The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1906, Page 1

THE WEATHER. —— For San Francisco and vi- cinity: Fair Tuesday; light est wind. wes wWes - Strange story of a Califor- nia woman, who, after 20 years, finds her husband a negro, in the Next Sunday Call. pram— + SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GOULD 15 AFTER THE SITE OF IRON WORKS. Wants to Make the Potrero Property Part of the Bay Terminal of New Road SCHWAB IS WILLING| | May Take the Big Shlpyard ‘ to Land Adjoining the| | Hunters' Point Drydock| AN ROBBED ) D iR DE. | Lampert Feels! Pod\e' Thief Runs Away With Her Money RLACHES QTREET AND DISAPPEARS | 1§ N————,, 1 7 77 1 §. 7. 7 F L P Theft Is Commltted in the Outer Office of the San Francisco Savings Union EORGE GOULD is trying to — buy the site of the Union Iren Works at the Potrero. He | wants the ground to add to | the terminal of the Western Pacific road. Negotiations are already under way, and it was reported -yesterday from a reliable source that the deal would go through. In that event the | shipbuilding trust will move its plant to a site at Hunters' Point, adjacent | to the Hunters' Point drydock, and will engage in business on a larger | scale than at present. | Virgil Bogue, chief engineer of the | Western Pacific road, recommended the purchase of the iron works site a B. LAMPERT. WHO WAS ROBBED OF i SAN FRANCISCO SAV- | year ago, but the matter was held in ~¥ | abeyance by Gould until recently, when ed the desk of K. . Par- | the Southern Pacific Company was dis- to give him her book, | covered strengtheming its position on ion of drawing some | this side of the bay to the extreme annoyance of the ‘promoters of the had just placed her | new transcontinental road. It was floor and reached for|then that George Gould and Charles | her pocket when a well dressed stran-|Schwab, the head of the shipbuilding ger, without a hat, placed a paper in | trust, got together regarding' the pro- | front of her fa inquired if she | posed iron works transaction. na Sh in the appeared. | she was | and the woman 1el to carry it to Gould’'s terms were: satisfactory, but for a - time where to move his works. Finally the entire matter was turned over to a her man ler Parsons informed at the wrdng winc reached for her_sat Schwab was at a loss| | | Girl Whose Escort Was Killed by Robbers Lies Nerve-Racked reach the | gt te the stranger | disappeared, and all day yesterday | night the police looked for | 1 the crocodile bag in valn. 2 middle-aged woman. | day morning . Bank and } t there $3,300 in tended to invest in this | y-two | and then he gold would d drawn the proper place and then discovered that she had been robbed: An old satchel had been substituted for her own. The woman ran into the street dis- tracted, ¢rying that she had been robbed. Policeman S'lva was standing in the street In front of the bank and. heard her story. He immediately scoured the neighborhood, but found n trace of the thief or thileves. It is believed that while the unknown | hill, through which the companyL,wllh man attracted the woman's attention with the paper an accomplice stole the satchel. Neither Mrs. Lampert nor Par- | sons could remember seeing the accom- | President Fredericks of-the Union Irom | Works, who, after several conferences| with Chief Engineer Bogue, decided upon 300 acres of land at Hunters' Point as, the most desirable location ‘the jron works could ohtain for its site: 3 During the past three weeks the Potrero property has been thoroughly- nspected-and surveyed by Western Pas ific engineers, who are now engaged n makifig maps of the place and the| urrounding land, including the big ]mnnel an outlet from the bay shore. ;.xuu what price the Western Paecific Company will pay for the site fis, of course, a matter that Is known to only el HE ‘nm spdet of lnguly has enitered into the life of winsome, girlish Norma Plisa. Not only did the four youthful highwaymen » who shot down Fred Mulinix on the Ocean boulevard Sunday night take the life of an estimable young man, but they clouded the bright days {of the young woman who was sheltered on his arm when the shocking |crime was committed. Before her eyes®as she lies under her mother’s |anxious care flit the apparitions of those four demons of awful purpose. Again and again, in a mind overwrought, she sees the flash of the pistol, | plice. those immediately concerned in the K A ysterious feature of the affair | deal and they refuse to talk. was the presence of an aged woman, In securing the iron works site, the s who claimed the satchel which Mrs. ‘ Western Pacific gains a valuable point E of vantage on the bay. Up to the pres- a Bank and | Lampert picked up for her own. She wed opportunity | disappeared immediately after the | ent time the only lands it has been able trouble and it was not learned how her | t0 acquire have been tide lands, which s s also a depositor of Lie |satchel was substituted for the satchel | 7.l have to be dredged at a great ex- | pense to make them serviceable to the | company. | The Union Iron Works plant, how- Southern Pacific Will Unload i Cars at Consignee’s Expense ——— isco gs Union and in- er account t Continued on Page 2, Column 3. HE Southern Pacific Company has notified its | of the State of Callfornia to - interior and Eastern freight comsignees in San Francisco that unless | points, he oad the cars bjlled to them at once the| “It is only necessary to call your attention to these | facts to convince you that this state of affairs cannot be permitted to continue, and that, In justice to our- selves and to the public at large, immediate and ener- getic measures must be taken to overcome the present difficulties. “We have called upon you and other consignees de- linquent in the respect mentioned again and sgain to take delivery of the conten: of the cars referred to but without satisfactory result, and we therefore motify you that we shall/take immediate steps to unioad the cars now at Sam Francisco consigned to you as afore. sald, and will charge you with the expense of such unlonding and storage room as may be occupled by sald ies been sent to all consignees| goods, as well as demurrage upon sald cars for the unload the cars billed| period they have already been detained beyond a reason- | able time for unloading. MAY UNLOAD ALONG LINE. “We further motify you that until you establish to this company’s satisfaction that you are able and willing 1o mecept delivery, without delay, of all cars in transit consigned to you at San Francisco, we shall unload said cars at some econvenient' point en route and charge you for the expense of unloading, storage upom the goods occupled the unloading tracks of this com- ng it of their use for the business of| UDHl such time as you are prepared to recelve them | and reloading. gnees and contributing to a congestion of San Francisco of such magnitude as to th“m»l “Notice of arrival and unloading at such intermediate and regular points of the cars last referred to will be sent you, so that no delay in the transportation of their loads will be attributable to any other cause than your failire or inability to take ‘delivery of same at destination in the ordinary course of transportation. “We regret very much that this course_has been forced upon us, but the situation has become so serious that, after much consideration and consultation, we have become satisfied that no other practical method of relief can be adopted, and we sincerely hope that you, as well as other consignees similarly situated, will at once uu steps - to receive and remove promptly all ” _con< signed to you now on hand or which may arrive, 8o that the transportation business may resume its normal condition and enable rn Pacific Company to fulfill ‘its flm > the public as a common carrier of freight to and from this terminal, G. W. LUCE, of the company nd charge the the company to relieve will do the work. store| expense to. the consignees. | have taken this action as| the heavy congestion of traffic| Sparks Sacramento divisfons, along which | freight cars are blocking the sldetrackst be moved to San Francisco because the filled with cars which the consignees | in unloading. rn Pacific will increase from. $1 to $2, with a daily $5 per day is reached. nto effect Thursday. »wing notice ed goods 1al nly way and are its demurrage on increase of $1 until The new demurrage to promptly “SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13, 1906. call your attention to the fact that' cars| ; you at San Francisco, Cal, were brought by the Southern Pacific Company in due d due notice of arrival was sent you, butiin juence of your failure to accept and. remove this these loaded cars are still on hand and for six beg tc signed to on dispatch of business. SITUATION NO BETTER. “We recogmize fully the extraordinary conditions which have prevalled since the 1Sth day of April, 1906, and tried in every way to accommodate our patrons concessions of various kinds and departures from ordinary which, we believe, have been ap- preciated, but regret to say the situation we far has ed but slightly. congestion of loaded cars at San Francisco has effect of preventing our accepting a ‘large of business offered at Pacific Coast points for ortation to San Francisco, as we could not afford r overburden the already overcrowded terminals, on to which the cars that have been standing this point have been absolutely out of the sportation business of this company. In conse- W the Southern Pa¢ific Company has been unab] “General Freight Agent Southern Pacific Company. large extent, to respond to the pressing demands “Approved: E. E. CALVIN, Genonl Manager Bnun.;-. upon it for cars for the transportation of the products Paemc Company.”" have by our rules, e at d to a QOFFER BIG REWARD ever, rests . m a hard rock surface} | and the bay adjoining it is deeply| dredged. There are few places along| the bay shore that are better adapted for the purpose of railroad terminal tacilities than this one and no one was quicker to appreciate the fact than Engineer Bogue, when he first came here to look over the ground for the Goulds and’ inspected the lay of the land on this side of the bay. In moving to_ Hunters' Point, the Union Iron Works also gains an im- portant advantage in that its plant will be conveniently located to the big dry dock, which is capable of handling the largest vessels that enter this port.- FOR BANKER. CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—The banks - of the Chicago Clearing-House Associa- tion have offered a reward of $5000 xor the apprehension of Paul O. Stensl:ng, fugitive president of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. A resolution .to pay this reward was the reiult of a meeting today. _The bank has two recelvers MML Judge Gibbons in the Circuit Court thi afternoon appointed the Chicago Title and Trust Company as receiver, the ap- pammfi being made on petition of of the creditors of the institution. Following the appsintment of the Trust company a demand was made upoh Jobn C. Tnmr who was appointed re- ceiver of the bank by Judge Brentano in the Superior Court last weeg, that | he turn over all books and papers to Lfinnun for ‘Re- feels the protecting arm fall limp, and then the body of the brave mam sinking to the ground before her. Dark Eyes Flash With Fright and Terror. The mother feels that the terrible tragedy will haunt the girl as long as she lives. She lies abed, her nerves shattered and her grief will not be assuaged. The dark eyes flash wih fright and terror and her frame shudders uncontrollably as the details of her experience insist on coming to mind. Every effort was made all day yesterday to soothe the unhappy girl, but the shock had been too great and little could be done. Ldte last night it ‘was reported that she was resting only a trifle easier. There was no ‘tromance between her and Mulinix, but they were good friends and boon companions, and his cruel death weighs heavily upon her. As to the identity of the quartet of murderers the police are still groping for a clew. William Hoffer, the suspéct arrested Sunday night, is beimg held in prison, but the detectives say -they have thus far been unable to connect him in any particular with the crime. The fact that he would om could no give a satisfactory explanation when found at a late hour on & bench in the park was the only reason for his arrest. Unable to Give Connected Account of Tragedy. Miss Plisa has been unable to give a connected account of the tragedy. She is able, however, to corroborate the statement of Barmey and M. J. Ward, who had been held up near the Speedway refugee camp half an hour before the murder by the same quartet, that the robbers were youths. The following is the story as it was gathered from the nerve-wrech’f young woman: ¥ * “Mulinix came to my home at 1931 Golden Gate avenue Sunday evenifg, and after he had chatted with me a while he proposed a ride to the beach. From the Cliff House we proceeded southward on the pathway alongside A short distance beyond the place called Sheehan's resort I remarked that I felt WPPEAL MAY GOST MAN I LIFE SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SANTA ROSA, Aug. 13.—H. A. Grill, | the boulevard. st : a farmer of Sonoma County, was today | four men passed us, scrutinizing us very intently. found gulity of murder in the first d afraid, for the way they eyed us was alarming. gree by a jury in Judge Burnett's “‘Oh, don’t worry about them, they are only kids, was Fred's assuring court, for having killed Wintern F. reply. Plerce, also a''farmer of:this county. . “We were about 200 yards below Sheehan's place when I heard footfalls As the Jury made no recommendation. | peping ys, I looked around—there were the same four youths following Ehecasath-peantix will-be fMseels This us. . We walked along leisurely, and suddenly two of the four quickened x::u?-: ;‘i::n;":lfl:‘:',:::d'::;q ot ‘their pace and brushed by us. A few steps in advance the pair wheeled murder. in the second degree and sen- | about, each.with a revolver leveled. The two behind closed in on us at tenced to prison for life. His attor-|the ‘same time, also with revolvers drawn. neys appealed and a new trial was or- “Fred sprang at the man who gave the command to halt, the pls(ol dered. The appeal may, therefore, cost | rang out.and he sank to the ground. him his life. “I fled precipitately and headed for the light I saw in Sheechan’s plals The tragedy occurred in Alexander|to get hglp_ Valley last fall and was brought about At this point the experience of Misses Helen and Mabel Brazil, Bd through ‘the ' opposition of Plerce to|\yjlen and John O’Connell enters into the story. They were seated in Grill .as & sultor for the hand of his| iy on benches a short distdnce apart, fifty yards south of where ‘the s M.utmor‘lhy. m, e tragedy occurred. They had seen the four youths pass toward the CILff :.::::;Q:,I‘;:: ;ur:f:',,:':::aw: House about half an hour before. Immediately after the shot the quartet his daughter Was too young to wed. | Came running back. When they saw Miss Helen Brazil and John O'Connell - One afternoon Grill called at the|they all came to a stop, approached close to the bench, and eyed the house of Pierce, had an interview with | young man and woman menacingly. the girl. placed her in his bugsy at the l‘bu‘s Accost Miss Brazil and Her Escort. the house for “Did you hear the shot?” asked one of the youths, who were at this time o heaten ateu. |unmasked. O'Connell answered that they had, and he inquired what che “was heard. Gril | trouble was thnm. Tben the mnrderers began using insulting langwage, ment and " fih emerged from . away with the girl. It was charged|all go home. that Grill had robbed Pierce after the nuhr. as he