The San Francisco call., 1897-07-31

ing, 113 Oregon street, in the room of a
Ebert.
Krull, after laying his victim on Mrs.
Ebert's bed, escaped through rear win
dow.
Mrs. Ebert, after concealing under her
bed the remaining cartridges that were in
the pistol, notified the Harbor-front police
and Bullwinkle. very weak from his
wound, was taken to the Harbor Receiv-
ing Hospital.
Mrs. Ebert was very much agitated over
the affair and told the police that the pis-
tol was discharged by accident.
She said that Harry Lowell, her brother,
about 10 years old, ana Manuel Krull,
about the same age, came TO her room yes
terday afternoon. They were preparing
10 60 on hunting expedition. She OBJ
iected TO Buliwinkle coming into the room
because he was a stranger to her, and the
room had not been liked up"
He came in, however, at the invitation
of Lowell and Krull, and stood near a low
bed in the corner OF the room. Kruil was
sitting on the edge of the ped and Mrs.
Ebert handed him a nickel plated revol-
yer to take with him, after taking out all
the cartridges but one. Krull believing
the pistol to be empty, pointed the muZZe
at q point in the floor on line about two
feet parallel to BullwihkIe and pulled the
trigger The bullet struck BulIwinkle on
the right side oil the abdomen, lnt1lctlng a
fatal wound.
Krull and Harry Lowell placed Bull
winkle on the bed and asked Mrs. Ebert
to go for a doctor, but on her way ont of
the house she was advised to notify the
police. During her absence the shooter
escaped throus b a window in the rear OF
the building.
ya 80 hill Io+
must have checked itself in its flight be-
lore reaching the floor and then turned at
| a right angle tor two feet and then made
another right angle into Bullwinkle's s
| body.
She said that Krull took the pistol with
him, and after being cross-examined by
! the officers she produced the remaining
| cartridges, OF 38 caliber, from underne ath
| the bed, where she had thrown them.
| She also gave the officers an old-fashioned
Colts navy revolver of 40 caliber, un-
loaded. The pistol did not appear to have
| be n recentlv discharged.
Mrs. Ebert's story of the shooting was
so improbable that the police did not be-
lieve it, but took her to the Central office
to DE examined by Chief Lees.
Late in the evening Krull telephon oned to
| Chief of Police Lees that he was in Oak
| land at the home of an aunt, but would
| return and deliver himself M to-day.
| News arrived still later that Krull had
been arrested and lodged in the City
Prison in Oakland, and Captain of De-
tectives Ben Bohen detailed Detective
| Thomas 2. Ecles to make the trip to OAK
land and bring him to this City.
KrulI saws that the shooting was en-
tirely accidental. lie gives as reason for
fleeing to Oakland that i'm mediately after
the shooting his nerves became SO shat
| tered by the shock that he lost control OF
| himself and fled IN hysterical excitemeut.
Mrs. Ebert made statement to the
Chief similar to that which sne made to a
| CALL reporter in the afternoon. She ex-
| piained that it was all he result OF an ac-
cident and that the whole crowd was in
the best of spirits prior 10 the discharge OF
| the weapon.
| Bullwnkle himself testifies to the fact
| that it was an accident. He corroborates
| the statements made by the other wit
nesses. The police are non-comm initial,
| but one of the detectives concerned in the
| case remarked that it was very peculiar
| that Krull went so far before his GOODNESS
returned.
At $50 P. NJ, the hospital am bulance
was sent for and the injured man was re-
moved to the Wadeck Sanitarium to un-
dergo the operation of laparoomy at the
hands of DR.. Charles G. Farnum.
1t was learned by De ective Ecles that
| Krull, together with young Henry Lowell
| and a third person of the name of Henry
| Harmon, had been stricken with the Klon.
| dyke fever and had made elaborate pre- epar-
ations TO go there. They had procured a
crazy sloop, hardly large and strong
enough to stand the buffeting of the waters
of the bay in rough weather, and had 1t
provisjoned with supplies sufficien to last
| nine months.
The provisioning had taken all their
savings for long time. They called the
| sloop the Rover and it is now anchored in
the small cove near Black Point. In ad-
| dltion 10 the provisions they had taken a
| lot of old clothing on board which they
intended bartering to the Indians OF
| Alaska. The detective says the sloop