Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-25
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Mexican, in a cheap lodging house
there on Saturday night.
They are working on the theory that
the suicide was Charlie. A. Pesenti
proprietor of the Corte Maderat hotel,
where the suspect Known as "Smithy"
formerly stopped and where a bit of
cloth containing rude outlines of a
building and of San Francisco was
found Sunday by a deputy sheriff of
Marin county. Pesenti disappeared
from Corte MADEIRA some time ago.
The man who is believed to have COM
mitted suicide at Modesto was found
dead with a bullet wound in the head.
There were no papers on the body by
which it could be identified. He was
about six feet tall, of dark complexion,
with high cheek bones and black hair.
His age was about 35 years. His hat
and shoes had been purchased in San
Francisco.
The local detectives say that the
description of the suicide does not an
swer well that of Pesenti, and are also
inclined to believe that the hotel
keeper established an alibi before
leaving Corte MADEIRA.
SUSPECTS NOT ON VESSELS
Both clews regarding the suspects
being on vessels bound for Mexico and
Australia seem to have fizzled out.
All of the vessels which were being
watched for at Mexican coast towns
have touched port, and the fact that
no arrests have been reported to the
state department at Washington is
taken to indicate that suspicious per-
sonages were not found aboard them.
The only vessel that has sailed for
Australia from Pacific coast ports Is
reported to have had no passengers on
board.
Locally the police have confined their
efforts to locating persons with whom
Schmidt, Caplan and Bryson were
acquainted in this city. A number of
such persons have been located but
the police refuse to dfvulge their
names.
Detective Burns is still securing
Portland and vicinity in an effort to
locate Caplan, who formerly lived in
Portland, and who is thoroughly ac
quainted with the northern country.
One of the new theories of the police
is that the three suspects hid in the
vicinity of San Francisco until as late
as October 12, and that they then used
Caplan's knowledge of the country,
gained while peddling, to go overland
toward the north. Two different per-
sons claim to have seen Schmidt at
Corte MADEIRA as late as October IL,
and the three suspects are said to have
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GRAND JURY WILL MEET TODAY
Subpoenas were yesterday served on
twenty-five of the thirty men whose
names were drawn last Friday as
members of the grand jury which will
be impaneled at 10 o'clock this morn
ing by Judge Bordwell, but court Of
ficlals failed to serve the summonses
upon five, four Of whom they could not
even locate.
The five upon whom service could
not be made are. J. e. Jenison of
Downey, who is in Tulare county on
a business trip, and the other four,
who could not be found at all, are Ben
iamin Kohlmeier of Los Angeles, e.
A. Lloyd of Long Beach, ]. Swigart of
Norwalk and w. 1. Reese of Los An
geles. All of the others have been
duly served and are expected to be on
hand at the appointed time.
From the remaining twenty-five, 1t
is hoped that nineteen, the required
number, will be qualified. For their
use the office of the probation officials,
on the fourth floor of the courthouse,
adjoining Judge BordwelPs courtroom,
has been temporarily vacated by its
usual occupants and placed in read
mess for the grand jurors, whose prin-
cipal duty is said to be an inVestiga-
ton into the Times disaster.