The Penn's Grove record., 1905-06-30
MANIAC AT CROWD
Mysterious Englishman Barricades
Himself in Frisco Hotel
Nine Persons Hit, Including One Colfca.
man-He Finally Blows His Own
Head Or.

San Francisco, Cal.-After holding
thousand persons at bay for two
hours in Eddy street, shooting nine
men and defying the police, Thomas
Lobb, a maniac, killed himself.
The wounded are: w. S. HOFFMAN,
shot three times, wounds in cheek,
nose and forehead; CT. Chevalis, shot
in eye; w. Jones, wounds in cheek;
Emil Roberts, boy, shot in leg; Quong
Do, Chinese, rifle bullet in hand;
George A. DeLaughton, nine wounds,
six in arm, two in hand and one in
cheek; Vicente Romantic, shot in cheek
and ear; Joseph Laribee, two shots in
chin, one in lip, others in shoulder, face
and arm; Policeman Patrick Kassane,
shot in cheek while firing from adjoin.
| ing room. Seven shots passed through
his helmet.
All the victims were hit with No. 4
shot, except the Chinese, who received
a rifle ball.
The insane la was barricaded in
his room On the fourth floor of the
United States Hotel, No. 1913 Eddy
street. Lobb went to the hotel at
night. The next morning he began
throwing furniture from the window
to the street. Several persons mar.
rowly escaped being struck. He then
began firing, using a shotgun. He
placed $50 and 500 bills in the muzzle
of the weapon and fragments of the
paper were scattered over the street. A
big crowd quickly gathered. Street-car
traffic was entirely suspended after
one car had been fired upon and it's
windows broken.
Police Lieutenant Green rushed a
squad Of police to the scene, among
the officers being five members of the
crack rifle team Of the department.
They were unable to accomplish any
thing, as the maniac was strongly
intrenched in his room and appeared
| to have an unlimited amount of am
munition.
1t was determined that Lobb must
be captured dead or alive, and all the
rooms adjoining the one he occupied
were filled with armed policemen. A
lively fusillade was begun through the
door. transom and walls of the mad
mans stronghold, to which he respond
ed with remarkable rapidity. The plas-
ter was scattered from the ceiling and
walls, and the police were soon COW
cred with the white fakes and nearly
blinded by the lime. Officer Kassane
attempted to peer through the tran
som, when he received a charge of
shot which disfgured his face and
completely riddled his helmet. Then
Officer Hutchins descended from the
roof to the room window, while the
other policemen made an attempt to
force In the door. When Hutchins saw
the maniac's attention was diverted he
gave a prearranged signal by firing his
revolver. Hearing the report from an
unexpected quarter the murderous
lunatic rushed to the window, which
was open, and literally blew off the top
Of his own head. The brains and frag-
ments Of skull flew through the air
into the street, to the horror of thou
sands Of spectators who had assembled
in the neighborhood, which is near the
heart of the city.
Thomas Lobb was twenty-eight years
old. He apparently was an English
man and a stranger here. In his pock-
ct was a card bearing the address of
the British Consul General, and a re-
ceipt for baggage, showing that he was
a recent arrival in San Francisco.