The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-06
MuTdeTOaS Attack on a Woman
Nth a HatChet.
no CleT Whatever to The Perpetrators Of
The Outrage
Sacramento Jail Full Of CrIminalS-An HyS-
terlcal Young Lady-Allel'S GaTOters,
One Brother Kills TEO Others.
Special TO THE MORNING CALL.

SACRAMENTO, June 5.-Auother horrible
crime has been added to the recent category
of crimes In Sacramento. and it is the most
brutal and c0wardly of all Word was re-
eeiYed at the police station late this after
noon that q woman had been assaulted
somewhere out on Twenty second street,
and in 4 few minutes Chief Drew, Deputy
District Attorney Buckley and Bee re-
porter were on the way out In little
house occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Gehrig, at
Twenty-second and S streets, was found in
q dingy little room, attended by kindly Mrs
Gehrig a woman whose face presented a
frigEtful appearance. Tie skull over the
left eye had been carried away or crushed
IN, and the brain showed in an ugly mass.
Her face was covered with blood and the
right eye was so much discolored that the
flesh about it mad the appearance of having
been horribly bruised. The poor woman
sat up in bed, with the assistance of Mrs.
Gehrig, and talked feebly but cOherently.
Chief Drew asked her to tell what occa-
stoned her terrible wounds, and the woman
related The few facts in her possession.
Il went to bed last night" she said,
rather early. a lady named Anna Z fer
and her two children were In the kitchen
asleep, when about II O'Clock some men
came to the front door and knocked l
asked who was there, and one Of them
called out that they wanted whisky. | said
haven't got any whisky and then before
/ knew il the door was buTSted in and three
men rushed into the room" As far as the
suffering woman could tell, not word was
spoken. So far as tie men knew she was
alone, and before she could recover from
her surprise she was struck over the LETT
eve with some instrument. She could not
say what it was. She lay there senseless,
bur THINKS that she can remember seeing
the aSsa'sins run as soon as the blow was
struck. Al any rate she did not see enough
OF the men TO be able 10 Identify any of
them. They were all strangers 10 her, she
thought. Dld they demand money! was
asked "NO; they only asked for whisky"
WAS the womau'S reply.
To a Bee reporter the woman said that
her name is Mrs. opillman, and she lives in
little house at I and Twenty-hrst streets.
1t was there that the cowardly outrage was
eomGitted. For hours Mrs. Sp.llman lay
unconscious and unattended, for so eXpedi-
tOu>lY did the aSSaSSInS work that il was
nat uni nearly o'clock this morning that
Mrs. ZlfieT heard her CToans and went to
her assistance Mrs. Zufier went for help
and called on Mrs. GehTig and the suffer
iuZ woman was taken to the latter's home.
DR.. Nichols was called in late this afternoon.
Ii does not seem possible that the woman
can live. Chief Drew, from the best eXami-
nation be could make of her INJURIES feels
sure that the blow must have been struck
with a Ratchet.
Mrs SpiIlman had been living with her
husband, who cOnd ucted a saloon at Twen-
.y-frst and streets. but about six weeks
ago they had a family quarrel and Sepa-
rated. She says she does not know where
lie is, but he was not one of the men who
broke into her house last night. So far as
can be told now tie scOundrels made no at
tempt to ind money in the house, but fed
as soon as they saw the CHASTITY results of
their crime. There is absolutely nothing to
supply a solitary intmation as to who the
murderOuS scouudrelS are