New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-17
A White Man aud . C0lOred Boy Fatally
Shot.


Shot.
AS the Democratic procession was passing
Gay street Oh Thursday night, the sidewalks
| and children, and Just as the Seventeenth
Ward were in front of the Republican head
quarters, some one on the sidewalk shouted
Hurrah for Grant" A shout was at once
raised, $50 for the crowd and clean them
out" This was followed by commotion
| and scuffle, during which pistol shot was
fired. 1t appears that Mr.. Samuel Barrett,
until lately a letter-carrier in the Baltimore
| post office, and at present employed in the
United States Public Stores, was standing at
the edge of the pavement, a quiet spectator,
and on the cry from those in the procession
to rally, man wearing a red shirt left the
ranks and rushing up to Barrett, discharged
the contents of his pistol into his abdomen,
inficting mortal wound. The man imme-
diately resumed his place in the ranks, and
the procession moved on, scarcely any one
in the throng knowing that man had been
hurt. Mr.. Barrett at once entered the public
house of Mr.. Henry Irving and sat down.
He was observed to look pale, and some re-
marked that he was hurt. Drs. Morgan and
Yeates were at once called in, and on ex-
aiming the wound pronounced it mortal.
The family of Mr.. Barrett was sent for, and
at O'Clock this morning his sisters were
with him soothing his dying moments. Mr..
Barrett is brother of Major Gregory Bar
rett of the United States army, now sta
toned in Texas. He served in the LIST Mary
| land regiment during the war, and rose from
| the ranks to the position of captain.
policeman Charles Rhinehardt attempted
| to arrest the man who fired the shot, and in
doing so was struck violent blow with an
AK on the side Of the head by Patrick Clark
who was at once taken into custody by PO'
liceman McNeal. Rhinehardt was compelled
to leave 60 his prisoner, having received a
wound on the head, cutting his car very
seriously.
"Captain Barrett resides in the western
section of the city, and has wife and three
children. Mrs. Barrett is confined to hel
bedroom by sickness, and, of course, is still
| ignorant of her severe loss. At O'Clock
this morning number OF the most eminen
physicians of the city were at the side of The
dying man. His sisters and a minister of thu
Gospel were also present at the distressing
| scene.
"While the procession was passing alOn:
Aisquith street, when at the head of Doug
las street, party of colOred men cheered TO
Grant, when an excitement ensued, durin.
which a pistol was fired, the ball strikin!
George w. Barrett, a cOlored boy about fit
teen years OF age, IN the 1Ofencad, lnnlCtln,
a wound which at midnight was feared woul'
prove fatal. DIR. Ditienderfier is attendin:
him. Charles Brown, Station Lively, ThOma
White, and Samuel Perry, all colored, wer
arrested and arc held at the Middle Station,
awaiting an examination in connection wit
this last case of shooting.
"The police made number Of arrests q
parties behaving disorderly along the rout
of procession, several of whom are charge
with having either drawn or displayed pts
tolls. 1t is a remarkable circumstance tina
the colored boy shot as above stated shoul
bear the same name as that of the white vic
tim of lawlessness, ..
AS far as can be learned the facts of tn
shooting of the colorcd boy arc as follows
= About . O'Clock, as the Second Ward wa
passing the corner of Aisquith and Dougla
, streets, where large crowd of cOlOred pei
sons were congregated, some one hoOted 6
, the procession. The men in the ranks mad
: rush for the colorcd people, when pisto
were drawn and some fifty shots fired and
, number of bricks thrown. 1t was at this Jun,
ture that the innocent cOlorcd boy, Geore
w. Barrett, received the wound that wi
probably prove fatal. During the affra
, policeman Jshn Powers was struck on ii
: head with brick, receiving serious wOun,
! DR.. Ford, corner of Fayette and Aisquit
y streets, dressed his wounds, which are of
painful but not serious character"