Evening star., 1949-07-05
Mystery Man Hunted
In Attack on Woman
And Double Staying
Ax fha Assacinisd RrAxs

SONOMA, Calf. July 5.-A
nearly nude woman ran down a
mountain road and incoherently
aobbed out a story of rape and
violent death in a mountain home
in Jack Londons idyllic Valley Of
the Moon.
A picnic party she reached in
her wild flight yesterday called
officers, who found two men dead
inside the home. They began a
search for a mystery man she
knew only as Hank"
The two dead MN evidently
had been dubbed with a 4-pound
stone pestle once used by Indians
to grind grain. 1t was found,
bloody and covered, outside
the house.
Andy Johansen, chief criminal
Investigator of the Sheriff's office,
identified the victims as Peter J.
Jensen, 55, owner of the house
and chief landscape gardener OF
the Sonoma State Home, and
Peter J. Flint. 81, newly COM
missioned merchant marine lieu
tenant of Richmond, Calf.
Driving Victims Auto.
Mr.. Flint. member of Sonoma
Valley family which dated from
the days of 1s49, was reported to
be a longtime friend OF Mr.
Jensen.
Officers issued an all-points
bulletin for the mystery man. He
last was seen driving Mr.. Flint's
l941 Buick convertible.
In a serious. but apparently not
critical condition in a hospital
here was Mrs. Eva Paget oi
Berkeley, Calf, 27- year ole
mother of two children. Hei
story led officers to the slayings.
Two San Francisco picknickers
Constance Hoover and Margaret
Smith, told police Mrs. Paget
wearing only a T-shirt and bleed
ing from severe blows. came on
them and Historically told OF the
attack on her.
They rushed her to Boyes
Springs. from where a highway
patrol car took her to the hos
pital here.
Mrs. Paget is the wife OF
service man. but they are separa-
ted and her husband now is some
where In the East, family men,
bers said.
Was Tied to Tree.
Sheriff's deputies said she told
this story:
She was vacationing with her
children at Londonside. about 5
miles from Jensen's home in the
Trinitt Mountains, about As miles
north of San Francisco. Sunday
night, she met Mr.. Flint, whom
she had known eight or nine
years, and he introduced to her
a man she was to know only as
Hank"
Hank" came to her in Mr.
Flint's car yesterday morning. told
her Mr.. Flint had broken his arm
and asked thatsh go with him to
the Jensen cabin.
On the front steps. the man
struck her over the head. Declar-
ing, 'you know what I want" he
dragged her into the back yard
and attacked her. Then he tied
her to a tree with a belt. a towel
and a pair of trousers.
Afterwards, . he entered the
house, changed his bloodstained
clothes for others and left.
Bodies F~1nd in Beds.
Finally freeing herself, she en-
tered the house and found blood
shattered over the floor and the
two bodies beneath sheets In beds
in different rooms. She ran Tor
help.
Sheriff's deputies found the un-
clothed bodies of the victims, each
covered by sheet. In the back
yard they found the stone pestle
and evidences corroborating Mrs
Paget's story of being tied to the
tree.
Inside the home was a bizarre
assortment of tapestries, china
ware. Chinese art, and embroidery
indicative of Mr.. JenSen's hobby
of collecting. That hobby appar-
emily explained the presence OF
the pestle among his souvenirs.
Mr.. Jensen was veteran OF the
World War I and had held office
In the local post Of the American
Legion.
At Richmond. the family with
whom Mr.. Flint stayed, said he
and q male companion had left
there Friday evening to spend the
week end with Mr.. Jensen and
help him do some work around his
place.
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