The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15

returned to San Francisco about July 25 and
saw him the same day. He then said that he
would make further payments in a few days;
that he had business pending with other peo-
pie from which he would realize large sums
of money and that he would shortly make me
payments.
Pillsbury viii you please make statement.
Mr.. Green about any attack that Mr.. How
ard made upon you personally?
informed by various people that. during
my absence in Australia Howard had been
TO them and made various statements the on
ject of which seemed to be to nave tneln re-
peated to and the burport of which was
that was about to return to america; IN tnat
would be in great state or Indignation az
l would not have found the lands as ne nae
represented and that. in all propanliady' a, to
a fight and in fact, desired one; that he had
armed himself with all sorts of weapons
against me, and that he had manufactured nc
ttious evidence against me. which he pro-
posed to use il made any attempts 10 prose
cute him. ,
Pillsbury-You learned after you came back
from Denver that he had hired men to make
away with you on your way to Austransh 10
Pillsbury-Didn't you learn that the night be-
fore you left he was down here in the court
yard of the Palace with two men in hack
to whom he paid $4,000 apiece to do you up on
the dock?
Green-That was arranged the night Of the
sailing OF the steamer Alameda. the zza OF
July last 1 was to be murdered on the DOCK.
The steamer should have sailed at III CLOCK on
the evening of that day, but owing TO the non
arrival of the English mail she postponed her
departure until the early hours of the following
morning. During this time 1 was on the dock
1 talked with Howard, expecting MN TO com com
pletc his preparations to sail by that boat
Earlier in the evening Howard. as have since
learned had people at his house, Wnere was
in the evening, and at the Palace Hotel later
in the night, for the purpose OF seeing ana ana
identifying me. These people were 10 meet
$4,000 apiece and they were to receive afterward
did receive, the balance OF S2oWo Ior muir
dering me- Howard supposed, between mere
and Honolulu.
Upon returning to America and talking
with Howard and taxing him with his decep-
tions and frauds upon me, he stated that he
hoped there would be no trouble over II. He
said that II any attempts were made 70 cause
him trouble or TO take proceedings against mn nm
he wanted to understand that he was per
fectly well established here ana, IN ms own
language, was set up to meet anytnlhg that
that he was under the protection of officers of
the law both the police and the courts; and
that he had detectives and others IN his pay
ard that there were various pubic ofhclais and
politicians upon whom he could rely Tor pro-
lection and immunity; and that nothing could
be done here to his injury; also that ne mao m
fluence with Of the newspapers ana that
if I started anything against him would be
besmirched in every direction
heard that Howard had made arrangements
upon several occasions to have me murdered;
and that ne had particularly made such ar
ranSements to have me put out OF the way,
both on the evening of my departure for Aus
trafia in March and also While en- route OH
board the Alameda.
Detective Gibson-Howard got one of Kelly $
HACKS uTlNeH Dy JOnn rltHpdtilth anu VI
the Kelly boys on the seat and they started
down to the Palace Hotel. First they went to
900 out of a safe deposit box. They then drove
to the courtyard of the Palace Hotel and had
these men in the hack to throw Green over.
board. When they got into the courtyard of
the Palace the blinds were drawn down on
the hack windows This man Kelly had taken
the sZG,0 900 previously into saloon and handed
Howard $4,000 of 1t. After waiting around
there several hours the hack was driven down
to the Alameda wharf When they got down
there named Ed Coffman. a witness in
the Foster case stepped up to Howard and
told him he had warrant for his arrest In
the Foster case: this warrant was phony
Howard made the excuse to Green that he had
these men IN the hack $1,000 There was some
dispute over the money II seems I'M oot that the
men in the hack were to receive $40. 600.
Detective Gibson's story was to the eff
feet that the warrant for Howard was an
excuse for him not to sail on the Ala;
George Adams, had put UP plot. with a
man named Mitchell to murder him on