The record-union., 1898-10-20
MARTIN HELD TO ANSWER.
identified by the Two Japanese IN
Justice Henry's Court.


Joe Martin, alias John Burns, alias
the Curly Kid was examined In JUS
Gce w. A. Henrys court yesterday
afternoon on a charge of robbery and
held to answer.
T. Yokota and M. Tsuda, two Jap
Anese, positively identified the prisoner
as being one of the four young men
who held them up at the point OF pis-
tols and robbed them of S44.6O in coin.
Yokota testified that the defendant car
ried small valise and one of the other
men lead a small dog. The defendant,
Yokota stated, held knife to his head
while another of the robbers, whom the
Jap described as being a man who had
no thumb on his left hand, had a pis-
tol and fired a shot at witness head,
the bullet glancing off, and witness fell
down on the railroad track; that then
defendant Martin took a purse from
witness pocket. containing $3.50. The
other Jap cOrroborated Yokota.
The next witness was Charles Hop
kins, a bartender in a downtown saE
loon, who testified that defendant Mar
tin, together with three other young
men, had frequented his establishment
during the last week of August, and
the last he saw of them was on the
morning Of the day Of the robbery. when
all four men left the saloon together.
Witness said that they had a valise
with them and upon being shown a
valiSe, he identified it as the one Mar
tin had in the saloon.
He described one of Martins part
ners as a man who had lost the thumb
and one finger on his left hand.
A dealer in secondhand goods next
identified Martin as the man who had
sold him a small valise containing two
sets Of boxing gloves on the morning
after the robbery, and identified a
valise as the one in question. The
valise had a plate on it on which the
initials 81. B." were inscribed, and
witness further stated that defendant
signed his name as John Burns on the
book.
Joseph Michael Halloran, the Section
Foreman at Brighton Junction, testi-
fed that about $50 p. m. on August
2Sth four suspicious looking young
men, one carrying a small valise and
one leading a small pug dog, came to
his section house and asked if they
could have supper. Not liking
their appearance, they were told by
Mr.. Halloran that they were too late
for supper. The witness said that the
four men remained near his place for
over half-hour and that two Of them
got over the fence and picked straw
berries. When asked if he thought
that he could tell any Of the four men,
Mr.. Halloran said:
'Yes, sir, 1 can, this man here,
pointing to Martin, ''is one of the men,
and furthermore he is the tallest one
of the two who picked the strawber-
ries" Witness then stated that the
four men walked up the railroad track
towards the station house and that
about an hour later he heard some
shots. Mr.. Halloran also testified that
at the time he heard the shots, the
moon shown very bright, that it was
an exceedingly bright moonlight night.
Conductor William Kellenberg testi-
fed that on the evening of August
2Sth four young men boarded the
blind end Of the baggage car near
Brighton Junction and THAT he elected
them. One Of the quartet, Mr. KEEL
lenberg said, was minus the left thun b
and left middle finger, that one Of the
men had small valise and another had
pug dog in his arms. The witness
said that the prisoner answered the
description Of the second man who got
off his train, but he could not swear
TO his identity.
County Detective Max P. Fisher tes-
titled that he had seen the defendant on
or about August 24th in company with
Taylor and Rolf All three were walk
ing towards Chinatown. That he saw
Burke, Martin and the other two on
Saturday night, the evening preceding
the robbery on lower L street. That
defendant after his arrest denied know
ing either Of the other three men and
also said that he had not been in Sac
ramento for three years. Defendant
admitted afterwards, however, that he
knew them in San Quentin Prison
This closed the case for the prosecu-
ton and Justice Henry held Martin to
answer before the Superior Court with
bail fixed at $4,000 It is believed
that the prisoner will plead guilty
when arraigned in the Superior Court.
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