Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-12
POOR MAMIE KELLEY.
FURTHER FACTS CONCERNING
HER BRUTAL MURDER.
Her Slayer's ISLANDERS Refuted-
Goldenson Already Indicted for
His Terrible Crime.

I
event occurring in this city for many
year has so stirred the public as the brutal
killing of the schoolgirl, Mamie Kelley, yes
terday, by one Alexander Goldenson. Inc
child-for she was little more than child
was on her way home from school when
the young fend waylaid her on the public
street and shot her down as if she had been
wild animal. The scene about the spot
where she fell, when her schoolmates gath
cred about her lifeless body, cannot be de-
scribed. 1t was pitiful in the extreme.
| There lay the innocent young victim on
| the sidewalk, with her school books scat
tered about where they fell from her arm,
her life blood trickling over their pages.
The grief of her schoolmates was deep,
and the men and women gathered there
! were loud in their expressions of horror at
the dastardly crime and in denunciation of
the Young murderer. The murdered girl
lived with her mother and grandmother.
and was loved and respected by them, by
her teacher, and all who knew her.
| Despite the statements of her murderer
| to the contrary, everybody says the young
girl bore an excellent character, her only
failing being her childish attachment to
the scamp who killed her.
From the Evening Post.l
| A large crowd gathered around the doors
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tanning the corpse was taken from the
dead wagon a rush was made by the NOR
bidly curious throng. The body was raised
| to the first floor of the Morgue building
and there uncovered. As the Coroner
| turned her bleeding face upward, threats of
lynching the murderer were made. Several
of the men present shed tears, and hardly
an onlooker but was vislbly affected.
She was decidedly pretty girl, quite
dark. Her face, with the discolored eye
ball nearly forced from its socket, was most
| CHASTITY. The blood from the wound had
saturated her hair and clothing. Her
school books and lunch basket, and a
pencil-ca all stained with blood were
with her. The crowd soon became so large
that the Coroner was obliged to exclude
those who had no other interest in seeing
the remains than that inspired by curiosity
from the Morgue. He expressed his inten-
ton of only keeping the body from the
girls home as long as required by the
necessary legal formalities.
| THE REAL MOTIVE OF THE MURDER
There was great excitement and indigna-
| ton in the neighborhood where the muir
dered girl had resided, and her relatives
were utterly Frustrated with grief 1t seems
that Mamie Kelley had lived with her grand
| mother for the past seven years at % Hayes
street, her mother being a domestic in the
employ of Julius Baum, the cothier, who
recently failed. Goldenson, who claims to
be an artist, resided in the adjoining house,
| over the cigar mandatory of his brother,
| Edward E. Goldenson. The friends of the
girl say that the young murderer has long
had the reputation in that neighborhood as
very fast young tough, who had no re-
gard for the chastity of women, and con-
| sidered them, one and all, legitimate prey.
| For some time past he has been very per-
| sistent in his advances toward the girl and
ON every occasion of their meeting would
attempt to be familiar with her She al
| ways Indignantly resented his actions and
has several times in the presence of others
berated him in good, round terms. 1t is
not believed that he led the girl astray, and
her friends all say that the killing was the
result of his failure to succeed i'll his de-
signs.
| GoLDENsoN S LETTER-HIs CRIMINAL RECORD.
The letter which he wrote to her, telling
her that he could not go with her any
longer, has not been found yet. Golden
son has not said where it can be found. 1t
was this letter which she told him, Just
before the shooting, was insulting, and he
has probably taken care that it will not be
brought to light
III IOOhlDg over tlle criminal record
the Police Court this morning, Post re-
porter found the name Aleck Goldenson in
many places. On July 81, 1884, that indi-
vidual was convicted of misdemeanor drunk
and of vagrancy. On August Z, 1884, he
was brought before the magistrate for VIC
lating the S-oclock order. On June %,
1885. he was convicted of battery upon
Wesley p. Bean, and was fined for the
ofense; and again May 81, 1856, he was
examined for battery upon Gee King Wee,
but the charge was dismissed. The charge
of murder entered against him last night
caps the climax of his unsavory career
His preliminary examination has been set
for Thursday November 18Th, in Police
Court No. l.
GoLDENsoN CHARGED WITH MURDER.
SAN FRANcisco. November 11th-1O:30
P. M.-The Coroners jury to-day rendered a
verdict in the case of Mamie Kelley, who
was shot by Alexander Goldenson yester-
day. The verdict is as follows: " We find
that the deceased, Mary Elizabeth Kelley, a
native of San Francisco aged IA years,
came to her death On Wednesday afler-
noon, November 10th, at the corner of Polk
street and Ash avenue, from a bullet
wound of the brain, inflicted by one Alex
ander Goldenson. We further believe that
said act was done with deliberation and
malice aforethought, and without cause
and we do charge said Alexander Golden
son with cold looded murder"
GoLDENsoN INDICTED BY THE GRAND JURY.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 11th--Mid-
night-The case of Alexander Goldenson.
charged with the murder of Mamie Kelley,
was placed before the Grand Jury to-day.
and tonight an indictment was found
against the accused, charging him with
murder.
TIE PEOPLE AROUSED.
Preparations are in progress for holding
an indignation mass meeting at an early
day to express the feeling of the commu-
nifty over the actions in the cases of the
many murderers now confined in Jail in
this city, and particularly to express the
public sentiment over this last atrocious
case.
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