The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-16
SUICIDE OR MURDER
The Question Now Is, Was
MaguiHe Assassinated
ADDITIONAL LIGHT IS SECURED
It Reveals the Presence of a
Second Person
DID THIS MAN KILL HIM?
The Two Were Seen Together Early
on Sunday Morning
Walked Together Toward the Scene Of the
DID THIS MAN KILL HIM?
The Two Were Seen Together Early
on Sunday Morning
Walked Together Toward the Scene Of the
Alleged Suicide
The Identity Of the Unknown Young Tan
Should Be Dlsclosed-It Is Possible
That He ray Have Killed
the Officer-Details

Was Police Officer John F. Mcguire
murdered?
The coroner's jury decided yesterday
that he had taken his own life. This
was in all probability borne out by the
evidence that was presented for their con-
sderation, bu: within the last few hours
some additional light has been Sc ecured on
the affair which goes to show that an
otner man was in Westlake park on Sun
day morning with Mcguire and that they
were seen talking together only an hour
or two before he is thought to have killed
himself
If Mcguire did kill himself who then
was this man and what was he doing in
the park talking to Mcguire at o'clock
in the morningP
To some of his friends Mcguire said he
thought he had better end his own life
but to the majority and to the last
who talked with him he declared
that he feared he would be killed by
SO me man.
Could the person with whom he was
conversing have been that man?
The person who saw Mcguire in the
company of second person on Sunday
mOTHluR III VoStidko paIh Is al Eusiiuu',
man by the name of f. J. Arnold and he
lives at Ell Monte. He had visited che
park and waited for fully an hour and
half or two hours after the last car left
at about II AS p. m. and then encounter
ell the two men.
To a reporter of this paper Mr.. Arnold
related what he had seen at the park on
the night IN question.
E Al l..
cars" he said, land remained for some
time. When 1 started home made my
way to the corner where the electric and
cable lines meet. at the southeast corner
of the park grounds. At that point 1 saw
two men. One was by the mead of
horse hitched to top buggy. while the
other had hold of the bits of riding
horse. The first horse was either dark
bay or a plack, could not tell which; it
was dark, ana the riding animal was
light-colored and stood nearly seventeen
hands high. Botn were facing Seven tn
street towards the west.
The man by the driving horse was
about medium height and wore dark or
black clothes, with the coat buttoned up
to the throat. He had dark felt hat
on his head. He wore a sandy mustache
and it looked as though it had been
trimm, d with the scissors. His compan-
ion WAS very tail and slim and ths thing
that attracted my attention the most
about him was mis- mustache. 1t was
;ery long and blonde-in fact unusually
long. He had Oil light coat and dark
trousers and dark or black derby hat.
"They were talking when l came up,
and | SAID to the taller: Has the last
car left yet?' He replied that it had gone
an hour and half ago. l stood around
for minute. as the walk back to the city
was not evry PLEASANT to contemplate,
and they commenced talking. Finally the
taller one said. Come this way, and
moved along Seventh street towards the
west side of the park. The man who
had stood at the head of the buggy moved
away with him, and 1 saw nothing more
OF them. They both Walked"
Mr.. Arnold went with a reporter to the
norgue and looked at the remains of Ma
guire. Arnold studied the features for
some minutes and then said that he was
almost ready to take his oath that Ma
guire was the person whom he had sssn
holding the horse and buggy at Westlake
park on Sunday morning. He had this
same kind OF mustache and identically
he same high forehead that the person at
the park had. The terrible wounds, of
course, have changed the appearance of
the dead mons face but Arnold was
quite positive that Mcguire was the same
individual.
From the morgue Mr.. Arnold and the
reporter went to the Eagle livery stables,
on South Broadway, where Mcguire got
the horse and buggy to ride to Westlake
ark. The horse Comet. which carried
the unfortunate man to his death on Sun
day, was shown to Mr.. Arnold, and he
Identified the animal as the one he had
seen. In fact, he picked out the horse
before the stable hand had said which
one of the dozens of anima ais was the one
that had been rented to Maguire.
The description given by Mr.. Arnold
of this animal befure he was asked to
visit the stable corresponded exactly
with the ho,se.
The statements made by this man as
to the kind of clothes worn by the per-
son at the lake holding the horses head
agree with those found upon the body of
Maguire.
Now that the identity of Mcguire is es-
tablishej beyond any reasonable doubt,
VINO was his tall mpanion?
Arnold saw all of the mounted off GERS
as they left the station last night, but
allied to see among them anyone who
resem bled the unknown man with the
high horse and who led the way
towards that part of the lake where