The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-17
MERCHANT ASSASSINATED.
Randolph Horne Shot From the Dark
ness While in His Store.

The Notorious John Plummer at First
Suspected of Committing the Foul
Crime, but, Upon His Arrest This
Opinion Seems to Have Changed.
Coroner's Jury Declare the Guilty
Party ors PARTIES Unknown to Them.
Apparently Two Simultaneous Gun
Discharges, Both Aimed at the I'm
fortunate Victim, Who Instantly
Expired.
Boston, Ga, Sept 16.-About 5 o'clock
last night at East Glasgow, in the south
err part Of this county, b. r. Horne, n
farmer and storekeeper, while waiting on
a customer in his store, was shot and in
stantly killed by some one standing out
doors in the dark. Evidently, the slayer
Of Mr.. Horne was not more than fifty feet
from him. A doublebarrelled shotgun,
heavily charged with different sized shot
and slugs, was the weapon used.
KILLED INSTANTLY.
Mr.. HOrne's breast was literally
riddled. Death ensued instantly. A no.
toriOus negro murderer and desperate,
John Plummer, who is wanted in Florida
for murder, and for whom a reward of
$500 is offered, is thought to have killed
Mr.. Horne. This negro openly defes ar
rest, and asserts that he will kill any
man that attempts his arrest or who gives
any information to lead to his capture.
Indignation is expressed that the oth-
GERS of this county have not been more
viglant in trying to effect his capture.
John Plummer is frequently seen, heavily
armed, in the noighborhood of the killing,
and was seen half an hour before dark.
MORE CIRCnMsTANTIAL ACCOUNT.
Townsville, Ga, Sept. 16.-Randolph
Horne, a young white man, was assassi-
mated in his store, in the lower part of
this county, last night while waiting upon
a customer. About O'Clock two shot
guns, in the hands of murderers crouched
in the fence corner, some twenty feet
from Horne poured simultaneously their
charges Of lead through the open door
into the body of their victim. Eight
bullets took effect, and Horne fell dead
upon the floor Of his store. The rufians
fed
TWO SETS OF TRACKS.
Search showed two sets of tracks,
where they had crawled upon all-fours
near to their victim, and also where they
had run off. This crime was committed
in the neighborhood where the notorious
was the first opinion that Plummer had
done it. The verdict of the coroner's 5
jury was death from a gunshot wound in
tlicted by a person or persons unknown.
PLUMMER CAUGHT.
Sheriff Doss went down there this
morning, and to his surprise, rode up on
the desperate John Plummer. A negro
riding with the sheriff identified Plum
mer and the sheriff Immediately arrested
him, though he was armed and had often
declared he would die before he would be
arrested. Plummer stands charged with
the murder of q white man in Citrus
county, Florida, last winter, and reward
of 800 was offered for his capture. He
has been in hiding in this county, in Ala
bama, and in Florida, and defed arrest
He bore the reputation of a desperate
character, is six feet two inches tai, and
it was believed would kill somebody or be
killed before he could be taken.
DENIES THE KILLING.
Plummer says Horne was his friend and
that he did not kill him: that he can
prove an alibi. The small tracks left by
Hone's murderers, and the fact that there
were two of them, renders improbable
the theory that Plummer was the guilty
party Sheriff Doss tonight notified
the sheriff of Citrus county that Plum
mer was in Jail in this city.