Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-28
THE GALE OUTRAGE CASE
Conclusion of the Examination-Gale Held
to Answer with Bail Fixed at a. 600


to Answer with Bail Fixed at 5000.
The examination in the cases Of William
Gale and Sadie Fisher in relation to the out
rage committed upon Addie Gale, was re-
sumed in the Police Courtroom yesterday
morning before Justice Tubbs, City Attorney
Anderson prosecuting, and 1. S. Brown con-
Quoting the defense of Gale Elwood Bruner
appeared as counsel for Sadie Fisher. The
examination was continued with closed doors.
as on the preceding day.
Addie Gale, the little girl upon whom the
crime was committed, was the FIST witness
called. She is small and frail in appearance,
and will not be eight years old until next
June. She was upon the witness stand over
two hours, and her direct testimony was very
clear and convincing She said William Gale.
her guardian, was the perpetrator of the
crime, and gave the full details of the trans
action in such manner as would appear to
leave no doubt of the truth of her story, but
which from its nature cannot be published.
She testified that prior TO Sadie Fishers
coming to Sacramento she 1.-THE witness) lived
about two weeks with Mrs. jackson, where
Gale was also living, and after the first night
she slept with him. During the time they
lived there Gale on two occasions attempted
the same crime, and put his hand over her
| mouth at the time. Two weeks ago last
Sunday he did the same way again, and
threatened TO cut off her ears ard her tongue
II she revealed his crime. Sadie Fisher was
out in the kitchen at the time, chopping
| klndling- wood, ard no one else was in the
house. Sadie knew what he had done, but
didn't say anything about it. She came into
the room at such time that she knew about
it. did not tell anybody who did it until |
told Chief Karcher at Mrs. Yates. Sadie
Fisher told me that if | told she would whip
me and cut my ears off. She said they told
her to say that it was some one else who did
it; that was the reason why she told the off
GERS so. The testimony Of the witness not only
APPEARED CONCLUSIVE AGAINST GALE,
As to the crime of which he is charged,
but also was as clearly to the effect that after
it had been committed Sadie Fisher repeated
the outrage of her paramoul by artificial
means which latter largely contributed to
the injury of the child.
The witness was subjected to q rigid cross
examination, which tailed to change the ap-
parent entire truthfulness of her testimony.
Mrs Annie A. Furguson testified that the
little girl was at her house on Saturday af-
ternoon. the day prior to that on which the
act was committed, and played with her little
girl until about o'clock, when she went
home. She was well at that time.
Officer Lee was the next witness, and testi-
fed that two weeks ago last Sunday, in COM
pany with officer Fredericks, he went to the
house occupied by defendants, about noon.
On the way they stopped and had DR.. Bald
win go with them. The testimony of witness
was the same as to the condition of the
child as already given. Her clothes, which
were thick from blood, were identified and
placed in evidence
He asked her who had done it, and she de-
scribed the man as having high cheek bones
and a short gray mustache, and called his
name old man Rufus or Roffus that it was
| a Whitewater and plasterer. She also stated
that it was done when she was coming
from Mrs. Furguson's, on Saturday after
noon that she left there on Saturday after.
noon; that this man met her and took her to
house on o street, when the act was COM
mitted
SHE DESCRIBED THE HOUSE
As an old one, having only three rooms, and
with beds in two CT them ard that there was
an old fence in front partly fallen in towards
the house. This description is that of Gales
house, and the place where she was living.
| We went and arrested colored man named
Rufus Ross, and took him before Addie, but
she said he was not the one Chief Karcher
was there at the house at the time. The
child thought she could tell the house if she
were to see it, SO we took her upon a bed in
hack about the lower part of the city, but
did net find place which she called the one.
| During the afternoon and evening we took
several persons before her for Identification,
but CT each one she would say he was not the
man. In the evening Chief Karcher, officer
Fredericks and myself went and took
| Nelson Ray to the child, as Gale had
said at the station that it was Ray
who had committed the crime. When he
came before her she said he was not the man.
| We then went out and were getting into the
hack when Sadie Fisher came to the door
and wanted to see one Of the officers.
went back and she said, "Addie now suspects
that is the man, meaning Ray. | then took
| Ray into her room again, and held the lamp
close to his face and told her to take a good
| lCok at him. She did so, and | asked her if
| he was the man, and she said it locked some
! like him. The woman Fisher was sitting at
the foot of the bsd, and once in while
THE GIRL WOULD GLANCE AT HER
As we were talking, and 1 remarked,
Don't look there, but look at this man."
We then went out and let Ray go, believing
! that the child had been instructed to say
what she did about him, and from the further
fact that Rays house did not in any way
answer the description that had been given
|
committed
Mrs. Ellen B WISER testified that she is
neighbor of Gales. On the Sunday night
about haif-past IL, Sadie Fisher called her
into Gales house and showed the little girl
to her. She went out to call a policeman,
and Immediately after returned when Sadie
told her that the little girl said that Gale was
the one who committed the crime. She re-
manned there until Gale came home, and
| he oil SaiJ hot +ha littla GIRL acpusad
him OF it, The officer soon after arrived and
| then she went away. She had a conversation
with Gale and the woman that evening"
when they again remarked that the little
| girl said that Gale did it.
CHIEF KARCHER TESTIFIED
As follows: 1 have known Addie Gale
seven or eight months. Two weeks ago last
! Sunday, about / o'clock P. n l was notified
of the crime, and went to the house occupied
by Gale and Sadie Fisher Gale said the girl
had been tempered with, and went on to say
that an old colored man, with short, gray
mustache, and with whitewash clothes on,
had done it the day before, and said it was
done at some house in the lower part of the
city on the day previous. The girl was quite
| low or weak | then asked Gale and the
woman to step out of the room, and they did
so, and then asked the little girl about it,
and she gave statement very similar to that
made by Gale. She also said the place where
it occurred was an old house near where the
railroad ran, as she could see the cars from
there. She said there was an old fence, which
was partly fallen in towards the house. The
house had three rooms in it, and that the
crime was committed in the middle ROOM
She said the man who committed the crime
was of light complexion or yellowish color.
| then told Gale and the woman they could
come into the room again, and they did so.
The girl said she would know the man who
did the act if she could see him, and that she
would know the house again if she saw it. l
then sent for a hack and had bed made in
it, and we took her about that part of the city
in search of house that would answer the
description. The driver stopped in front of
Mr. Rays house, on Q street, between
Eighth and Ninth, and called attention to its
appearance I went in and Mr.. Ray was not
at home. We failed to find any house which
she recognized as the place. In the evening
Gale came down to the Police Station, and
said he wanted that man Ray arrested, and
insisted upon it. I replied that he didn't
answer the description, as Ray was very
black, and she said the criminal was light or Of
yellowish complexion. "No," replied Gale,
81 am satisfied the description is all right"
/ then told one Of the officers to lcck Gale up,
as had seen Ray, and was satisfied he was
not the man, and
1 HAD REASON TO SUSPECT GALE.
That evening I asked Mr. Ray to go before