The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-02
BY Her OWN HAND.
latte Dietrich Shoots Herself
Under the Heart.
while she Is. Striving to Gain Divorce She
Loves Another, Who Deserts and Drives
Her to Despair.

g.. About quarter Of an hour before 10
O'clock yesterday morning Information
reached the police at the Seventeenth-street
station that young woman had shot her
.. self at .2Sl9 Sixteenth. street, and that she
= had4uficted serious If not mortal wound.
Officer James l.. Gallagher Immediately
-. proceeded. to tie house, where he tound
Ilattie Dietrich, or Dieterick. lying upon
lounge with a.pistol-W0und, in her lett slde
and several dodgers: in the house surround
ING Her The woman was suffering so III
tenselv that the officer ran as speedily as
I6ssible TO call the patro wagon, and the
few. brief INQUIRIES he was enabled to make
only ELECTED the reply thatit was owing TO
the conduct Of her lover. who had treated
her 1cfu5lly. and deserted her
~ She. >was.taken 10: the City and County
.HGsrit5l. where she lay writing in agony
All. daT = Drs May and Gibson dressed
: the " und, but owing to the woman's weak
condition theyfeared TO probe Tor the bul-
. let.#They carefully examined her back,
however. but could not locate the missile
dehnitely:=- -:
-. --DEsERTED BY HER LOVER.
=. Drs Gibson and: May were seen at the
hospital: : Yesterday and the former made
the following statement: The woman, Let
tie Dietrich, was brought here in the patrol
. warOD=a about 10 go this morning. She was
Il suffering from q bullet wound ii the leIt
T. side between her sixth ana seventh rloS,
#and.ab0ut an inch below her heart She Is
=. suffering teTrib Wis very weak ana lear
the wound IS fatal. We have made careful
examination, but are not aole TO ascer-
tain where the bullet is lodged without
probing for it, and as she mas IN
:. tfruai hemOrThaEa we cannot do that at
present. Size stated 10 me that she had
bought pistol *at paWnShop near How
.. ard and Third.Streets and that she wished
= she had killed herself. She said II size had
known THAT She. would. have TO suffer SO
.much she would rot have attempted It. She
D. also stated that she WAS engaged 10 be mar
RED to a-yOung man after she could pro-
cure a divorce from Alfred Dietrich, her
husband The Young man had ceased to
cane for her ana she did not wish TO live
any longer. She is about . years or age
and a comely Young woman, with dark hair
aud complexion. Her brother has been up
:. TO see her. but made no statement ...-.
=. ~ :. BOUGHT A CHEAP PISTOL.
-In0uirv was then made at the Seventeenth
,~stIeel station. about the affair, ana OIhcer
= Gallagher. c0rTQbOisted the physicians
statement s'She said she paid s. 80 for the
revolver" said he, land here 1t Is. II IS OF
-."the cheap ORDER Il 32-CalbeT, and when l
.tUOk possession Of it It had five chambers
loaded Here are. the cartridges. She said
ll5. man W no SLIA IL ~ lCl ; 81 pbiACu i4NA
=. with the ammunition and showed her now
10 load, discEarge-an use the weapon, She
Lives with. her mother, and seems 10 De q re-
spectacle young woman. Her mother and
- sister WeTe@:aWay when She fired the shot
= and -tle.0fheFl gers there did rot seem 10
: know much about hex affairs and were very
::=retiCeDf.' ~
p The pistol has the words British Bull
g. dog engraved on il, and looks brand new
as Ifethe naawho sold II to the unfortunate
woman dealt in the article. 1t does no, APP
pear TO have been used and then paWned.
- +: =. - BAKRED THE ENTRANCE .. =.
w hen the woman residence was visited
Il adark swartEy man rushed downstairs to
: answer tie bell, ind, on emerging, banged
. THE dOOEtO behind him and barred the en-
:.tranGe.<>.GJn being Informed by the reporter
of, his errand, he replied ,hercely: Il Tor
bid any one TO g0.ln here. 1 decline 20 say
aIyrhihg.. 1f*I- had been here my sister
would n0t.haYe been taken away. Ii was a
D. uure. accident / don't balieYe in people
being sent to theCily and County Hospital;
- theyOLLy carve folks about there, and tah5
= away tie only chaDCs they have 10 live"
Fl. Being pressed about the matter, the man
!. said: hG+Ras the UOmau's brother and bis
name was Alfred -Piercy; his sister lived
. . there with another sister and bis mother.
g. .''ILey:.w eTe=away at The time the affair
. happeued,' he added "As soon as / got to
+. know about il /, went right up 10 the h0spt-
the aecident1 my mother is Ill and both she
and theTsjs.aT are IN great distress and
.>I-wilEH0t allow any one TO see. them a all. -
= How IS YOU make Outthat. it was an acci
~ ent2"-N IS asked. - ~ -.
~: -. !: HOW Sc WOULD DO IT.
Well Lettie sias sitting with another
..LaT(4. .WhQse nan 3 XVIII uUtmention; she
:. prod Iced the gun. and said, II / wanted to
commit suicide this is how I'd do it., and
:. the PISTOL went off by accident. l ab-
solut6Iy refuse TO say who the third
: pafty was, it is no business CT the pub
Iic.@ There are two. things l would Ike
: TO know thOugh-whO the man i,iwho in
formed the police and who sold my sister
- tile pistol :You-can bet l would make it in
- terestjHgfoT both OIL them" An evil look
Game into the mans ey5sas hesaid this,
and be looked fully capabe.of doing IN in
jury 70 any person who ad-Ofended him III
AMY way. TheodOr Dierks, the undertaken
~ Ben. came MP, and as the brother refused TO
allow the reporter to enter the: house, the
pair were left.in conversation, although the
woman was not tnen-dead.
-. ::IUq aiIles were made at various pawn
slop5.nea Howard and Third streets, but
all stated that no pistol had been sold TO
any one yesterday morning. .-~.