The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-20
WOUND MAY PROVE FATAL.
:, T. BROWN IN VERY SERIOUS
CONDITION..

rail Fired by w. A. Calder
dyed in Browns Brain and He
.,s since Been srncOnsciOus-The
,,nan in whose House the Quar-
rel Begun Claims That Brown Was
u.tplessIy Drunlx-CaIder's State
N, of the AHair-Ciaims That
urown Was Advancing on Him
with a Knife.
a. Brown. who was shot by W. A.
colder on Cemetery street about midnight
samrdav night, is reported to be in a very
s|rious condition and may not live.
1,ou,n was shot through the forehead,
,.s hall lodging in the brain. He has
,., unconscious since the shooting.
~ororer Goette went to the house on
cemetery street, where Brown is, yester-
dow for the purpose of securing a state
rert from the injured man in case his
,onditior was such that he was not likely
=, recover. No statement could be OBJ
t.ined the man being unconscious, but
on account of the difficulty which led up
10 the shooting was given by Janet Doh
Ian ire woman who keeps the house.
The woman said that Brown came to
tbe house drunk. She admitted him, as
he had been living there for some time.
sometime later Calder came and inquired
for another woman, who had been stay
inc there a short time. The woman was
not in the house and Calder came in ana
sat down. Brown was sitting in a chair
taIf asleep. and the woman said that she
asked Calder to help her get him upstairs
10 bed. Calder undertook TO do so, when
Blown became angry and cursed Calder,
using vile epithet. At this Calder be
came enraged and the two began fighting.
Brown vas very drunk, and Calder, al
though the smaller man, had much the
better Of it, The woman said she man.
aged to separate the men, and got Calder
outside. Brown followed him. Thewoman
said that the last she saw of the two,
before the shooting, they were a Jew feet
apart and Brown was supporting himself
by holding on to the railing of the fence.
After she got the men out of the house
she said, she left them and went up to
Gwinnett street lane. She had only been
gone a short time when she heard pistol
shot and going back, found Brown lying
on the SFOunQ WIN u Dultet mole IN MS
forehead. Calder was standing near by,
and said that he had shot Brown because
he had cursed him and called him a vile
name
Calder did not attempt to escape after
the shooting, but on the contrary, went
to the city stables near by and told Watch
man Brckman to call up the police sta
ton and tell them to send the ambulance
after Brown. Policeman McQuade came
up about this time and asked who shot
Brown. Il did" replied Calder.
Then you are the man 1 want" replied
the officer. Calder made no objection to
accompanying the officer.
After Calder had shot Brown he called
on two negroes, who passed, to carry
Brown into the Dohlan womans house.
telling them that he would pay them for
1t. They refused to touch the man, how
ever Two negro women who came up
were offered quarter by Calder to carry
Brown into the house. which they did,
and were paid the quarter.
Calder was seen al the police station
yesterday by a Morning News reporter,
and talked readily of the affair,
He admitted the fact of the killing but
said that his attorney, Mr.. II. S. Morgan
had advised him not to talk Of the matter
He claimed that Brown was advancing on
him with knife when he fired the shot
According to the statement of the Doh
Ian woman to Coroner Goette Brown was
so helplessly drunk at the time of the
shooting that he could not stand unaided.
The neighbOrhood in which the shooting
took place has an unsavory reputation
because of the number of houses of evil
resort, which have located there in the
last few years.