The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-20
Walter Alexander Claims to Rec.
ognize Him in William
Schultz.
A RECENTLY FREED CONVICT.
F. G. Eickhorst Is Positive He Saw
the ASSassin's Picture in the
Rogues' Gallery.

Neville murder case by Chief Crowley,
who claims that the affair is as mystify-
ing to him as to the layman.
I'VE haven't got the man vet,' i'm
patiently asserted the old veteran, ''and
don't propose to talk of this case until he
is brought in"
Detective Gibson, who worked on the case
Monday, few hours after Alfred A.
Neville was shot down, was securing the
outskirts of the City yesterday, presumably
| in search of the man whose photograph in
the rogues' gallery was recognized by f.
G.. Eickhorst, the grocer, as the man who
first came into his place on Sunday night
ordering glass of beer, and subsequently
came in ordering him to ''throw up your
hands," Who that mysterious individual
is the detectives will not say. They fear
that divulging his name would not only
put him on his guard, but likewise help
his partner in the murder to get away from
their clutches.
| However, f. G.. Eickhorst is emphatic
that he knows the murderer by sight and
that he picked his photograph out of a
panoramic display of jail-bird pictures
handed to him by the police for inspec-
| ton. Here is brief note to that effect
written by him yesterday when he learned
| that the detectives were inclined to con-
| trovert his assertion that he could not and
had not picked out the murderer's picture ::
November 10. 1895.
| To the Editor of the San Francisco Cdl-SIR:
| The statement made in to-day's issue OF The
| CALL that have seen the portrait OF the big
man who attempted to rob me and who, pre-
sumably, killed A. A. Neville, is correct. |
| picked the portrait out of a mum Der of those
| presented to me by the detectives.
F. G. E1cKHoRsr.
Grant, the intimate friend of Neville,
| who had seen a suspicious character skulk-
ing around the neighborhood OF Pierce
| and Greenwich streets, whose description
| exactly fitted the murderer also picked
out the same picture as did Eickhorst, but
the police not having captured that indi-
viGual as yet will not give out his name.
All of yesterday the people living in the
district where the murder occurred and
who in any way believed they knew the
assassins were marched singly and in pairs
to Detective Bainbridge's office, where the
rogues' gallery is kept. AS rule they
were unable TO pick out any familiar face.
In the case of Walter Alexander, a
painter living within one block of Eick-
horst's store, it is different. He was in the
saloon at the time the tall stranger entered
and ordered his drink. He was seated at
one of the tables in the small room, and
man, who seemed to act in an unnatural
manner. When the fellow left the place
| Alexander casually remarked that the fell
low looked odd. After the murder Alex
ander recalled the incident, and Eickhorst
informed him that 1t was the same man
who pulled the pistol and killed Neville
Alexander was at police headquarters
yesterday glancing over the rogues' gall
lery. He did not hesitate when he came
to the photograph of William Schultz, an
leX-convict.
This is the MANI he exclaimed. II
would know him in thousand"
Whether Schultz is the man that Grant
and Eickhorst also picked out the police
are adverse to saying, but they do not be-
lieve he is the murderer, so they say.
Schultz is only a thief" said Chief
Crowley, as if this qualification debarred
the man from being something more dan
gerous.
Schultz was convicted and sentenced to
the penitentiary for robbing the effects of
| three years ago. He was liberated a couple
of months since, and has been seen fire.
quently in this City. His description
agrees perfectly with the man who is
wanted, and, no doubt, he will be gathered
in on sight, that he may make an explana-
ton of his wherea bouts on Sunday night.
Patrick Mccoy, a butcher, who dropped
|
Octavia streets two hours before the MUIR
der of Neville took place, encountered the
| two suspects. They followed him in and
picked up the fifteen cents the barkeeper
| had returned him as change. Mccoy de-
INJURED to this, and made such a front that
the coins were returned to him and the
strangers made hasty exit.
! Detective Bohen visited the scene of
! the murder yesterday and also took in the
Presidio, whence many of Eickhorst's
patrons come. His Investigations were I'M
fruitful so far as developing clews. At the
grocery store he found a small ragged hole
in the ceiling which might have been made
by bullet. The1leaden missile, however,
could not be found. The Rev. William
Bolton. a curate from the Church of ST.
! Mary the Virgin, occupies the five rooms
! above the grocery store as q study. He
was not there on the evening of the kill
ing but his privacy was disturbed yester-
day by Bohen and the reporters, who were
anxious to see if the supposed bullet-hole
| traversed into his apartment. There was
no sign OF a bullet-hole in the place. The
bullet, however. may be lodged in the
| rafters between the floor and the ceiling
below.
The funeral of the dead carpenter will
take place at O'Clock this afternoon from
the undertaking parlors on Mint avenue
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