The sun., 1896-08-03
SAYS LATHROP SHOT HIM.
THE STREET CAR CONDUCTOR IDENs
TIFED BY WALL.

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4. ar u.,,,.a I,.,,na of the Nomnu
who Was So Strangely Deaf when the
shooting -waII's Revised story
Charlie. n Wall NJ eoo East seven,eonth
street who saId he wa. sho, nv n anenk thief a,
the foot of tne stoIra leadinu 10 tbe room he 90.
oun,od on tho third eoor NJ Tho house has iden.
t,6.d tho man who ahot MIN Tho man IA C,eoros
Inthron alias Ge,r,e spencer n street car
oonductor and ,bercnrted husband NJ Mrs Ella
sn.nc,r ,vbo occpnicd . rom, IN tn. second
onor NJ tho bopse only n fe,v feot from whore
tho .hootiny tools ,lace md who when ouea-
,io,od about 4, .,,a .ho heard ~ .I,her tho sopnd
~ ,ha ,ortt,. nov tho renor, n, tho n,sto,
In,hro, ,ybo roo nrros,od an Saturd.v VA.
,ot.n tbot .venirc heforc Wall ,,ho failed IN
idontIfv him IJo ,roa ayo,n tohon IN peIIevu.
uosn,,,l vost.rdoy a,,ornoon AZ o o,oloct A,
.oo,, =. wi, so, ,ha va, . .ocon ,Ir,o IN. soid,
"yoo ,hot q. ,ho -, an ,,ho .ho, ,no IA not
rs, 'ha' 10 'i' 'na' "'o Sio' mo ~
know his name, and l never saw him before
saw him in my room on Saturday afternoon"
I,tbron wos tore, hoct IN Work v,,Io Copr,
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So, bv NJ %as,s,ras ] % Kna,ch I @ earlier in the day
on charge of felonlous assault. When Lathrop
was hrst arrested ana charged with inc shoot-
ing of Wall he denied all knowledge of the act,
ond ..,d thot ho oon,d rnrrish vItnesses to
prove that he was not anywhere near tho East
Seventeenth street house when tho shooting
81, H.. u,,... .-.,,n..,o, ,,.r, a, ,o,rt wa,
.''A p"''' ine'o "i'ueoo' "'io :" ~ 80
terdhy morning, but their testimony did mol
furnish n satIsfactory alibi for Iatbrop.
I.,hro, ,v,s Lronn =, ono Foo, Sav.,t.e,t
Lathrop was known a. 2o2 East 2even.eetn
street by the landlady. Mrs. Ellen Hurley. af
George Spencer tho husband of the woman who
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"S'S'N '"k"h' .'''' -"' 80
day for herself and her husband. NO one In the
house save Mrs Hurley had over seen Lathrop,
~, 49,, 80. .,.t,I h hi .o,,,,.a ,-,,,,.
out tn"t was eAp'"'"ei Wy MS tepu'eu WIG
statement that his work kept him out late 40
night and be did not therefore get up until
aiter al the oIher iouRers hau sohe " oue'.eso'
Tho remarkable story the woman calling her
seif MIRA Spencer told about hearing nothing Of
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tne anootihs fouseu 'he susp'eio"' "a 'ho 'o>
lice and they looked up her record. Capt.
Smith Of tho East Twenty-second street station
.,,o, o. ~. 49,. ,,,.. 80. sho 49, boor,
snys tnae ,or tne past '"o years o.'o "a' ..eu
living with Lathrop as his wife, Before taking
lodgings with Mrs. Hurley they lived in a house
in Vest Forty-tirst street
when the nolire Ienrned this ahout the woman
thev look ed nm her repufed hushnnd's record
They found That his work as n conductor per
nitted him 70 he Off dntv on certain afternoons
from . o'ciock untii 1 o'ciock On FRIDAY
efternoon he was Off duty between those
Ionre wben pucstioned bv the noljce
az ~ his wbrreabouts Iathrop Ihs
told Tho nnlicc his mama was atiiron snid thai
h., sncnt most Of The lime between . and
n'o,orrt on Erf1.r ,stornnon nv raetnnrant
nr u,pek s on c si at Einvonth ,vsn%e and
Enrtvsecnni street The wi; nesses thnt he had
in c9urt yes,erd,y morning did NOT Altogether