The San Francisco call., 1898-01-26

debt. When the man to whom the money was owing suggested to George Clark that he work in exchange TOT part of the sum owed, George declined, saying that he could not leave his sls- ter-in-law alone on the place. The scandal of the relations existing be- tween George Clark and his brother S wife was public property in Pope Val ley years ago.
 This afternoon Henry Hogan, who with Attorney Beerstecher will take charge of Clark's case, was closeted with the prisoner. Mir. Hogan refuses to say what the defense will be.
 But we've got a .ase,' he said, stoutly.
 And you've actually hope?"
 ''Yes, sir" he answered. For one thing, that confession will never be admitted as evidence I'll fight that. I'll show that it was extorted from this man while he was in durance vile; that the man who got it assured Clark, with an arm about the poor wretch's neck, that he would do everything for him if he would confess, and that if he did not he would be hanged within sixty days. 'I'll put District Attorney Bell upon the stand and have him swear as to whether he did or did not question this man.
 Clark did not confess without hope of reward or fear of punishment. The confession should not stand. The man is half an imbecile. anyway. Any one can make him do or say anything. He is like one of those masses of clay that the man at the Orpheum molds into the likeness of a mans face. which be- comes merely mass of clay again"
 All Clark expects of his attorney, he says, is that the latter shall save his neck" But the saving of that neck becomes more and more doubtful to everybody but Clark and his attorney.
 The murderer is cheerful. He re- ceived with pleasure lot of religious books brought from his little cabin on pr. Osbornes place in St. Helena, and he developed a surprising degree of reticence when questioned about the hat he wore in covering the distance between the old Clark house and his own cabin the morning of the murder The prosecution is laboring to make the identification of Clark as the man seen running along Pine street posi- tive. It is said that that link in the chain of evidence corroborating Clark s confession is not as yet complete.
 Clark aided the Sheriff when the lat ter came ostensibly to improve the ap- pearance of his room, but really to search the place carefully and to make sure that there shall be no possibility OI INcI llllilSB lllS mattress, was changed and the mur- derer's clothes were searched. Then, in the housewifely way a single man knows who has "batched" for him self, Clark set to work to sweep out his cell.
 Clark's father, Joseph Clark of Pin ard, Tryame County, H., which is just ninety-six miles from St. Louis, has been communicated with. The father is as yet wholly ignorant of the terri ble tragedy which has deprived him of one son and made the other mur- derer. The prisoner was 10th to let his old father know of his crime.
 Tt will kill him. he said.
 There are rumors in Napa tonight that the defense is planning a sur prise. It may not improve Clark s chances of escaping the gallows, but there is a possibility that Mrs. Clark may be arrested as accessory to the murder of her husband. The course of events at the preliminary examina- tion will probably decide the matter.