The Brookhaven leader., 1890-03-06

BLOOD AT THE CAPITOL.

ES-Congressman w. r. Taulbee shot and
Dangerously Wounded at the Portal Of
the National Capitol by Charles n. Kim
caid, Washington Correspondents OF the
Louisville (ky.l Times-An Insult sharp
Iy Resented.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-A sensation.
al shooting affair occurred at the Capt
tol to-day, in which the principals were
an Congressman and a well-known
newspaper man. Both are Kentuck-
ians. w. p. Taulbee, VINO represented
a Kentucky district in the House
during the Forty-ninth and Fifth
eth Congresses, was the VIC
tim, and Charles Z. Kincaid,
the Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Times, did the shooting. The
House was engaged in its deliberations
when Kincaids pistol-shot reverberated
through the corridors Of the Capitol.
The hour was about twenty minutes be-
fore two o'clock. A minute later the
House was almost empty and a 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 was ac-
companied by Ex-Doorkeeper 5. M.
Donaldson. Kincaid came down the
steps behind the pair, and in 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 a wound directly
below the left eye. Taulbee did not APP
pear to be 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 Taulbee 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
DIR. Clarence Adams, of this city. Kin
cald meanwhile had not endeavored to
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 Kim
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; I'm too weak. I've just been
through an attack of typhoid" Here
he halted and cried: Catch me! feel
faint" He acted like a 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, it
is S1lu, IN CHe SepdrdtiOH oL
Mr.. and Mrs Taulbee. Since the
publication of that story, year ago.
Kincaid and Taulbee had not met until
O short time after noon to-day, when
Taulbee accosted Kincaid near the east
lobby door of the house, called him
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 Kin
caid armed himself and hunted Taul-
bee up.
Later a reporter of the United Press
saw Kincaid in his cell and had a brief
conversation with him. Kincaid said
that Taulbee had been bounding linn 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, 'he insulted me and
said that / was a coward, and that
would not resent his insults. l told
him to leave me alone or he would find
out what / would do. Later he insulted
me again, and l shot him."
Removed to the Hospital.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2s.-Ex Repre-