The morning call., 1893-09-26
THE TRUNK FOUND
Thrown Up on the Beach
at Berkeley.
CONTENTS NOT YET KNOWN.
Bradstreet, the Drummer, Makes a
Statement as to Jacks Alleged
Marriage With Addie Giimour.

The missing trunk of poor Addie Gill
mour has turned up almost providentially
on the eve of the preliminary examination
of the man charged with her murder.
AT least trunk was found on the beach
at West Berkeley yesterday afternoon
which had the appearance of having been
in the water a considerable time. and is
now in the possession of Deputy Constable
Newell OF West Berkeley.
Newell called at police headquarters last
night aud from his description of the trunk
Detective B0hen thinks it is the one for
which they have been SO anxlously search
ing for some days past.
AS Newell had an important engage
ment in the city last night he was unable
TO bring the trunk with him, but be will
deliver it at police headquarters this
morning. He said that he had not ex-
amined the trunk more than TO take
mental description of its exterior and he
left positive instructions that during his
absence no one should be permitted to
touch ii or even to see it.
Detective BOhen said last night that if
1t was the missing trunk it would put an
end TO the only thing that the police re-
Quired to perfect the case. although quite
| ready to proceed this morning even with
out the trunk when the case is called in
\.
Nothing is known" he said, ''of the
contents of the trunk, or whether it is
empty or full. IL 1t has been used as
means OF carrying away from DR.. Vests
Office the dismembered body of the girl, as
we suspect it has, il may snow evidence to
confirm that sus iciOn or it may not. All
that will be cleared up tomorrow morning
| when it is brought over here. But still,
although the trunk found on the beach at
| Berkeley appears to answer the descrp-
ton Of Addie Gilmours trunk. il may not
| be IL after all.
day yesterday in hunting for the missing
| trunk among expressmen, hackmen and
any one that could possibly be employed
In carting it away from DR.. Vests Office.
L. w. Bradstreet, the drummer whose
! statement was given in morning paper
entered into between Addie Gilmour and
Jack" McGrury, called at The CALL
editorial rooms yesterday and made ths
following statement:
Il was at the Golden West Hotel last
night, and was discussing the West case
| with two or three others. During the dis
cussion happened TO say that l was ac-
| quainted with Jack McGrury, when one
| Of the party said he would like to get an
Introduction to Jack. This man went out
shortly afterward and returned with an
other man, who said his name was Miller
Il Ca Il
| found afterward that he was a reporter.
He said he wanted to hear anything good
| might have to say about Jack.
I'VE adjourned to the wine room in the
hotel and / told them of my acquaintance
with Jack, during which from rOnyersa-
tions l mad with him / was impressed with
the plausibility of the story substantially
| as it appears in the paper.
but the Examiner reporter only MEM
orized it ana published it with several
mistakes, the most important one being
that | knew the marriage of Jack and
| Adde GilmOur TO be fact. 1t was, on
the contrary. merely my opinion drawn
| from various conversations with McGrury
leading me TO believe that the marriage
was fact. But McGrury never told me
in so many words that Addie Gilmour was
| his wife,.
1T is a mistake that stated 1 had seen
| certain letters that had afterward been re-
| ferred to in the papers.
ut also stated about certain CONVEX
sations L had about Jacks wife. The
| paper has made mistake in the dates and
has also put in the word wife where it
| was never used by me.
LAS to further conversations L will have
nothing to say, except on the witness
| stand"
| Annie Staley has made no further at
| tempt 10 obtain permit to see her sweet
| heart, DR.. West. 1t is expected that al the
i tO~udy sue VIII
| be called as witness for the defense. Ii so
much curiosity is felt as to the nature of
/ her evidence, and whether the prosecution
will get an opening TO ask her some very
pertinent questions.
| DR.. West was as bright and jaunty as
| ever yesterday and he seems either utterly
| callous or prefers to adopt the cheerfully
n0nchalant style as sort of bluff. he
was the recipient of several calls from
ladies yesterday and beamed upon them in
benignant way that was under the cir
cumstances peculiar and refreshing.