The San Francisco call., 1907-02-25
TWO MEN SHOT DURING
FIGHT OVER WAITRESS
Charles Logue Slain and
Peter Nope Wounded
in Erneryville Hotel
JEALOUSY THE CAUSE
Shotgun and Revolver Used
in Battle for Affections
of Jennie Murphy
JEALOUSY THE CAUSE

OAKLAND, Feb. 24.-As the result
of drunken brawl, which began with
a quarrel over the affections OF a
waitress employed at the Hastings
Hotel, resort in Emeryville, Charles
Logue, an ironworker at the Judson
Iron Works, lies in the morgue with q
bullet in his heart, and Peter Nope,
machinist, lies in the hospital with
his head and face torn by charge of
shot In the tanks at the city prison
are John Nope, brother of the
wounded man, and Frank Calbrese, a
cook at the Hastings Hotel, the former
being charged with the killing of Logue
and the latter with the shooting of
Noppe.<
The trouble began with quarrel be-
tween Peter Noppe and Calbrese over
Jennie Murphy, waitress in the hotel.
After coming to blows the cook and
Nope were separated, and Nope is
alleged to have declared that he would
kill Calbrese. Noppe went to his room.
and Calbrese, fearing that he would
keep his word, armed himself with a
shotgun. A moment later Nope ap-
peared with a revolver in his hand,
but before he could use the weapon
Calbrese fired at him, the charge taking
effect in his face and neck, destroying g
the sight of the right eye and tearing
the flesh to shreds.
Logue hearing the shooting. ran
around the hotel, just in time to see
Nope, with blood streaming from his
face, stagger into the annex of the
hotel. The ironworker followed hoppe
into the hotel, and just what happened
Immediately afterward has not yet been
determined. "A moment later Logue
staggered from the house and fell to
the ground, with a bullet through his
heart, while Immediately behind him
John Nope, brother of the man who
had been shot by Calbrese, rushed from
the place with a revolver in his hand.
running into the arms of Deputy Sheriff
Herbert Lee, who, attracted by the
shooting, reached the hotel just in time
to see Logue fall to the ground.
Assisted by Peter Holster, room
mate of the Nope brothers, Lee dis
armed John Nope and placed him un-
der arrest. The officer then entered
the room occupied by Holster and the
two brothers, where he found Peter
Nope with blood pouring from the
wounds inflicted by Calbrese. Lee at
once notified the Oakland police and
Marshal Carey Of Emeryville of the
shooting and Calbrese and John Noppe
were removed to the City Prison, while
the wounds of Peter Nope were
dressed at the Receiving Hospital.
Logue was 80 years of age Henry
Logue, well known pugilist, is his
brother.
G. H. Hastings, the proprietor of the
hotel in which the trouble occurred,
told a number of conflicting stories of
the shooting, attempting to convince
the police that the shooting was all
done outside the hotel. The falsity of
his tale, however, was proved by Dep
uty Sheriff Lee and Holster, who de-
clared positively that Logue was shot
inside the hotel annex.
Inquiries at the. hotel regarding the
cause of the shooting were met with
violent abuse by Mrs. Hastings, the
wife of the proprietor. The woman de-
MED that any one by the name of Jen-
ME Murphy was employed in the place,
despite the fact that the name had
been furnished to the police by John
Noppe when he told the cause of the
trouble which led to the shooting
The police have learned that the
trouble began when Miss Murphy, who
was talking to a man named George
Rowland, refused to speak to Noppe
as he passed. He started to quarrel
with the waitress and Calbrese inter-
fered, and then it was that Noppe
threatened to kill the cook.