The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-24
PATROL KILLS
RELIEF WORKER
Major H. c. TiIden Shot in His
Automobile While Returning
From Errand of Mercy.
WORE RED CROSS INSIGNIA
GREAT INDIGNATION OVER THE
AFFAIR.

san francisco, April 23.-H. G. Til
den, one OF the most prominent mem
bers of the general relief committee,
was shot and almost instantly killed in
his automobile about IL o'clock last
night while returning from Menlo park
by men supposed to be members of the
citizens patrol. Hugo Alltschul,
coachman. who was in the automobile.
was cut in the face by a bullet and
another ball pierced the seat and struck
r. G. Seaman. acting lieutenant of the
Second company of the signal corps,
in the back. The force of the bullet
had been spent and Seaman, who had
been detailed on special duty with TIL
den, picked the ball out of his cart
ridge belt.
Three Men Arrested.
The shooting occurred at Twenty
second and Guerrero streets. Three
men, suspected of having done the
shooting, are under arrest at the police
station at Twenty-second and Mission
streets.
Major Tilden is a prominent commits
sion merchant of the city, q member
of Governor Pardee's staff, and was
one of the foremost workers in the gen.
eral relief work. He had taken his
three children and a nurse from the
fOurteen-mile house where they had
been since the earthquake to Menlo
park, where he has a summer cottage.
His automobile had been used as an
ambulance I'm conveying sick and
wounded to the hospitals and was car
rying the Red Cross flag prominently
displayed on his car. Besides this he
had the Red Cross insignia on his right
arm.
Story of the Tragedy.
According to Acting Lieutenant Sea-
man. Tilden was his own chauffeur
and left Menlo park about o'clock.
At Twenty eighth and Guerrero streets
they were challenged by the first of
the chain of patrols and upon calling
out Red Cross were allowed to pass.
At Twenty-fifth street a second guard
challenged them and Immediately gave
way upon perceiving the Red Cross
flag. Crossing Twenty second street at
about fifteen miles an hour, according
to Seaman, six men stood in the mid
die of the road, separating when the
car got within fifty feet of them. When
within ten feet of the guards, Seaman
claims they began shooting without
warning or challenge and kept up fir
ing after the car had passed them.
Shots from in front took no effect with
the exception of bullet grazing the
face of A1Itschul.
TiIden Fell Over Dead.
The machine had gone about fifty
feet past the patrol" said Seaman
when the car stopped suddenly. TIL
den fell over toward me. saying, Well.
they got me-they killed me- Topped
back in the seat and rolled out of the
car. l sDrang up and fired five shots
in quick succession at the man who
was still shooting behind US About
the same time that Tilden fell in nv
lap a bullet struck me in the back and
nearly knocked me out of the seat I
put my hand TO my Webb cartridge
belt and picked out the bullet which
had come through the seat. The man
who did the shooting was in khaki
uniform. A doctor came running from
n house near by and after examining
Tilden, said he was dead Several DO
Hcemen came running up and arrested
three of the men who did the shoot
ing"
Body Taken to Station.
H. H. Brann of Brann & Prior, sail
makers. who resided near by. was
awakened and impressed into service
as chauffeur. Ticen's body was placed
in his car and taken to the central DO
lice station at Bush and Fillmore
streets. Owing to the auto constant
" breaking down it took Seaman two
hours to reach police headquarters.
where the body was placed on an i'm
provised stretcher and taken to the
Elks' emergency hospital on Bush
street between Fillmore and Steiner
Alltschul, whose right cheek is swoI-
len where one Of the shots grazed it,
stated that TiIden stopped the machine
of the car, saying, II am shot-they