The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-13

AYR. AND MRS. FRED A KNICK,
INE bride and groom of a month, are
spending the waning hours of
their honeymoon In the cxpecto
ton that 1t win be ended by the
bullet of the assassin's revolver. In
t1enched in their apartments on the sec
ond floor of the house of Mrs. Elizabeth
SchuItze, 909 Illinois street, they await his
coming, the young wife in fear and
trembling, the husband brave but nervous.
fully armed and ready to give warm re-
ception to the intruder.
Frank Cheesman, a bullet from whose
pistol left a scar on Mrs. knicks body
she will carry TO her grave, is the enemy
on the trail of the newly welded couple
His record, which has been extensively
exploited. is q bloody one, full Of murder
and attempts a murder, suicidal efforts
irnumerable, commitments to insane asy-
lums and subsequent escapes. The Knicks
have every reason to believe that he will
add to his record another murder, that of
the bride, who was Eta Payne OF Oak
land. if he is not recaptured before he has
the opportunity TO Stay.
The story Of his appearance Sunday in
the Potrero, as published in yesterday $
Call. coupled with the knowledge that his
mania is only for blood, had the effect of
causing intense excitement in that thickly-
populated district. The prospect that the
madman might suddenly appear at any
home and kill the first one he met was not
one to be ignored. Some few of the
stronger-minded secuted the idea that
Cheesman had been seen at all in the Po-
trero, but his presence, revolver and all,
had been reported to knick. and his wife.
That they believed the report was shown
by their action in summoning the police
and in the fact that yesterday, while his
wife kept most of the time TO darkened
inner room, Knick. the handle of a re-
NOlver showing plainly from his back
pocket, stood guard inside the door lead
Ing from the hallway.
knick plainly showed the tension on his
nerves caused by the responsibility newly
devolVed upon him of defending his men
aced bride and his rented castle from the
approaches of the enemy. lie believed
the report OF CheeSman presence IN the
vicinity from an experience himself ano
wife had had in the early hours of Satur-
day morning.
about 1 o clock Saturday morning by &
noise In the room adjoining our bedroom
heard what sounded like some person
humping against a chair. l got out OF
bed in d hurry and started 70 go into The
next room, which was dark. I stopped
and picked up the lamp, which wa:
lighted, and took my revolver Then
pushed open the door suddenly and rushed
10 the middle of the room to dodge any
blow that might be aimed at me.
In an instant J saw there was no one
in the room, but I was convinced tina
there had been from the noises both of u!
had heard and from the fact that one O.
the windows, both of which had beer
closed when we retired was up ] was
little bit dazed for moment at the ides
that some one had entered our rooms anC
went out of the window and onto tn
piazza, but could see no trace of any one
The door which opens from 1t to the hal
which communicates with the stairs
leading TO the street below, was unlocked
and / suspect now that whoever made tn
early morning call upon us had gained
access TO the window and made his es
cape that way.
las I was examining the door [ saw
q man walking along the other side o
the street and I asked him to go to TIL
police station on Twentieth street ant
notify the officers there that man ha'
tried to break into our place. Upon m.
return to my wife, who had heard 0
Cheeseman's escape from the asylum, sh
insisted that he was the intruder Sine
l heard of his presence in this vicinity