The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-27
TAKEN AWAY TO DIE.
Victim of HarriSon's Bullet
Struggled Out of the City.
FRANkLIN'S LIFE DEsPAIRED OF.
carried by Pretended Father and
brother to shanty in the Valley
Shielding Harrison.

William Franklin, the negro wounded by
.haries Harrison, also colored, in a shooting af-
Tray at Newcastle, January 4, and who has been
missing from Providence hospital since the 18th
iasl-' IL Tying in a shanty on the Duwamish
river At the point of death. He was removed
from the hospital two weeks ago by two negroes
one OF whom claimed to be his brother and the
other MS father. The two men are now be-
neVed 70 be friends of Harrison who sought to
remove Franklin from the hands OF the authori-
TIES ana thus make sure that he would escape
punishment for the shooting
Harrison was arraigned for hearing before
Justice Nesgle last Wednesday morning, but
Franklin could not be found and the prisoner
was remanded to Jail and his examination
postponed until Friday, March 4. The sheriff
learned for the first time on Wednesday that
franklin was not at the hospital and search
OF the city failed to locate him. The sheriff
then declared his belief that Franklin had been
induced to leave the city and not appear against
his assailant
By chance yesterday morning Constable
Terry King, of Justice Neagle's court, learned
from colored man that Franklin was very III
IN shanty on tho Duwamish river, about four
miles south of this city, and that he had been
taken there two weeks ago by friends of Harri-
son. He Immediately engaged e carriage and
called on the wounded man. He found him in
shanty suffering great pain and attended by a
negro nurse. His arm, which was shattered at
the shoulder by the bullet fired by Harrison,
was swollen until it was almost the size OF his
body. tin bucket filed with ice water was
tasted to the head OF tho bed. From small
hole in the bottom of the bucket water triekled
out In heavy drops and fell on the swollen arm,
cooling the fever.
Franklin believes that he will live, but the
nurse says that he cannot possibly recover. A
south Seattle physician is attending him, and
he also says that the patient cannot possibly
live. When questioned regarding his reasons
for leaving Providence hospital, Franklin said:
''They were going to cut my arm of. They
DIDN'T feed me well nor give me proper treat
ment; SO l went away"
He says that he will appear in court to prose-
cute his assailant as soon he is able.
The sister superior of Providence hospital
said yesterday to a osT-INTELLIG ENCER re-
porter that on February Il, about O'clock in
the evening, two men called at the hospital
with an ambulance, and wanted Franklin.
They were both colored, and one of them
claimed to be Franklin's father and the other
his brother. Though the wounded man was de-
lirious and in dangerous condition they in
sisted on taking him away. The sister superior
said
/ asked them what they wanted to take him
away for, and they said that they couldn't af-
ford to pay for his nursing any longer 1 saw
that he would did il he was not taken care of,
and told the men that if that was their only rea-
son they should leave him alone; that we would
not charge anything for his care But they in
sisted upon taking him away, and the attending
physician giving consent | allowed him to be
removed. OF course we did not give the man
all he wanted to eat He was dangerously ill
and it would not be policy to feed him like
well man. He never complained about his
treatment while here, however. 1t was plain to
me at the time that there was hidden reason
for his removal.
Harrison appeared very much worried when
told that Franklin had been found, and that he
was at the point of death, but he refused to talk
on the subject