Show WOMA S U 1 D IS lr 1111 clothing b found by dog under Building Police make bake an arrest san francisco august 30 the badly decomposed body of mrs alice L I 1 donahue of 1266 second street oakland who disappeared from her homo home june 11 last was found today in the vicinity of her home gus cus ahlsted has bar been arrested by tae police on the charge of murder the developments in this mysterious case came today after a twenty tour four hours search which was initiated by the finding of some pome of the womans comans clothing under tinder the western furniture companas comp anys factory on sixty fourth street near the bay in Emer emeryville the clothing was found by the merest chance A dog owned by frank walsh crawled under tinder the building and in digging away the ground that the dog mil might more easily come out walsh found a white knit shawl he at once noti notified fled the superintendent of th the e factory and further search brought forth f ort h a waist under tinder waist corset cover and anci a womans comans hat near them was found a shovel covered with clay the clothing was afterward identified as that of mrs donohue and a search was then begun by the police for the body which it was thought was burled buried near by mrs donahue was avas a prominent fraternal woman about 40 years of age and was in poor health the evidence upon which alletea was arrested consisted of a brooch lr in his possession which he claimed to have found in a neighbors yard the police also assert that ahlsted had offered several possible explanations of the womans comans disappearance long before her body was found it is now thought that mrs don donahue ahue was murdered on the night of her disappearance from home the body was found today within ten feet of where the clothing was discovered yesterday and ancl within two blocks of the womans comans residence according to the narrative of witnesses the body was found through directions of a spiritualistic medium who went to the factory and standing under the eaves raised her hands and declared that the body lay under tinder her feet on the edge of the marsh marah A boy seized a spade and began digging in the ooze going down two feet he uncovered the body which lay doubled up is as it if hastily bram brammel med in its resting place it was covered with a red ki moritt and some under tinder garments A peculiar coincidence was the fact that the boy who uncovered the body was war the owner of the dog which led to the finding of the womans comans clothing yesterday |