Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-08-31
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San FRANcrsco, August 80, 1870.
The Mystery sf A.nic Mssaey.
The mysterious death Of Miss Annie
Mooney, an Oakland school girl, Is so
replete with, materials for. sensational
Ism, that 1t Is no wonder the commu-
nifty seized upon the details with avid
ity, and built thereon Q hypothesis OF
outrage and murder, hardly warranted
BY the facts as yet developed. Miss
Mooney is described as, q handsome
only thirteen years and five
months old; but 'precocious in person
and intellect, free and vivacious in
manner, and a general favorite with
her schoolmates She attended the
High School at Oakland as usual on
Tuesday, and was seen to step aboard
the train at the ferry landing. Her
friends lost sight Of her from that time
until Thursday morning, when she APP
peared at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and
engaged a room, giving her name as
Miss Emily Hewlett. In the ~aftaynoon
she inquired for Mr.. George Wood, a
on the Central Railroad,
with whom she had a slight acqualnt-
ance. Mr.. Wood called at her room,
and knowing Of her disappearance
from home, asked her so many ques-
lions that she became offended and he
Left, The police, having been notified
by her parents, were on the lookout,
and when Mr.. Wood informed them of
the girls whereabouts, an officer was
Immediately sent to the hotel, who, on
entering her room, found her in n state
of semi-insensibilty., She was taken
home, physicians were summoned, all
that love and skill could suggest was
done, but7without avail, and Mt half
past one the following morning the
poor girl died. Apost morton exam
lnation c~onclusively proved that the
girl had not been violated. The au-
topsy did not show any sufficient cause
to produce death, and until the stom-
achk anilysed all speculation on the
subject is win. After leaving Oak
land, 1t seems she went to Martinez,
sleepingsthere on Tuesday night. On
wednesday she Is supposed to have
come to San Francisco, as an Intelll-
gence Office keeper asserts that a girl
answering her description applied for
a nurse-glrl's situation at their place
on the noon Of that day. Where she
was on Wednesday night has not yet
but the detectives will
no doubt soon find out. The excite
ment and horror attendant OH the first
of the cas- was so great that
an immediate demand was made for
the arrest of Mr.. Woods. 1t Is now
felt that that gentleman has been much
wronged by suspicion, rs there Is not
the slightest cause for supposing him
to be implicated In the mystery. The
superstition this evening is that Miss
Mooney committed suicide while in a
state Of temporary arrangement, but
as the wire will probably announce
the real facts before this reaches you,
1t is useless to dwell upon the circum-
stances that warrant such a conclusion.
hey Hunting.
Our small boys are not remarkable
for godllncss, but they do 60 in with a
vigor for what the proverb says is the
next thing to 1t. And In their desire
for cleanliness they are apt to overlook
the fact that a fringe of youths in puris
nat,ralibus, diving from every accessi-
BILE foothold along the water 'front.' Is
not exactly proper sight for the world
of ~pettlcoats. The police are of the
same opinion, and now make daily ar
rests Of naked humanity. Every af-
ternoon a couple Of officers 60 pros.
pecting on the wharyes and in the
neighborhood Of Long Bridge for ju-
venile bathers. The last locality nj
ways pans out rich In anti-fg-leaf cos
tuned mortality. The 1ynx-eyed
don't exert themselves much. They
walk leisurely OH until they. spy a
dirty shirt, with accompaniments OF
ragged pants and mud-daubed boots
slowed away in some nook, safe, as
the owner supposes, from the preda-
tory raid Of providing thief, and the
prying eyes Of equally to-be-feared po-
iicemen. Then the Knights Of the
Baton coolly sit down near the cloth
ing, light q cigar, and patiently wait
DEVELOPMENTS. III q few minutes some
hapless youth discovers that his ward
robe IA. In possession Of the enemy. An
indignant remonstrance to "leave
them clothes alone" has no effect on
the gray clad imperturbablcs, and the
entrapped urchiiI soon finds that he
will have to surrender at discretion.
So he comes, sets up a plteous howl,
arrays himself In the captured gar
ments, and Is led away to Interview
Judge Sawyer.
4 A Matrlmsaial Barcau.
I didn't know until yesterday that
there was a matrimonial Bureau In
San Francisco. J. L. Hopkins, a half
crazy preacher. whose street corner
dissertations on the opening Of the
Seventh Seal and the outpouring of the
Vial Of Wrath, have gained for him
the title Of "old Crisis,' Is the pre-
siding cupid OF the institution. If you
ever saw Willie Edoaln play Cupid in
Ixion, you car; form some sort Of an
idea Of what kind ola figure Elder
Hopkins cuts rs an Innocent archer.
His last pamphlet, under the heading
"Wediock and Pleasure contains
sixteen advertisements Of ladies and
gentlemen who are DESTROYS Of tasting
the sweets of matflmony. Like the