The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12
WINTHROP DENIES DOLLIE.
He Claims She Is Only a Creature
Born in the Minds of the
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Winthrop is being treated with dis
tinguished consideration by the police.
He has been assigned to tank "a, away
from the rude gaze of the throng, Jackson.
the murderer, being his sole companion
in the large airy steel box they use as their
drawing-room and bed chamber.
Unlike Dean, the $4,000 forger, who
quite recently was Captain Lees star
boarder, however. Winthrop has been un-
able to procure himself a comfortable
camp cot OF his own, with his own
blankets, mattresses, sheets and pillow
cases. Neither is he allowed to wander out
during the sunshine, lunch in town and
take his pousse cafes in fashionable
saloons in the company of detectives. But
he has no complaint to make. He is al
lowed to receive visitors, and the TRUSTEES
of the prison give him the choicest pieces
in the plain daily menu.
I'm satisfied" he declared yesterday.
$50 long as l have the necessary where
with l suppose the TRUSTEES will keep on
being kind to me-
Winthrop looked better than he did the
day before. He was less pale and far
more composed but almost as reticent.
"Who is Dollie2" was asked of him, al
lusion being made to the letter addressed
to Al Brunson which was found unopened
in his pocket, according to the detectives.
us Dollie the name under which your
wife wrote to your
mo; my wife's name is Josephine. and
that Dollie affair is creation of the
police. They know who Dollie is all
right"
''Do you mean to say the DolIie letter
was simply decoy letter written to you
by the ponce?"
IL don't want to talk any more, so don't
ask me-"
Where does Frederick Cramer live P'
was asked.
Winthrop drew himself up in astonish-
ment, but with an inquiring look. If
those bright, sharp eyes of his could have
uttered words they certainly would have
asked:
why do you want to knowP Where
did you get that name?"
THE blotting-pad you left behind at
the Clarendon Hotel, Oakland, although
somewhat blurred shows you wrote to
Cramer."
"That may De-" said Winthrop, after a
moment of silence, "but l don't see why
you want to bring him into this affair.
lie IS very nervous man, and L would
not like to mix him up in my troubles"
''Who is he, then?"
"He married sister of my wife. That
is our only relationship. But l will insist
L
cannot afford to go deeper into the subject
without ieopardizing my position. l claim
to be innocent of the crimes charged
against me, and L will show myself so
when my case comes up in court"
After while, Winthrop denied that the
Cramers lived in Oakland, and, looking
earnestly into the eyes of the reporter, he
said:
Now, am speaking the truth to you,
they live in this Citv"
This unlocked for burst OF truthful con-
fidence was not backed up by any more
definite address, and must be accepted
with certain reservations in view OF the
fact that other people who know the
Cramers assert positively that their resi-
dence is across the bay. These people
have noreason to either conceal nor expose
what they know, but prefer to not divulge
the exact address, not wishing to bring
their acQuaintances more prominently into
the present sensation.
This being the case, both the Dollie and
the Cramer statements of Winthrop may
be safely considered at an inverse ratio of
truthfuiness to the earnestness with which
they were made.
Captain Lees, who, in his anxiety to
bring criminals TO justice, and who always
blows cold when newspaper men are on
the hottest trail, poopoohs the idea that
F. w Brooks is "Pete," and Winthrop
likewise does the same. This is not bad
indication that much credence may
honestly be given to the correctness of the
surmise