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Show A MURDEROUS SOLDIER. suoow S..mTrr.-...c Without With-out 1'rovocatlon-San 1'rovocatlon-San Francisco, Sept. 14. - Rosser, a private of the Tennessee regt-SslatLed regt-SslatLed here, shot and instantly killed Henry Pfilderbrandt, a sales roan. last evening. Kosser, who was under the influence of liquor, wen Ithe market where nilderbrandt was working, and leaned up agarnst ome e- cases. Ferful of the efcg. broken, Hilderbrandt asked htm to be careful. "Say, are you going to .. o. ..nnrlnfl the soldier, wait, on Hie. , annoyed at the warning. Hilderbrandt turned to receive the order of the prospective pros-pective customer, and as he faced Ros-ser, Ros-ser, the soldier whipped out a 32-caU-Iter Smith & Wesson revolver and shot Hildbrandt in the breast. The wounded wound-ed man dropped to the floor and expired ex-pired immediately. Not at all appalled at the result of his act, Rosser shot again at his prostrate pros-trate victim, whose heart had just ceased to beat. The second shot al-' al-' most hit a butcher boy in the adjoining adjoin-ing stall, who was badly frightened but unhurt. Rosser was at once taken to the city prison and locked up, on the charge of murder. It is said that he comes of a good family in the east. His conduct since he joined the volunteers, however, how-ever, has been far from exemplary. Hilderbrandt, the murdered man, was 28 years old, a married man and the father of one child. |