The San Francisco call., 1897-02-17

to convict Eugene Kenney, better known
as Barney, the Cook" OF one of the m ost
cold blooded murders committeds here
since David Fauss calmly entered q
Fourth h-street saloon about ninety days
ago and emptied his revolver into the
body of Billy Manning, who was quietly
enjoying q game of cards.
Fauss walked out of the place where
twenty people had seen him assassinate
his man, and he has never been seen since
by any one authorized or inclined to take
him into custody. Like Blanther and
Dunham, he is still at large, and Eugene
Kenney might still be among the un-
captured mad he not felt some unac-
countable compunction and delivered
himself to the detectives.
Patrick Dolan, the proprietor of saloon
at 1874 Market street, within a stones
throw of the City Prison, took his regular
morn ing watch yesterday. There were no
people in the house excepting old Thomas
Grove, hanger-on, who was so besotted
and asleep that ne did not hear the report
OF three pistol shots. The detectives cap
tn ed him when they arrived upon the
scene of the shooting, and upon compar-
ing notes they agreed they each knew as
little as did the others about the affair.
Grove, however, was captured and is
now in prison.
The first evidence obtained came from
Patrick Dolan himself, after he had been
brought from the yard back of his saloon
and his wounds had been examined at the
hospital. He said:
My name is Patrick Dolan. 1 am proprietor
OF saloon 1874 Market street. was born
IN Ireland. am unmarried and have resided in
this City fl teen years. A man by the name of
Barney came into the saloon and asked for
beer. went to draw it and ne just shot me.
l never had any trouble with him before. He
did not say anything TO me except when /
asked him il he wanted beer. l was walking
up to the kegs when he fired at me and ran
out the back way and said was shot. He ran
out the front door. There were two other men
In the saloon. Tom Grove. janitor in the
City Hall, was one. 1 doa't know the other
man. The man who shot me his name is
Barney. don't know his other name.
Believing am about to die, hereby make
this nv last dying statement and declare the
(signed) PATRICK DoLAN, 729 Tehama
The statement was witnessed by o. H.
Heyneman and A. A. Mcguire, MD.
Barney" IS well-known character
around the saloons near the City Hail.
and he has been known for years as
Barney, the Cook" He made living
by doing chores in and about these D.! aces
at odd times.
George Young, q window-washer, work
ing across the street near Central Park,
heard the three sho.s thai were fired and
saw two men dart out of the door of the
saloon and separate. One went toward
Seventh and the other toward Eighth
street.
Charles Lamb, a passer-by, likewise
observed the fleeing men, but was not in
clined to stop either. Hundreds Of others
on the street heard the shots, but walked
away, leaving the two fugitives 10 go un-
arrested.
There vas nothing, therefore, upon
which a clew could be fastened excepting
the dying statement of Patrick Dolan,
that 1t was Barney" who die the shoot
ing.
The Dolan saloon is ''beer Joint" as
such places are commonly called. 1t has
an opening on Market and re aches back to
another on Park avenue. The bar proper
occupies the west side of the saloon to a
row of beerkegs. There are mum berless
tables, billiard and other kinds, in the
back.
A broken "steam- beer" glass, found on
the floor of the saloon, corroborates Do
lan's dying statement that he was draw
ing the beverage for his patron when he
was shot.
There appeared, so far as the police
| could ascertain al the time, to be no mo-
tive for the shooting.
The bullets entered on the right side,
about the groin and little higher up, one
puncturing the rightlung.
Dolan has been mem ber of Court Inde-
pendence of tie Foresters o. America for
many years and many of his iraternal