The morning call., 1893-09-14
OVER IN OAKLAND.
Mrs. Roach's Discovery
in a Cemetery.
WALNUT CREEK IS EXCITED.
A Matter of Figures-Kicked About
a Textbook-Sailors Beaten-Mid-
winter Fair Meeting.

ecuton in the Matheny case was con.
cluded yesterday, and court adjourned
until Monday. when the defense will be-
gin work. Mr.. Cook says it will probably
take two days to examine witnesses for
Matheny, after which each side will want
a dag for argument. 1t is thought that
the case will 60 to the jury on Friday of
next week
Yesterday morning DIR. Dunn was the
first witness called. He testified to hav-
ing attended Officer Cashin after he was
shot. He said that the officer had been
shot through the stomach He said he
had made two post mortem examinations,
but on neither occasion did he fud the
bullet 1t was getting late when he made
the last one. and he quit work on account
of the approaching darkness. The
funeral took place the following day. and
the bullet was left in the body.
DR.. Dunn testified as to the cuts and
scratches on Matheny's legs and hands.
which it is supposed were made when he
climbed through the broken window out
of Kuhlne's saloon.
The next witness called was the last one
for the prosecution. This was Chief of
Police Schaffer. He testified that he saw
Cashin on the day he was shot and he told
the Chief he was going to die. Chief
Schatfer again saw him later in the day
with District Attorney Church, and he
again made the statement that he was
going To die. But Carroll Cook objected
TO the testimony on the ground that there
was still hope in Cashin's mind that he
might live, and the statement could not be
taken as deathbed statement. The court
sustained the objection.
Was the Body Stolen?
There is mystery to be unraveled in
connection with the body of 8 ive-year-old
boy who died ten years ago and was sup
posed to have BEEN buried in ST. Mary's
Cemetery.
This boy was the son of Mrs. Jane
Roach, who keeps a grocery store at
Twenty-seventh and West streets.
1t was in July. 1883. that Mrs. Roach's
little boy died OF a peculiar spinal dis
order that puzzled the doctors and was
this time an infant of Mrs. Roach's died,
and the little thing was buried beside the
body of the fve-year-Old boy.
Now comes the strange part of the story
A few days ago Mrs. Roach was so unfor-
tunate as to lose another chlld-a daughter
IS years of age. 1t was decided to bury
the remains in the same plot as the bal
were in, with the two little cOffins resting
on that of the eldest sister.
On Tuesday it was that the interment
took place, and when the grave was opened
but one coffin was noticed, nor could the
other be found. When the body IF the
eldest was lowered and only the coffin OF
one little one was placed on il the poor
mother noticed the absence OF the other
casket and was almost distracted She
cried out in agony for her little boy, loudly
wailing that somebody had robbed her of
her child.
The poor mother would not be pacifed
and it was some time before the funeral
'.rvices could be proceeded with
kShe was told that the bodies of the two
-ttle ones were placed In the same coffin.
ut she is certain that such was not the
-sase. and firmly believes that the body of
the little boy has been stolen for use in
the dissecting-room. She is nearly heart
broken over the circumstance.
walnut Creek Aroused.
There is considerable excitement at
Walnut Creek, little town just over the
hills back of Oakland, in Contra Costa
County. 1t is occasioned by the mysteri-
Gus death of one of the towns citizens in
the mines up in Sierra County short time
ago. The citizen was named Peter En-
langsen. 1t is said that some of his neigh
bors near Walnut Greek followed him to
the mines and took his life.
On the receipt of the following letter
from Justice of the Peace II. F. Parker OF
Sierra County to a Justice at Walnut
Creek the citizens called a meeting for
Saturday night to investigate the affair:
II would like some information regard
ing one Peter Erlangsen. who is said to
have lived in your section. On the morn
ing of August 90 he was killed at Gold
by one John Williams while in the employ
OF Y. C. Julien. There had been or was a
dispute as TO the ownership of a mining
claim, that the Jullens claimed TO have
bought half interest in from the man
Williams and one Mead, Erlangsen claim
ing that these parties had no right or
ownership to sell. Has this man Erlang-
sen any family or friends there? What
was his disposition-Was he a peacea ole
man or inclined TO be quarrelsome? What
was his reputation among his neghbors?
Did he have any property? He was burie d
here on August %. What is the standing
of the Juliens there? The people here are
not satisfied with the result of the inquest,
the verdict being Unsuitable homicide"
Brass KBuckIes for Non-Union Men.
Two sailors. John Calling and Anton
Fosse, of 81 Everett street. San Francisco,
were pretty badly mauled with brass
knuckles yesterday evening at o'clock on
FTanklin-street wharf.
They started from San Francisco yester-
day, and on the way to Oakland were &C
costed by three men, who wanted to know
il they were going to work on the ship
James G. Potter. unloading at franklin
street wharf. They said no, but did go on
board the ship. In the evening they were
descending the gangplank, going ashore to
get some Of their clothing. and when on
LIS wharf, LHe same three men VINO Dau
accosted them in San Francisco stepped
from behind coal-bunker and jumped on
them and began beating them. Fosse got
away aIter ne mad received few blows on
the head, but Calling was knocked down
and badly kicked and beaten.
The three men then ran off and the off
Ger who came up soon after found brass
knuckles lying on the wharf, which had
evidently boen dropped by the attacking
party.
The Two men wers taken to the Reeeiv-
ing Hospital. Calling had FIVE bad scalp
wounds and confusion of the head. and
Fosse received scalp wound over the right
eye. The injured men are non-union sail
ors. No arrests have yet been made.
Comparing Notes.
The Citizens League of Los Angeles
County number of persons banded To-
gether in the interests OF good government.
has been making some comparisons OF the
expenses of running that county and other
counties in the State. This is the way
Los Angeles looks alongside Alameda
County
Alameda. Los AnR
Indr on