The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-11-04

Kuis Trolley Car Passenger. siaba =
Policeman and stofekeeper.
AZ Atlanta. Ca, Friday morning,
w. q. shockley, hailing from Morgan
county, entered a trolley car, drew q
pocket knife and, without warming
severed the iugular vein Of passen-
ger named Bishop Rushing out Of
the car, shockloy slaahed the face Of
Police Captain Thompson, who was
standing on the rear platform. The
mailman them jumped from the rapidly
moving ear aud attempted 10 escape.
In spite Of his bleeding face aud The
pain, Captain Thompson drew his pia-
lol aud leaped from the car. Shockley
had already jumped of aud was hur-
rying down Chapel street. Captain
Thompson fred three shots NJ the fee
ing murderer, and then feeling exc
hausted from the wound he handed
his pistol 10 George p. Jones, who had
come up, ard told him 10 shoot the
fugitive Jones ran after ShOckley
down Chapel street
AZ the store Of ex-Policeman Mccoy
the pistol was handed 10 him aud he
ran Shockley as far as the corner Of
Mangum and Nelson streets. Here
Shockley jumped upon q moving car
aud Mccoy chased him through it.
When both men were out Of the ear,
Shockley turned upon his pursuer
with his bloody knife. Mccoy told
him 10 surrender and the murderer
advanced with the knife Mccoy tried
TO fire the pistol and the shells would
not explode.
Seeing that the pistol would not
shoot, Shockley rushed upon Mccoy
with his knife and there was a fearful
/ fight. Mccoy was cut on the arm
and forehead, but neither wound was
serious. Using the pistol rs a club,
Mccoy, aided by Jones, who had come
up, finally overpowered Shockley and
held him until Patrolman John Brown
and two citizens went to his assistance.
Shoekley was carried to the police
barracks in the patrol wagon and
placed in a cell.
As soon as he saw that Shockley had
used his knife, the conductor rang
down the car aud it stopped. A city
physician was summoned and he tied
up the severed artery, bnt the dying
man was too far gone to rally. From
the moment he had been stabbed
Bishop had never spoken a word. He
died sitting upon the bottom Of the
car with his head against the seat.
He lived about forty minutes after he
was stabbed.
One of the strange chapters in this
story of crime occurred before the
murder on the street car, and it throws
considerable light on theiaffair. Friday
morning about half-past 8 o'clock,
nearly two hours before the commits
sion of the murder, Shockley went to
the police barracks and talked with
Captain Thompson and Captain Joiner,
He told the officers that he understood
he was wanted by the police and had
come to give himself up. He was in
formed that he was not wanted and he
left. A few squares from the barracks
he met Patrolman Dobbins repeated
the story about being wanted by the
police.
Dobbins carried Shockley back to pc
lice barracks. but the man was agaiI
told to go, as he was not wanted
This circumstance, as will appea
later, bears upon the theory that thu
murderer is a lunatic and one of tn
sort that suffers from delusional in
sanity.
Immediately after his arrest Shock
ley told officers at the police barrack
that he knew he was wanted, an,
, feared being lynched, and that he fel
he had to kill two men before the da.
was out.
81 was just riding on .he car becaus
, / had nowhere else to go" said tn
murderer to the officers, "and when
got on the car 1 thought that would b
as good a time as any to kill coupl
of men, Iaimed at their iugular vein
( and think got both in the right spot.
4 Shockley told a most revolving stor
of some of his past life and said tina
> that was the reason the people wer
| trying to lynch him. He said he ha
met one of his uncles in the city an
Q that was how the secret got out.
, WINNIE DAVIS WILL.