San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-27
FOULLY lASSASSINATED.
A Young San Antonio Boy Meets His
Death in the Streets of Los
Angeles, CAL, While Co
ing to a Birthday

| ing 10 a bITInuSy
| Party.
News comes from Los Angeles,
California, under date of August end,
telling of the fatal shooting of Mr..
Ben Weyermann, well known San
! Antonio boy, in the streets OF that
city, on the IN Orning of August list.
| The Los Angeles Daily Herald says:
There are no new developments in
| the mysterious shooting of Bernhard
| Weyermann, which took place early
Yesterday morning. The unfortunate
young man is lying at the point of
| death, and has but little chance OF re-
covery. Several members of the de-
| tective corps are at work on the case,
but as yet have accomplished very
little, as it is impossible to obtain
much of clue from the meagre evil
dence which is afforded. Two men,
John f. Flynn and NJ. Traynor were
arrested as suspects in the course OF the
day, but nothing could be proven
against them. DR.. Choate succeeded
in removing the bullet which is from
a "a calibre revolver. 1t was taken
out from the mans back, having
passed clear through his body. AS
symptoms of peritonitis have shown
themselves it is probable that the
bullet passed through an intestine.
With probability of death before
him the young man gave the police
the following statement of the affair:
I, Bernhard Weyerman, believing
that l will die from the gun-shot
wound received this day, make my
dying statement of the facts connect
al, In eL0nti,,n Nv, ic
Bernhard Daniel Weyermann. l will
be p years old the 18th day of Novem-
Der. | was born in Louisville, Ky.
I am shoemaker by occupation.
left my home a few minutes before
p. m. on the evening of August ~
with my father and brother Arthur to
90 to the Gambrinus Hall as an in
Vited guest to the birthday party
given to Mr.. B. Levy, arriving there
about S:15. Ibid not stop on the way.
remained there until am. in compa-
ny with my brother and father. l had
no alteration, words or trouble with
any one. Gambrinus hall Is at ll3
East First street. We came up First,
turned into Main, went as far as
Temple and turned up Temple street.
NV father. brother and myself were
IO06lueT all lIl6 llIllS uuJll VIC SOO w
the corner of Spring street. L being
in hurry to get home walked ahead,
leaving my father and brother some
distance behind until got as far as
Fort street, where / sat down on the
curb at the southwest corner of
Temple street. ! looked down the
street and saw my father and brother
about two blocks below on the south
Il 80 l,a
wait for them. / saw no one around
or near me except my father and
brother. Just before my father and
brother came up to me where L was
sitting I saw flash and felt imme-
diately that / was wounded. l fell
forward into the street. / was then
taken into hack and brought to my
home. There is no trouble existing
between me and any member of my
family. | came here from San AntO-
Mo, Texas, during December of 1887.
/ never had any trouble with anyone.
This is all know about the shooting
or the author of it.
BERNHARD d. WEYERMANN.
Witness: Theo. G. Metzler, James
Choate, J. A. Van Luven.
Mr.. D. Weyerman and family re-
moved from San Antonio to Los
Angeles three months ago. He was a
we'll known shoe maker, living on
South Alamo street, where he had his
shop. He had three sons and one
daughter. The boys were all ME
young men, peaceable and never quar-
relsome, and Ben, the youngest, was
we'll liked by all who knew him. For
a while here, he followed his fathers
trade, then he drove street cars and
finally when the family located in
California, they kept restaurant.