The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-08


disappearance of Peter Lorraine
is still an unsolved mystery and
~ the authorities of Marin County
are Injured to the belief that an
other foul crime lies hidden in the
tangled depths of Carson Canyon, the
"black hole of Marin" James DER,
the missing mans cabin mate, who was
lodged in the County Jail here yester-
day by Sheriff Taylor on suspicion of
having murdered Lorraine. vehemenuy
proclaims his innocence, but as he has
already told several contradictory
stories regarding his knowledge of
French Pete's" disappearance, Sheriff
Taylor is now strongly convinced that
Dier knows more than he dares to tell.
All day yesterday residents from the
little towns in the vicinity of Enos
lumber camp, where Lorraine and his
suspected murderer were employed,
hocked into the gloomy canyon and
searched the thick underbrush in the
vain hope Of finding the missing wood
choppers body.
The doubt as to whether it was Mon
day, May l, or the day following that
Lorraine was last seen alive was dis
PEELED to-day by Savine Johnson and
Joe Mccarthy. two woOdchoppers who
worked for John EnoS cutting timber
on the Maillard tract. Both Mccarthy
and Johnson are convinced that Lor-
raine disappeared on Tuesday, May 2,
as the evening before they saw him rid
ing on the timber dray with John EnOs,
the eighteen year-old son Of the over
seer of the camp. The incidents of the
ride are still firmly impressed on young
Enos' memory and when the two
woodchoppers called his attention to it
Yesterday he vividly recalled the cir
cumstances connected with the ride and
stated that he was fully satisfied that
it was the last time anybody in the
camp-save perhaps suspect Dier-had
seen Lorraine alive. Young Enos had
been far up into the head of the gloomy
CANYON that day, and on his return
home in the evening he met Lorraine
walking along the road toward his
cabin, which is situated about mile
above the main camp. The man
seemed unusually happy and he chatted
with Enos about a place he had dis
covered where the timber was of an
exceptionally fine quality. When they
arrived abreast of the woodchopper's
lone cabin Lorraine got off the wagon
and invited Enos inside to have
smoke and a drink of wine. The young
man readily accepted his fellow work
mans invitation and together they
went into the cabin. James DER. who
occupied the adjoining room of the
cabin, had not returned from his days
labor and the pair sat talking over
their wine.
.yI.1,f 1,sa IL hoe
cabin the Sunday previous to purchase
some flour and while they were seated
there Lorraine told the young man that
he intended to bake his weekly supply
of bread that evening. When Enos
left Dier was commencing to busy him
self preparing his supper. That was
perhaps the last time Lorraine was
seen alive to the best Of young Enos'
knowledge, and he is absolutely certain
that nobody else in the camp save his
murderer-if he was murdered-saw the
missing woodchopper after he did on
that evening.
When Sheriff Taylor opened I,or-
raine's cabin yesterday before he placed
Dier under arrest he found evidence in
the shape of several loaves of baked
bread. which bears out young Enos'
story.
There is not a single man in the
whole lumber camp who entertains any
theory other than the one that French
Pete" was foully murdered by cow
ardIy assassin. The excitement over
the startling developments of yester-
day is quite intense. The several bloody
murders that have occurred in Carson
Canyon and gone unpunished have ag-
gravated the residents of the county to
the extreme. and it is the avowed in
tention of Sheriff Taylor and the SUBJ