The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-14
ACROSS THE BAY.
Robert McGreg0r Accused of
Samuels' Murder.
Disposing of Confscated Newspapers Oakland
City Sued for Damages School Fund
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The inquest on the body of E. F. Samuels,
the brakeman, who was killed on Monday
morning by Robert McGregor, waiter, at
the pier at the end of Oakland mole, was
held by Coroner Evers yesterday. DR.. j.
p. Ii. Dunn, testifying to the nature of the
wound. said that the knife wound was one
inch long above AMI to the right of the
navel. the knife passing downward, cutting
through the walls of the abdomen, the large
blood vessels ana striking the spinal column.
The testimony of eyewitness was corrobo-
ratiye of that published on Tuesday morn
ing and the jury found the following verdict:
'We, the jury, do find the deceased is
Estill f. Samuels, native of St. Louis,
Mo-, aged % years, and that he came TO his
death on the 10Th day of January, 1891, at
the Oakland pier, Alameda County, Cali
fornia, by a knife wound inflicted by one
Robert McGregor. and we charge the said
Robert McGregor with the crime Of muir
DER
The body of Samuels was taken to San
Francisco and will be buried tomorrow
from Stockton and Geary streets, under the
auspices of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, and will be inferred in Mountain
View Cemetery. McGrrg0r is very much
affected 10y the finding of the cOrOner's jury,
and cries necessarily and complains OF
The jury in the case Of DR.. /. J. Kauf-
man rendered verdict last evening that
he came to his death on Monday by an
overdose of some narcotic poison taken by
himself while laboring under fit of lnsan-
ity suvernduced by an article or articles IN
the San Francisco Chronicle derogatory to
himself
REPORT is IN ORDER.
NJ. B. Sturgis has petitioned the Superior
Court to compel Mrs. Mary Lowrie tn file a
IL,
Lowrie, who was drowned about ten years
ago by the loss of the whaling schooner
Alaska in the Arctic Ocean. He alleges
that she declined to join with him in the
sale of property TO pay costs Of administra-
ton, but afterward sold 1t herself without
consultation with him or an order of the
court.
The following officers of Oakland Circle,
No. 3, Companions of the Forest, have been
installed by Gusta Tichner, Deputy Grand
Q. c., Mrs. \. Strsuber; Treasurer, Mrs.
Larsen; +. s., Mrs. Ash; Il. S., Mrs. Itch
ner; K. g., Mrs. Coughlan; l. g. Miss Men
amar; L. e., Mrs. Husman; o. G., Mrs. A.
smith; o., Mrs, Nj. Scott; Physician, Dr..
John Prattn, who stole the curtains from
the Congregational Church at Niles, pleaded
guilty to burglary in the second degree yes
nay, and will be sentenced by Judge Hen
shaw to-day.
Cdhihlu 1SpuEldpultdl L uAOu has ltNlcu
an assessment OF 81 per member for the re-
lief of the strikers of the Sacramento Bee.
THOSE SEIZED NEWSPAPERS.
Postmaster Bishop has received inStruc-
tons from Washington TO sell for waste
paper the copies of the Morning Times
seized for containing publication OF win
ming lottery numbers. He is, however to
keep seven or eight copies as prosecuting
evidence. The Washington authorities call
the affair one of direct violation of the law,
but 1t is not thought likely that suit will
be brought.
A suit TO recover S2oO4 damages from the
city of Oakland was brought yesterday by
Peter Bauer, the owner of four lots and
houses on Twenty second street, between
Valley street and Telegraph avenue. He
alleges he has been damaged to that amount
by the raising OF the grade of the stree
which VIII necessitate the filing in Of the
lots and raising of the houses.
The trial Of the case of Carl c. Bygum
against the Southern Pacific for $50 600 dam
ages for the death of his six-year-old son by
a train at West Berkeley in November, 1888,
was commenced before Judge Ellsworth and
q jury yesterday.
The sum of S41, $50 of the County School
Fund las been apportioned to Oakland by
County Superintendent George w. Prick.
PICKING Up LOST COIN.
Some OF the workmen employed in tear
ing up the plank sidewalks on the main
thoTOughfareS are having good thing of 1t,
for numbers of coins that have from time to
time been dropped through the cracks by
passing pedestrians are unearthed. On the
east side OF Broadway, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, in the section torn up last
week, S11 80 was found altogether.
John Henry Church Jr. failed TO appear in
the Police Court yesterday 10 answer to
charge of battering William Riggs. Judge
Ogden ordered his 500 bail forfeited and a
bench warrant issued for his arrest The
usual morbid crowd was in the court also 10
see young McGregOr, the slayer of Brakeman
Samuels, but as the inquest had not been
held it was disappointed.
The last will of Mrs. Sine Schach, wife
of Jens }. Schach of HaywardS, was filed
for probate yesterday. She left an estate
valued at $4,000 and decided it al 10 her son
Henry, aged II years. She nominated Lock
Winfield as executor of the will and guard
ian OF the boy.
Newton Sewall has resigned as Superin-
tendent and General Secretary of the Asso-
cated Charities Of Oakland and Otto Won
Leuthe, Assistant Organizer of San Fran
cisco, was elected to the vacancy.
A VICTIM OF PICKPoCKETs.
A young fellow arrived on the San Jose
tram yesterday morning, headed for San
Francisco to pay some bills. He had $500
in enbacks lii his pocket when he left
San Jose, bat when he arrived ut the Mole
the money was gone. A search in the train
failed to reveal the money! and the Young
fellow probably had his pocket picked.
An Italian named Giuseppe Patrimarco
was fined $50 by Judge Ogden for drawing a
revolver in a threatening manner at a pri-
vate musicale. In passing sentence the
Judge said he was satisfied that the de fend-
ant IN his testimony was guilty of a graver
oifense than drawing his revolver, intimat-
ing that he had committed perjury.
Workmen started in yesterday morning to
keep the Free Library Building from col
lapsing. Iron rods will be placed from wall
wall InstaITs that the two f0ttp rUD
sides can lean against each other.
The half-interest of the corner at East
Twelfth street and Thirteenth avenue has
been sold for $4,000 The East Oakland
PostOffice is on this corner, and p. Ii. Nc
and Mrs. Nellie Rogers own the other half
interest.