Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-10
SHOT DEAD.
COid.BlOOded Murder of a Feeble Old
Mantle Murderer Captured-Much
Excitement Among the Spanish
Mexican Citizens.


About half-past o'clock yesterday
afternoon fatal shooting affray oc-
Cured in front of the. Palanconi
House, ON Olvera street, just north of
the Plaza. The circumstances of the
affair we have been unable to gather,
as it seems that nobody save the two
participants were present at the time.
The victim of the shooting was Gabriel
Mendiaroy, man about fifty-four
years of age, who was well known in
this city. He was in poor health and
in a feeble condition, hardly expected
to live six months longer. He was
known in the city as quiet, molten
sive man.
THE PERPETRATOR.
The murderer is named jaime
Fernandez, painter by trade,
and has generally been considered a
bad, quarrelsome character. Several
rumors are afoat concerning the cause
of the bloody deed, but none of them,
of course, can be strictly relied upon.
1t is said that there was family diff
ficulty between the two, and Fernan-
dez had been ill-treating some Of the
members of Mendearoy's family.
Some words occurred between the
two, when Mendearoy said "Don't
abuse them-abuse me-" Upon this
the other drew his revolver and fired,
Mendiaroy was shot near the heart,
and expired in about ten minutes.
After the deed was committed, Fer
nandes rushed down a narrow alley
beyond the house and succeeded for
the time in making his escape. A
great excitement was created and
men from all quarters rushed to the
spot. The wounded man was carried
into his house, and after few mo-
ments expired without speaking a
word.
THE SEARCH.
Officers Carpenter and Harris went
in pursuit of the murderer, and
after q few moments search, found
him concealed in the zanja near Pa
lanconi's wine cellar, only few rods
from the scene of his bloody work. 1t
was feared at first that the man would
be lynched by the excited people
who crowded around, and doubtless
he would have been had he not been
hurried off by the officers and placed
in Jail. AS it was he retained his life
by the merest chance.
AN AvENGER.
A son of the murdered man,
young man about twenty years
of age, driven to frenzy by the
terrible affair presented a revolt
yer to Fernandez breast, and was
in the act of firing when the weapon
was grasped and wrenched away by
officer Thomas. The son fought lik e
mailman to get free and take the life
of his fathers murderer, but was over
powered by the officers and taken in
charge until the prisoner had been
placed in q carriage and driven to the
Jail where he was put out of harm's
way for the time.
MendiarOy leaves wife and three
children-twO daughters and son
who are grown up. The family We're
driven almost to distra ction by the
terrible calamity which befell them.
PUBLIC INDIGNATION.
Much feeling was expressed by the
Spanish-Mexican populace, rs the
murdered man was well known among
them and highly esteemed. Coroner
Richardson held an inquest on the
body but elected no further facts than
those given. These demonstrations
by lawless persons are becoming pain
fully frequent, and it is to be seriously
hoped, that such an example will be
made of the perpetrators that an eff
fectual check may be placed upon
them. If the authorities would hang
one day for a month or so we might
hope for material improvement in
the law and order of the country.