The record-union., 1895-06-27

has aDDarently D66n again oA6luplAh0A a.
the Weber case Everything points 10
the fact that at least one of the murderers
is in iail in San Francisco, and possibly
one or two Of his aceomplices, although
some of the detectives believe that OF the
three men supposed to have been engageo
In the crime one was killed at San jose
while committing another crime, and the
other is still at large.
On the night of December 29th last Mr..
and Mrs. +. II. l.. Weber were brutaily
butchered ct their home on l. street, near
Twelfth, and their persons ana mousse
hold plundered of clothing, jewelry and
some $500 in money.
The murderers disappearad after Ieav-
ing some of their blood-stained clothing
behind, and though detectives have ever
since been on the alert no really goou
cew 10 their identity had been obtained
until now. Circumstances at one tllne
threw suspicion on one Harry Sandt,
alias Shy Red," and Joe and Bill Sprout,
and they were run down. arrested anu
examined, but there was no proof against
them and they were discharged.
A bout three weeks ago the San + ran
cisco police received Information con-
cerning the alleged murderer from two
sources. A carpenter named ZAkreWskl
during periods of Seml-Intoxlcatlon told
a Young man named Hill that he knew
the names of the Gen who killed the
Webers. Hill and ZakreWski wanted to
secure the reward, and the former, VINO
is acquainted with Police Sergeant GlIlen,
confided in that officer and related to him
that Kobolotf, the surviving murderer.
would soon arrive in san Francisco from
the country, accompanied by boy who
Once sharad the same cell with him IN The
City Prison.
Gillen told Hill to keep quiet for awhile,
and in the meanwhile man named
Stevens, a photographer, informed the
local detectives that he could also give in
formation on the subject and that the car
penter had also made statement to him,
in which Kobolon was represented as
having made a confession to the crime.
Some of these things having been pub
lished, District Attorney Ryan requested
Chief Detective Lees OF san francisco to
confer with Stevens, and the result has
been the arrest of Russian ex-convict,
John kobolotf (or kobolev). and the de-
tention as witnesses of Zakrewski, a
Russian ship carpenter, and one Nick
Levigne, peddler.
Henry Weber, son of the murdered
couple, and Mrs. c. Ii. Beasley, daugh-
ter, were both in san Francisco yesterday
10 see if they could identity any of the
been taken from their parents residence.
There was a dramatic scene in one Of
the private rooms OF the police depart
ment at the new City Hall when kobolotf,
who also gives his name kovalev, a
strapping young fellow OF 81, was brought
in and confronted by the children OF the
murdered couple. Frank Weber promptly
identified koboloff as a man ne had seen
loafing about Sacramento. kobOlo1f
uttered not word. He is red-haired,
blue-eyed, thick-lIpped, coarse-looking
rutfian. He speaks little English, but
evidently understands all that is said 10
him.
MI Weber fully identified the trousers
worn by the prisoner pair which be-
longed to his father, and Mrs. Beasley
identified the suspenders as a pair which
she had made for her father. The sus-
penders are of peculiar pattern OF black
elastic with red silk trimmings. On close
examination 1t was found that the red
Silk was an ornament that had been
sewed on.
ZAKREWSKI's STATEMENT.
He Relates What He Says Koboloff
Confessed to Him.
WIadislaw Zakrewski, Russian Finn,
makes the following statement in rela-
ton TO the Weber murder: II first met
John Durbrotf (kObolotf) the last of
August, 1894, at saloon, 3l9 Third street.
did not see him again for two or three
months, as he said he was going to wait
for money so he could go back to the old
country. i met him again at 20 Eighth
street ABOUT last New ears, and about
the latter part OF February ne made d
statement 10 me at u O'clock i'll the fore
noon, with nobody present in the house
but himself aud me.
He had taken q room at my house. L
suspected that he was IN some trouble,
and so l got him drunk to find out what
1t was. He was between drunk and
sober and he told me that he had been
watching a store with another man for
three days at sacramento. After piping
off, the house for Three days he anu his
partner went around 10 the back yard at
10 O'Clock at night. One of them went
into the yard. and the other hid behind
door on a balcony.
lone OF the men (Koboloff) found a
hatchet and hid behind the door, and
when the man who owned the store came
upstairs with candle In his haud-the
man with a gray beard. as kobolotf de-
scribed him-k obolotf took the natchet
and went toward the old man and struck
him on the forehead. AS he did so, the
man yelled, Pm murdered . Pm killed.
NV hen koboloU Knocked him down
he called up his partner. Then they Doth
entered the house. They then saw a
woman in the middle OF a room in the
house, and they asked her for money.
She got scared, and koboloff could not
or did not state who killed the woman,
but she was killed. hoDoloH did not tell
who his chum was"
He does not know anything, SO he says,
about the San Jose murder, but says that
Stevens read him the entire account OF
the " eber murders IN the papers. kob-
oloff said he had taken a lutte square
box, about seven inches long, aud buried
it about three miles this side OF Sacra-
mento, also some clothes, and they buried
1t under a log OF wood, after first chop
ping up the box.
Koboloff also told him that he had
watch i'll his possession, but when George
Petelon was IN the cell with him, PeteIon
saw a watch on hoboloff and saw writing
on it. kobOloff could not read English,
and Petelon told him to throw it away.
This man Petelon denies having any
knowledge OF kObolotl, and he at the
time of their arrest was placed IN a differ
ent cell.
Stevens once came to Zakrewski's
place ana tried to sell a watch for %
cents, and koboloff remarked that he
had thrown better watch than that
down a wafer closet
This statement was Interpreted from
Russian into English by three transIators.
He further stated that kobolon, who
was at Eighth street with him. told him
that he did the murder ct Sacramento.
He said he did it at 10 o'clock at night.
Kobolotf was upstairs on the porch be-
hind the door, and he took Ratchet
from the yard, and when the business