The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-14
MORTALITY WOUNDED.
A Wellkn0wn COlOred Crook
OfThiS City Shot in Kan
SaS City.
Joe Williams and John Fry At
tempt to Rob a Clothing
Store and are Caught.

OtOic duu dEt SduSu III.
Joe Willsms wellknown colored tougl
: of this city was shot and MORALLY wounde,
in Kansas CITY Friday night while tryin,
, to escape arrest. The Kansas City Time
of Yesterday morning contains the follow
ing account of the affair.
Williams and a negro named John Fry
entered the clothing ST re of j. b. Barnaby
& Co., Ills Main street, and pretending &c
want to buy a suit of clothes each. They
were waited on by Mr.. L. 5. Dean sales
man in the store. Williams selected q sui
Of clothes and had it wrapped up aud laid
to one side, saying he would come to-day
and pay for it. Fry then started to select
a snit, Mr.. Deans attent on was taken from
Williams be picked up six pairs of fine
trousers and showed them under his coat
tried to sneak ont. As several rObberies OF
this kind had been committed in the house
within the past six months, all of the clerk
were watchful OF suspicious customers and
MIR. Dean saw Williams trying to make
of with the goods. he at once ran
around the counter and grabbed him, at
the same time calling for assistance. Mr..
b. NJ. Henry, another clerk, ran to the
forward end of the store, but before he got
there Williams, dropping the pants with
the remark, Heres your Clothes" tore
loose from Mr.. Dean and ran out of the
store. Fry followed him and on the out
side they were joined by a third negro. All
three men dashed up Main toward
Twelfth, with Messers. Dean and Henry
after them crying "Stop thief"
When near the corner the unknown ne
60 dropped out of the chase and was lost
in the crowd. Fry and Williams contin-
ued up the street and at the corner of
Twelfth street Fry was caught and held by
Officer Knapp. Williams turned in
Twelfth toward Walnut with a crowd of
fully 100 people after him, yelling stop
thief" At the alley between Main and
Walnut Sergeant PatSheehey. of the Pink
erton protective police was standing, and
as Williams dash ed toward the alley he
called on him to halt. The negro turned
up the alley at redoubled speed. Sergeant
Sheehey called him a second time to halt,
and he failing to do so fired two shots into
the ground. This only seemed 10 increase
the speed of the flying negro, and after call
ing on him twice more to halt Sheehey
raised his revolver and fired point blank
at the flying negro. The bullet entered
Williams's back to the right and just be-
low the sixth vertebrate of the spinal col
umn. Ii ranged upward and lodged in
the lungs near the heart.
In the meantime Officer Todhunter of
the metropolitan police force had heard,
the shots fired and had hurried into the
alley from Thirteenth street. He met
Williams just rs Sh ,hey fired the fatal
shot Williams threw up his hands and
tumbled headlong into Officer Todhunter's
arms.
The poll, ambulance WIS called and
the wounGed negro and his partner, Fry,
were removed to the central station, and
from there Williams was taken 10 the city
hospital. d.. Iuen dr. ssed his wound at
the police station and pronounced it fatal
Williams and Fry are old offenders and
both haye been in Jail here several times.
The officers now have warrant for Will
iams for drawing a revolver on Jake |
Schulz year or so ago. Schulz IVES al
that time employed at the 'cond street
egg and chicken house and one night hap |
pened to catch Williams stealing chickens |
from the coops back of the store. Schulz |
attempted 10 arrest him but Williams
drew a revolver and Schulz let him escape. |
He then aed the town and has not been
heard of since until now.
A Promising Young Lawyer.
After the jury were discharged Satur-
day, Judge Field entered upon the ex-
animation of Mr.. Joe Bryson, promising
young gentleman connected with the law
department of the NJ. K. & I. railroad,
who applied for license to practice law.
The Judge asked him easy GU .tions to
start with but - the gentleman demon
strated his ability to answer the judge bore
harder upon him; taking him through the
most difficult parts of the law OF real
dwelling upon vested contingent
executive devices, uses and
trust, and closing with an examination on
equity. The answers of the applicant eiic-
tied the commentator of the Judge
and the admiration of the lawyers present.
After conducting the examination for an
hour and quarter Judge Field remarked
to Mr.. Bryson that it afforded him pleas
IRE to grant him license to practice law.
Many whose occupation are OF a seden-
farv characrar often have the feeling of