The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-30

The murder of dc Young Details of the
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The Murder of DC Young Details of the
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Charles De Young, editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, who last August
shot and badly wounded Rev. L. s..
Kalloch during the campaign which re-
suited in Kalloch's election as mayor,
was himself shot dead Friday evening,
in the office of the Chronicle, BY I. G..
Kalloch, son of Mayor Kalloch. Tele-
graphic communication with San Fran
cisco has been interrupted for a few
days by a great snow storm, which
broke down the wires, and but meagre
details have been received. The lead
ing facts in the tragedy, however, are
as follows: Just before eight O'Clock,
Charles DE Young entered the bust
ness office of the Chronicle, on the
ground floor, and stood talking with a
| gentleman, when i. M. Kalloch enter
ed, drew a pistol, without, as far as
can be learned, speaking, and began
firing, DE Young ran through the gate
| of the counter to the desk inside, Kali
loch firing at him as he ran. On reach
ing the desk, De Young turned to face
his opponent with a pistol in his hand,
when Kalloch, leaning over the coun-
ter, fired again, the ball striking De
! Young in the mouth. Kalloch started
for the door, when De Young raised
his pistol as if to fire, but apparently his
strength failed, for the pistol was not
discharged, and sinking back he fell on
the floor. Bystanders ran to his assis-
lance, but the ball evidently pierced the
brain, and in a few moments De
Young expired. AS kailoch ran out of
the door he was seized by a citizen and
an officer who took him to the city
prison.
Mr.. De Young was one of the two
brothers who conducted the Chronicle
for a number of years. The Chronicle
opposed the so-callcd w~orkingmen's
movement, and Kalloch in a public
meeting not only attacked the De
Ioungs, but applied vile epithets to
their mother, who did not deserve
them. This provoked tho attack of
Charles De Young upon Kalloch. The
feelings against the DE Youngs were
very bitter, and young Kalloch made
his first appearance as an agitator at the
meeting held after tho shooting, when
he was very inflammatory in his appeals
for vengeance. lie was a Baptist
preacher, located in Sonoma county,
and was considered a good speaker, and
was listened to attentivcly by the howl
ing mobs. So favorable an impression
did he make on them that they discuss
cd the probabilities of making him
mayor in case his father died.
One of the causcs of the shooting was
the recent circulation of a pamphlet en-
ftfta1 lf1'I,n nnly fall ,.o>D.t al. x...l
of |. s. Kalloch OH the charges of Adult
terry" This pamphlet contained a por-
trait of Kalloch and the woman with
whom he was said to be intimate, and
pretended 10 give a full history of the
affair, doings of the church, Kalloch's
pulpit experience, arrest, arraignment,
trial and result. It's imprint was
"Boston, Ederhen IL Co., 1852" but it
was generally regarded that its reap
pearancc was due to De Young, who
was known to have gone East some
time ago to bunt up facts in the career
of Kalloch. The pamphlet was extern
sively circulated, and the Kalloch party
were wrought TO quite a state of des-
peration.
A San Francisco special lays: The
shooting created such an excitement as
has never been equalled before, even at
the most stormy period of San Fran
cisco's history. 1t exceeds in violence
the storm of public passion and agita-
ton that succeeded the shooting of
Mayor Kalloch by De Young, in August
last, and it has increased to such an ex-
tcntthat no n car foretell what the con-
sequences will be. The feeling against
the party of which Mayor Kalloch and
Kearney are leaders has been growing
stronger of late, and this assassination
has Infatuated the people so that the
mayors life is mo- considered safe from
public vengeance. Threats are freely
expressed against him and the entire
sand lots party. On the other hand,
there are many who consider De
Young's fate but a fitting close to his
career, and that no further significance
should be attached to it than ordinary
murder, in which one ~desperado kills
another.