Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

A ONLY OAKLAND NEWSPAPER THAT PUBLISHES Associated Press News 1 EDI I SUNDAY -Fair. CAL SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL, 20. 1907. VOL.

LXVII. SUNDAY Fair. No. v59 Hill" i 0) Mbit mum TO Eti 1 D) 0 I fo) D)T 13) i IIP! PHOTOGRAPH OF INTERI OR OF, THE GAS KITCHEN, WHERE THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED. CROSS SHOWS CHAIR IN WHICH JOHN MARCOVICH: WAS SITTING.

WHEN SHOT TO DEATH PHOTO BY STEWART. 7' JOHN MARCOVICH, ONE OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE GAS KITCHEN, HO WAS MURDERED BY A DISCHARGED 7 ELY AT ii 1 as i- A 1 1 I I PHOTOGRAPH OF MRS. FRANK SMITH, WIFE OF WAITER WHO SHOT. JOHN MARCOVICH. i ou "what Was the cause of TWEEN MYHUSBAND AND MR.

THE TROUBLE BE-MARCO VICH SAID MK5. FRANK SMITH, WIFE OF TI rri HE MURDERER, RE- PEATING THE QUESTION OF THE jTRIBUNE REPORTER. I 0 SAtt FRANCISCO, April 20. Ethel Hergerton, a aeventeen-yearvold girl, employed at Qm RenoVm Candy Store on Market atreat, battled with a thus ahortly; before midnight on the corner Central and Point Loboa avenues. The young; girl who was on her way come after her nlght'a work, started uncertainly in the direction of Geary ilil 1 street, but retraced her steps.

A strange man who bad been prowling about the saloon on the corner ap proached and asked what she wanted. the hesitated to tell him her business. WAS. MORE THE TROUBLE BETWEEN MR. MARCOVICH AND HIS PARTNER, TONY CLECAK, THAN IT y(AS WITH MY HUSBAND.

IT WAS ALL OVER A BOT-TLE OF WINE. THE BOTTLE COST $2.0 AND IT WAS SAID, THAT MY HUSBAND STOLE THAT AMOUNT. I AM SATISFIED THAT THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THAT BE-. CAUSE MY-HUSBAND TOLD ME SO. WINE WAS TO BE PAID FOR BY TONY CLECAK, ONEr OFTHE' PROPRIETORS HIMSELF, BUT IT WAS NOT THE CHECK WAS PUT ON THE FILE, BUT IT DISAPPEARED.

MARCOVICH" LEARNED ABOUT THE TRANSACTION AND SPOKE TO CLECAK ABOUT IT. THEY REFERRED TO. THE FILE AND FOUND THAT THE CHECK WAS MISSING. I CLECAK THEN- CHARGED MARCOVICH WITH DESTROYING THE CHECK AND THEN A FIGHT OF WORDS TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE TWO PART-NERS. ONE ACCUSED THE OTHER OF TRYING TO DO a His face was flushed and his eyes He was excited acd -worled.

-He. said he had not been drinking' and I. do not think he 'had. he said he' wa34 all up W-(Cause'MarcOvlCh threatened to Are him the next day. I 'asked him why, he.

rsald that wMarcovich aocused him pfr Sna, halt turned away, then she catted to ask htm to direct her home: be respdnded by saying that he would how her and told, her to follow him, 'When 'she bad' reached Central and Point Lobos avenues, without a word, her aasaJlant seized her In his arms. She fought him and vhe forced his fingers down her throat in order to line her cries. She bit his Angers. That aagered him and he struck her vidofes blow on the forehead. The blow opened her head and the blood flowed down her face partially "I feel rare they will never take Frank olive.

There 4 will be another' horrible chapter' to this tragedy before this Is over," Vaobbed the twentji-year-old wife of Frank Smith as she related thrf atdry of fast night's Murder Jgf John -Marcovlch. Her convulsions bi grrief unnerved that this dreadful, dreadful thing should have happened. I am are Frank must have been crazy cat of" his senses when he. did and the little woman. who is scarcely more than a girl, trjed to main tain her self-control as -aha.

related the events that led; up 4to' the "When Frank came -home -yesterday THE rlKM UP, MY HUSBAND WAS INNOCENTi.OF THE wine served at a little banquet the hjght'before: He said that three other men were' to be discharged or had been discharged I don't know They had all discussed affair and said that if Marcovich -would discharge them on this would make them lose their 'cards with' the union, and they could get no employment as waiU ers In- this y. SUGGESTED. -He said the 'three of them aug V- i. 4 (Continued on Pager I rtr A' rsn-B" It, i at Munro Auction i Rooms, 1007 Clay Street. 4 1 I.

I.knlr Bv. form.rlv of th raaiulleu iwmm Palace of tha Sultan of Turkey, the lookedas if! he had been drinking for world renowned collector of rare ii- .1 f.Wita v-mrrtent' fjohnj. Marcovich, for twenty fiveyears in this city arid known the Jength and breadth of Coast was shot down in cold blood, shortly bef 11 o'clock last nighv in. his resUurant, the Gas Kitchen, on Thir- ental russ. who used to eair at Bove Toy San Francisco, 22 rear ago, has Just arrived In Oakland with an Immense etock of renulne antlaue Tur--; Edition ltlah aad Persian and carpeta, which FRANK SMITH; MURDERER, DRAWN BYRIBUNE ARTIST FROM POLICE DESCRIP-t who had been 'discharged teenth streetby Frank; E.

Smith, a waiter, from the place but a few' hourjs previous. jon. T- ee a. ii mil on on Monday, April TZA, Munro Auction Rooms. lt06 Clay street, ahd'sold at auction on iTutidij and Wednesday.

April 2id and 24th. beginning at XI a. m. I J. A MUNRO, Auctioneer.

-r THE TRIBUTE PRESENTS. TODAYA, SPECIAL- ILLUS-TRATED -EDITION OF" The tragedy -was witnessed by he dead man's bride of a few month's, 'and she is now in a precarious coridition atyber home. The murderer escaped and is still at large, Staying coyered up all clues as. to his. whereabouts.

The entire detective force of the nolice rl INDISPUTABLE PROGRESS-SflY THE POLICE' FAIL YO 0 4 THE DU artmCnt the case and it is thought that Sipith-is now REAL ESTATE AUCTION SALE. We' will sail the following described erf real property, at public auction, on Iondy. April 22, at p. m. at our auction rooma, 1007 Clay at.

Oakland. Castro flva-room house, lot 25x tlKOQ ran niniiii a uc? UKUVy Txt OF POPULATION AND THE ITS BUSINESS AND 'RESIDENCEIqUARTERS 'SINEfTHE The cause of Smith's desire to kill Marcovich is not known, but S0' DECLARES WILLI A D. VJITCHEK bore a grudge; th4 result of w6rds of hi fcchtSa. luir Wort DISASTER WHICH OVERTOOK SAN FRANCISCOLAST jiormer to him after he had been discharged. Con- THE EDITION CONTAINS NOTHING THAT IS fS.0uo can remain on this valuable piece OVERDRAWN; EXAGGERATED.

THE WiUiamV Witcherwell known as heaviest stockholder' in trary to the report made that Marcovich had discharged Smith on and rour-roon ounrmow. lot 'waat aid of Ma rnoila atrat. 3613i on about 111 $1000 can on about 111 WHICH REPRESENT FEW ONLY OF THE MULTITUDE 21 ii'1 '''ifjru''' i -vr- vacC0OTtM extQrtms money trom some of; the guests ia the place, the-BlakMofntt states that -being unable to-secure the 1 i w.wre.B, uiiiuic io secure uie intone the other partner in the business, stated that it was assistance cf an officer to pursue the fugitive murderer, Smith, wto had'accused and let out Smith, and he saw no reason why rhS-SS CHANGES" THAT HAVE AND AlfE TAKING PLACE, Term 10. Pr cnt on fall of the ham- "POT? TTTPTUTCl'R'T A MT At' 10 dava al owed for n.arch tm a ejeer. 5rxSAK.ll-Ug UENTLY I LAND'S PROSPERITY.

SPEAK. ICLOOTIF.rJTTJV I J. X. MUNRO a A. X-UNKO CO, Auctioneers, :ued.ca Page 23.) (Continued 23.).