Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-28
BAD FOR ANSCHLAG.
Damaging Evidence Pro-
duced Yesterday.
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
Verdict of the COrOner's Jury
Captain Lees Works up the
Accused's Record.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

IASSOClateQ freSS DlBphtcneS W IHe aEhALDs
SANTA ANA, January 27.-The search
of the Hitchcock residence this morn
ing was rewarded by the finding of an
AK and hatchet, both smeared with
blood. While party of citizens were
discussing the points of the crime it
was remarked that Anschlag had been
seen coming to Santa Ana early on
Tuesday morning with mud. be-
smeared wagon, and Dunkeley, one
of those present, said that he believed
that he had seen a wagon similar to it
driving across the prairie to a clump
of bushes. On proceeding to the spot
a pair OF new blue overalls and a
jumper thoroughly
BEsMEARED WITH BLOOD
And mud were found rolled up and
carefully hidden under clump of
bushes. With them were scraps OF
letters, one of them written in German
and another portion of a letter writ
ten by the deceased, Mrs. Hitchcock,
evidently to her sister in Illinois. The
overalls and jumper were at once
taken to Garden Grove and were
there identified by w. A. Bluzzard,
clerk to Wickham & Parker, as pair
he sold to Anschlag on Monday. The
latter returned on Tuesday aud said
that the pair were too short and
wished another suit, although he
did not offer to return the first pair.
There was also found in ihe pock-
cts postal note for one dollar pur-
chased at Santa Ana on Saturday, but
the postmaster is unable to remember
to whom he sold it. The wagon tracks
and horses footmarks measured, are
found to correspond exactly with those
of Hitchcock's team. Coroner Mere.
dith arrived from Los Angeles on the
noon train and at once proceeded to
hold the inquest.
THE VERDICT.
At 40 tonight the coroner's jury
returned the following verdict: ave,
the jury. find that deceased died from
wounds in the neck and head inflicted
by blunt instrument in the hands Of
person or persons unknown, and we
believe Fred Anschlag to be one Of
the said persons"
ANsCHLAG's RECORD.
SAN Francisco, January 27.-Cap-
tain Lees, of the police force, to-day
Investigated the record of Anschlag,
the supposed murderer Of Hitchcock
and wife, while he was in this city.
Anschlag came here from KGnigs-
burg, Germany, in December, 1886.
After remaining here a few months
he went to Bangor, Butte county,
where he purchased farm.
FULLER DETAILS.
The murderer, Fritz Anschlag, ar
rived in New York from Germany
about December 10th, 1886. He
stayed there but short time before
coming to San Francisco with
a letter of introduction from a
New York hotel keeper named J.
Baschkopf to A. Hummer, Of this
city. After his arrival here he re-
NAMED awhile at the South Park
hotel, which place he left to stop a
couple VI WcckS Will hIs AuiuulcI,
afterward going to boarding house in
the vicinity. Anschlag told his friends
that he had a wealthy farmer, an
uncle in Koenigsburg, Germany, and
that it was his intention to purchase
a farm in California. He paid visit
to Bangor, Butte County, and worked
for man named Herger,
returning to this CITY and leaving for
the South during the Christmas holi-
days OF last year. He went thence to
Pasadena. Hummer described
Anschlag as a crank about
whose private affairs very
little was known. He came
to San Francisco with man named
Huffman, who very mysteriously dis
appeared. Anschlag claimed that he
lost Huffman in Oakland. During
his stay in the city he borrowed $25
from Hummer, which he failed to
repay.