The New York herald., 1870-09-10
TEE CASE OF AIMEE MOONEY.
A Mysterious Death in San Francisco-A
Gc,S lisi Made Way With-A Strange

A Mysterious Death in San Francisco-A
School IirI Made Way Wiih.-A Strange
Case.
tFrom the San Francisco Chronicle, August 3O.l
The mysterious death OF Annie Mooney seems
likely 10 rank among the causes ceIe6res OF Judi
cial records AS the inquiry proceeds new features
are impaired to the case and there Is some reason
to tear that satisfactory explanation Of the sad
tragedy will never be given to the public. Annie
Mooney was according to all accounts, young girl
OF rreproachable character and exemplary conduct.
On Monday week she was at school, but evidently
unwcll anu unfit to attend to her studes The next
day she Quilted her home for the purpose of going
DENLY disappeared Foryelght hours pass away
wi thout any knowledge OF her Whereabouts reach
ing her agonzed parents and then she suddenly
makes her appearance at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Here she engages q private room for her own
accommodation, subsequently inquiries for q man
with whom She was acquainted, and he not
being IN at the time she av0ws her intention OF
waiting for him. When Wood, who lodges In
the hote the person In question, arrives, she does
not seem TO have anything particular TO say to him;
she gets confused, talks lncoherenlly and betrays
signs OF serious Illness. Her parents are cOmmunl
Gated with, and she Is carried home to BROOKLYN,
where she dies in few hours time. Recent events
prepared the public mind Tor the supposition that
the poor child had been the victim Of diabolical
crime, and consequently most people imagined that
the result OF medical examination OF the body would
tend to establish such conjecture as q fact 1t is
much to be regretted that the doctors VINO made the
post anoT'tene examination should only have sue
cceded in proving 20 the world that 1t was vain to
| expect plain common sense opnion upon matter
which should have little or no difficulty for expert
II.
probably because it Is considered professional do
| SO. Some OF them pronounced q Judgment imply
ing that the general suspicion was correct at least
to certain extent; while the others gave 1t as
opinion that the symptoms observable might be
simply traces to certain functional trregular
ties TO which her sex subjected her. Since
examination OF the body showed no organic disease
sullcent to account for death it became necessary
to subject the c)ntents OF the stomach to chemical
analysis in order - discover whether poison might
not have been admin stored to the child In sOme
form or other That is now being done; but as the
detection OF any but the most active mineral posOns
Is q very difficult matter and involves tedious pro.
cesses It Is not likely that the result OF the analysis
Will be known for some days to cOme-perhaps not
for more than week. In the meantime every effort
win De made to trace the wanderings O. the girl
from the time she LETT her home in Oakland, on that
fatal Tuesday morning, until she turned up
at the Cosmopolitan Hotel IN San Francisco, on the
following Thursday forenoon. Already considerable
progTeas has been made with respect to the invest
cation OF this point ,t is clear that she went to
Martinez on Tuesday, and passed the night at the
Morgan House in that town. Although II is not yet
satisfactorily established seems probable that it
was she who applied for al engagement at Vale &
Warmers Employment Oflce in this city on Wednes-
day forenoon. II is noticeable that notwithstanding
she gave her name as "Hewett" Oh the way to Mar.
tnez and at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, she gave her
correct name at the employment Office Where she
stopped during the night OF Wednesday has yet to
be ascertained, nd much. in all likelihood, depends
upon the accuracy with which il is revealed No
effort should be spared to clear up this dreadful
mystery.