The morning call., 1894-03-18
SHE IS SEVERELY WOUNDED.
Narrow Escape of Kate Cullinan,
Real Estate Agent.
HER ADoRER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
He Is Carl A. Rush, and he Says
That She Promised to Marry Him
and Owes Him Money.

Two reports of pistol fred in rapid
succession, the screams of a woman
frenZled with fear and wild-eyed lab0rer
brandishing a revolver caused IN immense
crowd to gather at the corner OF Market
and Stockton streets at $50 O'Clock last
night.
The woman's screams had hardly died
away before the throng made the street
impossible and hemmed in the man with
the pistol and the PROSTATE form OF
woman who lay groaning upon the side
walk at his feet.
She was handsome woman. apparently
just bidding farewell to girlhood. Her
face was crowned with waving hair and
her two large black eyes looked wistfully
up into the faces that bent over her.
Policeme Smith and Clisham of the
South ern station forced their way through
the mob aud secured the man with the
pistol. He offered no resistance. bnt held
out his hands until the manacIes were
| locked upon his wrists. Fifteen minutes
later he was locked up In a cell at the
Southern station, and Carl A. Rush, %
years old. Germany, engineer. assault TO
| murder" was written on the prison regis
ter.
The wounded woman was Miss Catherine
| Cullinan, real estate and employment
| agent, VINO lives in a lOdgiD g-hOuse kept
by her sisters at 639 Golden Gate avenue.
She has an Office in the Croker building,
| and was secretary of the Woman's Invest
| ment Associa ZION. She had many friends
| in the throng. who, after learning that she
was not dangerously wounded, sent her
| TO her home in a carriage ana did all In
| their power to hush up the affair.
The oice say that Rush saw the woman
in dyer's shop on Stockton street, and
| went in and spoke to her. She followed
| m no tpn oil
tercation he drew a pistol and fired two
shots at her, wounding her in the right
| tn Oh.
Rush, who has for some time been en-
gineer of the Government tug Yosemite,
spoke feely about bis relations with the
woman and declared that alter shooting
Miss Cullinan he tried to kill himself, but
| the pis tol snapped. He is man of medium
stature with coal-back hair. thin black
beard and very swarthv complexion. He
is anything but handsome, yet there is no
doubt that he was smtten 10 the hearts
core by the charms of the fair young busi-
ness woman.
"TIl tell you all about it," he said as he
peered through the wicket in the door of
his cell.
81 am % years old and my trade is that
of en gineer. l came 10 San Francisco late
in 1892 and secured the city for weeks to
obtain employment. but l was unsuccesS-
full. had saved several hundred dollars
and decided that | would go into business.
Zone day / read in the advertising
columns of a paper that a lady wanted
partner in lndging-house. The IOdgi' G.
house was at 81 Grant avenue and found
that the lady VINO owned il and wanted a
partner was Miss Catherine Cullnan.
She was a pretty young woman and
liked her just as soon as | saw her. She
SAID that tho house was making money,
, but she wanted an assistant upon whom
she could rely. She offered tn sell me
half-interest in the house for $500. Our
interview was rather long, and when l
called upon her eighteen hours later |
offered to marry her, and she answered
that she would be my wife within month
if | would buy the half-interest in the
house.
THAT made me very happy, and / at
once gave her the money. Well, when the
end Of the month came she said she could
not marry me just then, but would very
soon. Then she offered TO buy my interest
in the house and resold 1t to her; but III
stead of giving me cash she induced me to
! accept her note for the amount, saying
that she would give me money when she
had obtained another house for which she
was bargaining at the time.
, ''She told me that she had no money
then and advised NE to go TO work. After
weeks of idleness l obtained a position as
engineer on the steamer Estella. j worked
until July 20 and sent her money regu-
larry, because l believed that she was
going TO marry me and was investing The
money for our mutual benefit She was
not very afectioIatP. but every time L saw
, her, and l saw her whenever 1t was pOssi-
BILE. she said she would be my wife very
soon. | thiuk l saw her at least once a
month, and she always said that she
! would marry me soon-soon."
Here the afflicted mariner sighed dole
| fully and brushed his unkempt hair back
+ from his low forehead.
Il believed everything that woman
/ said," he continued, land | did love her
so much. After a time left the steamer
, and worked for the San Joaquin Brick
Company. That was about one year ago.
, and L have sent her $50 a mouth ever
, since. She owes me at least $1,000.
when l began 10 work on the steamer
; Yosemite she began TO come to me for my
! money.
, "At last began to see that she did not
/ love anything but my money. ana made
, myself sure that she was bleeding me, SO
made up my mind TO put an End to II.
About week ago / told her that she must
d marry me or return ny money. and she
: promised 10 give me $500 last Thursday,
3 but when Thursday came she said she had
no money; but she held up her hand and
[ swore that she would give it TO me on Sat-
urday before o'clock in the evening.
a "1met her at the dyestore on Stockton
! street at 8: 80 O'Clock and asked her whether
. she had the money. She said she had not
i Il
I L won't put up with this any longer She
9 answered 1--WE were then on The sidewalk)
o go to -
2 ''TheD l drew my pistol and fred twice
g and she fell down. then tried to shoot
myself. but the thing would not go on
o The policeman grabbed me and took me
: here, and / don't care what becomes Of
. me-"
q Miss Cullinan did not want 10 be inter
t viewed. Her sisters said that she wa:
suffers ng intensely and was too nervous &c
: talk, but they were finally prevailed upon
v to admit the reporter to the room In which
\ the Injured woman lay. She was moan
ing and Quivering, grinding her teeth anC
q talking incoherently. An attendant gave
4 her glass of water and shifted bel
s wounded member to place Indicated by
4 her.
d You see that she cannot say anything
i now. You had better call Tomorrow
a said the attendant. II am certain this will
be kept out IF the papers.