The herald., 1896-03-07
TOOK EVERYTHING N.-S|GHT
Found Fault Because There Was
No More
THE ORIGINAL PIE BITERS
Lick the Platter Holding Pasadena's
Political Pie
The Inner Circle OF the q. O. p. Ring Chooses
All ths DeIegates-News Notes
for Non-Politiclans

PASADENA, March 6.-The "only orig
inal." the "pieeaters," those who take
"their'n straight" the genuine "blown
in the bottle"-in fact, the G. o. p,
with ring around it principally ring,
in truth)-met this evening in four
caucuses, one in each ward, and made
public the names previously selected
to compose the Republican convention
which meets on the 10th inst.
The Second ward meeting was pre-
sumably fair sample OF all. Here the
''ring" msrshaled its forces in great
shape, and displayed more gall and a
bigger nav for pie than even its we'll
known ravenous appetite had been
credited with. To be specific, six men
out of about 100 in attendance nomi-
mated twenty out of the twenty five
delegates, and of these six, four are
city officials, and the other two we'll
known as strictly in "de push," one
famishing for a certain office. These
''nominators" are Pieeaters Rossiter,
Weed, Cox and Buchanan, with Vail
and Hester as boosters to push it
along;" and they did their duty 80 we'll
that five other names were barely al
lowed to squeeze in edgewise, just to
have faint suspicion of keeping up
appearances. or course these five
we're according to the wishes of the
pieeaters also, and one might suppose
they could, by Herculean effort,
manage to curb their sppetites to q
sufficient extent to allow some Of their
friends, at least, to help cut the pie.
No. They tried to swallow it whole,
spilling few crumbs in the process.
City Attorney Arthur and Judge
Rose took care of the Third ward, aud
the pieeaters we're we'll represented in
the others also.
THE HENDEL KILLING
The killing of VIM. Hendel by J. A.
Barker yesterday morning, and the
events that led up to it have formed
ihe main topic OF conversation upon
the streets today. Coroner Campbell
arrived at about 2 o'clock this after
noon and proceeded at once with the
postmortem examination, the opera
tion being performed by DR.. Swear
ingen. It was found that one of the
bullets had entered close to the shoul-
der blade at the back, and ranging
downward came out at the front. The
other entered at the side and shattered
the spinal column. This indicates that
Hendel was in crouching position
when the shots we're fred, which is said
to tally with Barker's story of the
shooting.
The jury selected to hold the inquest
was as follows: O. W. Benton, e. Por-
ter Ashley, y. s. Howard, Chas. Grimes,
F. MCGOWAN, w. Basore, G. W. Reed,
J. M. Plant, s. Z. Miller.
Officer Bsebe, Marshal Buchanan and
Dr. Swearingen we're examined by the
jury and very little additional informa-
tion ELECTED besides that published in
The HERALD yesterday. When the Off
GERS went up after the body of Handel
Mrs. Barker was found at the house
and gave directions to the officers for
finding the body, which was some 600
feet from the house in the brush. 1t
was found that Hendel had no weapons
upon him, indicating that he had gone
up there to see Barker's wife, but not
with the intention Of killing any one.
At 345 the jury returned the follow
ing verdict:
Death resulted from gunshot wounds
inflicted by one J. A. Barker with in
tent to kill.
Barker requested Attorney w. S.
Wright to defend him, and that gentle
man will probably accede to his re-
quest.
Mrs. Barker at one time worked in
the family of Mr.. Wright as a domes-
tic. Mrs Barker told Marshal Buchan-
an that when Hendel first showed him
self at the ranch he came up to the
house while Barker was away and
talked with her, asking her why she
testified to such lies about him at his
trial. She told him she had testified
to nothing but the truth, and then
warned him that be had better get out
of the way if he didn't want trouble
with her husband.
A BURGLAR.
A burglar effected an entrance to
the Western Union telegraph Office at