The San Francisco call., 1904-02-04
Soldier WAS IGNORANT.

Hanley stated that Soeder did not
know to this day from any word re-
ceived from the Aetna Insurance Com
pany that his application for a $4,000
policy on the life of Blaise had been, re-
jected, neither was he aware that he
was not to receive the $1,000 policy from
the Hartford Company.
The fact, the attorney said, that Soc
der wrote to Miss Flatley that his Ger
man friend, Blaise, was going home
soon shows that he was having diff
Guilty in holding Blaise in the city until
he could secure heavy insurance on his
life. He had to kill him in San Fran
cisco, and so killed him on the night of
January TO-
The knife introduced in evidence
Tuesday was seen constantly in Soc
der's possession by the landlord. Mel
| bias, and his wife, and it would have
been suspicious for Soeder to remove it
on the day that the murder was dis
covered. Therefore he left it lying open
in plain view on the table, with the
hope of having the police overlook ii as
an unimportant piece Of evidence Soc
der cleaned the knife, but the blood re-
mained around the handle and the Joint
Of the blade.
When Hanley had finished Judge Ca
baniss stated that he was ready to
deny motion for dismissal on the part
of Attorney Solomon. He said:
I shall have to deny the motion for dis
suaded as Mr.. HanIey that all of the testi-
mony is admissible. When l come to formally
fnony Of the Flatley woman, of Cannon and
Of some other witnesses whose testimony pur-
sues the same general theory.
CABANISS REVIEWS CASE.
I am sitting committing Judge and II
is not for me TO find the defendant guilty. 1t
is enough that there is sufficient evidence to
believe him guilty. There are three or four
pieces Of evidences on which l base my denial
beyond a doubt murdered. The defendant was
arrested. brought to the Hall of Justice and
have been for the murder? We find that the
life Of Blaise was insured that Soeder was
the beneficiary to at least the sum of $1,000
That circumstance alone, II seems to me, stands
out against the defendant. The law generally
frowns against transactions Of this nature
where one man makes himself the beneficiary
in an insurance policy on another's life. The
law shows that where man wishes to benefit
by the death of another he is under great
temptation TO do just what the defendant in
this case is accused of-killing his brother-in-
law so that he might get the money repre-
sented in the policies on his life The one
fact that has been brought out, that the de-
dnf bg the fact that on
the awful news of his brother-in-law's death
and the pecuniary assistance that he expected
to derive from their payment
Judge Cabaniss at this stage of his
address took peculiar stand. when he
stated that it was his belief that the
gripman Vose saw Blaise, whom he de-
scribed as an excited German, on Union
street on the night of the murder at
$3.50 o'clock. Testimony had been intro
duced that shows that Blaise and Soc
der left the Mexican restaurant at or
6:15 o'clock on the night of the murder
City Chemist Bottle found from a mi
croscopical examination of the food in
the dead mans stomach that Blaise
had been killed an hour or an hour and
half after the eating of the meal. This
would bring the time of the murder at
the widest interval not later than S