The San Francisco call., 1896-08-13
Captain Lees and His Force Are
at Sea in the Latest
Sensation.
VERY NAUGHTY TYPEWRITER
She Is Well Remembered by Frederick
w. Brooks Fellow-W -Workmen as
His Sweetheart.

Since the arrest of Oliver Winthrop the
police might have been resting on their
oars so far as results are concerned. No
doubt they are working hard to bring in
Winthrop's mplices just as they
labored TO capture Josef Blanther, the
murderer Of old Mrs. Lengfeld, who slipped
through their fingers till he needs to slip
no longer.
In that Blanther case the detective de-
partment withheld every item of news for
fear its publication might interfere with
the administration of justice and the cap
ture of the culprit. And only after the
assassin was safely away was the affair
made public.
1t is the same in this Campbell case
apparently. The detectives profess to be
ANXIOUS to capture the mysterious "Pete,
still they do not care to accept the assist
ance Of the newspapers in bringing about
that end.
Yesterday Captain Lees refused most
positively to make public the contents of
the letter signed "Dollie," which was
found IN the possession of o. W. Win
throp when arrested.
The connection between Dollie and
Pete" is very close in this Campbell
Winthrop sensation.
Campbell, if he speaks the truth in
regard to his kidnapping, heard Winthrop
call the man who wore the mask by the
name of Pete"
Now it transpires that Winthrop claims
never TO have known anybody by that
name. Still, his wife and her sister, Mrs.
Cramer, as well as Winthrop himself,
have repeatedly been heard by dozens of
people to call F. w. Brooks, a brother of
the ladies, and a brother-in-law OF the
man, "Pete."
This man Brooks, two days before the
alleged KIDNAPPING of Campbell, disap-
peared with $500 belonging to fellow
employees at the Emporium, his type
writer dropping out of sight at the same
time.
Brooks, who is known to be daring
man and very hard pressed financially,
would be, according to the estimate of his
associates, the very man to undertake
such an expedition as his brother-in-law,
Winthrop, is accused of leading.
Assuming the story of Campbell to be
correct, his captors fed at the latest one
week ago last night.
The capture of Winthrop in Oakland oc-
CURED Monday and everything denotes
that his partner "Pete" was not in that
part of the country. However, the letter
signed ''Dollie" found in Winthrop's
POCKET indicates that he and "Pete" were
in communication through the medium
of that young lady-W. F. Brooks type
writer who is said to have fed with him.
There are no two ways about Twin
throp, Dollie and W. F. Brooks, alias
nI0coIry
Still, while Captain Lees gave it out that
he had found the "Dollie" letter, he re-
fuses to divulge the contents.
Winthrop, the prisoner, says that this
"DollIe" letter, like most of the evidence
against him up to date, is creation of the
police-not fact, but fancy.
D. A. Urquhart, the young man from
Oakland, who claims that Winthrop made
him propositions at various times to kid
nap wealthy people, has returned from
trip to the mines of Plumas County. He
tells how Winthrop unfolded kidnapping
scheme to him and how the detective
worked it up.
While Campbell is resting himself in
San JOSS number of his friends have
taken up his end of the present sensation in
, this City. AS rule they agree upon one
point, which is that they believe the story
told by him of being kidnapped.
The story told by Douglass. the ex-
steward of the inter-isIand steamer Like
Like, that Campbell had frequently be-
fore told stories Of the present kind. is
generally disbelieved. However, it is con-
ceded that the millionaire has from time
to time jollied himself with liquor to the
point Of being incapable OF returning
home for days.
On one occasion quite recently this oc-
Cured ct the Occidental Hotel, when two
stalwart employees were Obliged to carry
him 10 the elevator and lay him down in
his room at the feet of Mrs. Campbell, who
was not slow in delivering him round lec-
ture, to which he was perfectly deaf.
There is no doubling the fact that the
Hawaiian planter is the leading CONNER
cial and financial man of the islands.
Every man from there tells of his posses
sions and their talk indicates his influence,
for anything they say in regard to his
net penchants is told in whispers and
with the proviso that the speakers name
be not mentioned. CampbelPs income
last year was no less than $4,000 derived
from his ownership of the ice plant.
gasight, electric light and tramway sys-
tenn of Honolulu, and the rental of his
many acres of sugarcane land to the mis-
sionaries. 1t was not much over thirty
days ago that the lobby of the Occidental
Hotel was decorated with huge block of
ice in which could be seen half dozen
beautiful Hawaiian fish frozen there at
the Ice compauy's works in Honolulu and
sent by steamer to the millionaire.