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

To be shot dead in the street by woman
O the town on whom he had once bestowed
the affections OF lover was the fate which
John W. DOherty unconsciOusly met when he
let his desk in the st. Paul office of the
American Express company to go to supper
on Wednesday, evening, Feb. 9th
Calculating his M DTemPntS with an exact
ness born of previous observations Lizzie
Hart. WHO has been n notorious member of
tie Gemi monde for five wears. going by
the assumed names of Clara BIatz and
Clara DohHrty, 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 rs he passed her, about seventy-five feet
east of Robert street She whiIled around
rs he went by, drew the revolver from her
muff, and exclaimed, Take that, you-of
d" and fired. The bullet entered his back
just below the the left shoulder blade, and
was taken out aftprward 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 D0herty S PROSTATE body
surveying her work with critical eye in
tense passion shoLe in her white face, but
she did rot trambIe or weep The blood
furgeI from the dying man nose and mouth,
and little stream tricklel across the walk
and stained her shoes. She did not move un-
til Policeman Casserly came and took her
by the arm. Then she pulled the revolver
out OF her muf, handed it to him signifed by
Il nod that she was ready to 90. Not q word
was spoken until after she was lodged in a
CO at tie central station.
The bystonders picked Doherty up and car
red him into laundry Office across the
street. He was still breathing and seemed to
lie 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 lraZcn look which is the
symbol of her calling, and the slightly dis
located nose.
The man she murdered was truly an
Apollo Only twcnty-six years old, OF medi-
uln height. with finely cut, clean-shaven
features, and c!ose-crGpped, curly black hair,
weighing about ITO pounds john DOherty,
CT Doc" Doherty as hewGs familarly called
was well fitted to command the admiration
OF women. He was n shOwy dresser, and OF
pleasing manners. 1t WIS Lizzie Hart q
jealousy of his suspected attentions to other
women that NOS: frequently started their
freGuemt quarrclS.
DOherty had been 'or six years an employe
Of tie express company, and he was well
liked by both his superioTs and his fellows.
They do not believe the womans stories o
brut ality. Doherty has no relatives here.
He was reared at Tilsonherg. Canada. but
since he came West his parents have moved
to WaVery, Oak, where the father runs q
large farm