The San Francisco call., 1907-02-19
". ]. PATTOs|EN SAILS
FROM CITY AND BLONDE
STENOGRAPHER MISSING
Former Furniture Dealers
Departure for Panama
Under Alias
WOMAN WITH HIM
Suspicion That Miss Kniest
Was His Companion
in Flight
WOMAN WITH HIM

". J. Pattosien, for years furni-
ture dealer at Mission and Sixteenth
streets. more recently conductor of a
skating rink near the same corner. left
the city on February 9. and the day he
departed Miss Sophia Kniest, formerly
of Eureka, for six years his stenogra-
pher, also departed from her home. 535
Alvarado street. 1t has been established
that Pattosien took passage on the Pa
cffic Mail steamer San Juan for New
York, via Panama, accompanied by a
young woman travelling as his wife,
and as the lawful Mrs. Pattosien is
now in San Mateo the persons about
the skating rink and others suspect
that the young and blonde Miss Kniest
is the companion in flight of the abb
sent citizen.
When Pattosien left San Francisco
he did it without hurrah. He even
went so far as. to hide himself under
the less unusual cognoman of Peter
son." His passage was engaged by
| telephone, the agents of the company
having no intercourse save over the
wire with the traveller. The curiosity
of the steamer people was aroused.
though, by the unwonted desire of the
man to know the exact hour at which
the steamer would leave in order that
he might reach the deck just at the
last moment. But he declined to leave
j
who offered to inform him in proper
time for sailing
Charles F. Hintz of 2676 Twenty first
street, a brother of Mrs. Pattesien, is
said to have been the first to suspect
that there was an Illicit romance be-
hind the trip made by his brother-in-
law. Last night Hintz was seen and
denied having ever uttered such an
| opinion, but as the denial was made
| in the same breath that Hintz denied
his own identity the contradiction lost
much Of it's force. Hintz admitted that
he did not know positively that Pat
tosien had left with a girl, but he
wanted to assume that he had not.
He has gone to Germany to collect
/ $4,000 Insurance." said Hintz, "and it
is not likely that he would take a girl
with him. know Miss Kniest. 1
worked in the furniture store at the
time she was there, too. Her people
live in Eureka"
At the house in Alvarado street Miss
Anna Kniest, sister of the Pattosion
stenographer was emphatic in her de-
NAL that her sister had eloped with
the married Pattosion.
ANY one who would say that must
be crazy" she cried when the rumor
was repeated to her. My sister was
planning to go East ever since spring
but the fire changed her plans and
she delayed her trip until now She
| left last Saturday, saying that she was
going to Minneapolis, where she has
friends. I was not at the train to see
her off. None of our friends were
there, but she got her ticket. she told
me- 1 did not see the ticket. but 1 am
positive that she has not gone with
Pattosion, or any one. She had worked
for him for six years. but so far as ]
can say their relations were always
that of employer and employe. I never
knew my sister to go out with him. .
Pattosion is a large property owner
| in the vicinity of Mission and Six
teenth streets, and all the buildings on
the northeast corner were erected by
! him since the fire. Early in February
he leased his skating pavilion, known
as the Garden Rink, to William Clifford
who is now conducting 1t. About Feb
ruary Clifford took charge, and on
Saturday, February O. the lessor left
| the city. Before a week had passed an
attachment was placed on the rink, but
was quickly raised by the action of
Frank Gould. the attorney who had
been intrusted with the full charge of
Pattosion's affairs. Clifford is now-op-
/ Grating the rink and there is another
girl in the glass office which had
housed the pretty, blonde stenographer,
Miss Kniest, until she left the city
| simultaneously with her employers de-
parture with a woman yet to be posi-
lively identified.