The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1906, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY .5, 1906. BLOODY CLOTHING AND MISSING PEOPLE ARE BASIS OF MYSTERY. The finding of bloody garments and broken furniture and crockery in the ap wife in Oakland, coupled with the disappearance of that pair and also of that of a man attention to Mrs. Nunan, has created a sensation. Fears of foul play are entertained. Named Green Jan. 4—In a veil of mys- only partly been raised by ~the investigations of the police, is shroud- ed the strange disappearance of J. J. | Nunan and his wife, the unexplained ab- sence of a man named Green and the | finding this afternoon of blood-stained, | ond street, where Nunan and his wife { livea until last Saturday. The whereabouts of Nunan, his wife and —t DRI miss et ] i CSEORGE GREEN mutilated clothing in the house at 372 Sec- | artmentsot J. J. Nunan and named Green, who had paid Gore-Stained Garments Found in Rooms Quickly Vacated. ' J. J. Nunan and Wife and Man Are Involved had been cut. A towel, covered with blood, lay in the midst of blood stains on the floor. Dishes and catlery in the kitchen had been broken and the table was set with a half finished meal of bread and coffee that looked as if it had been hastily left. There are two other rooms, connected with the kitchen by a hallway. Every- thing in these rooms was turned topsy- turvy. Sheets were torn, \a woman's night dress and underclothing were Fipped to shreds, and several pieces of furniture were broken. Bureau drawers had been rifled in the manner practiced by bur- glars. The entire house was in a state of disorder. | Place immediately sent for Policeman McCready, who locked the house and sent the blood stained garments to police head- quarters. Chief of Police Wilson detailed Detectives Holland and Quigley to make an investigation and learned that Nunan and his wife w!wcnt to go on debauches and that a m#n named Green had interfered in their married life. 1t was stated by neighbors that Green re- cently quarreled with the woman and knocked her down, and that when Nunan learned of it he swore he would kill Green if he did not stay away from his home. It is said that he threatened to Kkill hi§ wife, also, if she allowed Green to pay her turther attentions. DETECTIVES MAKE SEARCH. The detectives made a careful exam- ination of the rooms and found on tne kitchen table a letter from Miss Mary | Nunan of Woodland to her mother, the missing woman. In the letter the girl states that she received her trunk, but that her mother forgot to send some handkerchiefs. The letter was dated De- cember 30, the day after the woman dis- appeared, and contained the following sentenge: | _ Since Uncle Joo has sent you the money, I | suppose you will be going to Port Harford next week. No mention is made of Mrs. Nunan go- ing to Woodland, and from the letter it would appear that she is now in Port Harford, if she still be in the land of the living. On the table also was the box of hand- kerchiefs stamped and addressed to Miss Mary Nunan, care of H. F. Locke, Wood- land, Yolo County. On the left-hand cor- ner of the package was the name of the sender, Mys. J. J. Nunan, and on the other, in brackets, was written ‘‘Mam- ma.” Evidently the mother had remem- bered that she had not put the handker- chiefs in the trunk and intended to send them, as she had not réceived her daugh- ter's letter when she disappeared. For a reason at present unknown, she did not mail the box after addressing and stamp- ing it On a piece of wrapping paper lying on the kitchen table was scrawled: Tie Mary's trunk.. Leave money to pay butcher and get things in the house or bring them. MINNIE ADANS ON THE STAND Woman Charged With Poi- soning Her Babe Tells Her Story of Child’s Death STATE RESTS ITS CASE Prosecution Gives Way to Defense at the Afternoon | Session. of the Trial Minnie Adams yesterday took the wit- ness stand in Judge Lawlor's court in her own defense against the charge of murdering hgr two-year-old boy, John Richard Gray. Her testimony was but a repetition of her defense made in the two trials in which she has already figured as defendant, she declaring that the car- bolic acid that ‘vaused the child’s death was taken accidentally by himself. The prosecution rested its case in the morning, and the defense opened in the afternoon. The testimony or Oliver T. Cox, the gripman en- the Geary-street road, why said he saw a woman resem- bling Mrs. Adams leave Loehr's drug store on the night Mrs. Adams is alleged to have purchased carbolic acid, was re- peated. The only new feature was the admission by him that he was an appli- cant for a place cn the police force at the time he gave his testimony. Mrs. Adams testified that at the house on Chegley street Wilson Gr: pointed a pistol at her and demanded $265, which she had. She refused to give him the money, and he forcibly entered the bed- room and took it from her stocking. After several quarrels, she attempted to leave Gray, in November, 189. She con- tradicted Gray's testimony that she had robbed him. On the date given she took her children to the home of her father on Parker avenue, and did not live with Gray after that. CONTRADICTS GRAY, She continued her contradictions of | Gray's testimony, and said that the rea- | son why she did not continue proceedings for a divorce from Adams was because Gray took the money she had saved and which she Intended to use in procuring a divorce, so that she could marry Gray. Mrs. Adams then told of the children playing in the yard, and said that while she was in the Kkitchen gétting luncheon ready she hearq little John cry. Run- ning down the back stairs she found him lying on the ground with a flask in his left hand. At the sight of the flask ex- hibited in court, the witness’ eyes filled and Judge Dibble’s questioning stopped for a brief time. Resuming, Mrs. Adams told of her en- deavors to revive the child, and of fran- tic appeals to the neighbors for help. The child died within an hour after the fatal draught was swallowed, and Mrs. Adams dispatched word of its death to the father, Wilson Gray. In contradiction of Patrolman Her- lihy the defendant testified that she sat down to supper at 8 o'clock on the Sunday evening she was said to be at the drug store at five minutes before 9 o'clock. She added that the family lingered over the dessert and that she afterward cleaned off the table and washed the djshes. After that she stayed in the hoyse with the children, making paper toys for them. Bhe denied that she left the house during the evening and said that only once in her life had she purchased carbolic acid. P HER STORY OF THE FLASK. Mrs. Adams said she had seen the flask which held the carbolic acid two Most Fashionable Tailor Furs on Sale Now at 40¢, 50c and 60c on the Dollar TAILOR SUITS at.......$4.95, $6.45, $7.95, $9.95 Less than half of regular prices. LONG COATS at......$6.45, $7.95, $9.95, $12.45 Les FUR JACKETS at....$9.95, $12.45, $14.95, $22.45 Less than-half of regular prices. %,000 Skirts From !4 to 13 Less Than Wholesale Cost of Manu- facturing. 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Herllhy testified that he saw the defendant leave the drug store at the cormer of Devisadero and Geary streets at five minutes before 9 in the evening. while his station record shows that he re- ported in and went off watch at the | station at 8:45. | Talbot Herring, the conductor of the Geary-street car, failed to identify the | defendant. Johanna Hopkins and Mary Cox appeared as witnesses to testify to the defendant’s care of and love for | her children. The case will continue this morning | at 10:30. | SCION OF THE PICOS IS HELD IN PRISON | Notorious Penitentiary Bird | Must Face Grave Charge. Vietim of Carbon-Monoxide. H. Oye, a Japanese servant of 1800 Golden Gate avenue, was found dead. in bed yesterday morning with gas es- caping from an open burner. He had been engaged the previous day, and it is thought he was unfamillar with the use of gas and blew out the light on retiring. The body was removpd 0 the Morgue. > MONEY Awaiting Investment Need Not Be ldte: From 2 to 38-10 per cent can be earned on it during the walting period if deposited with A :, —j+| This was not in Mrs, Nunan’s hand- gayls be!ohr!eldhe‘:' ch!lg‘: gearl‘_l;- A(:eis'h- Albino Pico, a descendant of the historic - - OAK PAMILY WHOSE PREMISES WERE FOUND BY POLICE IN A CONDITION TO SUG- writing, although the detectlves say | boring c i where the | Lo family of Caiifornia, is still held at Cal f s f TF ALSO A PHOTOGRAPH, THE ORIGINAL OF WHICH DECLARES HE NEvoR B that sh> shipped a trunk to her daugh- | cant lot beside her house, where the | the City Prison. He and Arthur Watson, 1 ornla aie THE AMONG WHOSE EFFECTS IT WAS DISCOVERED. ter by Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express | soldiers on the m:iy to the Philippines | his pal, will have to answer to several | e & had been encamped. harges of grand and petty larce: < | Friday morning. ) charges of g1 petty ceny. v . W HIS PARTNER’S STORY. Mrs. Mary Schuck, landlady for Wil- | 1t s supposed that the men have been osit an | Captain Douglass’ Widow Dies. Green is unknown, .although the police | . o "coor ™ 0™ “Motronotitan | Son Gray, sald Gray made the asser- | vicitimizing merchants about the city on . in the| Mrs. Maria Douglass, widow of “the|profess to beli that the first two | o i " Gompany it was stated | tion that if the law failed to put|tpe “C. O. D.” plan, and last night Wil- ’r St co c Kearny | late C William ¥, Douglass, who | named are in Woodland, Yolo County.{that a lotter addressed to J. J. Nunan | Minnie Adams out of his way he would | jiam Third, a merchant at Twentleth and rua . for rs was connected with the L mhey have fade no effort to find Green and bearing the Woodland postmark | < Valencia streets, and his clerks gave im- California and Montgomery Sts, portant information to the police. San Francisco, Cal. Pico and Watson ordered a dress-suit case from Third on December 19 and or- dered that it be sent to the residence of o had been taken by the landlord to make duplicates from and had not been re- turned, so that her father and mother were probably unable to lock the door ment of this city, died at | Beulah street la at the was received to-day. The address was in the handwriting of the daughter. Nathan Buchwald was seen at his home at Third and Jefferson streets to- and they do not attempt to explain the blood stains on-the n.utilated clothing, but they assert that Nunan left word Satur- at the Metropolitan Furniture Com- ning Douglass w & 3 sa heard nothing | when they left. Mrs. Lennon at 728 Shotwell street. By > y's store, where he was employed, | Dight and said he had 7y o~ ¥ed | of the finding of the clothing. He trick and fraud they eluded payment and belng. thO4 be was golng for a vislt. said: s ot el el egggorces s who were -in Nathan Buchwald, partner of Nunan in rested on complaint of Mrs. Lennon. The famil f seyv- | the furniture soliciting business, is Nunan and I were partners in soliciting fur- - m|},l‘r ?"ni‘:»l person who last he;.rg gmmne!s:‘, il;ulhe niture orders, but he told me very little of his latter says that while they were in the . X | When ' he want v °T- | home life, 1 never saw his wife mare t house they stole $19 worth of clothing. i Sz »m St.. Agnes Church to-mor- e went to the store Tuesday | orce or twice and he seldom spoke of her / She met them Wednesday afternoon and Plesds Guilty to Burglary. morning he received a letter from his | except in a casual way. I eaw him last Sat called upon Patrolmen Brown and Cor- o n pleaded g > & | partner written the day before, stating | urday about noon. We did not work Sund i to) sereatibhgin. YRAR Gl -Inte or Monday, but when I arrived at the stor early Tuesday morning I found a letter from him. It was short, stating that he was going to Woodland that night and would feturn Friday. When I saw a letter from him from Woodland at_the store to-day I thought it strange, but I had then heard nothing of the blood-stained clothing. 1 have never heard him speak of a man named Green, R. M. Place made the following state- ment: I had not seen either of the Numans since Saturday and this afternoon we decided to investigate. We found the back door open, the house in disorder and the blood-stained garments on the floor. I at once notified the police. 1 heard no unusual noise in the house Friday or Saturday and would have paid little | that Nunan was going to Woodland that evening and would return Friday. The finding of the blood-stained gar- ments created a sensation., The Nunans lived in apartments constructed on the roof of the livery stable of R. M. Place. Since Saturday nothing had been seen of ; the couple and to-day Place and Ed Mur- iph_\;, a blacksmith, went up the stairs to | the roof to investigate. Upon gaining thes roof they found the back door of the rooms ajar and entered. custody a purse belonging to Mrs. Charles Hansen of 1327 Folsom street and a bunch of skeleton keys were found in their possession. Mrs. Hansen states that both men called \at her house for the pur- pose of renting rooms, and that while on the premises they took her purse, Pico has served several terms in the peniten- tiary. On January 20, 1881, two charges of grand larceny were placed against him, but he succeeded in escaping punish- | ment. He was sent to San Quentin for | four years for grand larceny in 1882. He also went to Folsom for seven years in | 1855, and served three years in Folsom for Seed Talk Complete and reliable information and advice on seeds, planting, etc., in our new and beautifully illustrated annual catalogue, 1906. Mailed free on as the distinction of bav- ries the most beaut It is simply besyond ry d FOR FOUR YEARS Whole Foot Nothing Byt Proud Flesh — Tried Different Physicians and All Kinds of Ointments— Could Walk Only With Crutches — Ohio Man Says: s. beautifu [he pleasur Col. exclu have burn. | ALL SEEDS FOR FARM AND GARDEN Fruit T 10 1 P COX SEED CO. purse containing $13 from Attorney | Nunan's hat, a gash four inches long in | attention te it if I had. In fact, no noise J felony embezzlement after 1881 On No- | 411, 413, 415 Sansome Si Charles Gale on an Eddy-street car. the rim, looking as if it had been hit | would be unusual there, for they were fre- “ sember 21, 1893, he made his esc p treet i e 5 Quently in trouble, vember 27, 1892, ape | SAth "8 SHD IENERment Mok a8 el sy bl Al dlaeneents & CUT'CURA REMEDIES Folsom and was found in 189 serving two ——————— Pickpocket Is Convicted. Louis Klein, an ex-convict, was con- victed by a jury in Judge Dunne’s . court yesterday on a charge of grand BLOOD AND DISORDER. - | larceny. He will be sentenced on Jan- | InsiGe the apartments a strange sight ety 130" MovenibEr 12 “he=sthiath im-?t their gaze. On the kitchen floor was hatchet. Near «ae hat was a white shirt, the bozom of which was covered with blood, and a blood-saturated collar. These ER WEDS.—Justice of yesterday married »eace Van' Noe years in the Utah State prison. He was brought back to Folsom and was dis- charged on July 11, 1888. man who frequently called and who was known as Green, quarreled, with the .woman, and, it is said, knocked her down. Nunan THE BEST ON EARTH” e of 1416 Broadway erassy is super— two pieces of apparel appeared to haye been taken from a man whose throat Captain Nev . Specially Registered to You CmsiduhowfileUnitedSumGwemmtprm a letter registered %0 you, guaranteeing its delivery safe and in good order. 1 N K feka.'\ » . . 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A photograph that subsequently was identified as that of George Green, a “special policeman employed at the Bell Theater, was found among the Nunans’ effects and Place stated that it re- sembled the Green whom he mentioned as having struck Mrs. Nunan. It was taken in a sailor sult, which was used by Green in private theatricals eleven years ago. % The special policeman said to-night that he did not know Mrs. ‘Nunan and had never heard of her. He could not account for the manner in which his photograph got among the Nunan ef- fects, except that he may have known her before she was married, or that it was given to her by one of his friends. Detective Holland, who worked on the case, scouted foul play, saying he believed Nunan had smashed tne fur- niture and mutilated the clothing in a fit of rage after going home and find- ing his wife missing. Holland did not attempt to account for the bloodstains, NUNANS NOT IN WOODLAND. . ‘WOODLAND, Jan. 4.—Miss Mary Nunan is at the home of her grand- mother here, Mrs. Mary Locke. Miss Nunan left home two weeks ago forga visit here. She received a letter from her mother a week ago, Stating that Mrs. Nunan would leave at once for the south to benefit her health. She told her daughter not to write until she heard from her again. Miss Nunan has not heard from her mother since, but gives no credence to any theory of foul | play. A Mrs. Nunan was married nineteen Ve ago. The daughter says her parents lived a happy life and relatives here statc that there is no doubt that Mr. Nunan accompanied his wife to the south, which Mrs. Nunan in Ler let- ter said would be probable. Miss Nunan states 'that the key to Iher parents’ home, 372 Second street, “In the year 1809 the side of my right foot was cut off from the little ! toe down to the heel, and the physician whohndehn‘sof me was tryi tohowo:,? the side of my foot, ut with no success. all kindsof ointment, until at last my whole foot and way up above m; was nothi: t proud flesh. I suffered un- told agonies for four Fun, and tried - different physicians and all kindsof oint- ments. 1could walk only with crutches. It is sixteen months ago since I using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for my limb and foot. The first two months the Cuticura Remedies did not seem to work, but I ke, both. In two weeks —_—————————— Pure food laws are good. The purity of Burnett's Vanilla has never been questioned.® —————————— APPOINTEES OF THE RECORBER John H. Nélson's Staff Is Announced, and Among Its Members Is For- The last appointments to be made by the present city administration, ‘with the exception of a few minor of- ficers in the Supervisors’ department and the post of secretary to the Mayor, ‘were announced yesterday. Among the appointees of Recorder Nelson Is former County Clerk Bert Ma- hony, making two former County Clerks who will hold subordinate po- sitions. Recorder Nelson's* complete staft is as follow: Chief deputy, C. W. Kyle; deputy, Sam T. Kohlman; deputy, John E. O'Connell; index clerk, C.'J. Wol ;. messenger, J. Patten; index cler] Doyle; mortgage clerk, E. Meyer; machinist, S. M. Sullivan: copyists— James H. Ro James Bowen, M. P. Scott, Vincent Dolan,” Nicholas Lawlor, Louls R. H. Graham, r. M. Smith, John Chari Owens, ,‘A. Goldenson is to be appointed an ambulance driver, vice Henry Pfuhl Sherift has issued an an- nouncement: to-his ties and other attaches of his office to meet him to- night at 8 o'clock in Judge Murasky's courtroom, Department 2 of the Su- perior Court, at, the City Hall. All of the employés of the Sheriff’s office are requested to be present. ———— Harbor Board Rents Space. The Harbor Commissioners at _the regular meeting yesterday rented space in the old postoffice station to the Shipowners’ ‘Association. The rental is $75 ver month / The MIDDLE- MAN’S PRO- FIT is saved in buying from the factory. lV- e m-{l. the argest ne of L5 Trunks,