The morning call., 1892-11-01
FROM ACROSS THE BAY.
The Oldest Colored Resident
s. s. :. ;. Is Dead.
=: REMARKABLE CAREER.
Serious Charges Against Well-KnOwn Oak
J.: :, lard Msn-Walter Y Dung Held Under
Heavy PONDS.

Isaac Flood, the Oldest eolored resident of
ALAMEDA County. died at his home Oh East
: Fifteenth street yesterday at the age Of s.
years.
- He had lived in Oakland forty-four
*:years consecutiyely and had amassed a
: small fortune in real estate, enough to give
him q competency years ago. His son,
George F. Flood now a hale, middle-aged
" man, was the first coloTed child born in
. Oakland. He has three children living
there. all thrifty and prosperous.
:" six months ago Floods wife died at
about the same age as he q year ago his
sister Mrs Isabel Smith, died in Oakland
at the age OF 10i years.
= Flood was born in South Carolina a
slave but purchased his freedom and edu-
Gated himself uutit he became teacher in
the South. He was ambitious and the
p. Inines Of California tempted him. but be
p soon abandoned them 70 take up his resid-
;. ence in: Oakland when it 1t was but a
: hamlet with scarcely half dozen IL
:: habitants.
Oscar Fitch, superintendent of the Whit
.ney Express Company. was arrested last
evening on a charge of misdemeanor and
released on $50 bail. The warrant of ar
rest was sworn to by A. J. McGoVern, pres
jdent OF the company. Fitch is charged
with the endorsement Of small sums ex-
:. tending over a period OF four years. or
-'fTQm within a few months OF the time he
. BECAME superintendent, amounting in all to
:: about S1z00 1t was part Of his duties to
=. collect $500 per mUnth from San Francisco
business linen aud he usually failed, Mr..
McGovern says, 10 turn In all the money
collected. DAYS before the warrant was
sworn to the superintendent, it is said, was
appTised Of the knowledge OF his shortage
and he promised to make restitution, but
failed. Its said that lie has been heavy
:.:inyestor in real estate.
He denies that he has unlawfully taken
:: money and says that McGovern made an
:: arrogant proposition to him for a settle
Inenr.. which was that he should pay $500,
should leave town within twenty-four hours,
land should give a written promise not to
start. an opposition express business. Nc
:. :GoveTn afterward reduced the sum re-
.quifed, be says, to $1,000, aud several con-
=: fefeDces followed In regard TO transferring
. real estate, but they came to naught.
Fitch further declares that the charges
: are. partly the result OF persecution, as there
is an effort to get another man Installed as
:. superintendent. All this is done, il is de-
= clared. for the sake OF salary Of only 500
per month.
= Fitch is member Of the First Congrega-
tioual Church and OF several fraternal and
social organizations.
The preliminary examination OF Walter
Young Tor assault TO murder Jacob Sink
later of Berkeley was held before Justice
PenweH yesterday. and he was held to an
swer before the Superior Court. with bail
fixed at $1,000. The old man made no de-
Tense. He gave full vent TO bis temper
while on the wltness-5tand, and several
times grew SO violent as 10 be ON the verge
of commissions.
1t is plain Miss Bertha Arps again, after
months oil trouble over her hasty marriage
with Frank Parlin. Judge Henshaw an
nulled her marriage with Parlin yesterday
on the ground that he already had four
wives before meeting Miss Arps. ParIin is
serving I'VE years at San Quentin.
Samuel butcher. who has things all his
own way because he Is leper, has asked
The board oil Supervisors to fix the roof of
bis house near the County Infirmary to keep
it from leaking. He objects also because his
food is cold when he gets It.
Supervisor Brown Informed the hoard
yesterday that butcher is complaining with
out cause, but the complaint will be inyes-
tigeted with view Of giving him every COM
fort possible during the brief life he has got
to live.
Barchi Parata has been sentenced in the
Police Court to pay a fine of $1,000 and to
serve six months in the City Prison for fell
6 .Ony. similar charge is pending against
him in The Superior Court.
The county editors met at the Galindo
Hotel yesterday and effected temporary or
ganization for mutual protection, with
James Travers as chairman. 1t was decided
TO hold another meeting on November TO
organize permanently.
j. n. Dunlap, bridge-tender Of the Web
ster-street drawbrldge, has reported TO the
Supervisors that the north and south ap-
prOaches 10 the structure are unsafe and
that the bituminous covering needs repairs.
The will of the late Jennie f. Phillips.
better known as Kate Castleton, the act
ress, has been admitted TO probate, with