The San Francisco call., 1896-04-07
PIT TSBURG JACK
SURE ENOUGH.
Gillis and Kline Swear That
He Was the Dead
Burglar.
POLICE THEORIES FAIL.
Captain Lees Heard Some Inter.
esting News in Court
Yesterday Morning.
THE "CALL's" STORY PROVED.
A Gang of Criminals Brought to Light
by Detective Kline's Dis
closures.
TIE CALLS" STORY PROVED.

published the story, and it was vigorously
denied by the head of the detective
bureau, who had nothing to go on except
a theory.
In order to prove that the article in The
CALL was misstatement, he had Harry
Kline and Charles Giilis summoned before
Police Judge Low yesterday morning to
swear to what they knew about the dead
burglar.
Gillis declared that he met Pittsburg
Jack in Illinois eight years ago. and was
with Jack when he had his arm tattooed.
He knew Jack in Missouri. where he was
known as Clark and Dougherty. After
hearing of the burglary Gillis went to the
Morgue and identified the dead man as
Pittsburg Jack. His Identification was
positive, and there was not the slightest
possibility of mistake.
Captain Lees asked GilIis where he got
the information as to the details of the
burglary. and Gillis replied that William
H. Stewart, alias Muddy Bill" had told
him that on the night of the burglary
Hayes and Reilly were not at their usual
haunt at 81 Clay street. He also got some
information from Frank Marion, alias
THE KID
Gillis said also that a man named Lob
Wilson had told him that Hayes was
stoolpigeon, and had it not been for
Reilly, Hayes would not have been sus-
pected. Gillis visited Reilly last Tuesday
and had long conversation with him, in
which Reilly said he was anxious to get
out OF town, and that there was an oppor.
tunity of burglarizing Young's drugstore
on the corner of Howard and Langdon
streets, but that he would not need to do
it if he could get some money from his
mother. In pursuance of this conversa-
ton, Riley made an appointment to meet
Gillis that evening at Howard and Sew
enth streets, but the appointment was not
kept.
Patsy Lynch, Reilly's chum, and that
Lynch was not a saint.
After this statement, so damaging to
the theory of the detectives, Captain Lees
asked Kline and Gillis whether they did
not wish to swear to complaints charging
Reilly and Hayes with burglary They
replied that as they were neither paid de-
tectives nor public prosecutors they did
not wish to swear to complaints against
any one.
Reilly was then taken into Captain Lees
office, where he made the following state
ment:
Statement of E. ]. s. Reilly alias "Handsome
Reilly" maze to Captain /. w. Lees, April 6, in
the presence of Detectives Gibson and Wren
Toronto Slim" came up to my house last
Tuesday afternoon. My mother went to the
door, and he asked for Frank Reilly. went
down to the door, and when 1 first saw him
did not know hi m until ho o-ip
/ recognized him, and we went out on the front
porch and talked for about an hour of old
times.
met Slim in Oakland about five years ago.
He has the name of being safecracker and an
all around thug and has done time in the East
ern penitentiaries. He tried to kill couple of
men on his way to Los Angeles one time, SO l
am told. After talking on the porch he in
vited me over to the saloon to have drink
and threw down a half-dollar and bought two
rounds of beer. He wanted to know if l could
put him on to some place where he could crack
safe or hold some one up. I told him had
changed and did not do that kind of work and
made an engagement to meet him the follow
ing Saturday night att 80, but did not. He said
him and his partner, .Reckless Jim," wanted
to know of some safe to crack or some one to
hold up. never saw him again until met
him in court this morning,
He never mentioned a word to me about
Youngs drugstore, or me to him. 1t is Just
few doors from me, and it is not likely would
hold up place few doors from where live
This is all the conversation had with Slim in
regard to this matter. E. ]. S. REILLY
Witnesses to signature.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9Th
day of April, A. D. 1896.
HARRY PIPER, Deputy County Clerk.
Architect Reilly, however, does not re-
quire any credentials of good character
from the police. His own affidavit pub
lished here, describes the character of an
architect that he is. He hobnobs and
drinks with man whom he knows to be a
burglar, and who, according to Architect
Reily's affidavit, has called on him for the
purpose not OF drawing plans for Mob Hill
residence, but for the purpose of assisting
him in the burglary of a drugstore. Burg
lars are not in the habit Of asking respect
able architects to join them in their mid
night raids. but either ellis or Reilly
must have been an exception to the gem
eral rule.
What does Architect Reilly say to this
infamous proposition? He accepts the
burglars beer and mildly but virtuousIy
replies. Here is his answer in his own
affidavit:
He wanted to know If l could put him on to
some place where he could crack q safe or hold
some one up TOLD HIM HAD CHANGED and
did not do that kind of work, and l made an
engagement to meet him the following Satur-
day night at 80, but did not.
Another respectable witness is William
ii. Stewart, POLITICALLY aliased muddy
Bill"
Bill hastens to remove any unfavorable
impression which might be created on
account of his nickname by remarking, II
once fell in the mud and that is why
they call me Muddy Bill.''
Muddy says that he met Toronto Slim
a week ago last Sunday night in saloon
where two glasses OF beer are sold for 5
cents. Slim was with Shorty Solomon
Muddy introduced himself to Slim with
the remark that he ("Muddy") had been
on the road "a tramp) for five years. He
denies having told Toronto Slim that