The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-16
Surrendered Sunday Night at
Home in Petersburg.
Claims justification in Killing Wilson wiz
Whose Daughter he Was Drinking
likes With Friends.
Cspeial to News and Observer

Mayor VIM. NJ. Jones and gave notice
that his son was at home ready to sur
render. The mayor went to young
Bishops home and the surrender was
made Bishop being taken at once to the
city Jail and turned over to the officials
In his talk with the mayor Bishop de-
clared that the shooting was justified and
was in self-defense, as Wilson was
striking him over the head with a stick
and that he was dazed by the blows.
He says that after he had shot Wilson
he went to the Buford Hotel in Char
lotte, where he was stopping, and stayed
there until next day. when he walked
through the streets to the SeaboaTd Air
Line depot and took the train for Nor
folk He remained in Norfolk until Sat-
urday night, when he went to the police
station there and asked the chief Of
police when the next train would leave
for Roanoke.
He says he reached Petersburg Satur
day night after ten O'Clock, and left the
train at the stockyard on Bolingbrook
street, a short distance from the Union
depot and walked a mile to his home at
the head of Harrison street. He spent
Saturday night and Sunday at home with
his wife and child.
Bishop has many friends here and a.
number of them called on him in Jail. He
shook hands and talked with all. He
seemed self possessed and in good humor.
He had on a dark cloth cap and when
friend asked where he got it, he re-
piled that he paid 40 cents for it. In q
jocular manner Bishop asked the deputy
sheriff what he would get for breakfast
The deputy answered that he would see
that he had a good one.
1t is understood that Bishop will go to
North Carolina without requisition pa
pers, and that an officer from Charlotte
will be here for him. Bishop has been
in the employ of the F. NJ. Hoyt Shoe
Company of Manchester, N. H.. for two
seasons, and travelled in Maryland, Vir-
ginia West Virginia and North Carolina
The Charlotte Observer says: "Bish-
ops statement that he went to the Bu-
ford Hotel after the shooting and spent
the night there is rather sensational
Within ten minutes after they heard of
the shooting policemen were at the Blu
ford and were in that place constantly
until l or o'clock in the morning.
clerk at the hotel who was questioned
about the matter first stated that Bishop
certainly did not stay in his room that
night, because the room was locked
Subsequently the clerk declared that he
would make no statement for publica-
ton ABs
There is no getting around it.
Bishops statement that he went to the
Buford Hotel after the shooting, spent
the night there and walked through the
CT IN no hoard dapOt nayf dow
is not compliment to the police force
of this city. In a play at the Academy
the other night a man said that the
only way he escaped from the officers of
the law was to mix with them and fol-
low them That was evidently Bishops
idea. also.
"No tragedy that has taken place in
Charlotte in recent years has excited
more talk than the killing of Tom Wilson
by Arthur l.. Bishop. All features Of the
shooting are interesting, and, taken col
lectively, they offer for argument a
question that has been much discussed,
What should d man do when he is taken
to task in a place where he has no social
or legitimate busness-fght or run?
Bishop, who was d married man, who was
in the home of a man that he supposed
to be beneath him socially-Bishop, who
was drinking wine with a 17year-old
girl, turned on her father, who was
handling him roughly, said, 4 am
gentleman and then committed murder.
1t is not intended to prejudice anybody
in matter that has not been yet tried
by the courts but Bishop should have
run He might have been invited into
the house. but he should have run when
Tom Wilson came into the parlor and
showed anger. There are some things
that a sensible man cannot fight about.
When he is in a place where he would
not like his wife or his mother or his
sister to see him he must run and run
quickly and not raise his hand to strike.
If his only method of egress is through
a second or third story window, why, he
should jump without a moments hesita-
ton. For it is the ethics of gentlemen
ana brave men that a fight over card
game or a fight over a woman, except
as a last resort and to defend her, is
barred"