The record-union., 1897-12-24
Charges Albert HOff With Having CON-
mitted the Brutal Crime.
Two Prominent Young Men of Eu-
reka, Humboldt County, Placed
in Jail Charged With Burglary
in Having Attempted TO Pill
Iage the Hen Coop of a Police


SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.-Further
testimony was heard to-day by Coroner
Hawkins ana d jury in the case OF Mrs.
Mary a. Clute, who was murdered IN
her flat at S03 Guerrero street, Decem-
ber 10Th.
The rooms of the Coroner were again
crowded when the inquest was resum-
ed. Chief of Police Lees, Detective
Seymour, Hoff and his attorney, Alfred
Brand, representing the District Attor-
ney's office, formed group about the
official desk.
officer George Russell official
draughtsman of the Police Department,
was the first witness. He explained to
the jury the diagrams he had drawn of
the scene of the crime.
Thomas McLanigan, superintendent
of the San Mateo Electric road, testi-
fed that he had formerly occupied the
entire house SOB Guerrero street. He
lived there three years, and until the
1st of August last. He had never seen
the coupling pin in his house. THAT
pin,'' he said, lis used on steam rail-
roads. 1t is not used on a road like
ours"
Mayer May of 1915 Steiner street was
then called, and after stating that he
was a Jewish minister, he identified
the coupling pin as one he had seen in
his yard two years ago.
John Frees, saloonkeeper, 119 Sew
enth street, testified that he knew Hoff,
and that the latter showed him a wound
in the left hand, and said that he had
hurt it with a nail in plank which
he had picked up in the street. The
witness told him he had better be care
full, and offered to pour some whisky on
the wound, but Hoff said he had had it
dressed already.
Henry Dirks, saloonkeeper, 101 Van
Ness avenue. was next sworn, and tes-
tifiad that he did not see Hoff in the
saloon on the 10Th of December He
did see him there on the 10th CThurs-
day), and the day after the murder.
Some one in the place had been read
ing the papers, and said TO Hoff that
the police We're looking for man with
a soft hat, and may be that Hoff was
the man they We're looking for. Hoff
then took up q newspaper and began
to read it. The witness thought that
the man who had chaffed Hoff was
named Decker.
a. G0letti, a fruit vender at Twentieth
and Guerrero streets, related the story
of his having been called to the fiat of
Mrs. Clute, at sos Guerrero street, De-
cember 18th, and of his having found
the dead body of the murdered woman
lying On the floor
Robert Goepel, 703 Van Ness avenue.
shoemaker, testified that he saw Hoff
in the Cosy saloon, Van Ness avenue
and Turk streets, Dierck's place. De-
cember 10Th, between 4 and O'Clock
He had no conversation with him on
that occasion.
DR.. Bunnell of the Receiving Hospital
testified that he had examined the
wound in Hoff's hand in Chief Lees
office the day after the murder. 1t
was q jagged, lacerated wound in the
palm OF the left hand, semi-circular in
form, nine-sfxteenths of an inch in
length, about half an inch in depth.
At the close of the testimony the ju-
rorS retired, and thirty minutes later
returned a verdict.to the effect that the
deceased came to her death on the 18th
of December, 1897, from cerebral hem
orrhage, accompanied by conclusion of
the brain, caused by wounds inflicted
by Albert Hoff. The verdict further
charged Albert Hoff with the crime of
murder.
The prisoner received the verdict sto
ically