The morning call., 1893-01-02
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wishing to kaow il there was doctor in Tie
| house.
Then he quickly told another member OF
| the party in a whisper to get his grand
mother upstairs, but he made no explana-
| tions He asked a young friend named
| Todd to go with him, and passing back
| through the room where the charade had
| just been enacted, he opened door and
| went into a small adjoining room, Todd
entering moment later.
| Mccoy ripped open his vest and as he did
| so he said to Todd.
go for doctor and get some whisky"
A moment later he said, I've been
| pricked and Pm going to die in minute"
As the consciousness that death was close
beside him came he thought OF Miss King,
and said in fainter tones, TELL Miss King
that am dying of heart disease"
Mccoy Fitzgerald came in directly Just in
time TO see Mccoy suddenly reel. Fitz-
gerald caught him as he fell and with
Todd's assistance laid him on bed. where
he at onca became unconscious. There was
just little blood OH McCoy's shirt, near tho
heart, and it needed but a moments ex-
animation to show that cut had been In
fiicled. This was the first knowledge any
body had that anything hal gone wrong.
The foding-doors between the parlors had
been closed for few moments when Nc
Coy passed through. and then Miss King
had arisen from the sofa and joined the
company. The charade was over, the jolly
chatting was resumed and Miss King was az
happy and unconscious as any that her fair
hand had let the King of Terrors in.
1t was now about II 80 p NJ Several
noted the time and made remarks about the
dying old year. and. amid the mild excite
ment caused by the approach Of tile critical
moment. there was some guessing as TO tie
meaning of the charade.
But in the closed bedroom where Mccoy
lay the charade and the midnight that was
to be celebrated were forgotten. Fitzgerald
had quickly sent third young man who
came to the back parlor after the knife.
There was little blood on the point, tut
not much. He rushed out for medical as
sistance and soon had summoned DR.. w. B.
Coffey and D.. w. l.. Mcfarland who soon
arrived. They came only to find the pa
tient dead, however. Mccoy had never re-
gained consciousness and had evidently
died when he fell, not more than three or
four minutes from the time the blow was
accidentally and uneonsciously struck.
The news gradually spread in Mortified
whispers. always accompanied by the eau
ton not to let Miss King know anything
about it. There were no reproaehes for the
girl, but only sympathetic pity for her in
the awful situation that soon would dawn
upon her. Some who could preserve their
composure went TO acting themselves and
talked with her and around her as though
nothing was the matter. By midnight
everybody in tie house but Miss King
knew the awful truth. There was a great.
suppressed excitement down stairs, and
soon there was mourning upstairs when the
news had been fully broken.
At a little after midnight, when Miss
King was growing suspicious that some
thing or other was wrong about the house.
the problem of how TO break the awful
news TO her was solved by Mr.. fitzgerald
going to her house at 2640 Howard street
and gently breaking the news to her mother
and 10 her stepfather, Mr.. Brown. They
Immediately started for the Mccoy resi-
dence to bring her home and tell her there
themselves. but on the way her mother
broke completely down and was left al a
friends house.
At about half past twelve her stepfather
arrived and soon she was at home, where
she learned for the first time what had hap
pened. She was not told at first that Nc
Coy was dead. =:
This was the story of the affair told yes
terday by Messrs. Fitzgerald and Chapel
and one or two others who were there.
Several weeks ago Miss King had SO
seriously spralned her ankle> getting off p
cable-car that she was compelled to use
crutches, and on the night OF the accident
she was still using them part OF the time.
Just how it happened nobody could tell
when Miss King sprang forward with the
knife her lame ankle seemed to have given
way, partially throwing her, and this ap-
peared to he the real explanation Of the sad
accident.
At about / o'clock yesterday morning
Deputy Coroner Bridgewood, who had been
notified by telephone Of the death. arrived
and removed the body to the Morgue. An
autopsy showed that the knife had just en-
tered the lower point Of the heart and that
death had resulted from hemorrhage OF the
heart.
Miss King was nearly insane with grief
when she was made TO believe that she had
accidentally killed a friend, and she de-
spairingly asked to be taken TO prison.
At about o'clock Officer j. w. Haves,
who heard of the affair while he was on bis
beat, called at the house. and Miss King
and her mother and steptather accompanied
him in carriage which had been summoned.
A stop was made at the Seventeenth-street
police station where Miss King was charged
with manslaughter on the books without
her removal from the carriage, and then
she was taken to the old City Hall and given
quarters in the Prison Hospital.
Yesterday forenoon she was still beside
herself with grief and lay most of the time
with her face buried in her mothers arms,
now and then moaning, "Oh, it was acci-
dent. 1t was an accident. Ididn't know
cut him." and other exeIamations Of that
nature.
The scene at the hospital room where she
lay was an extremely pathetic one. Her
mothers eyes were red and swollen with
weeping. and beside the agonized girl on
her bed her crutches lay, No interviewers
were welcome there aud none intruded.
During the forenoon the Mccoy family
learned that she had been arrested and they
at once began efforts to get her released.
going first for advice to Judge Wallace,
close friend Of the family. By noon Police
Judge Love had accepted bonds in the sum
of $4,000 secured by the dead mans FAM
ily. aud she was soon carried in an un-
conscious condition 10 carriage and taken
TO her home
No blame is attached to her by any of the
relatives or friands of the deceased. They
recognise the fact that it was purely de-
plorahlc accident and knowing how keenly
and long tho unfortunate aud innocent
young woman will suffer, they are very So
licitous that she be treated endery and con-
siderateiy.
The deceased was born in San Jose thirty
two years ago. For ten or twelve years and
up to about two years ago he lived in Shasta
County. He lived on ranch there Tor sew
eral years, studied law. praeticed short
time in Redding and then attended the law
department of Vanderbilt University in
Tennessee, where he graduated last spring.
He was recently married aud had justset-
tied down here In a comfortable and happy