The San Francisco call., 1910-08-31
DEPUTY SHERIFF
dies FROM WOUND
James E. Hopkins, Who Fired
Shot, Charged With MUIR
der at City Prison

Walter J. Bryant, deputy sheriff.
building about / o'clock yesterday
morning. died at the central emer-
gency hospital shortly after o'clock.
James S. Hopkins, another deputy
sheriff, was booked at the city prison
on a charge of murder. Captain Wall
saying that. although the shooting
might have been accidental, he would
leave the courts TO deal with the case.
The two deputies and others had
been searching for Charles Furey. the
beauty DOCTOR" who escaped from
Deputy Sheriff Pat Mcnamara during
the day F'urey had been sentenced
to five years in San Quentin and was
in the county Jail waiting the result
of an appeal to the higher court. He
had asked Mcnamara to take him out
to see d sick sister, and gave Nc
Namara the slip in q Market street
drug store near Eddy.
ACCIDENT SAYS HOPKINS
Hopkins declared yesterday that the
shooting was accidental. Walter and
I were always friends, he said, ''and
I helped his brother to win his sena-
torial fight and they helped me to win
my fight for the assembly in the
Thirty first district We were laugh
ing and joking when I pulled a re-
volver out of my pocket. which l had
borrowed, and I said that it was a
poor gun. Walter pulled a revolver
out of his pocket and said it would
kill mule Then Walter said You've
got me- and fell. l did not know that
: had shot him.
we had been searching for Furey
and met in front of the ferry build
4 l,f i1f lx
before and Furey had promised him
$40. but he did not get it. 1t is usual
for prisoners to give deputy piece
of coin to extend the courtesies along
the line. / don't know if Mcnamara
had been promised anything"
John T. Williams, attorney for the
sheriff, made a statement in which he
said that the shooting was purely ac-
cidental Il was with Hopkins he
said, from quarter to IL o'clock
till the time of the shooting. No one
saw it but myself. Bryant had his
arm on my shoulder and was leaning
against me when Hopkins pulled out
a small revolver and Bryant pulled out
his revolver, which was a larger one,
and they were joking about the merits
of the two weapons. l stepped aside
saying laughingly that they could ex-
cuse me and just then Bryan doubled
opinion that while Hopkins was draw
ing back his elbow to put the revolver
back in his pocket he accidentally
pulled the trigger. Hopkins did not
drink anything from the time l met
him till the shooting"
TIPS NOT COUNTENANCED
1t may be usual for prisoners to
give deputies a piece of coin to extend
the courtesies along the line" as
Deputy Hopkins said. but Sheriff Finn
said yesterday that he knew nothing
about that.
Hopkins was pretty well excited
when he said that" observed the sher-
iff "Of course it is true that 26 OF
these guards get only $50 month and
$40 may look pretty large to them, but
they have to be careful about anything
like that, for the chief Jailer won
stand for anything of the Sort
NJ L. Rapheld, one of the deputies
who was present at the shooting, de-
MED that he had been drinking. He
said that Hopkins, whose pistol caused
Bryants death, might have had few
drinks, but that nobody in the party
was under the influence of liquor. He
denied also that any quarrel was in
progress at the time of the shooting