Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13
THE WAGES OF SIN.
A Dual Tragedy on Alameda
Street.
A WOMAN MURDERED IN HER BED.
The Man with a Bullet-Hole IN
His Head Found by
Her Side.
A WOMAN MURDERED INNER BED.

In the early mornings darkness ther
was yesterday enacted IN the city
tragedy that for the horrors of it's Incl
dents, and the mystery of its surround
ings, can we'll claim a foremost place in th,
annals of the crimes of this city. The
scene of the affair was the nsafsOn de joie
No. 313 Alameda street, and the princi
pal actors. 30 far as known, were Charles
Scott, of the firm of Scott & Bryan, (the
blacksmiths on Requena street, opposite
the Pony Stsbles,) and Hor-
tense Felchier, alias Anna Pierre,
a woman of the town. OF
these two the woman now lies at the
Morgue, awaiting the Coroner's inquest,
which will be held to-day, and Scott,
with bullet-hole through his head, is
fighting with death IN the howell where
the tragedy occurred.
The first intimation of the affair was
given about O'Clock yesterday, when a
Chinaman ran into a saloon near the
scene of the crime, and, in an excited
manner, shouted, "They killed, they
KILLED" Those who were in the bar
room, divining that there was a
sensation at hand, followed him
through one of the Numerous alleys
that abound in that vicinity, to small
wooden outbuilding that stretched out
toward Los Angeles street from one OF
the Alameda bagnios. There was moth
ing to be seen from without, but in
broken sentences the Mongolian stam-
mered forth the situation. He said that
he worked for the woman known as
French Anna, and came around every
morning at 7 o'clock and cooked break
fast for her and her husband" He
was on hand as usual that day, and
there was nothing unusual to attract his
attention as he set about bis
labors. He had made some cof-
fee, and then had knocked at
the door of the sleeping apartment.
There was no response, so he, thinking
that they were still asleep, returned to
the kitchen. About ten O'Clock, he tap
ped at the door sgain, with, however, a
similar result; but, although it was un-
usual for them to remain in bed so late,
he did not suspect that anything had
happened. About l o'clock, he made a
third trip, and when he raped he heard
in reply groaning. Thoroughly alarm
ed, he did not dare to turn the handle of
the door, but ran around to- the other
side of the building, where there was a
window opening into the room, and,
pushing his hand through broken
pane, he drew back the curtain and
peered inside.
"Well," said someone, as the China
man paused for breath, swhat did you
see ?''
"Blood, blood ebblywhere;. they both
dead" he exclaimed, and at that mo-
ment the crowd that had by this time
swollen into gigantic proportions, was
invaded by couple of policemen, who
had responded to summons sent by Mr..
Sutch, who was one of the first ON the
ground.
INSIDE THE ROOM.
The door was then opened and the
scene that was displayed caused a mo.
mentary shudder to pass around. The
interior of small room, about 8 by 8,
was disclosed and on large double bed
that formed almost the only article of
what might be termed furniture, lay two
human beings in pool of blood that not
only saturated the pillows and bed fur
niture, but fell dripping to the floor. AT
first sight it appeared that both were
u6dQ3 OuU d low lUOdus IOllOWOu ny
shuddering, denoted that the ''fit-
full spark" was still burning in one
of the unfortunates. Although it was
apparent that something should be done
at once, none seemed to know what to
do, for the question of the rights of the
Coroner was at.once broached.
"That's all right about the dead one, +"
remarked an individual at last, "but
there's no reason why we shouldn't at
tend to the one that's alive"
Just at this juncture, however, DIR.
| Choate arrived and made a hurried in
spection OF the bodies. He found that
the woman was beyond mortal aid aud.
in fact, had evidently died without q
struggle, for from the gaping wound at
the back of her left ear the brains were
protruding. The man had been
shot through the right temple,
the bullet lodging in his head.
He was still alive and conscious, fer he
muttered " sob, my head" as the phys
ician moved him on his side. He made
an attempt to open his eyes, but his face
was so swollen and bloodshot that he
could not. He apparently knew what
was going on, for he said in distinct
tones, Stop this pain, please"
1t was evident that there was good
chance of getting an ante e.mortem state
ment from him, 30 while the clotted
blood was being sponged from his face,
| a HERALD man, and others in the room,
piled him with questions.
/ He responded intelligibly in every in
stance, never once contradicting himself,
| in spite of the cross-examination to which
he was subjected. In substance he spoke
as follows:
sCoTT's STATEMENT.
"My name is Charles Scott, and the
woman is Hortense. We have been liv
ing together at a place up town, bu
about a week ago che moved down here
We were not married, although she le
the people about here think we were
Last night we went to the circus anC
were on the best OF terms, in fact there
has been no row between us at all. w,
retired about midnight; neither of u
were drunk, nor had we been drinking
heavily. went to the saloon near b,
Just before 12 o'clock and got
drink of brandy, but that was all
After going to sleep l remember nothing
until was awakened by a loud report
l can only indistinctly remember wha
occurred, but l saw Hortense lying b
my side as she is now, and to the left c
the bed l fancied l saw dark obiec
moving. Then came fash as if ther
was fire in the room, and l became un
conscious. should imagine that it wa
between 4 and 5 O'Clock, for the morn
ing was Just beginning to break; th
lamp was still dimly burning, as we ha,
left it when retiring, and that furnishes