Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-05
MORE BLOODSHHD,
FRANK BATTIESE MORTALLY WOUNDS
CASTILLO IRWIN.
A Dispute About Dollar Sends One
Man to Jail and the Other
to His Deathbed.

street became the scene of shooting affray
that will probably result in the death OF
Castillo Irwin at the hands of Frank Bat.
tese. The men are both colored. The
shooting occurred in front OF deadfall in
which both had been drinking. Battiese
went at once to the city prison and gave
himself up, and his victim was taken to
the Receiving Hospital, in the same build
ing, and the City Physician was summoned
to examine and dress his wound. A pistol
shot wound was found in his left side,
just behind the nipple, and the bullet that
made its way there could plainly be felt
Just under the skin, on the opposite side of
the body and little lower down. The
surgeon regarded the wound as necessarily
fatal.
Captain Karcher reached the scene of the
shooting just as the wounded man was be-
ing placed in hack. A man came to him
and SAID he saw someone throw a pistol
into the cellar, and the Captain directed
officer Campbell to search for it. Campbell
found pistol at the place designated. 1t
was fully loaded.
IRvIN's DYING STATEMENT.
The wounded man made the following
statement at the Receiving Hospital about
o'clock in the presence of Chief of Police
Lee, Thomas Rowe, Police Judge Buckley,
Tom Shields and a number Of other per.
sons:
My name is Castillo Irwin. am going to die
/ never had ten words with the man who shot
me- He took 81 of my money to-day 1 slapped
him to-day about 3 or 4 O'clock l asked
kOODer DIo
1.-THE shooters nicknamel said; No, you -
---." He said You got back at me
today" He shot me without cause, saying,
You u----t take that p l feel that
l am getting dizzy. heard three shots. NV
father is James Irwin, of Yreka, SiskiyoIl
county. have given up all hope of living
am going to die l am getting heavy about the
chest, 50 that l can hardly breathe. When 1
made him give me my dollar it was long be-
fore the shooting. AT the time of the shooting
had no pistol, and made no motion as if to
draw one. was not looking at him when he
shot me,
WHAT BATTIEsE SAYS.
A RECORD UNION reporter saw Battiese at
the City Prison a little before 10 o'clock,
and the latter made tAe following state
ment in the presence OF Captain Karcher,
officer Higgins and the City Attorney:
My name is Frank Battiese. and am
2S years old. | was born at ST. Louis, Mo.
Myself and Irwin were together yesterday
afternoon, and we went to Slaughter's sa-
loon and restaurant, on Third street about
430 o'clock, where Irwin got 10 arguing
about having been in Cincinnati The bar
keeper bet him 81 80 he was never there.
Irwin mentioned some street there. This
al amounted to nothing. Then Irwin said
| was not two years older than he, and bet
me 81 to % cents. We left it to the bar
keeper to decide. Irwin said he was born in
1860, and | said | was born in 1855 So the
barkeeper handed me over The money. !
said l would keep it, and see what Irwin
would say, but would give it to him when
he got in good humor.
Invent to Bill Reds saloon, at Third and
L streets, and watched a poker game,
when Irwin came and asked me to give
him the dollar, saying he wanted to get
into pokersgame. gave it to him. He
said: 1t was a good thing you --
.--- you did give me this dollar. If
you hadn't, I'd made you said, Now
you've got the dollar, amt you satisfied?'
Then he ran his hand inside his pants and
pulled out a gun, and hit me with his left
hand. laughed and said to Joe Kelly
and others This is a pretty cool recep-
tion,' and he says: You ---
-, have notion to kill you, any how
You - - I've got it in for
you, anyhow
Il got up from the chair, and he slapped
me in the face, and says: L amt got no
show with you, with this gun, but if you
put it down I'll fight you like man.
He said: / just went up to my room
and got this (the gum to hx you am
just in the right humor to fix you, any
how
Il left him in the saloon and went into
the back yard, and ne went back to the
harn hal Lzk4 J
said he had slapped me in the mouth and
l hadn't resented it. 1 had no weapon at
that time.
He came back to Reds saloon and COM
menced abusing me again, but / said MOTH
ing to him, and went outside. Cooper
came to me and said: Come here, | want
to say something TO you He said, 4
wouldn't get into trouble with this fellow
and | said All right, let it drop.
Irwin came oct and asked me to 90 in
and have drink, and l said: i wouldn't
have the cheek to ask man to drink with
me after I'd done a man as dirty as you
have me- Then he commenced cussing,
and said, You ----, rll give YOU
worse than that = and stuck his hand in
his pocket and stepped back.
When he stepped back l pulled
my gun, and Cooper said: You'd
better not have any words, and
then Irwin said to me: I've got it in for
you, anyhow and when be went TO put
up his hand l shot him He ran off the
sidewalk and fell and called Cooper 10 him.
had seen the pistol all the time the
trouble was going on sticking out of his
pocket. After he fell | came down and
gave myself up.
Il fired three shots at him. The first
shot was fred while | was close to him.
Then he whirled and ran toward the street
and fell. After he callsd to Cooper | fired
the other two shots.
II have been here about month and a
half. l came from the East with L. J.
Baldwin last year, and worked for him up
to May last. l worked for time at Agri-
cultural Park, and afterward at Woodland
and returned here about six weeks ego"