Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-11
SHOT In THE GROIN.
Mrs. Laura Myers Charged With Put
ting Bullet in Chas. Ramsey.
MO EXPLANATION OF THE DEED,
But It is Supposed to Have Been the Result
of a Lovers Quarrel.
SLIM CHANCE FOR THE MANS RECOVERY

When the 1850 train last evening on the
Baltimore and Ohio road arrived Detective
Stehen Jones. of Boston, got off with rather a
comely colored woman handcufed to his
wrist She is charged with shooting Charles
Ramsey, colored. at Douglass station. on the
Peemickey road, in the abdomen, and the
wound is so serious that DR.. Malone says he
can't live.
Her name is Mrs. Laura Myers, and she
lives in Youngstown. near Uniontown. Her
husband is hard working colored man. 1t
seems. according to the story told by De-
tective Jones, that Mrs. Myers came to
Boston, way station on the Baltimore and
Ohio road above McKeesport, yesterday
morning. She was in the house with
Ramsey the greater part of the day when
toward evening she said she would have to
make train. Both left the house.
Several men were standing nearby when
Ramsey rushed over to them crying that
he was shot. and asked them not to leave
shat woman shoot him. again." She very
cody walked down the road and sat among
the weeds, where big bulldog revolver Of
38 caliber was found afterward.
COURSE OF THE BULLET.
Ramsey was badly hurt The ball passed
through the groin into the abdomen, where
DR.. Malone probed for it. The woman was
brought into Ramsey's presence, and he said
that she shot him. When asked if there was
any reason why she had done it, he replied that
he didn't know.
Mrs. Myers denies that she shot Ramsey;
She claims that he once boarded with her and
that he owed her board bill. She says she
came to see him to get the money. Squire
Douglas committed the woman to jail. and she
was placed under Warden Berlin's care last
evening.
Mrs. Myers is very dark but has pretty feat
ures. She wore her best dress. which was
highly ornamented with blue velvet. When
she came to the jail she had on gossamer.
which she laid aside when she got in the corri-
dor.
Detective Jones doesn't know much abo1t the
woman's history, but he hasn't any doubt that
she shot Ramsey. The latter is about "a years
old, and quite handsome fellow. A colored
man who claims to know Mrs. Myers, said that
she was rather attached to the wounded man.
1t may be another tale of unrequited love. 1t
Is stated she was not more than nine feet away
from Ramsey when he was shot.
THE THIRD IN ONE DAY.
"Well," said Warden Berlin, as he closed
the big doors after he had put the woman in a
cell, this is the third person put in jail to-day
charged with murder. Yesterday had 16
murderers, now I have 49,"
A telegram received from West Newton last
evening in the main tells the above story. At s
o'clock last evening Ramsey who is a coke
drawer for Carnegie Bros. & Co., was still
living. but he is sinking fast. When asked for
further explanation of the affair he repeated
what Laura SAID:
''This has been going on long enough, dear
Charlie, and here and now am going to stop
it," She then drew the revolver from her dress
and shot me,n
Mrs. Myers stopped at the house of Samuel
Cook cOlored. When she met Ramsey the nair