Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Fatal Fire in a Box Factory In
San Francisco, Cal.
MAN FOUND pEu IN A SHED.
Arrested for Rtbbing salon Keeper
An ippsrrutly Insane Sian sud
denly Riga rs H,a,on

sieve MAlespina, whose life sentence
for murder was snort time agO olm.
muled by Governor Budd VI Caliiot
mia 10 twenty-five Year,, ana whooe
tenn expired on Tuesiay, came dow o
Wednesday from Folsom on his way 10
his home In Sierra County.
In tue suuotlof court ut Woodland,
California, Saltor ID. WOrden, wnu
was convicted Of wreoking a train nj
the time OF the STRIKE In l5Di anu caus.
ing the death OF Engineer CLARK aud
several United States soldiers, VIII be
resentenced next Monday 10 death.
The box factory Of Hobbs, Wall d
Co., at 8i4 10 3gi Spear street, sau
FIancllcU, was destroyed ny nfe be-
tween 4 and O'Clock weunuldty
morning, with a loss OF SO 00J or
$4,000. II 10 probable that Captain
Rose, the night Waterman, wus killed
IA the flames. IL is believed that his
body 10 now IN the rufus.
The employees OF sIauley's stables at
Sacramento found the deaf body " a
man not yet cold, lying on pile Of
hay In shed yesterday afternoon and
On empty bottle OF csrbolio acid by
his side told tue manner of his death.
The body was that Of a short, thiok-sot
man Of swAtthy complexion, dark,
curly hair anu about 85 years old. A
letter on bis person telling the motive
that led to his suicide was aignei Sig.
mund Rooster, aud statod thEt hit
brother was =. Rooster, Reimsburg
siraase, Slultgardi, Wurttmhofg. IL
was Asosflainsd that atOut l O'Clock
h. - IaaUN.N >
purchased q ten.cent bottle OF cafbolc
Aoid, saying that he vented 10 use u
on a toTe on mis- leg. He was lie.
brew aud has been aided by the socio.
~ here several times.
Herbert l.. Smith gots from OAK
lauJ, California, 10 Los Gatos tree auu
adlu god sane, nilet a via eNpvriuuoe
on train, a iour.day Incarceration nj
the county Iail nud tfying ordeal
with his mother anu sweetheart. Tue
insanity commissioners could not de-
ttct 10 him the slightest evidence Of
mental weahnesr. Smith hUld high
carnival VA a train FRIDAY night OF
lest week anu wound up by ichplug
through n coach winInw with the 90.
teution Of killing himself. Captain
Fletcher took him 10 jail auu on search
ing him found over 500. Smith
talked like a demonted man aud the
conclusion was reached tnat be wAr
hopeletsly insane. His mother anu
sweetheart came up nom Loo Gatos
and pleaded with him for hour, but
he treated them mOtt indiiiefonlly.
The moment he found himself Ia court
all this changed. lie suddenly b..
came himself again anu easily passed
tor not only n sane man, but one gifted
with certain talents and thoroughly
Intelligent. Alter his discharge he
made Tor the train without one word
OF explanation OF his conduct, aud his
case Ia slill as great n mystery M ever
Ernest Bafada and Bessie Bruuson
were arrested In Ban Ffhnclsco early
wednesday morning by Detectives
Gibson aud Wren, on the steamer
santa Rosa, upon the strength OF q
dispatch from the onief OF police Of
Santa Monica, which said they were
wanted for burglary. Neither would
talk beyond admitting they were the
persons mentioned In the dispatch.
Their trunk was taken 10 headquarters
aud searched, but the detectives sny
they found nothing In II which wOulu
lnulceN tntl nhu cummliNol any
oficn,e. Barada gave his age ~ 80
years, and his occupation that OF n bar.
tender. Tho BTunson woman said cue
was 70 Year, OF age aud bad no oceu.
patton. Later IN the day Chief oil
Police Crowley received a dispatch
from the authorities at Santa Monica,
saying an officer was on HE way TO
take the prlsonefs back. A Dispatch
from Santa Monica says this couple are
charged by C.Fanetti, a saloon keeper,
with robbing his house, In which they
had apartments, u two watches, a
sum OF money and other valuable
articles. The robbery Ia said TO have
been committed while FAnetti aud his
wife were nj their saloon. They lott no
one In the house, but whom they re-
turned the door was opened anu every.
thing Iantacked. BafAda and the
BIunson woman came In soon alter the
robbery was discovered ana diverted
iusplclop. The couple started sudden.
ly for this city, anu alter they had gone
Faneiu found the hey 10 their room
fitted other doors, and 40 he swore TO n
warrant.