The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-27
CLUES TO
THE SHOOTING
George Rash Denies that
lie Shot George
TraverS.

Al
this afternoon denied without trcmor
that he shot George Traver.. II did moi
shoot this man," ha said again. "Ne
matter how much he may have deserved
1t at my hands. ! admit l told him thu
last time saw him that II over l fCunt
him on my premises again about my wifi
and children would kill him. But
would net go out to hunt for him as
would for rabbit, and wonld not shoot
him in the dark. would have to meet
him face to face. Still, want to say al.
though l know it is sin. that when that
man Is in his grave my troubles will be at
an end As for his intimatlng that l was
the man who shot him. Do you know tho
reason why? 1t Is because my face is ever
before him. As he lies in that bed dying
he can think of no one but me and the
groat wrong l have suffered at his hands.
He knows my suffering anu misery when
he attempted to break up my home.
"He not only always secs my face in his
fancy, but he sees the faces Of my wife
and my little ones. They are always there
before him as his aCcusers. He has hurt
tho honor of my family and you could do
me no greater harm than that, not even If
you We're to shoot me through ,he heart.
III Travers is alive when you SEQ him
again want you TO say that Idony having
shot him. l did not do 1t and he knows
1t. He must have wronged some one else
and he has been paid for it, and want you
to tell him also for me. just as told him
after he was arrested for taking my wife,
now say again, that il ever | find him
near me or mine will take down my gun
ard shoot him just as would dog"
Rash not only denied doing tho shoot.
ing, but said he could easily prove an ali
bi for last Thursday evening He said
that he was in his machine until
o'clock in the afternoon finishing up some
odd pieces of work.
"At O'clock" he said, "John Bradley
the liveryman, was here talking to me-
and he will testify to it. After that
had supper and about 8 o'clock | went to
bed. Just before 10 o'clock Bradley and
Jimmy Mills, the sou of a neighbor, came
and called mo up They were having
a good time at the livery stable and want
ed me to join them. dressed and went
down stairs and was with them for the
the next two hours
Il never was ont of Vienna on the night
and back between tho hours l have named
There are witness SEQ by tn, papors that
tho shooting was dono between half-past
Z and o'clock. Now it is iDiles from
Vienna to the ferry across tho Nanticoke
at Brookvew. Then its mile to Eldora-
do and mile and half further on to
where Travers was shot. The roads are
bad all the way and no man on earth
could walk it and get across the ferry.
Besides that tho ferryman, who knows
NE we'll. would surely have recognlz, d me
going or coming. have boat of my own
IN which might have crossed the river
but can prove that on That night it was
tied up kera at the wharf ! have no team
and If hal the only way l could cross
,he river would be by the ferry. 1t is
rue that ride bicycle, but am net
good rider ard over the bad roads don't
believe any rider in the country could ges
here and back in the time would have
lad to do it that evening be wsen 6 and
o o'clock, the hours at which Mr.. Bradley |
will swear he SAW me here"
But the straugcst part of the whole mat
er is yet to be explained. In the story he |
old yesterday Trevers gave specific details
If three letters he had written to Mrs.
Rash during tho last three weeks and
hrGe answers he had received from her
he last of these being tho decoy which led
lin to the srot where he was ambushed.
my wife" said Rash never received
me Of these letters and has never written
IN answer. Travers lies when he says he
ecelv1d decoy letter or letter of and
lind from my wife after I brought
Ter back to her homo last year. l defy
lin to produce any such letters"
Asamatter Of fact Rash Is safe in utter
ng this defiance as tho three letters which
'ravers snys were from Mrs Rash were In
is coat pocket when he was shot and the
uil charge passed through them. Mrs.
iash herself confirms her husbands dc.
inl that she has written any letter to
'ravers in tho last th:es weeks.
Rash called her into his shop. She Is
title woman. but there ID q lot Of fire in
er dark brown eyes. Sho has heen re.
erred to as "the pretty Mrs. Rash" and
he comes pretty near deserving it. She
, a brunette and is as unlike her husband
s one could imagine. She Is the mother
eight children. 1t is noticeable that
,hcn sho and her husbrnd speak to each
ther she never permits her eyes to meet
is.
"You have not written to Travers IN the
nst three weeks, have you Annie'" the
husband suggested.
NO." she answered quietly. and after
hat he whole conversation was conducted
v suggestion Cd his part, and answer on
ers, She said she had not received lot
~ from Trayers since he won't to jnil.
"Whv should that man write to me?"
be added, and it was the only iniepen-
ent remark she uttered during oil the
inc she was there
She rehearsed all "details Of her hus-
ands doing on Thursday evening. in
uding his going to bod at 0 o'clock and
cing called at 10 O'Clock. She was asked
she had received any personal letters ut
10 Vienna Post O!ice during the last
irce weeks. She had aud they were three
them just tho number Travers said he
rote to her.
Then husband and wife together eyplain-
bout these letters. They had come from
n uncle Of Rash, James Farr, who lives
, Edwin, Somerset county. Naturally
iev said this uncle would write to Rash
i,a.Lf hut aa tho lattnr cnnnnt write |