The San Francisco call., 1901-10-13
MACH|N|ST
VICTIM DIES
OF WOUNDS
Four Suspects Are Held
for the Murder Of
George Rice.
Evidence Points to William
Buckley as Man Who
Did Shooting.
Little Erline Piatt Identifies Him
Positively as the Man Whom
She Saw Fire the Fatal
Shots.

George w. Rice, the non-union machin-
ist, who was dubbed and shot Friday
evening at Twentieth and Howard streets,
died yesterday morning at 9o'clock at the
City and County Hospital. Four men are
in the tanks at the City Prison, held on
suspicion of being implicated in the mur-
der. They are William Buckley, who was
chased and captured Immediately after
the shooting and to whom the evidence
points as the man who fired the fatal
shots; Charles Donnelly, an eX-convict;
Thomas Moran, a baker, of $50 Third
street, and Edward j. Duncan, union
machinist living at 43o Brannan street.
The murder was apparently a cold
blooded and deliberately planned assas-
sination. Rice, though a non-unon man,
had not taken tie place of any striker,
as he had been employed at the Golden
State and Miners Iron Works between
three and four years years. His refusal to go
attack upon him on Fourth street August
T. and in self-defense he fired several
shots. 1t is thought he wounded one or
more of his assailants and that his muir
der was the direct result of that affray.
Every feature of the attack upon Rice
was -dastardly. His assailants rode from
car with the non-union man. The mo-
ment he alighted one of them struck him
with a white oak club, shaped like
lead. Rice was unarmed and at their
mercy, but as he turned to attempt to
defend himself another Of the gang de-
liberately shot him and continued shoot
ing after his victim had fallen, firing four
shots, three of which took effect.
Buckley Modifies Statement.
When Buckley was arrested he made a
statement which the police were convinced
was not true Later he quahfed his
Ryan and Bailey, Warrant Clerk Burke
and Sergeant Duke after he had been
taken to the City and County Hospital to
day afternoon he was in Maloney's sa-
loon at Brennan and Zoe streets with
Duncan, Donnelly and Moran, Duncan
said something about there going to be a
fight out on Twentieth street and wanted
to know If they would go out and see it.
He thought 1t was going to be fist fight,
and after they all left the saloon they
met two men, strangers to him. At Sec
ond and Howard streets they stopped to
wait for car. One of the two strangers
went down Howard street toward First.
Several cars passed them till finally a car
came along and the stranger who had
joined them said, This is the car" The
other stranger, who had left them, was
on the car. Duncan had gone on with a
previous car. When the car reached
Twentieth. street a man got off and as he
had been on the car hit him several times
with a big club. AS the man fell from
the beating he saw the stranger who had
told them what car to take go up to him
and shoot several times at him. When
Buckley heard the shots he ran and the
man who had done the shooting ran in the
same direction He had seen the man who
did the clubbing several times before, but
never the man who fired the shots
till that day.
AS soon as this statement was made
Ryan and Bailey went in search of the
men referred to by Buckley. They first
arrested Moran at his lodging house, but
he denied knowing anything about the
shooting. Further than that he would
say nothing. At the City Prison they
to him; "Well, Tom, they have got me
and got me right. told them that you
were there and that you would prove l
depend on you for that because you know
/ had nothing to do with it..
Conflicting Stories Told.
Later the detectives arrested Donnelly
as he was coming out of his house at
Brannan and Zoe streets; They asked
ing. at Twentieth and Howard streets,
and he replied he knew nothing about it.
He denied being out bsd with Io BUCKLEY and
saloon with them Friday afternoon, but
after leaving the saloon he left them on
got drunk. Buckley was confronted with
him at the City Prison and begged him
as ne had Moran to say that he had moth
then sad 'e did e f6 you IN ths
first place. ] was with Buckley and Mo-
ran, but Buckley was on the south side
got to Twentieth and Howard streets and
the car stopped I heard two or three shots
fred, but l could not see who fired them"
He added that he did not know there was
going to be fight, that he had been
drinking and Moran had asked him to
take a ride. Moran was then brought out
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