The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-10
BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT
II. c. ~ COMMITTED SUICIDE
AFTER TRYING TO KILL A
WOMAN.
HER WOUND NOT SERIOUS
THE KILLING THE RESULT OF BUS
MESS TROUBLE.

Told the Woman of His Intended Act,
but She Thought Him JOking-She
Had started for the Kitchen OF
the House where They Lived when
the Bullet Struck Her-Cain, With
out Rising From His Chair, Put "a
Bullet Through His own Head.
Left "a Paper Explaining the Rea-
son of His Act, and Instructions
for the Disposition of His Prop
crty.
Henry c. Cain, a colored barber, blew
his brains out yesterday morning after
an unsuccessful attempt to kill Liza Da-
Wis, woman with whom he was living
at No. 522 New street The woman was
wounded, but not seriously.
All that is known of the affair so far
as can be gathered from the story of the
woman, is that at about 1890 o'clock she
was sitting on Gains knee. Cain appeared
to be very respondent and told her he
intended to kill himself She thought he
was jesting and asked lightly, well, if
you kill yourself what'u become of me?"
''Ill kill you first" answered Cain.
mark, and getting up started to the door
of rear room where she was cooking
breakfast Her back was to Cain and
she had gone not more than six or eight
feet when she heard a pistol report and
was struck by bullet She ran scream
ing through the house, into the yard, and
then into the house next door The bull
let that had been fired at her had enter
ed just behing the right ear, ploughed it's
way upward and came out at the upper
part of the head struck the wall OF the
rear room and fallen to the floor. where,
tufted with hair, it wds afterward found
The woman after she found herself
wounded was too excited to hear the sec
ond shot with which Cain sent a bullet
crashing through his own brain, though
the shot must have been fired within a
few seconds after the one that wounded
the woman. The pistol must have been
held close to the head; the bullet entered
| just above the right eye and came out
at the rear of the head.
The man had not risen before firing
| either shot as was found from his posi-
ton after his death. Patrolman Knox of
! the Central Railroad force, who was at
tracted to the scene by hearing the shots
and who was one of the first to enter
the room, found Cain still supported half
way by the chair which had been tilted
forward. and with his head and body
leaning forward and resting on the floor
An examination when the body was
moved discovered the pistol with
which the deed was done, and
also piece of paper, so
blood despatched as hardly to be legible
The paper was dated June 8, and probably
was intended sort of will, for that
part of it that is decipherable directs
that the writer's trunk be sent to his
brother Jack. There is also a part that
refers to the furniture in the house, but
| the sentence is not completed.
Further down the paper, in discon-
| necied way. he states that hes going to
die like a man. and gives as a. reason
that the people that he employed in his
| barber shop were squsndering his money.
DIR. J. G. Keller, the coroner, who visit
| ed the house very soon after the tragedy,
| decided that there was no need of an in
| quest and gave permission for the body
| TO be prepared for burial. This was
done, and the remains will be sent to-
| day to Sandersville, where Cain has rela-
| tives.
Cain was a very well known and pros
peIouS utIpei' hdNlHS peeh tne proprietor
| of three shops. He lived well, and was
| supposed to be making money. so that his
| friends are at a loss to account for his
| act, the more so he did not drink to
any extent, and is known not to have
| had any liquor at any time during the
| morning of the killing.
Cain has quite record with the police,
| however. as he killed another barber,
man named Wilson. in 1892, was caught
| and served seven years for the crime, be-
| ing released only i'm 1899. when he imme-
| diately returned to Savannah and again
| began his trade.