The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-02
POLICE BELIEVE
LERVEf WEAKENS
Suspected Woman
Paramour Expected
to. Confess. !.
Defense Is Prepared for a
Hard. Fight in the
>. Courts, -, ::



for 'incriminating evidence in the Bow
eEs murder case. yesterday. The detee-
tives kept hard at work but details are
difficult to gather now that the maih
;facts have been made known. The class
Of people with whom Mrs: Bowers assoc
.eiated:haxe no liking for the courts and
the. officials believe that they. will not
tell even if. they know anything. Every
one who was In any way acquainted
with Mrs. Bowers has been interrogated.
All deny that the woman ever said. any
thing to them 1n:regard TO domestic diff
cplties
!. There were no "sweatIngs" yesterday
Harry Bowers reported that his brother
. had Possessed "a gold watch, valued at
about. $40. Nothing has been seen of 1t
since the arrests and the rumor was GO
ing the rounds that IeTvey. had pa8ned
1t He and Mrs. Bowers We're Questioned
and she finally said that the watch had
been given &c John Cunningham, the
walter who was. a close friend of the
dead bridge builder. Detective Ryan. saw
Cunningham last. night and TOOK the
watch TO the Hall Of Justice in hopes,
mat Il might possibly prove of. value as
|. The District Attorney SAYS. that it lis
deemed best to give Lervey some rest and
SOLITUDE fer reflection The man was not
bo{hsred yesterday. but Will he: compelled
9 To- answer questions again to-day 1t Ifs
presumed thar his memory will improve
. ter'a time. The officials do not expect
that AIRS. Sutton. or Mrs Bowers will
/: Own up 10 ANYTHING. but they: are coma
qept that Lervey Wiz break down
COMES. TO GIVE AID.
7. Mrs. Marie zones, a sister Of the. i'm
.prisoped women., has come from Portland.
ore to- give such aid as she may to them
There are six SISTERS in the family, Three
OF them have had very tembestuous mat
rlznouial careers The father left a con-
siderable sam of money. over which there
has been MUCK litigation The history, of
the family contains an imposing list of
qiiarrels, divorces, marriages and ursay-.
DRY Incidents Several thousand dollars
is: available. for .fhe defense in the pres
:pectiHe trial -
The police theory'is that Mrs. Bowers
wanted. her husband oilt of the way in
order. that She might have Lervey. She
is supposed. 70 have conimtnic ted. her
wishes 10 Mrs. Sutton. Tire sister. lis
thought To have engineered the whole.
scheme in consideration: for a share OF
the 1880 bank account EarVey:.is sup
posed to have Known s0mething~of what
was going on. There rs "A great deal of.
evidence TO- give color 10 this belief but
several links are still missing
: "A letter was received. by Mrs. .Sutteh>
from. Mrs. Harry Walsh Yesterday. in.
which the last named denied that. she had
made any statements in. respect to the.
Bowers murder such as had been re:
ported. -. -
Defective Ryan went to Petafujna, early
yesterday morning to- Investigate the
Tamofs that Mrs. Harry Walsh of that
town, knew something Of the Bowers case.
The woman asserted that she had not
d
They had. been good friends she said, but
she had never heard Mrs. Bowers speak.
Of any domestic difficulties Mrs. Walsh
or Minzie la Porte: as she. is sometimes
known, said she did not know O'Lcary
nor. anything about him. She liked Mrs
Bowers because. both Of them liked to be
around town.
GIVES NO INFORMATION. ::
She: thought that Eedie la Porte NC.
Callum was.the woman with whom Mrs:
'Sowerss had been essocIating. recently:
The. officer discovered :nothing of: i1npor--
lance during the course. of. his Interview
and returned 10 the cfty last night Mrs
Eedie La Porte-McCallum is at present in
Portland. Or and ~the police of that dity
viii see her as soon as possible and :re-
port to the local authorities. As this
womsnsswas Mrs. Bowers closest friend,
it is expected that. she will have some.
thing interesting TO say
An interested assembly In Judge Cooks
court was disappointed again yesterday
morning by the failure of, the two MUIR
der suspects to put IN an appearance THE
attorneys for Mrs. Bowers and Mrs SUIT
ton had a. conference with the. police; Of.
fcials Monday night and decided to ask
that the petitions for writs of habeas cor
pUs be dismissed, as formal charges were
IN course Of preparation. This means that
the women, who are now simply under
detention in the dormitQry,. will be placed
in cells.
Accordingly when the case was called
at noon Attorney Frank .Drury made the
motion for dismissal Of the writs, and as
there was no objection the Judge so Or
dered. District Attorney Byingto1 said
that he. woNld file a formal complaint af-
ter the Coroners inquest, which will take
place Friday at 10 O'Clock in the morn
ing.
Attorney W. T Vaughn of Portland
Or. has been. sent by the. suspected WOO
mems mother. Mrs Byets, to act as as
sociAte counsel for the defense. He ar
rived yesterday morning and set to work
at once preparing to make a hard fight
for the liberty Of his clients.
EerVey, or O'Leary, has. no counsel as
yet: HIS statement that he has no
friends seems to be partially borne out
by the fact that no one has called to see
him. since his Incarceration. Detectives
Taylor and Coleman vent out in buggy
last night to carry on the search for the
purchase Of arsenic by Mrs. Bowers, Mrs.
Sutton or LerVey.
Harry Bowers said yesterday that he
realized that the defense purposed cast
ing a doubt on the guilt Of the impris-
oned women by. showing that he or his
wife might have put the poison into the
food eaten by his brother. The detectives
gave him a close questioning Late Mon
a. irrl,f hut elfcifad inform