The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-07
Probably FataI shootina.

About O'Clock this morning a row ocs
CURED In the Fleetwood Saloon,, kept
by 81. Collins, 1876 Westsixth street, in
which Captain Vim. A. Steele, who lives
with his family at 1875 Canal street, was
shot in the neck and dangerously il not
fatally wounded by pistol shot fred
by Henry A. Kelseh, barkeeper for r.
Il. Deters, saloonist on the northeast
corner of Court and Central avenue.
At the time of the shooting, according
to the statement of Nj. Collins, Captain
Steele, who by the way was q soldier In
the Tenth OHIO Infantry during the war,
and who has been crippled in his legs
for the last five years, and q party OF
friends, including Pat. Harrison, sa-
loonist Of Sixth street, were drinking at
the bar, when Kelseh came In very much
under the influence OF liquor.
He stepped up to the party and en-
davored to strike up a, conversation, a
proceeding which was violently objected
to by Captain Steele. Kelseh took UNI
bragg at his cavalier treatment, and
Cincinnati. One word brought on
another, and finally Kelseh left the sa-
loon and passed out OH the street.
Presently he came back, and had not
been in the saloon more than a minute
when he pulled his revolver and fred
two shots, one of which took effect In
Steeps neck and made wound from
which it is feared he will die.
After the last shot was fired Pat. Har-
rison jumped toward Kelseh and struck
him with Captain Steele's cane, which
had fallen from his hand, over the head
and staggered him. THE cane, hand
some gold-headed affair, was presented
to him by Tom Burns on the 26th Of last
March, as the inscription shows. It was
broken into many pieces by the blow.
Soon after, Market-house Officer Finn
arrived and took Kelseh to the Ninth
street Station-house. The above is Coll
ins' statement.
A STAR reporter called upon Keleeh
and talked to him in his cell this NOR
ming, where he found him coolly smoking
cigar. His statement differs materi-
ally from that Of Collins. He states that
he left his place Of business at 10 O'clock
Hast night and rambled around the city
until early this morning, when he went
into the Fleetwood Saloon, where, at the
time of his entrance, Capt. Steele was
talking loudly and gesticulating with
his hands.
That he treated the crowd, and then
tu6 luob WALL nluA SNnILn6uCGtt3 dlN tuhb
some one, he didn't say who, struck him
with beer glass. He acknowledges I'd
have been pretty drunk. After the first
blow he received, and while he was
calmly drinking, he was again struck,
and he has cut to show for it on the
| left side of his head, from which his
| shirt bosom has been all besmeared.
| His claim is that the shooting was
done in self defense, and that he did not
fire until he had been twice assaulted by
| Steele's party. A call upon Mr.. It. H.
Deters by our reporter elected the fact
that Kelseh, who, by the way, is but
twenty-five years of age and unmarried,
has an excellent. reputation for peace.
| fulness. The case Of Kelseh has been
continued by Judge Lindemann until
tomorrow morning, when the CONTRA
dictory statements already made Will
be analyzed.
The wounded man is surrounded by
his weeping family, and the physicians in
attendance are doing all that is possible
for him, but from the fact that all visit
ors are excluded from his room, and that
the wound is in very dangerous place,
small hopes of his recovery are enter
tanned. Steele is a young man, compar-
atively, not over thirty-six.