The San Francisco call., 1897-08-23
An Oakland Real Estate
Mans Experience in
Mill Valley.
Robbed of JeWeIry and Notes
Amounting to Over a
Thousand Dollars.
Sought Rest Among Marin County's
RedWoods and Returned Home
a Trifle Wiser.

MILL VALLEY, CAL, Aug. Of. L.
Marsh, a real estate dealer in Oakland,
had an experience in Mill Valley two
nights ago that will long live in his
memory, and he has to thank Mill Val
ley's constable that he is. in possession at
the present time of notes to the extent of
5000 and n oney and iewelry of no incon-
siderable amount.
1t appears, from the story told by Marsh
to Constable J. B. Maher, who investi-
gated the case, that the real estate dealer
was robbed while in the company of some
chance acquaintances made in Mill Val
lev. Marsn has been in the real esta te
business in Oakland for over twenty years,
according to his own account, and is quite
we'll known across the bay. Several days
ago he went from Oakland to San Fran
cisco for rest, but failed to find it in the
metropolis, with its gIaring lights and
places of amusement so he purchased a
ticket for Mill Valley and came across
the bay.
Here he fell IN with some congenial
ompanions and commenced to "do the
town" He applied at the Hotel Bellevue
for lodgings, but the proprietor thought
suited TO the condition in which he then
was and so refused him admittance.
When Marsh awoke next morning ne
found himself under a pile OF hay and
empty sacks in an old barn on the
O'Shaughnessy property, near Mill Val
ley station.
A violent blast OF the whistle on the en-
gine which was at the station served as an
alarm clock for the real-estate dealer and
I, -Ntvo ~ -
genuine. Slowly il dawned upon him
how be came to be in his bed of hay and
burlap, and his throobing brow supplied
the final chapter. He had "seen the
town."
He stretched his limbs and then noticed
that his watch-chain aid not dangle from
its accustomed place. his cuffs were not
held together by the golden buttons that
should have been there. His money had
flown and the ring that encircled his
finger was missing. Then his hand
strolled UP toward his necktie. That was
in its place but the gold pin tnat usually
kept the tie company was gone.
1t seemed that he had lost every thing
Then he remem Dered that he had 5000 in
notes in his pocket and his hand shot
down into his clothes after them. These
were also gone. He had been robbed, so
he sought the aid of the authorities.
Marsh reported the matter to Consta BILE
Maher, and that officer, after listening to
the unfortunate mans story, set out on
a search for the missing articles. Every
place where Marsh had gone was Wis. ted,
and it was learned with whom he had
been. Finally, alter the Consta Bile had
located the iewelry and notes, and was
about to take legal action for the arrest of
one of Marsh's mpanions of the night
before, the missing articles were returned.
The man who returned them said that he
had taken them for fear Marsh might be
robbed. His intention all along, he
asserted, was to give them back just as
soon as he saw Marsh the next day.
Constable Maher took the jewelry and
notes and gave them to the real estate
dealer, who left Immediately for his home
in Oakland. having obtained his much
needed rest in Mill Valley.