The San Francisco call., 1898-05-06
CLAIMS HE IS
 NOT 4 FORCER
Arthur Klein Visits Police Headquarters and Denies
 the Charge.
Pictures the Life Led With the Wallace Woman and It's
 Result.

Arthur H. Klein, characterized falsely, as he claims, the cleverest forger Tn local or Eastern fields, appeared at the City Prison yesterday morning exhloluns every indication of violent agitation and bluntly asking the desK sergeant if that gentleman wanted him. The officer In charge informed him that the house was full, but If he would leave his address an agent of the prison might call later to let him know if they wanted his company.
 II live at 151a Powell street" said Klein. "and if you fellows want me you can always find me at the above ao- dress"
 This dialogue was the outcome of a charge made by Beatrice Wallace, alias Hopkins. against Klein on an alleged con fession made by him of forgery commit ted in the East-he having signed his fathers signature to a document, so she claims, which compelled him to flee to this coast to e-ude the hounds of justice.
 All this and In fact, every allegation of crime made against him by the Hop kins woman, Klein denies, but admits, however. that in a spirit of banter, in or der to frighten her, he had told her that he had committed forgery and that un- less she kept the fact profound secret he would be sent pack to Allegheny and
 This she evidently failed to do either through the utter impossibility or Keeping a secret or an innate aversion to practl-
 Klein, in defense of his honor. his repu- tation and his self-respect, claims that Beatrice has been the cause of his fall from the pedestal of virtue to that of dis grace and calumny; ana in view of this fact he feels it his bounden duty to clear himself of the base charges made by his arch tempter bv divulging her true char acter to the entire English speaking world.
 frja tn nit suicide by cutting my throat, with a corn razor in the dead of night, but the shoe fits entirely the other way. It was she who tried to sap my young life blood with the ragged edge of the corn eXter- minator.
 "One morning after a, particularly stormy night she approached me with the blood curdling confession that she had that very same jagged razor under her pillow and that if had accidently fallen asleep during the course of the preceding night she would have severed my jugular beyond repair. She also stated at the tune that if l was ever seen in company with another woman she would repay me for my infidelitv by murdering both of us.
 ''The public doesn't know, he contin- qed. the topments & that l & suffered Tered since countered her bewitching eyes and first saw her beautiful U4onde tresses- and the exquisite lines of her abbreviated figure I did not know what 1t was to deviate from the strict lines of virtue and propriety, and I had in my possession good stock or WOTluIy kOOuS, COiSlSllUS Ol SOVu III cash, two rings of more than ordinary value a diamond pin and nine suits of clothes. These possessions have slipped like a dro- or mercury from under my fingers into the hands of Beatrice and I have nothing to show for them but the cold immobile countenance of a woman whom I once loved.
 1T showed her good time" continued Klein with a sig. ''and what 1t was to live in the true sense or the word, and she has repaid the experience by robbing me of my money and iewelry and going back on him whom she called her only Arthur, 'Tootsie Wootsie' and various other pet but insincere appellations to inspire him with an untold liberality.
 '"To show her real temper and create a feeling of awe within my breast she took a carving knife and deliberately sliced of them a silk hat of fine texture and better price; and ripped my trousers in twain. casting one section in my face and the other out of the window where 1t descended like a lifeless limb that had been Topped off the trunk of some unfortunate being by some frenzied demon.
 When I was president of the American Company I received $40 to write a song which was also hypnotiZed into the possession of the interruptions and bogus Beatrice before I had time to take a second look at it.
 "This is fate, sad fate" concluded Klein, Ito fall in love with a lunatic who your hats and goes about the silent and quiet hours of the night with jagged corn razor in search of your windpipe."