The morning call., 1892-08-03
FROM ACROSS THE BAY.
Mrs. LiIjegren Again Tesiifies
Ab0nt Professor Hatch.
Hrs. Todd Ignored by Mr. smith-Captain
Travers' Body Not Likely to Be Ex-
humed-The Spring Valley Suit.

LlJegrens attorney, tried to get Mrs. LII
jegren TO tell of good many things that
Professor Hatch did, but the result of It all
was TO show that the professor didn't do
much of anything.
The attorney asked her particularly about
proposal OF marriage from the aged PRO
fessor.' but she replied that she couldn't
remember whether he had proposed or not.
He was an old man, and she always re-
garded him as very Kind friend.
She further testified that Professor Hatch
gave her about SIS in cash, two black
dresses, two coaks and hat
The attorney then cross-examined her
concerning her statements to another aged
ex-preaeher named Wythe. VINO is also a
doctor. and who attended her sick boy be-
fore Dr. Mueller was called to supersede
him. Because OF the latter reason, Judge
Gibson, Mrs. Liljegren's attorney, init
mated that Wythe. as a witness had given
testimony prejudicial TO Mrs. Lljegren.
Mrs Liljegren denied the statements OF that
witness by saying:
Il did not tell DR.. Wytke that I had left
two children In Sweden, and that loved
another man more than my husband.
Neither did / tell him that l married Mr.
Lnjegren because l thought him mart, and
that afterwaTd | found him to be ignorant"
Several times during the fierce fusi llade Of
questions Mrs. Liliegren nearly broke down.
With the Judge. the attorneys, her stolid-
faced. administered hu sband and a lobby
full Of staring, grinning vacant-faced iders
there was q fearful strain upon the wit
ness, who grew wild-eyed at times and
seemed on The verge of fainting With all
this she answered the questions calmly and
with great deiiberatlon.
Her flushed face. her voice, low and in
broken accents, and her manner betokened
her TO be suffering. That she has the In
stlnets of q cultured, well-bred lady was APP
parent and when she spoke with tears in
Ter eyes OF the time when her husband
thanked God that their boy had died then
even the harsh voice of the attorney grew
softer and he questioned her about other
things.
MR. SMITH AND MRS TODD.
After cooling his fevered brow some more
President Smith of the Board of Education
says that he has come to the final conclu-
sion to ignore Mrs. Todd and her charges.
Bat If he catches the fellow that put her no
10 II he IS going TO make Rome cover on her
seven hills and emit a longer, louder howl
tnan she ever did before, TO use his own
words. Mr.. Smith takes the matter cOolly
enough, and Is quite temperate in his
speech, considering the circumstances.
u have been stopped by 30 men to-day,
who told me. that they know Mrs. Todd
and that she Is crazy, said Air. Smith yes
terday Il think that woman would be
committed to lunatic asylum we're she to
go before a commission"
Air. Smith was little pale yesterday
owing 10 the sudden shock. he mad been
10 San Francisco the day before and had
come across the bay whiStiing meTriy as a
scho0lboy and feeling at peace with the
whole world. Then the simeon caught him,
ana Tor the nTSt time In his life he was a
long time in regaining his cOmposure. Oak
lana was all agog and he did not know what
Il meant Al first.
My reputation is not hurt among my
friends" he said yesterday. and his friends
Of whom lie has many, bear cut the state
ment
THE QUARREL OF CoRONERs
Young James Travers has so far failed 10
bring sufficient concentration TO bear TO
have his fathers body exhumed. The Dis
trict Attorney whom he consulted has stated
that the Alameda County Coroner has the
power 10 eXhume the body provided the San
Francisco authorities consent, and 10 cause
the remains TO be sent back to Oakland for
an inquest
Coroner Evers holds a different opinion.
lie says that there Is a State law which tor
bids body 10 be removed from one county
10 another after it has been buried until the
laDse o. year.
MI. Eyers further says that before the
body was buried embalming fluid was in
jected aud the fluid contained arsenic
This would be found In an autopsy and it
would be very hard TO distinguish it from
any other if any other should exist.
Iravers has done nothing except to con-
suit attorneys. lie has made no demand on
either Coroner to exhume the body.
II WAS PARTRIDGE.
William Partridge has brought suit against
Martha Partridge, alleging do5erton. Mrs.
Martha's black eyes snapped yesterday. and
her pretty foot, the foot that William used
to admire. went plt-a-pat as she declared to
4 CALL reporter that she had not deserted
him but that he had deserted her She has
remained In the home nest for the whole
year past, she said, and the trouble was
caused because William wanted his mother
10 live with them and she did not 1t was
question as ia whether the wife or the
InBther-ln-law was to be boss" according
To Mrs. Partridge, and Mrs. Partridge
settled II, too, Tor William and the mother
lB-law both went.
CORMEEY's SIDE
Monday David Todd Lees made n state
ment communicating his suspicion that
Eugene COrmeny was the man who shot
him at midnight near Melrose while Lees
was returning from a visit to Miss Merritt
Yesterday was Cormeny's day TO make a
statement.
Il didn't do it." said Cormeny. why
should II The talk about my fondness for
Hiss Merritt is all nonsense. She is my
niece and l encouraged the courtship be-
tween her and Lees by frequently lending
them my horse and buggy when he came to
see her"
Cormeny further said that ne did net
hear about the shooting until the next day.
lie had left Lees and Miss Merritt sitting
in the parlor and had gone TO bed, 50 that
he did not know at what hour Lees left the
house.
IT is AssEssABLE.
For long time there has been in court
the suit Of the Spring Valley Water Com
pany against J. 3. Barber, Tax Collector,
on appeal from the right Of the Tax Col
lectnr 10 assess the cOmpany's franchises
in this county. The corporation contends
hot hair .fua l. Il
San Francisco, where the principal place of
business is located
Yesterday District Attorney Reed fled a
brief on behalf Of Alameda County, in
which he claims that the property of every
- firm or corporation must be assessed in the
county where the property is located, and
that the franchises held here are therefore
assessable.
BEGGs TAKEN TO PRISON.
Sheriff Hussey yesterday went to San
Quentin with X. {. Beggs, the embeZzler
The general opinion Is that Beggs Will be
pardoptd before his term of five years is up
He had expected 10 be sentenced for a term
Of eighteen months. and the long sentence
has worried him so much as to visbly affect
his health.
Yesterday the Board of Trade committee
began to circulate the agreement and petition
for subseris tons toward the $4,000 bonus
required Tor securing the location in Oak
land OF the Fulton Iron Works. 1t will be
Kept up every day until the bonus is raised.
THE GRIPMAN GOES AWAY
Joe O'Neill, gripman, who was horse
whipped By his wife few days ago because
he was found in the company Of another
woman. has left his employment on the San
PaDlo-ayenue road. Both he and his wife
aIe supposed to have gone East, where
fortune was recently left the wife
Engineers are at work toward changing
tie Berkeley horsecar line into an electric
road. Cnlonel Meyers or the California