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Show MORE ABOUT HELSCJAUN. Missing Witness in tho Mortcnsen Caso in San Frnnclsco March 17th. Information wns received by The Tribune yesterday that as late ns March 17th Charles Hlsgnun, the Dane win 1h bellctcd to be In poscsslon of Important facts telaMte to the Hay minder, was at Rui Francisco. He wrote u postal card on that date to a lady lltlng on West Temple stieet, nsk-Ing nsk-Ing her to keep certain phntogiuphn nnd letters until she heard from him again, and telling her be wns to sail for Europe the next dn, The samo lady declares thnt ho enme to her home on tho day nfter the murder of liny nnd borrowed a needle and thread to sew up a three-cornered tear In the bottom nf his overcoat Ho did this cntcrully nnd naked her If It showed. His feet nnd cent were plastered with yellow mud. nnd he wore n brown suit The lady saw him seternl set-ernl times arterwnrd, hut be netei wnro the brown suit agnln and would not tell what he had done with It. A few dais afterward ho disposed of tho overcoat, and told her he had received to cents for It An emploiee of tho O. S. L. Is willing to testlfi thnt be had an appointment with Ilelsgnun on the night of December Decem-ber mth, and walled for him until nfter midnight at tho depot, but ilelsgnun failed to appear, iilthough ho nald when leaving tho Setentlt ward meeting-house tint be wns going; to tho depot. It was the Hist tlmu he ever fulled to keep surh an appointment. On tho da after tho dlscotery of Haj's body Helsgaun called on Mrs Lizzie Mortensen and proposed, accoid-Ing accoid-Ing to thit lady's statement, to ptove her biother-ln-law's Innocenco If ho wero emploied on the case. She told him tu call nguln when ner husband wns nt home. He did rnll severnl times, but never when her husband was at the house, Helsgaun was well known to nil the street car men on the lines In the southern south-ern part of the city. They called him "the crasy Swede," and frequently accused ac-cused him of being a spotter. |