The San Francisco call., 1913-11-19

pointed. His mouth meets in a line
that is set in his face at an angle. His
eyes are small and gray. His hair is
nearly black. His beard is very
heavy. The hair Is prominent on his
gentleman's hand, which ends in
slim, straight fingers like an artists.
He wore a smart English cut suit
of fine black and Write checks and
low heeled shoes. His collar was low.
ending in long points hidden under
his waitcoat A black derby hat and
a raincoat completed his attire.
Mrs. Fiske gave her version today
of the cause for her husbands arrest.
MY husband Is simply the victim
of circumstances" she said, but he is
no moreg uilty of these crimes than
you or /. That / know. His arrest
cept for the unpleasant notoriety it
has caused.
''Of the causes which led up to his
arrest can only say this: "A certain
police officer in Burlingame, who lives
not far from our home, began to med
die in my husbands affairs. He in
formed the authorities in San Fran
cisco that my husbands description
tailed with that of the holdup man.
The arrest of Mr.. Fiske followed 1t
is another case of a petty police off,
Ger trying to get into the limelight as
a clever detective.
.MoTHER NOT TO BLAME'
"As far as my mother is concerned,
the story that she was responsible
for Mr.. Fiske's arrest is utterly false.
1t is true she is extremely antagonis-
tic toward my husband, but her
grudge is only the hallucination Of a
childish old woman. I love both my
you can readily see that am between
two fires as far as our family affairs
are concerned. My mother does not
like Mr. Fiske. We all know that, but
she had absolutely nothing to do
with circulating the stories that end
ed in his arrest. She hasn't even
heard of Mr.. Fiske's trouble, and we
do not intend to tell her II we can
avoid 1t.
ION Monday evening Mr.. Fiske
came home on the $40 train from
town, as is his custom, and he walked
home from the station with Mr.. Stat
ter, who was visiting our friends, the
Herbery Levys, in Burlingame. We
had dinner at $50 o'clock and Mr..
Fiske was home all the evening.
CORRECTS PUBLISHED STORY
.I want. to correct a statement in
one of the newspapers. In which l am
quoted as saying that Mr.. Fiske came
home late last Thursday night. 1t
was not Thursday, but Friday, that
he was late II / said Thursday night
1t was q mistake, for now / remember
he came home early that evening and
remained there. He did not come
down Friday evening until the 1890
train. 1t is a most unfortunate posi-
ton in which we have been placed,
but / suppose we can outlive 1t"
The tip that caused Ffske's arrest
came from the Burlingame police.
| 1t happened as result Of their
efforts to trace the record Of Fiske
| in the east. Fiske had made applica-
tion to the Burlingame Country club
for membership. 1t was learned that
| he had been "in trouble" in Detroit
on account of being caught rifiing the
| lockers of other members. This hap
pened more than a month ago. The
Burlingame police had a description of
Fiske in their possession when a de-
scription of the bandit who robbed
the Southern Pacific train at Burlin-
game some time ago was sent them
by Chief Special Agent Kindelon.
Not until o'clock last night did
Fiske make move to clear up the