The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-07

thing to help me with my case. The day
we reached San Francisco he left me at
the Rosedale House and the same night
nv baby came near choking to death.
ran downstairs to the Office with him and
the clerk sent me across to the drugstore
with the baby in my arms.
She then went on to say that she lost her
way in the fog while returning to the
hotel, and for several hours wandered
about the streets with only thin shawl to
keep herself and the child warm. Toward
morning some men met her and showed
her the way back: but she says that
neither she nor the child has ever recoy-
cred from the exposure. Soon after that
Mrs Majors was told that men were max
ing inquiries at all the orphan asylums in
the city for the child, and that if she was
not careful he would be stolen. She
therefore took him out OF the city and left
him with friends.
Little Harry CowelI is a bright child,
nearly 2 years of age, and is the only
known grandchild of the wealthy lime
king, Henry Cowell of oil and 213 Drumm
street.
~ was compelled to leave the Rosedale
House." continued Mrs. Majors, ''as men
were calling at all hours of the day and
might to see me. They wrote letters in
English and Spanish asking me to walk
tall man with a light beard offered Fred
Williams and another clerk at the house
one thousand apiece to swear that was
woman of bad character. These men
could have no object in SO annoying me
unless they were being paid for It, Mr.
Williams is an honest young man and did
what he could to befriend me. he Will be
one of nv main witnesses in this suit. I
worked for two months in respectable
family on Geary street, but my cold was SO
severe and became SO annoying that l was
compelled to give up my place and go to
friends. Since then | have been near
death with pneumonia, and 1t is only
during the past week that l have been able
to be out.
-"At the beginning of the case L. F.
Smith, one of my attorneys, wrote letter
TO Harry Cowell for me telling him that |
would compromise the case for $4,000. In
his answer to me he said: Il will give you
$1,000, but no more. | would have married
you, but was afraid father would leave me
a poor man.
attorneys, Senator Bart Burke and L. F.
Smith, and they both declared it was a
good case. Before leaving Santa Cruz /
asked them for the letters, but they said
they had been destroyed in the Santa Cruz
fire, and that they had entirely forgotten
their contents. This is why l know they
were bought off. Mrs. Amires, the wife of
a Santa Cruz fisherman, told me in the
presence of Mr.. Christofoneena that
Ernest Cowell, brother of Harry's, had
offered her 5000 to swear that she knew l
was a woman of bad character.
"When the case comes up | will win it, l
know, but if I should fail why then / will
put bullet through his heart. have told
him many times that l would so If he
fooled me, and he knows that 1 will keep
nay word"
It is only few years since Robert Majors
and his wife, Maria Antonio, with their
family of children, lived on their fine prop
erty adjoining that of Henry Cowell,
about two miles northwest of Santa Cruz.
The two families had been friends for years,
but it was not until after the death of
Robert Majors that the intimacy occurred
between Henry Cowell and Mrs. Majors.
More than year ago Mrs. Majors sued
Harry Cowell for $50, 600 damages for breach
of promise. The case has been allowed to
drag, but will, she now declares, be brought
to a speedy finish.