The sun., 1895-04-01
SHOTS FOLLOW SCREAMS.
TIVE or the Buiiets Hit Pusiiist I,owie-He
Won't Tell who shot HIM

Alexander Lowig, aged 25, pugilist, who
lives Mt Leonard street, williamsburgh, limped
into the Stage street police station at O'Clock
yesterday morning, and said that he had been
shot twice In house at 1S3 Boerum street He
was scarcely able to stand and on being oues-
toned refused to tell who shot him.
Never mind" he said to tho Sergeant, II
know who did 1t, and I'll get square some other
time."
An ambulance was summoned from st. Cath
crimes Hospital, and DIR. Mcnamara discovered
that Lovig had been shot through the muscles
OF the right arm above the elbow and in the cal Z
OF the right leg. Both bullets were extracted,
and Mcnamara was on the point OF taking the
injured man to tho hosbital when Lowig said to
him:
You don't take me to tho hospital. II my
folks know l was shot they would never get
over 1t. I'm not the only one that was shot in
that house."
When the ambulance surgeon told Lowig that
blood poisoning might set in. Lowig said he
didn': care, 80 he WAS taken home.
In the tenement where the shooting took place
the police were told that Lowig. while visiting
friends on the second floor. got into a wrangle,
Nobody could would tell them who shot
Lowig The police learned that moro than two
shots were fired, and that loud talking and tho
screams of n woman preceded the shooting.
The house is an old three-story frame build
ing. and six families live there Nobody was in
clined to give any information about tho shoot
ing when reporter went there yesterday after
noon.
ITS mono Of nobody's business what hap
pened here last night" said a tough-looking
man. who stood in the hall talking to a
woman. From tenants in tho house adjoining.
Mt 1855 Boerum street, it was learned that about
half past o'clock in the morning the neigh
borhood was aroused by the screams OF a wo-
man in the house where the shooting occurred.
one woman was heard to say:
For Gods sake. don't kill him."
shous Fnd 91s
dow was closed again as IL by force, and tho
screaming continued. man was heard to say !:
Ernst is a Williamsburgh pusiiist. He was
not IN that house at the time. According to the
nesh6or, fully shot, We're fired in
lifted over fence into the yard Of u house in
wa, dragged into the street. and third 4 lmped %
| nway. Lowig was the last to leave. and it was
with great difficulty that he got to the station
l.owg sent word to the station house yesterday
thing dohnito about the S shooting he he would would
tell all he knew. The police are of the opinion
that all al the the who present at tho
row started about the merits of Willamsburgh
pugilists.
night. He oyer six feet in height and weighs
lSO pounds. He was on lounge in the kitchen
and suffered greatly from his wounds.
~ know who shot me- and III get even with
him." said Lowig. II went down to that house
with Jimmy Harris and his wife and some of her
friends. While was talking to a girl named
Annie strange man came along. He got fresh
me he'd get Billy Ernst. who would do me up:
didn't think when he went out that he would
come back. 1t after o'clock when the
fellow and a big crowd with him returned and
burst in the door.
The crowd had clubs and revolvcrs, and they
went at me. The women screamed. l know
that four shots were fired at me. kept n record
OF the two that hit me. There were many other
shots fired, ana for about q minute you couldn't
hear nythng but the screams of the women
and shots. It's II wonder that somebody wasn't
killed. don't know how many were clubbed or
shot, but there must have been three or four.
None was badly hurt. didn't hear OF any body
that was shot being lifted over back fence. but
know that several men jumped over tho fence
and some men lnped into the street. 1t was
pretty exciting while 1t lasted"
1t was said that o man named Edwards shot
1,owg. The police were looking for him last