Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-22
MANIAC SHOOTS
DOWN NINE MEN
FINISHES BY BLOWING HIS
OWN BRAINS OUT
WADs GUN WITH S1oo BILLS
Thomas Lobb Commences by HurIlng
Furniture Into Street, and Con-
tlnues by Holding Enormous
Crowd at Bay
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.-After
holding 1000 persons at bay for two
hours, shooting nine people and defy
ing ten policemen, Thomas Lobb, a
maniac, killed himself at sos o'clock
this morning.
The dead:
Thomas Lobb, top of head blown off
by himself.
The wounded;
w. S. HOFFMAN, shot three times
wounds in right cheek, nose and fore
head.
c. T. Chevals shot in left eye.
w. Jones, wounds in scalp and right
cheek.
Emil Roberts, boy, shot in right leg.
Quong Do (Chinese), rifle bullet in
left hand.
George A. De Loughton, nine wounds,
six in left arm, two in right hand and
one in left cheek.
Vicente Romantic, shot in left cheek
and right ear.
Joseph Laribee, two shots in chin,
one in lip, others in shoulder, face and
right arm.
Policeman Patrick Kissans, shot in
left cheek, while firing from adjoin-
ing room. Seven shots passed through
his helmet.
All the victims were hit with No.
shot, except the Chinese, who received
a rifle bullet.
The insane man was barricaded in
his room on the fourth floor of the
United States hotel, 1913 Eddy street.
He went to the place last night about
IL o'clock and this morning, just be-
fore o'clock, began throwing furni-
ture from the windows to the street.
Several persons narrowly escaped be-
ing struck. Then he began firing, using
a shotgun. He placed $50 and $100 bills
in the muzze of the weapon, and frag
ments of the paper were scattered all
over the street.
The first person he hit was shot at
about 715 o'clock. A big crowd quick
ly gathered and hundreds of men were
prevented from passing the place by
fear of being killed. Street car traffic
was entirely suspended after one car
had been fired upon and it's windows
broken.
At 8 o'clock Lieut.. John Green of the
police rushed a strong squad to the
scene, among the officers being five
members of the crack rifle team of the
department. They were unable to ac-
complish anything, however, as the
maniac was strongly intrenched in his
room and appeared to have an unlim-
tied amount of ammunition.
Officers Open FusiIIade
1t was determined that he must be
captured dead or alive, and all of the
rooms adjoining the one he occupied
were quickly filled with armed officers.
A lively fusillade was begun through
the door, transom and walls of the
madman's stronghold, to which he re-
sponded with remarkable rapidity.
The plaster was scattered from the
ceiling and walls and the police were
soon nearly blinded by the lime.
Officer Kissans attempted to look
through the transom, and he received
shot which disfigured his face and
completely riddled his helmet Then
Officer Hutchins descended from the
room above to the room window,
while the other policemen made an at
tack in force upon the door. When
Hutchins saw the maniacs attention
was diverted, he gave a prearranged
signal by firing his revolver.
Hearing the report from an unex-
pected quarter the murderous lunatic
rushed to the window, which was open,
and literally blew off the top of his
own head. the brains and fragments of
skull flying through the air to the hor-
ror of thousands OF spectators who had
assembled in the neighborhood, which
is near the heart of the city.
The body of the dead man has been
identified as that of Thomas Lobb,
aged about S5 years, who came here
yesterday from Benson, Ariz., and had
been previously working at his trade
of carpenter for nearly two years in
San Diego, where he bore a good rep
uation.
None Of the wounded will die.