The San Francisco call., 1908-08-21
CRIME IS PLACED
ON THE PLOTTERS

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or to establish their innocence.
Pauduveris is also caught Sc
curely in the net and in the
event that he is arrested faces al
most certain conviction While Lang
don and Burns viii continue their, ef-
forts TO accomplish his arrest they viii
take no further active part in the pros
ecution Of either of the Claudianes
brothers. All the evidence in their pos
session has been turned over TO Dis
trict Attorney Everett Brown OF Ala
media county, who has assumed active
charge Of the case, while the care Of
the prisoners and the pursuit of Paudu-
veris viii be taken up by Sheriff Bar
net and Captain OF Detectives Petersen
of Oakland
BROWN TAKES CHARGE
District Attorney Brown took charge
Of the presentation Of the case before
the grand jury. which convened at 10
o'clock yesterday morning. DR.. Guy F.
Brown and Miss Georgia Schenck, who
were in the Schenck home in Nineteenth
avenue, in Oakland, when the first dy-
namiting occurred. April p. were the
first witnesses called, their testimony
relating entirely TO the time and nature
OF the explosion Harry East Miller. an
expert in high explosives, who exam
ined the wreck of the Schenck home
after the attempt TO murder Gallagher,
testified that the charge used was dy
Mantle and explained the manner in
which the explosive had been placed
District Attorney Langdon and Spe-
cfal Agent Burns were called TO the
stand Immediately after the noon recess
Of the Jury and told the substance of
the confessions made by John and
Peter Claudianes- Their statements
followed exactly the lines of the signed
confessions which the young Greeks
made before powerful influences and
the advice Of legal counsel caused
them 10 change heart and deny all that
they originally told concerning the
diabolical plot TO do away with the
members Of the graft prosecution and
the chief witness in the graft cases.
They also told Of the carrying out Of
oners and Of the steps taken to cor
roborate the confessions.
TELLS OF FELIX'S BOX
J. B. Baccola, who has charge of the
safe deposit vaults Of the Columbus
savings and loan society at Washing
ton and Montgomery streets. stated
that Felix Pauduveris rented safe
deposit box in the bank in April and
visited II several times His last visit
] was on J ulg - llE Qc9 On WHICH JONI
/ Claudianes' arrest became known and
on which he himself fed from the city
I The box has not yet been examined,
but II is supposed that Pauduveris
emptied Il at that time of any papers
I which might serve to incriminate him
and also took out any money that II
i might have contained. Baccola pro-
duced the book containing the sigma
/ lures Of Pauduveris, made at the
various times he visited the vaults, and
! IL was from these exemplars that
! Eisenschimmel. who followed him to
the stand. Identified the writing OF
! Pauduveris In the letters to Peter Clau-
danes.
Ralph Adams and J. H Witt, the
managers OF the two lodging houses
( near Ninth and Washington streets in
Oakland, identified Pete Claudianes as
the man who registered at their places
on several occasions just preceding the
/ first 6ynamiting, and told OF his goings
1 and comings under the name of Al
Cohn.
Thomas Fagundas. an employe of a
candy store at Eighth and Washington
! streets, where Pete kept the bicycle
on which he escaped after setting of
the explosives at the Schenck and
1 Gallagher houses, corroborated this
phase Of his confession and identified
him Eugene Donohue. one of Schefck'
neighbors. also identified the prisoners
/ as the two men whom he found loiter-
/ ing late at night on one occasion E
/ short time before the first dynamit-
/ ing in an alley behind the Schemes
/ home, and whom he drove away.
Detective John Mccarthy of Burns
stan told of the arrest of Pete Clau-
danes in Chicago and of the prisoner
denial Of his identity and subsequent
actions.
/ Manager O'Brien of the San Fran.
cisco Office of the Western Union tele-
graph company, was present under
subpoena TO testify to the contents OF
a telegram sent by Pauduveris TO Pete
Claudianes while the latter was il
Reno between the time Of the first and