The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
The Jury Unanimous in
 the Verdict of Death.
Attorney Schooler's Fruitless
 Attempt to Save His Client.
sCENEsIN THE COURTROOM
Prosecuting Attorney Hosnaer Ridi- cules the Argument of the
 Defense.

Albert Frederick George Verenese- neckockhoff, alias Albert Hoff, was ad- judged guilty of the murder of Mrs. Mary Cute in Judge Cooks court yesterday afternoon and will pay the penalty of death for his atrocious crime. The jury was out but twenty two minutes and was unanimous in it's verdict of execution as the only possi- ble eXpiation that could be made by the murderer.
 When the gong sounded in court an- nouncing that a decision had been reached; the room was thrown into state, of excitement and nervous an- ticipation to know the nature of the verdict.
 As the jurors filed into the room and resumed their seats in the jury box Hoff kept his head down and his eyes riveted on the table before him. He showed or exhibited no emotion until he raised his eyes to attempt to read his doom in the immobile features of the. men in whose hands rested life and death. His face immediately be- came pale and he showed every indica- tion of nervousness born of despair, as :, not as much as an assuring or convinc- ing glance could be obtained from ;. those from whom he sought encourage ment.
 $. Upon the question of the court ask ing whether an agreement had been reached Foreman W. G. Doane rose and with nervous hesitancy read the fol- lowing verdict: We, the jury, find the defendant, Albert Hoff. guilty of mldder in the first degree" Through nervousness he substituted John fol :. Albert, and the court imme lis.tely de- ,nande0 the paper to be reread and af- terward filed.
 2 When the words of doom fell upon the convicted murderer Hoff endeav- ored to smile, but failed signally. as his features instantly relapsed into a look of utter and hopeless despair.
 After the dismissal of the jury two Deputy Sheriffs walked to where Hoff was sitting and elapsed the manacles on the emaciated wrists of the mur- derer. His old faded straw hat was placed on his head and drawn down over his eyes and he was escorted from the court, his first step to the gallows Delng placed In the tanks in the prison below. Later he was conveyed to the County Jail, where he will remain un- Ill sent to San Quentin for execution. The date of hanging will be fixed sixty days rom the 9th of the present month,
 ANSS time the murder was committed
 The trial has been one of the short est ever held in this city and the chain of circumstantial evidence woven about the prisoner is considered perfect.
 7. An unusual number of female spec tators were in attendance yesterday and stepped over one another in trying to get a: glimpse of the puny body of the murderer.
 The ruling argument of Attorney SchoQler in trying to prove the inno- ceDce of his client was to fix up an alibi on the fatal 18th of December.
 In advancing a theory in explanation of the blood stains on the murderous coupling-pin and disputing the fact that Hnff had at one time used such an instrument, he declared, on the one hand, that the supposed blood was nothing but iron rust and, on the other that the possession of such an instru- ment was not conclusive proof that the one used by Hoff was the same as that by which the crime was perpetrated.
 '1 tell you, gentlemen of the jury"