The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-18
ON THE TRAIL OF
THE MURDERERS.
THE POLICE ARREST TWO MEN WHO
CORRESPOND WITH THEIR
DESCRIPTION.
SKETCH OF STAGES LIFE
A LAUNDRYMAN HELD UP ON THE
MISSION ROAD BY THE SAME
Two MEN.

The cold-blooded murder OF Cornelius
Stage, proprietor of the Ingleside House,
has inaugurated a reign of terror in the
Mission which is not likely to abate until
the murderers are caught.
Hundreds of people, most of them actu-
ated by morbid curiosity, visited the scene
of the murder yesterday Othere were
old-time friends of the murdered man, and
they were visibly affected as they talked
of his untimely end.
When the clothing of the murdered man
was searched at the Morgue gold pin was
found in his scarf, gold watch and chain
in his vest and $40 and copper cent in his
trousers pocket. The money was made up
of seven So pieces and So in quarters, so
that shortly before the tragedy Stage must
have taken the money from the till. The
robbers were probably aware of this fact,
and that was why they wanted to drive
him into the barroom. Once there one OF
the robbers could have covered all the in
mates of the house with his pistols while
the other rified their pockets. The killing
of Stage precipitated matters, however,
and the murderer did not wait to search
his victim.
Captain Lees had every detective at work
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but they were unable to get any clew to
the identity of the two footpads and MUIR
derers. Sergeant Burke and a posse of
men have also been steadily at work with
a like result.
Detective Crockett found the bullet that
went through Stages head, and it is now
in the possession OF Sergeant Burke. 1t
was covered with blood.
Detective Cody ascertained that the two
men made their escape by pathway at
the rear of the hotel that leads over into
Ocean View about mile and runs on to
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Detectives Bowen and Seymour traced
their subsequent movements up to o'clock
yesterday morning. They believe that they
had hid themselves in the brush for some
hours and had then started to walk into
the city by making long detour.
The two detectives learned that about 4
O'Clock two men, answering the description
of the murderers in height and dress. held
up Jean Baptiste Bascon on the Mission
road, near the Five-mile House, close TO
the terminus of the Mission cars. Bascon
is employed in a laundry at the Six-mile
House, and he was on his way to work. AT
the point indicated the two men stepped
in front of him and ordered him TO throw
up his hands. Without moments hest
tation Bascon started off as fast as his legs
could carry him, and the footpads did not
follow him or fire shot after him.
Bascon is a man about 6 feet tall, and he
said one of the men was taller than he.
The other was three or four inches less
than his companion. The detectives are
satisfied they were the same men who
killed Stage.
"From what we could learn" said De-
tive Brown, "the footpads talked like
Americans. They were not new to the
business, from the way in which the taller
of the two walked into the room where
Stage and Lee, the colored man, were sit
ting, and getting behind them ordered
them to go into the bar. If he had been a
novice he would more than likely stood
in front of them
"It's my opinion" said Detective Sey-
mour, 'that if Lee had not run out of the
room Stagg would not have been shot.
The footpad evidently thought that Lee