The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-30
WANTED HIS DRINKS FREE.
The Liquor-SelIer Was Once
Policeman.
HE is CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Result of a Row in a Third.Street
ReSort-The Bartender Acted
i'm Self-Defense.

Daniel Mah0Dey, an eX-convlct, was
shot and killed by ex-Policeman Frederick
Brandt at 1880 o'clock yesterday morning.
Brant Is proprietor of the Chicago saloon,
154 Third street. resort that is open day
and night. The proprietor tended bar all
night and was dealing out steam beer to
group of thirsty souls when Mahoney,
his brother Francis and two or three of
their associates entered. They had been
drinking and were bent on continuing
their revel until daylight.
Mahoney called for beer for himself and
companions, boldly declaring that he and
they had no money to pay for it. Brandt
fatty refused to give the drinks and row
resulted.
Special Officer Costello. who patrols
Third street, entered to quell the disturb
ance and was knocked down by Francis
Mahoney, who kneeled upon him and bit
off the upper part of his left ear. While
he was at work upon the special his
brother Daniel was throwing chairs at the
saloOn-keeper. Brandt stood near beer
cabinet and when one of the chairs struck
il within few inches of his head be took
a pistol from behind the bar and fired once
at his assailant. The ball struck Mahoney
in the right thigh and passed through. sew
ering the femoral artery. Blood spurted
from the wound aud Mahoney fell groan-
ing to the floor. A van was procured at
the Southern police station and the dying
man was lifted into IL and sent to the Re-
ceiving Hospital, but the died on the way
from loss of blood.
Mahoney was a blacksmith. he was 80
years old and lived with his wife in tene-
ment on Clara street, near Fourth.
The row in the saloon ceased at the re-
port of Brandrs pistol. Three patrOlmen
entered and took Brandt and Francis Ma
honey to the Southern station. The saloon
keeper was booked for murder and
Mahoney was charged with mayhem.
Fred Brandt, who fired the shot which
killed Mah0ney, when seen at the new
City Hall station, expressed regret for
what he had done. He is widower with
four children. the eldest being 16 years of
brother in-iaw, Herman Bankin, at the
Three-Mlle House, Bay View.
Il am sorry that MaAoney is dead"
said he. II killed him in self-detense.
Mahoney came into my place with party
and had drink. Then he wanted free
drink. but l refused. The party became
quarrelsome. and Mahoney applied some
very vile epithet and terms to me and tried
to pull my whiskers. l did not want to
fight and ordered them out. Then
Mahoney began to throw chairs at me.
He threw four, but l lodged them. One
of them broke my icecbest. Then | got
my pistol and fred. / only fired one shot
and he dropped.
1.-THE only trouble / ever had before
with Mahohey was on New Years eve.
when he became quarrelsome, and we had
row. He afterward said he would do
me up. l knew him to be a desperate
character and only acted in self-defense."
The officers who know Brandt say that
ne is peaceably inclined man. but that he
had hard gang to deal with at his place
of business.
Dan Mahoney, the man who was killed,
had a criminal record. and had the general
reputation of being an all-round tough.
In 1883 he was arrested along with two
others OF his gang for felonious assault
on an elderly woman In quarry on Six
teenth street and PotrerO avenue. Bis
two partners in crime was sent across the
bay and are there now, but he managed to
escape on account of his youth, being ac-
Quilted when tried. In November, 1885,
he was held to answer for breaking into
the stable Of Clement Richardson, on Ber-
nal Heights, and sentenced to one years
Imprisonment in the House of Correction.
He was discharged in October, 1856 and
the following month was again arrested
on the charge on burglary. In this case
he was sentenced to three years, the full
term allowed, at the House of Correction.
On July Is. 1889, he was one of party
of eonvicts who ESCAPED. Mahoney was
subsequently recaptured and served out
his full term.
During the last few years he has evnced
no disposition 10 mend his ways and his
violent death was not unlocked for.