The San Francisco call., 1897-06-16

was Braun. He asked that the Jury ba
discharged and new one impaneled,
Coroner Hawkins said that would neces-
state the exhumatIon of the body and
added that tt ere was nothing in the code
that provided for the challenging Of the
jurors sitting in an inquest. Ex-Judge
Murphy volunteered the information that
there was NOBODY on trial and that the
inquiry was held simply to determine the
manner of death.
at this point the Coroner asked the OBJ
iectionable juror ii he could give the mat
ter an impartial hearing, and on receiving
an affirmative reply decided peremptoriIy
that the inquest would proceed without
any further delay.
All the witnesses, except the particular
one on the stand, were then ordered
excluded from the room during the pro-
ceedings.
Chief Lees, on taking the stand, re-
viewed the incidents of the finding OF the
body OF the deceased and all that he had
done looking to the discovery OF the man.
ner in which Hoffman came to his
death. He described in detail the re-
suits OF the autopsy. and went into a
description OF the wounds, illustrating
what he had to say by means of a
large and varied collection of photo
graphs, pieces of skull, the hat OF the
deceased, bullets and pieces of bullets
the revolver with which the killing had
been done and the diagram that had been
drawn by Clarence Russell, the draughts-
man of the Police, Department In speak
ing OF the wound near the top of the head.
he laid stress upon the TACT that while the
bullet had penetrated the skull the brain
had not been Injured
While the Chief was explaining the dia-
gram to the jury ne remarked that there
were blood stains all the way through
between the two rooms" At this Ach
smiled in way that showed he was far
from being in accord with the Chief on
this point.
Every move that the Chief made in his
efforts to explain to the jury matters re.
lating to the perforated hat of the de-
ceased and to the photographs of the
wounds was watched by both Attorney
Ach and ex-Judge Murphy as if their
very lives depended upon preventing the
Chief from making any undesirable inn
preston on the jury. When the Chief,
for instance, placed the dead mans hat
on his hat and illustrated how the pistol
was probably held wnen the bullet was
fired through its rim, Ach followed Lees
| performance by placing the derby on his
own head and allowing the jurors to see
how be thought the pistol had been held.
After Lees had been on the stand for
about an hour, NJ. NJ. Rice took his place,
He testified TO his having seen Two men
in front of IL Battery street on the even
ing of June L engaged in what he called
animated conversation. The details of
his statement have already appeared in
THE CALL In his former story he was a
little uncertain as to the time he passed
the place. Yesterday he placed the hour
| at $50. The man who seemed to be most
excited, he said, stood in the door facing
the sidewalk. The other man was trying
to pacify him. He described the taller
man as having a mustache like that of
/ Juror Culligan, and as having a COM
| plexion something like that of Abe Hoff-
man, brother of the deceased, who was
| in the room, and to whom the witness
| attention had been called by the Coroner.
! Rics's description would answer that of
! the dead merchant The Battery-street
| door of the store was open. He added
| that both men were about of the same
| height but he could not describe any por-
! ton of the clothes that either of the men
wore panel size PHOTOGRAPH was
shown the witness and he said, THAT
might be the one who was standing in