The San Francisco call., 1909-12-16
POLICE AT SEA
IN SEARCH FOR
DARING BANDIT
Without Light of Any Kind They
Continue Frnitless Search
Throughout the City
Little Faith Placed in Anthem
ticity of Latest Letters Con-
tanning Various Threats
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all of them as mere idle threats which
he had no intention of carrying out.
.The letter. received by me today was
written by some one who made no at
tempt to disguise his handwriting or
| pretend ignorance. 1t is possible, of
course, that it may be authentic and
that all the others are fakes, but if
any of them at all were written by the
thug | am inclined to the belief that it
was the first three. and none of the
| others
WILL ASK FOR REWARD
/ The desperate nature of the crimes
committed by the bapdit and the fact
that not a trace of him has been found
caused Mayor Taylor to take steps yes
terday toward having a reward for the
mans capture offered by the city, The
| mayor announced that he believed a
reward of $500 should be officially Of
| fered for the apprehension of the
! bandit, and Supervisor Connolly, chair
man of the police committee of the
board of supervisors, will introduce a
/ bill at the meeting of the board next
1 Monday providing for an appropriation
| of that amount to be paid any one who
brings about the capture of the muir
i Gerer.
i Mayor Taylor was thoroughly aroused
to the danger of other murders and
| holdups while the criminal remains at
large and to the necessity of running
him down in order to bring to an end
the reign of terror which he has caused.
<I,.z iaf ffn
ing of a reward would stimulate inter-
est in the search for the slayer and
would enlist for the police the CO.
loperation of hundreds of citizens.
CALLS UPON GOVERNOR
Harry McKannay, secretary to Mayor
/ Taylor, called upon Governor Gillett
/ yesterday to discuss the advisability
| of having the state join with the city
in Offering a reward, but Governor
4 Gillett was of the opinion that the
matter was primarily one for the city
to deal with, and said that as the funds
at his disposal were low at the present
time he did not feel that he was in a
position to take any steps in the mat
| ter.
| One clew, resulting from the Incl
! dents surrounding the holdup of
'Charlotte's" candy store at 1886 Mar
ket street Tuesday night, which prom
ISed Tor a time TO fD6 OF some Ndlueb
was dissipated yesterday morning by a
report made to Chief Cook and Captain
of Detectives Anderson by Henry
Jones' Jones was the man who. within
few minutes of the time of the hold
up. started from Market and Larkin
streets in pursuit of a passing pedes-
trian, who he thought, from a fleeting
glance, bore a decided resemblance to
the published descriptions of the
bandit.
ON A FALSE TRAIL
Jones pursuit of this NAH out Market
street was reported Tuesday night by
Charles Luhn, proprietor of the cigar
stand in front of the Press saloon at
Market and Larkin streets, where Mrs.
Floras, the victim of the holdup, ran
Immediately upon leaving the store
after the visit of the desperado. Luhn
said that man whom he did not know
had given chase to another man on the
strength of fancied resemblance borne
by the latter to the description of the
| thug. The time this occurred, accord
ing to Luhn's best recollection, tailed
very nearly with the time the candy
store holdup was committed.
The man who started this chase was
Jones. He reported to the police yes
terday morning that, as a matter of
! fact, ihe had taken up the trail of the
took place. He foi1owed the man out
Market street to Van Ness avenue. sew
eral blocks northward in Van Ness and
black again to Market street. The man
| he was following sauntered along
aimlessly, looking into windows and
following no particular route. 1t was
not until they had returned to Market
| street, however, that Jones had a good
view of the suspects face. The descrip-
! tion did not tally and he became con-
vinced that he was wrong
The peculiar feature of the chase
was that it led both Jones and his
! quarry back to the scene of the holdun
shortly after it had happened, and both
! of them mixed with the crowd that
| gathered about the doors of the candy
| store. This was the last that Jones
saw of the man he had followed.
SUSPECT NOT THE MAN
Doctor Gleason, victim of two of the
bandits holdups, was taken to the city
prison yesterday afternoon to attempt
/ to identify Beorge Malone a gambler
arrested Tuesday on the water front
on suspicion that he might be the man
wanted. Gleason declared positively
that the man under arrest was not the
| one who had twice robbed his store.
| Malone was armed, however, at the
/ time of his arrest, and probably will be
held in jail on charge of carrying a
concealed weapon.
Mrs. F'loras was called to police
headquarters yesterday afternoon and
examined at length by Chief Cook, Cap
tain of Detectives Anderson and Acting
| Captain Ryan. She went over every de-
| tail of the occurrence of Tuesday night
when the bandit entered the candy
| store, explaining just what had hap
/ pened and just what her own acts were
She was positive in her assertions that
she could not have been the victim of a
hoax perpetrated for the purpose of
! frightening her, and gave a description
/ of her unwelcome visitor, which tailed
in every detail with that of the bandit
already In the possession of the police.
CONVINCED BY HER STORY
All the police officials who were pres
ent at the interview with Mrs Floras
| declared that they were satisfied that
/ her account was correct in every par
! ticular and that the man who visited
hher was the same who perpetrated the
j outrages of. last Saturday night and
the Saturday preceding Chief Cook
received numerous communications
yesterday from amateur detectives and
4 others claiming to be possessed of ex-
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