The San Francisco call., 1904-03-11

thugs, expecting that his father would
erable sum Of money might thus be
seized, to be divided later between the
robbers and himsaIf
SON STILL SUSPECTED.
This theory, nsational as it seems,
is the only one left the detectives that
duplicates the boy at ALL They are
quite willing to admit that their orig
inal hypothesis Chat the son shot the
father) fails to fit the evidence
at hand. They are not quite willing,
however, to admit that an entirely in
nocent man could have acted as Albert
Buttgenbach did act, even according to
his own story, on the occasion of the
crime. The young man will be watch
ed. But the murderer of Joseph Butt
genbach, whoever he was, will not be
hanged with a rope Of theories, and
the detectives, hard as they have
worked, are still a far cry from the
facts out of which to build criminal
indictment that will stand the strain
of jury trial.
The hearing yesterday was largely a
rehash of the familiar story already
told many times by the police and their
few witnesses. Henry Heide, proprie-
tor of the saloon adjoining the packing
house, and Frederick Moennich, his
bartender, related the events surround
ing and following the shooting as seen
by them at the saloon. 1t took Heide
only Eight seconds" to run out of his
place and reach the iron gate stretched
across the open front of the meat shop.
IL IL
shouts of ''Louisi Louis!" no response
was made. He was Immediately re-
called to the saloon by the cries of
MCennich for the police. Moennich's
testimony accounted for these cries by
saying that only a few seconds after
the shooting he heard some one kick
ing in the partition at the rear of the
room and ran out into the street at
once to call for help. Police Sergeant
Greene reached the scene promptly and
arrested young Buttgenbach as he
crawled through the partition. This
testimony, with much of similar char
acter, tended to show that Albert him
self could not have shot his father and
then participated in the scuffie heard
by several witnesses outside the build
ing.
MEN IN SIDE STREET.
Then came the two witnesses who
did most to produce the jury's exon
Grafton of the Buttgenbach boy. The
first was his uncle, Lorenz Weber, fore
man in the factory, who retold how ne
was leaving the place by the Shipley-
street door at 10 o'clock, when he saw
two men standing down the south side
walk of that dark street, thirty feet
from the door. The honest appearing
German was not to be disbelieved, even
though he contradicted himself later
when Coroner Leland demanded an ex-
these suspicious characters.
WELL" was the reply, Il did not
want to run any risks" and then he
raised laugh by adding, Il thought
those fellows might be friends of AL
bert's waiting for him."
The other important witness of the
day was the new character in the
drama, Benjamin E. Clippert, clerk
for S. ]. Haskins in the Mills building.
His testimony weighs either for or
against the new police theory that AL
bert Buttgenbach called in footpads to
rob his father. but it tends strongly
to discredit the original claim that AL
bert had shot the packer. Clippert tes-
titled as follows:
It was about 1920 to 10:30 o'clock. 1 cannot
say TO the dot, because do not carry watch.
l was going down Folsom street to Fifth /
hnnrth and Fifth streets. When going toward