New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-01
A WOMAN'S FATAL SHOT.
KILLING HER LOVER BY ACCIDENT.
IN EARLY MORNING TRAGEDY IN A SHOOTING GAL
1rRy-sToRIEs OF EYE-wITNEssEs.

Every evening the covered cartway leading to
the coal ward in the rear Of No. 4si Sixth-ave is
transformed into shooting gallery, and as such IL
Is used all n ght by Thomas Mofat and his assist
ant. At2 O'clock yesterday morning. while, the
Sixth-ave. dance halls We're still crowded police
was to the gallery Sy shot IN
the place On the floor, near the counter from
which shots are fired, lay well dressed young man
insensbc and bleeding from bullet wound IN ms Il
forehead Over him young woman bent ana creu
i'm frantic way: "Oh, Charlie speak TO me. Az
her side was a frail-looking girl who wept and
The poIce recognized the young women as Jennie
Mitchell and Alice Sinclair, inmates of disreput-
able house in West Thirty frs-st They SAID that
nnrser on the steamship Nacoocbee, of the Sayan-
nah Line and that he had been shot by accident;
The gallery said that Jennie Mitchell had shot the
man but he thought the act was not Intentional.
The policeman procured streteher ana had sans
carried to the Thirtieh-st police station. while he
arrested the woman and Hartman. An ambulance
conveyed Sans to the New-York Hospital, where he
died about six hours later without recovering con-
The story told by Hartman was that Sans and
another man entered the gallery with the women,
and Sans fired three shots from aBallata rue VI
twenty-five calibre. The men were under the Ihnu
ence of liquor but the women were sober; hi het
shooting at pipe with success. Sans offered 10 net
Jennie Mitchell So that she cond not Int the pipe
She did not want to shoot, but he insisted ana
showed her how TO hold the rifle As she appeared
to be awkward in its Use. ne banteIed ner' me!
Laughing
Now let me alone" and as she turned the rlile was
discharged and Sans fell TO the floor. She seemed
unable TO understand what had happened lot Time
and then she became frantic with grlet ne
vonnO man who was with Sans tried TO ll1t MN
from the floor. Then he said he wor I 60 for
policeman. and he was not seen IN the place againe
= Alice Sinclair made q statement similar TO Harrl-
mans Jennie Mitchell said she had known Sans
for about four years. She met him while visiting
in Savannah and he wanted her TO marry him. He
was clerk there at the time. She afterward fire.
auentlv met him in this city. He was fond OF her,
she said, and wished her to reform. when he went
to see her on Tuesday night he took friend with
him and asked her and Alice Sinclair to take dinner
in a Sixth-ave restaurant After dinner they
visited several concert halls in the avenue ana they
were on their way back toward Thirty rst.st.
when Sans insisted ON going into the SNORING
gallery He called his friend "Leb" Harris; but
She never had met Harris before and she knew
nothing about the man.
In one of the pockets OF the dead man was Iouhu
q telegram with the name Leb at the end; 1t was
sent from New London. Conn.,, on Tuesday, ana
stated that the sender would meet Sans IN the
afternoon at the steamship. IL was learned tnat
Sans asked permission 10 have o TREND sleep WIN
him on the vessel on Tuesday night. lie ana ms
morning the friend went to the steamship. procured
n satohel which he had left there and Went away
wit hout saving anything about Sans. The polce
said that his strange actions were due, prObaoy 70
a desire on his part not to have ms name puDIshcu
in connection with the shooting. -
Sans who twenty-seven years old, was porn
i'm Savannah Ga. his father being W. +. Sans, q
retired cotton merchant. Before he became assist
ant purseT on the NacOochee he was a clerk IN a
large cotton warehouse in savannah lie was a
education. ,
At an investigation held by Coroner Levy the
women and Hartman repeated their stores.
Deputy Coroner Donlin made an autopsy.