The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1903, Page 12

o 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 80. 1903. NAME OF BURGLAR WHO KILLED PATROLMAN JAMES H. SMITH IS GIVEN POLICE BY ATTORNEY AT WHOSE HOME MURDERER ROOMED WITH GOLDSTEIN AND OFFICERS A B FA { | | | { | | | | | | | 1 Srss ArE E Got DITEMN SRS A CGREITER ! M% ST HOUSE I THID C7r > A aCa | % “‘_,_fiazg":o fa& O3TEIN HAL - - MOTHER AND THE SISTER OF THE YOUTHFUL BURGLAR WHO WAS SLAIN SMITH, AND THE HOUSE IN THIS CITY WHERE THE YOUNG CRIMINAL AND HIS PAL ROOMED FOR A TIME WITH ATTORNEY THOMPSON AND HIS MOTHER. S S BY BRAVE POLICEMAN e OAKLAND, Nov. 25.—The identifica- tion of the young burglar w¥o was shot and killed Friday night at Fourteenth and Jackson streets by Policeman James H. Smith, who in turn was killed by the dead burglar's pal, is complete. The name of the criminal whose body 1 the Morgue slab was Frank J. Go He was 19 years of age and tein the son of Mrs. K. Greiner of 1338 East Eighth street, Los Angeles Joseph Mc ry, a carpenter, 23 years old, lately from Los Angeles, but whose hc in Toledo, Ohio, was the n of Goldstein and is the man the police are searching as r of the dead policeman. for f wh the murd ed and their move- Angeles to San Fran- thence to Oakland well tracked, the Oakland Police Department offi- cially confesses through its head, St. Clair Hodgkins, Chief of Police, that the fugitive, McKiniry, has outwitted them at every turn and that now, forty- eight hours after the tragic encounter, Policeman Smith is at ADVERTISEMENTS. Given On All Arti. Green Trading Stam; at Our Store. cles Purc! SPECIAL PRICES, Commencing To-Day. Cane Sugar, on ordere 20 Ibs. Best Flour, 50 1bs. $1.15, 100 1bs. 30-1b. sacks Flour or Corn Meal California Very Butter, square . California Good Cri Jellies, Jams or Preserves, 3 glasses. 3 Jbs. Very Finest Mince Meat Stuffed Olives, large size. 3 cans Maine Corn.. 4 two-1b. cans Best Tomatoes. 4 ibe. 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This situation exists in spite of the fact that the police have had full knowledge of the haunts of these men, both in Oakland and in San Francisco, and have had excellent opportunities for trailing the man who escaped and abandoned his dying associate. | The police knew yesterday that for | six weeks after they arrived in San | Francisco from Los Angeles, Goldstein | and McKiniry occupied rooms at 1919 | Oak street, San Francisco, the residence of W. J. Thompson, an attorney. Chief of Police Hodgkins was advised that this had been the home of these men all 'of that time, yet last night two men called at that residence for Goldstein’s mail and no detectives were. there to apprehend the strangers. That these | mysicrious visitors undoubtedly were |in tou:h “'.l!h McKiniry is the opinion of Thompson, who manifested great surprise that no policemen were hand. MOTHER WEEPS OVER BOY. Hodgkins knew that McKiniry and Goldstein had apartments at Mrs. W. E. Steadman’s residence, 1362 Grove | street, yet a note of warning was left there, presumably by McKiniry, after the city was aroused by the shooting of | Smith and the suspected burglar. | Identification of young Goldstein was | made this morning by his mother and sister, who arrived at 11 o‘clock and were escorted to the morgue by de- tectives. The police had learned the mother's address from letters found In the dead man's clothing, and Mrs. Greiner was advised at once to come to Oakland. | Broken in spirit, the sorrow-laden pa- rent acknowledged before the police and with the weeping sister that the form on the marble slab was that of her son—the boy she had belleved was working honestly in San Francisco and | attending a school to complete his edu- | cation. To the detectives she gave fur- ther corroboration of the facts they had | gleaned from the mail matter, of which they have possession. Some of it was taken from Goldstein’s body and some | of it was turned over to the San Fran- | cisco police yesterday by . Attorney | Thompson. Mrs. Greiner detailed at some length the knowledge of Kiniry’'s assoclation with her son for two years after they met, first at a common meal table in a lodging-house at 204 Turk street, San Francisco. This was the | Goldsteins’ home before they departed for Los Angeles two years ago. It was in September that the pair left Los Angeles. They went to San Fran- cisco, but made trips, it is believed, . to Vallejo and Sacramento. On.October 1 they appeared at the Thompson resi- dence, remaining there until November 16 and going then directly to the Stead- man residence in this city. In her nar- rative to the police to-day Mrs. Greiner said: * .My son met McKiniry about two years ago at 204 Turk street, San Francisco, where we were rooming. McKiniry was then worki his trade of carpenter. After we went to Angeles my boy kevt up his acquaintance with McKiniry, wro visited us several times after we moved to Los Angeles. Frank had gone to b college in San Francisco and in Los Angeles. For several months during this sum- mer ‘was away with McKiniry and the last time I saw my boy was in September, ‘when he left for San Francisco, as 1 supposed, to go to college and learn shorthand and to on | of Attorney Thompson. After identify- | ing the body at the Morgue as that of work after school hours. It was mot until I | recefved word Saturday morning that I Knew what had befallen my son or that McKiniry was other than an honest, hard-working man. COMMITTED MANY CRIMES. Mrs. Greiner had written frequently to her boy, but the only address she knew was that of the Oak-street house | in San Francisco. | Though Chief Hodgkins admitted that to date he' could produce no evidence that would directly connect Goldstein | or McKiniry with any of the big crimes | —the Crellin or the Bannan porch- | climbing jobs—the Chief has found no end of stuff that proves unlawful en- terprises had been engaged in by the| pair. In the rooms occupied by Gold- stein and McKiniry at the Thompson | residence plaster of paris crucibles and | molds for melting and manipulating | precious metals were found. Pistols, | black cloth for masks, an instrument to connect with a gasburner to form a sort of heating furnace, blowpipes and a miscellaneous lot of burglar's tools were found in the men’'s trunks, re- moved to-day from the Steadman resi- dence to the City Prison. But not a trace of the $6000 worth of jewelry stolen from the Crellin and | Bannan homes was uncovered. That Goldstein and McKiniry “were | not alone in the thievery that they might have accomplished is the theory one of his roomers Thompson gave a lengthy narrative of his relations with the pair. He said: On, September 1 Goldstein and McKiniry came to our house and rented each a room from my mother. - They appeared to be very gentlemanly, quiet and very refined. McKin- iry told my ‘mother that young Goldstein came from.a Los Angeles family that was not well- | to-do but had rich connections, and that the young man had come north in McKiniry's charge to get an education. SEEMED HONEST YOUTHS. ‘There was not an incident during all of their | six weeks' stay with us that gave to a single suspicion of crookedness. They seemed 80 homelike and decent that they quite won mymother, Who, perhaps. thinking how she would like her sons to be freated by strangers, often invited the young men to spend the even- ings in our sitting rooms. - McKiniry became quite at home with us and he got in the habit of saying ‘Mother” when addressing my mother. After the bicycles came the roomers would | invarlably got out for long rides every morning through Golden Gate Park to the CIIff House, They told me they were great wheelmen and could ride 100 miles a day easily. They took a great deal of interest in athletics and Gold- stein was in the habit of going to the park tennis courts and'playing there very often. Nelther of them would stay out very late at night, except during the last week they were at our house. Then I think they did not get in until verylate. During the day they spent much of their time in the house, and would only go out for their meals, with occasional | frips to .the park. They would sit on mel benches in the panhandie a good deal. | McKiniry told me that he was a carpenter, but that he was in charge of Goldstein, whose relatives had provided for his education. He sald he had come to San Francisco to work, because wages at his trade were better there than in Los Angeles. McKiniry, without any doubt, had a strong control over the younger man and did not hesitato to exercise it. In the light of de- velopments I have no hesitancy in_bellevi that he is the responstble party for Goldstel leap into crime. course we had no s picion that anything might be wrong with t men. They behaved so well and were so quietly refined in every way that the slightest question was raised. What impelled them to suddenly move away I do not know. It might have been that they were engaged in thievery and feared detection. Subsequent events seem to point that But McKiniry told my mother that he ed to move to Oakl it was the State University that Goldstein was going to attend. That was a fair en fon. The day they moved MeKiniry remained at the rooms and stayed there until their belongings had been taken. But he overlooked some smal] not way. tend- every | revealed. | armed night prowlers. |Lucca oil RE EAGER FOR CAPTURE Joseph McKiniry, Formerly of Toledo, Is the Man Sought---With Pal He Lived as Student. 3 matters that are now very important. them was a crucible, plaster of Parls mold, such as are used for gold_melting. Detective Quigley of Oakland and Detective Tom Cole- man of San Francisco got this stuff yesterday. 1t looks to me as If the men had used this and other material to melt gold jewelry in and to do that sort of work In fact we are quite sure of it now. Shortly after they left, my mother toock down the curtains in the room McKiniry occupied to wash them. She had an awful time with them and it must have been caused by the chemicals used in manipu- lating the gold. It was about a week ago that the first inti- mation of anything wrong came to us. De- tectives calied at the house and made inquiry about our former roomers. 1 think it was in connection with the street car holdups or the holdups in the park. 1 did not learn why the detectives desired to know about the men, nor what had occurred to cause suspicion to be cast upon them. As soon as I read about the Smith shooting jn Oakland I went at omce to the police, having recognized the name of Goldstein. 1 gave the detectives a complete statement of my knowledge of the men. But, strangely enough, nothing was done to watch our hcuse, so far as 1 know, although two detectives, as I said, came during the afternoon, and I turned over the roomers mail to them. Last evening two other men called. One of them stepped up to the door when my mother opened it and asked her for mail that might have come there for Gold- stein or McKiniry. My mother went to the hall etand and locked, but found nothing. Re- turning to the door she reported that to the caller. Just as I 4 out to see who. was there the second m uck his head around the corner of the entrence vost and saw me. Both of them quickly left and disappeared be- fore 1 had aichance to get a fair glimpse at them. Their actions were not right and there is not a bit of doubt in my mind that they | came direct irom McKiniry. How could two strangers know that malfl was coming to that house unless McKiniry or some one close to him bad told them? THINKS “GANG” EXISTED. That call for mail convinces me that there were more than two concerned in these rob- beries. 1 feel satisfied that McKiniry was one of an organized gang of skillful thieves, that he took Goldstein Into his game and had in- tended to make a criminal of him. During their stay at the Steadman residence in Oakland McKiniry took the lead in establishing himself in the family’s good graces. It was a repetition of the Thompson story in practically detail. Not until after the shooting and the identification of Gold- stein’s body by Ross Steadman as that of one of the roomers was the f{ruth Goldstein and McKiniry’s trunks are in the possession of the po- lice. So is a note found yesterday at the young men's rooms, reading as fol- { lows: “Will be back in course of a week. THE BOYS. “If we send any notice, follow in- structions.” On the face of it the note is evidence that more than one man was left to take an interest in the pair of well That note was left at the Steadman house after Fri- day night’s shooting. Yet the pelice did not act until too late on the knowl- edge that McKiniry or any of his gang had been near the Steadman place. Chief of Police Hodgkins made this statement to-night: Among L it e O, RS AR e We have found nothing In the effects of either Goldsteln or of McKiniry to show that elther of them was connected with the Crellin or Bannan burglaries. We did find enough to show that these men are crooks, bad ones, and ready for anything. There was not much Jewelry in the trunks. Young Goldstein's mother married Greiner several years ago. Greiner is a painter¥in Los Angeles. Besides the g‘lrl, Annie, there is a boy younger than the dead man. IMPRESSED MRS. THOMPSON. McKiniry, according to the police de- scription, is 23 years old, five feet ten or eleven inches tall, 155 pounds in weight, slender, of dark, sallow complexion, has large dark blue eyes, dark brown hair, square jaw, heavy eyebrows and regu- lar features. Two of his upper front| teeth are slightly crooked and he has close gold fillings in point of several teeth. Little Robert Morgan, son of Mrs. George W. Morgan, residing at 232 College avenue, Berkeley, declares that Goldstein is the burglar who ransacked that residence last Wednesday after- noon. “I saw the man pull off a false beard as he went out of the door,” the boy says. Mrs, Thompson, when seen at home in this city last evening, sald: The vourg men never did a thing to arouse | my euspicion as to thelr honesty. They were always up in the morning about 7 o'clock and | went riding on their bicycles. About 10 or 11 | they returned, had a bath. and usually epent | the afternoon in thelr room, reading. About 6 | o'clock they would again start out on their | Wheels, and they never stayed out later than | 10. My husband and I often congratula ourselves on having such well-behaved boy occupying our spare room. . “I don't believe, remarked Mr. Thompson, “that those boys were alone | in their crooked work. In fact, I have pretty good evidence, which I am nof at liberty to disclose, that they were simply used as tools by a shrewdly or-| ganized gang of thieves whose head-| quarters are on Second street, in this city. It is my impression that when the | boyvs came here they were honest and | fell into the clutches of the gang to whom I have alluded. Goldstein, I/ could almost swear, was not a thief when he first came to our house. I am less positive as to McKiniry’s honesty at that time, because he was older and more experienced than his companion, but I accepted him as an ambitious young student.” —_————————— ; Pen troubles disappear when you get a fountain pen that fits your hand. Having all kinds we can fit any hand. Prices from $1.00 to $5.00 each. Sanborn. Vall | & Co.. 141 Market street. selling agents for the “Waterman,” “Regal” and the “Marshall” fountain pens. % her 1 G.W. Simmons. head of a_big hardware manufacturing firm of St. Louis, and his wife are registered at the Palace. ADVERTISEMENTS. OLDBE B(JWEI\?G & CO. In New York ware-house we carry a complete stock of Vista del Valle wines Sierra Madre olive oil. Shipment made your friends promptly G eastern f Monday Tuesday Wednesday | Tub butter Sweet—good—reg’ly 30c Ib. 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