The age-herald., 1902-03-20
Funeral Over Murdered Policeman Will Be Held This Afternoon Woman Says Webb Fired Walton Before Officer Fired Shot.

The funeral services of Policeman Will liam P. Walton. who was murdered Tues- day night by Jim Webb a negro, will be conducted this afternoon from the fam fly residence on Avenue B between Twen- tieth and Twenty-first streets. Interment will be at Oak Hill cemetery.
 King Solomon Lodge, Masons, will have charge of the cerem onies. Policeman Walton was a member of this lodge in good standing. Six members of the police force who are Masons, will act as pail bearers They will be Captain Wier, Lieutenant Johnston, Patrolmen Shirley, Armstrong, Bryan and Cunningham.
 Yesterday afternoon Lilly Page, the ne- gro woman in whose room Webb was found was placed under arrest and sent to the county jail where she will be held until the preliminary trial of Webb before Justice of the Peace Aber- nathy Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. She was an eye witness to the shooting and says Webb fired two shots before Policeman Walton or MT. Cochran raised their pistols
 QUARRELED OVER WOMAN.
 The woman is said to be the one over whom Webb and John Brown, the negro who went after Policeman Walton, had a difficulty earlier in the evening. Brown, Webb and woman were in the room and Webb commanded Brown to leave, threatening to shoot his head off. They had some further words and Brown went for Policeman Walton, returning with the policeman.
 Lilly Page is daughter of the negro preacher Smith. Brown lives in the room next to her, where the shooting occurr- ed. She claims Brown accompanied the policeman to the room and told Webb to open the door, promising there would be no fight or disturbance. She claims she slipped the bolt of the door and as she did so it was burst open by the police man. As the door fell Webb commenced shooting and the men on the outside re- turned the fire.
 Webb tells a different tale. He says he slipped the bolt from the door, opened it with his right hand and held the pistol in the other, being left handed. Webb says Policeman Walton fired first, the bull let taking effect in his left arm. wheeling him around. He then pointed his pistol through the door and fired. He claims he does not remember how many times he shot.
 Webb claims he did not Know an officer was at the door. He says he thought 1t
 
 He claims he did not jump from the second story window as was stated He started to do so, but returned and went down the steps. To do so he had to step over the body of the man he had killed but claims he was so frightened he did not know who it was.
 HAS BAD REPUTATION. Webb has bad reput ation. Over a year | ago he was arrested by Policemen Me Donald and Mcknight charged with | shooting this same pistol at man. He was cleared however, as the evidence was not strong enough to convict him. He has | also Just finished term the street | gang. He admits drinking Tuesday night. but claims not to have been drunk. He says he and John Brown had an argument over Lilly Page, and that she was Browns woman
 Policeman Mcdonald found Webb's pis- tol yesterday morning lying in the yard just in the rear of the house where he was caught It is a 44-calibre gun of the army frontier kind. and is of the old type. Four barrels of the gun had been fired, and 1t was covered with blood. Ser geant Chambers examined the pistol and found one of the empty cartridges filled with fresh blood. Webb said last night that all the barrels were loaded John Brown, the negro who went to Griggs saloon after Policeman Walton said he and Webb had some trouble in the room before he went for the police man. Webb, he says ordered him out of the house, and threatened to kill him | If he refused to go. He went after MT | Walton and returned with him. Brown and Webb, it is claimed. had been friends | up to this time. Tuesday night, Brown claims, whisky got the best of Webb and he was behaving very badly before the | policeman came
 GUARD OF HONOR.
 | Yesterday guard of honor was in at tendance on the remains all day. Chief Austin detailed two men Policemen Hamilton and Devine-and later Police man Jones. Every member of the force is wearing small piece of crepe on his badge and police headquarters are draped in black and white. An unusual quiet prevails around the lounging places of