The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
HOPES DEFENSE
 NOW IN ORDER The Case for the Prose cution :. Concluded ,. :.... :: Yesterday.
 :::, =: - Important Testirn ony Given b = Drs. Bunnell and Gal e lagher.
 
The shoemaker, ,Goepel, Distinguishes Himself by Making Contradictory
 Statements.

The prosecution closed its case yes- terday afternoon in the charge of mur- der against Albert Hoff and a continu- ance was granted the defense till next Wednesday morning.
 The first witness yesterday was Will liam Haynes, a carpet-layer, who was at work in the house S63 Guerrero street on the day of the murder. James Donahue, who was working with Haynes, was then called and testified that Hoff was with Mrs. Cute when he left the house at five minutes to o'clock.
 c. w. Marks, a schoolteacher, testi- fled to being called by MT. and Mrs. Legg, and going with them to the room on the upper flat and finding the dead body. He went for Dr. Inman, who looked at the body and pronounced life extinct.
 Deputy Coroner O'Brien testified to taking charge of the body and remov- ing it to the Morgue.
 pr. Bunneil of the Receiving Hos pital testified to examining the wound in the palm of Hoff's left hand, and thought it could have been caused by the jagged edge of the coupling pin. He saw the coupling pin at the time and there was blood on it. The doctor was subjected to long cross-examina- ton as to the nature of the wound and what he knew about blood.
 pr. Gallagher, autopsy physician, de- scribed, as the result of his post mortem examination, that death had been caused by punctures of the skull. The organs of the deceased were all in good condition. The coupling pin could have caused the wounds.
 Henry Whenever, proprietor of the Lindell House on Sixth street, where Hcff roomed, identified the carpet bag as belonging to Hoff, and testified that Hoff did not occupy his room on the night of the murder. He also recol- lected Hoff getting a card from Freyer, the saloon-keeper at 119 Sixth street, asking him to call there.
 c. H. Clarke, brother-in-law of the murdered woman, was called and tes- tified to having identified the body of his sister-in-law at the Morgue.
 R. Goepel, the shoemaker, on Van Ness avenue, made a very unsatisfac- tory witness. He is slightly deaf and is not very conversant with the idioms Of the English language. He contra dicted himself several times as to dates and caused no end of heated argu- mentS between the attorneys and the Judge. He contradicted Decker, the cigar man, who testified Thursday that when Goepel, Hoff and a young man were in Dierks' saloon on the morning after the murder and Decker asked Hoff if he had been in the house SO3 Guerrero street, Goepel said to Hoff, You told me to say nothing about this, and you talk all the time" He denied saying that.
 Policeman E. c. Robinson was the next witness. He testified to finding the coupling pin in the house. and that it was almost covered with blood.
 The coupling. pin and carpet bag were put in as evidence against the objec- tion of the defendants attorneys.
 Hoff is indignant over the claim of the police that he is inhuman.
 About year ago." he said last ! night, 1T was fishing off Washington street wharf when man named Rosewalter, who was Respondent jumped in the bay a few feet away from me. l went to his rescue and, af- ter considerable trouble, pulled him out of the bay.
 "The credit of saving him was giver to policeman. This shows whether O, not l am inhuman.'