Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-11-14
Aged Citizen Shot Down at His
Home by Negro---Dies
Instantly.
FATHER OF GREATER NEW YORK
Crime Evidently emeditated-After
Firing Fatal Shots Murderer Re-
places Weapon in Pocket and Awaits
Arrest-Believed to Be Insane.


New York, Nov. f4.-Andrew II
Green, the Father of Greater New
York" and one of the city's Oldest and
most remarkable citizens, was shot
and instantly killed on the steps of
his home on Park avenue by Cor
! believed TO be insane.
The shooting was evidently the out
come Of the insane delusion on the
part of the negro that Mr.. Green hal
slandered him. for when he was asker
why he had committed the murder he
replied:
Il did it to save my character"
There were three witnesses to tie
tragedy, Mrs. Anna Bray domestic
In Mr.. Green's family; Emil Michel
sen, an errand boy, and Patrick Dyer,
cabman. According to these Wit
nesses the negro must have been wait
ing for Mr. Green to come home from
| his office. He was standing i'll the
vestibule of the house, and as MIR.
Green started to ascend the two steps
leading to the hall door Williams adj
vaneed toward him. There was a brief
! interchange of words and then tho
negro drew a revolver and fired five
| shots in rapid succession. Mr.. Green
sank to the stone pavement, blood
! streaming from his head, while his
murderer, returning the revolver to his
pocket, leaned against the railing OF
the stoop as if awaiting arrest.
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Death Came Instantly.
William H. Burns, carriage starte-
| for the Murray Hill hotel, was one of
the first to reach the negro, whom he
seized as he was about to walk away
and turned over to a policeman and
detective, who rushed up a moment
later. a physician was on the spot
almost Immediately and pronounced
| Mr. Green to be dead. AS the negro's
aged victim fell a young woman rush
ed out of the house and took the dead
or dying mans head In her lap at the
same time calling upon him in piteoas
tones to speak TO her As she tried IL
vain to get a response Williams turned
upon his victim and shouted:
Damn you I told you I would get
even with you"
Mrs. Bray told the police that she
was just about to enter the house
when she saw Mr. Green accosted by
| Williams and heard the former say In
answer to some words addressed 70
him by the negro, go away, don't
know YOU" Then Williams drew his
revolver and shot the old man.
As soon as the policemen seized tho
colored man they searched him and
found the revolver, which was still
warm. They hurried him to the sta,
ton house, where he was subjected to
searching examination, the result Of
which left little doubt of the negro's
insanity. Besides the revolver the POI
lice found in Williams pockets a razor,
a purse containing $40 and a dispos.
sess notice, dated Aug g. showing that
he had been put out of apartments IN
| Fifty-seventh street, between Ninth
and Tenth avenues.
Murderer Tells Rambling Story.
Williams appeared to be perfectly
self-possessed and acted as though he
had performed a meritorious deed He
is well-built man of average height
and of not unpleasant features. He
said he was single, 43 years old and
lived at 1876 West Twenty-sixth street.
at which place, however, he is not
known
He told a rambling story about a
| colored woman Mrs Bessie Davis. who
until about four months ago kept a
| lodging house for negroes in Wess
| Fifty'third street, who, he said, had
circulated statements derogatory Ia
his character and against whom he
had been trying to bring suit for 500.
900 for SANDER, The trouble, he said,
dated back to the year 1895, when he
was one of her dodgers. Her stories
reached the congregation of the Mount
Olivet .church, Of which he was an at.
| tendant, and he was forced to give up
| his membership there because his fell
! low worshipers pointed the finger NJ
/ scorn at him Her ISLANDERS, continu-
Ing over eight years, cost him nearly
all his friends.
Il would have been married now
sslly for her. he added bitterly.
Continuing, he said he had not been
able to find the woman, wep had been
spirited away by powerfU. friends He
blamed Mr.. Green for hefriending the
woman and enabling her to continue
her slanderous stories
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Louisville. Col, Nov 14--As a re,
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day by the operators all of the strik-
! ing miners in the northern coal fields