The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-22
EVIDENCE FROM OAKLAND.

The Oakland Tribune of last night saws :
Miss Howard, living at S15 Clay street,
this city, makes the most damaging state
ment in the whole chain of evidence which
is being woven around DR.. Eugene F.
West of 132 Turk street, San Francisco.
tending to prove that Miss Ada Gilmour
died as result of a criminal operation
performed by him and that he butchered
ner remains and then threw them into the
bay to hide the evidence OF his crime.
Miss Howard was a patient of Dr.
Vests. She met Miss Gilmour twice at
the doctors office.
On Thursday last human head was
found at Sausalito, where it had been
washed ashore.
The head was not identified until Tues
day as that Of the missing Ada Gilmour.
Yet on Sunday. when Miss Howard Wis
tied the doctors Office. he made a strange
and unusual request of her.
He apparently realized the predicamen t
he was in, and he asked Miss Howard to
tell lie TO assist him.
She supposed that it was a harmless
falsehOOd and consented to do so.
DIR. West requested Miss Howard to tell
that Miss Gilmour boarded an Oakland
AOAiJ- WIN az tue 1UOb VI
street; that on the trip over Miss Gilmour
told her that she was respondent and that
she contemplated suicide; that she tried to
persuade her not TODD so: that she went
into the ladies' saloon and aid not again
come out; that she watched for her, but
when the boat landed she did not leave it.
DIR. West requested Miss Howard to tell
anybody who questioned her that when
she heard that Miss Gilmour was missing
she supposed that she had committed sui
eide.
All this conversation between the doctor
and Miss Howard occurred on Sunday last
Ii was before the doctor was under sus-
picion, and even before the head was
known to be that of Miss Gilmour.
Miss Howard made true statement OF
her connection with the case of the miss
ing Miss Gilmour to Tribune reporter
this morning.
The lady is a fair appearing blonde,
about 20 years of age. She resides with
her parents in a little white cottage on
Clay street, just below Seventh.
81 am very SORRY" she said, that my
name has been connected with this case in
any way. 1t is very distasteful to me and
to my parents.
when l visited DR.. Vests Office on
Sunday last and he asked me to make
statement about seeing Miss Gilmour on
the boat l did not think there was any
harm in doing so and fOOlishly consented
/ now realize that l made mistake and a
big one. But he had treated me very
kindly, and as the request seemed to be a
small one thought that l could regard IT,
Anyway, told the story of meeting
Miss Gilmour on the boat to several of
my friends. The San Francisco police
have the names of those parties.
''But what l told was misstatement. l
never did meet Miss Gilmour on the ferry
boat.
In fact, never met her but twice in
my life. and that was in the doctors office.
We passed each other and merely spoke /;
that was all.
II had no idea at the time the doctor
asked me to tell about the ferry-boat
meeting that it would be of so much i'm
pOrtance."
Miss Howard declined to give her first
name, but it is understood thatit is Annie.
She has resided in Oakland for two years,
having come here from Stockton. Her
standing in the community has never been
questioned