The San Francisco call., 1910-09-27
Parker, IN STATEMENT
TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
MAINTAINS INNOCENCE

Paul P. Parker, the one time famous
STANFORD baseball pitcher and shot
putter, who is held in the city prison
ds material witness in the Eva Swan
murder case, was examined as to what
ne knows of the case by District At
torney FIckert and Detective Wren yes
teroay morning. The examination was
held in Fickert's office in the Grant
building. and present at the interview
was Attorney j. ". Bryan, who has
been engaged by Parker to care for his
interests
While Parker made lengthy state
ment, covering dozen typewriter
sheets, no startling information out
side OF what he told the detectives yes
terday was brought out. A salient fea-
ture the district attorney and the de-
tective brought out was the dates at
which Parker called at Grants alleged
hospital and his statements as to the
times of his visits were substantiated
by those of the nurse, Miss Messer-
schmidt.
In spite of continual questioning by
detective Wren in an attempt to force
Parker to admit that he was respon-
sible for the girls illness, the former
athlete steadfasr1y maintained that
such was not the case, and that Miss
Swan had sent for him as a friend
when she found herself in trouble. The
detectives refuse to believe this and
hope to force Parker to admit that he
is the man solely responsible.
Parker's statement. eliminating the
Interruptions of questions asked by
Fickert and Wren, runs as follows:
Il first met Eva Swan at Salinas
just after the earthquake. She came
there from Monterey to teach school
/ often took her to dances and we be-
came good friends. When she came
to the city she went to live at 1928 or
164S Haight street She told me she
wanted to go where there was a
cheaper place and I told her Mrs.
Ware with whom I was roon1ing,
could let her have a room for Sc. She
moved out to 2040 Scott street and
lived there until the time she disap-
peared. She came to Mrs. Wares in
February or March of this year.
have been living there since October
or November of last year.
CALLED INTO HER ROOM
after she came to Mrs Wares she
took up the study OF shorthand and
then got a position with Symmes &
Means. About two weeks after she
secured this position ] went home one
Saturday afternoon and found two let
ters on the hatrack for her. I took
them up to her room and knocked at
her door. She told me to come in, and
after I entered 1 happened to look at
the mantelpiece and / noticed a bottle
of some French preparation which I
knew was used for certain purposes.
l gave her the letters and left the
room for a few minutes. When L
came back I saw that the bottle had
been removed.
That was two weeks before Miss
Swan disappeared. The first time that
knew she was at Doctor Grants was
about April 81 or %. 1 had been up
to Healdsburg and when l got back
went to Symmes' & Means office.
There found note to call up cer-
tain telephone number. I Immediately
called up and was asked to come out
to 1898 Golden Gate avenue, as Miss
Swan wanted to see me. I piled out
there sand met the doctor He took
me to the room where Miss Swan was.
The nurse was also there. Miss Swan
wanted something to eat. She tried to
eat some berries, but could not do So
They (the doctor and nurse) said to
Miss Swan, Here, you can not stay
here any longer and wanted her to