The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-31
RETURN PAPERS
TO MRS. SATHER
Thus Probably Ends a
Sensational Suit.
DISPUTE AMONG ATTORNEYS
ONE HELD THEY HAD BEEN AL
READY RETURNED.
M. NJ. Estee Claims That the Docu-
ments Were Valued at
Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars.
DISPUTE AMONG ATTORNEYS
ONE HELD THEY HAD BEEN AL
READY RETURNED.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

908 Broadway, Aug. 80
The suit which promised to be one OF
the most sensational ever tried in this
county brought by Mrs. Jane K. Sather
against Colonel Joseph F. Evans, will
soon be withdrawn. On behalf of Evans
Morris NJ. Estee has forwarded the pa
pers demanded by Mrs. Sather to her
attorney, A. A. Moore, and as this was
the chief purpose in bringing the suit 1t
is not supposed that the action for dam
ages will be prosecuted.
Colonel Joseph T. Evans was some time
ago appointed Collector Of Customs for
Manila under the United States Military
Government at the Philippines, and 1t
was stated that the result might be that
he would not be able to leave the State
without being put to much trouDIe. A
few weeks ago some dispositions were
taken.
Colonel Evans deposition was in effect
that Mrs. Sather had engaged him and
that he had charge of the papers winch
she complained of having lost.
The Colonel was Mrs. Sather's attorney
some years ago, when w. J. Dingee was
her agent, and demand was made
on Mr. Dingee for SIS, 254. Evans discov-
cred in December, 1897, that Mrs. Sather
had guaranteed 81 600 of notes due the
on her property, said to have been made
by her agents. He also learned that she
had made incorrect statements of her
claim against her former agent and that
these discoveries led to his Withdrawal
as her attorney. She then demanded that
he return the pagers which he held be
longing to her. Those papers, according
TO Evans, were kept in a tin box in NJ. NJ.
Estee's safe and he gave it to one of his
clerks-a man named Noyes-with in
structions to deliver It to Mrs. Sather.
That was the last he saw Of box or pa
pers. Noyes, he said, delivered the box
as instructed.
that the papers were in the tin box when
it was delivered to Mrs Sather, but he
believed they were. 1t was also brought
out that Mrs. Sather had employed an
expert accountant named Woodland to in
Yestigate her business affairs, and that
he had suddenly and mysteriously gone
East 1t was also intimated by Attor-
ney A. A. Moore, during the proceed
ings bank Of Oakland on property alleged
to have been purchased by Dingee for
Mrs. Sather, stood in the names of 9TH
ers, and that they had mortgaged the
property to the bank as security for mon
eys borrowed by Mr.. Dingee.
Mrs. Sather was confident that she had
her deposition she stated that when Col
onel Evans acted as her attorney she
turned over to him all the papers relat
ing to her transactions with Mr. Dingee.
When the colonel settled with Mrs. Saith
er she says he did not return the valu-
able documents, but "a lot of old trash,
smelling very strongly of tobacco" Mrs.
Sather also stated that the papers she
sought were monthly statements re-
lating to the collection of rents and the
purchase and sale of real estate.
She believed there were one hundred
and ten of these statements not in her
possession and she further believed that
they would be of great value to her
should she be able to procure them. 1t
was to recover these papers that suit was
brought against Colonel Evans for $25 900.
About q year ago Mr. Dingee ceased to be
the agent of Mrs. Sather and her new
agents Heron & Holcomb put an ex-
pert to work on her former accounts. A
little discrepancy was found and she then
employed Colonel Evans as her attorney.
Dealings between them were not alto
came her attorney and brought suit to re-
cover the missing monthly statements.
After the taking of the dispositions
vague hints were dropped that all kinds
of sensations would be brought forward
at the trial. Many attorneys were en-