The San Francisco call., 1897-04-08

greatly at variance as to leave some ap-
parent but no real doubt.
Myron Frost, manager of the Oakland
Lumber Company, is confined to his bed
with fearful injuries to his head, having
been seriously beaten last Friday night
in very peculiar manner. His face and
eyes when seen tonight were black, blue
and yellow from bruises, and it will be
several days before he is able to get up
He received the beating outside the E5ell
clubhouse and that structure still bears
the stains from the cuts that were made
on his head when he was being Knocked
against it by his assaiIanls.
Detective Williams has made a very
com pIete Investig and has discovered
the following facts: Several days ago a
young woman, said to be Miss May Gill;
gan, received an anonymous letter. asking
her TO meet the writer at the corner of
Alice and Fifth streets. She was a little
suspicious, but confided the affair to a
young man with whom she was keeping
company. He advised her to keep the
appointment and promised to keep watch
with some friends and see that no harm
beiell her. On Friday night she was at
the appointed place on time and found q
gentleman there.
Her newly made friend proposed a walk
up to the Ebell building lot at Thirteenth
and Harrison streets, which is owned by
the proprietor of the lumber-mill where
Mr.. Frost is manager. On reaching the
building the man proposed that they pass
Through dark passage back Of the buiId-
ing. The girl demurred, and her COM
panion was about to use force when three
young men came into view, and when the
man struck one of them it was a signal
for general melee The girl fed, and
after beating her companion the three
fellows took TO their heels.
The same night Mr.. Frost was fear.
fully beaten in the rear Of the Ebell build
ing, but he denies ever seeing a girl there,
or knowing anything about one.
Mr.. Frost lives in q comforta BILE home
with his wife. When seen tonight he
said:
Il am satisfied that my assailants were
old-time enemies. | could give two or
three CO umns of their history and then
no one would be any wiser. l have an
i'm preston of the m in my mind, but none
that l could swear to. l don't want to
place them on their guard by telling them
what l propose to do. That would not
do. They are the same set that assaulted
Mr.. Reed four or five years ago. knew
they were after me. They did not mis-
ia ke 10 for some one else. / was simply
doing little job for Mr.. Reed, measuring
a window of his building for SCREEN"
eff Frost's story be true" said Detective
Williams "there must have been two men
beaten at the back of the Ebell building.
He has told me that he was beaten by ruff
fans whom he would not recognize and
consequently that he cannot swear to war
rants against them. He first said he did
not see any one, ana later confessed that
he saw three men. The blows came from
the front rather than the back. He de-
MED that he made any outcry or defended
himself, as it was all so sudden. His hat,
found on the scene of action, torn in two,
shows how fierce the battle was. I am
perfectly satisfied that he has not told me
all he knows. People in the neigh Dor hood
heard a cry, but as it was not repeated
they paid no further attention to it. We
know all of the three assailants, and il
Frost will not swear to the complaints we
shall put his story down as lacking cre-
dence."
Miss Gilligan adds to the mystery. She
says she knows nothing about the affair.
s'Why do you come to me? have only
heard of it. I told Mr.. Williams all
knew. ! was at work both afternoon and