The morning call., 1891-06-29
THE GOLDING CASE.

The ARRAY between Captain Golding and
the police, which led to tie infection upon
the former of a wound which may prove
fatal, necessarily requires investigation.
The facts are rather complicated. AT %
minutes before midnight Oh Friday, Goth.
Officer Knott, armed with a warrant to ar
rest one John Doe-th the name of the alleged
criminal being unknOwn-fOr hoIse-steal-
ing, went to the house, 607 Turk street. oc-
cupied by Captain Thomas Golding. Gold
ing is a veteran of the war, and has served
as captain Of steamers in the Pacific Mail
and Oceanic fleets. His son, Thomas 5.
G0ldiug IT., had on that day become the
p0ssessor of horse by trade with one
Clement Lacombe; aud the latter, repentng
Of his bargain, had endeavOred to regain the
animal by accusing Goldng of borse-steal-
ing. and suing out a writ for his arrest
The Golding family had been frightened
by stories of burglars; on that same Friday
evening, at about s. hearing noise
in the back yard. young Goldng had gone
out, revolver in hand, and had fired shot
at a man whom he saw, but who escaped IN
the darkness. The whole family were
nervous when, shortly before midnight, the
bell at the door was rung.
Captain Goldjng answered the bell HIM
self, in his nightclOthes; as a precautioD, lie
had IN his hand his old navy cutiasS. The
man vino had rung the bell, who was in
plain clothes, said: Z" am an officer. L
hold a warrant which ! want TO serve"
/ The captain replied that he was no officer,
but thief. The policeman then exhibited
his star, which in the darkness appeared to
the captain to be bogus star, and lie
tlourished his cutlaSs menacingly. On this
the policeman blew his whistle. This
/ brought to the scene Officer Blown, who,
though on leave OF absence. happened curl
ously enough to be near a hand, and shortly
afterward four other policemen turned up,
while Golding'S sou and wife appeared from
their bedrooms. The police party fellupon
the Goldings and beat them pretty thor
ougly; the old man was feled and was shot
in the back; the young man was Knocked
senseless with a blow from a revolver; his
mother was knocked down; a seveniy-year-
: Old paralytc named Stansbury was dragged
| about and thrown into corner; drunken
! fellow who happening to be passing,
/ slipped in to see what the row was about,
was ioored and handcuffed; a hired man
/ who had been attracted by the scut1P, hut
! who had taken no part IL il, was also
arrested and handcuffed. The six police
! men undoubtedly won the victory.
When the party were taken to the station
! house it proved that Captain Goldng was
! shot in the back, the bail lodging in the
/ pleugal cavity, tEat the policeman Brown
/ had a slight bullet wound in the leg, and
! that all the Goidings exhibited contusions
/ more or less serious. The question which
arose was who fred the shots which
/ wounded Captain Golding and Brown. To
/ this question Policeman Knott and his
/ comrades replied that no policeman fred a
! a single shut-that the old man and Brown
! were wounded by shots from two reviewers
/ which young Golding fired. GOlding's an
| swer was that he had not two TevOvers,
! but only one, and that the only cartridge he
! possessed that day he had fired to brighten
the intruder at o'clock in the evening.
! The other chambers Of his weapon were
empty, and an expert testified that they did
not seem to have been used for some time.
| The policemen fOTbOre to exhibit their reyol-
! yers, though, if they had been all loaded, the
circumstance would have been confrma-
ton of their story. Neither did they pro-
duce the second revolver which young Gold
| ing is said to have carried, though they say
they made diligent search for it. twill de
yolve on the courts 10 unravel the mystery.