The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1898, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1898. SORRY HE DI NOT KILL THEM Jerry Sullivan’s Mur- derous Assault on the Keatings. He Thought the Woman Too “Fresh,” so He Shot Her. She Was Known to the Police as the Queen of the Pick pockets. SULLIVAN WAS CRAZED. Jim Keating of Being a | He Accused «“Stool Pigeon” and a Spy. fing him. He was then taken to the City Prison. and was locked up pend- ing the result of his victims’ injuries. In the meantime, Detective Gibson had summoned the patrol wagon, and Keating and his wife were removed to the Receiving Hospital. Dr. James Tormey, who was in charge, made an examination of their wounds, and pronounced them' both se- riously injured. On account of the ema- ciated condition of Mrs. Keating, due to the excessive use of opium, he did not attempt to extract the bullet. Sul- livan was subsequently booked on two charges of assault to commit murder. | The wounded woman is known to the | police as the “queen of pickpockets.” Although frequently arrested for grand | she has managed to escape | conviction. For years she has been a creature of the “tenderloin,” robbing bucolic strangers, and apparently en- joying immunity from arrest. As she lay on a cot in the Receiving Hospi- tal last night she begged the woman attendant to bring her some opium. “I am a confirmed flend,” she admi ted, as tears strolled down her cheek “do not let me die in pain.” In answer to the questions of the detectives, the unfortunate woman said an, who she says is also a fiend, visited the saloon, and | asked for her husband. She was sitting in a back room at the time. | “Thinking he meant to injure my | husband,” she remarked, “I walked | out of the room and advised Sullivan to go home. As I stepped between them Sullivan drew his revolver and shot me. I ran from the saloon, and as I fell.on the sidewalk I heard an- other pistol shot and at once realized | that he had shot my husband. “Jim has been very kind to Sullivan, | and why Ne should try to kill both of | us seems strange to say the least. I suppose he was crazed from the effects of apium, and wanted to be a bad man. | He had no right to shoot me, and I| merely told Jim not to have anything to do with him.” | Keating was at a loss to account for | . . the shooting except to say that he| Smarting under an imaginary Wrong | (h,ught Sullivan was crazy from the | Jerry Sullivan, a City Hall janitor, | effects ofe"too much dope | last evening shot and seriously wound- | “When he entered the saloon,” sald ed Mabel Keating, the “queen of pick- 1ting, “he appeared friendly and sa- | pockets,” and her husband, James me in the usual way. After Keating. s of whisky he turned | St and accused me of trying to do | The shooting occurred in the latter's saloon at Morton street and ( 1t avenue. According to the statement of Keating the murderous janitor en- him up. I as him what he meant, when he suddenly became angry and said, ‘I owe you a few dollars, but I| want you to understand that I am all NCE a priest alwa: a pries “Once a Mason always a Maso: and it may be added once fighter always a fighter. a Though Peter Jackson, the dusky gladi- s of the roped to the beaten ain his former ator, forswore the v arena, he has returne: tracks, and will try to re a ring n er when he crosses s with Jeffries on March 22 before the Olympic Club. There are many who think that the colored pugi- list is no longer even a shadow of his former self. The symmetrical body, THE LATEST PICTURES OF PETER JACKSON. | with lithe and sinewy muscles, carried about on a pair of spry, active legs, | used to be the delight of the lovers of | the pugilistic sport in the old days of ABEL : KEATING.. JERRY followed, full of e SULLIVAN The Would-Be Slayer and the Two Victims of His Revolver. the California Club. Then it was that Peter coursed the hard and thorny path to fame and prosperity. The life that se, comfort and ex- cesses, seemed to have made grave in- roads upon his natural physical per- Photographs by Bushnell. If so, the month of training just passed has fections. through which he hs done wonders for him. In the above pictures it will be seen A TRIBUTE 10 IRISH | PATRIOTS Inspiring Oration by Ex-Judge Robert sandy complexion, and the police have no Ferral. Enthusiastic Session of| the St. Patrick’s Day i Convention. Preparations for the Big Cele- bration in a Satisfactory State. LADIES CALLED TO ASSIST. \ NS Call for a Meeting to Form an Aux- iliary Convention Issued for Next Tuesday Evening. Irish patriotism was aroused to the highest pitch vesterday afternoon, by an oration delivered by ex-Judge Rob- ert Ferral before the St. Patrick’s day convention of 1898, The convention met at K. R. B. Hall, on Mason street, to complete the pre- liminaries for the celebration on the 17th, and after the routine work had been finished President Frank Conklin introduced Judge Ferral, who delivered a most stirring address. The speaker referred to the recent celebration in this city of Robert Emmet's birthday, \. tered his saloon, and accused him of being a “stool pigeon.” Keating de- nied the impeachment, and ordered Sullivan to leave the saloon. “You ow e me a few dollars marked Keatine “but as you can it, I am willing to call it square.” “You're not the only policeman - re: pay on He then declared that T was a | ‘stool pigeon’ and stood in with the | police. I laughed at the accusation, {and just then my wife appeared. As she stepped between us he .at once drew a revolver and fired at her. “Being unarmed I started to leave the saloon when he turned the weapon on | me and fired. Why Sullivan should attempt to murder us is very straage. | right.” the beat,” sarcastically remarked Sul- | after - & e : A . % S ~ou | We have always been friendly anc h)nn. a trick can I sulurmd. and you | when he was broke I frequently gave would not be on to it. | him money. My only explanation of Keating vigorously denied that he was in cahoots with the police, and de- fied Sullivan to prove that he was a “stool pigeon.” At this juncture Keating’s wife, who was in a room, appeared, and advised her hus- band not to have any trouble with Sul- livan. what he owes. she remarked. “He is no good ar o Just then llivan, who it is said was crazed from the effects of an over- induigence in opium mingled with Bar- bary Coast whisky, suddenly drew a revolver, and pointing the weapon at the unsuspectine woman, fired. The bullet struck her in the right breast, ranged upward and lodged in the armpit. Immediately after being shot Mrs. Keating ran from the saloon and fell on the sidewalk. With an oath, Sulli- van, who calmly watched her as she ran from the saloon, turned the still smoking revolver on- Keating and pulled the trigger. The bullet struck the saloonkeeper in the back of the neck, and emerged from a point behind the left ear. As he fell, presumably mortally wounded, Sulli- wvan put the revolver in his pocket, and at once left the place. The report of the tol shots at- tracted the attention of Detective Ed Gibson and Ross Whittaker, who were | dining in a restaurant on the opposite | side of the street, and they immediately | proceeded to make an investigation. As | they emerged from the restaurant théy | saw Sullivan running along Grant ave- nue, pursued by Policemen Fennell, Joy and Douglass. The murderous janitor turned up Stockton place, and, heed- less of the officers’ repeated calls, he continued running. At Stockton street he was overtaken by Policeman Fennell, who, after a ghort struggle, succeeded in handcuf- rear | Why don’t you make him pay you | | the attempted double tragedy is that he | | was crazed from the effects of opium, | |and did not know what he was doing.” | After being taken to the City Prison | | Sullivan refused to make a statement. “I'm on to my job,” was his surly remark. ‘‘You want to get next to | | yourself. I admit I shot the guys, an | I'm sorry I didn’t kill them. I'm re | it. Mabel had worst of it.” According to the police Sullivan a confirmed opium fiend and an asso- | ciate of disreputable characters. When he entered the saloon he was accom- mediately after the shooting disap- peared. Despite the efforts of the de- tectives he could not be found last | night. Several months ago Sullivan had a row with his sister-in-law in a disrep- | utable house on Grant avenue. At that time, it is claimed, he was stupid from ‘the effects of opium and liquor, and when she refused to accede to his re- | | quest for money he drew a revolver |and took a shot at her. The bullet | passed tnrough her hat, slightiy injur- ing her scalp. She at first threatened | to have him arrested, but as he prom- |ised to behave himself she finally re- | lented. | —_——e—— | He Robbed the Cash Drawer. Dr. Robert Riley was victimized about 3:30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon by a well-dressed young man, who entered his drug store, corner of Second and Howard streets, and asked for a twelve-ounce bot- tle of carbolic acid. The doctor put up the desired amount in a bottle, and his cus- tomer then changed his mind and said he wanted twice that amount of the acid. This necessitated the doctor's going into a rear room to get a larger bottle, and while he was gone. the young man re- lieved the cash drawer of $15 in coin. ‘When the druggist returned he had left. He is described as being about five and a . d hot mad, and I want you to understand | no right to interfere, | and for being too fresh she got the | More than this Sullivan refused to | panied by his brother “Jack,” who im- | and said in part: “That was but a forerunner of the Coughs and_colds cured, Low's Hore- celebration we will hold on $t. Pat- hound Cough Syrup; 10c. 417 Sansome st® | as Nathan H | have not lived in vain.” that Peter Jackson still possesses that physical grace and symmetrical beauty which he displayed eight years ago. His muscles are supple and firm, and but few indications of fat mar an otherwise perfect condition. He weighs 195 pounds at present, the same weight as when he entered the ring with Cor- bett in 1891. If there are any marks of dissipation remaining, they are to be found on his face. As far as his body is concerned, he is still the same bronze statue. How far the vitality of the man has been sapped can only be judged when he is viewed in the heat of actual battle. Dr. Paran, after a careful and complete examination, pro- nounces the old-time favorite to be in the best of physical health and con- | dition. “Oh, I have taken off a stone | and a half since I began training,” said | Peter yesterday, “and I feel as a man in perfect health. he training came hard at first, but it’s all right now.” Peter says little, but he is working hard. rick’s day. 1 think, every delegate to | this convention was present on that oe- | casion and you all remember the trib- utes paid to Emmet then. But there are a few things I would like to say about him and the other patriots who have given their lives to Ireland that | will not seem out of place now. “The very time of Emmet's birth—the year 1778—was most fitting. He came into the world when Grattan's patri- otic words thrilled the old world, when Washington's patriotic deeds thrilled | the new. With his first breath Emat breathed the very air of patriotism."” wed the life of Em- not die for their country, for patriots | never .die. “Though they languished | i m, fell fighting for their veloved v or swung from a scaffold by | essors of their land, their deeds | shall live forever in the hearts of their | people.” | ‘‘Americans can well sympathize with | these men who have fallen victims of | British hatred and British brutality,” | he continued, “for one of the bright- est men in the struggle for freedom from the British voke was hanged | without tr and without even | | a hearin the last letter he wrote to mother was torn to shreds before his eyes and the frag- ments cast at his feet. What American can read the history of Nathan Hale and then say he wants an arbitration | treaty with t Britain? Such men | e and Robert Emmet Judge Ferral compared the treatment accorded Major Andre with that Na- than Hale had received at the hands of | his captors. Andre's offense was even | worse than Hale's, for he had been ne- gotiating with a traitor—Benedict Ar- nold—when he was captured, whereas Hale was a spy; yvet Andre was shown every courtesy and given a fair trial, Lafayette himself sitting as the heaid of the court that condemned him tc death. Andre pleaded to be permitted to die like a soldier, and not be hanged lik ; but the people sai “Let hi Nathan Hale died. ‘“Years afterward, when the Western republic stood forth among the nations of the world, England removed Major Andre’s remains from American soil, and gave them honored burial in West- minster Abbey, erecting a costly monu- ment to his memory. If such a man is honored with a monument, in God's name, why should not Wolfe Tone be honored with a monument? “And now a word regarding the St. Patrick’'s day celebration. Though not a follower of his religion, yet I come of S = ! = = N N i » - W e Prominent Figures ADVERTISEMENTS. NEW WASH GOODS. 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Irish ancestry, and since boyhood I have participated in the celebration on the 17th day of March, for I believe that such a man who could make such a grand bloodless religious conquest of a people should be honored by every- body without regard to creed or sect. Moreover, I look upon this day as a natal day for Ireland.” Jeremiah Deasy then sang anold Irish love song in Celtic, accompanied on the zither by Miss Frances Borr, and for an encore sang the same song in Eng- lish. General P. F. Walsh was called upon for an address, and paid a tribute to the heroes of '98. He was followed by Michael O’'Makoney, who read a poem in Celtic, on the return of young Hugh O'Donnell to Dublin Castle in 1592, prefacing the reading with a call | to his countrymen to perpetuate their mother tongue by teaching their chil- dren to speak it. This closed the proceedings of the convention prover, but a meeting of the executive committee was held immedi- ately afterward, at which the reports of the various sub-committees having in charge the St. Patrick’s day cele- bration were received. The programmes for the afternoon and evening entertainments at Wood- ward's Pavilion were reported as being about completed. The stereopticon vi~ws of Irish and American scenes in the afternoon for the ladies and | children promise to be exceedingly in- structive and entertaining. All the local theaters have promised to con- tribute talent for the entertainments. A reception committee, consisting of William Mulr-in, Patrick Broderick, Robert Ferral M. Fitzgerald, J. P. Maher, Thomas Crowley, Joseph Sul- livan, J. P. Dignan, George Gallagher and M. Donahue was appointed, and .a special committee composed of J. P. Dignan, Judge Ferral, Judge Cooney, General Walsh and Mr. Mahoney was named to receive Hon. M. M. Estee, the orator of the day. It was declded to issue a call to the Irish-American ladies of this city to meet in Hibernia Hall, 120 Ninth street, Tuesday night, to form, an auxiliary convention to aid in making the cele- bration a financial success. Every woman having the object of the cele- bration at heart is requested to be present. Committees were appointed to draft suitable resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Dr. O'Toole, J. J. O’Brien and James E. Kenney. It was announced that the literary committee would hold meetings Tues- day and Thursday evenings of this week to complete its work. Printing and engraving, visiting-cards and invitations, tablets and papeteries, writing papers and envelopes, blankbooks and memorandums, fountain-pens and Koh-i-noor pencils and all office supplies at popular prices. 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