| Show HORRIBLE RESULTS OF A DRUNKEN SPREE about 5 last evening officers baker and park were informed that a murder was being committed in a house on broadway on the corner of an alley a few doors from the county jail they immediately proceeded to the spot and a most horrible sight met their eyes on the floor under of a bed lay jay the insensible form fori n cofone of one william grua grucky y weltering in in his gore his face so cut to pieces as to be wholly unrecognizable y his legs enclosed in an iron hoop which had been slipped over his feet and above his knees while sec secured tired in that position a most horrible assault was made upon him which had it been successful would ha have ve made death preferable to life near by was a woman named eliza manning alias leonard beastly drunk and standing lover vcr the inanimate body of grucky was one john B R pate also alpo beastly intoxicated and swearing Dg tha a fc he would have tile the life of his victim he was arrested and taken to the station house as well as the woman while the wounded mun man was co conveyed nvere d to the county hospital where his wounds were dres dressed sod it seems that all the parties were on a drunken spree and that while in a back room pate saw grucky in too familiar proximity to the woman when lie he rushed out and assaulted him pate isa is a scotchman and the woman is and has for some time been his mistress at the same time plying her vocation as a woman of the town she was this morning convicted of drunkenness and will be detained as a witness against pate who is charged with assault with a deadly weapon the wounded man is lying in a critical ca I 1 condition I 1 his head being gashed up and punched apparently with an ice pick or some sharp instrument in five or six different places but it is impossible to tell what will bethe be the result of his wounds as is liable to set in at any time mrs krs manning or leonard is the wife of a soldier who is now at benicia S f bulletin sept |
