The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
FOUR KINDS OF HAIR.
DR.. SamuelS Found Bay Horse
Hair and Black-Wolfe'S
Horse a Bay.

There were four kinds of hair found
upon the dress waist of Blanche Lamont,
instead Of three as previously stated.
81 found" said DR.. Samuels yesterday,
''two kinds of human hair and two va
rieties of horse hair and so many contra
dictory statements have been made about
the matter that l wish you would
straighten them out.
"Of the horse hair one kind came evil
IDENTIFY from the name or tail. 1t was
black and measured one three-hundredths
of an inch in diameter. The other horse
hair was of light bay color. 1t came APP
p arently from the animals body and
mea sured one fve-hundredths of an inch.
lone of the specimens of human hair
was long and brown. 1t came from a .wo-
mans head and measured one four-hun-
dredths of an inc h. The other was light
yellow color-the variety commonly known
as blonde 1t came, l think, from a
mans he ad and was evidently torn out by
the roots. 1t measured one tive-hun-
dredths of an inch.
at is very easy, with the aid of micro.
scope, to distinguish between human hair
and horse hair and that of any other ami
NAL. Horse hair, as in the present in
stance, differs materially from the human
variety in several particulars. The animal
hair is coarser; it has larger tube run
ming through its interior, and the cellular
tissue of the hair proper has an altogether
different make up"
A hair from the body of bay horse Sc
lected at random on the street was sub
mitted to DR.. Samuels. The microscopic
pronounced it to be of the same color as
that found upon Miss Lamont's dress but
of darker shade.
In connection with Dr. Samuels' state
ment it may be of interest to note that
the horse Elmer Wolfe rode on the night
of the Williams murder was a very light
bay, with black main and tail. The horse
hair was found on the Lamont girls dress
and the coincidence might be thought for
that reason to have no importance. The
herders, however, on the Guadalupe ranch
and the employees at the milk depot on the
San Bruno road state that the animal
which Wolfe rides is his favorite saddle
horse and that he seldom rides any other.
Wolfe has not so far as known, been re-
CURED to give any account of his where
abouts on the afternoon Blanche Lamont
disappeared. Was he in town that day?
And if so, did he ride that horse in? In
any case, he would be likely to have upon
his clothes horse hairs of the same two col
ors as those described by DIR. Samuels.
The blacksmith who shod Wolfe's horse
at the San Bruno road milk depot on the
evening OF the Williams murder remem-
bers the animal perfectly. He said yester-
dyy:
"Wolfe's mount that night was little
Gght-bay mare, with very dark-almest
jet black-mane and tail. She has been on
the ranch for. some time and is called
elena or lKlena. Fhe name was given
her by some Swiss who used to work at the
ranch. 1t is a word in their native Ian
guage, and is said to mean pony"
Wolfe's workday clothes which he claims
to have donned at his home after the party
at DR.. Vogel's house are such as could not
fail TO attract attention, especially late at
night, yet the conductors and gripmen of
the late cars on Howard street are positive
in their statements that they did not see
him on the night of the tragedy.
Wolfe was formerly bookkeeper, but