The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-31
WOMEN WERE HIS VICTIMS.
ALEX YOUNG WOUNDED HIS WIFE
AND KILLED IDA CARTER.

From His Wffe-After Words With
Her. He Began Handling His Re-
vOIver-His Wife Sought TO Pre-
vent His Using 1t. and WINS Shot.
Continuing His Attack, Young shot
and Killed the Carter WOman-The
Murderer gave Himself Up at the
Barracks.
Alexander Young, negro, crazed with
drink and convinced in his befuddled
mind that he vas a sadly-imposed upon
husband, emptieG the contents of his re-
voIver into his wife. Louisa Young, and
Ida Carter who lived in the same house
with them. last night shortly before mid
night. The Carter woman was killed in
stantly, a bullet passing through her
heart and another through the shoulder.
The mans wife received three wounds,
two in the right hand and one in the
breast She will recover.
The shooting was entirely unprovoked,
according to the testimony Of Louisa
Yeung, which was taken by Coroner
Goette before the arrival of the physi-
clan, who, it was feared. might pronounce
her wounds fatal In that event her ante
morton statement would have been need
ed in the court when the trial of her
husband is held.
Young took an extremely unusual and
rather inexplainable course Immediately
after the shooting Flight is the first
thing that suggests itself to one who does
so desperate deed as his, but not once
apparently. did he think of escape
Though the gallows stared him in the
face, he did not hesitate, but made d.
rectly for the police station. where he
told of his bloody work and gave him
self up. He was at once lodged in
cell.
The killing created great excitement
amid the colored population of the vicin-
ity in which it occurred. Within a brief
time after the shots rang out, a great
crowd had gathered, and wild rumors got
afloat as to the extent of the crime. For
long time it was the impression that
both women had been killed, and this
view was the successor of several far
more sensa tional ones that had given way
to the statements that gradually found
credence in the crowd as those who in
vestgated reported the results of their
search
On every hand might have been heard
expressions of satisfaction in the knowl-
edge that the murderer was lodged in
Jail. The men and women of his race,
gathered about the scene of the crime,
were highly incensed against him. but
the prospect of early justice that would
rna 10 n accent the
news of Young's incorporation without
thought of wreaking any Vengeance upon
him themselves. From words that could
be heard in the crowd, however, il was
believed probable that summary punish
ment would have been melted out to che
man could he have been found among
them. The rawlings of the distressed rel
a1ives of the dead woman were such as
10 incite TO hasty revenge. and doubtless
they would have been given ear had
Young been around to stand as the OBJ
jec$ upon which the wrath of the negroes
might be vented.
The story OF the crime is simple As told
by the murderer's wife, and substantiated
as TO parts, by S. w. Carter, the hus-
band of the murdered woman, it had but
few details, the murderous frenzy into
which her husband had worked himself
having been, seemingly. the result of but
a few moments brooding anger. His out
burst was sudden and terrific, uncalled for
and not TO be assuaged.
Returning from his work with the Plant
System. where Young has been employed
he wanted his supper. This the woman
gave him. and he left the house. The
Carter woman with her husband, occu-
pied the same house, No. $50 President
street, east, having rooms on the lower
floor, while the Youngs lived above. The
Carriers left after supper for choir prac-
tice at their church and were not at home
when Young returned.
Louisa noticed that her husband had
been drinking when he returned to the
house, and his temper was ugly. She told
him, after she had been the butt OF several
of his surly remarks, that she would not
live with him if she was to be subjected
. 10 such treatment. Her husband then said
he wanted a blanket to spread upon the
floor 10 lie upon, but Louisa told him she
didn't have one, so Young lay down with
out the blanket, his wife being upon tho
bed
Lying there in the darkness. She heard
her husband clicking his pistol Fearing
that he meant mischief, she sprang from
her bed and sought to prevent him from
using the weapon Graphing with nlm
she caught the revolver's muzzle in her
right hand, Young pulling the trigger and
the double-action S2-caliber sending two
bullets through her hand. The bones were
crushed. and the woman was forced to
release her hold.
In the meantime the Carriers had re-
turned. They heard the shots above and
ran up stairs. The Young woman scream
ed to them TO come in, that the door was
unlocked. but both were afraid 90 rush
in upon the armed husband. Turning
again upon Young, the wife swung him
madly to one side. threw open the door
and rushed down stairs with the Carriers
Young following in hot pursuit.
Those fleeing were in time to shut and
lock the Carriers door, leaving che man
with the pistol on the outside He broke
dn the panels firing at the figure of a
woman he saw within. perhaps believing
IL 10 be his wife. Twice he fired, and
the Carter woman fell dead
Then Louisa screamed, and her husband
turned to the closet in which she had
concealed herself and fired shot into
her breast. Turning then, he ran from
the house, Carter firing a shot from his
pistol after him as he ran. In his flight
Young chucked away his weapon, leaving
i! behind bureau.
A report OF the affair was made to the
police. and soon there We're several on
the scene to maintain order among the
fast-gatherng crowd of. negroes The
wounded woman had run into the street
and sought entrance Into the houses of
two OF her neghbors, but they refused
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