Richmond planet., 1895-01-19
A BAR-KEEPER THE VICTIM.
Shot By CustOmer-AlI About Five
Cents-A subj ct OF ItaIy-Selfs
Defense the Plea.

Shot By CustOmer-All About Five
Cents-A subj ct OF ItaIy-Selfs
Defense the Plea.
In the bar-room of Andrew Giro
lami, corner 18th and Franklin Sts.,
a most shocking tragedy occurred
last Saturday morning at about
1880 A. NJ. We had just reach
ed Mayo ST., block above when we
observed a commOtioD. A colOred
man informed us that some one had
been shot, and he, with us hurrieS
TO the ecene. Entering GiroIami's 3
saloon, we saw an excited italian
woman behind the bar. She said
the man had shot himself. She did
not know how.
THE MURDERED MAN.
Raising ourseIf by the bar.fxture,
we looked over behind the counter.
and saw an Italian lying upon the
floor, where he had fallen. A bullet
hole was over his left eye, from
which the dark colored blood oozsd.
The right eye was partly open aud
the other nearly closed, while his lips
we're slightly parted. His left hand
was on his breast, while the other
was extended and just by it was a
revolver of a cheap make.
The Italian woman was handed a
bottle with the contents of which she
bathed his face and rubbed 1t on the
wound. The clotted blood being
thus washed away from the wound
the blood flowed freely.
1t was not long before she realized
what we had from the first observed.
THAT man Is dead already" she re
marked. All was now excited. a
surgiDg crowd gathered and desired
to view the remains.
Sergeant Hall, the noted detective
and police. officer entered, went
around the bar, stopped over the
prostrate man, and picked up the re
vOlver.
DID NOT SHOOT HIMSELF.
"That man didn't shoot himself, ,
he remarked; ''every chamber of this
revolver is loaded" "Who shot
him" was the question. "Who wal
in here at the time ?" 81 was II
here" said a short, chunky whit,
man, with q sandy mustache. 81
was standing here at the stove Will
my back to the bar, talking to lit
tie white boy from the country who
had robins to sell. l heard one o
them say that he had given the bar
keeper ten cents. The bar-keepe
said that he only gave him five cent
and told him to pay for his friend.
ROW 1T OCCURRED.
One OF the men, I don't know whicl
said You d. lying thief. / CAV
you ten CENTS
l was talking to the boy. hear,
a report and when / looked around
the men had gone, and tle door
were swinging backward and for
ward. The boy was looking In tha
direction and he could tell you NOR
about 1t than ], could. One of til
men was short, the other was q ia
man with q heavy mustache." Th
; police had arrived and the baF-rOoI
was locked up and the street patrol
1 ed. kOfficer Alex. TomlinsOn, the ia
: nous detective and Officer johnson
I who has made quite reputation q
: rived, and it was not long b
e fore they were on the track of th
men and the boy.
THE OFFICERS OPINION.
The officers gravely shook the
heads and two of them remarkt
that they had been looking for
murder 10 this place for sOmetim
g Everything had happened, but tha
, They were of the opinion that Il
q bar-keeper had drawn his revolv
! on q man had he had killed him.
Shortly afterwards, a tragic scel
I. occurred. The front window had be-
/. shut when Andrew Glrolami, Z
a proprietor, staggered In. He look
a upon the prostrate form of his bs
le keeper, and broke down, his for
:, trembling.
D, A TRAGIC SCENE.
= He shook his hand in the air. thr
8. fingers of which were gone. and g
r. claimed "Find the man that XII
X him Cficers, find the man that b
la him. No matter what cost, a
1r the man that killa him 4" BE sta
We gered about the bar and the offic,
IT pleaded with hip6 'NO fSOlah wi
y, me, find the nan that killa him
e. He was induced TO 90 into the oti
= room, but later said he would
- out to look for the man himself a
= also for the boy who saw the ira,
dy. 1t was not 1o before he
kturned, having failed
Cogoner Taylor had