The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-03
KILLED IN COLD BLOOD.
SANDY NELL FATALLY WOUNDED
HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.

Was standing on the Sidewalk in
Front of the DOOr-Quarrel and Ill
Feeling between Nell and His
Wife. the Latter sister of Buzbee,
Caused the TroubIe-The Wounded
Boy Died shortly After He Had
Been shot-No Reasonable Provo
cation for the Killing Appears.
James Buzbee. a lad Of Is years. was
shot and fatally wounded by his bro her
in-law. William S. Nell, shortly after 3
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The shoot
ing was done from the steps Of MelIs
house. al West Broad and Twelfth streets.
Within an hour the BOY was dead and MS
slayer was behind the bars In the police
station house.
The homicide ana its attendant facts in
dicate the presence of that malice that The
laws Of the state say shall be implied,
when no considerable provocaion ape
pears and all the circumstances Of thc XII
ing show an abandoned add malignant
heart" Mel is q man, ia The PRIME and
the ful strength Of his y0uth, while his
victim was a boy, Comparatively weak ana
defenseless; the former was armed with
a revolver. while the latter had nothing
that could in any wise serve to repel and
prevent an assault upon his life. When
the fatal shot was fred he was at least
ten feet away from where Nell was
standing and the slayers only known
provocation was Busbee's invitation 10 him
to carry out his threat TO shoot.
In the background of the story is the
usual tale Of marital infelicity and mans
alleged cruelty and brutality 10 the wo-
man he had sworn to love, protect and
cherish. Several years ago Nell married
Annie Buzbee, the sister of the boy whom
he killed, and for time the couple lived
in comparative happiness and peace Lat
terly, though, he has been anything but
kind, and the ueighbors say that Mrs,
Nell was wont frequently to seek the pro-
lection of her mother, after some scene
with her husband that had more than or
dinarily transgressed the prophecies and
injured her There are accounts Of quar-
rels that disturbed the peace of the neigh
borhood and Mrs. Nell says that her hus-
band treated her in a way that made her
life almost unendurable
The man has been a professional gam
bier, and until the late shut down held
position in one of the keno rooms on
BToughton street, Since he was thrown
out of work he has done nothing unless,
as IL is claimed a rather constant success
sion of abuse and petty annoy
ance Of his wife may be ciassed
an an occupation. At any rate it
was his. according to the stories Of the
neighbors.
Yesterday morning, Mells wife was III
and decided she would not get up Nell
opened every window in the room-it was
a cold morning-pulled The bed clothes off
his wife and threw them on the floor.
Then he stalked out of the room and the
house and did not return until after din
ner. about o'clock. His wife by that
time was up and stirring and a little
child, three years old, which they had
adopted and were rearing as their own,
was playing with some other children in
front Of the door.
Caught Up the Child.
OF this, Nell did not approve and, catch
ing the child roughly in his arms, carried
her upon the porch OF the dwelling. His
wife was rather more angered by his i'll
treatment of the baby than she had pre
viousy been by his ill-treatmeut Of herse Z
and demanded that he give the child to her
and permit her to take the little enc % her
mothers house a block or two down the
street. Her mother has married again
since Nell married her, and is now the
wife Of Loue Black. Black runs line of
cabs.
Nell would not permit his wife to have
the child and told her to cease her clat-
ter. A second and third request met
with refusals still more peremptory, each
of them accompanied by an oath. His wife
told Nell that she would go 10 her mother 8
and would there find some one who would
compel him to release the child to her care.
To this course he offered no objection.
On her way to her mothers house the
woman met her brother, James Buzbee,
the lad of is who was unfortunate enough
later to incur Mells deadly anger. He
noticed her excitment, and she told him of
the way Nell treated the child and that
he refused. when she asked him, TO give
the babe to her. Young Buzbee said he
would get the child and walked down to-
wards the home of the Mells with this pur-
pose in view. When he reached the house
his brother-in-law was standing on the
porch and the baby playing about his feet.
AS Nell saw BuZbee approaching he
stepped down from the porch and closed
the gate, evidently intending to oppose
this additional barrier to the entrance Of
the brother of his wife When the lad
reached the sidewalk in front of the house
he stopped and said
SANDY, my sister wants her child
have come to get it,"
We'll" replied Nell. your sister can
get the child but you can't If you dare
come into my house. ] swear I'll xiii
you"
This prelude had been watched from the
window of the house. by Lula Taylor. a
girl who had been living with the Mells.
as a companion to the wife. Because
Mell's business had kept him away from
the house during the greater part of the
night and because the house Itself is To-
called on the very outskirts of The city.
d. was necessary. almost, that Mrs Mel
should have scme company, ana the girl
who is pretty and intelligent had been
filling This * el,., 81 .
trouble was in the wind she came 10 the
door and just at this time also Mrs Black
and Mrs. Nell reached the scene
Ordered the Hoy Away.
Nell was reiteraGug his commands 20
young Buzbee, telling him not TO dane on
ter the house. He emphasized his com
mands ana demands with the V lest aud
strongest OF profanity and called the youth
about everything that is either disaustfne.
or dagradino- IEn ~ .nau-..ol -.a.--.L.-