The San Francisco call., 1898-04-06

OdA JOS6, dIQ 166llllS Iudl tIlGIS WdS something wrong, I telegraphedt to them on Monday to come up and they ar rived to-day. I took them to Attorneys Archie Campbell a-S Koch and they advised sending a power of attorney to Mexico for the sister of the dead wo- man to sign. Mrs. Messa, in company with friends, called on Coroner Flaw kins and gave him an outline of the facts of the case, and asked him to ex- hume the body to find out whether foul play had been committed. After lis tening to them. understand he refused to touch the matter, as there was not enough evidence to warrant it. I hear they paid him another visit to-day, but do not know what success they had.
 am sure there is something wrong about this, as they told the court on Saturday that the estate was valued at $1000 Before she took the lease of the lower place on Pinckney place she went to see MT. Burke of Madison & Burke, and offered him $3500 for it. advised her that the property was not worth 1t and she did not buy That is why she still has that money. That woman must have s6000 in gold coin be- sides her jewelry.'
 l Mrs. Erdly conducted the house in which the unfortunate woman died.
 When seen last night she related the ] circumstances of Mrs. Cervantes' 1 death, but refused to express an | opinion whether or not the woman had | been murdered.
 I know she was madly in love with l CervanteS," she remarked "and was not surprised at their being married. A few weeks before their marriage he bought the house in which she died After she was taken ill he had her removed to his house. A short time before her death dark woman, whose name l do not know, visited her room and gave her some gruel After par taking of the nourishment she seemed | to grow worse and in few hours she | breathed her last.
 Whether or not the gruel was pois- oned l am at loss to state. Since her death l have heard mutterings that Mrs. Messa was the victim of foul play
 T know she madly loved Cervantes, and frequently expressed her intention of marrying him. If she was murdered do not believe he was party to the crime.
 | T saw her a few months before she passed away, and it seems to me that If she had been poisoned, knowing she was about to die, she would have told | me-"
 Mrs. Erdly admitted that the unfor- tunate woman possessed considerable jewelry, but what had become of it she could not state
 J. B. Artigues, the physician who signed the certificate of death, was seen last evening, and said
 l was called in to attend the woman two days before she died. I found her suffering from asthma and in a bad condition. Her heart seemed very weak, due to her being so f1eshy. She told me she had not slept for five nights, and to the best of my recollection I pre-. scribed sixth of a grain of morphine powders and also my regular prescrip- | t1o1 for aSthma-a mixture of lobelia | lodlne, potassium and belladOnna, com posed of about two drachms each. then left, and about thirty-six hours later the undertaken called and asked me to sign death certificate.
 T refused his request, as I had only once attended the patient. Some hours later he returned and told me I had to sign it, as he could not find any other | doctor who had administered to her. l then signed the paper, giving the 1 cause of her death as due to asthma, and stating that I had only visited her l once. l understand the undertaken took the certificate to the Morgue
 The next l heard of the case was 1 when an officer called at my office look | ing for information. I told him that I ] was sitting in my drugstore when a | man rushed in and begged me to come with hln, as woman was very low l went With him and prescribed He told me not to say anything about the matter to any one. and I should not have told you, but you seem to be fa miliar with the facts.
 ''The medicine I prescribed was filled at my store, but l cannot. without au- | thorlty rom the police, give you an or der to my clerk directing him to allow you to copy it. I know there was no danger if the whole bottle was admin 1stered to her. AS to the morphine powders, there was some danger. I really think the woman died from a weak heart, which was caused by fatty degeneration
 A member of the firm of valente. Marini & O., the undertakers who buried Mrs. Cervantes, said: Mrs. Cervantes was taken from 636 Vallejo street. She was about Al years old and died on March 3O She died at midnight, and being a f1eshy woman. weighing in the neiighborhood of 300 pounds, her husband was advised to bury her immediately. ,Je took her rom her home and kept her in our parlors all the next day, and on the 1st of April she was inferred
 There was nothing the matter with hCi. HedIu there was russ being made by the relatives and other persons because she had some money. She mar ried this fellow Cervantes about three weeks before she died. He, in my opin- ion, was sucker. He was earning s25 week and was younger than this woman. l understand he comes from Los Angeles
 "Cervantes did not order us to bury her immediately. woman by the name of Tomasso whom I would not believe. started this trouble Every thing was done according to the strict letter of the law and this fuss amounts to nothing''
 The undertakers deny that they re- ceived money from Cervantes to place the body of his dead wife in the grave. Mrs. F. Habidad, an old friend of the dead woman and at whose house tlre s1ster-1n-law is staying, when asked what Mrs. Cervantes was worth said:
 She had about $450O in bank, with which she i.-tended buying house, also lot of jewelry." She gave the follow ing list of jewelry as possessed by the dead woman:
 "A bracelet with eleven diamonds. valued at $3S0; diamond earrings, $50; breast pin. set in diamonds, valued at