The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-03
GOBEY IN DANGER.
Has Incurred the Enmity
of the Police.
HE MAY LOSE HIS LICENSE.
Deceived Officers Who Were
Looking for Loughborough.
TIED HIS BARKEEPERS' TONGUES
Sections of the Penal Code That APP
ply to the Saloon-Keeper's Case.
Other Offenders.
HE MAY LOSE HIS LICENSE.
TIED HIS BARKEEPERs' TONGUES

There is trouble in store for Frank
Cooley "a long stretch OF boiling hot
water ahead of the proprietor of the saloon
on Suffer street in which young Lough-
borough shot Brick" Whitehouse and
Max Rosenfeld last Thursday evening.
Cooley has stirred up the anger of the
police, who are as powerful in this city as
in New \ ork, and other ceners, and he
will feel their vengeance.
There are upper and rear rooms at
Gobey's that could make strange and start
ling revelations if gifted with speech, but
If Gobey's walls have ears he knows that
they have no tongues and that Chief
Crowley's men cannot modest him for any,
thing done within them. He has kept the
letter of the law against the dives and can
prove that his place is a restaurant But
something occurred at Gobey's on the
night OF the shooting that was apparently
in direct violation of another law.
Section 30 of the Penal Code provides
that all persons who, after full knowledge
that felony has been committed, conceal
II, or harbor and protect the person charged
with or convicted thereof, are accessories.
Section 80 of the code provides that ex-
cept in cases where a different punish
ment is prescribed, an accessory is punish
able by Imprisonment 10 the State Prison
for term not exceeding five years or in
he County Jail for term not exceeding
two years, or by fine not exceeding $1,000
Now on that memorable Thanksgiving
night at GObey's, when the high and
naughty Loughborough sOwed lesden bull
let's in the bodies of two of his fello w-men,
Cooley and his barkeepers did something
that looked very much like cOncealing a
crime.
Patrolman Peter Richter heard of the
shooting and hurried to the saloon ex-
pecting to ind CORY sufferer and down.
cast criminal, but be found neither Gobey
sat al the end of the bar, and his young
men In white jackets were polishing the
glasses as If thew momeDtaTily expected
the arrival of bibuIous multitude. The
policeman asked for particulars of the
crime that had been committed there. but
Cooley and his men said they knew Of no
crime. Richter said he had heard that
some one was shot there, and Cooley made
answer that the boys had been frollcking,
and had, he believed, fired some blank
cartridges, but no one so far as be knew
was wounded. The 6arkeepers, as in duty
bound, corroborated the statement of their
employer.
Richter searched the place for bullets or
bullet marks. but found none for the ex-
cellent reason that they were in the bodies
of the young men who had the tomerity to
run counter TO the Loughborough dignity.
Then he asked Gobey what bad become of
the bOisterOus young man and the saloon
keeper expressed ignorance most profound.
Richter after leaving she saloon questioned
the hackmen al tire stand near the corner
of hearny and Suffer streets. but
they were as anxious TO avoid "being
mixed up in IL as Cooley was and gave
the policeman no information. a few
PAGES further on Richter met a newspaper
man, who was 10 Gobey's q few minutes
after the shooting and heard Gobey in
struct his barkee ers so SAY nothing TO no
one" about the affair.
Richter and others spent two hours
searching for LoughbrOugh, but did not
find him, and they now think he was hid
den in one of the rooms over Cooley s
saloon. 1t will be remem bered that the
young man surrendered himself at the
Cenira Police Station three hours after
he fired that shot that laid Whitehouse
low, and the officers think that be was
hidden al GObey's until they had disap-
peared and was then sent in hack to his
fathers house.
1t is not likely that Gobev will be prose-
cuted for cODceallng the crime, but the
police, who are enraged by his deceit
propose to punish him in another and
very effectual way. They will report his
conduct to the Police Commissioners and
urge that body to deny him a license on
the ground that he did all in his power TO
cloak a crime which they were endeayor-
log TO unearth.
Louis WhitehOUse. who was shot by
Alexander LOughborough on Thanksgiv-
ing night in Gobey's saloon, res ed very
easily during Saturday night, and was
comfortable yesterday morning. During
the forenoon, however mis- father and
brother arrived al the hospital where he is
lying, and after a consultation with Doc
tors Anderson, Cooper and Fesher, con-
sented 10 an examination of the wounded
man IN order, if possible, to determine
how seriously he is hurt.
AS result of their labors they yester-
day afternoon issued the following bulle-
tin for publication
The bail has been located in the back. MIR.
WDltehouse Is resting comfortably. There are
no signs OF perlt0nitls. AS long as he has mn
fever he will not be further operated upon. buG
be must still be kept quiet to prevent trouble.
Signed by Doctors Anderson, Flesher and
Cooper.
Young Max Rosenfeld Is still at the Lick
House and is doing very well. there heing
no longer any danger,