The San Francisco call., 1910-06-17
VETERAN'S Wife
PROTECTS Home
With REVOLVER
Mrs. Hannah Welsh Wounds
John A. Barr When He ATT
tenpts to Serve Writ
''White Hat" McCarthy's Sister
Barricades House to Defeat
Money Lenders Suit

Thinking that agents of +. N. Lick,
. money lender with whom she had
been having trouble over her property,
had come to seize her home at 12O Rip
ley street. Mrs. Hannah Welsh, sister
of white Hat Mccarthy. seized a re-
volver yesterday morning and shot and
seriously wounded Deputy Sheriff John
A. Barr, who, with Deputy Sheriff
James Logan, was attempting to serve
upon her writ of eviction.
" The deputies forced their way into
the house after ringing the bell in
Nain for a length OF time. Mrs. Welsh
called 10 them from the head of the
stairs saying that she would be down
as soon as she was dressed Then she
ran to the front window and fired four
shots in the air.
Expecting trouble Barr sent Logan to
the side door AT that moment Mrs.
Welsh came down and ordered Barr to
leave. When he refused she fired and
he fell backward into the parlor.
WOUNDED MAN RESCUED
Logan tore open the door at the rear
of the hall On seeing him Mrs. Welsh
fired again and ran upstairs. Logan
lodged the bullet dashed down the
lal and dragged Barr into the street.
where he sought the aid of John Fis-
calyne, whose milk wagon was near by.
They placed Barr in the wagon and
drove him 10 St. Lukes hospital
When Detectives NJ. V. Burke and G.
Richards Of the central station arrived
on the scene with Policemen w. Dali
ton and J. +. Leonard they found that
Mrs. Welsh had barricaded herself in
the upper story of the house. They
attempted to enter, but she shouted a
,fr1.r ~ rTar IL =
several times at the point of her re-
Eolver when they attempted TO force
their way in Dalton and Leonard then
attracted her attention in the front of
the house while Burke and Richards
broke open the back door. She turned
and fired three shots at them as they
We're entering, one bullet whizzing
close TO Burke's cheek. He grabbed
her as Leonard burst open the front
door and she was disarmed and taken
10 the Mission station, where she was
charged with assault to commit murder.
DEPUTY MAY RECOVER
Barr, who lives at 665 Natoma street,
lies In a critical condition at St Luke's
hospital. The bullet entered his lift
cheek and came out near the right ear
The wound is dangerous and extremely
painful. but there are good prospects
for his recovery.
According TO Mrs. Welsh and her
husband, an aged Grand Army of the
Republic veteran. the trouble was the
outcome of 2 feud between them and
Lick. who has Offices at 45 Kearny
street. Shortly before the fire Mrs.
Welsh said, they borrowed $500 from
him TO commence 4 suit against Sam
uel Boyd in regard to a property line
dispute. The fire came and after it the
Hibernia bank foreclosed a mort gage
OF $500 on their property. Lick ap-
peared and sued them on the ground
that he had a mortgage on the prop
erty.
Through a tangIe Of Iegalities, Mrs.
Welsh said. Lick mana ged to have her
and her husband arrested for retain
ing possession of mortgaged property
after being evicted. They appealed
and are scheduled to appear before
Judge Lawlor today.
ATTEMPT TO PROTECT HOME
Mrs. Welsh declared that she had
been pestered from time to time by the
agents of Lick. as well as deputies from
the sherif's Office and that she was i'll
IN bed when Barr and Logan arrived.
Sne said
7 considered it my duty to protect
my home, and although l had never
used firearms / knew we had A pistol
IN the house / only meant to use it
as bluff and I am glad to hear that
the man / shot viii recover. They
came at me in such a rough way that /
could do nothing else. When the other
men came later I warned them to keen
away, though ] didn't intend to shoot
them. ] didn't know that the two men
] fired at in the back Of the house were
detectives"