Tinnin

While walking home from a theater in the Ingleside district, San Francisco, about 10 o’clock at night, a Mr. and Mrs. Louw found the lifeless body of an elderly woman lying in the street close to the curb on Kenwood Way, near the junction of Fairfield Way. Just before finding the body their attention was attracted by the erratic manner in which a big automobile was being driven in the vicinity, and it was believed at first that the woman had been struck and killed by the automobile while she was attempting to cross the street; but subsequent investigation by the police proved her identity to be Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes, and that she had been murdered in the garage of her home about a block distant from the junction of said streets and her body then placed in said automobile, driven to the location where it was found, and cast into the street in a position to simulate a traffic accident. Approximately five weeks later Albert Tinnin, Frank J. Egan and Verne Doran were charged jointly by indictment with having committed the crime. They demanded separate trials, and a severance was granted as to Doran, but denied as to T-innin and Egan; and upon trial the latter two were found guilty…