The San Francisco call., 1896-03-28
and they wanted me to go down and see
If I could identifv him

and they wanted me to 60 down and see
if I could identity him.
81 went down and saw the man (Robert
Boyd), and identified him as the man VINO
had the trouble with me. He sat down on
bench aud started to cry and SAID that
he was hungry and had no room 10 sieep
in. I asked him what he tried to lnlure
me for, and he said he was out OF WORK
and that he had no room and nothing 10
eat. He did not ask me for any money.
BOYD, in an interview Yesterday after
noon, said he met the girl on Call1ornia
stl eet, near her home. He lns1sted that II
was California street. "We talked TO-
gether and went into the halfway. l Put
my arms around her neck, but meant no
harm. Then she pushed me from her and
commenced to scream. | saw a fellow
coming down and | started to run. l
dropped my hat and when l was trying to
recover it a policeman arrested me. That
is all there is to it. l meant no harm and
want to get out of here and go back to
work"
Questioned about his place of residence,
he said he had no home; he had been liv-
ing with an Italian family on Stockton
street, between Lombard and Greenwich,
but had not been there for three days.
Asked where he had been living those
three days, he said, Nowhere, just
around; l have no home"
In answer to further questioning he said
that he was born in Liverpool and his
parents still lived there; that he had come
to this country and this City year and a
half ago and had no friends here and no
money. He was anxious that the Italian
family with whom he had lived, named
as near as he could give it-Fopiana,
should not be disturbed about the matter.
The books at the wire works show that
Boyd mas been working on the night shift
g. - he do, hax ,oc
discharged.
Rosa Martin would not respond to a call
at her place of residence at 603 Pine street,
a cheap tenderloin rooming- house. A tall,
thin cadaverous man in slip-shod dress,
looked IN the room and said she had moth
ing to add to her statement made to The
police.
81 wish you would say there is no lover
in this case" he said. t'Be sure of that.
There is no lover here"
He repeated the girls story, telling how
Boyd had thrown her down, and then
when he attempted to run she had caught
his coattail and he had lost his hat on the
sidewalk. He was arrested several blocks
away, on Commercial street, and the girl
herself took the hat 20 the California-street
station, so that his arrest could hardly
have been due to his efforts to recover it.
Laura Petit, living at 212 Ellis street,
conduct of a man who called upon her.
He said he had been given her address by
friend of hers, and was admitted, when
he Immediately began to demonstrate
what appeared to be passion for stran-
Cling. He placed his hands on her peck,
his fingers twitching nervously all the
while. The woman protested against his
conduct and he left. She thinks that the
light shining through the crevice of the
sliding-doors from the adjoining room
saved her from an encounter with real
strangler. She was very much frightened.
This woman lived in the adjoining
house to Mamie McDermott when she was
murdered on Morton street. She moved
from the neighborhood Immediately after
the Tragedy.
She described the man with whom she
had an encounter Thursday night as
small, we'll dressed, with slight mus
tache and large blue eyes, which were
slightly bloodshot.
She too was anxious that no 'lovers" be
mentioned in connection with the affair.
Indeed she objected very strenuously to
any publicity in the matter.
Boyd will be tried on the simple charge
of assault.