The San Francisco call., 1903-12-01
MURDERER
COMPOUNDS
HIS PURSUER
Failure Marks Hodgkins
Search for David
Kiniry.
Criminal Easily Escapes
Owing to Defective
Campaign.
oakland's Chief of Police Forced to
Confess Inability to Capture
Slayer of Policeman
Smith.

ing campaign IN pursuit of David
Kiniry, the companion of Frank ].
Goldstein, who is wanted for the muir
der of Policeman James H. Smith.
Though three days have elapsed since
the brave young patrplman gave his
own life in the battle for protection of
the lives and property of Oakland S
citizens, Chief of Police ST Clair Hodg-
kins has been compelled to admit that
the man he describes as an expert bur-
glar and porch climber, this David
Kiniry, has baftied him at every turn.
Sitting-at police headquarters, the Chief
of Police confesses his helplessness and
resorts, after seventy-two hours have
passed, to the time worn method Of the
/ hue and cry" In this series Of delays
that form a record of extraordinary
failure the issuance of descriptive cir
culars of the fugitive Kiniry was not
begun until this evening.
Tracing Chief of Police Hodgkins'
movements from the moment the
murder of Policeman Smith was report
ed to him at $3.50 o'clock Friday even
ing, there appears a remarkable slow
ness. 1t is a fact that the head of the
Oakland Police Department had inform
alton as to the rooming place of Gold
stein and Kiniry in this city within two
hours after the shooting. Indeed, be-
fore this time had passed Ross Stead
man, at whose home, 1862 Grove street
the pair resided, had furnished Hodg-
kins with that information But so
slow was the department executive in
getting his orders into shape that Kiniry
had time to go to the house, help him
self to such belongings as he cared to
take with him, write a note to Gold
stein, of whose death he had not
learned, in all likelihood, and get away
There was the chance to capture this
man, for whom this city and San Fran
cisco We're secured after it was too late.
Letters galore We're found in Gold
STEMS clothing, which gave the Police
Department all sorts of clews upon
which to trace back the men in their
movements about the two cities. BY
this means and from information given
very soon after the shooting the police
were enabled to locate in w. j. Thomp-
sons residence, 1919 Oak street, San
Francisco, former haunt of the two
men.
HAUNT LEFT UNGUARDED.
1t was within the range of most or
binary commonplace police business
that this place should be most carefully
watched The first opportunity to cap
ture Kiniry in Oakland had been ir-
retrievably lost. To guard with utmost
vigilance the .Oak-street residence was
the move that might have ended this
search had it been made by proper de-
fon
ing two men called at the Thompson
residence and requested that mail for
Kiniry and Goldstein be turned over to
them. Here was a connecting link that
seemed so strong to Attorney Thomp-
son that he said he almost cried from
vexation because there were no detec-
tives nor policemen at hand.
SO strongly did / feel about this
failure to get these men," said Thomp-
son, that 1 was tempted to follow
them and try to turn them over to a
policeman. But 1 recalled the des-
perate nature of the affair in Oakland,
where two men went to their death,
and ] desisted. If the police of Oak
land had arranged to have my house
properly guarded l believe the arrest
of these strangers would have led to
the capture of Kiniry. These men were
undoubtedly in touch with him. other
wise, why should they call to inquire
for his mail?'
soLACE FOR POLICE.
Having been baked at every turn by
the more speedy and effective move
ments of the missing man, the police
find solace in the perusal of the much
delayed official notice Hodgkins has is
sued for the guidance of peace officers
throughout the country. That circular
makes a special reference to Kiniry as
an expert porch climbing burglar. Kin
Try, by the way, has travelled during his
recent stay in these parts under va
rious names.
Chief Hodgkins officially declares
that David Kiniry is the man he is
looking for. In San Francisco Joseph
McKiniry appears to have been the fu-
gitive's name, but he looms up third
time as David Kanary and also as Da-
vid Kinniry. Small matters these. but
important to the work of trailing the
man.
At police headquarters the hopeless
attitude of the Chief Of Police has been
reflected in the detectives and the nu-
merous patrolmen who have labored
hard, even If handicapped, to land their
man. The detectives feel that the
chance of locating and capturing the
object Of search has become, to say the
least very re note. They have conclud-
ed .hat Kinlry made for the State
boundary lines, but in what direction
they have been unable to determine.
The subordinate members of the Po-
lice Department feel keenly the ap-
parent utter hopelessness of the case
AS individuals they have done all pos
sible to uncover facts that would be of
assistance. But, as in the efforts of
the upper Office men, the work has been
futile. If Kiniry be captured they
feel that it will be a matter of good
fortune.
This day, according to Chief Hodg-
kins. has developed nothing. Not
new detail has been uncovered that
would be of value at this late hour.
BELATED DESCRIPTION.
A portion of the belated descriptive