The San Francisco call., 1906-12-16
AWE Ill TRAGEDY
ENACTED BY A
CRAZY MAN
Kills Roy Garrison, Wounds
Wife Dangerously and
Then Takes His Own Life
DEED PROMPTED
BY MAD JEALOUSY
Woman Filings Herself Into
Arms of Spouse, but the
Murderer Is Merciless

Murderer Is Merciless
Roy Garrison, a bartender, was shot
fatally and his wife, Pearl Garrison.
dangerously wounded last night at
First avenue and Fulton streets by
drink-crazed Joseph Haefner, who, af-
ter he had committed his crime, shot
himself through the heart, dying In
stantIy.
Haefner. who had been employed by
Wells Fargo Express Company. and
lives In Oakland. had been attentive to
and insanely jealous OF Mrs. Garrison
for many months He failed yesterday
in an attempt to lure her from her
home. and after drinking heavily
sought out the couple and committed
the crime. The woman is at the Gem
trail Emergency Hospital with fight
ing chance for recovery, while Garri-
son, who is at the Park Hospital. will
die.
After resisting Haefner's importuni-
ties to leave her home. Mrs. Garrison
sought her husband. who is employed
as a bartender in Feitz's saloon at First
avenue and Fulton street. She was ac-
companied by a woman friend, and
while waiting for Garrison to finish
his work the women sat down at one
of the tables in the saloon. They were
al ~
were ordered.
Scarcely were they seated when
Haefner lurched into the room He
gave surly response to the greetings
OF the trio. to whom he was known,
and took a seat at an adjoining table
her lips she saw Haefner advancing
upon her with a cleaning revolver in
his hand. The next moment she saw
the weapon leveled at her terror-strick-
en- husband.
With a scream Pearl Garrison threw
herself across her husband as the re-
volver shots rang out. Twice the fren-
zied man fired. each shot striking the
unfortunate woman. Not needing the
moaning woman who had sunk to the
floor. Haefner again fired and the man
in the chair became his target
Seemingly sobered by the crime,
Haefner gazed about him and espied
the trembling woman friend crouching
against the wall and seeking protec-
tion behind table. The murderer ley
IL 4 4. ~.
his mind, pressed the muzzle of the
weapon against his heart and fired
When the police arrived Haefner lay
dead in the center or the room. Garri-
son still sat doubled up in the chair
and unconscious, while his wife lay
gaspng and moaning at his feet. AS
the police entered the woman friend
who gave her pane as Molly Thomson
fell fainting across a table, and to her
the police gave their first attention
Detective Charles Taylor had the
wounded couple removed to the Park
operating table, and an examination
showed that bullet had penetrated the
right lung. DR.. Herzog. who conducted
the examination, said that it was ut
terly impossible to probe for the mis-
sile and that the man would die.
Mrs. Garrison was quickly sent to
the Central Emergency Hospital, where
DR.. Magnus extracted one bullet from
her side under the left breast and an
other bullet from the abdomen She
may recover. Haefners body was taken
to the morgue.
Before going on the table Pearl Gar
.rison recovered consciousness and as
cribed the reason for Haefner's act to
jealousy. In her weakened state she
was not able to talk much but said
that D. J. Kentzell of $50 Seventeenth
street, Oakland. knew all the facts and
could tell the history of the trouble.
She said that her mother is Mrs. Jane
Morgan and that she lives at the same
address in Oakland 1t was for her
mother that the wounded woman pit
eously called after leaving the operat-
ing table. She refused to have her
father notified. her parents having sep
arated.