Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-05-27
Fatal Result Of a Shooting Case.
DEATH CT SHEA. AND SURRENDER or STE
pEENsnN. w 10 VI Oi-NpEn HIN

DEATH OF SHEA. AND SURRENDER or STE
PEESsoN, WHO WOUNDED HIM.
II will he recoTIceted nv readers OF TIE
STAR that o. the night Of the I7th ius,-, Mr..
Cornelius shea. who kent grocery auI
liquor store at the corner Ct 81 and r. streets.
rad ~ alteration with a colored raan named
charles Stephenson. which resulted In Shea
receiving three shots from pistol nTed bv
Stephenson. one OF the wOunds-that in the
ahdOD en- caused the death Of Shea about
O'Clock Yesterday afternoon
This morning. sbout O'Clock. stephenson
made his appearance at police headq quarters,
aud Surrendered himself TO Detective NcEi-
fresh. He seemed To be somewhat taken
ahaek when informed that Shea had diel.
lie stated that the act was committed in
self defence. and ne was outside OF Shea :
store at the time; that he Immediately left
town after the occurrence. and walked TO
Alexandria. where he stopped at his half
sisters, and ON the following day he walked
about twenty-five miles down the conn-
try. where he obtained work as field
hand. He states that the more he thought of
the matter tie more he became satisfied that
he ought to stand an investigation, being
certain that what he had done was in self
defenSe. and yesterday. early he walked To
Alexandria; and, after stopping at ms half
sisters. wa'kri up here last night and gave
himself up. He il quite "a bright-looking, in
telligent man, abOut 2h years Old and Is a
member Of the colOreh Mason and odd Eel
lows tIaternitieS He has b. en- for some
time in The employ of II. j. steer. agent of
Wheeler < Wilson. and has mere tOIOTe borne
a gCCd Character. He was take, to the Po-
its Z Ntuit thlS tiltIliIiiS touiilltb II 10
jail.
THE INQUEST.
AZ noon To day an inquest was held at re
late residence of the deceaSe I, no.t Tn - 81
corner of Sd and l. streets, by the c0'r1ct.
Dr. Patterson. Dr. Hartigan, assiStei ny
DIR. 3. W. Began and others, made an an
tOT Sy.
TIE first witness was Mr. John DOueherty
who testified as to beirg with deceased on
the evening in question: they bad hon ont.
and returned to the store together; about 10
,gIa ont tn II nFl1 faal lpl q
ness, and while deceased was writing a re-
ceipt Stevenson came in and interfere,i. ask
ing who was going TO get the parties out of
the house Of witness. in which Stevenson
lived. Shea asked If he (StevensOh) was
renting the house, and receiving a negative
reply, shea said when he had business vii h
him he would transact il; heard Stevenson
tell Brown that he (B) would get the worSt
81 II; Brown said that he knew what he was
about; shea told Stevenson - TO keep his
d-n mouth out of this natter Stevenson
made some reply. and Shea ordered him out
Of The store, Stevenson went out. SDea going
10 the door with him. but don't know that
Shea showed him out; they then told Brown
10 come hack in half an hour, and h. an
Swored - All right" and went out. when he
met Stevenson, saw Stevenson shove Brown
away, and then he came iii the store again
ard asked for - ten cents worth of crackers
Shea refused to sell the crackers. telling hi m
10 go out and not come back until he sent
for him; Stevenson called on parties to wit
ness that Shea mad refused to sell to him:
veEsOn. but he followed him, going outside
the door; saw Shea on the platform: the
shooting took place outside, while witness
was in The store. but don't recOllect where
lie was when ne saw Shea shove, grab or
strike al some one; can't say whether il was
before the first shot or not; the shots were
quite rapid; was certain there were three
shots fired; thinks the first was directly after
seeing the motion of Shea; there were sew
CTal parties present-Mr. Gilbert. Mr.. Chi
chester aud others.
Henry Gilbert SwOrn.-WiJneSS was pres
ent at the time; between 10 and To- saw two
cOlored men come in and go to the desk, and
heard Shea say, Il order you out of my
house" The men did not go just then. and
Shea walked from behind the counter and
invited the party to step out OF his house,
takir 2 him by the arm, leading him To the
sidewalk and returning himself Imme-
diately after the party returned to the store
and asked for crackers. Mr.. Shea refused to
sell 10 him, and ordered him cut again, going
to the door with him. Witness remained
talking to Mrs. Shea, and the latter asked
witness To 80 to the door and call Con. -
(MT. Shea in. Witness was about to stem to
the door. when he saw "A flash and heard a
report, followed by two or three. more and
witness returned TO the rear part of the store
for shelter. Witness heard no quarreling
outside; did not look on what was said in
side as violent quarTeling; saw no weapon in
ShCa's hand.
The Inquest was in progress when our re-
Fort closed.