The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-04
NO CLEW AS YET TO THE IDENTITY
OF THE ASSASSIN.
The Condition of Ex-senator Buck Re-
ported to be Somewhat Improved.
Giving Hope to the Family That He
Nav Recoyer-Hfs Movements on
the Day OF the Murder Fully Ac-
counted For.
Special to the REcoRp-USIox.
counted For


1athomed. Not ray of light has pene-
trated the gloom, and the police are
grouping about in vain search for clews,
and with no better idea Of the facts OF the
crime than they had the moment follow
ing the discovery of the charred remains
in the room in which the murder was
committed.
At noon to-day Captain Lees reported
that ne had not been able TO find single
clew TO the identity of the murderer.
Many theories have been advanced as
to the probable murderer. The most
reasonable is that the killing was done
by man or woman well acquainted
with the victim. Whoever is guilty of
the dreadful crime was prepared for its
commission. The murderer went to the
house with the weapon concealed about
his or her person. 1t is probable Miss
Harrington was waiting the arrival. for
the person slipped in quietly and unob-
served. The assassin watched the chance
and dealt the blow which caused death
like coward from behind. The watch
was then taken, the body mutilated, the
oil poured over the person and fuel, the
match applied to the funeral pyre and as
the flames darted 10 the ceiling the muir
derer stealthily left the room.
He was not seen to pass out the front
door, and it is q matter of conjecture
whether he did or not. He might have
remained in hiding until the arrival OF
the firemen, when he could have escaped
without attracting attention in the crowd
of people that assembled in and about the
burning building.
Further than the fact that a man was
frequently seen to alight from a buggy
and enter the apartments at 10l7 Ellis. the
residents OF the neig hborhood have failed
To furnish the police or deputies clew
that would assist in running down the
murderer of Miss Harrington.
In the meantime L. kano, the Japanese
boy arrested on suspicion. is still in jail.
though just why he is being held is not
known, as there is absolutely no clew
against him whatever. II advised the
Chief to release kano yesterday" re-
marked Captain Lees to-day, "but he
prefers to hold him for while"
In speaking OF the murder, Captain
Lees said tonight: The man who MUIR
dered Miss Harrington was familiar with
the interior of the flat. and had been there
many times. He knew her ways, and
was in a position to carry out his cold
blooded butchery before she could sus-
pect his intentions and raise an Outcry.
The fact that he locked the door in the
by Mrs. kellogg is one thing that leads
me to that conclusion. He must have
known that Mrs. kellogg was there, and
locked the door to prevent the possibility
of her surprising him while at his MUIR
derous work.
'What am trying to discover is the
motive. 1t was not robbery. What was
II? l have her purse which was found in
her bedroom, and which contains $50 in
II ic |
very much if Mrs. kellogg ever saw it.
The purse she refers to as being empty
was evidently not the purse she kept her
money in, as the one | have would show,
and the fact that it was empty cuts no
figure. Ii Mrs. Kellogg gave her some
silver when she paid her the rent, is it
not reasonable to suppose that she had
spent 1t. l am pegging away at the case,
but have nothing as yet to give for pub
lication."
The detectives have not yet been able
10 find the missing watch of the muir
dered woman. The suppositIon is that
the murderer took it away with him,
which leads to the suspicion there was an
inscription on it which might lead to his
identity.
EX-SENATOR BUCKS CONDITION.
OAKLAND, June 3.-Ex-State Senator
L, w Buck is lying unconscious at his
home, 929 Adeline street, Oakland. The
mem bers of the family entertain slight
hopes for his recovery.
When seen this noon Frank Buck, son
of the injured man, stated that he had
greater hopes for his fathers recovery
than he had last night.
The injury sustained by Mr.. Buck was
a severe concussion at the base of the
brain. The skull was not fractured. Ii
it had been the doctors would have had
less trouble In treating the hemorrhages
OF the brain that Immediately set in. 1t
was not until this morning that there
were any indications that the hemorrhages
had stopped.
Mr.. Bucks tongue, throat and entire
left side have been paralyZed by the
operation of swallowing. and If food,
either liquid or solid, were given him it
would pass into the lungs.
During the night and morning Mr..
Buck showed signs at times that he re-
cognized his son. These were the only
respites from his continual lack of con-
sciousness. Toward noon Mr.. Buck
slowly regained the power to move his
left arm. This has given renewed hope
10 his family.
Ex-senator Bucks movements have
been fully accounted for from the time he
left the Marysville train at ll:lo Saturday
morning until he was injured ut I:3O
o'clock that evening by being throw.i
from Officer Paulson's cart. Billy Moore
the cabman who drove Mr.. Buck from
the Slxteenth-street depot i'll Oakland 10
his home, says that he met MIR. Buck at
the Marysville train at Ills A. NJ. Satur-
day. and drove him directly to his home,
arriving there at 1855. He saw him again
at l2:l5, boarding the broad gauge train at
Seventh and Adeline streets, going to-
ward San Francisco. Mr.. Bnck's family
state that he was at home between the
hours OF ll:S5 and 2 O'clock. As to Mr..
Bucks movements in this city after mis-
arrival here on the ferry, his son, Frank
II. Buck, stated last evening that from the
time his father arrived on this side of the
bay Saturday afternoon until after 3
o'clock he was IN the company of Cap,ain
freeman, one of the bar pilots, and Mr..
Sanborn, the agent in this city of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road. In Oakland Mr.. Buck drove a
phaeton and bay horse. These were not
out of the stable yesterday.
ANOTHER MURDER.
James Howard Fatally Beaten and
Robbed at san Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.-The police
have another murder on thoir hands.
James Howard, an employe of Wells.
Fargo & Co.'s stables, staggered into the
branch police station at 4 this morning,
bleeding from scalp wounds. lie talked
incoherently, though sober. All the Ser