The herald., 1894-04-20
The Grand Jury Now Holds
the Roscoe Suspects.
Indictments Are Expected TO Be
Returned This Morning.
The ProsecutIon Ciains 20 II, ,vs stronE
Evideacs rhes shuitur, Thorne,
Fl,z nun ma and CAmptoek
Are the Men.

IHe ulatrict attOFuey OuiS a"ieVuou
the case from preliminary examination
before Justice Granger at San Fernando
to the grand jury, now in session.
There were two reasons for this. By
means OF indictment thsy will bs en-
ahl0d to keep from presenting cartain
testimony until the trial in tho superior
court. and incidentally save the county
the cost oI the preliminary examinations
in both cases.
a GREAT SURPRISE.
The change of base WAS great sur
priso ali around, as preparations had
been going On up to yesterday
for the examination at San Fernando,
set for today.
Many witnessed. both for the prosecu-
tiop and defense, have bson summoned
to appear there from The surrounding
country and the neighborhood OF the
| Little Teiungs, where three of the sus-
poets live, aud they will no doubt re-
ceive the first information OF this change
OF plan from reading these lines this
morning.
IN THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE.
On account OF the lArg9 number of
witnesses summoned before the grand
Jury Yesterday and their presence ia the
| district attorneys ottica, whore they
wero staked out in odd corners thick as
blackbrds in pokeberry time, it was
easy enough to gather the general out
line OF the testimony that WAS being
presented.
BUT, in addition to this, Marshal SEQ.
E Gard, Deputy Sheriff A, w. Marsh
| and Detective Len Harris scanned to
| consider further conosalment unnecss-
ssry and spoke quite freely OF the chain
| OF circumstances which has connected
the four deiendants.-Shu!ter. Thorne,
Fitzsimlnona and Comstock-with the
two Roscoe robbeues. Tney would not,
however, give out the names OF some OF
their witnesses, and come details which
they seem to think are very strong
proofs OF the guilt OF the men.
DETAILS OF TESTIMONY COLLECTED.
The general idea, as stated in the
HERALD a: the time OF the arrest OF the
men, is that Thorne, Fitzsimmons and
| Comstock. who reside i'll the Little Te.
| jungs, and Shutter, committed the frst
robbery last December, and that this
irst three named did ths job OF last
February, Shutter being then in Jail.
1t is claimed that Thorne has been
positively identified by trainmen as be-
| ing the man who went over the engine
i'll the first robbery, and Shutter as be-
| ing the man who came over tho train
| from behind That Thorne bought q
| ticket from this CITY to Burbank that
night. The identification OF the two
other men lie not 30 positive, bat it is
claimed that the evidence is sutheient TO
! connect them WIN rms us wvf, Se tho
| other robbery.
The frat intimation that Marshal
Gard had that gave him clue to Shul-
ter was b.fore the first Roscoe robbery.
At that time j. Y. Brighton was in
Chris Evens' family and confidence.
Shutter HAD COME SOUTH.
He wrote letter to Gard telling him
Shutter had come sonth and to look oui
for him. In compliance with this hint
Deputy Sheriff Marsh kept sharp
outlook for him and found him recoiv-
ing letters st the poetotfice under the
name OF Shutter. These letters. it ia
said, were IRON Mrs. Evans and the
prosecution has them as we'll as others.
Il ia claimed that they have some bear
ing upon the plans for holding up q
train in pursuance OF plan for the re-
lief of Evans.
The prosecution alleges that after the
first robbery they have evidence that
Shaltsr went 10 Vlsalia and saw Mrs,
Evans, and that he gave the details ol
the robbery before Brighton AID de-
scribed howit all took place, saying also
that he made the dynamite bomb which
was used.
Then Shutter came back south and
committed tho Bigslow burglary. Marsh
secured information that he was abou
to leave January 18Th to join Evana anc
arrostad him, cstensiuly upon tht
Bigelow burglary charge, which was 6
dead cinch, bu. i'll reality TO begin gath
ering up tho men now IN jail. He had
been held out OF arrest in ordsr to got 6
cluo to the whereabouts of ThOrne.
Since Shutters arrest the officers have
been following up their clues aud gath
ering the evidence upon which thsy now
hope to clear up the mystery OF the tw(
robberlee.
HAD MANY NAMES.
One OF the statements made by th;
officers ia that shutters real mans a
James ]. SHREDDER, under which name ht
was once = sailor, but that Evans knew
him under ths name of x. Llewelyn
They say that he is an anarchist anC
has bsen heard 70 boast Of this righteous
ness of blowing up the property of cor
poratlons.
Thorne. they say, went under thc
name of Decker when III Evans noigh
borhood.
Comatock. Tnorns and F.tzsim mon
are brothers -in-law. Their claims il
the Little Tejunga are poor affairs. Sons
time ago they lived in San Bernardin,
county, and their regulations there wer
bad. Several crimes OF burglary are lai(
at their doors in the neghborhood wher
they lived.
THE Defense STILL LAUGHS.
Oa the other hand their attorney stil
insists that he will bs able to provo
complete aiiDi when it comes to the trial
He says he has nothing to do witt
Shutter, whom his clients do not know
and what he may have done is no aifai
of his. He was very much excited yea
terday afternoon, asserting that the dis
trict attorneys office was examining
the witnesses for the defense before thu
grand Jury. He claims that this wa
sharp practice on the part OF the distrlc
attorneys Office, who were not entitled
to see his list of witnesses. Deputy Con
stable Bsecher, in whose hands the lie
OF witnesses for the defenge was given
denies that he allowed the district attor
news Office to see e single name, ant
! returned the subpoena into Mr.. Ling
possession without the prosecution hav
ing learned anything from him as to tn