The San Francisco call., 1897-06-13
.F|GEL SENT
A WIRE TO
ROTHCHILD
Asked Whether the Mer-
chant Believed Him
Innocent.
SCORES OF WITNESSES
TO TESTIFY.
Attention Strongly Directed
Toward the Inquest to Be
Held Tuesday.
MANY NEW sIDELIGHTs ARE
DEVELOPED.
Ach Has an Unexpected and Unsat
isfactOry Interview With the
Bookkeepar.
Attention Strongly Directed
Toward the Inquest to Be
Held Tuesday.
MANY NEW SIDELIGHTs ARE
DEVELOPED.
Ach Has an Unexpected and Unsat
isfactory Interview With the
Bo0kkeepar.

Three distinct theories prevail relative
to the death of Isaac Hoffman. Some
there are who believe that the Battery
street merchant took his own life; others
there are who cannot so they say, be
made to believe otherwise than that he
was murdered, while still others are so
bold as to say that if there was murder
committed in the office OF Hoffman, Roth
child & Co. it could have been by done
none other than the erstwhile bookkeeper
OF the firm, Theodore A. Figel.
The developments of yesterday threw a
considera bic number of new side lights on
The affair. Chief Lees has new witness
whose testimony, it is stated, will serve to
show that it would have been impossible
for Figel 10 have had any hand in the
taking off of Mr. Hoffman. Attention
was called particularly yesterday to a
number of in cIdeuts connected with the
movements of Figel on the evening of the
tragedy that, according to the person who
expatiated upon them, would tend TO
clearly demonstrate that if the crime of
murder was committed by the young
| ookkeeper it was an instance of the most
deliberate and cold blooded murder that
has ever been brought to the attention of
the local authorities.
Interest in the case is now being gen.
orally directed 10 the day of the Coroner's
inquest, which is to be held on Tuesday
next. Attorney Ach alone has submitted
in the nelghborhood OF 10o names to the
Coroner Of persons whom he desires 10 be
called as Witnesses while Chief Lees has
also turned over 10 the same official
long list of the names of persons whom he
wishes to be subpenaed. 1t is known that
several new witnesses will appear to
testify al the inquest, and that their teBti-
mony will have a very important bearing
on the solution of the deep mystery. A
number of the subpenas were issued yes
terday and served on the witnesses, and
this work will be continued until the
whole number have been served. The at
tendance at the inquest promises to be
as great as that when crowded the court
room during the height of interest in
the trial of Durrant, but there will be a
multitude OF disappointed people, for the
inquiry will be held in the restricted
quarters of the Coroner's Office, over the
Morgue.
Figel still preserves his remarkable atti-
tude of ind ference TO the serious charges
hanging over him. In the course of an in
terv3ew yesterday he characterized as ab-
surd the statement of Ach that there
would be shown q shortage of $l2, 900 or
any sum after the books had been fully
posted up. He also gave some additional
facts relative to his last interview with
Hoffman on the evening of the tragedy,
and spoke of remarkable telegram he
had sent to +. S. Rothchlld on June 3.
Publicity was gwen 10 a rumor yester-
day that all efforts to bring Figel TO an
accounting for any misdoings that he
might nave been guilty OF were to be aban-
doned owing to q scandal that was con-
nected with the affairs OF Hoffman. This
report, however. was denied by all parties
interested.