Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-26
SHOOTS GIRL
AND HIMSELF

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people ran screaming from the room.
and what happened afterward can only
be accounted for by theories, for while
kottoff afterward told tale of what
had happened, there is reason to doubt
his story because of contradictions and
of physical evidence directly to the
contrary.
Three shots some witnesses say were
fired, four were fired say others. Kot-
toff says he fired but three shots, two
at the girl and one at himself, yet
there was one bullet in his body and
ten wounds and three bullets in the
body of the girl.
At the sound of the third shot Anna
sprang from her chair and ran from
the house and down Vignes street
toward First, falling at the corner, and
there she was found by the police and
taken to the receiving hospital.
Kottoff, after shooting the girl, ran
from the house up First street to Ban
ming, whore he stated he shot himself,
threw the revolver away and then
went to his room at COG Turner street.
There the police found him and took
him to the hospital.
The girl was found to have wounds
through the left hand, through the
right forearm, to the right of the right
breast, to the left of the right breast, in
the center of the chest, to the right of
the left breast, below the left armpit
and in the right wrist, making ten
wounds IN all, six of which were en-
trance wounds and four exit wounds.
Four Bullets Recovered
The bullet through the left hand,
state the surgeons, entered and lodged
in the right wrist, from which it was
removed. The bullet through the right
forearm entered the body to the right
of the right breast and came out in the
center of the chest, having glanced
along rib and the breast bone. The
bullet entering to the left of the right
breast passed through the lung and
lodged in the muscles of the back, from
where it was cut, and the bullet enter
ing to the right of the left breast came
out below the left armpit and was
found in the girls clothing. Where the
bullet which made its exit in the center
bullets only were recovered, and with
the bullet taken from the body of
Kottoff makes the total of the num-
Der said to have been fired. :.
Brushing aside as an airy nothing
the physical facts presented, the police
contend that but four shots were fired.
Another mystery which the detectives
assigned to the case, Messrs. Jones,
Ritch and Roberds have no eXplana-
tion for is the fact that when the room
in which the shooting occurred was
first searched no revolver was found.
An hour later, when the room was
again visited. the weapon with four
empty shells in the chamber was found
lying on the floor beside the chair on
which Anna Kossoeff sat when the first
shot was fired. There were other little
Inconsistencies in the report of the de-
tectives taken in consideration with
the facts as found by the police sur
eeons and the newspaper reporters who
Investigated the case, all of which will
probably be explained when the real
truth regarding the shooting is made
known.
The wounded girl was removed to
the county hospital last night and
Kottoff was placed in ward in the
city Jail. 1t is not believed that the
girl can recover, and Kottoff has but a
slight chance to get well.