The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
SHE WHIPPED A FLAGMAH
Entered His Cabin and Tried TO
Kill Him With Dag
ger.
The Victim Weighs Three Hundred
Pounds and Barely Escaped
With His Life.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALL
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SoS Broadway, May l9.
P. c. Kelsey, the Southern Pacific flag
man at the west end OF the Seventh-street
trestle, weighs almost 800 pounds and is a
strong old man, but he was nearly MUIR
dered Friday night by woman in is
cabin near the estuary.
Mrs. Herbst, the woman who has been
arrested for battery on the fagman, is a
strikingly handsome woman about sc
years of age She lives near the foot OF
Jackson street, and has long cherished i'll
feeling toward Kelsey.
Last Friday night" said Kelsey this
afternoon, Mrs. Herbst came to my
hut and smilingly SAID she had come TO
make friendly call. l asked her TO SIT
down, and she few at me like a tigress.
My head is cut and my back is bruised
ana l am positive that her intention was
TO murder me. She had a dagger and at
tenn pied to stick it into my eyes. / strug-
gled with her and tried to attract help, but
she told me il was no use, that she had
chosen the late hour for calling on me so
that people would never dream it was her
when | should be found dead.
I'VE had fearful struggle, and I sue
ceeded in throwing her Gown, but not
before nearly the whole OF her dress had
been torn off her. She behaved
like q fend, and had l not succeeded in
throwing her out IN the street when / did.
/ should have been forced TO use my club
TO protect myself.
There is very plain reason for her
conduct. For long time past the rail-
road company has been missing ties from
the back of my cabin. They employed q
detective, and Mrs. Herbst learned that
! suspicion fell on her, and she believed that
had informed against her. | knew that
she had vowed she would have revenge,
but | was not prepared for such an on
sleught. / have cuts and bruises all over
my BODY. l have been told that Mrs.
Herbst threatened to poison me, but did
not believe it.
The charge against the woman is assault
with deadly weapon, and Kelsey says he
intends to prosecute ii, as he does not con-
slider MS life safe when she is at large. He
has been in the employ of the railroad
since il first opened and is one of the best
known employees in Oakland.
Mrs. Herbst was formerly the wife OF a
wealthy contractor, but few years ago
he was forced 10 obtain divorce, and from
that time she has been before the public
more than once. When seen at her home
tonight she said she was out on bail, and
added, II am shaking too much TO talk. !"
Mrs. VI arner's Funeral.
OAKLAND, CAL, May 19.-Rey. J. K.
Mclean, DID,, formerly pastor of the First
Congregational, and Rev. S. N. Freeland.
acting pastor of that church, condu ted
the funeral services of the late Mrs. James
Warner from the family residence, 1867
Oak street, this afternoon. Many floral
offerings testified 10 the esteem in which
she was held by all who knew her.
The music was furnished by quartet
consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. A. n. Benham,
Mrs. Lena Carroll Nicholson and II. w.
Snow They sang stBeyond the Smiling
and the Weeping" asleep in Jesus and
Thy Will Be Done" during the services.
The pall-bearers were Messrs. Solomon
Lathrop, John Warner, Joseph Warnsr,
John II. O'Brien, Felix Chappelet and
Homer Craig.