Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-08-23
FOURTH EDITION.
TnE GREENnILL SHOOTING.

Alexander Boyd. the Man shot, In q
Precarious Condltion-Thomas Hooteu
Thinks He Knows Who Fired the
Shot.
The Greenhiil shooting case, 10 which
Alexander Boyd came near losing bis life
from shotgun in the hands Of horse
thief, caufes considerable excitement
wherever the parties are known. Boyd Ia
still at the Homeopathic Hospital, pep
pered from head to ioot with email shot.
Ills wounds are very painful. Thomas
hooten called TO see Lin this morning
aud found him suneriug very much, and
the physician, DR.. j. Paul Lukens, ex-
pressed himielf as being fearful that
blood poisoning might set in. Boyd Is
almt st confident that be could recognize
the man who shot him II he was brought
before him. He says he was q short,
chunky man with heavy mustache and
dressed In dark clothing.
Mr.. Hooten, whose horses only escaped
being stolen BY the shooting OF Boyd by
she thi.f was In the city this forenoon
sId called at Squire Smiths Office to
swear out n warrant fer the arrest oil
George Pierce, residing at Clayton street
and CLIP avenue, vi HON he charges with
the shooting Of Boyd and the attempted
theft OF bis horses Hoot II says that
last spring he and Pierce formed CO.
partnership for running line of hacks
between BAncroit's BaDks and this City,
but three weeks ago seeing the business
would not support DO Of them spoke to
Pierce about the matter. The latter grew
very angry aud decided to withdraw from
the firm. Tho next day Hooten and
Fierce met again when an angry altes-
cation of words ensuel, Pierce saying as
he left. "Ips all right, but III get
square, with you II 1 have to leave the
Mr.. Hoo,el III ught that what Pierce
said was but an idle threat, until he
heard the noise OF pistol In his yard,
lie and his hired man, Villa Winner,
ran out OF the house at the noise of the
pistcl ard found Boyd lying on the ground
at the end of the lane between his house
and Hooten's. They finding that lie had
been dangerously shot, carried him to
bis own house and tried 10 make him
feel as comfortable as possible. Joseph
8 peiShbos, hearing the shoot
ing buried to the scene and finding
what had been done hurried Ell for Dr..
X. p. Greenleaf, who lives but q short
away. The doctor soon arrived,
and alter picking out some shot from
Boyd's left arm got him qu.e;ed, when
he told the following:
~ heard noi.e In Hooten's stables,
and arose from my ted snd went to my
window. ] saw dim light in
the stable ard thought that Mr.. Houten's
hired man, William Winner, was feeding
his stock. | came down stairs, thinking
IL was time should feed my stock, and
procured my stable lantern and liz GIFTED
4. walked from my yard into Mr..
Hootsn's, and was within twenty feet Of
the barn door when 1t opened. A man
/ ointed q revolver at me and fired. 1t
must have been an old horse pistol, for
bad 1t been a gun 1t would surely have
killed me. The man then rushed past
me ard threw ne TO the grou-d. In
running he dropped the tridles at the
stable door, which he had in readiness
10 put on the horses. Irega.ned my
fee. aud ran after him yelling murder,
but lost sight of him 10 the darkness. /
got TO the nd OF The lane between my
house ard Mr.. Hooten's and then fell ex-
lausted."
ID lii g,'er, who liv,d on the farm a.
'ihh< ioJu o llaSr, says Et WAS In
!, wn little late on Wednesday night |
Ind on coming home, he saw man lid. |
ing up the pike on horseback before the |
.hooting, and the man lookel like Pierce.
He Jaw the horse afterwards Litched al |
he mouth OF Rising Sun lane. He saw
that 1t was a sorrel horse. After be got |
home and had gone up stairs, he heard
he shooting; when looking out of a win |
low, be saw man hurryiag down the |
he ply to the hitehtd borse, which he |
mounted and rode down the pike towards
Wilming'on at rapid pace. Mr.. Hooten
irmiy believes that the guilty man was
Pierce. No Other man, he says, knew
Tow to unlock the doors of the stable. |
md nobody but Pierce would have taken |
his dog and fastened It up In an clubhouse
belonging to a urighbor named Long. |
He was afraid he would make an alarm, |
md the dog knowing him submitted to
icing fastened up.
The would be thief got into the stable |
y getting on top OF maj ure pile and |
'ntering through small window On the |
iouth eide, aud that something dropped |
md gave the alarm to Boyd.
Mr.. Hooten this forenoon, after consul |
alton with the Attorney General Of the |
state and Squire Smith, has for the pes |
1T post 7oneI the swearing out OF a war
ant Tor Pierce's arrest.