The San Francisco call., 1896-02-28

Sacramento and Kearny streets on Tues
day night preceding the alleged burglary,
and ask him to come out to the house on
California street?"
"No, sir, was not out of the house that
night.
as this your handwriting" on a small,
ragged piece of brown paper.
No, SIR"
Some notebooks and an account were
shown to him, which he acknowledged to
be IN his own writing.
Then Miller was told to stand side and
the tramp was placed on the stand. Shiy-
ering with nervousness, he said his name
was Franklin Hayes.
81 was asking aims from men on the
street on Tuesday night when this man,
Miller, came along. l tackled him. He
said / was giving him dirt. | went along
with him and asked him how. We turned
up Sacramento street and he said to me.
You can make q suit of clothes and S.
easy If you will come out to a certain house.
on California street, near Baker. to-
morrow and carry away two bundles for
me- / told him | would do great deal
for IS and suit OF clothes. He said l
must come between Z and s O'Clock.
come around to the back porch and wait
for him TIL he came out, making no
noise. | said | would not make any
noise as l could walk on the grass. He
told me there was no grass there. l
agreed. Then be stopped and picked up
small piece OF a paper bag and started to
write in his hand, He could not do it
and wrote the directions how to get
there. He then gave me 10 cents for nv
carfare and we parted. Well, | didn't 90.
| talked it over with some chums in
saloon and they advised me not To do it as
1t was rather mysterious and might get
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picture in the paper the next Friday /
said That is the man.
In answer 10 iuryman Hayes said he
was telling his story OF his own free will
He had talked about the affair among the
hackmen and others, and it got to the ears
of the police and he was locked up.
In answer to questions from Captain
Lees the witness said that a number of
photographs had been shown to him out
of which he picked two as being like the
man he had met and one of the pictures
was that of Miller. The meeting with
Miller was between 10 o'clock and mid
night; there was plenty of light so that he
could not be mistaken III the Identification
He had never seen Miller afterward until
he got out of the carriage to come to this
inquest.
All this time Mr.. Franklin, the BOYS
employer, who sat near. was laboring un-
der the most intense excitement. ''This
makes me sick" he would whisper to
those about him. The idea of fellow
like that swearing away the life OF nv bov.
Why, my boy never goes out at night. He
has no bad habits, does not use tobacco.
has not been out as late as II Q clock since
he has been in my employ. This is out
rageous. ! know it is false. would stake
my life upon it,
Officers Green and O'Connor told their
story of going TO the scene-the first dis
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wagon, the latter finding the masks, one
beside the lnsensible burglar and the other
ia the hall above; also of finding a black
veil on the sidewalk outside.
DR.. Washington Dodge testified to hav-
ing been summoned to treat Miller, find
ing him unconscious or partially so, suf-
fering from a wound in the neck The
wound was OF a nature that ordinarily
would not cause man to faint, but he
knew Miller to be afflicted with peculiar
nervous disorder from having treated MIN
a year previously for an attack that rem
dered him unconscious. This would ex-
plain the symptom. On the occasion
referred to, the doctor said, Miller had
had an interview with the police extend
ing through several hours, and when he
returned home he was overcome with this
attack of-not exactly epilepsy, but some
thing akin to il, produced by what in
woman might be called Mysteries. 1t was
attended by partial Inconsistencies and
the patient gave vent to a peculiar noise
and his linn bs twitched.
Would such an animated encounter as
we have witnessed here produce this
effect?" asked Captain Lees
The doctor hardly thought so.
Coroner Hawkins asked if epileptics
were not usually subject 10 delusions.
The witness said they sometimes were,
but he would not say it was usually the
case.
DR.. Max Solomon. the family physician,
testified to attending the patient (Millerl
after the shooting. He found him un-
conscious at his first call and he was still so
when he called again at noon He sue
ceeded in rousing him, however, for an in
slant and the boys first words were
There are two upstairs" He said that
the nail on his right thumb was torn COM
pletely out and gave the patient great
pain.
DR.. Davis testified to treating the patien mt
in the first instance.
Jennie Sbafer, one-time nurse in the
family, added something TO the sensation
sprung by the appearance and testimony
of Hayes. She had been engaged bv the
family few days before the affair. She
said she was of very nervous tempera-
ment. She had had conversation with
Miller day or so before the shooting and
he told her about the previous visit of
burglars 10 the place. She had compli-
mented him on his nerve and he had said
something about receiving only SIS a
month. Then she went on to say that
Miller was out on the night OF Tuesday.
the night Hayes alleges he met him.
She says she was writing lette. that
night and remained up late herself. She
retired to her own room at minutes to IL
and he had not come in yet. He was not
out the next night, Wednesday, but on
Thursday night, the night of the shooting,
he did not come in until a quarter to IL
She said she had tried to put her hand
through the opening in the screen and
the broken glass of the back kitchen-door
through which the burglars are supposed
to have effected an entrance, but she could
only get three fingers into the crevice.
Rena Mohr, another nurse in the family.