The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1904. CORONER LELAND BEGINS AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF JOSEPH BLAISE, WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND AT BASE OF RUSSIAN HILL inquest into the dea who was murdered on € 10, was begun T T ral witnesses were ned, but little headway 4 gth of time jespite the } nand. Gibson ry t e e his request VERLOOKED BY POLICE. E that he had g going S A in NO SIGN OF STRUGGLE. t was ¥ 5 ; I i bod : b . e kets robably < < bsorbed s Soeder, who had not ective er and B T — ADVERTISEMENTS. A CONVERSATION WITH A CLIMAX When a Professional Man Talks to the Point It's amous American physicians dining to- a national se this rgeon specialist present, rectal My nt was rve-racked crea- =0 fearfully from rhoids that the 3 n of the heart was we dared not weak this op- streng by d ceased my visits to her for a ad given up all hope, when ng she entered office look- new woman; the pallor had and the lines of suffering eradicated from her face. she had bought at a drug ts a proprietary medi- pository. form called Pyr re, and had obtained instant e he first insertion. I made on and found the rectum ndition, the inflammation appeared and the swollen al condition. remedy eased with the result of ing a combination of and scientific Pyramid Pile Cure nient form thanI otherwise, yramid Drug Company } Mich., asking for their their Nature, Cause ich, by the way, is sent e used their Pile fix the mve them ha nce practice. 1 do not hesitate to mend it to you all. It will often save your patient from a painful surgi- cal operation, which in many cases re- sults fatally.” .| Detective on Case Tries to Have It Put Over Until After the | win- 1 nterested in the case that | analyzed carefully, | | call at the office of the®Chief of Police. reme- | that I| | seen it several times. ively and with best results | Preliminary Hearing, but Several Leading Witnesses Are Examined Without Any Startling Facts Being Elicited YEBLAS. T7ARA NarLLArzAa ZEar So=DER. ATT 02”57’ i I'ED MURL ER OF JOSEPH BLAISE, D AT AT I TI HIS ATTORNEY AND SOME HE INQUEST HELD OVER OF THE THE REMAINS BY CORO- beard on his face and looked to assume an t ed at the var rior to hi eration in the seat between 2 ned intently t of the witnesses ng the heari § der, who was sitting right in front of the two girls ho came with m from Germany on steamer La Touraine, glanced around at them several times, hoping, to get a nod of recognition but they looked over his NEIBLAS' POOR ME! Joseph Neiblas, Soeder’s and Blaise's rmer landlord, was placed on the stand Neit gave a broken account of his knowledge and had a discon- nected memory of the true facts of the He would talk for a few minutes nd then lapse into a comatose state and appear to be in dreamland. with great difficuity that Coroner Le- nd was able to get an intelligent an- swer from him. First he would deny that 2e knew anything about what he was being asked, and a moment later, by some deft questioning, Dr. Leland TORY. case fact that he had but a moment before denied knowledge of. His testimony was merely a repeti- tion of what has already been pub- lished. He had not seen the dead man alive after 11 o’clock on Sunday morn- ing, January 10. He legan to relate his suspicions of Soeder, and said that individual had impressed him as acting very mysteriously the last week before Blaise was murdered. He was forced to admit that he had never though any{aing wrong of Soeder’s actions un- til he looked back over the occurrences after Soeder had been arrested for the murdes portion of Neiblas' testimony which was intelligible was as follows: “At 6:30 on the morning that the body of Blaise was discovered, Soeder came to our room and said he feared that Blaise had lost his robbed, as he had not come home all night. He said Blaise had considerable money on his person. I was in bed when he came to the room and did not see his face. I heard him leave the house a few minutes later and he did not return until 12 o’clock at noon. In the meantime the newspaper men and the detectives had called and told me that Blaise was dead. 1 told Soeder that Blaise was dead and he said, ‘Go on, great God.” I told him that the | detectives had left word for him to He went out again and did not come back until 3 o'clock. I asked him if he had seen the spot where Blaise was murdered and he replied that he had “His manner was unconcerned. He went into his room and sat at the table writing a letter. When he had finished he left the house, saying he was going to the Mission to see some friends, and told me that if any one called to say he would return at 7 o'clock. He was back at 7 o'clock and stayed but a minute. After he had gone Detective Gibson came to the house and told us > | that It was | ould compel him to admit the very | way or had been | Soeder was suspected nr having been the murderer of Blaise sitions Soeder | » him to go to the house of | s Flatley and attempt to regain lh"" | jewels Soeder had given her. He then | began a recitation of his sleuthlike | | work in discovering the broken gera- nium bush and footprints, oner could not his talk and dismiss | Mrs. Neiblas to the stand. | Mrs. Neiblas' testimony was in the main a corroboration of her husband’s. | but the Cor- the importance of | d him, and called N She seemed dazed and talked discon- nectedly. She said she had seen the two | men, Soeder and Blaise, when they | | went out to dinner. "It was about 4:40 o'clock,” s id, “because I had just lighted the lamps, and it has been my custom of late, when the days have | been short, to light the lamps about | that time. A few minutes after they had gone the clock struck 5. Charles S. Vose, Dennis Collins and Bernard Boland, Union street carmen, | were placed on the stand to tell about ! the excited German they saw at 8:20 | o’clock on the night of the murder. Coroner Leland could not see the im- portance of their testimony in the case | and dismissed them as unimportant witnesse: None of them could jdentify Soeder or the picture of Blaise. They had merely reached the conclusion that the man they directed to Jackson street was possibly Blaise, because he was a German and excited. Collins said the man they saw had a week's growth of beard on his face, while the dead man’s | face was almost absolutely clean. He aid he did not think the man was Blaise. Vose testified that he had no- ticed the man merely because his boss, Collins, had thought the circumstance peculiar. Their testimony was useless, as Blaise was dead, as has been shown by medical testimony, at the time that | they saw the BLAISE'S MEAL. Maria Vallarta, who with her sister conducts the Original Mexican restau- rant at 721 Broadway, was next placed | on the stand. She was the one who last saw Blaise alive, as he left her restau- rant in company with Soeder an hour or so before the murder took place. The woman had previously stated to Detec- tive Gibson that Soeder and Blaise left the restaurant at 7:30 o’clock. At the | inquest she changed this to 6 or 6:15 o'clock. Detective Gibson says he be- lieves she has been influenced by friends of Soeder. He argues that her mlmer was formerlys a habitue of the | tenderloin, and she may have been iwarned to change her testimony by some of Soeder’s friends in that quarter of the city. The witness said Soeder and Blaise came into the restaurant while it was yet light on the Sunday night that Blaise was murdered, and she fixed the time at 5:30 o'clock, She told of the foods they had eaten, and said that the < [ i | | dent and life insurance life of Blai ceedings leading the policie: Marks tion for making Leon Soeder was put in- by two left the restaurant together at 6 or 6:15 o'clock. If - Miss Vallarta is right in her estimation of the time, Blaise met his death between 7:30 and 8 o’clock on that fatal Sunday night. Samuel | cific from lar application for Joseph Blaise as the beneficiary. had' no means of telling that the ap- plication for the policies was made by Blaise, but word of Soeder, who acted as spokes- man. at the time the pol T | Marks, of the Pa- Mutual Life Insurance Company. which Soeder obtained the secretary acci- policies on the testified as to the pro- up to the issuance of aid that Blaise made applica- an accident policy for $3000, Sos the beneficia down as the brother- Soeder made a simi- a like policy, with Marks law of Blaise. believed it merely on the Blaise, he said, was not present were asked for Soeder, but was waiting in an ad- joining room. Marks did not know whether Blaise was cognizant of the fact that Soeder was to be the bene- ficiary in the policies applied for. The witness told of the application of the two men for a policy of $10,000. in which Mrs. Blaise was to be made beneficlary. Marks said Soeder had first sent a note to the company’s of- fice, asking that a man be sent to the house at 827 Jackson street, or that literature on the subject of life insur- ance be sent him. This, he said, was an uncommeon thing in the life insur- ante business, as the bulk of the poli- cies were secured by strenuous solici- tation. J. W. Fowler, the agent who wrote the accident policies for Soeder and Blaise, was not present at the inquest. Edward H. Osborne, the agent who wrote the $3000 policy on the life of Blaise, testified as follows: ir. Fow- ler told me that Soeder and ‘Blaise, for whom he had issued accident policies. desired some life insurance. I went to the rooms and found Soeder and Blaise there. I asked them whether they wanted a $1000 or a $2000 policy. Soeder spoke up and said that they | | wantea a $10,000 policy. On learning | they were cooks I thought the request for a $10,000 policy was going beyond their means. But when I asked for a deposit ‘Seeder produced a roll of greenbacks and my apprehension was allayed. This was on the morning of | December 22. Soeder had previously | sent a letter to the office, asking that | some one call, as he wanted some life | | | | insurance. This looked like an easy | way of getting the privilege of writing | a policy, and Fowler and I went to- gether. ALLOWED ONLY $3000. ? “When Soeder said that he wanted a $10,000 policy, I immediately asked for | a denosit. In response to his query as | to whether 1 wanted $50 or $100. T re- plied that $50 would be sufficient to | | bind the contract. I told him that the | annual premium on a $10,000 pofu-,\"v would be $342, and he said that made no difference. He told me at the time | that he had a policy in the New York | Life Company. The examining doctor | for the company was with me, and | Blaise was found to be in good physical | conditicn. The application was sent to the home office of the company and was returned | with a refusal tc assume the respon- | | sibility of $10.000 on a man's life who | had no other income than that derived | from his occupation as a cook. All that | they wculd allow on Blaise's life was | $3000. A policy for this amount was | issued to Soeder, and our dealings with him were closed. The premium on the | $3000 policy was $102 60.” John M. Kilgarif, agent of the Pa-| cific Mutna! Life Insurance Company. who received the payment for the poli- ries issued by the company to Soeder | and Blaise, was not present, so the Ccroner could not ascertain whether Soeder or Blaise paid for the policies | but it is known that Soeder paid for | them, as_he did for everything that | Blaise nurchased. | The assistant medical director for the | Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company | testified to examining Blaise and state that it was not on account of any | physical disability that the full $10,000 | was refused him. Bothe, city chemist, was He repeated his re- | port, fixing the hcur of death of Blaise. | He said: “T examined the contents of the dead man’s stomach. which were given to me by Autopsy Surgeon Bac galupi. There were no poisons present. | | Not more than an hour and a half or two hours at the utmost could have elapsed between the time of the eating of the feod and the subsequent arrest of digestion.” | Detective Thomas Gibson was not | | called on to testify. but was subpe- | naed to dictate to Coroner Leland nm} order in which the various witnesses should be summoned. { Gibson is still working on the case | and claims to have some new wit-) nesses that will testify to Blaise's ut-| ter ignorance of the fact that his| brother-in-law, Soeder, was.made a | beneficiary in any of the policies| which were taken out on his life. Gib- | son says that Blaise believed at the | time the applications were made for | policies that his wife in Germany was to be the beneficiary. Gibson also claims to have located the man who took Soeder’'s gray suit’ to the cleaning establishment. He will | will not say whether that man is Nei- RUST DAMAGES THE ASPARAGIS Canners and Others That Handle Crop Disturbed by Re- port of Threatened Shortage ORDERS ARE CONTINGENT| e Craw Says That It Is Too| Early to Estimate Damage Done by the Vegetable Pest FEEET B Canners and others concerned in handling large quantities of asparagus | disturbed because of a re- | are much | port that the asparagus pest known | as rust has so ravaged the roots of the asparagus in large flelds in Cali- fornia that there will be a great short- age during the coming 'season. tain wholesale houses are reported to have refused to take any orders for delivery except with an “if,” the un- certainty being relative to their ability to secure the goods. The rust known in certain localities last year in this State. In past years it has al- most entirely destroyed the asparagus crop in large sections in the Eastern was Cer- | ADV n'nxnmu. MUNYON'S GREAT SUCCESS. His Paw Paw Remedg in Big Demand. DRUGGISTS BUSY | — {Suppluing Their Custom- | ers With This New Stomach Remedu. HUNDREDS -TESTIFY That They Recelved Wonderful Benefits From the Free i Sample Bottles. States. The pest has been so bad that where it appeared the roots of the asparagus were badly affected by the | seccnd year. East the plants have been entirely ex- terminated. * Quarantine In some instances in the | PROF. MUNYON SAYS Qu Officer Craw saia last|Paw Paw Will Make an Old evening that a strong attempt was made to keep out the roots and seeds As of asparagus from abroad. ers had been forbidden to import either seeds or roots, but the direction had probably been evaded in some in- stance #The rust was a serious men- ace in the Eastern States not long ago The grow- | | Stomach Almost Good &8s New. {CURES NERVOUSNESS and seeds may have been brought into | For a time rust did not appear in California. The troubles of stern agriculturists served to deter them from engaging in asparagus cul- was started California from ‘the East. Mr. Craw |Scores 0f People Declare. In said that it was probably too early in | & the season to ascertain what effect the | Favor cf Paw Paw. rust was having in California. The pest has diminished in the Eastern States | < . and conditions for asparagus growers | It Soothes the Nerves. there are better than they were a few | It Rests the Nerves. years ago. | e s the Nerves. The asparagus business of California e has assumed large proportions in the It Enables One to Sleep. last two or three years. Hundreds of It Is Nature's Own Remedy. | cars laden with the vegetable have | | been sent East since the trade abroad | ey REATER AND GREATER GROWS the public interest in Prof. Munyon's new Paw Paw cure Druggists s they never had such a demand for a new - | remedy. Many people who recelved a ture on their former large scale. This | free sample bottle sa they began to feel naturally led to the extension of the | petter after taking the first dose. It not California market. In the southern ! only acts as a tonie, but gives the stom- part ¢f the State and in the islands in | had upon the asparagus plants that are | just about sprouting will probably tend | 1!to have a conservative effect upon the persons that are engaged in the busi- ness. ach an abiding strength to digest every- the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers | thing that is put into it. People who | many thousands of dollars have been ave been unable to retain any solids on | invested in asparagus farms. The an- | their stomachs T declare that they nual receipts have been very large and | €an eat a hearty ";““‘ ‘_”“{T{‘j‘": &;:fld‘:f included a handsome margin of profits. | Mot The most wattelons FREE OV Mr. Craw’'s statement that it Is too | . oo T erte on the nerves. It seems early to tell what effect the rust has and strengthen them to soathe, Prof. Muhyon says that this Paw Paw remedy feeds the nerves and relieves them of all irritation and friction. It isn't a narcotic to put them to sleep, but a remedy that will give them a lasting —_— e strength. § HERMANN OELRICHS TELLS ll‘u”lwt\z::'“rr\'mw af:r rz';prm\nl:u“a»jx OF THE IR COMPROMISE | jver was ever compounded. I have seen - * sluggish livers that had refused to act Denies That Misrepresentation Was | under the usual treatments respond in a Made or Undue Influence Used by Him. Hermann Delrichs appeared before Court Commissioner Hosmer yester- day to tell what he knew regarding the settlement made between the rel- { most marvelous way by the use of Paw Paw. | “Paw Paw seems to digest everything it touches, hence makes good, rich blood, which in turn stremgthens and vitalizes the whole nervous system. 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