The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12
LONE HIGHWAYM ANS
CRIMES UNEQUALED
FOR MAD OUTLAWRY

For mad outlawry the crimes of the
lone highwayman committed a week
ago last night battle comparison. For
reckless repetition the robbery last
evening of the Gleason-Courneen drug
company is without parallel
Saturday night a week ago the same
man who last night held up the
Gleason-Courneen drug store committed
the following crimes:
At $3.50 o'clock he entered the
Gleason -Courneen drug store, 1882 Mar
ket street, held up DR. +. H. Gleason
and robbed him of $50.
At 10 o'clock he entered the drug
store of David B. Greene at Turk and
Franklin streets and attempted to hold
up the place, but was frightened away
by the screams of Mrs. Greene, who was
in the store.
Ten minutes later, a 1910 o'clock,
the same desperate rushed into the
Office of Burns Hammam baths in Eddy
street between Van Ness and Franklin
and, without a word of warning or a
command, shot twice at William II.
Schneider, the aged clerk at the place.
The bullets struck Schneider in the
abdomen and groin. wounding him IA
tally. He died an hour later. Schneider
lived with his wife and daughter at $50
Joost avenue.
At 1915 O'Clock the highwayman at
lfltApACu 10 uO1u Qp w lll1dIn L. nav hiilS-
a Pinkerton detective off duty. at Ellis
street and Van Ness avenue. Hawkins
grappled with the fellow and wrested
his revolver from him. Several men
came out of a saloon on the corner and
Hawkins, tired from his wrestling with
the highwayman, turned him over to
them. They let the murderer escape.
In the melee the fellows hat fell off
1t was a soft, greenish felt and bore
the trade name of the Clark Kirkman
company, Walla Walla, Wash, and the
The revolver and the hat were the
only clews which the police had to the
identity Of the man. He was described
as being about 5 feet 10 inches tall,
with dark eyes, slim build.
Sunday night a man giving the va
rious names of Walter Scott, Charles
Anderson, William ]. Brooks, etc, sur
rendered himself to the police at the
| Winchester hotel in Third street and
declared that he was the murderer The
remarkable confession was believed at
first. but was almost instantly dis
proved. For Scott on Saturday night
was with Detective Sergeant Jerry
Dinan watching the house at I'll Stock
Frank Case, one of the Folsom out
breakers of 1903, was in the Stockton
street house that night. Scott proved
to be a former convict and is now gen
orally believed to be mentally unbal-
anced. In the place at I'll Stockton
street were Fred Meade, former con-
Wet, and woman, Jessie Hayward.
1t was thought possible that the real
robber might have been at the Meade
lodgings, which Scott had visited dur
ing Dinan's vigil. and there learned OF
the crime from the perpetrator. But
there seemed no way to establish that
fact.
The hat dropped by the murderer
when he met and wrestled with Haw-
kins seemed to the police to be a prom
ising clew. Captain Anderson COM
municated with the chief of police al
/ Walla Walla and learned that the hat
/ had been bought there by Ola Anderson
1 OF that place and stolen from him by a
man named Jack Street. Streets move
ments were traced and he was found to
/ be in Washington state, so the hat clew
/ came to naught.
Brooks. or Scott, is still in Jail. the
police being unable to decide what shall
! be done with their mysterious prisoner