The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-15
HORSE WHIPPED.
Sensational Happenings in
Weybosset Street.
OSCE0lA COOK SHOT IN CHIN.
David F. Lingane Used His Revolver
in Self Defense.
0SCE0LA COOK SHOT IN CHIN.
THE WOUNDS NOT DANGEROUS.
Horsewhipper at Hospital and Shooter
at Police Headquarters.

David F. Lingane, managing editor OF
The Telegram, shot Osceola Cook, a we'll
town, just before noon today,
| on Weybosset street, almost in front of
the postoffice. Three shots were fired,
| one OF them taking effect in the chin and
| giancing, grazed the neck under the ear.
| Just before the first shot the loiterers
| and pedestrians around Tnrk's Head were
/ somewhat startled by hearing outcries,
and looking in the direction from which
| they came saw Cook, fat man
| OF abnormal proportions, chasing
the editor up the middle OF the street
With a Cowhide Horsewhip,
which he waved vigorously about
edging away as fast as possible, and at
| the same time pulled q revolver from his
pocket and shot his assailant in self de-
| fence.
His evident intention was to shoot him
in the leg, but, as the sequel showed, the
"gun" must have "kicked."
After the first shot Cook started on
| wild run up Weybosset street with blood
| flowing from his chin and mouth. When
| he arrived opposite Blanding * BlandiDg,s
| drug store he was stopped by some citi-
zens and was carried into the apothe-
carries front shop.
| Editor Lingane, after doing the shoot
ing, went to police headquarters and gave
| himself ZIP.
The cause of the trouble between the
| two men was an article which
recently appeared in The Telegram,
charging Cook with keeping
disreputable house on Pine street, the
article being illustrated with "portrait"
| OF Cook which he considered as insulting,
as the story was calculated TO be injurious
| 10 his business.
AS result OF the article Cook has been
n N mi fne nm adj for
more days with horsewnip to
chastise him, and Mr.. Lingane
had already requested Chief Child
TO furnish him
With Police Protection
two substantial bruisers " TO remain in
the Office with him 10 resist any attack by
Cook and his followers.
Yesterday, when Editor Lingane went
to dinner, 1t is said, Osceoia followed him,
but was prevented from attacking him.
Today, however. Cook was more sue
cessfui and as his intended victim came
out of the alieyway leading 10 the news
paper Office, started in to cowhide
nim in good shape, administering, accord
ing To the report OF a fashionable young
lady OF the hill, several severe blows.
The young lady declines to give her
meme, but said: al saw the horsewhip-
ping and it was thorough, too. Then
oh, how / screamed
saw the Other Man Shoot
him three or four times. / was terribly
frightened"
G.. B. Burgess, carpenter, who has been
ooing work on the Cosgrove estate, which
Cook occupies, was standing in front OF
John Il. White < Sons coal Office waiting
for friend in the postofiice.
He heard the first shot and saw Cook
l.tx 4. r-ts
was half backing away from him. He also
saw Mr.. Linganc Ere two more shots and
describes
Osceola's Run up the Street
as being remarkably rapid for man who
was shot and with blood streaming from
his mouth.
Mr.. Burgess says the editor was un-
doubtedly trying 10 aim low and he could
not understand how the shots went so
high.
An immense crowd surrounded the
drug store, but admittance was denied cx-
cept to the few who accompanied the
wounded man.
The police arrived shortly afterward
and after Cooks face was bandaged up he
was removed in u carriage.
Cooks Statement.
Cook himself said, while he was waiting
pital, that his assailant could
have no excuse on the ground of
self defence as he bad not made any at
tempt TO assault him. Cook claims that
he did not even know Lingane by sight,
but that he was standing on Weybosset
street just above he postofiice talking with
George Wallace when he latter said to him
There comes Lingane now" Cook
turned to look in the direction indicated
and was confronted with the muzzle of
3S calibre revolver in the hands of the
man he mad threatened to horsewhip.
He raised his arm and Lingare stepped
back, firing rs he did so, and then the
two men ran across the street.. Three
more shots were fired, but only one took
effect. 1t was the second one fired and
that went into Cooks chin, through
his mouth and lodged In the
left side OF the throat very
near the jugular vein. Two Others went
through the rim OF his hat and the fourth
into tho air. That is the colored mans
statement of the affair, and he asserts very
positively that no horse whipping had
provoked the shooting.
DR.. Il. II. Smith dressed Cooks wound
in Blandings' drug store. He said that IL
would not prove serious.
INTENT tn KILL