The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-09
AwFCL CRIME IN sAoRAMENro
Rejected Sutton Shots the Girl and Then
Commits Suicide.

Rejected Sutton Shots the Girl and Then
Commits Suicide.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, June s.-Shortly after
o'clock this afternoon Silva Perry shot pretty
Mamie Frates and then himself. The awful
deed was committed IN neat cottage on
street between Second and Third. There were
no eyewitnesses TO the shooting. Just after
noon the mother of the girl left her
alone in the cottage while she went to
call on a neighbor Perry was a cousin of the
girl and was anxious to marry her. but the pro-
position was neither acceptable to her nor her
parents. He had been away for some time,
working in a mill on Big river, Mendocino
county. He returned to the city yesterday and
went 10 the house of Mr. Frates, the father OF the
girl, and by virtue of his kinship was accepted
az guest After breakfast this morning he went
away and was not seen about the place again
until he was found lying in the bedroom with q
bullet in his head. He had evidently waited
around watching the place in the hope OF OBJ
tanning decisive interview with the girl 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 fired with
3s-caliber bull dog pistol at her, but missed
As she reached the back door. and he was close
upon her, he fired again. The second bullet
struck the girl just above the right ear. She
must have fallen just inside the door that leads
out onto the back porch, for geat pool OF
blood shows that she lay there for some little
time. She evidently recovered from the shock and
swoon that followed the penetration of the bull
let into her head, and endeavored TO escape
The hand rail Of the steps leading from the door
to the yard was red with blood in which her
hands had become smeared 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 had
dragged as she writhed and struggled on the
floor.
that murder had been committed. the police
were notified and several officers rushed TO the
spot They were the first to enter the house, and
found Mamie lying In the yard, conscious,
though evidently suffering, while Perry was
lying on his back in front of a bedroom, ga sping
in the agonies of death, although with wonder
ful vitality he did not die until two hours
later. Mamie first seen and car
ried into the basement kitchen, and while
Captain Lee questioned her Oficer Gibson dis
covered Perry in the position described above
Messengers were sent for the girls father who
works in the railroad shops, and for physicians
Dr. Huntington soon arrived and attended the
CIR, while Perry was taken to the receiving hos
pital. Huntington discovered that the girl had
been shot twice. One bullet entered lust above
her right ear, and the other to the right and
above her right eye. Both bullets are EN-.
bedded in her head, and were
not removed. The doctor fears that
the upper bullet penetrated the exterior plate
OF the skull He says the wounds are dangerous,
but not certainly fatal. The girl was perfectly
conscious while the probing was being pro-
ceeded with. She is 16 years Of age, and rather
handsome Portuguese maiden. Perry breathed
his last late this afternoon at the receiving hos
pital. three shots having 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.