The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27
DIED IN TWENTY MINUTES.
Considerable Mystery Surrounds
the Affair.
MURDEREss REFUSES TO TALK
So Far as Known There Were Not
Any Witnesses to the
Killing.

RENO. New, July 26.-Mrs. M. A. Hart
ley this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock shot
| State Senator NJ. d. Foley in the pit Of
the stomach.
The Associated Press reporter could mo-
learn what occasioned the shooting
whether property or other troubles.
Mrs. Hartley is an artist, and has rooms
on the third floor In the Bank of Nevada
building, where the shooting occurred
| She has been arrested and is now in jail.
| At ten minutes past FIVE Senator Foley
died.
| Senator Foley was in the building of the
bank of which he was the president, on
the third floor. He and Mrs Hartley were
the only persons on that floor at the time
of the shooting. Several offices on the
second floor were occupied at the time.
DR.. Phillips, in whose Office Foley died,
said:
about 43O O'Clock I heard two shots
and fall. l stepped to my Office door
and saw Senator Foley at the head Of the
stairs waving his hand at Mrs. Hartley
and crying. No. no! Go back!'"
he came downstairs into the doctors
Office. shut the door and said: Doctor, |
AIN shot, and am killed."
"Oh. no." said the doctor. Senator
Foley replied. Yes. l am" and lapsed
into unconsciousness and died within
twenty minutes.
An Associated Press reporter called on
Mrs. Hartley at the County Jail and asked
her if she desired to make a statement.
She replied:
Nothing. except that I shot Senator
Foley, and intended TO do it. l have
known him since last October"
Mrs. Hartley formerly lived at Meadow
Lake and is a widow.
Senator Foley formerly lived at Eureka
and at the time of his death was State
Senator from this Senatorial district. He
leaves a widow, no children.
A post norton was held at s o'clock to-
night.
Only Foley and the woman were present
at the time of the shooting. Foley made
no ante-m ortem statement and Mrs. Hart
ley declines to say anything except that
she fired tho shot.
The bullet entered near the navel and
ranged downward. cutting the intestipes
and severing the femoral artery. The
superstition is that the affair is the result
of an intrigue. as the deceased was an ad-
mirer Of the fair sex.
There are number of persons
from Nevada in this city who were
acquainted with Senator Foley, but few
of them know anything about the woman
in the case.
One gentleman from Reno said that
Mrs. Hartley had been resident of that
city for about year. She came from Vir-
ginia City, where she resided for several
years. She is understood to be widow.
he said. although there had been rumors
in circulation tc the effect that she has a
husband still living in the East.
She is described as not beautiful but
quite pleasant in appearance. an enter
tanning cOnversationaist, with a fine
figure and decidedly English In her
manner. She has the appearance of being
about 40 years Of age.
Judge Grandelmeyer of Reno. W no is In
the city, has known Senator Foley for
many years. He says the dead banker
came from Nova Scotia to California, and
the two men first met in Hamilton. In the
White Pine district of Nevada
At the time Mr.. Foley was an assistant
about the Office of Woodruff & Amer.
who ran a freight and passenger line of
stages from Palisades via Eureka to Ham
ilton.
Mr.. Foley remained there until 1872,
when he removed to Eureka, and through
the influence of Hon. Thomas Wren. pres
ident of the Richmond Consolidated Gold
and Silver Mining Company of London. he
secured the position Of receiver Of charco al
and ores for that company, afterward be-
coming the purchaser Of ores for the same
company, which gave him start In life
financially. He was elected TO the State
Senate of Nevada from Eureka and served
one term. subsequently removing to Reno,
representing the county in which that
city is situated In the same body for one
Term, also. He was president OF the Ne
vada Bank, of which Daniel Myer of this
city is reputedly the principal owner. and
was also interested in the gas, water and
electric light companies of the city.
About ten years ago he married Miss
Griffin. very beautiful young lady, and
the daughter of w. E. Griffin, who is at
present agent of Wells, Fargo & Co. In
Virginia City.
Mr. Grandelmeyer says Mr.. Foley was
an exceedingly lucky man in all of his
ventures. He was much interested in
politics and but recently returned from
Denver, where he attended the annual
meeting of the League of Republican
Clubs.
He was a commissioner from Nevada to
the Midwinter Fair and was a member Of
the Union League Club of this CITY, He
always stopped at the Palace. where he
was we'll known. and usually spent few
days in the city every month.
Mrs. Huntley, as has been stated, was
an artist, and she is said to possess more
than ordinary ability in that respect. She
at present has several pictures on exhibit
ton in the galleries of the Hopkins Insti-