The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-11
WITH A GUN.
OF Course It Went Of and Shot
Somebody,
HLTILDA GREEN, COLORED, TEE VICTIM
Ed e. Lewis stole lis Employers
Pistol and Matilda Gets shot in the
Thigh with It

Pistol and sIa<1Ida Gets shot in the
Thigh with It
4 coIored girl was shot through the
thigh by 4 coIored boy last evening, but
they were too frightened to tell the
trush about It at first They said that
some one IN hiding had attain pied to
take the guFs life. Afterwards they
said Il was accidental 6eveuteeu-year-o
Ed G. Lewis. who did the shooting, was
so frightened that he tainted away
The shooting took place ~ $50 2. II
at The corner of Twelfth aud Clay streets
across the street from the residence Of l.
[. Williams. People were on thair way
TO church and few minutes after IL hap
peued 4 crowd was surrounding the
wounded girIy lying On the Sidewalk
Sfxteen-Tezr-ol Matilda Green, Of
1.1Sl Lincoln street. WIS shs victim Of
the occurrence. she was shot through
the left thigh BY a ball of 30 c2Ilbre.
After being carried Iat0 the hoUs9 of
Rev. Allen Bush, the Congregational
minister. eR the corner, she suffered IN
tense pain Although IN the greatest
agony. she refused 10 tell the true story
OF the AFFAIR, implicatlnZ young Lewis
Lewis. of III Norm Quincy street.
Dona Davis, 1172 Fillmore stree, Ma
tiseia Green anu Leonard Jackson were
On their way 10 church. Lewis and the
Davis girl we're behind Whsa near the
corner q Twelfth and Clay streets
Lewis was showing rs revolver TO 1Re
Davis girl II Is q double action aN4Ir
and exploded, the ball striking Mss
Green VINO was walking backward talk
ing TO Jackson and Dona Davis.
4 tslep phone message saying that q
murder had been commitred cAlled the
police patrol to the place. Lewis, jack
son and Miss Davis all maintained thai
the girl had been shot By al unknown
person. Finally Charles Mckee. white
boy who lives at 11o9 West Twelllh
street. fastened the guilt of the crime or
earelessnezs upon Lwels-
Mckee rad been near when the shot
was fred. he had heard the Davis girl
ask Lewis is It Ioadsdf"
Yes"
~uou4st?"
Eyes. honest" A. that nan eus the
gun was discharged aud Miss Green fell
to the sidewalk with the exclamation
I'm shotv
At this Lewis confessed to the shooting
but refused 10 tell what be had done
( with the revolver Afterward a. the
patrol wagon was starting up town with
[ him he going with al officer, pulled the
,
where he had hid Il
/ Lewis works az Haskirs' restaurant
( and L was not long before Mr.. Haszins
was at the police headquarters He said
/ that the revolver belonged to him and
had been stolen fren his place that very
day. The young e0lored man probably
/ wanted to appear tough and had borrow
/ ed the pistol fer the evening.
- was showing Miss Davis the pistol,
said he at the station last night Il iasg
/ touched the trigger and It went of.
I was so scared l ran and put i under the
/ barn, and X hen I came back Miss DAVIS
said, For Gods sake, don't tell"
TIE remainder CT the chambers Of the
gun were loaded, one shot only having
been fred
In police court this morning Lewis
was fined 50 for carrying concealed
weapons, aud turned over to the stats o.
the charge of assault with intent TO kill
/ The girl viii nat prosecute him and he
viii be discharged when taken before q
justice.