The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-08
FROM ACROSS THE BAY.
Where Did Beggs, the Street-Rail-
road Secretary, Go?
A Gan Francisco Attorney Wants 70 Know
What the Humane Society
Did With $50

pany yesterday.
Presently Major j. E. McE!rath entered
and asked the same question. The super
intendent and assistant superintendent
came along and wanted 10 know where
BeggS. the secretary. was. The directors
strOlled in and repeated the question, and
the conductors and mailmen began to in
Quire OF each other. "Where's Beggs?"
Beggs had 1lrd with S1OC01 drawn from
tie bank. together with about $500, the
receipts of Saturday and Sunday. lie went
between dusk and dawn, aad nobody knew
where Beggs was.
He was such a gentlemanly. courteous
sort of fellow that 10 enc really suspected
that he had made away With the company's
money. But he had. In the afternoon
President MeNear. Major McElrath ana }.
w. Coleman went to the City Hall aud
swore TO a warrant for the arrest of Beggs.
charging him with embezzlemen:. But
BeggS had gone.
HOW HE DID IT.
On Monday he settled up his accounts
with Assistant Superintendent Tucker and
everything was straight. Then he went 20
the First National Bank 10 dTaw $1,000 for
current expenses, 'lalf of il Tor the wages of
employees 10 have been paid yesterday. He
drew it and that was The last seen Of Beggs
10y the company.
He went home to dinner at o'clock,
caressed his children, spoke 10 his wife as
kindly as ever and then went out. That
WAS the very last seen OF BeZgs In Oakland.
An hour afterward his wife received this
note:
Pear Nelj: must leave you or else l must
commit suicide. Take good care OF The child eo.
Don't DO anything that VIII LEAD 10 nay detection.
DICK.
His wife was in tears all day yesterday
and said that she could not comprehend il.
GONE TO GUATEMALA.
Beggs' employers are inclined to doubt
The wfe's story, and have d suspicion that
he sailed for Guatemala at 1880 O'clock on
Monday. Detectives have heen given the
case and the authorities everywhere have
been notified TO appTehend him.
K. &. Beggs left the employment Of tho
powell-sireet road last October and came to
Oakland 10 succeed Harptr ). Hunt as see
Rotary of the Oak land aud Berkeley electric
line. He WIS industrious, haTd-worklng,
and was not addicted 10 gambling or any
Other habit that would get him in debt or
tempt him to embeZZle. he was So years
old and leaves a wife and four children al
most destitute. He was formerly teller of
Cleveland (Ohio) bank. One of his brothers
is now a conductor Oh Tie P0wellSIreet
road and his father lives al lO7 Valencia
street. san Francisco. BeRgs' bendsmen
will have 10 make good the amount but the
company declines 10 say who the bondsmen
are.
Detectives Holland and Storey learned
last night that Beggs Was ACCOMPANIED TO
the SiXteenth-street depot Monday even
ing by conductor 10 catch the I 80 Oregon
express.
AN ATTORNEY AFTER INFORMATION.
There is another development in the his
tory Of the Alameda County Humane Soel-
ETY.. Yesterday the clerk Of the Board Of
Supervisors received a letter from James
Gartlin, San Francisco attorney. Ii reals
as fellows
Mary Bobby vas committed 10 the Indus
Trial School of san Francisco BY an oTaeT Of
Judge Ogden, made August IS, 1890. The Sis
teTs Of Mercy have lad charge u lie ghi ever
since, ard about year $50 your poaId | under
stood allow the clatm uf The Sisters Tor $50.
Can yen tell NE Wbtn and 10 whom this money
was paid Il has nCl reached lie Sisters yet.
an informed HAT lie Humane Sec ely OF Ala
media County received lie amount apd used II
for their own purposes Instead Of Temltfiug II 10
the parties 10 whom 1t belonged. Repeated re-
quests 10 lie society Lave proven unaFalllng.
Before proceeding further l WOhid Ike 10 have
The tXHct date when the money VAS paid oyer
and 10 whom.
MI Theobald, the secretary Of the So
ciety, was seen IN regard 10 the above. lie
said that the amount is only S125 and that
the money was collected from the county
by him, the claim having been assigned to
the Humane Society by the industrial
School The money was turned into the
general fund of the society and paid out
LOT general FAItHSES D1 IAtSNlht III MI
TheObad's absence. A warrant was after
ward drawn TO The credit Of the Industrial
School. but has not yet been paid, owing 10
lack OF funds. Theobald said that the
matter was explained 10 GaTtlin when the
error was discovered and that the sum will
be paid upon the receipt of $500, now due
the society from the Greenleat estate.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
More than 20 names have been signed 10 a
petition TO organize Il Chamber Of Com
merce. There are three objeets-oDe TO
help all competing transconunenta rail
ways That desire 10 make terminus IN
Oakland. one TO work tDr the consolidation
OF the city and county and the other to adj
vance vigorously the substantial interests
Of Oakland and vicinity.
1t is announced that Rev. DR.. Komer OF
Portland. Or, is 10 succeed Rev. DE- Ollie
as pastor Of the First HI. +. Church, DR..
Ollie going to the Central 81. +. Church Of
San Francisco after the next conference.
John W. KattingeT. one Of the earliest
settlers of Alameda County, is lying danger
ously i'll at his home in San jose.
HOoDLUMs WORK DESTRUCTION.
A lot of noOdums boarded the u :35 train
from the mole Monday night AID ut Brook
lyn Station broke several windows in car,
They then threw stones at the locomotive
headlight and smashed It, When the Ala
media train drew up they climbed aboard
and tore I'D a number of seats. Deputy
A syndicate las bought 80 acres of land
in Iadian Gulch, just northeast Of Lake
Merritt. The purchase embraces the Ham
pei, Watson and East Oakladd Heights
tracts. The land adj0ins another large
tract, lately purchased by }. c. Jordan Of
Boston. The price paid was sos. 500.
A. NJ. Butterfeld of San Francisco
stockbroker. living in East Oakland. was
seized with tit of temporary insanity at
Brooklyn Station yesterday and created a
scene until led away by friends. He is said
to be financially embarrassed.
The 13-yeaT-Old son Of {. 81. King acct
dentally shot himself in the fOot yesterday
while hunting OF his fathers ranch and " as
brought TO his home In this city.
The Library Trustees met last night and
voted 10 sustain their former action in dis
charging Miss Bliss. curator of the Twenty
third-ayenue Free Reading room and elect
ing Mrs. Kendall in her STEAD. A large del
egatlOn frcm the avenue NaS present 10 pro-
test. DR.. Melvin and MI MckinRon's mo-
ton 10 reconsider was lost.
Alameda.
The suit Of William WesterdahI against
Canfain ] A nuVkpp IN reeover G2OnO dan,