The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-12-16
MORE MURDER
In Now Famous Emanuel
Church District
SOME HORRIBLE FEATURES
P.ECALL THE FATE OF BLANCHE
LAMONT
SOME HORRIBLE FEATURES
A Wealthy Woman Outraged and Hel
Head Beaten to Jelly With a
Coupling Pin

Associated Press Special Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. ia horri
BILE murder was perpetrated here at dusk
this evening. The victim was a woman
and the scene of the crime was in the
Mission district, in the vicinity of the
Emanuel church murders, about five
blocks from that edifice. Many of the
features of the crime and it's accompany
ing circumstances recalled the tragic
deaths Of Minnie Williams and Blanche
Lamont.
It was about o'clock this afternoon
that the dead body was found in an
upper fiat at 500 Guerrero street by the
tenants of the lower fiat. The woman
had been outraged and her head beaten
to Jelly with a coupling pin, which
was found in one of the rooms. The
victim is supposed to be Mrs. Mary c.
Clute, wealthy resident of Watson
Vile, Cal. She had just rented the flat
from Miss Blanchard and the noise of
carpet laying was heard by the people
in the lower fiat. The lacking ceased
and all was quiet for a time then terrible
screams were heard. The occupants of
the lower flat became alarmed and
started to investigate, when they saw a
man leaving by an alley way leading to
the rear entrances They asked him the
cause of the trouble, but he vouchsafed
no reply and made his escape. On going
upstairs the dead body was found. The
position of the body indicated that the
dead woman had been outraged.
Joseph Foley, the carpet layer who
xyoc IN Mrc C1uta'c rooppt1v
rented fiat this afternoon, has been ar
o'clock, leaving at 5, but asserts that he
knows nothing Of any murder.
Foley was allowed his liberty after
being detained at the prison a short
time. He seems to know nothing about
the case. His assistant, Andrew Jack
son, left the house half an hour before
Foley departed at o'clock. II the po
lice have any suspicious they do not d.
vulge them. No arrests have been made
up to midnight.
Foley and Jackson are employed by
the Chicago Clock company, an Install
ment plan" house. Clute, the husband of
the murdered woman, is a travelling
salesman and is now on the road for q
baking powder firm.
The lower part of the house where the
murder occurred is occupied by l.. A.
Legg, a horseman. His wife and his
aged father, George B. Legg, an in
valid, were the only persons who saw the
assassin after the contamination of his
deadly deed. The elder Legg says he
heard the sound of falling body over
head, followed by two or three screams.
He went to the front door to summon
help. He says: "Just as and Mrs. Legg
reached the front porch a man came
out Of the small alleyway to the south of
the house, the entrance to the rear stair
way, and started up the street toward
Twenty first street at rapid walk.
called to him and asked him what the
noise upstairs meant. He made no re-
Spouse, but quickened his steps, and then
I called, and asked him again and then
a third time, the only result being that
when I made the third call he started to
run. He did not turn around once, and
could not see his face at all. He was
short and thickset, wore dark suit Of
clothing and had black hair"
His call for help was responded to by
an Italian and c. w. Mark, vice-prin-
cipal Of the Everett school, who went up
stairs and found Mrs. Clute lying in a
pool Of blood. Around her lay several
hairpins, and the only evidence of
struggle was the fact that one of the
pins was broken in two pieces, and her
hair was badly disarranged. Her cloth
ing, when Mark arrived on the scene,
was nearly drawn up to her knees. A
further examination developed that the
,,sc lot1 70
pieces A later examination showed that
nothing had been stolen from the apart
mentS.
An examination at the morgue reveal
ed the fact that the woman's skull had
been fractured by heavy blow in the
region of the left side of the occipital
bone. There was deep cut on the right
temple and a slight one over the left
eye. Her nose was broken, this proba-
bly, being the spot where she received
the first blow, as the ones on the base of
the skull would have produced instant
Inconsistencies
THE MURDERED WOMAN
WATSONVILLE, Cal, Dec. 15.-Mrs.
Mary Clute, who was murdered in San
Francisco this evening, was the daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Ruttles of
this place. Mr.. and Mrs. Ruttles died
within a few weeks of each other about
nine months ago. Mrs. Clute attended
them during their fatal illness and re-
manned until month or so after their
death. Mrs. Clute's husband, who is a
commercial traveller, was here and at
tended the funeral. 1t was variously ru-
mored at the time of Ruttles' death that
he was worth about $4,000 and that it
was bequeathed to Mrs. Mary Clute,
their daughter. Shortly after she went
to San Francisco to reside. She was in
jacksonville about three weeks ago try
ing to make some arrangement to rent
her property, which is situated on Main
street in Jacksonville. She has no chill
dren.