The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09

and fired. With scream Mrs. Emmett
fell to the sidewalk wounded.
Once more he advanced toward the
woman as though to finish his bloody
work, but as he leveled the pistol the baby
sprang upon him and seized the hand that
held the weapon.
The actor paused and looked at the little
one in astonishment, for he had not seen
her before. Pushing her from him En-
met stepped back pace or two and slow
ly placed the muZzle of the weapon against
his temple.
Baby Sinnott again sprang upon the
full-grown man. She seemed to climb up
his limbs. In an instant the little hand
was grasping the barrel of the pistol,
which she dragged away from the mans
temple. She chung to his arm so that he
could not use the weapon again. Emmett
stood for moment as if one bewildered,
and then with his left hand he threw the
weapon into the garden on the corner.
Then it was that the eight-year-old
little heroine collapsed, and fell to the
sidewalk in a faint.
Bystanders quickly gathered and one
picked up the child. No one would touch
the man, who walked up the street and sat
upon his doorstep until Officer Thompson
arrived.
Mrs Emmett was assisted to doorstep
near by, where she sat moaning until Off
GERS Samuels and Peters took her to the
Receiving Hospital.
On the way to the North End police
station Emmett said to the officer that his
wife had been out all day, and the police
irfa &c IN Wb at the o.
mark implied. The police stated that
fiuence of liquor at the time of his arrest.
Mrs. Emmett was driven rapidly to the
Receiving Hospital in the patrol wagon.
When placed on the operatingtable she
was in very hysterical condition. She
declared that there was no bullet in her
head, although there was a wound re-
sembling bullet wound in her left tenn
pie. She protested vehemently against
Drs. Somers and Redding probing for it
and insisted upon leaving the operating
table.
Finally, although assuring the doctors
they would not find bullet, she con-
scented to allow them to probe into the
wound if they would desist when she cried
"stop." DR.. Redding probed for bullet,
but was unable to find one. 1t had glanced
upward along the bone, and had in all
probability lodged under the skin in her
scalp. They wanted to probe further, but
she positively refused to allow them.
In answer to questions she said her hus-
band had struck her inside the house with
the butt end of revolver, and she ran out
into the street. He followed her and
pointed the pistol at her, when she struck
his hand upward and the bullet went into
the air. She was positive it had not struck
her.
"Well did he shoot your" was asked.
"He did not shoot me. He is too great q
coward to do that" she replied.
All persuasions to have the bullet further
probed for being useless, she was told that
she would have to remain in the hospital
This she refused absolutely to do. Her
brother-in-law, who was present, left to
get hack to take her to his rooms, but
while he was gone Captain Douglass tele-
phoned to the hospital that she was not to
be discharged. This excited her so much
that she would not lie down on cot, but
paced the corridor while stalwart police
man kept watch over her.
Later Captain Lees saw her at the hos