LIQUOR DID IT by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1880

LIQUOR DID IT.

By Editor

Not long since there appeared in the SIGNS an article headed, "Who Killed that Man?" This question may be put to thousands of untimely deaths occurring in our land, and as invariably be answered, "Liquor Did It."

A most heart-rending affair happened adjoining our city a few weeks since. A young lady and her sister of twelve years were out walking, when partly concealed by some bushes they were espied by a man, who, under the influence of liquor, imagined he saw a wildcat and fired, both were shot. The elder was seriously wounded and the younger fatally.

Another distressing occurrence is that of the death of a lady on Second street, the 3d inst. In going across the street for some bread she was struck by a shot fired in a saloon, where the keeper and customer were firing at each other. She was instantly killed.