long illness at his home in the Mission. At one time he was a wealthy wholesale grocer, but of late years he has been in moderate cir- He leaves u wife ard eight children. The funeral will tal: place to-morrow from Mission Dolores Church. Comrades of the Mexican war will act a5 pall bearers, A | several oe £ | bell of the Greenwich residence has been < | men, | centiy DEMANDS COIN FROM SISTER Michael Hawkins Ac- companies Requests With Threats. Mrs. McNally Is Fearful Her * Brother Will Make Trouble. i Michael J. Hawkins, who was arrested several years ago on a charge of trying to kill the late Mrs. Annie Donahue, wid- ow of Peter Donahue, while she was seat- Montgomery street, sending threatening Mrs. Lawrence Mc- Nally, a widow, w resides with her sis- ter and son at 639 Greenwich street. For several nights the scNally home has been tightly barricaded by its frightened female occupants, who fear that Haw- kins is planning some harm to Mrs. Me- Nally and might gain an entrance to the house. The McNallys and Hawkinses have not been on the best of terms for some months, a condition of affairs which friends of the women attribute to Haw- is now charged with letters to his sister, kins' disappointment in money matters and especially to the fact that when a sister, the late Mrs. English, widow of J. M. English, died time ago, she bequeathed what little property she had to Mrs. McNally It is ¢ d Hawkins. allys that on ately at night the door and ignor the M, rung and that the occupants of the house have opened the door just in time to ses the form of Hawkins disappearing in tha distance. On the door sill have been | found letters signed by Hawkins and ad- | dressed to his si Mrs. McNally, in which he has reviewed in a rambling manner his imaginary grievances and has concluded the missives with the threaten- ing statement that if he was not fur- ter, | nished with $300 by September 7 he “would do something.” ‘With the Mrs. Donahue incident still fresh in their minds, Mrs. McNally and her sister are naturally greatly alarmed over the prospect of an encounter with their brother, but they have made no ef- fort to comply with his demands for money and have declared that they will not do so. Yesterday Arthur McNally, son of Mrs. McNally, greatly angered by the annoyance given to his aged mother, spent the greater portion of the afternoon in a hunt for Hawkins in the business part of the city, which the last named is in the habit of frequenting. It was the intention of the young man, in the event of meeting Hawkins, to give him a thrashing and warn him that another vis- it to his mother’s home would be attended with more serious treatment. Fortunate- ly for Hawkins, however, he falled to meet McNally during the afterncon and escaped the punishment that was in store for him. —_———— NEW FIREHOUSE FOR A FASHIONABLE DISTRICT Nob Hill Section Is Provided With Adequate Protection by the Commissioners. The fashionable boarding-house section of San Francisco located on the south side of Nob Hill is now amply provided with protection against fire through the erection of a modern fire apparatus build- ing on Bush street, near Taylor, just fin- ished and occupied. It is located in Bat- talion Chief John J. Conlon’s district and he is proud of the acquisition to his de- tail of fire-fighting men, all of whom have been selected from other companies because of their good conduct and ability as firemen. This house is the only one of its kind in the city in which-three fully equipped com- panies are located under one roof. There is an emgine company manned by ten a chemical company manned by three men and a truck company with twelve men. Each company has its reg- ular supply of horses and each is inde- pendent of the service of the other, ex- cept, of course, in the extinguishing of fires, when all work in strict harmony. The subordinate officers have been se- lected on their merit. Captain John Fitz- patrick, who is in command of the en- gine company, has no superiors in the service. Captain Eugene Crow of the truck company was transferred from the O'Farrell-street house to his new charge after years of faithful service. Captain | James™ Conniff, who has charge of the chemical engine, is well known as a care- ful, competent and brave fireman. The new house is a model of neatness in all its parts. The dormitory is on the second floor and is divided into two com- partments, with lockers for each man’s clothing. The bedsteads are of iron and of the latest design, while the bed cloth- ing consists of white woolen blankets and spotless linen sheets and pillow cases MARSHALL B. WCODWORTH HIGHLY COMPLIMENTED Acting Attorney General Thanks Him for an Order Stopping Fraudu- lent Chinese Landing. The following complimentary letter from J. C. M. Reynolds, Acting Attorney General, has been received by United States District Attorney Marshall B ‘Woodworth: I am In receivt of your letter of the 2ist inst.. wherein you inclose copy of an order re- made by Judge Morrow of the United States Circuit Court and Judge de Haven of the United States District Court. with refer- ence to the issuance of writs of habeas corpud in Chinese cases. 1 wish to thank you for your success in procuring this order from the Judges. The order referred to is a declaration that the Federal Judges will refuse here- after to issue writs in Chinese cases un- less it shall appear that the case has been passed upon by the Chinese Bureau, or that, after a reasonable time, it has ne- glected to pass upon the application to land. —_——————— Califcrnians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—From San Fran- cisco—E. A. Gilbert, at the Manhattan; C. Schlesinger and wife, at the Nether- land: C. W. Clifton, at the Navarre; Mrs. F. Ellen, at the Albemarle: N. Holmes, at the Grand Union. From Los Angeles—F. | Barnard and wife, at the Grenoble. S S Redwood Company Incorporates. The Empire Redwood Company was in. corporated yesterday with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The directors of the cor- poration, each of whom have subscribed $100, are C. T. Croweil, E. W. Davies, F. R. Harris, W. B. Allen and R. H. Howell. They are all from Southern California. —_———————— Fine two-ste ““Roosevelt March.” by H. Welcker. 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