The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-18

utes frosn the time be was cut the boy died.
The reports NJ FIRST circulated were TO the
effecStaat toe boys were fighting, which
resllte1sn TIE death of one: bat later re-
ports sem u he correct-that they were
only playing aud the killing was accidental.
R. NJ Preston. night waichmau at Stew
art Bros.'s paper mill at Conyers, shot
Perry tdoon Tuesday night at half-past 8
O'clock, from the effects of which he died IN
fifteen or twenty minutes. Preston saw
some one in the barn in a STOPPING position,
as if in the act Of raki e trash together on
the floor. He asked who was there, but no
one answered. He asked again, and said
that he would shoot il he received no
answer Aloon, whom IL proved after
ward TO be, made no answer, but
started to run. Preston then fired on him
but did not know whether he struck him or
not. Mo then turned and started toward
Preston who fired twice at him and brought
him to the ground. Preston did not know
who he had shot until light was brought.
Several fires If an incendiary nature had
occurred at the paper mill, and the wa'ch-
men we're on the aie { for any suspicious
looking character Moon had told Pres on
Sunday that by Tuesday night the barn
would be in ashes. Moon was
in town late in the evening,
and seemed TO be drinking The coroner
investigated the killing, aud the jury do
cidet that 1t was justifiaDle. Tlree balls
from the rifle entered Moons b 1dy. One
passed through an arm q q into the body,
aud two lodged near the heart, either Of
which would have produced death. One
quart and three pint TASKS we're in his
pockets. all empty except one pint flask.
The sheriff went to the paper mill, Wednes-
day, to arrest Preston aud have IA prelim-
mary trial as some are not satisfied with
the verdict of the coroner's jury.
Sumby. the tonsorial artist who intro
duced female barber shops in Atlanta. aud
then went % the chain-gsng. has skipped
from the chaiu-gang without leave of alb
sence. Fifty dollars has been offered fer
his capture. Sumby was an unknown
quantity in Atlanta until five years ago.
Previous TO that time he manipulated a
razor in a one-chair shop in Brooklyn. One
day he got into trouble and found his way
TO prison. While in prison Sumby's
wife took charge of the shop,
aud quickly became an expert
with the keen edged piece Of steel. The
shop became popular aud when Sumby
secured his freedom he found his business
much larger than when he went to Jail
Naturally sharp, Sumby saw that he had
good thing and moved up into the city
where hs equipped a shop. At every chair
was a female barber and at the cash drawer
was Sumby. The artists were a novelty in
Atlanta aud in less than a week the shop
was the most popular shaving saloon
in the city. Sumby made money
but he soon began drinking aud
whenever he got drunk he gave his
wife beating. Case after case was mad,
against him in police court. and Sumby's
purse was lightened every time no faced
Judge Anderson. His female BARRIERS soon
began to leave him, and Sumby found him
self out of money, and cut OF a shop--his
material having been seized by his credi-
tors. He then took his wife and went TO
Louisville. where he opened q shop, but his
wife soon deserted him and joined an opera
troupe. Then Sumby came back to Atlanta,
and after securing divorce, married again.
He co ltinued to drink, and about three
years ago, while on spree, stuck a knife
into small negro at the Kimball. For
that be went TO Jail. Now he has fled.