Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-20

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Portland he met girl who said she
wanted to come to San Francisco to 90
on the stage. He told her he would
bring her down. That was why he was
ct the house on Post street. There were
q lot of papers, pictures of the cold
man" and other things which he thought
he might find useful, 80 he sent for them.
He signed it Blake. That was not &c.
tltlous name. 1t was one of the names
ne had been known under. Mrs.
Sanguinetti had remarked and acquired
the name of Blake. Williams ran away
from Mrs. Rose Williams and went back
to Mrs. Sanguinetti, then Mrs. Blake.
and took that name while there. Wray
told the defendant he did not get the
things he went for. He told Williams the
Nevada Bank wanted him, and urged
him to cross the bay with him, so as to
get out of San Francisco county. The
Deputy Sheriff also told him the money
he had would be attached, or garnisheed.
and his watch and all he had. He told
Wray to sell his watch 80 as to get him a
little money.
Here Williams took a good deal of
quiet satisfaction in roasting Wray. He
said the Deputy Sheriff had told him he
was cranky about peculiar coins and
pretty pins, coveting cane and cameo
pin of his prisoner. He also alleged that
Wrsy took his valise and changed it for
q poor old thing of his own, and that he
tried to get a pair of summer pants away
from him. He swore also that Wray
abstracted manicure set from his valise,
and added, TT was made of oxidized
silver; that is why Wray wanted it."
He went on to tell more about his
polyglot supply of names. He said he
went to the Jesuit College at New Or :
leans as Sanguinetti. He did not know
whether or not that was his true name.
TELLTALE LETTERS.
Here the Deputy District Attorney in
troduced lot Of letters signed by many
Of the aliases of Williams. He identi-
fed many OF them, but refused to admit
that two Of them were his. They were
lot of begging letters beseeching Cor
ham to help him. The point
was to show he had no power
to draw on Gorham, or he
would not be obliged to beg for money.
He explained that in October, 1888, he
had quarrel with Gorham which was
not healed until December 9th of that
year, when Gorham came to see him,
and got on big jamboree. Williams
took care of him, and sent him back to
the ranch with Jack Daily. He lent
Gorham $65 on this occasion, which he
sent back by Daily. In cross question
ing Williams on dates, Hardesty broke
him up badly once or twice, but the
prosecuting attorney neglected to press
the matter home, and Williams rallied
in fine shape and recovered his nom
chalance perfectly.
WAS WILLIAMS EVER IN THE PENITENTIARY' Y?
Hardesty asked Williams if he had
ever told lady that he had been in the
Joliet Penitentiary for being caught
wearing set of jewelry which had been
stolen. Williams made great point on
the word "lady," and when time, place
and circumstance were named, he said
he knew no lady named Alderman, but
that he knew prostitute of that name.
He did not deny making such statement
and the prosecution did not press him
for an answer. Here another attempt to
get the letter in was made, but Williams
denied that it was his. 1t was letter
written from the Joliet Penitentiary,
which stated that the writer had been in
Jail from some time in December of that
year to the date of the letter, some time
in February. 1t was to Arthur Gorham,
and begged him to procure a pardon for
the writer. This was signed "A. San.
guinetti." Williams says it is not
his letter; that the writer is a
son of Mrs. Sanguinetti, who
brought him up. The other paper which
Gorham would not acknowledge, was a
promissory note signed as the letter, ga.
Sanguinetti. The purpose of introducing
the letter from Joliet is to impeach viii.
liams' testimony, as he swore positively
that he never was in a criminal court
before this trial.
| AS to his relations to Gorham, all Will.
liams would say was that he was his
protege. He said he never was bell bow
at an hotel. He attended to Cor.
nam when he was sick. He
often was dead drunk for days.
On these occasions Williams kept the
"old mans friends away from him." He
"had too many friends"
POOR oRTHoGRAPHY.
One of Williams begging letters to
| Gorham was as follows:
Boston, Mass, Dec. %.
| ARTHUR: l forgot to tell you had
written Clark of Kansas City letter, but
| only asked him if he new WHARF you
was at, it is very coald today and l did
not 60 out. Arthur you must do what |
asked you to do for 1 want to 90 to
Europ and you no that is the only
way to get rid of me. 1 hope you will
not make me do anything that I would
not like to do. I no Mrs - and have
seen you boath but have helt my tung.
l seen Miss Moss your neace in front Of
those house think it was here. She is
blond. hope you will answer imme.
diately for l am out of everything 80 good
by must mail this at the postoffice or it
wont 60 tonight. Be liberal in your gift
to me for 1 will be dead forever more. I
am your A. CHARLES BLAKE.
It is not model in the way of spelling.
During the reading of the letter Mr.. Har-
desty tried to make some fun out of
this defect. Mr.. Brooks took exceptions
on the grounds that Williams was not on
trial for his spelling. In the way of ex-
cuse for his client he stated that
in the part of the country where Will
liams was raised they spelled more by
the sound than the letters. As the dis
tinguished counsel for the defense was
a Missourian schoolmaster, this testi-