The San Francisco call., 1896-08-09
CAPTAIN LEES EFFORTS.
What the Police Are Doing In Their
Endeavors to Capture the
Criminals.

CRIMINALS
Yesterday Captain Lees sent descrip-
tons of Oliver W. Winthrop and "Pete, -
his supposed companion, broadcast. The
descriptions are given by Millionaire
Campbell, together with the description
OF Winthrop on the records at police head
quarters at the time he was charged with
the murder of Mrs. Jennie Mathews.
They are as follows:
Winthrop, age between 40 and 45, height 5
feet S, weight ITO, well built, sallow complex
hair and mustache, wore dark cutaway coat
and vest dark pants, light drab soft hat,
fedora style, large hands, muscular build.
slim build about i3O pounds or .14O, smooth
face, dark hair rather short, thin fea-
lures, psle face, and uses vulgar Ian
ging manner; dressed in black sack coat
and vest well worn, dark pants, brown drab
hat, squeaking shoes, long slim fingers, soft
hands; mask worn looked as though 1t were q
black silk handkerchief with two holes bored
out for the eyes.
Police description of winthrop-Name, Oil
yer Winfield Winthrop; charge, murder; age,
40; born in Massachusetts,; can read and write
and is married; height, 5 feet 8 inches; hair,
dark brown; eyes, blue; arrested in San Fran
cisco June 10, 1895. by Captain Lees and De-
tectiVe Ross Whitaker for the murder of Mrs.
Jennie Mathews by giving her poisonous pill
while in Laurel Hill Cemetery; conspicuous
d1mple on right cheek; claimed to be civil
engineer; was assistant Superintendent of the
Laurel Hill Cemetery up to May, 1894; has
not been employed regularly at any work
since the above date.
Mrs. Dunton, the owner of the house at
4109 California street, where the aged mill
lionaire was detained, made a statement
to Captain Lees yesterday. She said in
in a Sundays paper. She had two callers,
the second giving his name as Archibald.
She was shown Winthrop's photograph
and at once identified it as that of the man
who so called himself. "Archibald' ex-
amined the house, and was more pleased
with the front and rear entrances than
with anything else. He agreed to rent
the house and paid 81 80 as a deposit, and
she gave him receipt, telling him to call
upon her agents. A. NJ. Speck & Co., and
if they were satisfied to pay the balance of
the rent to them.
Winthrop called again next morning
and brought a receipt from Speck & Co.
and note that Archibald" was unknown
to them, but was we'll recommended by
the bearer, his friend. Speck had known
Winthrop, so that he had to tell him that
he wanted the house for his friend Archi-
bald, instead of for himself. Winthrop
told Mrs. Dunton to hurry out of the
house, as be expected his wife, and as she
was extremely nervous he did not want
any one to be IN the house when she came
In her hurry to get out Mrs. Dunton left
her cloak, which was found by Captain
Lees Thursday night.
Winthrop was seen downtown on
Wednesday evening about 1880 o'clock.
a gentleman, whose name Captain Lees
refuses to disclose, spoke to him for few
minutes In hall entrance previous to a
meeting of council of the American Pro-
tective Association. The gentleman did
not see him at the meeting. 1t was re-
ported That young man was seen going
up to Winthrop at the time and whisper
ing something in his ear, which made him
leave hurriedly. Captain Lees says that
is not true. The captain hinted that
Winthrop had been seen later, but he
would not say where, when or by whom.
On Wednesday evening Winthrop had
his mustache and side whiskers shaved
off, apparently with the object of disguis-
ing himself as much as possible.
A story was published that Winthrop
was seen riding to his house Tuesday
evening on bicycle and riding hurriedly
away again. The captain saws il is not
true, as ne has proof that Winthrop was
not at home all that evening.
Archie Urquhart, who first gave the in
formation of Campbell and Winthrop hay-
ing been seen by him on Montgomery
street Monday afternoon, will return to
the city on Tuesday. The police are eager
to see him, in view of the statement of his
friend Koch, that Winthrop had made
proposition to him to join in the scheme
to kidnap Campbell.
No one seems to know anything about
"Pete, and the only clew to him that the
police have is the description given by
phol1