The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-27

by Mrs. Beasiey as a pair she had lined
with crimson silk and presented to her
father as a Christmas gift.
But that is not all. The boy, Petition,
positively identified Mrs. Weber's chain
and bangle attached as the one worn by
Kovalev on the night OF December 81.
kovalev had worked in the shoeshop of A.
Davis, 339% Third street, until a few days
before Christmas, when he left, saying he
was going into the country. Davis yester-
day morning identified pair of trousers
found in the ash-b barrel in the yard of the
Weber residence as the pair Kovalev wore
when be left his shop.
When Kovalev was asked where he got
the trousers he was wearing when arrested,
he said he got them from Zakrewskie, the
carpenter. when they were in San Jose.
The suspenders were staring him in the
face, but he said nothing about them.
Yesterday afternoon he was again asked
through an Interpreter in the presence of
District Attorney Ryan to pick out from
the clothes he wore when arrested the
articles he got from the carpenter in San
Jose, and he picked out the trousers and
suspenders, which, unfortunately, were
plainly marked with paper for identified
ton. When asked why he said nothing
| about the suspenderS on the previous
occasion he said he was never asked about
! them. The carpenter positively and en-
| phatically denied giving him the trousers
| and suspenders and Captain Lees and Mr..
| Ryan believe him.
! There were three men concerned in the
Weber murders. From various circum-
stances it is beyond doubt that the other
| two were Kharlampi Nikitin and Mathew
| Stcherbakov. These two were friends and
! companions of Kovalev, and it is known
| from Arnold Levin and the carpenter that
the three left the City together shortly
before Christmas. Nikitin was the tallest
of the three, being 5 feet 10 inches, broad
| shouldered but slim and angular in the
| body. He has net been seen or heard of
| for months. Stcherbakov was stabbed to
death by William Dondagan a grocer, in
/ San Jose, on the night of March 80 last.
Two nights previous to that date Kova-
! lev and the carpenter went to San Jose,
where they met Nikitin and Stcherbakov.
| The first night they all slept in a lodging
| house, and the next night, being ''dead
| broke, they all slept on the grass near the
railroad track, except the carpenter, who
| pawned a portion of his tools and started
off to walk back to the City. The next
night, March 30, three men held up Don
| dagan, the grocer, and he stabbed one of
| them, who was identified as Stcherbakov
| by photograph taken of him while in the
| Morgue and by a piece of paper stained
with blood found in his pocket on which
! was written the carpenters address. He
was buried in the clothes he was wearing,
and Detective Gibson, who has been work
ing on the case, was sent to San Jose yes
| terday to have the body exhumed, with
| the object of getting sample of the cloth
ing to see if it is one of the suits belonging
| to Mr.. Weber.
| The carpenter and Levin are being de-
tanned as witnesses. District Attorney
Ryan left for Sacramento last night to
prepare the necessary warrant for kova-
lev's arrest on the charge of murder and
then he will be taken TO the capital city to
stand his trial.
Kovalev is one of the ten Russians who
made their escape from Siberia in boat
and were picked up by a whaling bark and
brought to this City in November, 1898
Kovalev is % years of age and was born in
Chaykoff, Russia. He is a shoemaker by
trade and says he was exiled to Siberia
because he was a friend of some students
who were Nihilists. He has a magnificent
bass voice and sang in the choir of the
Greek church in his native city.