The morning call., 1893-08-24
OVER IN OAKLAND.
j. j. Peters Is Reported
Missing.
FATELY AND HIS CREDITORS.
The Merritt Estate Again-Martin
O'Neil Jr. Convicted Captain
f1ackett Replies.

1880 Fifth street, route-owner on the
Tribune. also owner of the frutstand at
the Wilson market. is missing, and it is
supposed he has been drowned
tuesday Peters went to Tiburon on a
fishing trip, hired a boat and went ont
alone. Early yesterday morning the boat
was found capsiZed. but nothing was seen
OF Peters, and 1t is thought he must have
been drowned. The boat was found some
distance out in the bay. Yesterday after
noon word came from the boathouse at
Tiburon making inquiries for the missing
man.
The young man working for Peters at
the truitstand said that Peters had gone
TO San Rafael, expecting to return in day
or two The wife was at the store yester-
day. and stated that she expected her hus-
band home yesterday.
HIS friends are very neasy over the
matter, and fear he has been drowned.
Wants a Hundred Thousand.
| Horace A. Redfield, the husband of the
woman who died from injuries received
by runaway electric car on the cemetery
| branch of the Oakland Consolidated Street
Railroad, was yesterday appointed guar
| dian ad lltem OF his two minor children,
! Lowell and Matte.
| Mr.. Redfeld then filed papers in suit
| for damages against the company to the
extent OF 100000. and for $1,000 additions al
| for the time and income sacrificed by him
while absent from his business as musical
director during attendance on his wife in
| her illness.
| This fual step of instituting a damage
suit was taken by Mr.. Redfieid only after
his attorneys had held several conferences
/ with the directors of the COMPANY and
mad DpRn n of foo
tory comrrOmise.
Hall d Earle represent the plaintiff, and
1t Is 0bable that the suit will be pushed
with energy. The amount of damages
VIII be fxed by jury.
Troubled FateIy.
After his brilliant but short engage
ment before the people of Oakland Arthur
b. Fately has been retired from the public
mind without so much as a thought-ex-
cent from the collectors.
lie was compelled to pay two months
rent for the pretty nest on the corner of
Nineteenth and West streets, into which
he was TO have taken his last love con-
quest. Then he still ows SOS to E. Hook,
the dealer from whom he had purchased
iurpiture last November. 1t is not known
which Of his loves this furniture was for.
but the collector is hard after him.
And then he still owes that little bal
ance to the undertakers which he held
contract wife's big brother with which to
pay his mOther-in-law' funeral expenses.
Mr.. Chapman, the attorney for Mrs.
tately, Is waiting Tor the young man to
make move. He denies that any offer
has been made to MS client looking to a
compromise with Fately. Mr.. Chapman
says; I'VE have no compromise to make.
She is his wife. and that's all there is to
the case"
Mrs. FateIy has not seen her husband
since Friday last. He has evidently Sc
cluded himself till the storm blows over.
Young Martin O'Nsn.
Martin ONeil Jr., the son of the man
now incarcerated in the San Francisco
prison charged with the murder of Mrs
Kate Critics in a waterfront saloon, was
tried before Judge Allen yesterday and
convicted by the jury after few minutes
deiberation on charge of battery, COM
mtted on an old man named George
CreveriDg on May IA last.
O'Neil Jr. was drunk at the time of the
beating and kicking. He pleaded his own
case, claiming that what he did was done
in self-defense. His old mother sat by
him yesterday in court
Young ONeil is hard enough working
fellow when sober. but be has been in
trouble before through his drinking, and
always heretofore his mother has been
able to get him out OF trouble. He will be
sentenced to-day.
Hackets Talks Back.
At meeting of the Board of Public
Works, Tuesday night, Captain John
Hackett had his inning in the matter of
the Lake Merritt dredging. His figures
differ widely from those submitted by City
Engineer Morgan in his report.
Captain Hackett claims that the CITY
Engineer had no authority to direct the
dredging to cease, and he, considering
such TO be the case. did not stop werk un-
til ordered TO do so by the Board of Public
Works on July Is.
He says that most of the mud dredped
since June II. to wit. the 2O,60O yards.
went behind the boulevard lines,
After a protracIed Informal discussion.
which only resulted in complicating mat
ters to greater extent than they were
originally, the board adjourned until 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. At this meet
ing both the City Engineer and Captain
Hackett filed briefs.
Merritt Affairs.
Yesterday afternoon Harry P. Merritt
gave personal notice that he would on
Monday next move the court 10 appoint
receiver to take charge OF the entire Mer-
ritt estate. He makes the move on the
ground OF being claimant of half the
estate.
In this connection he also gets in die
at John A. Stanly, as he asks that the re-
ceiver be empowered to take charge of the
$4,000 said to have been exaeted from
Mrs. Garcelon for attorney fees by Stanly.
The report OF Marcuse, the auctioneer
who sold the belongings of the Merritt
mansion, is that the sale realized S41OS
The goods were appraised at S21OO.
A P"sthumous Suit.
The suit of Mary E. Durant against G.
A. Kllnkner. commenced in December
1891, and set for trial in Judge Renshaw's
court, was concluded yesterday. Since the
suit was begun both of the original parties
have died.
The suit grew out of demand by plaiu
tiff for S4500 damages for alleged forcible
interference with the enjoyment of the
possession of the Klinknerville Del Monte
Hotel and failure to comply with the terms
of lease.
Kinkner filed denial and cross-com-
Dlaint for S1031 so. alleged to be due for
DELINQUENT rents ana instailments on fur
niture purchased and money advanced.
Fair KIeptomaniscs.
A pleasant social held last week at the
at the home of prominent family of Four
teenth street is having an unsavory after