The morning call., 1893-01-30
1T is A MYSTERY.
The Police Looking Into the
Mccarthy Case.
WHAT BECAME OF THE MONEY!
Statements Made by Three Parties to
Officers at Police Headquarters.
The Inquest To-Day.

The mystery surrounding the death o
James Mccarthy. the glasseutter who LIVED
at 558 Olive avenue, ard who was found il
dying condition or Willow avenue on Sat
urday morning, has not been solved as yet
although the police and detectives hav'
been working steadily ON the case since !
was first reported.
1t is now almost certain that the old mar
was robbed. but whether the blow tina
fractured his skull and caused his deatl
was given by the robbers or received acct
IDENTIFY by fall is unanswered
Yesterday Fred Hudson, the hackman fo
the Paci fc Carriage Company, who tool
Mccarthy from the saloon to the corner o
Laguna and Ellis streets. where he left hin
at midnight on Friday, called at the station
and make the following statement to Detec
tive Bohen;
Il left the stand at about 10 :45 P. NJ. or
the 9th inst. | went to the northwest cor
ner of Fourteenth and Valencia. When
went in said. You rung for carriage,
and added that the carriage was there
They showed me a man who was sitting
down and asked what | would charge to
take him home. l said 81 without
is too much started out and
was called back by the bartender who
said. I'll pay you II he wants ME to- The
man that took went to the bar with help
and gave the bartender 81 90 and the bar
tender put 80 cents that was en- the coun ter
with 1t and gave 1t to me, and then the man
was put into the hack, all hands took a
When got TO Ellis and Laguna / stopped
and said, My friend. we have got 10 our
destination; here you are ! opened the
door and he looked out and said: No. this
is not where l live. Where are wep T
told him on LaguDa and Ellis. and he said
fornia and Laguna.' l said. What's the
reason you gave me the address Ellis and
Laguna If you don't live here?' He again
said: i don't live here. Drive me to Cali
fornia and Laguna. l can tell the place
when / see it, l drove to California aud
Laguna and when | got there he said he
didn't live there, that 1t wasn't the place.
l said, We'll, old man. if l have you much
longer there will be extra charges He re-
piled: That's all right Take or get lie
home L said: You have been TO Ellis
and Laguna and California and La
guna, and you said you lived at
both places and you amt home yet.
know the street. but can tell the place when
see it. Drive on slow back to Ellis and
Laguna streets again and I'll look for the
place. and when l see it I'll tell you to
stop l drove back rs far as Eddy and
Laguna and then asked him again where
he lived. He said. this is not the place.
Drive nie around to the other street. When
L see the place I'll tell YOU | drove
around for twenty or thirty minutes in the
neighborhood. but he did rot stop me.
Finally | got tired and took him back to
Ellis and Laguna streets and stopped. On
the way | net several people on the street
and asked them if they knew man named
Mccarthy. They said no. got down and
opened the door and asked them to look at
him. They talked TO him, but did not know
him and had never seen him in that neigh
borhood. One OF them went back 10 a house
where there was party TO see If any one
there knew the man, but they said no. |
told the man TO get out Of the hack and look
around and see If he dOuldn't find his home.
He looked out the door and said,
rs this the west corner? Yes
said. DO you live here?' He replied,
L don't know Then he got out
and stood up for moment and said, i live
here l asked where and he pointed up
Laguna street, west side, and l said, My
friend. you owe re 81 80 more He asked,
Didn't pay you 81 at the saoon?' | said
Yes, but explained that we had been driy-
ing for over an hour and it Is 50 for the
first hour and 81 80 for each hour after.
He objected to the extra charge and | told
him If he did not pay me l would have to
pay 1t out of my own pocket. He then
said. We'll. I'll pay you the 81 so and
wanted my mum Der. ! gave 1t to him and
told him where | belonged and after | said
/ must 90 and he went across the street
diagonally, stopped at h picket fence and
and took hold of Ii and stood there. | got
on the hack and drove home. de talk ed
nationally and seemed TO be drunk in his legs
and not III his head. When / drove down
Laguna street to Turk l saw two men at
the corner walking toward Eddy street.
j got back to the stand about 1910 or II 20
o'clock A. NJ. When the man took his purse
out TO pay me the extra 81 90 | saw some
silver in It and l think $50 gold piece in
it,"
The officers believe the hackman's state
ment as 10 seeing the deceased with money,
and it is supposed that he had $50 or $40 in
gold on his person early in the afternoon. 1t
is also stated that while at the saloon at
Fourteenth and Valencia streets, Mccarthy
received hard fall, but there was no blood
on the man when he left the saloon nor
when he got out of the hack, yet when the
body was found on Willow avenue, the head
lay in big pool of blood.
Yesterday afternoon II. Arson, who lives
Al 923 Post street, called at the station and
told the following story:
IL was coming With my wife and sister
from my stepbrother's wake, and stopped on
the corner of Ellis and Laguna streets TO
wait for a car. 1t was about five minutes
after u, and while we were standing there a
young man came up and asked if / bad a
police whistle, saving there was man lying
dead upon Willow avenue. and he wanted
An officer. put the women folks on the ear
and went back with the man. We found
Mccarthy with the back of his head rest
ing on the curbstone, and his body
and legs In the street. He Law
just as if he had fallen where
we found him. We lifted him up and set
him against the fence. Then the officers
came and the patrol wagon arrived.
accompanied the man to the Receiving Hos
pltal and saw him searched. There was
only few cents in his pockets. and saw
no pocket-bOok."
f. Meyer, an usher at the California
Theater and wel-kn0wn young man of
und0ubted honesty, was the person who
first found the man, and his story tallies ex-
actly with that of Arson. What the officers
want to know is what became of the money
that the hackman saw Mccarthy have in
his purse about ten minutes before he was
found dying in the street. Every effort is
being made to sft the case to the bottom
and at the inquest to-day some develop
mautS are pyDpctpU.