The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
THE HARRINGTON MYSTERY IS UNSO[YED,

several years later came to San Francisco
10 earn living in the same way. Her
acquaintance with ex-senator Buck began
IN dubuque, and through the years here it
rlpened into old and close friendship. The
universal testimony of her friends and ac-
qualntances is that her life was not only
Dlameless but very religious. She was liv-
ing a quiet everyday life, and carefully,
put not stingily, nursing her little store of
wealth for old age when death came.
Mrs. Kellogg, who was the only other
occupant of the fiat on Saturday noon, told
her story in more detail yesterday.
THAT morning l saw and spoke to her
says Mrs. Kellogg. "That little room just
this side of the door, across the hall. she
used as kitchen, and she was in and out
OF there. Along about II O'Clock 1 spoke
10 her as she was sweeping the hall and
cleaning up the room she had rented TO
the Japanese. l said to her, l thought
this was your day to 60 out She said she
expected a person before l o'clock, and it
the person didn't come she would go out
then. A little later, when l was at
the sink along the hall there, heard her
talking to some man at the head of the
stairs, and pretty soon she came into my
kitchen, where / was, and said, That was
the Assessor, and you'd better keep out of
the way She said she put him off till
next week, anu Cndt she thought Assessors
might let such people as her alone.
THAT was the last time l saw her and
that was the last thing she said to any,
body except the one that killed her. She
went out and back to her rooms. That
was between half-past II and II, and /
went into my bedroom and sat down to
read the paper. That door that shuts
these rooms off from the hall was
closed, so that there was that door
10 ha hat nd
her rooms in the front. 1 did not
hear the front door closed, but would
surely have heard a scream. About half
past twelve | went to my kitchen to get
my lunch, and it was about half-hour
later when l got through and went out to
the side landing to throw some
thing in the ash receiver that |
of her back parlor that opens out on sort
of ightwell built into the side of the
house. Then | ran and found the door
across the hall locked, and ran down the
back stairs to the fiat below and gave the
alarm. [ didn't see the body for an hour
after the fire was out, and everybody was
excited and all was in confusion.
"Of course I've only known Miss Har-
rington since March, but she was always
nice and quiet woman and used to get up
every Sunday morning and go to early
mass at the cathedral. She would go to
church two or three times a week, and
seemed very devout. Once she was talk
ing to me at noon when the bell rang and
she said, There's the Angelus; wait till /
say it, and she folded her hands and said
a short prayer"
The members Of Senator Bucks family
are in a sad state of mind for more reasons
than one. Aside from the anguish which
the certainty of the Senator's death causes
them their grief is great that he is not
able to refute the insinuations which have
been cast upon him by connecting him
with the murder.
My fathers movements from the time
be landed in Oakland from the Marysville
train until he was brought home fatally
injured have been fully accounted for, and
no fair-minded man can consistently &C
euse him of any completely in the affair."
said Fred L. Buck last night. 1--WE
naturally feel very sad that he should be
lying at the point of death and unable to
face his accusers and explain the points of
which so much have been made. Death
will probably come without his regaining
consciousness, and, though we are per-
fectly certain of his innocence of even the
remotest connection with this terrible
affair, | suppose the world will always
feel some doubt of it, not knowing the en-
tire circum stances"