The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-12
SHOT A WOMAN
DELIBERATE ATTEMPT At MURDER In
BROAD OPEN DAY.
Henry Myers, n Negro stevedore, Shot
His Wife on Red Cross Street Yes
terday Afternoon and Made for the
woods-He Was Pursued by a Posse
and Captured in n Swamp

Yesterday afternoon at 2:10 o'clock,
Henry Myers, shot his wife with a 81
calibre pistol, on Red Cross street. near
DR.. William Niestlie's drug store. The
shooting was occurred On the board
pavement on the south side of the street
just opposite the pastors study of the
Central Baptist church, on Seventh and
Red Cross streets. Very few people
were on the street at the time, but this
excitement soon drew a big crowd.
DR.. William NESTLE, who vas seen
by a Messenger representative, says
he was in his drug store at the time
and was engaged with we drummers
when all at once a shot rang out. Then
he saw people running and when he
got to the door some men were bring
ing the woman across the street to his
drug store. She had a wound near the
temple just under the cheek bone and
a stream of blood as large as a lead
pencil was spinning out of the hole. The
woman's dress vas drenched with blood
and rs h came across the street she
left a CORY trail. DR.. NESTLE gave her
immediate attention and stopped the
flow of blood. He n others then start
ed with the to DR.. Masks Of
flee, three squares away, but he was
not at home. They got as far as Sixth
and Campbell streets, and then turned
up Campbell street TO go to the city
hospital. At Ninth and Campbell
streets. the woman became so weak
that the police patrol wagon was tele-
phoned for. 1t was soon Of the spot
and in a few minutes she was landed
at the hospital. DR.. Thomas S. Bur
bank, DR.. ". D. Mcmillan and DR..
Thos. r. Little, probed for the ball. but
failed to extract it. They dressed the
wound and at last accounts the woman
seemed to be getting along very we'll.
Henry Myers, who did the shooting,
has q room at Matilda Roblnson's res
idence, 10. Red Cross street, on the
side of the street a few steps from
where the tragedy occurred. His wife
Cora Myers, has a room in Brooks alley
between Red Cross and Campbell and
Seventh and Eighth streets. which is
within q square Of the scene of tt"
shooting. She claims to be the wife Of
Myers, but they have been separated
about -four months. Her neighbors say
hat Myers was very quarelsome and
frequently beat her.
A Messenger reporter who went to
the scene of the shooting learned from
a colored woman that she heard quar-
cling on the pavement and when she
looked, she saw Cora slap Henry's face
n then he pulled a pistol and shot
her. She ran screaming across the
street and William Daniels, colored, and
others ran out, and took her to the
drug store.
AS soon as Myers fired the shot he
4. ran out Red Cross street as hard as he
could go, and when he had gotten a
~quare and a half away, Mr. John Mohr.
the well known fireman, who lives on
Seventh and Red Cross streets, gave
chase. He raj the man as far as the
railroad bridge over Smiths Creek, and
was within a short distance of him
when ne ran on. the trestle. A section
master and his hands were working
on the trestle and Mr.. Mohr shouted at
them to catch the fugitive. Before
they could be made to take in the stu
alton, Myers passed them. The hands
followed to another man further up the
track to head him off, and when Myers
saw he was between Mr.. Mohr and the
other man, he left the railroad track
and went into the swamp. Mr.. Mohr
had no pistol and then gave UP the
chase.
Chief of Police John J. FurlonS. Cap
tain N. J. Williams, in a buggy. and
Policemen TT. FL. Woebse, l.. M. Smith,
Leon George, and H. w. Howell, went
out in the patrol go and
the swamp. Some OF them waded in
over knee deep in mud and water and.
with theirs guarding the opposite side,
they swept through the swamp and
captured the man. When they came
up on him, he walked up and surren-
dered to Captain Williams without re-
sfsting. He said he threw his pistol
away on the Sea-Coast Railroad near
Hanover street. He was surprised that
the policemen would follow him into
the SWAMP and thought he was per-
fect1y safe there. The swamp is so
thick a RABBIT can hardly get through it,
and Myers and the officers were thigh
deep in mud and water when the cap
ture was made.
After being locked up at the station
house Myers told a. Messenger represen-
tatfve that he did not aim to shoot the
woman He says his pistol had a
Caught spring" and a refused to go
off time and again. He says the woman
came where he was at his room n
when HI went out on the pavement. she
slapped him and he pulled his pistol on
her to brighten her. 1t was a 32-ealibre
pistol.
The Grass of Honor