The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1905, Page 39

‘ B —— | Pages 39 to 52 | |"Pagcs 39 to 52 — oy - SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1905. ; MAINTENANCE SUIT ADDS ||| BARIN'S TO KING AMY'S UNREST. Besides Bigamy Charge the Alaskan Magnate Must Demand From Wife No. 1 That He Support Her. SEARCH FOR FATHER ENDS Face — was preferred Yesterday of bigar Wednesd release was not only in the the civil courts as defend himself against woman that would send him i drive from his side took in 1889. leged Mrs. Amy’s move in the the mature of an , in which she is S. J. Hankins. in November of 1873 srafton, N. H., and Wik him for ten years, when he oned her. During the almost of a century that has elapsed Amy sbandoned her, as she al- he has not contributed $1 toward port. Now, she asserts, he is 100,000 and she asks that he be pelied to maintain her and that he costs and counsel fees in- al but ust he to the that y ber in her action to estab- sh her rights. peing Informed of the progress of the various moves against him, Amy said I was married in 1873 to Ella Smith in New Hampshire. We came to Cali- fornia, and after a few years she re- t i to New Hampshire. I received t letters from her, in each of said that she would pro- from me. I went to and on my return in three I was told by two friends that they had read in a New Hampshire paper of the divorce being granted. Believing that I was divorced I was d in 1888 to Miss Carrie Sperry i ckton. Our engagement Was an- nounced in the newspapers and the marriage was a public one, many friends belng present. A daughter was porn of the first marriage and six months after the second marriage I wrote to my first wife asking her to snder our daughter to my present wife, which shows that she had full knowledge at that time of my second rriage. Since that time my daugh- .r has been in correspondence with my wife in Stockton. “Three years ago divorce year I went east and ted my daughter. I met my first ife and she informed me that she thought of marrying again. The first timation I received that I was not orced was after a report had been ulated that I had struck it rich in per properties in Alaska. While on. my way from Alaska I learned of the fact that the first Mrs. Amy was wait- ing for me here and I came right on to this city and registered at the Oc- cidental Hotel on November 14. I will immediately take steps to inform my- P mARKIAGE N 1889 % SA \'n /N o 4 MEETS HIS RS T wirE OND WIFE OF ALL D BIG- AMIST WINFIELD SCOTT AMY, THE .“KING OF VALDEZ." o < self positively as to whether or not I am divorced from my first wife.” | The story of Amys fabulous wealth, he belleves, was the real rea-! son that prompted ceedings. ———— WORKS BOARD AWARDS BIG SEWER CONTRACT the bigamy pro- Maestretti Opposes Acceptance of Low- est Bid to Build Schoolhouse, Claiming It Is Irregular. The Board of Public Works yester- day awarded the contract for the con- struction of a sewer on California sireet, between Twenty-fourth and Thirty-first avenues, to the Eureka Construction Company for §22,774 16. The highest bid for the work was $35,- 904 07, showing a wide variance be- tween the two bids. President Maestretti notified the board that he would move to reject the bid of Willlam Newsom for the con- struction of the Laguna Honda School on the ground of irregularities in the proposal. Maestretti stated that there were & number of erasures and Inter- lineations in the bid and the . board could not, in justice, accept it, as the erasures might lead to fraud. Maes- trett! sald the next lowest bid was that of P. J. Quinn, whose price was $54,924. or $324 higher than that'of Newsom, and he would move to award the contract to Quinn at next Wednesday's meet- ing, when the awards for the building of the Washington, Laguna Honda and Sunnyside schols will be taken up. The board adopted a vesolution of | | intention to lay sidewalks on Steuart and Folsom, | street, between Market | where not already laid, | The plans for the new elevator in the City Hall were adopted by the board and bids ordered invited for the erection thereof. The boiler inspector | was directed to prepare plans and es- | timates of cost of a new boiler for the Fourth-street bridge, the one now in use being in a dangerous condition and ready to explode at any moment. ————— President to Visit. | Mrs. Ariana W. Stirling, grand presi- dent of the Native Dgughters of the | Golden West, will pay an official visit to Darina Parlor in the Red Men's building. BShe will be accompanied by | other grand officers -and. past grand of- | ficers. A committee, composed of Anna | Gerichten, Emma Marks, Sophle Me- Auliffe and C. Langerbach, with Lucie E. Hammersmith as chairman, has pre- pared an entertainment for the occa- sion. ——————————— Arrested for Speeding Auto. Lester L. Whitman, who said he was a salesman at 45 Main street, was ar- rested yesterday on Golden Gate ave- nue for speeding his automobile faster than allowed by the ordinance. SO0N TO LEWE Winfield Seott MaeKillup, | a Millionaire, Finds His Parent in This City in! Poverty and Degradation |LOCATES RELATIVE LONG LOST TO HIM! 1 ‘“Mac,” a Broken Down Em-| |i ploye of a Boat Builder,] | Encounters a Change of] Fortune After Hard Life! nearly twenty-five MacKillup Jr., a After a search of Wintield Scott 1 | | vears, millionaire oil magnate of Houston, Tex., | found his aged father, Winfield Scott MacKillup in this city in poverty | and degradation. Father and son are | now speeding to Philadelphia, where the | 0ld man will mect his daughter, whom he has not seen since she was a baby. It | is the story of the prodigal son reversed. For years, off and on, the elder Mac- Killup has been in the employ of George Kneass, the boat builder on Third street. The old fellow was a slave to drink and lived in a wretched tashion. He was known in all the cheap saloons along Third street as “Old Mac.” Early this week ac” disappeared. “He is off on a spree,” people said. But ac reappeared at his old He was | | | | on Wednesday haunts completely transformed. nate and he announced that he would ! never drink again. He had just come to good-by. He was going away with his boy. Young MacKillup heard about a week ago that his father was in this city in poverty. He abandoned his business and came here to find him. The father and son met Monday, after nearly twenty- five years' s tion. Young MacKillup took the grimy old man in his arms, despite his protests. 'Le father broke down. He had become kicks and harsh treatment. too much for him. But ’ troubles are over now. MacKillup, father would = inured to | Tenderness all of old “Mac He is Mr. Winfield Scott father of a son that any be proud of. ( For years MacKillup has been a fa- miliar object at the corner of Brannan and Third streets as a frequenter of all the numerous saloons in that \vicinity. Untidy in dress and appearance, he was conspicuous as an example of the evil ef- fects of intemperance and the depth to which a man could descend when lost to self-respect. Every one knew ‘‘Mac’ and avoided him. No hoodlum in the vicinity ever failed to cast a jibe at the old man whenever the opportunity presented. 0Old MacKillup began life as a mill- wright in Philadelphia. During the early petroleum excitement he wa8 an/ asso- ciate of Coal Oil Johnnie. He was fairly successful, but quarreled with his fam- ily. His wife instituted divorce proceed- ings against him and he left Philadelphia | to become an aimless wanderer. After drifting about the country like a spar on the ocean, he finally stranded here. When he was sober he worked for Kneass, but when he was drunk, which was often, he did nothing. While the father was drifting aimless- ly about, the son was building up a for- tune. His estate to-day is valued at over $3,000,000. When old MacKillup has seen his daughter in Philadelphia.and has had time to become used to his rehabilitation, he will be given a position as manager N FRANCISCO SEARCH OF m HUSBAND ER ~ PACIFC WAL {2 } . | Alexander Center Resigns General Agency of Har- riman Steamship Lines under the son st SRR [MA\'OR SCHMITZ DOES THE Alexander Center, general agent at ! CITY’S BUSINESS AT HOME this port for the Harriman steamship lines, has tendered his resignation, to take effect upon the appointment of his successor, and the interest of the local | steamship world is aroused in trying to guess the reason for his leaving and | the name of the man on whose shoul- | 333 ers wi 's man- | &n° der fall the general agent's man- | 21c¢ at his offiee yesterbay, FIs Honor Center was at the Pacific Majl whart | 2ble official business in the way of yesterday, dispatching the liner China, | SIENiNg a large number of demands He declined to discuss the matter of his | A8aInst the city, which have been TeMEDRHOR AL O oA oy > awaiting his return for two weeks. 5 wiint b was seitk sugsestion 88 Schmitz will be at his office beginning identity of his successor. | fomioerowr L FOEE e soith “I prefer not to discuss the matter,” | ™; o Sl he said, “and it would be better If the | Of the army of candldates for the mu- newspapers would say nothi: nicipal plums. T amqn 3 say nothing about It | “rpyore are approximmately 600 posi- I tions at the disposal of the Union La- Center has the reputation of being a | : ; clever steamship man. He was in full | PO¥ Party, of which Ruef and Schmitz charge here of Pacific Mall affairs long 2r° :’l::":;:::‘wffi";:““ ‘l‘u‘:t ’:::n:g e R inaepwerin was elevated bY . pplicants for each position, so that ol ’p‘:;!m‘;::'";:g“ ;gn‘;“_‘;l"”z"‘f“ of there will be several thousand aspir- MANAEET, | ants who will be woetully disappointed. and much of the success of Scawerin’s | administration is sald to be due to the R use he has been able to make of Cen-! Famous Work to Be Exhibited. ter's experlence. 1. There will be exhibited at the Sacred Mail agent at Heart Convent, Franklin and Ellis Signg Large Number of Municipal De- mands and Will Consider Applica- tions for Positions. X Mayor Schmitz, who returned from Los Angeles with Abe Ruef late Fri- day night, did not put in an appear- e at his office yesterday. His Honor Center was Pacific Yokohama for a number of years and : streets, for fourteen days, beginning | was brought from Japan to take charge on next Wednesday, a reproduction of at this port in 1891. He has been here Raphacl’s celebrated painting, *Sistine ever since, except for a few months Madonna,” by Franklein Clara Rep- about a year ago, when E. H. Harri- { herger of Dresden, Germany. . The man sent him KFast to-take charge of | work of a master has been wonderful- | clad as became the tather of an oil mag-| | STARTLING REVELATIONS ARE MADE 70 PRISON DIRECTORS AT SAN QUENTIN Tompkins is inefficient. | | | | i | | | | | | An investigation will follow. When the State Board of Prison Directors met at San Quentin yesterday to investigate the case of Dentist Charles Devlin it was startled to discover from evidence that trusties were stealing and trafficking in prison supplies. Then came serious charges that Warden Devlin was exonerated. Convicts Steal and Trade in Prison Stores. Charges Also Heard Against Warden Tompkins. Dentist Vindicated, but Big Scandal Develops. e was their complaint that Warden Tomp- kins had established a system of esplon- age over his guards. This spying system is based on the work of the convicts, who, fearing punishment from the ‘Warden, the officers say, watch the guards and report every infringement of the rules. It is the fact that they are watched by criminals whom they are pald to guard, say these officers, and STILL BELIEVES Passing of a Day Does Not Change the Mental Atti- tude of Murderer De Paoli A Sl Sy Fanatical belief in the spirit of the “evil eye,” the powerful influence that impelled him to commit murder in the darkness of Friday morning, still lurks in the mind of Louis de Paoli. He occu- pies a'cell at the City Jail and there | he cries aloud at times over the death dearly loved. Yet even now, when the awfulness of his deed has had full time lieves in his soul that he did just what was right when he crushed the skull of Catherine de Paoli with the heavy kitch- | en chair. | veBtter one die than five,” he repeats ‘when questioned, “so I killed her to save | my family. It would not be right for me | to let my family die, would it?" In the he is the same Louis de Paoli now that he was the night that he committed his crime. He has not one feeling of regret The case promises to be a puzzling one for the jury which will try him for mur- der. What can be done with such a man. Yesterday he was taken before Police Judge Mogan for arraignment. A Jarge number of spectators crowded the court to see him. If they expected to sce a villainous looking individual or a crim- inally ignorant wretch they were disap- peinted, for De Paoli walked in as quiet- ly as though he was about to pick the flowers in his little market garden. He sat still while the complaint was read to him, first in English and then in Ital- ian. He spoke shortly at times to At- torney Spinetti, who sat by his side. Once he raised his hands In the air and pressed them to his chest, exclaiming, “l am sick.” The hungry crowd pressed forward eagerly, thinking that something exciting was about to occur. They were again | disappointed. De Paoll merely refolded his hands. His case will be heard on De- cember 20. z Qut in the insane ward of the Cen- tral Emergency Hospital yesterday aft- ernoon Mrs. de Paoli suffered the au- thorities to take her little babe away from her side and send it to the City and County Hospital. She, too, has not changed from the fanatical ideas which clouded her brain and made her give ap- proval to the black act of her husband on Friday morning. She seems to think that her husband is dead and she cries for him. She iusists that she be allowed to see his body before it is taken away, as she thinks, for burial. She still be- lieves that she rescued her baby from death several times during that fatal the Morgan line. 1y reproduced with stitches of silk on Among his associates Center has'canvas. The reproduction has been on some enthusiastic friends, but to the exhibition at the St. Louls fair. Tt wil world at large he always has presented be exhibited in several cities of a well-chilled exterior. Capable, under United States and will then be taken to unusual pressure, of relaxing his fea- , Rome. The exhibitions will be free to tures into a smile, he rarely indulges. children and their parents. In the matter of demeanor he plays no ' B — favorites and growls at R. P. Schwerin | R olds and Wife Disml just as readily as he glares at the' stranger who asks an inopportune ques- | The case of Frank Reynolds and his tion. g | wife, Edith 8. Revnolds, charged with “See Center about that,” Vice Presi- | felony embezzlement, was dismissed by dent Schwerin once said to a seeker | Judge Dunne yesterday on motion of after information. the District Attorney. Mrs. Ella M. “But 1 did, Mr. Schwerin, and he just | Rupe, the complaining witness, who glared at me, turned around and alleged that on April 22 Reynolds and walked away.” e , his wife embezzled $3300 which she re- “Well, T am afraid youwll have to let | celved from a society on the death of it go at that” was Schwerin’'s re- | her husband, testified yesterday that at joinder. “He treats me the same way.” , the time she swore to the co; t In the steamship world Center is rec- IS | against Reynolds and wife she thought ognized as a man of rare ability, He they had run away with her money, but | is said to be a master of the compli-, now she was satisfied they had no in- cated business in all its phases and in | tention of defrauding her. losing his services the Pacific Mail - Company parts with a valuable officlal. It is understood that he will sever his connection with the company about the first of the new year. ¢ Meanwhile there is much speculation as to who will succeed him. H. C:' Cantelow, who occupies an important position in the Pacific Mail freight de- the | partment, {s mentioned as a possibility. | scalp and four ) night. The doctors have no fear of her 1 becoming violent. She slept last night. i Mary Franke, a sister of the dead wom- an, visited the Morgue yesterday. She fainted when she saw the corpse of Mrs. Antonio de Paoli. | OAKLAND, Nov. 25.—The “evil eye” j that was responsible for a murder in San Francisco yesterday morning visited Oak- land in the afternoon and the result was | that R. L. Danfel attempted to crush the ¢ skull of W. J. Kerr, a bartender. Kerr {was treated at the Recelving Hospital by Steward Borchert, and Daniel is now ‘lll inmate of the City Prison. 5 Daniel is a printer. He has been drink- ing heavily and yesterday afternoon HNe sat in a Seventh-street saloon reading of the horrible murder of Mrs. Catherine de Paoli by her brother-in-law, who be- lieved that she had bewfiched his fam- ily. As he read, Daniel decided that he, t0o, had been bewitched and he made for the with an ‘ypraised chair, de- RO B LR I T v g ‘where seven stitcl WOMAN A WITCH of his sister-in-law, a woman whom he to weigh upon his mind, De Paoli be- | fanatic belief in demon spirits | WARDEN J. W. TOMPKINS, WHOSE MANAGEMENT OF SAN QU ON IS BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE PRISON COMMISSIONERS, VISITING DENTIST WHO WAS GIVEN CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH -— Trafficking in goods stolen fromt the | stores of San Quentin penitentiary and serious charges against Warden J. W. Tompkin's management of the institu-| tion were the startling developments | which came unexpectedly before the State Board of Prison Directors yesterday aft- erncon during its investigation of the of- ficial conduct of Dr. Charles A. Devlin, | the visiting dentist of the prison. Dr.! Devlin had been indirectly charged with using his office as a means of supplying | the prisoners with tobacco, and the In- vestigation yesterday was primarily to! find out the truth of these charges. He was completely vindicated, but the in-! quiry took a sudden turn, however, and | the investigation will be continued until | every department of the prison has been | given a thorough overbauling. A lack of executive ability on the part of the Warden and a system of espionage main- tained by him were other startling dis- closures of the day’'s work. \ The board found that Dr. Devlin's offi- | cial actions had ever been honorable and that he had never knowingly viclated any of the rules of the penitentiary. It found that he had never been connected with any {llicit trafiicking in tobacco or other stores with prisoners. But, as it turned out, the hearing of Dr. Devlin was only a minor part of the day's work. Immediately after the first order of business was completed the di- rectors went into executive session. The greatest secrecy prevalled. Even War- den Tompkins and Secretary Oliver were excluded from the room. Heads of de- partments were summoned and then dis- missed. © Certain prisoners were called and closely examined. The proceedings were to be kept as secret as any of the matters which ever came up before the Star Chamber Court of old England. At the ‘end. of the session not a member of the board would speak of what had been going on. OFFICERS CHARGE TOMPKINS. There scon spread, - however, a general idea ‘of what the proceedings had been. They were noune other than a general investigation of the management of the prison, with especial attention to the ef- ficiency of the rule of Warden J. W. Tompkins. His worth to the State in the capacity of Warden is under question and the board intends to find out whether it shall uphold him or dispense with his services. It is an established fact that the guards and other- officers have complained to the members ‘of the board that Warden Tompkins is ruling with an arbitrary hand. They say t hé has made rules ‘which have caused tisfaction among these employes; that he has no tact in his management; that he does not allow his' guards- any discretionary power, but binds: them by rules that are almost ri- diculous. In other words, these officers have .reported to the Prison Board that while they do not question the integrity, the good intentions and the energy of ‘Warden ' Tompkins, - yet he lacks | allows, such a system embitters them most to= ward Warden Tompkins. PRISONERS MAKE COMPLAINT. Another alleged condition of affairs will be locked into by the board. Nu= merous prisoners have made complaint that they are cruelly treated for minor breakings of the rules. They claim that while they are put in the straitjacket for only six hours at a time, as the law Warden Tompkins, at the end of the six hours, takes them out for a second or two and then places them in the jacket again. One prisoner complained that he had been under such punishment a whole day at a time and that he had nearly Béen over- come from exbaustion. The board did not take up this matter yesterday, but it will investigate along this line before it _concludes. The testimony which revealed the fact that an active trafic In tobacco and stores was going on among the prison- ers was taken during the trial of Dr. Deviin. Frank Smith, a convicted bur- glar with twelve years yet to serve, gave out the evidence in a flurrfed answer (o the quick questions of President Robert Devlin of the board. “The trusties stole food from the mess and sold it to us,” he declared. “Some of the things they toak from the hospital. Tobacco, steaks, butter and lard was taken from the stores. Socks were sto- len from the laundry and sold, shoes were. slipped from the stores of the cap- tain of the yard and traded off, and un- derwear was freely sold. The purchas- ing power is tobacco, of which we neves get enough.” SCHEDULE OF PRICES. The schedule of prices which Smith sald prevailed was as follows: One palr shves, twenty-five sacks of tobacco. One hat, fifteen sacks of®tobacco. One pound of butter, seven sacks of to= bacco. [’ One pie, two sacks of tobacco. Smith. also swore that the prisoners patd Dr. Devlin for dental work which he never did, and that he gave them to- bacco for the money. This statement, ag well the assertion that he recently took letters out for the prisoners, was dis- proved by other testimony. At the end of the hearing Dr. Devlin sald that Warden Tompkins had juggled his pay checks and that he had not re- ceived “any meoney for several mopths. . He also expgessed the belief that Fomp- kins had conspired against him to get his scalp. A wordy passage between the two followed and a tilt seemed imminent until the president of the board quieted the men. The investigation will go on next Suli= day. ———————— Woman Accused of Eimbezzlement. Miss Helen Hickey was arrested yes- terday afternoon on a warrant charg- ing her with misdemecanor embezzle- ment. She was, until a few days ago, the . abflity which . should be part of the makeup of the man who is in charge of nearly two thousand crim- inals. : housekeeper at the Virginia apartment house, Clay and Powell streets, and At~ torney J. Johnston, one of the roomers, accuses her of embezzling $20. She was released on $20 cash ball