The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-05
Mutilated Body of Woman Be-
lieyed TO Be Mrs. Kendall
Found Near the House.
SOME TANGIBLE EVIDENCE
OF A PROBABLE MOTIVE
One Witness Says Japanese
Boy Said He Was Beaten by
Slain Man.

SANTA ROSA, Cal, Aug. with
the discovery of the mutilated trunk
of woman IS body in d canyon near
the Kendall home late today the last
hope that Mrs. Urn Kendall might have
escaped the fate of other members of
her family was abandoned. The ghast-
ly find was made by Il posse led by
Sheriff j. *. Smith.
The discovery early in the day of q
blood-soaked cot and blood spattered
walls on the porch Of the house spurred
I he tired posse to renewed efforts, but
little additional evidence of the crime
was uncovered until the searchers were
on the point Of abandoning the hunt for
the day.
In the depths of a gloomy canyon
where the mid day sun hardly pene-
trates the thick redwoods. member
of the posse stumbled over the remains.
The headless and legless body did not
offer much chance for Identification,
but none doubts that 1t is all that is
left of Mrs. Kendall. The torso was
cruelty mutilated.
One japanese Held.
Charles Enove, japanese OF Gucrne-
vile. is in jail here, where he Will be
menu dS Il "llutSS iiNh'J
gachi, who is being sought on the
charge of numbering the kendalls. On
the night of July %, the last day on
which Thomas Kendall was seen alive,
Yamagachi slept in Enove's home.
Feeling against the japanese employed
in the neighborhood OF the scene of the
crime is running high
The crime was revealed yesterday
when the county authorities, inveStlgat-
Il. l,.H n
family of three, discovered the charred
bones of Enoch Kendall, Mrs. Ura Ken
dali, his wife. and Thomas A, Kendall,
their son, in the yard of their canyon
home on the Starbuck ranch near a
summer resort known as Crospers, just
north of Santa Rosa.
The finger OF suspicion, according to
the authorities, is directed toward the
missing japanese as the perpetrator OF
the wholesale crime. Iamagachl occu'
pied cabin on the ranch and Is known
TO have had violent quarrel with
Thomas Kendall, manager Of the place,
and who is said to have beaten and shot
at the boy. Nursing his grievance
against Kendall. Yamagachi is said to
have acted like one demented.
Jap and Kendall Fought.
The ranch on which the Kendall fam
lily was slain is owned by Mrs. Margaret
Starbuck, wife of n prominent Oakland
architect, and who resides in that city,
On Monday, July 25, Yamagachi called
at the Starbuck home and told Mrs.
Starbuck that he had had fight with
the elder Kendall and his son. On the
same day, a guest at the summer re,
sort, accompanied by two boys, visited
a cabin on the Starbuck ranch and en-
tering by window came upon Gama-
gachi crawling out from under couch
with an open knife in his hand,
The Japanese Immediately left the
cabin but was seen again on the ranch
the next day for the last time.
A few days ago neighbors noting
that nothing had been seen of the Ken
dalls for more than week and be,
lieving that something was amiss, called
the attention of the authorities to the
matter. Yesterday Sheriff j. X. Smith,
accompanied by two court officials, Wis
tied the place. At the ranch house the
investigators found everything in good
order. On the dining room table dishes
had been set for meal, but the food
had not been touched. In the barn the
family horse was tied IN his stall, per
ishing of thirst and hunger. Pigs were
starving IN pen.
Tell-Tale Bones Found.
No light was shed on the mystery un-
til the kitchen stove was opened. In
the ashes of the CRATE fragments OF
bones were found, revealing the first
hint of foul play. 1t was seen that a
light trail OF cinders led from tho
stove through the door TO the yard.
tance from the house the searchers
came upon an ash pile which was found
to contain large number of human
bones and several blackened pieces OF
iewelry, among which was n plain gold
wedding ring that bore the initials "T.
A K, those of the young, Kendall;
Later another ash pile was discovered
a pair of gold spectaclcs and many |
charred bones. Lying on the grass near
by was a breast pin that held a minia
turc of Thomas Kendall and which was |
identified by neighbors as having been
constantly worn by Mrs. Kendall.
A search for the instrument with |
which the murders had been committed |
with blood and which lay in an adloin
ing garden under fence. 1t is the
belief of the authorities that the crimes
were actually committed with knives or
guns and that the stone was subse.
auently used to dispatch tho dying vie
Tins And because of the magnitude
of the tragedy, it is the theory of Dis
trlct attorney Caichce L. bee th,. Iwo,
or possibly three, men were implicated
in the murders.
Enoch Kendall was so years old, his
wife So and their son Thomas about 81,
A year ago tast March they took pos.
session of the Starbuck ranch.
Ono Clue to Motive.
Frequent quarrels between the Ken
lalls and the owner of the land arc
known to have occurred. Mrs. Starbuck
frequently had gone into court seeking
niunctions to prevent the sale of her
i've stock and had asserted, it is said
ler intention to oust the tenants from
,hc place.
Regarding the missing Japanese, Mrs.
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