Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-03
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DIES IN A DITCH.
BRUTAL MURDER COMMITTED
AT SAN GABRIEL
Naked Body Found by Roadside-G.
A. Stone and Wife, with Whom
Dead Man Lived, Are
Arrested

Fatally wounded as the result of
what evidently was a desperate battle
for life, Morgan Shiveley, % years old
conductor employed by the Pacific
Electric Railway company, leaped
through a window at his home at San
Gabriel boulevard and Broadway, San
Gabriel, early yesterday morning,
naked as the day he was born, ran a
quarter of mile through the pouring
rain, until he fell dead in the rain
water in a ditch beside the road.
Investigation by the sheriff and his
deputies resulted in obtaining informa-
tion which in their opinion justified
the arrest of G. A. Stone and his wife,
with whom Shiveley made his home,
on suspicion of having near knowledge
of the crime.
The kitchen of the Stone home, where
the struggle that cost Shiveley his life
occurred, had the appearance of a
slaughter house. The floor, walls, and
almost every piece of furniture, were
splattered with the life blood of the
unfortunate conductor. The two Win
dows of the room were broken, and
chinaware and drinking glasses were
shattered and lying about the floor COW
cred with blood. The bedclothes on
cot in the room where Shiveley had
been sleeping for the last several days
also We're soaked with blood.
Sink Torn Away
The sill of one of the windows-the
one from which Shiveley had jumped
to escape from his assailant-Was
soaked with blood which had trickled
down the outer wall. The stationary
iron sink just under the window on the
inside of the room was torn from it's
fastenings, presumably by the weight
of the wounded man, who stepped ON
it and plunged headlong through the
glass.
Shiveley was employed on the north
ern division of the Pacific Electric
company and was conductor of a San
Gabriel car He was on the late run
and usually arrived at San Gabriel
about / o'clock in the morning Yes
terday morning Shiveley and the mo-
torman of his car Fred R. Donaldson,
arrived at San Gabriel on time. 1t
was raining hard at the time. and they
waited until it stopped. mounted their
bicycles and started for their homes
at about 2:15 o'clock. The men sepa-
rated at San Gabriel boulevard ana
Broadway. Shiveley told Donaldson
good night and went into his home.
'Inat was IilG ldSl lliliO iiO "t''' ~~~AN
alive by his friend. Donaldson con-
tinued down Broadway to his home,
several blocks away, and went to bed
Trio Well Acquainted
shiveley came to the coast from Lin
coin, Neb., where he met Stone .and
the woman who later married stone
The two men became acquainted seven
wears ago at that place and since that
time have been fast friends. Stone, it
seems, met his present wife at the
home of Shiveley. The three came
west some time ago and Stone and
the woman were married at Seattle
about a year and half ago. Shive-
lev also was in Seattle with the Stones
and later the trio went to San Fran
cisco and then came to Los Angeles.
while in. Seattle Stone was engaged
i'm the commission business with S. p.
McGhie, under the firm name of the
Seattle Commission company. Since
his arrival in Los Angeles he has been
employed by the Pacific Crushed Rock
company. Shiveley made his home
with the stones, who up to about four
months ago lived in an apartment
house in the downtown district i'm Los
Angeles. After Shiveley was assigned
to the San Gabriel run the Stones
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