The San Francisco call., 1910-09-28

Denials came strongly yesterday
from Miss Marjorie Dunbar and Miss
Grace Dunbar, friends of Eva Swan,
that they had eyed made the statements
attributed to them as to their belief
of undue intimacy between the muir
dered girl and Paul Parker. Further
more, they deny that they were in the
ha bit OF being entertained by Paul Par
ker at cafes or other places, and de-
clare that they went out with him but
once and then they were home at an
early hour after quiet evening
The two Dunbar girls. who are not
| related, were probably the closest
friends of Eva Swan in this city.
They were all living at the Young
Women's Christian association for some
months and left there to take an apart
ment in Ellis street just back of their
former dwelling place.
They also lived together in Haight
street for time. That she never con-
fded her troubles to Pearl Ross is
disbelieved.
GIRL sECRETIvE
Eva was always too close with her
affains to tell any one anything" said
Miss Marjorie Dunbar last night She
was too secretive for her own good
really sometimes. 1 don't believe she
ever IOlu fedTl flOSS dHylHlHS,
though she was her roommate at the
Y. W. c. A. for while. / know
she never liked her very much, so it
would be funny If she told her a thing
like that"
She said that to her friend and her
self the developments in Eva Swans
case had come as the greatest surprise.
We knew she and Paul Parker were
great friends, but it was just such a
friendship as any girl might have with
a man. No, we never thought they
| were engaged. They used to go out to-
gether, but never in such way as TO
| arouse our suspicious that anything
was wrong. Eva used to go off once
in while over weekends or for the
night, but we never thought anything
about 1t, because she used to say she
went to Berkeley-she had friends
| there, we knew
PARKER UPSET
Paul Parker has called on the Dunbar
| girls since Eva Swan left and even
| since her death. He called on them
Sunday evening and seemed greatly
upset over the Eva Swan affair.
He didn't say anything much" said
Miss Dunbar. Some one came in and
he just said wasn't 1T a horrible affair
and that he was greatly distressed. We
have heard all sorts of rumors about
what sort of a man he was, since this
matter came up, but we never saw
anything about him to make US dis
! trust him. He always acted like per-
| feet gentleman to US and we can only
/ say what we know about him. Nothing
ever aroused our suspicious about him.
| We used always laugh at him when
/ ever he called on us; he always left
the minute the clock struck love
! called him the 10 o'clock man.
| When asked If she had ever heard
Paul Parker speak of other girls or
women that he knew, she said that she
at all.
DEAD GIRL PECULIAR
| mo one can be more surprised over
all this than we are she reiterated. Il
am sure if Eva had ever confded in
! any one that she would have told us.
! She was so peculiar, though. One thing
| she did will show you the type she
was. When she said she was going to
| leave us when we lived in Haight
street, my friend and 1 decided we
would give up the fat, as it was too
! big for just us. So we stayed at home
| from the Office the way we moved TO
| get the house clean-we didn't want to
! leave it in an untidy state. Eva was
going to school then-stenograph she
was studying, you know-and she came
! home about o'clock She came out
| in the kitchen where we were wash
| ing up and just got few OF her
| things that were there. A few minutes
later we heard her going down stairs
| and she called out: Well, goodby
girls. I'm off,.
And tha twas the way she left us
! after having lived with us all that
| time and never any unpleasantness of
any kind. She was certainly queer
That Miss Swan was ever unconven-
|