Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-29

started to run down the track. Goodwin
ran after him, but the Swede gained on
him. All of q sudden the Swede turned
| around and pulling pistol fred five shots
at him. Either the third or fourth, he said,
i struck him in the stomach. Another hit
him on the head, and another whizzed past
his ear. That's all he told me-"
DESCRIPTION OF THE MURDERER.
"Now, my little friend" said Sheriff
McMullen, ''go ahead and tell us every
| thing you know about that Swede."
"Yes, sir" replied the little man, cheer
| fully. Pete here saw him before l did,
and he can tell you about him, too. first
| saw him week ago Tuesday. Pete and
had been out picking blackberries. We
| were crossing the Italian strawberry patch
over yonder, on our way home, when we
| saw the Swede walking through the patch.
l asked Pete who he was, but he said he
| didn't know, except that he was tramp
who had been living over in the box cars
Then the Swede walked up to me and
said: Where have you been, Bub p ]
told him out blackberrying, and he asked il
we got any. l said no. Then he said, Just
| as if he owned the place: Well, go right
in and help yourself to straw berries
there's nothing like helping yourself i
thought he had gall to tell US to-"
Tell US, now, just what that man looked
like" interrupted the Assistant District
Attorney.
well. sir, as l said before, he was very
dark. His hair was black and so was his
mustache. His mustache was not SO heavy
as Mr.. Burners, and stuck out straight on
the ends-it did not droop. He had a kind
of surly look about him. He wore red
flannel Observation-Disclosures and shirt.
We could see that he had on red under
drawers, because the tops of them stuck out
OF his pants at the waist. He wore dark
pants, fastened at the waist with q strap.
He was built something like the Sheriff
here. He wore an old cocked-up
dicer hat, square linked brass chain and
canvas shoes. At another time that saw
him, though, he had boots on. He looked
as though he had not been shaved for
about ten days. 1 saw him several times
afterwards sitting with his legs hanging
out OF the car where he lived, and talked
with him once or twice. / asked him
where he was from and he said he had
been up in the snow in the mountains
during winter. He said, too, that he once
worked on William Curtis ranch on the
lower Stockton road, and intended to work
on Mr.. Curtis header this year again. He
said he might go to work there this week.
He never told me his name"
THE swEDE's COMPANION.
you spoke of Goodwin having told Won
that there was another man with the
Swede when he went back for his blankets
did, you ever see him ?" asked the
RECnpn-
Yes, saw him once" said the lad. "I
was standing on the levee one day when
all of sudden noticed a man who had
nothing on but pair of pants crawling
through clump of thistles on his hands
and knees. l wondered how he could 90
through the thistles with nothing on his
back. Then he rose up to his feet like an
Indian, and looked about in strange
way. l had good look at him and would
know him again. When Goodwin de-
scribed him l knew it was him in a min
ute.
He was very tall and slim-as tall as
Mr.. Bruner. think he was about q wears
old, while the Swede was about 80 or 40.
He was light-complexioned and had high
cheek bones. He did not look like for
elgner. He wore a stubby, sandy, mus
tache.
After he stood there while he went
into the car, where the Swede was. 1
never saw him after that"
Peter Mcintyre, the Forbes boys chum,
told the officials that he first saw the Swede
several days before young Forbes saw him.
The Swede always wanted to hold "Pete's"
horse for him, but the lad was suspicious
of him and declined. He never saw the
other man. His description of the Swede
tailed exactly with that given by young
Forbes.
After this the party went over to the rail-
road track and the boys pointed out the car in
which the Swede and his companion were
seen. A close inspection of the place left no
doubt that somebody had been living there
In one corner of the car was sort of make
shift stove, full of ashes, and a bundle of
straw in another corner indicated where
they had slept.
In kicking over the rubbish another bit
OF evidence was found, which goes to bear
out Goodwin's story. 1t was copy of the
San Francisco Report of one of the early
editions, dated Saturday, May 24th-the
day Goodwin came from San Francisco to
Sacramento.
Scattered about the ground underneath
and around the car, were found quantity
OF empty oyster cans, egg shells, salt, butter
and other articles-which may satisfy some
OF the farmers living in that neighborhood
as to where their wares having been going
10 SO mysterlously during the past two
weeks.
OTHER WITNESSES.
The boys were then taken home. and
the officials and the reporter started after
the other persons mentioned BY the bows
as having spoken with Goodwin before the
police officers arrived.
Isaac Burke's ranch, which is several
miles from the scene of the murder. was
arlyen to and the owner consulted. Mr..
Burke said he was driving westward from
the levee Sunday morning, when he heard
voice hailiDg him. Looking about. he
saw man lying against the fence. He
| asked him what was the matter, and the
man replied that he had been shot, and
wanted the police informed.
Mr.. Burke said he drove in to the Sher-
IFS office and notified them of the shoot
ing. In passing Burns place he also told
Mr.. Burns of it.
He did not question the man
shot because he supposed it was the
man whom the police shot at Saturday
| night while escaping from the chain gang.
a colored boy, who is in Mr.. BurkeTs
employ and who was with him at the time.
corroborated this.
Mr.. Burns was next seen. He said be
had seen the Swede and his companion
several times prowling about the railroad
track, and would know them again if he
saw them. He gave description of them,
which tailed exactly with that given by
the boys.
CLEARING IT UP.
The Sheriff and District Attorney now
| held another consultation. 1t was getting
well on toward evening, and they did not
like to postpone further investigation for
several reasons. They went over all the
statements already taken and digested il
| thoroughly. The statement made by the
Swede to the Forbes boy, to the effect that
he had worked for Curtis, and intended
working there again, was looked on as the
most important clew hit upon by which to
trace the murderer. So the horses heads
were turned toward Curtis
1t was long ride out the street road
and down the lower Stockton road.
Mr.. Curtis was found, and when a de.
scription of the Swede was given him he
said: why, that man was here Sunday
looking for work, and we sent HIM away,
as we had none for him. My foreman,
| George Davis, told me about it. The man
worked for me several years ago."
| The three visitors nearly jumped out oil
their boots. They had never anticipated
| running the murderer to earth so easily.
But they were doomed to disappoint.
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