The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-06
ITFLATTENED THE BULLET.
Louisa WaShil6tOlS Skull Too Thick
for Cold Lead.

Walter Byrd, her Brother-iu-Law,
Aims a Shot at Her Head. but it
Bounds OF and Makes a Carom on
the Ceiling of a Room-A Little
Flee Dog and Frogtown Whisky the
Cause of the Trouble.
Walter Byrd, colored. filled up on Frog
town liquor until he was crazy drunk
yesterday afternoon and started out in
search of trouble, which he succeeded in
n2ding in short order
Byrd lives on Stewart street and his
wife has several boarders. He was not
feeling well aGd proceeded to fiji up in
company with the -hoarders. He then
came back to the house and getting his
pistol began to 'projick" around with it.
Byrd wife endeavored to get the pistol
from him. He was standing on his back
porch arguing with his wife and her
sister when a small fee dog belonging to
a neighbor came into the yard
Byrd decided to shoot the dog and fired
one shot at it. His sister-in-law pro
tested against his shooting the dog and
called to the owner of the dog to call it
cut of the yard.
FIRED AT HIS sTsTER-IE-LAW.
This enraged Byrd and he whirled
around and fred at the woman, the ball
striking her in the forehead and CHANGING
off into the ceiling, from whence it
dropped to the floor Had not Byrd's
wife had hold of his arm at the time his
aim might have been more deadly, as he
was within six feet of his intended vic
3v1 IN Fo11 - +Rn
blood streaming from her forehead. Her
sister and the other women who were in
the house thought she was killed. and set
up a terrible screaming. This, with the
sound of the two pistol shots, caused an
immense crowd to gather, and there was
the greatest excitement.
GOT HIS PISTOL.
Fearing that Byrd would shoot some
one else, his wife held to him and endeav-
ored 10 get the pistol away from HIM.
Some of his companions came up about
this time and succeeded in getting the
pistol. Byrd then went into the house
changed his clothing and came out about
fifteen minutes later with his coat on his
arm. He was laughing and apparently
in the best of humor with himself. He
announced that he was going to leave
town and started off toward the canal
followed by an immense crowd. Mounted
Officer McQuade joined the crowd in pur-
suit of Byrd and succeeded in catching
him in the old field near the crematory.
Byrd when taken to the barracks de-
clared that he was shooting at the dog
and had no intention of shooting his sis
ter-in-law. He will be given a further
chance to explain before Recorder Wilson
this morning.
MASHED THE BULLET FLAT.
1t was reported that the woman had
been killed, but DR.. w Z. Comm, who
examined her, found that she had only re-
Ceived a slight scalp wound, the ball fur
rowing the skin upon the forehead for
about an inch. The pistol is an old
fashioned weapon, the bullet being only
about the size of a buckshot. 1t was
mashed fat from its contact with the
woman's head and the ceiling.
Byrd's wife, who appears to be a re-
spectacle, hardworking woman said that
her husband was all right so long as he
was not drinking, but when in drink he
was liable to DO any sort of deviltry If
he had not been drinking, she said, he
never would have thought of doing as he
did. The woman declared that she
wished Mayor McDonough would close up
all the barrooms in the city The wounded
woman will probably be fully recovered
in day or two.