The Republican journal., 1897-11-18
SERIOUS SHOOTING AFFAIR.
rlrs. kittie F. Leavitt Receives Four
Bullets From Edmund EIIiot's Re-
VOlVer.

flrs. kttie F. Leavitt Receives Four
Bullets From Edmund EIIiot's Re-
vOlver.
The community in Belfast was startled
Thursday noon by report that woman
had been shot and her assailant arrested.
The affair occurred in a two-storied house on
Cross street kept by John j. Mellen as a
lodging house. The victim was Mrs. Kittie
F. Leavitt and her assailant Edmund Elliot,
The story of the crime is as follows:
AS people were returning to their work
and business after dinner, those on Cross
street heard several shots from a revolver in
j. j. Mellen's lodging house. In few seconds
woman came running from the house and
staggered across the street, and was falling
near the sidewalk in front of Mr.. Mellen's
restaurant, formerly Riggs bakery, when
w. q. Coombs, who was passing on his way
to the shoe factory, said he heard four or
five reports, then saw the woman stagger
from house across the street and he caught
her near the sidewalk as she was falling.
He saw Elliot rush up the street crying for
the police. Thomas Carter, also employ ed
in the shoe factory, was behind Coombs and
assisted to carry the wounded woman into
the house of Cassius Dickey. He heard two
reports of the weapon. Elliot passed him
as he ran.
Physicians were summoned and Drs Small,
kilgore and Ellingwood We're soon on the
spot, and discovered that the victim had been
shot in four different parts of her BODY. She
was made as comfortable as possible and
taken across the street to the Mellen lodg-
ing house, where she had rooms
Closely behind the woman as she came
from the mouse was man who hurried
across the street and through a path at the
rear OF A. A. Rox's house to the Revere
House. Here he told John Jones, the land
lords father, who was in the office, that he
wanted the police. Mr.. Jones asked what was
| the trouble and he said, mo matter; send for
the police" Michael Callinan, porter at
the hotel telephoned Tor City Marshal Nor
ton and received word that Mr.. Norton was
at dinner, but would be down as soon as he
could be sent for. The man, after making
his request, went into the entry and up
stairs, where Mr.. Ca.linan followed him On
the second floor he stopped and said he
wanted room, and was told that he could
not have one. He then went into a room,
the door of which was standing open, and
locked himself in. He remained there until
the arrival of City Marshal Norton and Po-
liceman Jipson. when he gave himself up.
He had 5-shot 80 calibre Smith & Wesson
revolver, with empty shells in the cham
bers. He was taken to the lookup and later
in the day to the Jail.
The physicians III their examination of the
woman, found four bullet wounds: One in
the upper part of the right breast, the bullet
passing through into the pleural cavity, and
was not fOund slight flesh wound below
this, the bullet passing through the breast
downward and lodging in the clothing be-
low one on the right side of the back near
the shoulder blade, this bullet also being
found in the clothing; and one on the right
side OF the sacral bone, the puncture extend
ing diagonally downward, the bullet being
embedded in the muscles to the left of the
sacrum about three inches from the place of
entrance.
About 3 o'clock the woman had sufficient
| ly recovered from the shock of the shooting
and the operations by the surgeons to give a
statement, under OATH to be used as an anti
mortem statement in case of her injuries re-
sulting fatally. The stat lement was taken
before James S. Hartman, ESQ, Notary
Public, and is as follows:
"Elliot was in his room during the fore.
noon and was sick l brought him cup OF
tea He gave me 3S cents and told ME to get
him some liquor. | told him wouldn't but
would get some Jamaica ginger for him.
sent my little girl to get him bottle of gin.
ger, and she had been gone but little while
when he asked for it. l told him the girl
would be back with it soon. l then sal
down in front of the stove in my room The
door was open between my room and his
He was sitting on his bed near the foot
While looking in 1 saw revolver on the
| floor beneath his bed. I went in, picked il
up, and tried to get out his door into the
back hall, but it was locked. He Jumped
up, grabbed me by the throat and took the
revolver from me. | escaped into my room
and ran for the front hall way, followed by
Elliot. Before | could get out of the door
he fired the first shot, which struck me in
the right breast. After got into the front
| hall way he fired again and missed At the
| head OF the stairs got another shot which
hit me in the back. Another bullet hit me
as | reached the foot of the stairs. remem
Der another flash, but don't remember being
hit. My clothing was on fire when I go
into the street,
The following plan shows the location O
the rooms: