The San Francisco call., 1910-08-04
Officials Begin Search for EnOcfi
Kendall, Wife and Son,
Whose Home Was
Found Empty
SURGEON TO EXAMINE
BONES FOUND IN FIRE
Woman Who Owns Place Says
Vanished Tenants Are Not
Murdered, but Are
Fugitives
JAPANESE is SEEN -
WITH WHITE MANS DOG
ISeeeial Dispateh 10 The Cain

lCAzADERO, Aug 3-Enoch Ken
~ dali, IRA, his wife, and Thomas
! A. Kendall, his son. have disap-
peared from their leased ranch, three
miles north of Cazadero, and Sheriff
Jack Smith. Assistant District Attor-
ney George Hyde and posse, searching
the house and it's vicinity for hours
today, cosld find no trace of the three
nor evidence that they had left their
home Intentionally.
| What the authorities did learn was
that the Kendall's who farn. the ranch
on leasehold from Mrs. Mars1ret Star
buck, wife of an architect of Oak
land. have had bitter litigation with
the owner, and but recently have won
an injunction instituted by Mrs.
Starbuck to epjoin Thomas Kendall
and his parents from disposing of
stock on the ranch.
Furthermore it was learned that
some Japanese have been employed
Internationally by Mrs. Starbuck on an
adjoinin gtract. These japanese were
known to be loyal to Mrs. Starbuck.
One in particular, J. Mayeda, said to
be a graduate dentist, who lives in
Oakland, has been seen in the vicinity
recently and about the time of the
Kendalls' first disappearance. A Jap
anese was seen on the county road be-
tween Kendall's place and Cazadero,
walking toward town, followed BY Ken
dalls dog.
Bones in Fire
In the first place Sheriff Smith and
Hoyle are baf1ed by the fact that as
yet no crime has been discovered. To-
day the search for the Kendalls was
started in earnest. Smith and HoyIe
came over from Santa Rosa and were
Joined by Deputy Sheriff S. W. steven
son and Z. Tresper, justice of the peace,
and others. In the vegetable garden
near the house was found the remains
OF fire, in which were many charred
bones and buttons and buckles of over
| alls. One of the bones retaining it's
shape was jawbone with a few teeth
remaining. Sheriff Smith is under the.
impression that it is the bone of a deer.
The KendalIs had recently killed a deer
and the hair and hide and meat were
found on the porch. Assistant District
Attorney Hoyle took the bones back to
Santa Rosa this evening to have them
examined BY a surgeon. Other bones
are thought possibly to be knuckIe-
| bones.
There are no blood stains about the
house and no signs of a struggle. The
two men might have been anbusbed
and killed away from the house, but it
is thought that the woman would not
have been far at least
Horse Tied i'm Barn
1t has been argued that the Ken
dalls left their home suddenly, taking
no vehicle nor any of their better
clothing, the woman not even wearing
her hair switch, and went to the home
they had in Fruitvale or to Mrs. Ken
dalrs sister in Oakland or somewhere
else. But if that We're done the men.
who were known to be careful farmers.
would not have left one of their horses
tied in the barn without water. and
Mrs Kendall. known as neat house
keeper. would not have left the dishes
unwashed and a quarter OF venison to
spoil on the kitchen table.
| The family disappeared between Sat
urday. July 23. and the following Mon
day. On that Saturday Thomas Ken
dali was in Cazadero and was seen by
4 friends here. Mrs Kendall had been
staying with Mrs. Trosper, wife OF JUS
tice of the Peace Trosper. a neighbor,
and was to have returned there on the
| following Monday She did not appear.
! On Monday j. E. Cross of San Fran
cisco came to Cazadero to keep an ap-
| pointment with Thomas Kendall on a
real estate. transaction Kendall did
not appear at the railroad station, al
though he had always been known as a
man who kept his engagements.
! en- Monday. July %. Newton j. Gri-
der, livery and hotal man Of Caz4-