The age-herald., 1902-03-19
fired on by Jim Webb, Whom He Had Gone
 to Arrest
BULLET PENETRATED
 POLICEMAN'S HEART
Walton Fell Into the Arms of the Man Who Accompanied Him, Crying "Hc Has Killed Me"-The
 Murderer Wounded.

Policeman William P Walton, the old est in point of service, and one of the most popular patrolmen on the police force, was shot through the heart and killed almost instantly last night by Jim Webb, drunken negro he was trying to arrest. The policeman shot his murderer once through the arm before receiving the fatal wound. The negro was captured.
 The murder was committed in the house of George s. Smith, negro preach CT, at sO6 Morris avenue, about 9:2O o'clock. Policeman Walton went to the companied by c. E. Cochran, who keeps a grocery store on First avenue between Eighth and Ninth streets. Webb was wanted for assaulting John Brown, an other negro, and was in a room on the second floor. Policeman Walton ascended the steps and. pushed the door open. As he did so the negro shot once, the ball passing over the shoulders Of both men. He fired a second time and the bullet struck Mir. Walton in the left chest above the heart The third bullet passed through the officers heart. Policeman Walton fired twice at the negro and then fell back in the arms of MT. Cochran, saying:
 "He has killed mel He has killed mel"
 As he fell the policeman fired third time, but his pistol pointed upward, and the trigger was pulled with the last con- vusion of a dying man. The negro emptied his revolver at MT. Cochran with out effect Before MT. Walton fell MT. Cochran shot four times at the negro over the shoulder of the policeman.
 SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE.
 Policeman Walton fell at the head of the steps with his feet hanging over the top step. His overcoat is singed for an inch around where the bullets passed through showing how, close the negro was when he fired.
 The remains were sent to Taylor & Co.'S undertaking establishment where they will be prepared for burial and then sent to the home of the dead man on Avenue B, between Twentieth and Twen- ty-frst streets
 Webb was traced to the house of By mum Lewis, another negro, in the rear of the house where the murder was commit ted by blood which flowed from the wound in his left arm. He undertook to conceal himself by crawling under the structure but was dragged out. He sur rendered to Chief Austin under promise that he would be protected. Webb is an employe of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and resided next door to the home of the preacher where the brave officer met death The shooting over, Webb jumped from the second story window of the house where the murder was committed and ran to his own house next door. He went around the house to the left and then went through the back gate of his yard and climbed the fence into Lewis yard. Trace of him was lost here, it seeming impossible for him to get under Lewis house.
 cRAWLED UNDER HOUSE.
 Policeman William Smith, however, found the place he had crawled under at one corner of the house. A pool of blood was found on a plank at the corner of the house. An axe was secured and the floor was dug up in several places. Rud Callear, who lives near. was the first to see the negro. He pulled plank away from the side of the house and held Q light, spying the negro in another corner. When the police first ordered Webb to come out he refused. Captain Weir took the axe and dug through the walls of the house where the negro was lying. He then promised to come out provided Chief Austin would protect him. He crawled through one of the holes dug in the floor, and as he came into sight the chief slipped handcuff on his right arm. He was shot through the left arm above the elbow He was weak and staggered from loss of blood.
 Webb was walked a portion of the way to town and then was carried to the county jail in the patrol wagon. He was escorted as far as he walked by about twenty policemen and several were in the patrol wagon with him.
 Mounted Policeman Eagan was the