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Show NO LIGHT ON TRAGEDY. Auburn Horror Is as Groat a Mystery as Ever. AUBURN, Cal., Nov. 12 Nothing new of Importance has thus far been developed by the Coroner's Investigation Investiga-tion of the Weber tragedy. Adolph Weber, the surviving member of the family, testified that his father got very angry when crossed and had often said serious things, but was over his , anger In a few minutes, There had been no quarrel on the day or evening of the murders. When In San Francisco Fran-cisco this summer his mother and his father had a dispute, In which the mother asked for a division of the property. Nothing was said further, and the matter was dropped. To offset the murder and suicide theory, the-ory, the bullet wound in Mr. Weber's body took a downward course, which would indicate that it was not fired by himself. The 32-callber pistol with which the victims were killed has not yet been found. Other witnesses testified that the elder Weber had a violent temper. Mrs. Potter, a neighbor, testified that she saw two women in the window upstairs up-stairs in the room above the kitchen in the Weber house, and heard them scream, "Save me, for God's sake, save me." Her father-in-law says he heard the same words. This was after the fire alarm had been turned in. Adolph Weber was arrested tonight on the chargo of murder. |