Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-09
NERVE OF A BRUTE.
Playing Dice With Bullet
Through His Body.
He FIRST SHOOTS Els SWEETHEART,

The Bullet Passing Just Below Her
Heart and Fatally wounding Her
Dramatic Scene I'm Chicago Barber
Shop-A Polish ''BIafia" Unearthed in
Observation-Disclosures Together to De-
feat Jusiice-Bioody Fight of Two
Texas Black Amazons.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-Pretty Blanche Gle
ment was shot down at her fathers door,
at 9o Blue Island avenue, last night, by
her lover, Jesse Osborne. With married
sister, she had gone to the Church of
Notre Dame, on Sibley street, to seek the
services of prizes. at a sick bed. When
the sisters hurried down the avenue from
the church and were about to turn in at
their own door, Osborne confronted
taem and asked Blanche to grant him
hearing. She stopped while her sister
hurried into the house. Osborne's eyes
had the look that liquor sometimes gives
a man. He had been drinking-Miss
Clement soon discovered that. For long
time he had been jealous-ever since she
refused to elope with him, in fact.
Pinioned and Shot.
Osborne accused the girl of having at
tended theatre with another young man.
To this accusation he added a wild appeal
for her hand in marriage In answer she
attempted to brush by him Osborne held
her back. He coiled an arm tightly around
her waist and pressed her closely to him.
Having thus pinioned her he drew a re
volver from pocket, and, pushing its
barrel between the lapels of her cloak, he
fired. The girl struggled, flung herself
from him, and reeled into the street.
Osborne turned and fired again. This
bullet also struck her, and she fell. Then
be fired a shot into his own breast. But
II did not strike vital spot
Goodness of the Siiscreant
In fact, it did not seem to trouble him
much, for he buttoned his overcoat over
the ugly hole in his waistcoat, walked
down the street and into barber shop at
lis Blue Island avenue where he is en-
ployed. There he shook dice with two
men for the cigars. One of them tossed
three skies out of the box His compan-
ion threw three fives and two trays Full
house to beat said Osborne, who was
more sober now than when he shot at his
sweetheart down the street moment
before. And he dropped the rafting
ivory cubes into the well-worn box and be
gan to wave the box gracefully, while the
dice chuckled merrily, and he sent them
tumbinS on TO the glass top OF a cigar
show case.
I've Got Aces and Fours.''
by the way" said one of the men.
what was that shooting outside a while
agoy'
ooh, nothing" replied Osborne; "a fell
low just shot his girl and himself, that's
all. Let's see; I've got aces and fours,r
and all the while his blood was rushing
from him.
1t was just then that Officers Grady and
Daily, of the Despiaines street station,
swung into the shop and arrested Osborne.
When their big mittens fell on his shout
ders he tainted. and was trCndled to the
county hospital in a patrol wagon.
Miss Clement Badly Wounded.
When Osborne had embraced the girl
and shot her the bullet had torn an awful
wound in her breast, but an inch below
the heart. When he had fired at her as
she tottered across the street the ball had
lodgei in her ankle. The officers who ar
rested Osborne had been but half block
away when the shots were fired, but
the neighborhood was still and they
stopped to bear poor Blanche Clement
into her home. Doctors who examined
Miss Clement said the wound in her breast
would prove fatal in all probability
Osborne shot himself in the left breast
but missed his heart, as he had missed
that of his love. So he will recover, and
two policemen linger near his cot in the
hOSDital ward r-Iror1