Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-25
SHOOTING ENDS
LAND SQUABBLE
PURCHASER, TWICE WOUNDED,
EXPECTED TO DIE
HEATED ARGUMENT SUCCEEDS
RECORDING OF MORTGAGE
First Bullet Inflcts Only Superficial
injury, Whereon AssaiIant Fires
Again with, Probably,
Deadly Effect
[speoial TO The Herald.l

SANTA ANA, March 24.-C. N. Gary,
resident of Benedict, lies at deaths
door at the Santa Ana hospital. and
Ed Reinhart, resident of Burbank, is
in jail with the probability of a charge
of murder being booked against him.
This is the result of a quarrel here this
morning over real estate deal. during
which Reinhart shot Cary twice with
44-caliber revolver. The shooting took
place In the office of Attorney II. j.
Forgy, and the first shot struck Gary
fair In the middle of the breast, but
failed to enter the body, merely abrad-
ing the skin. The second shot entered
the left side Just above the hip, and
passing through the spleen, lodged In
the liver The bullet was extracted
later at the Santa Ana hospital
Reinhart walked down stairs and out
of the building, and entered the Santa
Ana book store, where he waited until
an officer came and arrested him.
Gary made an ante-mortem state
ment to the district attorney in which
he merely said that Reinhart had been
under the impression that he was
about to be defrauded out of some
property, and shot before his victim
was given time to explain.
From the Jail, however,, Reinhart
tells a different story, and says ne
agreed to sell Gary a 25-acre tract or
ladn near Lobo, on the electric line
between here and Los Angeles, the
purchase price to be $4,000.
Two thousand was to be PAID In casn
and mortgage given to Reinhart to
secure the remainder. The mortgage
was given Reinhart after he had con-
veyed the property by deed to Gary,
but before 1t could be made OF record
Gary mortgaged 1t again for $260O and
refused to pay back $1,000.
The men met yesterday and arranged
to meet again this morning in Attor-
ney Forgy's Office to settle the mat
ter according to the original deal, and
1t was while discussing the points at
issue that Reinhart suddenly started to
shoot.
The first shot was fired at Gary while
the latter was sitting in chair not six
feet from Reinhart, who was standing
over him. Reinhart dropped the pistol
and turned toward the door, evidently
thinking he had killed Gary, but the
latter, after lurching forward, came TO
his feet again, wherein Reinhart picked
I'D the revolver again and fired the
second shot, just as Henry II. Moye, a
stenographer who was at work IN an
adjoining office, ran in. Moye grappled
with Reinhart and took the weapon
from his hand.
When Gary vas asked 70 make
statement he seemed exceedingly anx-
ious that B. III. Lovelace of Los Ange-
les be sent for Immediately, as he
wanted to tell him something. He urged
the doctor to make all possible haste.
Loveiace is the man against whom III. O..
McCulley of Los Angeles filed suit here
last week, charging him, Jointly with
Gary, with having fraudulently OBJ
tanned possession of a deed to ten acres
of land at Hansen, this county, in re-
turn for a lease to the Carondelet
apartment house in Los Angeles.
Gary formerly resided in Los Ange-
les. and was spoken of as representing
the real estate firm of Meyer & Gilbert
of that city, but that firm denies spe-
cifically that he has had connection
with 1t.
rived here this afternoon. Tonight the
doctors say Gary has a very small
chance of recovery.