The record-union., 1893-04-05
DYING IN THE STREET.
Sad Ending of John Mackey, Jr., in
San Francisco.
Not Yet Known Whether He Died
From Natural Causes or
Otherwise.

Last evenings San Francisco Post con-
tanned the following account of the death
of John Mackey, Jr., son of John
Mackey, the Superintendent of Haggin's
Sacramento farm, which occurred at the
County Hospital yesterday morning
under somewhat peculiar circumstances.
Says that paper:
He was picked up in an unconscious
condition at an early hour this morning
on the corner of Nineteenth and Valencia
streets and was taken to the City and
County Hospital in patrol wagon.
Shortly after 3 o'clock this morning the
Keeper of the Seventeenth-stree police
station was notified by telephone that the
patrol wagon was wanted on the corner
| OF Nalencla and Nineteenth streets. The
call was Immediately responded to and
when the officers arrived on the ground
they found young man lying on the
| sidewalk unconscious.
The Intelligent policemen at once
jumped to the conclusion that the man
| before them had succumbed to the over
| whelming influence of an extraordinary
jag, and they hustled the inanimate form
into the hurry-up wagon and drove to the
| Seventeenth-street station.
! The Sergeant in charge, when requested
TO book the prisoner, made an examina-
! ton which satisfied him that the case was
| much more serious one than simple
drunk. No sign of liquor could be de-
| tected on the unconscious mans breath,
and the deathlike look on his face con-
! WINGED the Sergeant that it was a matter
| Tor medical investigation and he ordered
the patrol driver to take the man to the
City and County Hospital.
Before he was again placed in the
wagon search was made of his clothing
and 1t was discerned that the unfortu
nate young man was John Mackey.
Upon the arrival of the patrol wagon
| Mackey was examined by DR.. Titus, the
superintendent. He could not discover
any abrasions on any part of his body,
tut from his look and the working of his
| pulse the doctor concluded that the man
was dying and he said so. His verdict
was correct. Mackey expired about 8
O'Clock, without regaining consciousness.
| Subsequent investigation proved that
the deceased was employed on the Cdit.
His wife was buried short time ago,
and he had been somewhat respondent,
| but there is no reason to believe that he
committed suicide. The Superintendent
of the hospital thought that Mackey
might possibly have been sandbagged.
| Dung Mackey was born here twenty
| five years ago and passed his early years
at the home of his parents on Point Lobos
avenue, near the half-mile race-track,
where his father kept public training
stable.
After receiving liberal education in
the public and parochial schools of this
city, MIR. Mackey went to Sacramento
and accepted position on the Rancho
| del Paso. He remained there about a
year and then went to New York to enter
veterinary college.
| He studied two years and then returned
to California, where he engaged a short
time in newspaper work, after which he
accepted position as purchasing agent
for ". OBJ. Macdonough, who was about
to start breeding establishment. He
attended several sales in New York and
bought Fair Lady and other famous
| brOodmareS.
| During one of his trips to Chicago he
married a young lady from this city, who
went on to meet him. The match was
not highly satisfactory to his parents, and
it seemed that i'll fortune marked him for
! its own from the date of his wedding day.
His wife took sick and failed gradually
until, after lingering illness, death came
| to her relief.
Mackey again resorted to newspaper
work, and attained considerable success
as police and turf writer. and by his
generous and open-hearted way gained
the friendship of his co-workers who
came in contact with him.
Since the death of his wife his friends
| noticed that he changed in manner. and
in place of his former jovial disposition
he seemed to grow morose and despond-
ent, and some claim that his troubles so
worked upon him that he committed sui
eide. He had not been complaining of
! serious illness, and was not known to be
sufferer from any complaint liable to
cause his death.
During the past few weeks deceased
| had resided with his mother and sisters
at l1l5 Valencia street. The young man
had gone to the house of his parents and
left the following note, written on card.
which he pushed under the door:
| Have rung and rung. Guess you don't want
me. JACK
The officers further discovered that the
young man told his mother that he was
going to kill himself after the marriage
of his sister. Of course no one believed
this, as he was of an eXcitable tempera-
ment and in the habit of saying rash
| things when he was in trouble.
The mother and two sisters of the de-
ceased visited the morgue this afternoon
and viewed the body. When the cover
was removed and the face of the dead was
revealed they went into Mysteries, and ii
was nearly an hour before they could be
induced to leave the remains of their be-
loved dead,