The San Francisco call., 1908-08-31

hour before anything tangible was en-
rountered Then the shovel uncovered
the edge of a blue skirt. A few more
spadefuls taken out revealed the knees
sf human being bent almost douple
upward.
Frightened by their find, although 1t
was what they hlaG been expecting, the
two boys ran to the home of Foreman
Kraslxy Of the furniture factory. Ex-
citedIv they told him the news and
breathlessly the trio returned to the
scene. Immediately as soon as he had
verified the discovery I<rasky summoned
Marshal Carey. Deputy Marshal Lippy
and Captain of Detectives Petersen OF
Oakland The coroner's office also was
notified.
Returning to the building, the man
and bows again began to dig. Each
succeeding stroke OF the spade turned
I'D some more grewsome proof OF the
.ragedy-
BY this time the news was spreading
over the neighborhood like wlldhre.
Women and children floclxed to the
scene. staring with Mortified awe at
the body.
some one told the husband. Leap
ing fom the bed in which he had spent
a sleepless night, Donohue ran to the
furniture factory across lots, putting
on his vest as he ran. He did not stop
for his coat
When Donohue broke into the knot
of people gathered at the open grave
he leaped into the hole. seized the
shovel and began to dig himself with
frantic haste. Finally the mans fren-
zied manner alarmed his friends and
they took the spade from his hands
and led him away. Not for long, how
ever, for he broke away from the
grasp of his friendly captors and once
II r1f-iT1 he
body
The corpse had been buried deep in
a trench dug far under the building,
and had been carefully covered over
with the claylike mud of which the
marsh is composed The salt water of
the sIoughs and the thick, damp earth
had preserved the body quite we'll AS
soon as the air touched the flesh it be-
gan to mortify rapidly.
1t took nearly two hours for the busy
workers to eXhume the body after it
had been discovered and the burial
must have taken much longer. To so
carefully conceal the evidences or his
crime the murderer must have worked
all night and with cold blooded de-
liberateness almost impossible TO con-
ceive.
When the coroner's wagon arrived
the husband burst into tears. When
the body was covered over with piece
Of gunny Sacking and lifted with Crap
ping hooks into the long, clumsy black
coffin carried to the grave by the cor
oner's deputies, Donohue cold stand the
sight no longer and fed around the
corner Of the house. Friends tenderly
led him within the furniture factory,
out Of the sight of the constantly
growing crowd and he was allowed to
stand the first shock of his grief with
but two persons near.
After the body had been taken away
from the grave Captain of Detectives
Petersen sought out Donohue in the
building and took him TO dinner with
him Petersen forbade all to speak
to Donohue and told the weeping man
himself not to speak at all about the
subject, if he preferred, until he felt
better.
In the afternoon Donohue was taken
to the morgue to identify his wife'S
body positively before it should be
buried. Although out Of its entomb-
ment but a few hours the body already
was in bad state of decomposition,
but the husband verified his belief by
pointing out a scar his wife had had
on her body