Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-05
.MUTILATED BODY
FOUND IN CANYON
Third Victim of Supposed Japan
eSe Slayer Located by a
Searching Party
OFFICERS HUNT YAMAGACHl
Theory Is That Kendall Family
Murderer Had Assistance
of Countrymen
OFFICERS HUNT YAMAGACHI
Associated Pressl

SANTA ROSA, Cal, Aug. 4-With
the final determination late tonight
that the body found in the canyon
near the Kendall home was that of
Mrs. Enoch Kendall, the officials here
have rested in their task of piecing
the remains together and are devoting
their attention to the apprehension OF
Henry Yamagachi, the japanese sus-
pected of murder of the three Ken
dalls at their ranch near Cazadero.
Late tonight District Attorney Lea
announced he was confident that
Yamagachi was telling the truth when
he tragically announced to the Star
buck family that he had made away
with the Kendalls, and he also ex-
pressed the opinion that the suspected
murderer is in this county.
Bit by bit today the remains have
been pieced together until there is no
question that all three members of the
Kendall family were murdered That
one frafl Japanese committed the crime
unaided is not believed by the officers.
1t is H-rir theory that friends OF
Yamagachi, who joined him last year
in the feud which, the japanese tan
bark peelers carried on with the Ken
of the bodies.
Yoshio Yoshida, secretary of the Jap
anese association of SonOma county,
was closeted with District Attorney Lea
for two hours tonight and he gave that
official a complete account of the move
ments of Yamagachi from the time he
went to Cazadera until he left for Oak
land July %.
HEAVY BASKET
At that time the Japanese suspect
carried a suit case and a heavy teles-
cope basket. YOshida tried to lift the
basket, hut found it so heavy that he
could not carry it. Lea believed the
basket was filled with flesh torn from
the bones found in the ashes at the
Kendall ranch. He was strengthened
in this belief by the assertion of Mrs:
Starbuck that the Japanese expressed
much concern for his baggage, which
he had left at the San Francisco ferry
F. f. ROusan, who found the dis
membered corpse Of Mrs. Kendall, re-
turned to this city tonight. The torso
was little more than a bundle of bones
from which all but one arm had been
severed Long strips of flesh clung to
the stump of one arm, and the ribs,
which had been crushed, were almost
bare. The hips. which had been cut
| from the trunk at the waist, were
found several hundred feet from the
torso.
TO RENEW HUNT
Early tomorrow District Attorney
| Lea, accompanied by the coroner, VIII
leave for the Kendall ranch. 1t is be-
lieved the murderer, unable to burn
the flesh of his victims, buried all that
he could not carry away. A thorough
search will be made of the yard and
garden of the ranch when he reaches
there tomorrow.
With the discovery of the mutilated
trunk of a womans body in canyon,
the last hope that Mrs. Kendall might
have escaped the fate of the other
members of her family was abandoned.
The ghastly find was made by a
posse led by Sheriff J. K. Smith, after
the whole country in the vicinity of
the Kendall home had been secured.
The discovery early in the day Of a
blood d-soaked cot and blood-spattered
walls on the porch of the house. spur
red the tired posse to renewed eff
forts, but little additional evidence of
the crime was uncovered until the
| searchers were on the point of
abandoning the hunt for the day.
FOUND IN CANYON
In the depths of a gloomy canyon,
where the midday sun hardly pene-
trates the thick redwoods, a member
of the posse stumbled over the body.
The headless and legless body did not
offer much chance for identification,
but none doubts that it is all that is
left of Mrs. IRA Kendall. Maniacal
rage must have possessed her muir
derer, as the torso was so cruelty mu-
tilated.
The body will be brought to this city
and placed in the morgue with the
other mute evidences of the terrible
fate which overlook the Kendall fam
lily.
Charles Enove, a Japanese of Mesa
Grande, is in Jail here, where he will
be held as a witness against Henry
Yamagachi, who is being sought on
charge of numbering the Kendalls. On
the night of July 20, the last day on
which Thomas Kendall was seen alive,
Yamagachi slept in Enove's home at
Mesa Grande. That serious charges
may be made against Enove was the
assertion of an attache Of the district
attorneys office here. Feeling is high
against the Starbucks and the Jap
anese employed by them in the neigh
borhood of the scene of the crime, and
extraordinary precautions will be