Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-14
ANSCHLAG.
Pictures of the Deceased
Exhibited.
TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES
The Circumstantial Evidence In
troduced Before the C Confessions
are Mentioned.

tr0duced Before the Confessions
are Mentioned.
There were no developments of a
startling nature yesterday in the case
Of Fritz Anschlag, charged with the
murder OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hitchcock.
The defendant was on hand at 10
O'Clock and so was the same large
crowd, the members Of which have
nothing to do but to listen to the evil
dence as developed. AS on Saturday
there were a large number who were
unable to obtain seats and these were
excluded from the court room. The
street scenes were not quite so disor-
derly as on the former day, but at
noon quite large crowd congregated
around the jail but dispersed quietly
upon the order of the officers.
The first witness called was DIR. H..
w. Head, who testified, that he first
saw the grave of the Hitchcocks on
January 20. He and Mr.. Witham
pulled out the bodies of the Hitch
cocks. He pulled out the lady by the
legs. Hitchcock had been drawn first
into the grave and Mrs. Hitchcock
was on top Of him. She had one shoe
on and one was off. The body looked
as if it had been jammed into the
hole. Her head was mashed and
skull crushed in. Straw was thrown
in on top of both the bodies. They
were soaked with water, surface water.
He visited the grave next morning
and found a pitch-fork and key.
Hitchcock's body was clothed in work
ing apparel common to him as was
also the body of Mrs. Hitchcock.
Croes-examined: Brush surrounded
the grave. You could see the straw
plainly from the road. There was
baling-rope scattered about the grave.
l do not k. ow Anschlag. l do moi
know to whom the overalls and other
things found in the grave belong. The
overalls were rolled up, and in them
was q German newspaper.
Redirect: Witness was shown a
bundle by the District Attorney. He
identified several bits of cloth and a
German newspaper he had found in
side the bundle, in the hole where the
bodies of the Hitchcocks had been
thrown. Continuing his testimony
DR.. Head said: l could see the grave
plainly from the road. found car
bolic acid at the grave; bodies and
all seem to have been saturated with
it.
Re-cross-examination: Know no.
thing of the ownership of the articles
in the grave. I do not know to whom
anything found there belongs.
JOHN r. KING
Was next called and testified. King
was the man who discovered the
grave of the Hitchcocks. He testified
as follows: ri have lived. at Garden
Grove thirteen years. I knew Mr..
and Mrs. Hitchcock we'll. searched
for them when they were missed. !
saw some hay scattered about the
ground. We were in a wagon and a
Mr.. Bowlsby and I got out and saw
that some ground underneath the
straw had been freshly turned. We
took stave out of keg and dug
about. / then went and got shovel
and then we dug up the bodies of the
Hitchcocks. We struck Hitchcock g
left shoulder first with the shovel.
We took out the bodies.
Witness was here shown a cross
bar of wagon, which he identified
as the one belonging to the wagon of
Mr.. Hitchcock. It was covered with
blood. He was next shown a plank,
which he identified as the one found
over the bodies of the Hitchcocks.
Cross-examination-It was Wednes-
day night when we started to look for
the Hitchcocks. 1t was Thursday
afternoon that we found the bodies
I saw Anschlag with Mr.. Hitchcock
at the Postoffice, four or five days be.
fore this time. He had on a long.
tailed coat and high hat. We found
a brown jumper and overalls in the
grave. l have seen Mr.. Hitchcock
wear the m when alive. The bodies
were tied together with rope.
Re-dire ct-Witness shown pair o
-overalls and a jumper, and identified
them as Charley Hitchcock's."
C. A. BowLsBEY
Testified-Found the Hitchcock
buried in a hole little west of DR.
Heads house, on Thursday, at abou
O'Clock. His attention had been at
tracted to the spot by some loose
straw and some newly-turned earth
The tracks OF a wagon about the pai
corresponded ex actly with those made
by the Hitchcock wagon, and the fee
of the horses of Mr.. Hitchcock talliet
exactly with horses tracks about the
grave. He identified the board anc
cross-bar as the previous witness haC
done. He did not know Anschlag.
Cross -examined-Mr. King and Mr.
Kroonan were in the scare hing party
with me when we found the bodies
Never saw Anschlag.
DIR. BALL
Testified Am practising physician
Held post mortem on the bodies o
the Hitchcocks, on January 30th
hltcuCOCK UleQ from certain WOUNDS
on his head. Fatal wounds numbered
three. One wound on the throat; one
on each side seems to have been in
fiicted with an axe. There were three
wounds about the head. In my opin
ion all three wounds on the heac
we're fatal wounds. Gathered VI
about twenty pieces of the broker
skull. Mrs. Hitchcock died violen
death. The body indicated that the,
were both in good health at the timi
of death. Her head and throat were
wounded as if with sharp or moder
ately blunt instrument. Her skull
was fractured. She had sever
wounds. All of them were fatal
The left-hand side of the throat wa
ont That waa a fatal mound