The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-17
THREE MEN KILLED
IN A HOTEL LOBBY
Tragic Results of a feud in
Kentucky.
ONE MAN KILLS THREE
THOUGH COLSON ONLY SHOT AT
ETHELBERT SCOTT.
THE OTHERS WERE KILLED BY ACCIDENT
Details ofthe Tragedy Conflicting. EA-Congress
man David G. CoIson After the Killing
Gave Himself Up. One Man Claims
That CoIson Shot First.

Frankfort Ky, Jan. 16.Ex-Congress-
man David G.. Colson shot and killed
Ethelbert Scott, Luther Demaree and
Charles Julian ana slightly wounded
James Golden i'm the Capitol Hotel to-
day. The killing was a result of re-
aewal of q feud between Coison and
Scott, which grew up between them
while in the army last year. Colson is
under arrest.
Scott and Demaree died almost instant.
ly. Julian was thought TO be only slight
ly wounded. but died at 800 p. m. from
shock and loss of blood, making the third
death.
Harry McIlweng, of Louisville, also
was Init by stray bullets, but not seri-
ously wounded. All but Scott were by
ISLANDERS and Were shot by accident. Col
son was shot in the arm, but not serious
ly hurt After the shooting he went to
the residence of Chief of Police Williams.
nearby. and gave himself up. Latter
warrant was sworn out by Clint Fogg.
who witnessed the killing. Fogg says Col--
son shot first.
The killing occurred in the lobby OF the
Capitol Hotel which was densely pack
ed with people who are here attending
the trial of the contests before the Leg
islature. Persons who were in the hotel
when the tragedy occurred say fully twen-
ty shots We're fired. Scott, who was the
first killed. was a nephew of Ex-Gov-
errnor BRADLEY. Demaree was Assistant
Postmaster at Shelbyville and promi-
nept Republican politician. Julian was
one of the wealthiest farmers in this
county and belonged to am old Kentucky
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Colson which began in the army last
year, resulted in Colson being shot by
Scott and it had 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 attending
the tragedy, and as he has never fully
recovered from stroke of paralysis sus-
tanned last year. his friends are greatly
concerned over his condition.
Accounts of the killing differ and It is
impossible to give details further than
while Colson and a party of friends were
standing in the southwest corner of the
hotel lobby, Scott came in the hotel ard
when near Colson the firing began. Scott
after being shot walked backward to-
ward the stairway, looking to the bar
room door, and as he did, Colonel Colson.
who had followed shooting at every step,
fired one or more shots into the prostrate
form. Demaree. who was killed in the
geperal fusilade was shot twice. one ball
piercing the heart and the other either
penetrated the heart on went directly
under it. Those in the immediate Colson
party decline to talk about the affair, and
while it is generally understood that sew
eI'al 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 summoned
to attend the wounded.
Hundreds of people 6ocked TO the scene
Of the shooting and watched the tragic
scenes following the removal of the re-
mains of the dead from the hotel.
The most profound sorrow exists over
the accidental killing of DerIaree and
Julian and the feeling against ColsOn
among their friends us exceedingly bitter.
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 Colson. or that
CoIson had two reviewers. 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 Mid
dlesboro and represented the Eleventh
district in Congress for two years. Scott
was young lawyer living at Mt. Sterling
and was a lieutenant in Colonel Colson's
regiment in the Spanish war. When the
killing occurred the city was thrown into
a state of the greatest excitement. 1T be-
ing supposed at first that it was the re-
suit of a clash growing ont Of the political
contests ON trial. in the Legislature.
Captain B. B. Colson, who is thought
to be fatally wounded, is lawyer who
lives at Barboursville and was Captain
OF the Kentucky cavalry troop during the
Spanish-American war.
Captain Golden made a statement III
which he said no words passed between
Scott and Colson before the shooting ana
that Coson fired first. Golden and Col,
som had had trouble before and Colonei
Colson's friends charge that Golden was
engaged in the shooting today
Jacksonville, Fla. Jan. l6.-The
Tinted Daughters of the Confederacy OF