The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-18
LAST NIGHTS SHOOTING.
JIM BOYD SHOT TWICE By NIGHT
wATCHMAN w. @. HAAdPsoN.
One Bullet Enters the Neck and Another
Pierces tho side-Particulars Of the
Trouble = Statements of the Chief
Actors and of Eye Witnesses.

noticed a man lying on q dray, on his face,
with his head down and calling for some
one 10 turn him up and complaining that
some one had done him wrong The Off
Ger did not stop here but continued looking
for the man that did the shooting. Con-
tinuing up the alley, and near the "AIan-
sion," a man approached him saying:
'Pm the man you're looking 'or; want
to surrender to you. Take me to jail"
The officer took the man and locked him
up. lie was bleeding proiusely from an
ugly cut on the head, and was otherwise
battered up. His name Is W. G. Hamp-
son, night Waterman.
The wounded man was taken from the
dray and carried to Nat Edwards's livery
stable, where he was laid ON the Office
floor. He proved 10 be Jim Boyd, for
merly foreman OF the Peters Company, and
later hotel drummer BOYD Is well known
as man around town, and has now and then
figured in the police courts. He has
brother in the grocery business opposite
the jsil and wife and child in the city.
He Is a fine specimen OF physical man
hood, and his white skin made splendid
background for the streaks Of blood that
marked il.
DR.. Miles Willet was called in to attend
him and soon had the clothing from his
chest and arms removed, revealing two
gunshot wounds, one in the neck and the
other in the side. He bad bled profusely
and his garments were clotted and satu-
rated.
Deputy Coroner Fleming was present
and informed him that he was going to
prepare an ante-mortem statement or
diving declaration and that in view OF tho
likelihood OF dissolution he must be care
full. His eyes were CLASSY and his voice
weak, but he talked almost necessarily in
rambling way and in the following
words:
''The trouble came about this way. l
was on Main street when woman came
along and wanted TO speak TO me. ! never
saw the woman before. don't know her.
She was afraid to talk to me in public on
the streets and she turned down Gayoso
and around up the alley | want Father
Eddleman. Go and get him. Bring him
here so can see him. I'm going TO de-"
To the doctor, who was about to admins
ter whisky hypodcrmically: ''Please
don't do that. Don't give me morphine.
| want my senses when them people come
[meaning the priest and | don't want 10
be asleep. | must be able to talk. Please
don't do it"
lie was assured and treasured that there
was no morphine in the liquid, but lac
could not be convinced, and he kept on
asking every one around him II there was
any morphine in the medicine.
Continuing 10 Deputy Coroner Fleming,
he said: I'VE went up the alley and were
| talking, when someone came along and
asked me what the HI was doing there.
asked him what the HI was il his BUSH
ness, and then advanced on him TO see
who II was. lie pulled his pistol and fred,
but did not feel Ii. drew my knife and
rushed on him, striking at him with il,
| when he shot me twice, once in the side
and once in the neck. don't know who
he was. have never had any personal
difficulty with w. q. Hampson. had no
grudgc against him, aud know OF none
that he could have had against me. Yes,
! think my knife must have closed on my
finger where II was cut"
The Rev. Father Moran, OF st. Peters
Church, arrived and administered 10
Boyd the rites OF the church. After
that the wounded man spoke less distinctly
and asked for his brother, protesting the
while that he was going 10 die. lie was
washed and stimulated with injections OF
whisky
Capt. Hacketi, Sergeant Hurst and OH.
col Wolf, with AN APPEAL reporter, Wis
tied the scene OF tho killing. The old
dray was then pretty well covered with
ground.
Henry Cox, a colored man, who works
ut the Mansion, claims TO have been an
eye witness 10 the shooting and his state
ment, translated, Is rs follows ~ was
sitting outside with the dlning.room girl
when We saw woman coming out OF the
alley. asked her what that negress
was doing In the alley at this hour, and
she said there was another down the alley
still. | said TO the girl that I'd 20 down
J and see what II all meant, and 80 did.
| walked down tho alley until | came TO
the old dray and then / saw Mr.. Hamp-
son, the night Waterman. | said "llowdy
Mr. Hampton, and he said: Hello. Henry;
Is that your | sat down by him on tho
dray, and asked what those folks were do
ing in the shade. There was a man and
woman standing close together. Mr..
IIampson said he didn't know, and Just
then the man came over 10 where we we're
sitting, and said: what the HI are you
watching us for? Mr. IIampson said:
I'm night Waterman here, and am watch
ing this property The man then said:
You're a id liar, and rushed at Mr..
llampson and struck him. lie knocked
him back on tho dray aud jumped on him.
lie beat him with his fist and kicked him
until | though he was killing him. Tho
woman run out and Just flew down tho
street. When the shooting begun thought
II was the strange man shooting the watch
man, and ran away, fearing that hc
would get me next"
10 an ArrgAL reporter the Waterman
told his story; IL was sitting on an old
dny In the alley back OF the Mansion
and noticed some one take a negro woman
In there. had just driven one out and
started TO drive these also when the fellow
struck me with bottle ON tho head that
knocked me back on the dray. Ito
then jumped ON me and was pounding
me up when | reached down and drew nv
pistol. first fred II of in the air 10 scare
him, but could not: then ! shot him
think about the shoulder and again about
the stomach. That Is about all that Is in
IL. had TO shoot TO protect myself"
Mr. Ilampson Is about twenty-one
years old. lie has been n Waterman for
two years and Is thin aud slender. Ills
father owns a mill In the vicinity Of the
shooting. The pistol used IL q hammerless
IS calibcr Smith 4 Wesson.
At ~ O'Clock y. NJ. SANKEY'S ambulance
was cent for, but rs the wounded man
mover rallied from the shock Il was not
thought advisable 10 move him. At late
hour ho was barely breathing His father
| and two lrolhara ara With hin. auafttn.