The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1903, Page 9

GARNETT HELD FOR MURDER Slayer of J. W. MeClung Ts Remanded for Trial in Su GLEEFUL AS LIFE- perior Court With i e B O it Saved \CUSED IS IMPASSIVE{® e ——— Defense Is Presented at the | Preliminary Hearing Held Before Police Judge Fritz —_— nett was held for trial | Court yesterday by z on a charge of hav- lly murdered Major J. W. Me- | ening of November 25| e Hotel | aken into the | and locked up s case was take a seat Alford Byington appeared and informed the ne witness remained to nett was t Police in the| | called, beside vesterday 4, when lowed to W. H called, as all the evidence had been | 1 the previous day {1 auto surgeon to| | s then sworn, and he ding an autopsy on the| | jor J. W. McClung | surgeon described the | | by the bullet fired by and a caused McClung's body wound the had he people.” | | ington. med the witnesses court to J tz then held Garnett f T Superior Court with t who had pa ely listened roceedings, was then taken the courtroom and delivered into | | st f th heriff and later T was removed to the County Jail | i Sl il Accused of Buying Stolen Twine. Ak Wash and Be igton Broom tery streets ant charging | . tolen property is Policeman lleges that nd vak Rodeick i by him fo . Mrs. M. F. Bartels, man residing at an elderly wo- 535% Stevenson street, who is undoubtedly demented, attempt- 2 T DTS “ ,’“ nth | €N at the rear of her house yesterday testify that they sc morning. Prior to saturating the room . ne to Ah Le with coal oil and setting it on fire, the | e o insane woman cut the large arteries in Given Damages for Injurics. both of her wrists in a vain effort to | ouise ed a verdict for | end her life. Driven from the raging she flames by the efforts of rescue - . r{" fled along the street until her strength sued 1 sceived waned from loss of blood and she sank 1 run over t to the sidewalk in a faint. ) fendant 'I'!w" The woman, according to the stories corner of | of of neighbors, time. and two houses. has been acting queerly She owns the property and lets out Hgr own house she nd Howard streets | . for some —_—————— w fives iates Upon Germany. 8.—Russia more than | 'ents in part to roomers. She also owns 8 g ew ad to | considerable property in San Jose, left « v f War- by her husband. Kabis b frontier She had been in San Jose and re- not yet 2 ently to her home on Steven- s nc that the . ent has ordered the sterday morning, between 10 and point to remain closed 11 o'clock, Mrs. George Berger, wife of s her commercial | a barber, who occupies rooms in Mrs niences Ru: Bartels’ house, discovered fi S ~ ith Germgny's | ing from the landlady’s kitchen and heard the demented woman's screams of fiendish glee. William Russell, Janitor in the Callaghan building, who POSTUM CEREAL. e v lives in the flat below, heard ‘the TWICE WON. screams and.hurrying to the scene, ar- rived in time to see Mrs. Berger break- Wife Fell in Love With Husband “All | ing in the door in the rear of the Over Again.” kitchen. - Russell seized 2 bucket of water and vell-known attorney | with much difficuity succeeded in ar- Nebr the tale | resting the progress of the fire. The My husband was a | Fire Department responded to an alarm ! and was, as he | and completed his work. In the excite- an old coffee r’ | ment, while the rear door of the kitch- drank en was being broken down, Mrs. Bar- tels unlocked the front door and ran out, screaming the while, and, speeded up Stevenson, leaving a wake of blood on the sidewalk from the gushing cuts on her wrists. When the bleeding wo- himselt very strong c compla every ti ned ¢ me t and was eadaches that al- also grew weaker and Seventh streets, she fell to the sidewalk his affliction culminated | in @ faint. lapse and Yi:r weeks he REMOVED TO HOSPITAL. g away from us in| pe patrol wagon was our efforts. -y and Policemen Riordan and Morrison The Bim | removed the woman to the Emergency | wh and pronounced strong ot “.'..“x}ur:v Mo organic | yospital and later, on the advice of | frosiie wptes ™ there seemed 10 pire Marshal Towe, she was placed in iing th :m; T €xcept the com- the detention ward of the Hospital for pie out of his nervous system the Insane. d that co! Was | The kitchen in which Mrs. Bartels P of ail his troubie -and attempted to incinerate herself is but | six by eight feet and presented a gory daily, since he quit coffee and appearance, blood having flowed over nking Postumgand now says he everything. The entire surface of the tter than he has feit for twenty 'four walls was burned to a crisp by um Cereal in its place. He - ; are gone, no more the hot flames of the coal ofl. g spells gaining in.flesh | At the hospital the flow of blood from : ne #0 much the woman's wounds was stopped and ppier than | she was nlaced under the influence of fallen in | opiated® She slept most of the after- noon. She will be brought before the ars that I him over again. nd covered underneath with | In response to Fire Marshal Towe's questioning, Mrs. Bartels tried to ex- thought h! cancerous nagure and his doctor was fire. *“There is no fire”” she gaid. *I e same opinion. He could scarcely | cut my wrists because I was desppn- eat anything, and became so poor and | dent.” I want to die.” p; vn he was fumuv a_ nervous SAYS SHE IS PERSECUTED. sy - < B ”; -lh" ; :fll’""“ the Society for the Prevention of Cru- 43 Rt gt | elty to Children that Mrs. Bartels was ast a doctor to whom he applied he believed my brother was cof- poisoned and advised him' to quit coffee and drink Postum. He gave him no medicine, but told him to give|jar regorts to the soclety. Secretary Postum a fair trial and return to him | white and Officer McMurray of the so- in six weeks. My brother had used cjety investigated the case last week Postum only about ten days when the | 354 found no evidence of any such cru- festers disappeared from his tongue, | oity as was charged. Mrs. Bartels said and at the end of two wedks the sore- | that the nelghbors were persecuting ness and swelling were gone and he her and told the officers named that began to pick up in flesh and spirits. {;he had sent the children to live with He bas never touched coffee since, | Mrs, Thompson of 159 South Park. but drinks Postum all the time, and She seemed to be very much un- has never had the slightest return of | nerved by the alleged persecution /.of the trouble, 1her neighbors and tenants while talk- To look at my experience, is it any \ ing to Secretary White, but showed no wonder I can write a heartfelt testi- | signs of insanity at the time. monial for Postum?’ Name given by, She paid Mrs. Thompson for the care Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. of her children and later in the week Look in each package for a copy of | removed them to a Catholic home, the famous littie book, “The Road to| where they were placed in charge of Wellville, Father Scanlan. maitreating her children. He eclaimed that she had puiled nearly all the hair | from her stepdaughter Clara’s head. ed to incinerate herself in a little kitch- | a store brothe e; a few | Lunacy Commission in a few days and | had a 3 trouble. | will, In all probabffity, be committed was swollen and sore atto an insane asylum. affliction was of a | plain that she did not set the house on ! Numerous other neighbors made sim- | BLOOD FLOWS AND FLAMES RAGE AROUND HER Demented Mrs. Bartels Cuts Arteries in Both Her Wrists, Sets Room on Fire With Coal With Much Difficulty * HERSELF AND NEIGHBOR. RN S 2 . ENRIUE C1NO HAS A THEORY e aigd Insinuates’ on the Witness Stand That the Detectives' Looted a Dead Man's House ekl vy | Enrique Cano amusement afforded considerable vesterddy morning during the progress of a Coroner's inquest into the cause of death of (-ermum Ventajou, a French laundryman \\hr) committed suicide in the cellar of his| man reached the corner of Market and | Tesidence, 1014 Powell street, by cut- | | ting his throat with a razor. Cano was | i'me of the persons who found the body | on October 20, three weeks after Venta- summoned | Jou had disappeared beyond the horizon ? | of the detcctive police. He intimated, on the witness stand, that the police might have had something to do with | |\4=majou untimely ending and, with many dramatic gestures .and much | | vehemence, degclared that the police | | were suspectable characters and, point- | ing a finger at Detective Wren, added that Wren was one of them. It appeared from the testimony that | three weeks before Ventajou's body was found in the cellar, in an advanced stage of decomposition, he had pur- chased 2 quantity of new furniture for the living as F wife, and that on the day | of his disappearance he and woman had a quarrel, in the course_of | which he struek her with a chair and | knocked her down. The woman was | removed to the French Hospital for | treatment. The police searched for Ventajou everywhere ‘but in the cellar |of his own residence apd, of course, did not succeed:in finding him, meantime all the furniture was re- | moved from the house, by whbm or by | whose order could not be learned by | the friends of the suicide. As soon as | the woman, who had passed as his wife, | recovered, she disappeared and l“ |trace of her was lost, #0 far as the | Corener's office was concefned. | “Cano appeared to think that the de- tectives had had something to do with the disappearance of the furniture, but he was unable to give any grounds for his suspicion. The jury returned a verdict of sui- cide. —_———— Convicted of Robbery. Samuel Holmes was convicted by a jury in’ Judge Dunne’s court yesterday on a charge of robbery and will be sentenced on Saturday. Holmes, Jo- {seph Thomsen and Frank Willlams from Miss Emily Figuera at Leaven- worth and Post streeis on the night of September 26. Williams pleaded guilty when arraigned, but has not/yet been sentenced. It is said that Thom- son will now plead guilty. X woman with whom he was the | In the | | were charged with snatching a purse | ATTEMPT MADE T0 BURN STORE Fire Started in Basement of Rose & Berkman’s Grocery Is| Revealed Through Explosions HUMAN LIVES ENDANGERED Incendiaries Sprinkle Coal 0il About and With Tin and Putty Try to Seal All Vents —_— | When the firemen of Engine 7 re- sponded to an alarm about 2:20 yes- terday morning in the grocery of Rose | & Berkman at the corner of Sixteenth | street and Albion avenue they found all of the‘doors barred. There was a strong odor of coal oll in the base- | ment, where the blaze was, and every | door and window in the place had | been securely sealed with putty. Sheet tin had been nailed across the glass windows and around the rims of these sheets was a mass of putt Some one had made a vicious at- tempt to burn the building. As early as 7 o'clock in the evening L. F. Sei- | bert and wife, who live above the store, smelled the odor of coal oil, but thought nothing of it. At 1 o'clock Patrolman Cooney | tried the door of the store, according to his custom, and found it securely Jocked. An hour later the sleeping | jnmates of the rooms over the gro- cery were awakened by two sharp ex- | plosions. , Seibert rushed into the | street, saw the glarg of the flames in the basement of the store and noti- | fied Engine Company No. 7, across the | street. | STORE DOOR UNLOCKED. When the firemen arrived they | | found the door leading into the cellar | | from the street securely barred. The | | | front door of ‘the store, which had been locked when tried by the patrol- | ! man, was found to be unlocked. En- | | trance was gained to the basement through the store. The firemen were driven back by flame and smoke when they broke open the door. After three- quarters of an hour of hard work | Captain Welsh and his men succeeded | | in putting out the blaze. i | An investigation showed that the fire was the carefully planned work of an incendiary. A large iron bar had been placed against the door of the | basement leading to the street and | every opening was puttied up tight. | The odor of coal oil was strong on | everything. It was due to the seal- | ing of the vents in the cellar that the flames did not burn more rapidly and consume the entire building, with its | | sleeping occupants. 1 Fire Marshal Towe arrived on the scene socn after the discovery of the ! blaze and at once proceeded to make | a rigid investigation. He found that | | the inside of the lock on the front door of the store had been unscrewed, | | as if with the intention of misleading | the officers into the belief that the | fire was the work of burglars. The | | firemen think that the fire was set | early in the evening and that the in- | cendlaries returned later to see why it had not gained headway. (At this time they took the lock from the door | to mislead the officers | ROSE IS QUESTIONED. Z Louis Rose, one of the firm, was brought from his house and under- went a severe examination by the Fire { Marshal. He protested that he_and ‘hls clerk, J. Berkman, locked up the | store early in the evening and attend- | ed a dance on Sixteenth street, near | Church. He hinted at persecutors and when asked if anything was miss- ing from the store said that some hams were gone. "Fhe officials did not believe his story and are inclined to | think that some one connected with | or familiar with the place set it on“ | fire. 5 i Acaratial Towe scorilet the {0s | that any one from the outside would | | ever take the time and trouble to put- | ty up all of the airholes in the cellar | beéfore starting the fire. Still further | he argued that there were no signs of any one having broken into the store. | Berkman, the other member of the | firm, is away at the present time. Fire Marshal and other officials, | though they have no definite case i vet against Rose, gave the impression | that sthey suspected him of the act, which, had it not miscarried, would \ have undoubtedly resulted in the loss | of several lives. | No arrests have as yet been made, | but it is hinted that there will be some | in a day or two. e | HARRIMAN NOW CONTROLS b'l'O(.KTO\"S STREET ROAD Southern [’a(‘lfi(‘ President Is Forrod | to Show His Hand at Directors’ Meeting in Mill City. The recent published report that | Henry E. Huntington had disposed of his holdings in the Stockton Street Railroad to President E. H. Harriman of the Southern Pacific Company has finally been confirmed. At a meeting of the directors of the | road last Saturday in Stockton a prop- | osition to move the offices of the com- | pany to'this city received sonfe oppo- | sition .and was finally put to a vote. It was -then developed that Harriman controlied three-fifths of the capital !stock 'of the company and that the ,balance was ided equally between two interests, represented respectively | by J. A. Hooper, the lumberman of | !!hls city, and ex-Governor James H. ! Budd. LB The offices will be moved to San! Francisco during the coming week and will henceforth be directly under the management of the powers of the Southern Pacific Company. e T ¢ Profit In Horseshoeing. The only witness examined yes- terday in the suit for $100,000 dam- ages of J. H. McCarty against the Master Horseshoers' Association and the Journeymen Horseshoers’ Union was Frank B. Cox, McCarty’s book- | | keeper. He testified as to the amount ; of money McCarty had invested in his business and as to the profits made ! out of shoeing horses. He said that a | set. of four shoes yielded a prom of $1 49 to McCarty. ————————— Since 1852 more than 26,000 conviets have been sent to French . 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Facing Each Week Day, Raia or Shize Six or More Races Daily. Races commence at 2:13 p. m. shasp. I-r 1l trains stopping at the track 8, street, at fig0 1 00, last two cars. which are reserved and their escorts. for NEW CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUR 1:30 or 2 o'clock. No smok u Returning. tnl—lnr.oulncuu. 45 and immediately after the las: race. THOMAS H. . PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary.