The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

| the door, but the dead had no ears for the
living.
Miss Raymond then called upon Officers
Samuels and Murphy who burst open the
door and were confronted by the blood
stained corpses.
1t was high noon and thousands of
women, men and children were on the
| streets waiting for the Washington Birth
day procession. The news of the double
killing spread like wildfire and the throng
soon crowded Morton street where it was
taught another lesson in crime.
This murder and suicide is but story
in low life and its horrible details are best
left untold. The young woman not over
two years ago was a bright and good girl.
Her relatives essayed to bring her up in
respectability, but the tempter stepped in
and she fell.
Dolan her murderer, likewise came from
respectable parentage, but drink brought
him down to her degraded level. Their
liaison began in Tiburon. where both
were employed, and his spare moments
and cash he usually spent in this City
with her.
The man who first sent the girl on her
downward path ceased his attentions
many months ago, and the only intimate
friend she was known to have was the man
who now occupies a slab at the Morgue be-
side her.
The actions of the couple from the time
the man reached this City on Friday after
noon have been pretty well accounted for.
They met in the girls den, after z o'clock,
and began an extended tour of the saloons
in the tenderloin district. They spent
considerable time and drank consid-
erably in the Manhattan and Gaiety sa-
looms on Ellis street. Shortly after mid
night they returned to the Crib at 1OSl d
Morton street, and drank some more
About 2:30 o'clock in the morning the girl
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rent for the night, saying she and her
friend would remain there, as she felt very
tired.
Subsequently, between 80 and 5 o'clock
in the m orning. the girl walked into the
barroom kept by d. Chesney, at 113 Grant
avenue, where she purchased bottle of
beer. She returned there shortly after
ward and borrowed glass. At that time
she held short conversation with col
ored man named William Edward Price,
who is the last person except her murderer
so far as is known who saw her alive.
! The condition of the room where the
bodies were found would lead to the be-
lief that there was nothing in the. nature
Of quarrel just prior to the shooting.
The girl, with bullet IN her left temple,
lay on her back and held half smoked
cigarette in her left hand. The murderer
must have silently and unobserved placed
the muZzle of the weapon to her head
while she was half doing. He followed
this by shooting himself in the right
temple.
]. j. McMahon of III Bernard street and
A. D. Keyes of 1912 Sacramento street
called at the Morgue yesterday afternoon
and identified Dolan. Mcmahon is a
nephew of the dead man. He took charge
of the body. Keves is railroad man and
knew Dolan at Tiburon. George Dolan. a
brother of the deceased is also engaged in
| railroading in Marin County.
Mrs. Fisher, who keeps the lodging-house
at $40 Bush street, where May Conboy
roomed up to six weeks ago, and a num-
dead girl during her lifetime, called at the
Morgue and viewed the remains.
They all spoke in warm praise of the
=. happy nature of the unfortunate young
woman. She had, they said, been drink
ing heavily of late. In fact she had given
her life up to dissipation, as she had told
some Of her friends she had grown tired of
her life, which she realized was failure,
and did not care how soon the end came.
She felt her degradation most keenlv and
at times wept bitterly over her fall. In
her youth she had been remarkably pretty,
and even in her coffin there were still
traces of beauty which life of riotous Iiy-
ing had done so much to destroy.
! Sergeant Conboy called at the Morgue
during the afternoon and identified the
| body as that of his niece, Nav Conboy.
| cred from the shock he told the Coroner
that he would take charge of the BODY OF
the dead girl and would have it buried de-
Gently and respectfully. The sergeant
talked feelingly of the dead girl.
"She was born in Ireland, he said, "but
came here with her parents when only a
| baby in arms. Shortly after her arrival