The herald., 1895-04-26
A DEPRAVED NATURE
New Trait in tine Character Of the
Suspect

UEfkANED INA
New Trait in tine Character of the
Suspect
SAN FRANCISCO April 25.-The muir
drrer Of Minnie Williams has been proved
to be being possessed of a most de-
praved nature, and also man of cold
blooded deliberation, a discree. weigher
of consequences, who planned a means OF
escape as carefully ana thoughtfully as
he did the details of his revolving crime.
This has been brought up by u score and
more minute inspections of marks in the
church.
A close investigation OF blood stains in
the wash room of Emanuel church has
conclusively proved at least three things.
One is that the murderer of Minnie Will
Jams, directly after the commission OF
his crime. went to the washroom at the
rear of the pulpit, washed his blood
stained hands and wiped them OH a towel
which he hung on a coat hook to the
right Of the basin at which he sought to
purge his hands of the evidence of guilt.
1t is proved by his presence in the
washroom that he was thoroughly ac.
quanted with the most out-of-the-way
places in the building-fOr the washroom
can only be reached through doorway
opening into narrow hall across the
church in the rear of the baptistry, and
from the side door of the pastors study
to a fight of stairs leading down into the
Sunday school auditorium at the extreme
rear part of the church. This hallway
can be entered not only by way of the
rear stairs and the door to the PASTORS
study, but also through a door which
opens into that part of the main body of
the church which is occupied by the
choir and is just to the right of the pull
pit.
The second and only other way by
which access can be gained ITO the wash
room is by crossing the pulpit from the
front and jumping into the baptistry, the
side stairs of which lead up into the
washroom. Both of these means of reach
ing the place could be known only to
one who was familiar with that paro of
the church, for the little apartment is SO
hidden that stranger to the building
could not in all likelihood have discov-
cred its existence.
The location of the wasbroom of the
church is such as to exclude a greater
of a artificial light necessary in discern
ing any small object in the room. A care
full inspection of the blood stains in and
about the basin was made yesterday with
the aid of powerful dark Lantern. and
resulted IN the discovery that their num-
pei and extent are much greater than
lad been supposed. Besides number of
stains in the bowl of the basin, they are
numerous on the marble splashers sur
rounding it. There are also several
splotches of blood on the spiashers above
the moulding which caps the marble
splashers. On the ou tside of the little
door which opens beneath the basin there
are long streaks or what appears to be a
thin mixture of blood and water. This
is evidently caused by the dripping from
the hands of the person washing at the
basin. metal coat hook is screwed into
the wanscoating just to the right of the
washstand, and there are blood stains
around the base of this hook and also on
the wainscoating below and on the side
of it.
These sralns were made by a towel the
murderer used in wiping his hands. But
as the towel, which was found hanging
on the hook on the morning after the
murder, did not have much blood on it,
there seems to be possibility that an
other towel was used, which has since
been secreted.
discovery has been made which
clears away any doubts as to the course
the murderer took to gain the lavatory
after he had left his victim in the library
a t the front of the church. Blood stains
have been found on the walls of the little
hall that leads to the door of the wash
room. The stains have the appearance Of
having been made by the tips Of the
bloody fingers OF tAe murderer. The first
blood marks were found on the left wall
of the hallway as the washroom door is
approached, The stains appear to have
been made by some one having touched
the ends of his fingers to the plastering,
as though he were cropping his way
through the dark and wished to STEADY
himself.
The bloody finger prints were again
found in still another place, and it was
this set of stains that finally decided the
course of the murderer from the side of
his victim. The blood marks were found
on the plaeteirng just above the wains-
coting at the head of a flight of four
stairs which lead from platform to
hall running to the washroom door. The
platform at the head of the stairs is just
outside of the door that opens at the rear
of that portion of the pulpit platform