Buttgenbach, Hugo Andrew

Buttgenbach, Hugo Andrew

Male 1879 - 1946  (66 years)

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  • Name Buttgenbach, Hugo Andrew  [1
    Born 22 Sep 1879  San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Residence 9 Mar 1904  San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Died 13 Jan 1946  San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried El Dorado Cemetery, El Dorado, El Dorado County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I30193  Sackett
    Last Modified 3 Jan 2020 

    Father Buttengenbach, Joseph,   b. Mar 1853, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Mar 1904, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Mother Weber, Wilhelmine,   b. 21 Jun 1855, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 May 1937, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Children
     1. Buttgenbach, Hugo Andrew,   b. 22 Sep 1879, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jan 1946, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     
    Family ID F22030  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sackett, Edith J.,   b. 24 Jun 1885, El Dorado County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jun 1969, Placerville, El Dorado County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Last Modified 18 Jan 2009 
    Family ID F10617  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 22 Sep 1879 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 9 Mar 1904 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 13 Jan 1946 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - El Dorado Cemetery, El Dorado, El Dorado County, California, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 3), 2 Jan 2020.
      Memorial ID 81168526
      https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81168526

      Hugo Andrew Buttgenbach
      Birth 22 Sep 1879
      San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
      Death 13 Jan 1946 (aged 66)
      San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
      Burial
      El Dorado Public Cemetery
      El Dorado, El Dorado County, California, USA
      Plot sec 2 row 4 plot 24

      Researched by Ted Smith

    2. [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 3), 2 Jan 2020.
      Memorial ID 81168526
      https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81168526

      Hugo Andrew Buttgenbach
      Birth 22 Sep 1879
      San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
      Death 13 Jan 1946 (aged 66)
      San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
      Burial
      El Dorado Public Cemetery
      El Dorado, El Dorado County, California, USA
      Plot sec 2 row 4 plot 24

      Father: Joseph Buttgenbach
      Mother: Wilemina (Weber) Bettgenbach

      Researched by Ted Smith

    3. [S1619] Newspapers.com (Reliability: 3), 2 Jan 2020.
      San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California), 6 Mar 1904, Page 33

      SHOT BY THUGS AFTER HIS CASH

      Joseph Buttgenbach, a Pork Packer at Fourth and Shipley Streets, Fatally Wounded by Unknown Robbers

      DEFENDING his receipts of the day, Joseph Buttgenbach, a pork-packer and butcher was fatally shot last night by unknown robbers inside the office of his store at 340 Fourth Street. The shooting took place at 10:10 o'clock. The noise attracted officers of the Southern Police Station, in the same block, and the injured man was taken to the Central Emergency Hospital where it was found that the bullet had penetrated the brain with fatal destruction of tissue. A son, Albert Buttgenbach, who was present at the time, and the bookkeeper, Louis Brune, are detained by the police. Detectives Freel and Bunner, detailed on the case, give it as their opinion that the murder was dona by two thugs in search of plunder.

      The scene of the murder was in the small office of the large butchering establishment conducted by Buttgenbach at the corner of Fourth street and Shipley, the latter street being merely a dark alley along the wall of the store. The front of the store is open and is barred at night by gratings through which the entire store, including the glass-partitioned office is visible.

      After closing up shortly before 10 o'clock, Buttgenbach went into the rear part of this office to make up the day's cash with the bookkeeper. While the counting was going on the son, Albert, started out the side door opening into Shipley street, immediately beside the office.

      An instant later he ran back into the office crying "A hold-up!" and went on through and out by another door into the engine room.

      On hearing his son's cry Buttgenbach rushed to close the other door of the office against the unknown intruder. As he did so the bookkeeper followed the son into safety

      FIRED THROUGH PARTITION.

      From the appearance of the broken furniture, it is clear that Buttgenbach, on trying to shut the front door of the office, met one of the thugs. There was a moment's struggle, and then a second robber, fearing for his companion, fired a bullet through the glass partition into the proprietor's brain.

      Both men then ran away, leaving their victim to block with his body approach to the coin spread on the rear desk.

      In the mean time, the son and bookkeeper haying no egress from the store except by the door at which the robbers were, ran through the engine room and store room into a toilet divided by a wooden partition from the adjacent grocery store at 346 Fourth street, conducted by Henry Heide. Through this wall they fought their way with tooth and nail, and came but into the arms of Corporal Greene and a squad of police from the Southern Station, responding to the alarm raised by the shot.

      Heide himself, on hearing the shot, ran out into the street and asserts that he saw two men dart across and down Fourth street toward Folsom. Policeman F. H. Draper who heard the shot while standing at the comer of Fourth and Folsom, ran up to the front of the store. He says he saw no men running on Fourth.

      The stories of Albert Buttgenbach and Louis Brune, the bookkeeper, who were the only two witnesses to the beginning of the fray agree on every detail.

      The son's story is as follows:

      "I had just closed down the engine and got ready to go home. I passed through the office and into the rear of the store to the side door which was right by the office.

      SON MEETS THUGS.

      "As I opened the door and stepped out two men were right In front of men (sic). "Turn around, kid!" ordered one. I turned around and ran into the store and into the office yelling to my father, 'It's a atand-up!'

      "I then went on to see if I couldn't get help. The bookkeeper followed me and we broke through the partition dividing our toilet-room from Heide's grocery. Here I found the place full of police."

      Brune the bookkeeper says that at Albert's warning cry the father left the cash and turned to defend the door.

      "I saw him lunge against the door which ha a glass panel and that's all I saw before I ran to help the son break through into the grocery to get help. There was no other way.

      "The safe was open at the time and about $70 in cash piled up on the desk. I saw no robbers, but I heard them."

      Both Albert Buttgenbach and Brune deny hearing any shot, showing that the struggle must at least have lasted long enough to allow them to get to work on the partition.

      The glass in the office door also is broken, evidently by a blow from the outside evidencing a vicious attempt on the part of the robber to reach the cash.

      Officer Draper states that he ran half a block after hearing the shot and as he came up to the store heard then the crash of the glass. This, if it was not the crash of the partition that the officer heard, would indicate that it was after the shooting that the robbers finding the door held by the body, tried to still force an entrance.

      Oh the toher (sic) hand the murdered man's right hand was badly lacerated, apparently by glass.

      NATURE OF WOUNDS.

      At the Central Emergency Hospital Dr. Miller, the surgeon in charge, found that the bullet had entered the vortex of the skull and ranged downward, the brain oozing out of the wound.

      The bullet hole in the glass partition show that the revolver was held only elbow high and the murdered man's hat shows the bullet hole very near the crown, the inference being that Buttgenbach had been then driven to his knees with his right hand to the broken door. This would also account for the lacerations on the hand.

      The murdered man leaves a large family resident at 314 Steiner street. His eldest son, Hugo, was associated with him in the business and lives at 28 Silver street. Another son is a Second Lieutenant in the Philippines. There are several small children left with the bereaved wife.

      Mr Buttgenbach was a prosperous and highly respected citizen, having built up by his own efforts one of the largest pork-packing businesses in the city. From business acquaintances on all sides were heard regrets that the robbers, who have piled their trade so freely of late, should have caused the death of so valuable a member of the community.

      The dectives (sic) detailed on the case, Freel and Bunner, give it as their opinion that the murder was the work of two young men, determined at all hazards, to achieve their object, They have but a meager description to work on afforded by the stories of the son and of the foreman.

      At a late hour this morning it was stated at the hospital that Buttgenbach was rapidly sinking and would live but a short time.

      Transcribed by Ted Smith


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