Show GIBLIN USES GUN FREELY man who charfles Char fled negroes with murder of trie to kill someone himself kan franciaco Franc laco july C adward 0 who adoro to tho complaint against james II 11 smith and arthur charging them with tho murder of anthony owen oal lasher on saturday night last and who testified at tho coroners inquest into tho death of gallaghar that union men never carried and that he himself had never done so user one quite freely yesterday at the corner of polk and post streets in bis effort to murder a man the scene of tho shooting Is only a short block from the Excel elor tables where tho were employed and a stone can easily bo thrown from that to tho one where the shooting of gallaghar occurred giblin was crazy drunk it la due to that alone that ho did not kill or seriously hurt any one lie tried hard enough firing live shot at the who waa hia target but all the bullets flew wide of the mark three of them burrowed deep into the building at 1101 post street directly across the street trod where giblan stood with the gun one bit the front doorpost and tell to the stoop another lodged in one of the steps of the stoop and the third made a large hole under one of the side windows of the house where tho other two went has not yet been discovered giblan had been around in front of the excelsior stables during the morning and filling up with bad liquor at a neighboring polk street saloon he was primed for trouble at 8 and in an ugly mood There are several stories of how the shooting came to take place but the one which seems to be the correct version concerns the appearance at polk and geary streets of an italian peddler who was driving his wagon leisurely along acary street with DO thought of trouble when giblan objected loudly to the way in which he was driving and walking out inta the roadway seized the bridle of the horse tho vender tried to make the intoxicated stableman let gabut he bung on until a piano express wagon came along and the dismounted and forced giblan to let go his hold gib lid then went into a grocery store at the corner of geary and polk streets where he Is said to have got the gun out of a drawer although the grocery man afterward denied that the had turned into polk street and he walked along polk street until he got to the southeast corner ot polk and post streets and caught up with the who had stopped for a moment to water his horse standing behind a house on that comer so that he was screened from the view of passersby on post street he fired five time in rapid succession then he turned around and ran down polk street to cedar avenue where carpenter williams have a grocery store with a saloon adjoining he walked into the grocery store and back to the rear of the saloon where there la a small closet he threw the gun into a basin in the closet and 16 was afterward recovered by the poi po i lice and turned over to to be used as evidence |