The morning call., 1892-06-17
FROM ACROSS THE BAY.
The Romance and Sorrow of
BERTHE Wares Life.
Target Practice on the Water Front-Talk
CT Establishing a Clearing House
in Oakland.

BERTHE Ware. the octoroon girl. will be
taken before the Commissioners of Insanity
to-day. She is entirely rational now, and
the probabilities are that she will be dis
charged. But her case will not end there.
The police have taken it up. There is some
thing mysterious about it and somebody
will have TO answer for it,
DR.. StrattOn, the County Physician, had
long consultation with the girl yesterday in
Jail. She sent for him and to him she told
tale Of deception and suffering that is ap-
palling.
Berte was a good girl until she fell in
with negresS named Jennie Murray, whom
she accompanied to place of bard reputa-
ton night after night. and where she met
colored men in the Pullman car service
There it was that she met her lover
known as Dave BTidgeT, whom she accused
In her rawlings OF having stolen 5000 from
her room.
The girls rawlings on the night she at
tempted TO drown herself are believed to
! have been the result of having been drugged
She was employed as a nurse in the
family of Z. w. Hall, the attorney, and
there was where she met the Murray girl,
who also worked in the family for a short
time as a cook. The Murray girl was dis
I
association but failed 10 do so, which was
the cause of her leaving her employment
She rented room at another house, where
her money was stolen. She is an educated
girl and possesses an unusually cultivated
voice.
BERTHE had another lover named David
Anderson. He Is q respectable, hard
working fellow. and she was engaged TO be
married to him until be learned of her
association with the other Dave. He broke
~ lta Ng,G on lie
regular trip. 1t was on the evening that he
left that she was taken to jail, temporarily
a maniac.
No TROUBLE EXPECTED.
J. NJ. Basseit stated to CALL reporter
| yesterday, that there will probably be no
trouble in getting the WOOlsey barge re-
moved from out OF the way OF Davis rapid
| ly growing wharf. Mr. Craig, the head Of
the law department of the Southern Pa
ciic, had told him that the company will
take steps 10 remove it.
Yesterday Y. L. Forth placed notices
about his landing warning all trespasSers
away. The visit of WoolSey the other day
inspired him to this action Forth says
that he has no fear of TaylOT'S suit for
ejectment and Tor $1,000 damages.
Last night Bob Craig formed a shooting
club among FOTtin's men, and drilled them
In target practice for amusement.
BERTHA ARP's WATCH.
Chief Tompkns has possession of the
watch which Bertha Arp loaned TO her lover
Parker during their cOnTtship. The young
lady again called at the city prison yesterday
u learn about her property, and II was
decided TO allow the watch to remain in the
hands of the chief until PaTker'S trial, when
1t will be used in evidence against him.
Arguments in the Martin case will be
finished to-day, and the case will 90 TO the
| jury.
ASK THE PROGRESS ASSOCIATION,
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following letter to the City Council: Ere
ierrng 10 your resolution No II, directing
the Superintendent of Streets to remove all
obstTuc tons in certain streets in this city, l
beg leave TO report: After careful inyestig-
alton Of the matter ] find il impossible to
/ carry oHt the requirements of your Tesolu-
ton without accurate knowledge of the
lines Of streets referred TO- II such infor-
nation can be furnished me l will cheer
! fully undertake the execution of the pro-
visions Of your resolution"
WHICH LEFT?
Attorneys and witnesses in the Keil d.
vorce SUIT held little meeting in the County
/ Clerks office yesterday, the former TO listen
/ 10 the depOS lions of the latter as to whether
/ Matilda, the wife, left Edward, the husband.
| or whether he left her Mr. Keil had six
1 daughters, and one day lie removed with all
/ Of them to S0nOma County. The wife sued
! for divorce and lie fled a cross complaint.
She is now living in Alameda. Keil de-
Clares that She was too fond Of Alameda
society TO 90 to the country, and she COM
/ plains that his six daughters wouldn't help
in the Homework, and that when she put in
a gentle request for two servant he refused.
/ kell is wealthy miner
A NEW BANK.
/ The stockholders Of the Union Savings
/ Bank are making arrangements to start
/ new commercial bank In the quarters for
/ merry occupied by the Union National Bank.
] corner Of Ninth street and Broadway.
/ Some Of the Oakland bankers have started
! the proposition to establish a clearing
/ house. The late JudsOn Works robbery
! las stirred them up on this point considera-
! bly,. Since the robbery the practice has
! ceased Of sending large sums Of money
across the bay.
John Collin is dangerously i'll from a
! complication OF diseases at his home. on
! Eighth street. He is well-knOwn capital
| ist, being the owner Of the Ruby Hill vine
! yard at PleasantOn and Of the Hotel Collin.
John N0bleit fled an amended complaint
| Yesterday in the case to set aside the will
of his father, John J. Noblett. He charges
| that his stepmOtheT unduY influenced him
while his mind was in an enfeebled con-
! dition. The estate amounts TO S3l 900
The Fourth Ward Republican Club met
! last evening and organized drill corps for
/ the campaign.
DR.. d. d. Crowley, ex-health officer, was
arrested last night for battery on d. Me-
! Arthur. committed in a row caused by Nc
! Arthur driving too near to the doctor in
/ leased Crowley is The man who sarly
/ killed Hugo Mansfeldta year ago by assault
! ing him with a cane on the street. That
/ row was caused by CTowley's attentions 10
/ Ma1sfeldts wife, whom he afterwaTd mar
/ ried.