The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-29
CRAZY MANS BLOODY CRIMES.
n. G.. sHOCKLEY SUDDENLY USES
HIS KNIFE IN \ STREET CAR.

d. Bishop Killed, Police Captain
Thompson and cx-POliceman Nc
coy of Atlanta Seriously Injured.
Atlanta. Ca, Oct 2S.-Willlam G. Shock
lev a crazy man. went TO the capitol this
morning and asked to see the Governor.
He said his relatives were plotting to ruin
him and he wanted the state to project
him.
GOV. Atkinson could not give the mad
man an audience and he left going to
the station house. There ne said he heard
he was wanted by the police and asked
10 lo locked up. The police paid no at
tenuon to him, except to order him off
the premises.
Two hours later Shockley had killed one
man and almost killed two others, in fit
of insane frenzy. One of those whom
he slashed almost to death with his hor-
rb,e knife was Capt. John Thompson of
the police department, who had ordered
him away from the station house when
he went there to be locked up. Another
Of the wounded was Robert Mccoy, an ex-
policeman. The man who was slain out
right was ]. d. Bishop, a farmer living
near Westview cemetery, on the western
outskirts of the city
il was one of the most shocking trage-
d,s that has ever happened in this or
any other community. Bishop, who had
never seen the mad man before in his
lie. was on a trolley car, bound for West
view Cemetery, going to his home He
and Mrs N. ]. Walker of 1873 Edgewood
avenue, with her little baby, were the
only passengers inside the car until
Shockley boarded it, near the Nelson street
bridge. Capt Thompson, in citizens
clothes, on his way home, after his nights
work, was standing on the rear platform
smoking. He did moi recognize Shockley,
and so far as it is known the mad man
did not recognize him. There seems 70
have been no animosity toward either of
the victims. The mad man was seized
with an overpowering thirst for blood, and
the first man who came across his path
was singled out as his victim. When ne
entered the car he walked to the front and
quietly took seat beside Mr. Bishop, just
across the aisle from Mrs. Walker, who al
the moment was trying to quiet her child,
which was crying.
Without a word or gesture Of warning,
ShOckley suddenly threw his arm about
the neck of his victim and plunged a long
Laded pocketknife into his jugular vein.
The force of the thrust was such that
j. almost severed the mans neck half way
around The blood spurted out in a great
stream, saturating the victim of the mad
assassin before he could disengage him
self and spring toward the door of the
car
As he was fleeing from the car he stop
ped TO deal a horrible slash at Capt.
thompson, who, having his back to the
front of the car, had seen nothing of what
occurred within. He mad just turned when
shockley was coming out AS he passed
nm the mad man sunk his bloody blade
INTO the captains face, inflicting a terri
Ole cash from ear to chin. Despite this
wound, from which the blood was flowing
IN a great stream. Capt. Thompson tried
70 give chase to the mad man. He drew
ms pistol and fired three times at him,
put neither bullet took effect. BY this
uhe eX-Poiceman Mccoy came up To
MN Capt. Thompson handed his smoking
PISTOL and asked him to take the fleeing
assassin, dead or alive. Mccoy responded
with a courage and energy that was he
roc. lie gave chase to the fleeing man
ana was almost overtaking him when the
Idlter turned. brandishing his bloody knife.
Nl'Ooy realized that he was in for a des-
pefale encounter and raising the police
captains pistol he ordered the mad man
TO slop This he ignored, coming straight
VIC AluHAlt Oh the weapon, dS IL
re def1ed it. Mccoy pulled the trigger
su'ee time but each time the weapon re-
4u9ea 10 shoot. Then he threw it down,
""U grappled with the maniac. 1t was
i7u' Tor life, and a desperate one for the
e,d- mel man against the armed maniac.
m'So oy was cut and stabbed three times,
ana his clothing literally torn to rags
"9 lhe hght,which might have resulted fat
9E 10 MN but for the timely arrival of
"ueetnan Brown, Brown and other sue
'''ed IN overcoming the mad man and
' was hnally landed in a cell al police
va racks, where he now is. Mccoy was
rNeH TO a drug store and his wounds
1SSeo' Capt. Thompson was carried to
tne Grady Hospital
'h the car, where the mad man first
ave way to his frenzy a ghastly scene
I9 presented. Blood was spattered every
'ie' Whlle Bishop lay on the seat as
'.'e as a corpse. Mrs. Walker with
eledI nerve and presence of mind. as soon
az she recovered from the momentary
jurors OF the scene that had been enacted
ue'ore her eyes, set herself to save the
"ouhded man if possible Without her
,I'o'sc lance, while most attention was be-
4'| slVen TO the mad assassin, she caught
e"e wounded man up in her arms and
seHViy forcing him into the corner of the
tar seat, she took her handkerchief and
u'Sn 10 bind up his wound. She could not
iI ner efforts to do so her dress was sat
u'aled In the crimson fluid The plucky
woman remained by the side of the injur-
man, her baby lying on the opposite
Sil where she had placed her, until
T'a'h came and made further efforts use
ss. The car In which Bishop died was
el" back into the city and his body trans
N.fed TO an undertaking house
"oth Capt Thompson and Mccoy are
lvsuhs Wei tonight. They are both bad
N wounded, bur viii, in all probability,
,e'oVer Capt Thompson is one of the
lest men ever connected with the force.
some years ago he came near being killed
wy the knife of murderous negro and
''LE a short While ago he was shot in
Dle leg and laid up for months, by a man
"nom he was arresting.
ohockley claims that he is from Nor
gan county Georgia. though he came re-
.enl4y to Atlanta from New Orleans. He
.'Iis "a Wild and weird story about his
Iolbles with his family, who he imag
i.l.s are persecuting him. He said he went
lAto the Kimball House arcade last night
ana there saw Gil his family engaged "A