The San Francisco call., 1903-01-10

II" Y the explosion of a kerosene
- lamp last night in a rooming
house at 43215 Sixth street. Mrs.
- Mary Kline and a fve-months-
old baby, which she held in her
arms, were most fTightfuIly burned. Both
the mother and child will probably die.
In a statement which the mother made
last night at the Central Emergency Hos
pital she charged Mrs Mary Davis, who
resides in the same house, with having
thrown the lamp at her She said that
while she was lying on the bed half
asleep, nursing her youngest child and
with her three other children sleeping by
her side. Mrs Davis entered the room.
seized the lamp on the washstand ana
hurled IT at them.
The statement made by Mrs. Kline was
partially corroborated by Isador. a boy
nine years of age. who was one of the
children sleeping in the bed. He said
that he was awakened by his mother 5
cries Of fire in time TO see Mrs Davis
running out of the room into the hall.
Mrs. Davis was placed under arrest. She
was taken before Mrs. Kline at the hos
pital and positively identified by her as
the woman who threw the blazing lamp
al her and her children.
IsadOr declared that she was the woman
whom he saw running into the hall
The first to reach the room IN response
To Mrs. Kline's cries was William Burke
VINO resides on the first floor. He seized
blanket and wrapped it around Mrs
Kline. She was already frightfully
burned and her baby was scorched from
head TO foot. The mother and child were
conveyed downstairs to place of safe
~. As quickly as possible the injured
mother and her children were taken to
the Central Emergency Hospital, where
their injuries We're dressed by DR.. Charles
Miller.
Mrs. Kline was so badly burned that
she was unconscious almost the entire
time she on the operating table. She
was continually crying out in anguish.
The flesh was burned from her body in
many places. and the physicians believe
that she inhaled the flames. They have
no hopes for her recovery
The baby Jared almost as badly as its
mother and is also expected TO die 1t
was burned about the head. face both
hands and legs. Jacob, two and half
years old. was more fortunate. He was
burned only about the right arm Isador
was quite severely burned about the
small of the back, but he is in no danger
When Mrs. Kline was first taken to the
hospital she was unconscious and not able
to talk coherently. After her wounds had
been dressed and she had been put to bed
she partially regained her senses. She
told Detective Reagan that she and Mrs.
Davis had had many quarrels and that
1t was Mrs Davis who threw the lamp
at her Her identification of Mrs. Davis
was positive, but her statement was very
confused and incoherent
. : Q
were sitting in the Palms listening 10 the
show when fellow came in and said What
are you raising disturbance about, Wilker-
son said / hadn't been doing anything
out OF the ordinary. and then he said the street
over in front of Fischer's was filled up with
people waiting TO me shoot Blake. That
Is the first heard of II, and / can establish
an alibi II anybody says anything different.
Maudy has no reason to complain of me.
l don't believe anything wrong about her,
but that story about my cunning for Blake
VIII hurt her reputation. for man don't go
looking for a chance to shoot a fellow unless
there IS some reason for It. Maudy can get
her divorce. l won't fight back. She car
have the money, too. II she wants it. but |
have got to have that six-carat diamond ring
Miss Amber was escorted home last
night by Special Policeman Meyers. VII,
kerson, who had eluded the police, was
standing across the street near the Or
pheum, but he made no attempt to inter-
fere with her.