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Show MAID SHOOTS PROMINENT 'FRISCO HAH Victim LiKely to Recover; Tragedy Follows Salt . in Court. PAN FRANCISCO. Cel.. '"! The rr.rnlnlon 'if C Krederlrk Kohl, prominent promi-nent npitalil and clubman, who waa Khot mu4 rtunaTtntiilv tiDld yeeieroar hv oVia Verse. a Krn h maid formerly in the e.nplov ..f Mr. K-hl. ' IroprovrM ihle momma A'trornlnn to ma plirilrian. Kohl re'id eny lt n'lint arid it ie iliouslil he mav recover. ro effort haa heeri roarte to locate or eTtra'-t th- tnillei llKd In hie hreant. bin an X-rav examlnatloo will be inane I.Klay Atele Vera t'enl the niaht at the elty prleon In liitolierenl pravera tor the re-toverv re-toverv ni her vlniin. Hve'erlral iM un-iierveil un-iierveil ah woiilrt nnlv av in reply to ' queetione tl.it alte rli.t not know why aha ehot Kohl and did noi want him to die Fhe declared he had bonaM the platol from whlrli the ehot waa llre.1 many montha ao a proi. lion agalnat l he d"tertivea nbe eava Kohl and Frank Miller hired to pereei-iiie her. Kohl Widely Known. aaa wu knoiia,. Ihrjuf h";il ern i-lliea bet aufte 1 his flnini lal .Coir n.t(.n. anil i b 1 effHiatlona. Htn flret wife waa Misa Kdlth Dim lap of Philadelphia. wto waa married la him in J. and who died n Nw York fol-lfwina fol-lfwina an operation for appandlcliia in Th shooting occurred in the corridor f the Grant bull. Una. In which Ihe a'lperlor couria are housed and where Mr. Kohl had arne as a wltneaa In The eult whlrh led to the tragedy a an outgrowth of an Incident at tha hrttel In Rlvtralde. where Mtaa Vere iiarreld with a chauffeur and waa dla-charaad dla-charaad from Mrs. Kohl's aervtfe aa a result. Mlaa Varae alleaed In her complaint com-plaint that Mr. Kohl and Mr. Miller had prevantM her from obtaining employment. employ-ment. The rae aaainat Mr. Kohl waa Boa -suited veiiier'lav, and t-dav he went to the auperktr cwirt aa a wUneae In the case aralnal Mr. Miller. Wound Near tha Heart. Miss Verge waa also present. After the court proceadlnga she tfearended to the mam entranra and when Mr. Kohl emerged from the elevator drew a revolver re-volver which ehe had held concealed In the folds of her skirt, and tired one ehot. The bullet entered juat below the heart and the aureona at the intnl emergency emer-gency hoapttai, where the wounded man was taken, said tliat his condition waa r critical. A bystaader eelse Misa Verve and turned her over to the poll-a. (the waa In a highly hysterical condition and un-ahe un-ahe to make a coherent statement. Mr. Kohl la one of the rtrheet men In Pan Francisco and he and tile wife are a'actelly vary prominent- He la a member mem-ber of tlie New Vork Yaht club, the .Metropolitan club of Washington, D. C. the Kl'-hnmnd Cwinlf. Town and Country club of Philadelphia and other prominent rluha on the Pat-iric const. He is the son of JJra. WIMlam C. Kohl, a wealthy woman, wom-an, and his wire waa Viae Elisabeth Ondoy of Washington. D. C. The elder Mrs. Kohl la now tn Atlantic Atlan-tic Cttv, where she went fmm New York after attending the Gould-Graham wedding. wed-ding. . roTfiveg rVomaa for Act. ' On the r pirating table Mr. KehT re-tamnd re-tamnd t-narioutnas and said be freely f raae the woman for her act. "She Is irwy, poor thing, he said, "and I feared ahe might do something denigrate." During the hearing of the woman 'a complaint .aarnal Mr. Kuht and Mr. Millar. Mil-lar. Junta .raford. who heard the caae, efcBrsa(J hlmeif aa sat tuned that Miss Vats waa suffering from a form of mama, which lfd her to believe that ev-rvon ev-rvon aha inH was talking about her and rtfmi.uwtt the suit ao far aa Mr. Kohl waa concerned. One of the chargee aaairiMt Miliar, I hat of Illegal arrest, wae oruretf tried ayid the Jury reported a dis-augment dis-augment m Thia as Juat before the !ooting. Miller said oa the stand that he hud been ld to ak tho arreat of M las Verge thrmiah proteets of other gueMta at the hotel, aa ahe had given Indication of an u t isou nd m i nd . T he rijarte on which ehe was arrated was inaanity. but the hinacy commission w huh beard tbe caae diemlaeed the charae. alias Venre eecured several poaition a after that and during the trial of her eult aaainat. Miller insist ad to the court that alanderoua etatemerit about her by detect I vee emntoyad by the defendaoia had cauaed tier diamlaaal each time. rOKMX< OFPHXLAZ)EL?HIA. FHILADKLPH1A. June t. C FredeHrk , Kohl, the Kan Kranclao millionaire, who waa shot by a Krench matd yeaterdav, rided In thia city (or several yaara, hia flrat wife being a IMiMadelphfan. Mr. Kohl hae many frtende here and the at-trlt at-trlt on him caused them deep sorrow. They earned thst hia mother, who came east to attend the Gould -Graham wwd-ftlng. wwd-ftlng. was sojourning In Atlantic City and they immediately got Into communl-ration communl-ration with her and arranged for her journey back to the coast |