The San Francisco call., 1910-06-16
SENSELESS GIRL
FOUND BOUND
With STOCKING
Brother Discovers Unconscious
Woman in NightgOwn on
Porch at $3.50 A. Nj.
Detectives Declare Mamie Dali
E gao's Story of Alleged At
tack Highly Improbable

OAKLAND June 15.-Clad in a night
gown, her hands bound behind her back
with one Of her stockings. while its
mats. which had apparently been tied
over. her mouth as a gag. lay in a loose
knot around her neck. the unconscious
farm. of Mamie Dalgao. an is year old
=. lapndry sirl. was found on the porch
sof her home at 767 Campbell street at
3 80 O'Clock this morning by her broth
eri + Frank, who had arisen as usual at
the early hour TO go TO work. On the
girls feet We're a number of scared
sores, resembling burns. Several jagged
bruises, covered with clotted blood, on
her arm gave rise 10 the theory that
she had been tortured and wantonly
mUtilated.
A sheet. which had been taken from
the bed in which she had slept was
wound about the lower part of her
e body when her brother found her. He
said that he saw no traces of his sis
tiers assaiiants, although there were
marks Of blood on her nightgown, and
her hair had been cut and torn, a
part of it, which was secured with
hair pins, being missing.
The girls story has cast a veil of
apparently unfathOmable mystery over
her plight About six hours before she
was found. Mamie Dalgao went to
bed with her j year old sister. Ida, in
4 q room across the hall from the apart
Llept occupied by her father and moth
-er. ar. and Mrs. NJ G. Dalgao. Both
girls assert that they locked all the
windows in their room and secured the
door by bracing q tilted chair against
tie knob.
40 MOTIVE ASSIGNED
Mamie Dalgao declares that her only
CONSCIOUS recollection after she fell
asleep was of seeing two men in the
room and hearing one say: I'VE didn't
succeed in injuring her much last time,
but we viii make sure Of doing away
with her this time. Then she Iapsed into
Inconsistencies and could remember
nothing more until she was revived
after her brother had found her. She
expressed a belief that she had been
drugged and carried from her room, but
she was una bic TO give any clew to the
identity OF her assailants or to assign
any motive for the deed. Ida EDalgao
was not awakened
.- DR.. J. T. Kergan. who was summoned
to attend the injured girl, said that
the bruises on her arm were several
days old. The sores on her feet he
said, might possibly have been burns.
but had the appearance of ulcerous
formation. In any event, he declared,
the. sores were not new.
POLICE INCREDULOUS
-Fhe opinion Of the physician. coupled
with the fact that the door had been
lrsced shut when the girls retired, and
could not, in their opinion, have been
forced open from the outside without
awakening the sleepers. caused the po-
lice 10 be extremely incredulous Of
Mamie DalgaO's story.
Detectives Holland and Flynn found
all the windows in the room locked
and there was no evidence that they
had been tampered with They also
learned that the girls parents had
burned the stockings with which she
had been bound and gagged. This ac-
tion they explained on the ground that
the stockings were dreRched in blood
but Doctor Kergan declared that there
was no evidence that the girl had been
bleeding.
After making several attempts to
hEeak into the room with the door
-braced in the way the girls had braced
st, Detectives Holland and Flynn found
it impossible to gain entrance without
breaking either the door or the chair
Captain Of Detectives Petersen charac-
terized Mamie Dalgao's story as highly
Improbable and said that he would
make no further Investigation unless
she threw some light on the mystery
QUIET AND RETIRING
:. The girl bears good reputation in
the neighbOrhOOJ in which she lives
and is said TO be unusually quiet and
retiring, so much so that she did not
often associate with the young folk
who lived near by. About two months
ago her left foot was crushed and
burned by falling flat iron at the
Bay Cities laundry company's plant
where she was employed. Since that
time she has been confined to her home
almost continuously. and has been
practically an invalid.
Her mother declared that the girl
had no admirers, and did not. to her
knowledge. keep company with any
man.
The girl was confined 10 her bed
all day today and appeared to be in a
state of nervous collapse from the ef-
fects Of her strange experience.