The true northerner., 1880-04-30
AN EDITOR MURDERED.
Particulars of the killing Of Charles
DE Young, Of the San Francisco
Chronicle, by the Son Of Mayor Kali
lOch.

PARTICULARS Oh the hA1II1nx Oh CmdTIcS
DE Young, Of the San Francisco
Chronicle, by the Son Of Mayor Kali
lOch.
At o'clock on the evening OF Friday, April
%, Charles De Young, senior proprietor of the
San Francisco Chronicle, entered the business
Office of the paper, at the corner Of Kearney and
Bush streets, in that city, and engaged in con-
versaton with Edward Spear and Z. b. Read,
who had been transaeting some business. He
stood with his back to the counter, facing the
Kearney street door, and had been so standing
for few minutes when the swinging door was
rapidly pushed open, and Rev. Isaac M. Kali
loch, son of Rev. Isaac s. Kalloch, Mayor
OF the city, pushed rapidly In, raising
a revolver he entered. Me. De Young,
upon catching sight of the pistol and the man,
turned and ran to the brass gate leading behind
the counter outside. Kalloch then fired, and
second afterward fired again as Mr.. De Young
was passing through the gate. A third shot
followed Immediately. A. Mr.. De Young turned
10 the left and passed through the gate, he
stopped 80 as to protect himself behind the
counter and tried to draw pistol While he
in this position, Kalloch leaned over the
counter, placed the pistol close to his face and
tired again. This was the fatal shot but, in
spite of it, Mr. De Young stepped back to the
cashiers desk, Kalloch hring fifth
shot as he stood next it. Mr.. De Young
partly raised his pistol, but was unable
10 tire, the blood gushing in stream from hls
mouth over the desk lA raised it. kalloch
turned and ran to the door, and Mr. De Young,
shaking his head and staggering, fell backward
into the arms OF Elias De Young, his halfbrother,
who laid him down on the floor. He was un-
conscious, and remained so for ten minutes
afterward when, medical effort being unavail-
tl,...l tl.s.
mendous throng had gathered in front of the
Office, blocking up Kearney and Bush streets.
Kalloch was received at the door by two officers
and gave himself up. He was taken to the city
prison and locked up. He had nothing to say
and refused to make any statement whatever
though he was as cool and composed as If moth
ing had transpired No words passed between
the two at the time of the shooting. The dead
ly act had been threatened by Kalloch in pub
llc speech during the late election campaign, but
II was supposed that the bravado of his speech
had been forgotten Mr. De Young was at the
ume about TO go 10 trial for his shooting of
kalloch, Senior, for the fouest possible slam
ders of his mother, and there was very little
doubt that he would have been acquitted.
Young kalloch, when arrested, was perfectly
cool. He still carried the smoking pistol in his
hand, which he surrendered TO the officer on his
way to the station-house. He observed strict
reticence, and, on being shown to his cell, posi-
with the representatives OF the press.
An autopsy was held on the body the follow
ing morning by physicians. One ball was
iound which entered the mouth. breaking two
teeth and finally lodged in the interior OF the
iugular, which not entirely severed, the
bullet lying in the vein partly fattened The
cutting of this vein almost instantly exhausts
the blood from the brain, producing insensi-
bihty.
One Of the immediate causes of the tragedy
in believed to be the recent appearance of a
pamphlet entitled the ''Only Full Report of the
Trial of 1. s. Kalloch, on the Charge of Adul-
tery." This pamphlet contained a portrait of
kalloch and the woman with whom he was said
10 be intimate, and pretended to give full
history of the affair, the dongs of his church,
Kallochs pulpit experience, arrest, arraignment,
trial and result. Its imprint was "Boston: Ed
crlam Il Co., 1857, but it was generally regard
cd, with how much truth it is now impossible to
say, that its reappearance was due to DE Young
who was known to have gone East some
time ago to hunt mp the facts in the career of
Kalloch. The pamphlet was extensively crcu-
lated, and the Kalloch party was wrought to
quite state of desperation. DE Young con-
unued his vigorous assaults on Kaloch, and az
the time for his trial for the shooting of the
Mayor drew near, he became more aggressive,
and Kallochs friends became correspondence
exasperated.
The funeral of De Young occurred on Sun
day, the 25th. The remains of the murdered
man were followed to the grave by large con-
course of people.