The record-union., 1892-12-06
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY TRAGEDY.
MYSTERIOUS KILLING OF C. o.
WALKER.
Shot While Playing Cards at a Friends
House-Two Arrests in Com
nection With ohe Crime.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1ox.

I
SANTA Cruz Dec. 5.-A man named c.
Q. 4Sialker, aged 50 years g. 4 native OF
I Wisconsin, was mysteriousIy assassin
ated about O'Clock last Thursday even
ing. At the time when the deed was done
he was in the act Of playing cards with a
female acquaintance, Mrs. Amanda
Monks, in 4 cabin at Sunnyside on Ben
/ Lomond Mountain. The murderer fired
through an open window, the bullet
/ piercing Walkers body and grazing Mrs.
Monks neck.
! The news Of the murder was not re-
ceived here sooner owing to the fact that
the roads to Sunnyside have been practi-
caIly impossible because OF the number
( OF trees which blew down across them
/ curing the late storm. To-day, however.
| Walkers body was brought to town,
! though to do so it was necessary TO cut
many tree trunks in two in order to
make passage for the vehicle containing
the corpse.
The inquest on the body was held this
afternoon, but after hearing the testimony
Of the only witness who was present and
able TO tell anything of the shooting. this
being Mrs. Monks, the jury could only
return verdict to the effect that the de-
ceased had died from a gunshot wound
inflicted by parties unknown. However.
the officers of the law have already ar
rested George Bullock and James Burns
on suspicion, both OF the men having
/ been brought to this city last night.
! Their examination will be held to-mor-
row.
Mrs. Monks, who is woman of 80.
and who was present whom Walker was
killed. states that she was seated at a table
with him at the time, playing cards.
suddenly shot was fired in through a
broken window. The bullet grazed her
neck and, passing on, went directly
through Walkers heart.
I'm shot through the heart,r cried
Walker. "Who did it?"
Mrs. Monks caught him as he fell but
could not hold him up. and he slid down
upon the floor and Immediately expired.
ntII | O'clock the next morning the
woman remained in the house with the
body, being afraid to venture out. Then
She went to a neighbor's house. three
miles away, and told Of the murder.
Bullock, one Of the men arrested on
suspicion, WAS partner OF Walker in the
business of cutting shakes. \ few weeks
ago he had a quarrel with Walker and
the latter knocked him down. Bullock
formerly lived at Mrs. Monks. but lat
terly he has not done So but Walker has.
Mrs. Monks ranch is a timber claim,
and her house is twenty-three miles from
San Jose. Burns, the other man arrested.
called on Mrs. Monks on Thursday and
they drank wine together. When he
went away she noticed that he was
Joined some distance down the road by
Bullock, and the two disappeared TO-
gether. 1t has also been ascertained that
they were together all the night on
which the murder was committed.
Walkers aged father met Mrs. Monks
in the Sherif7s office this morning.
With tears streaming down lis face he
said:
My God! Have you any idea who
killed my boy?"
81 don't know. Wasn't ii terribIeu .,
was all Mrs. Monks, who was also weap-
ing, could say in reply.
Mrs. Monks was recently divorced
from her second husband, whose name
she still bears. Her first husband was II
Mr.. Gieradi, brother-in-law of ex-C;ov-
ernor Downey.