The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1905, Page 16

FRANCISCO CALL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 ISKS COURT DS LULU BOWEN, EMBEZZLER OF $7000, PRODUCES BONDS. % Luln Bowen, unz wWo- man who embezzled more than 87000 for Lomis W. Baker, her intimate friend, wss admitted (o bonds in the sum of S7000 by United States Commissioner Heacock yesterdny. lIavestiga- tions shows that Baker did not use the wiolen money in his | x he had preteaded. | He probably speni the momey for personal plemsures. it is | now believed thnt Baker mnot only planned to ruin the young | woman but to desert his wife | and family as well. Creditors | have begun proceedings to re- coup themseivex, but the rec- | ords show that the wicked | man’s property is incumbered. | the ¥ T0PUNISH - -~ BYINCTON George D. Collins T'ses Tem- porary Respite Flash His Teeth at Dogs of Law Vho Are in His Pursuit MEN WHO SAVED HIM RSCAPE OFHER DUTY{* o monew : Sister of Defaulting Postmistress Com- forts Her. — 'Prisoner Is Released and Goes Home-~ a Wreck. business, 10 N — [hree Jurors Criticized by Distriet Attorney Excused From Minnie Adams Case by Consent of Both Sides sult v e owr dge Lawlor this morning £ stri rn .y s ves, dim with tears, a sallow n, a head bent beneath the pe: se of cer- which a recreant lover had dis s St her name and smeared a black 2 h her life, were the character- . atur M. Lulu Bowen's i pearance yest morning in United le tes Commi: Heacock’s court to charge of the em- from the postoffice here she had been the dark hour of two friends with nds was her older was a features could be read character mingled with aigned upon Oa employed as % in he other whose the matter onement owing to the Mr. « e of hurch, the defendant’s counsel, Miss Bowen's sister placed her arm around the shoulders of the prisoner symbol of pity and comfort. 1 proceedings did the fendant exhibit any emotion whatever, d that was wh r sisier wept vpon shoulder in the Commissioner's cham- ail bonds were being pre- the disgracea gir] shed It was decided that the preliminary ex- amination should take place on Thursday 10 a. m., Charles Heg ney Church Oakland and / trict Attorneys A nited States Dis- Black and George € ark reprcsenting the Government. There were present also as interested spectator# United States Secret Service Agents George W. Hazen and Richard H. Taylor and Postoffice Inspector Mad- den, whose search through Miss Bowen's nts revealed the extent of the defal- J. Snyder, a prominent real estate man of Oakland and Berkeley, and C. M. Mac- acontractor and buflder of 519°Thir- a street, Oakland, presented them- s as bondsmen. Mr. Clark suggested that the bonds should be made equal in amount to the sum alleged to have been embezzled, and Commisstoner Heacock thereupon fixed the bonds at a round $7000 s BEING MADE each. By the time the papers were hand- ADAMS JURY | ed 1o 2 Bowen for her signature she SLOW PROGRE IN IMPANELING — — vered from her agitation and Only Three More Secured After a i v 2 s ol g g il slene her name with an untremblifg Altogether. & g el } ; e e Kk BAKER’S PERFIDY DEEP. rd trial of Minnie That His Vietim s th the murder of | Decelved. bR~ Only Dec. 26—Bit by bit the s we vesterday, | siory of the deceit practiced.upon M. a & the other | jylu Bowen by Louis W. Baker to per- last Fri- | guade her to become a thief is being un- Meyer. | folded. That .Baker lled when he said &, Eld- | the money was going into his business TRclits Hinz, | was proved to-day when the Sheriff took . | charge of the Baker Printing Company’s " *\,:" establishment under writs of attach- = | ments Baker is hopelessly involved. His er t and machinery are under chattel en 12 | mortgage reditors to the exgent of e J | nearly 340 in sight. There has been meruphE capital punish=| 5, evidence that Baker's business prof- n wome | ited by his dealings with the disgraced Vil T R postal clerk. Suspected Burglars Arrested. is believed after to-day's investiga- st Gatsjkis was arrested = yester- s that Baker not only got the money, « >etectives Regan and O'Connell that he cruelly deceived the voung : o P. Varellas' candy store, 46 | woman as to the purpose for which he on December £4, and it | intended it a the key out of the rear| Postal Inspector R. W. Wadden, in 3 s enter charge of the case, has repeatedly de- pe a morning a slared that the Bowen woman’s only cry sto f register., Varellas | is that Baker will soon feturn and ’ o prosecute Gatsikis. | straighten out her troubles, ex Conlon and McGowan ar-| The exposures in connection with . aunders, John Devine | Baker's business affairs followed the ey ns. They had been | filing this morning of an attachment on a 1 the water front dis- |claim of $7000 levied on behalf of Mrs. t and are suspected of | Matilda Brown, the benefactress of Lulu Bowen, who has assumed the responsibil- N o.Secrets To Hide We have nothing to conceal; no secrets to hide! We publish the formulas of all You will find these in Ayer’s Almanac for our medicines. 1906; or write us and we will send them to you. Then show the formulas to your doctor, and ask him what he thinks of them. If he says they are good medicines, then use them. If he has anything better, then use his. Get well as soon as you can, that's the point! . 39 aneso. white-haired | was Mrs. Armstrong, | afflicted girl. While the | lawyers wer sing with the court E2 X R | | | B OAKLAND POSTOFFICE CLERK | | TWHO ADMITS , EMBEZZLING | | GOVERNMENT FUNDS. ‘ B e o 9 ity for the eclerk’s defalcation. Deputy District Attorney Everett J. Brown, fdr his mother, filed the attachment suit. Shériff Frank Bdrnét placed Deputy Sher- iff William Moffat in charge of Baker's| printing shop. The Oakland Paper Com- | pany levied an attachment to cover a| claim of $924 61, while representatives of | the estate of Harriet E. Donaldson, hold- | ing a chattel mortgage on the plant for $1350, also took steps to protect them- ! selves. From the records it appears that this mortgage is still alive. Miss Bowen has declared to the postoffice officials | that $1100 of the stolen money was given toc Baker for the express purpose of pay- | ing off that mortgage. The accounts at| Baker's establishment seem to show that he is indebted for machinery in the sum | of $1250 to one firm. There does not ap- pear to be any money due the business outside of a few bills for recent job work. | Unless Baker should be arrested within a few days his wife will be requested to take charge in order that the business be wound up. fA petition in involun- nsolvency will probably be filed by the creditors . The Postoffice Department was not ready to-day to make a demand on Mrs. Brown for the money to cover Miss Bow- en's shortage. Substation No. 1, which will be placed in charge of Miss Jessie E. Logan, wag not reopened because the officials have not completed the taking of stock and the other clerical work necessary, to close up Miss Bowen's ac- counts. Mrs. Brown has been in conference with friends of the Bowens, as well as with members of the family, looking toward restitution. The Postoffice Department, with the help of the Federal secret service agents, has begun a scarch for Baker. It was ru- mored he was seen last night in San Francisco, but the clew was vague. A theory that Baker might have committed suicide has been given some considera- tion by the officials. After her release from custody this afternoon Miss Bowen, in company with friends, went directly to her home, 612 Merrimac street. The meet; ing, for the first time since the exposure, ‘with her mother and sisters was a pathetic scene. Miss Bowen will, so"far as the public is concerned, keep her own counsel until such time as her attorney, L. S. Church, shall advise her to talk. .In Miss Bowen's behalf members of her family last night gave out a statement, in which they say Miss Bowen is on the verge of collapse. - They also say: , “8he is a girl who during her entire life has been under the control of her mother, and is as ignorant of the ways of the world as a child ten years old. Had she been told that a man could be as base as Baker has been or could do what he has done, she would have been unable to be- lieve it, and on this account it was easy for her to become the victim of this man | through her sympathy for what she be- lieved to be his misfortune. We are satis- | fied from what she has told us that he led her to believe that he was accepting the money only as a loan and-would be ‘able to repay it before the shortage was dis- covered. \s to what he did with the money. we do not know, neither does Lulu.” - e POLICE ARE SPECULATING AS TO VACANT CAPTAINCY 1t Is Reperted That Another Examina- tion of Lientenants Will Be Held Before Making Seleetion. i There - is considerable . speculation around the Hall of Justice as to which captain ‘of police will be assigned to the Southern district in succession to the late Captain Spillané. It is said that Captains Martin, Anderson and Gleeson are talked of, with ‘Gleeson a favorite. Lieutenant H. -H. Colby is the next on the promotion list and in the or- dinary course of events would ' be named to fill the vacancy. It is ru- mored, however, that as it is over two years since an examination of leuten- ants for promotion to a captaincy was held, another examination may be de- termined upon and the highest on the list selected. B CHARGED WITH VAGRANCY.—Detective Bergeants Braig and Taylor, who are rounding up “‘susj . arrested ey Goldsteln and Joseps Hamilton, ex-bunko men, last night and charged them with ve. . _They “will “be photographed and then | WONAN CH ITH BURGLA Mrs. Hattie Martien Is Ar- rested With Her Alleged| Consort, Charles M. Lawson (O 5 Mrs. Hattie Martien and Charles M. Lawson, an eg-soldier, were booked at | the City Prison yesterday afternoon by Detectives Bunner and Freel on & charge of burglary. They are accused of entering the room of Mrs. E. L. Hess, landlady of the Harvard House, 1 O'Farrell street, on Saturday night and stealing jewelry and other ar- ticles of the value of about $3500. Mrs. Martien was the landlady of the house till Décember 1, having sold out to Mrs. Hess. She and Lawson, who, the police say, had been living together for over a year, rented a room from Mrs. Hess immediately opposite the one occupied by Mrs. Hess, and had been packing up to leave at the end of this month. Mrs. Hess. for the first time since taking possession, left her room on Saturday night to go to dinner in & | restaurant. ‘When -she returned she discovered that her room had been en- tered and her trunk broken open. She missed a diamond and pearl necklace valued at $2000: set of furs and muff, valued at $100; two bracelets, valued at 385; emerald breast pin, valued at "$25; lady’s watch chain, valued at $35, brooch pin, set with diamonds, valued at $50. and a purse containing several foreign coins. The police learned that Mrs. Martien and Lawson were the only persons who knew anything about the jewelry and furs.. Mrs. Martien and Lawson were arrested and when questioned they made so many contradictory state- ments as to lead to suspicion. Both Mrs. Martien and Lawson de- nied knowing anything of the burg- lary. They said they had been dealing in lodging-houses for over a vear and after selling out to Mrs. Hess had lived [wnn her gm they could get other quar- ers. —————— CHINESE PUBLIC SCHOOL RECEIVES STAND OF COLORS ristmas Gift Comes From Pupils d Teachers of New York City Institution. _ The Chinese public school of this city is the possessor of .a stand of United States colors, the gift of Public School Number 8 of Bronx Borough, New York City. The stand was presented to the school in connection with its Christ- mas festival held recently by the Dis- trict Attorney-elect W. H. / Langdon, who is at present Superintendent of Schools. The flag i3 a beautiful silk embroi- dered one with gold fringe and has a heavy blue and white silk-cord. On the staff is an engraved silver plate bear- ing this inscription: “From the Moth- ers' Circle, Pupils and Teachers of Pub- lic School No. 8, Bronx, New York City, to the Chinese ' Public.School of San Francisco.” John W.' Davis, principal of Public School No. 8, New York City, visited the Chinese Public School August last and was so well pleased ‘with it and certain courtesies shown him by the school, that as a result his school planned and arranged . this splendid Christmas 'gift to the Chinese Public School. —_——————— Headaches and Neuralgia from Col Laxative Bromo Quinirle, world wide cm'.:Z Grip remedy, removes cause. Call f nam and look for stgnature of E. W. Grove. 25e™% —_——— Hold Annual Meeting. The Kureka Benevolent Association held its annual meeting last night in its offices at 436 O'Farrell street. The following officers were elected: Presi- dent, Henry Sinsheimer; vice president, S. W. Heller; treasurer, Albert Meye secretary, Meyer H. Levy. The trustees elected are S. W. Heller, Herman Levy, Albert Meyer, Sigmund Schwabacher, Isaac Strassburger, Leopold chels, (unexpired term.) The secretary's re- port showed that during the past year $22,025 40 had been disbursed by their association In charities. ————_———— Di Nola's Asthma Remedy asthma, leaves no e 1] Bad atter eftect. Sol 55 A atats. Mara ofice, 1608 Markens MILITARY PRISONER S KILLED Andrew Harris, a Deserter From the Army, Is Shot by His Guard When He Fails to Obey Command to Halt BOARD OF OFFICER INVESTIGATES CASE| Authorities Decide Private Lawrence Pollack Did His Duty and Commend Him for His Bravery and Coolness| e | Andrew Harrls, a negro prisoner awaiting trial by general court-martial at the Presidio, was shot twice in the | left arm by his prison guard in an at- | tempt to escape Saturday evening. He | was taken to the general hospital, where he died about noon on Monday. Harris and another prisoner were working in the neighborhood of the general hospital under the guard of | Private Lawrence Pollack of the Six- tieth Company of Coast Artillery, | when Harris suddenly made a dash | for his liberty. Pollack threw up his | gun and commanded the negro to halt, | but as he continued to run Pollack fired a multiball cartridge at him, both balls striking him in the left arm near the shoulder. Pollack then took both prisoners to the general hospital, where | he left Harris for medical treatment. ‘When asked why he had tried to es- | cape Harris said he was sure he would be convicted and thought he would | take a chance. He said he did not| think the guard would shoot, and if he | did he did not think he would shoot to | hit. A board of officers was appointed to investigate the shooting, and after a | thorough investigation decided that the | private was acting under orders and commended him for his coolness and | bravery in preventing the pnsonar; from escaping. Harris was a private in Troop A of the Ninth Cavalry and deserted from the Presidio of Monterey on September 21, 1903. He was apprehended by R. G. Skein of the San Francisco police | and turned over to the authorities at the Presidio November 27 last, where he was charged with desertion. Ir convicted Harris would probably have been sentenced to Several years at Al-| catraz, and to escape such sentence he made the dash for liberty which cost him his life. He will be buried | in the post cemetery to-day without military honors. TRAMPLED TO DEATH | BY VICIOUS HORSE | Aged John Pierce Fatally Crushed by Hoofs of Savage Animal. Penned in a stall by a vicious horse, aged John Pierce was trampled to death last night. The savage. animal literally | trampled the lite out of him in the ram- shackle stable in’ the rear of his home, 750 Fourteenth street. Pierce, who was 75 years old, had been warned not to have anything to do with | the brute, which had the reputation of | being & ‘‘man eater.” But Plerce had been handling horses for years, and it was his | boast that he could break and ride any- thing with hoofs. The old man went into the stall alone to feed the vicious animal. The horse reared up and struck at him, felling him. He tried to struggle to one side, but the brute brought his forefeet down upon the writhing body with the unerring aim of a confimed “striker,” the terror of horse- breakers. In vain the old man tried to writhe and squirm out of the narrow space. The brute brought fore and rear hoofs down upon the writhing body. The old man's struggles grew more feeble and his cries | for help grew weaker and weaker. When | help arrived he was all but dead. Several ribs were' crushed, his skull was frac- tured and he was bruised from head to foot. The animal, a big bay, fiercely fought off the attempt to rescue, rearing on his hind feet and attempting to strike at the rescuers, but Pierce was finally snatched from beneath his hoofs. The old man died an hour later, however. He had been in the employ of Daniel O'Day, the street contractor, —— e e————— ACCUSES BROTHER-IN-LAW OF WRECKING HIS HOME J. C. Robinson Obtains a Warrant for Arrest of W. T. Davis on Charge of Battery. J. C. Robinson, an electrician, living at 361 Sutter street, obtained a war- rant from Police Judge Mogan yesterday for the arrest of his brother-in-law, W. T. Davis, on a charge of battery. Rob- inson made a statement to the Judge that he had been married about eighteen months and during that time his wife, who is only 17 years of age, | had left him four times and returned to him again. < He sald they were married in St Louis and she left him to come to her brother here. He followed her and got employment with the telephone company. She had left him three times since arriving here and went to live in a house at 40 Sutter street. “Her brother,” said Robinson, “has been doing everything in his power to get my wife to leave me. Last night I remonstrated with my brother-in-law, and he struck me in the face several times, knocking out four of my teeth and blackening one of my eyes.” —_————————— Body Is Identified. The body of the man who was found at the Third and Townsend street depot last week and who died in the City and County Hospital on Christmas day was jdentified yesterday as that of T. D. McGarvey. He left this city on De- cember 4 for Monterey to look for work. He was in poor health at the time. After spending a week in Monterey he started back and arrived here in a dying condition. At the City and County Hospital he was registered as T. E. Harding, but he was identified at the Morgue as McGarvey by Detec- tive Matheson. —_——————— FOUND DEAD t;ml T m“flm,_u - n was foun e on the. sldewalk 1n front of 518 Mis. sion street by Policeman Cullnan. The body was taken to the Morgue. Detective T. B. Gib- son was detailed on the case and reported that the man had died from natural causes, as far as he could learn. - ; ' The Purity of Burnett’s Vanilla was mever questioned by any pure food commission.® Piano wherein the the first class. rival. public as does the intelligent research any one may piay and eppression that be desired. 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Rosa, MALROAD CETS LTY PROPERTY Southern Pacific Company’s Bid for Market Place Lots; Accepted by Supervisors —_— The Board of Supervisors yesterday ac- cepted the bid of the Southern Paci_flc Company for a lease of the properties owned by ‘the city and known as the “Produce Exchange” and “Market Place,’ on South Beach blocks ) 31 and 53 and 54. The lease is.to run for twenty vears, the rental to be $§00 per month for the first five years and thereafter an amount equal to 3 per cent on the value of the properties, to be fixed by arbitra- tion in case of a disagreement. The| rental after the first five years shall not| be less than $750 per month. | The company deposited a certified check for $7200, the rental for the first year. The lease is in accordance with the fran- chise recently granted to the Southern | Pacific Company for its bay shore cut-| off line, the blocks leased being intended for track terminals. The Mayor's vetoes of the ordinances providing for the selection of the Bell es-| tate lot, on Octavia street, between Bush | and Sutter, as a site for the new Lowell | High Schoel, and of a block of land for the North Beach children’s playground, | were ordered printed and referred to the Public Utilities Committee for a report. Minor business was transacted as fol- ok ¢ Mari) treet, from Ken. s of Mariposa street, - ticky T Mnessse; Clay strést, between Cherty and First avenue; H street, between Seventh and Eleventh avenues; Mariposa street, Detween Kentucky and Indlana; Twenty- second street, between Minnesota and Indiana, and Filbert street, between Buchanan and Webster, were fully accepted. The bill imposing a license of $200 per an- num on persons conducting outdoor parks was referred to the License Committee on motion sor Hochs, who sald it would be an of injustice to place so high a tax on parks :g-l:a can only do business a few Sundays in the year. The sum of $750 was allowed the Health Board {o maintain the Twenty-sixth Street Hospltal during, the next montb. The board referred to the City Enginesr the Detition of residents in the vicinity of Fulton and Shrader streets that the Spring Valley Water Company ba requested to furnish water of a purer quality than is now being received | by water consumers in that section of the city and also to furnish an increased supply of Water for adequate fire protection. The City Engineer is requested to investigate the matter and report his findings to the board. The following bilis were finally passed: & i des_at potnts on secos Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eightl Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirt, second avenues South and H, I and J streets South; expunging Hammond place and Olney | street from the official map; ordering the con- struction of & sewer in Cole street, from Oak %o Fell: declaring Dore street, from Howard to Folsom. to be an open public street; imposing o ‘license 'on rublic passenger vehicles and re- ring he drivers or motormen to ure QuIrIRg badse from the Tax Collector: author- {zing the payment of $4250 to G. H. Thompson for a lot for the tion of Telegraph Hill. 2nd of $1000 to F. A. Miller for a lot forming part of the new pubiic library site. T eee—— Troubles of the Married. Della E. Brown has sued Alfred C.!| Brown for divorce. She asserts that he ' has been guilty of cruelty. Suits for divorce were also filed by Alvilda against M. Kuren for cruelty, Daniel’| E. against Ida Alvardo for desertion, and Theresa against Richard M. Moran for desertion. Edmond Thoms was granted a di- vorce from Louisa Thoms by Judge | Graham yesterday. Thoms testified | that he married Mrs. Thoms in Buffalo and that ten minutes after the wed- ding he wac compelled to leave her and come West on husiness. Then when he asked her to join him she refused. The decree was issued on th ground of desertion. City Cannot Care for Ofled Streets. A committee from the West of Casira Club walited yesterday on Commissioner of Works Algeltinger relative to the drafting of an ordinance providing that the city bear the expense of keeping in repair the roadways of streets in the outlying districts that have been treated with oil. Algeltinger, to whom the matter was referred by the Super- visors' Street Committee, held that the ordinance could not be legally passed because it would necessitate the ac- ceptance of streets covered with a pavement not specifically designated in an existing ordinance. —_—————————— SCHMITT IS ROBBED.—Conrad Schmitt, baker, 625 Clay street, reported to the police yesterday that a man stopped him on Mont- gomery street, near Green, on Monday night and ordered him to throw up his hands. As Schmitt complied the robbers struck him on the face, knocking him down and taking his silver watch out of bis vest pocket. Banking Made Plain With its corps of capable of- ficers and trained employes, this company is in a pesition to make the detalls of a bank ac- count clear to those who are not familiar with business or finan- * efal transactions. California Safe Deposit and Trust Co. California and Montgomery Sts. San Francisco, Cal. 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