The San Francisco call., 1898-01-07
DOw'S Death Still w OrrV- ing the Physicians and
 Detectives.
A Rather Peculiar Circumstance Revealed at the
 Autopsy.
Plain IndentatiOn of a Pistol Point Found in the Right
 AXilla.

The case of Dow still remains a mys- tery, but the physicians are as posi- 'tlVe that 1t was a murder as the de tectives are that it was a case of sui eide. Another feature. possibly slight, has just cropped up, and several inter- ested parties are wondering why the fact was not thought to be of sufficient importance to be mentioned heretofore
 At the autopsy it was discovered by pr. Gallagher that an impression of the point of pistol barrel was plainly indented in the right armpit, and that without doubt the impression was made after death. It is claimed that the indentation would not remain where circulation was still going on, and hence the mystery surrounding that particular point of the now peculiar case.
 There are smany theories ahoat re- garding the pistol imprint. The ques- tion is, was it made before the body was taken to the morgue by an un- known party who may have committed murder or was it done while the ex- periments were going on in the Coro- ner's office after the removal of the remains to the morgue? However. the impression was in the body at the time of burial
 It has been stated that an indenta- tion of the kind could not have been made unless the steel barrel of the weapon had been placed directly against the skin of the victim, but some are of the opinion that if a mur- der has been committed the impression of the pistol point was made by the criminal shortly after he had commit ted the crime
 The detectives are still working on the case, but so far are no nearer to a solution of the death of Dow than they were the night the body was discov- cred. This may be accounted for by the fact that there was very little if any clew upon which to work Mrs. Mary Williams, whose name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious death of John Dow, visited police Headquarters last night and had a long conversation with Captain Roh- en. She indignantly denied the state ment made by Mrs. DaZel that she had been in the habit of visiting Dow's shooting gallery and demanding money of him.
 In answer to Captain Bohens ques- tions she said she had been acquainted with Dow for some time. According to her statement she last saw him on the Monday preceding the day on which his dead body was found in his shoot ing gallery She says she visited his place of business and after few min utes' conversation with him she left. She declared that Dow was eccentric and very peculiar individual" She denied that she ever received any money from him and that she ever asked him for any. She also said that she has been receiving monthly remit tances from the East and that it was not necessary for her to have asked Dow for money.
 Mrs. Williams was accompanied by her 15 year old son, who also bore out his mothers statement to the effect that she had been getting money from the East. Dow, she says, was an ex- pert with rifle and a revolver. She is convinced that he committed suicide
 Mrs. Williams lives at Sixth and Mis- sion streets, and is about 45 years of age.