Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-19
BLOODY DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
The Third Act---The Father Of Lizzie
lanes Shot Dead In the Street
by D. B. Kinds, Her AIleged.
Seducer.
o tho C~inelnnall EnquIrer.l

was seduced by Kinds under promise
of marriage. Her brother attempted
to kill Kinds last Christmas eve, and
both men were seriously wounded, but
both recovered. Since that time
Kinds has been keeping out of the
way of the Jameses, having been out
of the city for a part of the time.
The second act in the drama was
the terrible death a few weeks ago of
Miss James from puerperal fever, a
short time before she would have been
confined. This revived the scandal,
and Mr.. James threatened to kill his
daughters seducer. Kinds fed. but
returned to the city a short time ago,
and at noon to-day encountered James
accidentally on the street. James at
once drew a revolver and fred, Kinds
threw up his left arm, and the ball
struck it, and, glancing, penetrated his
mouth. Kinds quickly returned the
fire, and seven shots in all were ex-
changed. Mr.. James was mortally
wounded and died in a few minutes.
Kinds received two wounds. neither
fatal, and his brother Harry, a lad,
was wounded in the arm, and it is
thought loekjaw may result from the
injury. Intense excitement followed
the shooting, and threats of lynching
Kinds were made, but he was quickly
placed under arrest and no violence
was offered.
An eyewitness of the encounter
states that he observed Kinds stagger-
ing to his feet from a cellar. James
was standing near him, pointing a
heavy pistol at his head. AS Kinds
cleared his feet from the cellarway
and got upon the pavement he rapidly
drew a pistol and commenced firing on
James. The latter reeled back a lit
tie after the second shot from Kinds,
who, firing again, ran toward Balti-
more street. James pursued him
rapidly, and Harry Kinds, a boy
brother of Wood ran after the old
man and jumping upon his back,
threw him to the pavement. His PTS
toll fell from his hand as he fell, and
young Kinds, in attempting to kick it
away, struck the old man in the face
with his boot. Wood had then re-
turned, and the old man rising to his
feet, the firing recommended, until all
Of Kinds cartridges were discharged
and then the crowd surrounding pre-
vented James from firing again.
James was taken to the Office of Dir.
Murray. On the way there he gave
the pistol to Mr.. Gill. m~uttering. with
a feeble voice, that he would shoot no
more. His strength rapidly declined
and, when he was laid on the floor in
DIR. Murray's Office, the physician saw
at a glance that there were no hone
of recovery, and James expired a few
minutes after. There were three large
wounds on his forehead and a wound
in the back OF the head, from which,
it seemed, that at least n of tho
balls had gone through his brain. One
of the wounds was over the right
temple another one inch to the front,
and over the eye, while a third was on
his left eyebrow. There was also
blood on the grayiSh beard which
covered his neck, and he was also shot
in the neck. Mr.. James was clad in
his working clothes-blue shirt and
no coat-and had a basket, in which
he carried his meals to work. He
was an engineer on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
Kinds was interviewed in his cell.
He was found sitting near the door.
with his wounded arm m a sling. He
had his hat on, looked very pale and
was wiping the blood from his wound
with a handkerchief. In reply to a
question, he said that Shortly after
y o'clock | left my home, on Fayette
street, for the purpose of taking my
brother, who had been sick, to school.
When | reached the corner of Carroll
ton avenue | observed a crowd who
were looking at some men moving
furniture. After waiting a few min
utes l left, and was walking down to-
ward Baltimore street, when some.
thing prompted me to turn round,
and ! was startled to see Mr.. James
with a pistol pointed toward my head.
The old man looked savagely at me,
and, with the exclamation, I've got Won
now he commenced firing upon me.
After the first shot | staggered into
the cellarway by Hughes house. Mr..
James continued firing. l got up from
the cellarway as quick as | could,
and, drawing my pistol, began to fire
back. After firing a few shots | ran.
James pursued me, and, brother
Harry running after me, jumped on
his back and threw him down. | chen
returned, and the crowd surrounded
rs, and that's all | can say about it.
Whether | ever hit the old man | can
not say
What sort Of a pistol had you?n
"A good one, you may be sure.
They threatened to take my life, and
| did not care to go about with such a
little pea-shooter as / had before"
Kinds having thus unburdened
himself, asked Sergeant Seibold if he
could not have gone to his dinner, as
he felt very hungry then, as if wish.
ing 70 add something to his statement.
he said he regretted the whole trouble.
but that it was forced upon him. Miss
James, he said, about whom the trou-
bio originated, was smitten with him
and he could not return her love. II
all might have been explained at thC
beginning il the Jamcsos had only
approached him in the right way.
Tho most h%eart-rcnding spectacle o.
this tragic affair was seen at the house
Of Mrs. James, when she learned thai
her husband had fallen beneath the
hand of her daughters bctrayer. She
is critically i'll from the terrible shock.
aud her adopted daughter is dolirious
A gentleman hearing of the affair