Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-08
PACIFIC SLOPE.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUI
eide II SAN FRANCIS o.
Frightful Tragedy in New Mexico
Convention OF Baptists = Ex-
tortion and BIacknaii.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE EHooHD-pSlos.I
CALIFORNIA.
Attempted Murder and Suicide in san
Francisco.


Attempted Murder and Suicide in san
Francisco.
SAN Francisco, May 7th.-About 2:30
o'clock this afternoon Charles Ashton real
| estate and insurance agent at 400 MontgOm-
cry street, was shot i'll his office by Captain
| j. l.. Eagan, who lives at 3l4 Suffer street
| Henry Moore, who has an Office at the
same number on Montgomery street, states
| that Mr.. Ashton came in the door from the
street and was followed at short interval
| by Captain Eagan, who, when Just across
| the threshold fired two shots, both of
which took effect. Officers Morgan and
| Hook heard the shots, and the latter ell
| tered the place through rear entrance
! Just as the former entered from the street.
| Eagan at once covered Morgan with his
pistol ordering him not to advance, under
pain Of death, and at the same time put a
small bottle, containing a solution of
| strychnine, to his mouth and succeeded
in drinking some. But officer Morgan
| Sprang upon him and threw up the pistol
| hand, while officer Hook seized the
hand holding the bottle of poison, thus
preventing the would-be suicide from TAX
| ing all of the mixture. Eagan was at once
taken TO the City Receiving Hospital, to
which place Mr.. Ashton also was removed,
and while the stomach-pump was applied
| to the former, DR.. Dennis examined the
wounds of the latter. The poison that
| Eagan took was soon removed, and he was
J out of danger from death by poison. Mr..
| Ashton, however, was found to have two
serious wounds in the left side, just above
| the hip, where both bullets struck him.
| One of the bullets, however, he found in
his clothing when disrobing and the other
was cut out by DR.. Dennis short distance
| from its point of entrance. When examined
at the city prison there We're found on
| Eagan a letter addressed TO him, and a large
| envelope which bore the following indOrse-
ment:
| To the Coroner, or to whom it may concern: In
! the event of the death of J. L. kagan, OF San
Francisco. residence 3l4 Suffer street, my watch
| and chain are i'll my room.
Egan, before being taken 10 the City
Prison, said that he was willing to die if he
| could only kill Ashton-he was ready to
take his own medicine" He is a native OF
| Virginia, and came here about Is years ago
He has no family and said that if he had
| had one he would not have tried to shoot
| Ashton. He stated that being a South
erner, he could not stand what a Northern
man could, and had to take this way of OBJ
tanning relief.
Ashton resides at Baden, San Mateo
county He has wife and several chill
| dren. His two wounds are both on the left
side. One ball entered in the small of the
| back, and was cut out in front by the Po-
| lice Surgeon. The other entered between
| the ribs about six inches below the nipple.
The wound was not probed, and DR.. Den
mis- thinks that the bullet is still within the
BODY. although Mr.. Ashton states that he
pjcked hall ont of his clorhes, The noHce
SURGEON states that if the hnIlets have not
| entered tbc abdominal cavifv Mr. Ashton
| will nrobahIv i've
hapi7's IN council
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minister should banfi2e a candidate wLo
intended IN Join IreSh,,fario,, cb,,rcb
The Conference exnressed ;tseIf oI,noy+
unanimously 9 l, sncb act; ,,p1'i almost
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practicad in tLe Ro1,tis+ CIrrcbos IF t,aI;
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to draft a constitution for the Pastnrs, and
Deacons' Conferences
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ference adjourned
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to order at 20 " by, ,ia ref;.inl, Pc
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nsmal commitfees we're annointnd
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about sixtvIfve DELEGATES
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in favor of the election of The oid otIi"o,,
will n SINGLE chonge Tho f,IIoyr;,,,, III
cors wore tIereunon elnctad pros;da9I3+ y
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dents. Hon. II. \ McC'une If niyon and
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tary. Rev. !. 3 Hnrtwell of San iran.
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NAPA, May th.-John Fritz, OF San
FRANCISCO, was brought before Justice Ell
gln, OF ~. Helena, on Tuesday, charged
with threatening to expose certain letters
and some unknown secret Eva a. Haxe,
OF San Francisco, Is the complainant, and
the secrets and letters referred to had some
relation and interest to her. Fritz did not
make any defense in the preliminary OK
animation, but was held to answer before
the Superior Court for eXtortion. with bail
fixed at $1,000. Fritz IS now in jail, and,
acting under advice of his counsel, he re-
fuses 10 give any particulars of the affair
other than what was elected at the exam
ination before the Justice. 1t seems from