The San Francisco call., 1908-07-15

nected with the plot. The prisoner did
not assert a motive for the alleged
crime, but said that he simply did it to
get money and that this money was
TO be given him by a man whose
name he did not know. None of these
stories tailed with the allegations
made in the letter which was found on
the sidewalk in Byington avenue. and
which practically accuses Peter Clau-
danes of the crime
THEORIES OF MOTIVE
Several theories have been ad-
vanced as to the real motive of John
Claudianes' confession. One of them
is that the letter was purposely writ
ten as a plant" and left where it
would be picked up with the inten-
tion of furnishing a sort of proof for a
story which Claudianes would tell in
the hope of securing the promised re
ward. Another is that the man is sim
ply a fanatic and that he actually had
no connection with the dynamiting
plots A third solution. and the one
accepted by both Langdon and Spe-
cial Agent Burns, who yesterday took
an active interest in the case, is that
CIaudianes really has some knowledge
of the identity of the perpetrators of
the outrage and that his story of the
occurrence Is DdStu PAL l4cllS OAA AoNN
and partially on lies of his own inven-
tion.
While Claudianes' actions during the
visit TO the scene of the outrage
showed his perfect familiarity with the
vicinity of the Gallagher houses, there
was nothing about his story that could
not easily have been invented after a
short study of the surroundings, and
with a knowledge of the crimes in
sS he in
eliminating circumstance so far
brought against the prisoner, and is so
palpably weak that no formal charges
have yet been brought against the
man. After he was placed in Jail Sat
urday morning, Claudianes entered a
complete denial of the truth of all that
he had said the night before, and has
since that time stoutly maintained his
innocence of the crimes in the face of
the most searching examinations by
Langdon and Special Agent Burns.
Yesterday the search for Peter
CIaudianes. which was begun Saturday,
was extended outside of San Francisco.
Both brothers have been hangers on
about the courtrooms during the graft
trials. and Friday afternoon Peter
CIaudianes was seen in a department
Of the police court.
Since then he has disappeared COM
pletely and is thought TO nave lett
San Francisco. He did not show UP at
Chico, where his father now runs a
restaurant, and where Johns letter to
him was addressed, and no clue as to
his whereabouts was received until
yesterday afternoon.
WRITES YOUNG WOMAN
District Attorney Langdon yesterday
received long distance telephone mes
sage from the marshal at Chico, stating
that a young woman in that city had
received a letter from Peter Claud-
lanes, written Monday, in Reno, New.
The letter stated that Claudianes eX-
pected to leave there at once, but his
destination was not given, and it is
thought that he had turned to one of
the Nevada mining towns He is known
as a gambler, and Goldfeld was sug-
gested as his possible destination on ac-
count of the coming Gans-Nelson fight
Chief of Police Biggy wired both Reno
and Goldfeld yesterday TO secure
Claudianes' arrest in the event that he
appears in either of those cities.
James L. Gallagher took a decided
interest in the arrest of John Claud-
lanes yesterday and stated that he re-
membered having seen the man some
where.
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