The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-16
Shooting Occurs on Avenue H Near TWeRty-secORd
 Street at 3i3O
NO ARRESTS HAVE YET
 BEEN MADE BY POLICE
Hope, It Is Said, Was ouarreline With Young Man, Who, With a Winohes- ter, Was Walking Behind
 Ills Wagon.
H. HOPE. better known as

1 N H. HOPE. better known as kO Bud" Hope a driver for the Os Birmingham Ore company. who lives near the Lone Pine mines on the other side of Red Mountain, was shot through the lung and killed yes- terday afternoon about S:3O o'clock while driving a wagon along Avenue H near Twenty-second street.
 The shooting was done by a young man who had been in the wagon with Hope, and the police followed him to his home on the other side of the mountain. It Is stated his name Is Massey. One of the policemen who went after the man said that they went to his home and found his family there, but that he had been home and obtained some articles of cloth ing and other necessaries and then left for the hills. The two men were quar- reling.
 The bullet entered the left breast of Hope about two Inches above the heart and ranged downward. breaking one of the ribs on the right side and penetrating the left lung. The bullet Is still in the body, but cannot be located. Two shots were ared and it Is believed the first one was the one which killed Hope. Eye witnesses state that he fell over on one side just before the second bullet was fired, and that 1t missed the mark and struck a house about 150 feet away. The shooting was done with a Winchester rife
 Statement of Witnesses. According to the testimony of two eye witnesses to the shooting there were four men and two wagons coming out Avenue H evidently from Twentieth street Just before reaching Twenty first street a young man about 2l years old got out of the wagon being driven by Hope and walked behind 1t. The two men in the other wagon were in front and did not stop. There was consider able quarreling between the man walking and Hope but no one seems to have | heard what was said
 Just as the front wagon reached Twen- | ty-second street 1t stopped, and Hope in the other wagon. turned down Twenty second street, going towards Avenue G. The young man walked behind him hand ling a rife and seemed to be trying to get some cartridges into 1t. Hope drove down about half way between Avenue G and Avenue H and then turned around and came back towards Avenue H. Just as he turned into Avenue H. going back towards twentieth street, the yonug man walking fired twice. Hope dropped from the seat of the wagon and fell on the street where he lay until Coroner Paris arrived half an hour later and or dered the body taken to Lge Loys un- dertaking establishment
 Other Men Left.
 The other three men drove away rapidly as soon as Hope fell the horse which Hope had been driving following the other one. As soon as the shooting was done c. C. Douglass and B. P. Hart. eye-wit- nesses, teiephoned the police and the un- dertaker. Policemen Eagan, Jordan ana Cuipepper and Chief Austin went to the place and followed the three men on horseback. They went to Masseys place. which is about three and half miles from the city on the other side of Red mountain, but failed to catch up with the men.
 By o'clock all the policemen had re- turned, but last night Detectives Wal drop and Jordan were sent back over the mountain to see If Massey would come home.
 Hope is a Driver.
 Bud" Hope is employed by William Mixer, who operates the Lone Pine mines, which are at the end of Twentieth street. near the iron bridge on top of the moun- tain. He drives one of the wagons for Mixer, who operates the mines for the Birmingham Ore company. Yesterday Hope came to the city to get a wagon load of feed and was returning tu the mines when he was killed. When his pockets were searched half-empty whis- ky flask was found, a small amount of money and some keys, Later the bill for the feedstuffs he had bought was found. It showed that tho bill amounted 10 something over s and that the feed had been bought from the Western Grain company. At the Western Grain com pany 1t was stated that about noon Hope came into the store with an order signed by D. H. Brown. secretary of the Bir-' mingham Ore company. and that the feed was delivered to him and placed on the wagon. The clerks at the store state that he was alone in the wagon. The order which Hope had was No. 1858. and read as follows:
 Deliver to O. H. Hope. for William Kiker, Lone Pine mines, the following bill of goods, and was signed ''Birming- ham Ore Company. D. H. Brown. Sec"
 It is supposed that Hope bought the whisky after he left the feed store. for the clerks state that he did not seem to be drinking when he called there. The next trace of Hope was on Avenue H, near Twenty-first street. where he and the young man on the wagon were quar- reling.
 Douglass Statement
 c. c. Douglass, who lives at 1512 Nine- teenth street, north. was standing on the porch of the residence at 2126 Avenue H, and saw the entire affair. He said yes- terday afternoon:
 There were four men in the party. Hope was in the rear wagon by himself, and young man was walking behind him handling Winchester rife, which he seemed to be trying to load. The two other men were in the wagon in front.