The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-09
George jackson, COlOred Threat
ened to Kill Willis Mount.
They Met in Grahsm's Saloon mad
Jackson Was Shot Twice and
Killed.
HE WAS AN EX-CoNvICT

Paducah had her third homicide
within week this morning when
George Jackson, colored, an ex-con
vict about % years old, was shot and
killed by Willis Mount, son of VIM.
Mount. the Eddyville saloon keeper
and formerly citizen of Paducah and
ms mber Of the police force.
The shooting occurred at Graham g
saloon, at Ninth and Court streets
about l O'Clock. Mount and Les Pur-
dy, as near as the facts can be learned,
were together, and Mount had been
told that Jackson had threatened to
kill him before morning. Mount
stopped and told the officers, or one of
them, WhItehurst and Mcneil, and
they said that they had heard the me-
gro say something about getting the
- before morning." but did
not know whom he meant
The two young men then went up
Ninth to Denkers saloon and found it
closed and started then to Carter's at
Seventh and Washington, according to
Purdy, but upon learning that Car
ter's always closed at midnight and it
was then nearly / O'Clock, they re-
traced their steps and decided to go
into Grsham's.
The two negroes were at the bar,
and were not far from the swinging
door that opens into the bar. Accord
ing 10 the two men both negroes when
the white men entered reached into
their coats or shirts as if to draw pis-
tolls, but Mount was too quick for
Jackson, and shot him twice, once
over the heart and once in the should
er, the latter being flesh wound.
The wounded negro then ran, and
went around into an alley and back
under the kitchen at Mallie Groom $
on Court near Ninth. The officers
who had been in pursuit and had fired
into the air to brighten him, traced
him there and finally succeeded in in
ducing him to crawl out. He asked
for ice water and rolled about IN
agony while the patrol wagon was on
the way.
He told the officers his name was
George jackson and that he had been
back from the Eddyville penitentiary
but two months, and that he had been
sent up for five years.
He was asked where the pistol was
he attempted to draw, and said he
had left it under the door. Officer
Whitehurst crawled under the floor
and there found the weapon.
His home he gave as Florence, Ala,
but he said his sister. Matte Jackson,
lived on Plunkett's Hill in Paducah,
and when Patrol Driver Austin ar
rived with the wagon he was taken
there, but died in Less than two koars.
Mount, when seen by a reporter this
morning at the city hall stated that he
shot in self defense, and that it was
only question of who got 10 his gun
the quicker, and he happened to he
the one. Mount now lives in Eddy-
willie. and says that jackson has been
in the penitentiary there for house
breaking.
He declined to say whether or not
he ever had sny trouble at Eddyville
with the negro, when asked the ques-
tion by q Sun reporter, but he is al,
legged to have told others that the ne.
gro got mad ct him because he once
reported him for violation of some
prison rule, and threatened to kill nj On
for 1t.
Mount who has been in Paducah
apout u week, was incarcerated in the
lookup after the death Of the negro,
but seems to be confident of prompt
acquittal.
Coroner Peal will hold an inquest
at the city hall this afternoon.
This is the third killing in Paducah
within a week, all the victims being
colored. The first was Calvin Carey,
who was snot on lower Court street
street by George Day, alias BOX
Car. Lee Crawford was last Sunday
killed by Mary Thomas and last
nights killing was the third.