The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-08

FIRING FIVE SHOTS AT A LIEUTENANT IN THf
TwENTY-sEC0ND NEW YORK REGIMENT.
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TwENTY-sECoND NEW YORK REGIMENT.
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a young woman known as Lottic Rama,
frequenter OF q concert-saloon in west
Fourteenth street, fred five shot, from a
revolver ut First-Lieutenant George L. u.
Hart. of Company X, Twenty-second regl-
ment, In front OF the armory, Tuesday eve
ning. Fortunately for the young officer,
the young woman was poor shot, ana
none OF the bullets struck him. Lieutenant
Hart says he first met the young woman
in cOncert-saloon in the vicinity OF tue
armory. She apparently became passion
atcly fond OF him, and eventually she ioi-
lowed him about so persistently th't us
friends endeavored TO break up the assoc'a-
tons OF the pair. The Lieutehan. u
broker In New street. He lett ms once III
company with friend and took the ETC
waited railroad 10 Fourteenth street. Oh
leaving the station the Lieutenant SAID TO
his friend that he wanted 70 so INTO the
condensation moment. Ills iIiehu Gu
dcayorcd 70 dlssuade him, but the Lieu
tenant said the occasion would he me
last. and persisted in going into the
place. After remaining there short
time the Lieutenant and Lottie left
TO the armory. They held some CONVERSE
ton at the door, and then the Lieutenant
sald Z" Now, Lottie, we must part" The
Girl replied: Very well; il | can't have
Won won't have ANYBODY and. drawing
her revolver. she pointed II ut the Lieu
tenants head. He lodged instantly, and
the ball went over his shoulders. Then he
ran down Fourteenth street toward Sixth
Ia
Of the excited girl following him. As
he reached the corner he was stopped
by q large man. "For GODS SAKE
don't dctain me-" he cried; I'm
being shot ats The man, who was IN
citizens clothes, said he was policeman,
aud would take care OF the Lieutenant,
whom he charged with the shooting. AS
the two men walked back toward the
armory they met the woman. who raised
her revolver on seeing the Lieutenant, and
fired again. The alleged officer threw
Hart before him when the first shot was
fred. but Hart, breaking from the man,
ran into the street and so to the armoiy.
The man who said he was policeman ran
back to Sixth avenue and was not seen
again.
Officer Hinge. Of the Twenty-ninth pre-
cinct, arrested the woman, anu toOh nci 40
the Thirtietb-S rect station-house. she was
well-dressed and appeared cool and col
Iected. She said she was nineteen years
old and lived at No. 100 west Twenty
ninth street. She declined TO tell her name,
however. She had known Lieutenant Hart
since she was six years old, and lived near
his house i'm Twentieth street. She said
she was a Cuban by birth, and the Lieu
tenant gave her lessons in the English Ian
guage. She paid a visit 10 England while
q child, and when she returned, at the age
OF thirteen years. Hart began TO pay herat-
tentions. The families became separated
during the lapse of years, and she did not
meet her youthful lover again until after
the regiment returned from Peckskill,
when, she says, he induced her to live with
him. They lived together in Sixteenth
street. She at first did not care to live with
him. but finally she became attached to him.
Monday she says she sent the Lieutenant Il
message to meet her, and when he came she
shot at him. She expressed sorrow that
she did not do him "sOme HARM" The
Lieutenant refused to make u charge, but
she was locked up for examination.