The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-07

/ The Examiner of June "a, says:
/ Mrs. Elizabeth Brandrup, forty-two
years old, a respectable woman resid-
| ing in the little village of Baden, San
| Mateo county, was murdered Friday
! afternoon. Her body, with the marks
| of the assassin's fingers on its throat,
was discovered by her fifteen-year-old
| daughter, Lizzie, in an unused store
room in the Linden Hotel where the
crime was committed at $50 the same
night. Half an hour later, Constable
r. G.. Carroll arrested George c. C.
Jones, q Kanaka half breed, and Harry
E. Cortland, and placed them in the
village lookup. Yesterday Carroll for
mally charged the half-breed with muir
der, and turned his two prisoners over
to Sheriff j. H. Mansfield of San Mateo
county, who landed them safely in jail
at Redwood City.
Mrs. Brandrup, who was the wife of
John Brandrup, a blacksmith of Baden
was first choked into insensibility, and
then beaten to death. 1t is the theory
Of Constable Carroll, Sheriff Mansfield
and District Attorney Joseph Bullock
that she was lured into Jones' ROOM
where he after making an unsuccessful
attack upon her murdered her, dragged
her body through the hall of the hotel
to the isolated and deserted store
room, where he hid it until such time
as he could remove the traces of his
crime under cover of darkness. The
slain woman's hat and d pair of stock
ings she bought on Friday for her
youngest child were found in the half
breeds room. The hat was hidden in
the washstand. The stockings were
among his effects on the floor.
Coffiand is supposed by the authori-
ties to know more about the murder
than he has yet made public. He is
being held for investigation, but up to
last night no charge had been placed
against him. Both Cortland and Jones
deny that they know anything of the
killing of Mrs. Brandrup, declaring that
they can prove alibis when the proper I
time comes.
That the body was discovered is one |
of the peculiar circumstances of this !
mysterious case. AS before stated. the |
storeroom is apart from the other
rooms of the Linden Hotel. It's door is |
seldom opened. Yet when Lizzie Nc
Donnell passed that closed door after
dark Friday night, she was, she as
serts, inpelled by some power stronger
than herself to open it. For a time
she resisted this power but Il heard |
my mother calling" she says, and I
turned back to open the door and dis
close the crime that made her an or
phan.
STORIES CONFLICT.
Jones is a powerfully built man and
resembles a mulatto more than South
Sea Islander. He has told conflicting
stories regarding his movements on
the day of the murder. To Deputy
Coroner E. E. Cunningham the pris-
oner said he worked all the afternoon
with William Hanson, a carpenter; to
Carroll he declared that he had been
all day. He told an Exam
iner'' representative that he had spent
Friday afternoon alone on the roof of
the Linden Hotel, repairing the Chin
ney.
If Jones committed the murder he
is either more familiar with crime than
most murderers, or else he is a man
with iron nerves. At supper, when the
body of Mrs. Brandrup was scarcely
cold, the man now charged with her
death strolled into the dining-room of
the Linden Hotel where Lizzie McDon-
nell. Mrs. Brandrups daughter, and her
sister Mary were
and was waited on during
his meal by the two girls. When he I
left the able he tossed a dime to the
elder of the girls-money which was
returned to him by the young
During the meal he discussed
the details of an old murder caSe-the
murder of a woman and argued with
another boarder concerning whether the
victim was or was not armed when she ;
met her death. |,
Mrs. Brandrup was the mother of
four children, the two girls above
mentioned and two boys. Jimmie, aged
thirteen, and Johnnie. five years his
junior. All the children were by her ;