The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-23
Richmond gispatth.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. %. 1882.
an EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT UPoN Y0UN
NAN mr. MS INTIMATE PERSONAL FRIEND.

AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT UPoN YOUNG
NAM BY MS INTIMATE PERSONAL FRIEND.
About a month ago young man named
Charles Brown engaged q room and board
for himself In clearinghouse at the
corner Of Bedford avenue and Lynch street,
BROOKLYN. T.. ID. lie had come from one
az the western States, he said, and
Ma employed rs a painter in car.
riagc factory close by. After he had
hen IN the house q couple Of weeks
h Introduced 10 Mrs. Jeanette Weaving,
the landiady, afelow-workman named VIII
liam Carter, who also became boarder.
The two young men roomed together on
the third floor Of the house. Both kept
rood hours. and so far rs was known re-
frsfncd from the use Of intoxicating bever-
aees. Brown, who was bright, chatty
little fellow, OF about nineteen, soon be-
came an established favoritc. Carter. on
The other hand, who was Browns senior
br few wears, was OF taciturn DISPOSE
ton and made no friends. The two young
men, however, were strangely attached to
each other, apparently, and were always
together.
Last, after remaining In the dining-room
for . while, they went upstairs early, aS
usual, Brown bidding CHEEKY good
night TO those who remained. A few
moments aftcrward six pistol-shots were
heard in quick succession, and the landli-
dy's sons. Charles and Thomas Weaving,
left the dining-rOom hastily to ascertain the
Sanse of the unusual sounds. As they
started upstairs they heard young Brown
cry out: "Help. oh. help! This man
must be crazy. for he's killing mel" On
the third floor the two brothers saw Carter
standing at the head OF the stairs with n
pmoking revolver i'm his right hand, while
Brown lay bleeding in the passageway.
When Carter saw the brothers he drove
,hem down stairs by threatening 10 shoot
them, and made bold dash for the ball
door.
STRUGGLING FOR LIBERTY.
The Weaving boys. however, who are
roth young mon OF stalwart physique,
grsppled with bin at the door. and wres-
tied with him for fully ten minutes till a
couple Of police officers came up and took
Carter into custody. II was then found
that Brown had been shot six times. One
81 the bullets was lodged in his right tenn
pie, one In his left arm-pit, one in the top
Of his head. one in his right arm, one in
his left hip. while the sixth grazed bis right
breast and glanced of. The revolver with
which Carter did the shooting was TWEEN
ty-two calibre seven-shooter.
At the Flushing-avenue station-housc
Carter was as taciturn as he had been at
the clearinghouse. When asked why he
shot Brown he replied in gruff tone,
because he handled me roughly" and no
further explanation could be procured
rom him. Brown was taken to st. Cathe-
rine's Hospital, on Bushwick avenue. He
was too weak TO talk much, but when
questioned he said very positively that he
rad given Carter no proy0cation, and that
he was unable TO account for the sudden
attack made upon him. The people in the
clearinghouse say that the two young men
were never known 10 quarrel, and that as
they never went ont after they had eaten
their evening meal they do not think it
possible that there is any feminine influ'
e,nce at the bottom OF the trouble. Browns
condition late last night was very bad, but
ia spite OF the fact that he is fairly pep.
pered with shots from Carter's revolver,
she doctors think 1t possible that he may
recoyer.-Nep York Herald.