The San Francisco call., 1904-04-05
GOSSIP NEARLY
CAUSES TRAGEDY
Too Much Talking Results
i'm Effort of Miss Marie
EngIe to Kill Herself
EXPLANATIONS
All Parties i'm the Case In
dulge in Caustic Comments
Directed at One Another
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
Ills Broadway, April 4.

Ills Broadway, April 4.
The tongue of criticism has caused
much trouble on this side of the bay.
II caused Miss Marie Engle to attempt
suicide in Alameda Saturday night; it
caused Mrs. A. A. Hutchins to try and
break uD an engagement and order
Lewis E. Bulkeley out of her house,
tion 10 indulge in a lot of criticism of
everybody in general Meanwhile Miss
Engle is still at the Delaney residence
in Alameda. and viii recover. Her
parents have arrived from Stockton
and viii take their daughter home, and
the others in the case are bonn mbardinG
one another.
Miss Engle told her mistress, Mrs
Delaney, her story to-day. Mrs. Della
noy expresses full confidence in her
statement, saying:
Friday evening the Mrs. Lucy Nc
Donald that is referred to in the story
called upon Marie at our house. She
had talk with the girl, and 1 noticed
after she left that Marie was down
hearted l questioned Marie. with the
result that she told me her story. She
said Mrs. Mcdonald told her that Lewis
f. Bulkeley had been making state
ments derOgatory to her (Marie's)
character; that she hardly knew
Bulkeley. except that he boarded at a
house in Berkeley where she was a
waitress. and that the stories were un-
true
The next day she went to Berkeley.
but / did not have an opportunity to
talk with her. That night she tried to
commit suicide. Since then she has
told me that the stories about her were
untrue and that her attempt at suicide
was due tc the malice of others. / be-
heve her story fully, for she was al
ways a good girl and very industrious"
Two different stories are told by the
Berkeley people interested in Miss
Marie Engle. Lewis E. Bulkeley tells
one story and Mrs. A. A. Hutchins tells
another. Mrs. Hutchins is the proprie-
tor of the Walworth. where Bulkeley
was a guest and Miss Engle a waitress.
There was also there a Miss Marjory
Fargo, a niece of Mrs. Hutchins and
the fiancee of Bulkeley. Mrs. Hutchins
strongly opposed the attentions of
BulkeleY toward her niece, and even
went so far one day as to order him
to leave her house after they had had
words about il. Mrs. Hutchins says
that the basis of her opposition TO
Bulkeley was his intimacy with Miss
Engle. This what Mrs. Hutchins said
to-day when asked about the case:
Mr.. Bulkeley's conduct while at my
house was distasteful to me. / had
noticed his attentions TO young women
working in the neighborhood and 1
heard other stories to his discredit. As
/ was without positive proof l did not
interfere with him until he engaged
himself TO my niece. / tried to break
eff their relations, but neither would
listen to me. l told him one day that
! would report him to President Wheel
er, and that led to his insulting me so
that L had to order him to leave the
house.
He became intimate with Miss Engle
while she was in my employ. She left
me a month ago TO accept a place in
Alameda. On Thursday last she sent
for Mrs. Lucy Mcdonald, my house
keeper, and to her she told of her trou-
bles with Bulkeley. She said that he
had announced his engagement to my
niece and that their relations must
cease. She said she had always under
stood that they were engaged and in
tended to see Bulkeley and force him
to acknowledge it, even if it took
pistol to do so. This it seems she did
not do
Bulkeley says this is all untrue, and
he goes into details in support of, his
contention that 1t is all animus on the
part Of Mrs. Hutchins that is respon-
sible for the girls rash act and the
discontinue of himself and friends.
According to his story, Mrs. Hutchins
was bent on breaking up the engage
ment between himself and Miss Fargo.
He said further:
Il swear that 1 never was intimate
with Miss Engle. 1 never paid any
more attention TO her than / would to
any other servant. Mrs. Hutchins OBJ
jected to my marrying her niece and
she told some scandalous stories, link
ing my name and the girls Miss Engle
told me these and through friends 1
sought a vindication- That got Miss
Engle into trouble with Mrs. Hutchins
and she came to me to secure vindi-
cation for herself. That was last Sat-
urday. ] told her l could not retract
anything and she went away without
being disappointed. apparently. Now
she has tried to kill herself, but it is
not my fault"