Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-11-06
A BULLET IN HEART
ENDS LIFE OF MIzE
A Deplorable Tragedy Is Enacted In
This City.
CHARLES MIZE SHOT TO DEATH.
Query Adderton Is Charged With
The Homicide. Is Himself Badly
Wounded - Men Had Difficulty
Terminating in the Death.

Amerlcus was profoundly shocked
at an early hour yesterday morning
when passers by found the dead body
of Charles Mize lying by the walk on
Jackson street, north, and this sur
prise was increased later when Query
Adderton was charged with having
fred the bullet which entered the body
of young Mize and produced death.
Very naturally, such a tragedy Gre
ated a great deal of excitement, and
little else than details of the deplora-
BILE affair were discussed upon the
streets and wherever a crowd assem-
bled.
Not in years has Americus been the
scene of such tragedy as this.
It was in the late hours of the night
previous that party of young men,
walking along Jackson street in the
tenderloin section of the city, stumbled
upon the body of young Mize, lying at
the edge of the sidewalk. Finding
that he was dead, they notified an
officer.
Policemen Barrow, Smith and AL
brItton were soon upon the scene and,
holding the young men who found the
body, began a rigid investigation.
The fact was soon developed that
the two young men had quarreled an
hour or two previously in the house of
Birdie Walker. She was found at the
house of another woman near by, and
was detained as a witness before the
coroner, as were the men who found
tho body.
Coroner Investigates.
About 2 o'clock yesterday morning
the body of Mr.. Mize was removed to
the home of his father -in-Iaw, Mr..
W.T., Marsh, where Coroner Cheek and
jury consisting of Messrs. James
Alexander, EImore Poole, James Pill
cher, J. F. Cheek, J. I. Hudson and
George sieg Jr. viewed it at 10o'cIock.
From the Marsh residence the jury
repaired to the city courtroom where a
number of witnesses were examined.
Birdie Walker, the yoang woman at
whose house the young men had met
aud quarreled, testified to that effect.
They left about II O'Clock, she said. and
shortly thereafter she heard a pistol
shot near the house but paid no
thought thereto, as, she SAID, pistol
shooting was frequently heard in that
section of the city at night.
Later in the night she left the house
and went to another place to sleep.
She knew nothing of the homicide I'M
til told of it yesterday morning.
Saw lien in the Yard.
DR.. B. b. Hudson, who was going
down Jackson street at the time of the
encounter, next testified.
He stated that he saw Mize approach
Adderton and throw an arm about his
neck. The next moment Miz9 was
pushed away and che pistol fred. Mize
went down the street towards the rail-
road. Adderton came into the street
and, approaching DR.. Hudson, stated
that he was badly wounded. DR..
Hudson brought him to room over
Hudson's drugstore, where a fearful
knife wound in the neck was dressed.
The wound, it is said, extended al
most from ear to ear, and in places the
blade penetrated to the bone. Adder
ton bled profusely while being brought
up town.
Doctors Make Post Mortem.
Doctors Raines and Prather were di-
rected by the jury to make an examina-
ton of Mics body. It is stated that
the bullet entered the right shoulder
blade at the back, ranged slightly down
ward, penetrating the lung and proba-
bly, lodging in the vessels around the
heart. The bullet was not definitely
located.
Beyond the testimony of the young
men who found the body in the street,
this was about. the most important evil
dence adduced thus far.
Exonerated Adderton.
After weighing the evidence and re
viewing the case at length, the coron-
er's jury returned verdict to the eff
feet that Charles Mize came to his
death by pistol shot in the hands of
Query Adderton, and thas the same
was justifiable homicide. The verdict
was duly signed by the foreman and
each of the jurymen separately.
Chief of Police Wheeler, in the mean
time, had taken out warrant.
This charged murder, and Mr.. Ad-
derton will answer thereto at com.
Natal trial to be held very soon unless
t ais Is waived by the defendant. Eff
forts for bail will probably be made at
once.
Notice,