| Show I POLICE CHIEf I DROWNED IN INI I FRISCO BAY BAYSA SA SAX FRANCISCO Dec Dc-c. 1 W I.-W William William lJ am J. J B Biggy e for over a t. t year chief of po po- lico lice of this tins city eity was drowned in in tho the bay last night nn anti and his lila body has not yet vet been recovered Chief Biggy Ey was as returning to the city from in ill inthe inthe the police launch Patro Patrol nn and wb when beit u utho tho the boat bont arrived d it was discovered disco he ho was missing thou though h Engineer r William Wil ViI liam Murphy urphy tho only other occupant of the boat did Mid not see seo him fall over over- board According to Murphy's Murphys 11 story Bi gy entered tho the launch bunch on on this si siTo lo of the ha bay about S 8 0 o'clock clock in tho the o and md mado made tho the trip to Del Belvedere where ho went to the tho home borne of Police Commissioner Commis sion r Koil Keil a re resident of tho the and spent pent some time in conference with th thA commissioner It was nearl nearly 11 o o'clock clock when be he returned to the launch and tho return trip was started The chief came caine e to Murphy in the the- engine room and complained of feeling ill front from the tho motion of ot the boat which was as v very lr rv noticeable The engineer advised ad bi him 1 to go o to the tho cabin at the tho At stern em where I it was waR cooler and Big Biggy pr presumably followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed this advice A little later I Murphy look looked d toward the stern of tho the boat bent and saw tho the chief biot loaning leaning over tho the side vomiting Tho engineer did dill not again l look in that direction until they were rc close t to tho he city as his at at- was nR occupied with th the tho handling of ot the tho boat ont Ho lie then w wOnt went nt to tho the stern storn to inform Di Biggy gy of the reason of ot ofa a R sli slight hl delay dolay occasioned by tho the passage of ot a n tern ferry boat and discovered disco that the tc chief had hrut disappeared Murphy hurried to hi iLls his berth near the hu harbor r station tation and reported that the chief had hod fallen ov o overboard and was lost lest A party at nt once set ct out ont to fI scan scan-h th the la bay and this thia was k kept pt up all an night nieM without result Di Biggy g was appointed appoint d to his hiR po position in September 1007 1907 bv hv Mayor Taylor At that t time ml Ri who ho had hold S severa several sev sev- era eral political offices including that Qt f tato H Dt OI from San Ban Francisco an and I I later president of tho the police commission sion I of ot this cit CitY was elisor in in charge of the thc person of Abraham braham Ruf the tho po ex-po I 1 boss hoss of ot tho the city wh who Wl was arrest in connection with tho the graft investigation ti I Since th the suicide of tIC Morris torris H Haas n th the I of ot A Assistant ht nt District Attorn Attorney F. F J. J lIen and aDd who shot hot himself in his hili cell at the county counts jail tho the day any after his Att attempt to tn kill Hf leney in c Lawlor's courtroom luring during th present pre trial of RuM Rite there hn has boon been great h hard rd Di Biggy DIgg and the tho prose pros Cu cution tion Out Ont of ot this thi have havo grown rown charges e showing tho the feeling of oS th the tho graft anti forces toward and nuel charges e against t Bi Biggy Bigg s for fur failure to properly protect t his hig prisoner replied d with similar r charges a against nin t Captain of r Police lic Duke who boo with Detective Burnt Burns searched Haas in the courtroom 1 and Detective t e Sergeant Ser Ser- geant gant lInt Thomas Thoma Burke who ho was in ch charge rge o ol 4 If th the prisoner at nt th tb the Jail hut but nono norto of or the charges bad yet ct ho he jn n investigated in d. d Chief hi Di Biggy r i in survived d by hJ his second see sec e ond f from rom whom h as e estranged tran Gd anti ami n a daughter His Ilis first lint wife ito di died d mR ninny many n yu years u ago age l |
