Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-01-07
She Kept Her Word.
Dewitt SHOOTS SHOT TWICE BY
MRS. CALLY ORR, But FOR
TUNATELY NOT SERl-
0USLY HURT.
She Said She Gave Him Warning Thai
She Would kiil-ShO0ts States
4 Different Story.

from over JOLI 1LaLo
Tuesday morning at IL O'Clock. No
sooner did those who were on the
pavement below turn their heads
in that direction than they saw the
body of Dewitt Shoots come tumb
ling down the narrow steps, head
first. .'He is killed !" cried a by
stander. But the words were hard
ly uttered when Mr.. Shoots arose,
white as a sheet, crying boys,
| am shoot, but not had!' He
put his hands on his hip and i'm
mediately walked to the otfice of
DIS. HALEY & IToalson. People
swarmed around like bees, in
quiring who was killed, but no one
had any imformation for them. A
LEDGER reporter ran up the stairs
and on vending his way to the last
room down the little hall, found
Mrs. Cally C. Orr swinging a 49,
caliber revolver in her hand. She
seemed to be self-possessed and
perfectly calm. On entering the
room she commenced to talk, still
holding the smoking weapon.
MRS. oRR's STATEMENT.
Mrs. Orr said Il warned that
man | would shoot him if he ever
came to my house again. l have a
note against Shoots for $50. L
lent him the money and sued him
for it in Squire Harris CT urt over
a year ago; got judgment. He ap-
pealed to Circuit Court and it
has not been settled yet. Shoots
wanted me to Withdraw it and |
said no. It was then that l told
him if he ever came to my house
I would kill him. [ am so sick |
can't sit up. l vas sitting here this
morning and Shoots knocked at
my door and l opened it. He said
to me. &C d-u. you, give me
that note you hold against me and
pa or your brains | told him
he would get the note and | made
out as if | Was locking for 1t, but l
was searching for my revolver. II
was not under my plllow where l
generally keep it, so [ told my lit
tie boy, Roy, to halloo for Mr..
Lane. Shoots left then. He came
back and l had found the revolver
and was watching for him and
writing this here note:
Mr.. Lane-I ask you for
some advice, Dee Shoots came up
here this morning with a revolver
and drew a revolver at my door,
and told me my brains or that note
| had against him. | am so sick.
MRS. CALLIE ORR.
He came back and I shot him
once in the hall AMI as he fell TO
the bottom of The steps. My boy
says Shoots had a revolver. Ii |
had been we'll I would have finish
ed him."
Mr.. SHOOTS STATEMENT.
MI. Shoots was seen at his home
up stairs on the west side of the
square. He was complaining tina.
his wound in the shoulder, where
the bullet struck him, was hurting
him. Only one of the two shots
struck Mr.. Shoots. The bullets
force vas warded off by a heavy
over-coat and it happened to strike
the left shoulder blade, hence the
wound is not serious. The weap
on was a 4S-caliber revolver. Mr.
Shoots said to the reporter: 81
went up stairs on the same fool
where Mrs Orr lives after a SEWING
machine | had sold Mrs. Beal ane
she said she couldn't pay for ane
told me to come and get it; Mrs
Orr came to the door of her room
and l saw her and turned arount
and walked in Jarrow's shoe shop
which is on the same floor; Mrs
Beal says to me-: DO you know
Mrs, Orr and l replied yes; Ssh
says she is going to kill you,
continued Mrs. Beal; I says l suesI
not, and turned to Mr.. Besl ant
asked him to please carry the ma
cine down stairs for me, which
he proceeded to do. | folIowe,
behind and when | got IN th,
hall Mrs. Orr commenced shoot
ing without any word. Her state
meni regarding the note is untrue
She said in the lower court wheI
we tried the case that she had los
the note. but she never bad one
1t would be queer in me to go an
demand a note she claimed TO hav
lost"
}, When the reporter called o
Mrs. Orr that afternoon, he foun
her sitting in a rocking chair i
her all but-cozy little room, he
children around her, waiting fu
the officer to come ard get hel
having been informed of the fat
that Prosecuting Attorney Jess
had sworn out a State warrant,
Likes Audrain.
From the Galloway Gazette.
J. w. Gregory. of Mexico. Mo