The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-11
Bad Blood Had Long Ex-
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The Slayer surrenders to the sher- in-Eye-witnsssss Give Ac- counts of the Killing-a
 Shot Gun the Weapon.
Advertiser Bureau,
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Selma, Sept. 10.
 This morning at 5:45 o'clock, D. A. Call win was shot and instantly killed by George w. Coleman. The shooting oc- cured within hundred yards Of Mir. Calvin's house. he having started down town to open his shop. MT. Coleman Is said to have concealed himself in clump of bushes which line Abbott Avenue. a little short street, formerly an alley, rum ming by a grove between Lapsley and Union Streets. As MT. Calvin came along the sidewalk on Lapsley Street. his slayer from out of the bushes fired twice in rap Id succession, then reloaded his double- shot gun and. approaching nearer the prostrate form, fired the third shot. MT. Calvin was on a bicycle and at the first fire fell to the ground, death having been practically instantaneous.
 After the shooting, Mir. Coleman left quickly, going down Lapsley Street, and making a detour of the locality, reached the house of Sheriff Blackwell, where he gave himself up, the sheriff carrying him to the jail.
 MT. Calvins cook was an eyewitness of the shooting. She had passed her em- ployer in the grove, which is just in the rear of Mir. Calvin's residence, which fronts on Second Street. As she reached the gate she saw MT. Coleman rise up in the bushes and fire. She then scream ed and ran in the house.
 Jesse Robertson. negro porter ern- ployed by Buffers book store, was also near when the shooting occurred. His story is as follows:
 q left my house about 5:3o o'clock and was on the way to MT. Buffers. I walked up Lapsley on the east side and was go- ing towards Second Street. I passed along in front of the house where MT. Barnwell. used to live and wehen about the middle of the block saw MT. Calvin come out of his back gate. He had his bicycle. I did not see him get on the wheel. When was nearly to Second Street heard two shots and heard some one cry out twice. "Oh, Lordyl Oh. Lordyl' after each of the shots. turned around and saw MT. Calvin stretched out on the ground and saw a man running down Lapsley Street with shot gun un- der his arm, the barrel pointing down to- ward the ground. did not see the mans face and he never stopped running until he reached Dr. Jones's house, on the cor ner of Parkman.
 'T did not see the flash of the gun nor any smoke" continued the negro, and I only heard two shots. When I passed the clump of bushes along Abbott Ave- nue I did not see any one in them. If a man was there I did not see him. MT. Calvin was the only person saw between the time passed Dr. Jones's house, going towards Second Street, and when heard the gun shots.'
 The shooting of this morning was the result of trouble of long time standing. in which the two men have played a prominent part. Mrs. Coleman has made her home with the Calvins for over a year. Claiming ill-treatment at the hands of her husband, she left him something | over a year ago, taking with her their two children. MT. Calvin is distantly re- lated to Mrs. Coleman, whose maiden name was Miss Rella Calvin. Coleman has claimed undue intimacy existed be- tween his wife and MT. Calvin, and at Orrvills last fall the two men exchanged shots at each other with revolvers, MT. Coleman being in his store and MT. Cal win on the steps. Neither was injured The statement given out at that time was that MT. Calvin, while in Orrville, after havink slept at MT. Coleman's house the night before. asked for some wearing apparel that Mrs. Coleman de- sired, and these MT. Coleman refused to send. A quarrel then ensued, which was renewed at the store and resulted in the exchange of shots.
 On one occasion in the spring Mir. Coleman secured his two children while the mother was at church and was car rying them back home with him when the pohce authorities persuaded him to re- store them to their mother. Considerable excitement was occasioned at this time and the trouble between the two men was only intensified.
 A few days ago MT. Coleman came to | the city and went to store adjoining MT. Calvin's place of business, having with him at the time a double barreled shot gun and quantity of shells. MT. Calvin was notified that MT. Coleman was waiting for him and heavily arming himself he came down town. The author | tiles arrested both, MT. Coleman being taken from the B. s. and N. O. train. A fine of $1O was assessed in the May or's Court, disorderly conduct having | been alleged.
 Between twenty-five and thirty of the leaden slugs entered the body of the dead man. They were not round buckshot but oblong in shap, fiat on one end with a bright surface as if the lead had been re- gently cut The appearance of each ball was as If the end of a 32 or 3S-calibre pistol cartridge pistol cartridge had been | cut off. Hunters, however, who examined | one of the balls states that it was a buckshot, the choke bore of the gun hav- ing caused the dents in the surface. | The first shot from MT. Coleman's gun l is supposed to nave entered MT. CalVln head and the second fired in quick sue cession probably caused the wounds on the left side, the left arm being broken
 The third shot appears to have been fired
 at closer range, the slugs not scattering
 as much. Either shot. in the opinion o1
 those who examined the wounds would
 have caused death. Six or seven of the
 slugs went into the face and top of the
 head of the dead man.
 The shooting was probably brought to
 focus over the refusal of Mrs. Cole
 man to sign a mortgage upon which MT
 Coleman wanted to borrow some money
 There are two sides in regard to this par
 of the matter that are current street ru'
 nor. The report is that MT. Coleman
 proposed to deed to Mrs. Coleman during her life time and to the children at hei
 death the house in Orrville if she would sign with him the mortgage so that ht | could raise a desired amount of money MT. Coleman, so the rumor stated, de
 clares that his wife had agreed to tho
 terms but when the time came she re
 fused. MT. Coleman then attributed hel
 change of mind to MT. Calvins influence
 Yesterday afternoon MT. Calvin mad the statement that Mir. Coleman had lalC | at his door the refusal of Ms. Coleman
 to sign the mortgage but that he haC
 nothing in the world to do with It, Mrs
 Coleman having acted on the advice O
 her attorney. MT. Calvin further statet
 that several days ago, (presumably jus
 nrior to the arrest of the two men) MT
 Coleman wanted Mrs. Coleman to mee
 him in the grove and sign the paper
 and that he (Coleman) intercepted bo!
 with a note for him (Calvin) from tn