Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-09
SOLDIER STAYS
POLICE OFFICER
SERGEANT IN SAN FRANCISCO
SHOT BY PRIVATE
MEMBERS OF SAME ARTILLERY
FORCED TO CONFESS
Provost Guard, Rounding Up Absent
ees, Is Assisted by PatroIman and
Latter Is Shot by Drunken
Man

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 8-Thomas
j. Jordan, a private of the One Hun
dred and Forty-eighth coast artillery
will be charged today with the muir
der of Sergeant Anton j. f. Noting Of
the San Francisco police department,
Whom Jordan shot and killed at
o'clock this morning in front of the
1tanan-American bank at Montgoln-
cry avenue and Washington street.
The police have in custody as wit
nesses John Kralikouskf and Charles
Nlbarger, both privates of the One
Hundred and FOrty-eighth artillery
who today furnished the evidence
upon which Jordan will be accused.
according to the admissions made
Jordan and Nibarger came to the civ
yesterday from Fort Baker and early
TINS morning encountered KraIikouski.
VINO, as a provost guard, was round
ing up absentees from the post Jor-
dan, who was intoxicated, set upon
Nibarger and secured possession of his
revolver, with which he proceeded to
terrlfy all the occupants Of the New
Western hotel bar on Washington
street.
Directing to the interference of
Richard KEENAN,, the bartender, Jor-
dan swept the bar clear of bottles
ana glasses and covering the two SOL
d1ers with the revolver, ordered them
to precede him down Washington
street
Sergeant Noting was attracted b.
the sound of a shot which JORDAN fred
over the heads of his prisoners 70 ac-
celerate their advance.
Advances on Offender
Ordering the soldiers to hand over
the weapon which Jordan was bran
dishing, the police officer advanced I'M
til he was close upon Jordan.
The latter suddenly grappled with
Noting, and holding him about the
neck with his left arm, pressed the re-
Volver against his body AMI fred.
Noting fell to the sidewalk and
Jordan fired five more shots at his
PROSTATE victim, every bullet missing.
Meantime Kralikousk and Nibarger
fled and Nolting's body was first found
by Sergeant Maurice Behan. Noting
died on the way to the Harbor hos
pital and no statement was obtained
from him.
Sergeant Behan and a posse found
Jordan two hours later, hidden behind
brick pile near the subtreasury. Con-
cealed in the bricks they found an un-
loaded revolver which Nibarger identi-
fed as his.
When arrested. Jordan claimed to
have been shot by a footpad, but an
examination disclosed no injury further
than a bruise and cut on his face,
which he is believed to have sus-
tanned while struggling with the man
he is charged with having murdered.
Kralikouski was arrested in a water
front saloon about 4 o'clock and Nj
barger was found at daylight in q
lodging house.
Jordan steadfastly refused to make a
statement, and his example was fol-
lowed by KralikOuski and Nibarger
until they had been examined for some
time by Captain Anderson and several
detectives. Nibarger first broke down,
and his statements were corroborated
in detail by his companion.
Sergeant Noting was appointed an
officer in December, 1905, and sue
ceeded to the rank of sergeant in July,
1907. He was a native of California,
48 years old, and left a widow.