Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
. - lIl MT. Ed Y.
 Respect5d Citizen s1z
LIVING NEAR EAST LAKE,
Shot Down by a Negro Fiend. His Daughter and Wife Att
 taCked-Dogs on the Trail.

Anotncr Drutal crime IS recorded wlthithe many of the past two weeks, but this one is unparalleled by any that has occurred in Jefferson county in years.
 The victim this time is Mir. Ed Y. Dan- iel, highly resp,cte gentleman, in his 6ist year, and who has lived with his wife, two miles from East Lake, for the past twenty-two years and was honored and respected by all who knew ham, but now lies in his humble little home in the throes of a most agouizing death.
 Yesterday between 12 and 1 o'clock three stalwart negro men came to their little home and asked Mrs. Daniel for something to eat. She told them she had not prepared dinner, but if theywould wait she would give them something. They hung around the yard for little while and left, going toward the macadam- ized road, about a mile distant. Old MT. Daniel, at the time, was busy putting some leaves in his COW pen just across the road from his house, and had nothing to say to the men, and said he had not thought of them until when about an hour after they left he was approached by one of them and was told by the negro that he had decided to go 10 town. The old man stopped his work and told the brute which way to go. When he had told him the negro said, "Well, want your money be- fore go, and must have.it.' The old man told him he had no money and to leave there, whereupon the negro drew re- volver and said, 'Now give it up or will kill you.' MT. Daniel raised his hand to try and take the pistol, but the negro leaped back and fired, the ball entering the left side below the ribs. He fell to the ground with groan.
 Then, not satisfied with his most brutal deed, he bent oyer the prostrate form, holding the revolver to the almost dead mans head and said .''Ifyou make a noise will fix you sure.'' He then turned his pockets inside out, but found nothing. All the time he was searching the dying man, he was intently watching the house.
 Mrs. Daniel heard the shot and came running toward the COW pen, where the negro brute met her with the revolver and commanded her to return to the house. She paid no attention to him, but kept on to where her husband lay in a pool of blood.
 At this juncture Miss Hattie, tho only daughter, came out of the house and to- ward her parents. The negro seeing her left the old lady and started on run after Miss Hattie, who, when she saw him, turned and fled toward the house. He still pursued her, all the time telling her to stop or he would kill her. She dashed madly into the house closely followed by the fend lncarnate, evidently bent on committing a more heinous crime than the one he had just com mitted. She dashed into one of the rooms and locked the door just as the burly brute threw himself against it, all the time yelling and cursing, swearing he would kill her If she didn't let him in. Finding he could not gain access that way be tried the other doors, and went around to the window, where the poor frightened girl saw his hellish face looking through at her with a most diabolical look on il. She screamed at the top of her voice, and as the cowardly fiend was in the act of getting through the window she saw him suddenly turn his cad, and with u frightened look dash madly out of the yard and toward the woods near by.
 He had hardly gotten. out of sight when MT. Lacy, friend of the family, came by, followed by an old darkey. Seeing the old lady bending over the prostrate form of her husband they went to her aid and gently lifted the old gentleman in their arms and bore him to the house, where they found the daughter almost crazsd with fright. He was placed upon the bed and Dr. j.. Fl. Finch was immediately summoned, but after seeing the condition of Mir. Daniel he dispatched the old darkey for Drs. Jones and Barrett who came post haste, but it only took one glance to see face of the old man, who was groaning in agony. They probed for the ball and found that It had entered the left side below the last rib, taking a downward course and striking the spinal cord glanced, but it was impossible to ascertain whether ihe ball had taken an upward or downward course after striking the spine, but were almost con fident, from the suff.ring of the patient, thas il had gone upward and lodged In the bowels.
 Livery thing that skill and loving hands could do was done To relieve the man from his suh sring, but nothing could relieve him but death, which pr. Finch said was not far off, His entire. lower extremiies are paralyzed, caused by the ball coming in contact with the spinal cord. His suf- fering is intense, and 1t is ptsous to hear his groans.
 MT. Daniel is nearly 61 years old, and it is all he can do, in his feeble condition, to make a scant living for his wife and daughter, but he has always been looked up 10 by all who knew him, and was never known 10 speak ill of or do any one an in- jury. His son. who lives in Florida, was leiegraphed for, and will reach home to- day.
 As SCOT as the news Of this most foul crime was known posse of infuriated men got two bloodhounds, and with loaced guns set out to cltch the hsnd, but after searching the woods for several hours they returned without success. The dogs tracked him to the macadamized road and then lost track of him. Another posse was formed and will take the trail as soon as it is early enough tc see this morning, and should they catch him his brutal form will be found hanging to some limb, as the entire neighborhood is indignant at his atrocious crime and will not hesitate to hang him to the most convenient tree.
 Miss Daniel described the negro as being "chunky,' very black and wearing dark coat with a small cigarette hat. The other two she nor her mother could describe very minutey, but said one was of an ashy color and medium sized, and the other was of ginger cake color and rather tall.
 WILL BE TRIED TOMORROW.
 The preliminary trial of James Adkins and Bruce Kelley, the two young men who on Christmas night were implicated in the murder of young Bowen iu Haran's sa- loon, will take place tomorrow before Jrstce |. H. Benners.
 s~The time has been set for 9o'clock, and at that hour the taking of testimony will begin.
 Adkins and Kelley were arrested imme- diately after the shooting was done and taken to the police station. where next