Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-30
CHANGES WIDOW
DEMANDS JUSTICE
IF Ny Husband Was Slain.'
She Says, Let Guilty
Be Punished
CLOTHING HOLDS SECRET
Friends of Dead Man to Make
Exhaustive Search for the
Missing Garments

missing GarmentS
IBy Latest Mail from San Francisco
IF my husband was murdered as
the evidence DOW. seems to Indicate.
then | viii do everything IN my power
to aid The officers of the law to find
and punish the slayers."
This was the statement made by
MrslJ Jeremiah Changes, last night after
her return from Redwood City, where
she had spent the day in conference
with Sheriff Mansfield of San Mateol
county. The sheriff had sent for
Mrs. Changes. believing that She
might be able to throw new light on
the puzzling case Of the wealthy res
tanrateur whose body, with skull frac.
tured and with bullet and knife
wounds in the body. was found on the
ocean beach near Tobin, August LIST.
At Sheriff Mahsfield's request. Mrs.
Changes took with her to Redwood
City a suit of her husbands under
wear. similar to the bullet-pierced I'M
dershirt which was found on the ocean,
beach last Friday by Detective Ser
geant James T. Gallagher Of San
francisco and Constable William Cor.
man Of Tobin.
ST had thought" said Mrs, Changes
that my husband committed suicide
But since the discovery of the shirt
with the bullet. hole lin it. and the
production OF the business letter post.
ed by Mr.. Changes after he left. our
apartment on July 28th. 1t seems more
iprohabie that he was murdered. II
only they can find the balance of his
clothing Ibis outer shirt and his vest
and coat the manner of. his death
will be concIusiyely shown. II there
|is; q bullet hole through the outer gar
Ements, then it will appear certain that
he was. murdered. for Coroner Plymire
has said that the bullet wound caused
almost instant death. -, s.Ss
Inquiry by Detective Gallagher has
shown that it, was not probable that
Changes had any considerable amount
of money OF jewelry in his possession
at the time of his disappearance, AT:
various times he had been seen to
wear diamond horseshoe stick pin,
a diamond solitaire ring and a gold
watch and chain. Gallagher has
learned the the watch and chain or
a watch and chain-and the. stick pin,
were held by Changes in pledge Of
loans he had made, and that he re-
turned the watch and chain and the
stick pin to their owners sometime
before his disappearance. As to the
diamond ring. Mrs Changes said she
had not seen the ring for nine months
Friends Of Changes say that he had
another gold watch and chain which.
were his own property. but Mrs.
Changes says that is not true that,
aside from the watch and chain
which Changes held in pawn, she new.
er had seen him wear any watch but
a cheap gunmetal watch or a silver
watch.
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Mrs. Changes says, also, that on
the day of her husbands disappear
ance, and Just before he left home,
she asked him for some change"
and he replied that he did not have
any.
Detective Gallagher devoted all Of
yesterday to further canvass OF
the Tobin and Halfmoon Bay districts
in the hope of finding some person
who could say definitely that Chan
COS had been seen at or near Tobin
on or about July %, alone or in com
pany with any other person. Gallag-
her interviewed several persons who
knew Changes, but none had seen
him for weeks.
Changes was quite widely known in
the Tobin district, and the police say
that 1t is not easy to explain how
Changes could come to Tobin and bo
slain as he was, without coming un-
der the notice of one or more of his
friends. or acquaintance. Detective
Gallagher says that it is possible that
Changes did not stop at Tobin on
July 2Ss but left the train from San
Francisco at a station either north or
south of Tobin
Today many friends of Changes are
expected to engage in voluntary
search of the coast line for several
miles either side of Tobin, in the
hope of recovering the balance OF
Changes missing clothing. II any of
Changes garments should be discoy-
sered at remote distance from the
place where his body was found, it
might tend to show that Changes was
slain and thrown into the ocean at a
point far removed from Tobin.