Fuller

The defendant, Albert Fuller, was convicted in the Superior Court of the County of Madera, of first degree murder. The jury did not relieve him of the extreme penalty of the law and his punishment being fixed in such cases by the law, the cpurt accordingly sentenced him to suffer the death penalty. The person murdered was J. W. Kipp, commonly known in the section wherein he resided as “Jim” Kipp. The crime was committed October 8, 1931. Kipp’s father was of the white blood and his mother was a California Indian. He was forty-eight years of age at the time he met his death by drowning in a mine shaft and had many years prior thereto suffered the loss of his right leg. By trade he was a shoe repairer. He used a crutch to assist him in locomotion. It seems that the deceased had spent the most, if not his entire life, in the county of Fresno and counties contiguous thereto and had been somewhat successful in his business, which, primarily, was that of conducting a shoe repairing business. His disappearance from the locality in which he resided under unusual circumstances caused a search to be organized which resulted in the discovery of his body on October 15, 1931, in a mine shaft of…