Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-28
GRAND JURY
MA Y LNDICT
COLLEGE BOY
ALL BERKELEY STIRRED BY
MYSTERIOUS CRIME
PRISONERS FAMILY CONTINUES
LOYAL TO HIM
Miss Blanche Kerfoot, for Love Of
Whom Deed Is Believed to Have
Been Done, Will Appear
Against Accused
BY Associated Press.


| BERKELEY, Nov. G.-The grand jury
has been called to convene on next Mon
day morning and thirty-seven witnesses
! have been subpoenaed to appear before
| the inquisitors and give evidence to sup
port the police assertion that Harry Bel
lows was killed in cold blood on the night
of July 26 last and that Harry Klein
schmidt is his murderer.
! On this showing District Attorney Attorney
| Brown is confident that an Indictment
will be returned against the accused uni
versity student.
| OF these thirty-seven witnesses Miss
Blanche Kerfoot the young woman
| whose affections are said to be the main
spring of the tragedy that led TO Bel
lows death, will be the chief.
| Miss Kerfoot is recovering from her ill
ness and mental collapse attending her
examination at her home in Sutter Creek
| last Saturday by Chief of Police Vollm
and District Attorney Carey. Word was
received today from her parents and her
physician that her condition was so en-
couraging that she would probably leave
| for Oakland tomorrow or Sunday after
noon by the latest.
Peck Important Witness
Another important witness will be r. M.
| Peck, buyer for wholesale house in San
Francisco who lives in Berkeley. Peck
and Bellows were close friends at the
time of the latter's death, and roomed
together. Peck accompanied Bellows on
the fatal visit to the Kleinschmidt home
when the young bookkeeper was seeking
to effect the possession of some letters
which Kleinschmidt is said to have stolen
from Miss Kerfoot's trunk while she was
| a guest of his sisters and which it is de-
clared by the police Kleinschmidt was
threatening to use in an effort to blacken
the young woman's reputation.
| foil nd itfrxr hot ha
and Bellows came across the ferry on
the afternoon of July 26, and at that time
Bellows declared that he had fears of
i violence from Kleinschmidt.
+ Four other witnesses, all intimate
friends of the family of the accused stu
dent, will be summoned to give the mar
ratives of their passing along Russell
street on the night of the supposed
tragedy and of hearing high words be-
| tween two men in the rear of the Klein
schmidt home. One of these, young
married woman, it is said. will testify
that she recognized Kleinschmidt in hid
| ing apparently, under the shrubbery, as
if waiting for some one whom he wished
to approach unseen.
Prisoners Family Summoned
The members of the Kleinschmidt fam
! lily have been summoned in the interests
of the prosecution also. Miss Emma
Kleinschmidt is expected to tell of Bel
| lows calling at the front door of her
home about AS in the evening to inquire
for her brother. She in turn informed
him that Harry Kleinschmidt was walt
ing his arrival in the rear of the house.
| Miss Bertha Kleinschmidt will be an
other witness Other witnesses will tell
of incidents and happenings in the lives
of the main actors of the tragedy which
the prosecution says will dovetail in turn
into the long chain of evidence the police
have been gathering for the past four
months.
.sWe have evidence that we will hold
in reserve for later developments which
will hang Kleinschmidt as surely as he is
In Jail, 1 believe said District Attorney
Brown today.
The police are still lacking an eye
witness to the crime they declare was
committed in the back yard OF the
Kleinschmidt home In default of this
evidence they are in doubt of the ex-
act location of the tragedy. The body
was found about twenty-five feet in
the rear of the back door. But there
is a theory that Kleinschmidt might
have lured Bellows into the basement
OF the house, as he is said to have
lured Miss Kerfoot, and there showed
the mouth of the deadly cyanide of
potassium vial into his mouth while he
was off guard.
The application for a writ of habeas
corpus filed last Monday by Attorneys
Church and Hayne to secure the release
of the accused student will be heard
Friday afternoon before Judge Harris
in the superior court in Oakland.
Affidavits signed by Chief of Police
Vollmer Detective Jamison and Assist
ant District Attorney Carey have been
prepared which will be offered in OPP
position to the motion, and which the
prosecution is confident will defeat it.
Even should the writ be granted Dis
trict Attorney Brown declared today he
would be again arrested.
Poison Caused Death
DIR. ]. 3. Shaffer, who made the post
mortem examination of the body OF
Frank Bellows, explained today why
his examination was no more extensive
than it was. He says he was as thor
ough as the coroner directed he should
be. ut look but a orief examination
sal1 DR.. Shaffer, ito show that cyanide
of potassium was the cause of death.
was not directed to hold an autopsy
or to make an autopsy examination,
but merely to make an examination.
This consisted in looking at the lips
and analyzing the contents of the bot
tie found in Bellows grasp That was
an ordinary six-ounce medicine bottle
and the analysis showed it to contain
cyanide. There were stains on the lips
and on the inside thereof upon the
mucous membrane lining.
Cyanide of potassium, through its
active principle. hydro-cyanic acid, is
very deadly poison. A few drops
placed upon the hand will kill In a
short time. Introduced into the mouth,
where the membraneous lining is thin,
the poison would have to go no fur
ther. Introduction into the stomach
would not be necessary to KILL"
Mrs Harry ID. Clark. who told the
police of Miss Kerfoot receiving per-
emptory message from Kleinschmidt
rnllalil.i1a.c her. "a nnrna To him IN Iha