Show HANGED TUE particulars OF ills CRIME ineffectual to lucli allisn SAN FRANCISCO sept 14 alexander goldenson who shot and billed a fourteen year old school girl named mamie kelly in november was hanged in the county jail today to day no hanging since the days of the vigilance committee has excited greater interest on the pacific coast his crime came near causing a riot and two ineffectual attempts were made to lynch him by assaulting the city jail but in each instance serious disorder was prevented by the police goldenson was only eighteen years old it is not characteristic of to go wild over a homicide because sorrowful to state they are of too frequent recurrence the murder of mamie kelly a school girl by a beardless youth named alexander goldenson on the afternoon of the of november 1886 was an exception cep tion however to the general rule mamie had seen her fourteenth birthday on the of september previous to her foul taking off goldenson had counted 18 years on the of february 1886 she was accounted a pretty girl well developed for her age but withal childlike in appearance she lived at the time with female relatives at 22 hayes street being a half orphan whose mother a widow of seven years standing never married again because as stated a new husband might not be a kind father to mamie the mother was for six years a cook for a family on V an ness avenue and with her earnings and those of an unmarried sister supported themselves the hapless child their mother and a half blind uncle nest door to the flat occupied by the peaceful household lived the Golden sons the second of whose three sons was the man hanged yesterday he was reputed toj bean artista at any rate he had a sign to that effect over the door of the family dwelling mamie was an attendant of the john sweet grammar school and bad reach edthe fourth grade she was shot on her way home in the afternoon from school with her wicker lunch basket and bundle of school books still in hand the shooting taking place in front of the grocery at the northeast corner of ash avenue and polk street bystanders were attracted and one of them a driver for the contra costa laundry leaped from his wagon and giving pursuit to the dark complex boned youth with a revolver in hand chased him into the new city rail station where the fellow was glad enough to surrender himself fearing retributive and summary vengeance and acknowledged the killing and informed the keeper in charge while he was him that he had also the weapon away goldenson after his horrible deed did not appear to be laboring under any very great mental excitement on the contrary he readily enough made replies to questions put to him by the police and the newspaper reporters he never denied the shooting at first said he hardly knew what reasons he had for killing her then pretended to have been drunk for three days and as many nights before and finally produced a letter to show as he out it how the girl had been after him As soon us skeleton facts of the dire tragedy became known the greatest intensity of feeling was manifested if the peculiar nature of it created an overflow of sympathy for the victim and bitter mind was inflamed and the inquest held on the following day with the additional facts learned did hot allay public indignation for the tragedy struck a responsive chord in every family circle A morbid crowd bung about the morgue goldenson assumed an air of bravado and acted the part of a dimo novel hero which he has kept up almost to the very last anticipating even the coroners inquest the grand jury in session at the time at once took up the case and presented an indictment against him for murder in fact as fast as the witnesses were examined by the coroner they were ushered into the jury room owing to the pitch that the public mind had been forced to strategy had to be used to remove goldenson and bring him into sate custody from the inquest to the city prison and from thence to the county jail as the indictment brought the case directly before the superior court without the formality of a preliminary examination goldenson was shown tobe not unknown to the police and the testimony at the inquest held that afternoon placed him in a very unenviable position even to implicating him of the forgery of a letter which he claimed had i been written by her the coroners jury upon the testimony accused goldenson of the murder and declared their balieff that the act was done with deliberation and malice aforethought and without cause wherefore they charged him cold blooded murder the bullet which had entered the comer of the victims right eye fractured the skull and passed through the brain goldenson was positively identified by a number of persons as the individual who had murdered the child while the latter was depicted in turn as a child of sweet and amiable disposition who wasa good and dutiful girl ahila nothing could be said in Golden sons favor all the witnesses agreed that mamie kelly had cot had aught to do with him for one or wo months before the murder having been forbidden and advised against ever conversing with him by her parents and relatives and friends popular indignation rose to a fever heat on friday evening the of november Xo vember being fanned to the same by an open meeting at the metropolitan temple on fifth street though low mutterings rings inveigled inveighed ed swift retribution at the hands of judge lynch had been heard before the meeting resulted in that an unorganized crowd variously estimated at from 1000 to 2000 paraded through the streets and made for the county jail with the avowed purpose of lunching lynching lyn ching goldenson the meeting had however been advertised and this fact taken in connection with the snip pressed feelings of the populace had given the authorities the cue to prepare for whatever might come the sheriffs deputies and the police were marshaled and tha mob lucking organization and a leader accomplished nothing and nothing came of the would be vigilance committee save many of the members had very sore heads on the next day on account of the po lic emens clubbing on the sunday following poor mamie kemeys remains were interred from st jos eph and another crowd again congregated in front of the county jail only to ba dispersed by the police and that annot innot tho most gingerly manner all of which congregations had a most depressing effect upon the caged murderer who was not long in exhibiting the arrant Jc navery and cowardice of his character about the time of the funeral sn attempt was also made to sack the store of one of Golden sons rela 1 fives Golden sons trial has been far more speedy than that generally accorded murderers but public indignation and clamor closely followed every move in his case some delay was experienced in getting depositions from russia and poland with a view of furnishing a basis for the de bense of hereditary insanity the prisoner was at length called for trial before judge murphy and a jury and the same was public talk not alone on account of the tragedy itself but on account of the outrage ous behavior of the prisoner his counsel left him to his own resources claiming to have been forced unprepared into the trial and other counsel were appointed by the court to defend goldenson acting under the advice of the former counsel the prisoner and his relatives refused to commune with the appointed ones and the question of insanity which was the defense although always ridiculed and spurned by the prisoner himself was not entered into as fully as it might have been the jury however found him guilty of murder in the first degree and the death penalty was eventually pronounced noun ced an appeal to the supreme court was taken and after the customary tedious process of judicature in that tribunal the judgment was affirmed in every respect goldenson has been before the public more or less ever since on account of his outrageous behavior in the county jail the publication of his numerous statements in the press his loudmouthed boasts to cheat the gallows the efforts of his devoted mother by appeals to the judiciary and the governor for a respite for her miserable offspring and last but not least when all else had failed the attempt to force about the granting of a respite by instituting guardianship proceedings ce with a view as stated of testing the insanity question in as of which efforts the mother and her kith and kin have reduced themselves to beggary few cases are there indeed which have been kept so continuously and prominently before the public almost daily from the time of the commission of the act of burdei on the of november 1886 to the execution of the murderer on the uth of september 1888 |