Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-27
IHAT IS THE IMAM.
Detective Diehl Identifies Bry-
ant Crandall.
The Scene Yesterday in Chief Glass's
Office.
The Prisoner Says He IL Anxious to Go
Back and Have the Suspense Ended.
Mrs. b. b. Wilson Appears In
the Case.

the Case.
The lingering doubts, if any existed,
that Bryant B. Crapdall has been
brought to life by Chief of Police Glass
and Officer Motif were dispelled yester-
day morning by Detective Frank Diehl
of Buffalo, N. Y, who positively iden-
titled the man now in the city jail as the
man who IL supposed to have been
buried beyond resuscitation six years
ago.
Chief Glass went in person to his cell
about O'Clock and told him that he
wished him to come into his private
Office. Detective Diehl and w. T. Will
Jams. the prisoners attorney, were in
the Office when Crandall was brought in.
The detective took one glance at the
man and said, "that is the man." He
addressed him as Crandall and the old
man did not betray himself one way or
the other, acting in quite a cool and
self-contained manner. His hat was
taken off and his head examined. The
shoe of his left foot was taken off and
his SCARED foot examined. His shirt
was turned down and the moles on his
neck were examined. They all tailed
with what has been before described as
convincing proof of the prisoners
identity, and Mr.. Diehl expressed him
self without reservation as completely
satisfied. He was asked by Mr.. Diehl
If he did not remember when he was in
charge of place owned by Mr.. Box in
the surburbs OF Buffalo, very near his
sisters home. The old man said be had
nothing to say. They had some further
conversation in which Crandall became
almost lively.
Mr.. Diehl told him that he was now
only waiting for the reputation papers
before they started back east, when
Crandall replied that he was perfectly
willing to 60 without any papers; that
he wanted to 60 back and have it over.
The suspense was dreadful. No one
knew what he had gone through. After
the Identification Crandall was taken
back to his cell.
The theory has been advanced that
possibly Crandall may have murdered
the man whose body was buried az his
own. In conversation with q HERALD
reporter Detective Diehl secuted this
idea. Whatever his real ideas on the
subject may be, he said that so many
suicides take place at Niagara Falls and
vicinity that the finding of an almost
unacceptable body was the most nat
ural thing in the world. It was some
months after Crandall's hat was found
on the river bank above the falls that it
was found, and the resemblance was
not very great. One thing he instanced
to show that the body found was not
that of Bryant B. Crandall. The clothes
were all gone from the remains, except
shoe on one foot, and it was ascer-
tanned that Crandall always wore boots
while living in Buffalo. Mr.. aDiehl
Could not say what motive the man had
beyond providing for his family. He did
not know that he had been in
been. He never Of course received any
insurance societies of the orders to
which he belonged. It will be day
or two before Mr.. Diehl starts back with
his prisoner, and it is thought that he
will require extraordinarily close watch
ing the long journey to prevent his max
ing way with himself if he has the
least chance. Nelf
A new chapter in the romance of the
man who has so strangely been brought
to life developed yesterday, owing to
the visit of woman at the city jail to
see him. The woman was quite famil-
lar figure in recent sensational seduc-
tion suit brought in Los Angeles by Miss
Jessie Marshall against Jacob s. Taylor,
formerly of Del Mar, and now of Texas.
She was the mother of the plaintiff and
was examined under oath as Mrs. B. B..
Wilson. She is small, nervous woman
and for the past two or three days has
been coming about the chiefs Office to
see Orandall. She was indeed, sent for
by him. Yesterday afternoon she was
accorded an interview with the prisoner
in his cell. It was quite lengthy in
terview, and when she came out she
went hurriedly away, ,avoiding any inter
view with the reporters. What passed
between her and the man is not known.
but when she came out she seemed to
be very much overcome.
It is learned from various sources that
Mrs. Wilson lived with Crandall above
Newhall, where he went by the name of
Wilson, and that he was regarded as the
stepfather of Jessie Marshall. Mrs.
Wilson denies that she is Wilson or
Crandall's wife, and when spoken to by
a HERALD reporter, shortly before her
interview in the cell, would have moth
ing to say about the matter. 1t is said
that they came from above Newhall q
few months ago, and that Crandall went
into the county hospital. Mrs. Wilson
is now living on the Mission road near
the county hospital, at No. 678, at the
residence known as the Gay Brown
place.
When Chief Glass asked Crandall il
he desired to have an interview with
the newspaper men, he said that he did
not. He had nothing to say and did not