The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1898, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1898. ALBERT HOFF IS GUILTY OF MURDER The Slayer of Mrs. Clute to Die on the | Gallows. The Jury Unanimous in| the Verdict of Death. Attorney Schooler’s Fruitless Attempt to Save His Client. | SCENESIN THE COURTROOM | Prosecuting Attorney Hosmer Ridi- cules the Argument of the Defense. Albert Frederick George Verenese- neckockhoff, alias Albert Hoff, was ad- Judged gullty of the murder of Mrsa. Mary Clute in Judge Cook's court yesterday afternoon and will pay the | penalty of death for his atroclousi crime. The jury was out but twenty- | two minutes and was unanimous in its verdict of execution as the only possi- | ble expiation that could be made by | the murderer. | When the gong sounded in court an- nouncing that a decision had been reached, the room was thrown into a Etate -of ‘excitement and nervcus an- | ticipation to know the nature of the verdict. | As the jurors filed into the room and | resumed their seats in the jury box Hoff kept his head down and his eyes | riveted on the table before him. He| showed or exhibited no emotion until | he raised his to attempt to read | his doom in the immobile features of | the men in whose hands rested life and death. His face immediately be- carhe pale and he showed every Indica- | tion of 'vousness born of despair, as gla could be obtained Tpon the question of the court ask- ing ~whether an agreement had been reached F man W. G. Doane rose and with nervous hesitancy read the fol- lowing verdict: ‘We, the jury, find the defendant, Albert Hoff, gullty of muadér in the first degree.” Through nervousness he substituted John for Albert, and the court immeliately dea manded the paper to be reread and af- | terward filed. When the words of doom fell upon | the convicted murderer Hoff endeav- ored to smile, but falled signally, as his features instantly relapsed into a look of utter and hopeless despair. After the dismissal of the jury two Deputy Sheriffs walked to where Hoff was sitting and clapsed the manacles on the emaciated wrists of the mur- derer. His old faded straw hat was placed on his head and drawn down over his‘eyes and he was escorted from the court, his first step to the gallows, | d In the tanks in the prison | being plac below. Later he was conveyed to the County Jail, where he will remain un-" | til sent to San Quentin for execution. The date of hanging will be fixed sixty days from the 5th of the present montn, being less than six months from the | time the murder was committed. The' trial has been one of the short- est ever held in this city and the chain of circumstantial evidence woven about | the prisoner is considere An unusual number tators were in attendance and stepped over one another in trying | to.get a.glimpse of the puny body of the murderer. The ruling argument of Attorney | Schoovler in ‘trying to prove the inno- i cence. of his client was to fix up an alibi on the fatal 15th of December. In advancing a theory in explanation | of the blood stains on the murderous | coupling-pin and disputing the fact that Hoff had at one time used such an | instriment, he declared, on the hand, that the supposed blood nothing but iron rust and, on the othe that the possession of such an instru- | ment was not conclusive proof that the | one used by Hoff was the same as that by which the crime was perpetrated. *1 tell you, gentlemen of the jury ADVERTISEMENTS. BABY'S Terrible Speedily Cured By CUTICURA | My baby was about four weeks old when he began to suffer from that terrible disease, Eczema. I tried every remedy I thought would do him good. I even called in the doctor who told me it would wear away in time, but I-used his medicine tonoaccount. I did not know what to do with him. He cried all the time and his face was equal to a raw piece of meat, it was horrible, and looked as if there was never any skin on it. Ihadto carry him aréund on & pillow. I was falrly discouraged. I wasthen recommended touse CUTICURA REMEDIES. The first time I used them I could see the change. I used about half a box of CUTICURA (ointment), and not gue half eake of CUTICURA SOAP, and at the end of one short week my baby was entirely cured. There has mever been a trace of it since, fo-day his skin is ag smooth and soft as aplece of silk. Mgs. J. O. FREESE, Feb.21,’98. 360 So. 1st St., Brooklyn, E. D. CURA Soar, and s single suoin With CoTicURA, Prrest of emollient skin cures, will 4natant relief in the most distressing of itehing. buming, sad sealy infantile bumors of the skin snd scalp, wil Loss of hair, and not to use them, is to fall in your daty. ‘This trestment means comfort and rest for parent as well s grateful relief and refreshing sleep for child, and i pure, sweel, safe, specdy. snd economical. o iy _"","'T"“”f"‘”?fi, | Board of Supervisors of s an assuring or convine- | {rom | om whom he sought encourage- | | the postpone said work until a new sewer is | | constructed in said thoroughfare.” | Paraphrase. M. he saild, “that Mrs. Clute was not killed with that coupling-pin, but was murdered by blows struck by a hammer or the pole of a hatchet.” In the closing argument made in behalf of the people by Prosecuting Attorney Hosmer, the complete chain of circumstances surrounding Hoff as the real murderer was recapitulated, and the statements made by Schooler alleging that the crime had been com- mitted with a hammer, etc., ridiculed. Hosmer proved, by citing the testi- mony of Mrs. Legg, a witness in the case, that Hoff instead uf being the first to leave the house the night of the murder was the last. When Mrs. Legg heard the death shriek of the dying woman shortly af- ter 5 o'clock, she ran up the stairs leading to the apartments of Mrs. Clute. At this time it was proven that Hoff had not as yet left the building and still carried the weapon with which he murdered the unfortunate weman in his possession. “It is a fact,” said Hosmer, “that when Mrs. Legg entered the hallway that night the blood-stained instrument of death was not behind the door, where it was afterward found, but was in the clasped hands of Hoff, who at- tempted to conceal it by holding his hands in front of him. “He did not want to part with it yet,” sald the attorney, “as he feared he would have to use it again. That pin was not thrown behind the door until the murderer heard the retreating steps of Mrs. Legg.” Upon the conclusion of the prosecu- tion Judge Cook read his final charge to the jury, which was an exhaustive discussion of the facts of the case and entering into the minutest details of | the deflnition and exact meaning of cir- cumstantial evidence and the attend- ant judicial construction placed upon various words in the cas Repave Market Street. Once more the Merchants' Association | has taken up its pet hobby, that of hav- ing Market street paved In a modern manner and in a way that will be a credit to the city. For a long time its members have realized that the main thoroughfare of San Francisco has been far behind the times 'nd subject to adverse comment by the visitors from the . where good streets are the rule and not the excep- tion. To this end the following resolution was adopted at the meeting yesterday and 5.1l be presented at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors to-morrow: “Resolved, That the repaving of Market street under proper spec...cations with a noiseless pavement is an {mmediate and urgent necessity, and that the honorable the city and |COMBINE 0UT FOR REVENGE To Punish the Man Who Got Win- drem to Bid. The 'Gauge Strictly Ap- plied to the Work of Contractor Bingham. R. H. Copp, Whose Bond Was Rejected, 1s a Responsi- ble Surety. MORRIS AVENUE SEWER. Residents on the Thoroughfars Ap- preciate the Good Service Ren- dered by The Call. People living on Morris avenue, a lit- tle thoronghfare between Fifth and Sixth and Brannan and Bryant streets, appreciate The Call's efforts to pro- mote efficiency, honesty and celerity in the performance of street work. Im- mediately after the fact was published that an iron stone pipe sewer, which had been uncovered for repairs, had so remained exposed seven weeks, the Street Department put a small gang of men on the job and the nuisance is now abated. and it a single stone s found to be a shade above the size prescribed by the specifications, the contractor is obliged to take it up and exclude it from the work. Bingham is doing the work for fourteen and seven-eighths cents a square foot, and is so constantly har- assed that it is not possible for him to get any benefit from the contract. On Eighth street, between Brannan and Townsend, the City Street Im- brovement Company has the contract for paving a block with basalt. The contract price is twenty-one cents a square foot. Big blocks can be used in this work without any interference or Lrotest from the inspectors of the Street Department. The gauge is not laid down in arbitrary fashion on the Eighth-street work. Any one doubting the statement can go and examine the basalt blocks. On Octavia street, between Ellls and Eddy, where the Union Contracting and Paving Company has a contract for puuiing down basalt blocks, th> gauvpe Is not used to embarrass the contractor. Any one can go there and see that blocks exceeding in size the limit of the s,ecifications ha 2 been lald down. The story goes that Huffman, who testified some weeks ago in divorce pro- ceedings in Oakland that he paid $10 2 month for his job as inspector, is the man who makes life unbearable for any contractor outside of the combine, He makes it a special point to see that the gauge is strictly applied to Bing- ham’s work on Gough street. No fault is found with the Street De- partment for holding Bingham down to the specifications, but the point is raised that other contractors, who are getting top prices for work, ought to be held strictly to account. ————— THRASHED THE LANDLORD. Max Gallick,‘A’ctioneer, and Two Expressmen, Convicted of Dis- turbing the Peace. Max Gallick of the Columbia auction house, 1057 Market street, and Willlam J. Lunney and John Bowlan, expressmen, were convicted in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday on the charge of disturbing the peace, and were ordered to appear for sentence to-morrow. “Professor” Woodward was the occu- pant of a house at 1001% Fillmore street till March 29, when he left, owing the landlord, William Lageman, $30 for rent. Woodward sold part of his furniture to Gallick, and when Lageman heard of it he went to Gallick and notified him not to go near the house, as he wanted his rent. That night Gallick, who had got posses- sion of the keys of the house from Wood- ward, drove up with the two expressmen Inquiry brings to light the fact that | and piled a lot of furniture into the house | AND OMILES, \ AL LEAN SIGNIFIES (F "ANOTHER RECORD BROKEN RECORD BREAKERS AT WORK ON THE 7 ) f bROLEGHTON' l"# o OES THE El >, BROAD Jump o .firfie,@pyv 7 RECORDS G0 10 THE WAIL AT BERKELEY College Athletes Make New Marks in Four Events. Drum, Walsh, Broughton and Bakewell Distin- guish Themselves. Annual Championship Games Draw Out a Large Throng. A TRIUMPH FOR DRUM. Broughton Clears Over Twenty- Two Feet in a Running Jump. As large a crowd as ever packed the stands‘around the Berkeley cinder path saw the young collegians shatter records vesterday. Before the annual champion- ship field day was half finished the spec- tators were kept guessing, and the pre- vailing query was, What next? The races were not exciting or even more than ordinarily interesting. This 11/ DRUM DEVELOPS, SPRINTERS, FACE. . BERKELEY TRACK. county of San rrancisco be petitioned to | let the contract for the repaving of said street in the manner indicated so far as the funds of the present fiscal year will permit; and be it further “"Resolved, That it is, in the opinion of Merchants’ Assoclation, unwise to ———— A Farmers’ Dance. The members of Buena Vista Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, are making preparations for a mnovel party, designated a “Farmers’ Danc There will be something new in the line of | decorations, and many of them will be decidedly unique. No lady avill be per- mitted to appear on the floor unless at- tired in wash goods dresses. The affair wiil take place in Native Sons’ Hall on the 15th inst. —_——— For the World’s Fair. The State Board of Trade is in recelipt of a huge sample of fruit from the north- ern citrus belt in the shape of an orange from Knights Ferry, Stanislaus County. | It was grown in the orchard of C. H. Mero -and weighs two pounds and one ounce. The orange is seventeen inches in circumference. It will be preserved and eventually sent to the World’s Fair at Paris in 1900. ————— Park Music To-Day . To-day, weather permitting, the Park Band will render the following sacred programme: Overture, *‘Jeanne d'Arc’ “Pligrim’s Song of Hope" Fantasia on Christlan Endeavor Songs. Solo for cornet, “‘Ave Maria' a Arranged by “Loreley” “Prophet March’ ——— Olympic Tournament. The pool tournament at the Olympic Club is attracting the attention of the cue experts nightly, and some very inter- esting matches have already been played. There will be another week of play be- fore the tournament will narrow down to_the finals. The class handball tournament com- menced Friday night. Only preliminary games were played. To-morrow night the first class men will work to the finals and settle their differences. —_———— Shot in the Neck. Herman Abel commenced suit yesterday against John Canning to recover $5000 damages for injuries received on April 4 last, by being shot by the defendant. Abel claims that Canning shot him in the neck, and that as a result he has been permanently disabled. —_——————— ‘Will of Deede Margaret Taylor. The holographic will of Deede Margaret Taylor, who died on the 28th ult., was filed yesterday for probate. She left an estate valued at about $15,000, to be dis- tributed among her friends who had heg laat dliness, R. H. Copp, whose bond on Windrem’s bid to do Alamc Square work was re- Jected by the Street Committee of the Supervisors, is in every sense a re- sponsible surety. He is the owner of thirty acres of land within the limits of the town of Rocklin. Less than six weeks ago he was accepted on a bond in this city where the amount of the security demanded was $9000. The Street Committee would not accept him for $200. Mr. Copp In a statement made to The Call's expert sald: “Dowling came to me and called attention to the language of the bond and stated that I had sworn that I was a resident and freeholder of San Francisco. I told him if the bond was in that form I had signed it under a misapprehension, and at his request made an affidavit to that effect. I signed the bond in good faith and know that the security offered was ample.” As the details of the transaction come to light it is made clear that the Su- pervisors of the Street Committee were not looking for good security, but were casting about with the assistance of Dowling to find some pretext for throw- ing out Windrem's bid and awarding the contract to Dowling at the fig- ures originally agreed upon when the “private arrangement” to do the work was made. Windrem expresses a de- termination to submit to the board in writing all of the facts concerning the rejection of his bid. The expose may engage the attention of Supervisors who were not in the secrets of the com- bine and incidentally reveal the names of the parties who made the private arrangement to do the work on the quiet without opening the job to pub- lic competition. The awkward fact already confronts the board that Mr. Ambrose, the Superintendent of Streets, knew nothing about the arrangement or understanding until he saw Dow- ling’s men at work on the job. It will be interesting for the public to definitely understand whether a lit- tle clique or combine has been organ- ized at the new City Hall to usurp the functions of the Board of Supervisors and the Street Department. The job in which Dowling is concerned is not the only “private arrangement” scheme of the season. The City Street Im- provement Company is going ahead with the work of patching and other- wise repairing accepted streets on some kind of an understanding which is contrary to law and public interest. J. Bingham, the contractor who has the contract for paving Gough street between Turk and Eddy with basalt blocks, is not in the good graces of the combine. It is suspected that Bingham prompted Windrem to get in and bid against Dowling for the Alamo Square work, and in order to get even with him it was decided by the combine to meas- ure every block that he lald on the (s}ough‘street Job. t'rh- t:l‘ll tor of the treet Department puf e gauge on every block that Blpsham puts dpwn, and hung out the usual red flag. Lageman protested and Gallick and the expressmen | threw him out. The Judge, in convicting the defendants Yesterday, said that numerous complaints had been received by the police about the way in which certain auctioneers acted in holding sales of furniture in houses where they were not wanted, and he was determined to put a stop to it, if possible, by making an example of Gallick. SEARCHING FOR AN EMPLOYE A Salmon Packer ' Placed a Very Peculiar Position. in Gave a Contractand Afterward Found That He Had Made a Mistake. Last evening Mr. Hume of the Hume Salmon Packing and Commission Mer- chant Company called at police head- quarters and reported a case so tangled in its construction that the detectives were at a loss just how to proceed. Hume stated last evening in the office of the Chiet of Police that he has large salmon canning properties and that he is always in search of men whom he is able to hire and send to the packing plants in Alaska. A few weeks ago a man named Atkins called at his office and asked for a position, stating that he thor- oughly understood the salmon pack- Ing business and In ' consequence a contract was drawn up and a portion of the proposed salary advanced. It was arranged that the hired man should leave on the steamer Ferris S. Thompson for the north, but at the last moment he was withdrawn from the /steamer 'and told that he would be allowed to make the trip on the Harvester. Before the steamer salled, however, Mr. Hume, according to his own statement, learned ‘that the man he had hired was of a character not to be entrusted with duties which would necessarily fall upon him. Then the salmon packer called his employe into the office and asked that the contract be returned and in a mild way explained the reasons therefore. It was then discovered that money had been advanced on the contract. In a day or two the company received notice from Attorney Hutton that he must appear in a sult, as he was sued for money due on the contract and board for the time ‘which the contract had been_runi 3 Although surprised, Mr. Hume deter- mined to ask the aid of the police in find- ing the man, as he states that he would rather take chances on sending him north than to spend his time in fighting a law l““l;m It 1s t«‘ri this ‘rfl:%tmt H s between a desire a case on its merit or to hire a man whom he be- LUsves ta ba upsujtaple - was chiefly due to the superiority of a few brilliant performers over their com- petitors. Drum, whose athletic reputa- tion 18 ever on the increase, mounted an- other rung on the ladder of fame, break- ing the college record on the Berkeley track in the 220-yard sprint. The distance he covered in 23 seconds, which, when the slowness of the track is considered, is equal to at least 22 seconds. Drum ran a slow 100, and did not enter the 440, nursing his physfcal energles for a coup-de-grace in the middle distance sprint. The mile walk record was shattered when Walsh, without any severe pushing, broke the tape at a pace of 7 minutes and 24 seconds. For several years 7% minutes was winning time at Berkeley, but in Walsh the college has now a man who has made a study of pedestrianism. Another record that went glimmering was the 120 hurdles. Ben Bakewell, brother to the famous hurdler, who es- tablished records in years gone by, ran the high hurdles in 16 seconds, making a new record for the California track. The best previous performance over the same ground was one-fifth of a second slower. The star event of the day, and that which eclipsed all others in the lopping off of fractions, was the performance of Broughton In the distance jump. He cleared just twenty-two feet nine and a half inches of ground in a bound. Onl: once before has a leap of that lengtl been made in athletic competition on this coast, that of Schifferstein, in the old days of the Olympic Club, when he made a record for himself by jumping twenty- three feet. When Broughton made his longest jump the spectators realized, .be- fore the distance was announced, that something unusual had happened, and a wild burst of applause followed his effort. The enthusiasm continued, and when the official announcer told his tale, nothin; but shouts and college yells -were hear for several minutes. When the congratu- lhsl,:m;y egg,caulaug‘m u;lzl‘:)ulde% Drum ran ecord-smashin, , an - nile delirium flourished. e The programme of events in order was as follows: 100- dash—Drum fi Brgug’l:n;:n third. D{fl“mf, ‘1‘?"%&:?1"’ S ne-mile run—Carrol o] second, Carpenter third. “Tims, 4 minutes 45 45 seor ond, Seiter thied. Timer 18 farendat*oR %00 One-mile walk—Walsh first, Westerfeld sec- ond, Delashmutt third. Time, 7 minutes 24 seconds. r:;fi—ylrd dash—Hinz ran alone. Time, 55 seo- s, ol 830-yard run—Carpenter first, M econ Scott third, . Time, 2 minutes b sermds o0d 220-yard hurdle—Bakewell first, W sec- ond, Dawson third. Time, 2 2.5 seooone’ 220-yard -Drum ran alone. Time, 23 seconds. Shot put—Woolsey, son, 39 feet 3 inches; 40 feet 2 th,O:: Guiber- High jum) oy ‘well seco: Peck, 38 feet es. Y s nd, Millor third. T ' {nches; Baks- Broad jump—Broughton, 2 feet 9% inches; Pole_vault—Hofrman, aidle ”c&:a o l. 10 feet 6% Inches; second. O Tooia, thiza. Ty Rone After the pole vault event had closed Hoff- man tried for a record and mounted the bar es, e programme, Hoffman eclipsed his mark of ten feet, ten and a half inghes, yigh the pole, by yaultng elav ADVERTISEMENTS. New Goods. This week we w ill exhibit the very latest NOVELTIES in the following de- partments. - LAGE DEPARTMENT ! NEW LACES, Gene. Point Venice an in Point Applique, Point de d Chantilly. 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Bishop Nichols will administer the rite of confirmation this morning at St. Pe- ter's Church, corner of Stockton and Fil- bert streets. ————— COMPANIONS OF THE FOREST. At a meeting of Piedmont Circle held last week, at which the grand officers were present, there were initiated a num- ber of candidates, who will form the nucleus for & new circle to be instituted in Oakland. Loyal Circle at its meeting last Monday initiated five candidates, making eight for the month of March. The open meeting of this circle will ~& held on the evening of the 1ith inst. Justice Circle gave a pleasant socfal in Foresters’ building last night, and there were present many friends of the mem- bol\?fizflni Circle announces an apron and necktie party for the 25th inst. in Bersag- lieri Hall. ADVERTISEMENTS. OPENING My imgortation this season surpasses all others for the style and variety in SUITS, SPANISH FLOUNCE SKIRTS, - JACKETS, BAYADERE SKIRTS, CAPES. Large assortment of Silk Waists. 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