The San Francisco call., 1908-12-04

minister the department satisfactorily
under the present hard conditions? If
salary and my chance for a pension.
No, thank you. l will keep my captains
pay. Let somebody else be chief"
One of the new names mentioned
yesterday was that of A. G. Boggs, who
is said to be close to II. g. McKannay,
the mayors secretary.
That the chief of police will be chosen
from the department is by no means
certain. There are two meh of author
ity who are not disinclined to favor
civilians. One of them is acting Chief
Cutler, who has a well developed no.
tion that A. D. Cutler ought to be the
next chief.
WOULD TAKE CIVILIAN
The other is Mayor Taylor. who
stated yesterday that a civilian with
the proper qaalifca ations would be ac-
ceptable to him.
Asked as to the probable successor
TO Biggy, the mayor replied:
I have not yet come to maturity of
judgment in the matter, but when the
time comes for me to act 1 will act
quickly"
Asked whether he regarded Cutters
candidacy fayorably, the mayor looked
annoyed and said:
IF you ask me questions like that
you will vex me-"
The mayor said absolutely nothing
to indicate that he was considering the
wishes of the commissioners in the
selection. From his answers to ques-
tions it was apparent that he regarded
the matter as one for him TO settle
with his own judgment.
The police commissioners keep their
own counsel as to the chances of the
different candidates mentioned. but
their conversation does not indicate
that they are going to surrender to the
mayor the full appointing power
After his conference with the mayor
yesterday acting Chief Cutler said that
the matter of selecting the new chief
would not be considered by the com
mission before next week.
II might just as well say that II
would be considered next Monday as
next Saturday" he said: g the commits
sioners have not yet talked about it
at ALL
STATEMENT DEMANDED
The third day following the drown
ing of Biggy closed with the attempt
TO elicit from KeiI the mysterious pur-
port Of the document which he has
prepared containing elaborate minutes
of the last conversation he had with
Biggy. Part of that document KeiI
gave out Wednesday, with the state
nent that he had communicated the
whole of it TO the mayor and to others
who. he thought would be interested
in it. Mayor Taylor denied emphat-
ically that he had received it.
When the commissioners gathered
behind closed doors last night formal
demand was made upon Keil for the
entire statement.
Gentlemen, 1 cannot give 1t to you;
it is sacred" was the hafiing answer.
Again and again the same demand
was made, but Keil was stubborn, and
beyond saying that the parts withheld d
concerned only Biggy and himself, he
would not yield
Keil modified his former statement
with relation TO the mayor and stated
that he had communicated parts of
the statement" to his honor. The
mayors unqualified denial of any com
municadon whatever from Keil did not
disconcert the mysterious commissioners.
Speculation as to the purport of the
suppressed portions of the conversation
will be redoubled in volume by the
commissioners secretiveness. Keil has
admitted that they referred to police
matters that concerned only Biggy
and myself"
Thousands in Hunt
The waters of the bay have never
been under such constant surveillance
as since Chief of Police Biggy dis
appeared from the launch Patrol and
so far all the watching has been with
out avail Almost the entire shore
! line from the Cliff house to Hunters
point on both sides of the bay is be-
ing watched by specially detailed
patrols from the army, navy and po-
! lice department and hundreds of vol
unteers are lending their spare time
to the task of locating the body
The police launch Patrol has been
out almost constantly since the trag-
edy. With Policemen O'Shaughnessy
and Holmes on board the Patrol start
ed out yesterday at 1915 a. M and
did not return until 1880 a. m Dur
ing its cruising the launch visited
Fort point, Lime point, Fort Baker
Sausalito, Angel island, Alcatraz. Point
/ Richmond, Goat island and Mission bay
At o'clock yesterday morning Cap
tain Conboy assumed charge of the
/ bay search and spent the day on the
Patrol. Just as the launch returned
about noon, the conductor of a Cali
fornia street car telephoned in that he
had seen what looked like a body in
/ the vicinity Of Fort point Captain
Conboy at once put out and did not
return until he had overhauied the
object, which turned out to be bundle
of rags.