The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-22
ALMOST A MURDER.
Negro workmen on the Terry building
Quarrel and Then Fight,


Sharp Arlington, hod-carrier, both
negroes employed on the Terry build
ing, had dispute yesterday morning
about 10 o'clock over q hammer, which
narrowly escaped ending in murder.
Arlington, it appears, moved tho
hammer, which Harris had been using,
to dump hod of mortar, and the latter
cursed him. Arlington retorted in kind
and fight onsued.
| The hod-carrier had decidedly tho best
OF the encounter, but did not push his
advantage, letting Harris get up after
having thrown him, and started to walk
away.
Harris was Infatuated, and ran to
where his clothes were hanging and got
his pistol, dcadly-looking six-shootcr,
calibre 30
Seeing Harris thus armed. Arlington
! started toward him with a rock, and
Harris fired, the ball taking effect in
| Arrington's right side.
Arlington closed in upon Harris and
! grasped tho pistol just as the hammer
fell for second shot, and the act
saved his life, for the pistol was lust
against his body, and when the hammer
fell it cut the finger which was between
it and the cartridge.
Here the workingmen gathered
around the combatants, and George
Smith took the pistol from the strug-
| Cling mon.
Officer J. II. Vest, attracted by the
pistol Shot, ran to the scene, but
before he could get there Harris had
escaped.
Vest took Arlington to DR.. Buckner's
| Office. near the corner of jefferson
street and Salem avenue, where the ball
was extracted and the wound dressed.
! The wound was a slight one, as it
struck glancing blow and did not pene-
trate much below the skin 1t is the
opinion Of all who examined the pistol
that the cartridge which exploded was
a defective one, or Arrington's life
would have paid the penalty.
| From DIR. Buckner's office Vest con-
veyed Arlington to the station-house
and went in search of Harris.
While the crowd was yet assembled
and discussing the narrowly avertcd
tragedy, George Smith, who had taken
! the pistol from Harris and still retained
1t, became involved IN /; quarrel with
Joseph Phillips, and this quarrel ended
in Smith trying to shoot Phillips. but
during the scuflle between Arlington
{ and Harris the weapon had gotten out
| of order and did not explode on being
snapped
At this juncturc Officer Weldon made
his appearance and arrested Smith, and
took him before Mayor Evans, whose
court was yet in session, and he who
had SO recently acted as peacemaker
was fined $3.50 for disorderly conduct
the mayor attributing his threats and
attempt to shoot to the excitement of
the moment
Harris has not been captured, and mas
probably left town.
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