Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-07-02
[Condensed from The Baltimore Sun Report. ]
Shooting ARRAY at St. Clair Hotel,
Baltimore.


Wednesday afternoon, at 81 O'Clock, there
was great excitement at the St. Clair Ho;el,
Monument Square, occasioned by the shooting
and attempt to kill Col j. Lyle Clarke OF
Baltimore, by two brothers, II. W. Brewer
and j. n. Brewer, Of Georgetown, d. G. The
shooting took place i'll the large dining hall in
The rear OF the Office, where Col. Clarke,
boarder Of the house. Was taking dinner.
The Brewer brothers, who young men,
aged about twenty five and twenty eight years
are not registered al The hotel, aud were not
stopping there. They camel into the hotel and
inquired oi the clerk where Col. Clarke was,
and Immediately walked back 20 the dim
ing-rootn. Looking around the apartment
| they saw the object OF their search and
went towards him directly from the en-
trance. 1t is alleged That II. W. Brew
er, " no was in advance OF his brother STEP
ped up 10 W where Clarke was sitting, and say ing
something about wrong done 10 his Brew
er's) sister, drew IA large-slzed Colts revolver,
seven barrels, and fired shot, striking Clarke
in the right side of the neck grazing the caro-
It'd artery and passing through the mouth.
Clarke Immediately Jumped up, and found j.
N Brewer, the other brother, confronting him
with Smith II Wessoa FIVE barrel revolver,
which he took away from him after some
struggling. The brother who fired the shot
was surrounded by employees ofthe house and
Others and also disarmed. In the struggle
with him, however, the revolver in his hand
was again discharged, but no one was injured
by the shot The whole affair occupied only
few minutes.
Deputy Sheriff Tate who was near at hand
and heard of the occurrence, went into the
hotel and arrested II, w. Brewer, who had
fired the shots. Major Harry Gilmor, police
commissioner, who was in the clerk S office of
the Criminal Court, opposite the dining-room,
head the shots and went over simultaneously
and arrested j. N. Brewer They were both
taken TO the middle station-house. On the
way II. w. Brewer remarked to the officer
who had him in charge that Clarke had seduc-
ed his sister, and that was the cause of the
shooting. Both ;he young men OF good
appearance, the one who did the shooting BE-
ing the larger, and nearly six feet tall The
younger brother, j. N. Brewer, is about FIVE
feet six inches high. Neither OF them seemed
TO regret the occurrence.
AT five o clock the accused bad hea ring
before Justice Hagerty. Three witnesses
were examined. The prisoners were taken to
Jail.
Col. j. Lyle Clarke is a native of Glouces-
ter county, Va, and is about forty years of
age. He came to Baltimore as a boy, and has
been all his life in mercantile pursuits. Be-
fore the war he was well known as the com
mander of the Independent Greys, at that
time the crack military organization of Balti-
more. He went South, and rose TO the rank
Of lieutenant colonel in the Confederate SER
vice, seth battalion Virginia infantry. He
limps now from injuries received in the
Confederate army. Since the war he has been
engaged as a commercial traveller for Chas. II.
Myers. 4 Bro. wholesale liquor dealers, Ex-
chage Place.
Colonel Clarke, in statement, emphatically
denied that the young Brewers had any cause
10 shoe, him for the alleged seduction of their
sister. He said he knew the family in George
town, but was not guilty Of the otense i'm
puted TO him by the young men.
Attorney General Pierrepont has given an
important opinion to the Secretary Of State
involving a very nice point Of International
law. A German who had become naturaiZed
in the United States in 1854 had a son born to
him in the following year Four years after
wards the family returned to Germany and
became domciled in Wiesbaden, where they
have since all continuously resided. Nassau,
in which Wiesbaden is situated, became incor-
norated into the North German confederation
in 1866. The son is now twenty years of age,
and the German government has called upon
him to report for military duty, whereupon
the father iuvokes the intervention of the
United States legation al Berlin on the ground
that his son is a native born American. The
father however, on being questioned, refused
10 say Whether IL was MS intention 10 return
to America. Attorney General Pierrepont
dicides that il is evident that the son has two
nationa!ilies, being subject during minority
to bis father, who practically renews his
tionality in Germany, but as be is a native
born American of naiuralize6 American
parents, he may, if he so elect, assume the
duties ofan American citizen when he reaches
the age of twenty-one. In the meantime the
act of bis parents has rendered him subject
during his minority to the laws of Germany,
and he cannot righIfnlly invoke the aid of the
government of the United States 10 relieve
him from military duty during mis- minority
Charlie Ross was stolen yesterday, one year
ago