The morning call., 1891-04-09
sHADDOCK MYSTERY.
Ida's Father Writes 10 Chief of
Police Crowley.
he States That an Operation Was Performed
Before She Came to This City-Pro-
posed Arrest of the Halls.

At last the mystery of Ida Shaddock's
death has dissolved through slow confess
| sions of persons who had knowledge OF
| her u nfortuaate condition and the opera.
| lions performed upon her.
The latest and most conclusive bit of In
| formation was given in letter received
! yesterday by Chief of Police Crowley from
her father, l. C. Shaddock. This letter was
dated at Sites, Colusa County, on the 9th
| inst, and 1t shows the writer to be thor
| oughly impatient of the publicity given his
| daughters death and the investigation into
its cause. The letter is as follows:
AN INsoLENT sCRIBBLE.
/ see by Coroner King letter that got last
| night stating that you have and album ana pho
tograph in your possession and wand you TO
forward them 10 me immediately as know what
MY dOffer was docklered for as she had been
doc ktered here before she went TO the city, the
such ISLANDERS started on hei, you will see by The
Examiner OF Today what was the cause OF !, he Or
| all you fellows want Is 10 make u CRATE blow so
| to get money. am poor man have but a liv
ing Furthermore know the cause OF her death
| ana wont give sent il had money. / want
| those things sent TO me for she had nothing that
| belongs TO anybody there.
SOME LIGHT IS SHED.
While the letter is deemed Every insolent'
| at the Police Station, 1t is welcome, as it
shed more light on the subject than the
! police had expected from 1da'S own family
1t shows that not only WAS her position
| known to her family, but that her father
knew of the purpose of her visit to this city.
| The album and photograph asked for by
Shaddock will hardly be sent, until one or
| more medical practitioners have cleared
| their names and as they are now held as
| evidence.
Ida Shaddock died Immediately after leav-
| ing a train at ColuSa Junction, on the 31st
| inst. She was bound from San Francisco in
| the temporary care of a man named Pietre,
| and suffering at that time what trainman
| has since described as "a thousand deaths"
| At COlusa junction she left the train and
| died in cab. Her body was taken to the
| MOrgue, where an inquest was held ana the
| cause of death was ascertaineu TO have been
| from malpractice.
HALL AND>uIs ADVERTISEMENT.
| At this time her name was not known, hut
| later developments revealed her identity and
she was taken to Sites for burial. The
surgeon, DR.. Hall, was next discovered IN
| this city and he has since boosted his con-
| nection with her case, claiming to have had
| her eight days under his care; also that he
| had put her on the train when she left for
| home.
He defes any one to prove his connection
| with an actual operation and views the un-
happy circumstances as good chance y
| for an advertisement The fact of an opera
ton having been performed at Sites will
make the case lose some OF its local interest,
as it will make it question of doubt whether
another had been performed in this city.
Yesterday morning John McArvlle, the
young engineer who was engaged to marry
Ida Shaddock, made oath to complaint for
the arrest of DR.. D. II. Hall and his son for
battery. The two medicos enticed him to
the office OF Hall Sr. on Tuesday and then
proceeded to pummel him for his activity in
connection with the Shaddock investigation.