The San Francisco call., 1903-09-09
|NNOCENT's LIFE
IS SNUFFED OUT
Murdered Babe Found
on Brink of Precipice
by Boys.
Newspaper of Senator Makes
Shroud for Nameless
Infant.

Ihere lies on a slab at the Mcrgue a
tiny boy baby, who was murdered when
scarce he had seen the light of dav. A
Knotted cotton string about the inno-
! cents throat tells the tale of the cruel
hands which robbed it of life. hardly
before its blue eyes could smile upon the
| lace OF the woman who gave it birth
| once murdered the hapless babe was
bundled into a parcel of old newspapers
ana cast away in a vacant lot away up
/ on Telegraph Hill
Upon one OF the newspaper wrappings
ABOUT the body of the babe the Buffalo
Evenlng Times of Wednesday. August 10
1873 there is printed mailing slip bear
/ ing the legend: Hon. ]. x. Jones. Wash
| lngton, Ark.-Evening Bulletin" How the
private paper of man who is now sit
! tlng In the Senate of the United States
could come to be used as the shroud of
murdered infant found on the brink of
quarry in San Francisco is one of the
! secrets of crime which will probably re-
main forever locked from the eyes of the
| police.
1t was shortly after 1 O'Clock Yesterday
afternoon that two youths, William Mel
son or 1851 Montgomery street and Oscar
hunet of 292 Union street while strolIing
! through the narrow lot bounded by Green
and Calhoun streets and the brink of Gray
BROS: quarry, spied bundle of papers,
roughly tied with string. UnrolIing a
sheet of yellow wrapping paper. a copy
or local daily of the date of July 26
and the Buffalo sheet, they were Mortified
10 find the perfectly developed body of
a male infant curled UP within the inner
wrappings. common cotton string was
bound about its neck tightly enough to
arouse the suspicion that the child had
been strangled to death.
BABE IS STRANGLED.
The terrified boys summoned Mrs Ryan
of Calhoun street. Mrs. Lawson of 226Ik
Green street and Mrs. Bennenudi of 226
| Green street to view their grewsome find
and then dispatched Nathan Ferrioggiaro,
companion, to notify the Morgue Of
ficials After the tiny body of the infant
! had been removed to the Morgue DR..
Bacigalupi, autopsy surgeon. performed
post-mortem examination and declared
that the babe had come to its death
! through strangulation. He gave it as
his opinion that the child had been born
without medical attendance and that it
had not been dead more than day
Upon the report of the surgeon De-
tective Reynolds was Immediately dis
patched on the case. After working on
the detail for several hours the detective
acknowledged that he had absolutely no
clew and that unless some unforeseen cir
cumstance arose the case would probably
remain shrouded in mystery. He said:
DETECTIVES THEORY.
1.-THE murdered child was evidently
taken up on the hill by some one living
in another part of the city, for none of
the Italian residents of that quarter
would be likely to have in their possession
a newspaper from an Eastern city. The
address of Hon. ]. X. Jones on the Buff
fo1n tO
the guilty party was from the East, if
not from Washington, Ark, itself Ny
belief that some stranger stopping in the
city did the deed is strengthened by the
fact that the place on Telegraph Hill
was such an unusual one to cfoose for
the disposal of the childs body that no
one but a stranger would be likely to
climb away up there TO hide the evidence
of guilt
Diligent search of all the lodging houses
and hotels in the vicinity failed to reveal
the names of any person or persons from
Arkansas who were making their home
in the immediate neighborhood. The po-
lice have acknowledged themselves baf-
fled and so the tiny bit of humanity.
murdered within few hours of its first
breath. will have to be buried in the pot
ters field with it's grave unmarked and
it's slayer unpunished.
a |. O
pirations In the course of the discussion
the fact was elected that Regent Charles
S. Wheeler was a Golden Bear, and he
was prevailed upon to state some of the
objects of the society and to tell whether
it was an open organization or secret
exclusive society Mr.. Wheeler as brand
new Golden Bear and an honorary one at
that, was impelled by a sense of delicacy
to limit his utterances concerning the
Of fIa min
a simple declaration that it was COM
posed of men who had given positive
proof of their loyalty to the university.
Responding to inquiries he said it not
a college secret society, but admitted that
it was in one sense secret. He did not
care to explain the particular phase of
secrecy.
After further discussion the board ac-
cepted the proposition of the Golden
Bears by vote of 1S ayes to 6 noes.
FLOOD ENDOWMENT.
Regent Charles w Slack, from the
committee on Flood endowment, report
ed in favor of deciding back to Miss Flood
the house in San Mateo County and also
certain lands in consideration of the offer
from her of S150000 in gold COIN The
original gift from her contained provis- |
ion that the Regents should supply
water for fifty years to irrigate the park
and gardens. The quantity of water to
be furnished is estimated at 24,OO0 900 gall
Ions a year The deed of trust agreed
upon yesterday provides that the water
must be supplied by the Regents until
194S.
Judge Slack said that the report of the
committee was the result OF many con-
sultations "rhe deed of gift requires us
to supply water for fifty years, but we
get the water from the Bear Gulch Com
pany. the stock of which is chiefly owned !
kIA T1N,fx Vc.ffx .INr.EV III frrr-
ther that the wisdom of accepting Miss
Floods generous offer to pay $150,OOO for