The San Francisco call., 1897-07-02
AN MAYORS
MAYNARD GIRL
Mysterious Mrs. Farnum
Was a Miss Addie
Spaulding.
Once a Much Petted Belle in
0akland's Swell
Society.
Her Family and the Police of Two
Cities Seek Her, Believing She
Is Demented.

Mrs. AOQle a. FArn um, tuo mysterious
woman who caused the arrest of Street
car Cond uctor R. D. Jackson, on a charg'
of robbery. is much-sought-for person
| The police have not yet been able to locat.
| her in any one OF her alleged residences o.
| in her haunts. Private detectives, too
| have Joined in the chase, at the instlga.
| tion Of her family, who, by the way, are
dreadfully mortified at the scandal cas-
| upon them by one of theirs.
| Mrs. Addle Farnum was the petted
daughter of N. w. Spaulding of the Pacific
! Saw-manufacturing Company and ex
! Mayor of Oakland. One of her brothers
is assistant cashier at the Fireman's Fund
| Insurance Company. Two of her sister
are married and occupy high social posi-
| tions. All these are shocked over the
| notoriety their relative has thrust upon
them. and they are now seeking her tc
plead that she desist in the prosecution oi
Conductor Jackson.
In speaking of the matter yesterday
Mr. Spaulding, the brother, said:
my father and our family would have
preferred the death OF one of US rathe r
than the disgrace in which we have been
placed.
Il have not seen my sister Addie for six
months past. She was way ward girl
and father could do nothing with her.
Her married life ended in great trouble
and divorce, then she went out from Us
into the world, and we had lost sight of
her until this new scandal.
When Addie had the conductor ar
rested, saying ne had robbed her of her
purse containing 500 ana jewelry she said
that she was an adjuster for the Fireman S
Fund. This is positively untrue. She
never was connected with the company
even in the remotest way. Her husband,
who was an inspector OF agencies for the
Home Mutual, never was con injected with
US either.
81 am sorry for the poor conductor who
finds himself in trou BILE on my sisters ac-
count, for fear some injustice has been
done him. My sister. l am sure. Is fighty
and nre esponsible."
Conductor Jackson, who is out on bonds
furnished by Attorney Julius Kahn and
Tax Collector Block, yesterday sum-
moned two important Witnesses, who will
testify that they met Mrs. Farnum on the
night of June 16 in Oakland, where sne
related 10 them strange tale of purse
losing. One of the mn il . freigh car
conductor who met the woman at the Six
teenth-street station at a late hour, alter
the last passenger boat had left for the
City. she was quite well dressed and
seemed to be under the influence of
liquor. She said that she had been 70 bed
of her purse and $780, All she had left
was Is cents, and she must get back to
this City and her husband, who was wait
ing tor her, or get into much trouble.
The conductor gave her q ride to the
mole, where she told her tale of woe again
to the night watchman and she was per-
mitted to cross the bay on . freight boat.
There is tea merchant on Fillmore
street who will testify that she told him
last Saturday night that she had but $40
in her purse when she was robbed. che
likewise made that same statement to
Policeman Connors.
All these circumstances, added to the
fact that the woman swore to a false resi-
dence in her com plant upon which Jack
son was arrested, and her subsequent dis
appearance tend to cast discredit upon her
story of abuse and robbery.
Mrs. Farnum has a little girl, Bessie
Farnum. seven years old, who was left by
her mother in charge of Mrs. Small of
1922 Mission street soon after her divorce.
Mrs. Small has asked Secretary Holbrook
OF the Society for the Prevention OF Cru
city To Children to have the child placed
absolutely in her charge.