The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-31
ANOTHER MYSTERY
Strange Case of David
Zilioux,
CHEMIST OF LOS ANGELES.
Found on the Street With a
Fractured Skull.
WAS HE BEATEN AND ROBBED !?
He Lies in the Receiving Hospital in
Dying Condition-The Police
Are investigating.
WAS HE BEATEN AND ROBBED ?

The police have another mysterious case
on hand which will, in all probability.
cause them as much hard work and men,
tai worry as the Ware murder.
The victim is David u ioux, chemist.
If Los Angeles. who is lying in a critical
condition at the Receiving Hospital with
a fractured skull and laceraied wounds on
his eyebrow and chin.
About O'Clock yesterday morning d.
D. Reardon, 173 Mnna street, saw a
crowd of about fifty men and boys on the
corner of Market and Mason streets
watching tile actions of a man who
seemed to have the blind staggers. Blood
was ouz nG from the mans ears and from
his eyebrow and chin.
When Reardon reached the crowd the
man was blndly trying to push open the
door of the shirt factory on the corner of
Market aud Mason streets. The crowd
evidently thought he was drunk aud felt
amused at bis strange antics. Reardon's
compassion was aroused and he went up
10 the man and asked what was the matter
with hin. He did not seem TO hear him
and staggered against one of plate-glass
Windows. ReardOn gTaSDed him by the
arm just in time To save him from falling
through the window.
The crowd howled 10 Reardnn to let the
man alone, and thinking ne was only
drunk and had fallen ana cut his face he
did so after not getting an answer TO a
question as to where the man lived. Rear
don kent close to him, however. and it
was we'll that ne did so, as the helpless
stranger would have fallen down the steps
leading to the basement of the building.
Just then Policeman Worst came along.
Reardop told him how the man had been
acting and The officer rang for the patrol
wagon and had him taken to the Receiv-
ing Hospital. There it was found that
there was a fracture at the base of the
skull and that the man was unconscious.
From papers found in his pockets it was
sscertained that his name was David
Zilioux, chemist. of Los Angeles. He had
a certificate from the College of Pharmacy
showing that he had graduated last year.
ceipts for Court 1886. Order of Foresters,
LIS Angeles.
Letters showed that he belongs to Ham
ilton, OHIO, where his father, Jacob Zil-
ouX, his brothers, George H., Samuel F.
and Charles j., and several sisters live.
He is presumably a widower. as his chill
dren live with his parents in Ohio He is
a man about 80 years of age.
Last night he was in a deliriOus cpndi-
ton and The doctors feared for the worst.
There are strong suspicious that III ioux
has been sandbagged aud robbed. Il was
run over BY car or had fallen off car,
but there are circumstances which ex-
ploded that idea. La the first place, al
though a well-dressed man, there was not
one particle OF coin in his pockets, no
ring on any of his fingers and no watch OF
chain ia his pockets. He was practically
cleaned out. 1t seems unreasonable TO
suppose that a man in his position would
have bean in a strange city without q cent
in his pockets.
Besides Market street was wet and mud
az from recent rains, but there was no
mud on his clothes, which there would
have been if he had been struck by car
or fallen from one.
The presumptlon is that he had been
beaten and robbed in some house not far
from the corner of Market and Mason
streets and then left On the sidewalk to be
picked up by some passer-by.
II is considered probable that the frac-
ture OF the base of the skull was caused
BY the blow on the eyebrow, which the
doctors say is not by any means an uu-
common occurrence. He had been posi-
bly, struck on the chin first and then on the
eyebrow.
There were dried blood marks on his
clothing. which led to the belief that he
had been bleeding for some time before
Reardon found him on Market and Mason
streets.
The police will make thorough investi-
CATION nto the case, but meantime it is
ehvel0ped in mystery. Should the unfor-
tunate man regain consciousness he may
be able to throw some light upon the pres
ent darkness, but the chances are against
anything being ascertaned from him, as
he seems to be sinking fast