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PERJURY
IN THE
FAIR CASE
C. S. Bartlett, One of the
Witnesses, Ordered Into
Custody.
HE TESTIFIED FOR MRS. CRAVEN.
Confesses Under Oath That He
Willfully Gave False
Evidence,
RI'EF AS THE "OGEL" (IF THE CASE.
Counsel for the Opposing Litigants
Struggle to Shift the Odium Cre
ated by the Exposure.
A series of incidents cropped up in the
Fair trial yesterday afternoon which were
highly sensational.
' Notable among them was the arrest of
C. S. Bartlett, one of the witnesses for
Mrs. Craven, for willfully committing
" perjury.
' Bartlett is the glib-totgued insurance
solicitor who took the stand several days
ago and >attled off a story most interest
ring in its details about lis having seen
the late Senator Fair in Notary Cooney's
•'office on the 27th of September, 1894— the
day upon which the defense claims that
the deceased millionaire acknowledged
the disputed peucil deeds. There could
he ,no question about it in his mind, as he
gave it then. He was positive as to the
date and every alleged fact he testified to,
and in consequence he added a most
powerful link in tbe lady defendant's evi
dence.
It was like unto the blowing up of a
mine of dynamite, then, when this same
man took th*' chair again yesterday and
. brazenly confessed that he lied.
What had been a dull and uninteresting
session was fast drawinc near a close
when the surprise came. Attorney
Mitchell of the plaintiffs' line indulged in
some whispering with his associates and
tften arose and asked the court's perrui*=
.-ion to recall Bartlett to the stand "for
additional cross-examination." Judge
Slack readily assented. Bartlett, who was j
near at hand and waiting, tripped blithely j
down the cetitar aisle to tell the startling j
story of his own criminality.
Being asked if he was "dead sure" that
he saw the Senator on that eventful day,
Bartlett said he was not. He only saw
the Senator's back, he thought, even if he
saw him at all.
"After you made a statement to Lawyer
Ruef of the delense with reference to
what you could testify to did you receive
any promises of reward or remunera
tion?" asked Mitchell.
A hush came over the room and every
eve was fastened upon the man, who
twitched and grimaced in the witness
chair.
Bartlett hesitated a full minute and
then replied. He said he had received
such a promise.
"What was it?"
"Why, Mr. Ruef said I would be taken
care of all right after I testified."
"Have yon received any money from
Mr. Ruef since this case began?"
Bartlett hesitated again. "Not directly, ''
he finally said. •
•'•Well, indirectly?"
•Yes."
"How much?"
Bartlett said be thought about $50 in
all. He got the money from Mr. Her
enghi, Ruei's brother-in-law. It was "just
' a business transaction," be said. Mr.
Ruef vouched for him, and the brother-in
law "accommodated" him.
"Do you know Wilbur, the man who ap
peared here several days ago as a witness
for the defense?" queried Mitchell.
"Yes; quite well."
"Did you ever talk to him about this
case?"
"1 did."
"What took place?"
"Well, I met him one day, and he com
plained about being hard up. I told him
I was in the Fair case, and that I expected
to be rewarded. I told him to go and see
~ Ruef, as that party was the man in the
case to see, and might be able to give him
some work."
• "Did you afterward have a conversation
with Mr. Ruef about Wilbur?"
"Yes. Ruef asked me if Wilbur was an
honest man, and I told him he should
not be 100 personal. When he asked me
if Wilbur could be relied upon I just
nodded, that was all. Ruef then gave me
a copy of what my own evidence was to
be and said I might need it to refresh my
memory. I said I would not require it,
as I haa a good memory."
Being directed to go more into detail
regarding tbe advice he gave Wilbur
about calling upon Ruef, Bartlett said he
told that individual that Ruef was "the
angel in the case." He also told him that
. he (Bartlett) was going to get $5000 for bis
evidence in the event that Mrs. Craven
won the lawsuit.
"Have you got it yet?" asked Mitchell.
"To get," chirped the witness.
Bartlett reiterated his declaration that
he was in the store at 11 Montgomery
street on the 27th of September, but added
that he could not say positively now that
he saw the Senator there. He thought
he saw somebody, but as the party bad
his back turned he was unable to say who
it was. It might have been Senator Fair
and it might net.
The witness was then turned over to Mr.
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Delmas for a baiting that fairly bristled,
with good things. Bartlett's confession
was a serious proposition for the defense
and it was important to that side that
something • houid be saved from the
wreck. Delmas wont at the self-confessed
perjurer savagely.
It soon developed that Bartlett was a
veritable Baron Munchausen, being unable
to hold to the truth on any subject tor the
space of two short minutes and mixing
himself up distressingly.
"Have you been talking with anybody
connected with the plaintiffs' side of this
case since you gave your original evidence
here?" was Delmas' first sally.
"Yes, I have been talking to Attorneys
L'oyd and Mitchell. I met Mr. Lloyd
yesterday on Montgomery street, and we
made an appointment to meet in his
office. A certain party told me Lloyd
, wanted to see me."
"Who was that party?"
"I can't recall his name."
"Wasn't his name O'Connell?" .
"Yes; I believe it was. I met him last
Friday, I think."
"What aid he tell you?"
"I don't recall his words."
"Try, please."
'Well, I think he asked me if I was
friendly with Attorney Mitchell."
"Was there not something said about
150007"
"I think I do remember a remark some
thing like that. 1 think it was I who
said to O'Connell that $5000 would be
about the right fee for me. I told him I
was thinking about leaving the City."
"Wis the fee to compensate you for
! changing your testimony?"
"Oh, no."
Deimas dropped this line, and asked
i Bartlett to explain why it was that, he
was so positive when testifying a few days
ago that he had seen Senator Fair with
Cooney, and was not so now. The witness
said he had been thinking the mutter
over, and had come to the conclusion that
he must have been mistaken. He said he
went to Attorney Lloyd's office for the
purpose of making a clean breast of the
whole affair.
"I knew that there were some things I
had done in the past that I regretted, and
I knew that they were going to impeach
me in court by dragging all of these af
fairs up," he went on falteringly. "I did
wrong once wben employed by a religious
body as collector. I went to Mr. Lloyd
to see if I could have the exposure
stopped. Mr. Lloyd ; heard my story and
C S. EARTLETT, One cf the Witnesses Who Testified for Mrs.
Craven and Who Is Now Under Arrest for Peijury.
told me to come to bis office again this
morning. I went there and found Mr.
MKcbell in the office ahead of me. I bad
seen Mr. Mitchell before that when he
took the elevator to go upstairs, but 1 did
not speak to him at that time."
"Then you did talk with Mr. Mitchell
afterward?" asked Delmns.
'Yes. Wo sat down together and talked
for about ten minutes. We were in the
room alone the most of that time. Two
other men came in and went out, but I
do not know who they were."
"Do you know Detective Seymour when
you see him?"
"Only by sight."
"Was he one of those two men?"
"I don't remember."
Mr. Delmas strugg ed for some minutes
with the witness in an effort to have him
relate in detail what took place between
himself and Mr. Mitchell. Bartlett was
evasive, even to an exasperating degree.
Delmas was persistent, tenacious, and get
ting mad.
"Well," sfaid Bartlett finally, "we talked
about some matters in which I was vitally
interested. Mr. Mitchell has a client to
whom I owe some money, and we adjusted
that little matter."
This was Delmas' cue. It was the open
ing wedge for which he had been seeking
in order to throw some of the odium
created by Bartlett's confession upon the
other side. He snapped at it as a trout
would rise to a fly. And incidentally it
caused Bartlett some moments of worry
and torment.
"Hold on, there exclaimed Bartlett,
who realized that lie had blundered and
was now badly flurried. "Strike that out;
I didn't mean that. I want to withdraw
that remark."
"What for?" asked Delmas blandly.
"Because it was a mistake. What I
meant to say was that the matter adjust
ed was that trouble I had with the church.
That was the matter I explained to Mr.
Mitchell, and he said everything would be
all right. Theie was nothing said about
that money I owed his client. I made a
mistake there. That matter had nothing
to do with this case whatever."
Delmas smiled and twiddled his thumbs
merrily, for he knew fie had trapped his
man. The attorney permitted the witness
to have such benefit as he could get out of
bis discomfiture and then changed the
subject.
"When you met O'Connell last Friday
did he show you any money?"
"I don't remember."
"Why don't you?"
"Well, I don't think he did, anyhow."
'Well, are you sure?"
"Well, yes then, if . that suits you. He
did not show me any."
"Was not $100 mentioned by O'Connell
in that conversation, and did he not say
that that would be an installment upon a
$5000 payment?"
"I've heard a good deal about money
around this case, but I haven't seen any
yet," blurted Bartlett.
"But there was something said in that
conversation about money, was there
not?"
"1 believe there was. I wanted to get in
on the reaching-out process, and I think I
said something to that effect."
"What do you mean by the reaching
out process?"
"Well, they were holding out their
hands before them."
"With coin in their hands?"
. "Yes, I presume that was about it."
Delmas sought to find out more defin
itely from the witness what caused him to
change his evidence,* but all lie could get
out ot him was a statement to the effect
that he bad become conscience-stricken
and wanted to get out of a bad mess.
The attorney was not through with
Bartlett when the court suggested that it
was time to take an adjournment, so
there will be more of him when the case
is resumed next week.
Then came the blow that almost killed
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1897.
father. Bartlett picked up his hat and
started to trip away.
"vVaita moment," said Judge Slack in
his quiet way. "i am not quite through
yet. Mr. Sheriff, step over this way and
take this witness into custody. . I will
order that he be taken to the City Prison
and there confined pending the prepara
tion of a complaint charging him with
perjury." -4&psgj|
Bartlett was staggered, but submitted to
the arrest without objection.
Mr. Delmas remarked that he was just
about to ask the court to make the order
just entered, and Mr. Mitchell of the
other side spoke up and also said they
cheerfully consented to the court's action.
The jury was now excused, and then
something else happened.
Mr. Delmas announced to the court that
he bad secured the detention of two men
who had been exhibiting a document
purporting to have been written by him,
but which was a rank forgery. He had
secured the document and wished the
court to inspect it. It had the appearance
of being a legal paper, and its contents set
forth that Mr. Delmas had agreed to as
sign to one James Walter Gough certain
claims that he had against some cjrpora
tion clien s for a period ot two years in
the event of his losing the Craven law
suit. Just what it all meant, Mr. Delmas
said, he could not conceivo, but inasmuch
as his signature to the document bad been
forged and there were references in it to
the Fair case he considered it his duty as
an attorney-at-law to inform the court.
The two detained men referred to were
j brought into court, and cave their names
j as George 0!« en and William Goettert.
! In the investigation that followed it de
j veloped that James Walter Gough was
i presuming upon the fact that he was re
lated to Mr. Patterson, one of the jurors
in the case, and was' using that as a
method for borrowing money from Goet
tert. The latter said that a man named
Molder, who had been acting as a go-be
tween in the transaction, had in his pos
session a document which he claimed was
a will executed by the late Senator Fair.
He told Goettert, so ibis indivfdual said,
tkat he was in cohoots with Deiiuas, and
that they were going to make a big stake
out of tne Fair case. On the strength of
this bright prospect and all this docu
mentary evidence he hoped to be able to
burrow $500 from Goettert.
Judge Slack promised to have the mat
ter investigated, and threatened to have a
few more people jailed if be should find
that there had been any more meddling
with the case.
Edward D. Wilbur said last night, re
garding the testimony of Bartlett, that
be was also implicated in giving false tes
timony:
Bartlett had nothing to do with my connec
tion with the Fair will case at all. His state
ment is totally false. 1 never had any deal
ings with him in the matter, and, in fact,
would have no dealings with him, as I know
him too well. I have been approached a dozen
times by different people who ask.'d me what
1 was getting out of this case. 1 knew they
were spies sent by the other side who weie
trying to get me to say something they could
get hold of. All I got out of the case,
and ail 1 expect to get out of it is my witness
fees, which I demanded, as I was entitled to
them. I went there to tell the truth. AU this
story of Bartlett comes from a man- who threat
ened to get even with me for a fancied wrong
which he thinks I did him.
I have had several offers of money to take
back my testimony, and had one to go to a
certain office downtown and sign a certificate,
accept a sum of money and then get cut of
town. I wrote a letter this evening to Liwyer
Ruef about it and also about the threats to
have me implicated In this matter. So far as
my going to Ruef Is concerned, it was Judge
Denson who sent me there when 1 told him
what my testimony was.
My connection with the case came from my
wife reading the paper one evening about the
case. I said I knew something about Fair
being in San Rafael, and I looked up my
memorendum-book to see about the date that
I saw him there. I found It was the same day
that was in question, and so told Judge Den
son. If this is an attempt to break down my
testimony I shall give a little additional testi
mony about another matter in which I have a
disinterested witness.
Late last evening A. Ruef. one of the at
torneys employed to deiend the interests
of Mrs. Craven in the famous case,
made a statement, a statement
which may well be regarded as sen
sational, dealing as it does directly vvnn
the integrity of Witness Barrett and the
attorneys employed by the Fairs. In his
statement he charges that Barrett had on
a former occasion told him and others
that be had been offered the sum of $5000
to change his testimony given before and
to leave the City. He also says that he
gave certain advice in the matter. The
statement lollows in full:
Some time ago, In the month of April or
May, Barrett came to my office and stated that
he knew and had a number of wealthy clients
who wanted to loan money on real estate il
the security were sufficient, and that he had
a good loan of $16,000 that he would like to
negotiate. I reierred the matter to two or
three ol my clients, who reported unfavorably
on the proposition. I finally found one who
accepted the loan, but before it was consum
mated withdrew his acceptance. A day or
two after "Barrett had been notified of this he
called at my office and asked me If I could not
find somebody else to let him have thai money
for bis friend. Captain White, as he would like
very much to make the commission on it— l
believe he said $100. I told him I was busy,
but would get at th« matter in a short lime,
as there seemed to be ample security for any
body who wanted to make a loan. During ihe
conversation he said that he had just walked
down the street with a famous person— Mr.
Clark.
I said, "Who is Mr. Clark?" and he said,
1 "Mr. Herbert Clark, Senator Fair's valet."
I immediately became interested in the mat
ter, because I was one of the attorneys in the
case, which was then proceeding in Depart
ment 10. I asked him, "Do you know Herbert
Clark very weir."' He said, "Yes." 1 said,
"Would you do me a favor?" and" he said,
"Certainly, I will." I said, "I wish you would
find out it Mr. Clark ever knew of Sena
tor Fair's ever, acknowledging a deed
before Notary Cooney." He said, "That
is not necessary. 1 know it myself.
1 said, "How do you know it?" He
said, "Why I was there." I said, "What were
you doing there?" To this he replied, "Why,
it was the last day I had, to answer In an un
lawful detainer suit that had bean brought
against me for not paying my rent, and I
went into O'Farrell's real estate office to get
an extension of time, and as I walked into tn c
place I saw Fair just ahead of me at Cooney's
office, and I thought, "There is a fellow that does
not need to bother himself about rents.' j
waited up to the manager or owner of the
i place and spoke to Him, and as 1 went out I
THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE NEW PRIZE-RING LUMINARY. :
saw Mr. Fair again standing at the same place
where I had first seen him."
I said, "Can you fix the date?" He said,
"No, except it was the last day I had to an
swer in that case." I said, "About when was
thai?' 1 He said, "Ob,' some time in September,
1804, a week or so before I moved out of the
house, and I moved on October 3. When I
could not get the time from the real-estate
man I sent down to my attorney's office and
we went out together to Judge Hebbard, and
we got five days on that very day."
I asked him what the name of the case was
and he told me, and I went out to the City
Hall, and to my amazement and satisfaction
found that the case showed that his time to
answer was up on the very day when Coon*
acknowledged Fair's signature, but not only
that, but the order extending time was dated
and filed on the same day, and that the affi
davit of the service of summons had b?en
signed before Cooney himself on ihat very day.
I hud lelt Barrett in cnargeof one of my eierns
to be detained until I could verify his state
ments by the records. After I had satisfied
myself from an examination of the files that
his statement* were true I returned immedi
ately to the office and took his statements ol
the facts in writing and he signed it.
In that statement he testified to exactly the
same facts of which he gave evidence when
called to the witness-stand. He made a simi
lar statement to Judge Denson, one of my
associate counsel, some time in the month of
May or June, and on the day before he went
on the stand to testify he made a similar state
ment again to Messrs. Delmas and Denson
and myself. He then testified to the facts
exactly as they occurred and was corrobo
rated by the records of which we had taken
certified copies before .hat time.
A day or two after he testified he came to the
office and stated that peop c connected with
the opposing side in this case had ottered him
a large sum of money to make a statement to
the- effect that his evidence was incorrect and
that he was not positive of havlug seen Fair
on the day mentioned as stated by him. He
asserted that he had been offered $5000 in
cash to make such a statement and to leave
the City, and that an appointment had been
made lor htm to meet Mr. Lloyd, one of the at
torneys for the opposing side, at 3:30 o'clock
that afternoon. . r :-f i'fJ'-
He -.sked me what to do in .the matter. I
advised him to nave nothing to do with it, but
upon reflection suggested that it might be
possible to establish himself well In the eyes
of the entire community as an nonest man to
assist us in the case and at the same time
make that! ¥sooo it he would aid in exposing
the plan ol the other peopie. He agreed to do
this, and returned snortly afterward with the
statement that he had made an appointment
for 8 o'cloCK that evening with Mr. Lloyd or
his representative. He also said during the
day that he had been offered $100 if
he would only go up to see Mr.
Wheeler. 1 to.d him to be careful
about the tiling, and that if he were going
into the matter and intended to follow it up
to be sure to make some statement in advance,
so that he would be protected in the case, if
the matter should succeed. This he agreed to
do. On the next day he informed me that he
had not met Mr. Lloyd, as per appointment,
but had met him on ttie street, and that Mr.
Lloyd had invited him to his office, but thai
he had informed Mr. Lloyd tnat ne preferred
to meet him at some other place. His -abject
was to secure the deposit of the sum of $5000
in the hands of some iriend of his, with whom
he would leave a statement admitting every
cr.me in the decalogue if necessary, which
statement was to be exchanged lor the money
as soon as he could make arrangements to
leave the City.
This morning he met me in the corridor In
the City Hall. and informed me that he was
gome on the stand at the suggestion of the
other people, but that I Knew what questions
to ask him, and that he would give answers
which would show them thai they could not
intimidate htm by their threats and that he
would stick to the truth. He also so stated to
other persons in the corridor, and during the
short recess in the afternoon stepped up to
me and said that his testimony would be to
the effect stated by him in the morning.
In his testimony on the witness-stand to
day he stated that he had been at Mr. Lloyd's
office lost nigut, and that he had been
there this morning, and had met Mr.
Mitchell and Mr. Lloyd there; that he bad
met Detective John Seymour in the corri
dor of the City Hall, and had gone to
lunch with Detective Curtin, who is in
the employ of the Fair . people, and that
bis change in bis testimony was made
after he had . these interviews with them.
He also Mated that he bad received no
consideration from- anybody on our side for
his testimony in the ca-e, and no promise of
anything until after his testimony had been
given, at which time be stated that 1 had
suggested to him that a reasonable fee for his
services would be the sum of $5000.
I never made him any such statement, never
offered to him any money and never promised
or agreed to pay him any money, nor bas any
body else connected with our side of the case
to my knowledge. Why lie made the change
in his testimony — a change so apparently
false upon its lace— be left to the imagi
nation of any one who considers it.
THE GRAND JURY.
John Hoesch Appointed Expert— Exita
From Public Places to Be
j Inspected.
John Hoesch was appointed expert of
the Grand Jury yesterday afternoon, and
will begin the work assigned to him with
out delay. < Very little business was trans
acted by. the jury nt the session yesterday
afternoon, but several appointments were
made for committee investigation.
i The subject of exits from halls, theaters
and other places of. public entertainment
will eneago the special attention of the
jury. The crush at Woodward's Pavilion
on the occasion of the Green and Walcott
fight did not e-cape the observation of
members of the Grand Jury, and probably
bad -some, bearing on tbe decision leached
yesterday to begin an extended investiga
tion of exits from buildings where multi
tudes of people assemble. • /
Committee work on the subjects of tax
levy and school book changes is in prog
ress. Several important communications
have been received by the foreman and re
ferred to committees for inquiry. f :
Fire in' a Restaurant.
An alarm was sounded from box 27 at 9:30
o'clock last night for a fire in the rear of Torri
& Galii's saloon and restaurant, known as the
Star Exchange, corner of Merchant and San
some streets. The fire, which was caused by a
defective flue, damaged the building and its
contents to the extent of $250. The American
Union Fish Company and the Judson F. nit
Company suffered slight losses from smoke
and water. ■: ':".-;*.-'=
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FROM RANGE
TO THE RING
Why Walcott Quit Cooking
and Took Up Fighting
Instead.
The Cranial Bump, Upon Which
Blows Are Harmless and
Assaults Wasted.
An Ebony Pugilist Who Can't Be Hurt
and Doesn't Know What
Pear Is.
That Mr. Joseph Walcott of Boston is a
wonder does not need saying now. He
came out here with a knowledge of the
fact safely stowed away under his ebony
skin, and that he bas succeeded in im-
pressing it upon San Francisco is to him a
matter of exceeding great joy. Many peo
ple paid a nigh price for the information,
but this does not worry Mr. Walcott, who
regards what they learned as worth the
money. He put his own cash in a bank
yesterday, and wandered about the streets
seeking whom he might dazzle. He even
went across the bay, a crowd at his heels,
to show the peaceful peopie there how
beseemeth the warrior fresh from the bat
tle-field, the laurels yet unwithered upon
his brow.
It having passed into history how han
dily the sawed-off Mr. Walcott knocked
out a Californian who had been regarded
in his class as wellnigh invincible, the
Watcott personality assumes an interest
that in itself, divorced from the -gory
legends of the ring, it hardly merits. In
fighting rig Walcott is simply a bundle ol
muscle, full of vitality, impervious to
blows of ordinary force, quick, impetu
ous, knowing nothing of pain but the
pleasure of Inflicting it. Yet he is not
unduly brutal. Fighting is his business.
He reaches for the jaw of his opponent as
free irom malice as the butcher who
firmly but without venom knocks the
brains out of a steer. After having shaken
un the entire system of an antagonist
Walcott is ready to round up the opera
tion by shaking the antagonist's band,
provided that unfortunate is in condition
to know oie hand from the other or either
from his loot.
Yesterday Walcott wore a suit of over
coming cream color, an expansive shirt
front and a drab hat cocked jauntily upon
that cast-iron bump which constitutes an
impregnable phrenological feature. This
bump has knocked the stuffing from
many a glove and the high hope from
many a pugilist. He is not a handsome
man. Rising a little more than five feet
from the pavement, broad as a piano-box,
lie looks like an animated squat. His
face does not convey the idea mat a vast
intelligence shines in its expanse. His
nose is so Hat that no aspiring welter
weight can reasonably hope ever to make
it flatter. The simian suggestion is
strong. , In Walcott the Darwinian theory
has an unconscious supporter, albeit the
descent outlined by the scientist does not
seem to have progressed so far as to em
phasize the necessity of pursuing further
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the thus far futile search after the miss
ing link. Far be it lrom any lay mind to
designate Walcott as the article in ques
tion, but if ever in his peregrinations he
shall run across the link and address him
as cousin he will not be rebuked for pre
sumption.
Walcott was once a cook on a boat. He
had the reputed ability to take any deck
hand who objected to the quality ot the
grub and with the hapless grumoler wipe
the deck to a state of absolute polish. He
was thus doubly useful. Some Boston
gentlemen of culture, devoted to the prop
agation and nurture of the prize-fight,
thought to have fun wilh the cook by in
viting him to participate in one of their
intellectual festivals. Tbe cook entered
into the spirit of the occasion, and in that
evening won the championship of New
England, with a few other States thrown
in, both as fighter and wrestler. . Straight
way he abjured the pots and pans of Inw
life and hits since devoted himself to the
art of administering knockout blow?. He
does this wholly without malice, and is
prepared to take a licking smilingly any
time the man with the proper equipment
shall ; pD?ar to administer it. j
This short fighter, cyclone or earth
quake, as he is variously termed, is not of
the usual sort in many respects. He makes
money, but he saves it. He has some of
it laid safely away, and more invested in
property in Waltham. He also has a wife
and two children, of whom he is proud,
and who share in his prosperity. He has
never been injured in a fi.'ht, but the
same cannot be said of other parties en
gaged in the same fight?. Yesterday he
was ns chipper as a cricket, declaring that
he didn't feel a lame spot. If he bad a
bruise of course it didn't show, for an or
dinary black and blue mark would be lost
under the sooty hue that nature has pro
vided htm. He siemed a little proud
of his victory, but not overmuch. "Green
is a game fighter," be said. "I bated to
hurt him, bin 1 knew from the first that
he didn't have any show. Tben he made
a remark to me that one gentleman does
not make to another, and I thought I'd
take my time and lick him good."
Thi-, judged from tie comments of all
who beheld the affray, is about what he
did. : ,; r J":
"Green won't be fit to fight for six
months," he added, grimly, and turned to
be greeted by one of his many admirers of
his own shade.
Walcott is a native of the West Indies
and so is free in a measure irom the
vernacular ordinarily heard from the
American negro. He is only 24 years
old, seems to be fat but isn't, and has
many a fight in him yet. He expects to
wait here and train for a meeting with
"Kid" Livigne, who once beat him on
points in fifteen rounds. Walcott thinks
he is better now, and perhaps he is.
At any rate unless the rules can be
modified so as to permit Mr. Lavigne to
enter the ring with an ax there will be
much San Francisco money behind Wal
cott, and probably then side bets would be
made that the ax couldn't stand the im
pact with Walcott's protuberant dome.
The man doesn't know what tear is, be
can' be hurt and no enraged gorilla could
enter more earnestly into a physical con
test. And besides the love ot the contest
there is always a purse in sight. The
latest one captured contained a matter of
$7000. Walcott's manager says that as to
training the fighter is iazy and has to be
urged. Walcott gave a grin modeled on
the Billy Kersands pattern upon hearing
this and did not deny the charge, so it is
probably true. But once in the ring Wal
cott is very industrious.
J princ Valley. E:> joined.
r In the suit of W. I. Fifield against the Spring
Valley Water Company Judge Hebbard yes
terday granted an injunction pendente lite
restraining the Spring Valley Water Company
from taking water from the land of the de
fendant In San Mateo County.
Will Utilize Wave Power.
The American Wave Motor Company has
been Incorporated by James M. Dyer, Alfred
C. Goldner, Julius Goldner, John Milton and
K. W. Wltmer with a capital stock of $1,000.
--000, the organizers having subscribed for $5
each.
HOW J.B.BRACQ
RAISED THE WIND
A Spirited ; Eace Between
Deputy- Sheriffs and
Landlord.
Saved From Eviction by Small
Loans From His Many
Friends.
Contributions From Tamale Men and
Green-Grocers Save a Man's
Home.
There was a lively scene at 301 Mont
gomery avenue yesterday afternoon, when
twelve Deputy Sheriffs undertook to re
move all the furniture from the Pacific
Coast House, because J. B. Bracq, the
landlord, was delinquent in rent to the
amount of $142. The Sheriffs were there
pursuant to an execution obtained by E.
Meneseni, the unrelenting landlord.
When the Sher.ffs began to remove the
bedding from some of tic thirty rooms of
the house the inmates, chiefly women,
who were still asleep, began to awake in
as much terror as if the signal had been
given that the house was in flames. There
was a hurried rush among blear-eyed
women, a general alarm that all the effects
of the lodgers would be thrown into the
street, followed by the ordering of express
wagons to remove the effects of the
roomers.
By this time the landlord of the house
began to hunt among his friends for the
money necessary to settle the case. From
the grocer he borrowed $10, from the
butcner $5, and so on, until be had can
vassed the street. Meantime the depu
ties, who had already waited for many
hours for the delinquent, were working
rapidly, piling household effects on the
sidewalk. This proceeding soon attracted
a large crowd. Then the landlord, seeing
some of his oldest roomers going away,
became furious. The only way that his
anger expressed itself was in increased'
energy in his vocation as borrower from
the neighbors.
He went at his friends with a vim ana
persuasive eloquence that few could resist,
and finally it was whispered along the
hallways and word was sent to the dimly
lighted rooms that the landlord had raised
the wind to a point within $12 "35 of the
required amount. The race between the
Sheriff and the delinquent landlord was
now neck and neck, with odds In favor of
the landlord. There were still a number
oi outside precincts to hear from. The
taniale men in the alleyways and the
green-grocers in the byways were now
pounced upon by the perplexed landlord.
The Sheriff sat in the kitchen jingling tho
gold that had first been paid; bis assist
ants worked slower and slower — just
enough to goad the Frenchman to renewed
activity. He now began to make frequent
trips to the kitchen, which bad been
selected as the receiving teller's desk. He
was a fat little landlord, and as he got
closer to the point that was to restore bis
vanishing power he ran up the steps as if
his lire depended on the result of the race
to the kitchen.
Finally he came with the last cent. The
collections from good friends had dwin
dled down to a'.mes and nickels, and
when the full amount was paid the land
lord had just 10 cents as a surplus to be
gin the aay with, but his dignity had
grown and he carried out the English
man's idea that every man's house is his
castle by standing on his tiptoes and say
ing: "Now lam free. It is not so funny
now, and all oi you people who have not
rooms in this house will please move on."
The exodus of women and men Ceased
and that of • Deputy Sheriffs and those
who had gone to the place from curiosity
began. Then chaos was changed to order
and t.e Pacific Coast House resumed busi
ness at the old stand.
HE NEEDED REST.
Banker 'i all'tn* Is All Right Again and
Ready to Resume His Journey
to Dresden.
According to private telegrams from
Chicago which were received in this City
yesterday, John D. Tallant, president of
the Tallant Banting Company, will
resume his journey to Dresden to-day.
All that was needed to restore his mental
and physical health was perfect repose for
two or three days— and this he obtained in
the private retreat at Oakwood, Lake
Geneva. As at first surmised by his rela
tives in this City, his strange conduct on
the train between Council Bluffs and
Chicago was earned by nervous prostra
tion.
Musical People
Of California will be interested in this week's
issue pi Town Talk, which contains more read
able matter than any other weekly published
on this side of the Rockies. A portrait of
Mrs. W. B. Wilshire appears in the society
pages; the . latest social gossip about the
Landis Klondike party and other iunctionsand
rumors. An . engagement that was broken off
is the keynote to Maud Newton Wood's novel
ette from • real life. The editorials, stories,
poems, paragraphs upon matters about town,
musical, book and dramatic criticisms are far
above the average in interest. *
Over S6OOO Worth of Asparagus.
Hong Lock has sued Robert Hlckmott for
$1510 53 for balance due on account of a bill
for $6603 90 asparagus furnished for canning
at defendant's establishment on Bouldin
Island, in San Joaquin County.