The San Francisco call., 1896-04-29
The Police Not Quite Sure That
Flynn Is the Muir.
derer.
CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS
7. ]. Clyne Claims Mrs. Samuel Shane
Knew Flynn Well Prior to
the Killing.

| It is quite likely the police authoritie:
would, if they could, erase the charge O
murder recently booked against the name
| of J. T. Flynn. pending further develop
ments. 1t is not that Flynn looks les.
guilty at this time than he did few day.
ago, but that cloud of suspicion ha:
] risen over others who may be the princi-
pals or accessories in the murder of little
baby Browning.
! The detectives have been going over the
| testimony given at the Coroner's inquest
and, in the statements made by the Benja
min lad, son of the landlady at 1907 Ninth
street, where Mrs. Browning lives, they
| find that another man besides Flynn wa:
| admitted to the house on the day the baby
was carried away in vaise and thrown
| in to an empty lot.
The Benjamin boys description of the
unknown man has been closely followed
and applied in the way of comparison to
every male individual who is known to
have called on Mrs. Browning at her room
within the recollection of her successive
Iandladies.
In one case only does the description fit,
and young Ben jamin will be brought into
the presence of Edward DelIix to-day to
see if he can be identified as the missing
man.
Dellix is hackman, whose stand is at
the gore of Market and O'FarreIl streets.
He has been acquainted with Mrs. Brown
ing for nearly fifteen years, and was a
constant visitor at her apartments in Mrs.
Woods lodging-house at 1135 Mission
street, where the lady lived prior to her
removal some little time ago to Ninth
street.
Dellix lives in rooms on Mission street.
but after the arduous duties of mis- busi-
ness he generally makes his bed and ia kes
his daily rest in hay-bunker at the Olym-
pic CLUB stables, where he cares for his
team. 1t was there he was found yester-
day by CALL representative, and where,
his hand on his heart, he avowed the
greatest regard for Mrs. Browning, in the
platonic sense already developed by J. T.
Flynn, who is in jail.
Dellix is sure that he was not in the
Browning residence on the 18th of this
month, when the little baby was murdered,
but, strange to say, while his name was
never mentioned as the man most sought
for, he drew himself up with considerable
hauteur when criticiZing young Benja-
minis testimony before the Coroner's
jury.
II was surprised" he said, 'that the lad
should have said l was in that house on
the 18th"
"Did he say you were there?'
"Well, he said," stammering-"he said
man who answers my description was
there; that's enough"
Dellix denies all knowledge of Mrs
Browning delicate condition. He believed
her statement that she was simply suffer-
ing from pain in the side. Now that the
child has been born and killed he, like
Mrs. Shane, places the murder at the door
of j T. Flynn.
The investigation instituted by the au-
thorities in regard to the conflicting state
ments made by Mrs. Shane, the sister of
Mrs. Browning, is developing rapidly.
That little lady, who acknowledged
shutting the baby up in bureau drawer
Immediately after its birth, is impulsive
to say the least, and on that ground, per-