Huntsville gazette., 1890-03-08
BLOOD AT THE CAPITOL

| E1-Congressman w. p. Taulbee Shot and
4 dangerously Wounded at the Portal of
the National Capitol by Charles e. Kim
caid, Washington Correspondent of the
Louisville (ky.) Times-An Insult Sharp
| ly Resented.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-A sensation
al shooting affair occurred at the Capt.
tol to-day, in which the principals were
an ex-Congressman and well-known
newspaper man. Both are Kentuck-
1ans. w. 2. Taulbee, who represented
a Kentucky district in the House
during the Forty-ninth and Fifth
], eth Congresses, was the vic
tim, and Charles E. Kincaid,
| the Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Times, did the shooting. The
House was engaged in it's deliberati ons
when Kincaid's 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 great
crowd Of excited employees and others
was hurrylng 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 S. M.
Donaldson. Kincaid came down the
steps behind the pair, and in hur-
r1ed 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, tho
blood streaming from 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 a 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 moment. The room was too small
to allow proper attention to be admins
| 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 a physician, and
| DR.. 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.
| nj tod tn X
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 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 said in the separation OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Taulbee. Since the
publication Of that story, year ago,
| Kincaid and Taulbee had not met until
| a 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
lis 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 brief
conversation with him. Kincaid said
| that Taulbee had been bounding him for
a 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 cTaulbee).
..When he came up to me this morn
| ing" said Kincaid, ''he insulted me and
| SAID b1ab was Il COWdru, anu IHd1
would not resent his insults | 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-
sentative Taulbee has been carried
from his rooms to the hospital and an
examination made. The physicians
state that they are unable to say whether
or not the wound will prove fatal, as
it has not vet been ascertained If the
bullet touched the spinal column. The
symptoms of the patient, however, at
this time are favorable.
The Wounded Man Resting Quietly.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-Ex-Congress
man Taulbee is resting quietly tonight,
and the physicians are inclined to take
i hopeful view of his case.
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