The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-19
COLORED BOY SHOT
WITH A MUSKET
His Legs We're Riddled So That Que Of
Them Had to Be Amputated.
GUN WAS FIRED BY A COMPANION
Injured Boy Is q Son Of Head Waiter
Marshall ut tho Wyoming House.
The One Who Shot Him Is Boot.
black mt the They
Were Going Hunting..It Occurred
on West Lackawanna Avenue.

Baxter Marshall. colored, the 19-
year-old son of Randall A. Marshall,
head waiter at the Wyoming house,
was shot in the legs at $40 yesterday
morning on West Lackawanna ave-
nue. at the intersection of Seventh
street, by John Morgan, another col
ored boy. year his junior. The shot
was from an old musket loaded with
large buckshot. and 1t pulverized the
knee bone of the right leg so that am
putatiOn had to he performed an inch
above the joint. Less of the charge en-
tered the other leg, but 1t lacerated the
flesh very seriously and the operation
in removing the grains from the flesh
was painful end tedious.
From all accounts the wounding was
accidental. but as quick as the gun
went off and Marshall dropped bleed
ing and fainting on the sidewalk, Nor
gan took to his heels up Seventh street
toward RObinson's brewery, and over
the Love road until he came to Carbon
street bridge, which he crossed onto the
Delaware and Hudson tracks. "A
freight train happened to be passing
and he boarded it for Carbondale.
Chief Of Police McAndrew Of that city,
arrested him in the railroad yard there
at noon and locked him up. A tele-
phone message was sent to Chief Rob-
ling and he went to Carbondale on the
22S train, brought him down at 4.3O,
and took him before Alderman Millar
for a hearing. He was charged with
the felonious wounding of Marshall.
STORY OF MORGAN.
Alderman Millar put him under oath
and told him to tell his story OF the
shooting. He said that he and the
wounded young man were chums and
they started yesterday morning on a
hunting trip to Bloomsburg. They mad
with them army muskets and both We're
loaded. They wlre walking across
West Lackawanna avenue, intending
to go down Seventh street to the rail-
road yard. Marshall was walking a
few steps ahead of him and was eating
an apple.
Morgan asked him for a piece Of 1t
and was refused. He made a spring
forward to snatch the apple from Mar
shalrs hand, and as he was doing so
the trigger of the gun caught in his coat
and exploded the charge. The barrel
was pointed at the others legs. As
soon as he saw what he had done, he
was so overcome with fear that he ran
away as fast as he could.
The alderman asked him why he ran
away II he had not meant to do the
shooting, and he repeated that 1t was
fear drove him away. AS to his Occu-
patton he said he is bootblack and
works at the Westminster. He came
here from Toronto, Can, five years ago
after the death of his parents.
CAPTURED AT CARBONDALE.
Chief Robling was sworn and testi-
fled to being notified of a shooting on
West Lackawanna avenue. He started
out at once to run the one that did II
down. Officers We're sent in various di-
rections to hunt the man and they
tracked him as far as the Delaware
and Hudson railroad. The chief sent
a message to Chief McAndrew to be on
the lookout for a colored man, and at
noon the Carbondale chief sent down
word that the man was in custody
there. Chief Robling went UP and got
him. The alderman committed Nor
gan to the county jail in default Of $500
bail.
The wounded youth made a statement
at the hospital In which ne gave as his
opinion that the shooting, was acciden-
tai. After he fell some West Side citi-
Zens who were riding on the rear plat
form of a passing car. got off and tied
a handkerchief around his thighs to
stanch the flow of blood. The Lacka-
wanna ambulance was sent for and
soon arrived.
His pain during the day was in
tense. The operation was performed
at o'clock in the afternoon by Drs.
Connell. Blanchard and McGrath. The
report from them Is that he is resting
comfortably and the chances for his
recovery are very good.