The San Francisco call., 1897-12-11
NO CHARGE
Of MURDER
YET MADE
But Evidence Is Being
Gathered Against
ZanOli.
SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
OF WIVES.
Body of the Fourth and Last
Victim Will Now Be Ex-
L.r4I
THE BARBER DECLARES HE
is INNOCENT.
Continues to Weep Copiously
Whenever the Demise OF His
Spouses Is Mentioned.
Special Dispatch to THE CALI.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-The police have
as yet no direct evidence warranting the
charge OF murder against Charles Zanoli,
the barber who has buried four wives. a
mother-in-law, a daughter and an en-
ploye, and has collected $6981 25 of in
surance upon their lives. Zanoli is still
held simply for deirauding the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Company. He will be
arraigned before Magistrate Meade in
Center-street Police Court tomorrow
morning, and the magistrate will be asked
to remand him TO police headquarters.
This will be at 10 o'clock, and at the same
hour District Attorney Olcott will apply
to the Justice of the Supreme Court for
an order permitting the exhumation Of
the body of Jennie Summer Zanolis fourth
and last wife, who died on August 8 last.
insured for $1,000.
District Attorney Olcott decided to ap-
ply for this order after he had had con-
ference with Captain McClusky, chief OF
the detective bureau, DR.. ]. Walter Lyman
and DR.. James E. Harris. The doctors
were called In to attend ZaDolps third and
fourth wives respectively. From the state
ments of the doctors Olcott concluded that
there are grave doubts whether the actual
cause OF Qedin was lHaL gwen III IAo CcI-
t6cates signed by the doctors.
Zanoli strenuously denies that he is
m urd srer, and at the mention of any of
his deceased wives he weeps copiously.
During the day the police accumulated
good deal of testimony against Zanoli
which they consider important. Captain
McClusky. the chief of detectives, stated
that he had discovered barber who had
a.. q A. II
med icine. The next day the woman died
of cerebral hemorrhage. He also stated
that Zanoi moved a shart time ago TO an
other locality in this city with the inten-
ton of getting married again. The
woman that Zanoli intended to make his
wife advertised in the papers for
husband and had an appointment with
Zanoli at his store yesterday evening.
Sne kept the appointment and found that
Zauoi was in Jail. The police also claim
that Zanoli tried to marry another woman
recently.
Zanoli told the police to-day that his
child, Lottie, on whose life he collected
insurance, died from injuries on the head
resulting from a blow given to her by his
second wife while in a fit of anger.
Zanoli also stated that his second wife
grieved so much over Lottie's death that
he believed it caused her own death.
ZanoIi has con tinued to cry ever since he
has been locked up.
Several of the physicians who atten ded
the wives of Zanoli made statements to
Police Captain McClusky tonight. DR..
J. w. Lyman, who attended Zanolis
third wife at the time of her death, told
Sergeant Morris that he was puzzled by
some of the symptoms of the case; that
he considered Zanolis conduct peculiar at
the time.
DR.. Lyman said he thought the woman
died from apoplexy, but he never felt
positive about the matter.
DR.. c. E. Barton, one of the attending
physicians on Jennie SUMNER the fourth
wife, who died August 8, 1897, said that he
examined this woman just previous TO
her initiation into the Order of United
Friends.
Z4noli wanted policy of $4,000 on his
own life and another policy OF $4,000 on the
life of his fourth wife. On account of their
apparent poverty, the doctor refused to
pass Zanoli for that amount. but agreed to
allow both these persons to take out
policy for $1,000. Dr. Barton considered
some of the sym ptoms attendant upon the
illness of Mrs. Zanoli, or Sumner, as she
was known, as suspicious, but DR.. Harris,
who had been called into the case, told
him that the woman died of heart failure.
DR.. Harris corroborated many of the
statements made by DR.. Barton. DR.. E. J.
! Sheehan, who attended Lena Zqnoli the
| second wife, who died Novem Der 26 1895
said that he gave certificate that deaf h
| was caused by apoplexy. He noticed moth
| ing peculiar about the case at the time he
was called in TO prescribe for the woman.
| The bodies of several of the persons whose
| lives were insured IN Zanoi's favor will pe
| exhumed.