The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-18
HE BULLET NOT YET FOUND.
Rudinski Bought a Pistol to Kill
Her.
THE ACT WAS PREMEDITATED.
Important Statement of Charles Ma
teske a Mutual Friend of the
Wouid-Be Murderer.

Caroline Burke, alias Foster, who was
shot on the stairway at 81 Grant avenue
on Saturday night by John Rudinski, her
lover, is in very low condition at the
Receiving Hospital and the doctors think
her chances of recovery are very slim.
She is brave little woman, as she in
sisted on being told the worst. "If l am
TO die now" she said, sit is just rs we'll as
at any other time
There is no doubt that Ruiinski shot at
her with the intention of killing her and
MOI. as he said, to brighten her into going
back to live with him.
Charles Mateske. foundryman in the
Enterprise Foundry on Folsom street, is q
friend of Rudinski and the young woman.
He called at the Receiving Hospital yester-
day afternoon TO see her as she wrote him
note on Saturday night that she wanted
him TO take her personal effects if she
should die. but he was unable to see her.
II have known her," he said, 'for about
three months. ana always looked upon her
as RudinskPs wife. That's what he always
called her to me.
'Rudinski and ran a club together on
Grant avenue, but | got tired of him and
now have another partner. He was always
hard np and could not keep her properly.
Shortly before she left him, about three
weeks ago, heard him ask her for money
as she had been in service q Sausalito. but
she told him she was dead broke.
1T Is not true that be did not see her
from the time she left him till last night
He had seen her several times, and each
time be urged her to 60 back to him, but
she refused.
About two weeks ago he bought new
pistol and told me he intended to kill her
with 1t. He shaved of his musIacne, so
har ha nS-h
without being recognized. He also told
friends OF mine that after killing her he
would Kill me and other people whom be
called his enemies.
"Ou Friday he got me to show him
letter she had sent me IN which she VT ote
that she would have nothing more TO do
with him. He was insanev jeaons of her
writing 10 me, although he told her to do
40, as was his best friend, and he kept
worrying me to show him what his wife
had written me, and then be would be
satisfied.
That night we went 20 a restaurant on
Market street to supper and she was there.
She came and spoBe to me, ana he asked
her to go back with him. but she said she
would not She left US and he went after
her, and | followed. When she saw him
coming she stopped and asked me to hear
what was said. RudinSki said, Carrie, are
you ID earnest In saying you won't marry
me. Won't you come back with me?'
She said, NO, won't l will have moth
ing Fore 10 do with you and then she
walked quickly OUT of the place.
He came to me at the foundry yester-
day morning and stayed for a few minutes,
but be was like crazy man and rushed
out before | knew what be wanted. am
sure he meant to kill her, and me too. and
1G Is lucky for me l wasn't with him when
he shot her,
II don't think she has any friends in
this city. She used TO say l was the only
friend she had in the world.
Rudlnski was sporty sort of fellow
anQ was always going to dances and play-
ing cards instead of working. He could
never have kept her if he had married
her"
Professor Hagal, the aeronaut. was an
other visitor at the hospital yesterday to
see her. he SAID about two weeks ago she
came to him to take lessons as coutor-
Zionist. She was a very apt pupil and
would have made success at il.
Dr. Somers performed an operation upon
Mrs. Foster yesterday. he was unable to
find the bullet, but found that il had
passed through the left lobe Of the liver
and the diaphragm. After the operation
the patient seemed somewhat easier.
The police intended taking her ante
mortem statement last night, but she was
so weak and nervous that IL was thong hit
advisable to postpone doing so ntil to-day.
Rudlnskl expresses regret for what he
mas done, and now apparently wants TO
create the impression that be acted from q
sudden impulse.