The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-13
THE FATAL BULLET.
SHOT DEAD in THE CAB OF AN
ENGINE.
Zaek Aleywine, Night Waterman Of
Il. & N. Ga. II. r., Killed by
Bob Howell.

clearly on the air Wednesday night, of last
week. about eleven o'clock, and immediate
ly human voice in the agony of death
hollered "Oh, Lordy o, Lordy I am
shotp
These distressing cries came from the
shops of the Marietta and North Georgia
Railroad Attracted b. them, Mr.. George
G. Hames, who lives near the shops came
to his door and hearing voice which he
seemed to recognize, enquired, Is that
you Bob Howell, kicking up that racket
over there?" No response being made,
Mr.. Hames again asked, Bob Howell, did
you do that shootingY' And the answer
came back, Eyes, and have shot lack
Aleywine, and would shoot any man who
would run on me with pistol"
Mr.. Hames Immediately went over to
the scene of the tragedy, and by this time
other persons had arrived, among them
Mr.. W. B. Bradley, Auditor of the road,
and an employee named j. L. Jones, who
slept in a car near by, and W. G. Simp-
son. Jones procured lighted torch, and
in the cab of engine Ro n lay the pros.
trate form of lack Aleywine, night
Waterman of the Railroad shops. An
ugly wound in centre of the breast was
observed, and the man was gasping his
last breath, and in second he was dead
The Mortified spectators carefully exam
ined the surroundings, in the cab and un>
der it, and found no pistol or instrument
of death near the dead man. Among the
duties of the night Waterman is to clean
up the engines, and Mr.. Aleywine was on
the engine for that purpose, and when shot
he sank to the floor of the cab, and was
found in sitting posture with his head
leaning against the fremans box The
fatal shot was a centre one, cutting in
twain his watch chain and penetrating the
breast bone, tracturing it and seyering an
artery, the profuse flow of blood resulting
in death. The deceased was removed tc
the shops. where his person was searched
in order to find bunch of keys to oper
} the Office door. In his pocket the keys
were found, and also an unopened knife
Aleywine's pistol was found in the pocket
of his overcoat, which was hanging up in
the Office
After Bob Howell had shot Aleywine, he
went to his home and told his father and
mother, stating that he had shot Aleywine
in selfdefense, as he was attempting to
kill him with some instrument that he
held in his hand-that he was compelled
to do it to save his life-but he didn't
know whether the shot had killed him or
not
Mr.. Archibald Howell, the father of the
young man, went over to the shops and
found Mr.. Aeywine dead. Mr.. Howell
and Bob at once started to Hon. A. S..
Clay residence to obtain legal advice and
employ him as counsel About the time
they entered Mr.. Clay's residence, Marshal
| A. 7. Colyell, Mayor T. W. Glover and
Sheriff P. o. McLain came up and knock
ed for admittance. In a few minutes the
door was opened. and Mr.. Bob Howell was
arrested and carried to the JAIL where he
was incarcerated, his friend Mr. Arthur
Gibbs, remaining in the cell with him the
balance of the night.
The pistol that fred the deadly bullet
was given to Mr.. Clay by Mr.. Howell
Thursday morning Coroner George w
Green, of Kennesaw, was on hand to hole
an inquest. The following jury was sam
moned and sworn in: Thos. II. Shockley
t Foreman, w. s. N. Neal, Secretary, L
Black, Robert Baber, j. D. Northcutt, C
T. Carnes, J. H. Bate G. 7. Swan, Geo
s. Owen, G. l.. Daniel, P. T. Handy, ant
l. H. Springer
DR.. r. J. Seize was called upon to ex
anime the body of the deceased and thu
!, , wound. In his testimony he stated thai
the ball had fractured the breast bone
| severed an artery, and death resulted from
the loss of blood.
The testimony of the other witnesses
went to show that the difficulty originated
, over the sale OF some potato slips sold to
! Howell by Aleywine, the price involved
being $l.O5, which Howell promised to
! send to Aleywine at once. For some rea,
3 son he delayed doing so, and Aleywine
sent Mr.. Chalker and negro man at diff
ferent times, for the money, which seem
ed to have irritated Howell, and he told
Chalker tbat Aleywine must think that he
t was trying to beat him out Of the money
and to tell Aleywine that he owed his
father $40 or $l2 house rent Of long stand
ing, and that he would come up there tina
night and see him about it. Aleywint
on receiving the message denied to Chalk
er that he owed the house rent. The ne
gro carried back similar message t
Aleywine about coming up there tina
night and seeing him about it.
! Nearly eleven o'clock that night, How