The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-20
PROBABLY A MURDER
A Young Man BrutaIIy Shot Down BY a
Gang Of Ruffians.
THE THREE PRINCIPALS UNDER ARREST,
Two orThem Locked up in the Station
House ana One I'm the County Hail
The story of Ono OF the M0st
Gold Hooded ARRAYS in Many
Years.

One of 'the most cold-blooded shooting
ARRAYS ever known dn this section oc-
Cured yesterday about noon on Mattby
avenue extended. Just outside the city
limits. Two men are locked up at police
headquarters in this city and one at the
county Jail In Portsmouth, all of them
charged with being participants In what
may prove to be a. murder, for the vic
tim lies ait st. V!ncent's Hospital mortal
ly wounded. In fact by tine time this
story Is circulated, he will probably be
dead, for at one O'clock this morning
1t was said at the hospital that his death
was momentarlly expected.
The Victim In the affair Is Allen Jones,
q thinner by trade. Tae men under ar
rest charged with the shooting are Ed.
Il. Wilson. 1. Victor Nottingham, and
George Rogers.
Allen Jones and H. Tew, who is also
a thinner. live at No. 302 Maltby avenue.
While going to dinner yesterday they
saw Wilson, Nottingham and Rogers ly-
Ing under tree In vacant lot In The
rear OF their house firing pistol shots at
random.
You shouldn't shoot about here in
that manner, for you might hurt some
one,' said Jones to the three young men
as he came UP.
G- -- you. l Will shoot you,r
up and began firing at Jones' who grap-
pied with him as Tew ran ito his assist
9nce, and grabbed the other men. who
We're about ito go TO their companion.
The who men. Jones and Tew, held the
men who were rapidly firing their pis-
tols leach having one) and were dodg-
ing the shots until finally Jones, seeing
hiatt Tew had two men to grapple with
let go his man and ran into the house
TO get something to defend himself and
friend with, but before he could return.
Tew, seeing that all three men were
upon him, broke away from them and
ran into the house. closing the door
after him.
Going through the house. he grasped
an old rifle barrel which stood in the
corner of the room, and took his stand
at the front door, think that the toughs
might try to enter the house, leaving
Jones in the back room to guard the
rear door. Jones had AMI old army
sword In his hand and was on guard,
When suddenly two of the men-Wilson
ana ,Rogers-burst mi the door and
iired upon him. Two shots took effect
IN Jones body, one entering his right
| side Just above the hip. and the other
| the left side just below the ribs.
ihe three men, seeing what they had
done, beat hasty retreat, but Wilson
and Nottingham We're later arrested on
the Broad Creek Turnpike by O1icers
Moore and Halstead, of Brambleton.
| and sent to the station house In the
patrol wagon to await the action of the
county authorities. Rogers was later
arrested by County Constable Car
mine and carried to the county jail
In Portsmouth to await hearing be-
| fore Justice Hawks.
The house in which Jones and Tew
sought refuge was peppered with bull
lets from S2-caNbre revolvers. A phone
| message was sent TO st. Vincents Hos
p!tal for the ambulance, but when II
arrived Jones refused to 60 to that I'm.
stitution He was taken to the home
OF his sister, Mrs. NTautin Holland. on
Highland avenue, where he was attend
| ed by Dr. Z. l., Payne. Later, how
| ever he was sent to St. Vincent's Hos.
| pital, where, as has BEEN stated, his
death Is momentarily expected.