The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-10

hear from YOU and II you were not JIM
mics friend I VIII admire you more
for YOU TO say so than not 10 be and
make believe that you were. These
brutes that killed him are alive and
seemingly doing well while my boy is
dead five months today. Tell me 1
.an trust YOU and that you would have
liked Jimmie and I viii write YOU"
Went Through His Trunk
In the second letter. written April 9.
evidently in answer to Syartz Mrs.
sutton says that after Jimmie was
killed Captain Mark and Lieutenant
T-tlev took his keys and went through
his trunk and everything. Can you
tell me II they had a right TO touch
ANYTHING? To make 1t more horrible
Utley was with Adams and Osterman
when Jimmie was killed. ] believe he
engineered that fight, that was all
planned"
Mrs. Sutton then described the meet
ing OF the officers at Carvel hall the
night of the tragedy and laid empha-
sis on the fact that while her son was
talking to Miss Stewart and DR.. Cole
man of the academy Osterman and
Adams withdrew and had talk
Now. at / o'clock Sunday morning.
.the letter continues. Jimmie was
beaten 70 death. That shot was fired
10 hide the crime. His forehead was
crushed. nese broken. lips cut open,
teeth knocked out and an incision in
the head cut half half an inch long.
Just think what my poor boys sur
fe-fngs must nave been as he was
beaten TO death by those wild beasts
Good God. Mr.. Swartz. the work OF Wild
men and this on their own sworn tes-
timouy. and still they are walking the
streets today while my poor boy lies
In the grave stamped as suicide.
DETEsTED HIS COMPANIONS
Referring TO the i'll fated automobile
ride. Mrs. sutton declared that If jim
mic" had been himself he never would
haxo asked them adams. Utley and
Osterman) 10 ride with him. Adams
and Ctley hated him. she declared.
Mention is also made of Lieutenant
Potts sumner and Shearer-
.rOn October d" she wrote, Jimmie
borrowed s2II from the bank. On Oc
tober he gave Shearer a check for
$3.50. and / wrote Shearer and asked
him what il was for. He said he had
just cashed il for Jimmie. 1 did not
believe him and wrote and told him
what ] thought Of such men who would
let man in such a helpless condition
be taken out and beaten to death.
on subsequent occasions, when she
had written -Shearer his replies were
curt, she says.
on May Mrs. Sutton promised to
send SWartz a copy Of the first inquest
testimony and a copy Of whatever she
had later obtained. She recited her
difficulties in obtaining anything def
mite about "Jimmie's" death.
do YOU mean to say that if we
prove what we know these men can not
be punished simply because they be-
long to the navy?" she wrote. Those
men know why they are so secret about
the affair, but we are not sleeping. and
] think the United States win be COM
PEELED to sit UP and take notice what
kind Of men run the navy and shield
q pack of low brutes."
Adams, Utley and Osterman's faces
viii be enough TO convict them. You
viii see that Jimmie is the smallest
in this class. and yet it took three big
men 10 do him TO death. Shearer looks
like an eX-convict-"
on cross examination Birney insisted
that Mrs. Sutton explain why she made
these derogatory comments. She re-
torted that she could express. an opin-
ion about Potts face without intending
10 mean that every one criticised was
implicated in her sons DEATH. She
further insisted that the contents of
her letters to Swartz had been arrived
at through reading the testimony and
that she still held to her original be-
lief.
THE love between Jimmie and my
self" continued the mother in this let
ter 10 Swartz. was the greatest that
could exist between two persons. If
Jimmie met with an accident I felt it
at once. Well. the night those beasts
were laying their plans for Jimmie an
awful fear came over me and my two
daughters; we could not talk and each
kept away from the other for fear of
sutton came in and asked if I could
stand some awful news. He told me
that Jimmie was reported to have
killed himself
TELLS OF SEEING VISION
"'Oh God Mr. Swartz" the writer ex-
claims. If Jimmy had not spoken to
me ] would have died. Then Jimmie
came up 10 me and said, Mother, dear
don't you believe it: never killed nv
self Adams killed me; they beat me
10 death and then Adams shot me to
hide the crime.
He told me how they laid the trar
for him, how he walked into it; how
Utley grabbed him to pull him out
OF the automobile; how they held him
and Osterman beat him; about his fore
head being broken, his teeth knocked
out and the lump under his Jaw. ana
how, when he was lying on the ground
some one kicked him in the side and
smashed his watch He begged me not
10 die. but to live and clear his name
Well. after three weeks, 1 proved some
things he told me weref true. and afte,
repeatedly demanding the evidence after
four months 1 got 1t and within the
last month have proved everything
he told me-.
Nothing could separate Jimmie from
me, not even death. and Adams Utley
Potts and Osterman will never know !
moments rest on earth. Why should
they2
Il can not understand why every one
does not see that they are trying Il
hide the real crime and protect those
men. If we can not get justice through
the courts every newspaper in The
United States shall have these facts
as we have them and then see wha,
the opinion Of the world will be-"
The fourth letter was dated May Is
In IL Mrs. Sutton told of having re.
ceived a letter from young Owens, tn.
chauffeur and said that she would in.
close a copy of that letter to Swartz
You can see from that" she said
that Adams sat on the front seat
suppose he thought by stopping thu
car il would start a fight and wher