The evening times., 1896-02-14

SpoHiy, Win IT'S Sus pendtu rope ana moose
| stood ready 10 carry out the occrec of the
| law, ami separate the soul from the body
| or human creature.
| HISTORY OF HIS CRIME.
The crime for which Harris died on the
F, sea old today was committed on the
| afternoon or July l. 1895, in the family
| entrance OF little restaurant on the cor
ner OF Thirty-fourth and NJ streets, George.
| town.
| spruei's BARRIER shop was on Thirty-thr,i
| Street, about half n square below NJ street,
anu Harris, with his wife and mother oc.
| cupied the second floor OF the dilapitlate ed
little frame house. On the Fourth OF july
Harris had been celebrating extensively,
and = Boston, whisky was upperinos, in
him when the shooting took place.
About Up. IN. Harris wife pa ssed throu ch
the barber shop and Sprueli spoke TO her.
She replied:
Don't yo' speak to me, Mat Spruen.'
She then went upstairs.
The two men had been good friends, and
when Harris came in Sprueil said TO him.
Il spoke 10 your wife Il while ago and she
wouldn't answer me- TO which Harris re-
pied in effect that That was their business
Harris then began complaining that some
men up the street had been throwing fire
crackers at his wife, and he was going TO
stop II, declaring that he was mad, but not
with Spruell. Harris thereupon drew "A
pistol from his pocket. fired "a shot into the
wall, and said. That's the way I'm going
TO put balls into somebody today" Harris
then went upstairs.
He bad "A little talk with his WIFE, and
she threw his pistol out OF the window In
n few moments he came down and Went
up to Spruell, who was stroppng u razor
by his chair, and demanded that Spruell
give him his pistol. Sprueil denied h:: yin,,
ANYTHING ur HurFiS' f,.
that he had and walked up 10 Sprutl!,
shook his fist in spruplfs face and said
that If he didn't get his pistol there was
going to b. trouble.
SDrucli told Harris that he didn't want
any quarreliug In Ills shop, and ordered
him out. Harris refused to go, and told
Spruell that he WAS not afraid OF him, and
that if SprueIl wanted him to go out he
would have {" put him out. Spruell ad-
yanced toward Harris as though TO EN-
force his order, when Mrs. Bell. a ncighhor,
who was in the room at the time. stepped
between the two men and pushed Harris
into a back room and SpruelI toward his
BARRIERS chair.
THREATENED TO KILL.
As Harris was showed into the back room
he said to spruell: That's all right,
you - -, I'll kill you on first sight
Harris went out into the back yard, picked
enter the front room, but Mrs. Bell shut
the door.
After Mrs Bell stepped between the two
men. SprIcll LETT his shop and went up
ThIrty-tnirl street for Il policeman. Mrs.
Bell then went into her own house. which
adjoined Spruelrs on the south, and met
Harris coming through her hallway with a
pistol in his hand. Harris passed out to the
street, looked into Sprucll's window. and
said: Where is the - --?'' One Of
the women in the room said: Don't shoot
in here: Mats gone up the street. Spru-
ell, who was going mp the street, turned,
sa Harris. and ran up Thirty-tbird street
toward NJ. aud Harris followed.
When Spruell got to the corner of Thirty
third and NJ streets Harris was close be-
hind him. and just as Spruell turned INTO
the hallway of the restaurant Harris said:
"I'llservcthir,y ycarsfor you, you -"
and snapped his pistol but il missed fire
Harris followed Sprueli into the hall