The San Francisco call., 1896-04-06

called upon me and asked if had heard
from the Warden. 1 told him I ad and
that the dead burglar was not sPittsburg
jack He asked to see the correspondence
and 1 declined. Next morning General
Salomon, Franklin's attorney, called upon
me and asked to see the correspondence. |
showed it to him and he said, That settles
1t, the man was not Pittsburg jack The
visit OF Kline and the visit of General Sal
omon next morning led me to think that
Kline was in the pay of Franklin.
II never took so much pains in my life
to have man identihed rs did with the
dead burglar. got my staff to take every
crook in the City to the Morgue to have a
look at him, but not one had seen him
before. made Detective Bainbridge and
the clerks in the office go through the
States Prison books and they could find
no trace of any such man. Policemen
were sent to look at him, but none of them
knew him. He was never in the peniten-
tlary here and was not known here, and l
don't believe the man was thief.
"Now about Hayes. He was kept in the
City Prison at his own request till after
the inquest. After the inquest 1 in
structed Detective Wren to take him to g
hotel, to stay there until further orders.
lie was there a week, when he disap-
peared. Gibson and Wren met him on
Market and Kearny streets the nigh. be-
fore he disappeared and he never said q
word to them about leaving the City. He
never evinced any disposition to go, and L
am satisfied some one outside of the police
department, who had an interest in get
ting him out OF the City, was at the
bottom of his disappearance.
There is not the remotest evidence
against either Riley or Hayes in connec-
ton with the burglary, but l will make
MIR. Kline swear to a complaint against
hem so as to give him chance to bring
forward his proof that they were the
burglars. 1 don't believe Hayes is a
crook.
ut is said that after the trial Hayes
showed up with SIS and a new suit of
clothes, and he declared positively it all
came from Lees That is false. I never
gave Hayes cent, and the clothes were
an old suit and hat Hayes got from Otto
Heyneman. my clerk, Captain Robinson
giving him shirt and pair of shoes. He
was in such tattered condition that some
thing had to be done before any hotel
would take him in, and Heyneman kindly
offered to give him a cast-off suit
Detective Wren. who saw Kline, as in
structed by Captain Lees, said: kline
did not pretend to know the dead man,
but told me that the man, who was
then working at the Parrott building,
thought he recognized him as man
who had done time in the Missouri peni-
tentiary, who was known as 'Pittsburg
jack His right name was Dougherty,
although he was known there as Clark
from Pittsburg. Kline also said that he
had talked with the man in the Salvation
Army barracks on Pacific street.
81 went to see the brother-in- law,
and asked him if he knew the man
on the slab in the Morgue. He replied
that he looked like a man he had
done time with in the Missouri peniten-
tiary, whose name was Clark, and who
He said the last time he saw him was two
years ago in Los Angeles, and the man in
the Morgue looked like him. l felt posi-
tive he did not know the man, and so re-
ported to Captain Lees
Captain Lees has correspondence in his
possession showing that Frank ]. Miller,
Franklin's butler. was born In Thomas
ton, near Waterbury, Conn, and that his
real name is Frank J. Heifer. A man
named Miller was married to one of his
sisters. The captain limited that there
might be some interesting developments
yet regarding the matter.