The record-union., 1897-12-16
Occurred Near the Same Place and under
Accompanying Circumstances.
Mrs. Mary C1ute Outraged and Her
Head Beaten to a Jelly With a
Coupling Pin-The Tragedy En-
acted at Dusk in a Flat She Had
Just Rented in the Mission Dis
trict.

SAN Il fhANClSCO, Lee la hui
fible murder was perpetrated here at
dusk this evening. The victim was a
woman, and the scene of the crime was
in tn. Mission district, in the vicinity
OF the Emmanuel Church murders,
about five blocks from that edifce.
Many of the features of the crime and
its accompanying circumstances recall
ed the tragic deaths of Minnie Williams
and Blanche Lamont.
1t was about 5 o'clock this after
noon that the dead body was found in
an upper fiat at SOB Guerrero street by
The tenants of the lower fiat The wo-
man had been outraged, and her head
beaten TO a jelly with a coupling pin,
which was found in one of the rooms.
The victim is supposed to be Mrs.
Mary Clute, a wealthy resident of Wat
sonville, Cal. She had just rented the
flat from a Miss Blanchard, and the
noise OF carpet laying was heard by
the people in the lower fiat The tack
ing ceased, and all was quiet for a
time, then terrible screams were heard.
The occupants of the lower fiat be-
came alarmed and started to investi-
gate, when they saw man leaving by
an alleyway leading to the rear en-
trance. They asked him the cause Of
the trouble, but he vouchsafed no re-
ply. and made his escape.
ON going upstairs the dead body was
found. The position of the body indi-
Gated that the dead woman had been
outraged The police are searching for
Miss Blanchard
Joseph Foley, the carpet layer, who
was Working in Mrs. Clute's recently
rented Hat this afternoon, has been ar
rested He says he went to the fiat at
t O'Clock, leaving at ), but asserts that
ne 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 a. o'clock.
IL the police have any suspicious they
do not divulGe them. No arrests have
been made up to midnight
Foley and Jackson are emploved 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
a baking powder firm.
The lower part of the house where the
murder occurred is occu0ied by l.. A.
Iegg, a horseman. His wife and his
aged father, George B. Legg, an invalid,
were the only persons who saw the as
sassin after the consummation of his
deadly deed. The eldest Legg says he
heard the sound of a falling body over
head, followed by two or three screams.
He went to the front door to summon
help. He says:
Just as L and Mrs. Legg reached the
front porch man came out of the small
slleyway to the south of the house, the
entrance to the rear stairway. and
started UP the street toward Twenty
fdirst street at a rapid walk. / called to
91lim and asked what the noise meant.
He made no response but quickened his
steps, and then l called and asked him
'again, and then a third time. the only
result being that when / made the third
scall he started to run. He did not turn
Around once, and could not see his face
at all. He was short and thick set, wore
a dark suit of clothes and had back
hair
His call for help was responded to by
an italian and c.. w. Marks, Vice-Princl-
pal of the Everett School, who went UP
stairs and found Mrs. Cute lying in a
ooool Of blood. Around her lay several
hair pins, and the only evidence of u
struggle was the fact that one of the
pins was broken in two pieces and her
sair was badly disarranged. Her cloth
dng when Marks arrived on the scene
was drawn nearly UP to her knees. A
further examination developed that the
-xoman's underclothing was torn tn
ypfeces. A later examination showed
dhat nothing was stolen from the apart
nnents.
An examination OF the body at the
Morgue revealed the fact that the wo-
mans skull had been fractured by a
heavy blow in the region of the left side
of the occipital bone. There was a
deep cut on the right temple, and a
slight one over the left eye. Ter nose
was broken, this probably being the
srot where she received the first blow,
as the one on the base of the skull would
have produced instant unconsciousness.
TIE MURDERED WOMAN.
WATSONVILLE, Dec. 15.-Mrs. Mary
Chute who was murdered in San Fran
cisco this evening was the daughter of
4hfe late Mr.. and Mrs. RuttleS of this
place. Mr.. and Mrs. Ruttles died with
in a few weeks of each other about
nine months ago. Mrs. Clute attend
cd them during their fatal Illness, and
remained until month or so after
their death. Mrs. Clute's husband, who
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