The herald., 1896-10-23
10 BE Investigated in the Law
Courts
TWO PRISONERS BROUGHT IN
Held On Suspicion Of Implication in
Tepe's Murder
Philip Foran and Rosinda Rosas Safe
in the County Jail-Two Others
:" Sent in for Burglary"

Sheriff Burr and Deputy White re-
turned Yesterday ON the noon train
from San Fernando, bringing with them
as prisoners Philip Foran and Rosinoa
Rosas, the Irishman and half-breeQ
woman suspected OF completely in the
terrible murder Of the old German, John
Tepe, at the San Fernando mission on
Tuesday afternoon, full particulars of
which were published yesterday morn
ing.
Deputy Sheriff White went UP to the
scene Wednesday morning with the cor
oner and made the first arrest, that Of
Andreas Rodriguez whom he sent down
to Jail in the custody of a constable.
Sheriff Burr went UP on Wednesday
evening and, together with White, went
to the scene of the tragedy early yester-
day morning. White had kept Foran
and the Rosas female under surveil-
lance, but they made no attempt to
escape.
A careful search was made Of Ro-
.einda's house and the vicinity for any
weapons or signs that would indicate
THAT either Rodriguez or the woman
had had hand in the murder, but
nothing was found. Even the bitches
were gone through, with the same re-
suit. sThen Foran and the woman We're
taken in custody and brought to town.
Just at present there seems little to
connect Foran with the murder, as he
claims he was cultivating in an olive
orchard, mile and a half away, all
afternoon, and Tepe received his death
wounds some time between 3 and 8
o'clock Foran seems suspiciously anx-
lious however, to direct attention and
suspicion at the Chinese cook on the
ranch, named Lee Sin, whom he claims
to have heard make threats against
Tepe's life a few days ago.
While in San Fernando Sheriff Burr
found two witnesses who did not testi
fy at the coroner's inquest, who say they
were in Rosinda Rosas' house between
5 and 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,
1 and saw the woman and Rodriguez
there. To them Rosinda said that Tepe
was lying in the barlf having been
kicked in the head by horse. How
the woman. could have known that Tepe
was injured when she claims not to have
left the house all afternoon seems in
comprehensive.
When the prisoners had been safely
lodged in the great steel cage they were
lost to the sight of all. No permits
would be given to interview them, and
1t was stated that they had refused to
talk anyway. The Rosas woman speaks
but little English, and since the crime
seems to have forgotten what little she
did know. Foran has nothing to say,
because he claims he knows nothing,
being far away from the scene at the
time the murder was committed
On the same train that brought the
sheriff and his prisoners, Constable Lo-
PEE of San Fernando came-in with two
prisoners, George Capistrano and an
old woman named Hannah Brown. The
charge against their names on the prison
register is burglary, but it is limited
that the prisoners are supposed to
know something about the murder and
have been brought in to be held as wit
nesses or to pump for information.
Tepe's body was buried yesterday at
San Fernando and the grave has closed
over the remains of the victim of one of
the most diaholical crimes in the his
tory OF the county, and one which
promises a tangled skein to unravel to
convict the murderers.
Thomas and Hanna Brown, children
Of Hanna Brown, are held as eye-wit"
nesses in the county Jail, presumably
in connection with the murder case.