The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1901, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1901. MYSTERY OF THE KILLING OF ROBBIE HISLOP HAS NO LIGHT CAST UPON IT BY TESTI'TONY GIVEN AT THE INQUIRY BY CORONER’S JURY It Was a Murder Committed by a Party or Parties Unknown, but the Solution of the Problem Is Left to the Police, Who Still Hold Herman Lukherath in Custody Pending Further Investigation. Was Pursued for Complicity in the Crime, Hangs Himself HE inquest into the murder of l ' Robbie Hislop has fixed only | that the killing of the boy was a murder, but as to the person who did it the Coroner’s jurv re- ent. Lukherath, the suspect, is rest, and he will be kept in the caseor until it has been deter- he is innocent—that is unless in the meantime proceedings are brought to have him released in default of any charge being made against him. E— 1\ \ \ ' AN | ENRY COND THE S\/EDLSES coNsSUL . Redwood City Prisoner, Fearing He v Cororer, started with the intention of fin- ishing the case as soon as possible, and without a break it ran from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, and when it was over there was not a word of and Eighth, a walk of about ten minutes, L. Samuels, the druggist on the corner of Ninth and Howard, where Smith and Luk- | herath went after leaving Sheehy's sa- | Ioon, said the two men left his place not |later than twenty minutes past 8. Mrs. available testimony that had not been|Jane Wiggins, landlady of the house in brouzht out. Of the witnesses examined, R. C. His- lop, father of the murdered boy; George MRS SARAH CLACK, NELGHBEOR. OF THE H1SLorsS which the two' men lived. testified to hear- ing men talking in their room at what | she afterward learned to_be about half | past 9 or 10 o'clock. Mrs. Esther Houston | gave some immaterial testimony about | two men she had seen hanging around the | vicinity of Haight and Octavia streets on Saturday night, and Miss Viola Gagle, who lives in the flat under that of the | Hislops, told how she heard a man leave the Hislop house not later than a quarter to 9 o'clock. This led the inquiry to the most important witnesses of the day, Harry Smith and Herman Lukherath. Smith’s Testimony. | Smitn’s statement was that he met Luk- oFr THE MURDERED BOY There ie a new story in the case, which men whose actions denote “insanity, de- clered he was being pursued by the police for the der of ~Robbie Hislop, and n it i The correspond- emts say he had a handkerchief that bea kable signs of blood. Sheriff Man: in Seymour that there are no blood on the handkerchief; and neither spondents nor Sheriff can find out from where the man came. The inquest has furnished another lead for the detectives to work upon. -Mrs. Heuston in her testimony told of a man with a white hat, who passed her and her juet before it is supposed to have taken place, as she was going to call on some | people living at 26 Octavia street, which is just around the corner from the Hisicp refidence. The man with the white hat nce, but did not ring the bell. She < working at the door, but as she passed him snd went into No. 2. he | Willful murder committed by a party or was still seeking an entrance to 24. | parties unknown. Captain Seymour will investigate. Smith, | the testimony of nineteen witnesses to en- 0 was Inattendance at the inquest, had | gpje the jury to reach its conclusion. th him a white hat, and he_was asked 16 pu ton to had see: he resembled the man who passed he; on and stand up for Mrs. Hous- older folk; The sailor, Segur Gonderson, who was - o wood Caty where a|the third of the trio who lodged in tho comes up from Redwood Citv, Whele 2| Hisiop house, has been located | Bront H. Tietien, uncie of ~Smith. | shipped, on March % last. on the schooner | Repeat, then bound for Mexico. He claim- |ed to be & second mate. The schooner since’ then has made her way L I const, and she is now in Coos Bay. San Mateo County reports to|i "oyned by the Simpson Lumber Com- The detectives will get a statemenc | from him as soon as possible. UNKNOWN PARTIES MURDERED-HISLOP companion the night of the murder and | o 000 .Tu.ry—w—i ders Verdict Which Leaves Mystery Still in the ‘Hands of the Police. The Coroner's inquiry into the murder sed her and went to the door of No. |of little Robbie Hislop was commenced ., where he tried to gain an -en-|and concluded vesterday, and the, verdict W | is that the boy came to hisdeath through pany. It took six-hours and There was room, for no more than the ee if he resembied the man-she | Witnesses and their friends in the inquest but she would not say even that | room of the Morgue when the case was called yesterday morning. Qur splendid shoes for children misses are designed for wear as well as comfort — at store the same care; ful attention is given to these little ones as has always been our custom to grant the summer styles much in evidence. Our windows will in- terest those who have .- little shoes to buy. M. Hislop, his‘brother; Mrs. Sarah Clack, a'neighbor’and one of the first called into the house .after .the. discovery of the crime; Dr. T. B. Roche, who was called in"to attend the boy while it was still be- illeved that he was suffering from some internal: hemorrhage,”and Dr. J. G.-Mor- rissey were examined to show the.posi- tion of the body as it lay on the bed, the condition of the clothing on the bed, the stains on the bedclothes and the clothing of the boy and the efforts that were made to sustain life. The testimony agreed on the fact that the boy was lying on his back, his head ‘inclined alittle to the right, and that the bedclothes were un- ruffied at the foot of the bed and were drawn up under his chin, while the clothes around his head and his shirt were sat- uratea. with blood. Dr. Bacigalupi, autopsy surgeon of the Morgue, described in detail the wounds on the boy's head, supplementing what had already been testified to by Dr. Mor- riésey and Dr. Roche. He sald there was 10_evidence of any struggle, and he was satisfied that the boy had been struck on the back of the head while he lay asieep. There were sixteen wounds altogether, and two of these, both on the back of the head and both fractures of the skull, were necessarily fatal, Finding of Hatchet. Policeman B. F, Sawyer told how he bad found the hatchet in the vacant lot in the vicinity of the Hislop house, and Dr. Frank T. Green, the city chemist, told hew he had examined the red spots that appeared on_ the hatchet and had found them to be blood. He had not gone far enough, however, in his investigations to state positively that the blood was human blood. He had also examined the trou- sers which were supposed to have been marked with blood and he swore that the suspicious spots were not blood. On the point of the acquaintance be- | tween Lukherath and the murdered boy Mrs. Augusta Seibt, who with her hus- band keeps the candy store to which Lukherath took the boy on the Wednes- day before the murder, was called to tell how the two came into the store and Lukherath asked her husband to tell the boy that he would get two bits for every letter for Lukherath that came to the house and was brought to him. Lukhe- rath Lad said positively that he did not know the murdered boy. James Duffey, the plumber, who saw s man walting in_the rain on Haight Street opposite the Hislop house last Sat vrday evening, was called to tell of the appearance of the man and to identify once more the suspect as the man he saw in the rain. He says his attention was drawn to the man by the fact that he was standing in the rain without an um- brella and agpa.rently for no'reason. Duf- fey swore that he saw the man on the street no earlier than a quarter past § and no later than a quarter to 9 o'clock, He was corroborated by the testimony of Barnett, who keeps the College Kennels at 115 Halght street, whose house Duffey was leaving when he saw the walting man. Barnett said Duffey left his house somewhere about 9 o’clock. Lukherath Involved. This brought Lukherath right into the case and made his movements on Satur- day evening a matter of the first impor- tance. It is in regard to the time he left the vicinity of Ninth and Howard streets and arrived at his home at Laguna and Oak streets that the most glaring -dis- crepancies in Lukherath’'s story occur. Charles Eichorn, who worked in the saus- age factory with Lukherath, testified that they left the shop about 7 o'clock and that, after taking a few drinks in Sheehy’s a salcon next door, they left there minutes aftey, 8. He sald he knew time because his wife complained about the late hour of his arrival home and he looked at his watch and found it to be twenty minutes t 8. He had walked oward aud Ninth streets to Bryant X R < H1S1LOF FATHER e 4 cisco, came to his death at sald 1041 Haight street on May 25, (1901, through compound com- minuted fracture of the skull, through willful murder by a party or parties unknown. So far as the Coroner is concerned this ;&_nds the case._[It now rests with the po- ice. During the inquest the suspect was rep- resented by General W. H. L. Barnes, who at the request of Henry Lund, the Ncrwegian Consul, who was also present, looked after the legal rights of the man under _detention. General Barnes ex- plained at the beginning of the hearing that he did not wish to interfere in the proceedings, nor would he do so, but he was there merely to see that the suspect ghould not do himself legal harm through ignorance of the customs and language of this country. CHOSE A ROPE BEFORE A CELL Suicide in Redwood City Who Feared Implication in the Murder of Robbie Hislop. REDWOOD CITY, May 20.—Lying on a slab in the morgue at this place is the body of a man who it is generally sup- posed here is in some way connected with the foul murder of little Robert Hislop in San Francisco last Saturday night. The body is that of a Spaniard or Mexican abcut 50 years of age. He came to his death by hanging in the Redwood City Jall some time during Tuesday night. At 9 o'clock on Tuesday night James Bradley, on repairing to his room near the Beeson blacksmith ship, was surprised to find a man standing near his bed, who quickly decamped upon the arrival of the righttul occupant. Constable Chatham subsequently arrested the intruder. He gave his name as Thomas Lopez. He was acting in a very nervous and excitable manrner, exclaiming that he was at last X AUSUSTA 3zns1; KEEPER 7 TIE CANDY STORE ) » {.ff SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO APPEARED AT THE HISLOP INQUEST. - £ herath in the saloon at about 7 o'clock; that they were both home at half past 9 o'clock, ‘and that they went to bed at once. He said he did not know how lon they were in the saloon. He was aske through an interpreter if he had lost sight of Lukherath at any time from 7 o’clock on Saturday night until Sunday morning, when he was arrested, and he declared gn-mvely that he had not. He sald he new the Hislop boy from seeing him in the house and when the boy used to open the door before they were given keys. The boy, he said, never went to their room. Referring to the episode of Wednesday, Smith said he did not remember when Lukherath came home, but when he did arrive, said Smith, he was drunk. ukherath was questioned through Po- liceman Nelson, who acted as sworn in- terpreter. He said he thought he had seen Robbie Hislop, but he was not snre. He remembered seelng two boys in the Hslop house when he lived there, but ue did not know who they were. . He called .at the house on Wednesday last to get a letter he thought should be there, but he declared he did not remember who opened the door for him, or that the boy spoke to him or that he took the boy down to the candy store and agreed to give him two bits for every letter he delivered. He could explain how it was he remembered that he went to the house for a letter, and vet could remember nothing else. He sald he was too drunk to remember any- thing of that afternoon, but he did say his visit was somewhere along about 4 o’clock, while every other word of testi- mony puts it at least two hours after. Question of Time. He gave his version of his progress home from the store Saturday night sub- stantially as he has given it before—that 18, that he left the Jlac@ with the other two men at 9 or half-past 9 o’'clock an after going straight home arrived at hi: room. with Smith about 10 o'clock. ~He denied that he was on Haight street that evening. He said he wore then the only hat he had, the same one he had at the inquest, a stiff hat, a Derby of old-fash- shane That ended the testimony.' The wit- nesses were not called in the order given, 2nd most of what they gave in evidence has already been published, the only new matter brought out -being an'flmcatlons of the details already given. The verdict rendered and approved by the Coroxer is as fcllows: 3 A ‘We, the jury, find that the said Robert C. Hislop, age 13 years, nativity San Francisco, occupation schoolboy, residence 104% Haight Street,.in the city and county of San Fran- { b iy ROCHE. : THE PHYSICIAN\\\ o run down and would be called upon to an- swer for the murder of the Hislop boy. Amcng the effects found upon him weze a handkerchief and the front page of one of the Sunday morning papers containing the story of the murder of the boy. The handkerchief was subsequently ex- amined, and when it was discovered to be fairly saturated with blood the officers began to recall the remark made by the prisoner upon being locked ubp. ot a word or sound emanated from Lopez's cell during the night, and when the door was opened at 7 o’clock yesterday morn- ing his lifeless body was found hanging by a common hay rope fastened to a ir:llng only five fegt from the floor. As pez was a six-footer, he was compelled tg Izendl }&h lme_legh a.nd’ submit to slow strangulation. e ece of rope h: served him as a belt. . F A 2 ‘When taken into custody by the Consta- ble Lopez presented every appearance of dejection, and the few words uttered by him were in relation to having at last been apprehended and the fear that he ‘would be compelled to answer for the aw- ful erime of murder. All day the morgue has been visited b: large crowds, but the first person is ye{ to come who is able to recoj e the, re- mains. Lopez_ was noticed about the -t’};eu 311 ’gueaflly. i e dead man's clothing consisted of a black slouch hat, an ordinary ladies’ undershirt, a cheap cotton over- shirt, black ribbed pants, a bluish gray sack coat, gray stockings and elastic fulglers jmd: r;o voist He wore a dark mus- ache, just turning gray, was abou feet tall and weighed about 180 l;il:n.u'ul&t 1'81"1:6 officers are entirely at sea in the matter of his identity, but are strenuously en- deavoring to unravel the mystery, Coro- ner Crowe announces he will hold an in- quest on Saturday, and that the body will be held until that time before being fn- terred’innlhe hopobethut in the meantime some facts may unearthed that Shed further lght. b ol . Southern Pacific Eastern excursions, June 8 and 4: Buffalo and return, $87; St. Paul and return, $67%0; Kansas City and return, $60. Tickets on sale June 3 and 4, limit 60 days. stopovers going and return- ing; choice of routes. Full information at Southern Pacific office, 613 Market street. —_———— TO ENLARGE FREMONT SCHOOL. Plans Being Prepared to Add An- other Story to the Building. The Board of Education has decided to enlarge the Fremont School by the addition of another story, which will provide accommodations for at least four additional classrooms. The school is sit- uated on McAllister street, between Brod- erick and Baker, and at present consists of nine rooms. The population in the im- mediate vicinity of the park has greatly increased recently and necessitates the establishment of additional classrooms higer o Telieve probable congestion in the scl 3 —————————— G:“vem::r Gu‘: has mfiolnud Notary 'Pfl lc %o ennedy, 5 lfimv itgomery . J. succeed . COPYAIGHT 1900 BY TN PROGTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNA A% g‘-'v Y pute the cost of household in a need no knowledge of ADVERTISEMENTR A CALCULATION. 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The supposition is that the burglars | gained an entrance to the office by climb- | ing the fire escape on the Battery street | side of the building. The window of the office had been left open and it is sup- posed that the men climbed through it after reaching the top of the fire escape. A citizen who was passing at the time saw the two men walk down the fire escape but thinking that they were line repairers he pald little attention to them. Mr. Morgan, the president of the company, Is satisfled that. the burglars are experienced crooks. “If tgey had told me of their coming, he remarked yesterday, “I would have left 50 cents in the safe to recompense them for their trouble.. However, I am glad that they discovered that the safe was unlocked, a(;lterwlsent presume they would own it open. ha.AV: x‘:«l:rthinl elgo ‘was touched in the of- fice the police believe that the burglars @ il O BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Grand Production of the “Marsh King” Will Be Given at the Alhambra. The libretto cf “The Marsh King” Is out in gocd time. The ladles of Alameda who have in charge the arrangements for the entertainment to be given for the ben- efit of the San Francisco Children's Hos- pital at the Alhambra on Saturday after- noon of this week have not left things until the last moment. The attractive little “Bock of the Opera” gives the full cast of 100 characters, with a very full resume of the story and the words of nu- merous songs and choruses. The list of dances Is attractive, including Moonbeam Ballet, Garland Fantasie, Darting Moon- beam-—pas seul—Pearl of the Shadowy Night, Tarantella, Ballet of the Bats, Danse Grotesque and Fete de la Sprite, With waltzes and waltz songs galore. Some of the leading characters—black spirits and white, mortals and sprites— are as_follows: Flamado, the MarshKing, Miss Edith Pariser; Roland, a captive mortal, Miss Mary Jackson; Hildegarde, his sister, Miss Maud Jackson; Zenophar, the enchantress, Miss Louise Clark; Grinetto, prime minister and head con- spirator, Eileen McCurrie; Moon Queen, Alice Teller; Puck, little Cedric McCurrie; Roly Poly, a frog who would a-wooing go and who has a wonderful voice, Guy Med- craft. ‘With all the ninety others in their airy, fairy costumes, these will unfold the mu- sical story of the Marsh King, in which beauty ar.d goodness for a time seem to be having a very hard struggle with that steaming cauldron holding a witches’ brew that sends a spell over everybody, but in which_love and virtue eventually triumph, as they should, and the curtain goes down on the realm of the Moon Queen. It is all very sweet, attractive and wholly fetching, and is all done that the good work of the Children's Hospital may continue; that there may be_ tender nursing and skilled treatment, delicate food, clean beds and sunshine in plenty for the little sufferers. —_— e————— PREFERRED DEATH TO LIFE IN ALMSHOUSE Shock of Change From Hospital Gives Spirit of Young Paralytic Mer- ciful Release. “Death would be preferable 1o this,” exclaimed Lester Kemp, a sixteen-year- old paralytic, who was being removed from the Children’s Hospital to the Alms- house yesterday. In another moment the unfortunate lad sank down in a heap in the Almshouse omnibus and when aid reached him it was found the proud spirit had gained merciful release from the decrepit body. The boy had been an inmate of the Children’s Hospital since 13%, except for a short interim in 1897. The hospital au- thorities never knew where he came from or who were his parents. He was pro- nounced incurable but was allowed to re- main in the hospital. It was decided yes- terday that he could be kept no longer as his age was such that qe could not considered a proper charge i a be ! children’s hospital. The Almshouse was the only Hiace for the helpless fellow to go to and the ambulance from the Emergency Hospital was sent to carry him over the first stage of the trip to the Almshouse. His few be- longings were put into the ambulance and he himself m: comfortable for the trip. At the City Hall, the boy was trans- ferred to the Almshouse vehicle. As he looked about upon the miserable creatures who were to be his combpani him, he uttered the cry given above.and “’ph body was taken to th Emargen e bo en to e Hospital, and from there removed to the Morgue. . —_—— Body Found in the Bay. 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