The San Francisco call., 1909-03-13
OPINIONS VARY
AS TO BONNER
Police Detectives and Hotel Off
Ger View Suspect From
Different Angles

"BOhmer is one of the sbrewdest
men at evading questions and one of
the hardest 10 break down that we
ever had in custOdy."-Statement of
police detectives.
"BOhmer has been proved absolutely
innocent of the theft of the CrOcker
necklace. He could not have done it.
Questioning viii bring out nothIng.''-
Statement of C NJ. Hershey, house de-
tective at the ST. Francis hotel.
"GOd helps those who help them
seIves.--Sentiment Of Johann Boh-
mer. as inscribed by him in the cover
TO one of his diaries in his room.
Crowding at the heels OF fresh re-
ports by prominent society women yes
terday OF jewels lost in the dining
rooms of the St Francis hotel. scene
Of the Croker. Fuller and Holland
robberies. came developments in the
case against Johann BONNER, confessed
thief of Mrs. ". P. FulIer's purse and
valuabIes, that are regarded by the
police detectives TO strengthen the case
against the man. and by House Detec-
tive Hershey Of the ST. Francis to
NltdL MIN tLLALtlS u any SnS p4NAOA III
the disappearance of Miss Jennie
Crocker's $4,000 pearl necklace.
MANY HOTEL THEFTS
That there have been many thefts at
the big hotel within the last few
months, due to light fingered walters,
is becoming apparent Mrs. Vincent
Whitney, daughter in law of ]. Parker
Whitney, the well known capitalist,
lost beautiful diamond and sapphire
necklace, valued at $500. either in the
corridor or the grill room in the early
part Of January. Mrs. oliver Dibble.
wife of the well known attorney, and
daughter in law of Judge Henry c.
DibbIe. declares she left a gold purse
valued at $75, and containing some
small change, on a table in the grill
December q last, and returned within
an hour to discover it gone.
MAY BE SECRET CODE
Detectives Taylor and Macphee yes
terday were down in the damp and
pitch dark tank" with BONNER and
Max Schneider, his roommate and a
suspect in the case, endeavoring to get
from them some light on a series of
mysterious figures that cover almost
every sheet of paper in their room.
91k Pearl street. These figures are all
above 100 and below 45O The police
believe they spell a secret code by
which the men communicate with con-
federates, but all their questioning yes
terday brought from the pair only the
statement that the numerals meant
nothing.
One one sheet Of paper are two rows
OF figures that the police believe may
supply the key TO the code Under the
title missing figures" are the numerals
2s3. 2sz and 297; under the heading OF
figures present are the numerals 2S3
2SS. 29s and 900.
The police insisted that a cablegram
be sent TO the United States postal in
spector at Hamburg. the port of entry
for Germany, directing him to hold
examine and report contents of the reg
istered article Bohmer sent through the
mail TO Prussia March 4 last. Detective
] Hirschey at the st. Francis declares
that BONNER is correct in claiming thai
/ this registered missive was not a par
! eel of any sort, but a letter to the Ger
man government, with the semiannua
report 10 them of his whereabouts.
CARDBOARD BOX DISAPPEARS
The police detectives forced Schnei-
der 70 admit yesterday that card