The record-union., 1896-10-22
Addie Schillng and James Lowe The
UnfortunateS.
In a Most COId-BIOOded Manner Lowe Kills
His Mistress and Himself.
The Muble TRAGEDY Enacted at the Very Doors Of the
Police Court, Where Lowe Was 10 be
Tiled for VdgralCY.

At 9:45 o'clock yesterday morning
three pistol shots rang out in rapid
succession in the hallway leading to the
Police courtroom, on the second floor of
the City Prison. Two forms swayed
heavily for an instant, piercing shrek
rang out and then Addie Schilling.
otherwise known as Gertie Stonehouse,
fell to the floor with bullet-hole
through each lung, and James Lowe
dropped dead from a shot fired through
his brain by his own hand.
Not often is it that those with muir
der in their hearts seek the halls Of
justice in which to accomplish their
heinous purposes, and had other oppor-
tunity presented itself Lowe might have
been no exception to the rule. For the
past week he had sought an interview
with the woman, but it was not until he
stood upon the very threshold of the
hall in which he evidently believed a
former crime of his would be exposed
that his opportunity arrived and the
woman's lips, which might have testi-
fled against him, were sealed in death.
1t was a complicated case, this mur-
der of Addie Schilling and suicide of her
slayer, and Notwithstanding the love
the man evidently bore for the woman,
there is said to have been another af-
fair to him of even greater Importance,
involving the good name borne by his
family and formerly by himself.
James Lowe came to Sacramento
some time ago and became acquainted
with Addie Schilling, an inmate of a
house kept by May Melville on l.
hatU Front and Sannn6 and
between them an intimacy sprung up
which was continued until about two
weeks ago, when the girl tired of the
attentions of her admirer and deter
mied to GUST him from the position he
held in her affections. Lowe, no doubt
smitten by the charms of the girl, strove
TO retain his place with her, and there
would probably have been no tragedy
had not whirl of fortunes wheel
brought another matter to the surface.
Lowe formerly resided in San Jose,
and was highly connected-his father
being an eX-State Senator. Five or six
months ago a house in San Jose belong
ing to the young man was destroyed by
fire and $500 collected from the insur-
ance company with which it was in
sured.
Several facts brought to light later on
aroused the suspicious of the company
il question, and as a consequence one
of their private detectives was put on
the case. On the arrival of that party
IN this city he told his story at the
police headquarters, and Officer Talbot
was detailed upon the case to assist in
ferreting out the facts.
The investigation, however, appears
&c have failed to develop any evidence
upon which a conviction for arson
might be had. But Talbot at length
concluded that Lowe was an undesira-
bic citizen, and that he would best SUBJ
serve the city's interests by arresting
him for vagrancy and giving him q
"floater'' upon which to leave town.
The arrest was accordingly made last
week, but instead of entering a plea of
guilty and leaving the city, as it was
expected he would be glad to do, Lowe
showed fight, put up a deposit for his
appearance in court, and retained At
torneys Frank Sprague and j. w.
Hughes to defend him. 1t being thus
put upon the police to procure evil
dence sufficient to convict him, Addie
Schilling, or "Gertie," was served with
"a. subpoena enjoining her to appear and
tell what she knew in the matter.
on this news coming to his ears Lowe
became uneasy, and it is now believed
ly the officers that he may have incrim-
mated himself to the girl in regard to
the destruction of the house in San
Jose and feared that evidence she might