The San Francisco call., 1906-10-16

blow on the face because she tried to
persuade Margie Ryan to go home and
shake Scanlan. Miss Fisher then
told her mother what had happened
and added that the Ryan girl had said
that she knew of certain tricks that
Scanlan had turned. According to Mrs
Fisher, one of these tricks was the
theft of a watch and some money from
q drunken man.
Margie Ryan is not permitted to con-
verse with any one except the police.
detectives and her most intimate
friends. Her friends are carefully
guarded by a specially detailed police
they engage with the prisoner is con-
fined perforce to matters entirely out
side of the Scanlan or Friede cases.
The girl is a typical specimen OF the way
ward young disgraces that have beentoo
much in evidence in the public streets
Of late. For an example of her crudity
of disposition the letter to Miss Fisher
after the Fillmore-street brawl is a
good example. It reads:
I would Just like to meet you In a
lot and I would fix you. You won't
need any gang to do you up; 1 can do
1t myself"
GANG RIFLES TRUNKS.
The police have secured a good rec
ord of Scanlan's doings in recent years.
The young fellow was first messenger
boy, then a newsboy and later posed
as hotel and transfer runner. AS the
transfer company scheme of the suspect
has been discovered to have been of a
very questionable character it is doubt
full II the so-called stubs" of his
delivery book will show anything. as
none of the reputable transfer COM
panies mentioned by Scanlan have ever
had anything to do with him. Taylor
l is supposed to have been his ready as
sistant
! Following the example OF certain tall
swindler who wore brass buttons and
made an especial play for Japanese
immigrants and persons from the coun-
try, Scanlan operated at the ferries in
connection with a gang of sharpers
I quartered at place on Mission street,
/ near East. Many of the trunks that
! Scanlan checked in the name of regu-
! lar transfer companies were actually
/ delivered, but the game was to charge
illegal prices for delivering them and
/ If payment was refused the trunks
were returned to the Mission street
''storehouse" and no one could ever To-
cate them. The gang used to watch
for persons from up-country who de-
sired to store trunks for a few days
and would take the baggage into keep
ing, giving the name of a weli-knoWr
warehouse as the probable custodian
Instead the trunks were taken to the
Mission street quarters and there op-
ened with skeleton keys and looted OF
all that was valuable.
RESEMBLES FRIEDE MURDERER.
The police have found that Scanlar
associated with notorious criminals
when he was carrying on his fake
transfer business at the water front
Many times he was seen in company
with an ex-convict who used to hane
about the Mission street fence.
Margie Ryan. the police say, was, be.
fore the fire, not inclined to run wild
She met Scanlan in Golden Gate Parl
on a Sunday. soon after the burning o,
the city and from that day to this tn.
young woman has been under his DOW
er After the fire the Ryan girl and
Scanlan found quarters in Golden Cat,
Park in a refugee tent, but on OCCASION
when the young man appeared with Z
bunch Of coin" the pair would take VI
quarters In the Terminal Hotel II
Haight and Stanyan streets and ther,
hold forth as royal entertainers. Alma
Fisher used to meet the pair at thu
hotel and there were frequent wine