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Show I SLAYS TWO ID IB p. TIES 501 LIFE Arthur Hall Kills Brother, : Sister-in-Law and Self in San Francisco. MURDERER MERE YOUTH Family Quarrels Believed to Have Been the Cause of Triple Tragedy. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18. Artlwr Hall, known hero until today as Arthur Knablc, shot and killed his brother. I James J. Hall, In the lattor's downtown ' office, lato today, then wont to hlH vlc- , ' tlm's apartment, fifteen blocks away, , killed Mm. James J. Hall and commlt- 'I tod suicide". The tragedy brought the first j disclosure to friends of tho family hero I of the relationship of tho two men. Fam ily quarrels aro believed to have caused ; the shooting. Arthur Hall, who was 20 years old, (, was an employee of the St, Francis Im- portatlon company, a subsidiary concern i of the St. Francis hotel of this city. James J. Hall, 35 yaws old, was man- Iagor of tho company. Tho elder Hall was slain while telephoning to tho office of tho hotel. The conversation was Interrupted In-terrupted by the snap of tho receiver , on Hall's end. "Hair has nuns up," said tho hotel clerk to his assistant. Hall Found Dead. ' After a wait of a fow minutes a. boll J boy was sent to Hall's office, and found ' Hall dead on tho floor, a bullet wound ', near hJs heart, i Maud "Egan. a telephone operator, called Mrs, Hall on the telophono to tell j her of her husband's death. The girt J haltingly attempted to deliver her mes- . sage and failed, j "What has happened? Tell mo quick - ' ly." Mrs. Hall Insisted, but the operator closed the circuit, n Meanwhllo the slayer, with another crime In mind, was approaching the Hall apartments on a trolley car, having loft the company offices Immediately after ? shooting Hall. A few moments after the 1 I tolophonc conversation occupants of tho apartment house heard two revolver i , shots In Mrrf. Hall's rooms. Tragedy Completed, i They entered and found the- bodies of Mrs. Hall and her brother-in-law lying I' face downward on the floor of the Uvlng room. Mrs. Hall had been shot through the heart, and Hall through the head. No r'j outcry had been heard and there were ? no Indications of a struggle. Mrs. Hall was alono when the youth entered. It Is believed that tho Hall brothers Ij iunui:iicu meir reiauonsmp to aToia an- , e Acuities with tho hotel management ; which might have arlson on account of f the elder Hall giving employment to a member of his own family, Arthur Hall L had been employed by the Importation company about a year and a half, and : was carried on the books during the en tire time us Arthur Knable. While the quarrels between the brothers, broth-ers, said to have been, for tho most part, about trivial matters, frequcntlv caused comment among tho other ho'tel employees; em-ployees; tho nature of the disagreement which precipitated today's tragedy has . 1 not become .known. 1 ; Murderer Erratic. I Arthur Hull, who camo to San Fran cisco from Philadelphia six years ago. i was of melancholy and erratic tempera- l men I. his Idiosyncraolcs having been caused, It Is said, by a blow on the head about nine years ago. Friends of the J family believe this affliction suddcnlv , drove him mad and led him to dommit tho crimes In a lit of Insane anger. |