Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-25
ALMOST MURDER
Dayil Foster Shot in the Breast, Last
Night
BY FHE VBLL-KEOEE JOHNNY KYNB
The ARRAY the Result Of an Vld
Grudge.
KYHE MAKES GOOD HIS ESCAPE,

About q quarter to nine O'CLOCK Ias'
night Johnny Kvne sfot David Foster on
the sidewalk, almost opposite the corner
of Alley and Market street.
The street in the vicinity where the
ARRAY occurred, was filed with people,
hunyiug along up and down town, as is
usual at that hour on Saturday 7ering,
and the crack of the revolver, and the sub
seouent rush of the would-be murderer for
his victim, and the rapid and terrible blows
which be rairei down upon the wounded
mans head, with ths butt of his revolver,
creat:d the widest excitement, and in
minute there were hundred people in the
vicinity, the crowd steadily augmentiDg
until the stree was almost blocked.
After beating his victim until he must
have supp ,ssd there was very little life left
in him, Kyne dsitsd into a nearby door
and disappeared, presumably passing
through AID out the back way, although
there is another story to the effect that he
ran down Market street.
No one seemed, in the ensuing hour, to
know anything of the direction or exact
tine of his fight, and he had little diff
Guilty in escaping. II was learned, later,
that Kyne came up the little alley, open
ing onto Market street, next to No. 1li5,
ran up Market street to Eleventh and dis
appeared up that street.
Foster was standing o the curbstone in
front of a slloon when he was shot,
talking to some friends. Kyne, between
whose brother and Foster there has b:en a
gruige Of long standing, which seems to
have involved Johnny in some way, had
been in the saloon, and, stepping out upon
the sidewalk in front, saw Foster, who
seems to have taken a step or two toward
the house lust at that moment, but
without any bellicoss intent toward
Kyne. What ensued is not very
clear. for the two or three eye witnesses Of
the scene were very adverse to talking
last night, bat Kyno pulled his revolver in
about a second and fired a shot point blank
at Fosters breast. The bullet took etfect,
and Foster fell 70 the Sidewalk, while
KYne Iuu up aud struck him number OF
q uick bat powerful blows over the head
and face with the bait OF his pistol. lie
fingered over his work as long as be
dssnei it safe, and then sought safety in
flight.
Foster was at once surrounded by the
crowd which poured out of the adjoining
buildings and came running rom up and
down the street, and several of his friends
putting in an appearances, he was removed
to Kuriz's drug store, several doors atove,
and DR.. Dickey summoned.
It was generally thought Foster had
bean shot, but nothing was done, beyond
ba,hirg his face and head in cold water
until the physician arrived. A portion OF
the wounded mans clothing was then re-
moved. and two bullet holes, evidently
made with bullet from a 80 or SO calibre
revolver, were fOuad on the breast. Both
these wounds had been made by the same
ball, which had entered about one inch to
the left oethe right nipple and cime out
abo1t five inches to the right, and little
lower down, having struck the third rib and
glanced off. Half an inch higher or lower
It would have passed between the ribs and
made a most serious wound, as 1t would
have psnetratedlhe lungs.
Besides this wound there was a bad cut,
three quarters of an inch long, under Eos
ter g left eve, cut to the bone, two similar
cuts over thu Same eye, q similar cut across
the bridge Of his nose and cut about an
inch and quarter long on the left eide Of
the he'd, pretty well back. These cuts
we're the re.ult of blows struck with there
volver butt.
The wounds were dressed, and Foster
was taken to his home in Etnayille in a
carriage by his friends.
The wounded man ia a sheet-roller in
tie .E,na mill and a good workman, aud
IAN who has host of friends on both
sides of the river.
Foster is we'll known about town, and
will be remembered by the general public
through his being ore CT the principals in
the prizs fight on the upper point o. the
Island, about two years ago, Toby
Kyne being the o!her contestant. Johnny
Kyne lives on the Island, but formerly
kept o saloon over the river.
Chief Smith WAS on the Toe llity Of the
shooting within q very few minutes after
it occurred, and soon hal his men on the
lookout for Kyne. Fosters escape was a
narroW one