The San Francisco call., 1906-07-10
STRANGE FEMALE
SEEKS Scene
OF fight.

II-S mysterious woman In Didck, VINO
lured II. G. Langreuter, a real estate
solicitor, to a car at the ocean beach,
where he was assaulted and nearly
killed. is believed to have been seen
again at the scene of the crime.
A strange-appeari female, gowned
in black. who sat intently watching the
car yesterday, is supposed to be the
ton with the Langreuther case.
The photograph OF the man found at
the scene of the trouble has been iden-
tifed as that of Jack" Arrick, former
ly of San Jose, but later a bartender OF
Salem, Or Some resemblance between
Arrick and Langreuter has been no.
ticed, and the possibility of their being
one and the same person has been sug-
gested
SITS WATCHING THE CAR.
1t was after o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon that the strange woman made
her appearance at Oceanside. She took
a seat on bank of sand on the op-
posite side of the street from the car
house in which the blood was found
after Langreuter left = and appealed
for aid. She was noticed to look at
the house long and intently. but when
any one approached her. she would turn
away, or get up and find a new seat
She gave those who saw her an i'm
preston that she was in nervous ex-
cited condition. After remaining there
for some time. during which she con-
tinually changed her location, the mys-
terious woman suddenly disappeared
She wore a black skirt, a white waist
and a hat decorated with large feath-
ers.
Roy Dempster, the boy who first saw
the woman in black, stated yesterday
that he had been misunderstood by the
police when they took his evidence
When he first saw the woman she was
running away from the vicinity of the
place where the assault evidently oc-
Cured. She was hatless and carried
in her hand a piece of paper or a let
ter. After running up the hill and
nearly reaching Forty-eighth avenue
she paused Then she turned around
and more slowly retraced her steps,
disappearing near the carhouse where
the blood was afterward found and
from which Langreuter was seen to
emerge. 1t was only a few minutes
after the woman disappeared near the
carhouse that Langreuter was seen to
leave il, but nothing more of the mys-
terious woman was seen.
LANGREUTER A MYSTERY.
Langreuter left the French Hospital
suddenly on Sunday and walked to the
German Hospital. explaining that this
CnanSe was Que 10 lne nOtOTleIy Indt
his case had brought. He was visited
by a reporter of The Call yesterday
afternoon, but declined to discuss his
adventure.
Would you mind telling whether the
picture of man and the woman
found where you were injured, and
which was published in the papers, has
any connection with your troubles?"
he was asked.
'I have not read the papers, and can't
talk about anything 1 haven't read"
was his answer
Can you say whether you had such
picture, and whether 1t had any con-
nection with your injuries?" he was
asked also, but he declined to talk fur
ther in regard to the matter.
AS he appears at present, sitting up
in bed in the hospital, one eye covered
entirely with the bandages encircling
his head and the other almost swelled
looking picture. The police have de-
cided to drop his case, unless he will
come forward with information that
ant.
Police Department from the Sheriff at
Santa Cruz stated that the photograph
found on the floor of the room where
Langreuter was assaulted is that of
Jack" Arrick. A former Mayor of San
Jose also Identifies the picture as that
of Arrick, and gives a description of
the latter that could be applied to
Langreuter.