New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-20
Al. n. DE YOUNG SHOT.
ADoLPH spRECKELs ATTEMPTS MURDER.

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THE ELBOW AND LEFT SHOULDER.
| SANFRANCrsBO, Nov 10-The city was greatly eA-
| cited late this afternoon BY the shooting OK M. H.
De Youno the propretor of The Chronicle, by Adoph
Spreckels tho Youngest sou Of Claus Spreckeis tne
head Of the Sandwich Island Sugar Company MI.
DE Young was entering his office about ooo p ~
| when he heard his name called. He eturned sharpy
about and was amazed to find Adoph op'ooAo''
standing not four feet from him and pointing pis
toI at him. Instinctivey he gathered up toward
bis breast books which he carried In his
| hand and at the same moment Spreckes hred Inc
bullet hit Mr. De Young III the left shoulder and as
| he was unarmcd, he turned and darted around
| tall desk in the office. Spreckes followed As he
turned The corner of the desk. Mr.. De Young slipped
and fell almost to his kuees, when Spreckels hreu
| two more shots, one of which entered Dc Yonngs
| left shoulder aud the other probably 1moedded IL
self In the books which he carried
Chesley, the cashier of The Chronicle, jumped
over the railing around his desk and as
| Snreckels cooked his pistol for the fourth shot,
seized the hammer and prevented HIM from firing
| Other clerks sprang toward Spreckels, ana one
clerk Emerson who had seized pistol from tne
drawer of his desk, fired at Spreckes. woundihg
him slightly in the left arm. Policemen 'heh
rushed in and arrested SDreckes and Emerson.
The whole thing was over inside OF three INJURIES
II naturally excited Intense feeling because the
| shooting occurred IN almost the Identical spot
where Charles De Young was shot down by young
Kalloch Mr. De Young was taken into his ONCE
and the doctors examined the wounds. One bail
was extracted from the lett shoulder,
which had shattered the clavlce. Sew
eral bits of bone taken out with
if. The other bullet passed under the LETT arm
pit and has not been taken out. The ball which
shattered the cavicle passed within one-sx'ech'h
of inch of the sub clavIan artery, ana PHYSICIANS
fear that the irritation of the wound may aiect
the walls of this artery. In this lies the chef
danger and 1t is rendered more grave nom inc
fact that Mr. De Young is -bIooded.
The cause of the shooting is assigned to the eN-
treme irritation of Claus Sprcckels aud his son over
stricturcs by The Chronicle recent operations OF
the Hawaiian Commercial Company, by which the
stock of the concern it is alleged was broken down
from 500 to 25 cents per share. Ii is sad Tor iee
Chronicle that il merely stated facts and III Driei
editorial, pointed out that the managers OF inc
company had laid themselves liable to criinlhal
prosecution and asked whether any OF the stock-
holders would avail themselves of the remedy
which the law supplied. This is the only assgna-
BILE cause for the most cold-boodcd attempt at as
sassinaton which has occurred in the city since
James King was shot by Casey in the days of the
Vigilance Committee.
The excitement is intense. The hostility oi
Spreckes's family toward De Young has been
shown for more than two years The Chronicle has
attacked the reciprocity treaty by which spreckcis
makes millions every year aud IN return SPrech'cS
l,, caficuturod iibellch De Young In an Illus
| trotod noper which he controls. Tho feeling OF
bitterness aggravated by the latest structures, led
to the crime
THE KILLING OF CHARLES DE YOUNG.
| EXCITING SCENES IN SAN FRANCISCO FIVE YEARS
| AGO RECALLED.
| n, co+urdov AuUust 1870 the Rev Isaac =,
| Kalloch the workingmens candidate for Mayor of
San Francisco was shot by Charles De Young, the
proprietor and editor OF The Chronicle, and brother
of the man who was shot yesterday The circum'
stances were as follows After Kailochs nominal
ton Charles De Young threatened that unless he
withdrew he would raae up his record in the col
umns of The Chronicle and on his refusal to
! withdraw The Chronicle out on sew
eral subsequent days with long articles reviewing
Kaoch's career in b ,ston and Kansas, containing
charges against his morality and that of his father,
who was then dead. also strongly adverse criti-
csms on his political and business record To this
Kaloch responded by advertisnga a mass-meeting at
the Metropolitan Temple. and threatening to read
an article published five years previously by one B.
| F. Naphtay in little paper called The Sun.
! The article was an attack upon the personal and
family record of the De Youngs and led to an un:
successful attempt on the part OF tho latter TO XIII
| HOW THE SHOOTING OCCURRED.
This threat brought the De Youngs to their feet
| with the challeuge that if KallOch dared to read
that article they would shoot him sight.
The meeting came off but Kalloch did not
read the article Us he " did wish to expcnd all
his ammunition at once" lie made, however, some
extremely personal remarks regarding the
| De Youngs The next day Charles De Young
drove tn the Metropolitan Temple, and Just
/ as Kaloch was stepping into carriage with Carl
| Browne Denis Kearney's former secretary, De
| Young sent message to tell him that man
wished to speak to him. As Kalloch approached
DeYoungs carriage for this purpose the latter fired
two bullets which entered his victims body and
then drove off. The carriage had
not gone far when it was stopped
| by an immense crowd and De Young was dragged
from his seat. He received an unmercful beating.
and police officer who attempted to save him, met
| with similar treatment. De Young eventually es-
| capped to the police station, around which 10000
people congregated crying aloud for his blood
with such shouts as "IIang himp xiii himi"
| Governor Irwin dspa tched a force Of military
| and these, with the aid of the civil authorities,
| kept the crowd at bay Ono speaker harangung
the masses said that if Kalloch died they would
eranly hang De Young. movement was then
made to wreck The Chronicle office and lynch
DE Young's brother. but speech from Denis kear-
ncy counsclling peace had the desired effect
For several days The city was In tremendous
state of excitement De Young was then about
thirty years old. lIis paper The Chroni-
cle had formerly supported kcarncy. hut at
the time or tho shooting was bitterly
opposed 10 him. Five years previously he dis.
chh'aed from The Chronicle benjamin T. Naphtalv.
aud II was ~ ihe S"1, started by tina man.
That The attack npon De Young appeared
which led ~ the attciH altompi upon tho lifo
"f Naphtaiy by hfiua two nhota at him which
however only wounded u small hoy Ia the leu'
tue bill OF assault viii, inient 10 murder lKaf.