The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-28
SHOT TO KILL HIS UNCLE
ELIAS E. BRISTOL FIRED TWICE
 AT JAMES 4. BRISTOL.
Thought to be FataI-The Affair Oc- cured at the Yale Storage Warehouse Late Yesterday Afternoon-Cause of the Shooting n Mystery.
the Shooting n Mystery.

] the Shooting Mystery.
 Elias E. Bristol, who conducts the
 Yale storage warehouse on Court street, | just above Orange, is locked up at po-
 lice headquarters under the charge of
 assaulting his uncle, James A. Bristol,
 with intent to kill About 4:15 o'clock
 yesterday afternoon Bicycle Policeman
 Watrous was sitting in the patrolmen's
 room at police headquarters, when he heard two shots which sounded as
 though they came from close by down | Court street. Watrous jumped through
 one of the open front windows of the police station and ran down the street
 to Bristols stable, where he saw James | A. Bristol, who told the policeman that | he had been shot by his nephew. Wat
 rous entered the stable and found Elias
 F. Bristol sitting in the office adjoining the stable, the door connecting the office
 with the stable being open. As Wat
 rous stepped up and placed him under
 arrest Elias Bristol said to him, What
 else could I have done after what he has done to me?"
 Young Bristol was taken to the police station and a few moments after his uncle whom he had shot, walked into
 the station, weak from loss of blood,
 and asked for doctor, Dr. stephen J.
 Maher whose office is just around the
 4l, a+,
 for and while waiting for the physician
 the injured man sat down in chair in
 the police office. His nephew who had
 shot him was standing in front of the
 sergeant's desk at that time, being
 searched by Signal Officer Began pre-
 paratory to being locked up.
 The older MT. Bristol, looking up and seeing his nephew standing near by, said: "Oh, you coward! If you had let me know what you were going to do l would have been ready for you and giv- en you all you wanted T am no cow ard" responded the younger Bristol. You know why did it, and you know how you have been trying to do me-
 Young Bristol was then locked up and pr. Maher having arrived, James Brls- tol was taken into the patrolmens room and laid upon a table, after which hls wound was bandaged by Dr. Maher Two shots were fired, but only one took effect. It struck MT. Bristol in the ex- treme lower part of the abdomen, and at o'clock last night the bullet had not been extracted. MT. Bristol was taken to the New Haven hospital in the police ambulance after his wound had been lo, Joo urp1InH h1aI f1rOfI1SplV I and must have been painful, but de- spite that fact Mir. Bristol showed won- deriul grit and did not wince a particle | when Dr. Maher was doing up the | wound A bystander asked him if it | did not hurt, and he replied, "It smarts | q little" Just before he was taken away in the ambulance his brother Edward | F. Bristol, father of Elias E. Bristol, | who had done the shooting, arrived. He | has been i'll for some time and the news | of the shooting had nearly prostrated | him. He shook hands with his brother, but said nothing about his svn who was locked up.
 Before leaving the police station for the hospital James E. Bristol said that | he did not know why his nephew had [ shot him. He said that he had just come from barber shop and stepped into the stable door, when his nephew | appeared at the door of the office about | twelve feet away and, raising his pistol, fired two shots without say ing a word. At the police station young Bristol made no statement at all con- the affair. He was disarmed at the office of the Yale storage warehouse by employees there, who turned the re- volver over to Patrolman Watrous. The revolver was 32-calibre.
 At the police station the victim of the shot said that his nephew had for some time accused him of keeping his father, Edward F. Bristol, away from him. James Bristol said that this accusation was not true. He said that his brother Edward had been in ill-health for some time and had been unable to be at his office on that account Those who know young Bristol say that he has drank heavily for number of years and that .hey think his mind is unbalanced. It s said that he attacked his father with , pitchfork some time ago. and no other ,ause for his act yesterday afternoon ,an be assigned than temporary mental arrangement.