The morning call., 1891-02-14
MANSLAUGHTER.
The Verdict in the Killing of
BOycotter May.

The inquest in the case of John G, Nav.
the brewery workman, who was shot and
killed on Wednesday morning by Police
Officer j. b. Cavanaugh. was resumed YES
terday afternoon. Cavanaugh was in at
tendance, as was also j. n. E. Wilson. his
attorney. Several prominent members of
the police force were present, and closely
watched the proceedings.
Through Deputy Coroner Berg, who acted
as interpreter, Heinrich Getz testified
that he is a brewer, and that he had known
May for two years. they having worked to-
gether in the National Brewery. On Tues
day night the witness and Charles Jeschke
went to Mays house at 722 Grove street.
and the trio started forth to distribute cir
culars boycotting the National Brewery.
After taking drink in a saloon, Getz and
May went across the street to Buchanan.
o. saw man running on the other side
of the street," continued Getz, sand Nav
asked me where Jeschke was. We called
out several times for Jeschke, but did not
believe the man across the street was
Jeschke because he was too tall. Nav then
pasted one OF the boycotting circulars on a
telegraph pole, and l told May that the man
might be watchman. Then when we saw
the man coming down the street, suggested
| that II might be an officer who was going to
diiCSS uo lOI pullluR uD Tic CilCuldrS.
when | saw the officers stan | ran for all
L was worth, and had run about $50 feet
! when the first shot was fired. did not see
whom the shot was fired at but kept on run
ming as L thought it might be at me- A
| second shot was fired an instant later. and
| on Ash avenue" In answer to question q
| Geiz replied that he did not hear the officer
| command halt.
| Police Surgeon Williams next told of the
autopsy May had been shot in the back
| near the medlan line. and the bullet pene-
trated the upper lobe OF the left lung
Jeschke, who lived in the same house
| with May, testified that on Tuesday night
he attended meeting of local Union M.
| IL, OF the Brewery Workmen. After the
meeting he went with Get2 to apprise Nav
of what had been done. He left the house
with May and Get, and after taking a
| drink at the corner OF Buchanan and Grove
streets, left them. He secured a bottle of
water to moisten the boycOtting circulars,
| after which he went down Grove street
toward Laguna. While in about the mid
die of the block he heard two shots fired.
| Oh1cer Timothy +. Connolly next testified
that he arrived at the scene of the killing as
soon as possible after hearing the whistle.
wounded man in his arms. He was alive al
The time. He said nothing, but moaned
| and the witness ordered a carriage and then
sent for doctor. When the latter arrived
he pronounced him dead.
The jury after celebrating alb out half an
| hour arrived at the following conclusion
| That the deceased came TO his death at the
corner of Fulton and Buchanan streets on
| February IL, 1891, through gunshot wound
in the chest inflicted by Officer John Cav
anaugh while attempting to escape arrest by
said officer.
The jury further charged Officer CAV
anaugh with the crime of manslaughter
The funeral of May will take place to-
morrow afternoon, and the interment Will
be at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.