Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-11-05
IN COLD BLOOD.
Two Young Women Brutally
Shot Down in the Streets
of Chicago.
No Adequate Cause for the Desper-
ate Act-The Murderer Under
Arrest.

Arrest.
AT balf-past 5 yesterday afternoon The
employees of r. G.. Dun q Co. mercantile
agency Mt Nos. 140 to 144 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 if look
ing for friend. His actions betrayed no
excitement; his conversation ran on
smoothly. Presently two girls joined 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 revolver and with steady aim fred
at the nearest of the two-the eldest sister.
The girl ran forward to the sidewalk and
dropped at the edge of the curbstone. Her
sister jumped forward TO catch her,
but as she did SO the fellow again
fred 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 mp
the fleeing man, but he pushed through
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 ne would shoot if they did
not let him alone.
While the man was brandishing the re-
volver in the faces of the crowd Officer @.
Crowley came up behind him, and knock
ing the weapon from his hand with a club,
arrested him. A patrol wagon was sent for,
but before it arrived the number of excl ed
people increased around the officer and his
prisoner. Jeers and boots were followed
by loud cries of Hang him! lynch him!"
The patrol wagon arrived opportunely, 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 murderers cell.
At the time the shots were fred the
street was full of people. The unusual
noise attracted large crowd, who quickly
gathered around the PROSTATE forms of the
two Rir.s. Medical attendance was sent
for and ambulance wagons were dispatched
to the place. Mrs. Rey Good, who was
the first one shot, and who had fallen to
the sidewalk near the gutter, was believed
to be dying, and was conveyed to tho
County Hospital. Lillian Walter was car
ried to l.. G. Boysen's drug store, No. 2l 0
Clark street, where she was attended by DR..
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 Courtland and
Heine streets, Humboldt Park. That is
where We live, and 1 want to be tlken
there. My uncle, f. b. Hewon, lives at
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 / heard the first shot, and
felt sister fall. L heard the second shot,
and knew that l was struck. That is the
last / remember until 1 found myself
here"
Two years ago Asba ]. Burrus was
stenographer in the Office of the II. G..
Dun d Co. agency, in st. Paul. In the
same Office were two girls, who had posi-
tions as typewriters, who i'll carly life had
been adopted into the family of Mr.
Walter. The eldest was twentv-four years
of age and had been married to @ man
named Good, but was separated from her
husband. Her sister Lillian was twenty
two years old and very attractive. The
duties of the Shorthand man and the
typewriters threw the young people
much together and On intimacy sprang
up between Burrus and Lillian Walter, in
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 Of
Office furniture to one another. Just be-
fore the building in which the office was
situated was burned Burrus borrowed from
one of the girls pearl handled gold pen.
After the fire, upon being asked to return
il, he insisted that the pen had been burn
ed. The girls did not believe this, and n
cOOlneSB arose between tnem. Inc sisters
came to Chicago and obtained situations in
the city agency of the r. G.. Dun Company
Burrus married st. Paul girl, and a year
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 to
make sighting remarks about them to his
associates in the Office. This aggravated
the quarrel. Tuesday morning st. Paul
friend of Burrus went into the Office to see
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: II see your girl is
here"
"What, that old - l wouldn't have
anything to do with her, you can bet your
lifel" replied Burrus. The words reached
the ear Of Mrs. Good, who was sitting at a
desk near by. The insult was too much
for her to bear without resenting it, and
she went Immediately to Stanley Pruden,
manager of the agency, and reported the
speech to him. At the close of the day.
work Pruden called Burrus TO the Office
and gave him the choice between apologiz-
ing for the insult or of being discharged
Burrus took the latter alternative The
next seen of him was when he stood at the
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