The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1896, Page 14

14 THE SA EDWARD T, HICKS KILLED BY J. A, MITCRELL The Fatal Bullet Pierced the Young Detective’s Heart. He Had Predicted That He Would Soon Die a Violent Death. BAD DEBTS THE CAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY. A Woman Claiming to Be the De- ceased’s Widow Causes an Exciting Scene. Joseph A. Mitchell, a young attorney, shot Private Detective E. T. Hi through the’ heart in’the building 927 Market street yesterday afternoon. Mitchell ana his partner Joan F. Mul- len, ocenpy room 610 on the sixth floor of the building, and Hicks occupied a room in the rear, the two rooms communicating with each other. Mitchell and Hicks had business dealings, the former attending to any legal matters that arose from the de- tective's clients. Hicks had a grievance against Mitchell and had threatened to kill him. Yester- day morning about 10 o’clock Hicks and Mitchell had a quarrel, Hicks using strong language that shocked Mrs. Mason, Mitchell’s stenographer. An hour later Hicks called Mitchell into his room. Hicks closed the door and the window, which had been open. Joseph Silva and another client of Mitchell’s and the stenographer were in his room, Mullen having left a few minutes before. They heard loud and angry voices proceeding from Hicks’ room, Jollowed by noises as if a struggle was go- ingon. ? A. S. Grant, whose room adjoins Hicks’, heard Hicks say, “Let go of my throat,” and Mitchell reply, “No, I won’t.” Then he heara a gurgling sound, and quietness followed. s Mitchell came out of Hicks’ room with his face covered with blood. He said Hicks had struck him with bruss knuckles. There was a cut and a big lump over his right eye and a long cut on his forehead. Mitcheli made the remark to Silva, “T'll advertise him well for this. I'll have him arrested.” Silva asked him what Hicks had done with the brass knuckles and Mitchel: repliea that he had put them in his pocket. Hicks left his room by a side entrance and Mitchell washed the blood from his face and hands in the lavatory. The wall of Hicks’ room near the door leading into the attorney’s room and the wainscoting were spotted with blood and there wasa pool of blood on the floor where Mitchell had been standing when struck by Hicks. Mitchell left his office in a few moments 1o go to a doctor to get ‘the wounds on his face stitched and dressed. As the elevator reached the ground floor Hicks was stand- ing there waiting for it to go back to his offices. As Mitchell stepped out of the elevator, C. K. Farnham, who rans the elevator, heard Hicks say to Mitchell, “You can have some more if you want it.’”’ Mitchell made no reply, but walked away. Hicks' shirt front was marked with blood, and cne side of his coat was covered with ust. About 20 minutes past 2 o’clock Mitchell and Hicks were alone in the office. The quarrel of the morning was renewed, but Mitchell had armed himseif with a re- volver. They both came out into the cor- ridor, Mitchell ahead. Mitchell wheeled round, and, just as Hicks stepped out of the door, he tired a shot at him. Hicks mechanically ducked his head, and the bullet passed through his hat and lodged in the jamb of the door, close to the wall. J. B. Warren, who occupies room 614, d tne shot and opened his door. cks was facing Mitchell, who was stand- ing near the elevator with the revolver in his hand, and as Warren looked out Hicks backed toward him. Just then Mitchell fired another shot and Hicks uttered a yell of pain. The builet bad taken effect. As Hicks staggered toward Warren’s door Warren closed it as he was in almost the direct line of fire and at that moment Mitchell fired the third shot, the bullet missing Hicks and striking the marble facing on the walls. He was preparing to fire again when Hicks threw up his hands and fell on his face. In falling his right hand struck the glass in Warren’s door and shattered.it in pieces. Dr. G. L. ritch, the occupant of room 618, heard the shots and when he opened his door he_saw Hicks prostrate on the floor. He ran to him and saw blood issu- ing from his mouth. He turned him ‘on his back. felt his pulse and found that life was extinct. . T. McCrossen and General Fried- rich heard the shots and. saw Mitchell looking at Hicks with the revolver in his hand. Mitchell walked downstairs, and McCrossen followed him. Mitchell had nearly reached Fifth street when Mec- Crossen met Policeman James Cook and told him to arrest Mitchel: for shooting Hicks. Cook arrested Mitchell, and 'he quietly pulled the revolver out of his pocket and handed it to Cook. It is a 38-caliber, and three chambers were empty. Cook took Mitchell back to the build- ing and left him in an office on the ground & NEW TO-DAY. [redBrowp’s ) damnaica (inger A bottle at hand and a dose in time has saved thousands of people from thousands of “‘sick-spells.” This preparation is no secret. It is to-day what it was 75 years ago—the best preparation of gin- ger it is possible for man to make. Itis made by the FRED BROWN CO., Philadelphia. " Ask for it at your druggists. Remember e rule~4 pottle at hand and a dose time, floor in charge of Policeman Muliin while he went to the sixth floor to investigate. He telephoned to the Coroner, and after getting the names of witnesses took Mitchell in the patrol wagon to the City Prison, where he was booked on a charge of murder. Mitchell was greatly excited and nervous, and refused to make a state- ment till he felt more composed. A large crowd soon gathered in front of the building and by the time the Morgue wagon arrived it had been largely aug- mented. It soon dispersed after the wagon' left. Word had been sent to police headquar- ters of the murder and Detective Harry Reynolds was detailed on the case. He made a careful search of the roomsaand procared statements from Warren, Grant, Fitch, McCrossen, Friedrich, Farnham, the elevator-boy, and others. J. B. Warren™ said: *I heard the first shot, which seemed to be muffled, and it struck me that it bad been fired in the office. Iopened my door and saw Hicks standing with - his ‘back to the wall close to the door. Mitchell was standing near the elevator facing Hicks and Le had a re- volver in his hand. Hicks walked from the door with his face toward Mitchell and Mitchell fired at him. As I was almost in the direct line of fire, Hicks ap. parently making for my open door, I shut the door. There was another shot and the glass in my door was shattered by Hicks' hand as he fell. When I again opened my door Mitchell was looking at Hicks’ prostrate body and just then he walked toward the stairs.” Dr. Fitch said he was attending to a patient in his inner office when he thought he heard a shot. He stepped into his tront office and listened. “As I listened,” said the doctor, “I heard two shots in quick succcssion, a man crying, ‘Oh! Oh! in agony and the smashing of glass. I opened my door and saw Hicks Iying on the floor on" his face. Blood was coming out of his mouth and I turned him on his back. '1 felt his pulse and the man was dead.” J. A. Beeker, who has a store at 11 Sixth street, called at the Morgue and 1mparted to Coroner Hawkins information which may be of benefit to Mitchell. He claimed to have met Hicks rariier in the day, when the later declared that he intended to kill Mitchell on sight. Hicks, however, refused to tell Beeker the cause of the trouble, merely declaring that he would have Mitchell’s life. According to Mrs. Staunton, landlady of the lodging-house in which Hicks resided, he returned to his lodging for lunch at 11 o’ciock yesterday morning. “Mr. Hicks was greatly excited,” said Mrs. Staunton, *‘and told me that he had been having trouble with Mr. Mitchell over the payment of the office rent. ‘Mr. Mitchell was in arrears for sev- eral weeks' rent and also for a bookcase which he purchased from me," he said. ‘I spoke to Mitchell about the payment of the rent,” continued Mr. Hicks, ‘and he became very angry. He grasped a chair and was about to hurl it at me when I grappled with him and after a short struggle wrenched the chair from him.’ ”’ “I warned my tenant not to have any trouble with Mr. Mitchell,” said Mrs, Staunton, ‘‘and he told me that he would not, but the poor fellow was murdered, nevertheless. Mrs. Stanton, who claims to have been engaged to Hicks, called: at : the but, acting under the advice of Attorney Mullen, he would not make any state- ment as to the real cause of the trouble between him and Hicks. “1 shot him in self-defense,”” he said. “He beat me in the morning with brass knuckles till the blood spurted from my face and you can see on my forehead where he struck me, He tried to renew the assault in the afternoon and followed me gx_n of the office. - That was why I shov im. “Anv one who is acquainted with Hicks will know why he quarreled with me. He quarreled ~with everybody. I don’t care to go_into the immediate cause of his quarrel with me. It will all come out at the pro}i;r time. “I first met Hicks about two years ago in a busivess way, and about eighteen months ago he and I signed the contract for the rooms we occupied. He paid his share of the rent to the agent and I paid mine, so there could not have been any treuble between us as to the rent.”’ Attorney Mullen was non-commun ica- tive wuen spoken to. He hinted that Hicks had been hounding Michell and did all he couid to injure him with his clients. Atiorney P. B. Nagle Jr. spoke highly of Mitchell. “I have known Mitchell,”’ he said, “'since he came to the City. He is a Kentuckian, and when 18 years of age enlisted in the army. He served three years, and then came nere. That was five or six years ago. He studied law in our office and has worked himself up en- tirely through his own exertions. **Mitchell is a quiet, inoffensive young fellow and good hearted. Hicks had been for some reason or other doing every- thing possible to injure Mitchell with his clients. He would take them into his room and say hard things against Mitchell. “Mitchell was on his way to my office when he was arrested. His brother, [*Clement J. Mitchell, is also an attorney in the City.” Hicks came into prominence recently in the Winthrop case. He was employed in hunting.up ‘evidence for Winthrov’s de- fense'and Mitchell was one of Lis wit- nesses. It was reported that Mitchell was not the attorney’s true name and that he as- sumed that name after getting out of some trouble. Mitchell gave a positive denial to both. assertions, saying that Mitchell was his true name and he ‘never was in trouble before. i THE SHADOW OF DEATH. Hicks Had a Presentment That His Life Would End Soon. For several days past Edward Hicks has walked in the shadow of death. The grim specter stalked by his sideand the young man was conscious of the presence. He saw the inverted hour glass in the bony hand and he saw too that the sands of his life were nearly run. This substantiatly is what he told his sister, Mrs. William M. Gregory of 1728 Market street as long ago as last Monday when he called at her home. In speaking of this strange feature of the rtragedy Mrs. Gregory said: : “My brother had a presentiment of his death and_he was mentally prepared for his fate. Last Monday evening Ed came to our house, with some othets, for me to write for him. He was laughing and serious and said to me: ‘Abbie, some- thing tells me that I am not long for this worla. Iknow my time isshort. I have known it for several days and I have put all-of -my-affairs and papers in order in case anything should happen to me.’ FRANCISCO CALL, joking for a while, but suddenly became | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1896. Joseph A. Mitchell and His Pistol. “I never liked that man Mitchell,” re- marked Mrs. Gregory, “and I warned Ed 1o beware of him. My dislike for him came in this way: My husband intro- duced ' me to Mitchell at a time when Mitchell wanted to buy a diamond. and I told my husband thatif the man could not pay my brother for office rent he was a very poor customer for a $100 diamond. Whenever 1 went to the oflice to see my brother Mitchell would speak, but he was | not very pleasant or agreeable in his man- ner. “I went to the office the other evening and asked if my brother had been there, but Mitchell did not look up. I repeated the question and he 1insolently asked who was my brother. A minute later he said that he was not Ed Hicks’ office-boy. I| told Ed about Mitchell’s conduct as we | went to the lodge. My. brother said that the fellow was in a bad mood because he was out of money, and he added, ‘Mitchell must not treat my sister in that way again for I will not stand it.” “It was then that I warned £d not to | trust the man. I felt that he was not my | brother’s friend, but Ed only laughed. Since then Mitchell and I never have spoken. My belief is that he and Ed had a quarrel about the rent and the payment for a bookcase my brother sold to him a {ongrtime ago and which was never paid or. While speaking to a friend in the prison shortly after his arrest Mitchell said: ‘‘Don’t let any woman come to see me, especially Hicks’ sister,as I am afraid she might bring a gun with her and take a shot at me.” Mrs. Gregory said she did not know why Mitchell should think she would try | to kill him. She never had any such in- tentions. Mrs. Gregory said that her brother was- born in Ontario and was 31 years of age. His mother lives in Westminster, B. C. Nine brothers and sisters of the deceased live in various parts of the United States and British Columbia. She is the only one of the family living in this City. Mrs. Gregory stated that she did not know of any engagement between her brother and Mrs. Staunton. She was sure that such was not. the case, as her The Man Who Was Killed and the Place of His Death, Morgue. She said that $10 of the $20 found on Hicks belonged to her, as well as a diamond ring which the dead man wore. Mrs. Stanton lives at 220 Eddy street. Hicks has also had a room there for some time past. C. R. Farnham, the elevator 1nan, said: “This morning, between 11 and 12 o’clock, Mitchell came down the elevator. He had a black eye and his face was swollen and red. As Mitchell left the elevator on the ground floor Hicks stood at the elevator door and made the remark to Mitchell as he left the elevator, ‘You can have some more if you wantit.” Idid not hear Mitch- ell make any reply, and he weant out to the street. Hicks gotin the elevator and went to his office. As Hicks left the elevator I noticed his coat and side were dirty and his shirt covered with blood. I was on the fifth floor ‘at the time of the ghooting and heard Hicks hotlering.’” Mitchell was seen in the City Prison last night. He was calm and collected, “I was alarmed, for I knew that my brother was of a peculiar nature. He could take a sealed letter in his hand and tell in substance what it contained, and many a time he foretol by prophetic power the coming of future events, I told bim that he did not look ill, although at that time he was pale. ‘No, I will not go by sickness,” he answered; ‘I'll go out suddenly and unexpectediy. I cannot tell how.” 1 began to ery, but he put his arm around me and lau:hingly said: ‘Doun’t cry, Abbie. Iam not dead yet.’ Mrs. Gregory is the wife of William M. Gregory, who is with D. J. Reardon, a dealer in diamonds and Aawelry in the Building where the tragedy took piace. She is firmly of the belief that the killing of her brother grew out of Mitchell’s in- debtedness for office rent. In speaking of the probable cause, she said Hlcks had told her Mitchell owed him for office rent, and always seemed annoyed when asked for the money. brother confided to her all of his secrets, and had he intended to marry Mrs. Staun- ton he would no doubt have told her all about the affair. Mrs. Gregory and Mrs. Staunton belong to the same lodge of Rebekabs and are well acquainted, al- though not intimately. | S RA A A ROW AT THE BIER. Alleged Widow of the Deceased Ejected From the Undertak- Ing Parlors. Late in the evening an entirely new de- velopment to the case made itself mani- fest. A woman calling berself Mrs. Hicks and purporting to be the wife of the mur- dered man created an exciting scene at the California Undertaking Parlors, Geary and Stockton streets, where Mr. Hicks' bedy had been removed. - face shows slight traces of age, and her bair is sprinkled with gray. She calied at the undertakers’ parlor about 10 o’clock, accompanied by several friends, and said, “I would like to see the body of my husband.” Mrs. Gregory, sister of the murdered man, was seated 1n the parlor, and when she heard this remark she started to her feet. Sne is a gentle little woman, and not wishing to create a scene called her husband from an adjoining room. Mr. Gregory had seen the alleged Mrs. Hicks before, and took in the situation at a glance. “Mr. Hicks was not a married man,” said Mrs. Gregory, *‘and you cannot see his kody; no, not until you can prove that you are his lawful widow.”” At this the friends of the parported widow bolted from the establishment, but she was not to be “‘deprived oi her rights,” and attempted to force her way into the rgom in which his body was lying. Mrs. Gregory protested, between her sobs, against the woman’s intrusion, and begged her husband not to allow her to enter. Mr. Gregory then told the woman to leave or he would be forced to put her out. In order to give his command weight he produced a policeman’s star, he beinga special officer. The woman made an- other attempt to force herself into the death-chamber, but Mr. Gregory grasped her by the shoulders and ran her into the street. She hurried around to the side entrance and again entered the building, but again Mr. Gregory grasped her. There was a brief strugele, but at the end “Mrs. Hicks” found herself in the street. She looked around for her friends, but found that they had fled at the first alarm of contention. She then took a car and hurried to Cap- tain Lees’ office and placed the matter be- fore him. He heard the woman’s state- ment, but as she could not produce the marriage certificate he told her that he could do nothing for her, and told her to call again in the meorning and he would try to assist her. “Mr. Hicks was my lawful husband,” she raid, after leaving Captain Lees’ office, *“and that Gregory had no right to eject me from the building. Mr. Hicks and I were married in California, never mind where, and for a long time our’ certificate hung on the wall of our rooms, Third and Everett streets. “It was framed, but one day my hus- band, when he was angry (he was so often) took it from the wall. He mashed it into a thousand pieces and threw it into the fire. I am his lawiul widow and will have my rights, I will get even with Gregory in time,” she’con- cluged. and she evidently meant what she said. RACING POSTPONED. The New Oakland Track Not to Upen Until Octo- ber 24. The winter racing season will not open on October 19. Notwithstanding the large force of workmen that have been em- ployed on the California Jockey Club’s new track in Oakland, the officials of that racing organization find themselves cramped for room, and in a letter to the press through Secretary Milroy announce a postponement of the opening of the new course until Saturday, October 24, ranning for a period of but three days, closing on October 27. -The Pacific Coast Jockey Club will then begin “racing over its Ingleside course ‘Wednesday, October 28, ana continue until Saturday, November 14. Thereafter the two clnbs will alternate, racing for a period of .two weeks at each track during the winter season of 1896-97. This will terminaté each meeting on Saturday, giv- ing the horsemen opportunity of moving their horses to and.from the tracks on non-racing days, an arrangement that appears satisfactory to all. : . Secretary W. 8. Leake of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club was in receipt of a tele- gram from Captain Rees, who will act as presiding judge at Ingleside, stating that that popuiar official will start for Califor- nia October 29. The racing string of Barney Schreiber, along with the select few of the Westches- ter stable, arrived at Ingleside track from 8t. Louis yesterday. The stars of the Schreiber stable are' Schiller, Aquinas, Don Carrillo and Sugar Foot. Nothing'can prevent Rilay Grannan, the noted pluhger, speculating on the Califor- nia tracks this winter, even. though he be under the ban of disgrace of the American Jockey Club and unable to obtain ad mis- sion to the tracks under its control. . Such action in this State is precluded by an act of the Legisiature passed on March 23, 1893, which compels places of public amusement to issue tickets to all persons who tender their coin as long as they con- duct themselves with proper decorum. Of course Riley cannot make book, but can canse the cold chills to creep over many a timid bookie as of yore. Harry Kuhls, who will act as clerk of scales at Ingleside, has written the offi- cials of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club that the following well-known horsemen now running at Latonia have signified their intention of coming to San Francisco: Tom Griffin, Smith and Ferguson, Ireland Bros., Andy Godirey, William Donahue, Wallace, George Cochran, Thomas , Byron McClelland, T. W. Couiter, W. M. Roller, McNaughton and. Muir, Charles H. Hughes, L. A. Legg and Frank Frishie. i gl o Third Street—Nolan’s Must Vacate. The Nucieus building to be torn down January 1. Big stock of shoes to be closed | She is a tall, angular woman, whose | out at a great sacrifice. bt - |FOUND DEATH AT THE CHUTES Contractor Bell Fell Head- long From the Scenic Railway. Suddenly Seized With Heart Discase Soon After Leav- ing Home. SKULL AND RIBS CRUSHED. Bell Built the Odd Fellows’' Temp'e and Other Prominent Elifices in the City. Frank C. Bel!, a building contractor in San Francisco for twenty years, was found dead and badly disfigured at 7:55 o’clock yesterday morning under the scenic rajl- way on the Cole-street side of the chutes Ly W. White, an employe of the chutes company. E Early the evening before Mr. Bell left bis home and family, at 1810 Green street, to attend a political meeting downtown. It is not known what meeting he expected to attend or whether he.went there or not, but there is little doubt that he was the third person in a scenic rauway car which started on a spin around the elevated tracks at the chutes about 9:15 o’clock. Percy Field and another boy were the other occupants of the car, being in the front seat. Young Field says that just after they had rounded the second turn of the track and came upon a level stretch he noticed a pair of hands disappear- ing down the side of the car. It was not remembered by Starter James Martin or the two boys whether the last seat was occupied or not, but when they arrived at the end of the ride the boy told what he saw and a search was made below the track. No one was found. When the body was discovered yesterday morning the face was badly swollen, the skull was crushed in and both legs were broken. The body was removed to the Morgue, and the family of the deceased was notified. Dr.H. Damkroeger,the family physician, says that Bell was subject to heart disease, and that he bad been treating him for it. Mrs. W. P. Lenfestey, mother of Mrs. Bell, said yesterday afternoon that she and the wife and reiatives of the deceased think that he was suddenly seized by an attack of heart disease, brought on by the exhilaration and excitement of the ride, and probably suddenly raised in the car and fell overboard. He fell forty feet down through the lower track and against several cross timbers upon a pile of boards. A cross piece at the side of the upper track was broken, and as there was blood upon it it is thought this is the first obstruction the body struck. Bell may have been dead, it1s thought, before he struck the ground. The members of the family and rela- tives scout the idea of suicide, which was at first proposed. Mrs. Lenfestey says that Bell was comfortably well off, owned his own home, was supremably happy in his domestic relations, was not in debt and that ther2 was no reason for him to com- mit suicide. He leaves a widow and three little children. He was alone at the chutes. Frank C. Bell was the builder of the Odd Fetlows’ Temple on Market street, the Centennial Methodist Church and several other large buildings in the City. The scenie railway at the chutes has carried 90,000 people since July 4, and this is the first accident that has hap-. pened on account of heart disease or other cause. DENIES ITS CHARGES. Clerk Sullivan Criticizes the Chroni- cle’s Treatment of Him, The following communicatibn is self- explanatory: To the Editor of the San Francisco Cal'—SIR: Iam a Republican. I come by my Republican- ism legitimately. I have three uncles and a cousin buried in front of Fredericksburg and & father, a cripple, made so while carrying the colors of his regiment to the front. 1 learned my Republicanism from him. The Chronicle has chosen to single me out specially for the purpose of making me the laughing-stock of my fellow-Republicans in these articles. It firstsaid that 1 offered to pull off a prize-fight for the benefit of the Re- pubtican County Committee, thereby endeay- oring to edst ridicule upon myself and the committee. Such an assertion I brandasa malicious falsehood, without one iota of foundation. Then the same paper alleges that I am the only man in the City Hail who has paid his assessment. That, aiso, I brand as a lie, pure and simple. The writer of the articles must have known that Prosecuting Attorney Mad- den and Warrant Clerk Benjamin of Police Court 4, Clerk Morgenstern and Warrant Clerk Seaman of Police Court 2 and Warrant Clerk Graham ot Police Court 3 and others had also paid their assessments. We paid it simply because we feel that all political parties, Republican, Democratic or Popuiist, should have money enough to con- duct the bpusiness of the campaign without going on the outside to beg for funds. it is done by every party, as the Chronicle well knows. - 1 have always understood that the Chronicle was a Republican paper, and notwithstanding the fact that I have often neard geople Qe- nounce the proprietor personally,] have in- variably looked upon the paper as a friend to the Republican party, Nowj however, I have made up my mind that in this campaign at least the best interests of the party aré not supported by the Chronicle. On the contrary the paper has done and isdoing everything possible to distupt the party. THE CALL, on the contrary, is doing grand work for true Re- publicanism. My father always taught me never to dis criminate between class, color or creed, but I am afraid if he were a resident of this City he would insist upon his sons discriminating against the Chronicle. Tix R. SULLIVAN. ——————— United Labor Party. The executive committee of the United Labor party met last evening and adopted its platiorm, setting forth that the party is com- posed of toilers of all classes and declaring against boss rule in politics. Special mention was made of subjects of taxation, sanitary in- spection of workshops, public schools, etc. Complaint was made that irresponsible per- sons have approached the party’s candidates for the purpose of securing money. It was stated that 8. M. Williams, the general secre- }“yd' is the only person authorized to solicit unds. 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