The herald., 1893-06-10
IT LOOKS BAD FOR "MAC'' YOUNG,
The Alleged Murderer Of Irene
0'Brien on Trial.
Strong Evidence Adduced Against
Him Yesterday.
Evidence Showing That He Ran Away
from tho Woman's Crib at the
Time-That TeIl-Taie Dint
on the Wall.

The trial OF William Young, charged
, with the murder of Irene O'Brien, wat
resumed yesterday morning in depar.
ment one of the superior court.
The court room was pretty well filled
with spectators during the day, among
them being number OF the mac
fraternity.
Considerable testimony of damag
ing npture to the defen dant was intro
duced by the prosecution during the
session.
The first witness was bartender
named Dockweiler, who was at work in
Eugene Lemmert's saloon on Alameda
street at the time the unfortunate
woman was burned. He said that the
defendant was in the saloon about 10 40
o'clock that night and remained about
10 minutes. He asked Dockweiler if he
had seen Irene O'Brien, and whether or
not she was drinking. Young went out
the back door, and about 10 minutes
afterward the witness heard q scream.
At the time, crib woman called Daisy
Payne was in the saloon. They both
ran out together and saw man coming
from Irene O'Brien's door, who said
that the house was on fire and for them
| to get a bucket of water. This man
then disappeared. The witness did not
see woman called Lulu Dorman at the
time. He threw some water on burn
ing curtain in Irene's room and went
to Daisy Payne's room with the O'Brien
woman, whom he saw was burned.
Upon asking her how it happened, she
told him she was lighting cigarette,
when the lamp tipped over and ex-
ploded.
The witness had talk with the
woman the next day, when she reiter-
ated her previous statement and said
Billy Young WAS not in her room at the
time and had nothing to do with her
being burned.
Daisy Payne, slender young woman,
gave much the came testimony as Dock
weller, saying che did not ace Young the
night OF the accident. Her testimony
before Justice Austin was produced,
| however, showing that che eaid there
that ehe had aeen him after the accident,
and this she admitted was correct.
Eugene Lsmmert. the owner of the
block of houses Of ill-fame, in one of
which the tragedy occurred, described
how he was told the house was on fire,
and running to it from his saloon, he
kicked in the door and put out the fire.
Some one came in the back door and by
mistake threw a bucket of water on
him.
He also described the condition of the
room. The curtains and some of the
paper on the walls were burned off. The
next day he saw dent on the wall be-
tween the door and window where come
thing had etruck to about four feet above
the floor. Several rplinters OF glass
were found sticking in the wall at the
place, as if lamp had been thrown and
struck there. Directly underneath this
spot the paper wes not burned of.
The prosecution conAidered this a
moet important point in favor OF the
theory that the defendant threw the
lamp ct his mistress. They cay that if
the lamp had tipped over, as the woman
insisted, it would have burned the paper
below, and there would not have been
any left in the way it was. Also that
ths discovery of the paper untouched
balow the dent in the wall supports the
theory that the lamp WAS thrown, be-
cause all above it the FIRE burned the
paper all away.
A slim, wretchedly pale young woman
who gave her name as Lulu German, and
who lived two doors from Irene O'Brien
proved the strongest witness yet intro
duced by the prosecution, supporting
some links in the chain of circumstances
around the prisoner, which will go hard
with him If they remain unbroken.
81 was living on Alameda street, No.
745, the night Irene was burned" she
said. ''She lived next door to nae.
L 4 4. T.. q L
knew William Young about four
months. saw him that night in my
house at half pact elk. He WAS there
about half past TO- Then he was ran
ming out Of the back door Of 74716. NV
attention Was called by some gentleman
who thought the fuss was in my room.
| could hear some words. heard Irene
cay why don't you reason with me, and
il it is 80 ] will tell you, and if not es,:,l
say Ho.p Then he said something and
she said something, and the craah came
as if something had been thrown against
the wall. l don't know the man who
came to my room.
when Young ran out had come to
my back door. He caught in the clothes
line and stopped down."
ibid you hear him say anything?"
Eyes, SIR"
"What was IT,"
"Hsve me arrested, you id b--h,
and I'll kill you, too"
"What did he do then ?"
she ran up the plank walk to the alley
and disappeared. When | first saw him
he was about Is feet from me. ! don't
know to whom he said what he did"
did you see Irene that night ?"
81 saw Irane before that evening. She
was around there that night, The talk
ing was five or six minutes before Young
/ ran ont.
Before he came out che was halloaing
and crying, saying che was dying. He
was saying, Lay down, you id b-h,
till put you out.
"She came right out behind him. Isaw
no one except that gentleman who told
me and Mr.. Dookweiler and his lady
| Daisy, Thev were going into the sa-
| loon. think Irene ran into my house.
l didn't think she was very badly burned
at first. When she came out she only
had on piece OF chemise."
The cross-examination of the witness
was very long, and Mr.. Ling attempted
to break down the story az related by
her.
She said that she was an enemy Of
Irene's at the time she died, because
Irene wanted her to lie about what she
had heard and seen that she at first
| thought che would, but finally con-
! cluAed that she would not and that If