The San Francisco call., 1908-09-11
CITIZENS LAMENT
DEATH OF BANKER
Flags at Half Mast Pay Tribute
TO Memory of Philip n.
LiIienthal
Police Continue to Search for
Driver of Cart, While Wit
nesses Describe Tragedy


flags futtered at half mast yesterday In
token of respect for the memory OF a
man representative of the highest type
of San Francisco citiZenship-Phlllp n
Lilienthal. The death of the wen known
6nancier threw pail of sorrow over
the banking district and carried into
a,.ndred homes and dozen CLUBS the
grief Of a great loss, for Lilienthal was
q man loved and honored as well in his
business as in his social life
The body of the deceased banker,
whose tragic death occurred on
Wednesday, will be borne to Its hnal
resting place in the Home of Peace
cemetery today, AMI at his bier will be
pafd the last tributes of men high in
financial. political and social councils.
The funeral is to take place at o'clock
this morning from the family residence
81 1905 Franklin street, the services
being conducted by Rabbi Nieto and
Cantor Stark. The list of pail bearers
who will follow the body of the banker
philanthropist TO the cemetery COM
prises men from almost every walk of
and station of life, yet every name was
drawn from the circle of LilienthaPs
close friends. Following are the pail
bearers:
LIST OF PAIL BEARERS
Mayor Edward Robson Taylor. A. W.
Foster. Henry T. Scott, Homer King. w.
+. Herrin, Warren Clark, William Ger
stIe. Leon Schloss. L n. Walter, Will
Ham Fries, Arthur Castle and John
Earle.
Hosts Of friends called yesterday at
the LilienthaI home to offer coincidence.
while the officers Of the Anglo-Calf-
fornian bank. of which Lilienthal was
associate manager. were thronged with
business associates, who called to ex-
press their sympathy. In the clubs
and the streets the tragic end of the
able banker was one of the principal
topics of conversation and from every
side were heard expressions of deepest
sorrow and regret
That LilienthaI had, if not a pre-
monition, at least an almost fatalistic
forewarning of his tragic death, was
recalled yesterday Just a week ago,
while riding in his automobile with
Francis E. Beck. assistant cashier of
the Anglo-C Californian bank, he was dis
cussing an automobile tragedy that had
Just occurred in New York and re-
marked upon the number of such ia
talities that have happened recently
Beck remarked. half laughingly, that as
the tragedies were largely confined to
millionaires and automobile owners, he
felt immune.
I suppose that category would in
clude me-" Lilienthal answered with a
touch of seriousness, yet 1 Suppose
when a mans end is to come it might
as well come that way as another"
TWO WITNESSES FOUND
All day yesterday the police con-
tinued their efforts to learn the iden-
tity OF the three men who were in the
cart which collided with Lilfenthars
automobile and TO learn the exact de-
tails of the manner in which the acci-
dent came about. Two eye witnesses
were found in the persons of Andrew
Heatley OF l31 Crescent avenue and
little u year old Rosa Bonzani of 1893
Mission street, both of whom asserted
that while the accident was over in
such a fash that they could not follow
IL, they believed that it was the point
of the shaft that struck Lilienthal and
threw him from his seat over the back
of the car.
I was sitting in front of a store in
Mission street between Highland and
Richland avenues when the accident
occurred" said Heatley- The auto
mobile slowed down as it reached the
top of the hill and was running slowly
when il came opposite the place where
] was sitting. The horse and cart came
from the other direction. The animal
suddenly became unmanageable as it
was almost opposite the machine and
ran across the tracks at nearly right
angle
Of the shafts that struck the man who
was killed. At any rate, he was raised
from his seat and thrown out over the
back. i ran 10 his assistance and with
the help of his two friends and two of
the men who were in the cart we got
him into the automobile and it whizzeo
away
DRIVER HELD HORSE
I paid no attention to the men who
were in the cart further than to notice
that two Of them jumped out to aid him
while the other held the horse. They
were all young men, smooth shaven and
seemed to be about 30 or 55 years old
F. Two, Of them had on white shirts and
were in their shirt sleeves and the third
wore a blue flannel shirt The horse
was a small sorrel that would weigh
about SOC pounds"
Rose Bonzani was standing on the
curbstone directly in front of the scene
OF the accident preparatory to crossing
the street. Her story was essentialIy
the same as that told by Heatley and
she described the driver of the cart as
a man who looked like an Italian"
Detectives Gallagher and Moltke OF
the Mission police station, who con-
tinued the investigation of the acci-
dent yesterday, learned from others
who were in the vicinity at the time
that previous to the accident the men
in the breaking cart nearly coIIided
with John MCGOWAN. a timer, who was
driving along the street in a light
wagon. At all the sales stables knowl-
edge OF the horse and drivers was de-
MED and inquiry all along outer Mis-
sion street failed 10 disclose the iden-
tity of the men.
HEMORRHAGE CAUSED DEATH
Surgeon J. r. Clark, who performed
the autopsy yesterday, reported thai
death was caused by shock and hem.
orrhage from the crushing of the left
chest wall and rupture of the spleen
and said that IL was almost impossible
that blow from the point of a shaf1
could have hurled Lilienthal from the
machine.
His report has raised a question as
to the exact manner in which Lilien.
thai was thrown to the street and ha.
suggested that instead Of being struck
AZ all ne might have raised himsel,
from his seat as he saw the franti,
horse plunging toward him and ther
been hurled to the ground by the sud
Sen swerving of the heavy car wher
the chauffeur turned to avoid a col
lisbon.
.'Lilfenthai was very heavy y,,ay