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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
ODDS ARE MANUFACTURED
Poolroom Men Foil the Ingle.
side People but Violate
the Law.
Prices Are Doctored Up in One "Joint'
and Sent Broadcast as From
the Track.

The keepers of the downtown poolroom
dens, despairing of getting the odds and
results with any degree of accuracy from
Ingleside track, hit upon a novel idea
yesterday, and the gullible public was
feeced as usual. The latest scheme OF
these sharpers is an institution for the
manufacture of odds. The plant is located
in the pooIroom of Henry Schwartz d Co.,
and as fast as turned out the quotations
were sent to the other rooms by means OF
"pony wires.'
To illustrate how the law is being openly
violated and the public buncoed a few
examples of yesterdays sharp practices
are all that is necessary. In the opening
race the Commission iointsn had Burns
up oil Roselle. while in the actual race he
was plloted by Lamle. lamar was carded
to be ridden by Shaw, while Garner
brought him in winner. Coady was
chalked up on their boards to ride Viking,
while Chorn had the mount and so on
with the other starters. OF the eleven
jockeys posted up in the dens there were
seven errors.
AS another instance of how the credu-
lous are imposed upon, Ida Sauer was
quoted IN the rooms at Is to in the sec
ond race, while as matter of fact the
mare never start\d, the entry being
SCraICueQ. u repeClJlOn or this occurred
in the fifth event, when Fullerton Lass,
who was also scratched, had II to chalked
against her name. The latter entry was
scratched at the track four minutes after
3 o'clock, and the poolroom-keepersp posted
| the odds opposite her name at :37 o'clock.
Again, as a sample of fragrant viola
ton Of the betting law the following will
instance: At 1925 P. NJ. the rooms marked
up the track" odds against the starters in
the second race, with the result of the first
race not yet received. The first race at
lngleside track was run at 2:37 P. NJ, Just
! two minutes later than their track bet
ting" was marked up on the second event.
At 3:05 P. NJ. the poolrooms posted the
prices against the starters in the third
race, while at Ingleside the judges did not
sound the bell allowing the bookmakers
to commence betting until 8 % P. NJ, a dis
crepancy of seventeen minutes
The second event was not decided until
3:14 p NJ, still these men who claim to be
simply conducting commission business
laid odds and took coin on horses starting
in the third race nine minutes previous to
the time. The disparity in the odds laid
against the different starters disproVes
the fact that they are getting any infor-
nation from the track. They are con-
Quoting a brace game, pure and simple,
and the tottering throne upon which they
stand is about ready to fall, for Justice
cannot be hoodwinked much longer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
Short but Impressive Ceremony
Held at His Late Resi-
dence.
HIS LIFE WORK IS REVIEWED.
Southern Pacific Officials Send Rich
and Handsome Floral
Offerings.

The funeral OF Gerritt L. Lansing, form
erly secretary and controller of the South
ern Pacific, was held from his residence,
1885 Pacific avenue yesterday.
The attendance was very large, many OF
those who had desired to pay their. last
respects to the dead man being unable to
gain admission to the house. In hand
some casket, covered with rich black cloth,
rested the remains. The floral offerings
were many and of exquisite design. Con-
splcuous was an elaborate mound of violets
and lilies of the valley, an offering of the
Lansing Literary Society. of which both
Mr.. Lansing and his mother were mem
bers. The individual officers of the South
ern Pacific sent floral offerings of great
richness and beauty.
The funeral ceremonies were of the
simplest nature and did not consume over
fifteen minutes. 1t was conducted bv DR..
Horatio Stebbins. pastor of the First UNI
tartan Church. A brief, feryent prayer
was offered. followed by short address,
in which the life and character of the de.
ceased were reviewed DR.. Stebbins re-
ferred in a touching way to the home of
Mr.. Lansing, particularly of his tenderness
as son and devotion as husband and of
his career as railroad man, and to the I'M
ceaslng devotion to the affairs over which
he presided brief reference was made.
With this simple address the benediction
was pronounced, after which the body was
taken from the house for burial in the
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland.
The funeral party was conveyed by spe-
cial boat across the bay. The pall-bearers
were Colonel c. F. Croker, A. T. Smith,
w. G. Curtis, J. A. Fillmore, w. NJ.
Thompson, E. G. Wright, c. ]. Wilder, E.
E. Holton, William Sproule and George
T. Klink.
The successor of Mr.. Lansing is as yet
matter of surmise, though the impression
prevails that the office will be divided and
that E. G. Wright will be rendered the
Office of controller. The officers of the
company say that the matter has not been
even casually discussed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
MRS. WILLMORE.
Was She Aware of What the Boys
Who Lived With Her We're
Doing l.?

Mrs. Willmore is q devout church
woman and was very much shocked to-day
when the officers visited her house. She
any one taking away the tool chest. The
police can hardly believe that all the raids
of the boys could have been undertaken
without her knowledge.
1.-THE boys used to go to bed at the usual
time every night" said Mrs. Willmore to-
night" and 1 never heard them go out
One morning, about a week ago, I was
rather surpris ed to see them undressing in
their room early in the morning. 1 looked
in their window from the back yard and
saw that they had arranged the pillows
and bed-clothes SO that if any one looked
in it would appear as though the lads were
in bed
when the officers came this morning
the bed was arranged that way. l asked
the boys about it, but they did not give me
any explanation and thought no more
| about it. After we read the piece in the
papers about the Girard robbery the boys
took us to see the place. | never saw any
guns or burglar tools in the house and
never saw the boys with any money. The
whole thing is a mystery to me and can
not believe the boys did such work"
Detective Holland can hardly believe
that the boys did so much work without
exciting suspicion, and although he does
not think Mrs. Willmore really knew what
the lads were doing, he thinks she must
have seen enough to justify her in making
an inquiry.
Abe Majors is the son of Mrs. Wagner,
who after the death of Majors married
Wagner. Three weeks ago Wagner was in
the Oakland Police Court for neglecting to
pay alimony. He has since disappeared.
Tomorrow morning the furniture owned
by young Majors mother will be put on
| the sidewalk by the Sheriff for non-pay-
ment of rent. When told of her sons dis
grace tonight she went into Mysteries,
and. as she has been victim of nervous
prostration for several months, this last
shock will, it is feared, destroy her reason.
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Burglaries That Have Caused
Terror in Oakland, Ala
media and Berkeley.
DYNAMITE IN THEIR POCKETS
The Boys Were Captured After They
Had Blown Up Safe Yes
terday Morning.
Burg!aries.


January 13-Henry O'Neil, $50 Caledonia
avenue.
January 14-Mason's candy-store, 212s Shat
tuck avenue.
January 14-George H. Stricken, $50 Shat
tuck avenue.
January 15-Miss McClellan's, Eighth and
Castro.
January Is = Marketstreet Congregational
Church.
January GIG. G. Newhal, 1861 Broadway.
January 21-E. C. Dyer, $40 Thirteenth
street
January &c L. Bell, 1916 Adeine street.
January 22-L. Rothjen, 1416 Thirteenth
street.
January Oar. G. Williams, 737 San Pablo
avenue.
January 24-Mrs. C. L. Lundberg, 741 San
Pablo avenue.
January 31-Akesson & Co., Alameda.
January 31-Alameda Creamery. Alameda.
January 31-Silverberg's store, Alameda.
January 3l-HalPs candy-store, Alameda.
January 31-Vorburg's hardware-store, Ala
media.
January 31-Hauch & Co., grocery, Alameda
January 31-Ernst Bros, grocery, Alameda.
January 31-H. L. Walters market, Alameda.
February 1 - Maison de Ia MODE, Blake
block, Washington street.
February New York Tea Store, Blake
block, Washington street.
February 1-Oakland Shoe Store, Blake
block, Washington street,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
THE OAKLAND SAFE-WRECKERS ARE BOYS,

Now il is believed that the stories OF vain
able presents made to Ina by Majors were
true and that the boys have been leading
a life of crime for long time.
The lads were arrested about 5 o'clock
by Officers Kyle and Powers and Special
Officer Doolan at Washington street, near
First. The officers thought they were
newspaper carriers.
"Who are you fellows and where are
YOU going?" asked Powers.
I'VE are paper boys" replied one of
them.
(Which way are you going?" was the
next question.
1--WE are looking for paper route,' was
the reply.
"You are looking for the man who has
the route, are your"
Eyes" was the reply.
Then Kyle ordered the lads to hold their
hands up and as soon as he put his hand
in Majors inside pocket he found sticks
of dynamite and cartridge to which a
fuse was attached.
A further examination produced As
caliber revol yer, jimmy, some small
fuse and pocket full OF coin. Willmore
was then searched, and on him was found
revolver and some coin and some nitro
glycerine cartridges. The patrol wagon
was called into service and the boys taken
to Jail and put into separate cells.
For half an hour the prisoners refused
to say anything. They would not even
say yes or no to certain questions. After
Sergeant Hodgkins had tried in vain to
obtain some information, Detective Will
said: "Now, want you to settle bet be-
tween my friend Williams here and my
self. He claims that you did not go out of
the building when you blew up Girard s
safe, and I claim that you did,"
I'VE went outside" said Majors, taken
off his guard. Little by little they told
the officers of their long list of crimes.
They went from one store to another and
repeated their tale with as much ind iffer-
ence as if they were reading from 4 book.
They accounted for everything that has
been done in Oakland, Alameda and
Berkeley during the past months with but
three exceptions.
For time the officers were inclined to
doubt the story of the boys. They looked
so little like criminals and so much like
boys who think the dime-novel blackguard
hero that it was thought the lads were
talking for the sake of making themselves
notorious. When asked where they had
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
THE HACKMEIER HOTEL.
George Gruenig Becomes Proprietor
After Arranging for the Payment
of Its Debts.

The old and well-known Hackmeier
Hotel, on EDDY street, which was con-
Quoted by Adam Hackmeier for some
fifteen years, has passed to other hands.
George Gruenig, hotel man OF consider
able experience hitherto. formally took
charge of it Yesterday. The previous day
he saw that some $4,000 or $4,000 of debts
were adjudicated satisfactorily to COM
mittee OF the creditors of the HackmeierS.
The old hotel has fallen into rough lines
in recent years. So long as Adam Hack
moier ran it it fiourished and made money
steadily. He had formerly been in the
same business on Bush street and after
ward was proprietor Of the Eastern Hotel
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
THE MOTHER ACCUSED.
Chief Lloyd Says He Believes That
the Mother Directed the

Chief of Police Lloyd said late tonight:
After careful investigation OF all the
facts in the case am convinced that Mrs.
Willmore knew of all that was going on.
The family has been living for three
months on little or no regular income yet
they have been well supplied.
''The boys have dressed well, and we
have found out that Mrs. Willmore has
enticed Abe Majors from his home for the
past six months and has induced him to
live with her instead of with his own
mother, who was starving.
There does not appear to be the slight
est possible explanation that can account
for all that was in the house without Mrs.
Willmore knowing of it. Just what action
may be taken in the matter cannot tell
at present"
Mrs. Willmore left her home this after
noon, taking her daughter with her. The
police could not locate her tonight, and
they regard it as q suspicious circumstance
that she has not visited the jail all day,
although knowing that her boy was in
custody.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

on Pine street, opposite Goldberg, Bowen
& Lebenbaum's. Many of the patrons
which Hackmeier had at these places he
took with him to Eddy street.
He added many more also and did q
large. safe and solid business. But when
the old man died some two years ago, and
his sons came into the management, diff
ferent modes of transacting business were
adopted and changes unavoidably fol-
lowed. The hotel is large enough to
accommodate over ECO people. The
Rosenbaum brothers, the commission
merchants. are the owners of the building
George Gruenlg, the Dew lessee, will, it
Is stated, make mum Der of Improvements,
but none in the way of building.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

hidden their plumber they told the officers
that in a tool chest in the rear of the Will
more house. at 1854 Webster street, was
the proceeds of the Girard robbery and of
the Sessions robbery in East Oakland.
Captain Fletcher and Sergeant Hodgkins
Immediately proceeded out there and Sc
cured the booty. The chest was packed
out to the street and passing milk wagon
hailed, on which it was conveyed to the
City Hall.
When the chest was opened it was found
that it contained several sets of drills, a
number of articles of jewelry which had
been taken by the burglars from the differ
ent places that they visited, FIVE big sticks
of dynamite, bottle of chloroform which
they probably intended using in case they
found any person sleeping in the places
they visited, two boxes of pistol cartridges,
a charge of dynamite all fixed up with fuse
ready to use and two files. There were
five assorted drills and three ratchet
braces. Two of these braces were made
so that the shoulder could be used in hold
ing them up against ything. while the
third was the ordinary kind used about
machine-shops.
| When the stolen articles of jewelry were
taken out of the chest by the officers the
young fellows told where they secured
each piece. Those which they said that
they secured from Girard's consisted of q
ladies' gold watch, one gold bracelet, two
gold chains and two stick pins. There the
| silverware taken consisted of five pearl
handled knives and a half dozen small
silver spoons. The young fellows main
tanned that that was all that they got there
and they also said that they obtained only
$55 IN cash instead of $500.
Two gold watches were also found in the
chest. One of these the young cracksmer
said they got at Mason's canuy-store ir
Berkeley and the other at Hauch's
grocery-store in Alameda. At most of the
places they only secured a small amount
| of cash.
Nothing at all was secured in any of the
safe jobs except that at Girard's. The
money obtained at the latter place wa.
hidden behind a picture in the room occu
pied by the young fellows at the Willmore
residence. The boys told the officers O
this and it was found there.
During the day w. G. Palmanteer, vice
president of the Central Bank, called or
the lads with f. r. Girard, whose stor,
was wrecked Sunday morning. The,
asked the lads about the missing bank
books and bank stock. The boys assured
their callers that the papers had beer
burned and Mr.. Palmanteer said that ht
thinks the boys told the truth.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

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As Mr.. Girard had stated that his safe
was robbed of over $500 in money and
500 worth Of iewelry, there was quite
little discussion between Majors and the
piano man.
eff you say took more than the police
found in my room, you tell lie, said
Majors. Mr.. Girard said that the property
was his wife's and that he was not sure of
the amount, but believed it to be more
than the sum mentioned by the boys,
which was SIS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
TWO ATTORNEYS TR|CKED.
Albert Oliver, a Printer, Gets
Them to Become His
Bondsmen.
He Leads Them a Merry Dance and
Fails to Make His Appearance
in Court.

AlpcrI OliVeT, d printer 70 years OF age
will find himself in San Quentin peniten-
tiary unless he changes his mode of life
He was arrested on Wednesday on the
charge of petty larceny by trick and de.
vice, on the complaint of John Schaefer
saloon-keeper, 1921 Howard street, and
taken to the California street station. Late
in the afternoon he was removed with
other prisoners to the City Prison.
Attorneys Ed Comyns and Thomas
Slattery were in the prison that night look
ing for clients, and they called out Oliver.
He told them he was son of B. p Oliver
real estate dealer, who would ply them a
fee of $25 for their services. Comyns and
Slatteryw ent on his bond for $500 and he
was released. He took them to the resi-.
dence of Mrs. Tibbits, 1045 Mission street,
where he said he lived with his father and
would get the $25 for them.
Oliver saw Mrs. Tibbits. and said he
wanted to engage room. He had two
friends with him, and she might allow
them to wait in the parlor. The landlady
invited the two attorneys into the parlor,
and Oliver asked them to excuse him for
a few minutes. The attorneys waited pa
tiently for a considerable time, till finally
the landlady, who saw them still seated in
the parlor, told them that their friend
had gone long before, without engaging a
room.
The case was called in Judge Conlan's
court yesterday morning. Oliver was not
present and the two attorneys asked for a
continuance, which was granted. All yes
terday they were making anxious inquiries
about Oliver. and the chances are he has
left the City and the bond will be declared
forfeited.
Oliver is not son of B. P. Oliver. His
mother, Mrs. Clarke, lives in New Westmin-
ster, B. G. Last April he was arrested fol-
got off by agreeing to bear his share of the
loss, which he has not done.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
Small Damages.

Louis Hafton was before Justice of the Peace
Carroll yesterday plaintiff against the
Marketstreet Railway Company to recover
damages for injuries received in the collision
with runaway car from Ingleside, January
IA. He sued for $299 and was given judg-
ment for 500 and costs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

A 300-year-old lawsuit came up the other
day in the Bayarian courts, apparently as
far from settlement as at the beginning.
The village of Burgelm, in lower Franco
MIA, which is now part Of Bavaria,
brought the suit in 1895 against the lords
of Thuringen for 100000 marks, the
value of a forest of oaks and beech trees
belonging to the community which the
lords had appropriated.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
a Schooner Libeled.

The schooner Mary was libeled by Peter An
derson snd Chris Johnson yesterday. Their
joint claim amounts to 1888 for wages. Bonds
were accepted in the United States District
Court and the vessel was released.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

read it carefully and thought it was not
such risky job after all. After talk
with Willmore we decided to try it, and
commenced at Berkeley about three weeks
ago."
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Temple Emanu-El Services.

Rev. DR.. Voorsanger begins this evening a
course of lectures on "The Constitution, the
Schoolhouse and the Church, The first
lecture will be entitled, 1.-The Question of
Church and State in the Continental Congress.
the Constitutional Convention AMI the First
Congress- The public is cordially invited
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

The Patent Office has issued 3075 patents
for inventions, contrivances and dis
coyeries in biography.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
All gree.

GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA co.
Sells Crockery, Chnaware, Glassware and
Tinware
CHEAPEST OF ALL. TRY THEM.
Very Pretty Dishes. Very Cheap Prices.
81 Market street, s. F., Headquarters.
BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07

February 2-Gilberts cyclery, Telegraph and
Sixteenth street.
February 2-Woman's Exchange, Twelfth
and Clay streets.
February 2-H. Roberts, Telegraph avenue
and Seventeenth street.
February 2-Charles Murphy, SOL San Pablo
avenue.
February FLETCHER & Kuhnle's, AL San
February 2-Salt warehouse, Sixth and Wash.
fngton streets.
February 3-Charles Blohm, Lorin.
February 4-Lund's cyclery, Fourteenth
street, near Broadway.
February 4-B Rudrick, 700 Webster street
February Al. Hill. 776 Jefferson street.
Robberies.
January 21-William OMAHA in West Oak
land
January 21-Robert Walker in West Oak
land.
January gle. C. Dyer on Washington
street.
February 3-Henry Young on Telegraph
avenue.
Safe Cracking Operations.
January 2O-Pioneer Saltwater Works
Thirteenth and Webster.
January 21-Smallman e. Cummings, Eas
Twelfth street and Eleventh avenue.
January 24-National Ice Company, Eleventh
street, near Franklin.
January 2S-Jenkins sawmill East Twelfth
street. near Fifteenth avenue.
February 3-Anson Barstow, Thirteenth and
Franklin.
February Al. R. Girard, Fourteenth and
Broadway.
February 5-Oregon Improvement Com pany
foot of Franklin street.
February 5-Butlers coal office, Webster
street.
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NEW TO-DAY.
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