The San Francisco call., 1899-07-20

watch upon him until the effects of the
gas had been thoroughly dissipated.
For this purpose one of the stablemen
was instructed to leave Bailey's room
under no circumstances whatever un-
til he was relieved by some ether
watcher.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon. the
watcher was alone in the room with his
employer They were chatting away,
when Bailey said he was beginning to
feel all right again. I'm getting hun
CRY" he said and that's a good sign.
I wish I had some oysters. 1 guess
you had better go and get me some"
The watcher, not suspecting that this
was merely ruse to get him out of the
way, took the money his employer prof
fered and started for the oysters. In
going to the place to which he had been
directed, the watcher had to pass the
stable, where he was seen by another of
the employees, who asked him why he
had left Bailey The messenger replied
that he was getting oysters for the liv-
eryman. The other, not believing that
it was safe for moment to leave
Bailey alone, hastened to his room and
found his suspicious confirmed He
ed. He tried to force the door and
could not, so he ran for help and the
door was forced a second time, Bailey
again being found stretched on the bed
almost asphyXiated.
Two physicians were sent for this
time. and they had their hands full in
bringing the despondent hveryman to
his senses. They did so after the most
painful efforts, and once more Bailey
was conscious of the different kinds Of
fool he had made Of himself. He was
sorry that his efforts had not met with
success, but said that as he had made
such a failure of the job he would not
try it again. Again, during the even
ing he had a great many callers, who,
while they sympathized with his sOr-
row at the death of Miss Parker, could
not refrain from Joking with him in
the hope of cheering him up. EX-Super-
visor Delany, who is still lame as the
result of a recent stroke of paralysis
was one of the foremost.
Bailey" he said you ought to be
ashamed of yourself fer trying to get
off the earth while I'm spending my
money trying to stay on.
Bailey admitted this and put in the
rest of the evening recuperatlng, a reg
5Ilar procession of champagne bottles
entering the room TO add to the festiVl-
ties incident on his two narrow escapes
from death. He never could have
known in any other way how we'll he
was thought Of. and this knowledge,
probably more than anything else, re-
solved him to make no more attempts
on his life. He was at his stables yes
terday, looking only little the worse
for the wear and tear OF his two eXpe-
riences with carbon-monoXide
Although Bailey was told by the girl
that she intended TO commit suicide;
despite the fact that she told several
others at the French ball that she was
taking one last pull at pleasure cup
before drinking the dregs OF death;
notwithstanding that DR.. LeVlSon re-
ported that the girl had killed herself,
and in the face of the tact that Coroner
Hill did not order the holding of such
an autopsy as is usual in cases where
poison is suspected, that official pro-
fessed to believe as late as last night
that Florence Parker had died from
natural causes
What influenced him in this belief is
not knOWn-certainly not an analysis
of the contents of the girls stomach
such as should have been made by a
coroner desirous of doing his duty
Maybe it was the honey in the words
of that fifth wheel in the Parker
wagon, State Senator Sig. Bettman
No matter what it was, Coroner Hill
seems to have taken pains not only tc
believe the natural causes" theory
himself, but to have USED every effort
to deceive the public into the belief
that Florence Parker was not a sui
side He had the autopsy at o'clock
at night at the home of the dead girl
He barred out the reporters on the
ground that they were not relatives OF
the deceased, but he admitted Sig
Bettman to the room where the au-
topsy was being performed on the
ground that he was. The Coroner was
satisfied on this point without docu-
mentary evidence. The Coroner did