The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-22
PISTOL PRACTICE.
An Eighteen-Moths-Ol Child
Utilized to Shield the Body
Of it's Father.
Lizzie Stewart, Colored, Shoots
Her Baby Boy Through
Mistake.

A shooting scrape in which a little col
ored child was the unintentional victim
took place In front of Henry KnopHi's res
idence on Missouri avenue Sunday morn
ing between 8 and 10 o'clock. The facts as
elected by BAzoo representative are as
follows:
John Stewart and his wife, Lizzie Stew
art, colored, did not live any too happily
together.
Some time ago, according TO Johns state
ment, he went away TO get work. and when
he returned he found that his wife
HAD LEFT THEIR HOME
and rented a room Just south of the old
soap factory where she was wing, having
with her their little son, aged about IS
months.
Sunday morning as John was going by
the place he saw the child some distance
from the house, where it had crswled. Not
seeing
THE MOTHER AROUND
he picked it up, intending. as he says, to
take il 10 his mothers house where the
other two children were, have ii dressed
up, and then if it was not satisfied to re-
turn it to its mother.
child, however, when Mrs. Stewart missed
it, and seeing him carrying il away, 5 he
rushed into the house, procured
THIRTY Two-CALIBRE REVOLVER
and followed in hot pursuit
BY the time Stewart reached Mr.. Knop-
fits residence the enrsged woman was
close behind. Mr.. Knopfi was standing
out in front at the time, and was the first
to see that she had pistol and called to
Stewart to look out. Stewart turned around
and as he did so
THE WOMAN FIRED,
but the shot missed its intended mark and
took effect in the body of the little child
which Stewart was carrying.
Stewart grabbed his wife before she could
FIRE again, and Ne. Knopfi took the
weapon away from her. He then started
with her
TO THE CALABOOsE,
but was met on the way by the officers, who
had been notified of the affair. She was
locked up in the cslaboose, but was subse-
quently turned over to the sheriff, who
placed her in the county Jail.
DIR. Ed. Small was called and dressed the
wound of the little sufferer. The bullet
had entered the right breast Just below the
nipple, struck rib, and ranged downward
and backward,
LODGING ABOVE THE LEFT LUNG.
Up to this writing the child is still alive
and doing well, and if no further accident
befalls il will probably recover. Stewart
took the baby to his mothers house, Oh
the corner of fifteenth street and Harrison
avenue, where it will be property cared for.
After seeing that all was well Stewart
came back to town and was arrested and
locked up IN the county Jail.
Lizzie will have preliminary examina-
ton as soon as the
RESULT OF THE SHOT
is ascertained, that, is whether the child
will live or die.
John saws she is hard hitter and with
out q doubt would have killed him had
she been given fair chance.
He also says he had no intention Of keep
ing the child and would have re-
turned it to her in the afternoon. The first
intimation he received that his wife
HAD A REVOLVER
was when Mr.. Knopfli called to him, and
had he not turned around must have re-
The colored people residing in the vici-
nifty of where Mrs. Stewart had taken up
her residence are greatly incensed over the
child that it ought to have been taken from
her long ago. Others say that John abused
her so she had to leave him. Mrs. Ste
warts
SIDE OF THE STORY
is that he came to the house Sunday morn
ing and demanded her to go with him.
She refused and be drew a revolver and
told her If she did not 60 he would kill
her. She told him to shot; that she
would die thousand times before she
would return to him and be subjected to
his
BRUTAL TREATMENT ANY LONGER.
He then threw down the revolver and
grabbed up the child, remarking that he
knew how to bring her, started to carrying
it away. She then picked up the pistol
which he dropped and followed him with
the result above stated.
Mrs. Stewart says when he demanded
the child she told him he could not haye it
because it was yet nursing and
DID NOT BELONG TO HIN, ANYHOW.
Mrs. Stewart has marks all over her
body which she says were inflicted by her
husband, and that it was on account of
his brutal treatment that she left him and
took up her residence where she did.
Be that as it may, the BAzoo has en-
deavored to give both sides of the story
and leaves 1t to the court to decide who
was to blame.