Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-04-30

THE MURDER or CHARLES DE YoUNG-DETA1Ls
OF THE AFFAIR
Charles De Young, editor of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, who last August shot and
badly wounded Rev. l. S. Kalloch during the
campaign which resulted in Kallochs election
as mayor, was himself shot dead last Friday
evening in the Office of the Chronicle, by l.
NJ. Kalloch, son Of Mayor Kalloch The
leading facts in the tragedy Hre rs follows :
just before eight o'clock Charles De Young
entered the business Office of the Chronicle,
on the ground floor, and stood talking with a
gentleman when |. NJ. Kalloch entered draw
ing pistol, without, as far rs can be learned,
speaking, and began firing. De Young ran
through the gate of the counter to the desk
inside kalloch firing at him rs he ran. On
reaching the desk, DE Young turned to face
his opponent with Il pistol in his hand when
kalloch. leaning over the counter 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 dis
charged, and sinking backward he fell to the
floor. Bystanders ran to his assistance. but
the ball evidently pierced the brain and in a
few moments De Young expired. As Kali
loch 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 broth.
ers who conducted the Chronicle for num-
Der of of years The Chronicle opposed the
so-called workingmens movement, and Kali
lOch in public speech not only attacked the
De Ioungs but applied vile epithets to their
mother who did not deserve them. This
provoked the attack of Charles De Young on
kalloch. The feeling against the De Youngs
was very bitter, and young Kalloch made his
first appearance as an agitator at the meeting
held after the shooting, when he was very in
fammatory in his appeals for vengeance. He
was Baptist preacher located in Sonoma
county, was considered a good speaker, and
was listened to attentively by the bowling
mobs. So favorable an impression did he
make on them that they discussed the proba-
bilities of making him mayor in case his
father died
One Of the supposed causes of the shooting
was the recent circulation of a pamphlet en-.
titled The Only Full Report of the Trial of.
5. kalloch on the Charge of Adultery" This
pamphlet contained portrait of Kalloch and
the woman with whom he was said to be in
innate and pretended to give "a full history
of the affair, doings OF the church, Kalloch's
pulpit experience, arrest arraignment, trial
and result Its imprint was Boston, Eder-
hen & Co, 1871" but it was generally re-
garded that its temperance was due to De
Young. who was known to have gone East
some time ago to hunt up facts in the career
of Kalloch. The pamphlet was extensively
circulated and the Kalloch party were wrought
to quite state of desperation.
A San Francisco special says The shoot
ing created such an excitement as has never
been equalled before, even at the most
stormy period of San Francisco's history. 1t
exceeds in violence the storm of public pas
sion and agitation that succeeded the shoot
ing of Mayor kalloch by De Young in August
last, and it has increased to such an extent
that no one can foretell what the conse-
quences will be. The feeling against the
party of which Kalloch and Kearney are
leaders has been growing stronger of late,
and this assassination has infatuated the peo-
pie so that the mayors life is not considered
safe from public vengeance. Threats are
freely expressed against him and the entire
sand lot party, On the other hand there are
many who consider De Young's fate but a fit
ting close to his career and that no further
significance should be attached to it than to
an ordinary murder, in which one desperate
kills another.