The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-17
LkMBERTpS FLIGHT
FROM OAKLAND.
CHECKERED CAREER OF THE BRU-
NETTE WHO WENT WITH
THE CLERK.
BARSTOW'S STRANGE WILL
The CATHOLIC SOCIETIES WILL
CELEBRATE THE HIBERNIAN
HOLIDAY.

The anxious bOndSmen of the missing
clerk of the Police Court, Walter R. Lam
bert, had the pleasure of looking into the
treasure-box in the clerks Office yesterday,
after sixteen hours had been put in on the
combination by Expert Ensign. Instead
of stacks of yellow gold the box contained
only few worthless bail bonds and lot
terry ticket for last months drawing.
There are many reports in circulation
regarding the amount of Lambert's short
age, some putting it as high as $4,000.
The truth cannot be aScertained until the
experts, who are now working on the de-
faulting clerks books, have finished their
task.
Expert York, who has charge of the
work, said yesterday that the shortage SO
far discovered was $1606, and unless some
of the bail bonds found are forgeries this
amount, he thought, would cover Lam
berts stealings.
Besides his pilfering from the city, cred
itors are springing up on every hand that
Lambert succeeded in beating OF small
amounts, ranging from So TO 500. Attor-
ney Tom Bradley knows Walter Just 500
better than he did last week, and Henry
Evers, besides being on his bond, is out
$3.50 for the funeral of Mrs. Lambert about
three months ago. Besides that there are
grocerymen, clothing and shoe merchants
and men engaged in all branches of trade
who would like to look upon the smiling
countenance of the Police Court clerk
who has gone astray.
That Lambert left for Honolulu on the
steamship Mariposa, last Friday, there can
be no doubt, although his friends declared
that he was too well acquainted with the
law to think that the islands would be a
safe hiding-place for him.
Miss Mahany, the young lady who is
said to have left the city with the willy
clerk, is well known in Oakland, and has
had a somewhat checkered career.
Six years ago the young woman became
a mother, and Paul Valerga was forced to
marry her. They lived together one short
year, when the husband, becoming tired of
welded bliss, brought suit for divorce, and
the decree was granted. 1t was then the
charming brunette became intimate with
the gay clerk of the Police Court, and much
OF his spare time was spent in her company
while his wife was still living.
After the death of his wife Lambert gave
more attention to Miss Mahany, with the
result that now they are both sought after
bv the police and Will probably be brought
back to this city to answer to charge of
embeZzlement and his companion as an
accomplice.
The clerk in the office of the Oceanic
Steamship Company who sold Lambert
two tickets for Honolulu afterward saw
the defaulter on the Mariposa. He went
down to the steamer with the passenger
list for Purser Smith and saw the couple
on board. The girl, he says, was standing
in the doorway of the main saloon and
Lambert was sitting just inside the door.
Il knew both of them very well by
sight" said this gentleman. II had seen
the girl often in Oakland, and Lambert
figure was also familiar one to me. There
Is no doubt in my mind as to the identity
of the couple, and l know that they were
both on board"
The Terminal Committee Talks.
In an open communication yesterday the
members of the Oakland terminal commit
tee express their views quite freely in re-
gard to the stand taken by some citizens
who are anxious to have the Oakland SUBJ
scriptions made to the new road without
restrictions.
They say the word Restriction is not
justly applicable to the plan of the termi-
nal committee Suppose we say "Any-
where in Oakland" These words mean
nothing to an Oakland proposition.
"a pier could leave the shore at Berkeley
or opposite Temescal and, extending south
westerly, be within Oakland, out in the
water five and half miles off shore
mo property-owner or business man in
this city could be expected to subscribe to
that as an Oakland proposition Or a road
might come to Oakland at the southwest
corner, that would be over at Park avenue.
between East Oakland and Alameda. 1t
would cross thence southwesterly and then
go down on the Alameda point, on either
side of it, and thence into the bay, being in
no sensesan Oakland terminus.
'If the words above ordinary tide be
added, the danger to the southeast still ex-
lists, and the subscription could be claimed
on the Alameda terminus, and toward the
northwest a railroad and pier could termi-
nate its landing in reaching the navigable
water at the point at least five miles from
the business portion of Oakland, without
coming nearer than three miles of the
business center, contributing minimum
Oakland benefit, yet earning the subscrip-
ton of the business and property interest
of the city"
A Lawyer's Strange Will.
The will of the late pioneer, Alfred Bar
stow was filled for probate yesterday by
Mary r. Barstow, his widow.
The estate is valued at $50, 900, and Mary
r. Barstow is named as executrix
The instrument, which is in the hand
writing of the deceased, is one of the most
unique wills that has ever been filed in the
County Clerks office. 1t reads as follows
1, Alfred Barstow, of the city of Oakland,
county OF Alameda and State OF California, do
testament, and hereby revoke all wills by me
heretofore made.
1 desire my estate to be distributed in &C
cordance with the laws of the State of Cali
fornia.
l desire my widow to be executrix of this
will, and that no bond be required of her in
any proceedings growing out of her trust.
authorize and empower her to sell any and all
real and personal property belonging to my
estate at private or public sale, without the or
der of any court or tribunal, and that she have
as full and free right of disposition thereof as
though the title of all said property vested in
her, and my only object in making this will is
TO facilitate the settlement of my estate.
l think that no man should have the power
to go further than this. / do not believe the
dead should NEEDLE with the quick When
person is once comfortably laid away, let him
cease from trouble, and let the living carry on
the business of life. Very probably the dead
one viii have all he can attend to if the ere
ligious doctors" are half right as to the truths
they hand out.
This will is entirely written, dated and
signed by my own hand at the city and county
of San Francisco, in the State of California on
this 18th day of June, 1890.
ALFRED BARsTow.
Congress Women in Oakland.
The Oakland branch of the Woman's
Congress Association will meet on Wednes-
day, March 20, at 2 P. NJ. in the parlors
of the Presbyterian church, corner of