The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-24
MURDER WITHOUT
Two Alleged Slayers of Ca
mile Elikan Are
in Jail.
ONE MAN HAS WEAKENED
Shot Without Warning by the
Villains Who Would
Rob Him.
THEIR UNLIKELY STORY.
vhe Prisoners Arc Both Residents of
Long Beach. Whore tho Crime
Was Comm,ttsd-Thsy
THEIR UNLIKELY STORY.


furnished the quiet little town OF Long
Beach with the greatest sensation its
peaceful inhabitants have ever known.
The deed was 80 unexpected, go unpro-
voked and 60 fendish that those who
knew the murdered man in his life
time, and that includes all the people OF
the place, are still dazed 10y the awful
occurrence in their midst, and think and
talk OF nothing else.
The meagre details of the crime then
obtainable we're published in the HER
AID yesterday. Since then fuller de-
tails, as near as oircumstantial evidence
can bring them out, and also the motive
for the deed, have been exposed. More
than this, the crime has been brought
close home to two young men, both resi-.
dents OF the quiet little village down by
the sea, and one OF them is young man
who was once in the employ OF the MUIR
dered man. A coroner's jury has found
these men guilty # the murder.
The place where Elikan fell when the
assassin's bullet struck him down is not
more than l6 feet from the back door Of
his grocery store on Pine street, the
main thoroughiare OF the town.
The murder was bold, as we'll as q
brutal and cold-blooded one, for the
murderers knew that their victim had
just said goodnight to his intended wife,
and the door OF her home. as she held 1t
open for him to pass out into the night
and to his doom. only few feet
from the place where they met and
slew him. They knew that in this
house was w. W. Lowe, the father Of
Elikan's intended vile.
The residence of W. w. Lowe stands
next to the grocery store of Camille Eli.
kan. Between the two is psssageway
only nine feet in width. and in this pas
sage the deed was done. Eliksn car
containing nearly $500 in gold and sill.
yer. Every night for six years it has
been his habit to carry this satchel, con.
tanning the cash taken in during the
day, from the store below to his
sleeping room above. The stairway
is on the outside OF the building and
leads up from point almost equally dis
tant from the door which Elikan passed
through from the Lowe residence and
the spot where he fell.
The murderers knew bis habits.
Every particle Of the evidence at the
coroner's inquest and every one of
their actions indicate this. They knew
at what time he would be apt to ascend
these stairs to his room, and they lay in
wait and murdered him.
On Thursday night Elikan and Miss
Ethel Lowe. his fsncee, were together
in the store engaged in making up the
balances Of the days business. This
finished, the contents of the cash drawer
were placed in the sstohel. and together
the two left the store. Miss Lowe pro-
posed taking a walk and, as he had done
on many similar occasions, Elikan
placed the satchel just inside the store
door and locked the door from the out
side.
This walk ended. Elikan did . thing
which was contrary to his usual custom.
He returned to the store and got the
satchel before accepting the invitation
Of Miss Lowe to spend few minutes in
her fathers house. That one act threw
the murderers off the track. 1t is evil
dent their intention was to break into
the store, get the satchel and depart.
They could have had no other object
save robbery. Not finding the satchel
there. however. as they came after the
walk had ended, and while Elikan was
in the Lowe house with the eatchel they
waited at the rear OF the store near the
foot OF the stairway they knew Elikan
must ascend shortly with the sstchel in
hand. Then when he came they shot
him. grabbed the precious satchel and
disappeared.
Miss Lowe heard the shot fired and
EliKan's groans while she was boiling
the door. She aroused her father and
he. stepping to the rear door of the
house, found Elikan upon the ground.
Elikan was conscious but could not
spear. The bullet had struck his neck
Just at the left OF the center, and cleav.
ing the base of the tongue. had passed
downward and lodged in the vertebra
Eikan did not die for nearly three
hours, and was semi.conscious during
part OF tho time, but he could not artic.
ulate one word. His dying means
sounded like no sound ever before maize
by human being. The wound in his
throat had destroyed the power OF
speech and of sound, almost.
Closely following her father to the
spot came Ethel Lowe. She stopped
over the PROSTATE form of the man she
loved and watched him as his life flick
cred out.
The peaceful little place had been
: long since wrapped in slumbsr, and it
, was some time before Mr.. Lowe could
arouse anyone to assist the dying man.
The doctors finally came, five of them,
but they could do nothing to save the
sufferer.
At first there WAS no clue OF any kind
:. to indicate the cruel murderers. No
one conid offer any solution OF the mys-
terry, though from the fact that a board
had been removed from the rear door OF
the st)re and the door itself unhinged,
1t was agreed that robbers had done the
murderous work.
The male portion OF the town slept NO
more that night. Gradually the
thoughtful ones began to put little
things together, and at last they built
theory, which the Investigations Of the