The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-02
4 MURDERHR'S PROPHECY
Each Will Die by Violence
Before I'm Hanged"
TRUE AS TO TWO OF THEM.
John Haskell, a Witness Against John Nc
Nulty, Run Over by Howard-Street
Car-Fatally Injured.

John Haskell, a stevedore. aged % years,
was injured, probably fatally, by being
| crushed by a Howard street cable-car ON
| the crossing at Third and Howard streets at
| about $50 o'clock last evening
| The injured man was at once removed to
| the City Receiving Hospital in the patrol
wagon by Policeman Dalton and there he
now lies in a precarions condition.
At about o'clock Haskell went to the
| corner of Third and Howard streets to take
! car, when he was noticed to stagger across
| the track and narrowly escaped being run
over by several passing trains and cars, by
being pulled out of the way by some by
stander. HASKELL had just got across the
track when car 4 of the Twenty-fourth-
street branch of the Omnibus Cable Com
pany came along moving west The grip
man of the car Arthur Cornelius, slackened
up speed, as is customary on reaching the
crossing. Haskell, who probably miscal-
culsted the distance, attempted to jump on
the dummy while it was still in motion.
He caught hold of the front rail-guard
with one hand and stanchion on the
dummy with the other, when the momentum
| of the car iarked him off his feet, and, to the
horror of the spectators, lie fell directly in
| front of the wheels: The safety guard on
the dummy struck the PROSTATE man in the
head, and he was dragged nearly twenty
| feet before the car was brought to stand
| still.
| The injured man was picked up in an I'M
| conscious condition by Policemen Little
| and Dalton and taken to the Receiving Hos
| pital 10 the patr0l-wagon, where his Injuries
| were dressed by Drs. Somers and Berry,
| after which he was put to bed in the men s
| ward.
| The physicians found that the entire left
| side of the skull had been smashed in, til g
| temporal bone being so badly fractured that
] portion had to be removed, and think that
| he cannot possibly recover.
| Arthur Cornelius. the gripman of the car,
was arrested later by Policeman Dawes at
! the cable-house of the company, az Tenth
| and Howard streets, and booked at the
| Southern station on charge OF battery,
but was afterward released upon his own
| recogDlZance.
All the witnesses to the accident exoner-
ate the gripman from all blame. and con-
| slider the accident the result OF HaskelPs
| condition.
Haskell was stevedore, employed by j.
| 3. Chase & Co., and lived with his family
! at 412b Tehama street
A strange coincidence is that Haskell
| brother recently met violent death by
| falling downstairs in the G. L. Lodging
! house on East and Market streets some
months ago, when his father was arrested
| for being Implicated in his sons death, but
| was afterward discharged.
The members of the family were con-
eerned in the McNulty case when they tes-
| tilted for the prosecution and were instru-
| mental in securing the slayer's conviction.
| When Judge Murphy pronounced sentence
| of death upon McNulty some years ago. he
| rose from his seat and startled the specta-
| tors in the court By calling down the wrath
| of God upon the witnesses and making a
| prophecy that they would all die a violent
| death before he was hanged. The prophecy
J has been partially verified. one OF the OBJ
| jects of his wrath being dead and the other
| now lying in the hospital in dying con-