The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-26

was recalled for cross-examination and
asked one question by Judge Hayne: did
you say at any time to Frank Soaring,
The old lady was crazy; if you stand in
with the Merritt boys there's money in it
for your
mo, sir; I never told Soaring there was
money in it for him. | never said that to
anybody at any time. 1 met the Merritt
boys on the street about two years ago, and
L told them that if they wanted me to
testify I'd tell all l knew about the shop
ping trips"
But when Soaring was called to the
chair he told very different story to the
one told by Frank, the teetotaler.
"Vogt," said the Oakland produce
dealer, ''came round to my place several
times, and then one day he said: You
know all the chickens the old lady used to
buy? Well, used to get most of them.
She was crazy, and if youstand in with
the Merritt boys there's money in it, u
Judge Williams, serene and happy, be-
gan to read the telling deposition of Cap
tain Knowles daughter Mrs. Harry f.
Gordon, who knew Mrs. Garcelon so long
and intimately. And as he got further
into the type written pages the habitually
the legal burdens of the Southern Pacific
upon his shoulder, got up and retreated
from the defendants fort and took a posi-
ton over against the wall, where he sat in
gloomy contemplation of the happy family
lined up against the opposite wall. There
was little CAPTAIN Mcintyre, whose drink
is whisky straight, and whose bald head
glistens like holystoned deck. Next to
him was Captain Frank Purinton, who
wanted Mrs. Garcelon to persuade him to
give up the glowing prospects of his pro-
fesson upon the sea for mere pittance of
$4,000. Then there was the Garcelon
coachman, Henry, whose thoughts were
never of the spirits in the liquid FORM
Next to him was Fred Merritt, who got
$780, from his old aunt not to contest
her will, and then received $4,000 from
Bowdoin College not to do what his brother
and the counsel for the defense are so
actively doing. And lastly, there was the
arrayed in all the glory of the dressmaker's
and milliner's art.
But Judge Williams read on from the
evidence he and Warren Olney and Phil
brook had taken in Oakland last Wednes-
day night.
toIney for Bowdoin College, "she told me
that she had made trust deed and a will
and that they were both perfectly satisfac-
tory. She said she had not left ANYTHING
to Miss Mcclellan or to the boys, and she
seemed surprised that any one should
think she ought to give the boys any more.
tried to induce her to give them some
thing, but she said she wouldn't; that she
had already given them fortune, and had
their word of honor that they would not
contest her will.
''She asked me to buy two pictures in
the City for 800, no more and no less, for
she wanted to present them to Fred Merritt
and his wife. 1 brought back four pic
lures. Two cost SIPS and she liked them
very much. We all tried to persuade her
that $125 was nothing to her and that she
ought to buy what she liked best, but she
wouldn't do it, and took the other two at
500.
wanted to buy Mrs. Garcelon's cow for $25
or $50, I don't remember which, and
Stephen burlington said he didn't think
the offer enough, but she told the man it
was all right and that he could have the
cow at that price.
a few weeks before her death and was one
of the best housekeepers ever saw in my
life. I remember her telling the China
man how to sweep out corners with q
small broom and how to wash windows
81 would not call Mrs. Garcelon an in
valid. A woman who superintended all
her own hoIsework and did her shopping,
though she was an old woman, consider
remarkably bright. think she was more
feeble six months before DIR. Merritt's
death than she was after; she seemed to
pick up during her housekeeping.
''She was not tiresome like many people
of her age. She told me how much she
thought of Judge Stanly and how much
he had done for her and she asked me
whether ring or shawl would be the
better present for Judge Stanly's wife and
she said she intended to give Judge Stanly
handsome cup and saucer or some hand
some present to show her disposition, but
that she had paid him well for ali his
services.
"Dr. Merritt, she said, had left her GER
tain amount of money for charity, and she
thought she had better put it all into
hospital, and then she remarked that she
had remembered Bowdoin College, where
her husband and her brother had been
graduated"
DIR. II. s. Buteau was sworn and told a
story of a visit DR.. Merritt and Mrs. Gar
celon once made to the old homeopathic
hospital in Oakland, where Buteau was