The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12
The Letter Found in O. w. Win.
throp's Possession Was
Written by Her.
HOTEL CLARENDoN's TELLTALE
BLoTTER.
It Has Easily Led to the Discovery of
Winthrop'S Cores pondence With
the Cramers, and Clears
Away Many Cloudy
Points

hlllAOndAI6 james a. Oam pDeiI, VINO
claims to have been kidnapped by Oliver
Winthrop and shot by W1nthrops accom-
plice, known at present by the name OF
Pete" is quietly resting at the Hotel
Vendome, San Jose.
Oliver Winthrop, who denies Campbell's g
sensational story and any association with
SAID Pete" in a dastardly attempt to ex-
tort $20,C0 from the Hawaiian planter, is
safely held in tank "a at the City Prison.
Captain Lees is sitting contentedly in
his upper Office, reaching around and pat
ting himself on the back for having cap
tured Winthrop, whom he believes to be
as Villainous bandit as Campbell would
make him out to be.
The mysterious Pete" is at large, pre-
sumably as securely hidden as are Blan-
ther and Dunham, two gen ntlemen who
have made their mark in this world and
whose whereabouts Captain Lees would
like to know.
Mrs. Dunton, the owner of the cottage,
4109 California street, who, the detectives
say, received money from Winthrop for
the rental of the place, declares positively
that she did nothing of the sort, and that
the man under arrest had never been seen
~ ACA 0AAN4l o1AO was
brought to the City Hall to identify him.
Joseph Douglass, a former resident of
Honolulu, in a position where he could
study the intimate habits of James A.
Campbell, declares the latter was a fire.
quent tippler; that on many occasions to
his knowledge Campbell absented himself
from home for several days and nights,
enjoying himself immensely with friends
or strangers, it made no difference which,
providing the wine flowed freely. On
these occasions, so says Douglass, Camp
bell invariably returned home disgrantled,
sick and sore, but with some sensational
story of having been abused, held up, tor
tured and robbed.
The Campbell faction, headed by Cap
tain Lees, deny all through in the face of
overwhelming evidence to the effect that
Campbell does drink, drinks right
roundly when he does drink at all, and
that is often. They claim that venom or
spite causes Douglass to talk as he has,
because when he was steward aboard the
inter-island steamer Liki-Liki he led a
merry dance in the wlneroom and Camp
bell caused him to be discharged.
These are few puzzling features of the
ampbelI-Winthrop case from which any
one may pick his choice and follow up
any kind of a theory
In other words, while the chief actors in
this modern drama, not to say tragedy,
are more or less located, the great, good
and confding public are completely at sea-
To be sure there were new developments
yesterday. Winthrop consented to open
his mouth a little wider than usual, but it
is not quite certain whether it was not his
desire to laugh at his accusers that made
him do so. However, some words of in-
formation dropped from him.
His wife, accompanied by a mutual
friend, one Private Detective Hicks. called
on him during the early morning and at 5
o'clock in the afternoon. They greeted
each other most lovingly with a resound-
ing kiss or two, and sat in the corridor
engaged in busy conversation.
Attorneys Outflow and Mathews, two
friends of the prisoner, and the former, at
least, brother in the American Protective
Association, met and advised him to keep
his own counsel and not speak of his case
to any one, especially the newspaper
men.
AS finish to the days doings, an in
formation against Winthrop was filed with
the County Clerk charging him with rob-
berry and assault to commit murder. His
case will be tried shortly in Judge
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