Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-05-20

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of Wiley Goode, the "officer"
who raised a row in the Chinese
restaurant last Friday and shot a
/ Chinaman and Frank Howe. II
half the reports circulated about
him are true, Goode is as graceless
a sconndrel as ever peened from be-
hind the prison bars of Jefferson
Countys bastile.
To GRAPHIC reporter yesterday
number of instances were related
of how this man had bullied and in
Inundated a number of people in this
community He seems to be dead
beat by profession, and whenever a
protest was made and he was re-
fused credit, row was raised and
fight probably ensued. The
BARRIERS, restaurant keepers and
saloon men give evidence of his
dead beat and bullying tactics. 1t
seems to have been his habit to
"run his face" for all he could, and
whenever a protest was made he
would then seek to intimidate his
victims. His desperate nature was
known and in many instances he
was tolerated rather than create a
row.
The disturbance in the Chinese
restaurant last Friday was not the
first he had caused in that place.
He had before ''pummeled China
man" for suffering his intolerable
impositions, and only few weeks
before the shooting last Friday, he
caused a row in the restaurant in
the rear of Brockway's saloon and
also the restaurant in the rear of
Brannon's saloon for the same
reason-because he was refused
credit when he had proven himself
unworthy of it.
Frank Howe, the young man
shot in the Chinese restaurant
Friday, had sufficiently recovered
consciousness yesterday to make
statement which makes Goodies
crime all the blacker and more
b, utal. If Howe's statement is
true, Goode deliberately shot him
without the shadow of excuse there
for, and it makes the erstwhile
policeman and deputy constable
guilty of an attempted and very like
ly successful cold blooded murder.
To GRAPHIC reporter yesterday,
Howe, whose condition is still
critical and whose recovery is al
most impossible, made the following
statement of the lamentabe affair.
He said:
81 was seated at table in the
extreme rear of the room when
Goode entered and took seat. l
could not hear distinctly all that
passed between Quong Wah and the
officer, but cleaned that the China
man demanded payment in advance
before he would serve the officer
with dinner. Suddenly Goode arose
and struck the Chinaman several
times, whereupon Quong grabbed
the officer about the waist, when
the cook and another chinaman ar
rived and pulled Quong aloose.
Quong then grabbed pot contain
ing ice tea and struck goode over
the head, and then threw stool at
him, but missed him. In the mean
time G oode was feeling for his
pistol. and the Cinnamon were all
backing away toward me. Seeing
that shooting was likely to occur |
arose and started out along the
wall. but on seeing the pistol de-
cided to stand still. Goode turned
deliberately around from the China
men and fired at me. | felt sting
ing in my stomach and looked
down and saw blood. | said TO
Goode: "What did you shoot me
for? have done nothing to you.
He replied, I thought you was a
i Chinaman, and continued firing. |
walked out to the sidewalk and fell.
| had never had any difficulty with
IGoode, and cannot Imagine why he
should shoot me. He certainly
knew that I was not Chinaman.
Constable C. NJ. Philpot returned
Yesterday and denies that during his
. absence Goode was acting as his
deputy, and in relation thereto pre-