The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
At SACRAME M TO
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after being shot, convey strong infer
ence of his intention. The first is brief
and written with pencil:

after being shot, convey strong infer
ence of his intention. The first is brief
and written with pencil:
Addie: Loan me $25. Will return it to you
as soon as get home. l want to get my trunk
and new hat and pay my room rent, and
owe few bits in town that l want to pay
before leave 1t is best that 1 return home
and best for both. ].
P. 81 teegraphed home for money to my
father but he refused to send it, sc you grant
me the favor. Answer Immediately SO / can
make arrangements to leave.
This evidently met with no response, so
he wrote the following:
Well, have been waiting for an answer.
What are you going to do? will not go until
get that business spoke about-and, another
thing Addie don't be telling your friend and
the girls all your business and laugh and call
me bad names, and think it is very funny, for
the laugh may be on my side. Remember one
thing, that when people have trouble, your
friends-your would-be friends-are always
ready to knife.
but did not care to speak Tor fear of being in
snlted. When call for you at the room don't
have the girls tell me that you are not at
home, for know better, and speak to me like
a woman and not act the part OF a sneak. j.
P. S.-Send me answer by O'Clock, and If SO
Twill see an attorney. Don't forget about tnat
nOie tlat gave, Dill Oh sale 10r rig ana
several other matters in regard to money that
loand you and have good witness.
The latter disconnected letter would
seem to indicate that the trouble was
affecting his mental status, and it is
thought that the knowledge that the
woman with whom he was so madly infat-
uated had cast him off and refused further
intercourse with him, even to the loaning
of but small portion of the large sums
hal I'D hn fea -,
his father refused him further aid; the
fact that his wife had served divorce pa
pers on him, he receiving them on the 23d
of September, and the fact that he was
threatened with arrest on charge of
arson and that the gates of State prison
were opening for him, combined to drive
him to desperation and partial insanity.
and resulted in this mornings dreadful
tragedy.
Last night Lowe wrote tive letters and
addressed them to his father and to Mr..
Newman, friend of his. What the con-
tents are cannot be learned.
Senator Lowe arrived here this evening.
He refuses to open his letter until he re-
turns to San Jose. He claims that
there is nothing in the arson charge
and says that, he having been confined to
his bed for some time by sickness, Gen.
eral Allen had been answering his corre-
spondence, and he was not aware of the
tenor of the letters received from his son
requesting money, etc.
That the young man intended to kill
the woman and then commit suicide is
further shown in TWO letters which he
wrote. One was to James Holman,
friend in San Francisco, who seemed to
know all about the affairs of Lowe and the
woman, and the other was to Addie Schil-
ling. In the former he complained bitterly
of the woman having deserted him. He
said he had expected to marry her and
give her home. Lowe wrote that he
could not go back to his home in San
Jose, as he was dlsgraced there. He ad-
mitted that he had been drunk and that
he abused the woman.
She had left him, be said, without monev
or clothing. He said that she would never
have the satisfaction of living with any
other man, and he intimated that he in
tended to commit suicide. In a letter
which Lowe wrote to the woman, under
the date of the 18th inst, he called her his
"little girl" and. after the use of lot of
vile language. he said:
By the time you receive this letter 1 will
be dead to the world, and bear it in mind that
you are the cause of this rash act If there
is any truth in there being a God and that
spirits can return 10 this world, Will remem-
Der you.
Then he proceeded to heap vile abuse
upon the woman in relation to some
stories he had heard about her, after which
he proceeded:
You have given me dirt, and one that gives
dirt must expect the same. 1t is only mat
ter of time. Little one, wouldn't give two
bits for your life. Some one will enter your
parlor some night and then you will be minus
your breath. You will Ger tainly get it, if not
in Sacramento, elsewhere.
Little one, be careful Things look very
rocky for you. You will get it when you least
expect it. Your smiles will never be as pleas
ant in parlor as heretofore, for will haunt
you to your dying day. for you know in your
heart you done me dirt. You made me lose
my position and lost my wife. My name was
good for anything that might ask for. gave
my folks up for you, and you cannot deny
what say.
From this night on your life will be miser-
able and you will be convinced, and others
will notice the same.
The letter was signed, Your unfortu-
nate friend, j." A message was received
in this city this evening from the father OF
the dead girl, saying:
Give Addie burial and write particulars.
FORWARD me her effects V. S. ScHILLING.