The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
Koran Met Carter and Accused
Him of Stretching the
Truth.
WORDS AND GEsTICULATIONs
The Girls Relatives Defend Her and
Say She Was Innocent When
Carter Met Her.

marriage, IS still out OF town. MIS- w olIoi
her landlady at 502 Mason street, has
written her at Salinas, and Miss Redmond
is expected to return in five or six days
and rush into print with her story.
''In maiden meditation fancy free" de-
scribes the Way Mr. Carter first met her,
according to James D. Horan, an uncle OF
the girl, who is wealthy stock-dealer at
Tenth and Bryant streets. Mr.. Horan
met Mr.. Carter on Bush street yesterday
and there was q war of words and vigorous
gesticulations on each side. Mr.. Carter
called Mr. Horan up by telephone yester-
day morning and said he wanted to see
him about the story in THE CALL. Mr..
Koran replied:
"Wen, you are Just the man I'm look
ing tor too and the quicker see YOU the
better"
When they met by appointment Mr..
Carter denied that he had said he first met
Miss Redmond at Byron Springs twelve
or fifteen years ago, while her uncle Horan
was chaperoning her at that watering re-
sort.
Mr.. Horan told him that he considered it
a reflection on him wnen Mr.. Carter stated
that he met the young LADY at the springs
and took long walks and had long talks
with her in the moonlight. He was not in
the habit of looking after young ladies,
even nieces, in that manner. He demanded
q retraction of Mr.. Carter and the latter,
ne saws, promised to make one. Mr.. Ho-
ran says that he told the defendant in the
suit that he would make it warm for some
body if retraction was not made.
Mr.. Koran is a man of vigorous Ian
guage, and when he was talking to Mr..
Carter he forgot the fact that metaphor is
the flower of speech, and spoke from the
shoulder.
According TO her uncle Miss Redmond
first met Mr. Carter in this City, and from
his story it appears to have been case of
mutual attraction at once. ''Whoever
loved that loved not at first sight?" and
"HelI hath no fury like a woman
scorned." -" are quotations that fit their re-
lations from the inception to date. Mr..
Horan said to a CALL reporter last
evening:
II did not know anything about their
relations till 1 saw the story in THE CALL
this morning. 1t was a surprise to me.
When he says he first met her at Byron
Springs with me twelve or fifteen years
ago, he is liar and he knows it. | never
went to the springs till four or five years
ago, when l began to seek relief for rheu-
matism. She was with me on that trip,
and Carter was there. l have known him
since 1878 or 70, when he was superin-
tendent on the railroad, but never knew
there was anything but proper relations
between him and my niece until to-day"
"Did you ever hear of the previous COM
promise for $5000?'
Never until one day about two months
ago. My niece told me about it. She told
me she had got the money from him, but
she denied that their relations were init
mate"
''Did she say why he gave her the
money!"
mo, she did not tell me why" he re-
piled.
81 went up to 502 Mason street to-day to
see my niece" he continued, "but she has
gone to Salinas. She has lived there several
years, but 1 have been there only three OF
four times. Once when | went there be-
fore she had consulted me about loaning
some money on piece of real estate, and
l advised her in regard to it."
"How is it, Mr.. Horan, that dress
maker has money to loan?'
''She has always had some money and
by investment has increased her capital
from time to time," he replied. She was
born after her father died and when girl
of twelve or fourteen years her grandfather
died suddenly. She was great favorite OF
his and we expected to find her provided
for in the will. But owing to his sudden
4 = to laf4 ont
ers gave her out of our share $500 OF
$1,000 and there is where she got her start
Besides that she inherited consider
able from her father. 1t has never been
necessary for her to pull anybody's leg OF
blackmail anybody. She has money OF
her own, and if she wanted $50 or 500 al
any time she could get it from me. When
see borrowed mon2y of me she always re-
paid it promptly"
Uncle Horan said that he thought Miss
Redmond was an innocent girl when Mr.,
Carter met her.
From the stories of William Horan, one
of her cousins, and others, Miss Redmond
appears to be young lady of independent
fortune and sufficient and steady income
70 support her in good style.
Her father died from injuries received
from the kick of horse. Her mother
married again, and she has a haIf-sister
Anna Barrett, who lives at San Ramon
Contra Costa County, who visits her in the
City occasionally. Miss Barrett is younger
and also very handsome girl. She live:
at San Ramon.
Cousin Horan says that Miss Redmond
owns building at San Ramon, in which
there is a saloon, and enough dwellings
and other real estate there to make up
about half the town. She also has prop
erty in Alameda and several lots out neaI
Golden Gate Park.
''She is thorough business girl" said
Cousin Horan. Business from the word
go. Ifyou would talk with her you would
see it. She is rather close. When she lets
go of $40 she wants to see S15 or $50 com.
ing back. She has an eye out for business
all the time"
Mrs. Wells, the landlady at 502 Mason