The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-10

Nottingham May Go Free.
NJ. C. Chapman, who is defending George
Nottingham on the charge of robbery pre-
ferred against him by the railroad COM
pany in robbing a station agent, thinks
that the confession made by Eddie Jones
OF Walnut Creek will be Knocked out. If
this is the case Nottingham will go free, as
the Jones confession is.the basis of arrest.
In the preliminary examination yester-
day at Martinez it was brought out in evil
dence that the confession had been wrung
from the boy on the promises of Detec-
tive ChapelIe for the railroad, and as the
law holds such confessions must be volun-
tary Chapman thinks 1t Will be ruled upon
as void. Chapman made sharp attack on
railroad detectives, and created such ex-
element in the lobby that the Judge had
to clear the courtroom.
A Barber Dies in the Street.
Cazimiro Carvalho, a barber who has
been running shop at East Eighteenth
street and Fourteenth avenue, was found
dead living in the roadway on Eighteenth
street, near East Fourteenth, yesterday.
When found the remains had the appear
ance of being void of life some time. The
Coroner was notified and the remains were
conveyed to the morgue, where an inquest
will be held Monday.
Caryalho was a native of Portugal, 40
years OF age, and leaves widow and two
children residing at st. Michael, Azores
Islands.
Butts Guilty of Manslaughter.
After being out four hours the jury in
the case of Pacing Billy Butts, who was
on trial for the murder of Conductor w. A.
Beeny, brought in a verdict of manslaugh-
ter. Butts is the man who ran amuck on
lower Broadway year ago, killing Will
liam Greene and Conductor Beenv. while
running from the officers. Butts was him
self shot five times, but survived He is
still in feeble condition from his wounds,
and it is thought he cannot long survive
incarceration in the State prison. He has
not been tried for the shooting of Greene,
and probably never will be.
Mary Moss Wants Letters.
The widow of the late Franklin Moss,
Mary Moss, has filed petition asking that
letters of administration for the handling
of the estate be issued to her. Moss was
thought to be worth 100000, and the heirs
are the petitioner Mrs J. E.. Anseou and
Mrs. Lulu Taylor, daughters of Moss by a
former wife, and brother William Moss,
aged IS, residing at Benicia, and another
brother, Charles, aged 80, living in Texas
AS there was no will the widow will be
entitled to one-third of the estate.
May Involve the Gates.
Suit has been brought against the South
ern Pacific by Burnette G. Haskell for
$20, 900.
In his complaint Haskell alleges that he
was compelled to stand on the platform of
road-gauge car owing to the over
crowded condition of the interior. and
that when the train reached Market street
one of the platform gates gave way, caus-
ing him to fall from the moving train and
injuring him seriously.
The Staging Gave Way.
Oliver Walter and Dennis Melville, two
carpenters, were brought to the Receiving
Hospital from Alameda yesterday. They
were engaged in putting up a cornice on
new building when the staging gave way
and they fell to the ground a distance of
% feet. At the Receiving Hospital DIR.
Hamlin found that Oliver had sustained a
fracture of the left ankle, while Mel
had his back seriously injured and his leg
badly strained.
Brown Let Down Easy.
William Brown, the young man who
rented a bicycle and tried to sell it in
Stockton, was sentenced to thirty days in
the County Jail by Judge Greene yesterday
Brown was allowed to plead guilty to a
charge of petty larceny on account of his
aged parents, who promised to take the
young man to Maine as soon as released.
Anti-Toxine in Oakland.
A small supply of anti-toxine has been
received by the Health Department and
it will be used in cases where it can have a
thorough test. The department paid $21
for four small walls containing about six
ounces of the great diphtheria remedy.
Notes.
The old SWEET School building was sold
at public auction yesterday to John P.
Hodges of the East Oakland planing-mill
for 500.
Letters of administration have been asked
for by the Public Administrator on the
estate of Cordelia A. Kohler, who died De-
cember L, 1894. The estate is valued at
$3.50, 900
The Oakland, San Leandro and Hay
wards Electric Railroad Company has filed
an answer in court in the $4,000 damage
suit of Thomas 0'Donell, whose son was
killed by an electrician while crossing the
track on Fourteenth street.
The petition of Executors Patterson and
Benson for the probate of the will of Philip
Boogar will be heard in Judge Greene's
court tomorrow.