The herald., 1894-11-27
|lYH CONFESS It.
1 Longer Any Mystery
. About the Killing Of
Camille Elikan.
/ WHO DID THE KILLING.
h Each Guilty Man Claims That
the Other Fired the
Fatal Shot.
ONE SWORN CONFESSION.
ONE SWORN CONFESSION.
lated by the Two Young
Men Who Com.
mittsd II.

The honor which 10 said to exis'
among thieves seems not to extend to
THE ees -hc resort &c murder.
Lucien Torrain Hsalsy and Ethan
Allen Feeler have each made q confess
sion regarding the murder OF Camille
Eliksn at Long Beach. Each one of
them confesses that it was the other who
did the killing. Both confess to having
robbed the store and the stories about
the mysterious man who sprinted down
the alley and was chased by this pair OF
case forever.
The confessions OF both the men cover
the details OF the awful crime and are
in harmony on all the principal points
excepting that OF who actually held the
revolver which dealt death to poor
Camille Eliksn. There the stories di.
verge. They are directly opposite ON
this point. And that il ell that now re.
mains OF the case-to find which breast
conceals heart with murder in IL. and
which conscience carries the weight OF
remorse which must surely rest upon
that OF the man who fred that fatal
shot.
Yesterday at Long Beach the two men
were examined before Justice E. Rose.
crane and by him bound over to await
trial in the superior court.
The miniature court room in what
passes for city hall in Long Beach was
packed almost to suffocation when the
deputy SHERIFF. brought the two men in.
The desire Of the people to get q
glimpse OF the men who shot down their
fellow citizen in cold blood WAS so great
that men and women stood up on chairs
for hours and craued their necks and
curved their backs to glue their eyes on
the pair.
The evidence which Sheriff Cline mad
to give was o! startling nature. He
was the frat witness. District Attorney
Dillon wasted no time in useless prelim.
inaries. but at once put the question:
HAS either OF these defendants made
any statement or confession to your"
"Yes."
There was a breathless stillness in
the crowded court room. The district
attorney asked him to state what the
confession was.
''Mr. Hesley sent for me to come to
his cell. Mr.. Kenyon. his brother-in-
law, had talked with him in the cell for
perhaps 10 minutes previously"
Attorney II. d. Woolmer OF this city,
who Is defending Fseler, st this point
objected to the testimony Sheriff Cline
was about to give, but his objections
were overruled and the witness pro-
ceeded.
"Healey said, when entered his cell,
that he desired to make statement OF
the details Of the affair and I told him
to 60 ahead. He met Feeler. he said, in
Los Angeles. They had shortly after
taken trip to Santa Ana, where Feeler,
who 10 something of a musician, played
for dance. They talked over the pros
position of robbing Elikan while on this
trip, but did not arrange the details
until alter they had returned to this
CITY and then gone to Long Beach,"
On the night Of the robbery. according
to the statement made to Sheriff Cline
by Healey. he went first to the front of
the store Of Elikan and knowing the
location and condition OF things, took IL
upon himself to open the store. He
took the rear door off the hinges. In
side he went through tho drawers under
the counters looking for money. He
bad brace and bit and q chisel and
was inside boring hole in one OF the
drawers. which was locked, when
he heard shot fred. Feeler was on
the outside. and when he-Healy-
xushed out Feeler said to him, Let's
10 this way; hurry up!' He did not
see Elikan at all. Feeler had the
satchel and they ran down the alley to
American street, thence out to Ocean
street and down on the beach. Then
the satchel was cut open, the money
taken out, and the satchel thrown into
the sea. The money was divided, put
in three different places, and then.
together, the two returned to the scene
OF the murder, frst stopping ct the
lodging house to change clothes.
Healey told Sheriff Cline where the
Mr.. Cline went to the places designated
and found the money. Part Of it was
ander plank in the rear OF Healey's
fathers place. The remainder had
been thrown in the sand under the
framework of dsused tent near By.
Healey told the sheriff that the pistol
used belonged to him. Feeler threw 1t
into the ocean after the deed.
linen came some very damaging testi-
mony against Feeler. which his attorney
tried hard to keep out.
In heaiey's statement to Sheriff Cline
ne told how Feeler had detailed to him
the circumstances OF the shooting. Ac-
cording to this statement Feeler said he
went up to Elikan az he appeared at the
rear corner OF the store.
Elikan put the satchel down on the
ground. Then he stopped again to get
it. and the shot was fred while he was
stopping.
While the sheriff was making this
statement Healey asked permission OF
the court to say . word, and when
granted It he said something in regard
to the location Of the money which
could nave NO bearing on the killing in
convince some one, perhaps. that the
man 10 of weak mind.
The next testimony taken was that OF
DR.. James W. Wood, the physician and
surgeon who was drst to reach Eliksp.