The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-12
shot TO DEATH ON THESTREET
MAMIE BREEZE LOSES HIS LIFE At
THE HANDS OF LAUTY HARRISON.
Both Were Young NJ and the Tragedy
was the Result of q Quarrel-Young
Breeze Died with q Knife Clutched in
His Hand Is What the Eye Witnesses
Say.

Last night about 100 o'clock Lauty
Hardison, a young man who is entering
the twenty-second year of his age shot
and killed Emanuel Breeze. who had
Ientered his twentieth year. The deed
was done with a pistol, apparently Of
l3S calibre, and took place on the pave
ment on South Front street near woos-
ter street, just opposite the Whining
ton Cotton Mills.
AS soon as the shooting occurred a
large crowd gathered, and the slayer
walked off in the midst of the excite
ment. 1t was learned afterwards that
he went to the residence of woman
across the street and had a knife
wound dressed. She says he was bleed
ling profusely from a deep stab in the
temple. He said he had killed Mamie
IBreece and he intended to drown him
self in h river. which is only a block
away. He left her house, going in the
direction of the river.
| Up to latest accounts this morning,
nothing has been learned of his where
abouts. From the wound in the tenn
Iple, his family and friends fear that,
lif he has not carried out his three .
Idrown himself, he will bleed to death
lin hiding, rs it is believed hat he went
Ito the Swamps. Police officers visited
his home at the southwest corner of
second and Dawson streets but his par
ents said he was not at home. He has
three brothers, and they went out to
Hook for him.
Soon after the shooting occurred, DR..
w. F. Stokes, the cororer, was notified
and he went down and viewed the
body. He found it on the floor in the
store of Mr.. Marcus'C. Gray, sos South
Front street. He ordered it's removal
to the home of the dead young mans
step father, Rowan Green, 1910 South
Front street, two blocks or more be-
low the scene of the tragedy. The ter
Irible news had already been broken to
his mother, and she was heartbroken
1T was her only son, his brother, Mira
Breece, who was once janitor at the
lefty hall, having died several months
lago. The young mar was a contortion-
list in Blue Mountain Joe's show when
lit was here a couple Of years ago, but
The had not been employed of late.
The young mar who killed Breeze,
Lauty Hardison, is employed at the
Wilmington Cotton Mills, and is one
Iof -four sons of Mr.. HardiSon, who
lives on The southwest corner of Sec
Iond and Dawson streets. Last night
lat 1920 o'clock a Messenger represen-
~tative, accompanied by Police Sergeant
IC. S. Burnett, called at Mr.. Hardison's.
Several voices of men n women were
heard on the inside but Mr.. Hardison
and n of his sons refused to open the
door. They said a crowd a threat
lened to lynch the whole family and
they would not open the door till
morning. They knew Sergeant Bur-
nett but failing to recognize his voice,
they would not let him in. Finally
three young women came out the back
way of the house and when they saw
who it was they admitted the sergeant,
the reporter and a young man who had
Icome along. The family was in the
tgreatest distress and was very much
frightened over threats that they say
had been made to lynch them all.
Soon after the shooting a Messenger
reporter went to the scene and found an
excited crowd at the corner of Front
and Wooster streets. where the killing
occurred. The difficulty between the
young men started right in front of the
store of MI. B. M. Wilson, on the -'th-
east corner of Front and Dawson
streets. Mr.. Wilson said last night:
MY attention "a first attracted by
t~violent vulgar and profane language,
and I went to the door to see who it
was. I told the young men if they
wanted to fuss they must go away from
my door and not do it around my store.
Hardison said whoy don't you say
something to Breeze? I said I spoke to
both of you. Breeze replied: Well, Mr..
Wilson, I'll listen to o and say no
more I then went into the store and
when I got to the end of the counter at
the rear Of the store, I heard the loud
~quarreling again. I started back to tell
them to go away, n before I got to
the door I heard a lick pass, and as I
got to the door, 1 saw Breeze start to
run down Front street, n I noticed
that Hardison had been cut in the tenn