The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-28
THE HASS MURDER.
Coroner's Jury Charges Two
Men With the Crime.
THE EVIDENCE ONLY is A CLUE.
Thomas Allen, One Of the Men Held,
Made Some Compromising State
ments-verdfct OF the Jury.

Coroner Smart held an inquest yesterday after
noon. at the undertaking rooms of B0nney &
Stewart. over the remains of Henry Hass, the
waiter on the steamer George W. Elder who was
murdered on Ocean dock Tuesday morning oil
last week. The jury empaneled consisted OF
william Green. foreman; w. A. Snyder, w. II.
Gleason. J. Fl. Kennedy, 8. B. Carr and d. HI.
Hawley. Seven witnesses were examined aud
ali known facts connected with the crime
brought out
DR. Smith and DR.. willard testified concerning
the condition of Hass when brought TO the hos.
pital from police headquarters soon after his
body was discovered and described the charac-
ter OF the wounds. as determined at the autopsy.
Chief Monroe d Lieutenant Jackson told of
the information upon which the arrests were
made and the developments since the first dis
covery of the crime.
M1chal Simpson, q porter in the Morning
Star saloon on Jackson street. identified Allen or
Bruhn, one of the men arrested on suspicion. as
person whom he had known for three years.
He testified that Allen, or Bruhn, as he is known
in the lower town. came into the salooa on the
morning after the murder and spoke of a Job in
which he hal been concerned. Allen said that
he had only 81. so. but should have had more, as
the others got $3.50. Simpson suggested that
something ought to be done when the division
OF profits was not fair. and Allen rejoined that it
was serious case, and that he told them mot
to hit him so hard"
Allen and Gallagher, the two men held on
suspicion who have not been allowed to COM
municate with each other since their arrest,
told their stories.
Allen declared his innocense, and when shown
the remains said he had never seen the man be-
FORE He acknowledged that he was about the
saloons OF the lower town on the night of the
murder. He said that he knew Gallagher, saw
HIM soon after the murder, and that Gallagher
had plenty of money.
Gallagher denied everything. He declared
not only that he was unacquainted with Allen,
but that he had no money, and was not in the
city on the night OF the murder. Afterward he
said he slept in a caboose on the railroad track
one night the first OF the week, but could not
say what night it was.
In giving instructions to the jury, Coroner
Smart called attention TO the contradictions in
the stories told by Allen aud Gallagher concern
ing their knowledge of each other and the pos
session of money.
The jury. after some deliberatiou. brought in
the following verdict:
1--WE, the jury empsneled to inquire into the
cause of the death of Henry Hass, after in
specting the body, find that he came to his
death on the 10Th of August, 1890. by two strokes
on the head by blunt instrument in the hands
of Thomas Allen and John Gallagher
The verdict did not surprise the police officers,
aud Chief Monroe said last night that the case
might have been handled more expeditiously
but for the fact that the force were overworked.
Every patrolman was kept busy during the
hours he was on duty. and while off duty ale ne
could he find time to give to followiagiup the
slight clues possessed. Although the author
tiles had offered no reward, many of the off,
GERS had given their leisure hours and spent
money in efforts to find the guilty ones. He
hoped that evidence which would fasten the
guilt upon the perpetrators of the crime beyond
the shadow OF q doubt would be forthcoming at
the trial.
The officers are in possession of evidence
which connects another person with the move
ments of Gallagher and allen, and it is thought
he will be captured soon. That the one sus-
pected is implicated in the murder there is
little room for doubt. The police all along
have been confident that the two men now
under arrest are the murderers, and have held
them against the advice of Prosecuting Attor-
ney Carr.
The body of the murdered man will be taken
charge of By some friends in this city, and the
burial probably will take place today.
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