The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-19
ON KENTUCgYS BLOODY GROUND
THE FEARFUL RESULTS OF A PER-
S0NAl FEUD.
n Fight With Pistols In n To-
tel Lobby-One OF the Participants
and Two Bystauders Killed Two
Others Wounded.

and Two Bystauders Killed Two
Others Wounded.
Frankfort. Ky. January lex Con
gresham David G. Coison shot and
killed Ethelburt Scott, Luther Deznaree
and Charles Julian and wounded James
! Golden and Harry Z. Ewing OF Louis
vile. in the Capitol hotel. The killing
was TIA result of a renewal Of q seud
between Colson and Scott. which grew
up between them while in the army last
year.
Scott n Demaree died almost in
stantly. Julian was thought 10 DC
only slightly wounded but died a l:55
o'clock p m, from shock and loss OF
blood. making b third death
All but Scott We're by-standers and
were shot by accident. Colson was shot
in h arm, but not seriously hurt. AZ
the shooting he went TO the residence Of
Chief OF Police Williams. nearby and
gave himself up Later a warrant was
sworn OFT by Clint Fogg. who Witness
ed the killing. Fogg says Coison shot
first.
The killing occurred in the lobby Of
the Capitol hotel which was densely
pt&h%a Will E[oP4G az IL i've =
tending the trial OF the contests be
ore the legislature. Persons who were
in the hotel when the tragedy occurred
say fully twenty shots were fired.
Scott, who was the first killed was n
nephew of Ex-Governor Bradley. De-
maree vas assistant postmaster at
Shelbyville and a prominent republican
politician. Julian was one or the
wealthiest farmers in this county and
belonged to an old Kentucky family.
The trouble between Scott and Col
son which began in the army last year.
resulted in Colson being shot by Scott.
and ii has been predicted since that
one or both would be killed should they
meet, as they did today.
Colonel Colson is in a highly nervous
state resulting from excitement attend
ing the tragedy and as he has never
fully from a stroke Of par
alysiS sustained last year, his friends
are greatly concerned over his condi-
ton.
Accounts OF the killing differ and II
is impossible ito give details further
than while Coison and a party OF
friends were standing in the southwest
corner of h hotel lobby, Scott came
in the hotel and when near Colson. the
firing began. Scott, afer being shot
walked backward toward the stairway
leading to the barroom and fell down
the stairs, dead, as he reached them.
His body rolled over against h bar
room door and as it did, Colonel Colsorf.
who had followed. shooting at every
step, fired one or more shots in the
PROSTATE form.
Demaree. who was killed in the gen.
eral fusiflade. was shot twice. one ball
pierced the heart and the other either
penetrated the heart or vent directly
under il.
Those in the immediate C0lson party
declined to ak about the affair. and
while it is generally understood that
several others were engaged in the
shooting no names are given.
The bodies of the dead were removed
to undertaking establishments and all
of the physicians in the city were sum-
moned to attend the wounded.
of the people fiocked to The
scene OF the shooting and watched the
tragic scenes following the removal or
the remains of the dead from the hotel.
The most profound sorrow exists over
the accidental killing of Demaree n
Julian and the feeling against Colson
among their friends is exceedingly BIT
ter.
Examination of SCOTS body shows
that he was shot at least six times.
| The fact that a part of the bullets were
of SO and part OF A calibre indicates
that he was shot by somebody besides
4 COISOn, or IndI SpISOH ndd INo TSNoif-
ers. Witnesses to the killing say that
Demaree was directly between Scott
and Colson when the shooting began
and that he was killed by the first shot
fired.
Colson lives at Middlesborough and
represented the Eleventh district in
congress for two years. Scott was a
young lawyer living ait Mount Sterling
and was a lieutenant in Colonel Col
sons regiment in the Spanish war.
When the killing too place, the city
was thrown into a state of the great
est excitement. it being supposed at
first that it was the result or a clash
growing out of the political onteSt
on trial in the legislature.
Captain B. B.. Golden, who IS thought
to be fatally wounded, is a laweyer
living at B~arboursviiie and captain OF
the Kentucky cavalry troop during the
Spanish American war.
Captain Golden made a statement IN
which he said no words passed between
Scott and Colson before the shooting
and THAT Colson fired first. Golden
and Colson had had trouble before and
Colson's friends charge that Golden
was engaged in the shooting today.