The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1904, Page 9

SAN FR «C ISCO ' CALL, THUR WAS CHO S Rays of Street Lamp Never | | Reach Place Chosen for Foul Deed. Erce Iy Hearing of Leon Soeder, | ccused of the Crime, Is Begun. Rebu Women Who Neglect Duty to Attend Court. | Judge kes If | \ | / | il L i DETECTIVE'S DIAGRAM SHOWS DARKEST SPOT AT BASE OF RUSSIAN HILL SEN BY MURDERER WHO SENT JOSEPH BLAISE TO HIS DEATH | 1 \\\ ' the main her testimony was the same as that she gave at the Coroner’s in- quest on Tuesday, except the portion which she revised about her ability to tell whether Soeder was in his room at the time he claims he was on the night of the murder. | “Could you see a light under the door between your room and Soeder's?” asked Hanley. “I could npot if the portieres were drawn,” responded Mrs. Neiblas. Mrs. Neiblas testified that Blaise al- ways wore a blue suit and that Soeder wore a gray suit on the day that he secured the room in her house, but wore black generally. { “Do you know what color of clothes | Soeder wore on the Sunday njght that he left the house in company with his brother-in-law ?” was asked. “I do not,” was the reply. “What time did they leave the| house on that day?” { “At ter minutes to 5. 1 heard the door slam as they went out.” The woman then said that had Soeder | returned by 10 o'clock on that night | she would not have heard him, as she was busy In the kitchen. She said she | went to bed with her husband at 10:1 and did not know whether Soeder was lin at that time. She testified that the lamp in Soeder’s room, which she had AMU CALIFORNIA 'TS. ISEMEN filled on the Sunday of the murder, | showed next day very little evidence of SECOND WEEK. Laving burned. Little oil was gone. | ! SEATS NOW SELLING. Soeder has stated that he sat in his| | MR. EDWARD MORGAN { roomn with the lamp lighted, waiting And the entire original cast, exactly as | for Blaise to come home. seen during the five m un at the CO a Victoria Theater, N Mrs. Neiblas told of her discovery of | I¥ WALL CAINES LATES® NAS TERP; .. THE... ERNAL CITY TAL PRICE a two-ounce bottle of chloroform on the | mantel in Soeder's room the day before the murder, and said that on the Mon- o day the murder was discovered it dis-| Fretful babies l?ecome calm appeared. Her testimony in regard to| and peaceful babies when fed Soeder’s possession of a pistol was use-| on Mellin's Food. Mellin's less, as she said she thought it was in| > his overcoat pocket at 2 o'clock on the| Food nourishes. Monday that the body was found. She | AT 8. MELLIN'S FOOD CO., BOSTON, MASS. v A sample of Mellin's Food costs you nothing thought it was there because she had| B3 m‘P“km‘_ Wil you not ‘g“ potgg = seen it once before in the coat pocke | it for your baby’s sake? cOLUMB|A SAY FRANCISCD'Y and on Monday, at the time she testi- | LN THEATER | | fied to, she savs she brushed against| the coat in hanging it up and thought the weapon was still there. It has been | shown that Soeder pawned the revolver before 10 o’clock on the morning of the discovery of the murder. ' “What did Soeder say when you told him that Blatse was dead on Monday, | the 11th of January?” asked Hanley. “‘He said, ‘Go on; go 'way,” and when my husband told him that Blaise had heen murdered he said, * answered Mrs. Neiblas. KEPT IN DARK Mrs. Neiblas told of Soeder's many trips to her house on the Monday in' | question, and said that she saw him re- | move from Blaise’s grip what she after- | ward learned were the insurance poli-! cies. She told of Socder's telling her that he had seen Blaise’s body at the | Morgue and his statement that he had several times nassed the spot where The Great Internatiomal MUSICAL COMEDY TRIUMPHE. CHINESE 'HONEY- 'MOON Nightl, MATINE AR Famous the World Over—Fully Matured, Soid Everywhere, HILB. MEKCANTILE ¥ c Coast Agents. including co.. GRAND"™ Matines Safurday—Last Three Wights! “HE'S A GOOD HOSS, HE'LL STAND F— — —— e - — - 4 | Dot ks g e WITHOUT EITCHING.” * | Blaise was found murdered. She also 5 AS HE APPEARED MANACLED TO A DE- | related how' she had seen her husband l‘Al. H. TURNER e 3 TO UNDERGO PRELIMINARY try one of Soeder's shoes in the tracks In Julius Cahn's Successful Production. o s IINATION ON THE CHARGE AGAI in front of Soeder’s window, and said it | 4 p AP B S s SN XS N fitted exactly the imorints there. § g = oy p < | At this juncture the adjournment was its on the head and , with his head toward the wall and bis bodies, had formed the opinion that|taken. | ks only injuries. legs poiniing to the t, slightly in | Blaise had bcen dead about eight or| When the hearing was over Soeder BEGINNING NEXT SUND TINES < po ed by his diagram that| the direction of Vallejo street. There |ten/hours. The attorneys seized at |called Attorney Salomon and told him i et fetr et ich the body lay was the | was a stranger coming down the hill | Meehan's declaration that the man had | that the police insisted on keeping him { LOST RIVER. be entirely lamp on llejo street | ce and is en- light toward the body when I was approach- ing it in company with Hogan. The stranger piciked up Blaise's hat and ave it to me and I placed it over the the Vi irely shut « ade of the|dead man’s head. 1 do not know who street. The di 1S mitted in|the man was, as he got away during evidence | the time that I was searching for a The oth on the northeast| weapon and endeavoring to determine i Taylor ts whether it was a case of murder or t from atal s st ) ccount of | here was nothing that I could find | g it to the spot | to indicate that there had been a-strug- € h 1n, for the defense, | gle before the man was killed.” s showec | that there was u| Detective Armstrong, who was first roadway on the wall at the foot | detailed on the case, told of the condi- of which I tion of the body and the pockets being s NO SIGN OF S turned inside out. He said he searched g Bocder's patm i e :{mr signs of a strugsle aad a weapon, and th: put found none. His testimony was a e hears come | first discovered the repetition of that given at the Coroner’s . scibohes gave testimony that wa | inquest on Tuesday. RUSSFLL MAKES DIAGRAM. . AL b oo Depyty Coroner Charles W. Meehan inquest niy difference made rehearsed the details of the removal r nt nst Soeder | Hogan vesterday was that when aske of the corpse to the Morgue and identi- d the clothes, which were produced Hanley, as the ones he had removed from the body of Blaise. The clothing, the distarce that the the wall he body lay from d it was two and a half | y Salo- estified at the Coro- { - made | ner's inquest that it was three and a|on a motion of the prosecution, was : on | half feet away. Hogan said that the | aamitted as evidence. se ad man wore t when he | e sahfcs i aniss found him, and s haty o sotp] ' OOUNT REBUNES SNOMEN. 8 ) t diagonally up When the clothes of the murdered street from the | { | man were introduced the people in the body. ! urtroom roge in curiosity. Judge at ordered them to resume thelr ts and took occasion to tell the wo- men present that they should be home attending to their household duties in- stead of in a police cour:. fied by a we: » conclusion that the man had b been dead but eight hours, but Meehan | refused to be put down as an authori and stated that his estimation of tha time was but roughly made. Mrs. Emma Christianson, wife of Sergeant Christianson, told of hearing screams on the night of the murder. testimony varied from that she had already given. When murder was first suspected Mrs. Christianson said che heard the screams about 11 or 12 }m-lock in the night. stand she said that she heard loud, plercing screams between 8:45 and 9 o’clock on the Sunday night of January 110, She said: “I was sitting in the | kitchen, the windows of which face on Taylor street, toward the spot where the body was found. The kitchen win- dows were open part way and between 8:45 and 9 o'clock I heard several loud screams, seemingly coming from a man of powerful voice. I know it was at that time, because I had some neigh- {bor’s children in the house and they | went home at 8:55. I heard the screams a few minutes before. The sound came from the direction of Russian Hill, where the dead man was found.” On cross-examination Mrs. Christian- son was forced to admit that she could not tell whether the screams came from the particular portion of Russian Hill where Blaise was found dead or | streets, | nouse. directly across from her would not bhe positive. In g ake suct dered. He said 1en 1 rea When quiet was restored Attorney| MRS. NEIBLAS FLOUNDERS. t u.vm:n.r‘ h »dy th: w Salomon cross-examined Meehan and Mrs. Neiblas was the next witness ¢ corners of |muddy and dar elicited the fact that the deputy,|and the remainder of the afternoon ("«’1.[4;.-'. night before. Th wa through his experience in handling dead | was taken up with her testimony. nd. He testified | ¥ 3 & — beneath :hr- ISSUES A CHALLF |léges that Davis owed $40 for| ALLEGED HORSE SALE board, lodging and medical attendance, and on Monday night he surreptitiously took his departure after lowering his personal effects out of the window of | stone wall on | exactly two thus bringing the the treet w 1 inches TO MORTAL COMBAT Martin Obtains War; rtin Alton for Tk Albert nt for »f the man’'s head to a point within| Arrest of M s | g . feet of the wall | Against Life, i]"" room by means of a clothes line. said that the height of the| Albert E. Martin, 634 Fulton street, | is week 25 per cent reduction on sured from the spot where | who was accompanied by his wife, | every heater in stock. San Franclsco Gas aise’s was found, was thirty- to a complaint before Police |and Electric Company, 315 Post street. * en feet and six inches. Conlan yesterday charging Mar- | —e > offered by the pre tin Alton with threats against his life District Court Notes. t the defense might not a aise fell to his death from man falling from a dis- even feet would be pitate rther into the street v where the body was John R. Meibourn filed a complaint vesterday in the United States District Court against Oliver J. Olsen, as owner of the schooner Alpha, to recover $65 balance of wages alleged to be due as chief mate. Martin said that he had been mar-| year. Alton had known or to her marriage, and ke had been | ried for about a Mrs. Martin ¥ for the last tl { caliing at the Martin residence during | the husband’s absence and trying to| testimony of the autopsy | poison Mrs. Martin's mind against her| The case of Thomas Davis, charged further bear out this fact | husband. When ordered to leave he|With feloniously assaulting Mrs, A. H. testifies that Blaise’s body | would persist in remaining and annoy- | Ames on the high seas, was transferred f any bruises or fractured | ing Mrs. Martin. | to the United States Circuit Court, the A letter was produced which Alton | District Court not having jurisdiction in capital cases. The penalty for the ree month GRAPE-NUTS. | nad written to Martin challenging him | in_ — ,~~,,-,~.~M~im mortal combat, offering him the crime is death or imprisonment at O00 choice ‘of weapons and threatemng to | hard labor for life. OO0 DR ODDCOD ——————— Ask any good grocer for Hills Bros. Arabian Roast Coffee. . | kill him at the first opportunity. Mur-‘ | tin said he had a number of letters | written by Alton to his wife couched in ! the most endearing terms. He wanted | Alton arpested and bound over to keep | | the peace, as he was a source of an-‘ | noyance to him and his wife and might | carry out his threats. Alton lives in‘ Oakland. I Skips by Light of the Moon. Joseph Johnson, clerk in a lodging- house at 1206 Market street, secured a warrant from Police Judge Mogan yes- terday for the arrest of William Davis, an advertising man, on the charge of @etrauding an lnnkeeper. Johnson al- ‘g FREE A PORTFOLIO OF CALIFORNIA VIEWS' To Want Advertisers In Next Sunday’s Call. Bring your ad to The Call Thursday, Friday and Saturday | of this week and get ome of I these pretty little souvenirs. { % Taste Good for lunch Grape-Nuts and Cream g { { i e i o i : i & LEADS TO TROUBLE Search Warrant Secured and Also Warrant for Arrest of Two Men for Grand Larceny. J. W. Miller, representing Klaus & Robinson of the Palo Alto stables, 320 O'Farrell street, secured a search war- | terday afternoon to recover possession of a gray horse valued at $160, which it was alleged was in a stable at 293¢ Ful- ton street. Miller swore to a complaint charging Thomas Ashworth and “John Doe” Norton with grand larceny. W. H. Robinscn, a member of the firm, who accompanied Miller, said that Ashworth called at the stables yester- day morning and said he knew two men who would purchase the gray horse. He put up a deposit of $10 and went away. He returned later to take away the horse, but was informed he wouid first have to pay the balance of $140. Ashworth, Robinson alleges, jumped on the horse’s back, saying he would take a turn around the block to try the ani- mal, but he did not come back. Robinson says that a search was made and the gray horse was discov- ered in a stable at 2034 Fulton street. Ashworth is a cigar merchant and lives at the Langham Hotel. —_——— ! Electrician Badly Burned. Joseph Nabhille, an electrician, was badly burned yesterday by the explo- sion of a gasoline stove, while working on a nmew building at Third and Mis- sion streets. He was removed to the French Hospita}l Yesterday on the { from the corner of Green and Taylur‘ She thought, though, that they | came from the direction of the hill, but rant from Police Judge Cabaniss yes- ' in a dark cell and treated him as a convicted eriminal. ] Salomon was wroth and said that in court to-day he would complain of the manner in which the police have been | treating his client. “I have always un-| derstoed,” said Salomon, “that a man is innocent until proven guiity, and 1 do not think that the police have any right to keep Soeder in a dark cell until they have proven this charge of mur- der which they have entered against his name.” Judge Cabaniss was not much im- pressed at the evidence produced yes- terday, and said it would be necessary for the prosecution to show more in oL Ai POPULAE PRICES. CLUETT, PEASODY & CO. Makers of Cluett and Mo: ! Justois | A PRODIGIOUS PROGRAMME! Johnny and Emma Ray: Cordua and Maud; Duffy, Sawtelle and Duffy: Holden and Florence; Last Times of the Stein-Eretto Family: Stanley and Wilson: Kelly and Violette, and Irving Jones, and Orpheum Motion DON'T FAIL TO ESURT Losnging roonitht EIPTH PARLOR, the PALM ROOM, the LOUIS XV PAR- Grand order to get Soeder bound over to the fl t l | R e Superior Court for trial. O1ciS | day, Saturday and Sunday. Prices, 10e, Detective Gibson said that when Miss and 30c. Flatley was placed on the stand to- | sy e 5§ " day there would be some startling tes- | PERA timony. The Call has always alleged the _,ml o that Miss Flatley was the most im- || @Xative = ! HOUSE. portant witness for the prosecution, | . > AT SUCCES: and. it is known that the police rely more Curss aCold inOne Day, 2 Days ‘\ THIRD WEEK OF THE GREAT SUCCESS, on her then on any of the other wit- ! nesses in producing evidence enough to é % Gnevery | Whe" Jflhn"y get a conviction of Soeder. 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