The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-19

| over to the home of Constable Dan
Nevills and gave himself up.
He told NeVillS he had shot the boy
| because he was driving too fast and
when Nevills attempted to arrest him
he resisted. Thus he added a faIsehood
to the capital crime.
Half dozen persons saw the boys
! driving by the White House and they
were not going rapidly. These eyewit-
nesses declare that the horses could not
| travel mile in six minutes, even if
! they were running away. Desirello
was not the peace officer of the town
and no one expected him TO make ar
rests for fast driving, should the occa-
! sion arise.
The shooting took place in the CEN
| ter of town, directly in front of Bell
Bros store. The rapid reports of the
! three shots startled a number of per-
sons in the saloons and stores and they
rushed out to ascertain the cause. They
/ saw the Deputy Constable pistol in
! hand, rush over to where his victim
! had fallen, and heard the murderer
/ threaten the two frightened boys who
/ had so narrowly escaped a similar fate.
1t was no fault of Desirello's that he
did not kill all three.
! John Vaccari who was driving the
| team when Johnson was so Wantonly
! slain, was sitting beside the dead body
| of his companion when he gave the
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! blanched from the fright he received
| and the threats of DeSirello. The boy
/ said:
/ About o'clock I hitched a team
| to a milk wagon to go over to BELTS at
! Colma and get two bales of hay. AS 1
| was driving up town Jim Johnson
/ asked me where I was going, and he
! jumped in to ride with me. A moment
or two later Henry Jansen also got into
! the wagon. We turned the corner in
! front Of the White House and crossed
! the electric car track to go to Belli' s
store. Just then Desirello came out
/ in the street and began shooting at US.
HE did not shout or say anything
at all. The first bullet struck the wheel
and Jim Johnson said, Somebody is
shooting at u.s. Then another bullet
whistled by, ticking Henry Jansen 8
! hat, and the next thing L knew Jim says
I'm shot He never uttered another
word. When the bullet struck him Jim
| jumped from the wagon and dropped
down right on BELTS porch. stopped
the team and Henry and
I also jumped out and ran to Jim. Hen
! ry said, Some one go for a DOCTOR and
| Desirello turned furiously' upon him
and threatened to kill him if he moved
! a step. Desirello waved his pistol in
the air and shouted that he had three
| bullets left for any one who made a
move
II asked the Constable why he shot
at US. and he told me to shut my
mouth or he would put bullet in me-
by this time a crowd had gathered,
and some one said Jim was dead. A
man started to Baden for doctor, and
Jim's body was put in the wagon and
| taken home. We were not driving fast
and do not know why the officer shot
at US. When Jim was lying on the
ground DesirelIo said we were driving
too fast and might have run over a
child and killed it. 1 told him I was not
| driving fast, and he said I lied"
Henry Jansen, the other boy on the
wagon, corroborated his companions
| statement in every detail.
The Coroner was notified of the muir
der and he sent word to Colma that
a jury would be impaneled to-day.
The murdered boys brother-in-law.
Guglimoni, is the city salesman for
Rottanzi, the Mission street liquor deal
or