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Show LETTR FROM SAN FRANCISCO. The Blorror ltorortl ot" the (oust MptropolH. The JInriler nul Nuleldo M-uiti M-uiti Iu 'Frisco. .VoioH from (Uc I5uj'. ; 209 Ml SNA ST..KKT. San Fkamukco, ! , April?, 1S71. J-JtUtors S.M Lake Herald: I Two murders and ft miicide in ! the hort space of two days is tilling !up tho hoiror-rocord of this city very-fast. very-fast. Two murders and suicide and scarcely halt a block apart. Tho first of those horrors waj a bickening allair In its details. It occurcd last Sunday. Tho photopraph gallery of a Mr. Silva, on tho corner of Third, iinil Mission streets, was the scene. Quiet reigned all around; Sunday is generally a very peaceful day here; churches and Sunday-schools well Attended by the observers of tho fourth commandment; all nereno and uleasant, apparently: a few visitors enjoying tneiuselvcs viewing . tho attractions of tho gallery, and chatting gO'.d-humoroJly altout the S feature, looks and g race fu linos of tho different subjects exhibited m. the J. hIiow frames; .vhen 'Bang!" went Lho report ot a pistul. This startled and alarmed all in tho gallery wait-ing-rooms, and Bearscly had the din created by the first report died away c when "Bang!" went another report. Frightened and trembling tho ladies and children hurried from tho place and into tho street, while Mr. Sdva and ly gentleman or two proceeded into nn adjoining apartment tn dis- 1 cover the causa lor the alarm. They " found it. On entering the doorway, 1 they stumbled over the prostrate form ' of a young employe of the establish- i ment, Kings ford by namo. Blood : was flowing from his head, and part) of his brains lay in the pool of blood ' upon the tluor. One look tu'ltl thai.;1 he was a corpse. In the same apart-1 ; ment, only partly dkided by ascieen-Hko ascieen-Hko partition and making a tort of ! darkroom, the body of .mother young man lay, also an mploye of Sdva's, and named Congdon. A small handful hand-ful of his brains li'.v in the crimson gene, along with the weapon oi death, still warm, cloo ly his siiiu. Your correspondent passing by shortly after the fatal firing, saw the bicken-, bicken-, ing sight and afterwards wished he had not, so appalling and horrible: wcte tho incidents of this ghastly double tragedy. The two men, it appeared, had worked for a number I of years for this Silva; had. always,! seemingly, been goal friends, and, aa the evidence taken at the inquest showed, show-ed, wore on apparent good terms, not having any words nor quarrel at all, :.t tho time ofthe shooting. Congdon, it was elicited at the inquest, had been the butt of a huge practical joke gotten up, perpetrated and carried too far by Kingsford; and it is supposed that the constant twitting he received j from Kingtd'ord, Added loan idea that he was being worked out of his situation gradually, wrought upon his: mind und produced "temporary I insanity." Kingst'i-rd and ungdoui were both in the prime of life; and it i in dreadful U) think ot them bring eo summarily sent to their account "with i all their imperfections on their ' heads." j People had scurn ly done talking they couldn't have done thinking --uf , the horror above, when JIOHHOIt Nl'MUMt TWO Transpired. Half a block hardly that from ttie scene of horror number num-ber one 1 This was a cool, deliheriily assassination, and t lie p.u licnlnrn dn-1 close tho fact that the munlererdid his 1 work willi a clear head and ste;u!y I hand. It was over a game of cards. I The munl?rer and hia victim, named ' respectively Hopkins and Kahev, had been playing poker, when, it is! iifserte.l, the a.s:L-v.in drew his revolver, placed it to the left temple of I'ahey, and fired. So sudden was' tho demonstration rnadc by Hopkins' that Fa hey wax laughing, thinking it' a joke to scare him, the while the I) ill j crashed through his skull. Irnmedi-nuly Irnmedi-nuly after the shooting the murderer fled, and for several hours it was' thought he had encased; but ycttcr-' day evening I learned he had been ' arrested, having been found in be I at' his mother's residence on Folsoni ! street. When arrested ho denied having been near tho saloon whe.ru the murder was perpetrated; but the bar-tender and ono or two others identified him and ho was chained i and locked up. Tho inquest find examination of witnesses will Like placo tj-morrow, when fuller and more reliable particulars will ho drawn out. But, really, such horrible nfi" irs as tho above have become so frequent oflate'licrc that their oceiirrenco is loor.ru upon very indiflcrently by tho peoplo generally. Tho news of a , murder, a suicide, or an accidental death, is received with total indiflor- j once and carelessness, "Where was it?" "when was it?" and "who was it?" aro the only questions nked, and those answered Unit s all there is . of it. As a general thing, I mean. But then there is a clnen, tho aensa-tion-lovers, that will seo anil hear the ) last of all tiie particulars in every easo, and will crowd tho court-rooms and swallow every iota of evidence from bo-ginning bo-ginning to end; but that elans is decidedly decid-edly small. The chief results aro 1 sensational articles fur tho newspa- pcrs; good subjects for imaginative reporters, and sales ut a few extra copies uf their papers. Thai's about r all. UKSKUALITIIM, Since Nielson, with whom nearly all tho theatre-goers weru "struck," left here, tho stock company have been "benefi ting," and this week John T. Raymond shows tho public, what is "Led Astray." Luigard, ho of the high-Houilning initials, is playing play-ing the Mime pieco, called "l.aTenta-tion," "l.aTenta-tion," at the Opera 1 fou;, with "limited" success. The bricklayers and hod-fellows, numbering over 400, aro at work on the. foundation of Shawm's new Palace Hotel, which will he one of the finest buildings of tho kind in the United States. The balmy Spring weather is enabling undertakers ol outdoor iniluslries to progress favorably. Frequent picnics, largely attended and hugely enjoyed, are being inaugurated, and the weather for "sieh" is all propitious. The jicv' City Hall is being gono on with, slowly; "largo bodies move," etc. Police Court, doing a lively business just, now willi drunks, jLssaullers and luilteryeiv, vulgor Ian-gunge Ian-gunge users, disturbers of the peace, petty lrrcoii)islJl and such like. .1. I'). 10. |