THE SHOOTING OF CHAS. DE YOUNG.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 June 1880, Page 2

THE SHOOTING OF CHAS. DE YOUNG.

(San Fiancisco Post, April 24.) About eight o'clock last evening, Isaac M. Ealloeb, son of Isaac S. Kallocb, Mayor of the city and pastor of Metropolitan Temple, shot and killed Charles da Young senior proprietor of th^ Chronicle. A few minutes before that time Da Young entered the business office of the Chronicle, and engaged io con* versatioa with fdward Spear and 15. B. Read, who had entered the office on business. A few minutes prior to KaU loch's entrance, De Young was standing in front of the counter, near the door leading out into Bush and Kearney greets, leaning on the counter, and with j his face turned in the direction of the j Kearney street entrance. Messrs Spear and Ifead were within a few feet of him. The trio were engaged in an animated conversation when the Kearney street door was swiftly pushed open and a mo* meat later Kalloch entered, at the same time drawing a black handled Smith & Weaton five shooter and pointing; it at [De Yomns. The latter, s^altar-f-esiy •-!:;; <!■ -:••,■;■- - f V , '. a. i - .;. j '*■:•>'. n 1 ;; ■,' ■■■■■ \ ■.-■■■ ' . > ■ ■■■-■' >l c i ■ -t:i ut t.ie iowei i-^j v i f 'i> i anftr, e?i« , ih'i.tiy . .i'-iidla^ i- p 1 ii.-f .ue . counter I betv. aea hia^it' »nd his assailant, As

he started to ran Kalloeh fired the first i shot, and as he reached the gate the j second was fired, neither of which took ; effect. The first shot went crashing ; through the plate glass window of the j door leading into the entrance of the ed j jtorial rooms, the second wts imbedded in the wall near the window sill. As De Young passed the gate to the left, closely pursued all the while. Ealloch fired the third shot, which passed through De Young's hat close to his head. De Young dropped behind the eonnter and was creeping along close to it,. at the same time making an effort to draw his pistol, which hk overcoat rendered difficult. He was in the set of glancing upward to ascertain where Ealloch was when the latter reached over the counter and holding his pistol within a foot of De Young's face, fired the fourth and fatal shot. It struck De Young in (he mouth and ranged upward and inward into the brain. De Young rose to his feet, staggered to a desk two or three feet distant, managed to draw his pistol, and as he did so K\\* locb fired the fifth shot. This last shot went through the window of the private office of M. H. De Young, through a sixinch wall and lodged in the staircase. De Young, Weeding at the mouth and nose, staggered over to the cashier's desk, his PISTOL FELL FBOM HIB KBRYELE-S GEASP, Anr*, with his arms resting upon the desk, he sunk, and was caught in the ; arms of an eyewitness to the shooting before falling to the floor, His half* brother, Elias de Young, who was in the office, ran to him and asked him if be was shot, but the dying man returned no answer. The biood gushed in a torrent from the wound in bis mouth. Medical assistance was summoned promptly, but it was of no avail, and in a few minutes De Young was dead. The whole affair occurred so quickly that those in the office scarcely comprehended what was going ou until it was alt over. After the shooting Kalloch went rap* idly towards the door, and he was about to escape when be encountered. Officers Pecktnpah and Ward, who bad been attracted to the spot by the shots, and taken into custody- He held the pistol, still smoking, in his hand. A TBIMEHDOUS CROWD Gathered in the vicinity of the Chronicle office, discussing the tragedy. The Coroner was notified, and took charge of the remains, which were escorted in the dead wagon to the Morgue bf a dozen polices m?o. The body was taken out *of the Chronicle office it nine o'clock. It was j met at the door and followed all the way ! to the Morgue by a crowd of about 1,000 people, principally half grown men, who j cheerei and hooted and yelled. It was j one of the most extraordinary spectacles j ever witnessed in an American city, and it is doubtful if in any other civilised community in the world such a disgraceful scene could have occurred. The crowd around the Morgue was so great that the police found it necessary to station a squad across O'Farrell street to keep the surging crowd from forcing its way into the Morgue. The body was removed from the coffin by the Coroner's assistants, and placed upon a stretcher. Blood was still oozing from the moutb, and the face was badly burned by the powder, but otherwise the features were as natural 'as in life- The police kept guard over the remains all n»ahf. THE WITNESSES TO THB SHOOTIKO, Had they manifested any presence o f mind, might have averted the tragedy. They were in the office, in addition to Messrs Spear and Read, with whom De Young was talking, Charles F. Potter, who was conversing with Wta. S. Drey* polcher, the advertising olerk, and R. £. Douglass, a solicitor, who was sitting behind the counter with Elias de Yoang, a half-brother of the deceased. Potter wss sotr.e distance below De Young, outside the counter, and the first shot passed close to him- He sprang over the coun* ter and took refuge behind the door of the safe. All the others appear either to hftve gotten out of the way or else had not presence of mind to grapple with Kalloch and wrest the pistol from his grasp, which, it seems, could have been done with but little personal risk. Daring the entire difficulty, not a word was spoken by anybody. The first observe* tion made was that by Eiias who addressed his brother while he lay wounded on the fleor, and inquired if be was shot. This was after Kalloch had left the build* ing. Had De Young not raised his head behind the counter to discern the location of Kallocb, he would probably have eacaped serious injury, as Ealloch would not have been able to get aim at a vital part. It was the merest chance that De Young should have put his face right in front of the muzzle' of his opponent's deadly weapon. STATEMENTS 07 THE ETB-WITNESBB9 Substantially agree. G. F. Spear says that be bad been talking « few minutes with De Young whes Che mam door was pushed violently opes, and 4 young man, whoa be afterward learned was Xallocb, took a step or two into the main office, with his pistol levelled, and Sred at the bead of De Young, who was not over two feet away and facing him. Xalloch bad cue pistol in hig hand when be entered. I lie You; was leaning agaiast the tern of <*ounler, near the door. After the < Aut Be Young shielded! himself for a moment behind Bead, aad then ran toward the gate* Spear west out into

the street and heard three more ihofi. The affair did not occupy more thin » seconds. FAItOCH'S fiEMBAWOI. The witnesses all agree tbat Etfloch ■ manner was perfectly cool and self-pot* spssed. He fired si won as he entered the office, and was quick and determine* in all his movements. On the way to to* Ci»y Prison, in the custody of Officers Peckinpab and Ward, he did not otter a word, and at the City Prison he refused to say anything whatever is to &• causes which led him to do the shooting. ; AH the chambers of the revolver wert ! empty. He was searched at the prison, and the only things found upon him were three dollars, a watcn and chain, two purses, memorandum hook, papers sad keys. He asked to retain his tobacco ponch, which request waa granted. He wbs transferred to cell No. 4 of the new prison. DID KAttOCH ME IS WAIT > Detective " Nbyes says that in passing .he Chronicle offiea last night a short time before the shooting he saw a man peering through the first window ott Bush street, below Kearney, as if anxious fogeta glimfse of some one in the office. He sauntered leisorely down Kear* ney street, and hearing of the shooting, retraced his steps and met the policemen with Kallocb, whom he recognised as the individual he had seen locking through the window.