The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-28

IAentineA By Deceaseds Friends,
The Lake Union murder mystery had
two new developments yesterday. Charles
w. shomo, proprietor OF the Klcndike sa-
loon. In the Tenderloin district. was ar
rested on the charge OF having committed
the crime, and the dead man was identi-
fed Is Charles J. Morbacher, a waiter who
has worked In several Seattle restaurants.
Shomo was taken into custody about
noon yesterday by Detectives Powers and
Meredith. Asryet the police have assigned
no tangible motive for shomos alleged
crime but they claim to have convincing
proof that II was he who Aired the shot
that killed Morbacher.
Shomo lives directly across . narrow ra-
vine from the point where Morbacher was
killed. Two little boys, named Willie
wise and Roy Duncan. were playing in q
yard near Shomo's place, about $50 O'clock
Friday afternoon, when they claim they
SAW 6homo come out OF the door OF his
house. raise rihe to his shoulder and
shoot across the ravine. From their point
OF view II seemed that q pony standing
in 6homo's yard was the target. and they
ran to their homes and told that Shomo
had shot the horse. They admitted. how
ever, that the pony did not fall, and that
no second shot was fred
From where the boys were playing the
spot where Morbacher fell could not be
seen. A few minutes later, however, Prof.
Bechdoit, OF the university. in passing up
the board walk where Morbacher had been
noticed by MFR. and Mrs. Hedges. as told
in yesterdays observation-disclosures. found
the body.
The only other alleged eyewitness TO the
shooting was Robert Williams. an elderly
man who lives in the neighborhood. He
says he was chopping wood In his yard
when he saw q man come out OF the Shom0
residence and fire q shot across the ra-
vine IN the direction OF the place where
Morbacher's body was found, Williams did
not see Morbacher, and had no idea what
the target was.
sIayer's Motive Unknown.
1t has proved difficult task for the po-
lice to find the motive that actuated Shomo.
granting that he Is the slayer Of Nor
bacher. Several people assert with great
positiveness that the dead man Is the
same person who had been acting in an in
decent manner In the neighborhood for
some time past. 1t is claimed that the
man not only annoyed children. but that
he offered indecent attentions to women as
well.
1t was stated yesterday, and the police
claim they will have evidence along thia
line, that Shomo has repeatedly stated OF
late that some man has been annoying his
wife, and that he was 'gsy!ng for HIM"
1t 10 claimed that Shomo told SOME OF his
neighbors that after going down town he
would often return Immediately by another
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shomo Denies HIS "uiit'
As soon as the police heard the story
that Shomo had been seen to fire shot,
Detectives Meredith and Powers called
at his house. Mrs. Shomo, who responded
to the knock. said her husband was In
bed. The two officers questioned her
about the shooting, and she replied that
she knew nothing about 1t. She even de-
MED hearing a shot fired. and said that
her husband was in bed all afternoon, and
that ne could not possibly have been up
at the time the shot was said to have
been fired.
After talking to Mrs Shono for short
time, the two officers asked to see her
husband. she was reluctant at hrst TO
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