The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-19

Especial to The Charlotte Observer.)
Petersburg. Va. December 14.-Arthur
L. Bishop, who shot and killed Thomas
Wilson, in Charlotte, last Tuesday
night, and for whose arrest Governor
Aycock offered a reward of $500, is a
prisoner in the Jail of this city.
Tonight, Jackson Bishop, a letter
carrier of this city. and father of Ar
thur Bishop, went to Mayor VIM. NJ.
Jones residence, on Harrison street,
and informed the official that his son,
Arthur, was at home and wished to
surrender himself. The mayor, at Mr..
Bishops request, accompanied him TO
young Bishops home, and there the
surrender was made. The mayor at
once took Bishop to the city Jail and
turned him over to the officials there.
Bishop told the mayor that the shoot
ing was entirely justiiable and that he
fired the fatal shot in self-defense, as
Wilson. was striking him over the head
with a stick and that he was dazed by
the blows.
Bishop says that after the shooting he
went to the hotel in Charlotte where
he had been stopping and remained
there until the next day, when he walk
ed through the streets of Charlotte to
the depot of the Seaboard Air Line,
where he took the Seaboard train for
Norfolk. He remained in Norfolk until
last night, when he went to the police
station there and inquired of the chief
Of police when the next train would
leave for Roanoke.
Bishop says that he arrived here last
night art 1925 o'clock over the Norfolk
and Western railroad and hat he got
off at the stockyard on Boiling Brook
street, which is a short distance east Of
the union depot here, and walked to his
home at the head of Harrison street, a
distance of over one mile. He spent
last night and today at home with his
wife and child.
Bishop was visited at the Jail by 4
large number Of his friends, to each or
whom he gave a hearty handshake and
| with whom he conversed most pleasant
ly. He was perfectly cool and in good
humor. He wore a dark cloth cap and
when one of his friends asked biz
| where he got it, he replied that he paid
40 cents for it. In a jocular manner
Bishop asked the deputy sheriff
he would have for in the
morning. The deputy replied that he
would see that he had a good one.
| Bishop has a large number of friends
in Petersburg.
The News in Charlotte.
The first information that was receiv-
| ed here yesterday relative to the sur
render of Bishop came in a telephone
message that Chief of Police Irwin re-
ceived from the Chief of Police of
Petersburg.
The Petersburg officer stated that
Bishop would return to Charlotte with
out requlsition papers. Chief Irwin
will leave this morning for Petersburg
n will probably return here tomor-
row accompanied by Bishop.
Bishops statement that he vent TO
the Buford after the shooting and spent
the night there is rather sensational.
Within ten minutes after they heard of
the shooting policemen were at the Bu-
ford and were in that place constantly
until l or 2 o'clock in the morning. y
clerk at the hotel Cho was IlesL'on2d
atuu- the matter first stated that
Bishop certainly die not stay in his
room that night, because the room was
locked. Subsequently the clerk declar-
ed that he would make no statement for
publication