w ho
being taken into custody. No one/had seen thepair together could
definitely identify Alcalde, but the similarity between the deaths
of Bernice Carter and Kathleen Robinson was so great that officers
were certain that they had the right man, A close check of his
automobile, revealed specks of blood of the same type as Miss Carter,
@ne of her fingerprints was found on the mirror in his car. The
clincher was the fact that his tires exactly matched the plaster
casts that were made of the car that was parked near the scene of
the crime, Alcalde never confessed, but it was believed that he
and Miss Garter had quarreled in the automobile and that he beat
her while he was drivang. She had leaped from the car and ran into
the field and he followed, bludgeoning her with some blunt instru-
ment which was SESKAHX# believed to be his car jack as it was not
located in the automobile. He used the same attorney who had been
successful in his acquittal for the murder of Kathleen, Robinson, but
he was found guilty of the slaying of Bernice Carter, Alcalde went
to his death ih San Q uentin's gas chamber on MAREKXIRZOM August
18, 19h.
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being taken into custody. No one/had seen thepair together could
definitely identify Alcalde, but the similarity between the deathm
of Bernice Carter and Kathleen Robinson was so great that officers
were certain that they had the right man. A close check of his
automobile, revealed specks of blood of the same type as Miss Carter,
One of her fingerprints was found on the mirror in his car. The
clincher was the fact that his tires exactly matched the plaster
casts that were made of the car that was parked near the scene of
the crime. Alcalde never confessed, but it was believed that he
and Miss Garter had quarreled in the automobile and that he beat
her while he was driving. She had leaped from the car and ran into
the field and he followed, bludgeoning her with some blunt instru-
ment which was $ESKAKX# believed to be his car jack as it was not
located in the automobile. He used the same attorney who had been
successful in his acquittal for the murder of Kathleen, Robinson, but
he was found guilty of the slaying of Bernice Carter. Alcalde went
to his death ih San Q uentin's gas chamber on MAKEKXTBHOD August
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Alcalde, a 29-year-old South City, California shipyard worker had been
charged with the 1935 murder of his girl friend, Kathleen Robinson who
he had dated the night of the murder and whose body was found on a road
outside San Mateo. On the KAGNEXSXXNSEIXRI morning of Nov. 2, 1942,
the body of Bernice Curtis, a well-to-do woman who had moved to San
Francisco from her native Chicago a year earlier, was found in a field
out from San Jose, She had been brutally beaten over the head, andy
from the trail of blood and evidence of a car's having come. to a rapid
halt, it was believed that she had originally been attacked in an auto-
mobile from which she had leaped. The killer had evidently followed
her-as she crawled into the field and beaten her to death with a blunt
instrument. Her room mate stated that she had left San Francisco on
the. 22nd to keep a date with a man known only as Frank with whom she
was infatuated. The owner of a San Jose motel identified her picture
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having seen a 1935 model automobile parked by the side of the road.
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matching the eee ouien of the one seen, and this resulted in Alcalde
ALCALDE, Florencio (Frank)
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charged with the 1935 murder of his girl friend, Kathleen Robinson who
he had dated the night of the murder and whose body was found on a road
outside San Mateo. On the KAQMEXSKXNSEZXYS morning of Nov. 2h, 1942,
the body of Bernice Curtis, a well-to-do woman who had moved to San
Francisco from her native Chicago a year earlier, was found in a field
out from San Jose, She had been brutally beaten over the head, andy
from the trail of blood and evidence of a car's having come. to a rapid
halt, it was believed that she had originally been attacked in an aute-
mobile from which she had leaped. The killer had evidently followed
her-as she crawled into the field and beaten her to death with a blunt
instrument. Her room mate stated that she had left San Francisco on
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