The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-12
A MYSTERIES SHOOTING.
A Riverside Shoe ing Which Nobody Knows
Much About.


AT late hour last night a report of g
pistol was heard on the river near River
side PARK and then all was stiffness again.
Later on some loud talking was heard but
nobody could be seen. a hack was seen
| driving from that direction but neither
/ the number OF the hack or its driver could
| be learned. Those who heard the shot
! thought something serious had
occurred but no details could
| be learned At l o'clock this
morning an EAGLE reporter visited the
| neighborhood but in that particular place
could find no clue to the mysterious shot.
On North Main street, however, a colored
boy who, with a number of other young
| men were fishing on the river was seen
and he told the following story:
Il was down at the river about 12 o'clock
when we heard some loud talking within
about the distance of a block. 1t sounded
like it was the voice of an angry
man and there was evidently d
dispute over something. All at once the
talking ceased, and about two minutes
afterwards we heard the report of pistol
AT first We were afraid to go down to
where we heard it, but soon our nerve
came to US and we gradually stole down
through the brush, but when we reached
the place where we thought the sound
came from we could see nobody.
We were about TO return to
our lines when l thought 1
heard somebody grooming. Just
then the train whistled and the
voice was drowned. We made another
search but could find nobody. | thought
then it was on the other side of the river
and having no boats we did not try to get
over. l am pretty sure that somebody
must have been hurt. Frank Dunn rail-
road man in the Missouri Pacific yards
was seen and he stated that he saw two or
three coiored men passing up Second
street and that one of them appeared
to be suffering great pain as he was groan-
ing and moaning at intervals. Now the
case became exciting and it was evident
that somebody was hurt, but nothing
whatever could be found of the men or any
trace of them afterwards.
Later on the reporter met boy at the
corner of Douglas and Main who said that
a colored man had inquired of him where
the telegraph Office was and he seemed to
was something wrong he could not find
out what it was
Still later a man on East Douglas avenue
was found who heard that coiored man
named George Smith of Hutchinson had
been shot through the stomach and that
he was expected to die at any moment. He
said the man was taken to some house on
East Douglas avenue, he thought the
Sherman house which is kept by two
colored men. He stated that the man who
told him had seen Smith and that Smith
in expectation of death had order
ed some friends to send a |
telegram to Mollie Smith of Hutchinson
telling her TO come down on the first train. |
The Sherman house was visited at |
o'clock but no one would answer the re-
peated knocking at the door. All the |
stories being put together furnished no |
details beyond the fact that George Smith |
WAS shot through the stomach and was |
expected to die.
The police was notified at 2 o'clock this |
and they were hunting up the
Ease when the local page of the EAGLE |
closed. There is something mysterious |
about the whole matter which viii I'M
bear investigation of stringent |
order.