THREE SANGUINARY OCCURRENCES IN SAN FRANCISCO IN ONE DAY.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 5, 3 November 1877, Page 3

THREE SANGUINARY OCCURRENCES IN SAN FRANCISCO IN ONE DAY.

(Fiotn the " Weekly Chronicle.") Sunday, 17th June, appeal's to have ushered in the season of blood and crime with which the city lias been regularly visited, there being no less than three occurrences of a more than ordinarily vicious character, the victims in two rases having been hurried into eternity. I'l regular Chinese murder occurred, md at the inquest held on Holiday afternoon, on the body of the murdered man, Wang Ah Pong, a verdict of manslaughter wits found against Ah Chung, and Ah Chang, two men who were arrested on the information of Ah Wan. The informant, Ah Wan, swore positively to the prisoners as participants in the (•rime. The two other men have not yet been arrested. The cause of the coldblooded murder is said to exist in the following incident: —As officers Duffield, and Armager were standing on the corner of Montgomery and Jacksonstreets, on Friday last, the deceased ran up and told them that there were five Chinamen armed in a room on the •corner of Kearney and Jackson-streets, and also that ammunition was stored in the building. The officers, accompanied by the deceased, visited the locality, and found the men, bnt on the closest search, could not discover any arms upon them, or in the room. This produced an illfeeling against the deceased, and it was thought that he was spying upon his countrymen, and at the same time many threats were made, which have been carried into effect. About noon, the Cassias Hotel at the Potrero was the scene of a bloody encounter, which terminated in the death of one of the participants. The attention of the proprietor, who was in the dining-room at the time, was arrested by it noise in the kitchen adjoining. Upon opening the door connecting the rooms lie saw his cook engaged inascnlile with another man. He separated them and took the man down stain to the barroom, when it was discovered that he

as cut in the right side near the liver, and upon being questioned he stated that the cook had done it. A surgeon was .summoned to attend the wounded man, but medical skill could not save him,and in leu than one hour after he had received tho wound he died. John Oiks, the deoeascd, was n single man, Hlxiut 90 years of age, a painter by trade, and a iwtive of New !.j.\ Frank i;;!.,i,

the cixik, was arretted by local offieet Brans, tu whom he acknowledged the stabbing. The excitement occasioned by (he news of the murders mentioned above, had hardly <li• -• 1 away in the city Hall when ■ report was brought down or an attempt to murder a courtesan In n house in Waverley-plaee by lier jealous lover. The affair occurred in the house Nos. I lii and lis, Waverley-plaee, where the intended victim, Mary Thompson, has been living for some time. The wouldbe murderer is a young German, named Frank P. Smith, who has been living with the girl for some months. Recently he conceived the idea that the object of liis affection was untrue to him. and being of an insanely jealous character he determined to kill her. Sunday afternoon about half-past - o'clock, he entered the house and engaged in a conversation with her. She was seated by a window, with her head resting on her hand. Another inmate of the house named May Ohlmeyer was also seated in the room engaged at a sewing-machine, but being busy, she did not hear the conversation between them. Suddenly the man drew a revolver, and presenting it at the girl, pulled the trigger. The shot passed through a window screen, narrowly escaping the head of the girl at whom it was fired. The second shot, fired almost immediately, took effect, however, striking her in the mouth and knocking out two teeth in its passage inwards. He then put the pistol, which he held all the time in his left hand—his right hand lieing crippled—to the left side of his head, above and a little behind the ear, and tired. The hall entered, and, it is thought, ranged downward. Officer Kellman was attracted by the reports of the revolver, and hastening to the house, found the man lying on the tloor in a pool of blood, and the woman in an adjoining room. They were both conveyed to the City Prison Hospital, where they were attended by the Prison surgeon. The ball was easily extracted from the lower jaw of the woman, and the wound found to be of a painful though not serious character. It is impossible to tell the exact nature of the man's wound, | and it is impossible that it is more dangerous than present appearances indicate.