The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-03-11
SOME DOUBT AS TO
SHOOTERS IDENTITY
Prisoners Handcuffed When
Firing Starts = Eyewit-
nesses Flee When Fusil-
lade Begins - Catching
Steelhead Out of Season
Prompts Arrest - Lark
spur and Vicinity All Ex-
citenent Over Affair
Deputies Looking for Gun

Especial Dispatch to The canl
SAN RAFAEL March 1o-Larkspur
and the surrounding country is
aroused to high pitch of excitement
over triple shooting which occurred
there late this afternoon. Deputy Fish
and Game Warden Frank Galloway shot
his two handcufed prisoners. the lie
Cornec brothers. after one of them had
fired a bullet into the officers head.
Galloway arrested the lie cornec
brothers, Captain George and Herbert,
as they were returning from the Lark
spur slough with six steeihead hsh,
which they are alleged to have caught
with net This is the close season
for steeIhead.
They were riding in laundry wagon
driven by L. NJ. Foutz who was giving
them lift" into Escane, and were
midway between that place and Lark
spur when arrested
Walking beside the laundry wagon
were Joe Mcnamara and Christopher
Rode. the latter of 800 Tenth avenue
Richmond District, San Francisco.
WHEN SHOOTING STARTED
The deputy stopped the wagon and
ordered the brothers to alight They
did, and he handcuffed them together
Ordering Mcnamara and Rode to ac-
company him. he started ahead of the
handcuffed pair. A shot rang out and
the deputy dropped in his tracks, a
bullet having plowed it's way through
his right cheek, the roof of his mouth
and lodged under his left cheekbone
With blood gushing from his mouth
the wounded deputy raised on his ell
bow and fired five shots from his re-
volver at the chained brothers, one of
whom he believes shot him. Herbert
fell against his brother with a bullet
hole in his back and lung A second
later both fell to the ground when
George was struck in the shoulder.
OTHERS SEEK SHELTER
Lupiz the driver, and Rode and Nc
Namara, the three witnesses, sought
shelter when the bullets began to fly
and escaped unhurt Galloway finally
Wgained his feet and started toward
the Blue Rock hotel, near Larkspur,
leaving his prisoners lying in the road.
Where the witnesses were at this point
has not been made clear. but it is be-
Iieved they fed into the woods with the
firing Of the first shot.
Mcnamara, however, started for
Larkspur and hunted up the town mar
shal, T. NJ. Ambrose. Together they
returned TO the scene after notifying
Sheriff J. ]. Keating and District At
torney Thomas Boyd. BY this time
Galloway had reached the hotel and
collapsed on the veranda steps from
loss of blood
The prisoners were brought to the
hotel in the sherif's automobile, where
all three men were given first aid
treatment by DIR. J. E. McHue Later
they were removed to the Cottage hos
pitaI The bullet was removed from
Galloway's left cheek, leaving gaping
hole right through his head. The roof
of his mouth is badly torn, but he
is able to talk. He declares one of
the brothers shot him. but which one
he is unable to say.
Doctors probed the wound in George
lie Cornec's shoulder and succeeded in
removing The bullet, but Herbert's
wound is Of a more serious nature.
the slug having torn its way into his
lung He is not expected to live. and
GaDoway's chances Of life are very
slim.
- Deputy sheriffs are guarding the
Seene of the shooting to prevent rela-
Fves and friends of the lie Cornec
Brothers from finding the revolver with
which Galloway was shot It was
thrown away after the shooting, Nc
Namara is being sought by the Off
ciale