Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-23

way. There is a porch which is east
Of Miss Wayman's apartments and
south Of Mrs. Swuagor's rooms, the for
mer fronting on Market street AMI the
latter on Tenth. A stairway leads to
the yard in the rear. Smith insisted
on going in that direction. and O'Keefc
led him out on the porch.
When half way across the porch
Smith suddenly turned half about and
placed his hands on his hip pockets.
Look out; he's got two revolvers.'
was the warning of n OF the women
A Desperate Struggle.
O'Keefe grabbed Smiths right arm
arm with his left, the men then facing
each other in a desperate struggle,
which meant death for one or the other.
The revolver fell from Smiths right
hand to the floor of the porch and
broke. Meanwhile O'kesfe was reaching
for his own revolver with his right
hand. Smith still had a 50 calibre re-
volyer in his left hand, the gun which
had been wrenched from his grasp be-
ing a 81 calibre also.
Before O'Keefe has his revolver out of
his pocket, Smith had fired twice. The
first bullet went wild. The second went
across OKeefe's breast. The bullet
passed through his necktie and cut two
holes in the sleeve of his coat, which
had been pushed up in the struggle.
The shots were fired at such close range
as to burn the clothing.
OKeefe managed to get his revolver
out, but did not get it out of its hol-
ster.
He fired twice with the gun against
the clothing of Smith. Both balls en-
tered the body, n in the stomach and
the other a little higher.
Smith fell heavily to the floor of the
porch. He gasped two or three times
and died without uttering a word.
O'Keefe then realized what had hap
pened, but was almost dazed, and
speeches.. He stood about for a few
moments, directed somebody to tele-
phone to police headquarters and then
walked down to headquarters. He went
into the back room, and saw nobody
for a short time. His father, Mr.. Ar
thur O'Keefe, Of No. 2742 Chapline
street, came up.
The Officers stony.
About nine o'clock Officer O'Keefe
made the following statement to re-
porters:
Il was in Nick Dusch's barber shop
about seven o'clock, when a girl ran
down, calling for an officer, and l was
told that / was wanted at Yahrling's.
l ran up the hallway at No. 1902 Market
street, and found Smith standing in
Miss Wayman's room. | said, You'll
have to get out of here and took him
by the arm. l started to take him out
the front way, but he said he wanted to
go out the other way. We went from
the room to the porch. l was still
holding him by the arm. Suddenly he
tried to break loose, and threw both
OF his hands behind him. l realized
that he was reaching into his hip
pockets for a revolver.
He pulled a gun out of each pocket.
l grabbed his right hand with my left.
and prevented him from using the gun
in that hand. In the struggle it fell to
the floor. In the meantime, l realized
that he had a gun in the other hand,
and | was trying to get my revolver out
OF my hip pocket with my right hand
and at the same time trying to prevent
him from firing at me with his left. He
fired twice before l used my gun. Then
l fired twice, and he fell"
There were two empty chambers in
the 80 calibre revolver used by Smith,
proving that he fired but two shots.
The holster on O'Keefe's revolver was
burned, and the seams torn apart.
Other eye witnesses of the shooting
told stories which co~rroboated that of
Officer O'Keefe.
Told BY Eye Witnesses.
Mrs. Swaugor and her daughter. EN-
ma Swaugor. saw the shooting. They
say that Smith had been at Miss Way
mans in the afternoon. Once or twice
they saw him sitting or the porch, and
once he told them how much he loved
Miss Wayman. Shortly before the
tragedy occurred Miss Wayman told
Mrs. Swaugor to call a policeman.
Smith was then sitting on the porch.
with his hands behind him, and hold
ing a revolver in each hand. When
O'Keefe came. and she saw him with
Smith, she told him to be watcnful, as
Smith had two revolvers. O'Keefe
grabbed n of the guns, and Smith
tired at him with the other.
Clyde Russell was on Market street
when he heard two women screaming
for a policeman. He followed Officer
O'Keefe up the stairs in the hallway.
and saw them go out on the real porch.
He saw a revolver in each of Smiths
hands and saw the first shot fired. Then
he ran in the opposite direction. He
thought Smith fired three times, and
that the third shot from Smiths re-
volver, and the first from O'Keefc's
were fired simultaneously. When he
came back, Smith was lying on his side
with the revolver near his hand. He
gasped for breath twice, and died. He
said nothing.
Within a few minutes after the
shooting a very large crowd assembled.
The rear yard was filed. Officers clear
ed the porch and stairway, and allowed
nobody to enter. Meanwhile a tele-
phone message was sent for Coroner
Schultze, and he arrived a little after
eight o'clock.
The Inquest.