John P. Barrett
Oakland Tribune, October 28, 1907
JOHN P. BARRETT DIES SUDDENLY
Billiant Newspaper Is Striken by Apoplexy and Passes Away.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 28. John P. Barrett, news editor of the San Francisco Examiner, and one of the widest known and most capable of newspapermen in the United States, died suddenly shortly after 1 o'clock today.
He was deized with a stroke of apoplexy at Van Ness Avenue and Eddy street. He was taken to his home on Fell street in an automobile and three physicians were summond.
Their efforts were unavailalb.e
A widow and little daughter survive him.
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