Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-06
A ssory or shame and Cr,m..

am eighteen years old, and Was married
when l Wss fifteen to a man that | p.yeI
liked and who failed TO provide for me OIL
support me. / have two children, and they
are now at my mothers 10 Greenyile, Ky,
l knew Bert and Joe before / was m.rri.d
and it was with Bert that ! first left home
sitter was married. Joe wac raised arourd
in the vicinity Of Greensboro, and was a clerk
in one Of the dry goods stores. His mother
had charge Cf a school 10 South C'rrollion
KY, and it was therl that / fist met joe
When lefr home first Bert met noe in E5.
ansville and we came here together. / only
stopped five or six weeks, and then returned
home. This lims we lrft Liyermore, KY,
and arrived in the city the lstter part
Of last week. j vent directly to
the house OF Matte Roberts, as Bert
had no money. Joe had been here several
weeks and was working at Leubrie's Bert
went to see him al Joe promised TO help
him until he could gel some money. Bert
bad pistol, and he gave il to Joe for 81,
but expected to get il beck again. When
we left Hobers's .st night we went over to
what / thought WAS Joe's room After we
had been in f~w mipu es Bert left, but was
not gone long when he came back. He SAYS
to Joe, 'Haves't 20 u gone yet? aud Joe said,
No, and ! am net going.' This made Bert
mad, ard he said that Joe had played him a
- mean trick. He then asked Joe for The
pistol, and Joe refused TO give ii to him
He told Bert that if be did not get out of the
room he
WOULD SHOOT HIM,
and he then pulled the pistol out. Bert
then jumped on him, and th-y scuffl about
and / heard two pistol shots, and Joe fell
down and died Bert then put the pistol in
his pocket aud walked out. That is all that
j know abcut the affiirs Ga, how 1 wish
was out Of this horrible place"
This is the latest which the woman tells
concerning the murder. The story is cor
robersttd by Wing, who says that sfter the
three had arrived in the room he had an uu-
derstanding with Joe TO the IF ct that he
(Wiug) sheuld go away for short while,
and when he won return Joe would leave
When Wing reu'Hsd JJe would not
leave, s3d this WIS what csu.ed the quar-
rel and the killing. Ab1ut daylight yester.
day morning Sergt. Tom Purcell found the
pistol from which the fat Il thots we're fred.
L. vas lying in tue mud near the corner of
Twenty first street and Clark avenue, where
Wing wss arrested. The coroner made r
post mortem examination on the body of
Glenn yesterday aftsr1oon aud found that
two bullets had entered the brain from each
side OF the head, aad that dea'h was CAUSED
by the hem0rrhage that ensusd. An
inquest viii be held 10 day. enn was
employed in the gent5' furnishing
goods department at L4ubrie's and
was a uGiVersal f4vorito. His intimate
friends cay he was not in he habit OF carry
ing pistol, and that he was very gentle
manly in his address. His ialher is tobsc-
co dealer in Soulh C,rroliloo, KY, and it is
probable that he body will be shipped there
for intermsn;. II is said hat this is Wings
second msB; that he killed his first man in
Ksnlucky ZONE time sgo. o ie of his BROTH
ers il now in Ill on the charge OF killing an
offic,r who was a empiing TO a rest him