The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
OVER IN OAKLAND.
AWoman's Charge Against
a Dead Man.
MARY SCHWEB'S DIVORCE.
Elrhurst Votes to Issue School Bonds.
An Explicit Cross-Complaiut in
a Divorce Suit.
MARY sCHWEB's DIVORCE.

a WoAIAN's SToRY.-One Of the Califor-
MIA rich men died few weeks ago and the
skeleton in his closet Just commenced to
rattle rs bones yesterday. There promises
TO be Gu te a scandal concerning ii, for the
Z man involved was II. D. Bacon, the we'll
known capitalist and philanthropist.
Mrs. Maria Nevln of San Francisco
claims to have been his mistress ever since
she was Is years old, twenty-five years ago.
hEe has always lived at the best of hotels in
the city and lately confessed to the land
lady Of the Burlington Hotel about her re-
lations with Bacon. She said that she had
been cut off without means and intended 10
commit suicide.
She disappeared and the landiady told
tile story and reported the disappearance
The Oakland friends of Mr.. Bacon be-
lieye it TO be blackmail. and demand proof
before they will believe otherwise.
Mr.. Bacon left widow and several chill
dren, 10 whom he beQueathed his property.
Mrs. NeyIn is an athletic blonde" and
always had lots Of gentlemen friends. -
while no one remembers ever having seen
Mr.. Bacon in her company
THE PD1ENTALs.-Pretty Juanita Pimeu-
tai was IN court this morning in company
with the lady with whom she is now stop
ping, Mrs. Jamison and younger daughter
was also there with the divorced wife of
Plmental, who had testified against him and
who now seems to be on amicable terms
With her husband. The gathering was in
response to the writ Of habeas corpus gotten
out by PimentaL Juanita said she was
not restrained OF her liberty by Mrs. Jami-
son, that she did not want to 90 to her
father, and did not at all relish being Sc
questered in convent. She says she wants
20 live with Mrs. JamisoD, and that lady
evidently wants her, as she has prepared a
petition for letters of guardianship over the
girl. Mrs. JamisOn said that Plmental did
not want 10 send the girl to a convent: that
this was only pretFXt OF his to get control
Of her. The father is determined, and the
struggle promises to be most heated one.
The LETTER He WRoTE.-An old man
named Asa Hatch thought to get $4,000
from the railroad company for damages in
being hurt while alighting from defendants
train on Seventh street month since. To-
day the jury decided that Mr.. Hatch was
not to receive anything. 1t appears that
Hatch had been in communication with the
railroad authorities in regard TO the matter,
as the attorneys for the corporation intro
duced in evidence a letter from Hatch to
Huntington, containing the following: 81
would rather, If possible, bly, settle
the claim, and l appeal to YOU to do me JUS
tice and award me what is right. Mr.. Allen,
my attorney, has just put in a claim for
$500. wrote to Mr.. Stanford, but his an
Mr.. Huntington answered Hatch's letter
and referred the matter to Mr.. Fabens, who
he said, lis wise and just man."
Town SITE.-There was peculiar suit
on trial before Judge Ogden yesterday. II
involved the whole site of the town of
Decoto ana was brought by Simon Kosh-
land and others against Francis s. Spring
and diners to recover money paid and TO
cancel q contract. A few years ago Spring
agreed to sell the site to Koshland for
$4,000. Koshland paid 5000 down and
when the abstract came out il was found
that nearly 100 acres OF the land had been
dedicated for public streets. Koshland
hadn't bargained for streets and wanted TO
20 back on his bargain. BE sued to recover
the $1,000. Spring put in crOss-complaint
to compel the specific performance cf the
contract and the payment OF the $50. 900 still
due.
Now BANKRUPT.-A petition In in
solYeney has been filed in San Francis o by
Professor Homer b. Sprague. who had beeD
at the head Of the Peraita Hall Seminary,
in Berkeley. a school for young ladies he
had opened at Perata Hall in the hand
some building erected a few years ago for
suburban hotel by NJ. Il. Curtis, the actor.
Professor Sprague's liabilities are: 5. l..
Winchester, $4,000; j. K. Stewart, a
Berkeley grocer, 1863 81; Z. Hook. SAG 80;
w. II. Taylor. $50. and many minor amounts
10 other parties His assets are S1156 20.
A suit recently brought against him by Mrs.
Prill FASTENED his insolvency course.
ACCUSES THREE MEN.-Wiliam Hughes,
Claude Smith and II. Smith have been