The morning call., 1894-11-15
She Studies Opiates in
Prison.
TEMESCAL HOME REBUILT.
Sudden Death of a WeII-Known
'..< Pc San Franciscan.
THE FRIsKY FLEA IN OAKLAND.
The Official Count Gives Mcdonald
J. an Extra Vote in the Forty
Ninth District.
THE FREsKY FLEA IN OAKLAND.

OAKLAND.-A very pretty little story
is connected with the escape of Henry
Smythe. the swindler, from the Deputy
Marshal, Henry Mill, I, and the train which
was taking him to Chicago, where he was
TO stand trial for his crimes.
Smythe, it will be remembered, was ar
rested at San Lorenzo not long ago by
Postal Inspector Erwin on a charge of the
Illegal use of the United States mails. He
had taken the name of a prominent citizen
and by a cleyerly arranged plan was
waiting to get possession of a large
invoice of goods which he had or
dered for the prominent citizen whose
name he had assumed. Before the con-
summation of his plot, however, he was
titled as a swindler who had operated
In various parts of the Union and swim
dled several Chicago merchants ont OF
many hundreds of dollars. Then Erwin
arrested him and Miller was detailed to
take him back to Chicago, the scene OF
his grea est crime.
Smythe's wife and child were permitted
to accompany the husband and father and
ride with him in the same car. At Texar-
kama, TeXas-ATkansas, Mrs. Smythe gave
the obliglng Deputy Marshal a cup of cof-
fee. which she had prepared in the
secrecy of her berth. An hour and hall
ached fearfuily. At Little Rock he al ght-
ed from the train In order TO get some air,
and until the train started up again paced
up and down the station platform.
When the train hauled out be jumped
aboard, but Smythr, his wife and child,
had disappeared. While the train was at
standstill they had made their escape
through the rear door of their car. which
had Deen opened by a waterman. Miller
claimed that Mrs. Smvthe put some Oplate
into the coffee which she so kindly gave
him, and which he so ingenuously &C
cepted.
Strong evidence that MilleT's suspicion
was well founded has been furnished by
one A ,kirsoD, who was confined in the
county jail in this city during the time
that SmyIhe also occupied a cell in the
same prison. This Atkinson called at The
county Jail yesterday and told Jaller Lane
that he felt indirectly responsible 1or
Smythe's escape. Lane was greatly sur
prised. and asked the fellow TO elaborate
his somewhat mysterious admission, and
this Atkinson proceeded to do.
It appears that he is somewhat ac-
quainted with the properties and uses of
various drugs. he made the acquaintance
- of Mrs. Smythe through her husband, and
when she learned that he knew something 2
about chemistry she suddenly developed a
great interest in the subject of opiates and
she pumped" Atkinson until she knew
should use to accomplish certain specific
results.
She made use of the knowledge on Mil
Ter. There is no doubt hat she put suffi-
Cieut opium or morphine in the coffee she
gave him to so stupefy him as 10 render
the escape OF her husband not only posi-
bic out certain.
Deputy Marshal Miller is now convinced
that a man can never know too much
that the older he grows the more be knows
md irDh n Nyaira inn n Trn nE U5snp ic
the man who Will profit not only by his
own experiences, but by those OF others as
we'll In future he will more highly value
Wifely devotion, for he now knows that it
Hlll 60 TO any extreme.
The Home Rebuilt.
The Cbidren's Home at Temescal, which
was destroyed by fire Oh May l last, has
been rebuilt and will be dedicated on Fri
day afternoon next at 30 O'Clock, Rev.
Alfred Hummer officiating.
The new building is a much more i'm
posing ed fee than the old, and being
built with special object in view is more
convenient 10 every respect than the old.
II is $50 feet in length by fifty feet wide,
while the arms at elmer end are fifty feet
square. leaving a court 50X50 for lawn.
The basement is eemented and can be
used as a playground in bad weather.
The new home is in charge Of Miss
Sheppard, who has ffiy-three little ones
=
home can be doubled at any time by the
completion Of the attic. There is every
convenience for The care of the little ones,
and the sanitary features were made a
special study by the architect. The new
home cost SIS 600.
The credit for the work done is due TO
the officers of the society, though all the
members have exhibited much enterprise
in securing the e@ building. The officers
at present are as follows:
Honorary president, Mrs. l.. f. Dam 4:
president. Mrs. h. c. Williams; first vice
president, Mrs. B. f. Dunham; second
vice president, Mrs. }. E. McElrath !;
treasurer. Miss E. Miner; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. George ?. Morrow; CORE spopd-
ing secretary, Miss Jessie Campbell.
The board OF lady managers are: Mes
DANES Charles T. Blake, Charles Craven
Charles Cotton, George c. Edwards. Fl. F.
Gordon, Lillencranz, c. Z. Palmer, Fred
eFick StrattoB. o. l.. Shafte7, George E.
Whitney, j. L. Wright, Henry Wads-
worth, James SDiers and the Misses NJ. p.
KeeDe and Louise de Fremery.
The board of lady directors are: Mes
danes Z. g. Matthew'S, j. Z. McElrath.
jefferson Maurv, George Morrow, A. j.
RaIston, J. L. n. Shepard, E. c. Williams.
r. G. Brown, c. G. Clay, L.. Il. Dam, B. F,
Dunham, w. d. Gillette and the Misses e.
L. Blake, Jessie Campbell, A. E. Miner.
Races and Horses for Oakland.
Ever since Alameda County's Super-
visors prohibited the selling Of pools
within the sacred precincts of the county
the famous old Oakland Trotting Parl,
has been relegated to bicyclists and to
butchers and bakers, who. TO settle an
early-mOrning dispute as 10 the relative
merits Of their cart horses, would run a
slow race at the track on the succeeding
Sunday. But the TrOtting Psfk js now
under the control of the California Jockey
Club. and il will not be long before the old
place will regain its past glOries and again
re-echo with the shriekS of female en-
thusiasts and the tumultuous betting OF
male ''plungers."
IT is promised that Oakland shall here
after have forty days of racing each year.
twenty days in May and twenty days in
the fall To this end the accommodations
of the Oakland track will be greatly in
creased. The grand aud will be torn
down and reconstructed after en- tlrely new
and different plans. The running track.
always fast, will be put in magnificent
form. and the inside track will be trans
formed into a frst-class steeplechase-
hurdles, water jump, ditches. stiff uphill
grade and all the elements which expert
ence has proved will most effectually try
the speed and endurance Of a steeple-
chaser.
The horses which are booked for the
first Oakland meeting 10 May Of next year
include many of the foremost horses now
at the Bay District track in San Francisco
and many other Eastern cracks. The first
races will be almost exclusively for trot-