The age-herald., 1900-03-30
HUSBAND AVENGES
 AN ALLEGED WRONG
Geo. B. WiImot Shot and Killed
 Charles C. Braxton.
IT OCCURRED AT WEST END
Undue Intimacy With Wife is Given as the Motive-Slayer Well-Known Conduetor-Surrende
 to the Sheriff

At G:3O o'clock last night at his home at West End, George B. Wilmot, we'll known passenger conductor in the employ of the Southern Hallway, shot and killed Charles C. Braxton, the allged despoiler Of hts home.
 There were no eye-witnesses to the affair, | and only Mr Wilmot knows the actual circumstances attending 1t, and he declines to make any statement for publication | It is alleged that Braxton had been un- l duly intimate with Ms. Wilmot, and that | is given as Wilmots motive for killing him.
 The tra gedy occurred in the COW stall in MT. Wllmot's yard, and it is understood that Braxton was at the time attending to the COW, as was his custom. He was shot | three times, one ball entering just above the heart, one entering the left side and penetrating the body just below the heart and the third entering the left ear and ranging upward, passing out at the top of | the head. Either shot would have pro 1 duced death, in the opinion of those who examined the wounds.
 There was no one in the house when the | tragedy took place, Mrs. Wilmot and the two small children being absent in Mis- 
 ham, and Mir Wi.mct had just sent the 12-year-old daughter across the street to a neighbours house with instructions to remain there until he called for her. There were servants in the house nor about the place at the time.
 Surrendered to the Sheriff l Immediately after the shooting Wimot | sent for MT. Worrel, a merchant whose | store is only a block away, told him what | he had done and asked him to take charge of Braxton's body, stating that he would know what to do.
 | An electric car coming along about that l time Wilmot caught it and came to the city and proceeded to the sheriff's office, and in the absence of Sheriff O'Brien gave himself up to Deputy Sheriff George Cour- | son and Andrew Burgin. He was then com 1 mitted to jail on a warrant sworn out be- ] fore Justice of the Peace Ward charging 1 him with an assault with intent to mur- | der. It was not known at the time that | Braxton was dead.
 | When an Age-Herald reporter called at the county jail Wilmot refused to make | any statement, referring him to his attor- | ney, B. M. Allen. Nr. Allen was seen, and stated that Wlmot had conclusive evi- | dence of an intimacy between his wife and | Braxton. and, acting on his information, | shot the man. That was all he would give | out last night.
 | Wilmot left the city between and 6 | o'clock yesterday afternoon and went to | his home at Hawkins station. It appears that when he arrived at home he found his daughter, aged F or 13, and told her to | go across the street to a neighbors house and remain until he called for her. What happened after that is only known to Will mot himself, except that he shot and killed Braxton.
 After Wilmot had left for the city Drs | Abernathy and Davis were called in and made an examination of the wounds, which they stated would prove fatal Braxton did not live over an hour after he was shot When MT. Worrel went to him he was ly- ing face downward in the cow stall back of the house. His brains were oozing out at the wound in the head, and he was un- conscious.
 As soon he was pronounced dead, Gau- din 6 Loy, undertakers, were notified, and the remains were removed to their estab- lishment in Twenty-first street. Coroner Dallas was also notified, and at late hour last night empanneed a jury, which re- viewed the body and made few inquiries into the cause and circumstances of the killing. The jury will meet again at noon Today to complete the investigation. 1 suspic ous for some Fine | It seems that Wdlmot has for some time suspected that the relations between Mrs Wilmot and Braxton were not just as they should be, but until very recently was not | tbat mob a week or ten days ago, Mrs. Wilmot and the two small children went te Mississippi to visit the formers parents. The oldest son and daughter remained at home. Brax- ton lived with Wdlmot, and. it is said, at tended to the horse and cattle, and worked around the house. He had made his home there for five or six years, and was looked upon as member of the family, taking Mrs Wilmot wherever she desired to go fin the absence of her husband. He was for sometime employed by the Southern rail- way as baggage agent, usually having the same run with Wilmot. It is said that Will mot got him the Job, and after his discharge took him to his home. and during illness cared for him and paid his doctors bil
 The shots that WMmot fired at Braxton were heard by several persons who reside in the immediate vicinity and attracted considerable attention It is stated that four or five shots were fred but only three were effective.
 MT. Wilmot Is one of the oldest conduc- tors employed by the Southern railway, and Is the oldest in point of service on the Birmingham-Gr -Greenvlle division. He is a prominent Mason, bears a splendid reputa- ton and stands high in the estima ton of the railway company and of his friends  | Death at Pelham
 | William Payne of Pelham, brother of | Dr. John Payne of that village, died yes-