Evening journal., 1898-10-12
DELIBERATE MURDER.
PER HAD NO WEAPON WHEN
SHOT DOWN BY GIBBS.

fTING OF THE BOARD OF CAN
ESS IN DOVER YESTERDAY.
ErEREsTING MEETING OF BAP-
BTS-oTHIER DOVER NOTES.
& al Correspondence Evening Journal.
Nyer, Oct. 12.-The negro shooting
]. which, according to the story told |
Hibbs, the man who shot and kill |
henry Harper yesterday morning,
Nd like a case of justifiable homt-
and was so reported, now turns
Y aco1ding to the evidence submit
Z 10 the coroner's jury at the inquest
brday afternoon. to have been a
h of deliberate murder.
lie stories of the several witnesses
d down would show about these
X John Gibbs ran sort Of free
easy establishment on Kirkwood
#t in the two-story frame house he
&Rd. He himself lived there with a
who is his commonlaw wife. Har
u the dead man, was in the habit OF
ging up there" as the witnesses
n it, with a mulatto girl named
Monday night Gibbs, Harper,
II two girls and another girl named
&ler and q man named Quillen had
drinking and "scrapping" until
u midnight. Harper then left the
r I'd and Gibbs and the three women
in the house and retired. Some
after Harper and Quillen came TO
door and were admitted by one OF
girls. Harper began abusing the
girl, claiming that she had some
3 ley belonging to him. This she de-
and they began fighting. Gibbs
red them both out, and it is said
downstairs and got his revolver.
witnesses, all but Gibbs own wo-
then claimed that when he came
airs he deliberately fired at Har-
killing him, and that Harper at
time had no weapon in his hand.
coroner's jury returned a verdict
Harper came to his death at the
Is of Gibbs, and the latter was re-
mitted to Jail to await the action
be grand jury.
he Board of Canvass met as d.
I'd yesterday and tabulated the vote
in this county two years ago.
ry inspector was present, with the
ption of Mccoy, of Duck Creek,
as there was no election in that
bred his absence made no differ
The count was completed about
3 clock last evening, but there is
hitch in making the figures or
Democratic sheet agree with thf
lblican sheet, and the comparison
be completed in the morning. A
watson kept tab for the Republi'
and Secretary of State Hughes
ormed the same service for The
locrats. The count shows that th'
ublicans carried the county by ma
les ranging from 400 down, ant
ificates will be made out in du'
10 to the officials elected tO-mor
What the next step will be is no
vn, but the Republican leaders .ool
as they say this thing is no
yet and you'll hear something
shortly" According to the coun
abulated at 6 O'Clock last night Johl
Ioffecker, Union Republican candi
for governor. had S,644 votes; Eb
Tunnel, Democrat, S,S4S votes
a c. Higgins, Regular Republican
Daniel Green, Prohibtionist, 1lS
lis u. Slaughter, Single Tax, s5.
or Representative in Congress VII
Union Republican, had 1854, an
hdy, Democrat, 1865. The Unio
uIblicans legislative ticket average
5. while the Democratic average
5. Sheriff Reedy, Union Republi
S.716; Virdin, Democrat, 1856
oner, Knight, Union Republican, 3
Bethards, Democrat, S,147. Count
surer, Jenkins, Union Republican
h; Arthurs, Democrat, 3,4S7.
s a result of the failure to agree i
the Union Republican sheriff an
Democratic treasurer and the cor,
held over. The Democrats, VIII
hold-over control OF the assembl,
ed all their legislative candidate
ch resulted in the election Of R.
hney to the United States Senate.
here was a large attendance OF deli
es at the Baptist Anniversary A'
alton, which opened its exercise
yesterday. There were three SCI
rs. AT the morning session Rev. !
Cook, of wilmington, was electe
derator and Rev. f. H. Merrill, Sc
arv. Rev. e. P. Powell preachf
morning sermon. in the afternoc
Woman's Foreign Missionary .
v held its meeting, Mrs. F. G. Me
presiding. There we're several Il
esting addresses on the benevolel
rk of the society. The Missional
ion and the State Missionary Socie
a.., ~o,,,,.tr Ia