Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-20
MURDERED ON
PASADENA LINE
MULATTo FOUND WELTERING
IN BLOOD
FIendIsh Character OF Crime Arouses
crown cIty---No clews to
Perpetrstor Of Foul
Deed

James A. Logan, a young mulatto
employed as salesman for the Victor
Marsh japanese art store In this city,
was brutally murdered last night on the
golf grounds belonging to the Hotel
Raymond, the mutilated body being
discovered late this forenoon by boys
hunting for lost golf balls. The case
Is the third murder occurring in Pasa-
dena and its vicinity within twenty
years. Because OF the flendishly brutal
character Of the crime 1t is causing
tremendous excitement.
Manuel Borquez, young Mexican
lad, was hunting lost golf balls on the
Raymond links when he came upon
blood stains on the grass near a deep
wash quarter of a mile south of the
big hotel on the hill. His curiosity was
excited and he followed the trail only
to discover a mans body lying partially
covered with grass at the bottom of
the wash. Borquez ran to other boys in
the field and they notified members of
q gang of workmen on South Fair
J Oaks avenue Investigation showed
the boys story to be true and word was
at once sent to Marshal Reid of South
Pasadena, Constable Austin of Pasa-
dent, Sheriff White and the coroner.
The body proved to be that of Logan,
who was well known to the Pasadena
people, and was in frightful condi-
tion.
Work Of Fiend
Two terrible wounds had been made
in the head, both of which had resulted
in a fracture of the skull, an upward
slash with a sharp knife lay bare the
entire right side of the face, there were
a number of cuts about the head and
s the throat was cut from ear to ear.
There were number of cuts in the
clothing over the mans chest, where
some stilletto-like weapon had repeat
edly stabbed deep into the body and
the hands themselves were a mass of
wounds, bearing the appearance of
K having tried to hold the blade of the
knife, though in vain. There were six
teen separate and distinct wounds
about the head and neck and as many
4 more on the body and hands. The man
had no doubt been dead since some
time FRIDAY night.
There were signs of struggle in the
field a few rods away, and here lay one
! OF the instruments with which in all
probability some Of the wounds were
/, made. 1t was heavy sleeve iron such
\ as is used by laundries for ironing the
sleeves OF garments. A heavy wire
= handle ended with an egg-shaped
. block of iron weighing about four
Z pounds. With this weapon it seems
likely the two or three terrible blows
on the head were given. The wounds
on the body appear to have been made
with a knife having a long and mar
row blade like stiletto sharp on both
sides of the blade and about five
eighths of an inch thick.
Body Taken to Morgue
The body of the young man was re-
a. h. 1,f Two q. Ho,
rem, and at 10 a. m. tomorrow Coroner
Trout will hold an inquest there. There
are few real clews to the perpetrator
of the crime. Logan left his room at
126 Dayton street at about o'clock
Friday night saying that he was going
TO Los Angeles, where his mother and
sister live, and where it is said that
he was in the habit of calling upon
a young negro woman, Miss Agnes
Rogers, on Sears avenue. He did not
return, and the young woman in ques-
tion had not seen him when questioned
this morning. Yesterday Logan told
Mr.. Whittemore, at. the Marsh store,
that he had had SOME difficulty with
one of the men at the club, and that
was as far as he would say. 1t is not
known what club he referred to, wheth-
er in this city or in Los Angeles, where
he spent a great deal of his spare time.
Mother Lives In Les Angeles
Logan's mother, now Mrs. Laura E.
Young, she having married again after
the death of her first husband, resides
I at No. 1923 East Ninth street, Los An
4 geles. She declares that she has no
knowledge of her son having quareled
with any one and knows nothing which
would indicate that he was expecting
/. trouble of any sort. Logan, who was
about 26 years old and so nearly white
4 that he was usually taken for a white
man by customers, appeared in his
usual good spirits all day Friday, and
aside from his remark to his employer
seemed to have no idea of impending
disaster. He had been in the employ
of the Marsh store over four years
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