The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-10
CANNOT FIND HIM
MAN SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN
SHOT HAS VANISHED.
DUEL BETWEEN TWO NEGROES
POLICE TRYING TO DISCOVER
WHETHER SHOTS TOOK EFFECT.

Larry Grant Arrested, but the Man
ished From the Fnce of the Earth.
Nobody knows Where lie Has
GOne-POIice Were Looking for
Him for n Murderous Assault on
His Wife and Information Given
by Grant MS to His Whereabouts Is
Said to Have Led to the Shooting.
An unusual amount of uneasiness
and excitement was created in the east
ern section of the city yesterday after
noon, when Larry Grant, known ia
miliarly as Sergeant" began to take
pot shots at Aaron Davis. The strang-
est thing about the whole matter is
that Davis has disappeared, whether
he is dead or alive is unknown.
The shooting was done near the cor
ner of Bay lane and Houston street.
The result of Grants efforts to wing
Davis are in doubt, as the latter has
disappeared and nobody seems to
know his wherea bouts. The police and
detectives have been looking for him
since the shooting, but without result
Though it is not known whether the
wounds he received were dangerous
and he has crawled off somewhere to
die, or whether he has not been harm
ed at all and has found it easy to eff
feet his escape, it is believed the lat
ter is the case. The impression is
that if he has any wounds they are of
too little importance to demand or re-
ceive any attention and did not inter
fere with his fight.
The shooting attracted a good deal
of attention and within a few minutes
there seemed to be five hundred people
about the scene. In the meantime, how
ever, both participants had disap-
peared and though the ambulance and
patrol wagon were both sent to the
spot where the trouble was in progress
there was nothing Immediately for
either of them to do. Davis had drop
ped out of sight and Grant was not to
be found, though there were some in
dications of the place where he had
gone.
A wagon load of policemen was sent
out and the members of this party oc-
cupied themselves in securing the
neighborhood. For a mile at least they
chased the man who had done the
shooting and at last found him in a ne
gro hut out on the Thunderbolt road.
Before he was caught he had trans
ferred his abiding place half a dozen
times; when he found he was up
against it he surrendered readily
enough.
At the police station, where he is I'M
der arrest, Grant said the shooting was
a result of a condition of affairs for
which he was not at all responsible.
About a week ago Davis stabbed his
wife nearly to death and the police
have been looking for him. Grant said
an effort had been made by some of the
policemen to induce him to locate Da-
Wis. Grant said his life had been
threatened on several occasions and he
has prepared himself to fight for it
when the occasion arose.
According to Grant, Davis started
the row and kept it up. denouncing
everybody else as a scoundrel
and a cheat. Grant declined to
take part in a rough house, but when
Davis came on outside and began to
renew the controversy he was there
with the goods.
Whether the shots of either of them
took effect is in doubt. The man who
did the shooting says this was the case
and that he winged Davis at least once.