Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-03-05
a SUNDAY MURDER.

Sunday evening Karl Paine, chef at
at the Standard Hotel on Playground
avenue. and Eugene Clifton, waiter,
auarreled over an order for supper
Paine told Clifton to hurry and deliver
that supper before it got cold. Clifton
got angry and the men, both negroes.
would have come to blows had not Ian
don Cooper, another waiter, separated
them.
After threatening each other Paine
pointed with the carving knife he was
using TO cut meat to the door and told
Clifton to get out and tend his own bus
iness.
Clifton took TIE tray of food upstairs
to a room where Mrs. Clinton, wife OF
proprietor Earl Clinton, was slightly III,
came back to the kitchen and started
for Pane saying Now I'm going to put
the bug on you' Paine was cutting
meat at the time, Cooper again tried to
get between them, but Clifton stepped
around Cooper and fired twice at Paine
across the corner of the table. AT the
second shot Paine fell One bullet had
passed through the intestines and the
other entered his left side under the
heart and passed downward through
the liver From this wound he bled to
death six hours later in the Hospital.
The bullet was afterwards taken from
under the skin on his right side. The
bullet which passed through the intes-
tines was removed before death In
hopes of saving his life.
The shooting was seen by Cooper,
Mrs. Matte Criswell Mike Dressin and
a Slayish woman, all of whom were In
the kitchen.
The police were notified at once.
After his evil deed Clifton ran to his
room. put on his coat and oyercoat and
fed through the back kitchen door,
waded across the creek, the icy water
reaching to his neck, and went to the
boarding house of Beau Lyons on the
| Island, where he spent some time with
Gertie Washington, his sweetheart. He
spent the night wandering around. At
| 9 IN. Monday he was seen at the u. X.
& p. round house. Shortly afterwards
| he bought a ticket at the P. & w. sta
| tion for Gallery. Constable Brown and
Donaldson had been told that Clifton
was seen going toward the station and
were on hand when the 915 Bessemer
came in. Clifton was seen to enter a
coach and lock himself in a closet. The
officers boarded the train, Brown stay
ed on the platform to prevent escape by
| the window and Donaldson stood "a the
| closet door. A brakeman was called,
| unlocked the door and Clifton surren-
dered without resistance. He did not
know Paine was dead until told then.
He was taken before Justice Keck
where charge Of murder was made
against him by County Detective
Barnes, and after hearing he was re-
manded to jail for trial.
Monday night Coroner Atwell sum
| moned q jury composed of w. B. Tay-
lor, Kennedy Marshall, d L. Rankin
Chas Fl. Miller, VIM. B. Purvis and E.
H. Negley.
They viewed the body in Roessing
under rtaking rooms, and after hearing
| evidence returned verdict that death
resulted from shots fired by Eugene
Clifton with intent to kill and murder.
Paine was 80 years of age. He had
been the Standard chef since last Aug.
He was well behaved and very well lik-
ed For IS months he was cook for a
camp of U. S. engineers. His home
was in Washington, ID. G.
Clifton had been in Butler for several
months and bore the reputation of be
ing quarrelsome