The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-05
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE.
Mrs. Matte Toy Suspected of
Doing the Deed.
POLICE UNABLE TO FIND HER.
Tom Dooley, Assistant Engineer on
the Steamer Acapulco, Held
Pending Developments.

A shooting ARRAY occurred at 6S Everett
street about 1 o'clock yesterday aftern on
and the police are experiencing consider
able difficulty in getting at the facts, owing
to the reticence of the parties concerned.
The man shot is Robert V. Ojeda. assist
ant engineer of the steamer Queen. which
arrived in mort on Saturday. His mother
lives at 9251a Mission street. He was taken
10 the Receiving Hospital, where Dr.
SOmers found that the bullet had entered
just below the breast bone on the left side
and had lodged in the liver. He thought
the wound would prove fatal
When Ojeda was on the operating table
he was asked who shot him, and he re-
piled, "My FRIEND" but more than that he
would not say. Just then Tom Dooley.
assistant engineer on the steamer Aca-
pulco, entered the hospital in a state of
great excitement He said that he had
heard that his bosom friend Bob Ojeda
had been shot He went up to Ojeda, who
turned his head away from him and made
sign that he did not wish To speak TO
him. DoOley whispered in his ear, and
Ojeda said, Gall right; l won't say any
thing"
Some one rang the telephone in the hos
pital. ana DR.. SOmers answered it. He
told DoOley that person giving the name
of Appegate wanted to speak 10 him
about Ojeda. D0oley spoke through the
telephone. and his answers showed that
he knew about the shooting. Two police
men, who were present, thought it ad-
visable to detain him in custody pending
further developments, and he was locked
up in the City Prison.
A visit TO IS Everett street elected the
information that it was occupied by Mrs.
Matte Toy, a widow, who sometimes
oallnd hercplf Mrs EmarsnO Sha to
he a regular frequenter of Pete Dorsey's
saloon. She has three children, two boys
and girl, and one of the boys is now
serving term in the House of Carrec tion
for burglary. Mrs. Toy had disappeared
i'm IN ediately after The shooting, and a
neighbor, Mrs. Potter, who pr0fessed to
know nothing whatever about the occu-
pants of the house or the shooting was in
charge.
James Clark, who lives above Mrs. Toys
fiat, said he was sitting on the porch ex-
aiming the municipal tickets. when he
saw Mrs. Toy with disOrdered hair and
wearing a gaudy-colored morning gown
rush out of the house into the arms of
Miss Harris, the daugh ter of a neighbOr, and
disappear into the Harris house. About
two minutes afterward two men came
hurriedly out of the house. one of them a
stout built man and the other slim built.
The stout man went toward Fourth street
and the slim man toward Third street.
Then a crowd began to gather
Mrs Harris, who is on sick bed, said
she heard a noise 10 Mrs. Toys house as If
chairs were being overturned, and then
woman's screams. A minute or TWO after
ward Mrs. Toy, looking as pale as death,
rushed into her room aud stood without
utteriDg a word at the foot Of her bed.
Mrs. Harris mother. who Is with her
daughter during her sickness, not knowing
Mrs. Toy. ordered her out of the house.
ha fn hn L tnh onH pr,l
the rear door into her own house again. A
few minutes afterward she came out of
her front door wearing q street costume.
and went toward Third street. That was
the last seen of her. Detectives Dillon
and Crockett are Cd her trail and expect 10
find her before long.
The detectives found in the front room
where Ojeda was shot a light overcoat and
a cutaway coat. In the pocket of the
overcoat was an envelope with the address,
-. +. Duff, marine engineer, 136 Fair Oaks
street"
They had an interview with Dooley in
the prison. DOoley admitted that the
oVercoat belonged to him, and that the en-
velOpe with Duff address was put in the
pocket by hun. Duff, he said, was an en-
gneer on the steamer Acapulco. and when
he left the steamer about o'clock yester-
day morning Duff was in his bunk par
alyZed with drink. He and Duff and
aud Ojeda went to her house yesterday
morning, but he went away, leaving Ojeda
there. When he got to Stockton and Mar
ket streets dope" fiend raI up to him
and told him Oieda had been shot and was
at the hos pital
He was inclined to stick TO this story.
but on being closely questioned he ad-
mltted he was in the house when Ojeda
was shot, but refused positively to say who
fired the shot or who was the other man
that left the house with him Immediately
after the shooting.
go and get Ojada to make statement. I"
lie said, ''and then | may talk. There may
be some interesting developments" The
detectives believe that Dooley fired the
shot and are working upon that theory.
Ojeda's mother visited him at the hos
| pitai, but he refused to tell her who shot
him, telling her TO mind her own business
She said he had not been home all night
as she thought his steamer had not arrived
| till yesterday morning.
The detectives up to late hour last
| night had been unable to find any trace of
Mrs. Toy. She is in hiding somew ere. but
her capture Is only question of time.
They are now under the preston, after
further inquiry, that it was she and not
Doolev who fired the shot at Ojeda
1t appears that Ojeda, before going East
for MS health some months ago, was a
favorite of Mrs. Toy, but he had made up
his nina not 10 nave anything more to do
with her when be returned, which was
about two weeks ago. He got position
on the steamer Queen and had just made
the return voyage on her.
The superstition is that Mrs. Toy had by
some pretext or other got Ojeda to call
upon her yesterday. and being maddeneu
at his intention to keep away from her she
shot him. The police say she is a danger
ous woman. and TWO or three years ago
stabbed Thomas Tlerney, an insurance
man, in a saloon. her eldest son, Will
liam, has. it appears. completed his SEN
tence in the House of Correction for burg
larry and is now wanted by the police for
being one of the four young men VINO
robbed Jack COnnors about two weeks ago
in Jimmy Wright's saloon. on Everett
street.
OJeda still refuses to say who shot him.
Pete Dorsey, who has known him since he
was a boy, tried hard last night to get him
tn say who il was, but was unsuccessful
1t is thought he wants 10 shield the ON an.
The police could not find a pistol in Mrs
Toys house. and il is supposed that she
had sense enough to take it with her when
she fed from the house.
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