The record-union., 1893-07-08
Schultz COnfeSSeS to the Killing of
SalOOn-Keeper Arbanasin.
SURRENDERS HIMSELF TO THE PO-
LICE AT STOCKTON.
Mining Outlook in the Silver Camps
on Wood River Very Dull Only
Two or Three of the Principal
Mines Working, and They Under a
Sliding Scale = Ten-Ye ear-Old Girl
Burned TO Death In Nevada County.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

STOCKTON, July Late last night a
lah0ring man named Lewis Henry
Schultz entered the police station, and to
the officer on duty said he wanted to
give himself up; that he was the man
who killed George Arbanasin at the
Three-Mile House on July 4th.
Schultz told long story about Arbana-
sin having ruined his sister, and said
that he met Arbanasin about eighteen
months ago and demanded that he marry
his sisteR A week later she took poison,
and he resolved to kill Arbanasin
if he ever met him. The first
meeting was on Tuesday night and
he shot him dead. A farm laborer
witnessed the killing, Schultz said, and
as the self-confessed murderer declared he
did not rob deceased, the officers hope to
arrest the man who is supposed to have
robbed the dead mans pockets.
The officers are searching every place
for the man who is said to have been a
witness to the killing, but no such man
is known, so far as they have learned.
To-day Schultz was taken to the scene
of the murder in company with the Dis
he told the story, showing where Arban-
asin stood when the shot was fired and
where ne fell. Schultz told a straight
story, and impressed the officers that he
told the truth. He said Arbanasin fell
against barrel which has since been
moved.
Schultz says that on Tuesday night he
was working on hay press a quarter of
mile from the saloon, and wanted a
drink of beer. About o'clock that night
he went down to the saloon and there he
met Arbanasin. 1--WE meet again."
Schultz said, and Arbanasin called him a
hard name and struck at him. Schultz
then fired, and the saloon-keeper fell
dead. Schultz says that man whose
name he gives as Armstrong, was stand
ing leaning on the bar talking to Arban-
asin when Schultz entered, but the Off
GERS have been all over that section, and
no such man is known.
Schultz says he threw his pistol into
the road and went back to the hay camp
to sleep, but could not sleep. He wanted
to come in and give himself up, but
would not leave the men without baking
lot Of bread, for he was the cook. He
left the camp twelve miles away at 4
yesterday afternoon, came to East street
in this city and got glass of beer.
He got several more down town,
went to the Mercy Mission, religious
meeting-place. got some more beer, and
then gave himself up.
That Schultz is lying about Arbanasin
and his sister, who. he says, lived to-
gether in San Francisco. can be proved
by many residents there, for Arbanasin
has been living in this county for more
than ten years, and for at least seven
years he had been running the wayside
saloon where he was killed. Further
than this, Arbanasin was a very quiet,
peaceable, orderly man of good
character, honest in all dealings and al
ways had money that he saved. He GER
tainly had not been out of the county
more than day at time for four years
The officers found that Schultz lied
about several things. He said he carried
a pistol twelve years, and had it in his
holster Tuesday night. He left the
holster at the camp, but it was not there.
The officers found a Salvation Army
shirt in his effects, which adds to the evil
dence that he is a crank.
Schultz may have killed Arbanasin, but
the officers tonight do not take much
stock in his story, and say if he COM
mitted the crime it was drunken mur-
der for purposes of robbery, and that he
was alone in it. He is 33 years old, only
five feet two inches in hight, and of
stocky build. He talks straight, but his
appearance and peculiar. manner lead
MANY to believe him crazy