Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-10

from his room, to his lips and swal-
lowed it's contents
benedict in the dark did not clearly
observe the motion and as Sutherland
elevated his left hand above his head
the officer sprang forward and placed
handouts around his wrists.
turning, he led him toward the street
mar which was an automobile with
which it was intended to convey him
to the station.
Scarcely had they gone five feet when
without a word Sutherland collapsed
and fell to the ground dead.
Deadly Poison Fatal to Murderer
Cyanide of potassium, the deadliest
poison known to medical science, was
contained in that bottle which he
raised to his lips, and almost quicker
n it takes to tell 1t had produced
its results, and the threat of this burg
lar, sneak thief and murderer to never
L taken to prison alive had been car
ried out.
The body was placed in the waiting
motor car and rushed to the receiv-
ing hospital at the city Jail at full
speed, but it was merely limp and life
! 5 clay which was carried into the
operating room and deposited on the
couch on which few hours before his
victim had been laid
Drs. Quint and Garrett examined the
body and stated that life had been ex-
tinct for some time.
In the pockets of the dead mans
clothing We're found score OF cart
ridges a knife, a small watch and two
or three bloody handkerchiefs.
On his left hand was a gray suede
GLOW, and through the wrist just above
the top of the glove was a powder
marked bullet hole which showed where
the second shot fired in his struggle
with Capt. Auble had gone.
There were no other marks on the
body; and the clothing Worn, with the
exception of the hat, was the same
which he had on when he was stopped
at Ninth street and Grand avenue by
Capt. Auble.
After the inspection and identification
of the body by Capt. Flammer and
other police officers the corpse was
taken to Pierce Bros morgue where
the coroner will view the body today.
1t was Monday last a few minutes
after he had reported at the central
station for duty that Captain Walter
Auble received the information which
led to his attempted arrest of Suther-
land and a man of the name of Horn
ing, his partner in crime.
At about $3.50 o'clock of that day
f. H. Walters, the proprietor of a room
ing house at 937 Georgia street, called
at police headquarters and reported
that there were two men rooming at
his place of whom he had received an
unfavorable impression from their ac-
lions
He stated that the men came and
went at all hours of the day and
night. That they carried in and car
ried out bulky packages, and that in
their room was whisky, morphine, tools
of all kinds, blackjacks, pistols and
masks.
Acting on Mr.. Walters statement,
Captain Auble detailed detectives to
look up the men, and on Tuesday
morning so great was his interest in
the case that, accompanied by Captain
of Detectives Paul Flammer he went
to the Georgia street house and, by
the assistance of Mrs. Walters. got
into a room adjoining the one occu-
pied by Sutherland and Horning.
Both men We're in the room at the
time the officers reached there.
Through a transom the officers had a
good view of them so that their faces
were firmly impressed on their men,
cries.
Through the thin wooden door be-
tween the two rooms they heard enough
Of a casual conversation to convince
them that the two men were indeed
all that Walters had suspected them
to be-desperate crooks.
For more than an nour the two Off
GERS lay in the adjoining room listen
ing to "shop talk" by the two Grim
inals. From that conversation they