The San Francisco call., 1907-01-07

just Sixty years ago next month ana
whose patriotism and military prestige
carried him to the highest place in
America
MOTHER TRIED TO WARN
Mrs Kelly would have been an eye
witness to the triple tragedy but for
her feebleness. She had heard earlier
in the day from E. ID. Haley. a young
horseshoer, and companion of Rabley,
who is a structural ironworker. that
Rabley had declared that he would go
to the Kelly tent, demolish it and kill
his wife and the entire Kelly family.
She waited at her tent in Jefferson
Square, near the corner Of Octavia
street and Golden Gate avenue, for the
return or her three daughters. who had
left the tent at 1920 o'clock to visit
friends in the Potrero. She saw Mrs.
Kruger and Elizabeth Cor Lizzie)
Kelly coming toward the tent on Oc-
tavia street and started to intercept
them and warn them of. their danger.
half hour before. when the women
had parted from their other sister
Mrs. Rabley. the latter had told them to
beware OF Rabley. This warning was
unheeded and the mother did not have
time to cry hers.
With Mrs. Kruger was her 6-year-
old daughter, who escaped the drunken
wrath of Rabley and was taken from
the scene of the shooting by Charles
Jorgeson.
When the two sisters reached the
corner OF Octavia street and Golden
Gate avenue Rabley met them He i'm
mediately began 10 abuse them pro-
fanely, but the women. instead of go
ing TO the tent from which Mrs. Kelly
was hurrying unobserved, turned and
walked rapidly down Octavia street
toward McAllister with their intoxicated
brother-in-law. Mrs. Kelly, whose en-
ergy is known as far as the story of
the local relief work carries, hurried
after the three in desperation. mindful
of the dire warning given by young
Haley. There were many on the street
and soon the two women and the man
were lost to the sight of the mother.
THREAT CARRIED OUT
Then she heard three shots. Rabley
had carried out his threats.
Miss Lily B. Hables, a young girl
living at 2s9 Page street, was wit
ness to the shooting, and her story fits
in where that of the mothers leaves
off Miss Hables was on Octavia street,
south of McAllister, when she saw a
woman rushing across the street and
heard a shot. The woman, who was
Elizabeth Kelly. cried 81 am shot,
Help" and fell prone on the sidewalk
at the edge of a vacant lot on Meal
tavia street line. Two more shots rang
out. and on the opposite side of the
street fell the other woman. Mrs. Krue-
ger, and in the roadway, near the car
tracks, Rabley toppled over and lay
still and limp.
Special Police Officer S. ]. Lowenberg
and Policeman Harold were attracted
by the shots and hurried to the scene.
Lowenberg reached the three bleeding
bodies first. Mrs. Kruger was dead.
but there were tiny pulses of life in
the other two. All three were removed
to the Central Emergency Hospital DR..
Pinkham. in charge, pronounced the
older woman dead, and while he was
bending over the girl she passed away.
Rabley's head had been opened in
CHASTITY shape by the bullet from his
heavy .4S-csliber revolver, but he had
life in him yet. so the surgeon ban
daged the wound and placed him in the
ward, where he expired.
TROUBLE WAS BREWING
From stories told by Rabley's wife,
by Mary Rabley, by William Kelly the
husband of Mrs. Kelly; by young Haley
and by Krueger, the husband of one
of the dead women, the tragedy which
broke out yesterday has been brewing
some time. though Rabley has been
connected with the Kellys only since
last October. when he and his wife
were married in st. Louis. Mrs Rabley
had been previously married, her name
having been Mollison.
Two hours after the murder she
came into the hospital where her hus-
band lay dying. She was in hyster-
ical condition and had collapsed several
times in the short walk from her
mothers tent to the operating
Her story was incoherent in The ex-
treme:
Since our marriage my husband has
been Jealous of me all the time. and
that was what caused the trouble" she
said. He never threatened to murder
us, but he was sullen. and I knew that
ff WOULD come knarv If sure and