The San Francisco call., 1906-05-25

ACCUSED
OF CRIME
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seemed to know who had fixed
the degree of crime.
Judge Shortall said all he knew
was that he was asked to accept
the bond. Assistant District At
torney Rodgers said that all he
was asked was to prepare the
bond and Chief Dinan said he did
not know who had made the
charge manslaughter.
The only other person who was
present besides the Denickes was
Abe Ruef and it was supposed
that he was the one who engi-
neered the proceedings. District
Attorney Langdon, when he heard
the unusual turn of affairs, called
upon Chief Dinan and the Chief
promised to have the witnesses in
the District Attorneys office this
afternoon at 2 o'clock, so that
after questioning them the Dis
trict Attorney may fix the degree
of crime and get some one to
swear to a complaint.
Denicke is % years of age, a
graduate of the University of Cal
ifornia, where he was captain of
the cadet corps, which gave him
the rank of a retired captain of
the National Guard. He is a min
ing and civil engineer and had
for five or six years up till Sep
tember last, when he returned to
the city, been in South Africa.
During the Boer war he per-
formed military duty in protect
ing the dynamite works of the De
Beers Company. Since his return
he had been following his profes-
sion here, with offices in the Union
Trust Company's building, which
was destroyed by the fire. At the
time of the fire he was living at
the family residence at 1000 Ma
son street, his father being in Paso
Robles.
Regarding the shooting, his
brother made the following state
ment for him: When the fire
threatened the family home my
brother saved the women folks
and took them to my home. Then
he went to Chief Dinan and was
sworn in as a special officer. On
the Thursday he attached himself
to a company Of the regulars and
served with them all that day and
night, fighting the fire on Tele-
graph Hill and the Latin quarter.
He saved the life of a blind man
80 years of age, who was In a
burning building. On Friday he
started in to fight the fire on the
water front and tried to save
warehouses and other buildings.
When the oil tanks and the chemi-
cal factory were ablaze he saved
the lives of several drunken men
who had broken into a bonded
warehouse and were in drunken
sleep on the floor Of the Hobbs
Wall box factory. He found him.
self surrounded by fire and in
tended leaping into the water to
save himself when the tug Gov
ernor Markham hove in sight. He
boarded her and the captain in
structed him to run out the hose
lines to save the Lombard-street
wharf and to impress any men he
saw to help him.
My brother went ashore and
impressed a marine. Just then a
man weighing about 200 pounds
was seen stealing live chickens
and my brother told the sentry to
impress him on the hose line. My
brother turned his back and had
walked back fifteen yards when
he heard an exclamation, and
wheeling round he saw the sentry
trying to drive the man, who ap-
peared to be an Italian and very
excited, to the hose line. The man
grabbed hold of the sentry's gun
and wrested it from him.. My
brother called upon the man to
stop, but he raised the gun to his
shoulder, and to save the life of
the sentry, who was a much
smaller man than the Italian, my
brother fired three shots from his
revolver at him.
''The gun dropped out of the
man S hand and he fell. After re-