The herald., 1897-10-12
SON-IN-LAW
Casebeer Is Sure of One
of His AssaiIants
WILLIAMS MANY DENIAlS
DECLARES HIS FATHER-IN-LAW
WILLIAMS MANY DENIALS
DECLARES HIS FATHER-IN-LAW
DIDN'T VISIT HIM
The Old Man Was Warned That He
Had Better Not Visit His
Daughters Home

The murderous assault upon j. w. Case
beer on Saturday night begin to shed
some light on the mysterious affair.
Yesterday morning Casebeer had re-
vived sufficiently to make a statement
OF what occurred. He says that when he
was attacked on Lucas avenue he recog-
nized ore Of his assailants. despite the
white duster and mask which he wore.
He declares that the man was his son-in-
law, I. B. Williams, who lives at 1886
lockwood avenue. He Is positive Of
the Identification, and says that he has
seen Williams in the same duster before.
Casebeer repeats his statement as pub
lished yesterday, that he went to his
daughters house in hack at 9 o'clock
and that after failing to effect COM
promise he left, to go to the house of his
friend, Allie Carter, on Flower street,
walking south on Lucas avenue. 1t was
at the corner ofthe avenue and Third
street that he was attacked.
When a Herald reporter called on
Williams Sunday night he stated that
Casebeer had not been at his house on
Saturday right and that he did not know
until informed by the detectives that
the old man had left Santa Barbara.
Williams was asked If he was not at
home all evening, and answered that
he was. "Ther1 If Casebeer had been
here at $3.50 Saturday night you would
have known it, would you not?" was
asked. Williams stated that he would
have known it had Casebeer called, ard
t1,n Il ~
call. Yesterday, however, the hackman
who drove Casebeer out to Williams
house was found His name is Arthur
Lindley, and his stand is at the corner
of Fourth and Sprirg streets. He re-
members distinctly hauling the old man
to 1886 lockwood, where he was dis
missed He saw his passenger go up to
the door and rang the bell Then
he drove away.
During the afternoon a reporter was
permitted to interview Casebeer in the
hospital. He is still very weak, but
his head is perfectly clear and he relat-
ed the circumstance leading up to the
assault He stated that last Fri
day he got Miss Carter 10 write letter
to Williams stating that he would come
down from Santa Barbara on Saturday
evening and would call upon him to try
to arrange a compromise of the suit in
which they were engaged. He stated
in the letter that he would come peace
ably and unarmed. This letter must
have arrived Saturday morning, anG
Williams consequently must have known
when to expect his father-in-law.
Miss Carter was seen again yesterday
and stated that she had written the let
ter, as Casebeer had said. She retained
a copy of it. Miss Carter wished to cor
rect the impression regarding the mon
ey which had been given her by Casebeer
as related yesterday morning. She said.
that on the way down on the train Mr.
Casebeer handed her roll of bills
amounting to $24O, which he asked her to
keep until after he returned from his
visit to his sonin-law. She stated that
the bills had not been given her at part
ing with Casebeer, but did not mean for
her answer to be construed into denial
that they had been transferred to her
at all for safekeeping.
Mr.. Williams was again visited last
night, but he refused to see the reporter.
preferring to carry on conversation by
means of his wife, who stood at the door
and related to him what was said. He
was informed that Casebeer accused
him of being one of his assailants, and
had stated that he recognized him un-
derneath the duster and, mask which he
wore, and asked if he would make any
statement regarding the affair. Will
lams refused to say anything and his
wife dropped the remark that they wers
not going to be interviewed, as they
didn't care to make the affair any worse
by talking.
Ibid you receive the letter from Case
beer, stating that he was coming here?"
was asked. Williams shouted through
the door that he had not received any
such letter.
w. D. Carter, an old friend Of Case
beer, arrived here yesterday from Santa
Barbara and is at his home, 932 South
Flower street. He stated last night that
he was with his friend Friday, and
when speaking of his trip to Los Ange-
les Casebeer had. said: "If I go down
there they'll murder me If they get
chance" He was counseled to have a
policeman accompany him, but did not
follow the advice.
No arrests have as yet been made, but
the detectives are busily engaged in col
lecting sufficient evidence. While some
detectives are Of little use to newspa-
pers, newspapers are often of consider
able value to some detectives.
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