The morning call., 1891-06-09
DEADLY BULLETS.
Another Shocking Tragedy in
Sacramento.
! Young WOman Shot al Her Home by an
Unsuccessful SuitOF.
Suicide Of the WouId-Bs MuFdeTeF-DlSGOY-
cred Lying In Pool Of Blood In
the AgOnieS Of Death,
Special to The MORNING GAIL

SACRAMENTO, June s.-ShOrtly after 1
o'clock this afternoon John Enos Silva
Perry shot Mamie Frates and then himself.
The awful deed happened in neat cottage
on T street, between Second and Third.
There were no witnesses to the shooting,
but the story is told by the appearance Of
the rooms and the accompanying circum-
stances Just after noon the mother of the
girl left her alone in the cottage while she
went to call on a neighbor. Perry was
cousin Of the girl and wished to marry her,
but the proposition was neither acceptable
TO her nor her parents. He had been away
for some time working in mill OF Big
River, MendocinO County.
He returned TO this city yesterday and
went to the house Of Mr.. Frates, father Of
the girl, ana by virtue Of his kinship he was
accepted as a guest After breakfast this
morning be went away and was not seen
about the place again until he was found
lying in the bedroom with a bullet in his
head. He had evidently waited around,
watching the place in the hope of obtaining
a decisive interview with the girl and set
ting at once and forever the question upon
which he had brooded in the lonely red
woods along Big River until his mind was
crazed. From all appearances he had met
the girl at the front door. but she wished to
avoid him and started to the back room to
escape to the yard. As she reached the
middle door he drew his muTderOus pistol,
Il IS caliber bulldog, and fred at her. but
the bullet missed. In her alarm she must
have paused, for as she reached the back
door he was close upon her and he fred
again.
The second bullet was more cruel In its
work and struck the poor girl just above the
right ear. She must have fallen Just inside
the door that opens on the back porch, for
a great pool Of blood shows that she must
have lain there for some little time. She
evidently recovered from the shock and
swo0n that followed the penetration Of the
bullet in her head, ana had endeavOred to
escape. The hand-Tail of the step leading
from the door, where great pool OF blood
was, TO the yard was red with gore. In
which her hands became SmeaTed as she
struggled to her feet. This rail and the
steps, some ten in number, are fearful
sight the first being covered with blood
from her hands and the steps draggled with
that in which her skirts became covered as
she writhed and struggled on the floor.
AS soon as it was realized by the neigh
boTs that a deadly deed had been committed
was hailed, and he fastened TO the police
station, and Captain Lee and other officers
rushed TO the SPOT They were the first to
enter the house, and found Mamie lying in
the yard, conscious, though evidently suffer
inc, while Perry was lying on his back in the
front bedroom, gaSDing in the agOnies Of
death, although with wonderful vitality be
did not die until more than two hours later
Minnie was the first seen, and she
was carried into the basement kitchen,
and while Captain Lee questioned
her, Officer Gibson discovered Perry in the
position described above. Messengers were
sent for the girls father, who works in the
railroad shops, and for physician. Dr.
Huntington soon arrived and attended 10
the girl, while Perry was taken TO the Re-
ceiVing Hospital. Dr. Huntington disc0v-
cred that the girl had been shot twice. One
bullet entered just above her right ear and
the other to the right and above her right
eye. Both bullets are imbedded in her head
and were not removed. The doctor fears
that the upper bullet penetrated the eXte-
TiOT plate Of the skull. He says the wounds
are dangerous but not certainly fatal. The
girl was perfectly conscious while the prob
ing was being proceeded with. She is Is
years Of age, and rather a handsome POrtu-
gueSe maiden.
1t is said that Perry had planned to carry
his deadly work into execution this morn
ing; that he hid in the hay in the back
yard and waited for the girl to come out to
attend 10 the COW, but she did not appear.
he then waited evidently for the girl to be
left alone, when he entered the house aud
began shooting. Perry breathed his last
late this afternoon at the Receiving Hos
pital. Three shots had taken Ell CT one
about an inch back of the right ear, sec
end above the right ear and the fatal one
entered directly below the chin and passed
upward into the brain. Perry was about 30
years Of age.