The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-26
shot FIRED
THROUGH HIS
FRONT WINDOW
Narrow Escape OF
Con MCAuliff.
TROUBLE AT HARB0R VIEW
S. A. WELLS FoRCIBLY ABDUCTs
HIS OWN CHILD.
He Is Now Under Arrest on Two
Charges of Assault With
Intent to Commit
Murder.
s A. WELLS FoRCIBLY ABDUCTS
HIS OWN CHILD.

| "Con'' McAuliff, an old pensioner living
at Harbor View, swore to two complaints
In Judge Joachimsen's court yesterday
for the arrest of S. A. Wells, transfer
agent on Mission street, near the water
front, on charges or assault Win intent
to commit murder.
According to McAuliff's story Wells has
been divorced from his wife about eight
months. She obtained the custody of the
four children, three boys and girl She
took up her residence at Harbor View,
and being acquainted with McAuliff's
family she used to visit them. She often
complained of her husband annoying her
and trying to take the little girl away
from her.
Saturday night she came to McAuliff's
house with her four children and asked
for shelter, as her husband and two other
men had driven her out of the house
McAuiff accommodated them, and along
about midnight Wells and his two friends,
who had been searching for the mother
and children, made their appearance at
McAuliff's house and demanded admit
Zone of them stood at the. gate" said
McAuliff, ito prevent any of my neigh
bors coming to my assistance, and Wells
Deputy Sheriff, ordered me to open the
door and let them in as they wanted TO
get possession of the little girl l was was
window, and when 1 told them to go away
Wells fired a shot at me from a revolver,
and the bullet broke T the g {beY vent an
to the rear, broke open the door and COM
PEELED me to light the chandelier L nave
Wells pointed the revolver at me and
made me throw up my hands, threaten
ing to kill me if 1 did not show MIN
where his wife and children were; ere bod
''They forced their way into the ne, PED
room where Mrs. Wells. and the children
were, and Wells forcibly carried OF on me he
would kill her If she made any resistance:
The man who called himself a deputy
a deputy Sheriff but a friend of Wells,
and I could recognize him II L saw MIN
again. The bullet that Wells hred througn
the window at me struck the purea aa
drawers in the room and Clipped a piece
off them. 1t passed so close to my lace
as to be uncomfortable"
and taken to the Harbor police station
being later removed to the City Prison.
wife did not get along together; owing TO
her fondness for wine and other mems
company He forga;Ye her ire freqqe naIIy I 6e
sued for and obtained a divorce from her
and was given the custody of the children;
kept the other at home with him.
One day last week he had occasion to go
to the Preside, and while there ran
from the home where he had been placed.
Wells took him home, but day or two
Ia ter the Coy again ran away, anu tootS
his little sister with him. Wells found
that his wife had taken the CHILDREN with
When he found the house he hammered
on the door and demanded admittanee;
After brief delay a window was opened
and McAuliff refused to open the door.
Then he and a friend who was with him
forced their way into the house, and what
he saw made him mad. and he spoke his
mind to McAuliff and the woman. He
.fiourished the revolver and McAulif and
the woman fed. He denied firing shot
through the window.