The morning call., 1892-08-23
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W MURPHY BUILDING, +
Market and Jones Streets.
IN OAKLAND And VICINITY.
Meeting Of the City Council and
the Board of Education.
john Garvin's Insane Frsak-Eors Trouble
About the Talkerlsy Estate - a Suit
Against the Southern Pacific.

John Gavin, the West Oakland man who
went to church and suddenly lost his rea-
son Sunday. regained it just as suddenly
after be had been in the County Jail little
while.
at was the queerest freak of insanity !
ever saw" said DR.. Stratton, the county
physician. yesterday. 1t undoubtedly re-
suited from a sudden attack Of brain fever,
but it passed away just as suddenly.
When Gavin was taken to the County Jail
he had to be kept in q stra tjscket for
several hours and during that time the
physician stood over him continually. He
became subdued at last and when released
he put on his lat and paced silently up and
down the corridor all night. In the morn
ing he could remember nothing of the day
before. Instead of being taken before the
Insanity Commissioners he was placed in
the Oakland General Hospital where lie
Will be left for few weeks
CAPTAIN FLETCHER's BURGLAR
The burglar caught by Captain Fletcher
during an evening stroll the other night
proves to be bigger thief than was at first
Supposed. He has been identified as Frank
Williams, alias Willard, who served five
years in San Quentin and two in the House
OF Correction, San Francisco. on conviction
Of burglary. He has also been identified by
A. w. Taylor Of San Francisco as the man
who left with him the instruments stolen
yrom DR.. Walkers Office.
The police are convinced that he is re-
sponsible for the recent innumerable and
annoying house-breakings in this city.
Nothing TO identify him as a JudsoU train
robber has yet been found.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC SUED.
On September 10 last the Southern Pacific
berkeley juggerDaut whisked into Berry,
man station and whsked out again so rap
that Ra ia riff ha
OF Carl Chrlstofferson. The lad tried to get
on without the aid Of the train, but instead
OF waiting it hurried matters by hurting him
under the wheels, according to the COM
plant OF the father, who has filed a suit for
damages, IN which the value Of the leg is
placed at $4,000
TO SEE THE PROCESSION.
The Federated Trades have invited the
Board OF Public Works, the Mayor. the
Council and other city boards and officials
to come out and see the procession go by on
September 5-Labor day. There will be
three divisions containing 10 unions each
division headed by band. In the van will
be a platoon OF police, followed by the
grand marshal and aids, mounted, and the
president, orator OF the day and other
speakers in carriages. Every union will be
headed by float. OF the merits of these
committee Will judge and prizes will be
awarded for the handsomest three The
procession Will proceed TO Shell Mound
dTks NueIo picnic anu literary exercises
will be held.
A BIG NOTE
The biggest suit on promissory ote ever
fled in Alameda County is that OF j. II.
Strobridge against ID. w. Parkhurst and
Sarah A. HOag. TO recover SOL $40, balance
due. The original sum was for $4,000.
There were some business transactions be-
tween Parkhurst and Strobridge, and in
settling up Strobrdge took the note to
secure himself. A payment Of S28, $50 was
due last July, but could not be met, and
according to the terms the full amount then
became due within 30 days. The note was
executed in July, year ago.
wALKERLEY ESTATE.
The wearsome legal wrangIe in relation
to the big estate left By old man Walkerley
of East Oakland is not yet settled. Yes
terday was the time appointed by Judge
Greene to order a distribution, but il was
postponed because of an objection that the
notice concerning the appointment of a
new trustee in place of Columbus Bartlett,
resigned, began before his resignation went
into effect, and was therefore Illegal. An
application to give the widow an allowan ce
during the distribution was denied When