Show BEAT AMAN TO DEATH seattle wash dec ac imagining his room a ship and himself second mate peter hansan a longshoreman boat A gray another longshoreman about the head and body christmas night causing the death choit ly before noon today the men were rooming in a lodging house conducted by R H cross at 61 west battery street and spent the greater part of christmas day drinking on several in the pic senco of cros ivansen struck gray about the face and head giving him orders common aboard ship and otherwise acting as it he were a superior officer when the men late monday night gray was then in bad shape the next morning gray was found nearly dead and was taken to the emergency hospital and died short ly after noon |