The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-30
The Southern Pacific to
Cage Passengers.
rIATHENY AND WITNESSES,
Morgan Leaves the DavIe Company
Chinese Question: Father Car
ries Off His Daughter.


paid its debt TO the city for one of the
most valuable franchises ever given to a
CORPORATION, and will collect fare from
every passenger before he enters the cars,
and. whether be rides from one station to
another or the whole length OF the line. he
will be obliged 10 purchase ticket before
the privilege Will he granted him of being
locked up in a cage and moved to his des-
tinatiOn.
The passenger will be compelled to buy
a ticket at one OF the ticket offices, one of
which will be located a. each station. and
Will be charged cents to ride between
stations anywhere on the local line. When
the train stops at stations a man with a
gilt band around his cap will alieht at each
carstep and open the door for the passen-
ger and take tickets from those entering.
There will be no rOund-triD tickets be-
tween San Francisco and Oakland. The
passenger will buy ticket for 10 cents
either way.
Not until the 10th of October will the
so-ealled flyer" he removed. just why
is not known, unless il Is that the COM
pany will not be able to make arrange
meuts to that end before that time.
No arrangement has b5en made for stop
over tickets.
On the Southern Pacific Creek route the
and o'clock Sunday-boat will be taken
oil on the 1st of the month. The weekday
6-O'clock boat from San Francisco will also
be discontinued on this route.
The Mstheny Case.
The trial of Louis Matheny was resumed
yesterday. The usual big crowd was in
attendance.
The cross-examination of Thomas Tin
Mon, the sporting man, was resumed. He
knew TOuhill and stated that he made
dice used in ''sure-thing" gambling.
This witness was followed by Mrs. Kate
Thompson. wife OF Ira Thompson, the
witness who swore Toedt took him TO
Seventh and Peralta streets on Friday
night, March 10, Instead of MAthsny. Mrs.
Thompson cOrrOborated the testimony of
her husband 10 stating that he arrived at
home between and 3 o'clock in the morn
ing. On eross-examinati0n the witness
said she knew league, the detective, aud
that he had been at her house.
The next witness was another sport and
gambler named g. w. Young. who lives in
San Francisco. He said he was well ac
quainted with Joseph TOuhill IN his life
time. He had Touhill make a set of
crap dice for him and also some loaded
dice, which always came up skies" He
saw Matheny once at TouhilPs saloon.
Deputy Coroner Hart was recalled when
the fact was ELECTED that he held an in-
quest on the body OF Officer Cashin at his
house.
Superior Judge Ogden was called to tes-
lilly as to the powers of Identity of Officer
Nick Williams. The object was to impeach
Williams testimony, and q case was cited
which was tried before Judge Ogden rs
Police Judge In 1891. 1t was said that in
that particular case Williams had stated
that he had seen certain person, and it
was afterwaTd found that that person was
in jail. Judge Ogden stated that lie did
rot remember that particular case. and
records of the Police Court for that par
ticular month were missing.
After This witness came Coroner Evers.
whose testimony was unimportant He
was followed by Jalers Lane and GILL;
gan. The former testified that he worked
with Matheny as barkeeper on the fer
TieC He knew of All attempted jailbreak,
but was not at the jail at the time. JatIer
GIlligan said that Matheny took q - part Ia
was to show that Matheny was peaceable
fellow. at this stage Judge Henshaw
said:
The fact that this defendant did not
participate in the attempted iailbreak
proves nothing other than that defendant
was little more level-neAded than some
of the other prisoners.
Then followed testimony by j. n. Bruu-
son. by Colonel William Monroe of the
militia aud by newspaper reporters, but
nothing was ELECTED from them.
Another sporting man, j. p. Mccall, a
saloon-keeper, formerly of Seattle. was
then called. lie said he followed the
be had him make set OF loaded dice for
another party. In cross-examination Nc
Call said lie was gambler.
After Mccall came another sporting
man. James Allen, now running saloon
al Kearny and Jackson Streets San Fran
cisro. He was q baTkeeper in the saloon
at Grant avenue. Tinnion and Mathery
came in the evening after the Oakland
robbery. and when Maiheny said he had
just returned from SausalitO. Witness
said Matheny was very drunk and muddy
and sent TiDnion to his room for dry
clothes. On cross-eXamination witness
said the saloon at Grant avenue was
dance hall, and was frequented by men
who wanted TO come in and dance with
the women who were about the place. The
house was afterward closed by the authori-
ties.
Charles Kohler said he was the owner
of some of the property surrounding
Kuhlne's saloon. and that the soil in the
back yards had not been disturbed.
There was little mystery ss to just
what Mr.. Cook wanted with the testi-
mOny of the next witness, I'll. Cuppers an
who testified that he lived on
Third street, between Adoine and Mag
D0fla, ana on tbat stormy night or the rob
berry he got up about 2 o'clock 10 brace lis
barn, witch he was afraid would be blown
over. He said he had fair eyesight. and
that he would not be able to distinguish a
mans form more than four or five feet
away from him.
The testimony of this witness finished
the day. and court adjourned until Thurs
day next at 10 o'clock, Judge HeDshaw
stating that he had some cases 10 hear in
the meantime.
Carried OF His Daughter.
Barney Dean went on Thursday with
TO the house of Rev. Robert
Whitaker, In East Oakland. and took his
daughter Myrtle away by force.
The struggle of this young woman to get
away from her father and mother and join
the Baptist church has excited the atIen-
ton of people on both sides of tho bay.
MYRTLE declares that her parents are
hard pair and 10 not live together but Dean
says this is done for business purposes. as
he has a place in San Francisco and his
wife runs a clearinghouse in Sacramento.
He says he is not opposed TO the girls join
Ing a church, only she must not run off
from home in this manner.
In interviews had between Dean and Mr..
Whitaker 1t was determined to carry the
case to the courts, and to this end Attor-