The San Francisco call., 1898-03-17

went away. He came back again about 4 o'clock. and he was seen by the wit ness go upstairs, where Mrs. Clute was then. Soon after his arrival young man who previously had been admitted to the house to lay some carpets in the rooms Mrs. Cute was to occupy left the house. He carried a roll of mat ting on his shoulder when he left
 Not long afterWard, when Mrs. Legg was engaged in the kitchen of her home in some household duties, she heard a faint scream repeated two or three times Her father-in-law, who was in the parlor at the front of the house, came into the kitchen and in Quired about the screams. lie said they came from the floor above them and she and MT. Legg started to ascer- tain the cause of the cries of agony. They had only got as far as the hall way, when there was a sound of a heavy body falling on the floor almost above them. Mrs. Legg ran into her bedroom and securing her husband s revolver started to go upstairs when her father-in-laW stopped her and eau toned her about taking the pistol with her She returned the weapon and went nearly to the top of the stairs and when there saw man standing in the door of the front room with his back to her. She asked what was the matter and called to Mrs. Cute and asked if she was hurt. To her ques- tfons she received no reply. She real iZed that something was wrong and she rushed down the stairs and asked her father-in-law to go for assistance. MT. Legg opened the front door to go out, when they heard footsteps on the uncarpeted hallway upstairs. They lis tened and heard the person walking go the full length of the hallway, then descend the stairs at the rear of the house. open door after unlocking 1t and step out into the alleyway at the side of the house, then go along a board walk toward the front of the residence. Mrs. Legg and her reIa- tive went out of the front door and to the sidewalk and about at that time the man who had been upstairs opened a door in a high fence that inclosed the lot and emerged on the street He carried a bundle wrapped in a piece of carpet and it was a bundle similar to the one the man carried who was admitted to the house by the witness earlier in the day. The man who car ried it resembled the man whom the witness saw standing in the hallway when she went up the stairs after hear ing the sound of the body falling. The man who emerged from the side gate also closely resembled the man whom the witness had admitted to the house early in the afternoon.
 The witness positively identified Hoff as the man she admitted to the house. and she was almost positive that he was the same man she saw standing in the doorway of the front room of the house a moment after the tragedy was committed, and also the same man who emerged from the side gate a mo- ment later. After he got on the side walk he started away, walking up Guerrero street toward Liberty Mir Legg called three times after him as he went, asking what was the matter upstairs, but the fleeing man instead of answering only quickened his steps and disappeared around the corner of the cross street.
 The witness then told of calling neighbors into the house and of the finding of the body and the summoning of the officers and physicians.
 Mrs. Masterson of 1-8 Page street. where Mrs Cute boarded previous to the time she moved to S03 Guerrero street, related the story of visit from