The herald., 1897-06-07

stances they concluded that Weir had
only made blum at drowning Himself
and at once began, a search of an the
| lodging housee in the town, ,aEt1sEoof 10.
Gated Weir at one Of them They called
him out OF bed and told him that he was
wanted. Weir had been at the house
several days. and had gone under the
name of Colby. He was evidently SUR
prised at the visit from MeAomcers, but
stoutly denied that Ms name wae Weir,
or that he was the man WaHteds
When he found that there was no use
holding out any longer he agreed to ac-
company the officers quietly, and was
brought to this city and placed in Jail.
He was later seen by a reporter, and
talked freely about his attempt to evade
the officers eince leaving the city. He
said: when I learned that Davis was
arrested I concluded that the best thing
for me to do was to keep out Of the way.
left here last Sunday morning, and hid
out just south of town the first day. /
concluded then to try to throw the Of
f1cers off by leading them to believe that
I had committed suicide. On Wednesday
I wrote note to my wife the same as
left at Long Beach. I put this in my
coat pocket and left my coat on the
ground. The conditions for the suicide
were not favorable that day, how
ever. and decided to put 1t off. When
I came back to get my coat 1t was gone,
and the letter, too. I had placed dol
lar, all the money had, In the letter. It
has been puzzling me ever since what has
become of 1t. Evidently some body found
It who didn't care much about the sui
eide.
''Since going to Long Beach have
been keeping out Of sight as much as pos
sible, although have seen number Of
people whom knew. On Saturday night
again decided to work the suicide
racket. I took some old clothes out ON
the wharf and hid them underneath
Then at about 10 o'clock went out onto
the pier. 1t was foggy and very dark
There were very few people out there
at that time of night. had brought a
big rock along with me to push into the
water When I thought everybody was
gone except some fishermen, who could
not see me, disrobed and pushed the
stone overheard, hoping that the fisher
men would hear 1t fall into the water.
Leaving my clothes and the letter
above, climbed rapidly undern cath the
pier and waited for long time. While
I was there put on the suit Of clothes
which 1 had previously hidden there.
Then climbed up and walked straight
to my lodging house. heard several
people talking on the way about man
who had committed suicide by drowning
himself, and knew that the story had got
out. 1t seems that colored man was
standing not far away from me, and,
hearing the stone fall into the water,
had come to the place where was stand
ing. and. finding my clothes lying there,
hurried away to give the alarm. sup
posed that was safe after this story
had got out ard went up to bed. in
tending to get out of the country assoon
as possible
Weir paused for moment and then
ref1ectively said: II made my mistake
IN not getting out Of Long Beach last
night. II had done that the officers
would never have caught me-"
How about that forgery case?" was
asked.
WELL" Weir answered, .There are
others who got good deal more out Of
that than did. only got $3.50 for INV
share. Davis got $3.50 and the rest went
somewhere else. I did not know thai
there was anything crooked about the
transaction when went Into It. Asman
came to me and said that his name WA
Green and that he owned piece e
property out on the corner Of Washine- 8
ton and Ord streets and wanted 10 get
= loan upon y. For certain reasons, he