The San Francisco call., 1908-09-15
Carl Miller, Aged Nineteen, Is
Struck Down in Myste-
riOuS Manner
With Companions Was on Pre-
serve of AIbre Gun Club LO-
eating Duck Blind
Officers Get No CIew, Though
DR.. Short and L. R. Larzalere
Are Questioned

| A rife bullet fred by some person
pwhose identity is still mystery
struck down Carl Miller, lo years of
age, as he stood in rowboat on the
Alviso marshes Sunday morning. On
suspicion that the missile might have
come from the preserves of the Albre
gun club, Leigh r. Larzalere,
wealthy San Francisco commission
merchant living at the St. Francis, and
Edward N. Short, a well known dem
tst with Offices in Van Ness avenue,
were closely questioned by Irvington
officers. Sheriff Barnet Of Alameda
county is investigating the affair. Both
Larzalere and short deny any knowl-
edge Of the shooting.
whether the shot which killed young
Miller was fred at random by some
sunday hunter or was sent from the
club preserves TO warn him against
-respass. or came from a weapon in the
hangs OF some one else. is a question
which is puzzling the sheriff
WEAPON Is FOUND
Miller. just before his death in the
Bolvedere- hospital at san Jose. said
the bullet came from the direction Of
the clubhouse. Constable Vandervoort
OF Irvington. who helped n the investi-
cation. found a 1870 rife with a dis
charged cartridge in that place. And
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ante-mortem statement
Miller, John silva and Edward Ander-
lsn had gone to the slough which lies
beIow the fresh water ponds Of the
club They were locating a duck shoot
ing blind. They separated The other
Two say they saw Miller standing IN his
boat. suddenly crumpIe up and call; i
am shot" Then they hurried 10 help
him.
The boy was taken 70 a cabin His
companions GOT an auto from Irvington
and hurried 10 his side again he was
taken 10 san Jose and there died. The
bullet, penetrating his arm, then his
breast. had ranged down through his
lungs. into his abdomen
Larzalere and Short, with Keeper
John Ray, the latters wife and chill
dren. were the only ones at the club
house They denied having heard any
shot.
DENIES HEARING SHOT
We came TO the club about noon,
said Larzslere yesterday And the
first we knew OF the shooting was in
the afternoon, when the constable came
10 the place We had fired no shots
end I believe from the statements OF
tie boys tilat they must have been
three quarters OF mile or a mile from
l. ~r-- - r-r-.-
ing took place before our arrival
The rife which the constable had
sad DR.. Short yesterday, was that al
ways left al the club. AS to the empty
cartridge, il is always left when shot
with The last cartridge in the cham
her"
in San Jose an autopsy over the boys
body showed yesterday that the bullet
which killed him was 5000 and thai
ft must have come from considerable
distance Had the victim been close il
would have passed through his body
the surgeons believe. instead of de.
fecting and passing downward through
the lungs into the abdomen.
Yesterday Sheriff Barnet went TO th'
marshes and he deputized three men L
help him in ferreting cut the details
o. the strange affair. District Attor
uey Brown Of Alameda county was no
: rided- Neither Larzelere nor Short wa,
held. and as yet the investigation is il
a state where X may turn in any direc
ton.
BOYS FATHER Il WEALTHY
Carl Miller is q son OF Chris Miller
wealthy Irvington man, who. with hi
wife. is visiting IN Denmark The pa
rents were yesterday notified by cabl
OF their sons tragic death
According 10 the statement of officer
who invest gated fne fair uOr1a faf m.
party who were with young Miller ha,
firearms with them Nor have the Off
GERS been able 10 learn OF any on,
bearing arms who was in the vicinit-
of the marshes. Miller stood with hi
right SIDE toward the Albre preserves
sccoroing 10 tho other boys. And tn
bullet entered MS right arm