Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-01-21
San Francisco News.

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| San Francisco News.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20.-The An.
tioch distillers' case developed no i'm.
portant features, the prosecution still
continuing, the testimony tending
to prove discrepancies between the ac-
counts of the true product of the dis
tilleries and the amount returned by
| the defendants.
w. A. Kendall committed suicide
to-day at the Alta lodging house by
taking morphine. The deceased at
one time was literary man of some
| prominence in San Francisco and was
known to the newspaper men of this
coast. He left the following note
| among other papers to the coroner:
cause of my death, hoping it will OBJ.
viate the necessity of cutting me up.
From constitutional Over-sensitive-
ness and continual misfortune my
life, from the cradle to this sad end
has been one long painful cutting up. |
have yet, thank God, an unweakened
friend or two, who will, think, see
me quietly inferred. Respectfully w.
A. Kendall, January 18th. IL O'Clock
p. NJ. Fora long time he has been ut
terly prostrated, poor and destitute so
he quietly took his departure. The
readers of the Golden Era willremem-
ber his poems over the signature of
"COmet Quirls."
Later developments in the child alb
duction case this morning show that
the woman who took her was Mrs.
Wallace of Boston who claims to be
aunt and natural guardian of the child,
She has the little girl in her posses
sion now and says she will keep her.
H. c. Kibbe, Secretary of Belcher,
New York, Consolidated, Jackson, and
other mining companies, has gone to
parts unknown leaving a discrepancy
in the accounts of the Jackson Com
pany to the extent of $4,000, and
New York Consolidated $50,000
The Belcher funds, so far as investi-
gated, are untouched He had full
swing in all his companies, as he was
trusted to the fullest extent. He
leaves two children in the city and
has wife and child in Paris. Specu-
lating in stocks and the desire on his
part to make himself whole in losses,
did the business.
The Cha.lar Potosi Mining Compa-
ny levied an assessment of So per
share delinquent January 23d.
The Union Veteran League will
have reunion of soldiers and sailors
of the war in April next, and the Com
mittee is sending out invitations
throughout the Coast States and Ter
ritories.
A. Williams, ex-Mayor of Oakland,
died in that city yesterday at p. NJ.
Farther particulars of the defalca-
tion and flight of II. c. Kibbe, Mining
Secretary are: He left the Belcher
Office Wednesday about twelve o. clock
going to lunch, so he stated, and from
that time he has not been back. Moth
ing was suspected of his intentions
though 1t was known to few he was
in trouble. The defalcations are very
heavy and amang them are Sl25,000
from New York Consolidated in which
he was large stockholder as well as
Secretary. Europa $1,000. jackson,
$4,000 and Lady Washington $1,000.
With the exception of the Europa, he
was Secretary Of all the companies.
Belcher looses nothing, as the secreta-
ry has no charge of any cash. How
long he has been engaged in taking
advantage of his trusts is not yet
known, but it is supposed to extend
back several years, and it has been
definitely ascertained that all of his
defalcatiOns have been lost by ven-
lures in mining stock speculations.
The bears made the defalcation tell on
the stock market, and forced prices
down 10 to Is per cent.
The Hospital Committee have de-
clared war against the wholesale ex-
penditures in that Institution and the
Almshouse. 1t was decided yesterday
to cut off the supplies Of whiskey and
eggs. Of the former one thousand
dollars worth is consumed a month,
and l2O dozen of the latter per week.
Hereafter egg-nog will be scarce in
that Institution.
The body of II. c. kibbe, late Secre-
tary of the Belcher and other mining
companies, and whose accounts are
found running short, was found in his
brothers room in lodging house on
O'Farrell street this morning. When
Kibbe left the Belcher Office Tuesday
he went direct To his brother room.
the latter being absent from the city,
and was seen to enter it about two
O'Clock in the afternoon. Nothing
further was seen of him, and the land
lady this morning, finding the door
locked, burst it in and found Kibbe
lying dead in the bed with his coat off.
a bullet-hole was found in the roof of
his mouth, and pistol with a barrel
empty was lying by his side. Letters
were found on the table in the room,
one directed to his wife and children,
in which, after u very affectionate
farewell and admonition as to their
future life, he says: circumstances
have so hedged me about that I must
go. could not help you if l stayed.u
One to his brother apologies for his
cowardly way of leaving him while
sick. One to ]. A. Burr, broker, in
which he says that when Burr sold
$4,000 shares of Europa for S37,5UO, he
did not say how badly he needed the
money, and directs the 10000 shares
now in his safe to be set aside for the
benefit of Col. J. ID. Fry. Also a let
ter to Robt. Apple, dated the 18th
inst, in which he says he pays his
debts to the best of his ability, and in
the way he told Apple some days pre-
viously. He says he tried to pay APP
pie, but could not, and the act would
make them square. He says he has
had the act on his mind for years, and
felt that he might go at any time.
The last letter is dated the 18th, and
says:
lit is now quarter past 8 P. NJ. 1
have written my letters. / request
that the letters to Col. J. ID. Fry and
j. l.. Fry be handed to them unop-