The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-25
FRANK L. DAME is COMMENDED.
story Of the Hold-Up Gone Over In
Detail Before the Coroa~r's Jury
Prisoner Who spent Two Years
ogntacs Him-SO Does Al James. ut
Observation-Disclosures Friend Tells
Forehead ~ Made by q Hatchet--
Special OfMcer Thncker Sweara ta
the Number Of the Colts Pistol.

Special Dispatch to the PoSs-Inteligeneer.
TACOMA May 9t.--A coronegs jury to-
day commended Frank l.. Dame for his
courageous act IN defending the lives Of
passengers on the Steilacoom car by KILL
ing the hishwaynlsn who has been almost
positively Identified as Jack Case, the noto-
rieus Oregon train robbcr and highway
man. The story Of the attempted hold-up
which has been told so completely and at
the same time concl>eiy by the Post -lnteltt-
gencer. was gone over al the inquest in de-
tail. nothing starsfngly new arising.
superintendent Dame was the first wit
ness. being followed In turn by Motormaa
Wellman. George Evans. Conductor Glen
dinning and w. &. Hacker. The real in
terest in the hearing began when the
testimony as 20 the adjudication OF de-
ceased was taken. j. \. Randolph coli
ored man. said he met deceased last
Thursday in South Tacoma. He had sust
aighted from a caboose and saw tho
now dead man standing by the track a
few feet away. Ills face WAS covered with
dirt and CRIME giving ham the appearance
OF having ridden on brakeheam. He had
a bundle In his hand and had on "A pair
of fairly good trousers over pair OF
oyeralls. He took these off. leaving only
the overails. He said he came from Port
land. Randolph asked him II he wanted
a drink and the stranger answered in ths
loom but the place was closed. Randolph
asked the man IL he cared to walk 20 the
city: a negative reply followed. at the
same time asking witness for 10 cents,
which he gave him Deceased had
brush. looking glass and a pair Of socks.
They both washed their faces and wiped
on the same piece ot blue cloth from
which the mask was made. Randolph
positively identified the dead roober
tire man and also identified the overails
as the same.
Another witness testified that he spent
four months in the Portland Jail with
Jack Case. and swore that the two men
were the same.
One of the best Identification witnesses
cf the day WAS prisoner at present do
ing time in the county jail. This fellow
Informed Sheriff Mills yesterday that he
coala identify Jack Case anywhere AZ
he haG spent two years with him In Sa-
lem The sheriff took him TO the morguc.
and he no sooner ''lamped the guy" IN
the language Of the crook. than he rec
ognized in the dead man Jack Case. He
said Case had two scars on his back.
which he received from falling off house
while trying 10 escape. He knew these
scars were on Case as he had ~een the
prison physicians attend to Cases wounds
for eight months The dead man was
was turned over and sure enough there
were tf : scars
Al mes, who halls from Victoria. and
the first man TO claim that the rohber was
Jack Case reiterated his statements.
stating further that he had seen Case =
number OF times while confined in the
Roseburg Jail
A letter to Chief Uoge from Deputy
Sheriff Stephenson, OF Rosebur.. Or. ac-
.onpanled by a photograph OF Case, were
introduced evidence. The photograph
ia an exact counterpart OF the rohter.
The letter is as follows
Enclosed fnd one Of Case's photographs.
NAV keep the same Have others. Jack
Case with James Pool. was out or hond
TO appear for trial here June y. am
quite positive that Case ia the man that
held up the street car there. He bought
hat of Mr.. Josephine Just before he went
away from RoseburR The description
given by the Oregonian IL correct and suits
him He had scar his forehead.
which was made by n chlnaman with ~
hatchet Kindly let me know II fdentifica-
tion is complete and sufficient"
THE statement I'm the letter that the scar
on Cases forehead came from blow by
a hstchet welded by a Chinaman coin-
cisirs with the remark made by a short.
thlck-set man Yesterday. looking AT the
corpse This man, who would not give his
name to the ost-fnteliigencer correspond
ent. said that he knew Case intimately.
and could not be mistaken In Identifying
him. Even II I had not seen him. could
have identified him by the description
given by the newspapers. He got that scar
on his forehead by being hit with a hatch
e, He was in the act OF robbfng two
Cinnamon in Albina. Or. when one OF
them detected him and attacked him with
a hatchet, innicfing the wound you see
there. This was several years ago. CASES
hair was not gray, as reported. but was
simply -treaked or the sides"
Thacker Knows the Gum.
RoSERrRG Or. May Al. n. Thack-
er special officer for Welis-Fargo Il Co.
who Is in rhe city. today sasd there was no
doubt that John Case and the Tacoma
street car robber are ons and the same.
Cases re.oiver wa Colts. NO. 13,Ss.
identical with the one found on the Ta-
coma roh,her. Case was tried for holding
ur, a Southern Pacific train In Cow Creek
canyon about two years ago. but was 40
quilted.
~ nIGE 0.AME.