The San Francisco call., 1906-10-05
Police Have CleW to Murder
erS of Bank Cashier.
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persistence and cunning Of their race,
have been on the trail of the murder
ers and are doing a prodigious amount
of work. 1t is possible that the Orien-
tai sleuths will distance the white men
and effect a capture independent of
the police force. All information gath
cred by the brown men has been faith
fully conveyed to police headquarters,
however, and the Japanese detectives
are apparently willing TO take their
instructions from the Americans.
NOT PROFESSIONAL CROOKS.
A peculiar phase Of the case is that
the detectives do not believe that the
professional crooks haunting the city
are responsible for the revolving
crime Captain of Detectives Wren has
had dozen eX-convicts before him.
rWho are these men that are murder
ing?" asks Wren.
We do not know reply the crooks.
They are not of our kind. We never
murder unless we are compelled to-"
As rule the professional burglar
and robber knows what his fellow COM
panions in crime are doing. In the
present case the crook is as much at
sea as the police. II is reasoned from
this standpoint that the men who are
doing the numbering are amateurs who
once tasting blood believe that il is the
only way to successfully conduct their
trade.
The condition OF Sasaki, the paying
teller, remains about the same. He has
not recovered consciousness to a suf-
hcient extent to tell who his assail-
ants were. Late yesterday afternoon
he was removed from the Central
Emergency Hospital to Lanes Hos
pital, where it is thought the chances
for his recovery will be better. The re-
moval was made without injury to the
Dc n~
surgeon, believes that the paying teller
has good chance to recover.
Acting Captain of Detectives Wren
does not place much credence In the
story that one of the robbers was seen
packing sacks containing gold through
Golden Gate Park. He says that such
a performance would be too guileIess
for criminal
The exact amount OF money taken
from the bank was $2711.60. This was
ascertained by an examination by the
Bank Commissioners.
THUMB PRINT IN BLOOD.
What the police believe will be infal-
Iible proof OF the identity OF the muir
derer of the japanese bank official, and
the thing on which they are basing
their strongest hope of conviction. is
the confession in blood unconsciously
left by the murderer on the paper which
was wrapped around the bar OF iron
with which the fatal blow was struck
Spattered over this bar is the gore
which gushed from the head of the
murdered man, and there in two places
are the imprints of three fingers of
the man who welded the bar, leaving a
signature which not even the strongest
alibi can controvert.
Close TO the end OF the paper which
was wound around the bar of iron the
marks of two fingers and a thumb show
plainly in the CONCEALED blood, every
marking of the skin which pressed the
paper being easily discernible. Above
this a short distance the finger prints
appear again, and the markings are
Identical It shows. the police believe,
that after the first blow was struck the
murderer shifted his grasp on the In
strument and again left the impression
which may be the means Of bringing
him to the gallows.
No two people in the world show
Identical markings on the flesh of their
thumbs and fingers. and comparison of
such markings has been adopted as a
part of the noted Bertillon system of
identification. Suspects In the present
case will be forced to make imprints
on smoked paper or glass and these
will be compared under the microscope
with those remaining on the telltale
paper in the possession of the police.