The morning call., 1891-08-10
ACROSS THE BAY.
An Autopsy Made on the Body of
HOwell's Victim.
Attempt to Blow Open the Safe at the Six
teenth-street Depot-Protests Against
Poultice Paving-Electric Roads.

Harmon, assisted by DR.. johnson, with the
following result: The bullet that entered
three inches below and one inch to the left
of the right nipple was found one and
half inches from the point of entrance,
resting in perforated space in the inter-
coStal muscles between The fifth and sixth
ribs. The bullet was resting on the parietal
pleura which it had not penetrated. An
other bullet entered two inches to the right
and on level with the umDiiieus, went
through the abdominal cavity. passing to
the right Of the ascending colon, cutting a
turrow in the lower edge of the right lobe of
the liver and entering the posterior abdonl-
inal wall about four inches to the right of
the spine. The furrow in the liver was
about three and half inches long. thee
quarters Of an inch at its middle, running to
the edge on each end. This bullet was taken
out the morning after the shooting at
point four and half inches to the right of
the spine on a level with the crest of the
Hume.
The bullet which entered the back one
inch to the left of the spinUuS process of the
fifth dorsal yertebra shattered the seventh
rib, carrying fragments of the rib into the
lung. The bullet passed through the upper
portion Of the lower lobe of the left lung
passed on through the upper lobe, leaving
the tEoracic cavity through the first inter-
costal space. This was the bullet taken out
on the morning after the shooting at point
3A inches TO the left Of the median line and
a inches below the claYicle. The bullet
which passed through the right arm mid
way between the shoulder ana elbow merely
made flesh wound. Its course was through
the trIcepS muscle. As To the condition OF
the visccra, the lowerloDe of the right lung
was hypostatIcally congested. In the left
lung there was rraumatlc pneumonia along
the track Of the bullet. There was trace
of localized pluritis at the point of entrance
and exit OF the bullet. The heart was COM
paratively small, weighing a scant nine
ounces. On the right lobe of the liver cor
responding to the lateral parietls of the ab-
domen was found the remains of an old
abscess. The lower edge of this abscess
was y inches above the track OF the bullet
which entered the abdomen. The remainder
of the yiscera were in normal condition.
The inquest will be held at o'clock this
afternoon in the Police Courtroom.
AN ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.
An attempt was made at an early hour
Sunday morning to burglarize the safe of
the Southern Pacific Company at the Six
teenth-street depot. The burglars gained
an entrance and drilled hole in the safe.
but missed the LOCK, ard before they could
blow it open with powder they were fright
ened away by the watchman. The burglars
are supposed to be new hands at the bust
ness, and the same ones that attempted to
break into the depot at Fourteenth and
Franklin street week ago.
kennedy's stable on Commerce street,
near Brooklyn Station, East Oakland, was
burned down at an early hour yesterday
morning. Nine horses aud forty tons of hay
were consumed. The loss was about $1,000.
William Richards gave himself up at
noon yesterday to Chief OF Police Temp
a wa lAal -lHt n n a
the United States Army. He was private
in Troop K, Sixth U. $. Cavalry, and
deserted in 1889 at Mojaye. He cam e to
San Francireo and has been sailing ont of
the bay OF San Francisco on various vessels
during the past ten years, but he got into
trouble few days ago and concluded to
give himself up,
Jennie Cunningham has written from
Boston, Mass, TO Chic of Police Tompkins
making inquiry for her parents, James and
Bridget Carney. who came to America from
Liverpool, England, twenty years ago and
are supposed to nave settled in some OF the
large cities Of California.
1t is arranged that TIE visiting members
of the American Library Association will
spend Thursday, October Sth, in Oakland
and Berkeley.
Henry \. Dunlap. whose wife has asked
for letters of guardianship on the ground
of his ncompeteney, Is the housc-mover
who was injured some time ago by a local
q G
as he was crossing the track at Seventh and
Brush streets.
PROTEST AGAINST PoULTICE PAVING.
There is protest in preparation for
presentation 10 the City Council against the
''poultIcing" of Twelfth street, from Frank
lin Zone block east Of Broadway TO
Thirteenth avenue brooklyn Station. The
principal reason set forth 10 the protest is
that without two-f0ot rock base bitumen
is a failure. From the present condition of
the thoroughfare those VINO drive over it
are loud i'll their expression that something
should be done to improve it. The pro-
testants also object 10 concrete stone curb
ing as not being substantial.
The church OF the First Free Baptist Con-
gregaiion OF Oakland. on Twenty-frst street,
near Brush, which has been undergoing re-
pairs tie past two months, was reOpened
Yesterday with a special service. The build
ing has been refurnished with handsome
pews, repainted and kalsomined inside and
new stained glass windows put in The
congregation IS prosperlng under the
ministrations of Rev. o. II. Tracey, who
succeeded Rev. DIR. Penney about SIX months
ago TIE latter was recalled by his Old con-
gregatiOn in Augusta, Me.
The new Unitarian Church at Fourteenth
and Castro streets will be dedicated on sun
day, September 9th, and it is expected to
make it a great day in the history of the
Unitarian Society of Oakland. Rev. c. w.
Wendte, the pastor OF the church, has in
preparation a course of musical lectures for
Sunday evenings, to be illustrate ted by an
orchestra and choir which is to be organ
lied for the new church.
The United Presbyierians have declined
selling their lot at Eighteenth and Castro
streets to the South MethOdists, and are
making preparations to build chapel
which will 5e called the Rev. Charles
Hanna Memorial Chapel of the First United
Presbyterian Church of Oakland. in mem
DRY of the young minister who organized
the congregation, but who died about three
months ago.
The electric road for which franchise is
now being asked from Haywards. via Niles
and IrVingtnD. to SAP Jose, will pass
through MiIpitas, in Santa Clara County.
Petitions are in circulation at Niles, Center
vile, Mission san Jose and other towns on
the route, asking tie Alameda County
Board of Supervisors 10 grant the franchise.