The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-21

ment more severe than the limitations of
modern justice will permit.
This is the simple story as derived from
police sources: Miss Gilmour came TO San
Francisco from her Colosa home ostensibly
on a business trip, but really for the pur-
pose OF having a criminal operation per-
formed. She went to DR.. West, accom-
panied by young man, who represented
himself as her brother. but who in all
probability was responsible for her con-
dition. Dr. West agreed 10 receive her,
and Miss GilmOur went back to her lodg-
iDgs to prepare herself Tor the ordeal, and
told the people at the hotel that she was
going away to be with friends for short
time.
Sha returned to DR.. Vests office, the
operation was performed, and there,
under the knife and in the operating chair
facing the little window which looks ont
on Jones street, and within few feet Of
crowds of passers-by, Ada r. GilmOur died.
The crime committed, how to conceal it
became the next concern. Once more the
knife was whetted, and the poor girls
body was cut into small pieces the better
to avoid detection, and thus thrown into
the bay-food for tho fishes and a cloak
for the awful crime. But while there
could be small danger of Identification
from any one OF the many pieces Of the
body, the head. if found. might give a
clew which would lead to discovery So a
piece of wire netting. with rather large
meshes, was secured and wrapped about
the head after the hair had been removed
and sGme of the flesh cut away.
This was then anchored to a tree on the
Sausallto shore, and then secured from be-
ing washed ashore with the rising tide the
,Nny nf h.
weeks remove the last vestigeAof flesh and
leave the beached and whitened skull.
and the last ceW which might lead to the
author of the crime would have vanished.
Had it not been for the fact that some
rowing fishermen went that way the rIan
would probably have been successful. Bnt
when the nets became entangIed in the
wire and the haul proved OF such a sur
prising nature, 1t gave the officers Of the
law something to work on. which resulted
in the arrest of the man who has already
admitted at least his knowledge of the
crime.
But it was a narrow margin, and, as
Chief Crowley said fast night, the retf-
cence of the members of the family came
very near To making the solution Of the
mystery an impossibility.
Immediately after the arrival OF Mr..
de Jarnatt, the brother-in-law Of the muir
dered girl, he was informed by Mr.. and
Mrs. Austin that she had been undergoing
treatment from DR.. West, and that from
the nature Of his specially in the prOfes
sion, IL was possible that an operation had
been performed which might have re-
suited in her death. Mrs. Austin, as has
been stated, was head trimmer in the
wholesale millinery-house of Topitz g.
Co., whore Miss Glmour was a customer.
and from their acquaintance thus formed
an intimacy hac sprung up, and Mrs. Aus
tin knew something OF her friends move
menis.
De Jarnatt and Mrs Austin worked on
this information until the elder Glmour
arrived on Monday morning. That after
noon the father, accompanied by Mrs.
Austin, went to the doctors office, after
the head at SausaIito had been partly