The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-08

3O4 Third street yesterday at noon. He
succeeded in infiicting a horrible wound
which the doctors say may or may not
prove fatal. The bullet shattered the
upper jaw and cheekbOnes on the right
side of the face, tore through the eye
ball and fractured the skull. The injur-
ed man was removed to the Harbor Re-
ceiving Hospital, where his wound was
dressed by Drs. Fitzgibbon and Sweeney.
The eye was torn to fragments by the
bullet, which had also been so shattered
that only few small pieces could be
found
The lodging house, which was formerly
owned by Mrs Peart is now kept by
Charles w. Barney and wife. Peart has
been around the house good deal of the
time during the last few days, and com
planned bitterly OF the way he was being
treated bv his former wife. Yesterday
about noon he entered the house and go
ing to the lavatory, fired the shot which
he intended should put an end to his
troubles. The report DI the pistol was
heard by, Mr.. anu Mrs. Barney and by
John Walters. They found the old man
sitting in a bent position, with the blood
streaming from the CHASTITY wound in his
head. Officer John A. Ryan was on a
passing car, when Barney rushed out of
the house and informed him that a man
had been shot. He hurried to the lodg
ing house, where he was joined almost
Immediately by officer Jerry Donovan.
Peart was still conscious, but refused to
talk, although when first discovered he
admitted to, Mrs. Barney that he had
shot himself. Lying in a pool of blood
near his right foot was a cheap five
| chambered thirty EIGHT caliber revolver.
It held four cartridges and one empty
| Shell The Barneys said they heard three
shots, but there were no bullet holes In
any of the partitions and no wounds on
the the mans person, other than the one in
Peart told Officer Ryan he had shot him
| self.
Peart had lived at the Thrd-street
rna ri a or
| April, when he removed to "a Turk
street, leaving Mrs. Peart in charge Of
the lodging house. She soon after Sc
Hin, Placer County. He kept up a regu-
lar correspondence with his divorced
wife. many letters from her being found
| on his person when searched at the Har-
| Dor Receiving Hospital. Peart refused
to discuss the, subject, but his friends
she giving him to understand she would
| live with him again as his wife.
| Peart returned to San Francisco few
days ago firm in the belief that every
thing had been arranged to his satisfac-
ton. But he was doomed to be bitterly
disappointed Not only did his wife re-
but it is said he learned that she had
| taken up with a young and handsomer
man in the person of Walter Mise, a
young steam-titter With whom she Is sad al
| gan to drink heavily when he discovered
| how he had been duped, and threatened
| to Kill both his eX-Wlfe ana Mise, put ne
probably changed his mind and concluded
| to kill himself instead. One of the letters
found in his pocket was dated December
! 80, 1898, and is as follows:
Friend Lewis: just received your let
ter to-day. Is Georges birthday. Well /
will meet you at the opposite place II
nothing happens. If l amt there. by .
wait until half-past 8. AS ever, friend.
! ELLA PEART.
The George referred to is probably
George Shppley son of the woman by a
| former marriage. Mrs. Peart sold the
! Third-street house to the Barneys several
| months ago and went to live at l3i Mont
| gomery street. Recently she removed to
the lodging house at l Fifth street. she
is said to have purchased the place few
| days ago and introduced herself as the
| landlady to a caller as late as yesterday
! afternoon. When she learned that Peart
| had shot himself, however, she disap-
! peared from view, and to all who asked to
| see her the information was impaired
! that Mrs. Peart was not the landlady but
only a lodger; that she was very Ill and
could not be seen. Her substitute was
determined to prevent her charge from
being seen and threatened TO eject several
| rather persistent reporters. The amazon
did all the explaining she considered
| necessary.
What do you want to bother Mrs.
Peart for?" she demanded. "Peart is
nothing to her. They were divorced year
ago. He is no good and she had to take
care of him for the last four or five years.
They say he will get well. It's pity he
| did not kill himself.
"Will she go to see him."
J go to see him? Indeed she will not.