p. 16 (428) | Nine Shot

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 11, 1906

Nine Shot.

A report having been published in an Indiana paper to the effect that a woman had been shot by a soldier in San Francisco because she insisted on building a fire in the park; the editor of Messiah’s Advocate called the attention of General Greely to the matter. That officer replied that there was no truth in the story, adding the following statement: “But nine people were shot during the earthquake and fire period. Of these, two were by the National Guard, two by citizens, the Denicke case which was a complication between marines and a citizen, and the sixth by a police officer, of a looter. As to the death of the three others, nothing is known definitely, but they were not in the localities covered by the regular army. They were all men; no woman was shot, and no man was shot in the park.”