The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1904, Page 7

THE -SAN FRANCISCO CAL THURSDAY. MARCH .10. 1904. SECOND FICHT FOR HER LIFE Mrs. Cordelia Botkin’s A\'ew' Trial Will Begin To-Day| With Securing of Jury! )NCONFEDENT | PROSECTUTI( SULE | stern Witnesses to Testify \gainst Woman Accused f Murder by Poisoning d that at examin- upied 1 that Dunning, e llving with her Mrs. John B. Pen- De KILLS TWO WOMEN. T box of candy, consisting of e tes, reached Dover on he evenin { August 1898, It was ke rom the Postoffice by Harry ngton boy, and delivered to Mrs. I ng whom was ad- - the box besides the candy. a hax hief and a mote on Mr= g Dunning the fol- the candy the article: MRS, BOTKIN INDICTED. o a baving and Star chased a the store Market writing ex- i on December first degree, k risonment for . Supreme Court trial on the e’s error in charg- uestion of m - An appeal was also reme Court of the the question of juris- t was decided adversely trial John B. Pen- Lees have joined District At- that he has | cumstantial evi- though ex-Postmaster Bateman should not R. M. SMITH DISAPPEARS FROM HOM IN OAKLAND Well Known Teamster Leaves Wife and Child, Who Cannot Accoung for His Absence. Robert M disappeared from Ozkland February 24, ¥y he has not been last seen of him was of the same day,| to Washington-street e got a pass to go to shows he did not He was a teamster by | 2t the time of his dis- as in the employ of Ra- ss Company. He was sec- eamsters’ Union and e I. O. O. F. and wore these orders. be assigned for his his home at 479 Hobart he has a wife and child. ) ions were happy. He a brother and sisters residing in on and bott badges of N whert ADVERTISEMENTS. HOSTETTERS The only way to improve the :en-! ¢ral health is to first put the stomach ! n a normal condition. For this spe-! duty the Bitters is highly in-| | may receive a ray of light,” was | chiet Guerded by Detectives Ryan and Taylor, Albert Buttgenbach and Louis | Brune were yesterday morning per- | mitted to attend the funeral of the | murdered Joseph Buttgenbach. The | two young men, one the son and the! sther the bookkeeper of the dead man, taken the City Prison, are being held under sus- to the family home at 314 | Steiner street shortly before the cere- began and every reasonable lib- was allowed them by the detec- ves during the sag rites for the de- par | A pathetic scene occurred when the | f the murdered president of the Pacific Packing Company met his mother, The bereaved woman threw her arms about his neck. weeping hys- and declaring her bellef in | >cence of hig father's and her | a's od. A moment was spent in these protestations, the youth meanwhile doing his best to comfort | grief-stricken woman and assure | her that he was not a parricide. But | ain was too much for her. Cry- | v son, I know you are not you:‘ erer,” she eank to the | | | | | | ] | from ing, father's in a 1 floor ainting spell, which was so pmplete llapse that it was some utes before the physicians and at- tendants were able to restore her. The funeral brought together =ev- hundred friends and neighbors of victim of last Saturday night's tragedy. After a short service at the house, conducted by the St. Paulus Verein, the remains ware taken to St. Boniface's Church, on Golden Gats avenue, where a solemn requiem mass was celebrated. The church was filled to the doors, the audience including delegations from the German tchers’ Soclety and other organiza- ons of which the deceased was a t services at the nt was had at Holy | all the exercises at the house, } rch and the cemetery, Albert | was the personal attend- mother, who leaned upon | e sad procession passed from he carriages, from these urch and again at the place The heart-broken woman » find her only comfort in the her son, and when he was m her to the carriage oc- the detectives she broke ng passionately and reiterating her conviction suspected ch and Loujs ected by the 1 brought back > quarters they looked ggard During the long detectives they talked of the crime, | g such questions as | ves asked more readily than | ell companion at the prison. eeper was especially free in g information about the the packing-house, which cen to the police head- ng. more you examine thoce Brune to Detective Tay- | e more I shall be pleased and | I had been Mr. Buttgen- | eper for nine years and | e accounts are correct and hat the firm’s affalirs are all | id The book. volunteerir books have of ne compl ed that in carrying | e books and papers from the of- e some certificates of mining | longing to him personally had mixed up with the Buttgenbach pers. These he referred to several asking the detectives to have restored to him. These mining is said, came into his pos- through the deceased, who was largely interested in mining com- panies, and Brune’s ownership of them is mentioned by the friends of the late packer, who all seem to have the ut- most confidence in the bookkeeper, as evidence of the trust reposed in him by the elder Butigenbach. EXPERTING FIRM'S BOOKS. Yesterday was a quiet day in the work of the detectives assigned to the case. The funeral ceremofly and the preparation for the continuance of the inquest this morning occupied most of their time. All the books and other | documents from the office of the pack- ing-house Were brought up to the Cen- | tral station, where experts were at once put to work on them in the bellef that perhaps they might throw some light upon the mystery of the murder. Cap- tain Martin of the detective force said last night that this action was taken purely as a precaution and not because of any expectation of finding crooked- ness in Brune’s accounts. “In a case like this, where everything is dark, we must un- cover every source from which we the detective's explanation of his —————eep DRINK RUINS THE LIFE OF CARPENTER JACKSON them shares, session His Wife Sues for Divorce and He Kills Himself While in a De- spondent Mood. Drink broke up what should have been a happy home and ended the life of Nathan L. Jackson last Tues- day night at 776 O'Farrell street. Jackson was found dead in his bed vesterday morning, suffocated by illu- minating g&s. Two of the burners on the gas fixture in the room were turned fully on. A rug had been | stuffed under the bottom of the door to prevent the gas from escaping into the hallway. In the room were sev- eral notes written in pencil by the | suicide, but the handwriting was so | irregular as to be undecipherable. ] Jackson was a carpenter and ar- rived here from Jackson County, Kans., a few weeks ago. In his pos- session was a copy of a summons and complaint for divorce filed in the Cir- cuiteCourt of that county and com- manding him to be present in court | standing in the darkness of Shipley | while IS CONFIDENT. | dorsed | next April and answer the suit. The Try a bottle and test it for your- | complaint charges him with drunken- l self. It also cures Indi- | ness, neglect, cruelty and failure to grstion, La Grigpe, | provide for his wife, Katherine Jack- Colds or son. POLICE TAKE ALBERT BUTTGENBACH | TO FUNERAL OF MURDERED FATHER Heartrending Scene Marks Meeting of the Suspected Son With His Wid- owed Mother----New Theory of the Crime Is Formed by Detectives, Who| Say Youth May Have Invited Footpads to Seemingly Bloodless Plunder This process will require several days, although any glaring discrépan- | cies in the accounts might be- discov- ered in time for use upon the hearing before the Coroner to-day. If the ex- amination should disciose that Brune ! is a defaultd)) the discovery would be | ccepted by the police as going far to cate him the murder, ing a possible motive for wishing | his empi T out of the way. Nothing | of this nature, however, had been | discovered up to a late hour last| ght THEORY reason for experting the ncrouna.‘ | | OF ACCOMPLICES. s Hard pressed by the difficulties in | the way of establishing Albert Butt- genbach’s guilt as the murderer of his father, the police are now consider- | ing the few known facts in the case | from another standpoint. This has | brought them to the most plausible | eory they have yet formed to hold | the young man. In this exp]unationl of the crime voung Buttgenbach ap- pears not as the murderer, but as the | plalned most satisfactorily on the be- Helde saloon seemed too short to cover what is known to have occurred. Then, too, that theory hardly accounted for the finding of the cartridges under the body of the dying packer. This is ex- | lief that there was a struggle for the footpad's revolver, during which the | cartridges were dropped. The testi-| mony of the boy, Stephen Slavich, and | other outside witnesses, as well as of Brune, is that there was such a struggle between Buttgenbach and one of his assailants. During this struggle] the fatal shot may easily have been fired by the other footpad standing on the other side of the glass partition. | Following this line of reasoning, the | detegtives argue that young Bungen-i bach might have been in collusion with | the two men Wi Weber saw In Shipley street. might have told | them of the ready money awaiting a | skillful holdup, as his father generally counted his cash the last thing beforei leaving the oftice. Believing that Jos- | LADAVE VATES GAINS DECREE Gets Divorce From Husband! Because of His Fondness| for Emlyn Mary Johnson | MEYERS ASKS FREEDO)[: | Claims Wife Treated Him | Cruelly and Then Without Cause Ran Away to Seattle | Elise Yates, belter known as Madame Yates, a lecturer on theosophy, is mno longer encumbered with a husband. In| Judge Kerrigan's court yesterday she ! secured a decree of divorce from Mon- tague Yates, to whom she was mar- ried at' Punta Arenas, Chile, in 1885. The decree was granted on the ground of infidelity, Madame Yates proving to the satisfaction of the court that her husband had, during the months of | Mgrch and April in the year 1302, been too attentive to one Emlyn Mary John- scn in London. Stanley ‘L. Meyers of 1262 O'Farrell street has applied for a divorce from Lulu Meyers on the ground of cruelty. He alleges that she beat him on the aceomplice of the criminals who did | ©Ph Buttgenbach would not resist, he head with an umbrelia; that she threat- the foul deed. The detectives are | busy fitting his own statements and | those of his friends to this theory. | It will be remembered that Law- | rence Weber, brother-in-law of the man who was killed and foreman in his factory, declared that on leaving the establishment at 1@ o’'clock Satur- day 'night he saw two young fellows street, and, thinking ghey were friends of Albert, who were waiting for him | to come out, left them there and went | home. Ten minutes later, according | to Albert’'s own story, two footpads assaulted him at the factory door as he opened it to go home, one of them thrusting two revolvers into his face, the other struck him a light blow on the head, saying at the same time, “Keep quiet, kic Then he ran back through the office crying, “Hold up.”” When asked why he left his| father to battle with these thugs he | told the Coroner’s jury that the elder | Buttgenbach had often said he would ! never fight a hold up, and therefore | elieved his father would follow him | ty.. With these as- | tions of the vouth are coupled his nfused explanation of the loss of| 1 other contradictory state- | nts made by him, as well as the verments of Bookkeeper Brune. FITS THE FACTS. of this reasoning is at » the police a plan of in-| that harmonizes with the | little they really know about the mur- der. The difficulty with their former pothesis that vyoung Buttgenbach | imself fired the shot was that the | me known to have elapsed before he was kicking in the partition at the| might have expected a bloodless cap- | ture of the money and later a division | of the spoils. If this was his reason- | ing, the unexpected resistance of the packer disappointed it and made the son an accomplice of murderers. But | the police have much to do if they are | to convict Albert Buttgenbach, even on this theory. TIME OF THE MURDER. One of the critical facts in this case is the time between the firing of the shot and the breaking of the saloon | partition by young Buttgenbach and | Louis Brune. Saloonkeeper Heide's bartender, Fred Moennich, said last| night that ondy a few seconds passed | between the two events. <*T was stand- | ing behind the bar,” he declared, | “when T heard the shot. Immediately | I rushed out to the sidewalk, stopped there but an instant, and then came | back. Befere 1 was at the bar again | 1 heard som= one kicking on the par- | tition. It was less than a minute.” Police Sergeant Greene, who caught | Buttgenbach coming through the par- | tition, confirmed this statement by say- | ing that not mocre than three or four minutes passed between the shot and | the arrest of Butigenbach. In order to summoned from the street by the bar- | keeper after the latter had heard the! kicking on the partition. Greene says | the position of the chairs in the office | and of the money on the i gave support to the theory that the | ehooting occurred during a scuffle. It was apparent, he said, that Bullsen-i bach had not been at the desk in the front office, nor had he been sitting down at all when the shot was fired. rear desk | | yesterday | make the arrest the sergeant had been | Jyo g | A. Macy. ened to take his life with a butcher | knife, and that she once threw a plate at him. He says further that only a | short time ago, when he went to his home after a hard day's work, she was | absent and that in her room he found | a note directing him to have any pa- | pers he wished to have served on her directed to 114 Virginia street, Seattle. | He charges that when she left him to g0 to Seattle she took with her their | two children, and he asks the court | to determine that she is unfit to care for them and to restore them to him. Kate Delaney wants a divorce from Charles Delaney on the ground of cruel- ty. She alleges that he is too quar- | relsome to live with and that on Feb- | ruary 11 of this year, without cause or reason, he left her and has ever since lived apart from her. She wants, in addition to a decree of divorce, a court | order directirg Delaney to pay her $50 | a month alimony. Suits for divorce were also flled by Ivaneila Fuller against Lonnie Fuller | for neglect and infidelity, Sadie Hamil- | ton against -Alexander Hamilton for desertion and Maude A. Levinson | against Solomon Levinson for cruelty. | Edward F. Downs’ suit for a divorce ! against Emma Downs was answered by the Ilatter. She de-| nies that she ever deserted him and in a cross-complaint accuses him of aban- doning her. Orlando Macy filed a sult for the! annulment of his marriage to Sarah | He claims that in October, | 1893, when she became his wife at Wa- | bash, Ind., she had a husband living from whom she had never been di- | vorced. | James McGinn, the undertaker, was granted a divorce from Mary Eliza- ADVERTISEMENTS. - TR HERASER: EHUGH styles. is the strongest ever shown on this coast. Fancy Worsteds, over 100 different styles. SUITS OR OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER FOR - $1500 ~— One Single Pricc. One Single Profit. From Mill to Man Direct. We manufacture all our own woolens in our own mills. America. ing one of the largest ever seen in March 12, Saturday FIRST SPECIAL—You can have a good time on the money we save you after made-to-measure Suit or Overcoat. SECOND SPECIAL—AIl goods go at $15 a suit—No more, no less. 3 for—goods costing from $2 per yard up to $5 per yard. Only on our opening day will these extra fine/woolens be on s:! . PRIZE $200 IN GOLD |5 THIRD SPECIAL—And a good one, that costs no one a cent to try to guesé the number. gold to the person guessing the nearest number of orders we will take on our opening day for Suits or Over- coats. REMEMBER, $200 WILL BE GIVEN T0 ANY ONE GUESSING Here is what we sold in our other stores on their opening days: Chicago, on the opening day, 1464; St. Louis, on the opening day, 913: Omaha, on the opening day, 367;. St. Paul, on the opening day, 592; Den- Duluth, Portland, on the opening day. 817. Can’t we make this our Banner Day of all of them? Address all guesses to SCOTCH PLAID TAILORS, ver, on the opening day, 887; the opening day, 282; 12, in San Francisco store on the opening day? think we can, with a little help from all of you. Market Street, Contest Dept., up to FRIDAY, MARCH 11—no later. 1 Remember the contest is free for all—$200 given away free to any one invited to take part in this contest. NOW FOR THE SCOTCHMAN'S GRAND OPENING SATURDAY, MARCH 2 SCOTCH PLAID TAILORS, San Francisco store will be our Western headquarters. Francisco's favorite band of musjc and our Scotchmen °‘with their bagpipes. | ings are under an | beth McGinn on the ground of deser- DAY BURGLAR AGAIN AT WORK: Wife of Druggist in ‘the Capital City Is a Victim of Attack by a Bold Thief POLICE ARE SKEPTICAL Woman's Story Is '(‘orrobo- 8|0K "AGHE rated by Passer-By, Who Positively cured by thesa w Thug Leaving House | e They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsla, . Indigestion and Too Hearty Eating. A per- - fect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsi- MENTO, March 9.—Mrs. L. T. | aess, Bad Tastein the Mouth, Coated Tongue wife of a prominent druggist Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They whose home faces Capitol Park, is the | Regulate the Bowels. Purcly Vegetable Special Dispatch to The Call second woman to be attacked by a '"ll' 'N. ‘ma“ Dooo daylight robber within venty-four Small Price. - hours, the home of Mrs. R. E. Cran- | ———————— R s ston being the scene of a similar oc- the Full currence at noon yesterday. Mrs. Al- c:m::.m lee was in the rear part of the house . when she heard a noise in the dinirg m.w-o-w' 2 Days rvom. She walked forward and & coversd a man in the very act of £l a bag with her cut glass_and -dlver- ware. She screamed with fright ani the burglar dropped the bag and rush- ing toward the door where Mrs. \les stood struck her a blow on the fore- head which had the effect of felliag | her to the ficor. Her cries awakened the neighborhood and a search was made for the burglar, but without suc- cess. The police give little credence to Mrs. Allee’s story, but it is ecrrol- orated by Charles Dorsey, a butter 1aker, who, while driving past the hoase, saw the burglar rush out and board a street car. He is believed to Le the same criminal who escapel from Mre. Cranston’s home with about 3500 in money and jewelry yesterday. —_—— Hyde and Dimond Case Continued. United States Court Commissioner Heacock yesterday continued the ex- amination of Frederick A. Hyde and H. P. Dimond until March The proceed- indictment by the Federal Grand Jury of Washington, D. C., for defrauding the Government by manipulating lieu lands scrip. —_——————— Mother Secures Guardianship. The Supreme Court decided yesterday that Mabel E. Van Loan is entitled to have the custody of her minor son. The child’s paternal grandmother and grandfather claimed the right to bring up the little. boy through a decree se- cured three years ago in the Superior Court of Tulare County. 1Y R OCEAN TRAVEL. = Santa Bar! Mar, 12, 2 Magddiena Bay R. s N & N. co. 28, Ag OREGON R - tion by Judge Seawell. McGinn was married in 1878. His wife left him in 1892 Decrees of divorce were also granted to Benjamin F. Blasher from Jessie C. Blasher for desertion, Amos Wohlan- der from C. J. Wohlander for cruelty and Virginia C. Cosby from W. A. Cosby for neglect. Plymouth—Cherboury—Southampton. Mar Mar Louts AT ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE. New Yorx—London Direct. San Frencisco. THE NEAREST. on the opening day, 710; All guessing the neatest to the number of orders taken. go on our day, FOURTH SPECIAL—To the first three persons gntering our store on the opening day, March 12 (Saturday) we will give each one a suit of clothes made to order free of charge—on our opening day only. Anybody that wants to can sleep on our doorstep all night, if they wish. FIFTH SPECIAL—On our opening day we will give to each customer the very best work, also the very best linings—serge lining—in their suit or overcoat for $15—no more, no less. factorily we will renew same free of charge for one year. This is what we will give to eac! ember, these speeials only i We -will give you a guarantee if lining or any part of garment does not wear satis- h customer on our opening day. y, March 12. Our price is one price. Suits to order for $15.00—No more, no less. We will show 3000 nobby and up-to-date styles to seiect from. The largest exclusive $15 tailoring house in the world. Our working capacity Fit and workmanship we guarantee the best or your money refunded. Black and Blues in 50 different Scotch Tweeds in 100 different styles, and many more—we cann NOW 15 A GOOD TIME TO ORDER YOUR EASTER SUIT DO T FORGET 7O ATTEND OUR OPENING DAY SCOTCH PLAID TAILORS, The Largest and Finest Exclusive $15.00 Tailoring House on the Coast Twenty-seven stores in Europe, 8 stores in We open up Saturday, March 12, with San Here are what our specials will be for our opening day, Now, how many will we sell on Saturday, March Ma Mar AD Rotierdam Noordam Kroonland WHITE ST. . New 'GIS—Q-I\?)MIHN’. —Liverpool. 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