The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-03-15

rounded by an iron railing, not exceeding In
value the sum of $500.
Lastly. l hereby nominate and appoint Will
liam Price of The San Francisco police force,
and Henry Sylvester my executors.
AMELIA HOFFMAN.
Dated January 81, 1887 and Witnessed by
Medora and j. B. Smithard and William Price.
AS early as July so, 1892 Henry Sylves-
ter appealed for a settlement of the estate
and resigned as executor. His petition
reads:
mo money or property of any kind whatever
Of said estate has come into the hands or under
control OF your petitioner in the course of his
administration as executor, and no money or
properly Of said estate whatever has come into
The hands Of any one as agent or through the
agency OF your petitioner"
Sylvestei's petition was granted.
Supervisor James made no move to
force his claims to the Hoffman estate
until after the property had been sold to
Gilleran.
All proceedings on his part were per-
fectly legal so far as his knowledge Of the
title to Inc property was concerned.
Mr.. James is reputed TO be worth several
millions of dollars, but 1t is alleged he is
always keen for a good bargain, being q
business man and clever SPECTATOR.
Should the pending suit b e decided in
the boys favor. either Gileran or James
will probably be looked to for the sum OF
about S6000
Mrs. Eliza Kirsch late in the afternoon
furnished the inventory of Mrs. Hoffman,
estate according TO her ideas of values. In
bonds alone there were from $4,000 to
hnu
tate $4,000, diamonds $1,000; wagons,
horses and harness $1,000, making a total
of about S36. 900.
"When.' said she. twill poor Frank get
the fortune that has so long been kept
from him ?"
Mrs. Eliza Z. Krsch. the woman who
has been instrumental in bringing to light
the strange birth. life and loss of inheri.
lance of Frank Ferdinand Wass, was
found at her home, 800 Twenty-second
street. yesterday afternoon.
In the same house with her was Mrs
Phillips, the landlady of the boarding.
house at SAG Howard street, where Frank
has been staying for the past ten days, and
the boy himself. He had been spirited
away from his home by his landlady
shortly after dinner and taken to Mrs.
Kirsch's for hiding.
The reason for this was the fear of those
who are taking kindly interest in this case
that after the publication of his address in
| The CALL an ATTEMPT would be made Il
kdnap him by some one working in the In
terest of his guardian.
A II were safely slowed away when til,
door bell rang and for time it looked al
though arguments would be unavailing t
| secure an interview with either the boy o.
his friend Mrs. Kirsch.
After receiving every assurance tina
THE CALL representatives were not Their,
for the purpose of getting the boy out O
their hands the door was thrown omen anf
an interview granted.
| Before beginning on her story Mrs
Kirsch explained how in years long ag,
she became acquainted with Mrs. Hoff
! man.
The latter, when she first met her, wa
keeping a founding asylum In the sam,
place where she died almost twenty year
! later.
Mrs. Klrsch was poor widow, who's,
husband died short Def ore, leaving her ;
sickly child to support.
| While accepting outside work she me
Mrs. Hoffman. and through all the remain