San Mateo County CA Archives Obituaries.....Monsarrat, Melville Kauluhinono October 24, 1903
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San Francisco Call, October 25, 1903 
“COMRADE'S GUN ENDS HIS LIFE 

Belmont Student Accidentally Killed by a Friend. 

Duck-Hunting Expedition on Marshes Has Tragic End. 

Special Dispatch to The Call. 

SAN MATEO. Oct. 24.— While out duck shooting on the bay marshes this morning 
Melville Monserat [Monsarrat], a student of Reid's Belmont School, was 
accidentally shot by E. E. Richter, another student, and died from the effects 
of the wound six hours later. 

The two young men, accompanied by Ward Wells of Honolulu, also a Belmont 
student, were just finishing their morning's sport on the bay and were removing 
the shells from their guns when the accident occurred. Richter still sat in the 
boat, from which the others had alighted. The craft imperceptibly swung around 
and at the moment of discharge his gun was covering Monserat. The full load of 
duckshot penetrated the left thigh of the young man, fracturing the femur and 
fearfuly [sic] lacerating the flesh. 

The students were remote from any habitation and a high tide was running, so 
that Richter and Wells had great difficulty in getting their wounded companion 
inland where assistance could be obtained. After binding up his leg as well as 
they could they carried him by boat and in their arms until a wagon was 
secured, in which he was conveyed to Gardner's Sanitarium at Belmont. 
Three doctors, Bardner and McClanahan of Belmont and Norris of San Mateo, did 
all that medical science could do for the patient's relief, but three hours had 
already elapsed since the accident, which occurred at 9 o'clock. Amputation was 
necessary and the limb was removed, but the loss of blood, the shock and the 
unavoidable delay had been so great that it was impossible for him to rally, 
and he died at 3 o'clock, two hours after the operation. 

Young Monserat was the only son of Julian Monserat, a prominent planter of 
Honolulu, and a nephew of Samuel Monserat, superintendent of a telephone 
company in San Francisco. He was 17 years old and in the lowest class of the 
upper school at Belmont, this being his first year there. He was prominent in 
the local sports and was the fullback on the third football team of the school.

Young Richter is a son of Dr. Erwin Richter of Belmont, and Mr. Reid states 
that the father and son are utterly crushed over the unfortunate accident. He 
also stated that the boys were trying to carry out his standing instructions, 
which are that they shall not enter or leave a boat with shells in their guns 
while hunting. But for the untimely swinging around of the boat while Richter 
was relieving his shell no accident would have occurred.” END


Additional Comments:
San Francisco Call, October 25, 1903 (Sunday), Page 26, Column 1. Melville's 
mother was Clarissa Amoy (Coney) Monsarrat.

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