The San Francisco call., 1901-10-28
MEET ROBBERS
IN THE PARK
Three Young Men Held
Up After Dark Near
Alvord Lake.
At Point of Pistol Victims
Are Relieved Of Coin
and Watches.

The police were notified Saturday night
that two footpads, armed with revolvers,
had been roaming around Golden Gate
Park and had held up three young men
and possibly some more.
Herbert SpotWood, l50S Howard street
Z. L. Patrick, 6l2 Steiner street, and H.
b. Cook, 2236 North Point street, had en-.
joyed a French dinner at a downtown
restaurant Saturday night, and decided
to ride to the park and walk on the ef-
fects.
They reached Alvo.d Lake about 9:31
O'clock, and there two men approached
them. Each heId a revolver in ms hand.
ana they ordereu the three friends to
throw up their nands the command be-
ing promptly compiled with. While one
Kept Z revolver IN readiness the other
went lnrough the pochets OF the trio
50 sSo'T9Ga y IaSen haa rom gi@ 5Ha ratrck
silver watch and cnain and S.
cents ana Cook d gold watcn and
cham anu 81 90. They were tnen told
walk along quickly and make no out
cry unoer penaity OF peing followed ami
Snot. Owing 20 the darkness tney were
unable TO give any DESCRIPTION OF the
two robbers. They maue complaint 10
the Stanyan-street ponce station, and Po-
hceman L. !. - Shea went TO the scene,
but, of course, he could find no trace
of the robbers.
/ Captain Seymour yesterday detaile
Detectives Coleman and Rioroan on the
case, but they were una BILE TO throw any
light on the affair.
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enough to become quite a factor in min
ing DEALS requiring the investment of.con-
SIDERABLE money ana incidentally little
official protection.
At the election to decide whether or not
the town OF Nome should be incorporated
Judge Stevens used his office as club
to compel the gambling and saloon ele-
ment TO vote for the measure by threat
enlng III i public speech to close every
saloon and gambling house in the town
if Incorporation did not carry. This bold
declaration was made in the face of the
tact that there was statute in the Alas
ka code which provided that gambling of
any kind was unlawful ano punishable by
heavy fines and Imprisonment. AT the
time Judge Stevens made TINS declaration
the Nome newspapers charged that he
was actuated by spite because the gam
blers and business men owning large
tion fund OF $1,000 SAID to have been de-
manded by District Attorney Wood, which
the latter claimed he wouI0 use to defeat
incorporation.
being the shrewdest manipulation of the
Mchenzie-Noyes crowd. During the trial
of the famous RingYage- case for the
possession of claim Z, on Gold Run. Ste
Vens, who was acting as attorney fo.'
Jumper Ring, was caught in a pretty
trap. He induced Yager to sell his in
terest in the mine for $1,000 and agree 10
leave the country, thus leaving his at
torneys, who mad taken the case on =.
contingent fee, in sorry plight. Stevens
paid wager the money while the case was
being tried, but while attempting to leave
the country Yager was arrested by his
own attorneys and made to go upon tn :
witness stand, v1ndicate his own location
and tell the story of Stevens shady
transaction. On the witness stand IN
Judge Noyes court Stevens attempted to
justify his action by saying; II find 1t
necessary under the present administra-
ton of justice to be on both sides of the
case in order to get to work piece of
ground in this country. Noyes, evil
IDENTIFY, was so much in Stevens power
that he did not take cognizance of the
insult which Stevens shameless admis-
sion offered. Shortly afterward, how
ever, Stevens and Noyes quarreled about
the division of some mining property, SO
it is said, and then came the passing of
Stevens.
When Stevens went to Nome he left a
very unsavory reputation behind him in
the States: While living in Menord
County Illinois. in 1877. Eli Reep Of
into bankruptcy, and Stevens was ap-
pointed assignee. Fearing that there had
been some Juggling with the funds. the
creditors sued for an accounting. Stevers
said he had received only Sill Is. but Il
was shown that he had received s495 in
edge of. The matter was brought before
the Grand Jury, but United States Attor-
ney Van Hoobeck, a friend of a Mr.. Nc
Meeley, Stevens chief counsel. had the
matter quashed. Subsequently Stevens
went to North Dakota, where he was
mixed up in many legislative and other
scandals. He has reputation for wrong