The morning call., 1893-10-04
First of Butts Victims
Passes Away.
FAVORS FOR A WITNESS.
Lived Eighty Years and Then Ended
His Life-An Oaklander's Big
Catch of Whales.

He was unconscious until within an hour
of his death.
At midnight Monday night Green's con-
ditlon changed decidedly, and that for the
worse. He became restless and nervous
for an hour, and then relapsed into a
stupid state which marked the beginning
of the end.
At 2 o'clock Green asked for his father,
who was summoned from his rooms at the
ST. Louis Hotel, and talked some time
with the dying man. For while longer
the sufferer was conscious enough to talk
with his friends, but at 4;3O o'clock be.
came unconscious, and did not rally again.
He died an hour later.
Green's wife and her mother and his
sister were by his bedside at the end. 1t
is said that Green and his wife became
estranged few weeks ago and were not
on speaking terms. When the young man
was shot, however, and death seemed
near, personal grievances were overlooked
and the two were reconclle0.
A priest was also in attendance on
Green the day before he died.
AS soon as life was extinct the BODY was
removed to The Morgue and later In the
day an autopsy was made. The fatal
bul let was found lodged in the vicinity OF
the second lumbar vertebra. IL nad
pierced the abdominal cavity.
Butts, who shot Gree u, was charged
with murder.
From his cot just across the aisle in the
Receiving Hospital, Butts, alias BILLY the
PAGER" spent a sleepless night watching
his dying victim. As the end approached
his interest deepened, and when the sobs
of Green's friends announced that the end
had come be sank back wearily upon his
pillow with the full realization that he
was murderer. He watched the prepar-
ations that were made to remove the BODY
TO the Morgue in silence. he was asked
if he were sorry Of Green's death and
said: ;,
Yes, am. never meant 20 kill hin"
"Do you want to live. Billy?"
"Yes-and 1 will. l will never touch
liquor again"
''The PAGER" himself is showing extra
ordinary vitality and may recover in spite
of the five gaping bullet holes in his body.
Conductor Beeny rested quietly al his
home on Twelfth street, whittier he was
removed Monday. but at a late hour last
night his family and friends were hastily
summoned and the suffering man was re-
ported to be dying.
Suicide at Eighty.
C. 81. Hoffman, so years af age, commit
ted suicide yesterday morning at the
Union Hotel, corner of Thirteenth avenue
and Twelfth street, by shooting three bull
lets into his body.
The shots that ended the OLD man 8 HE
we're heard by his laudlady, Mrs. Dieke.
at Z o'clock. She hurried to his room and
found Hoffman lying in the bed uncon-
scious. He revived sufficiently TO recog-
nize Mrs. Dieke, mutter good-by. then
fell back dead.
The motive that prompted the deed is
believed to have originated in dependency
,nlr IIafT fad
from his wife, who lives with her daugh-
ter at Haywards. year or more ago. He
frequently spoke of them and said they
had grossly illtreated him and driven him
from home.
Deceased was born in Saxony. Germany,
in 1918.
Passes to Witness.
The Grand Jury before the present one
brought in an Indictment against one
John Canty for false swearing.
On a technically Judge Greene Quashed
the indictment and sent Canty back to the
present Grand Jury. The case in ques-
ton was the damage suit of Asa Hatch
against the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company and ic which Canty had done
some tall swearing.
One of the names signed to the informa-
tion against Canty was that of Police
Officer Sill, and it is said now that week
before Sill gave bis testimony TO the
present Grand Jury. which body ignored
the charge against Canty, he was pre-
sented by the railroad company with
passes to the East and return, and he is
now off on his vacation.
Officer Sill may be called upon to ex-
plain about those passes and his testimony
on his return from the East.
A Fortune in the Catch.
Captain Lafeche of the Capital Hotel re-
ceived an interesting letter a few days
since from his son-in-law, Captain Conf
sky, commanding the steam-wbaler
Balaena now in the waters of the far north.
The Balaena sailed from San Francisco a
year ago last March. and up TO the time
the letter was written had registered the
unprecedented catch Of forty-two whales.
This catch Captain Comisky thought
would net him the fine round sum Of S140C
per month during the cruise thus far, a
verv handsome fortune.
He writes that all has passed off splen-
didly with the crew thus far and the future
is propitions.
Fruit of Jail Marriage.
Harry Higgins pleaded guilty Saturday
to failure TO provide for his minor child.
He married young woman after he was
arrested and put in Jail on charge by her
of betrayal. This marriage gave him his
liberty and later a child was born to the
couple.
Afterward Higgins asked to withdraw
the plea of guilty of failure to provide and
put in plea of not guilty because his law
yer says Higgins has learned that the child
was not really his. and it was for this rea-
son that he refused to support it. Judge
Allen postponed the case until to-day for
the purpose of hearing further testimony.
Baptisis in Convention.
The thirteenth annual session OF the
Central Baptist Association Of California
met in the Twenty-third Avenue Baptist
Church at O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
The representation was only fair,as all the
delegates had not vet arrived.
The territory Of the association embraces
the churches of Alameda, Contra Costa.
San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara
and Stauislaus counties and parts of Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin counties.
Rev. John Barr of San Jose preached an
Introductory sermon in the aftern oon and
then routine business was transacted.
In the evening the young people had
charge. There were talks on "Bible
Readers Course" Sacred Literature
Course" and Conquest Mission ary
Course"
Identified Wyatt.
Jack HobsOn, a young man claiming to
have been an Intimate friend of j. G..
Wyatt. who was killed by the train near
Berkeley on Saturday, visited the Morgue
yesterday morning and positively identi-
fed the remains as those of Wyatt's.