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...Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...
Meantime, Mrs. Liggett positively identified a liquor dealer named Isadore Blumenfield ("Kid Cann") as the man who killed her husband. As she sat in the family car, said Mrs. Liggett, she had seen Kid Cann lean out of a passing automobile and fire the fatal shots. At Kid Cann's trial, which began late in January, a second witness also identified him as the killer. This witness, who was in the alley behind the Liggett apartment, said he recognized Kid Cann because they had served time together in the local workhouse...
...Cann had witnesses, too. These definitely placed him in a chair at the Artistic Barber Shop, far from the scene of the crime, well before 5:41 p.m. and long after. When his case went to a jury of eight men and four women last week, they promptly returned a verdict of not guilty...
Following members of the Elephant squad will make the trip: William H. Cann '37. William T. dean, Jr. '37, George Dodge, 2nd '37, Kenneth B. Hodson '37, George D. Leonard '37, John J. G. McCue '36, Robert M. Meyers '38, George W. Oettle '36, Thomas Paull '36, William F. Read, 3rd '37, and Benjamin Welles...
Eliot's string of victories may be attributed to a well balanced team, to point-pickers Cann, a diver, and Dodge, a breast-stroker, and to relayers Leonard, Cann, Welles, and Dodge...