The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-23
shot BY LOUISVILLE DOCTOR.
UR. y. y. DI'NCiN TRIES TO MIL
ms FORMER FRIEND.
shoots Bruce Head AT n Railroad camp
Near Pitt,burg Mrs. Duncan Had
Itecn Visiting In the NcighbOrhoOd-
Physician came TO Ipflict Punishment.

rl1TsBrRd, Oct 2?-Dr. Ellis Duncan,
superintendent of tn" CITY Hospital of
Louisville. was sent To Jail to-day on the
charge OF f"louioU- shooting, 10 await the
result Of niurir, of Bruce Head, a book
keeper in the employ of the Wabash Rail-
road contractors, k"ncfec & Co. DR.. Dun
can shot Head lat night near the railroad
construction works, about five miles from
Pnt~Durg Both mnn refuse 10 discuss the
shooting
About midnight DR. Duncan walked mp
10 policeman IA Pttshurg. told him lac had
shot a man and asked 10 b" locked up lie
va, taken to the Central Police station.
He carried a horsewhip in his hand, and in
hi- pocket was revolver, with one cham
her discharged. pr. Duncan told acting
Police Sergeant Henry Merritt that Ice was
from Loui-Nilic, and that he had intercepted
letter sent by Bruce Head whom he had
shot
The letter was addressed TO Duncan's
wife Duncan said he talked TO his wife.
and then felt justified IN coming to Pitts
burg To see Head. This morning the police
learned the story Of the shooting, and DR..
Duncan was sent TO Jail The bullet went
into l!ead's mouth, took downward course
and is lodged in the muscles of the neck.
DR.. Duncan aud Head belonged to we'll
known Kentucky families Head Is a nephew
of w. II. Mcclure, superintendent of the
Louisville Street Railway Company, who
photographed to-day that he would come 70
PIrsburg Immediately. kilograms have
been sent to Duncan by friends in Louis
Vile, Offering him assistance and proierng
sympathy.
}. Is. Carter. q member Of the firm Of kene-
/, c & Co. and a half-brot her of Head told
the story of the shooting part Of which he
got from Head himself. Duncan. Carter
and Head were schoolmates. and when
Duncan arrived at the camp last evening
he was warmly received About 10 II. NJ
Duncan started to the nearest trolley ter
minus 10 come 10 Pit sburg and Head walked
with him. A mile from camp Duncan drew
his revolver, pointed 1t al Head and Head
! struck it up just a. Duncan pulled the trig-
ger. Duncan ran and Head walked back
10 th" camp. Doctors ar" attending 10 his
wounds. His mother has been sent for.
From the appearance of the horsewhip il l.
apparent that DR.. Duncan did not Use il.
George II. Anthony, general agent here
of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, whose
home il at No 7i9 Franklin avenue, wilkins
burg. was indignant when he heard that
MIR Duncan name had been brought
into the affair He said that she is good
woman. Mr.. Anthony said.
Mr. Duncan visited At my house at
what tine ! do not think j. auyhody's
concern While she was here it happened
that -h" va~ never out of sight Of mem
hers OF my family, Bruce Head visited
~ ON several occasions while Mrs. Dun
can was here"
Mr. Anthony was asked If tho report
was true that Head was engaged 10 DR.,
Dunoan's sister lie refused 10 answer.
Louisville, Ky, Oct. 90 rhe news
Of the shooting Of Bruce Head by DR.. Ellis
=. Duncan made a sensation here, for the
families of both men are well known. DR..
Duncan married Miss Anne Barbour, daugh-
ter If the then superintendent Of tho City
Hospital. DR.. Duncan had become an
inferno in the institution He began TO
practise shortly after lila marriage. en-
listed in the Spanish-Amcrlcan War and
served in Porto Rico as Surgeon Captain
of the First Kentucky Infantry. He was
| appointed superintendent of the hospital
on the death Of DR.. Barbour,
Bruce Heads mother lives al sii Fourth
| street. Louisville. Philip Barbour, Mrs.
| Duncan's brother. was Heads most con-
slant companion. That Or. Duncan left
Louisville to call Head to account for some
| wrong il apparent, for he carried with him
! his revolver n dirk knife and a Quirt whip.