The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-26
SHOT FOR A WOMAN
SAM GREEN PROBABLY FATALLY
WOUNDED BY MOSES SMALL.
JUST ABOVE THE HEART.
LODGED THE BULLET WHICH YET
MAY CAUSE GREENS DEATH.

Quarrel and Resulting Shooting oc-
Cured at Trolley Car station mt
BOnaventure-Green and Small
Were Rivals for Affections of One
of the NeighborhOOd Bellies and
Jealousy Caused COnhict-WOund-
ed Man Says Small Threatened to
Kill Him and Then Attempted to
Carry Out Threat-Small Says
Twas Self Defense.
Sam Green was shot and probably fatal
ly wounded by Moses Small. in a quarrel
at the Bonaventure station of the Savan-
nah. Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope Rail-
way. shortly after o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon. Both are negroes.
There are conflicting accounts of the
circumstances that surrounded the actual
commission of the crime. but of the quar-
rel that preceded and caused 1t and the
origin of the quarrel there is no mcte-
rial difference in the statements of the
two men. A woman was at the bottom
of the trouble.
Green is q years old, while Small is
probably a few years older. For seine
time the two men have been rivals for
the affections of one OF the dusky bellies
of the neighhorhood. and there mad l'c+n
bad blood end some previous quarrels be-
tween them on her account Neither was
willing to rel:nquish his claims upon her
unstable affections and each was anxious
that the other should get out of The race
and leave the field to him. The woman.
with a coquetry, which, no logger per-
united to be ascribed to her sex, must
have been peculiar to herself. encouraged
alternately the attentions of both. In
cideuialIy. she inspired and evolved TIE
green-eyed demon god. on whose affairs
better blood than that of Green has been
spilled In the past.
The men met yesterday after
noon in the station which the
trolley car company provides
at Bonaventure for the convenience of its
passengers, and the standing quarrel was
renewed where it had been left off when
the men had last parted. It began in re-
monstrance and exhortation, assembled
through varying grades of seriousness to
the point where it found expression in
profanity and abuse. jumped from abuse
TO threats, and terminated in the firing
of the probably fatal shot.
Green says that Small finally exclaimed,
I'm kin you" "No, you won't" Green
claims to have answered. at the same
time stepping back and as he saw Small
reach for a weapon, going down into his
own pocket for his knife. Before he had
a chance to draw the weapon, Small
pulled his revolver, pressed it close
against Green's body and fred.
The bullet passed thorugp one of the
buckles of Green's suspenders, which 1t
carried into the flesh with it, and lodged
in the left breast just above the heart
He fell to the ground and Small walked
away.
Small claims that Green was advancing
upon him with knife at the time he fired
and that he had to do as he did in order
to save his own life. Otherwise his story
does not differ essentially from that of
the wounded man.
Ia so happens that two young ladies'
who were driving along the shell road at
the time of the shooting, reached the
scene just as Small fired. They corrober-
ate the story of the shooting told by
Green, saying that he was backing away
from Small with his hand in his pocket
and that Small followed him, drew his
revolver deliberately, pressed il against
Green's side and fired. The ladies saw
this much of the happenings, but they
were too frightend to wait to see more.
A car from Thunderbolt to the city
found Green lying on the platform of the
station and he was placed aboard by the
crew and passengers and brought to the
Bolton street junction. There a telephone
call was sent to the station house for
the police ambulance and Green was con-
veyed TO the Georgia Infirmary. At the
Infirmary Green's wound was dressed.
but ii was deemed best to make no imme-
date effort to extract the ball His
condition, always regarded as very crit
zeal from the time of the shooting, was
reported early this morning as gradually
growing worse. He is not expected TO
survive the day. though a change for the
better may occur and the man pull
through all right after all.
AS soon as Sheriff Schwarz was notified
of the shooting, he dispatched Chief Dep
uty Sweeny and two other deputies TO
the scene of the homicide. Mr.. Sweeny
found that Small had already surrender
ed himself to the marshal of Thunder
bolt, from whom he received the prisoner.
He was brought back to the city and
placed in the county Jail. where he will
await the result of further Investigations
The young ladies who saw the shooting
say that 1t was Witnessed also by a third
negro man and two or three negro chill
dren. This man has not yet been ar
rested, nor has he come forward and
volunteered what he knows of the homi-
eide. The young ladies say he seemed,
from his actions. TO be a friend of Small's
the man who did the shooting.