The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-02
SHOT WHILE ASLEEP.
NEGROES FATALLY WOUNDED By
A COMPANION.

Load OF bQCkSQOL AnLO bnS Ol0S Vi
William Williams and Nearly Tears
Off William Green's Leg-The Men
Shot While in a Drunken stupor on
a Door Step-The Probable Muir
derer Escapes, But Bis Companion
Arrested as an Accomplish.
William Green and William Williams
were shot yesterday morning shortly after
I o'clock by Isaac Tison at Gwinnett and
OFT streets All the parties are colored. A
double barreled breech-loading shotgun
was the weapon used Both men were shot
at close range.
One entire load entered Williams right
side and tore ii TO pieces. The other shat
tered Green's left leg from the knee to the
ankle, rendering amputation necessary. The
wounded men are at the Georgia infirm-
airy in an unconscious condition. DR..
Weichselbaum has pronounced Williams
wound fatal. He cannot survive long. The
chances ara also against Green's recovery,
as the shook he received from the wound in
his leg is unusually severe His is in al
most as weak a condition as Williams.
Tison escaped at the time, but two of his
companions, who were present at the shoot
ing, John Fields and Warner Jackson, are
locked up at the barracks, the former as an
accessory and the latter as witness.
TIE RESULT OF A CRAPS GAME.
The shooting was the result OF q Satnr-
day night card and whisky party. Green,
Williams, Tison, Fields, jackson and an
other negro named Jenkins were at Green's
house on OFT street playing 'craps" and
drinking whisky from shortly after mid
night Tison and jackson were armed the
former with shotgun and the latter with a
rifle. About o'clock the game broke up
with all the participants in highly intoxi-
Gated condition. They started off with the
intention of going over 60 Lover lane and
staying until daylight. Fields, Williams and
Green led the way and Ttson and jackson,
who We're very drunk, staggered along
slowly behind.
At Gwinnett and OFT streets the advance
party decided to wait until they came up
and have some more fun. Williams aud
Green sat on the steps Of house and Fields
stood in front of them. When Tison
reached the trio he seemed to be very much
excited and was cursing in a loud and bols-
ferrous manner, Walking up TO Fields, who
had an empty pistol, belonging him, Tison
leveled his gun and demanded the weapon,
saying he proposed to kill him.
SHOT WHILE ASLEEP.
Fields ran across the street to avoid being
shot, and then Tison turned his gun di-
rectly toward Williams aud Green, who
were doing of their debauoh on the steps,
aud pulled both triggers at the same time.
As the shot struck the sleeping men they
spraug forward screaming. aud fell upon
their faces Blood gushed out from their
wounds and soaked tue ground sround
them, while they writhed and groaned in
agony. The shooting seemed to sober
Tison, and for q few minutes he stood along
side his victims until he realized fully what
he had done Then he turned to run.
Fields, in the meantime, had come from
WI bn had run m ryOfd
the same fate that befell Williams and
Green. He jumped in front Of Tison and
ordered him TO stop, but he only replied by
pointing the empty gun at his would-be
captor. Fields grapped the gun and twist
ed IL out OF Tison'S hands, and at the same
time Tison bolted out the street TO ward the
Thunderbolt road and escaped.
Fields first alarmed the neighbors, 80
they could attend to the wounded men, and
then ran to Justice Davidson's house aud
awoke him. The justice hurried to the
scene, and, seeing 1t was useless to attempt
to follow Tison, he telephoned TO the police
barracks OF the shooting.
TYSON CAPTURED.
The ambulance and force Of mounted
officers were at once hurried to the scene
The policemen went out the Tnunderbolt
road and searched every place in the neigh>
borhood OF the shooting without getting
any trace Of Tison. Afterward they
dTIsSueu FleLus, VINO ndQ the gun which
had done the work, and jackson.
Detective Morgan, together with Con-
stables Lawrence and Nichols and Sam
Robinson OF Justice DaVidson's court.
captured Tison last night about 10 80 O'Clock.
The officers found him secreted in the house
OF friend in field beyond the Belt Line
bridge. Detective Morgan went to work
early in the morning to locate Tison. and
last night he heard that the negro had a
friend III the southeastern suburbs whom he
had been in the habit of visiting The officer
at once jumped to the conclusion that il was
probably the place where the would-be MUIR
derer was most apt to hide on account of its
isolation. he secured the assistance of the
colored constables and went out about 10
O'Clock. They eavesdropped around for a
little while and finally heard Tison's voice
inside.
CAUGHT UNAwARRs.
Detective Morgan knocked on the door,
and the occupants, never suspecting that
officers were around, opened 1t without
question. The detective and his two
assistants entered at once, and before Tison
was hardly aware of what was transpiring
be was covered with revolvers. Seeing the
odds were against him, the negro surren-
oered quietly and was handcuffed and taken
TO jail. He denied the shooting and said
Fields was the man who committed the
crime. This is not true, however as both
the wounded men made ante-mortem state
ments to Detective Morgan yesterday be-
fore they became unconscious. They both
said I1son was the man who shot them as
when they were hit and jumped up they
saw Tison standing by them with the gun.
Williams opinion was that his first inten-
tlon was to shoot Fields.
Iison was employed at Alderman Will
lam +. Reid's drug store as porter Up
TO the present trouble he has always borne
fairly good reputation.
At midnight Williams was reported as
sinking rapidly. with indications pointing
TO his death within q few hours There
was no Improvement in Green, either, and
he was still unconscious
While Fields denies any completely In the
crime, the officers feel satisfied that he Is
an accessory, and that the pointing of the
gun at him first by Tison was only a ruse,
and that the intention all the time was to
kill Green and Williams. who had been
guying both Tison and Fields early in the
night for being dudes. They came near
having a fight several hours before the
shooting, and it is supposed the affair
Afterward was one Of revenge.
BACK IN HIS PULPIT.