The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1903, Page 14

FOOTPADS ROB TWO BROTHERS | ) THE FRANCISCO CALL TURDAY DECEMBER 26, 1903. ‘ELIGIBLE PROPERTY NEXT TO PALACE IS SOLD FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS 'Price Paid for Market Street Frontage Is a Very High Rate of $7000 Per Foot, the Purpose of the Deal Being to Provide a Site for a Great Building Daini and George Johnson, Sailors, Have an Exeiting| Experience With Robbers | FOUR SHOTS EXCHANGED +— BENARR: | | Edwin Burns, One of the Trio, | | [s Pursued and Captured by Officers Bunner and Frm'lj ————— | I r srge Johnson, brothers | an exciting experience | early ho Third tpads at s They v..’\ about to gol | € b Silver street ere by three he ~ked George bl » with his | hr. his pockets, but | | twe paid their attention to € shoved a revolver ach e e as to cut up to go aniel was mad tly heid up his opportunity and with consid- o throw rted dowr fou th the revolver 1 the trigger and almost the issed Johnson ig where they t »ads appar- ran a < one who had the th footpad wheeled crossing they heard ver street Family Row Ends in Cuatting. Bonnett, who resides at G 920 ma street, Chr v beating h ee blows pic suec after which she ked up a kr £ self. This she used def & to s good advantage as to send her usband to the Emergency Hospital an incised wound on his neck o iticibd A ol he e ton s considerably -d ear was dressed. the w at the hosr P know it as he was so full of liquor ving 1 about the| he did not know what he was doing. - d 1 left home on| He was booked on a charge of assault " his pock- | to murder. He is only 19 years of age. vy od If he | The police have been unable to get a re did not ' clew to his two companions ADVERTISEMENTS. ..GREAT.. BOYCOTT SALE $80,000 STOCK LADIES’ HIGH GRAD{S’ Cloaks, Suits, Furs, Skirts, Children’s Coats, Etc. WILL BE SOLD AT 400 On the Dollar In Some Cases 25c on the Dollar GREATEST SALE OF Ready-to-Wear Garments EVER KNOWN IN CALIFORNIA SALE BEGINS SATURDAY MORNING DOORS OPEN AT 10 A. M. No. Goods Exchanged | SEE OUR WINDOWS | THE PEOPLE Whoiesale Masufacturers i142-1146 MARKET ST. started in to celebrate | wife. He | oloring her eyes with | | - from the hreakfast o AL \ MARKET-STREET PROPER- ‘ TY SOLD TO HERBERT E. LAW FOR $1,000,000. | Herbert E. Law has bought the Bish- | Op property on Market street for $1,000,- | 000. This news will excite much in- terest. Law pays about $7000 per front foot. He acquires one of the best known buildings-and sites in San Fran- cisco. The property is on the south line of Market street. It is separated from the Palace Hotel by Annie street | and abuts on the Hearst building at | the corner of Market and Third streets. It runs through to Stevenson street, The rate paid for the Mackay prop- | erty at Market and Fourth streets by | ndicate was about $6600 per front | | foot. The site next to the Palace Hotel | brings $400 per foot more, though cm-" | nering on a street of little commercial | importance. The seller is Mrs. Mary Cunningham | | Bishop of New York. Formerly the i property was owned by James Cun- | | ningham, from whom it passed to Mrs. Bishop. The frontage on Market and | Stevenson streets is 142:6 feet. The lot, | | running back on Annie street to Stev- | )en!un is.160 feet deep. It is the site that has been purchased rather than lhe building. As soon as the present leases run out, but no sooner, Mr. Law will proceed to demolish the present structure, which, in his view, encum- | | bers the ground, although the annudl s amount to $60,000. . Law has bought to build a great | structure on Market street. Concern- ing the sort of building that he will erect he does not speak. ‘It is defi- nitely known that he intends to orna- ment Market street in a manner be- fitting the central thoroughfare of San | Francisco. - Mr. Law built the Rialto | building on New Montgomery street |and is the owner of other large prop- | erties in this city. The character of | | improvements already made by him is | an earnest of what he will do with nis | property on Market street. . The deal for the Bishop property was conducted by Thomas Magee & Sons, representing Herbert E. Law, and hy Shainwald, Buckbee & Co., represent- ing Mrs. Bishop. The negotiations have been quietly proceeding for some time. A few years ago Mrs. Bishop : expended $50,000 in improving the pres- ent building, the eligibility of the site for business purposes fully warranting that outlay. Considering the great frontage on Market street of 142:6 feet, it is probable that Mr. Law, while practically throwing away at the end of the leases now running the value of the present structure, which is worth from $250,000 to $300,000, will invest at Teast $1,000.000 in building and so bring up his investment to $2,000,000. The existing improvements are en- tirely rented. Among the tenants are the Santa Fe Railway system, the Oceanic Steamship Company, the A. I Hall Clock Company, Joseph Frede- ricks & Co., the Detmer Woolen Com- pany, the Northern Cemmercial Com- pany, the-Pommer-Eilers Piano Com- pany, the Eastman Kodak Company, | Jacob & Co., the Pacific Micro-Material | Company, George Uhl and A. Uhl. The leases will run for about two and a half years more. Thomas Magee Jr. is | in'New York, where he went some days ago in connection with this large trans- action in San Francisco realty. —_———— Girardi’'s Body Recovered. The body of Salvatore Girardi, the young fisherman who was drowned with his brother, Giuseppi. by the cap- sizing of their boat last Tuesday near the Cliff House, was found on the beach yesterday morning four miles south of the Cliff House. | turned in an alarm. |FIRE DESTROTS COFFEE HOUSE R of S. H. Tyler & Son Completely Gutted by Fire, and Stock Is Destroyed PS The entire premises at 308 Front street, occupied hy S. H. Tyler & Son, | were gutted by fire yes ay morning. The conflagration was discovered by Policeman Charles Murphy, who no- | ticed volumes of smoke pouring from the third floor of the building and When Chief Sul- livan arrived the flames were burning so furfously that he turned in a second alarm for fear that adjoining property might be.ignited. Despite the exertions of the depart- ment, which werked under great diffi- culties, due to the immense volumes of smoke, the flames spread until every floor in the building was burned out and the structure left' with four bare walls. The building was a three-story brick with an additional floor built on top of frame material. Evidently the fire started on the third floor, where some | | ceffee roasters are located. The place was locked up Wednesday night and the fires banked. The fire department believes the blaze resulted from the banked fires. The concern is a coffee and spice house, which has been in business for a long term of years and is well known on the coast. S. H. Tyler, who lives in Mill Valley, could not be found yes- terday to give an estimate of his loss on stoeck. One of his employes stated that it would not be less than $15,000. The damage to the building will be about.$10,000. During the course of the fire John Gilbert, a hoseman on Engine No. 12, was struck on the hand by a piece of glass from one of the shattered win- dows. His thumb was severely cut and he was removed to the Harbor Hos- pital for treatment. e — Fell From a Street Car. Norman Ellsworth and his wife fell from a Sacramento-street car bound for the park yesterday afternoon and were injured so that they had to be sent to the Park Emergency Hospital for treatment. They were on the dummy and owing to carelessness and inattention did not observe that the car was turning a sharp cwve at First avenue. = Mrs. Ellsworth sus- tained contused injuries of her left shoulder, also injuries to her back. Her husband +was acrobatic and sprang to his feet without injury save fright and shock. Both were sent home in a carriage. —_——————— Floating spots before the Eyes, dim- _ness of vision and weak eyes, cured by Murine Eye Remedies. A home cure for eyes that need care. Druggists. L ————— Says He Was Robbed. Policeman P. Murphy noticed two men in angry conversation on Howard street near Sixth about 6 o’clock yes- terday morning and on approaching them one of them, Charles H. Hewitt, 1074 Howard street, accused the other, Edward Gilson, of having put his hand in his pocket and stolen 65 cents. Mur- phy placed Gilson under arrest on a charge of grand larceny. When Gil- son was searched a dollar’s worth of silver was found in his pocket. ———————— ADAMS' Irish Moss Cough Baleam the safe, sure, guaranteed cure. 25¢, 50e. Druggists. * — e —— Mother Robbed by Son. Mrs. Ella Allbright, 3 Alice street, reported to the police on Thursday night that her son James had stolen $67, which she had secreted behind a mirror in her bedroom. Detectives Regan and O'Connell were detailed on | the case and arrested the young man’ and booked him at the City Prison on a charge of grand larceny. —————— In many cases of Asthma Piso's Cure gives vellef that is almost ecual to a cure. 25c. * NEGRO FIGHTER SOT T0 DEATH ——————e “Muldoon MecDonald, Colored Pugilist, Is Killed by Wil- liam Atkins on Water Front e it BULLET AVENGES ROBBERY | —_— ! Jules Andersen, an Onlooker, Is Caught by a Stray Shot1 and Is Slightly Wounded | o B REAES Charles McDonald, better known as “Muldoon,” prizefighter, crook and all | around bad man, was killed in a dra- | matic manner by Willlam H. Atkins, & colored cook, shortly after 1 o'clock vesterday afternoon, near Washington street wharf. The slayer fired thrice, two of the bullets entering McDonald’s body and the third striking Jules An- | derson, an innocent bystander. But for | the bravery displayed by Patrolman P. D. McPartland, the desperate negro might have taken more lives, for large | crowds of people were passing along | the wharves at the time. The shooting was the result of a| quarrel over the paltry sum of $1 35, which McDonald had taken away from the man who afterward shot him. It was the finale of a Christmas eve ca- | rousal, the man who fired the fatal| shcts being much the worse for lijuor when he ended the pugflist's life. Atkins is a cook by occupation, but | has been out of employment for many months, and he usually whiled away his lefsure in one of the many low re- sorts that beset the Barbary CuBS(.‘ He rooms at the Wisconsin Hotel. | Atkins was engaged in a game of | cards in the barroom of the place with | Charles Bullen, the bartender. Luck seemed to favor Atkins and finally he won $1 35, which he deposited in frent i { HALE'S. ’ & o e Pip v DEDH » | —Cards. —Calendars. —All the doll houses. —Hard celluloid pieces. —Statuary. — Marble pedestals. It’s the after-Chr¥stmas clean-up. Lots of folks last year took advantage of the opportunity to buy return gifts. In fact, no one lets these things rest very long. They’re snapped up in a jiffy. That’s why we take such a loss. The original prices are still on them. Pay half what they are marked. Everything in the toy store (except wheel goods). —Mechanical toys. —Picture books. of him on the card table. Bullen got up and went behind the bar for a moment, and at the same | time McDonald entered the place. He | walked over to the table, deliberately | picked up the money, placed it in his | pocket and started to walk out the door. i PLEADS FOR HIS MONEY. McDonald had always been regarded | as a sort.of king among the low negroes of the coast and consequently he did much as he pleased with them. Atkins feared the pugilist, but also wanted his | money back, o he requested McDonald to return the coin. ! The pugilist refused, sa}in;:: “I took this with my 190 pounds of hard flesh and there aint no nigger living who can get it back again. G ood-by!"” With this he ‘left the place and started to walk to the ferry. Atkins foilowed him outside and again asked for the re- turn of the money, but McDonald ig- | nored him. Then Atkins grew desperate and, hurrying back to his room, secured his big 38-caliber revolver and again start- ed after McDonald. He -overtook the { 1atter near the Washington street dock | and this time pleaded for his coin. McDonald again answered in the neg-| ative, at the same time threatening to beat the cook to death if he did not move along. \ Then Atkins deliberately pulled the weapon out of his pocket and, takmg refuge behind a telegrapli pole, began | to shoot. McDonald started to runm, but the first bullet fired staggered him and as he was about to| fall his slayer fired again, the second | ball entering his victim’s back a few inches from the first. Nor was the infuriated man yet sat-| isfled. As his victim lay on the street, | struggling in the throes of death, At- kins again fired. This time the bullet | went wide of its mark and striking the | ground it glanced off again and struck James Anderson, a young locksmith, in the calf of the leg. McPARTLAND'S BRAVERY. Patrolmen McPartland and Henner- berry were in the vicinity with the pa- | trol wagon and heard the shots. They | hurried to the scene and arrived just| as McDonald fell to the ground. Mec-| Partland gave a wonderful e(hlbl(mn‘ of merve and coolness. He jumped | from the wagon, rushing up to the in-| furiated Atkins, snatched the still smoking weapon from his hand just as he was about to fire again at the pros- trate form of his victim. McDonald was picked up and hur- ried to the Harbor Hospital a few blocks away. As he was being placed upon the operating table he breathed his last without s=aying a word. He tried to speak, but the cold hand of death clutched him tightly ere he could utter the words. One bullet entered McDonald's back and penetrated the heart. Another en- tered three inches below and lodged against a rib. Either wound would have been fatal, as both ruptured large blood vessels. The prisoner was taken to the harbor police station. The realization of his crime seemed to sober him up, but he still remained cool and talked readily e e e PLAGE YOUR ORDEAS EARLY T*20th CENTURY GOOK BOOK Another shipment will arrive about January 21, 1004. In order to satisfy the demand for this premium we have ordered another carload of these books, and all persons The Cook m;fl:fln‘m ment of this paper a six months’ .subscription to The Daily and Sunday Call may secure one of the Twentieth Century Cook Books at the preminm rate of 50c. Out-of-town subscribers should remit iobzdilhnul to prepay transportation o ;. by Atkins |’ | Young Bernard Speckman Lies Down | surgical instruments, | defense, as McDonald attacked him. | Barbary Coast several months ago, and ' Emergency Hospital and later to his — Trazins. —Games. —Iron toys. — 700l chests. —Dolls. —Sporting goods. —Doll carts. —Doll furniture. We are going to even up stocks—quick. Ul dinneru A rac, lamps are, fancy China, cut glass, bric and globes, tumblers and glassware Are a quarter off, too. The stocks are somewhat broken, but who would think of that when they see what they are saving ? Smoking Jackets: Pay just a quarter less than they are original prices-are not changed. somewhat broken. They will be to-night. marked. The The sizes are worse broken SLEEPS ON TRACK AND IS KILLED BY ENGINE on a Railroad Crossing and Forfeits His Life. | Bernard Speckman, a maker of| 22 years of age,| was struck and instantly killed yes-| terday morning at the crossing of | Twenty-eighth and Duncan streets by the locomotive of passenger train No. | | 37 J of the Southern Pacific Company. | Speckman lived at 1453 Church street and was on his way home at the time the accident occurred. Ches- | ley Brown of 1614 Church street in- formed Deputy Coroner Charles Mee- han that at 10:30 a. m. he saw Speck- | man considerably under the influence | of liquor sitting on the railroad track | at the place where he was killed. The | passenger train came along shortly | afterward and struck Speckman, | fracturing his skull. | M. E. Montgomery, train, stated that he blew the whistle | and set the air brakes as soon as het | | | of steel in the ip in the comstruc- othing like this knife andard lines of eutlery— s, Jordan's, Wosten- ALL AT POPULAR engineer of the saw Speckman lying on the track, but that the train could not be stopped in time to prevent the engine striking the prostrate man. B — % of the deed. He says he acted in self- | I Orders THAT MAN PITTS | F. W. PITTS, The Stationer, 1008 MARKET ST., Above FPowell. SAN FRANCISCO. Promptly Filled. The death of McDonald rids the city of a dangerous character. His career was a checkered one, and he was known as a desperate crook who would stop at nothing to attain his end. He served two years in Folsom prison for assault on a Chinaman in Fresno committed about four years ago. He was released in September, 1902, and since that time has been ar- rested several times in the city for various crimes. ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY. He was out on bonds to appear before the Superior Court on a charge of rob- bery. He was accused of having held up and robbed Charles Bird on the 15CENTS,2FOR 25 CENTS CLUETT, PEABODY & CO, Teh Shirts of Cluett and was suspected of having committed several other burglaries which occurred about the same time. About a year and a half ago McDon- ald entered the amateur ranks as a prize fighter, and for a while attracted l A N o S a deal of attention. He soon became a professional, and the last time he ap- peared in’'the roped arena was against | FRACM™M “Toothpick” Kelly, fighting a pre- liminary to the Jeffries-Corbett matc:. ( : t Atkins has been employed. as a cook 16, O'FARRELL ST-S. F ALWAYS RELIABL and a waiter in this city for throe | years. He was always considered to be a law abiding man and bore a favor- able reputation. He is 30 years old and unmarried. McDonald was about 25 years old and was born in Tilinois. i Jules Anderson, the bystander who was shot in the leg by the stray bul- let, is a locksmith and works with his father at 31 Pacific street. He had just finished up a half day's work and was | on his way to his home, 1507 Valencia street. He was removed to the Harbor wnnycm uoommn home.