The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-23
MOUNTAIN MURDER
VICTIM IDENTIFIED
Recognized as Rose Mckay,
Employed in Mill Valley
as Domestic
Police on Trail of the Dead
W0man's Companion, Who
Mysteriously Vanished
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and had come to Eureka. Here she
married a man named Mckay, she said.
She met Tunsi, who had conducted a
saloon in Eureka, and left with him,
coming to San Francisco.
Charles A. Mitchell, formerly en-
ployed at the Rochdale grocery COM
pany's store in Mill Valley, throws adj
dlt1onal light on the womans history.
She was employed at the store as a
delicatessen cook" Mitchell said yes
terday. but she remained there only
two weeks, during the latter part of
June, 1908, and was then discharged
for drunkenness. Tunsi often called at
the store to see the woman, coming
from the futile home near by and
often they went out together. Once
they remained away whole day. They
quarreled frequently. and Tunsi seemed
to want the woman to stop drinking"
l. Minetti, proprietor of the Swiss
American hotel in Broadway, where the
two remained for about months after
the fire, living as man and wife, will
ingly told all he knew concerning the
couple.
"Tunsi said that he met the girl in
Covelo, Mendocino county" Minetti
said yesterday. Then they came to
Eureka, and lived there together about
year. They sometimes quarreled very
violently, for Tunsi had a very violent
temper.
After they went to Mill Valley to
work for the Turtles they often came
here to dance, and sometimes they
stayed over Sunday at the hotel. Tunsi
had two trunks here, and ia July, 1903,
he came over one day. got the trunks
and left, saying that he and the
woman had quarreled and separated
and that he was going back to Switz-
erland''
The authorities have not been able
to trace the trunks. Minetti says a
truck drawn by two horses, onea bay
and one white, called for the trunks.
The actions of Tunsi in getting the
trunks away so mysteriously has add
ed to my suspicious in regard to him..
Sheriff w. P. Taylor of Marin county
said last night THE fact that he
slipped away in July and has never
been seen since that time is another
point against him. Mrs. Tuttle's iden-
tification of the watch, the charm and
the waist among other points, makes
it certain that Miss Mckay, or Mrs.
Mckay, as she might have been, was
the woman whose body was found Oh,
Tamalpais. The work before us is to
find Ttmsi
Another link in the chain of evil
dence against Tunsi is the fact that he
told the men at the Swiss american
hotel that he and the woman had quar-
relied and separated Now he told
Mrs. futile that the woman had disap-
peared. he did not know where, and
seemed to be relieved about it,.
Miss Mckay is described by Mrs.
futile as having been about feet 4
inches in height. She weighed about
100 pounds, had large waist. rather
fiat chest and somewhat narrow hips.
She was rather prepossessing. She wore
number shoes Her nose was rather
sharp and her chin pointed. Her album
dant hair was dark brown with streaks
of gray, although she was palpably yet
in her twenties.
Coroner Sawyer is now soaking the
dead girls hair in water to remove
the dye stained on it's from the dress,
to see of gray in the hair will be
found.
Tunsi is about 5 feet II inches in
height. His face is thin, his COM
pIexion sallow and his keen eyes
blue gray color He weighs about $50
pounds. He has a dark brown mus
tache and dark brown hair. Tunsi
dresses neatly and suually wears a
dark brown hat. His features are
sharp.
aside from the absolute identifica>
ton made by Mrs. Tuttle." Sheriff Tay-
lor said yesterday, I'VE have this fact
to show that the Mckay, or Tunsi.
woman was the victim. She had a
quantity of clothes in those two trunks
in the Swiss American hotel, as she
told Mrs futile, and as the hotelmen
testify Now if she had merely left she
would have secured some of those
clothes-come over to San Francisco
and got them out of the trunks. But
she did not do so; she was lying dead
ON tho stones of Mount TamaIDaiS"