The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-05
IN COLD BLOOD.
Two Young Women BrutaIly
Shot Down in the Streets
Of Chicago.
No Adequate Cause for the Desper.
ate Act-The Murderer Under
Arrest

ate Act-The Murderer Under
Arrest
At half-past 5 yesterday afternoon the
employees of Il. G.. Dun a. Co. mercantile
agency at Nos 140 to LA Monroe street
were leaving the building for their homes.
At the entrance a young man, neatly
dressed, was talking quietly with woman
companion, his right hand resting lightly
on his hip and an overcoat thrown care
lessly over his arm. As the people walked
past him out of the building he glanced
quickly from one face to another as il look
ing for friend. His actions betrayed no
excitement: hrs conversation ran on
smoothly. Presently two girls jpined the
crowd coming down the stairway, leading
to the door. The younger and more attrac-
tive of the two. leaning on the arm of
her sister. was talking of the days work
and the expected pleasures Of the evening.
AS they approached the entrance an ex-
preston Of fear crossed the face of the
talker, and shrinking still closer to the side
Of her companion, she whispered There's
Burrus." Almost before the words were
spoken the young fellow drew from his
pocket a revolver and with steady aim fired
at the nearest of the two-the eldest sister.
The girl ran forward to the sidewalk and
dropped Mt the edge of the curbstone. Her
sister jumped forward TO catch her,
but as she did SO the fellow again
| fired with as deadly an aim as
before and the girl fell into the arms of a
bystander. Quickly showing the revolver
into his pocket, the murderer glanced at
his victims and ran across the street
| through the crowd which came together
| from all sides. A boy attempted to trip up
I..& II Ill
the crowd and ran down LaSalle street TO
Madison and along that street to Fifth
avenue, followed by the men who had seen
him shoot the girls On Fifth avenue his
] pursuers gained on the man, and, seeing
his chances of escape very few, he again
drew the weapon and pointing it at his
pursuers said he would shoot if they did
not let him alone.
While the man was brandishing the re-
volver in the faces Of the crowd Officer G.
Crowley came up behind him, and knock
| ing the weapon from his hand with a club.
arrested him. patrol wagon was sent for
but before it arrived the number of excited
people increased around the officer and his
prisoner. Jeers and boots were followed
by loud cries of Hang himl lynch him!"
The patrol wagon arrived OPPORTUNITY. for
| only leader was wanting to have changed
the bowling crowd into a revengeful mob.
The man was hustled into the wagon and
driven to the Armory, where he was locked
| in the murderer's cell.
AT the time the shots were fred the
street was full of people. The unusual
noise attracted q large crowd, who quickly
gathered around the PROSTATE forms of the
two girls. Medical attendance was sent
for and ambulance wagons were dispatched
to the place. Mrs. Rev Good, who was
Al. a I'll A.
the sidewalk near the gutter, was believed
| TO be dying, and was conveyed TO the
County Hospital. Lillian Walter was car
ried TO l.. c. Boysen's drug store, No. PIC
Clark street. where she was attended by DIR.
Brvdon, who probed for the bullet with no
success. The girl, who was conscious, put
her hand now to her ear and now to the
top of her head, crying: 1T is here" She
was asked where she wished to be taken,
and said: Take me to the house of Mr..
Il. S. Gillette, corner of CORTLAND and
Heine streets, Humboldt Park. That is
where we live, and 1 want to be taken
there. My uncle. f. b. Hewon, lives al
No. 25 Ransburg avenue.
In broken, despairing sort of way the
girl related to those present the story OF
the shooting, and the reasons leading TO it,
Il saw Burrus standing at the door, and
said to Rey: There's Burrus. Before
knew what to do l heard the first shot, anC
felt sister fall. l heard the second shot
and knew that / was struck. That Is the
last ] remember until / found myseli
here"
Two years ago Asba j. Burrus was
stenograpber in the Office of the II. G.
Dun Il Co. agency, in St Paul. In thC
same Office were two girls who had posi-
tons as typewritsrs, who i'll carly life hat
been adopted into the family of n Mr.
Walter The eldest was twenty four year.
of age and had been married to "A MAJ
named Good, but was separated from he
husband. Her sister Ii liam was twenty.
two years old and very attractive. The
duties of the shorthand man and III,
typewriters threw the young poop
much together, and an intimacy spmnl
up between Burrus and Lillian Walter, il
which the elder sister shared. Various ex.
changes of friendship were made. and the
good will between them was such that they
were in the habit of lending articles o.
Office furniture to one another. Just be-
fore the building in which the Office wa!
situated was burned Burrus borrowed from
one of the girls a pearl handled gold pen
After the fire, upon being asked to return
it, ne insisted that the pen had been burn.
ed. The girls did not believe this. and
GOODNESS arose between them. The sisters
came to Chicago and obtained situations il
the city agency Of the II. G.. Dun Company
Burrus married st. Paul girl, and yea
and half ago moved to this city. He also
obtained place in the same office. The
old dispute again arose. The girls refused
to associate with Burrus, which led him I,
make sighting remarks about them to his
associates in the Office. This aggravated
the quarrel. Tuesday morning ST. Pau
friend of Burrus went into the Office to Sc,
him. The friend had seen the girls in st
Paul, and had known of the intimacy be.
tween the young people. Turning to Bur
rus the fellow said: 81 see your girl il
here
"What, that old -? / wouldn't have
anything to do with her, you can bet you
lifel" replied Burrus. The words reached
the ear of Mrs. Good, who was sitting at
desk near by. The insult was too muci
for her to bear without resenting it, ant
she went Immediately to Stanley Pruden
manager of the agency, and reported tn
speech to him. At the close of the day
work Pruden called Burrus 10 the offic
and gave him the choice between apologize
ing for the insult or Of being discharged
Burrus took the latter alternative. Tn
next seen of him was when he stood at tn
door deliberatelv awaiting his victims