The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-05

casket until it is finally laid away in Sac
ramento cemetery.
The story of the crime, which must be a
strange and thrilling one, is as deep a
secret as ever. Nothing developed yester-
day which gave promise that it would
ever be told. AS far as is discovered
nothing was brought to light which
gave a clew to the murderer OF
which even suggested a motive for the des-
perate butchery. AS a mystery the case has
few parallels. If Captain Lees and the de,
tectives working on the case had any infor-
nation which warranted a suspicion of any
one, or which afforded a possible theory
which suggested an adequate motive, they
kept it closely to themselves. Nothing OF
the sort developed elsewhere.
Two incidental facts were clearly estab-
lished by investigation yesterday. Both
made cruel and unjust suspicious relating
to the dead woman's character. 1t is plain
that she died as she had lived-a woman
with a clean heart and a clean life.
Since the hour of the discovery of the
crime it has been stated and believed, even
by the police, that Miss Harrington was
partially undressed when she was killed
1t has been assumed that her assailant,
whether he surprised her or not, was in
her apartments while she was making her
toilet
The fragments of burned clothing which
were examined yesterday for the first time,
and by CALL reporter. They gave posi-
tive proof that when Miss Harrington was
killed and her clothing fired in an effort to
destroy traces and evidence of the crime
she was fully dressed and as she
had been during the entire forenoon.
Mrs. Kellogg, who saw her one hour
dressed in light-blue sateen house wrap
per. Nearly all her clothing that lay
about the upper part of her body was
burned in the flames, but the portions of
all her garments upon which her body
lay were naturally preserved from the fire.
OF the sateen wrapper described before
by Mrs. Kellogg the back of the waist and
a strip of the back part of the skirt for
nearly its entire length is preserved, show
ing conclusively that she had it on when
she fell where her burned body was found.
Exactly similar evidence concerning all
the rest of her clothing is preserved and it
is conclusive.
The testimony of DR.. Barrett, who per-
formed careful autopsy, also contradicts
the theory of the police, which has been
repeated good deal, that the murderer
used two weapons, one heavy, blunt in
strument with which the lacerated wounds
and fractures were made, and another a
heavy, sharp cutting instrument. DIR.
Barrett says that there were no wounds
which were cuts at all.
The murderer struck this victim eight
powerful blows with some blunt and heavy
weapon. Six of them reached her skull
and two her lower jaw. Miss Harrington
was not only woman of exceptional SIZE
vlgor and health, for one of her age, but
DR.. Barrett testifies that her skull was alb
normally thick.
Blows with heavy weapon would be
needed to fracture and crush an ordinary
skull in the manner shown by the autop-
sy, and the wounds give evidence that the
murderous attack was desperate as we'll as
deadly. ltl not strange that there was no
cutlery heard, for any one of the six blows
dealt would have knocked any human
being senseless
The hardest blow, whether the first or
the second one, struck the victim on the
side OF the head about an inch and a half
above the right ear, producing an irregular
fracture of the skull bone three inches in
diameter. This blow was delivered up
ward in relation to the head, as is shown
by the particles OF bone that were driven in
that direction. Another blow landed a little
behind the right ear and produced a frac-
ture, and another one struck just in front
of the right ear. On the left side of the
head were lacerated wound and frac-
ture that extended around the base of the
skull and there met the fractures from the
other side. There were two lacerated
lures. The lower jaw was fractured near
its point.
The wounds were apparently all made
with the same instrument" said Dr. Bar
rett yesterday, land were distinctively
lacerated wounds. There was more or less
confusion or bruising of the scalp about all
of the wounds. No knife could have pro-
duced fracture. The weapon must have
been blunt and heavy one and the blows
delivered with great force. have never
seen such fractures of skull except as the
result of streetcar accident"
Things are very quiet up in the two
story-and- basement fiat at 1913 Ellis street
now. No crowds gather outside, though
people stop frequently to look with awe
and wonder at the first-class but common
place bunch of fats with distinguished
stairs up to the two front DOORS
The upper fat which was lately and for
five years the dead woman's, is in posses
sion of the legatee, Mrs. Josephine Jack
son, and her brother-in-law and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. Rae of Sacramento. They have
many friends who call and they are not
especially thick with the other tenants.
A statement yesterday by Mrs. Grouse,
who saw the tramp, disposes of the tramp
theory, if her confident fixing of the time
when the nomad called at her basement
door and then went up the front steps is
correct. She says that the tramp called
dG Iully ClOCh, anu ALSO tIldL ne Old not
look particularly vicious. She is the
woman, too, who has seen the man and
the buggy most, aud she says that it is two
or three weeks since she saw Mr.. Buck
drive up.
The arrangements for taking Miss Har-
rington's remains to the vault in Holy
Cross Cemetery from Porter's undertaking
establishment had been kept secret and no
crowd was on hand. There was no cere-
mony. The casket was placed in hearse
and eight friends followed in two carriages
Those who made the journey were: Mrs
Josephine Jackson and Mrs. D. W. Rae,
sisters of the deceased; D. w. Rae, Mrs.
Roberts, niece of L. w. Buck: Mr.. and
Mrs. Dwver, old acquaintance in Chicago !;
Mrs E. Shotwell and A. E. Knorp, Miss
Harrington's late landlord and his daugh-
ter.
The funeral has not been arranged. but
will take place in Sacramento at some
future time.
There is a brother of Miss Harrington
abroad in the world somewhere and he
probably does not know of his sisters