The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-15
WHERE WAS HE SHOT
REPORT OF A GUN AT MIDNIGHT
AND MAN FOUND WOUNDED.

Hamilton Says He Found q Man West
Central Avenue Shot Through the Lower
Jaw-Omcer Stewart Says He had a
Scalp Wound-Was the Man Hamilton
Found the Same One Stewart Found
Chief Massey Thinks Not-The Mystery
is Not Yet Explained Where is the Man
Who was Shot.
The report of a gun sounded in the
stiffness Of the night about 1 O'Clock
yesterday morning on West Central ave
nue., and Mr.. Hamilton who resides at
No. 81 on that street went out and
found a man lying on the sidewalk east
of his house with blood flowing from
wound in his head.
A reporter for the Eagle passed along
the street ten minutes before the shoot
Ing and heard some one under the trees
a block east Of where the man was
found
The shot seemed to come from the
point where he heard the noise as of
some one moving and seeing Mr.: Ham
ilton come out with his lantern and
stop near his own house the reporter
supposed some one had shot Mr.. Ham
llton's dog and he did not go TO his as
sistance.
Mr.. Hamilton says when he found the
man that he appeared to be unconscious
and he got some water and washed the
blood from the mans face when he
came too but could not get up.
The man said he had been shot but re
fused to give his name or tell who had
shot him. There was a wound on the
mans jaw which Mr. Hamilton took
for a gun shot wound.
Mr.. Hamilton started TO telephone
to call the police when some women in
a house near by said the man got up
and ran away.
Officer Stewart went to S11 but when
he got there the man had gone When
coming back he found a man lying in
the gutter a the place where the re-
porter heard some one move under the
trees and brought him to the station.
And now there seems to be a mystery
connected with the case The man
whom Hamilton found was shot in
the lower jaw and the man brought in
by Officer Stewart had only a scalp
wound
The people in the neighhorhood of
where the shooting was done think the
man who was shot got away and Chief
Massey says If the man was shot as
Mr.. Hamilton describes they certainly
were hunting for must have made his
escape.
Officer Stewart SAYS when the shot
was fired he was a the corner of Main
street and Central avenue and heard
the report in that direction, but he
feels certain that the man he brought
in was the same man seen by Mr.. Ham
ilton and that he was mistaken about
the man being shot through the jaw.
If this is correct then who fred the
shot is still unanswered. Mr.. Hamilton
still persists that his man was shot
clear through the under jaw because he
washed off the blood and saw the
wound. while Officer Stewart says his
man suits the description given by Mr..
Hamilton OF the man whom he said
was shot
The man arrested by Officer Stewart
was discharged yesterday as there was
no one to appear against him. Some
of the people on West Central avenue
believe that the man was fooling
around some of the houses between
Henry and Stephens streets and that
somebody living in that block shot him
and that the party who did the shoot
ing failed to report it and that man
shot ran to the next block before falling
But the people who advance this idea
will have to find the man shot through
the lower jaw.