The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1906, Page 6

TELLS OF TAP. ~ . > Says She Joined Party of ~ . - X7 Capitalist When Other A g T 5 5 e y Machine Broke Down SUFFERER BETTER s = vesterday Kes | MES. KESNER EXPLAINS. LLER RENDERS AID. o the pouth kb o at was th the| g horse and | | HE inguiries yesterday | | P b into the Makon-Reed sprained right double tragedy at Oak- || best. I orawled land confirmed the first | accounts that the murder and H sulcide were due to jealousy. The man liked to pose as a Lothario and bragged of his N conquests. The woman was In- | | i fatuated and probably found | | the letter written by Mrs. May | | Practor, Chambers to kim. They quar- | | reled hotly on the street just | before the killing, possibly | | over this very missive. The | g SRR TS dispute was so warm as %o at- [ i tract the attention of passers- | table. They left at noon.” however, from the confidential disclos- on wheels | by. | Mahon was the son of a wealthy con- | ures made by Mahon to her and which o ibvasl ) 7 | tractor, formerly of Denver, Col., but|she has repeated to the police that let "'," * == | who now resides at 950 West First | their relations were somewhat closer SF ton | South street, Salt Lake City. Mahon | than those deseribed in the category » HOt l P d d first came to San Francisco two vears | of flirtations. Mrs, Chambers, among o uarre T€CEUCA | ago. Later he returned to the home |other things, sald that Mahon had _ Showed | of his family In Salt Lake. A year ago | shown her a number of letters, all from | [FFHIEr - tee, Double Tra d |Mahon returned to San Francisco, | women; that he bragged of his con- | TTOCH . geay | where he, with Edward E. Hesse, pro- | quests and had told her that he had ke e - | | prietor of the Palace Bakery in this | been educated.for the ministry. She there is a possib | at Oak]and | eity, and Roy Petty, who now lives at | said today: sued for damages | 622 East Second South street, Salt| T was first introduced to Mahon at | | Lake, organized the Tdeal Yeast and | the home of a friend six weeks ago, | AUTO RUNS INTO TRAIN. | AKLAND, Aug. S8.—Develop-| Baking Company. Before the company |and since that time have met him Party of Five Mem in in Oakland. Aug. 8.—Flve men nar- ped death at 1 o'clock this automobile in which were riding dashed at high speed e of a Key Route train which was just ning into the sta- tion at Sam Pablo e and Fortieth a Smash-Up street. The of the auto were C. H Fyfe, v manager of the - Remington ter Company, who lives at 20 irteenth street; tzpatrick of San Francisco and eale, Arthur Grant and Jack "He was hastil the Receiving Hospit dressed 10 wounds were Wwas removed to where his after which he Galloway was als his arm being badly feared that he ous -internal injuries. pants of the c ully injured, hed, and it is danger- other occu- escaped with a number of painful bruises and lacerations. The automobile, wWhich was completely wreck wes the property of L. Mithaels, president of the San Fran- eisco Coke and Gas Compan €ides at 318 Durant street. e e Charged With Theft. OAKLAND, Aug. 8.—Leo I Golden, who is wanted in this city on a charge of grand larceny, has be Sacramento and is being held awaiting the arrival of an officer to bring/him back for trial. Golden, while employed as an agent of the White Sewing Ma- chine Company in Oakland, coliected $80 for machine which he had sold, and, + who re- it is charged, decamped with the money. A. C. King. the local manager of the company, swore to & complaint charg- ing Golden with grand larceny, ol s Bt Boy Wanders in Hills. YKELEY, Aug. §.—Henry Holmes, ear-old boy residing at 1060 Six- venth street, spent two nights in Is, lost. He was discovered by a earching party last night back of the He had slept two nights in nd was apparently out little the worse for his experience. the hills aniwersity Will Fight Yosemite Mosquitoes, BERKELEY, Aug. 8.—Leonard H. Pey and Ralph Benton of the college of agriculture have been directed to proceed to the Yosemite Valley and bégin - the work of driving out mos- quitoes from that locality. 'The in- sects are said to have become a pest. 1906. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST o, BORDERING ON T ALLS COMPARION Mahon and Reed Woman Heard | Bitterly Disputing on the Street. ments today disclosed the fact| that John T. Mahon, who was| | shot and killed last night in| | the office of Dr. Luella Cool Walker at | 509 Thirteenth street by Mrs. Lol.‘ Reed, who then committed sulcide by | shooting herself in the head, met his| death on the same spot where he had first met the woman. A bitter quarrel between the pair, presumably over the | attentions of Mahon to some other | woman, took place only a few moments before Mrs. Reed became at once A{ murderess and a suicide. Shortly before the pair entered the of- | fice of Dr. Walker, they stood on the cor- | ner of Thirteenth and Washington | streets, where Mrs. Reed was heard to exclaim, “You did! You know you did!"” | and the reply of Mahon was, “So help| me God, I dld not, and that is the| Something that sounded very | truth.” much like, “You are lyin followed | from the woman, and then, seeing that their quarrel was attracting attention, | Mahon and his companion walked away across Washington street toward| Broadway. SHOOTING FOLLOWS QUARREL. This quarrel took place between .7 and 8 o'clock, and almost immediately the couple returned to the office of Dr. Walker, where the shooting occurred. | It was learned from Dr. Walker this| evening that Mahon first met Mrs. Reed in the office where he met his death. A | short time after the earthquake Mahon, who at the time of the disaster was living in San Francisco, called at the| office of the dentist to have some work | done on his teeth. At this time Mrs, Reed, who was also a refugee from San Francisco, was employed as an attend- ant by Dr. Walker. The acquaintance of Mahon and Mrs. | Reed rapidly ripened into friendship, | and within a few days they were al- | most constantly in each other's com- pany. A few days ago Mrs. Reed left the office of Dr. Walker, telling the lat- ter that she was going to visit friends | in Berkeley, but, from informtalon se- cured foday, it seems certain that she | at once joined Mahon at his rooming ?la.ce at 2107 Hearst avenue, Berke- ey. 5 SUSPECTED THEIR RELATIONS. Mrs. Archie Scott, who conducts the | boarding-house at that address, said | today that although Mahon represented | the Reed woman to be his wife, she had | become convinced that the couple were not married and had prepared to ask | Mahon to leave the place. | “The pair quarreled Monday morn- in, she added, “and I went to their Toom and Saw &n open razor on & | with John Reed, who was at that| | they separated. | ers, Charles Ferguson, who is now| had begun operations the earthquake | put a stop to their budding business and Mahon removed to this side of the bay. THE WOMAN’'S IDENTITY. Like Mahon, Mrs. Reed, who had| since November, 1905, been living at| the Hotel Oliver, at 899 Pine street,| San Francisco, which her brother-in- law, E. F. Mitchell, was the proprie- tor, had been dirven from San Fran- cisco by the destruction of the city, and after a visit to the home of her father in Fresno, she came to this city, where, until about three weeks ago, she lived with Dr. Walker. She left here three weeks ago to pay a visit to her sister, Mrs, E. F, Mitchell, at the latter's summer home | at Camp Meeker, returning a week| ago. Immediately on her arrival in| Oakland she returned to Dr. Walker, with whom she remained four days,| leaving to go to Berkeley. Mrs. Reed was 25 years of age, and was the daughter of J. R. Ferguson, a ploneer vineyardist of Fresno, of which city she was a native. Three years ago she first came to San Fran- cisco, where she became acquainted] time employed on the staff of a San Francisco newspaper. Within a few months she became the wife of the newspaper man, but their wedded life proved unhappy, and about a year ago Soon afterward - Mrs, Reed took up her residence with her sister and brother-in-law at the Ho- tel Oliver. Besides her father and mother, who now reside in Fresno, and Mrs. Mitch- | ell, her sister, she leaves two broth- | living in San Francisco, and Gus Fer- | guson of Bakersfield, and another sis- ter, Mrs. Charles Sexton of 2500 Bud- long avenue, Los Angeles. Her ‘brother- in-law, E. F. Mitchell, arrived in the city tonight from Fresno to arrange for the sending of the remains of the woman to Fresno for burial. THAT CHAMBERS LETTER. The exact cause of the quarrel be- tween Mrs. Reed and Mahon will prob- ably never be known, but from letters found among the effects of Mahon, which were taken in charge by the Public Administrator today, it has been learned that he was very fond of the soclety of women. Mrs. May Chambers, who wrote the letter found in Mahon’s packet last night gfter the tragedy and which, it is belleved, may have aroused the jealous rage of Mrs. Reed, reiterated today that the missive was written In a spirit of fun; that a friend had helped her word it, and that Mahon was a mere acquaintance. It was apparent, ! perhaps half a dozen times, occasion- ally on the street and sometimes in the house where I first became acquainted with him. I wrote that letter in a spirit of fun, and a friend helped me. There was no intention to make game of Mr. Mahon, aithough I thought that, as he was so conceited about women, a letter like that and the disappoint- ment for him when I failed to keep the appointment would show him that his attractions were not without limi- tations. “He was an attractive man,” Mrs. Chambers commented, “tall and hand- some, with fine black hair and sympa- thetic eyes.” MAHON A MAN OF FAMILY. Confirming Mrs. Chambers’ story in part, in Mahon's room was fourid a lot of letters written by women with whom he had been very friendly. Most of the lctters were filled with endearing terms. They were signed by ‘“Nellie” and “Lulu” and other names. Apparent- 1y the writers live In cities along the coast, References to gifts of money in some of them indicated that Mahon's telations with the writers had profited him in a flnancial way. Some of the letters were addressed to J. L. Thur- man and to J. T. Johnson. Mahon was married and until last | year had lived with Mrs. Anna Mahon. In this connection the following letter {ound among Mahon's effects is of in- ot nna—In accordance with advice of my attorney and not because of any de- sire on my part to intrude on your good nature, I take the liberty of address- ing you to let you know that as soon s I establish residence in Reno, Nev. (I leave for there tonight), I will insti- tute proceedings for divorce on the ground of incompatibility of temper. Trusting that you have not grown weary waiting and believing this way to be the quietest and most private way of disposing of the matter, as the de- cree goes into effect immedlately upon being granted, and neither of us ars acquainted there. Hoping that you will sec matters in this light and that you and the children are well and happy, I remain your most obedient and humble servant. “JOHN T. MAHON, General Delivery, Reno, Nev.” N No one had claimed Mahon's remalns up to a late hour tonight. Y ——— Flash of Fuse Scares Woman. OAKLAND, Aug. 8.—Frightened by :he -u‘:den l‘fl‘uh from a burned-out use, Mrs. ry Petrocelli, residing at 1004 Twenty-first street, jumped from an electric car this evening on Twelfth street, fell and broke her left leg. She was treated at sl 0 SELLS A HOUSE HE 010 NOT OWN, OAKLAND, Aus. 8.—Roy Ashbury, ]who helped his stepfather, Dr. Willlam | swindle aged Mrs. Elizabeth Tyson out of her diamonds and who is serving a year's sentence in San Quen- ‘lln as a result of his connection with the swindle of the Niles widow, is again {In trouble, despite the fact that he is | behind prison bars. Ashbury is now accused of having tried to obtain $340 from James Kinder, a fellow convict, by false pretenses. When Ashbury and Dr. Proctor were arrested on complaint of Mrs. Tyson the |former was placed on probation and was sentenced to serve six his freedom. Ashbury got into trouble in San Francisco, was brought back to | Oakland and sent to the State prison. He had been accused of stealing from | the Emporium in San Francisco. In the San Quentin prison Ashbury met James ninder, who was serving a year for passing a fictitious check in Solano County. Ashbury represented that he had a house at 1845 Telegraph uvenue and Kinder gave him an order on the warden for $340, receiving a bill of sale for the house in exchange. ‘When Kinder, who was released to- day, came to Oakland, he found that no such house existed. He therefore returned to San Quentin today to can- cel the order and he threatens to have it out with Ashbury when the latter is releaséd. MOTT TS GICRERNG FOR PARK LA, OAKLAND, Aug. 8.—Negotiations are in progress between the Mayor and owners of property along the east side of the marsh facing First avenue south of Twelfth-8treet dam for the pur- chase of the land, which it is proposed to add in the projected public park between First avenue and Falcon street, the Lake Merritt dam and by the city the way will be cleared to procure certain small holdings on the west side of the marsh owned by the Adams and Bacon estates. Mayor Mott is keenly interested in this scheme to c¢onvert the unsightly low ground south of the lake into a sightly and attractive park. The pro- ject has been under consideration for months, but an actual start has been delayed by questions of title. These now seem to be in a fair way of solu- tion. The site has for many years been a dumping ground. It faces Lake Mer- ritt, and, cording to Charles Mul- ford Robinson, the eminent landscape expert, is an ideal location for a park. “We hope to get along rapidly in acquiring the land held in private ownership on the site,” said Mayor Mott today. “We are doing all that is possible to further what I believe is one of t}n most important of pro- jected public improvements in this city. For years the marsh has been an eyesore and a disgrace to the eity. ‘With the questions of ownership set- tled, this park projeet ecan go hand in provements of Lake Merritt. We have made considerable progress, but there the Recelving Hospital. | {s much still to be done.’ Proctor appealed and secured | Eighth street. .If this piece is bought W' HOLDLPS BENT D STIBVCTI, | Two Vicious Thugs Use| Fists and Knife ~on§ a Piedmont Waiter| THEY SECURE $30 OAKLAND, Aug. 8.—Two thuss| | made an attack on Joseph Fox. aged| 24 years, of 805 Grove street, at mid-| night Tuesday, and after beating and stabbing him, robbed him of §30. Ie was left unconsclous on a walk in Jef- ferson Park, but later recovered suffi- ¢lently to make his way to the Receiv-| ing Hospital at 1 o'clock this morning, where his wounds were dressed. Fox, who is a waiter at the Pled- mont Club house, was crossing through the park at Seventh and Jefferson streets, when he was suddenly con- fronted by two masked men, one of} whom, without warning, struck him a| violent blow on the chin. Fox was felled by the impact, but he tried to arise, and as he did so the other thug made a lunge at him with a knife. The biade entered his left arm and in- flicted a wound three inches long. The loss of blood caused him to swoon, and while he was in a state of coma the thugs went through his pockets and took a purse containing $30. * | Fox is unable to give any description of his assailants. CHARMING BELLE| OF OAKLAND IS | SOON TO WED. ‘ AKLAND, Aug. 8§.—At an Infor- | mal gathering of her most inti- | mate friends on Wednesday | evening, August 15, Miss lara Loring, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. | Loring, will announce her engagement to William Anderson of this city. Miss Loring is a charming girl and the news of her engagement will be recelved with interest. The Loring family ls‘ | one of the pioneer families of Oakland. | Anderson is a well known young busi- ness man of this city. .He plans to build a cozy bungalow on Telegraph avenue for his bride. No date has been set for the marriage. | . . . | Mrs. William A. Shrock is busy mak- | ing ready for occupancy her beautiful new East Oakland home. Recentlyi Mr. Schrock purchased the Burbank residence on Sixth avenue, and the| siege with workmen Is about over. The 1st of September will see this | charming hostess and her family com- | fortably established in their new quar- |ters. A series of entertainments is | planned for the winter :auom | B . Mr. and Mrs. George Roeth are spending the summeér in their pictur- | | esque bungalow at Rockridge. | . . . | Miss Pear! Kingsland has come up‘! | from the Kingsiand country home, Ha- | zelbrae, near Ben Lomond, to meet her brother, Jacques Kingsland, and hi family, who came from New York t spend the month of August. Kings land is one of the well known busine. men of New York. After a few weeks at Hazelbrae Kingsland will spend a| few days in Oakland before returning to his Eastern home. . | Mrs. Frederick Palmer, formerly Miss | Florence Mason of Alameda, will re |turn to her home in Calcutta, india, | the 1st of September. Mrs. Palmer has | been visiting in her girlhood home for some weeks, renewing old friendships. | As Miss Mason she was & popular gir | in university circles. Mrs. Palmer will { be accompanied by Miss Mary Bell and Miss Nellie Grant. . . . Miss Arline Jacobs and her mother, Mrs. Jacobs, are the guests of Miss Annpie Kerr. They leave shortly .or a few weeks' sojourn at Lake Tahoe. . . . Miss Amy Corder, who spent her va- cation near Sonoma, has returned to town. . . . The George W. Scotts of Alameda, with their daughter Maud, have re- | turned home after a sojourn at thelr | country home near Los Gatos and a | few weeks at Lake Tahoe. Miss Scott | seau. Her marriage with Ernest Me- | Candlish will be ome of the notable events of the winter. &L e The marriage of Miss® Charlotte | Thomas and Edward Faulkes will be quietly celebrated tomorrow evening at the Thomas residence in Fruitvale. Only the families and a few of the most intimate friends of the younsg peop will participate in the wedding festivi- ties. Miss Thomas is a popular girl, with chlrmhm; manners. . Miss Ostrander Annis is at home af- Rio. S g Miss Eva Powell and Miss Helen Powell have returned home after sev- eral weel vl:it at the Geysers. ¢ Bng Last evening at a quiet wedding cele- brated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Daniels on Howe street Miss Frances Danlels became the bride of Douglass Talbot. The rooms were daintily deco. traldng greens. Frank Shields supported the groom. The marriage service was read by the Rev. Miles Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Talbot | the pretty cottages at Monterio. Upon their return they will make their home in Oakland. Among the wedding guests e Governor and Mrs. George C. Par- dee and Miss Florence Pardee. I__EERSONAL OAKLAND, Aug. 8.—Captain W. F. Waters of Santa Barbara is at the Crellin. W. L. Morsey has registered at the Metropole from St. Louis, Dr. F. C. Pache of Mina, Nev., is at the Crellin. . John O. Pew, general manager of the Youngstown' (Ohio) Iron and Steel ‘Works, is at the Touraine. C. F. Ritting of Grand Rapids, Mieh,, is at the Athens. W. §. May, a well-known capitalist of Grass Valley, is at the Crellin. Eagles to Banquet Mehrmann. | ALAMEDA, Aug. 8—Dr. H. B. Mehr- mann, County Coroner, whe was re- cently elected grand worthy State pres- | ident of the Fraiernal Order of Eagles, hand with the dredging and other im-|is to be tendered a reception and ban- ¥ I8 | quet by his Alameda friends in Com- inwv G's armory, in the Tisdale hufld-! ing. on Park street, tomorrow evening. is busy preparing an exquisite trous- | ter a visit in Sacramento and Monte Miss | Josephine Lund was maid of honor and | will spend their honeymoon in one of HEBAY -~ GRFT SUSPECTED BY PALD ALTANS Citizens Investigating Strange Deal in Meters by the City Trustees LAW IS VIOLATED SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. PALO ALTO, Aug. 8.—The taxpayers of Palo Alte, who organized recently to fight the water meter tax which the Town Trustees propesed to enforce, have not anly succeeded in shelving the bill permanently, but have: discovered that the promoters of the meter ordi- nance are guilty of breaking a State aw governing municipalities of the size of the university town. The dis- covery has opened their eyes and It telleved that if the research Is cor- tinued further a case of financial gain to town officials will be unearthed. An e¢xplanation is looked for from Trustee Parkinson, who obtalned the initial did from the meter company. It was at his suggestion that the meters weve pur- sed. It seems that the Town Trustees in purchasing the meters, which they in- tended to install at the expense of the householders, broke the State law whick calls for open bids in all citles of the sixth class when the sum in- volved exceeds $100. Pale Alte is in this division, The Trustees accepted an offer of the Henry R. Worthington Company of San Fruacisco to furnish 500 meters at 3$6.75 each, a total of $3037.50, or many times the sum al- lnwed by law to be expended without competition. The nieters were to be | paid for the rate of $20 a month, | or on inst ent of §155. One of these payments has been made since the contract was made on May T. The Trustees intended to Install these water measurers at a cost of 3$3.40 to the householder. The difference be- {ween the cost and installation price is sald to be “required for labor in- voived and materials. T. E. Dovney, whose petition caused the Trustees ¢§o shelve the reso- lution providing for the meters, s bent on probing the matter to the bottom. Four hundred and fifty meters are now in the possession of the town off- cials and miany have already been In- stalled. The meters were to be owned by the water company, though pald for by the property-owners. The water cempany is owned and conducted By the municipality. The Trustees meet again tonight. i 2 RN LT WOULD CHECK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN CONTRA COSTA Women’s Christian Temperanee Umion Asks the Supervisors to Ralse the Licemse. MARTINEZ, Aug. 8. —A sen- sation was sprung at the meeting of the Doard of Su- | pervisors yesterday afternoon when the Contra Costa County branch of the Women's Christian Tem- perance Union presented the board a lengthy article and petition asking that the jssuance of further saloon licenses be stopped. That this uig be brought to pass it {s suggested in the petition that the licenses be Increased from $100 to $500 per annum; that no license be granted any one to conduct a saloon in connection with a grocery store or other place of business, ‘and that no licenses be issued to any per- |son to conduct a bar in conjunction | with any public place of amusement frequented by women and children. Stanford Register Shortened. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Aug. §.— Again the registrar of Stanford Univer- ity will attempt to raise the “hoodoo™ which has followed the official register. A contract for a new edition has been let. Three times has the order been | placed with publishing firms, and twice | has fire destroyed the printing plant | before the book could be run off. The initial copy of the pamphlet went up in | smoke in San Francisco. The second | was destroyed when the Pacific Press of | Mountain View was burned. The third | attempt to issue the register for the | coming term will be undertaken by the | BEaton Publishing Company of San Jose. The book is an abbreviated edition of | the original copy. The register will contain the entrance requirements and the outline of the vartous courses. The names of the students in attendance at | the institution will be omitted, as will the names and rank of all professors. —_— Bullding in South San Franeisce. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. §.— | Notwithstanding the advance in lum- | ber, a number of persons are waiting | to bulld as soon as material can be fur- nished. Several new business bufldings will soon be erected on Grand avenue. The South San Francisco Mill and Lum- | ber Company received four cars of lum- | ber last week. This will relieve the building’ situation greatly. —_— Removing Walls at Stanford. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Aux. $.— The strike of union men has in no way crippled the wrecking forces of the university. Over 135 men are now en- gaged in removing the dangerous walls of the ruined buildl —_— Polsoned by Crabs. BERKELEY, Aug 3.—J. C. Berry, a | tailor, ate cracked crabs in Oakland last Sunday and soon displayed signs of pto- maine poisoning. He was given medi- cal attention and is now out of danger. —— MAY FOIL LUMBER COMBINE. Rellef Corporation Will Try to Get Ma~ | terial for Cottages From Lanada. From a reliable source it was learned | yesterday that the Red Cross and Re- lief Fund Corporation will endeavor to get lumber from Canada in order to | escape paying the exorbitant | asked by local d |lan was asked yesterday if this was | the intention of the corporation, and | he replied: “We have advertised for lumber and Wwill buy it wherever we can obtain it at the lowest rates. Our advertisement will probably reach lumber dealers in Canada, as clipp it to them.” e s L1 Switzeriand. :;1-2% -m-w.'w | moved b He was re- | 10 & hespital recov- L Little Nope or hig NEW : mgm"‘fnfi\%‘ AT