The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05
BURGLAR SHOT TWICE
HE ENTERED A RESIDENCE IN
EAST n MINGTON
While Mr.. e. IL. Rogers Had Left
He Returned to Find n Negro I'm
the House-He Cursed Mr. Rogers
AMI Had to lie Driven Out N: IN
Point of n Pistol.

Last night about s:15 O'Clock Mr.
tage at Wrightsville to police hcadquar-
tiers requesting an officer to be sent TO
his place in East Wilmington, as Mr..
C r. Rogers, who is IN charge OF the
place, had she a man who had gotten
into his house.
Chief Of Police John j.. Furlong and
Sergeant c.. S. Burnett went out to
East Wilmington in a buggy and when
they got there they found four or five
men guarding the PROSTATE form OF d
bright mulatto about twenty-six years
of age. The man vas dead drunk,
speechless, or playing 'possum," as he
could not be aroused. He was called,
shaken, and yelled at but not an answer
could be gotten out of him. He was
breathing but otherwise he had the ap-
pearance of a dead man. Not q soul in
the crowd that gathered knee the man,
and a. he could not or would not be
aroused, his name is unknown. Chief
Furlong had his shirt stripped off, and
found two bullet holes in him, n in
the TOD of his left shoulder and the
other in nearly the came place on the
right shoulder. The bullet on the left
shoulder had penetrated but the one
which struck the right shoulder went
under the skin an inch end came out,
making a flesh wound
Mr.. Rogers informed the chief of
police that he had shot the negro. He
stated hat he stepped out. leaving his
sick wife alone in the III with an in
FAINT a few days old n that when he
returned in a few minutes he found the
negro in the house. he asked him
what he was doing there and he told
Mr.. Rogers it was nona of his id bus
mess. Mr.. Rogers got his piston and
ordered the negro out, n n fellow
staggered towards the door and went
out. In a few minutes, Mr.. Rogers
heard him breaking into the barn and
went out to order him away. The
negro was armed with a big hickory
stick and cursed Mr.. Rogers n made
for him with the stick. Mr.. Rogers
snapped his pistol at him twice but it
failed to go off. This gave the negro an
opportunity to reach him and he struck
Mr.. Rogers n severe blow across the left
hand. Mr.. Rogers then began TO shoot
and kept. sending bullets at the negro
till he fell.
Mrs. Rogers says when the negro
came in the house he said, Il want
something to eat and nave got to have
it id quick" She was naturally
very much frightened and, luckily
enough, he had hardly made the re-
mark before Mr.. Rogers came in.
Chief Furlong brought he wounded
man to the city hall and laid him in the
floor in an unstripped condition, and all
who looked at him failed 10
him. LIr. Fora B. Emmett who had a
set-to with o negro burglar in his house
at 800 South Sixth street Thursday
mornin% at $3.50 o'clock, was sent for to
look at the man to See If hs was the
one who broke into his house. He
said he was not the man.; that the burg
lar which he assaulted was ? darker ne
gro and had closely cropped hair.
As no one identified the negro, VINO
had all the while laid fiat Of his back
on the floor without as much as utterlnS
a groan. Chief Furlong sent him to the
James Walker Memorial hospital
1t is believed that the fellow is the
man who held up and robbed Mr.. j. +.
Klein while he was coming to town
with a load of vegetables on Thursday
morning at 3 o'clock. The hold uD was
on the New Bern road 4 half mile from
Mr.. P~earsalI's and Mr.. Klein thought it
was q white man who had done II. put
as it was not good daylight, 1T is be-
lieyed that this negro was the man, as
one would easily take him for a Whlte
man.
When the man was taken to n city
hospital the surgeons thought he was
but afte1 they probed for the
bail and the fellow did not finch or
open his eyes, The came to the con-
cIusion that he IS seriously wounded
The doc ors failed to reach the ball
The probe went in the direction OF the
lung from the wound in the left shoul-
der.
When Chief Furlong went out to East
Wilmington he placed Mr.. Rogers un-
der arrest and recognized him for his
appearance at the municipal court to-
morrow. Mr.. Pearsall telephoned the
chief that he would go Nj. Rogers
bond.