Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-04
MURDERED MAN
HAD QUEER IDEA
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San Francisco Dec. 4.-Harry
Boas, the young electrician who died
early yesterday morning from a
mixed dose of strychnine in "stom-
ach powders" had a mania for call
inng himself o Yale man is one of
the peculiar features of the strange
case which came to light today Boas
told the young women in San Jose,
with whom he was on friendly terms
that he had, graduated from that uni
versity and that he belonged to ath-
1etic teams and secret societies at
that university. His room and his
office were filled with pictures and
color penants, all characteristic of
Yale mans tastes.
The remarkable part about this
revelation is that Boas' family state |
positively that he never went to |
Yale and, In fact, never went farther |
with his studies than a high school |
course.
Intimate friends of his asked him
why he persisted I'm this fabrication
and he is quoted as answering that he
found it helped him in his business
TO pose as a college graduate
Let the enc who did this decd
suffer. LIT fim never have rest
again"
Inconsolable over the tragic death
of her son, Mrs. K Boas, mother of
Harry Boas, tho young man who died
under suspicious circumstances ear 7
ly yesterday morning after swallow
ing "stomch powders" means un-
ceasingly at her home today, praying I
that the person who. she believ s, d
sent her boy the deadly dose of sty- u
chnine, may pay the penalty for that >,
alleged crime.
Murder is the theory which the dis II
tracted mother offers as the only ex- Il
planation of her sons strange end, n,
and II will take much more than the
thcorizing of the San Jose police to is
her that the young man W
planned a picturesque th
suicide, tho memory OF which is des- m,
tined to haunt her for the rest OF
her years.
Mr. Boa: was too iii today to be in IL
erviewed. Her family feel deeply ab
over condit ion, fearing 90
hat nuder the double strain OF the
Ihock Of her sor's horrible death Tn
Ind the uneolved mystery surround ca
ng It, sh" may collapse entirely. frt
In her stead, Miss Boas. the in %
-alid sistor of the young man, gave
he family's opinion of the San Jose oo
hcorv that Harry Boas wrote the
dec. lr's" letter which accompanied
he poison in the "medlc,n." which G
auscd his death. ~
'It Is an incroditable story" said
he young woman today: Tit has alb
olutely no foundation. The hand
'riting I'm the letter, in the first place
not his. He wrote q rigid back
and. and he invariably used n stub
en-. II the police have discovered M,
nat II was disguised hand, way , p''
ocsn't II bear out our theory that w
murderer sent the poison and nat nv IWilo
reilly sought TO conceal his identity , ,eS
Harry did not act afterward as uII
iough he had written II himself. cuN
Ie criticised A., wondering about the we
pelling OF some of the words. He
Did the elevator boy at his office .ue e
hat he thought the handwriting had @ @tne
familiar look He showed II 10 nc
evernl OF HIS friends, and thought rs -
n curiosity. .ne ute
Harry was positive that the let Ihe
n had been sent at the request of larl
Is lady friend down at San Jose. oo'
q was an lmpulsiye boy. and he
Imped at this conclusion without
eighing the pros and con7 He was
sure VI NHlh iUdl ne ldWkHtu ~ sure
lr suspicious that all might not be the
ght. had
She Is a sister to me-, he said app
I'd that seemed TO make everything day
fe. as far as he was concerned He was
rs not suspicious, and he seemed 10 und
we absolute faith IN the girl, whom stor
thought so much Of
"If the detectives had seen Harry TIA
his death agonies, as we did they ~
ver would have talked about sui
le He was amazed at the effect OF
e poison. and | remember him cry
& out almost in the throes Of u
ath: -.
" Who could have sent me those tba, 'n
'ful powders?' ,i" 49,
AS he began to stiffen in the last Ul., "a
nvul'ions, he pleaded with the -
ctor 10 save his life, and he as. "'s
red his mother that he was going orS
recover. Gnu GU
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