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Show : .L ffpMOUS TRAGEDIES Li BALKED SOLUTION I HI yfP . JkMery nf the Disappearance of Nora Fuller. Lured to Her Death in San Francisco Through an "Ad" Offering Her Employment I SgJ tGopjrlfbl 1911 br ttai New Tort ncnM Go 4U rutbts ieSfrred.1 n2W&Jf-"J HULK men. or perhaps fJQ.! oik in:in known by three different names dropped oVm fplom of e istcn.ee when 'II gll""U,c Noni F"H"' WBS ,. murdereil in San Frau- H eisco, an.J ten years have throw l no light nn the double mystery Hrbich surrounded her death. Nora's fmotli'-r was fv poor woman, divorced from J her second hn.Miand, and struggled hard to send Iit .iiidren to school. When I'," Nora til ;".,) ears old. afl t:i to hep ,.,(. nrge fir.u.v tv d - lug '"' vv r i-i'.iT a I tir-l d I BJOired. but I h girl vhs f't in her p ir e pose and begat, to answc rdvertiscmentSj Kippta L.iii .n I lie uc vvspapem, 'Ou the moruiig of Jaturdny. January j ,n" 11. 1 ' ' d .. ji'is al ;. , d vvli . li I wa v;Kn,..i ., John I'l.nn-t .iii.i v . .1 ltl read Mi-s I'lcki -In answer to yoursl W response tj my advertisement, kiudl.v 'Hall it the Popular Restaurant So Geary street, aud inquire for Mr Johu' teenncit, at one o'c.ocL If you can't Mfono' at one. come at half-pant hie " KNofa left home in time to keep ihe ap-: aK. iuiineui in i In- rest. in aUt at ,,ue .'. loci:. 1 mAt exactly t no o'clock a clerk from a Kdru store car Mrs Poller's home askedl her . step i" the tc i phone. She lookj ther txjn Jn. k ' to i ! stvre with her be-, lArcan- -.. i- ;.-,! r..e io iiea r distiui '. fcver the telephone. 000 A . '.. i remKni,- uud agitated, CS UN Tpver the iu-trument. r "1 . m at the resiauran ad have tar'CD a position. My employer wishes mc to go il to work at uiiu Ml' The voice scunded like Norn's. 0 ben ' Jack" repealed the message to Ibis mother sin.- ic.il him to ask Nora to wait until tin. following Monday before fr gOllig i Will k The Telephone lessage. "All right," said the voice on the tcle-. tcle-. phone, wber "Jack" had repeated Mrs Fuller's request. Then before he coul I Question the girl further the receiver ai tbc other end of the hue was hung up $M Nora Fuller was never seen by her family again until she was fouDd dead Inj la bed at No - 21 1 Sutler street morej -j than n month after she had left home (o Tmcet John Bennett. Marks on her throat If showed thai bhc had been strangled, j . From the lime of Nora's hrst diiappear-jance diiappear-jance the police had been searching for 'John liennett, the man who sigued the .fc postal card which had lured her lo deaih. A The addre&s, No 1."X) Ucary street, at . which Nora Fuller had said over the ielc-i j phone that she would bo employed, was found to be a vacant lot At the Popular Restaurant the police found his traiL F. V i V. Krone, owner of the restaurant, Haid that at five o clock od the day of the girl's J disappearance a man who often ate in his 2 Place bad requested him to send any ' I young woman asking for John bennett to pjk bia table. After half ao hour the girl lihsxi not arrived, and the man went out BoDto the sidewalk, where he paced up and down for some time, then went awaj. I This all happened between he and ix o'clock in the afternoon. It will be re- ' tnembered LhaL on the postal card JphD Bennett hud requefited Nora to meet him at half-paat live, if she could not keep, Ihe appointment at one o'clock. Apparently John Beunett went to the Popular Restaurant expecting to meeti J. the girl at hull-past live. Yet she had' I telephoned to her mother at two o'clock1 I that she had met Johu Bennett aud was1 Vat the restaurant. John Bennett was never heard of again uuder that name. About a month after the disappearance of Nora fuller and John Bennett, a Hrc-al estate ageut employed by G. 11. BLmhseu ik (Jo. called at house at No Hp, 211 Sutler street to collect rent. To 111 outward appearance- ihu houte wu iKlosed aud the agent became auspicwue ! I lia t no one was living there lie rang i (thc brll repeatedly but there was no re-I re-I sponse. so he returned with a pass key J and began to search the premises. Room after room he found lo be empty and there was no furniture in the house Ou I the second story he caught a glimpse of I a bed, over the foot of which were thrown in confusion a blanket, a quilt and a woman s long cloak. Cautiously, for there was something ominous in the silence of the house, he approached the room aud slowly opened the door, after ti rs t knocking He Mciipe.l iuside and instinctively started buck aghast. There on the mattress, ihe tumbled bedclothes parti? coveriug her body, which as fully (Hotbed, lay a girl One glance at the pallid face told bin that she iraa dead. In unreasoning fear of the ghastly oc- CUpant of the house he burned lo the street and called a policeman. The body was identified as that of Nora Fuller.' aud ihe police had their first substantial clew with which to work. But the clew soon Involved them In mystery more i ia filing thau before. Mysterious Hawkins li developed that a nian calling himself L. B. Hawkins had leased No. 2.211 Sutter street from G. H. Umbaeo Ai Co. and had paid the rent a month in ad ' ranee, being able to furnish no references. He and his wife, he said, were topping at the Golden West Hotel and wished to; move into the Sutter street residence as I soon as possible. The house was ira-1 mediately prepared for residence. On the following day, January 9, a man nnswering the description of C. B. Hawkins called at (be establishment of J. C Cavannngh, No. 84S M ixon street, and purchased two pillows, a matlress. a' pair of blankets aud a comfortable. Without any explanation he made It a condition that if he purchased the articles iney were to be delivered nt No. 2.211 -Sutler street after dark the same day of i he purchase. lie gave no nunc, but io listed that unless the identical goods were delivered and absolutely after dark ho would not take them. Tho clerk, B. T Shell, suggested that he mark the blankets so that he could Identify tin m In ink ihe customer crawled the initials "C. B H " on all the articles he had purchased. That nlghi a delivery boy named Gillao took the goo Is to Sutter street. A man in a tali silk hat opeued the door There was no jlighi in the house and the nenrest strei t I lamp ca-t only u lickering light in the J hallway I I can't see to take thee things up 'atnirs." said Gillan. "unless you give me n light." ) "That's .ill right," said th man in the silk hat, "yen may leave them right here in the hallway, as I am Just going out. T j will have them taken up stairs later." He paid the bill, counting out the chanre with difficulty in the dim light. As he peered into the light in counrinz the money Gillan had a fair view of his fare Both he and the clprk described him as a n:au who would answer equally well Ihe description of Hawkins or John Bennett Ben-nett Police inquiries at the Golden West Ho-i tci showed that neither Renin ! t i or Hjtw-kin- had ever registered there under either of those names. The mattress and bed clothes iu the bouse in Sutter street wpre identified aj those purchased from Cav-anaugh, Cav-anaugh, and wire marked L' B H.," just as the buyer had scrawled it oo them W hen the bouse was rented it was un- furnished, but in the r.om where N'nra I Fuller's body was found there were a 1 bureau, a dresser, a and two chairs. The Standard Furniture Company, of Mission -trert. furnished the information that they had sold the articles to a man who. again from his description, m-gtal have been C B, Hawkins or Sobii Beo-bett Beo-bett With eaeii cow discovery the ease became more puialifig. Five days after the discovery of Nora Fuller's body the mfuagemenj rd a San Francisco uewspaper aahed the police to search for C B rladlej. their advertising adver-tising manager, who was missing n whose accounts showed a shortnge of funds. The search for Iladley led to N. G47 Ellis st; et. where he had been living liv-ing with a we mini companion. She at There on the Mattress Lay a Girl. f.rsl save no satisfactory iuformatiou as' io where Hadlev had gone In her room was a photograph of Efadley bearing Ins ' signature in his owu writing. This was j declared by handwrii.g experts to be. the work of the same man who had : marked the mattress and bed clothing. It was also identical with llie handwriting shown by Badley's aecrunts in the newa-Iaper newa-Iaper ollice. The postal card which had called Nora lo meet John Bennett at the Popular Re,, taurant had disappeared It was not found i the pirl s clothe, and there was no sample of John Bennett's handwriting! available. There were retain diefp.,. ancie in LLe descr.ptions nf the three' i en. John Bennett. C. B. Hadle, ami C. B Hawkin . but they might aav been occasioned by the different costumes m which wit..'ss.es bad seen h'.m It was the ceneral belief that Cjarles B Had ry! was the guilty man and thnt he had us.-d; the other wo names. Te man .-jlung himself Benuptt had; stopped at the restaurant Ml five o'clo.'k in the evening lnste;., ,,r at one o'clock In (be afternoon, out thai mi ht have been part of an attempt lo establish au alibi He might have met Nora outside the ildmg nt one o cloi k or his presence !a the place might not have been noticed during the luncheon iuur. The belief that Iladley. alias Bennett, mighl have met Nora Fuller outside the : m. 'JaSD. -li if SlS& I nsHBLLaBHRR WgtUt - L'- UU no lu kl I II ruLLLR III X : - f 1 restaur mt was strengthened bj the tory jtold by Made Graham, that Nota had been iu the habit of meetins a youn? man I of fine apiearance almost every day. She Frequent) telephoned to him. Madge said, from a groory store near her home. Hadiey was a prominent man in Saoj Fran, i-co and had many interssts. aud il occurred to the police that under one of I the three names he w.i suppoeed to have, I lived under he might have sent notice of jhis change of address to the post office. Handwriting experts examined $2,000 ii notices uod fouml thrc- Which much resembled Radley's handwriting. One was declared so nearly that of toe sus-pected sus-pected man that Captain Seymour of the San Frnneisen Heti-etire Bureau, was sen! lo Kansas Qitj to investigate. lie found thai the suspected Man In Kansas CitJ COllld not possibly have been Iladley ;aml that he could not have taken any part in the crime I 1 11 All the time the Kliv weft working on the supposition that the three missjns nipn were one and the same. Thej finally fniied Ollie ; lazier the woman with' ivhom Iladley had been living, to testify before a Coroner s jurj During the examins iou It developed that Iladley had often worn a false mus-j tache when he was in the house and had laughed about it, pretendiug that he ditF it only for fun. The (Jlasier woman did not know whether he had ever worn it! When he was io the street. She had never seen him do so After ihe diuppe.irance of Nora Fuller,; Ollie Glasier testified, Hsdley rose earlier! than he was accustomed to. and read tgi rly all the newspaper accounts of the1 affair One morning while reading tbe I paper he seemeJ suddeoly to become great 1 ly disturbed. He stuck the paper hastily1 into his pocket and left the house without j Stopping to teli w here hi w as goiug. Oliie i Glasier never saw him after that The day after his disappearance the! woman searched the bouse to try lo find' some evidence which w.juld explain bis ab sence. She found some of bis clothing,1 sue suid, with Md Stains ai it and immedi-vuwvtA immedi-vuwvtA veti ivvUWWCt ately became frightened She burned them "Did Iladley have any small peculian- j ties of habit'" the Corouer asked Ollie I Glasier. I The girl said that she did not recall any "Think hard ' said the Coroner. "Had he no peculiarity in the way be walked, the way he dressed, or perhaps in the way he ale?" I "Yes, I guess you would say he was a i little eccentric about his eating." said !' ' "ri the iu What way '" aaked the Coroner "Why. he never al? much meat." she said " hen he did eat meat he always ordered just the tendprloin part of a -ak and had it well done" . 'J hen a waiter from the Popular Kes-l.aurant Kes-l.aurant was called aud he testified tliat John Bennett always c-alied for the ten-derioio ten-derioio of the steak and bad it cooked almost dry. This was considered almost indisputable indis-putable circumstantial evidence that Bennett and Hadlev were one. To oidhc doubly sure the police had an artist paiut a mustache into the photograph photo-graph of Badley and a tall silk bat on bis lead The t'o.v who had delivered th blankets at the house in Sutter street, the clerk who had sold them, the real estate es-tate agent who hud reoted the house aud Ihe man who had sold ihe furniture idi Drifted the ioucbed-up portrait as C. B. Ilj s .. Police Receive Setback. Then came a staggering setback. lbs waiters and proprietor of the Popular tteataurant failed to see any resemblance to Beiiueit in Ihe photograph. Tho descriptions de-scriptions they had given of the man tal-lied tal-lied prciiy well with descriptions of Haw-km Haw-km aud Iladley, but when they were confronted with the photograph they could see uo feature which resembled Benocit. iLLfl That is about as far as ihe police ever got in the search for the three men, or the one man with the three names. Ben-Dett, Ben-Dett, Hawkins or Iladley never returned i to Siu Francisco, nor was ever seen again, so far as is known. To add to the confusion a new feature, more than ever mysterious, was injected iuto the case. It was learned that the 'death of Nora Fullers father had been jetfUally surrounded with mystery and had uever beeu accounted for His name wis John Parlyne. but when his widow mar-! mar-! ried W W. Fuller. Nora, who was ex-Itremely ex-Itremely young, took his name Parlyne wa an eng:ueer on the steamship steam-ship Tai Wo. One day while cruising in the China Sea he was seated on the deck with his back Hgainst the wheel house, when ibe captain passed him and spoke to him. ) riasfl Men were workinp nearby on the decks. In a Tew momenta the captain returned and asked w here Parly ne had gone. Nona had seeu him leave his position by tbe wheel house. Tbe officer went below and sent for the engineer, but he could cot be found. He had disappeared as though be bad melted into air. Not a soul bad seen him go to has death, uulec one of the crew was res'onsibl for it. yet the man mmst either have jumped overboard or been thrown over. IfRlLI For a loug time the police searched for a clew which might connect the death of Nora Fuller with tho mysterious vanishing vanish-ing of her father, hot not a siugle thread ..f evidence of such a character was eTer forthcoming. Ijlkssm Two yean after the death of tbe girl the body of B man was found in the midst of tbe "Pee Set" in California, and paier in hi clotbiux. almost destro.vni from the action nf rain aud sou. made the d is eoverers believe that he was Charles B. Iladby Tlie paper dropped to pieces IFhen handled, aud with them crumbled the last trace ol the man who wss alumst certalnhj supposed to have utraugled Nor Fuller Hill |