The San Francisco call., 1906-11-07
KANAKA CALM
IN FACE Of
GALLOWS.
Dabner WeakenS in
Presence of His
Father.
Parent Grief Stricken
at Sons Admissions
Police Have Com
Dlete Case
Every Detail of Crimes
Given by the Prisoners
Parent Grief Stricken
at Sons Admissions
Every Detail of Crimes
Given by the Prisoners

Admitting that he was the moving
spirit in the chain of gaspipe murders
that kept the city terrorized for
months, John Siemsen. the Kanaka
arrested with Louis Dabner following
the assault on Jeweler Behrend, dem
onstrated before the police in detail
last night how he performed each
crime and declared between puffs of
a cigar that he was quite reconciled
to the fact that he could not escape
hanging.
When taken before young Dabner,
whose confession earlier in the day
had prepared the police Tor surprises,
the Ksnska admitted every detail
admitted by his aocomplice and sup
plemented the grewsome facts with
graphic gestures and intonations un-
III he worked up dramatic atmos-
phere. which for a time made those
who heard him forget the crime in
volved in the recital in their eager
ness to hear it to the end
Something that under different cir
oumstances might have closely re-
sembled admiration for this brown
Embed criminal was stirred in the
police when he expressed regret at
having drawn Dabner into crime, but
young Dsbner himself, conscious of
the implied stigma of being weaker
brother even in crime, protested that
the responsibility for all his actions
rested on his own head.
The admissions Of the pair prac-
ticsny completed the police case
against the gsspipe murderers and the
detectives are ready TO place the evi-
dence before the public prosecutor The
police and everybody else familiar with
the completeness of the evidence pre-
dict speedy hanging for both Siemsen
and Dsbner.
Dsbner who had been kept at the
O'Farrell-street station. where he made
his confession earlier in the day. was
brought before the Kanaka at the
Bush-street station
A squad Of police was lined up in
the assembly room OF the station when
he was brought in handcuffed by Chief
Dinan. Captain Of Detectives Duke and
Detective Wren. william Dabner. his
father and Leo Dabner, his brother
traned behind the police.
MEETS FATHER AND BROTHER.
Louis Dabner was given a seat near
the detectives on the farther side OF
the room while Chief Dinan was in
terviewing the Kanaka in his cell. His
father and brother kept casting
glances at him. Dabner tried to affect
Indifference by smoking a cigarette
which he managed with difficulty be-
cause Of the handouts.
Every once in a while the father
would hz long stare at the boy, and
finally broke down and commenced to
sob audibly. The two sons Joined him
in tears. The same scene that was
witnessed during the confession Of the
boy at the O'FarrelI-street station was
repeated. All three kept crying for
nearly five minutes, when Chief Dinan
and Captain Duke had young Dabner
taken into the Office of Captain Mooney
In a moment SiemF-a was brought in
He saluted Dabnert daily, and when
the confession of the latter was read
TO him admitted that it was all cor
rect.
i couldn't tell it any better than
that" he said, and it would be useless
for me to go over the same ground