San Francisco County CA Archives Obituaries.....Williamson, Edmund August 26, 1900
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San Francisco Call, August 28, 1900
San Francisco Call, August 28, 1900 (Tuesday), Page 13, Column 4. 

"DIED.  WILLIAMSON - In this city [San Francisco], August 26, 1900, Edmund 
Williamson, son of James Williamson of Sea Lodge, Bantry [in County Cork], a 
native of Ireland." END

AND

San Francisco Call, August 27, 1900 (Monday), Page 10, Column 6. 

“AGED MAN DIES ON STREET FROM CAUSE UNKNOWN 

Mystery Surrounds Death at Midnight of Edmund Williamson. 

Taken Home in Feeble Condition, He Wanders Out Again and Is Found in State of 
Collapse. 

Edmund Williamson, an old printer, died under peculiar circumstances early this 
morning on California street and Pratt place, a small alley above Stockton 
street.
 
Williamson resided at 816 California street. At about 11 o'clock last night he 
went to his home and calling the landlady told her that he had fallen from a 
car and had received a few bruises. 

He claimed that his wounds had been dressed in Joy's drug store on Kearny and 
California streets. He showed her a wound over the eye and another on the head, 
both of which were covered with plaster. Williams then left the landlady and 
she thought that he was about to retire.
 
At about 12 o'clock two well dressed young men entered John Lackmann's grocery, 
at California street and Prospect place, and said that an old man who had told 
them he lived in the neighborhood was lying outside and was hurt.
 
Several people in the store went out to see the man, and the two young men were 
heard to remark, "We have brought him so far and have done enough. He is with 
friends now; let them look out for him." They then left the scene.

The man lay propped up against a garden fence and seemed to be breathing 
faintly. The Receiving Hospital was notified, but when the ambulance arrived 
the man was dead. 

Judging from remarks of the young men it is thought that Williamson left the 
house after interviewing the landlady and had started to go downtown. His wound 
was probably more serious than he at first supposed and he suddenly collapsed.

The body was removed to the Morgue. An autopsy will probably show that the fall 
from the car had resulted in a fracture of the skull. 

Williamson was about 55 [71] years of age.” END

AND

San Francisco Call, August 28, 1900 (Tuesday), Page 8, Column 3. 

“PRINTER WILLIAMSON JUMPED OFF THE CAR 

Struck on His Head on the Stone Pavement and Sustained Fracture of Skull. 

The autopsy made yesterday by Morgue Surgeon Leland upon the body of Edmund 
Williamson revealed the cause of death to be fracture of the skull, with the 
resulting cerebral hemorrhage.

F. E. Chapin, assistant superintendent of the California Street Railway 
Company, called at the Morgue yesterday and made a statement which tends to 
prove that Williamson was to blame for his own death. He was seated on the 
inside of the car, and when it passed Powell street Williamson walked to the 
back platform and got off while it was in motion in front of the Stanford 
mansion. He fell and struck on the back of his head. 

The car was stopped and the injured man taken on board and his wound examined 
by Dr. Lustig, who was one of the passengers. When the car arrived at the 
crossing of California and Kearny streets Williamson was taken into Joy's 
drugstore, where Dr. Lustig dressed several scalp wounds. The patient walked 
away from the drugstore, and was next seen near Sheriff Lackmann's grocery, on 
California street, between Stockton and Powell, in charge of two young men who 
had piloted him thither.” END


Additional Comments:
Note that there are three items transcribed here related to the death of Edmund 
Williamson.

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