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8 SAy TBANCISCO CHRONICLE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23 1893 PLYM1RE TM Story ofAddie Gilmours TVestnew Her as Alice The letter From Jackals Produced Date of Her Death Accurately Fixed History of the Crime in All Its Details in the Possession of the Police Addie Gflmour died in the dingf operating room or the more dingy kitchen of pr Westfe den on Tnrk street daring the night of September 9th ox on the morning ol Sunday the 10th The death was the result of a criminal operation performed by Dr West Addle Gilmour feared to face her mother Trho was about to return from the East and determined to submit to treatment forbidden by lav and ethics She declared that she could sever meet her mother if her condition became known and she prevailed on a good natured country youth who wai takings course in medicine at one of thecolleges to act as a sort of messenger to bring her letters and to mail them for her and above all to keep her secret This young man is jPlymire 24 yearof age who has been in this city since February and since the 13th of that month has been studying with DrHar vey at 1128 Market street Plymira up to last Noyember had re sided in the northern portion of the State The greater part of the time he spent near lied Bluff He was acquainted with the Gilmour twins and when Addie came to this city they met Addie Gilmour would not trtat a woman with her secret as she fearecLJhat a woman would not keep it but she told Plymire and asked him to preserve her reputation by his silence as he would that of a sister She told aim she was determined to submit to an operation and though he i tried to dissuade her from so doing she would not listen to him and went to Dr TYests den where she finally paid the penalty of her folly with her life Tlymire made a statement to the police and to Miss Allen and de Jarnatt The statement is very full and gives much of the datavnpon which the prosecution will rely to convict Dr West Plymlre produced the missing Jetter signed Jack This is the letter Bakzeshiu CeL September 4 1893 2Iu Regtrtt Gilmbvr Mt Dxax Swot iTEABtt I am so sorry I have disappointed yousolongin writing to you for I only received your dear letter this morning on my arrival from Arizona I would have written from down there bat you told me you intended to move to some other place and 1 didnt think it would reach you if I did direct your moil to 314 Bush street I expected Mr Hartman to forward all my mail to me but he didnt I wouldnt disappoint or desert you now dear for anything I am so sorry I cant aid you financially To tell you the the candid truth I am about to be out of a position ou account of dull business and I can only draw out my living expenses If I had the necessary money vdearT would relieve your sufferings very suddenly by the proper course I arrived home almost down sick so my dear pet will please excuse short letter Will write morenext time pet Let me know what your present position is dear and what effect my 1at letter had on you Hoping tohear from my baby pet soon I remain as ever ydur most affectionate Little Jack The envelope bore the mark of The Southern1 Jobu Morrison proprietor Bakersfield Cat but the postmark Was Los Angeles which would indicate that the letter ana Been carried irom uaters field to Los Angeles before mailing The address was to rMias Regent Gilmour 314 Bash street San Francisco The dropping of the first name Addie Client have been due to Jacks using her middle name as a sort of stately name of endearment One of theBtrange features in the case is the evident desire on the Dart of the Gilmour fartaly or some members of it to conceal the identity of Jack The police believe that they know who Jack is To all inquiries in regard to Jack De Jarnatt has given answers which would in no way help to learn his identity He declared only yesterday that the letter was of no importance and gavelt out that be would have to see Hartman or some friend of Hartman to gain permission to intro dace a reporter to either one or the other so that something might be learned of the Jack letter Flymiredoes not know Hartman and does not know what connection with the case Hartman bears Does De Jarnatt De Jarnatt knew of the letter He has read it but he has endeavored to keep it jc utcf the way of publication the details of the ghastly doings in the den of Dr West on Turk street have nearly all come to light The criminal operation the imposition on the igno rance of a country youth struggling to make his way through college the fre quent friendly calls of Flymire to inquire into the condition of the young woman enable the story tote traced almost from day to day His slowly aroused sus picions and the method in which Dr West sought to allay them after the girl had disappeared form the second cnapter It only remains for Annie Staley to tell the story of the way ia which Dr West butchered the remains of his victim WiH she do itt She was the bursejMractically un to the time the girl died Dr West now talka of his wealth and of hislntentlon to marry MissStaley if he is acquitted His wealth and his intention to marry are believed by the police to be apocryphal As to his love for Miss fittiiA it seems to have been a case in which the affection was all bestowed byJ Miss Staley She wore when arrested rinthes not to exceed 5 In value If Dr West had been a Tery ardent admirer be would have bestowed a portion of the 115000 lie claims to have in presents to her The police claim to bare informa tion that he wasquite Lothario in his way and that Miss Staley was one ol Tier haps twenty whom he doped with protes tations of his aSeetton BEYBtSKDED HEB JX TROUBLE How a Tonus Student Tried to Shield Addla Gilmours Be pnta tion It was about two years ago that I met Addle Gilmour said Flymire She was visiting friends at Bed Bluff where I lived anwe became Tery well acquainted Occasionally I called on her I had metier sister Emma while she was at Bed Bluff some time before As to her troubles I first became ac quainted with them in July I was then and had been for some months studying in the office of Dr A Harvey whose offices where then at 112 Grant avenue Prior to this I had met Addie in the city last May It was a casual meeting on the street I thint She did not at that time tell me anything I saw her several times when she was in the city in July One evening before office hours she called at 112 Grant avenue to see me She told me that she was in trouble and bad a secret which she wished to confide to me I told her that she had better keep her secret to herself then she would be sure of it She replied that she had a great many lady friends and acquaintances in the city but she couldnot trust them enough lean trust you she said and then she told me she suspected that she to in a delicate condition and must take some medical relief I in red her to do nothing rash or unnatural but she continued in the same strain for some time She was then living at a house on Howard street opposite Moroscoa Thea ter I called there to see her several times She seemed very despondent and in an almost desperate frame of mind over her health I continued to urge her to allow the condition to take a natural course One day I met her and shctoid methatshe had consulted a female physician a Mrs Dr Dale with regard to her condition Addie complained at that time that she was out of funds and would have to go back to Colusa She went home about the latter part of July She met or wnut wrrfl Bar attacsxs tomb ts th voomhxs at trztxxab tjhl wxsre HOtK 132 TUSK STXXST told me this when I next saw her which Was about the 15th of August At this time she was very despondent Her parents were to arrive borne soon from the East and she did not dare to face her mother Then she told me that she had determined to hare something done I pleaded again with her to re frain but she continued to insist that it must be accomplished A few days later I met her again In the meantime she had called on the female physician who had refused to have anything to do with the case This did not prevent her from carrying out her determination She said that she knew another party in that sort of business I know a Dr West and Til go to him she said All I could say to dissuade her from taking this step had no effect evidently for the next time I saw her she told me that she had made arrangements with Dr West to have the operation per formed He had agreed to do it for 50 She had paid him 5 on account and had already been treated twice This she told me in the presence of another person I do not remember distinctly the date of this conversation but it was during the latter part of August She was then staying at the Elmer House and I called there several times belore she left to go to urnesrsnouse This was the last conversation I had with her before she went to Dr Wests house This was on Friday the 1st of September She said that she was to go to the doctors house the following day and would stay there until she should recover from the effects of the operation She askedme if I would attend to hav ing her trunk moved Irom the Elmer House and I consented She also re quested me totake her mail te her and I agreed to attend to this as welL Addie said she would go by the name of Alice Gould and she asked me if in quiries were made by DrWest to say that my namewas Dave Aaumann I never whit address was written on the letter to Buster I do not think it was Colusa but I am certain that it was somewhere in that neighborhood Imailed the letters rethink I was at Dr Wests bouse this time for half or three quarters of an hour This was on Sunday the 3d The next Tisit was on Thursday the 7th I had two letters for her This tithe Addie was lying on a cot or bed in the middle room Dr West came to the door and admitted me I talked with the girl and handed her the letters She said she was glad to see me and that she was not suffering 8he looked drowsy although under the influence of an opiate She did not look so well as at the preceding Tisit She read the letters and placed one of them on one side saying that she would put it in her trunk In regard to the other letter she saidt Ldontlike the sound of it I wish you would destroy it I tore up this letter and put the pieces In the envelope and placed all in my pocket Then she told me of a letter about a bun die or package at the Bush street house containing some sort of goods which some people wanted her to exchange There was a Wells Fargo check in the letter As she looked ill I felt her pulse In my own eebleway trying to make a diae nosisof her case The pulse was full and bounding put my hand on her fore head It was hot I looked at her tongue It was coated white and rather thiefc I didnt like the looks of things When I returned home I put the en velope with the fragments of the letter which I had torn up into a little box A day or two later I thought I might stick the pieces on paper and see what was in the letter I saw Jack in it that time and Bakersfield It was at the Tisit On Thursday that Addie said she would go away from Dr Wests house on Sunday and would go to work at Toplitzs on Monday Sunday morning I think it was I went back to the house This was on the 10th Dr West was not at home Sunday night I went back again Dr West met me at the door I did not go inside the house Dr West told me that Addle had gone away the day before I asked him where and he said he didnt know I asked if she would come back and be said Yes She would be back that night or the next morning I asked if she had taken her trunk and he said No I asked about her condition and Dr West said that she was all right I questioned him as to whether she had any fever and he said No not any to speak of per haps two fifths of a degree Dr West spoke more deliberately than at the preceding Tisit His tone was dif ferent as if he weighed his wordVbefore speaking He declared that Addie would be all right if she does not run around too much or fall into bad hands I called again on Monday evening I asked if Addie was back Dr West said that she hadnoj returned When lasted what had become of her he said Well I dont know I havent any idea I asked about her trunk and be said that during his absence some one had come and taken it away I asked him other questions I did not suppose the girl was dead but I had some feeling of doubt caused by his answers and appear ance ne iriea toman me tninx tnat sue was all right On Tuesday I went to Sutter street to collect a bllL Then I went to Grant avenue I had written a note previous to this and I asked a boy to Jake it to Toplitzs and told him togive it to Mhs Gilmour herself If she was not there to go to 314 Bush street end it he did not find her there to bring back the note to me A clerk at Toplitzs told the boy that a lady in the store was Miss Gilmour and hat she would go along with him That lady was Miss Allen though I did not know it for some time afterward She met me at WHsona restaurant and asked me if I knew where Miss Gilmour was I told her that I did not She said I know a good deal and asked when I saw her last I told hei about a week ago I told Hiss Allen that I thought Miss Gilmour I had gone to San Jose I did this because i did not know who the lady was I thought she might be the forewoman in Toplitzs store adI did not want her to learn of the condition in which Miss Gilmour had been in asI wanted to protect her reputation On Wednesday I went back to Wests place He said he had heard nothing of Addie I told him thai I wanted to know her exact condition when she left and where she was He replied that he did not know and I said Tell me again Just how she was so that I may know what to think of her condition He replied She was all right Then I told him of the San Jose story that I had told and asked him what I should say to Addies sister Emma when she came to town I thonght by asking this question that I might mislead him rand learn something definite as to Miss Gilmours whereabouts He said Stick passed as her brother I never gave the name of Kaumann to any one until I Lto the San Jose story missed Addie from Wests house Then I wrote a noCe to see whether she was at work at Mrs Toplitzs or at thehouse on Bush street I picked up an expressman I asked himwhat his idea was in destroy on the street went with him to the Elmer House and told them to give him the trunk and gave him a slip of paper with the address and begot Addies trunk and took it to Dr Wests house On Sunday evening I went to Dr Wes bouse to call on Addie I had sent a newsboy to the Elmer House as I did not have time to go myself and ob tainedher letters which I took to her An old lady answered the bell when I rang She said that Dr West was in the middle room I said that I was a Mend of Miss Gould and she invited me in Dr West said to wait a moment until the room had been fixed up While I was waiting Dr West said that Miss Gould as she was known to him was doing first rate Everything went welt this morning said he and she is getting along nicely I asked him if she had any fever and questioned him as to her general condition He told me that she was as well as could be expected Then from the kitchen a young woman whom I now know to be Miss Staley stepped in and said It is all right He can step in now stepped into the kitchen and said vHello Addie how are you feeling I am feeling fine she said and she seemed to be elated oyer the fact that she was feeling so well I asked her if the operation hurt her and she replied No not much She declared that she was not suffering much and that hot applications had kept down thepain My medicine Is np there said Addie pointing to a little shelf and I am feeling fine I wish you would mail two letters for me she continued I replied that would She called Annie In to get her writing tablet Then she wrote two letters lad dressed the envelopes for her One was to her sister Emma and the other to a man named Buster I do not remember I strain asked what he had done with Addies trunk He said that hebad de stroyed it and its contents too When I ine the trunk he spread his hands out in a quick nervous way and said I didnt eramined me Tery closely Then he told me that ill was innocent of any connection with the malpractice to stay In the city and to tell the Gilmours what I knew I met Miss Allen and told her and she and De Jarnatt came up to the office of Dr Harrey and I made the statement to both of them This was on Thursday last De Jarnatt asked me to make the statement to the police and I did bo to Chief Crowley and Detective Ben Bohen in the old CityHalL DK WEST Df COCBT HI Arraignment Ha Been Fixed for Tneiday Next Dr Engene West stepped into the dock of Jndge Conlans court yesterday morning immediately after it vas cleared of its usual morning crowd of vagrants and other petty offenders The doctor was quite alone but he did notlook at all lonesome Neither did he seem at all abashed at the many curious eyes gazing eagerly at him His air was most nonchalant He glanced about the room quietly now and then smiling at a reporter whose facer he remembered as one of the many interviewers who had called upon him in the tanks His appearance was anything but that of a man weighed down with an awful load of guilt When the case was called Judge Conlan as is usual told the prisoner of his rights is the premises While the Jndge was sneaking Dr West looked at him Intentlr When asked if Wilson was to represent him he nodded hls head and answered clearly in the affirmative Prosecuting Attorney OKeefe then asked that the case go over until next Tuesday in order that he might have time to prepare his case The police had not finished gathering their evidence He thought by Tuesday that the matter would be so thoroughly in hindthat the case could be opened satisfactorily Mr Wilson agreed to the arrangement and the case was set for Tuesday the 26th inst Attorney Wilson had a short talk with first examined the face There was noth ing there to give a clew to her Identity But the teeth were different tn the first place the two front teeth overlapped in a peculiar way This I had noticed particularly and had talked withher about it when attending to her teeth I advised her to have them straightened Then there was a peculiarity about her teeth which was emphasized by the fact that the gums were drawn bacir from them This lay la the fact that while her teeth were not irregular they were much Smaller at the gums than at the edge The way the teeth were filled told me that the work was mine Every dentist has a different method of filling teeth Some cut away as little of the enamel as they possibly can In my work shape the cavity of the tooth so as to Insure a strong filling Tn doing this I often cut away large pieces of enamel This I did in the incisor marked 7 I remember this as the filling was risible from the front There were also two other small gold fillings which have not been marked These were mace later In the molars of the lower Jaw were silver fillings which I put In fire years ago These I have not marked in my bookbut I remember making the fillings distinctly Miss Gilmour had Tery good teeth They did not require much attention I lire in Chko but she used to come to my office several times a year to have her teeth looked over I hare known her and done her dental work for seren years HIS TRIPS OX THE BAT How West Disposed of the Body Pleeo by lleee at Xlght Few of the mysteries in the Gilmour murder case hare bothered the detectives more than the manner in which Dr West disposed of the body of his rictim A visit to the ticket offices of the different ferry companies was made by a Chsos icxjc reporter yesterday and some information was gained that goes a long way toward showing how West got rid of Miss I A JAWBOKB rOTOD IS THS WOOD8HSD AT THE JLBAS 0 DE WESTS HOUSE 132 TUK BTKKET his client after he had been remoredto his celt vThen the reporters were admitted Wilson said that he was anxious to have the case tried expeditiously The papers he complained had told only one I Company at the foot of Market street side of the story so far fWhen the trial comes on lie said we will produce a number of facts that will materially change the aspect of the case I do not want to tell what our line of defense will be now You may say howeTer that it will be a complete vindication of the doctor from the charge of having killed Miss Gilmour ox having cut up her body DB WESTS XUCE OF DETENUS Two Hysterlons Ilea Who Took tho Body Away Although Messrs Wilson and Bert Dr Wests attorneys decline to giTS out the line of defense br which they will try to save their client It has been learned that West has told a near friend what it will recollected seeing a man whose descrip ansa it Howasn want it In my way It would look suspicious if that trunk was found here That statement aroused my suspicion and I waited for developments Finally I saw a piece in the paper about a head being found on the other side of the bay I wondered at the time if Dr West had done away with her in thatmauner if She were dead When I saw the piece about the Gilmours in the paper I Came to the conclusion that she was dead and that there was no reason totry to protect her reputation any longer by concealing from her folks what I knew I had told Dr Harrey some facts which I iad learned from time to time He advised me to await derelopmentsuntill was sure thatit was Miss Gilmour who was dead Iwent to a member of the faculty told him the whole stoiy and asked his advice He told me to wait in his house until he came back He talked with other members of the faculty and cross Gflmours body after he had cut it to pieces in the house at the corner of Turk and Jones streets The first place rislted was the depot of the Southern Pacific JL photograph of West was shownio the clerks in the ticket office and they at once recognized it as that of a man who had made several trips across the bay after night a week or ten days ago The clerks could not remember the exact dates but they were certain of the man Sometimes he wore a silk hat and at other times he wore a black slouch hat which was wide enough around the brim to hide the upper part of his face According to the clerks the man roads trips to Oakland and also to Alameda and each time he had a package of some oort with bim Whether it was a ralise or simply a bundle wrapped in paperthey could not remember Two of the collectors on the gate also be As nearly as can be ascertained it will be as follows When Miss Gilmour first went to con suit him she acknowledged that she was in a delicate condition and that she intended to seek relief Confidential relations having been established she acknowledged in reply to his questions that she had been in a similar trouble before and that this was not a new experience She went away saying that she was going to have ah operation performed and that then if necessary she would come to him for treatment When she returned he made an examination and said that the operation bad been performed He further discovered that she was afflicted with a disease of the heart and that her general physical condition was bad He did what tis could for her then and expected that she would recover without difficulty Sne visited him several times afterward On the occasion of one of these visits she was taken rery ill and begged for permission to remain at his bouse in order to be under his Immediate care He was ill prepared to care for a patient in his roomsr but as her condition was serious and she was ex tremely anxious not to be ill at her hotel he finally yielded and made her as comfortable as possible securing the services of an intelligent and careful female nurse to attend her constantly Her great desire that her whereabouts should hot be divulged was respected i Under the shock which her already weak system had received she grew steadily worse Her heart trouble was aggra rated and her mental distress urged it on Finally she died Conscious of the fact thai he had done nothing wrong but that on the contrary be had been humane through it all his first intention was to inform her parents of her death and of the circumstances attending it On the bight of her death before he could do this two men presented themselves and asked concerning her When tfieyhad assured him that they had a right to know he told them the truth whereupon they demanded the body He could do nothing but surrender it to them They took it away that night and he knows nothing Of its disposition Beyond this statement he can explain nothing THE HEAD IDENTIFIED Dentist Stewart I Positive It Is That of Mill Gilmour The bead found at Sausalito has been definitely identified as that ofMIss Addie Gilmour Yesterday afternoon Richard Stewart of Chico the dentist who filled Miss Gilmours teeth and did ail her den tal work appeared in Chief Crowleys office with de Jarnatt Miss Gii mours brother in law They had just come orer from San Bafael where Mr Stewart had closely examined the head He had with him his dental account book in which was a chart of the teeth of the upper jaw On this chart were marked four gold fillings in the incisors These fillings were made on February 8th of this year The fillings in the head cor respond exactly to those marked on the chart tion tallies with that of Dr West pass them and go on board the ferry steamers at different times but always at night He always had a package of some sort in his hand Whether the man returned to San Francisco the same night not or what disposition he made of the packages the ferry people did not know but of the mans identity they had no doubL The ticket agent at the Tiburon ferry also remembered seeing a man the exact Image of the photograph shownstep up to the office window and purchase a ticket bat just where the ticket was for the agentcould not recollect He tonght pit was only to Tiburon jnereisnoaouotintnemtndsof these people but that the man was Dr West and that he was crossing the bay on the ferry steamers in order to drop his victims body into the bay piece by piece It would be the easiest thing in the world for a man todrop a bundle over the side of any of the boats after night said one of the deckhands of the Encinal and he could do so without being seen by any one The trip to Tiburon was no doubt the one on which West got rid of the dead girls head as he thought for good but in spite of all the precaution he took to pre rent the head being recovered fate was against him and his chagrin must bare been great when he read in the papers how the ghastly evidence of his fearful work had been found fastened to the tide gauge at Lime point A OHASTtT TTND The tower Jaw of a Woman Hidden Away in the Shed A startling discovery was made by a CmuKncis reporter who paid a visit to the little outhouse in the rear of 132 Turk street yesterday afternoon The place had been used by the doctor as a sort of storehouse and it was nearly full of boxes filled with books papers and old rags together with pieces of boards some jars anua oraseucot Mrs Brady the lady who lives in the upper part of the house said the place had been searched by the detectives the day before and she did not think they had found anything there Afterremoring a pile of boards a hatchet handle was the first thing which came to light The splintered end of the handle was fresh and clean as if the head had only1 recently been broken oft A search was made for the head This could not be found but something else was Under a heavy box of papers and books in the farthest corner of the shed war a ghastly relic of humanity in the shape of a lower jaw The gruesome looking object was cor ered with slime and dirt and had evidently been hidden away for several months at least Whether the person who once owned itdied a natural death of was mur deredby Westas he murdered 3fiss Gilmour the man now in the city prison alone can say Those who saw the ghastly relic are of the opinion that some one found a grave in the earth under the pile of old trash in the doctors outhouse and it would take but very little digging to find the remains Jtear the spot where the piece of bone of exactly the same size as that which war found wrapped about the head of Miss Gilmour There were about fiTe feet In all and it was bright and clean as though it had only recently been hidden away One end was doubled up and twisted to form a loop and tangled In the turns of the wire was a human hair Dark spots on the wire looked like blood but they were so small that their true character can only be determined by a chemical analysis There is little doubt but thatit was from this coil that West took the copper wire which he used to sew or tie up the netting after the head of the unfortunate girl bad been placed inside it After lie had secured the horrible package tb his satisfaction West must iave coiled up what was left of the wire and thrown it back behind the pile of old lumber where it was found The loop was no doubt made by him while he was tying up the head and while doing so the tell tale hair got entangled and was twisted in with the end of the wire The end shows that it was cut and not broken off and was evidently done with a pair of shears Among a lot of old lumber in the yard at the rear of the bouse was a pair of window screens One screen was Intact while of the other only the frame was left the wire netting was missing Whether the piece of netting in which the head of Miss Gilmour was wrapped came from the screen or not is hard to say but the piece in which the skull was found arid that In the other screen now in the reu of Dr Wests office is the same in every respect and the size of the meshes Is the same If the piece used by West in which he wrapped the head of his victim was torn from the frame in the yard he no doubt found he had more than he wanted and did not use it all as the piece now in the hands of the Coroner at Sausalito is only about two thirds the size of the frame and the edges show a clean cut all around The opinion of the detectives is that part of the wire used to secure the netting after the head had been placed inside was taken from Miss Gilmours trunk as It is of the same kind as that used by milliners on ladies bats and was evidently purchased by the unfortunate girl before the went to Dr Wests office the last time ii THE OPINION or AM EXPEBT A Demonstrator of Anatomy Examines tho Skull Dr Wilcox Is demonstrator of anatomy at the California Medical College oh Folsom street At the request of the Chbosicx he went to San Bafael and made a critical examination of the skull found at Sausalito There are no indications he said that it came from a dissecting room The muscles remaining on the cheek bones and just below it show none of the distinctive marks which should appear if dissection had been performed Do you find any evidence of the injecting fluids used In dissections None whatever Of course the only complete way to determine the matter would be to open the skull arid examine the brain but Tery likely traces of any material used for distending the arteries would appear in the temporal arteries and elsewhere and I do not find any such traces In your opinion how was the flesh removed WithaicalpeL Can you giTe an opinion of the length of time that has elapsed since deathT Yes Eridently it is a new skull death having occurred not more than two or three weeks agoiSvfcfa What peculiarities In the contour of the head and face do younoteT The head is small and it gtres the general impression of being a womans The frontal bones are rery prominent the superorbital arches are uncommonly high the nose Is rather long ndhas a Tery slight turn toward the right and the angle of the jaw is somewhat sharp Dr Wilcox was shown a photograph of Miss Gilmour and asked to compare it with the sknlL I should nay he remarked that thia is the photograph of the woman to whom the skull belonged The frontal bones are too much covered by hair in the photograph to compare thein with the skull but the nose and jaw of the photograph agree with those of the skulL You will observe that in the photograph the eyebrows are yery highly arched This is just what would hare been the case with this head in life Further the general proportions of the two faces agree perfectly Another valuable point of resemblance is the eye of each The photograph is that of a young woman between 25 and 30 years of age In the sxull the alreolar process the bone holding the teeth indicates that age This is one of the surest means of determining the age oi a neaa the headbas been dead only two or three weeks would you hare expected the eyeballs to be collapsed No The coatings of the eye rery likely hare notgiren wayfromdecoaposi tion As the head was so well protected in the wire netting they could not hare been broken in the bay Furthermore the collapse is evidently old that is to say it probably occurred at the time the head was denuded of its flesh In my Even if I did not have this book I would have been able to swear that the head was Miss Gilmours ne said I was discovered was coil of copper wire session He does not want tnfirM i quest until the Coroner of Marin county found near Sausalito Theft again he hat buried the fragments of the body whiea were found last Sunday near the Oakland mole The Coroner seems tn feoT i that the fragments of the body at the Morgue are those of Addle Gilmour He also feels confident ftntTirfiTo the body will be found jba tb Wk 7 TM vawana anno tne next few days Jfe Ters wm await aereiopmentv INTEREST IN THE UNKNOWN KAJT A Colusa Grain Deafer 8 Addlo CHK monr With TV Salter Coicta September ZLWho Is tb yonng man with the Monde mustache who posed as the brother of Miss Addie Gilmour and called so often at the Elan House This is the question that all this end of California is asking It seems curious Colnsapeple that he cannot be found and an impression is growing that pot slbly no rery Tigorous search is heln made for him It is said that there wasa picture of the young man Jack orer the piano in the Gilmour residence and tnon who daily discuss the subject wonder why it js that Laura Allen the business partner and Emma Gilmour the sister de not recollect at any time to have heard any other name than Jack These young women it Is recalled got letters also from the unfortunate girl when sbe was in the height of her trouble How did Jack sor completely drop out and leave no place Tacant Or has he drojp4 out Then they are saying too that the nomenclature Jack may be only a sumed that it may really represent om Other name However if this be true the question arises What Is the connection between it and the picture whom nobody here recollects to hare recognized The guessers haTe been hard at work trying to solve the problem of the mut with the blonde mustache A few dayi ago WH Buster was mentioned a on who had been seen walking with Miss Gilmour on Market street Then came aa emphatic declaration from John Gllraoor the father of Addie that so far as both Br terand Boss McAmis were concerned they It TBI VXXtlSfM CS1XT Of TEX ftOlUL UUIUi TXXTH TTtTXn TJT RXKUUT 1889 vS0 szG BnrxaK opinion it was done by puncture It would have been a simple matter to plunge the scalpel into them If this work was all done for the purpose of removing as many points of identification as possible the eyes would hare been punctured I FOUND A FOOT It Is BeUeTed to Be a Portion of Addte Gllmourt Body Another discovery was made on the Alameda shore yesterday afternoon The foot of a woman was found upon the beach Coroner Evets was notified and he took it to the Morgue The foot is be liered to be a portion of Addie Gilmours body From an examination it is apparent that the surgeons knife had been used as the foot had been Tery clererly removed from the socket Coroner Evers is in a quandary what to do with the fragments of the remains which are now in his pos were both friends of the family whehad paid only friendly attention when at all to Mia Gilmour He also told whet every one here knetf that MnTBuster for Mr Buster is a married man wu and had long been a close friend of Mis GU mour This ought to explain he said in effect the story that she was noticed with him in the city It is recalled here that for the put few months when Miss Gilmour was in San Francisco and no doubt at other times that Mr Buster frequently came to the city Oftentimes his wife was with him and wain as Is stated the was set along Whether the story that MrButter wer once seen with her on Market street is well authenticated or not it I certain that about August 20th or 21st they were on Montgomery street 0 Mogk a grain dealer here stated to day that he saw them at that time They were in the drug store In the Occidental Hotel block he said and I had along talk with Mr Buster there It wasnt a Tery pleasant talk either It was about 4000 worth of wheat Then had been a misunderstanding about it ancLwe talked for some time This is tU drugstore in which Charley Dent work and he is the friend of one or both of them When I left they walked along and finslly stood at the entrance of the Occidental Hotel together When I walked away I dont think Miss Gilmour saidgood4y That is the only time I saw them together It is stated that Mr Buster was registered at the Occidental on August 20th He is one of the wealthiest farmers of this section Just now he is pn a hunting trip in the vicinity of Fonts Springs some fifty miles southwest of Colusa in the mountains He left here fiveorslxdsyt ago and it wassaid that he was expected back in a day or two but it appears that he has not yet arrived Mrs Buster was for some days at the residence of Dexter Tuttle here and an attempt was made to see her and ask her about the trip to the city and also about the 23 paekage left at the Elmer House which was slid to have been forwarded to Miss Gilmour by her At the dwelling however it was stated that she had gone home About this time It was stated that Mr Buster had arrived at his home near Sycamore on Grand island some eght miles away So drive by night was made to the island At Sycamore it was stated that Mr Buster had returned as well asmswue wnen the residence Was reached a mile and a half further on however all was dark and it appeared that nobody was at horael At Sycamore on the return trip two men Staled that Mr Buster and bis wife had been there together in a buggy had driven back toward home and had returned again and gone toward Grimes seven miles away where his wifes father lives Two hours later in Colusa Bush Buster the young brother who had rid den on horseback from the ranch aa that WHt Buster bad not returned h1 would be home on Saturday night His wife he said had written him to come home Buster Is said to be worth 400 or 50000 Earing one or more lsrgeTtia farms on one of which is a large and costly residence and fine barns and other outbuildings He is the son of Charles Buster an early pioneer When he died he left a comfortable estate to the son and when the latter married he gained additional wealth According to the Great BegSter Busteris 32 years olfive feet ten incbe highof light complexion has blue eye and light hair He is a native Missouriafl The Gilmour family still maintain the resolute silence which has for the most part characterized them since the firstdis appearance of the yonngnromaa Mrs Gilmour the daughter Emma the soa and Samuel Gilmour the uncle of Addie Gilmour and Laura Allen bare all re turned They have not yet excepuns Samuel Gilmour resumed the usual routine of life and probably will not do till after the Interment of the remains topic of conversation bcrerand the trial fit Tic ThiffffSR Wt karffed with fflBT der andlhe developments that ere come will undoubtedly continue wj discussed in all tbeirTaried phases tots end.