Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-09
TILE Los ANGELES HERALD. O. 1892

thing smiled on him and he made money
hand-over-fist, but an unlucky apecula
tion in army supplies swamped him go
completely that he became discouraged
and diegusted with life in the
Mexican province, and returned to San
Diego.
He secured employment OF the South
ern Pacific Railroad company, superin-
tending some bridge work. but gave this
up as he had many other jobs, and took
a place with the contractor who was
building the San Diego college at Pacific
beach.
Sometime before this he had met Mrs.
Marshall and her daughter and became
the husband of the former in August,
1888, as she alleged to the reporter of
Los Angeles paper. lie figured very
prominently in damage suit, which
the daughter. Jesse Marshal, filed
against George Taylor, very prominent
hotel proprietor at Redondo beach. Will
son, alias Crandall, was one of the chief
witnesses and aided his alleged STEP
daughter IN every way.
In October, 1888, Crandall left San
Diego and turned his face to the north re-
turning to Los Angeles. Here he opened
small carpenter shop, but did not pros
per as he thought he should and moved
his abode to Newhall. Four miles from
that place is, or rather was, an asphalt
mine owned and operated by Chicago
syndicate. 1t was not many days before
Crandall was on it's pay roll and it was
not many more before he was off again,
and it failed. Crandall and Durand,
who bobbed up very serenely at this
time, obtained lease of a portion of the
mine, but gave up their enterprise after
a very brief experience, as they found it
was impossible to conduct it profitably
without much larger capital than they
could command. They bade goodbye
to Newhall in December, 1889.
HE BECOMES s. A. BosTwICK.
At this time, Crandall for some rea-
son known only to himself, came to the
conclusion that his assumed name of
Wilson was out of style and that he
must get new one at all hazards. He
looked over several city directories and
after half q days work selected that of
S. A. Bostwick, as one peculiarly adapted
to his complexion and general style.
In company with Durand he went to
San Francisco where he spent two
weeks.
In reference to his career at Holister,
Manager w. s. Steinbeck to whom the
Times sent a photograph and history of
Crandall, writes:
"Upon showing the photograph to our
engineer he informed me that this party
going under the name of S. A. Bostwick
came here and ran for our engineer for
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pany's mills at Kings City, Monterey,
county, Cal, where he worked for some
little time.
she states that Bostwick was good,
careful engineer, and as far as he knows
was all right, any more than that he was
cocaine victim and that at the time
he thought he was under an assumed
name.
"Mr. Tracy, our engineer, also states
that he (Bostwick) directed several let
ters to Mrs. B. B. Wilson, Los Angeles.
Also, that he had letter from him a
short time ago requesting work"
At the same time that the Times ad-
dressed it's letter to Manager Steinbeck
at Hollister, CAL, it sent a similar COM
munication and a photograph to the
manager of the Central Milling compa-
ny's property, at Kings City, Monterey
county.
The same mail that brought the reply
of Mr.. Steinbeck brought one from the
other place. Here it is:
"There was man who signed himself
s. A. Bostwick, and resembled the pic
ture. He worked for us in
lister, where he had worked for a short
a. IL ha ,~I+
engineer.
"There was always mystery about
the man. We thought something was
wrong.
"He had no family, but had some one
at Los Angeles, and when he left here
always had his letters addressed to
woman Z. who, believe, he
claimed to be his sister.
"He used large amount of cocaine,
while here.
of Santa Cruz had no attractions for
Crandall The Nemesis OF fear pursued
him and he never laid down to slumber
but he was haunted with the dread fear
that it would be rudely broken by
summons from the officers of the law.
He accordingly left the Long Beach of
the Pacific and went further up the
coast to the quaint old Spanish town of
Monterey, where he passed some weeks
doing odd jobs at carpenter work. He
was also employed by the Pacific Coast
improvement company. A month or 80
more was spent at the neighboring viii
lage of Pacific Grove.
With Crandall every thirtieth day is
May day in 30 far as it carries with it
the idea of moving. So he was soon
once more on the jump. According to
his own story ne retraced his steps, and
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