The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-01

Miss Carolina Brasch, Book
Keeper for Gray Brothers,
Murdered by j. NOvak
Insane With Rage Because Of
Shortage of 65 Cents in ,
Pay Check
Young Woman, Who Had Tried
to Appease Workman, Dies
Almost Instantly
Assassin Makes His Escape
From Wells Fargo Building
and Is Still at Large


Brasch. book keeper for Gray
Brothers, the stone contractors,
Gil WelIs-Fargo building, had Just
writteI on a postcard addressed to a
woman friend in Chicago. when j.
Novak, one of the firms laborers, ap-
peared at the Office grating. shouted
an infuriated torrent of words con-
cerning a cut that had been made IN
his wages. and. raising a pistol. shot
the girl through the head. killing her
instantly. She fell within foot os
the desk on which lay the message
interrupted by DEATH am still
alive. and waiting for an answer to my
last letter" The murderer escaped
down the elevator and has not been
captured.
The one shot fired brought dozens
of men and women from all parts of
the big Office building, among them
Harry Gray, one of the firms heads.
from his inner Office The % year old
girl lay upon the floor, breathing her
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the steel safes, and blood gushing
from q Jagged hole torn in the temple.
She died as the foremost men entered
the room.
Search for Murderer
The police We're notified at once by
Harry Gray, Captain John Seymour.
chief of the welIs-Fargo detectives.
volunteered his services and hurried
search was made for the murderer.
Police detectives We're at once put on
the case by Chief Cook. and the search
has broadened until by late last night
nearly all the most probable places to
which the man might be expected to
go had been visited. Today the search
will extend throughout the state and
the nation,
The dead girl was taken to the,
coroner's ofice and. at the request OF
DIT. S. L. Brasch, brother of the mur-
dered woman. removed to Mas UNDER
taking parlors. Mr.. and Mrs. Otto W.
Brasch, the young book keepers par
ents. are at present travelling in Ger
many, and Will be cabIed the news oe
their daughters death today. she
lived at 1859 Broderick street with
several brothers and sisters
Dispute Over Trivial Sum
The girls tragic death came about
through a dispute over IS cents. the
difference between Novak's board bill.
as his foreman gave 1t to him when he
quit work at Point Pedro, Marin
county. Tuesday night, and the sum
as IL was computed in Gray Brothers
ONCE
Novak had worked seven days and
two hours at the Point Pedro quarries.
and when laid or Tuesday night his
foreman. James Foley. gave him a time
check for. s144O. which remained after
1915 had been taken from his pay
check for board at the camp Novak
came to this city and went to the
Offices of William c. Knox. AS Pine
street. where the mems checks are dis
counted for consideration Here the
Austrian. who is man past SO years
OF age. discovered that his board bill
had been made ss.4O by the ONCE in
this city. and he rushed out of the
place in a frenzy and went straight to
the Gray Brothers Offices in the Wells
Fargo building to revenge himself for
the seeming Injustice
When he pushed through the outer
door to the Office he was confronted by
wall of grating and frosted glass.
through which a single small grated
opening is provided for the laborers
who call at the office IN an attemp' 20
settle their grievances. Behind TINS
door. buner for the aggrieved men
and seated at her desk, was Miss