The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-11
A VENDETTA IN RoBERrsvILLs.
Andrew Marshall Shoots Olivia Gil
nore-Marshall Arrested.

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nore-Marshall Arrested.
Rooertsville was in a state of excitement
yesterday morning. Andrew Marshall
made cowardly attempt TO kill Olivia
| Gilmore. Both are colored. Marshall fired
| twice at the woman, standing within 10
feet of her, and started to empty his pistol,
| but the woman threw her hands up at the
second shot and screamed Pm shot," and
Marshall ran away.
The shooting took place at the corner Of
| Little Jones and Purse streets at 10 o'c lock-
Within a minute after the fracas almost
the entire population Of Robertsville was in
| the streets. The wounded woman bled pro-
/ fuselY. The widest sort Of rumors We're
started before the smoke from MarshalPs
weapon lad cleared away. The
wounded woman was taken as quickly as
| possible to the Office of Dr. Johnston, at the
corner of Taylor and Whitaker streets. aud
/ her husband, Isam Gilmore, porter for
Slater, Moore & Co., was sent for. he
| came with policeman. The officer sent
Isam around one way and he went the
other. Isam got his double-barreled shot
gun and went through the streets hunting
| Marshall. This created intense
excitement. Everybody followed the
enraged husband expecting TO see
him and his wife's assailant meet aud they
| officer prevailed on Gilmore to put up the
gun and they hunted the neighborhood
over.
Acting Sergt Mock was teleDhoned that
terrible ARRAY was expected; that a
negro had shot woman and the
husband was pursuing him with a
double-barrel shotgun. Ire sergeant
dispatched two men to the scene of the
trouble and every nook and corner in
Robertsville was searched. The officers
were too close behil I'd Marshall for him to
escape and in a short time they located MIN
In a house on Wilson street lane, near Little
Jones street, where he had been concealed
since the shooting.
"Here he Isl He's foundr was shouted
from house to house and the streets began
to swarm with people eager to see the despe-
RADIO.
Officers Dryer and the ex-Central rail
road policeman Wilson found some
difficulty in taking the man
through the excited crowd, some of whom
wanted to lynch him. Gilmores family is
respectable, and the cowardly shooting of
his wife enraged the neighbors and they
would liked to have seen Marshall suffer.
The officers we're reinforced by others, VINO
assisted in taking the negro in to the bar
racks. The charge of assault with intent
to murder was placed against him and he
was locked up.
When the wounded woman was taken
back to her home, and the nature of the
wound was known, the excitement was al
layed. The bullet went into the f1eshy part
of the hip and passed clear through, and
coming out buried itself in a mulberry tree
behind the woman. II was thought that
she had received a wound at both shots.
and the story was circulated that she was
shot In the head. When the physician ex-
planned that the woman's injuries were not
of serious nature, quiet was restored and
the streets we're cleared Of the people.
The shooting was result of an old
trouble between the families. 1t is
known that he has been carrying a
pistol sometime for the woman's husband
The Gilmore woman, it seems, made
some objection TO Marshalps locating a
woman in house opposite her own. She
claims to be reputable, living in a reput-
able part Of town and she refused to be
placed alongside of women who were not
respectable. This report reached the ears
of Marshall. He at once armed himself
and started out to get revenge on Gilmore,
he was afraid to broach H'i'H t6e
matter, and nothing had been heard about
1T. Yesterday when tie Gilmore woman
went down to a store, on the corner of
Little Jones and Purse streets, she met
Marshall.
GU ought TO be Killed." Marshall said
to her.
You'd better do it. them" retorted the
woman.
Come, don't say too much" replied
Marshall, ''or l will kill you"
Whsn the woman turned around, she
said that Marshall had his hand in his hip
pocket. She repeated what she said to him
and he whipped out the weapon aud said,
II will kill you" and began flring. She
said that she turned her side to him and
the second ball took effect. She screamed,
Pm shot," and the neighborS who were
attracted by the shooting ran uD and Mar
shall ran away with the revolver in his
hand.
Before being taken to, Jail Marshall in
sisted upon Giimore's ar. est, claiming that
he had threatened him, and that he was
afraid of him. Gilmore was arrested, but
when the sergeant on duty was told t e
charge against him, he was promptly dis
charged.