The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-14
BELIEVE BODY
FLOATS IN BAY
Police Have Evidence That
Bertha Ebert Took Fatal
Plunge While Despondent
CAUSE STILL UNKNOWN
Telegram From the Missing
Girls Sister Suggests Love
Affair With a Doctor

The mystery which enshrouds the
October grows apace each day That
the body of the young woman is now
floating on the white-capped waves,
perhaps miles from shore, is the theory
of the police and others Yesterday
two kilograms from the girls sister in
Bay City, Michigan, were discovered.
From their tone it is probable that
Miss Ebert had disagreement with
certain DR.. Hoyle. This may have
prompted her to self destruction.
On October Miss Ebert's hat and
purse were found on the beach near
Fort Mason by Corporal James Parker
of the Thirteenth Infantry She was
last seen at her lodgings in the Earl
Cliffe, 1901 Cough street, on the even
ing of October 3. Her movements from
that time cannot be traced, but 1T is
supposed that she wandered out near
Fort Mason some time on Tuesday,
October 4, and cast herself into the bill
lowy deep.
Miss Ebert came to this city about
three months ago and sought assistance
from the Y W. c. A She said she
came from Australia She was direct
ed to apartments. but left them later
and went to live at the Earl Cliffe. Ac-
cording to a dispatch from her native
town, the girl came TO this city to work
for a medical concern under the direc-
ton Of DR.. Hoyle. She left his en-
ployment later and it was probably
due to a scene with the medical man.
Miss Ebert's relatives say there is
not a love affair or like trouble in the
girls life, but a telegram sent by her
sister, which was never received by the
missing girl, suggests that the latter
was tangled up in some manner with
DR.. Hoyle. The sister begs Bertha to
forget him and spare her life. Follow
ing is a copy of the telegram and one
sent the missing girl by the Western
Union Company requesting her to an
swer IL:
C1ine. 1901 Cough: Save life for ny sake.
Forget DR.. HoyIe. (signed) SOPHIE EBERT.
The dispatch from the Western Union
reads as follows:
Please give quick answer or reason why nc:
ours date from Bay City, Mich. to you
(Signed) ". L. T. Co
Bertha Ebert is the correct name OF
the girl She is % years old and left
home about three years ago and held
a position as stenographer and book
keeper in Philadelphia until last July.
when she came to San Francisco as
assistant manager of the Occi-Orient
Medicine Company, OF which DR.. Hoyle
is manager
Sunday her sister, Sophie. of Bay
City received a letter from her saying
that she had quit the company. From
the tone of the letter Sophie thought
her sister was respondent, and, while
Bertha said she might return to Bay
City, Sophie feared she contemplated
suicide and on Tuesday sent a telegram
telling her to spare her life.
The sister in Bay City has received
no word of Bertha's disappearance
other than newspaper dispatches, and
thinks it possible that Bertha is on
her way home She says there was
no love affair to her knowledge be-
tween her sister and DR.. Hoyle, but
declines to shed any light on the trou-
BILE, which she admits existed. The
girls parents live in Bay City. Bertha
left home three years ago and her
father had heard nothing from her
since she left home until apprised of
her probable death.
Although parents and daughter were
estranged for several years. says a dis
patch received from Bay City last
nigh, the old man broke down COM
pletely while talking Of the affair.