The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
A PULLING WITNESS.
Maloney Changes His State ment In
a Radical Manner on a Ma
terIal Point.

Maloney Changes His Statement In
a Radical Manner on a Ma
terIai Point.
Witness James Maloney is giving con-
siderable worry to all the persons who are
seeking to bring OUT the truth regarding
the manner in which Isaac Hoffman came
10 his death.
In his first statement made to Chief
Lees on Sunday in the office of Rothchild
& Ach he described the man who stood in
the doorway of the Battery-street en-
france 10 the store OF Hoffman, Rothchild
~ Co. at about 6:20 P. NJ. as a large and
tall man, with a fuil beard. inclined to be
sandy. Yesterday he stated that the man
Hho stood in the doorway was not tall
and stout, and that he mad only mus
ache of a ANDY color.
He was put to practical test of the
character of his memory Yesterday in the
office of the Chief of Police. Six men
Detectives BAN bridge, Eyan and Sey-
mour Police Officer Wren, Figel and
Otto Heyneman, the sIenographer of the
Chief-were called into his presence, and
he was asked ii any OF them looked like
the men he had seen in front of the store
al IL Battery street on June he SAID
that FIgel was "about the size of the man
who stood with his back to the sidewalk," 1"
that Egan. who weighs about 10 pounds
and stands feet 10 inches, was about
The size Of the man who stood in the
door, facing the sidewalk" that he was
not quite as heavy, but taller. He stated
that he could not tell the color of any
iortion of the clothing that either of the
men had on. Then he stated that the man
who stood facing The street did the most
KING.
Chief Lees was inclined to be wroth at
the new and variable witness. The Chief
!
being examined In the Office of the attor-
neys for the clothing firm he repeatedly
u scribed The man in the door as tall and
stout and as having a full long, sandy
colored beard. He then read from the
statement that Maloney had made in the
course of his examination. This was the
re ut OF the examination as conducted by
the larger man:
"W nat kind of looking people were
tney2' asked the Chief
"Tne man in the door," answered the
witness, ''was a heavy set man, q tall
man, reddish complexion, reddish whisk-
err"
"Full whiskers?"
Yes. large whiskers. Right there, when
l came up, this man who stood in the
door said to the other man, --, if
YOU have anything to settle with me
c. me in here and l will settle with you
The other fellow sald, You have nothing
to settle with me at ALL. Then the other
fellow said, Come in and they both
went in"
"And the tall man had whiskers?'
"a full beard coming down like that"
Holding his hand some inches below his
chin
DO you think you would know that
man if you saw him again?'
Il don't know. This man with the fu IL
whiskers is a stout man and f1eshy."
This statement was taken down in short
hand and traI scr bed by one of the clerks
in Ach's ottice. Chief Lees claims that
Maloney in one part of his statement had
described the whiskers as being i'full, long
and bu>hy." This does not appear in the
transcript furnished TO the Chief He
called attention to this and remarked:
That young man cannot do any short
hand work for me. He has left that part
out. Why, l don't know; whether be-
cause he was instructed to do so or through
carelessness |, of course, cannot say. Now,
you will notice t hat Ach in his examina-