The Southern herald., 1886-01-16
WOES OF a WITNESS.
The Unjust Confinement Patiently BOras
bya Swedish Scaman-Nemesls, in the
Form of a Murder Trial, Pursu-
ing Him Everywhere
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witnessed murder or homicide. That it
is sometimes temporarily pleasanter to be
an actual criminal than the witness Of
crime is exempliGed in the case Of Carl
Andersen, now confined in one of our
municipal prisons. Andersen Is witness
In the case Of the people against Luke
Carty, who is charged with the killing Of
Peter Goetz, and while the witness is an in
mate Of a Jail, the defendant is out on
bail, having been able to give $4,000
bonds.
On July 4, 1882, Peter Goetz, a sailor, was
shot in Luke Carty's saloon, at the corner
of Sansome and Greenwich streets, and
within few minutes after the shooting,
Goetz died in the street. 1t may also be
remembered that the noise of the shooting
gathered around the saloon several riotous
jewellers who had been enjoying the usual
Fourth Of July designations, and that VIII.
liam Glennon, the arresting officer, fearful
Of a rescue Of the prisoner by an over
excited mob, handcufted together two
men, whom he supposed to be the principal
and the witness of the murder. One
was Luke Carty, who has already
stood three trials for this death, and
the other was Carl Andersen, the sole
witness of how Peter Goetz died. Ander.
sen is a prisoner at the Industrial School.
and Is facetiOusly termed by the defense
"a willing Witness"
Carl Andersen will again attend the
court to testify for the fourth time con.
cerning the killing, and should no decision
be arrived at in the case he will be again
relegated to the jail, where he was inter-
viewed last Friday,
(, Possessed Of neither friends nor means,
when the time came for fixing his bond he
could neither give the surety nor the
money, and for safe-keeping the authori-
ties locked him up in the City and County
jail. His imprisonment, however, was
this time Of short duration, and, being
released under police surveillance, he
went to work. In March, 1888, the trial of
Luke Carly was set, and on the oath Of that
month Carl Andersen was rearrested and
taken to the City and County Jail, and be-
tween that and the Court he passed the
noxt forty-two days.
In April Luke Carly was convicted of
manslaughter and Carl Andersen was set
free. Glad Of his escape, Andersen would
at once have left the city, but being with
out means he obtained work as a butcher
in store, and there remained till the fol-
lowing July, when, with his accumulated
earnings, he left on a schooner for Coos
Bay, Oregon, on August 3, 1888, arriving
there on September 9th. He immedi-
ately found employment in q log
ging- In Coos Bay, and there worked
till February 10th, 1885, when, on that day,
Officer William Glennon, from this city,
arrested and brought him here, lodging
him in the House of Correction, where he
was treated on the same footing as a Grim
inal. Those, too, who have had the good
fortune only to visit that prison as sight
seers can testify to the rigorous imprison-
ment that Is there undergone by It's In
mates, and Carl Andersen, guilty only OF
being a witness to a murder, was there
treated as hardened malefactor from
February oath until April 9th. Then again
came the trial Of Luke Carly and Carl An
dersen was taken out of the House of Cor
rection and placed in hotel near the old
city hall, where he was treated less like Q
felon.
This trial Of Luke Carty lasted one month
and half, and during that time Andersen
was guest at the hotel at the city's ex-
pense. On It's conclusion he was set free,
and on May 3Oth secured position as bar.
keeper on jackson street. But his Meme.
sis, in the form of the Luke Carly murder
trial, was again upon him and on August
oath William Glennon again arrested
him, but substituted the Industrial
School instead of the House Of Correc-
tion as his place Of confinement. From
August Gath until to-day Carl Andersen
has been prisoner at the Industrial
School, and were it not that both Superin-
tendent Smith and his deputy, James Cor
coran, are exceedingly humane toward
him, Carl would be submitted to as rigor-
GUS an imprisonment as that institution
| affords. On the contrary, both officials
have done all that lies within their power
to make his punishment as light as possi-
BILE. he has the run Of the garden and
the farm. Ever willing to work, he gives
a helping hand in the field and in
the house, and makes himself equally
as busy in the field as in the kitchen. He
has the confidence Of all about the Indus
trial School, and is thoroughly liked for
his cheerfulness and readiness TO please.
When seen last Friday by a reporter,
Carl Andersen was busy in the field, and
from him was gathered the facts of his Inn
prisonment.
~ am contented here" said he, "as con-
tented as man can be who Is In jail, but
thanks to the kindness of those about me,
/ am treated we'll, and am well
cared for. This is different life to the
one led over there" pointing across
the meadows to the House of Corree-
tion; shat was a fearful life. l would
rather be dead than again undergo it.
Its memory makes me even now shudder." )"
"The defense calls you willing witness
Carl, and says that it is Of your own ac-
cord you are here"
"0fmy own accord! Iwilliug to suffer the
torments of pestilential jail; willing to
have lost my freedom for eight long
months; / willing to have been dragged
from an Oregon logging-camp to the
strictest prison in the States Sir, you can
hardly credit such an assertion, can you'
Can you believe that would willingly fret
out my life here rather than have the free
dom OF the worldg l have been under po-
lice surveillance ever since July 4, 1882;
the hatter mart of a wear 1 have been Z