Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-09
SACRAMENTO'S SHAME.
THE CAPITAL CITY BECOMING A
HoTBED OF CRIME.
Another Sensational Tragedy Enacted
Yesterday--A Young Lady Shot by
Rejected Suitor Who Then Took His
Own Life.

| SACRAMENTO, June s. 8.--Shortly after /
O'Clock this afternoon John Enos Silva
Perry shot pretty Mamie Frates and
then himself. The awful deed was COM
mitted in neat cottage ON T street. be-
tween Second and Third. There were
no eye-witnesses to the shooting. Just
after noon the mother of the girl left
her alone in the cottage while she went
to call on neighbor. Perry was a
cousin of the girl, and was anxious to
marry her, but the proposition was
neither acceptable to her nor her par
ents. He had been away for some time
working in mill on Big river, in Men
docino county. He returned to the city
yesterday. and went to the house of Mr..
Frates, father of the girl. and by virtue
of his kinship was
ACCEPTED AS GUEST.
After breakfast this morning, he went
away and was not seen about the place
until found in a bedroom of the house,
with a bullet in bis head. He had evi-
IDENTIFY waited around, watching the
place in the hope of obtaining an inter-
view with the girl. From all appear
ances he had met the girl at the front
door, but she wished to avoid him, and
started to back room to escape to the
back yard. As she reached the door he
fired 38-bulldog pistol at her. The
bullet missed. AS she reached the back
door ne was close upon her, and he
fired again. The second bullet struck
the poor girl just above the right ear.
She must have fallen just inside the
door that leads onto the back porch, for
a great pool OF blood shows that she lay
there for some little time. She evi-
IDENTIFY recovered from the shock and
swoon that followed the penetration of
the bullets into her head, and endeav-
ored to escape. The hand rail of the
steps leading from the door to the yard
was red with the blood in which her
hands became smeared as she struggled
to her feet. This rail and steps, some
ten in number, were
A FEARFUL SIGHT,
the first being covered with blood from
her hands, and the steps draggled with
that in which her skirts became COW
cred, as she writhed and struggled on
the floor.
AS soon as it was learned by the
neighbors thaS murder had been COM
mitted, the officers were notified. They
rushed to the spot. They found Mamie
lying in the yard, conscious though eyi-
IDENTIFY suffering, while Perry was lying
on his back in the front bedroom,
GAsPING IN THE AGoNIEs OF DEATH,
although he did not die until more
than two hours later. Mamie was first
seen and carried into the basement of
the kitchen. and, while Captain Lee
questioned her Officer Gibson discovered
Perry in the position described above.
Messages were sent for the girls father,
who works in the railroad shop, and for
a physician. DR.. Huntington soon
arrived and attended to the girl, while
Perry was taken to the receiving hos
pital.
DR.. Huntington discovered that the
girl had been shot twice. One bullet
entered just above her right ear and to
the right and above her right eye. Both
bullets are imbedded in her head and
were not removed. DR.. Huntington
fears that the upper bullet penetrated
the exterior plate of the skull. He says
the wounds are dangerous, but not GER
vHtAiAJ AoVoAs AhO girl Was COuSClOuS
while the probing was proceeding. She
is 16 years of age and handsome Por-
tuguese maiden.
Perry breathed his last late this after
noon at the receiving hospital. Three
shots had taken effect. One about an
inch back of the right ear, the second
above the right ear and the fatal one
entered directly below the chin and
passed upward into the brain. Perry
was about 80 years of age.
OTHER VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE.
SACRAMENTO, June 8.--Mrs. Fassler
the woman assaulted by unknown assas-
sins in the suburbs few nights ago,
died tonight Of her injuries. There ap-
pears to be no clue to her assailants.
At the coroner inquest, tonight, there
was abundant proof that Philip Peyran,
who was found dead in burned build
ing, Friday night, was first murdered.
His skull was fractured in several places
and fragments of his clothing show knife
marks and blood stains.
A suit with an artistic cut and fit,
hrss-class workmanship and Innings, can
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