The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-26
THREE MEN ARE
UNDER SUSPICION
For THE SHOOTING OF WALTER P,
BLAKE OF THE STOCKTON
INDEPENDENT"
NONE OF THEM IDENTIFIED
The POLICE ARE PUZZLED OVER
THE CASE OF JACKSON HALL,
A PRINTER.

Three suspects have been arrested by
Policemen Ryan and Tuite in connection
with the shooting of Walter P Blake, city
editor of the Stockton Independent, in an
alley back Of the Palace Hotel on Sunday
night. Two of them are William Zeigler and
John Mullin, and the third is Jackson Hall,
printer who was arrested about o'clock
yesterday morning in the st. David S
House on Howard street, near Third.
The three were taken at different times
to Blake's room in the Grand Hotel but he
could not positively identity any of them.
Mullin in height, build and complexion
answered to the description of the robber,
with the exception that the robbers hair
appeared TO be longer. Zeigler he could
not be sure of, although he was about the
same height Hall, the printer, answered
the description, but he was not so stout as
the robber.
Peter Dalton of u Elizabeth street, who
saw man without a hat running along
the alley and along Mission street toward
Second, had a look at the three men in the
City Prison yesterday afternoon, but he
also failed to identity any of them. He
had good look at the man and was sure
he would know him II he saw him again
The police are inclined to believe that
Dalton Is afraid to tell the truth. They
were put to considerable trouble Yesterday
to find him, and they think he was pur-
posely keeping out of their way.
The only point against Zeigler is that
the robbers hat, which is now at the
Southern police station, fits him perfectly.
Hall, the printer, mystifies the police.
He had been employed up to Saturday
night in getting up Crocker's directory and
nothing criminal is known against him.
His left eye is blackened and he has cut
on the left side of his forehead as if made
by blow from a cane or club. a few
minutes after the shooting occurred Hall,
with his face bleeding and hatless, ran
into the St. David's House, where he has
been rooming.
u was in the alley" he SAID Yesterday,
81 should think about half-past II O'Clock
on my way home. A man stepped out of
the shadow of the houses and without say
ing word struck me violent blow on the
side OF my head, which knocked me down.
The man did not attempt TO rob me, but
ran away as soon as he struck me. | ran
down the alley and home as fast as l could.
When l entered the house Steve, the night
clerk, asked me what had happened and
L told him a man had knocked me down
and / was in such hurry to get away that
1 left my hat.
q know nothing of any shooting, and
what L have said is the simple truth. |
am printer and have been EMPLOYED up
TO Saturday night in working up Crocker's
directory. L have lived at the st. David S
House for long time. L was not drunk,
bat don't deny that l had had a few
drinks"
The police did not find a revolver in
Halls room and they found him sleeping
SOundly. He and the two others viii be
de2ined pending further developments.
detective Byram, who is working on the
case, said last night that he had nothing
New to report.
III Halls case the mystery was moro in
tensitied last night when the hat was taken
TO the City Prison and it fitted him. He
declared, however, that his hat was a new
one with blue lining. The one found on
the street is an old Fedora hat without lin
ing.
Halls real name is Jackson A. Hath
well. His mother married man named
Hall and he is better known as Jacks on
Hall.
AT a late hour last night Blake, the
wounded editor, was resting easily at the
Grand Hotel.