The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-25
KNOWS WHO
SHOT HIM.
But George W. Travers
Refuses to Furnish
Authorities With
Their Names.

statement from bin. Don't x me any
more questions" he a1dod, ''for I'll get
over this in 70 weeks and tho Incident
will be closed "
g'ravers has no idea that the shot he re-
| ceivel from ambush during MS lonely
drive Thursday night when opposite to
Wesley Church aud near Eldorado, nine
miles below Seaford, will cause his doath.
He had become acquainted with tbs
country thereabouts, for during the past
three months he has been acting us line
elec.ri rician In lower Delaware for his em-
ployers, tho Diamond State Telephone
Company of Dover. which Is establishing
a metallic circuit between the lower Della
ware towns. His headquarters have been
at Lewes, but he has frequently been at
Georgetown.
1t WAS at Georgetown that he hircd
team for his fatal drive on Thursday. He
reached SeatorI early in the evening and
put up at Walter Giles hUstslry. People
who had learned to know Travers as the
telephone superintendent of that district
little kne " that a mysterious letter and
not his usual business calls had brought
him there to sst out upon dark drivo nn d
to be blown almost into pieces with shot
gun.
The sufferers reference to n letter when
in semi-conscious sta Q yesterday was SO
vague that his physicians md Mr.. Giles
into whose home he was taken and nursed
could draw no Intelligent conclusion. He
said: "Oh II 1t had not boon for that let-
terri This his companions at HIS bed
side understood to mean letter he had
written to the Eldorado woman whom he
had been associate with
Eldorado is a town Of ono hundred in
habitapts situated on the branch OF the
Nanticoke River, known rs Northwest
Fork. The man whose wife Travers knew
and from whom the decoy letter was re-
cyived was employed rs an engineer on
small boat running on this river. The
population Of Elorado is made up Of work
ing people, saw mill and cannery people
Six men were in the plot to kill Travers
and the six set out from Eldorado to lay
for thoir victim at tho limo appointed on
Thursday night.
1hi, fact became kno vn to-day, when
Farmer Lindsay. of near Eldorado, drove
up to where Trsvers is now dying and in
quired earnestly as to the wounded mans
condition. lie said, whom pressed for in.
formation:
Il was driving along behind this mans
carriage, bonnd for Edorado, on Thurs
day night, when heard loud voices ahead
heard cry halt, and saw the fash of q
gun. Hesitating only for a moment, l
drove up aud found Travers lying by the
roadside, with six other men walking o.
bout his prostrate form.
Zone called to him. asking how load
Of buck shot felt inside Of him Tho man
begged mo TO assist him into his carriage
which had gono but few fest away, and
said that tbey had notified MIN that he
must clear out In five minutes or take an.
other load.
"When started to assist tho man they
threa' cned me, but managed to got him
int his carriage and started for Senford
b. for, realized the danger l was in."
Suacrintendent Baker Of the telephone
comrany was seen at Dover this evening
in relorion to the letter which Travers got
from Eldorado. Mr.. Baker he'd come
down to Georgetown to personally super
intend the work of the metallic circuit.
and was associated closely with Travers
last week.
On the 14th Travers received letter
from Eld orado, which passed. through Mr.
Bakers hands. as the electrician had gonc
down the road that day. and he brought
it to Dover, carrying 1t in his pocket for
several days, until he next saw Travers'
Mr. Baker Is confident that 1t was In
woman's handwriting, or clever disguise
Of a mans hand. He is confident that the
man was dccoyed by this letter to go to
his death.
DR.. j. N. Johns, one Of tho attending
physicians ut Travsrs' bedside, stated TO-
night that while his patient had ralliod
some during the day, he had little, If any
hopo of his recovery. He was able to take
some milk, but cannot retain any strong
nourishment, and suffers greatly from In
flnmmation as result Of the neglect of
tho wound during the long drive on that
cold ard dar p night Ho may possibly
live three days, said the doctor late to.
night, certainly not longer.
The Attorney Generals depar, mont will
take up the Investigation Of the oaso to-
MORO ", as will also Superintendent Ba-
ker who will 40 to Seaford and personally
lvok into the deliberate attempt to trap
and murder, as he believes, one of the
company's most trus tworthy employees.
JUST RELEASED FROM JAIL
Chester, Sept. 24.-Goorge w. Travtrs,
the young man who was waylaid aud shot
near Seaford, Dol. and who is now lying
at the point OF death at that place, was
liberated from the Delaware county jail
q few days ago, where he had been placed
after trial In which he was charged with
criminal intimacy by George Rash, hug
band Of the woman he was going to Sea-
ford to see. Travers had been working In
Chester rs lineman ana was living here
with Mrs. Rash.
On December ?, 1893, George R .sh and
son came hero from Seaford and identified
Travors and Mrs. Rash on II trolley car.
They were both arrested and hold for
court by Alderman Robert Smith and
aftor rravers was convicted he was SON.
tencsd by Judge Clayton for nine months
in the county Jail. After the conviction of
Trnvers Mrs. Rash and husband fixed
matters up. He paid the costs and they
went away. Chief Berry said Tonight
when his attention was called to the case.
drawers, who had house on West
Ninth street, was prepared to give Rash q
warm reception II he had called at his
home. for he hal a double barreled shot
gun and large army Colt revolver ready
for use"
Travers has wife and tour children In
Baltimore whom he deserted some time
ago and the family are said to be in want
as they have no ono but the mother to
provide for them.
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