The San Francisco call., 1898-08-04
DISTURBED
 THE BURGLAR
 AT HIS WORK Police Looking for a Sleek Schemer. ALLEGED THEATRICAL MAN ENGAGED A ROOM IN A BUSH
 STREET HOUSE. The Landlady Returns With Friends in Time to Prevent the Thief
 From Looting the
 Place.

The police are Investigating the extraor-
 dinary actions of c. H. Nelson, alias c.
 H. Fullerton, a young man who repre-
 scented himself to be a theatrical man, but 1 they have reason to believe that he is a notorious crook, who would not stop at
 murder to accomplish his ends.
 1 Last Friday night he called at the lodg- l ing-house of Mrs Russell, 616 Bush street,
 and told her that he came from Sacra-
 mento to accept an engagement at the 1 Tivoli, and as he had been recommended l by a friend, whose name he had forgot
 ten, to put up at her house, he would be
 glad if she could accommodate him. He explained that his luggage" would come l later. He paid his first week s room
 rent, and soon made himself at home. Saturday afternoon he gave Mrs. Rus sell three tickets for the Orpheum, and asked her to take the other two ladies in the house with her. Owing to the re- cent death of her husband, who was
 killed at Seattle, Mrs. Russell told him she could not go, and finally Mrs Wade,
 one of the other ladies, said she would get the tickets changed for Sunday night, which was done.
 Mrs Dora Kellerman, who occupies the suite of rooms on the ground floor found Sunday morning that an attempt had been made to force open the door of her 1t had been twisted by the efforts to
 turn 1t. That afternoon Mrs. Russell went to Holy cross cemetery to VlSlt the grave of her husband, and about 5 o'clock Nelson knocked on Mrs. Wade's door, and when she opened it he apolo- gized and said he thought 1t was Mrs. Russells room. His object evidently was to locate Mrs. Russells room. but Mrs. Wade did not gTatify his curiosity.
 All the rOomers had left the house by o'clock Sunday night, except MT. Eel ton, who occupies a room on the top floor. Mrs Russell after returning from the cemetery, met lady friend Mrs. Cratic, and a gentleman friend of her late hus- band, and went and had dinner with them. They accompanied her home about half-past 8 o'clock. Mrs. Russell. on go- ing upstairs, heard a peculiar noise in the bath rOom and on opening the door found Nelson there. He made some lame excuse and disappeared from the house, taking his hand satchel with him.
 When Mrs. KelIerman returned she found her trunk wide open. An examina- tion showed that the lock had been forced open with a jimmy" and the contents had been turned over for money or Jew elry. She had fortunately taken her purse and jewelry with her. It was evil dent that Nelson had been disturbed in his work on the trunk and had slipped out of the bedroom door and upstairs when he heard Mrs. Russell and her friends return to the house. He had less than half an hour to do his work in.
 Mrs. Russell has valuable lot of jew elry. and that was possibly known to Nelson.
 Nelson is described as about feet inches tall. about g years of age, smooth shaven, dark complexion, and wore a Prince Albert coat, dark trousers and black dicer. He was very pleasant in his conversation.