The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-06
DASHED TO DEATH.
A Drunken Sailor Falls
From a Window.
CRUSHED ON THE STONES.
Robert Ogilvie, the Dead Man, Is
Believed to Have Been Murdered
by Two of His Friends.

The mangled body of Robert Ogilvie, a
young sailor recently employed on the
schooner Wilson, lies on a slab in the
Morgue. and Curoner's deputies, police
men and detectives are laboring with all
their skill to ascertain whether he was
murdered or whether his death was caused
by his own drunken folly.
1t was about $50 o'clock last evening
that Ogilvie was flung or jumped head
first from a window in the third story Of j..
j. Tobin's clearinghouse on the corner of
Fourth and Minna streets. The window
overlooked the latter narrow thoroughfare,
which is paved with basalt blocks.
Two shriil screams heralded the sailor s
descent to the pavement, where his mangled
and bleeding body lay for several minutes.
crowd gathered quickly around the
body. and the patrol wagon was sum-
ID oned. When the shattered wreck Of a
man had been jolted to the Receiving Hos
pital it was found that be was dead.
The body was taken from the hospital
to the Morgue, where the Coroner's in
quest will be commenced to-day.
The solution of the mystery that sur
rounds Ogilvie's death is not easy, as the
witnesses tell conflicting stories. The
room from which he fell is small apart
ment containing few chairs, small
table and bed. Early in the evening he
met three friends who had worked with
him on the schooner. They were James
Magper, William Parker and j. Magnus.
Ogilvie introduced them to woman who
lives in another room of the house and is
known as Mrs. Rose OgiIvie. -Four bot
ties of beer were procured by Magner
from corner saloon, and the little room
was turned int q WaSSall hall.
When Ogilvie'S body descended from the
window woman ran screaming down the
stairs. and the landlord. hearing that some
one had been thrown from the window,
held the three men until the police arrived
and took them into custody. Mrs. Osilvie
was taken with them to the station, and
said there that her husband had tried to
kill her with razor and that Magner and
Parker mad rescued her. During the
struggle Ogilvie was wounded by the razor
When that weapon had been removed he
found pair of brass knuckles. and was
about to beat her when she lett him and
his companion and went to the room OF a
Mrs. Garcia on the second floor.
Mrs. Garcia when she heard the cries Of
the woman announcing Ogilvie's fall ran
to the roum and saw one of the men with
whom he had been drinking standing just
inside the door.
The room was in state of confusion
Beer was H0Wlng from Df0ken D0ttle
over the floor. The chairs upon which the
jewellers had been sitting were overturned
and the bedclothes lay IN heap on the
mattress.
"WheTe Is Bob?" she asked the man,
who is supposed to have been Magner.
II don't know" was the answer.
That is all Mrs. Garcia would say about
the case. One OF the sailors stated that he
and his comrades were in the room and
that Ogllvie. who was maddened with
liquor, leaped from the window after
placing his bloody hand on the sill. There
are several landmarks on the dusty sill.
d. G. VOORHEES,. who lives on the oppo-
site corner, says hat he was in the third
story of his house and saw. Ogilvie pushed
out Of a window by a man and woman.
The police say that they have another
witness who will corroborate VOORHEES,.
Both OF them heard the shrek that pre-
ceded the dead mans violent exit from the
room, but no one in the house could be
found who had heard any outcry.
The men were locked up in the tanks of
the City Prison. where they will be de-
tanned until the police learn whether Ogil-
vie's death was a murder. an accident or
on