The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-10
(OT A MURDERER.
Matheny Goes Back to Jail
as a Burglar.
HiIborn's WaIkover - The Officers
3: Following Clsws to
Murder.

OAKLAND.-The Jury in the Matheny
case brought in a verd ct yesterday morn
ing at 9 o'clock, acquitting the defendant
Of the charge Of numbering Officer Cashln
al Kuhnle's saloon on the 18th of March.
1898
The Jury had retired at o'clock tie
previous afternoon, and worked all night
in reaching q verdict 1t is understood
that the jury stood all the time up to the
taking of the last ballot II for acQuittal to
i for conviction.
1t was thought, in the face of the advice
Of Judge Bud to acduIt, that the jury
would have promptly brought in its YER
dict 10 that effect, but the long delibera-
ton had strengthened an idea that had
been formed that there would be dis
agreement in spite of the courts charge.
and the verdict as rendered came as a
surprise.
Matthew himself said smlingly that he
expected az acquiital Il am glad" ne
:. SAID, 1.-THE trial is over. At the otner trial
i expected az aCQuittal. l have never be-
fore expressed myself to any one on the
matter | slept sOundly lastnlght and felt
sure that all would come oct right. was
not guilty of the murder OF Casnln ana
the charge was an unjust one.
" & let was lust one and proper. Wnen the
':expert testified that the bullet that killed
Cashin did not come from TouhllPs pistol
or the pistol found in the saloon supposed
to be Matheny's, why that settled the
murder charge. The prosecution nao no
=. case after that"
Judge Budd said he did not like the re-
marks he had heard coming from Captain
Lees and Detective Holland to the effect
At the jury would disagree. He said
:"Phose men had no right 10 make such re-
:plarks"
- After the verdict Matheny was marched
*b1ck TO the County Jail in charge Of an
= officer He is not out Of trouble yet, by
"a Ky means, for a complaint charging him
with burglarlZing Kuhnle's saloon on that
eYentful March night was sworn out
- gainst him before Judge Allen on March
- 20. last, and his bail was fixed at $1,000.
- he burglary charge will come up on
- tuesday next TO be set
An Arrest Made.
+: The mysterious man who drove away so
~Tapldly from the scene of the murder of
Manuel Quadros, the Portuguese milk
. man, and who said he had fifteen miles to
drive, was apprehended Yesterday at
,Pinole. and Chief of Police SchAffer and
Detective Holland went out to that place
30 investigate.
:. 1t is pretty well understood that this
man could have bad nothing TO do with
. the MURDER, as II came OUT at In6 inquest
that man named Anton Maria had seen
the body before this party got to it.
-. Chief OF Police Scnaffer thinks that the
murderer OF Manuel Quadros, the milk
man. is captured Yesterday he was
..called to Pinole TO interview a man
arrested there by Constable Seaman, and
Al the Jail was shown Henry Miller,
:Prussian, who was liberated from the
Oakland City Prison on Wednesday last.
. Prom the peculiar circumstances surround
lug the case the chief is of the opinion
mat Miller is the murderer of Quartros.
Miller was arrested by Officer Lampiog
,in Monday in Undergrad IN oakland
for violating the sleeping ordnance. when
searched at the prison lot OF 44-caH0ei