The San Francisco call., 1909-10-07
Former Police CAPTAIN jailed
When Death Ends Suffer.
ings of His Victim
BERNARD LAGAN DIES
FROM CONBOY'S BULLET
Disgraced Official Who Shot
Youth While Intoxicated
Must Fight for Own Life
PROSECUTORS TO OPPOSE
BAIL FOR ACCUSED MAN

DAHL E|ON ANNOSED WAN
~ ERNARD LAGAN. the young
ID coal dealer shot down IN the
early morning of June g by
former Captain OF Police Michael 10
seph Conboy. died ut 4-30 O'Clock yes
terday afternoon, and his slayer was
booked at the city prison on charge
of murder before two hours had
passed Conboy was charged june 70
with assault to commit murder and re-
leased at Judge WeiIer's order on
$3.50 bail Now he viii have to hzht
for his life, and fight hard, for the
district attorneys Office viii prosecute
the case with vigor, and Lzzans
friends and family support the prose
cution
An effort will be made today By the
former police official. who committed
the deed while in drunken frenzy.
20 secure bail. but the state viii resist
any such request on the part of the
defense Conboy was brought before
the police commissioners July "a con
vIcted OF intoxication on the vi~ht Or
the shooting, and dismissed from the
force 4 score or more witnesses
have testified to the actual Staying
On these grounds the district attorney
viii claim that Conboy should be
shown no clemcncy ar this time.
Death Ends Suffering
Young Lagan, who has been under
the care of his uncle, Dr. John Lagan,
since he was removed from the St.
Francis hospital. has been gradually
growing weaker as the days passed.
Unusual care and nursing have kept
life IN his body, but for the last month
its has been plain that death was not
far away. The boy was removed from
the hospital to his sisters residence.
S242 Eighteenth street, and there last
Monday afternoon he suffered a sink
ing spell that terminated in his death
yesterday afternoon An hour before
the end came he sank into unconscious
ness. and so low did the fame Of life
burn that those about his bedside did
not know when il had died away.
Through his attorneys. J. J. Dunno
and J. E. O'DonneIl. Conboy viii make
a hard fight for his tffe and freedom.
Dunno announced on the night OF the
former captains inquisftfon before the
police board that he would prove that
his client was not intoxicated when
the shooting occurred, and that both
Lagan and the frienc who accompanied
him. George Greenwood. waiter en-
ployed at 713 Grove street. were un-
der the influence OF liquor when they
encountered Conboy.
Lagan Total Abstainer
That this can be done seems i'm
possible. All Lagan's friends testify
that he never touched liquor, and il il
related that. even when suffering the
greatest agony from The bullet lodged
in his spine, he refused repeatedly to
accept any alcoholic stimuIant
Conboy himself, friends Of LaEan
declare. has called on Mrs Ralston, at
whose home Lagan. with Is others.
were gathered at a party just before
the shooting, and been told that there
were but three bottles Of beer in the
house when Lagan was there and that
the boy touched none of it,
Captain OF Detectives Anderson re-
ceived word shortly before 5 O'Clock
that Lagan was dead and immediately
dispatched Detective Joseph Redman to
arrest the former captain on a charge
of murder. Redmond went first to the
slayer's home, but found him at a cigar
store half block away at Hayes and
Fillmore streets. He beckoned Conboy
outside.
Has the worst come. Joe2'' Conboy
asked. and he turned white at the an
swer.
May God rest the young mans SOUL
he said. barring his head. Perhaps IT
is better that he has gone to rest.
considering the suffering he had
though it makes it very hard for me-
Thirty-one years 1 was on the police
force he continued. "and in 81 seconds
have ruined my whole life"
Visited by Daughters
Cowboys two daughters visited him
in his cell last night.
The disgraced mans appearance be-
fore the police commission last July.
which resulted in his dismissal was the
seventh time he has been summoned