The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19
PETER POPULAR
WITH FAIR SEX
Bundle of Love Letters From
Girls and Women Prove
His Conquests
Homes of Numerous Sweet=
hearts Watched for Trace
of Fugitive

In the search instituted by the local
police for Peter Claudianes, the missing
brother of the mann under arrest on
gallagher dynamiting case, letters writ
ten by half score of girls to the fugi-
tive have played an important part.
Peters popularity with the fair sex has
won him as many sweethearts as the
proverbial sailor, and the address of
every recent letter has been noted and
the homes of the writers are being
closely watched
Should Peter go to any of his girl ad
mifers for hiding during his flight it is
practically assured that his arrest would
follow at once. A big bundle of these
letters, constituting the bulk of Peters
correspondence during the last several
months, are now in the possession of
District Attorney Langdon, and most of
them have been carefully read. They
were secured and forwarded to the dis
trict attorney by the marshal of Chico.
PARENTS WRITE WRATH
One of Peters numerous sweethearts
was Miss Ritter of Reno, whose home
in that city has been carefully guarded
since it was reported that Peter was
seen in her. company in the streets of
Reno the first of last week, and some of
now in Langdon's hands. Peter urged
the girl to come to him in this city, and
drew down the wrath of her parents on
his head, the following letter having
been written by them to him on Janu-
ary 16:
Il wish you would please stop writ
Ing to my daughter. You are just
wasting your time II you call your
self a man L think you would stop
rxr11 t,,o hos Ioxx fxrrn
letters you wrote to her telling her you
would send her a ticket to get on the
cars and come to San Francisco unbe-
known to me or her mother, so l took
that letter over to the courthouse and
showed it to them. They told me 1
ought to send you up for trying to en-
tice young girl from home. So you
can use your own Judgment about it.
OSCAR RITTER,
MRS. RITTER
GIRL SENDS KISSES
But in spite of her confession to her
parents Tina did not play fair all of
the time. In one letter she overwhelms
the gallant Peter with "a thousand
kisses" and in another she explains to
him how to avoid the watch set by her
parents. She says:
Dear Darling:
"As 1 was told you wrote me let
ter and some one got it and did not give
it to me 1t makes me so mad that 1
can't get my letters that you write to
me and if you receive this letter and
answer it please address to Sparks
postoffice and Bell will get it for me-
Dear, If you will, address the letter
Belle Ritter. I am in a hurry, SO do
not look at mistakes and bad writing
Sparks, New, then. Belle will get it
and give it to me as we have made ar
rangements, Belle and I. Are you COM
ing down next week or not? If you do,
come in the forenoon, SO you can stay
longer. 1 guess you can guess who got
the letter. Well, / will have to close
before my dad. gets home. Please ex-
cuse writing. ARAever, your kid,
"A. RI1&ER. Sparks, New
Lillian Alfofd& :Flippin,g Ark, was
another damseI bse heart Peter had
evidently won. t the same time the
Nevada girl was sending osculations by
mail the Arkansas eIiamorata was
writing equally as elaborate protesta-
tions of affection to .tmine own dearest
Pete She was huffed for, a time over
some evident neglect on Peters part,
but the difference was patched up, for
in later letters she urged him to make
her a promised visit.
EVEN MARRIED WOMEN
The subjects of some Of Peters con-
quests were married women, and it is