The San Francisco call., 1906-10-23
WOMAN WHO CAVE
CLEW MISSING.
Mrs. Maynard Disappears
and Police Are Unable
to Find Trace of Her
MEYERS GIRL ANGRY

The sudden and mysterious disap-
pearance of the Mrs. Thomas MAYNARD.
the woman whose information led to
the arrest of the three Meyers brothers
and the ex-convict and highwayman,
Richard Doyle, was the chief develop
ment yesterday in the Investigation be-
ing made by the police into the murder
and robbery at the Japanese bank.
After futile al1-day hunt by his
men to locate the woman, Captain of
Detectives Duke said last night that
he believed she had become frightened
and left the city.
"She is evidently under the impress
sion that the attention attracted to
her by the arrest of the Meyers BROTH
said Duke ''She probably thinks they
have friends on the outside who are
as desperate as the prisoners them
selves and that she is not safe while
remaining In the city. I don't think
she will stay away long, however. and
am confident that we can find her when,
her testimony is wanted again.
DUKE NOT CREDULOUs.
Duke refused to place any credence
in the report that Mrs Maynard was
led to flee following charges made
against her yesterday morning by Edna
Meyers, sister of the three brothers
uAQcT arrest VIII 10 ShAAl DSlIS Q6Idln-
ed with her 17-months- baby at the
Central Emergency Hospital.
The close confinement of the young
woman is becoming more and more irk-
some to her, and in a fit of rage yester-
day morning she made a lengthy rpo-
test against her detention and vigor-
ously impeached the creditability of
the testimony of Mrs. Maynard to the
police.
I'm her story to the police about the
conversation of my brothers which she
overheard about the Japanese bank
Mrs Maynard left out several things"
declared the young woman. 'If these
things were made known she wouldn't
be so anxious to be running to the po-
lice"
EXPLAINS STATEMENT.
Pressed to explain more definitely
what she meant the young woman re-
piled:
II mean Just this-that if my broth
ers did anything wrong they were put
up to it by Mrs. Maynard. I know
what 1 am talking about and can tell a
whole lot of things If this continues
much longer I don't mean to say that
my brothers robbed the Japanese bank,
but do mean that all the goings on
at the house in which Mrs. Maynard
lived with us have not yet been made
known.
'sThe police have no right to keep
re and my baby locked up in this
place. We can't sleep at nights with
these insane people around us crying
and shouting. The police may think
they will force me into talking, but
they might just as well make up their
minds that I've said all ever intend
saying to them"
Captain Duke is not concerned over
what he calls the rawlings of the Meyers
girl. She is an important figure in
the investigation now being carried
on, he declares, and he purposes to
keep her locked UP.
HORSE AND BUGGY FOUND.
The report published in The Call yes
terday that the black buggy and bay
horse, which play such an important
part in the investigation, had been
traced by the police was corroborated
by Captain Duke last night. The rig
would be in the hands of the police
today, he declared, and would greatly
strengthen the case against the suS-
poets now under arrest
It is this rig that George Herbert, a
real estate collector. has assured the
police he saw outside the Kimmon
Ginko shortly before the robbery and
murder of Vice President Murakata