The San Francisco call., 1904-07-28

Maddened with rage Manuel Roth,
who styled himself a professor of Ian
guages, shot and almost instantly
killed Mrs. Angelina ParsIow at Stock
ton and Union streets at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. He then ended
his own life. Jealousy seems to be
the only possible motive for this
/ crime. Roth lived in a miserable
shack at II st. Charles place, a blind
alley running off Kearny street be-
tween Pacific and Dupont His victim
! lived with her mother, Mrs. Richards,
at 614 Filbert street, a few blocks
distant.
The cause of the quarrel which
ended in the death of two people is
unknown. Ever since the death of
Mrs. Parslow's husband two years ago
she has been keeping company with
Roth and frequently visited his room.
! She was there until about midnight
/ Tuesday. Persons occupying adjoin-
ing rooms say the two were under the
influence of liquor and were quarrel
/ ing until the woman went to her
home. At $50 this morning the two
met in Washington square, near the
WomanS house, and renewed their
/ quarrel. They left the park and at
the doorway of Washington Square
/ Hall the man suddenly placed a revol-
yer, which he had been carrying con-
cealed in q handkerchief, under the
right ear of the woman and fired. She
fell to the sidewalk and he then placed
! the muZzle of the revolver to his fore
head and pulled the trigger. His hand
was trembling and he was highly ner-
vous. The cartridge failed to explode
and, casting a last glance the
the woman, who lay writhing
at his feet in her death ag-
ony, Roth again pulled the trig-
( ger and sent bullet crashing through
his brain. Death in his case was in
Simultaneous, but the woman Law gasp
! ing for several minutes. DIR. Bonino,
whose office is directly opposite the
place where the tragedy occurred,
| fastened to the assistance of the
woman, but after examining the
wound he said she would live but a
few minutes.
SISTER PASSES BY.
peculiar feature of the case is the
fact that Miss Richards, a sister of
Mrs. Parslow, passed the corner a few
minutes after the shooting. She no
tfced the crowd gathered around the
dead, but did not stop to ask any
questions. She presumed some one
had been injured, but considered it no
affair of hers, did her shopping and
returned to her home.
Roth was q native of Switzerland, 81
years of age. He possessed a knowl-
edge Of the French language. He must
have come to this country in his youth
for papers found in his trunk show that
he was discharged from the hospital
corps of the United States army in
1875. In the room he occupied were
found number of lewd photographs,
and a stack of unused Chinese lottery
tickets, Roth. besides teaching Eng
lish to new arrivals from France, added
to his income by escorting blind" beg
gars to and from the corners where
they stand and sell pencils and shoe
strings Neighbors say that ii was no
uncommon thing to see Mrs Parslow
and Roth enter Roths home under the
influence of liquor and they We're con-
tinually quarreling
Mrs. Parslow was a widow, her hus-
band, who had been employed as a
laborer by the Market Street Railway,
dying about two years ago. She was
a Mexican of good appearance.
WOMAN WAS MAYNARD.
The relatives of the dead woman
a man as Roth existed Her sister,
Miss Richards. said II never heard of
Roth, as my sister was very secretive
We, my mother and /, knew that she
was wayward, but could do nothing
with her. Until recently she had been
employed in the country as a domestic,
but after her return to this city few
weeks ago she had done nothing"
The eyewitnesses to the tragedy were
Mrs. Elizabeth Schneider, Virgil Copo-
rano and Frank Masenghetti. Mrs.
Schneider first noticed the couple in
Washington Square Park. They were
Ouarreling They walked from the