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JULY 4, 1927 SMASHED WRISTWATCH REVEALS HOUR OF MURDER MONDAY EVENING em ASKMOTKER NO Brotheir Dead Girl Mystified: Had No Enemies! He Is Certain Tortured by Sorrow for Slain Girl TkJ brother WILLIAM, 18. the mother and father. MR. and MRS. JOHN MAYER, shown in the top picture, are stunned with grief over the ghastly death of MABEL, 15, whose latest picture is shown at the left.

The center picture shows the scene of the crime, where the girl was put to death-with sharpened sticks, the cross markiosrne spot where she fell in her struggles. LA YESE STALEY and LOUISE KIRK, playmates of the dead girl, and who told police that MabeIjFreputation was blameless, are shown below. These girls, with the parents and brother, are the central figures in a neighborhood overwrought today wijh tragedy. On the testimony of La Vere and Louise, the police POINT TO 855 AS -TIIE-OF-DEEDl U.3.EW51I0 LOOK ON GIL MURDER! BELIEVED HEN 'SET SLAYING crime was one ot performed by or tor a woman rival. Vision of Farewell Smile as Child Went to Death to Be Parents Memory of Murdered Mabel Mayer Crime Seemijigly "Will Be Added to List of Alameda County Mystery Killings Held Work of Perverts -Th-murdc of Mabel MayElS--- year-old Oakland school girl who Bloodstained Clubs to Be Searched for Fingerprints Scene Shows Girl Battled Valiantly Against Attacker (Continued From Page wards anil Potter grasped her arm as she alighted.

If this girl was Mabel, then her Assailants met her between the car stop and her home, three blocks distant, the police theorize. Saturday, Mabel, a pupil at the Frlck school and a student of jazz music, went to visit her mother at her uncle's home. On the way she called at the studio of her music teacher, Miss Doris Olsen, in the Pacific building, Oakland. Later that afternoon two boy friends. Earl Staley, 18, and Leo Partington, ,13.

saw her' talking with a woman at Ninth and Broadway. Four hours later the girl's brother, William, telephoned to the house of the Berkeley uncle from the home of a neighbor, George Farley, 2025 Eighty-sixth avenue. "When are you 'aming home?" the brother asked. "In a few minutes," the girl replied. tTNCLE TOOK HER TO (JAR! CONDUCTOR RECALLS HER.

Christ Mayer, the uncle, soon after took Mabel to the car stop at Dwight way and San Pablo ave- was brutally clubbed to death the rear yard of a vacant house at 1738 Eighty-sixth avenue Saturday night, today gave indications of be-'v coming the Eastbay's fourth solved "sex" slaying within recent years. Ulla Carlson, Piedmont tic; Bessie Furgeson Loren, Oak land nurse, and the "mystery woman" of Franklin canyon wer other Eastbay women whose deaths resulted from the perverted sex stincts of degenerates Whose Identities have never been learned. After a day and a half of Investigation as-; the result, of which police still are-sat a loss to name the murderer, the Mayer girl's name gives evl- deuce of being added to this list, Miss Carlson was. a maid in ths home of Willard Brown, X225 Ash-" mont avenue. Piedmont, Oil night of March 14, 1920, she had been visited by a girl friend, Mlass Made Carlson of Berkeley.

Whni.i the latter left to go home, Ulla ac--T companied her to the end of Lakeshore avenue car line. SLAIN ON AVAY BACK. She was half way home when attacked. Her body was found early the following morning in a-y vacant lot kt Crocker and Lafayette avenues. An autopsy revealed that ft i mi ii i -1T rT I I I asphyxiation had bean the cause ot death, chloroform, having been aa- ministered.

Although no other. iiaiusuu, tt conductor, remembers that at 9:06 a pretty xiapper type or girl with a green purse got on the car. The blood splattered green purse was found beside the girl's body in the weed-grown back yard of the vacant house by C. M. Wilcox and L.

O. Hall, both of 9920 Olive treet, at 7:15 next morning. 1 Wilcox and Hall were building fcwi adjacent garage. From lumber Turroundlng the partly completed building, the girl's assailants had elected their weapons. One bit of positive testimony out of the welter of conflicting clues today Indicated that Mabel Mayer fate at 9:65 Saturday fight.

If was at this hour that the hands on her wrist' watch stopped. The girl's wrist watch was stopped probably when she tried to ward oft the rain of blows that lacerated her scalp, according to Captain of Inspectors Bodie Wallman, as both her hands were broken. The earlier theory that a jealous I lllllllllitWM'DllflMMIwrftirii VW 11 i wi Vv' crime had been committed, police held that the slayer was a sex de- generate Whether he knew- Miss Carlson or whether she was un- known to the maniacal slayer has never been determined. TWO Bessie Ferguson Loren, Oakland nurse, was killed in August, 1925, her body and head being hacked to pieced. First clue to the murder was revealed when a tuft of woman's hair, a human ear and a bit of scalp was discovered in a.

tule swamp In Richmond annex near El Cerrlto. A few days later part of what was Identified aa the nurse's skull was found on the mud flats near Bay Farm Island Police advanced the theory- that the girl was attacked and then murdered at some residence In the- Eastbay district. The slayer; then', hacked her body to small pieces to prevent identification and scat- terecU. the gruesome evidence at various points throughout the East- bay. FRANKLIN CANTOY CAP Her head crushed In with shovel and her body naked body of an unidentified woman was found hidden in the brysh In Franklin canyon.

Contra Costa county, or eight years. ago. In this case as In the Carl- son and Loren murders, authorities were convinced the slaying was the work of sex perverts. r. While Contra Costa county thoritles were working to solve the mystery slaying.

Sheriff R. Veale received a letter from the murderer, telling where the handle to tfhe murder shovel could found. Investigation proved these directions to be correct. identity of the victim as well as i slayer in this case has a mystery to this day. i- irau a nana in tne attack I A was eliminated todav.

nnnhr nave put aside the theory that the Tl LOS ANGELES, July 4. Freed of court entanglements, receivers for the Julian Petroleum corporation will' take action this week to recover asserted usudlous interest paid by. the, oil company to ponl operators. Civil suits probably will be instituted against all tnuse the grand jury Indictments returned last week. Receivers Scott and CarnaKan announced.

"With the papers and recoRs tied up by the district, attorney and the city prnsec.uthr vt have been marking time but will proceed at this time against all tnose implicated in the pool operations." Scott said. The grand jury will resume Its Investigation tomorrow' with a meeting of stockholders scheduled to take place night, at which time S. C. Lewjp, former head' of the defunct oil- company, hati promised to reveal the manner In which Julian "pete" crashed. Man Shoots Wife And Kills Self W.

Jfcly 4. (P) Fred Hammack, '25. yals-terday shot and seriously wounded his wife and ythen pommitted suicide. Domestic troubles-, were blamed for the tragedy. inir.iirwiililiii-ifiiimiMiiiii'fiiiiiiiMiiiiwmiim 1 1 i RSCW' 44 suns Some Roughneck or Degenerate Did It, Shipping Clerk Believes.

William Mayer, IS, brother of Mabel Mayer, 15, who -was murdered some lime Saturday, was mystified by the and could not give any explanation of It to day, other than to suggest that "some roughneck or degenerate" did it, Mabel and .1 were pals," the youth said, 1'and lf she had had any enemies, I would have known of them. She was popular among her school friends, and this talk of jealousy among other girls Is Dunk. She had a number of boy friends, but there is nothing unusual about that. She had only one quarrel with a boy that I know of, and that was about a year ago, and It was not serious." llliam Mayer la a shipping ciern tor. tne southern Facinc.

He is the only brother of the slain girl. People Go to Church in JJoats While JNearly oUOU Camp on Levee. ARKANSAS CITY, July 4. W) Their town under water for the third time this of Arkansas City paddled to church yesterday in boats, which they tied to the pillars of the churches and to surrounding fences while the services were In progress. Regular services were held, and while the attendance was not up to normal, both churches had representative gatherings, Mayor C.

D. Heminway said. ArkansM City, which lias been partly under water eVer since the April flood and was Inundated again In June, was beginning to get back on its feet when a'rise In the Arkansas river, starting last Surf- day, rushed the flood waters over it again. The water flowing through breaks in the levee at Pendleton and Medford, about thirty miles north, was from. 18 inches to 10 feet deep over the city.

SKIFFS ENTER STORES. Business houses have learned about floods from past experiences and "business as usual" Is being conducted. When the new rise started scaffolding' was laid in the stores, the goods were moved up a foot or so and customers are able to alight from their skiffs, walk around on the scaffolding, make their purchases and return home without getting their feet wet. Three times this year planters have set out their crops, and three times the, flood waters have brought their work to naught. Hope for making a cotton crop now has been abandoned, but It is expected some feed crops will be raised.

With the town completely under wafer and no means of. getting arqund available, except boats, "Arkansas city residents bave to go to the levee to stretch their legs. There, gathered in they discuss the situation and make plans for next year. LIVE IN TENTS. 1 "We're going right to the front," Mayor Heminway said.

"We have never been left behind and d-on't intend to be now. I lu.ve lived here 63 years, and have been In every high water, and this is the first time we have ever had to ask for -aid." l' Most of the residents live on the levee where between 2700 and 28a00 are quartered in 300 tents. Nearly 200 houses were washed out of town by Hie April flood and carried as far as half a One hundred and twenty-four other houses were toppled from their foundations. Santa Barbara to Be Complete Aug. 10 SANTA BARBARA, July 4.

UP) A civic celebration marking the complete restoration of the old mission here will be held August 10, according to tentative plans announced today by Father Augustine, superior guardian. The ecclesiastical festival marking the restoration will bo held rat Rt. Rev. Fumasoni Biondi, papal apostolic delegate to the United States will officiate. The address will be given by Rt.

Rev. Edward F. Hanna. arch-bisbop- of San Francisco. Six other, bishops and more than 100' clergy also will attend.

Flood Sufferers to Come to California HAYWARD, July 4. Hundreds of the Mississippi flood sufferers are preparing to emigrate to California and other Pacific coast states, according to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph who are arrivals here from the Louisiana flood area; They have purchased a snfall farm near Harder station on Gading road and will engage in the poultry The new arrivals from the flood area are sure that half-a-(fozen families will follow them. Civil War Veteran to Be Buried Tomcrrow RICHMOND, July 4.

Rev: J. R. Hunter wiy officiate at final rites tomorrow afternoon for John M.Clf.skey, SS. Civil War Veteran, and uiember of an Oklahoma G. A.

R. post, who died suddenly at his home. 753 Eleventh street, late last The aged veteran is survived by hia wife, Mrs. Martha M. McClaskey, and several children.

ARKANSAS CiTY IN THIRD FLOOD Americans Invited to Dinner Despite Divergency of Opinion- on Cruiser Question; to Toss Up for Toast GEN'EYA, Switzerland. July 4. W) The dawn's" early light of the Fourth of July foum" the American, British and Japanese delegations to the naval limitation conference sleeping "soundly after a strenuous day on Nearby golf courses. To prove that the American 'and British delegates were still the best of friends, notwithstanding the divergency of opinion the cruiser question. Admiral Sir Frederick Field, deputy chief of the British naval staff, Invited the American delegation to dinner today.

It was decided to toss a coin to determine whether the toast, "Gentlemen, the King," should precede "Gentlemen, the President." "One of the things to be especially remembered in the deliberations of the conference, a British spokesman has declared, is that the fleets of Great Britain and United States never will -war against each other. spokesman was speaking Informally on the necessity of striking a reasonable balance on mutual needs, emphasizing that his country was seeking a large flotilla of cruisers because she required them to protect Ifer commercial fleet, which he described as the llfeblood of the British empire, and not for offensive purposes. The spokesman pointed out that the United States had more destroyers than any other nation. He presumed this was because she needed them, and he that Great Britain' preat heed, for cruisers should be similarly recognized. He denied report that the British are seeking a total cruiser strength of 600,000 tons, saying that the British confine their talk to number of ships, rather than total tonnage terms.

Something like a definite settlement has been reached on only one of the, three categories of auxiliary war vessels with which the conference is dealing destroyers. The submarine and cruiser questions are still giving troubfe, but the difficulties are not looked upon as insurmountable and the delegates will get back to work tomorrow, hopeful of coming to a solution be-, fore many days. Some quarters in Geneva', however, think that a storm is brewing over a "leak" from the 'secret deliberations of the deleigatejs.Since the opening session of the Conference a fortnight ago the discussions have been in secret. wi the delegates pledged not to divulge the results of the talks, but in spite of this, the doings of the cbmmit-tees'have become known. The British' delegation is especially ruffled because figures on their cruiser demands have become common knowledge.

Articles appearing daily In Le Genevois, -a French language paper, under the signature of an "Ad miral telling of the results of the secret meetings, are especially annoying the delegates. By NAXCY BARR MWUL. It fs" a Cheery little house of stucco and 'shingles at 2417 Sacramento fltreet, Berkeley, -with a pepper tree quivering in the sunlight at the. curb afod pink roses flaunting theif beauty at the corner of the porclj Just such a -cheery little house as liuncreds of Eastbay families know. But within is a horror beyond the clean stab of grief, a horror which few of its, fortunately, ever see stamped on the faces of those we know, a horror whose depth even imagination cannot plumb.

For there, in the sunshine of a holiday morning, with children popping their firecrackers and squealing with glee outside, sits the family of Mabel Mayer, the 15ryear-old girl who left that little house on Saturday evening and whose murdered body was found on Sunday morning. "I drove her from here to the San Pablo car line," says Archo Rasmussen, an old friend of the family, "and said I would wait with her until the car came. But she refused, laughing. 'Nobody is going to get she said." Those words, with the ghastly irony which the future was to read into them, weTe the last which who knew and loved her heard. MOA3TS ONE QUESTION.

The mother, a little, dark, smooth-haired woman with a speckless white apron over her checked house dress, moans over and over one agonized question. "How could they do such a cruel thing to her? Who could take my girl like that? How could anybody in the world do a thing like that to her?" Again and again that cry of bewilderment from a face that never for one moment relaxes the lines that make it a mask of agony. And always it Is "ar thing like that," as if Emilie Mayer cannot bear to look, even with her mind, on the stark fact of murder, "She was always with us at home, always with me or her father or brother when she went Last year she left the Frick school in order to help me at home because I was not very well, but she was going back to finish her high school course in the fall. We were to spend the holiday today, ail at home together. And now now my one girl, my only girl! How could they do a thing like that to her? At that, William Mayer, Mabel's brother, laid a steady hand aer.oss her shoulder and held her close.

HAS NOT SEEN HER. "They have not let me seaber since since It happened," the Strained voice went on. "She kissed me good bye when she left here and that is the last time I shall ever. see her face! But I saw her happy I saw her smiling. That is what I have to remember." All of the little family are gathered around the mother, as if to her belongs the supreme right of grief to which own must be sacrificed.

The father, John Mayer, Is gray-haired man with clear light gray eyes, and a smitten calm cn his face. There is a tiny baby, too little Vivian Joycerthe dead sister child for whom Mrs. Mayer has been carlngajtlhhome of her brother-in-law, Chris Mayer. That baby may do more to help Emilie face her world of horror than all the ministrations of husband, son and brother-In law. For the little Jncubator baby has been home from the hospital only a week, and reaches out tiny hands, enforcing the claims of motherless life on the woman whose motherhood has been stricken.

Eighteen-year-old William is a young man of -remarkable poise and force of character. He and Mable' were, as he says, "great And yet he, who is hardly more than a boy, has taken on the Durdeng of a man. It is he. who telephones for news, who answers questions without a quiver, who Insists that the others must have breakfast and helps get It for them, who holds. his mother with steady embrace, who makes deci sions quickly, calmly and well.

It may seem a minor sort of heroismt but that youth has stuff in him! In the days of Shakespeare a minor dramatist wrote a line which no one in the little house has ever heard of: and yet it rang in my ears as they talked of the girl who iaugnea ana said. "Nobody is going to get me." and went to the' unknown horror Of her Cover her face: mine eyes daz zle; she died young." Former Resident of Hay ward Marries HAYWARD, July 4. F. W. Delaney, fprmer resident of Hay- ward and Inventor of note, was recently married at New Brlgton, Pennsylvania, according to word received by Hayward friends.

The m-lde was Miss Hezel Howe Estep, for a number of years art supervisor in the New Brigton public schools. The couple will make their- home In Rochester. New York, where Delaney holds the position of mechanical engineer with a manufacturing concern. Delaney Is the. inventor of a gaso line pump which is now being, put on the market.

Poultry Men to Make Efficiency Study HAYWARD, 4: Twenty-six Hayward potiltrymen have agreed to keep a record of expenses and receipts 'in an efficiency study in poultry management to be conducted by the Alameda county farm -bureau. according to -an an-- npuncement by J. Murray Davison, assistant county farm advisee. -At the end of the year-statistics will be compiled- sUowirig the relative costs of" poultry and egg production. The figures to be submitted to the farm bureau by the pouLtry-men ar.

to be also cast on the clue that two as sailants had left the scene of the crime in an automobile. The torture house-is three and one-half blocks from the Mayer house. Blood was splashed over a back picket fence, indicating that Mabel made a desperate struggle to escape her fate, possibly by scaling the The locked back door of the house is also daubed with blood, indicating that the terrified girl beat upon It in her endeavor to flee. FINGERPRINTS OP GIRL TAKEN TO AH) SEARCH. Mabel's clothing was in tatters wiien she wart found, sh blue fur-trimmed r.oat: rori nn.

piece sleeveless dress and a cloche straw hat. These garments were In ribbons when police, summoned by Wilcox and Hall, arrived, In order to distinguish between the bloody fingermarks of the murdered girl and those of her killer or killers, William Perry and E. Stoddard, fingerprint experts injthe Oakland police identification bureau, today took fingerprint records of Mibel at the morgue. The next atep of the experts will be to visit the scene of the tragedy and take fence, door panels, tho club 'with which the girl was killed and other articles all fingerprints, and from the array select those stained with the guilt of crimer The half-wit boy who was taken to police headquarters and examined as a suspgct proved an alibi, "according to Captain Wallman, who declared the boy guiltless. The suspect had spent Saturday evening at a theater, it transpired, Wallman said, and he was released from custody.

Music Teacher Tells of Recent Change in Girl 'i The belief that Mab'el Mayer, Oakland school girl was was found brutally murdered yesterday, might ri ft Trtk nnftnf nl 4. lii. 'for the sake of adventure," and Wfl lllfA1 tn tVlQ xao V. Jl mlVjd 1 iniiiMMiswmiiiimiinmii mi nun im iwm Murder of Girl Is Work of Sadist, Berkeley Criminologist Believes Kiwanians to Hear Talk on Aviation ALAMEDA, July 4. "Alameda's Future in Aeronak tics'-' will be the subject of a talk before members of th Kiwanls club by Capt.

Burdette A. Palmer. The meeting will be held at noon Wednesday in Native Sons' hall, Park street and Central avenue. v. Washington Crew Coach Quits, Rumor SEATTLE, July 4.

Times today says It has tative information that Russell Callow, crew coach at the Uni versity of Washington, has reslgnedf to accept a similar position at the. University of Pennsylvania. His resignation, the Times says, 1 now on its way by mail to university officials. Noted T. B.

Specialist Dies of Blood Poison' NEW YORK; July 4. OW Dr. Antonio Stella, widely known Ital-: ian physician, died yesterday at Post Graduate hospital from blood poisoning, following upon an op-'' eration for an abscess. He was' known Internationally for his work -in combatting tuberculosis. Girl Attack Suspect Dies Battling Posse LINVILLE.

N. C. Jii.y 4. 0P Broad us Miller, Negro, of Asheville, accused of attacking and killing a -15-year-old white girl at ton jwo weeks ago. was shot and killed today, during a gun battle with a posse attempting to arrest him.

Liberty Bell Peals Out 15 1st U. S. Natal Day PHILADELPHIA, July Ringing of the bell Independence Hall tower marked the Opening of the Fourth of July "observance, in Philadelphia, where 151 years ago the old liberty bfi4 sent forth its notes of freedom lo the American colonist. The bell long silent tent forth 1 13 1 lusty peals at the itroke of midnight to usher in the celebration. Fireworks, except under official supervision, were forbidden in 1f i txi VI UiO I1U UBf where she was killed, was expressed I tOfl 3 fl Vl Or miloln AQ rtVi TV sadists from police records -in the bay district was 'Bluebeard' Watson, who murdered 28 women in very- much the same manner as Mabel Mayer was killed.

"I notice- from the newspaper reports that it was thought the crime had been possibly committed by two persons. I believe that some mistake has been made as to the number of persons Involved. Sadists do not travel in pairs. 1 do not know enough about the affair at this time to determine whether the crime has been committed by one or two. The crime is purely that of the degenerate.

"From the description of the body I am satisfied that, the fate of the Mayer girl is parallel to that of Lizzie Martinez whose mutilated body was found -in the Franklin canyon five years ago." thei accosted the girl, speaking In a broken and foreign tongue. Virginia roused her father, who attempted to circle the house and catch the the latter fled when frightened by the noise within the house. BANKER TQ GO EAST. RICHMOND, July 4. Ivan Conn, assistant manager of the local branch of the American Trust was scheduled leave for Detroit today to attend the annual convention of tha A merlin Institute jf Banking.

BERKELEY, July 4. The murder of Mabel Mayer, a 15-year-old grammar school girl, whose badly mutilated body was found in the rear yard of a vacant house at 1738 Eighty-sixth avenue, is the work of a sadist. This observation of the brutal crime "waa made by E. 0. Heinrich, the noted Berkeley criminologist, "As far as I have gone into the newspaper rfeport of the murder of Mabel Mayer I am satisfied that it i a sex crime.

It looks to me from my meager knowledge Of these facts that the brutal act was done by a sadist of a most pronounced type. In science a sadist is known as a degenerate who de? rives sex gratification from the of injuries upon the of the opposite sex. "One of the most pronounced 'Peeping Tom Tries To Enter Girl's Room ALAMEDA, July 4. A 'peeping believed to be a foreigner between the age of 20 to 25 years, is being saught by police today. N.

R. Elliott, 1027 Walnut street, reported to police that shortly, before midnight his daughter, Virginia, 15, awoke to-, find' a peering in the open window. The stranger attempted to climb In the window, which waa screened, and auaa K.UL11C1 XU ISO Doris Olson. it Miss Olson told of noticing a Change in the girl during the past few weeks. ad of how Mabel had Shown a greater interest in bovs.

had "become keenly conscious her own prettiness and of her 5f tractive rOOnly a few hpurs before the i'Jbrder, Mabel had called at Miss Olson studio, and had then insisted that she be allowed to learn jazz playing, the teacher said. jaieiy ner interest- in music tn urnnn 11 ,1 ha, Inn.nt bovs to Miss Olson nam. until recenuy, sue was always a quiet demure little thing, and was deeply engrossed in her music. i "When she called Saturday, I was struck with the very obvious fact that she was conscious of her own prettiness. and she gave me the distinct impression that she Was successful in attracting- bovs.

una was proua or it. said that Lf she wpnt an with ir mna1o.eV.a- Wflnteri tn 1,3,1, tn nlav iafx VV'a talked about this for a while, and I tried to dissuade her from giving-f up. the better sort, of music. The matter, was still undecided when I aha went away.".