The morning call., 1894-08-15
BURST HIS BRAIN.
Fatal Result of a Bar
room Row.
Alfred Mace, Fruit-PeddIer, Is
Charged With the Murder of
James II. Whitehouse.

James Henry Wbitehouse, a travelling
salesman. who lived at 922 Oak street, was
killed yesterday afternoon in John H.
Schlesselman's saloon, at the southwest
corner of Oak and Pierce streets.
Alfred Mace. a fruit-dealer at 131 Col
lingwood street, was charged with his
murder.
There were several men in the saloon or
In the grocery-store to which tits annexed,
at the time, yet: none of Them knew or
were willing TO: tell how the, crime was
committed. =: .'::::.: ::
i" Whitehouse, a. popular. business man,
who:resfded within a few: hup dEed feet Of
the place, *enteTed::the, store: at 5 o'clOck-
and passed into the 'baTo01n. where: he
met Mace: There we're: several men at the
bar,:apd w hfteholse sat do ~n:, at a: table:
. andren erred into. :cCrlversati Qn with! the
vegetable man. The conversation. accord:
ing. to the men at. the. barr: quickly devel-'
E'oped into a quarrel; and they! left:the dis
| putants:to<settle their; differences. as best.
they conid., :; =:
+, Schlesselman;; the roprietor;;: Frederick
+. Mannng;= the s6arkeeper; and, Thomas.
/ ONeil, a. customer, say they were in the
/ store while WhitehOuse and. Mace were;
:disputibg IN. the. baTroom:. After a@time
they head the MEN in the barro o IN scuf-+
fling The struggle :c0n tinued" for few
moments when one of the com batants fell.
l.: Macerubhed out$into the store and called.
tile three men at the counter intot the bar
room; where theyf0und. Whiteh6use;ly lying
on the floor nearthe ia Bile stwhich he had
been sitting Blood was flowing from
wounds in his: face and he was pncon:
sciouS. = -. .>3 -
:, "Guess you have killed him,'' Schiessel--
man remarked, =:
"Thel I'm going to give myself up; -:
Moaa led ann hy.r r pd hf tfTo. sfo
. Whieh ouse's head was pilfowed on "a
sack: and Dr.. Wolff and his wife. were
sum noned: Whiteh0use was dying then,
and soon. after the physician: and. Mrs:
:Whitehouse arrived he :: expired. Mrs.
WhitehOuse. wholly Qnprepared for The
dread event that left her a widow. tainted
and was removed to her home.,- -.
: Some: one sent word 10: tie s,Coroner's
office that a man dropped dead at the cor
ner; of Oak and Pierce streets, and Deputy
Goroner Jones went with the wagon to
the place.. He was. unable to find a weapon
OF. any Kind In the barroom, and when he5
questioned the people who were i'll the
store they gave. him the foregoing account
of the tragedy.
,"Somebody is lying here" he remarked,
and placing. tile body in tine wagon he
'drQye 10 the office of the Chief of Police
and: impaired his knowledge of the affair
to- the clerk. 1t was then an hour. after
mace 3nau ieIL ells store, saying :lnaG ne
was going to give himself up, yet he had
not. appeared at the police station. A
detective was sent to the house d re-
turned with the information that he and
his wife had gone away. Later on he was
arrested At his home.
DR. T. X Emerson; made an autopsy of
WhitehOuse's body at the Morgua. He
inund several cuts and bruises on tile face
that might have been made with a blunt
instrument. The byold bone on which the
base ef:the tongue. rests was broken and
there was an extensive hem0Irhage of the
BRAIN. He decided that death was caused
by conclusion. of the brain, which mi light
have been produced by a blow or q fall.
:Whitehouse was a native of Austria, 10
years old. and had no children. He owned
the house in which he lived, also dwell
ing at the corner of Webster and Wash
ington streets and several lots In the 4
Western Addition.
At the City Prison Mace was reticent
about the murder. Il don't know this man
Whitehouse.' he said, land never saw him
to my knowledge in my life. never laid
hands on him, and am as inn ocsnt of the
charge against me as babe un born"
On being further questioned he admit
ted that friend had advised him to keep
silent tongue and not deliver himself up
to the police, but to let the police comefor \
him. Then he ;contradicted himself by
saying d. uHe tIuI6 tllht ne was never III
the saloon. and at another admitting that
he; had a glass of beer there.
Mace says he is a Canadian, 40 years of
age. and hss been a fruit aud vegetable
peddler in this city for the past seventeen |
wears. He is married, but has no family.
He is short heavily built man, and has
the appearance Of great strength.
The murde cred man was travelling agent
for soap works at the Pofrero. He was
prominent member of the knights. of
Pythias, /. 0. o. +. and the Ancient Order
of Uniteu Workmen.
Inc police say that this is not the first
time Mace has been in trouble. He is of
Quarrelsome disposition and ready with
his fists. About five wears ago he was
charged with stabbing another man.