The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
The Fabiola Hospital Robbed
: by a Probationary
-. Nurse.
A BABY sCALDED TO DEATH.
DIM. Heagerty Arrested on Charge
:. -: of Arson Lambert at
: Liberty

dentials of the candidate will be scrutin-
lied with extraordinary care, and the ref
erences must be of an uniInpeachable char
acter before the applicant is admitted to
the sanitarium. This state of affairs was
brought about by a recent and very un-
pleasant experience, which for a time
threatened to disrupt the institution.
.. About month ago the directory of the
hospital, whichis composed of ladies prom
lnent in social and charitable circles, was
Mortified to learn that a thief was being
harbored in the building and that, despite
the close watch which had been kept, no
clew to the guilty party could be found.
Fearful of the scandal which would
arise should the matter become public the
police were not notified, and the officers at
the sanitarlum suffered in silence while
money and other articles of value disap-
peared in rapid succession. Several trusted
and valuable employees threatened to re-
sign unless some stop was put TO the mys-
ferrous disappearance of their belongings,
E; but the larcenies still continued.
The matter came to a climax on Satur-
day last, when a physician who had been
called from San Francisco to perform an
operation missed a diamond scarfpin val
ued at $500. He had taken off his collar
and craYat to be freer in his movements
-. was gone. The superintendent decided
that some one who was in the room at the
time the operation was performed must be
the guilty party, and a deputy constable
was sent for to search for the missing Jewel.
All submitted gracefully TO the ordeal
= except Miss Berg, a Riverside girl, who
had been probationary nurse at the hos
pltaI Tor about six weeks. She protested
: but the deputy insisted, and in a few
:. minutes ne unearthed the pin, which had
been hidden in her clothing.
a search was then made of her trunks,
which were filed with elegant dresses,
containing, besides. considerable coin and
a number OF handsome articles of gentle
mems jewelry, including several scarf
pins. These she claimed had been given
. her; No other articles missed during her
stay at the hospital were found. She was
:, .summarily dismissed.
:. The nurse was obtained from the head
Quarters OF the Young Women's Christian
3: Association of San Francisco, and was
j.: taken on the simple statement from that
:: institution that she had been there for
some time awaiting place, and seemed to
.. be an exemplary person.
The officials are of the opinion that she
. WAS an adventures who was seeking an
asylum at the hospital until attention
was diverted from some previous escapade
OF hers or that she gained admission for
= the purpose Of looting the institution.
B.: Arrested on Charge of Arson.
: - D. NJ. Heagerty, whose saloon and gro
Gerry near Plittsville, on the San Leandro
road were burned, together with the build
ing in which they were situated on March
. l. was arrested Yesterday by Deputy Sher-
if Lane on a warrant charging him with
arson. The complaint was sworn to by
Thomas Mccarthy, a private detective
from San Francisco, who has been work
ing on the case since the fire in the employ
OF the Underwriters Association. Should
Heagerty be found guilty of arson he will
probably be charged with murder, as
: Bennie Hall, anine-year-old boy, who lived
:. with his parents in the upper story of the
:. building, was so badly burned before he
was taken out that he died the next day.
. Other members of the Hall family barely
escaped with their lives, little girl two
years old being tossed out of a window and
caught by HeagertY, who was standing be-
:; ow. The detective refused to say what
evidence he had found against Heagerty.
: The latter also IS silent on the subject
p except to say that he is entirely innocent
,of any wrong-doing and cannot conceive of
any evidence that can be brought against
him. He employed an attorney as soon as
locked up, who told him not to talk about
the case. His bond was fixed at $4,000
and friends were sent out yesterday after
noon to hunt for sureties.
d. NJ. Heagery is a nephew Of D. D.
Heagerty, for whom Sheriff White has had
a warrant for some time.
The uncle, who had store in Golden
Gate, failed IN business some time ago, and
during the insolvency proceedings it was
=. discovered that his stock was much smaller
: when the creditors took possession than it
. should have been. He was charged with an
: attempt to defraud his creditors, but thus
;. far he has not been apprehended. 1t is
now said that part of his stock found its
O.
. Plittsyille before the fire.
Since the ire Heagerty has established
another business near Fruitvale. and it
was there that he was arrested.
To Consider the Pension Act.
=; meeting OF Alameda County school
teachers was held at the HIGH School
= building yesterday to consider the teach
ers' pension act passed by the last Legisla
ture- After the provisions of the law had
. been explained BY P. NJ. Fisher, lanes
-McChesney said that he considered the
law vague and indefinite. If the teachers
put IN their money as it now stands tbe
s. next Legislature might choose to amend
1t, and then the money might be lost He
: asked for a rising vote as to whether those
=. present were ready to accept the bill as il
now stands. Fully three-fourths of the
teachers signihed their confidence in the
measure by rising.
Miss Mollie Connors then took the floor
=. and said that while the bill was not per
feet it was far better than none at all
Should the teachers refuse to take advan-
tage of this one the next Legislature would
. be justified in refusing to amend the meas
. ure to make it more to the advantage of
. the teachers.
She considered the provision that the
teachers should furnish the funds out of
their salaries a good one. 1t would give
the profession better standing.
The following advisory committee was
appointed to confer with the board of trus-
tees of the fund on Saturday next: Miss
Molle Connors, chairman; Miss H. Lar
kin, Durant School; ]. H. Sunder, SWEET
school; Mrs. E. A. Wilson, Temescal;
Miss Sarah French, Berkeley; Mrs. A. C.
Paris, Alameda.
GiIligan's Contest.
Edward Gilligan's contest for William
-Watkinson's seat in the City Council, over
which Supervisors Church and Watkinson
=. came to blows few evenings ago, was be-
gun before Judge Ogden yesterday.
The official count showed that Watkin-
son had won by but five votes, and Gilligan
charged that the ballots had not been cor
.rectly counted. City Clerk Tompkins testi-
fed that it would have been impossible to
tamper with the ballots after they came