The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
.WOMAN'S BIBLE IN
AhLST[DT'S SHACK
Volume Inscribed With Maiden
Name of Victim Is Unearthed
by Detectives

OAKLAND, Sept. 5.-Until the coro-
ners inquests into the deaths of Alice
Lucretia Donohue and Daniel Donohue
are concluded next Tuesday, Gustav
Ahlstedt will be a prisoner in detinue
in the city jail, Captain of Detectives
Petersen will present to the coroner's
jury all the evidence he has accumu-
lated connecting the names of Ahl-
stedt, Donohue and Berry with the dis
appearance of the woman. Whether a
formal complaint will be sworn to
against the carpenter under arrest will
not be decided until the inquiry ends.
There may be subpenaed to the in
quest an additional witness in the per-
son of Andrew Granholt, living at 5I57
Marshall street, who is the night
watchman at the Capital refining
works, in Sixty-fourth street. He re-
lated to the police that about the time
Mrs. Donohue disappeared a woman
was seen by him shortly after nightfall
standing near the Southern Pacific
tracks. He accosted her TO learn her
intentions in remaining in the lonely
section. The reply he received gave
him no inkling of her identity, and did
not reveal the woman's purposes or in
tentions He has told Deputy Marshal
Lippi OF Emeryville that the woman
answered the description of Alice Don
ohue.
Coincident with the disclosure OF
Granholt's story was the discovery to-
day in the hovel occupied by Gustav
Alllstedt of card of introduction and
a small Testament, in which the name
of Mary Stewart appears. This is sig
niffcant in that Stewart was the maid
en- name of Alice Donohue. The Testa-
ment bears written on the fyleaf the
words. ITO Amelia Taylor from Mary
Stewart" Inclosed in the book was
lock of hair. tied with bit of blue
ribbon.
With the book was found the card
of introduction. 1t may under police
Investigation bring forth some further
informa ton of the life of Gustav Ahl-
stedt. The card is from the drug store
of Louis Samuelson, Ninth and Howard
streets, San Francisco, and introduces
Mrs Mayer to Ahlstedt. In one cor
ner it bears the address, Sixteenth
and Folsom streets, corner"
The police declare the discovery of
the Testament is significant, other
articles belonging to the dead woman
were found in Ahlstedt's possession.
These exhibits will be produced by
Captain Petersen at the coroner's in
quest. No attempt will be made in
testimony to discriminate against any
of the three men whose lives have been
linked since the finding fSAlice Dono-
hue's body.
"AIl the evidence of any nature we
have regarding Ahlstedt, Donohue or
Berry," said Captain Petersen, will be
presented to the jury at the inquest. /
must confess / am greatly mystified by
the singular turn OF the case. So far
we are unable to present direct legal
proof that there was crime. The cir
cumstances all indicate murder. but in
the absence of the professional testi-
mony of surgeons and experts as to the
cause of death, we can not establish a.
direct specific case-of murder. 1t is all
purely circumstantial.''
Petersen says he does not want to
arrest Joseph Berry but he wishes that
the reported former husband of the
murdered woman were here. The
search for Berry is being continued.
Among the effects found by the po-
lice In the Donohue house was a photo
graph of two men taken seven years
ago at Punxatawny,- Pa, Alice Dono-
hues old home. The photograph of one
OF the men has been partly identified
as that of Berry by several persons
who know the missing miner The po-
lice have no positive assurance, but
feel reasonably certain that the photo
graph is that of Berry.