The San Francisco call., 1904-07-15
FIRES SHOTS
AFTER FIGHT
J. D. White, a Horseman, Is
Badly Cut by John Ne
Namara Of Turtle Saloon
REVOLVER TWICE USED
Neither Bullet Takes Eff
feet, bub Victims Head
Is Battered During Scuffie

J. D. White, a racetraek man and
horse owner, living at 1920 Market
street, was severely cut about the head
shortly after II o'clock this morning
by John Mcnamara, proprietor of the
Turtle cafe, an unlicensed saloon at
Powell and Geary streets. White had
been drinking in the saloon. He be-
came so noisy and fiourished a revolver
so recklessly that Mcnamara elected
him. The two men grappled on the
sidewalk, went down and in the scuff1e
Mcnamara got the pistol away from
White and struck him on the head.
AS White rose to his feet. the saloon
keeper fired two shots, but neither bull
let hit the horseman.
White had spent some time in the
saloon and created considerable dis
turbance. He was carelessly twirIing
his revolver about his finger and Nc
Namara told him to put it in his
pocket. This he refused to do and the
proprietor started to put him out of
the saloon.
Mcnamara snatched the pistol from
him, and then White grappled with
him. They rolled over on the sidewalk,
and when White got up he had four
deep scalp wounds on his head, ap-
parently the result of blows from the
revolver in McNamara's hands. Then
the shots were fired.
A crowd quickly gathered. White
was taken to the saloon and then to
the office of Dr.L. c. Cox, at 233 Geary
street. where his wounds were dressed.
White. considerably sobered by this
time, admitted that he had been the
aggressor and at first protested that he
did not know the man who had hurt
him. Mcnamara later admitted that
he had elected White from the saloon,
but denied that he had Intentionally
struck him on the head
Mcnamara said: white came into
the saloon early this evening in state
of intoxication. He tried to raise
rough house and I tried to keep him
quiet He then pulled out a revolver
and began to poke me in the ribs with
it in semi-jocular manner. l OBJ
jected and told him to leave the place.
He refused. 1 then took hold of him
and put him out. He was f1ourishing
the gun all the time. AS we went out
together through the door l managed
to get hold of the gun. scuffie en-
sued. We fell down. In the mean
time the gun was accidentally ex-
ploded. 1 do not know how White
got the cuts on his head. l did not
mean to hit him. Perhaps l did it
with the butt end of the gun. 1 did
not shoot at him. When the scuf1e
was over we came back into the sa-
loon. His friends took away the re-
volver."
j. ID. Leonard, who was passing up
Geary street at the time, said he saw
two men engaged in an alteration in
front of the Turtle Saloon. They were
moving around. Suddenly he heard a
pistol shot, and in a few seconds after
ward he heard another. He rushed up
the street, but before he got there the
affair was over, and he found White
a the wash basin in the saloon wash
ing off the blood stains. He then took
White to the office of DR.. L. c. Cox,
who sewed up the wounds in his head.
DR.. Cox said that the wounds ap-
peared to have been inflicted by a dull
instrument. There were four incised
wounds on the scalp, cutting through
the skin. 1t took twelve stitches to
sew them up.
Both White and Mcnamara were
taken to the Central police station and
closely questioned as to the fight
Neither would make any charge
against the other and they were finally
permitted to go free.