Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-09-10
THE PLANE CASE.
Something ~ the Sensational San
lose Murder.

man named Marc cen in the murder
The two met and one man accuse,
the other of the murder. The accused
drew a pistol and row resulted
Murder is a very serious charge but
1t does not warreut an innocent
man shooting anybody because OF
the charge. 1t would seem that
an innocent man charged with
such a crime would at once demand
an investigation.
The editor of the APPEAL has con
versed with number of detectives
| and reporters in San Francisco who
have investigated the Plane case,
and as far as we are able to put a
patchwork of their conclusion to-
gether the following seems to be
about the way the murder was COM
mitted.
Some years ago wealthy man in
San Jose was engaged in very
questionable transaction; one that no
man would leave a stone unturned
to cover up.
Plane knew i. and this formulated
the motive to have Plane killed.
Three men, perhaps four, with a
grievience against Plane, were APP
preached and it was finally arranged
to kill Plane
Before the killing the date was
fixed and arrangements made to es-
tablish an abb for the men engaged
to do the work.
a decoy letter was written in a
female hand, making an assignation
with Plane.
Plane was a handsome young fell
low and a regular Don Juan.
The trap caught him and when he
went to meet the supposed woman he
was strangled to death dragged some
distance and hung to a tree. The
markes on his clothes and boots
plainly show the dragging and yet
there are people who insist on the
suicide theory.
1t is generally admitted now in
San Francisco that if a reporter
wants to get an article in a San
Francisco paper about the Planz case
the article must advocate the suicide
theory.
The morning after the murder
servant girl who resided in the house
of the men who engineered the kills
ing and paid for it, overheard the
mans wife accuse him of the
murder and he made no denial of it,
The girl made an affidavit to this
and it is still in exis-
tence.
The domestic however cannot be
fond now, as she has disappeared. !
Her whereabouts however is known
to San Francisco detective and a |
duplicate of her affidavit is In the
possession of another detective.
There are several officers, detectives
ETC., working up the case, Some
are honest and some are blackmailers |
and detective in San Francisco who |
was not on the case but has been |
keeping pretty good track of it, told
the writer that over 100000 had
been paid out by the parties interest
ed IN covering up the facts.
There is an affidavit in existence
from a man who swears that he was
offered $1,000 to kill Planz by the
same parties implicated. 1t Is re
ported however, that one of the gang
has squealed and skipped east and he
will be allowed to get well away be-
fore the balance of the arrests are
made if they ever are,
If the parties Implicated were poor
hey would probably have been in
all long ago. The queer part of it
S that when you ask any man from
San Jose who the man is who put up
he money and planned it, he will
give the mans name unhesitatingly.
There seems to be but one opinion in
San Jose and all the detectives,
officers and reporters who have in
'estigated the case have long ago
cached the same conclusion.
Yet the authorities say they can
lot secure enough facts to warrant
N arrest. Why don't they secure :
he services of Charles Stillwell, who .
las over and over again shown what
lie can do as detective, and let him
ret at the bottom factsl !: