The San Francisco call., 1906-09-15

companion watched the door. Those
are the only clues that Chief of Police
Dinan and Acting Captain o. Detee-
e tives Wren have to work upon. Chief
Dinan expressed the opinion that the
crime was committed by the man who
murdered Phtzner. Detectives I. J.
Bailey and Ed. Gibson are working
on the case.
Several days ago Freide said to Reh-
field: This is a lonesome store and
some one might come in and do the
/ same to me they did TO that man on
McAllister street" That is what was
done. And next TO the lonesome
store" was busy shoe store where six
clerks are employed and customers pass
IN and out The persons in this store
heard nothing.
Freide was discovered by two chill
dren, Robert Anderson. aged fifteen.
and his younger sister, Thelma, who
live with their parents at Green street
and Van Ness avenue. The children
notified Policemen Clay and Jordan.
and they took Freide TO the Central
Emergency Hospital, where an opera
tion was performed and shattered frag
aments Of the skull Of an area as large
as a mans hand were removed
Freides wife, with whom he lived at
1904 Eddy street. his eight-yeaT-old
son, Leon. HIS mother-in-law. Mrs. L
Finkelstein. and his wife's sister,
watched at his bedside at the hospital.
The wife wept continually as she sat
at her husbands bedside. The little
boy was taken i'll during the evening.
VICTIMS CLERK ABSENT.
Il happened that Rehfeld was i'll
Yesterday morning, and after opening
the store left al s o'clock to go home
and nurse a cold. He nursed the all
ment at his home. at the Chutes and at
the Orpheum matinee. and was at the
vaudeville when his employer was be-
ing murdered.
Pftzner. il viii be remembered. was
thought to have been struck on the
head while fitting a pair Of shoes on
an ostensible customer. Freide. it is
presumed. on an examination of his
wounds, was struck while bending
over 70 measure his assailant. At the
feet Of the dying man was found his
tape measure Nearby was a suit of
underclothes. size 3S. a dark gray. soft
shirt, size IS, and some other clothing
Of corresponding size which Freide
might have been showing.
After heating his victim the un-
known man left him on the floor. and
going into the little cashiers booth,
ransacked the till II is not known
how much money wac taken. but the
sum is believed TO have been less than
500. for at noon former Justice Of the
Peace Henry Stafford went TO Freide
10 get 500 due on a real estate trans
action. and Freide did not have the
money. He paid several claims during
the day with checks.
INSTRUMENT NOT FOUND.
The store in which the crime was
committed is about twenty feet wide
and seventy feet long. The sides are
lined with shelves of furnishing goods
Of the cheaper sort. Back. three-Quar-
of the 1nHUfb If the fc 70
cashiers booth. stand with three
sides OF glass and the rear boarded.
The heavily laden counters closed up
20 the booth. and what might be trans
piring behind the place would be out.
of sight Of any one on the street or
even of any one in the front of the
store Freide used this place behind
the booth for fitting customers. There
is q rear door TO the store. but it was
locked on the inside when the police
arrived. indicating that the assailant
left the store by the front door. car
which he struck Freide. A search of
the store failed TO bring to light any
biood-stained implement. Pftzners S
murderer left his weapon, a window
weight. by the side of the dying man.
Chief Surgeon Millar of the emer-
gency service does not think that
Freide was struck with such a weapon.
whatever its shape ii was sufficient for
death. DR.. Glover describes the wound
as similar TO that which caused the
death OF Pftzner.
CAME FROM WOODLAND.
Freide. who is aged s5, has been in
business in the city only since the fire.
Previously he was in Woodland. On
his body was found two bank books
one on the Western National Bank
showing deposits Of S20I9.50, the other
a check book on the Mercantile Trust
Company Of San FRANCISCO. A check had
been drawn during the day on this
bank for 800 in favor of John H
Dawson. Another check for 50 payable
10 L. AXelrood, who clerked in the store
on Saturday. had also been drawn. In
the dying mans pocket was found an
accident policy on the Pennsylvania
Casualty Company
The man whom Togmey. Duffy Broth
ers' watchman, saw about the place in
the afternoon an hour and a half be-
fore the crime was committed is de-
scribed as tall, shabbfly dressed and
: having a droop IN the left eve. The
khaki working trousers found in the
rear Of the store are for tall man.
Rehfeld says that the men who en-
tered the store Thursday were shabbily
dressed, one Of them being about 20
years Of age, with a sandy mustache
and a generally unkempt appearance