The San Francisco call., 1910-01-19
POLICEMAN LEFT TO
DIE BY ASSAILANTS
Woman Notifies Station House
of Uneven Fight; Little Is
Learned of Facts
Continued From Page 1


sorts by Slattery was rendered harder
at times by a lack of support on the
part Of his friends The last notable
arrest effected by the officer was that
Of Mrs Maria Rossi. at 255 Arkansas
street, on the nominal charge Of allow
ing music to be played in her place
after l o'clock in the morning.
Mrs. Rossi and several of her friends
swore on the stand before the police
commissioners that Slrttery was drunk
at the time he made the arrests. and
several officers from the Potrero sta
tion were present also to swear to the
good character of the women con-
cerned in the arrest. Some of these
officers were sent out to look for Slat-
terry after the alarm was sounded
Monday night The wounded police
man was found. after over an hours <
search. lying in pool of blood within
500 feet of the Potrero station.
Acting Captain of Police Patrick
Shea. in command of the Potrero sta
ton. is authority for the assertion that
Slattery does not drink Acting Lieu
tenant Perrin and Corporal Patrick
Herlihy declare that they detected the
odor of liquor on slattery when they
found him.
What is now known of the attack
on Slattery is soon told and chiefly
concerned in the telling of it are two
- A.. ~ zEo,1 of e1o ,ra,Daesae
street and Mrs. Mary Doherty, who
resides at eo4 Nineteenth street, with
in 200 feet of the scene of the assault.
The two italian prisoners, James Da-
vino of 14o7 Mariposa street and Louis
AIfano of l5S Texas street, profess to
know little of the affair. They say
that Slattery was striking them when
some one hit him from behind and
knocked him to the ground. They
claim this frightened them so that they
ran away in a frenzy of fear.
Slattery took the two men into GUS
tody in the saloon of G. B. Cuneo at 12O
Connecticut street, a place that he had
invaded before. What the charge
against the men is the police have not
been able TO learn. and the prisoners
declare they do not know. Having ar
rested the pair. the policeman put them
aboard an Eighth and Eighteenth
street car at Connecticut and Mariposa
streets, handcuffed them together and
alighted ar Eighteenth and Tennessee
streets.
why he chose to make them alight at
that place and walk over two blocks
to the station when he could have con-
tinued on the car with them TO Twen-
tieth and Kentucky streets, within 100
feet of the branch Jail. is not clear.
One explanation of this proceeding is
that Slattery wished to administer some
punishment to the men, when leading
them through vacant lot near the po-
lice station, before taking them to
prison. In every case the police courts
have been extremely lenient with the
many prisoners Slattery has made in
the district and it has been cause for
much comment in the Potrero that no
matter how efficient the patrolman
might be the police magistrates invar-
iably allowed the offenders to go free.
Disguised with these failures to aid his
efforts Slsttery may have decided to ad-
nfniyter what rough punishment he
could to the men. feeling certain that
the police courts would but prove a
clear avenue TO their freedom.
Mrs May Moll also alighted from the
car carrying Slattery and his prisoners
at Eighteenth and Tennessee streets
and her testimony is that the three
men proceeded along Tennessee street
without incident until the trio reached
Nineteenth.
Then I saw something was the mat
ter Mrs. Moll said last night. be
Shasts Water