The San Francisco call., 1904-02-04
SOEDER MUST
FACE JURORS
Leon SOeder Will Be Tried in
the Superior Court on the
Charge of Numbering Blaise
CABANISs GIVES DECISION
Extra Time Is Allotted to the.
Defense in Which to Attempt
to Rebuff Prosecutions Case

Judge Cabaniss will bind Leon Soc
der over to.the Superior Court for trial.
Yesterdays session of Judge Caban-
iss' court was opened by the closing
argument of the defense by Attorney
Salomon. He reviewed the evidence OF
the prosecution and attempted to show
wherein a great portion of it was ir-
relevant; that the police had no chain
of evidence, merely a chain of suspi-
cions. He assailed the veracity and
character of the tenderloin witnesses
for the prosecution, and said that the
police had distorted some peculiar cir
cumstances into evidence. He stated
that the testimony of Frank Cannon
and Miss Catherine Flatley had no con-
nection with the murder case, and re-
ferred to the landlord as the voluble
Mexican who testified to one thlng
one moment and denied it the next
Salomon showed by the testimony of
the women who keep the Mexican res
taurant and the statement or Or.
Bottle, the city chemist, that Blalse
must have been killed between the
hours of Z and s o'clock on the night
of January 10. The attorney attr1D-
uted the issuance and application OF
so many insurance policies to the vigil
ance of insurance solicitors, who, he
said. swarmed after Soeder and Blalse.
Solomon then cited a story where an
innocent man was hanged by chain
of circumstantial evidence, in an at
tempt to show the court the danger or
acting on such evidence.
HANLEY MAKES ARGUMENT.
Assistant District Attorney Hanley,
who has handled the case for the prose-
cd fn Sa1nrnan'C argument
and went over what points the prose-
cution lad attempted 10 show by the
introduction of so much apparently lr-
relevant testimony. He spoke of the
plot that Soeder had presumably con-
cocted, his trip to France, the persuad-
ing of his brother-in-laW to accompany
him to San Francisco under the pre-
text that he would secure for him a
good position and the many attempts
by Soeder to secure life insurance soon
after his arrival in this country. He
told of the straitened circumstances
Soeder was in, how he was compelled
to pawn everything of value he pos
sessed to get money to pay the prem
iums on the policies that he applied
for on the life of Blaise. He told of
the desire of Soeder to make Miss
Flatley his wife, his representing to
her that he was to receive a legacy
of $4,000 from an estate in Germany,
and his attempt on his return to this
city to keep his presence unknown to
his expected bride until he should be
in a. position to say, Now 1 have the
money that I promised you to have
when l married you.
Attorney Hanley told Of the suspi-
cious circumstances which pointed to
Soeder as the murderer; of Soeder's at
tempt to establish an alibi by going to
the residence of his German friends in
the Mission and writing a letter to him
self, so that his receipt of it might i'm
press more firmly on the minds ofshis
German friends his visit to their place
when he pretended to be searching for
his brother-in-law.'
He showed that Soeder was not in
his room on the night of the murder be-
fore u o'clock. as the letter received by
him at the Meienberg place in the Mis-
sion was mailed by Soeder after II
o'clock on the night of the murder, as
the stamp a. m, January IL. indi-
Gates. Another incident that went to
show that Soeder was not in his room
on the night was the testimony of Te-
resa King, who saw him in the o. K.
saloon at $50 o'clock on the night of
the murder.