davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11
She Was Found Throttled in Her
Vile Den on St. Mary's
Street.
RAGS STUFFED IN HER THROAT
Many People Arrested on Suspicion,
but the Mystery Seems Greater
Than Ever.

Within thirty days the deadly fever of
murder has run riot in the tenderloin.
May McDermott was strangled first by
some unknown in her den at 1877 Morton
street Then May Conboy was murdered
in her resort just across the way. Finally
Yesterday morning Berthe Paradis was
also assassinated in her abode at 81 St.
Mary's street by some miscreant who is as
much unknown as he is at large.
The main facts of the killing were given
in yesterday morning CALL. The woman,
who in the prosecution of her Infamous
trade had to be conspicuous in her neigh
borhood, was seen with innumerable men
and women OF her class until l 80 clock
in the morning, when she and some
friends were served with drinks in the
dingy rooms she occupied. Later, prob
ably an hour afterward, her "friend,' who
bears the relation of husband to her in
their circle, discovered her dead body
lying across the bed.
The woman's S mouth was stuffed with a
bandana handkerchief and a towel, and
later this morning long carpenters pen
Gil, fat on one side and rounded on the
other, was found under the bureau in the
room. Its condition indicated that it had
been in use during the stutfing process.
Aside from this pencil there is abso-
lutely nothing on which the slightest clew
might be worked by the detectives, who are
''stumped" in the case just as they have
been in that of poor May McDermott.
In fact they are of the belief that the
two women may have been killed by the
same person. The details OF these MUIR
ders are much alike. Both women were
very frail, physically as well as morally.
They had both been drinking and both
having been seen TO enter their lod gings to
receive visitors at about the same hour,
were found in identical positions on their
beds, the murderers having disappeared.
The question arises now, not only with
the detectives, but with the women of the
victims sphere, whether the Denver
Stranger" has not reached this City.
The nemesis they are afraid of is the un-
known, who, in Denver. Colo, IN Noyem-
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11

erty, and am now going to run 15OO-foot
tunnel in it, which will fully develop the
extent of the coal.
81 was five years trying to get this prop
erty, and finally succeeded, after good
deal OF effort. had notion to try ship
ping the coal here. / think I can open
eyes before / get through, for l will sell
great deal cheaper than coal is being sold
for now."
Mr.. McNeill is a man with whom de-
veloping coal mines and building rail
roads has been life business. His East
ern home is at Oakland, Iowa. He
discovered, developed, and. with his
brothers, now owns the extensive coal
mines there. He also owns others near
by in Nebraska County, Iowa. He also
bought some time since the extensive coal
mines at Banff, British Colum bia.
''This property consists Of about 10000
acres of coal lands at the Canadian Pacific
crossing of the Rocky Mountains" said
Mr.. McNeill. 1--WE have been operating
them five years. They are 500 miles from
tidewater. The coal is true anthracite and
because of this is admitted free of duty in
the United States.
1--WE had quite fight and had to prove it
was anthracite before the Government
would accept it, so there is now no ques-
ton about 1t. We are shipping now about
100000 tons a year. Our market is from
Winnipeg to Vancouver. We have a
crosscut tunnel in now showing fully 100
feet of anthracite.
"This mine will be a great property
eventually, but that most concerns ones
children. OF course, 100,00 tons year is
no coal, so far as shipments are concerned.
We have sent a little to Spokane, Helena,
Seattle and some other points, but only a
little, in order to test it.
Mr.. Mcneil is developing other mines
in different sections. He is largely
interested in the Victoria Consol-
idated Gold Mining Company, a
hydraulic property at Cariboo, B.
C. He is also interested in the
Kootenai mines, and In cinnabar prop
erty in the Holmalco River country. over
400 miles north OF Vancouver.
Mr.. McNeill will be here several days,
and while here will look up the facilities
for landing his coal here. The property
from which he is thinking of shipping to
San Francisco is on the upper coast and
the last acquired by him.
He was one of the builders of the Iowa
Central Railroad.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11

be7, 1894, strangled three French cour-
tesans and Japanese woman. All his
crimes were committed much in the same
manner as were these, and the murderer
has never been captured.
a feature in the present case crops forth
from the lips of one OF the women living
opposite 81 ST. Mary's street. She said:
"The police drove US out OF Morton
street and we went to Dupont. Blanche,
as we called Bertha, went to live at 40o
Dupont street, and she was driven out of
there. Here we are crowded in this back
alley, right under the shadow OF the
cathedral. Look up there" she ex-
claimed, pointing to the towering steeple.
"Do you read that sign?"
The sign beneath the clock was easily
read-"Son, observe the time and flee from
evil"
Just you put, Girls. fly from evil, and
You'll have it right We won't want the
police to drive US out; we'll just gel of our
own accord. This choking business is get
ting too promiscuous."
AS q matter of fact the women of the
town, in the districts where CweH the
lower class, have been in fearful dread for
the past few weeks that the mysterious as
sassin might come their way, and while
the murderer's hand has claimed two vic
tins the result has been to drive many of
the outclassed ones into private life.
Bertha Paradis, the murdered woman,
was born III Alsace, thirty-two years ago,
whence, as a young woman, she went to
LYONS. 1t was there that she met Cesar
Chabert, the first man who yesterday
found her dead. With him she consorted
and led the life in France she continued to
lead IN this City. He, big burly individal, /,
weighing over 200 pounds, permitted the
frail little woman of half that weight to
be his means of livelihood.
In telling his story to Captain Lees AFTER
the murder be stated in manner most
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11
THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS
Native Sons Hall Chosen as the
Place and May q the Time
of Meeting.
Woman in Government Will Be the
Theme, but There Will Be Many
Subdivisions.

The programme for the Woman's Con-
gress is practically completed. A few
topics are not yet assigned, owing to the
delay in communicating with the speakers.
The time of the assembling of the con-
gress has been changed to the week be-
ginning May in order to secure the Ma.
tive Sons Hall. There will be a prelim-
nary public meeting for the purpose of
presenting the plans of the congress
shortly prior TO its assembling.
Mrs. Lowell White and Mrs George w.
Haight of Berkeley have been elected
mem bers of the advisory board in place
of Mrs. w. E. Hale and Mrs. Charles 8.
Nash, resigned.
The programme for the congress is as
follows:
Monday Government; address of well
come, Mrs. Sarah b. Cooper; response, Miss
Susan B. Anthony. Introduction Of speakers,
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper. analysis of Govern
ment" beginning of Government" Mrs
Charlotte Perkins-Ste;son. Functions of Gov
ernment,' President Kellogg. Failure in
Government" Evolution Of Government
David Starr Jordan. Present Status of Gov
ernment." "Trend Of Government Today
Rev Anna Il. Shaw.
Tuesday-"Form of Government" "The
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11

Nellie Conners. "The Emperor" "Tne People,"
Mrs. stetson. "The Family" Miss Catherine
Graydon. 'The Tribe" Mrs, Frances Fuller
Preg. "The Nation" Miss Eliza D.. Keith.
"What Americans Came From and What We
Came For Rev. Anna II. Shaw. What we
Did for the World" "What We Are Now" Dr.
E. A. Ross.
Wednesday-"Woman as Popular MYTH"
Miss Cordelia Kirkland; "Woman as Plain
Fact" Miss Sarah Severance; Woman as a
Social Factor" Mrs. Eliza A. Orr; Woman as
woman in Religion Rev. DR.. j, X. Mclean;
woman in Poetry" woman in Fiction
Mrs. Lowell White; "Woman as She Was and
as She Is,'' Rabbi Voorsanger; woman as She
Thursday-"A Historic View" primitive
Woman" Miss Sarah Gamble: "In Savagery,"''
Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster; ain Barbarism," "
C'vilization, Mrs. George oulton; I'm China
"In Northern Races Miss Agnes Manning;
'In Feudalism," Mrs Mary Field OF San Jose;
America To-day, Rev. Anna H. Shaw.
Friday-''Great Queens" "The Queen Dow
ager" Mrs B. sturtevant Peet, The Power Pow,
Mrs Ada H. Van Pelt; "Heroines of History
"The Slave as Ruler" Mrs. George T. Gaden
women in War Times" Mrs. E. 0. Smith OF OF
in the Country" Miss Sarah Severance; "The
Mothers, Old and New
Saturday-Claims, general and special
housekeeping and City Keeping" Hon. Tay-
lor Rogers; Nature, Nurse and the Public
Representation" Mrs. Alice Moore McComas;
"Women as Citizens" Mrs. Emma Seckel Mar
shall: Reaction OF Injustice" Miss Sarah Sew
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11
DR.. H. n. THRALL DEAD.
The Pioneer Dentist Succumbs to the
Effects of Fall.

Effects of Fall.
DR.. Henry H. Thrall, the well-known
dentist, died early yesterday morning at
his home, GIG Pine street. His death will
be a great shock to his many friends. as it
was wholly unexpected, being the result
OF an accident. He slipped on the snow
covered steps while entering his residence
lust week since and fell violently striking
his head. The fall caused concussion of
the brain, which resulted in paralysis and
eventually death. He did not recover
consciousness after the accident
DIR. Thrall was one of the best known Of
the men who came to California in 1849.
He was born in Syracuse, y. Y, in 1874
Immediately upon reaching San Francisco
he stablished himself as a dentist and
continued TO enjoy large and lucrative
practice till his retirement few years
ago.
He early interested himself in the
National Guard; becoming a charter mem
Der of Company B, First Infantry Regi-
ment, n. G.. c., known as the City Guard,
in 1854. He was made alieutenant-coionel
ON the staff of General John McComb,
Second Brigade, in 1860, and served after
ward on the staff of Colonel w. r. Smed-
hure. Eventually DR.. Thrall was retired
with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
DIR. Thrall was a member of the Society
of california Pioneers and of the California
Commanderv of the Knights Templar.
The latter will have charge OF tie funeral
and services, which will take place at the
Masonic Temple tomorrow afternoon at
! 80 clock.
The deceased leaves a widow. He was
svmpathetic and charitable man, and
there will be host OF friends to mourn
his loss,
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11

Captain Lees feels that the present case
is as mysterious as any he has yet had to
handle, but he is sanguine tina, if hard
work can wipe away the mist and la7 hare
the murderous villain it will not be long
before he will nave the strangler in Gus
tody.
For the first time in years Captain Lees
had his hair cut yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11
THE MARCEAU CASE.
Preparations Being Made by the Wife
to Vindicate Her Name.

Mrs. Marceau is still guarding the most
Palace Hotel, where, under lock and key
she is preparing cross-com plant. The
lady positively declines for the present to
speak for publication; but her mother,
who is staying with her, is somewhat
more communicative.
1.-THE manner in which Mrs. Marceau
has been treated" she remarked last night,
"is heartless and brutal to the last degree.
1t is very hard for me to see how this
thing is preying upon her mind, realizing
as do that l am powerless to help her.
"At the same time day is coming, and
very shortly, when the truth will appear,
and the falsehoods which have caused my
daughter so much suffering will be re-
futed. Mr.. Marceau's conduct has been
most unfeeling and unscrupulous."
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11
H. w. McNeill Has New Mines
and May Ship to This
City.
WILL CAUSE A CUT IN PRICES.
He Worked for Five Years to Get the
Property-Owns Many Other Mines
in Different Places.

H. w. Mcneil, formerly Western man.
ager of the Oregon improvement Com
pany, Seattle, and with his brothers owner
of seven large coal mines in different parts
of the country, is at the Palace.
He has recently developed large coal
mine .'only five days distant from San
Francisco" as he puts it, and is thinking
seriously of shipping coal to this City.
eff do, he said. "you may look out for
a big cut here in prices. I have lately de-
yeloped a number of veins in this prop
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11
Stolen Articles.

The police have in their possession several
articles found upon awcl[known thief. Among
them are lady's small open-face silver watch,
pair of gold sleeve buttons with smell dia-
,nond i'm the center. a large Iocket with
knights head on one side and initials Oh the
other, and several white and colored handker-
chiefs with initials on them. They are cyl
IDENTIFY the proceeds of burglary or Durgiarles
and the police want owners for them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11

erance; 'Private Spirited Mothers" Rev Anna
II. Shaw; "a New CITIZENSHIP" Mrs. A. A.
Sargent, Mrs. Mary A. Swift, Miss Mollie E.
Woman Adan,ed and Adaotabie TO" to politcai ri
Functions" Professor II. II. Powers: "Chil.
dren of a Larger Growth" Rev. Anna Shaw
Practical Ethics for the Home and Govern
ment,' Mrs. Sarah b. Cooper.
Sunday-Sermon by Rev. Anna II. Shaw.
Miss Shaw and Rabbi Voorsanger will
debate the question of suffrage for women
at public meeting to be held in this City
in the near future
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11
Zimmerman Pleads Not Guilty.

Gerge w. Zimmerman. charged with using
the United States mails for the purpose of
fraud, when arraigned before Judge Nor
row in the United States District Court
pleaded not guilty. Zimmerman lives in
Siskiyou County, and 1t is there the offense
against the Government is alleged to have
been committed.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

"Is it true, my daughter, that you
and Charles have separated, and that
he has sent you an abusive poem?'
Eyes, father; we have parted forever.
don't mind that SO much, but his poem
was simply awful. He must have been
very angry when he wrote it."
HIN, no doubt; one of those poems
of passion eh ?"-Up-to-Date.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
Tardy psnite ncs.

"Why won't mammals little boy tell
mamma what he's been stuffing hirn-
self with?' anxiously asked the mater
nal parent, bending over the couch
you have been in the pantry, Johnny,
eating too much Of something yon
ought not to have eaten at all, and you
won't tell me, what it is. 1t makes me
sick at hearth"
1T makes me sick o. tart, tool"
moaned Johnny, turning his face to the
wall.
But mamma did not catch on.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

She arose, smiling, from the dem
fists chair.
"How much do owe you?" she
asked.
"Three dollars and half" was the
reply.
ouired, suspiciously.
"Quite sure"
"Well, it seems good deal. The
time was here before you only
,harged me two dollars. and you hurt
me ever so much more than you did
This time Washington Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
JAWS Conclusion.

Josh Medders--Huh! What the ding
nation is the sense of that rule of city
ket which says that gent shonld al
ways leave the parior backwards?
Jay Green-TEat is SOS the folks he
has been visitin' can't git chance to
kick him, glicss.-Truth.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
A Hint to Doctors.

( Invalid-I don't believe that this med
icine is helping me at all.
"What makes you think 500"
at does not taste bad enough to do
me any good. "-Texas Sitter.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
ForgetfuIness.

rbe man who beats the lottery forgets
that he's been poor.
The chap whose aching tooth Is out re-
members 1t no more,
The victor, crowned, forgets the strain 1t
took to win the laurel,
The lovers, after ans mace up forget their
bitter quarrel,
likewise the iceman honest is, when he
puts up the price,
lie forgets the chilly winter, with its over
plus of ice!
Indianapolis Journal
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
Explicit Directions.

Young Tutter (who has been invited
to calD--I hope | won't have any diff
ticulty in finding YOUR house, Miss
Galloway.
Miss CallowayOh, no; I don't think
YOU will, Mr.. Tutter. You can tell the
house in this way: just before you
get to it, on the first corner, is flor
lists establishment. Bay City Chat.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
Anx one of the Sex.

Mrs. Wickwire-These clairvoyants'
advertisements are soridiculous. Here
one that begins: anime. X tells
everything." The idea.
Mr.. Wickwire = rells everything?
my woman can do that.-lndianapo-
h $ Jous.al.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
safety Assured.

Mr.. Winks (solemnly)--A noted ply
kician says that deadly bacteria Turk
IN bank notes, and many diseases, espe-
Tally smallpox, are spread that way.
Mrs. Winks-Mercy on usI Give me
bll you have right off. I've been vac
kinated, you KNOWN. Y. Weekly.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
strictly Personal.

She-How is it yoI we're not at Ried,
els party?
He-I stayed away for personal rea-
sou.
She-May 7 know whao 1t was?
He-If you viii! promise to maintain
it d profound secret.
She-I give you my promise.
He-I was not invited. - Neckar-
zeiiung.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
Answered.

Gbbs-"Who shall decide when doc
ors disagree2" asks the poet.
Hehbs-Oh. the undertaken usually
pines IN and buries the bone of conten-
on.--Town Topics.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

Tramp-W'ot beautiful baby that
is, miss. Your little sister, amt it!
Looks just like you.
Mrs. Gulling-No, that's my little
daughter. Poor man! You look as if
you had walked a long way. DO you
take sugar and milk in your tea?-
cleveland Leader.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
As to the Journey.

Mr.. Ferguson (who has been ready to
start to the theater an hour or lnore)--
Laura, if you had to take train for
heaven you would get left.
Mrs. Ferguson (buttoning her gloves
4 don't know whether !. would or not,
but if did catch it know [ would have
to travel without any escort.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

''THERE is no such thing as perfection in
this world, !" said the philosopher. Fright"
assented the colonel. Even whisky has
to be nigh 80 puhsent watah. indianapolis
Journal.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
Tho Lesser Evil.

She-We should certainly move.
There is so much malaria here.
He-My dear, the malaria is the only
thing that keeps your mother from
coming to live with us.-Town Topics,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

Prestidieitateur during his grand
'oid-piece acD--I could take $50 gold
deces from your pocket all night.
Seedy Individral-Go ahead. pard;
Y give ye half.-N. y. Weekly.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

CHAT child cried for an hour this after
noon" "Why didn't you give it to him7n
asked the absent-minded father Detroit
Free Press.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

WHAT is the baby's namel Indeed
We haven't one selected,
/. We're waiting till November comes,
To see which mans elected.
Washington Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

FLANNEL. next to the skin often produces
rash, removable with Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 20 cents.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
-when He Tells the Truth.

Miss Ghsippe-Do you pay much at
tention tdlyhat your husband saysY
Mrs. Jealens-Not unless he talks in
his sleepy Bits.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is Constitutional Cure. Price 75c.

NoN-C oMMITTAL. Possible Suitor-"Are
you musical, missl" Elderly Maiden thesi-
tatingly) -"Would that be agreeable to
YOU'LL liegende Blaetter.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

JOHNNIE CHAFFIE-"Come, Mamie let us
play Adam and Eve" Mamie-"How will
we play it?'' '.You tempt me with an APP
ple and I'll eat it ."-Texas Sitter.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
,taunish in the Extreme.

Charlotte-Rose, at any rate, has no
mannish tastes.
Jessie-Oh, yes. she has. She writes
her letters without postscripts.-Town
Topics.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

JoHNNY-"May wake the baby, mann
ma?n Mamma-"Why do you want to
, wake the baby" Johnny-aSo's lean play
on nv drum. Woonsocket Patriot.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
Disproportionate.

Once more the clamorous chase for power
Sets all the watching world a-thrill,
While leaders promise in an hour
What centuries could scarce fulfill.
Washington Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

''THEY say Barrows has writer's cramp"
literature he feeds on."-Harper's Bazaar.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

10 cleanse thesystem In gentle and truly
beneficial manner, when the Spring time
comes. use the true and perfect remedy,
Syrup Of Figs. One bottle win answer for
ali the family and costs only 30 cents; the
large size 81. Buy the genuine. Manufac-
only, and for sale by all druggists.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

F'oREIaN-"I thought her husband was
French" sob, no. Broken English.
Detroit Tribune
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

Yeast Iou ever borrow from
Peter 10 n v?
Crimson No; I never meet
Paul, nor Statesman.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use OF DIR. kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 triA bottle
~ treatise. DIR. KLINE, 933 Arch st. Phila Pa.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

DIR. JALAP-"Let me see your tongue
please.'' Patient-"O, doctor, no tongue
can tell how bad feel."-Boston Tran
script.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

s'WITH all thy faults, / love thee still, as
the husband said to his scolding wife,
ID. F. w.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14

MOST of us know good thing when some
one else has it.-Life.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-08-14
A Possible Reason.

"When Twilkens gets anything on
his mind" said the busy man, "he is
always speaking of it as the question
of the hour I wonder what makes
him do that"
Il don't know, unless it's because
he expects to take up an hour day
of your time explaining it."-Washing-
ton Star.