Show I I GIRt GIRL ESCAPED BWOL FURY Six Persons Slain by Insane In anel Carpenter Car enter in San Francisco Lodging House CAPTURE OF THE MANIAC KILLING OCCURRED IN THE J EARLY E MORNING San Francisco May 7 j At this morning Walter Chelly Davis a carpenter capenter in a fit it gf of insanity shot and killed six persons with whom he b resided on 41 Pierce street in fa this city The dead are Orson R Rush aged 57 his wife and their young youn son Mn W V S Beard a carpenter with relatives re in St Louis and Dener Denver M E Vinton a a surveyor recently from New York Mrs Mra Lillian O 0 Carothers an elderly woman who boarded in the house Davis and kits His victims all resided in inthe Inthe inthe the house which was conducted as aa a boarding house by the Bush family Davis home was in Farmersville near Visalla this state where he has a wife and six lx He has been working here as 88 a carpenter since the fire tire Used a Shotgun The shooting was done with a double shotgun Davis who slept in the same room with young oung Bush and Beard arose shortly after atter 5 C and after arming himself with the gun shot his two roommates and then visited each room in turn killing the occupants He fancied that the people in is the house had formed a plot to kill him and take his money The shots attract attracted ed the police pollee poU e and a rush was made upon Davis as he was w wad attempting to re reload reload load his weapon and nd he was overpower overpowered ed and taken to the detention ward of ot the hospital The Tl e bodies of ot his victims were taken the morgue One lodger in the house escaped She was a young girl of 17 Davis pointed the gun at her and was prepared to shoot when he said she resembled his daughter so he spared pared her life Two Women Killed After Af er killing Bush Ush and Beard the maniac took a n box of or shells from froma a shelf and walked down the hallway where he met Mrs rs Lillian D Carothers an elderly woman who had heard the first two shots and had como come to her doorway to find out what was the mat ter He shot her without hesitation and the remaining shell was used on Mrs rs Orson Bush who wh dazed by the shooting could not make her escape Orson Bush sr was a tallyman in inthe Inthe the th employ of the Dieckman Lumber company compa and had gotten up early in order to prepare his coffee before going to the mill He heard the shooting and rushed upstairs where he was met by the murderer still sUll unflustered d by his hl fearful tearful wo c The appearance of the th hallway would indicate that the th unfortunate unfortunate man had made a desperate fight for his life Ufe bat but the tle shot of the assassin was sure and went true to its mark nark mark Bushs body was found as it had fallen at the head of ot the stairs M 1 E Vinton a government surveyor who wIy had recently come from New NewYork York I was was killed as he lay in bed Girls Life Spared Pretty old Annie Am le Bush came staggering Into hito the hallway her long tresses hanging down her back She saw the dead bodies lying about the hallway in pools of blood She was dazed and hardly knowing wl re she went walked straight up to Davis his bloodstained still clutched tightly tig in his hands His eyes burned like those of a demon as he turned them upon the last member of o what was but yesterday u a happy family Davis pointed panted his gun and aimed it fairly at her head She stood staring mutely before her without speaking The madman faltered his hands trembled trembled trembled led and it was was evident that his nerve had failed him There was something in the appearance of o the white robed figure which spoke to the heart of ot the maddened carpenter he thought of ot his own daughter in his old home at Farm F Farm Farmersville rm Then the fair child spoke I Dont kill me she pleaded The shotgun dropped I from the nerveless hands of the mur murI mUrderer murderer derer I 1 cant do it he said Youre a good i girl Besides you look like my own awn child and I 1 would see het her face fac if Jf I killed you vou Policemen Reach the thc Scene Picking his gun Davis Dals walked down downto downto to the kitchen He wandered around the house evidently Considering his grim work when the turning of a key in the front door his He rushed forward prepared for tor any emergency Officer Fred J was walk walkIng walking Ing on Pierce street between Fell and Oak when he heard the sound of ot two shots He turned up Pierce street In Inthe Inthe the direction from which the reports came He hurried to the flat and as hE ht did so the occupant of the lower lat flat told him that some one had killed the entire family above He threw the th e policeman a key When hen opened the door lead leadIng leading Ing ng to the flat fiat at No he was met me meby t by the Infuriated Davis D ls who pointed his shotgun shogun full at the poi Leman s breast and arid told him that he too tog to d die The policeman made his escape e and alto met Policeman Thomas E Bolger Bolge r and amI the two made a second attempt to t capture Davis DaYis They were unsuccessful Unsuccessful ful and a a riot call was turned in Madman Captured Corporal Ferguson Fergus n and six sis officers rs re responded r to t the call with six patrolmen who crime in an automobile and J f Quigley a flagpole climber cUmber en engaged engaged Davis In conversation while Fer Ferguson Ferguson Ferguson guson and Policeman Lewis got behind b him and nd pl loI ed his arms behind him The murderer put up a terrific battle during which h Ferguson was was bitten on the hand but Davis was finally captured ed and removed to the detention hos vital When the ponce police got the Ut murderer to the detention hospital he was placed in ina Ina Ina a straight Jacket and put Into a acell cell He seemed to be dazed and had no re realization realization realization of what he had done and merely said that he had been worried Mrs Bush received a note last Sunday from Davis which gave gao a premonition of the tragedy this morning They were we re warred rarned that the man man might dp the them m rem harm This Is the note You have killed my sons and m my y nephews but you all of ot them the m yet You expected to kill me rue tonight Perhaps Ill kill kilt myself |