The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-06
THE HARRINGTON MURDER
Captain Lees VIII Say Nothing
at All Concerning the
Crime.
THE MYSTERY A DAY LONGER
Suspicious Stories Involving Ex-
Senator Buck Have No Evidence
to Confirm Them.

Captain Lees refuses to say word about
the Harrington mystery, and yesterday
was as barren of developments in the case
that would point to either the man or the
motive responsible for the murder as the
previous days had been.
'Read the Post if you want to know WHY
/ will not talk to reporters" Captain Lees
said last evening.
The evening paper referred to contained
yesterday a sensational story to the effect
that the Police Department was sure that
ex-senator Buck, who died Tuesday morn
ing, was tho man who killed Miss Harring-
ton, and that the information in the pos
session of Captain Lees supporting that
theory was withheld because the man
more than suspected was dead.
While Captain Lees has consistently re-
fused from the first to express an opinion
about the connection of Buck with the
case, either to assert or deny the hints, sus-
plcions and limitations in this direction
that have gained currency, there has ap-
peared no evidence whatever to warrant
connecting ex-senator Buck with the
crime. The stories told by his family and
by Moore. the hackman, which establish
an alibi for him by showing that he did
not reach the City last Saturday until a
toms remains, have not been contradicted
Detective Seymour has been endeavoring
to clearly trace Mr.. Bucks movements that
day and to establish his whereabouts dur
ing the noon hour by further convincing
testimony, but no information that he may
have gained has been given out.
The remains of the late ex-senator Buck
will be laid away this afternoon, the funeral
to be under the auspices of Live Oak
Lodge of Masons and the Knights Templar.
The friends of the deceased and the Police
Department must soon be able to put all
mere rumors of Mr.. Bucks goings and
comings on that day definitely to rest bv
producing convincing testimony. Captain
Lees has not even insinuated that he sus-
pected that Buck knew anything of the
crime itself.
Not suggestion of clew to the muir
derer developed yesterday, nor anything
pointing to the possible motive for the
crime. The case is remarkable among
murder mysteries for the complete alb
sence of any evidence of any kind upon
which even rational theories and Sus-
picions may be built.
The Harrington inquest is set for to-
morrow, but there is no apparent promise
that it will result in advance toward a So
luton of the mystery.
The arrangements for Miss Harm gton's
funeral will not be made until Saturday
after the return of Mr.. and Mrs. Rae from
Sacramento. where they went YESTERDAY.
1t is yet uncertain whether the burial will
be in Sacramento or Chicago.
Mrs Jackson, the widowed sister of the
deceased, in whose favor the will reads,
had long private talk with CAPTAIN
Lees in his Office at the City Hall last
night. Mrs. Jackson herself adheres to
the belief, which appears to be the result
of intuition more than anything else, that
enemies who plotted her death Mrs.
Jackson for many years held closer rela-
tions to the deceased than any others of
the family, and while she knows nothing
directly related to the crime what she
knows of the life and character of her
sister has been learned by the police in
minute detail.
Mrs. Jackson had a scare at 1O17 Ellis
street yesterday and last night she was
given police protection. An officer was
detailed to stay in the house and the watch
will likely be continued until Mrs. Jack
son can sell the furniture of the fat, which
is willed to her, and get away, which she
her scare was the appearance yesterday
afternoon OF man who walked about the
street awhile studying the outside of the
place, ana who then came inside, an
nounced himself as detective and went
to fumbling about the papers and books
lying around. When his authority was
questioned he could not prove it and he
was put out. He is thought to have been
some amateur detective who wanted to
unravel the mystery. However. Mrs.
Jackson was afraid and went at once to
the police station. with the result that she
will hereafter be guarded in the apart
ments where the terrible tragedy took
place.
1t is said that the people now occupying
the different apartments in the house are
getting ready to move out and away from
the scene of the crime.
The Harrington case has subsidized into
battling mystery which time may or may
not solve.