Show SKETCH OF ALLEGED CRIME ORIME OF 01 GOHL Wash May fa 1 William William Cohl Gohl is Js charged with murder In th the first degree d ree In irr connection with sith the death on onor onor onor or or about December r 21 of or i Hadberg or or Gobi's Gobis name annie is IR also aJeo connected with T the slayIng or of John Julia Hoffman Horrman In sworn confession ont pC of pf one a sailor who is Is' also under arn arrest st in jn In connection with the crimes hoffman n and were jacks of all nit trades about Aberdeen Gohl Cohl fur for several years cars prior to his was wat u agent nt for fOI the sailors sailors' union in lri Aberdeen 1 To gain aln an of tho the lion n. n which ap app b Io 10 have ha len led Jup to the thc d i eath of Hoffman R It i Is go back bacr th the of t In th the nc waters watT around A Aber- Aber rd r- r d It Ic ap PP a on or tiC floater f tl t. t to his Ia aggregation of or drowned I This floater fled flent composed d of ot sailors in ill most moat cases na was generally to lo have hap b hern en an men n who had hari been rm Plugged or ur drugged s-ed s or shot and robbed In th the nu nu- cl which Infest t d tho the water waterfront 81 r front or of lie city amid afterward a thrown thron in time HIP WIshkah river rhet Tit Timi tried to the re- re for or these mysterious deaths hut thy could obtain l evi wJ-j wJ dence They did i however virtually h wipe out of existence the colony of ot dives es The finding of m m dead men ceased with the closing of or the dives About a year afterward Ma Mayor or Bonn Bean ot of A was Was as s sojourning J at Green IVi rn r Hot ri Springs s near ear Seattle Annin Another Another An- An other nin ot of the guc guests was an Aberdeen n so- so loon 1 keeper This Ihs man In Ina a burst of ot confidence Benn Denn alleges told him that he heM heW knew W ei enough ugh about Billy Gohl to send semI him uInI M to the gallows B Benn nn associated the he reference to Go Gohl with v the time floater fleet and when he returned re- re turned d to A benle n quIetly Instituted an i iou Gobis Gobi's Intimate Confesses Henn with the assistance of George S S. Ph Dc- Dc the l ll chief f ot of Vf police P patiently t pursued Investigations ln for fOI over a year vear without with with- out obtaining evidence e sufficient to to- base ba B II prosecution larl Early this year however however they th gained the r confidence n d ic of a former Cormer Intimate of Gohl who ho 10 rG goes gocs by tho the name or of r Billy Biily Rm UI Montana 1 Ma Mayor or OI Benn Bena and 1 f Dean a as ei t that Montana told toM them Gohl Cold had a short holt time Ume previously foul told him that hadberg had berg had an aim anchor for tor a x pillow at tho the mouth of oC Indian creek Iso Also that Gohl had said sald that Hoffman had been heen put out of business and that Klingenberg had h helped l d to do it it Sea Soa ich h confirmed Mont Montana's na ro revelations Igar regarding ln ng Hadberg III Ills His revelations also aIM caused surveillance of ot who ho was on a schooner r bound for 01 Santa Ro- Ro jalla Mex 1 ox Th The muter master i ter of this craft was vas aHk asked d by telegraph to bring Klingenberg back k to Aberdeen which he did and the tho sailor Janor was Rn broke down un under tinder f 1 the questioning of the Ah Aberdeen police officials of ot- and made JORde a sworn sorn statement to Attorney Campbell which In averted that Gohl Johi had shot hot Hoffman and amid sunk hi his b body d In the Wishkah Wish Wish- kah leah and that und under I fear r of or death at Gohll hands and at Gobi's Gobis command himself had shot hot Hadberg rg to loath den th and nd that tha 1 tho the bod body had be been sunk stink with a found fifty anchor at the mouth of Indian creek rp k The arrest of Gohl oll was WaR followed ed b bv by a n trem tremendous reign of or terror In Ab Aberdeen Persons Persona who vho had been beep active r In iii Iho the In In- In received cd anonymous anonymous- letters nI threatening th them m and their families with death Citizens were followed on tho the streets b by unknown men and t few w had time the temerity to venture forth after atler dark and th then n only whom when guarded ti Fearing violence against Gohl tho the authorities au au- au- au a cJ day y or 01 two after his wire arrest moved him to J Montesano mno the county seat scat where here ho hos has lias since remained In Jail iG Is a pleasant Peasant Uj appearing fellow t highly educated of quick wit anti and ab atMo- atMo o- o fearless He lie f is well road read in fn law and previous to h his hiE arrest said he in intended in- in tended d' d to go to Germany to finish his law course Since his Incarceration Gohl haw has studied low law almost continuously and will It Is stated take an active part In the conduct of or his own defense |