The morning call., 1894-12-17

back, just to the right Of the spine, about
the waist line. 1t was found about four
inches below the surface and extracted
he second bullet struck 10 the left side OF
his neck, plowed its way around the right
side of his neck, he having thrown up his
hand to strike the revolver out of Hunt
ington's hand. 1t broke one of the bones
of the forearm clear in two and imbedded
itself in the other bone, almost severing it.
When the ball was taken out it was cut
almost in two from the pointed end down.
Cromwell will probably lose the use of his
Fight hand, on account of a stiffening of
the wrist joint, as the result of the frac-
ture of the bone.
Hayden Jared better. The bullet struck
him in the neck and after passing around
q quarter of the way emerged and i'm
beaded Itself in door. where it was after
ward found. His wound is not considered
Of serious nature, but a variation of half
an inch would have killed him. The bullet
that teok Huntington's life entered the
skull just behind the ear and lodged back
or the right eye, where its presence was
shown by d!scolorati0n of the Id. HIS
having the weapon in his possession shows
that he had planned it all out beforehand,
and his GOODNESS in the face of the terrible
deed he was meditating IL surprising, all of
the men who were present at the interview
testfying that they had not the slightest
idea that anything out of the ordinary run
of things was thought by the young man.
The parents Of young Huntington were
at once summoned. Tho aged mother was
beside herself with grief. The death Of
their son was afflic enough. but the
honest old people appeared to be grieved
more that their son should have committed
the two crimes of robbery of his employers
and then attempting to murder than over
the mere fact of his death. THAT he is
dead is bad enough" said his mother,
'but that he should do such thing is
terrible"
(. d. EdmondSon, the president of the
bank, was seen and asked for his version
Of the affair. he said: Huntington,
Cromwell, Hayden and l were sitting in
the private Office. Cromwell was in the
northwest corner OF the room. in the
northeast, Hayden about the center, and
Huntington between Hayden aud myself.
We were seated about table that stands
against the wall. Mr.. Hannah, the cashier,
had been sitting between Hayden and
Huntington until a few minutes before the
shooting took place, when he went out
into the front part of the bank. Hayden
and Cromwell had been questioning the
young man very closely about his mode of
living. On one occasion he had depos-
tied $50 in the bank, and Cromwell asked
him where he got it. Huntington said he
borrowed it, but when asked of whom he
borrowed it he could not remember. and
said that it was none of their business
anyway. He was also unable to say from
whom he got the money to pay back the
loan. Up to that time I had the most i'm
plicit confidence in Huntington's honesty,
but must confess his evasiVe answers
made me doubtful.
II saw that something unpleasant was
about to occur and got up to leave the
room. Just as l got up Huntington did
likewise. He passed behind Hayden and
I supposed he was going to get drink at
the water-tank. There was nothing in his
actions that indicated nervousness or ex-
element. l was about half way between
my chair and the door when | heard a
piStol-shot, and turning around l saw
Huntington standing between Cromwell
and HAYDEN and little behind both, with
his revolver pointed at the former. | hur-
ried out of The private Office and as / went
/ heard several more shots. l ran out and
gave the alarm, and when several of US
went into the private flee we found Hunt
ington lying on the floor with blood
streaming from a wound in the back of his
head and two other men suffering from the
effects of his deadly aim.
1--WE have always considered John an
honest young man, and if there was any
weak point in his character it was a little
tendency to extravaganza. OF course the
amount he was in the habit of spending
would not have been extravagant to a man
of MEANS"
Hayden, one of tine wounded men, in
conversation about the affair, said: eve
had only been talking few minutes, and
no accusation had as YET been made. But
the questions we had been asking were
very pointed and were easily taken by
him as leading up to a direct charge OF
theft. At times he had talked loudly and
in a somewhat excited manner, but Just
before the shooting he cooled down. and
we had not the slightest intmation OF
what he was about to do. He suddenly
got up, without any show of anger, and
pulling out a revolver commenced firing,
first at Cromwell. then at me. We had no.
"O"POh9 anu WV NV pi0patou W uol6uu
ourselves, nor is it likely we should have
thought of doing SO had we been armed,
as the shooting had been done so rapidly
and it was over so SOON"
CHICAGO. Dec 16-T. n. Hayden re-
sides al 5545 Monroe street with his wife
and son, 20 years of age. The first news
Mrs. HAYDEN received of the shooting was
at O'Clock this afternoon when a tele.
gram was received from her husband tell
ing her not to worry if she heard anything
about the tragedy as be was all right.
Hayden has lived in Chicago many years.
His father is general travelling auditor OF
the Lake Shore road. Hayden was for
some years assistant general travelling aud
itor of the same line.
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