The record-union., 1894-12-31

1-Water closet door opens inward). where
Weber may have been first struck.
2-Wash sink.
SPOOL of blood between door and west
wall.
4-Broken candlestick and candle covered
with blood, with hairs beneath.
5-Where Weber's slipper lay with blood
upon its sole.
6-OutSide porch.
7-Stairway leading up onto porch.
S-Door leading into diningroom. From
this door to stair landing are numerous bare
foot blood prints vita toes showing plainly.
9-Dinlng-room table.
1O-Dining-rOOm
11-Position OF Weber's body, with head to
the south. 1t lay i'll a pool OF blood and
brains.
I2-Bloody carving knife on floor.
13-Body of Mrs. Weber lying in hall open
ing out OF dining-room. her head was to-
wards the north and about one foot from the
door The carpet was saturated with her
blood and brains,
1I-Living room.
15-Bed-room; beds all disordered as if
searched.
l6-Red in the room of Mr. and Mrs Weber:
bed disordered as if searched.
17-Canp as sack ON noor. 1t had contained
money which Weber always kept between his
mattresses.
1o-Bloody bare foot prints on sill OF door,
19-Bureau, with contents pulled out.
20-ClOthIng thrown out OF bureau, and on
one article was a bloody loot print.
21-Parlor, undisturbed.
22-Front stairs. leading down to front en-
23-Spare room, locked and undisturbed,
showing that the robbers knew where to
search.
WHAT Is PROBABLE.
Mr.. Weber was very methodical man,
aud always went 10 the closet before re-
tiring for the night. About $3.50 o'clock
he left the store, taking the money up
with him. That was the last time he was
seen alone.
1t is probable that he went to the closet,
taking the candle, and that on opening
the door he found the assassin concealed
there. The latter, finding himself dis
covered, and possibly being known to
Mr.. Weber, thought it best to silence
him before he could call for help and i'm
mediately struck him in the face with the
ak, stunning and disabling him. The
fact of the pool of blood outside the closet
door and the bloody broken candlestick
seem to bear out this theory.
Leaving the body there, the murderer
probably rushed into the house, and as
Mrs. Weber started for the front stairs 10
give the alarm, he struck her OH top of
the head with the back of the AK, sinking
it into her skull and pulling her back
wards, killing her SO quickly that she
did not struggle.
He then must have gone back to Weber,
dragged his body into the dining-room,
laid it on the floor and mutilated his
countenance with the knife that was
found beside it, and afterward ransack ed
the house, taking the money and perhaps
other property that has not yet been
missed. Feeling his way down the stairs
he threw down the ak where 1t was found,
dropping at the same time Mrs. Weber's
ring. lie then wiped the blood OFT his
feet, and putting on his shoes went out of
the south door of the shed into the yard
in front. The fact that the lock on the
big folding gates on the alley is broken
would indicate that jimmy that was
found in the shed was used on it, but
whether he saw some one in the alley and
deemed it more prudent to go out the
other way or not, will perhaps never he
known. At all events, the blood marks
show that he went out through the front
circumstance that looks as if he
might have carried away a bundle with
him is the cutting OF the rope on the shed
door. On the right hand, close TO the
door, which opens inward, is a barrel,
and a knot in the rope prevented the door
from opening wide enough to permit
person with large bundle from getting
through. and the rope would have to be
cut to allow it. Besides, the bloody mark
is about the middle of the outside OF the
door, as if the hand had been put there to
keep it open until the person could get
through, instead of being on the edge of
the door as person would naturally pull
it open.
NO KNOWN CLUES.
The police have, SO far as known, no
clue TO work on. Some officers believe
that the deed was not done by a white
man, as the mutilation of the face looks
more like a Chinaman's work. On the
other hand there was statement going
the rounds yesterday afternoon that two
women were going home the other night
from the Free Library and overheard two
men talking, one of whom said to the
other: "pll kill that Weber before long"
The hatchet found near the ak in the
woodshed, which-was supposed to have
been Mr.. Weber's, bears IS. z. Co."
stamped upon it, and must have been
stolen from the shops by someone. The
facts show that the murderer, whoever he
may be, acted with GOODNESS and deliDera-
ton, removing his shoes in order that he
might not be traced by his footsteps.
HIS HISTORY.
Franz Henricus Weber resided at 1217
and l2ls l. street, over his provision store,
which is well known as the Temperance
tamlly Grocery Store. Mr.. Weber was
born IN Hamburg, Germany. May Ia,
1850 bis father, August Christian Carl
Weber, was manufacturer in Hamburg.
bis mother was Johanna Christina Eliza
beth tWagenlinger).
Mr. Weber left Germany when Ii to
JOIN his adopted sister and her nus band
In New York. He remained with them
Two years, and then went to Wisconsin
ana worked on farm in Sunk Prairie
until April. 1853. when he came overland
to california and settled at ranching in
Indian Valley. Plumas County.
November 10, 1861, he enlisted in the