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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-07
A SNAG IN DIVORCE LAW,
Kind Most Familiar With Phila-
delphia Lawyers Pleaded
Here
The Old McNeill Case Again in the
Federal Court on an Amended
Complaint

The old Mcneil divorce suit has come
up again in the United States Circuit
Court Attorneys Sullivan & Sullivan
filed an amended bill of complaint in the
clerks office yesterday afternoon.
Its title is Margaret Mcneil by her
next friend, Matt ]. Sullivan, VS.. James
MCNEIL" Mrs. Mcneil lives in Pitts
burg, Pa, and her husband is promi-
nent business man of Santa Cruz, where
he owns considerable real estate, besides
$65, 900 of stock in the Santa Cruz Light
and Power Company, and $4,000 worth of
stock in the City Bank of Santa Cruz
Pennsylvania law is pleaded by the
plaintiff. According to her allegations
she and her husband were married in 1865,
have two grown-up sons and daughter
and were divorced in the Allegheny County
Court in 1890. She charged her husband
with desertion, and the court allowed her
$1095O out of their property, and $75 per
month alimony from July l. 1890. Under
the Pennsylvania law she was simply di-
vorced as to bed and board, but the mar
rage relation was not completely an
nulled.
F.. Her story goes on to say that her hus-
band skipped to California, where he was
Joined by woman named Louisa Simen-
dinger, and that by his own testimony and
that of this woman only he procured
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Purchase Of the King Solomon
Mines by a San Fran.
cisco Company.
A PLANT IS TO BE ERECTED
Sufficient Power Can Be Obtained at
Salmon River to Run Two
Hundred Stamps.

The Fidelity Investment and Develop
ment Company of San Francisco has pur-
chased group of seven claims. CONSOLE
dated under the name of King Solomon's
mines, located on the headwaters of
Mathews Creek, about two and quarter
miles from the south fork of the Salmon
River, in Siskiyou County.
The titles of the different claims are the
Queen of Sheba, which was the original
location, the King David, Augusta, Mabel,
Queen of Sheba extension, King David ex-
tension and the Steve Ayles placer mine.
all being quartz mines with the exception
of the last-named, and each being 60Ox15OO
feet. The Queen of Sheba, King David
and their extensions are laid out north
west by southeast along the vein, with a
slight dip to the west. The Mabel claim is
laid across the south end of the Queen of
Sheba and David claims, with the Augusta
joining the Sheba on the east, as does also
the Steve Ayles placer claim.
The developments, so far, consist OF a
tunnel running from east to westseventy-
six feet in length, prosecuting the lode,
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and two drifts, one of which leaves the
tunnel at a distance of twenty-four feet
from its mouth, running northerly, or
northwesterly, for thirty-six feet with
the trend of the vein, and the
other leaves the tunnel at point
fifty feet west of the first drift, run
ming parallel with and along the hanging
wall in northwesterly direction for a dis
lance of twelve feet.
The greatest depth obtained in develop
ment is found in the second drift, at the
end Of the tunnel. which is thirty feet, but
greater depth could be reached by start
ing a tunnel lower down the hillside, thus
obtaining from $50 to 300 feet.
Prospect holes in various places on the
surface follow the course of the vein for
several hundred feet in length and from
seventy-five to eighty five feet in width.
Although considerable ore has been
handled none of it has prospected less
than $10 and the greater portion from $25
to $50 a ton.
At present there is no plant on the prop
perty, but it is intended to erect one very
soon, and thus place the mines upon a
paying basis.
The seven claims cover about 140 acres,
all of which are covered with good mill
and mining timber, such as sugar pine,
fir, cedar and oak.
An abundance of pure water can be OBJ
tanned for mill and battery purposes from
Mathews Creek, the first and second water
rights being owned by the company. The
creek flows from fifty inches at its lowest
stage to 1000 or 1900 inches during the
winter and spring months, the fall being
sufficient to supply power which would
run ten stamps about six months in the
year, but by placing a dynamo at the
south fork of the Salmon River, distant
from the property about two and quarter
miles, sufficient power could be obtained
to run 200 stamps the entire year, as the
south fork flows from 1000 to Is, 900 inches
at its lowest stage.
A good wagon-road connects the claims
with the Oregon Railway at Gazelle, but a
proposition is on foot to run connecting
road through.
The Fidelity Investment and Develop
ment Company, consisting of President J..
A. Thompson, Secretary j. III. Bernard
and the directors-Thompson, Bernard,
Colonel J. f. Herrick of Cleveland, Ohio,
and w. M. English-was organized for the
purpose of locating and developing good
mining property. They have claims of
great value situated in Mariposa, MADEIRA
and other counties, but seem to place the
King Solomon group in the first rank, as
they say this property Is indeed bonanza.
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NURSES GRADUATED.

Comm en- cement Exercises of the San
Francisco Training School.
The commencement exercises of the San
Francisco Training School for Nurses at
the City and County Hospital viii be held
at the Occidental Hotel on Tuesday even
ing. The nurses will all be in the pictur-
esque uniform worn in their daily round
of duties.
The programme is as follows:
Overture, "Marionetten" (GurlitD; address,
Rev. W. Ii: Moreland; selection, Journey
Through Africa" Guppe); solo for cornet.
"BOnnie Scotland LAX, John Frehner; ad-
dress by DR.. R. Beverley Cole, AM, Md,
M.R.C.S., England, president American Med
ical Association; mazourka di concert, "Amor-
osa" (Navaro); address by DR.. C. N. Film
wood; selection, "The Gondoliers' (SulIivan) !;
waltz, "a Summer Evening (Waldteufelj ;
presentation of diplomas and medals by DR..
Henry H. Hart; overture, Concert" &C. Bach); ;
solo for clarionet, ''Barbier di Seville" (Ros-
sini) Mr.. Donald Graham arranged by DAN
cla) selection, "Robin Hood" Ode Koven);
waltz, "Wiener Kinder" (Strauss); selection,
"Erminfe" Jakobowski); gavotte, always
Thine" Weiss) selection. "Wang" (Morse).
The graduates will be Miss Mary E.
Mead of New York; Miss Jennie Ransom
of Winnipeg, Manitoba; Miss Adeleine
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EMINENT PHYSICIANS TESTIFY.

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Kelley Institute, Mimi. says: "Munyon's
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TO PREACH AT MISSIONS,
Eloquent Redemptorists Arrive
in the City From the
East.
A Week of Novel Missionary Work
to Non.Catholics in the Paul.
lists Church.

The Redemptorist Fathers O'Shea and
Kennedy of New York will begin mission
at the Sacred Heart Church at 1890
o'clock Sunday morning. 1t will continue
two weeks. These missionaries are not I'M
known in San Francisco. They were here
several years ago, and their eloquence in
the pulpit will be recalled by thousands of
Catholics. They take rank among the
ablest preachers in the Catholic church in
the United States.
During the two weeks of the mission
there will be mass and sermon each
morning at $50 and 8 80 o'clock, and in
the evening there will be a recital of the
Rosary, a sermon and benediction of the
blessed sacrament. Tomorrow afternoon
the fathers will also begin mission for the
children of the parish. 1t will continue
for several days.
The visiting missionaries will also hold
missions in other Catholic churches of the
City and State. They will probably be en-
gagged in California during the greater
part of the winter.
A mission to nom Catholics will be held
in st. Mary's Church, on California street,
during the coming week. 1t will open at
the evening service. tomorrow. This is a
new departure in San Francisco, but it is
in line with the work carried on by the
Paulist Fathers in the large cities OF the
East
Every Catholic attending the mission
will be expected to bring a non-Cauholic
friend" said Father Wyman. 1--WE want
the people of all denominations to come
and hear US. The pews will be free to all,
and there will be no collection. Nothing
abusive will be said from the pulpit, as we
will confne ourselves to Catholic doctrine
and teaching, pure and simple"
The following subjects will be dis
cussed: Sunday, December 8, What Is
the Good OF Religion?'' Monday, Decem-
Der 8, Can We Get Along Without the
Bible?" Tuesday, December 10, "Intem-
perance and Good Morals" Wednesday,
December II, 1.-THE Mystery OF Confession"
Thursday, December II, "The Man, the
Citizen, and the Church Member" Fri
day, December 10, "Why 1 Am Catho-
lic." Sunday, Decem Der 10, Necessity of
an Infaliible Teaching Authority"
Besides these lectures question box
will be placed at the door, where any fair
minded person may put written ques-
tons, which will be answered every night
before the lecture is given.
The mission which has been going on
at st. Ignatius Church during the week
will close tomorrow evening.
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guage of our Penal Code, it is enacted that
''eyery person guilty of murder in the first de-
gree shall suffer death confinement in the
State Prison for life, at the discretion of the
jury trying the same" In your case the jury
failed to exercise any discretion by returning
the verdict, Guilty OF murder in the first de-
gree" hence there can be no other judgment
pronounced by the court than that of death.
OF this high and heinous offense the taking
OF the life OF Blanche Lamont, with deliberate
and premeditated malice aforethought, YOU
have been found guilty The jury who, by
their verdict, thus pronounced, were body OF
intelligent, painstaking and conscientious
men as were ever impaneled in court OF JUS
tice. They were independent men of mature
age and of large experience in the affairs OF
life. They gave their undivided attention to
the testimony in the case and the entire pro-
ceedings during the trial, and in arriving at
the conclusion they did were impelled with the
sole and only desire to do exact justice. That
the conclusion they arrived at and the verdict
they returned was just and true the court has
no doubt.
And now, after deliberate and careful re-
view of the entire evidence adduced at the
trial, and looking at the case in every aspect,
the court is forced to the conclusion that no
fair, conscientious and honest jury could have
arrived at different result. In the business of
your conviction the court expresses its full and
rendered was the necessary and inevitable con-
clusion resulting from the evidence OF your
guilt disclosed at the trial.
There are no circumstances to mitigate the
atrocity of your crime; ii stands almost with
out parallel and without the semblance. of pal
hation If, as claimed by the prosecution,
you caused the death of the deceased in a
felonious attempt upon her virtue, then. in
deed, do you richly deserve the punishment to
be awarded against you.
The deceased, Blanche Lamont, was young
and inexperienced schoolgirl, and from the
position you occupied in society, and particu-
larry in the church OF which she was an atten-
dant, you undoubtedly gained her entire con-
fdence and trust; that she entered the church
with you during the afternoon OF April 8 last
is proved beyond all question, and that she
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divorce in the Superior Court of San Fran
cisco on the allegations of cruel treatment
in 1892 upon the report of Referee w. B.
Blair. She charges that this divorce was
obtained by the machinations of the Dis
trict Attorneys Office and by fraud and
trickery through defendants brother, his
partner formerly in. a Pittsburg foundry;
that the brother deceived her as to defend
ants whereabouts and thus prevented her
from obtaining the allmony due her. She
also states that the husband is still living
with the woman Louisa Simendinger; that
the woman joined him in California soon
after his stealthy departure from Pennsyl-
vania.
Out of the property awarded her she
claims 500, 500 ls still due her and that
there is also $3.50 alimony yet unpaid.
She asks that the defendant be declared to
be still her husband and that he be en-
joined from disposing of any of his prop
erty in any way until her claims are paid
and the marital controversy Is settled.
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events proved trial to her. She did not
go to court to-day, fearing she might
break down under the Judge'S words.
Still she is bearing it very well.
"We were not surprised at the refusal to
grant new trial. We knew Judge Muir
ply had not stamina enough for that. He
proved his lack of it in the Cunningham
matter.
II am as sanguine as at any time since
my SON arrest. believe he will be tried
and acquitted by the Supreme Court. We
have evidence the police know nothing of.
If we had employed the unscupulous
tactics of the prosecution my son would be
free now.
':My belief is that Judge Murphy did not
fix the time of execution OF the sentence
because he believes the boy is innocent
and wants to put off the execution as long
as possible. Perhaps, however, he may
set the time when he issues commitment
papers to the Warden of San Quentin"
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eyes that looked unfalteringly straight out
ahead, Theodore Durrant stood in the
courtroom yesterday morning and heard
the voice of justice speak his sentence and
invoke his Creator to deal mercifuily with
his soul when the stern, relentless law OF
life for life" is satisfied.
You will be hanged by the neck until
you are dead" and the great balances by
which he had been weighed and found
wanting recorded and numbered and fin
ished him.
The people that crowded that noted
courtroom were still-still as the man
standing alone under the burden OF i'm
pending doom, still as the future to which
he is decreed, that mystic future from
whose eternal silence naught everis heard.
1t was the deep stiffness that goes before,
that accompanies, that follows the words
of death, and they sat mute under the
spell Of its presence. In the place where
the wrongdoer comes face to face with his
fate, the place of the deed is forgotten.
The gloom haunted belfry, where the sad,
wandering winds moaned and yet moan
reauiem for the dead Blanche Lamont,
faded away when Theodore Durrant stood
in the temple of vengeance and felt the
like sword. There was the crlme-loath-
some lamentable, needless, inexplicable-
and here was reparatlon, righteous, un-
erring, speedy, complete. The girl and
her story, which her dead lips cannot tell,
are in the grave, and even the associations
of the deed grow misty, vague and fleet
ing; but the man accused, condemned
and doomed, denying and defiant still,
holding back the story which he would
not tell, but which has been told by
tongues he could not silence, was before
them, apparent, MANIFEST, indubitable, and
they were still.
A short time before 10 o clock Durrant,
escorted by Deputy Sheriffs marching
ahead, on either side and in the rear,
came up the stairs, through the
dim corridors and into the court
room. Then they took their station ready
and watchful. The prisoner was joined by
his father, and the two, their faces show
ing no sign of hope or fear, sat expect
antly.
The Younger mans countenance was
pale-perhaps little paler than usual. 1t
was drawn and hardened, and despite the
calmness even to Indifference, suffering
was plainly there. Though he was pre-
pared for the denial of new trial and the
coming of the dreadful sentence the ordeal
was fearful one. When the scathing de-
nunciation of the Judge fell witheringiy
upon him; when the purity, the lnno-
cence and the helplessness OF the school
girl was held before him like mirror Civ,
ing back the reflection of the CRIME In all
its unspeakable hideousness, he looked
away.
There are no circumstances to mitigate
the atrocity of your crime; 1T stands al
most without parallel and without the
semblance of palliation," rang the con-
demning words sonoriously through the
apartment. They burned and stung, and
Theodore Durrant is, indeed, the guiltless
man of his plea if he felt not the torture OF
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Druggists Converted and Doctors
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ONLY ONE IN CHARGE.
Causes Which Led to Big Verdict for
Damages Received in a Streetcar
.-.--. Accident.


The Supreme Court has affirmed the de-
cision of the Alameda County courts al
lowing Horace A. Redtield and his two
children 1900 damages for the death of
Adeline A. Redfield.
Mrs. Redfield was killed by runaway
car on the Piedmont line in Oakland, May
6, 1898. The car was near Mountain View
Gem etery when upon passing a switch at
the top of the hill it became necessary for
the motorman, who was the only man in
charge of the car, to 60 to the rear plat
form and set the trolley-wheel on the proper
wire. To do this he had to climb along on
the footboard on the side of the car. As
the car gathered Roadway down the
hill the motorman started back along the
footboard to take his place in front, but he
slipped and fell off, and before he regained
his feet the car was so far ahead that he
was unable to overtake it. The car ran to
the foot of the hill and jumped the track
at sharp turn. Mrs. Redfield was so bad
ly injured that she died in few days.
In rendering its opinion the Supreme
Court deals somewhat extensively on the
question of the negligence of the company
having but one man in charge of the car.
That the trolley had to be attended to the
Supreme Court believes was obvious from
the fact that the motorman had to look
out for it as it passed the switch, and that
the company expected the motorman to
attend to it is obvious from the fact that
he was the only man in charge of the car.
Further, the court found that the motor
man could have stopped the car and then
fixed the trolley, SO both the motorman
and the company were deemed negligent.
The fact that the motofman was in the
habit of fixing the trolley while the car
was in motion had no bearing on the case,
the court holds, and so the Judgment for
$4,000 was affirmed.
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Marie Wood, Williamsport, Pa. Miss Hat
tie D. Ryan, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Eliza
beth A. Reed, Lansing, Mich; Miss Annie
Irving Gray, Illinois; Miss Frances A.
Parry, South Wales, England.
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DR.. Morgan's Address to Young Men.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock Rev. DR..
Morgan will speak to young men only at the
Christian Association Hall, Mason and Ellis
streets. The service will be free to all young
men.
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THE FATHER HOPEFUL.
He Is Confident That His Son VIII
Be Granted a New

Mrs. Durrant was indisposed yesterday.
"She is not ill.," insisted Mr.. Durrant,
"but women are not so strong as men, you
know, and l won't deny that the days
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CROWN, fountain and all other gold pens and
pencils: Finest goods and lowest prices. San
born, Vail q Co.
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Three Policemen SWORN Tn.

Three new policemen were sworn in by Chief
Crowley yesterday. Their names are: James
P. Myler, &c, clerk; Abraham Lyman, "a,
salesman John J. Prendergast, "a, Vermont,
cooper.
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MoAFEE Bros auction sale of Britain Ranch,
San Mateo Co., sure to-day. See advertisement.
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A New Trial Is Denied
Him and He Will Be
Hanged.
TAKES HIS FATE CALMLY.
Judge Murphy's Scathing Con.
demnation of a Girls
Murder.
"A CRIME UNPARALLELED.p
No Date Set for the Execution-The De.
PENDANTS Attorneys Give Notice
of Appeal.

Steady, firm-limbed, face paled with
nerve effort, brows drawn down over the
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