The San Francisco call., 1897-07-17
TN THE House
OF A FRIEND
A Fellow Nurse Takes
Charge Of Remains OF
Violet Cloves.
They Will Be Placed in a Vault
in Laurel Hill Gene
terry.
John l. Minear, the Man in the Case,
Missing-Violet's Brother
Coming.

The funeral of Violet Foster Cloves,
who was known during her brief stage ca
reer as Dot Foster, will take place at lC
o'clock this morning from the residence
of Miss Julia Vollertsen at 1922 Washing
ton street.
Miss Vollertson is a professional nurse
and worked with Miss Cloves in her life
time and took a liking to her. She called
at McGinn's undertaking establishment
yesterday and made arrangements to have
the body transferred 20 her house. During
the day and evening there were numerous
lady callers, most Of whom had been ac-
quaintances of the poor girl and sincerely
mourned her tragic fate.
The services at the house will be of the
most simple character. The body will be
placed in the receiving vault in Laurel
Hill Cemetery, 10 await the arrival of w.
f. Cloves, brother of the deceased, the
remains having been embamed.
The telegram sent by Miss O'Connell
last Thursday to Mr.. Cloves at Philadel-
phia did not reach MIN on that day, he
being absent from the city attending a
militia encampment. But yesterday he
sent a dispatch stating that he was on his
way to San Francisco and would attend
to the details of the interment after his
arrival.
John l. Minear, the man to whom Miss
Cloves addressed a note of farewell while
riding toward the ocean beach. where she
went to her death, was very miserable
over the publicity given to him in the
newspapers. He felt SO. upset over the
catastrophe and the revelation which it
implied, that he forgot TO call at the edi-
torial rooms OF the newspapers TO explain
why the public should not see any point
iE the fact hat the last note of the suicide
was addressed to him OF all the men in the
world. He did not call to explain that
this was so, because ot his having be-
friended the girl.
What makes Mr.. Minear's grief all the
more poignant is the fact that he is mar
ried man, ana that his wife might want to
know something about his penchant for
befriending pretty girls. Perhaps that is
why Mr.. Minear did not go home at all on
Thursday night ana why he could not be
found at his office at 40 Suffer street yes
terday.
Mrs. Minear called at the Coroner
office yesterday and asked Deputy Coro-
ner Mccormick whether he knew of her
husbands wherea bouts. She said that he
had not come home on the night before,
and that she was anxious about him.
There was stern expression on her face
ana SIeeIy gIlCler III HeT eyes WHeH SHe
spoke of him, and she remarked that she
did not know the dead girl and had never
heard OF her until she saw her name and
the name of her husband coupled together
in the newspapers.
Mr.. Minear may have remained away
all night from home because of delicacy
and reserve. He was not, perhaps, sure
that Mrs. MInear would understand the
matter, as he would like her to under
stand it. and he probably wished to leave
her m editations und isturbed for at least
one night.
Nobody was home last night at an early
or late hour at the MInear residence,
TIA Clayton street, where he merry voice
of the Chutes is heard until midnight.
The house was dark, and "slience brooded
like a gentle spirit round the still and
pulseless" house. Even the electric door
bell was pulseles and awoke no stir. no