The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-04-29
AN EDITOR MURDERED.
Particulars of the KILLING of Charles
DE Young. of the San Francisco
Chronicle, by the Son OF Mayor Kali


Chronicle, by the Son OF Mayor Kali
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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 E. B. Read,
who had been transacting some business. He
stood with his back to the counter, facing the
Kearney street door, and had been SO standing
for a few minutes when the swinging door was
rapidly pushed open, and Rev. Isaac M. Kali
of the city, pushed rapidly In, raising
q revolver as he entered. Mr.. 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 a
second afterward fired again as Mr.. De Young
was passing through the gate. A third shot
followed immediately. AS Mr.. De Young turned
to the left and passed through the gate, he
stopped SO as to protect himself behind the
counter and tried to draw pistol. While he
was in this position, Kalloch leaned over the
counter, placed the pistol close to his face, and
fired again. This was the fatal shot; but, in
spite of it, Mr.. De Young stepped back to the
cashiers desk, Kalloch firing fifth
shot as he stood next it. Mr.. De Young
partly raised his pistol, but was unable
to fire. the blood gushing in a stream from his
mouth, over the desk as he 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 half-brother,
vino laid him down on the floor. He was I'M
conscious, and remained so for ten minutes
afterward, when, medical effort being unavail-
ing, he breathed his last. By this time ire
mendous throng had gathered in front of the
office, blocking up Kearney and Bush streets.
KaSloch 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 TRANSFERRED. No words passed between
the two at the time of the shooting The dead
~ act had been threatened by Kalloch in a pub
lie speech during the late election campaign. but
it was supposed that the bravado of his speech
had been forgotten. Mr.. De Young was at the
time about to go to trial for his shooting of
Kalloch, Senior, for the foulest possible slam
ders of his mother, and there was very little
doubt that he would have been acquitted.
Young Kal och when arrested, was perfectly
COOL He ST. carried the smoking pistol in his
hand, which he surrendered to the officer on his
way to the station-nouse. He observed strict
reticence, and on being shown to his cell, posi-
lively refused to have any intercourse whatever
with the representatives of the press.
An autopsy was held on the body the follow
ing morning by physicians One ball was
found which entered the mouth, breaking two
teeth, and finally lodged in the interior of the
iugular, which was not entirely severed, the
bullet lying in the vein partly hattened The
cutting Of this vein almost instantly exhausts
the blood from the brain, producing insensi-
bility.
One of the immediate causes of the tragedy
is believed to be the recent appearance Of
pamphlet entitled the 'Only Full Report of the
Trial of T. S. Kalloch, on the Charge of Adult
terry" This pamphlet contained a portrait of
Kalloch and the woman with whom he was said
to be intimate, and pretended to give full
history of the affair, the doings of his church,
Kalloch's pulpit experience, arrest, a1Taignment,
trial and result. Its imprint was "Boston: Ed
erlam & Co., 1857" but it was generally regard
ed. with how much truth it is now impossible to
say, that its temperance was due to De Young,
who was known to have gone East some
time ago to hunt up the facts in the career of
lated, and the kalloch party was wrought to
tinued his vigorous assaults on Kalloch, and. as
the time for his trial for the shooting OF the
Mayor drew near, he became more aggressive,
and Kalloch's friends became correspondingly
eXaSperated.
The funeral of De Young occurred on Sun
day, the 25th. The remains of the murdered
man were followed to the grave by a large con-
course of people.