Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-03
TO INVESTIGATE
DEATH MYSTERY
SHERIFF DETAILS DEPUTY ON
CASE
Blood chts and Nearby Empty Poek-
cts Strengthen Theory Of Murder
Held by District Attorney
Fredericks

Upon a request from the district at
torney's office yesterday, Sheriff White
detailed Deputy Len Cleveland to con-
duct the investigation OF the sudden
death of Harold G. Turner, formerly
of stockton, who died last Tuesday
night at the county hospital from In
juries supposed to have been received
in a fight at Saugus.'
Turner came to Los Angeles from
Goldfield about two weeks ago. He
brought his son with him and while
here offered for sale valuable span OK
horses.
According to a report made by Depu-
ty Cleveland, Turner spent several days
at the Santa Rosa house on San Pedro
street and then started out with sew
eral friends into the country. In the
meantime his son had returned to
Stockton to join the mother and Tur-
ner was left alone.
At that time he had Sis in his pos
session, and the horses, and from some
evidence secured by Cleveland, Turner
intimated that he was going out for
good time.
That was the last seen of him for two
DAYS, when he arrived at Saugus. He
had evidently sold his horses, but for
some reason he appeared dazed and
loafed about Saugus without paying
any heed to anyone in the place Late
in the afternoon he was found sleep
ing with q tramp in a haystack and
was ordered out.
Dies of Blood Clots
He then wandered about and at last
went into barn. The owner discoY-
cred Turner's presence there during the
night and ordered him to get out. Offer
ing him money to stay at some room
ing house, which Turner declined.
The dazed man then wandered to the
railway station and apparently went
to sleep in the waiting room. About 2
O'Clock last Saturday morning the tele-
graph operator at Saugus saw Turner
stagger from the waiting room and fall
to the floor just outside the station
door.
His face was covered with blood and
he looked as though some one had been
beating him. He mumbled something
about his money and then became un-
conscious.
The injured man was brought to Los
Angeles and taken care of at the coun-
ty hospital An operation was per-
formed on him Immediately upon his
arrival, but that failed and he died last
Tuesday from blood clots on the brain,
caused from some hard blow.
Pockets Nearly Empty
The sale of the horses, according to
report, brought Turner about 5000. He
was known to have Sis in his pocket
Just before leaving for Saugus, and
upon his arrival there he was in a
perfectly sober condition.
Yet when he was searched after the
injury had been discovered he had only
SIS with him, and that was stuffed
away in pocket where hurried
searcher might have overlooked it.
The sheriff's officers are at a loss to
understand whether Turner was
sugged and robbed while he slept on
the bench of the station waiting room
by some tramp who later made his es-
cape, or whether Turner fell to the
floor during his sleep and struck his
head against the iron-shod edge of the
platform.
If the latter is the case the officers
have yet to discover what became of
Turner's money. If Turner was muir
dered and robbed there is but small
chance of apprehending his slayer, be-
cause of the fact that no clews were
left and the murderer would have a
weeks start in a portion of the country
where it is practically impossible to
track q man.
The investigation, however will be
made as thorough as possible.