The San Francisco call., 1897-11-22
ADMIT THE
j.. Innocence
Of ALLEN
Surviving BeleWs Now
Cease to Accuse the
Suspect.
STRANGE WOMAN IN
THE CASE.
Brothers Diligently Searching
for Mysterious
Female.
FRANK BELEW STILL THE
ACCUSED.
Eellef in His Guilt Reiterated by
the Suitor for His SIS
ter'S Hand.
Brothers Diligently Searching
for a Mysterious
Female.
FRANK BELEW STILL THE
ACCUSED.
.@Uef In His Guilt Reiterated by
the Suitor for His SIS
ter's Hand.
Special Dispatch to The CALL

D1NON, Nov. p. - The town was
crowded with people to-day. They came
from all directions to witness a baseball
game and TO view the home of the late
unfortunate Susie and Louis Belew. near
the ball grounds. The one theme of con-
versation was the murder and the coming
inquest.
Interest in the brutal poisoning case
was heightened by the presence of Harry
Allen, who was formerly engaged TO Susie
Belew, and who was recently accused of
the crime by Frank Belew, the chief
figure in the case. The Dixon public was
greatly surprised this morning to see
Harry Allen and Thomas Belew walking
down the main street together, in view of
the fact that all the Belew boys have said
that they suspected Allen. The meaning
of the meeting was made clear when
Allen told of the conversation that took
place between himself and Belew.
Il wondered why Tommy spoke to me"
said Allen, land | told him I would not
walk on the streets with q man if be-
lieved he had poisoned my sister and
brother or any body else. He then told me
he had made some inves tiga.ion and had
concluded that he was on the wrong
track. [ told him that nothing aside from
positive proof OF some other PERSONS guilt
would ever convince me of ihe innocence
of his own brother. That was the sub
stance of our interview. ! think they are
now looking for some mysterious woman
III the case .
Allen was met by fully fifty of his friends
Today, and he told all of them that he
l. h.,
barry and that he would welcome the full
ses, Investigation. He seemed to feel more
deeply than ever The enormity OF the
crime. He said many things concerning
his relations with the dead, whose MUIR
der the Belew boys sought to lay at his
door.
"Yes, I was engaged to Susie" he said,
"and l was MAD because Louis inter
fered, but 1 am sorry he Is dead and sorry
his poor sister was poisoned. She was
good girl and he was good man. The
person VINO committed the brutal murder
is fend for whom hanging would be too
easy a death. 1t pains me that the
brothers have made such charge against
me even to shield Frank Belew, for while
1 take a drink occasionally and while /
sometimes play game of poker l am a
hard working ranch hand and anything
like murder was fUrthermo>t from my
heart. 1t is simply awful. 1 want to see
Frank Belew at the inquest; l want to
watch his expression when ne Is Ques-
toned; [ want them to pin me down and
TO pin MIN down and let those assem- bled
judge of the two men when all eyes are
upon Us"
Frank Belew is staying at the ranch all
the time now. He feels much chagrined
over the publication of certain facts con-
cerning his past life, it is said, and the
presence OF detectives and reporters has
been distasteful to him for some days
He will be the central figure at the in
quest, ana 1t is expected that the crowd OF
spectators will be so large that no public
building in Dixon will accommodate it.
There is great deal of excitement and
speculation as to what testimony viii! be
introduced at the inquest and there is
little doubt that a great crowd WILDE n
attendance. The witnesses thus farlsum-
Smaled numb Der about thirty.
V Mrs. George Ehmann, Mrs. Eugene
1erguson and Mrs. Mary Clarke, neigh
bors and friends of the dead girl, will tell
the story of her last illness and of how
they unconsciously fed her cruel made of
arsenic water as she pleaded for relief
from the burning pain.
Thomas Belew and his 6ancee, Miss
Lou Bromley, Will tell the story Of the
last supper at which Frank Belew, the
suspected brother, was guest.
Charles Ehmann, VINO was to have mar
ried the unfortunate Susie BeIew, will
tell how he stood by her side as the tide OF
life ebbed away. He will de scribe how
Frank Beiew held his sister, hand as she
was dying; how he witnessed her strug-
giles to the END and saw the neighbors
give her the waters ofdeath.
Bruno Kline, the hired man, whose life
trem bled IN the balance for many days