The Helena independent., 1893-11-22

than this. He Is thought to be the only
man who has attempted suicide by Offering
to 20 into court and plead guilty to mur-
der in the first degree. What is more sin
gular still, we have 1t on the authority Of
the San Francisco Examiner that Schultz
is to all appearances perfectly sane. He
eats well, looks hearty and is not averse to
manifesting his good spirits when he is
sure no one but his friends u looking.
The murder which Schultz declares ho
committed was that of George Arbanasin,
who was killed on the night OF July last
while in his home at the Three Mile House
on the Copperopoiis road east OF Stockton.
Arbanasin was an Austrian of very quiet
ways, who had kept the wayside drinking
place for many years.
The body was found in the morning by
Arbanasin's young nephew, who was his
nearest neighbor. The coroner found q bull
let hole in the dead mans side and q track
marked with blood from the place where
the corpse was lying to the front door,
where Arbanasin usually sat in wooden
chair and waited for travellers. This is
really all that is known about the murder
Of the old man even at this day.
A few evenings after the murder the odd
character who is now the wonder Of Stock
ton shuffied into the police station and in a
very matter of fact tone announced to the
officers that he was the murderer Of Arba-
nasin. When the statement had been made,
the policemen were much more excited than
Schultz, the confessor, who uttered it.
For few days every one took Schultz at
his word, for what amusement a man might
get in falsely confessing to murder did
not then appear. Schultz entranced open
mouthed auditors with one of the most
singular tales that an ordinary imagination
has conceived and an ordinary mouth ut
tered in local criminal history.
II killed Arbanasin," hissed Schultz,
"because he ruined my sister. 1t was in
San francisco discovered it. sailed into
that port on the Rosie Garfield two years
ago One evening was on the Barbary
coast and met my sister, Carrie Schultz.
told her who l was, and she tainted. Iurged
her to 70 with me and live right. Isaw her
again and found her with her eyes blacked.
/ asked her who had done it, and she said
George then told her that if ever saw
George would put bullet through him.
/ had a gun with me then. A little later
George came in. I learned his name was
then because was urged not to do it by
IL
told me he was the man responsible for her
downfall.
"A little while after that Arbanasin left
the city. / asked her where he had gone,
and all she would say was that he was some
where near Stockton. Then 1 shipped on
the Rosie Garfield, got my advance money
and went to give it to my sister. found
her dead. She had poisoned herself"
All this Schultz embellished with innu-
merable details. He went into his family
and personal history, carrying himself and
his relatives through sensation after sensa.
ton He told how his father had thrown
lamp at his mother and burned her. This
direfll deed was done when he was young
child. He spoke of sister Lucy in south
San Francisco, who had been through a ter.
rible but nameless tragedy. Lately he en-.
larged the family by telling Of brother
Fred in Calcutta, who had also been through
some adventures SO startling that even a
forecastlo sailor would have doubted. Not
SO the officers, though. AT first most Of them
believed it all. but gradually there was an
awakening.
Schultz had made the mistake Of giving
too many details. 1t was learned that or
the night of the murder he was asleep ir
the cookhouse attending baling press not
more than mile from the scene of thu
murder. It was also found that he haG
once owned revolver about the size of the
one which may have been used to kill the
Austrian. 1t was discovered, too, tina,
Schultz had told = story about the ruin ol