The San Francisco call., 1908-09-04
Police Begin the Search for Joseph Berry

wife's real identity and the fact that
she was merely his mistress and that
he had no legal claim on any part Of
her estate.
William Ronaldson, the agent OF the
police. who, posing as a friend. had
scarcely left Donohues side from the
time that Mrs. Donohue's body was
found, slept with the suicide on
- Wednesday night. He left at S:S5
o'clock yesterday morning for his place
OF business at Fifty-eighth street and
San Pablo avenue, agreeing to meet
Donohue and take breakfast with him
half an hour later AS he left the
house Donohue, in his nightclothes, ae-
companied him to the door and picked
up a copy Of The Call which had been
left on the porch. He returned to bed
and there read the details of the ex-
posure concerning his alleged wife's S
history.
FIRES As OFFICER GOES
IN the meantime. Captain of Detec-
fives Petersen OF Oakland had also read
The Call Startled by the information
there given for the first time, he hur-
riedly telephoned Town Marshal Ed
Carey Of Emeryville to go at once TO
Donohue's house and place him under
arrest. Carey reached the house about
9. o'clock. but Donohue saw him ap-
preaching, and. frightened by the dis
closures and anticipating his own ar
rest, refused to admit him. Carey found
the curtains Of the house drawn, but
as he left the place he heard sound
within the house. Donahue, ii is be-
aieved, waited until Carey had left, then
arose wrote his last note, and finally
took his stand before the mirror of his
bureau and turned his revolver against
himself, believing as he did so that
within a short time the officers would
return prepared TO take him into Gus
tOdy.
TIME OF MURDER FIXED
From the positive testimony OF the
chemist who examined the internal or
gans of the woman the murder on the
night of June il occurred within two
hours. at the extreme limit of the
time she had eaten dinner. This sets
the time of the murder at $3.50 or
O'Clock in the evening and makes
worthless the testimony of neighbors
who claim to have seen her in night
from her house as late as IL o'clock.
Donohue himself was authority for
the statement that he and the murdered
woman ate dinner at $50 or o'clock,
and the examination of her stomach
has shown that what she ate was not
digested and had been in her stomach
only an hour and q half or 1.-Two hours
when she met her death.
Joseph Berry, the man with whom
Mrs Donohue lived before she met
Donohue nine years ago, has not been
taken into custody. but information
was given 10 the police yesterday that
he visited Donohue late last Sunday
evening and that he had been in the
vicinity of San Francisco ever since the
day Of the murder, in touch with every
development that has occurred.
DONoHUE'S BODY FOUND
After Marshal Carey left the Dono-
hue home yesterday morning he Wis
tied William Ronaldson at the latter's
place of business and found that Dono-
hue had not shown up a he had prom
ssed to do. The two remained together
FOR nearly an hour, and then Carey
returned TO Donohue's home and found
IL still closed and looked. He remarked
that the inquest at 1 o'clock would
show whether Donohue had fed or not,
and again. he telephoned TO Captain
Petersen. When the latter heard the
particulars of his two visits he in
structed him 10 return at once and
batter down the door If need be. Carey
returned. but only to find that Flood
and Sargent had already reached the
house, had forced their way in by pry-
ing open a window with a pickaxe and
had found the body of Donohue stark
upon the bedroom floor
The inquest over the body of Mrs.
Donohue was under way when news
OF the suicide was telephoned TO Coro-
ner Tisdale- Witnesses had been called
70 tell OF the finding or the womans
body and of Donohue actions at the
time. and all was in readiness to call
Donohue 10 the stand and attempt to
break him down and force a confess
sion under a grilling cross examina-
tion. Then the news of his death was
Teceived and the inquest was quickly
? adjourned until next Tuesday.