The San Francisco call., 1906-11-06

wiles of the resourceful Kanaka crook |
Siemsen in joining in the assault on
the jeweler Behrend, Charles Dabner
came to San Francisco from Petaluma
with his father yesterday and Joined
in the hunt for the third of the band
the police declare is responsible for
the murder and robbery at the Japan
ese bank
Knowing Siemsens methods and as
sociates from an experience with him
that he still refers to with rancor,
Dabner furnished an independent clew
to the identity of the man wanted by
the police and declared that it was
none other than Harry Kingsley, ad-
venturer, petty crook and bad man in
general.
From the description he furnished of
Kingsley, Mrs. Joseph Lecara of 1903
Union street is confident that the lat
ter is the same man who called on
SiemSen and Louis .Dabner Friday
night, had dinner with them and left
the house with the pair Saturday
morning.
He answers in every way to the
| stranger they introduced to me and
whose name 1 have since forgotten,
declared Mrs. Lecara last night HE
was about "a years old, little above
the medium height and had light
complexion and hair. l cannot de-
scribe the type of man he was bet
a Swede."
The word Swede was used by
Charles Dabner in describing Kingsley
and also by Mrs. K. Dunn of 631 Olive
street, with whom ne boarded.
IDENTIFICATION SIGNIFICANT.
Mrs. Lecara's identification of Kings
ley as the man who called and dined
with Siemsen and Dabner is by far the
most significant, however.
Ar- - -I,x@
runs a little shoe shop on Union street,
who rented apartments to Siemsen and
Dabner. Lecara was formerly shoe
salesman, and is a type of the hard
working and thrifty Italian American
that is not uncommon. The earthquake
and fire left him without much money
and he lost his job in a Market-street
shoe store near the City Hall. Lecara
then began peddling shoes about the
streets and after a while had enough
money to open a small shop of his own
His wife, his sister-in-law, Rose, and
another woman in the meantime opened
millinery store, and to further in
crease their income the family began
to rent out rooms. Siemsen and Dab
ner were among their first applicants
and had not been lodging with them
long before they succeeded In in T
gratiating themselves in the family's
regard.
this respect. and Lecara. allured by /
the suave tongue and captivating man
ners that made up the chief assets OF
the Kanaka ex-convict, consulted him
on matters of business and social
usage
PLEASANT FOR THUGS.
Lecara's wife and sister-in-law. who
are striking looking women, with au-
burn hair, were also attracted by Stem |
sen and went out of their way to make
things pleasant for the pair.
Lecara, among other things, had
Siemsen buy him small safe, and was
instructed in the intricacies of the
combination lock. The Kanaka hap |
pened to mention this while he was
being put through a relentless sweat
ing by the police yesterday, and for
time Captain of Detectives Duke
thought the matter a significant one. |
After one Of his men had long talk
with Lecara, Duke admitted that he
had no ground for entertaining any
suspicion against Lecara.
The Lecaras were but some of the
many well-meaning people imposed
upon by the Kanaka, and who are con-
graduating themselves since his ar
rest that they did not become further |
involved through his intrigue.
Lecara's sister-in-law expressed a |
characteristic thing about Siemsen last |
night.
HE was one of the most polished |
young men I have ever met, and it's
hard to believe that he could lead such |
a dual life" she said. Here we were |
making jams and doing everything to |
make him comfortable in his bache-
lors quarters, and there he was, If all
the things said about him by the po-
lice are true, going about the city
welding his gas-pipe and looting safes.
FAMILY TOOK CHANCES.
Its hard to believe this of any such
man as Siemsen posed as being. 1
can't help thinking since his arrest of
the chances we took by living in the
same house with him. We frequently
kept fairly large sums of money here,
and he must have known that If he
was at all as observant Of the affairs
of other people as he Is represented. I
think all of us are thankful for having
gotten off so easily"
Siemsen and Dabner are being kept
under close guard, while the police are
hunting for the third man associated
with them in the assault on the jew
eler Behrend. No one was allowed to
see either of them yesterday, and Cap
tain Duke said that they would prob
ably be denied all visitors indefinitely.
William Dabner, father of the Ka-
naka's neophyte, came from Petaluma
for the express purpose of having an
4 interview with the boy, but was told
that the exigencies of the police in
vestigation made this prohibitory. The
elder Dabner has five sons and two
daughters He is a carpenter, and be-
sides owning several houses in Peta-
luna Is the proprietor of a large
chicken ranch on the outskirts of that
town.
HEARS OF SONS ARREST.
'I learned OF the arrest of Louis
through an article in The Call" he
said 'I could hardly believe it at
first and hurried down just as soon as
I could drag myself away from my
wife The news of the arrest has near
ly crazed her, and she keeps crying out
that 1T can't be true and going from
one paroxysm into another She is
| really in very dangerous condition.
Louis left the high school in Peta-
luna early in the year. He was 1s
years old his last birthday, and want
ed to keep. him at school longer, but
! he kept insisting that he wanted TO
go to work, and finally let him have
his way He came to San Francisco in
company with Charlie, and the two got