The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-01
A SERIOUS SHOT.
hSc Loeb shoots Manuel McClouay, Coiorsd,
Is Arrested and Gives Bond-The Victim
in u Critical Condition

hSc Loeb Shoots Manuel McClouay, Colored,
Is Arrested and Gives Bond-The Victim
in Critical Condition.
About . o'clock yesterday morning Elm
street was thrown into a high state of ex-
citement by the report OF a pistol and a ru.
NOR which spread like wild fire that Ike
Loeb, of the beer firm of Loeb & Schwa,
bacher, had shot and MORALLY wounded
negro named Manuel McCloudy. A HER.
AID reporter hurried to the scene of
the shooting, which was in front
OF grocery store No. ZIG Elm street,
where he arrived just as Loeb was arrested
| by Police Officers Sheehan and Overland
VINO turned him over to Shoritf Jones. In
the meantime McCloudy, who had run to
Howells drug store, half a block or so
across the street, had weakened so from the
effects of the shot that he could not stand
anu had lain down in the back part of the
store, and was being attended to by Drs
Newsom and Thompson. The ball entered
the lett side of the back beneath the RIBS
and ranging upward lodged Just beneath
the skin and Immediately below the left
nipple, producing what is believed by the
attending physicians to be fatal wound.
McCloudy suffered intense agony and he
was given brandy and hyperdermic iniec.
tions OF morphine to relieve his suffering
and brace him up. The ball was extracted,
aud from its size is was evidently fired
! from thirty -eight calibre pistol.
After the operation he was placed in q wagon
and removed to the city hospital, and later
IN the day he was removed to his home in
freedmantown, and at a late hour last night
! he was not expected to live The facts pro
and con concerning the affair are as follows
+. NJ. Gates, boookkeeper at the grocery
store from in front of which the
shot was fired, stated in sub
stance the following McCloudy had
been working for LoeD Il Schwabacher at
their beer house as a sort of general utility
man, but falling to give satisfaction, they
had discharged him, when he went about,
from what he could learn, telling that Loeb
would not pay his employees and that he
had failed to pay him his full wages Loeb
met him at the door and asked him if he
had been telling it that he had not paid
him up, when McClaudy replied that he
had told it, and that it was the
truth. Loeb then told him to come
into the store, as he wanted to talk to him,
but he refused, when Loeb told hun that
he had lied on him. McCloudy said, I'll
you will come out on the street, | am as
good man as you are" AT this, Loeb
struck at him, when the negro ran his hand
into his pants pocket, and at the same time
picked up a rock, and at this iuncture
Loeb shot, when McCloudy ran
across the street. Mr.. Munzes.
heimer a clerk in the store, substantiated
what Mr.. Yates said in regard to the
matter.
Mr.. Loeb himself stated that he was in
their employ, and that a 'ew days since he
discovered that he had stolen q pound oil
butter from their ice-house. He accused
McCloudy of it, who protested his limo
cence, and at his request he went with him
to see the party to whom he (Lueb) charged
him with taking it but the party, who hat
at first said it was McCloudy they had
paid for the butter, when they saw Nc
Cloudy, said it was lighter-skinneC
darkey, yet he felt satisfied that McCloudS
was the guilty party AS to wages, he die
not owe him one cent, and the negro haC
not only annoyed and insuted him, but
had warned others of his race not to work
for him, telling them that he was bad pay
Yesterday morning as McCloudy was pass
ing the grocery store he told him III
wanted to speak to him, and asked hin
about the stories he had been circulating
: and asked him if he had threatened
that none of his race Shout,
work for him, He replied that no had AN,
that he had never been settled with. II
told him he was lying, when McCloud,
threw his hand behind him. when he fired
with the result as already stated. Nj
Cloudy has formerly been in the employ {
Colonel George +. Afford, who gives him
good name. A warrant was issued by Ju.
tice Price for the arrest of Loeb, whose bon
he fixed at s 900, which was readily giy er