The morning call., 1892-02-01
THE Fatal SHOT
DOLAN's STORY.

ton and called for all the sympathy and
gentle care which her relatives could be-
stow.
MISS DOLAN's STORY.
The young lady against whom Harper
made such brutal charges in his alleged de-
fense Is Miss Annie }. Dolan, a teacher in
the School Department of this city. She
resides with her parents on Church street.
near Twenty-second, and IN her appear
ance, manner and speech bellies the state
ments Of her lovers murderer.
Previous TO meeting her last evening, a
CALL reporter interviewed number Of her
friends and acquaintauces IN different parts
of the city, who were unit in praise OF her
mOdesty, her goodness and her truth, while
no words were strong enough TO convey
their adherence of her traducer's state
meuts.
According to the young lady's story, she
had been acquainted with Henry de Greayer
for a little over a year. He was suitOr for
her hand, and had he lived few weeks
longer he would have led her to the altar.
he was a frequent visitor TO her home, and
from none, not even herself, did he get a
warmer welcome on such occasions than
from her father, James J. DOlan, the veteran
Superintendent of the MarpOsa Land and
Mining Company for twenty-five years.
De Greayer's circumstances and condi-
tiOn of life were thoroughly known In the
Dolan household, and his suit for Miss An
nie's hand being approved, the young peO-
pie were allowed all the privileges of an en-
gagged couple. They were much in each
others society, visited their friends together
and occasionally rode out together.
THE FATAL RIDE.
On Saturday they met downtown while
Miss DOlan was shopping, and went out to-
gether to GlaZier's stables on HOf avenue,
where De Greayer kei his horse. The ami
nal was hitched up and the couple drove
out to the beach. They had reached the
neighborhOOd of the northeTn gate at which
the Powell cars drop their paSsen-
gers, before anything out Of the usual order
of things happened. There a mounted pa
trolman leaped out from some place OF con-
ceaIment and Sc zed the h0rse's head.
De Greayer, VINO had the reins, demanded
that the horse be let go, and heated argu-
ment between him and the officer followed.
In the midst of it De GreayeT, despite Miss
Dolan's TemOnstranceS, got out of the buggy
and continued his argument with the Of
fcer.
Just then the latter raised small pistol
and fred, ana Immediately jerked the
horses head sharp around and led the ami
nal TO the police quarters near the Park
superintendent office. While he was
doing this another shot was fired, but she
does not know by whom.
From the moment that Harper put his
hands on the bride until he escorted Miss
DOlan to headquarters the lady admits that
she was labOriug under considerable excite
ment, and even yesterday she was still so
unuerved as to be unable to detail the OC-
currences in the order of their happening.
When confronted with Harper's state
ment, however, she Indignantly denied the
charge that she or her companion were un-
der Inc influence Of drink or that they were
guilty of furious driving. Mr., de Greayer
was perfectly sober, she herself is strictly
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shadow of a foundation for the charge.
While she was in Harper's custody, how
ever. she pOurd her invectlve on his head
for his cowardly shot, as any woman In her
excited condition at tine time would.
HARPER CoNTRADICTED.
The statement that De Greayer used vile
language 10 the officer when he stepped out
of the buggy is also emphatically denied by
Miss Annie, who gave her lover credit for
too much refinement to be guilty of the
words in her presence.
Concerning the speed at which they were
travelling, Miss Dolan corrOb0rated the
statement of all of De Greayer's friends,
who assert that the horse is spirited one,
with a high nervous action; that for lack
of exercise, owing to De GreaYer's recent
attack of pneumonia. the animal was both
soft and fretful, and that all these cOndi-
tions gave the too hasty officer an impress
sion that ne may live to regret
Miss DOlan's statements are cOrrObOTated
by Miss GusSie Prague, the stenOgrapher at
Madison u Burke's real estate office, who
met the couple while they were downtown
shopping; by a carTiage-painter, who met
them subsequently and conVersed with De
Greayer about a bill; by the stable-keeper
on Hoff avenue; by the gentleman who
afterward drove her to her home, and by
Mrs. Weeks and little Harry de Greayer at
the deceased'S late residence
1t will not be well for Harper to repeat
the charges he has made if Miss DOlan's
vigorous old father Is present at the Inquest
to-day. He is determined that the muT-
derer must not try to shield himself by a
repetition of his brutal attack upon a
daughter for whom he will go any length
in upholding the good name he knows she
prizes above all else.
TIE AUTOPSY.
Soon after the wounded contractor
breathed his last his remains were re-
moved to the MOrgue. An autopsy was
made by Dr. r. E. Williams, and showed
that gunShot wound of the chest was the
cause of death.
The fatal bullet entered two inches from
the median line in front of the lett clavicle,
passed slightly downward to the right, sew
ering the left subelavlan artery and vein.
The ball was found lodged i'll the left side
just opposite the superior border of the
sterum. There was a slight abrasion OF the
left cheek as If from fall.
The deceased was very handsome, finely
proportoned man, weighing 200 pounds and
being feet inches IN height. He had
almost jet-black hair ana mustaehe anC
mild or ny eyes. He was aged 80 yeats and
a native.of England. His friends say thai
he was always of most j0yial disposition
and the last man in the world TO seek OF
cause quarrel.
DE GREAYER's HABITS.