The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-06
TOOK A SHOT AT
HER BETRAYER
Evelyn Holt Gets Re-
venge for Wrongs.

Evelyn Holt, petite and prepossessins
brunette, revenged herself for numerous
Sights and insults last night by shooting
Charles Fecker, former lover, in the left
shoulder, inflicting a painful but not dan.
gerouS wound.
The shooting occurred on Jones street
near Ellis, about s o'clock last evening.
Fecker. in company with his wife, was
walking along Jones street when the
young woman came behind him and fired
a .32-caliber bullet into his body. Feckei
attempted to grab her, but only succeeded
In snatching her cape, which she allowed
to slip from her shoulders. The wounded
man left his wife standing and rushed ur
the street in search of a physician.
The would-be murderess ran into a near
by clearinghouse and into a room where
three men were sitting. She excitedly
told them what she had done and asked
whether there was another exit. On
being told there was none she called for
pencil and paper and calmly wrote a note
to the police, notifying them where she
could be found. One of the men then took
the note and delivered it to Officers ]. d.
McLane and G. de Blois, who were at
! tracted to the scene by the shot, and they
took her Pab to the City Pson She was
desk until Fecker could be found to
lodge formal charge against her. At
the request of the officers he charged her
with attempted murder.
Fecker is tall smooth shaver man and
his face was naturally pale from the eff
fects of the physicians probe which was
used to locate the bullet.
The first warning he had of her pres
ence last night was shot and sudden
been on the operating table for two hours,
during which an attempt was made to
find the bullet with poor success.
usage on the part of Fecfer and the rea-
sons that led to her shooting him, with
great frankness.
because if ever a man deserved it he did
am sorry did not kill him, because that
was my intention.
Il had written him earlier in the day to
come and see me and return the money
he had swindled me out of. He refused to
do so and treated me so wretchedly that
l went down town to-day and bought q
pistol and went out looking for him. He
was walking down Jones street when he
anS m bev both d e to his t T
turned around and tossed his head in a
way that angered me. He did this Sec
ond time and not being far behind 1 hur-
ried forward and as he turned to his
wife l shot him. He turned and grabbed
my cape. ran away because l was
afraid | would be taken to prison in the
patrol wagon.
II had been living with him at 4O6 Geary
street for over year and a half. He al
ways told me that he wanted to marry a
wealthy woman and get her money and
then go East with me and live happily.
| always wanted him to marry me, but
that was the only reply he would give me.
On June "a he persuaded me to go to Los
Angeles, and a half-hour after l left he
got out a license and married Amber Can
non, woman whom he met at the Pacific
Matrimonial Bureau Agency and whom
he believed to have money. While l was
in Los Angeles he wrote me nearly twen-
ty letters, telling me that when he got his
wife's money he would take me East.
ION my return from Los Angeles he
hired a room for me at DDS Powell street.
He would visit me and make all kinds of
promises. Knowing his reputation and
not believing him, demanded that he re-
turn my money that l loaned him. He
always put me off and then stopped COM
ing 1 then called at his office, but he
would never see me. / then told his wife
that he must come and settle with me,
otherwise / would kill him.
Fecker received unenviable notorety
by his connection with a matrimonial
bureau.