The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1898, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1898. SHOT FIVE TIMES AT IS WIFE John Lynn Declares He Acted Under God’s Orders. Because of His Cruelty His Wife Had Left Him. Without Any Warning the | Crazy Husband Blazed Away. HE NOW FEIGNS INSANITY His Duties in A Suspicion That Asylums Unhinged His find Mrs. John W. Lynn was shot yeSter- day by her husband at the home of W. J. Roth on ‘S street, Oakland. The woul-be murderer emptfed a- five- chambered revolyver at his wife, every bullet entering her body; and it is'very doubtful if can recover. The as- sassin declarés the Lord ordered him to commit the deed Whether Lynn is insane or not is a matter that is now puzzling the police officials. His actions of late have given rise to the suspicion that his mind has been unbalanced during his many years of companionship with lunatics as a keeper in the Utica Asylum at New York, and for the past few months at Agnew The Lynns : were - married York about ten years ago, ‘and - after five years of married life trouble arose. Gradually Lynn commenced to act in‘a peculiar manner, and at times was very cruel. This method of treating his wife became more marked with succeeding yea andin 1894 Mrs. Lynn was com- pelled to - leave her -husband. She brought -with her their little boy, now 8 years of age, and lived with her sister and her husband, the Roths, in this city. ‘Last May Lynn followed his wife to the coast. He had frequently be- sought her to return to him, but she ly refused. On his arrival in 1 he obtained :employment at Agnews as a Keeper of the insane, bringing with him good references for eleven rs of similar service at Utica. Last Saturday night Roth says he had.a long conversation with Lynn, and the latter left'the impression that he -intended: to” commit. sui¢ide. *“He asked me. to make his wyife -promise;’” said - Roth - “that- if anything ‘hap- pened to him she in New | would - take-‘care ; JOHN W. LYNN, a Crazy | | | '// " 'nf the boy Harold, and always treat him- kindly. I thought after the con- versation that he was thinking of tak- ing his life. :We also talked in a gen- eral way about religion, although he was not at.all religious and belonged to-no church, . He was, however, well- behaved, with the exception of his nginess and cruelty toward my sis- ter-in-law. He mentioned . the fact that . 'he had a couple of hundred dollars, and suggested that he get himself a pistol, but I never saw. him with one and do not know where he procured the pistol which he used to-day.” Monday night Lynn and Roth occu- pied the same room. Roth got up and had his breakfast, which was prepared by Mrs. Roth, as Mrs, Lynn was sick. After Roth had - gone out Lynn ap- peared and made a plea to his wife to go. and live with him again. She de- clined to do so, and while she was tidy- ing up her bedroom he went into the apartment with a gun and quickly fired | five shots at her.. They hit her neck, her shoulder blades, the right ribs, left hip and one passed through the abdo- men. - All but one have been extracted, and unless it has pierced the lung the woman may live. After the doctors had attended to Mrs. Lynn, police officers were. sum- moned and arrested the murderer, who | was calmly. sitting on :the - side of the bed in the room where he had shot his wife. He kept repeating the state- ment that: the Lord had commanded | him to shoot his wife, and did every- |:thing . possible to nvince the officers that he is a Junatic. When taken to the | City Prison he was.visited by Health Officer Dunn, and the doctor's opinion | is that Lynn was shamming insanity. It is said that it is not a difficult mat- ter for a man.so familiar with the ac- tions of insane people to imitate them sufficiently to deceive éven .a doctor. Yesterday Detective Herbert, ae- companied by Deputy District Attorney Husband, and His Wik, at Whom He Emptied His Revolver. Church, visited the woman, and the in- tention was to take her dying state- ment, but the patient was under the | influence of opiates and not in a condi- tion to make a statement that would be accepted as evidence. As soon as the arrest was made yes- terday and before Lynn was taken to jail, Detective Holland took him be- fore his wife and she said, “That is my husband, and he is the man who shot me.” In his cell in the after- noon Lynn tried to commit suicide. He climbed up on the bars, put the gas jet in his mouth, and turned on the gas. His actions were seen by a trusty and | he was quickly taken down none the worse for his mouthful of gas. Pre- cautions were then taken to prevent him from making another attempt. Mrs. Lynn was very low last night, but the doctors have not given up hope of her recov Rally of League Boys. The League of the Cross will hold a rally of six branches next Metropolitan Hall. The boys of the league from the following parishes will be pres- ent: St. Partrick’s, St. Rose’s, St. Bren- dan’ ¥'s (California street). A representative from each of these parishes will compete in the essay con- test for the silver medal of the league. The winner will be entitled to contest for the Archbishop Riordan zold medal in August. There will be no admission fee charged. Sunday in | at St. Teresa's, All Hallows and St. | WANT BETTER - CITY LIGHTS Associated Improvement Clubs to Petition the Supervisors. Specifications Which Will Be Submitted for Adoption. Allegations That the Present System Retards the Growth of the City. One of the most important matters that have as yet been handled by the Association of Improvement Clubs will be taken up at the regular meeting that is to be held at B'nal B'rith Hall this evening. The association will de- mand important and far-reaching im- provements in the present method of | lighting San Francisco through resolu- tions directed to the Board of Super- visors. Officers of the association have been studylng up the present cost of street lights and the resolutions are based on their report. The preamble will recite | that the existing contract to light !heE streets will expire August 1; that the | attention of public officlals has been | called to the fact; that the present sys- tem of lighting is inadequate and im- | proper; that from $290,000 to $300,000 is | paid annually for street lighting; that many streets are unlighted, and that | San Francisco is far behind the times in the matter of public lights. The resolutions then go on to pro- vide that the assoclations shall urge | the Supervisors to provide immediate | improvements in the matter of street | lights and that a committee of the or- | ganization shall attend not ouly the | meetings of the board, but of the Com- mittee on Street Lights, until the mat- ter is finally settled. The specifica- tions that the board will be asked to adopt are as follows: ’ | The poles, wires, conductors, lamps, | carbon electrodes, and each and every ap- | {:lmnce, article or apparatus which may | e necessary for electric lighting to be furnished and erected by the successful | bidder. | The wires and conductors to be thor- | | oughly insulated and placed in such loca- | tions and in such manner as will prevent | them from being tampered with or han- dled by any unauthorized person or per- | sons, it being distinctly understood that the city and county shall not be responsi- ble, but must be held harmless against | any claim for damages 3 accident which may be oned by the wires or conductors, against any claim for damages by reason of any in- fringement of any patent rights ‘in the use of the lamps, machinery or appliances | | connected with the said electric light. The said masts to be erected and main- injury or tained as follows: On t every corner crossing within the city limits, and those | in the outside lands of the city and county be placed at or contiguous to the present locations of the masts now erected throughout those districts, with | | the distinct understand that the board nge the locations | ter and power | | and designate the chs | | of the electric light and the height of the | masts to be used at any particular loca- | tion during the continuance of the con- | | | power and for each lamp of 32 candle | prior to or at the time of the execution | appointed yesterday to assist P. T. M. | absence of an index has been a fruitful tract upon payment of the actual cost of labor and "materials in making said changes or removals. That incandescent lamps of thirty-two candleeémwer be placed on posts and dis- tributed at the discretion of the Super- intendent of Public Streets. Twenty thousand arc lamps of 2000 candle power each and 6000 incandescent lamps of thir- ty-two candle power each. he lamps to be lighted for the entire night, from one hour after sunset until one hour before sunrise; provided that during the months of November to Feb- ruary and March to October, inclusive, in each year no lamps shall be lighted during the night of the full moon; pro- vided, however, that one lamp at each of the receiving hospitals and one at the City Prison shall be lighted every night. No compensation shall be allowed for any lamps or lamp except such as shall be lighted during the whole time provided for in the foregoing specification under Wwhich a contract may be awarded; also, that within three days prior to the ex- piration of each month the Light In- spector shall furnish the parties to whom the contract is awarded the time during Which the lights shall be lighted and ex- tinguished each and every night and morning during the succeeding month. All bills of the successful bidder, on the execution of a contract and the perform- ance in compliance therewith, shall be presented and paid monthly at the end of each calendar month. Bidders will be required to deposit with the clerk of the Boad of Suprvisors a cer- tifled check, drawn to the order of the clerk, on some bank in the city and gounty of San Francisco, in the sum of $10,000 gold coin, conditioned if the pro- posal 1is accepted and the contract Is awarded; and if the bidder shall fail or meglect to execute a written contract therefor and give a good and sufficient b::nd. With two sureties, in the sum of $35,000 for the proper fuifillment of said contract, within four days after the award is made, then and in that case the safd sum shall be paid into the city and county treasury by said clerk as liquidat- ed damages for such failure and neglect. Notice—Bidders will estimate and state the price for each lamp of 2000 candle Power as herein provided for per night. No bids will be received or egtertalgned from parties who estimate on any con- tingent event or who cannot comply with or who are not prepared or qualified to carry out the terms and conditions herein imposed. | Also that the party or parties to whom the contract is awarded wil be required, of this contract, to pay the costs of ad- vertising this notice in thre daily news- papers. —_— A Veteran Appointed. ‘Willlam C. Howard, an old soldier, was Walite in indexing the Chinese certificates on file in the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue. There are 40,000 of the certificates, issued under the act of Con- gress requiring all Chinese laborers then within the limits of the United States to register themselves and to append their photographs. Chinese may have a dupli- cate, making proof of loss, and these du- plicates are made up from the originals on file.in the revenue office, the holder being required to find the original at his own expense, the search for the same be- ing long and tedious, owing to the fact that no index has been provided. The source of scandal, for persons—customs brokers and oth favorites of the Col- lector, have enjoyed a monopoly of this work and have charged their Chinese clients all the way from $ to $20. The indexers have been allowed three months to complete the work, but this time is believed to be much too short. —_——— Hungarian Boys’ Band Incorporated. Articles of Incorporation of Kaiser Franz Josef's Magyar Husaren Knaben- Kappelle (Hungarian Boys' Military band) were flled yvesterday. The incor- poration is formed. for the purpose of managing the band and giving concerts in the United States, Australia and South America. The capital stock Is $125.000, of which $62,516 has been subscribed. 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