The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-10
STILL ENSHROUDED
n! DEEP MYSTERY
Tuesday Nights Shooting Has Not Yet
Been Explained.
THE VICTIM GIVES HIS VERSION
Says Two Masked Men Demanded
That lie Give Up the Girl aud the
Carriage, and in the Fight Follow.
Ing His Refusal They shot Him.
The Girl, Celia Clark, Says a.cr
First story Was False.

There is still no acceptable oXplana-
tion of Tuesday nights mysterious
shooting affray. SchOlz and the Clark
girl still adhere to their disiointed ana
somewhat improbable story that two
men rushed out from the woods upon
them and shot Scholz without cause
or reason. He is too weak to give any
extended description of the affair and
she refused to go into details, claiming
when pushed for an explanation that
she did not notice" that she was too
excited"
The police do not accept Scholz's and
the girls account of the affair but are
at a loss to offer a better explanation.
They worked on the theory that the
girls lover committed the deed but gave
it up when it was found that this per-
sonage had been in the central city
at the time when the shooting is sup
posed TO have occurred, which is be
tween 1890 and IL O'clock. The lover
known about the town as English Tim,
was in Morris saloon, it is said when
Scholz and the girl started away at 9
O'Clock. Ii is asserted that he was very
jealous of her and this coupled with
the report that he saw them start off
together, led the police to suspect that
possibly he followed in the direction
they took and came upon them when
they halted
The report that the police had found
the blanket and buffalo robe, left behind
on the grass, is not true. Chief Roblng
and Lieutenant Davis hunted for them
a n, in, ha i,,rr ntt1 I'm
at daybreak, but no trace of them could
he discovered. The police believe that
the assailants may yet disclose their
identity by trying to dispose of the
robe and blankets.
SCHOLZ MAY RECOVER.
In the opinion of the hospital physi-
clan. Scholz's chances of recovery are
good. The bullet ea,tered on the right
side at the fifth rib, perforated the
lung and lodged just beneath the skin
at the extreme end of the right should
er blade. No attempt has been made
to remove the bullet owing to his weak
condition Scholz has another slight
wound on the palm Of his right hand
about at the base of the thumb 1t
could have been caused, House Sur
geon Blanchard says by the same bull
let which entered the breast
a Tribune reporter saw him at the
hospital last night and he told ma
terially the same story as did the
Clark girl when taken into custody. 1t
was with great difficulty that he talked
and the reporter rcfrained from ques-
tioning him at length. He said he
gIi Ia, l,f
sailants were or why they attacked
him. They gave no sign or indication
that they knew him. He jumped to
his feet when he heard them rushing
towards them and when rney came up
to him demanded to know what they
wanted. They told him he would have
to "git" and leave the girl and the
carriage to them He declined to do
anything of the kind, whereupon they
pitched on to him He fought to de-
fend himself and they shot HIM lie
ran to the carriage and was helped in
by the girl who had run at the first
alarm and headed the horse towards
the city. He drove about two blocks
before he was aware that he was shot.
He wished to have it stated that what
ever anyone said that the girl should
not be accused.
Piled WITH QUESTIONS.
The police Piled the Clark girl with
questions at frequent intervals during
the day, but could not learn anything
from her that would throw any new
light on the affair. She admitted that
her first story to the effect that they
We're in the carriage when Schoz was
shot, was false. The story she now
tells is that she was sitting alongside
Scholz. smoking a cigarette, when The
two masked men rushed out of the
woods and made for them. She ran
screaming towards the carriage, united
the horse and turned the carriage
around. She heard two shots and then
saw Scholz hurrying towards the car
riage. She helped him in and as they
drove off another shot was fired. The
last shot she says was fred III the air.
Stones were also thrown at them as
they were driving away.
The girl secuted the idea that her
lover did the shooting. Indeed he'd
be the last man in the world to do such
a thing" she said. She was taken be-
fore Alderman Millar and bound over
as witness. Pail in the sum of $500
was required and as she could not fur
nish it she was committed. She had the
distinction of being the first prisoner to
occupy cell in the new womcn's ward
in the central station house.
The point where the shooting oc
Cured is at the extreme end Of Wash
ington avenue. near the Throop borough
line. According to the city map it is
about two and one-half miles from the
city hall.
information was lodged at headquar-
ters last night that a man named
Frank Moir heard a wOman's screams
in that locality about II o'clock Tues
day night. The report did not say
Xybntb hon, he had alsa hoard tho shots