The State - News from Nov. 3, 1988

An off-duty prison guard accidentally dropped his loaded gun at a Halloween night party, killing another guest on a tour boat on San Francisco Bay, authorities said. “It was tragic, just tragic,” Berkeley Police Inspector Jim Gaebe said. Eugene Nash, 52, owner of NASH-ional Office Furniture in Oakland, was killed while picking up a stack of life preservers that had fallen onto the deck of a Blue and Gold charter tour boat. “One minute, everybody was dancing around and having a good time,” Gaebe said. “The next, bang. It sounds like a balloon is popping and a man clutches his chest and is lying on the ground.” Felton Clark, 33, an off-duty San Quentin prison sergeant, dropped the .38-caliber pistol when choppy waters jolted the triple-decker tour boat.