The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-12

from the Sather Bank and from the Paclhc
Bank, when found was in the hole with
nv property down sOuth-on THIS owens
Valley Water Company, the Lone JACK
and Sylvania mines, my losses In the Gail.
forDia Gaslight and Fuel Company, and
the San Francisco Natural Gas and OIL
Company of Contra Costa County. And
you can understand. when | borrowed from
thirty to forty thousand dollars at extrava-
CANT rates of interest, with Dig bonuses.
that before / knew where l was l was
deeply in debt In this condition | under
took TO slow matters down until l could
turn my property into cash and pay all
my bills. | am still confident can do this
il they will let me alone
81 carried that pistol because Frenna
threatened to kill me. think it was two
or three months ago that he came to my
him. He pulled my whiskers and abused
me most shamefullY. [ did not care to
have him arrested, SO [ went to the Chief
of Police and asked for permission to
carry a revolver. 1t was refused, and
obtained the weapon and carried it with
out permission. That's all about it,"
Turner admits giving a deed, through
Lizzie O'Donnell. to Frenna for the Snow
ranch, but SAYS it was with the under
standing that it was a mortgage and not
to be recorded He denies that he alb
stracted it from any envelope or that he
afterward pretended to Frenna that it
had been recorded. He admits likewise
that Miss O'DonHell signed deeds to the
same piece of property to Judah BoaS, j.
j. Pagan and V. Duhem. as charged by
Freuna. but states that they were given TO
each with full understanding of previous
membranes and were only mortgages.
he gives an approximate idea OF the
claims against him about as follows: E. j.
Fretwell OF the American Bank and Trust
same concern, $4,000; Bertz. $4,000; J.
P. Frenna, $17.500; Judah Boas, $1,000;
Pacific Bank, $4,000; Sather Bank,
$15,0 600; small claims, $4,000 This makes
total of $685.
He gives his property as follows, esti-
mated roughly: Invested in the Lone
Jack mine, Ell Dorado County, $35, 900; in
the San Francisco Natural Gas and Oil
Company, Contra Costa County and the
Tar ranch. $4,000; in the Owens Valley
Water Company. Inyo County, $4,000;
Syvania mine. Esmeralda County, New,
$4,000; in Antelope Ranch Company.
$4,000; real estate held as collateral,
appraised valuations; with FretWell,
100000; with FagaB, $4,000; with BertZ,
$4,000; with Frenna, $4,000, making a
total of $685., 000
Mr.. Frenna was very positive last night
that Turner was all the swindler he had
charged him TO be. He reiterated all the
statements made in his affidavits and said
he had documentary evidence TO prove
every one of his assertions.
He's very smooth" said Mr. Frenns,
land has succeeded in keeping me off on
one pretenSe or an other for nearly two
years nOw-in fact since | had my eyes
opened to his methods, when Megginson
brought his suit.
'Time and again I have gone to his of
fee feeling very bitterly against him, but
each time l have left with renewed assur-
ances of his approaching ability to pay. l
probably would not have had him arrested
now had l not become certain that he was
preparing to leave town.
about his attempt to reach for that re-
yolvsr, | am not very much surprised. I
remember distinctly on one occasion he
told me that if pushed too hard he would
commit suicide"
There are many other stories of alleged
shady transactions in which Turner has
figured, and it is more than likely that the
present criminal charges will bring them
out more fully than in the former expose.