The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-19
BOTH SHOT BY A NEGRO
RESULT OF A QUARREL BEFORE
\ NEGRESS' HOUSE.
TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC THERE
Willard Shercn and George Warning QuareIed
With Negro Who Came Out of The House.
Sherron is Dead and Warirg
Painfully Wounded.

Durham, y. c.. Jan. 1S,-(Speclal'-
Another murder. the first i'll quite Il
while in that locality of pollution and
infamy, has been committed III smoky
Hollow. This occurrence was somewhere
about II O'Clock last night. One man
lies cold and stiff in death, while anoth-
or is painfully. though probably not ia
tally wounded. The dead man is Viii
lard Sherron, and the wounded man
George Warning.
These two men while in front OF
the house of Alice Gudgcr a cotored
woman, where a dance was i'll progress.
became involved in Il quarrel with II
negro who had come out Of the house.
This negro pulled a pistol and fired at
the two white men, one ball striking
Sherron i'll the back, and another bail
striking Warning under the right arm.
Sherron was examined by Drs. c.
\. Adams and y. NJ. Johnson, who
pronounced him badly hurt. He WIS
brought up town to the police station.
where he died about o'clock this morn
ing. Sherron first stated that the dar-
key who did the shooting was Horace
Jones. Afterwards he admitted tha7
he did not know who did it.
Officer w G.. Crabtree found Jones
in his room on Sugar Hill, and arrest
ed him and brought him to the police
station. Charles Hines, a barber. VINO
was sleeping with Jones at the time.
stated that the two had been together
since o O'Clock p. M. and had not been
near Smoky Hollow.
This morning at . o'clock. Il post
mortem examination was held in the
Mayors office ut the court house hy
Drs. Johnson. Adams and Cheatham.
At the same time Coroner Mad.lry
summoned the following gentlemen as
his jury: W. G. Crabtree. c. f. Chris
tian c. w. Barbee. w. ]. Ramsey +.
J. Lambe and j. W. Boles These gen
tlemen were present during the post
mortem examination.
The physician found that the 5&lIet
entered behind the left shoulder. be
tween the seventh and eighth ribs, four
and Il half inches from the spine. Tie
Iall in its course went through the up
per lobe of the right and through both
lobeS of the left lung. The COURSE of
the ball was DETECTED upward evidently
by striking Il rib. as the upper part OF
one was shattered. The physician
found the bullet in the right side Of the
neck, under the clavice 1t WAS IL
3S-calibre ball.
After the post-mOrtem the body wa
turned over to Brown & Morris, who
pepared it for burial. The romainS welc
inferred this afternoon, relatives of the
deceased bearing the expenses If Tie
funeral.
The coroner appointed > O'Clock this
afternoon as the time f II tho inquest.
\ number of witnesses We're, sumnlopcd.
and several arrests made. Horace
Jones. the darkey arrested last night.
was relcasd. having proved thar he had
nothing to do with the shooting Two
witnesses arrested this morning arc be-
lieved to be very important ones.
1t was found this morning that the
dead man was shot iii another place.
Il ball having gone through his coat,
vest and Shirt and grazed the skin on
the top of the right shoulder
CONFLICTING TESTIMONY.
Durham, y. c.. Jan. 1S.-(Speciai)-
The corcners court after an inyestiga
tom Of the murder this afternoon ad