Popular.com

Pleasanton, California, December 13th, 1911.

Out near a broken rail fence and a clump of trees on a peaceful Pleasanton roadside,

Attorney George F. Witter of Oakland expects to find evidence of the murder of a 14-year-old girl.

He expects to find a grave, and in it the hastily buried remains of the child.

With this discovery, he says, an autopsy in the confession of a man now dead, which he has

locked up in his office, will complete the evidence of murder.

Witter says he is proceeding upon the dying statement of John Amador, a pioneer resident of Pleasanton,

made two years ago. The statement is declared to set forth that Amador assisted in the burial of the

body. Witter obtained it from Mary Amador, the widow, who became his client last spring.

Quote,

Unless I am greatly mistaken, the murder of a 14-year-old orphan girl will be revealed when we come to examine that pleasant and countryside.

I have been at work on the case for more than two months, and have put much work upon it. From the evidence I have been at work on the case for more than two months and have put much work upon it. From the

evidence I have obtained, it would seem that the girl fell into the hands of a party of evil

men and women. They took advantage of her plight, and, well, one evening she died under more than

suspicious circumstances and was buried on the roadside.

Just now I am not in a position to make much of a statement. My case is not fully matured, and if I said

too much, I am afraid that some of my evidence would be jeopardized. I expect to begin the search

for the grave any day now. In fact, I'd

hoped to have had it made before this day." Unquote.

Witter defended Mrs. Amador in the Superior Court on a charge of disturbing the peace

and obtained her acquittal after she had been sentenced to serve 30 days in jail by a

...