The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
Two Deaths the Result Of
:. q Quarrel Of Neigh
bors.
Fred Edwards Kills Charles
Hendricks at Port
Angeles.
5Corrrraits suicide After vainly Wait
F. ing to Murder His Victims
- WIDOW.
:. Special Dispatch. TO The Call

I
f: P0RT ANGELES. Wash. March L
Fred Edwards put 9 bullet through the
brain :@of Charles Hendricks this morn
I ing and then killed himself. The Two
MEN were neiEhbOrs. Hendricks was
I.rniiknan. and Edwards raised Tegeta-
.bIes ana chickens for living Ihey
isifved on the eastern border Of the city
i:ca+ +ha mouth OF EMS Creek, the orig
( ,inai- site Of the Puget. Sound Co-opera-
( tive Colony Their houses were only
about geo feet apart, between which
-rtppled the sparkling. little creek
+ spanned by a foot bridge,
+. Edwards was a bachelor, living
alone Hendricks and his wife lived
east Of the bridge. They employed a
boy 10 assist around the house. At the
time Of the tragedy a Mr.. Burns was
temporarily stopping with them. A
friend. Mrs. Roberts, also happened 10
be in the house at the time.
For over q year there had existed an
ugly feeling between Edwards and
Hendricks. Both were extremely irr1-
table. Hendricks was regarded as q
hard man 70 get along with Up 10
this occurrence Edwards was looked
upon as q good-natured sort Of a
crank Lately they had had some hot
words about q chicken coop. a wide
area OF open common lies around the
TWO houses. Hendricks insisted on
building q coop on ground that Ed
wards. considered ne had first call on
Hendricks claimed an equal right to
use IL. Edwards was downtown yester-
day, and tried 10 have the owners OF
the open ground stop Hendricks from
erecting the coop on il He made a re-
mark TO Tom Meagher that he sup
posed nothing but cold lead would set
tie the business between Hendricks and
me"
He got no satisfaction and evidently
became crazed by his supposed wrongs.
Early this morning Hendricks, Mrs.
Roberts and Burns were all in the
house talking, Mrs. Hendricks being al
the COW stable Hendricks went out 10
prepare for his morning delivery OF
milk He had hardly got outside when
those in the house heard the report OF
a rife. Burns looked OFT OF the win
dow and saw q body lying on the foot
Of the bridge
He crossed over the bridge past the
body TO where the hired boy was hitch
ing the horses and told him 10 go for
DR.. McGeOrge, the Coroner, and then
returned 10 the house and waited, leav-
ing the body remain on the bridge as II
fell. DR.. AIcGeOrge arrived in about
fOrty-fiVe minutes As he passed Ed
wards house Edwards put his head
out OF an upper window and said:
"Good-by. Doc; I'm going by the
same road"
DR.. McGeorge told him 10 behave
himself and let him in, but Edwards
disappeared DR.. McGeOrge passed on
ard had about reached the body of
Hendricks when h heard the report OF
a gun. Later Edwards body was found
on the third floor OF his building. He
his mouth and pulled the trigger. Three
notes were found near his body as fol-
lows.
The dirt he broke the window with
AT O'Clock last night"
Sorry leave her alive. The shell
leave 10 her as q keepsake
I Il take my dose Tnixed-two kinds. -
The first referred TO q lump Of dry
mud which had clearly been thrown
lately through his window. The second
shows that ne intended TO shoot Mrs.
Hendricks also and had waited until the
arrival OF McGeOrge in the hope Of
getting. q shot at her before killing
himself. The third is explained by the
presence OF q paper which had con-
tanned strychnine, and stating that he
had taken z dose OF it before shooting
himself
Edwards was an Englishman by
birth coming here in 1887 from Toronto.
Hendricks is thought 10 have been a
native of California He lived at
Baker City, Or, several years before
moving here
The bullet entered Hendricks head
lust above the left eye. He was in
stantly killed The rife used by Ed
wards was an old-fashioned Spencer