The Russellville Democrat., 1890-03-06
BLOOD AT THE CAPITOL.

Ex-Congressman W. P. TauIbee Shot and Dangerously Wounded at the Portal of tho National Capitol by Charles E. Kim caid, Washington Correspondent Of the Louisville fKy.l Times--An Insult sharp Iy Resented.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.--A sensation al shooting affair occurred at the Capi- tol today, in which the principals were an ex-Congressman and a well-known newspaper man. Both are Kentuck- ians. W. r. Taulbee, who represented a Kentucky district in the House during the Forty-ninth and Ess+-.= eth Congresses, the yic- tim. and Charles F. Kincaid, i the Washington correspondent of the Louisville Times, did the shooting. The House was engaged in It's deliberations when Kincaid's pistol-shot reverberated through the corridors of the Capstta.. The hour was about twenty minutes be- fore two o'clock. A minute later the House was almost empty and great crowd of excited employees and others
 was hurrying through the corridors | toward the scene Of the shooting. Taul- bee was shot while coming down one of | the stairways that leads to the base
 ment wing of the Capitol. He wasac- companied by Ex-Doorkeeper $. NJ. Donaldson. Kincaid came down the steps behind the pair, and in a hur- ried manner touched Taulbee on the shoulder. The ex-Congress-
 man wheeled sharply around, and
 Kincaid. raising his weapon, one
 of small caliber, pulled the trigger. Taulbee fell back against the wall, the
 blood streaming from wound directly below the left eye. Taulbee did not ap- pear to bc badly injured. He walked in an uncertain manner down the steps, and then was assisted to little cubby- hole called the janitor's office. A great pool of blood marked the spot in the threshold of the doorway to this room where Tnulbee had halted for a moment. The room was too small to allow proper attention to be adminis- tered to him, and he was taken to the room of the committee on public build ings and grounds. Just around the corner of the corridor, where medical at- tention was given by Representative Yoder, of Ohio, who is physician, and Dr. Clarence Adams, of this city. Kin tdlu UlCdn VI Dtic hdo kiot thASafOAOA co
 get away. He leaned against the wall of the staircase utterly weakened, and later walked quietly away with the Capitol policeman who arrested him. "I'm the man that did it, he said to the policeman, in an aimless manner. He was taken to the Capitol guard-room, and later to police station.
 A United Press reporter spoke to Kin caid as he was being led from the guard room to the cab that conveyed him to the station. He seemed utterly helpless and in answer to an inquiry if
 he had any thing to say, replied Not
 now; Pm too weak. I've just been through an attack of typhoid" Here he halted and cried: Catch mel feel
 faint He acted like man who had lost control of his nerves.
 Taulbee was taken to his boarding
 house on Capitol Hill about half an
 hour after the shooting. Dr. Adams said that he could not tell how serious the wound was, but he thought that
 Taulbee would recover. The trouble grew out of the publication in the Louisville Times of scandalous story about Taulbee which resulted, 1t is said, in the separation of
 Mir. and Mrs. Taulbee. Since the publication of that story, year ago, Kincaid and Taulbee had not met until short time after noon to-day, when Taulbee accosted Kincaid near the east
 lobby door of the house, called him a liar and pulled his ear. Kincaid, who Is just recovering from an attack of typhoid fever, told Taulbee that he was unable to cope with him physically and that he was unarmed. Taulbee then went away. Later Kim caid armed himself and hunted Taul- bee up
 Later a reporter of the United Press saw Kincaid in his cell and had brief conversation with him. Kincaid said that Taulbee had beon bounding him for long time and threatening his life. He had been told by great many news paper correspondents that Taulbee had said that he was mot fit to live;" that he was a coward, and that he would
 better keep an eye on him (Taulbee). When he came up to me this morn- ing" said Kincaid, The insulted me and
 said that I was coward, and that l would not resent his insults. I told him to leave me alone or he would find out what would do Later he insulted me again, and shot him."