The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-07
Another TrngedK st. Panl.

To be shot dead in the street by q woman
O the town on whom he had once bestowed
the affections OF a lover was the fate which
John W. Doherty unconsciouSly met when he
LETT his desk in the ST. Paul office of the
American Express company to go to supper
on Wednesday, evening, Feb. 9th.
Calculating his movements with an exact
ness born of previous observations Lizzie
Hart, who has been notorious member of
the Gemi monde for five years. going by
the assumed names of Clara BlatZ and
Clara Doherty, was coming down the
south side of Fifth street as lie turn
ed into that thoroughfare from Jack
son street where the express Office is,
as she crossed Robert street she saw him COM
ing halfway down the block. Keeping close
to the side of the bill boards which wall the
vacant corner lot there she slackened her
pace. Doherty was walking fast. He might
have noticed her, but he showed no sign of
it as he passed her, about seventy-five feet
east OF Robert street. She whiTled around
as he went by, drew the revolver from her
maff, and exclaimed, Take that, you--of
d and fred. The buletenteredh his back
lust below the the left shoulder blade, and
was taken out afterWard from where
it lodged beneath the skin in the center of
his breast. 1t must have gone near the
heart. He staggered forward two
or three steps and fell face downward across
the stone sidewalk with his face toward the
gutter.
When they rushed to the spot the woman
was standing over Doherty's PROSTATE body
surveying her work with critical eye, in
tense passion shoEe in her white face, but
she did rot treD,ble or weep. The blood
surged from the dying man nose and mouth,
and little stream trickled across the walk
and stained her shoes. She did not move IN
| til Policeman Casserly came and took her
by the arm. Then she pulled the revolver
| ont of her rnuff handed it to him sionified by
| nod that she was ready to go. Not q word
was spoken until after she was lodged in q
| ce at the central station.
| The bystanders picked Doherty up and car
RED him into u laundry Office across the
street. He was still breathing and seemed to
be trying to talk. His lips moved, but there
came no sound. In ten minutes he was dead.
Lizzie Hart might still be called hand-
| some but Tor the braZen look which is the
symbol of her calling, and the slightly dis
located nose.
The man she murdered was truly an
Apollo. Only twenty-six years old, OF medi-
u1n height. with finely cut, clean-shaven
features, and close-cropped, curly black hair,
weighing about It's pounds John Doherty,
! or Doc" Doherty as hewas Familiarity called,
was we'll fitted to command the admiration
OF women. He was snowy dresser, and of
| pleasing manners. 1t was Lizzie Hart 8
| jealousy of his suspected attentions to other
| women that most frequently started their
| frequent quarrels.
| Doherty had been FOR six years an employee
! of tie express company, and he was well
! liked by both his superiors and his fellows.
| They do not believe the womans stories OF
brutality. Doherty has no relatives here.
| He was reared at Tilsonberg, Canada, but
since he came West his parents have moved
| to WaVerly, Oak, where the father runs q
large farm