New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-09-09

shoots His Inaniorata and is Then
Wounded Himself.
sensational ARRAY Occurred Late
Yesterday Afternoon.
n a tlt OF jealous rage Charles Kim
ball, a Sleepy Eye barber, late yester-
day afternoon shot and wounded Mrs.
Nike Ioomey, the woman of whom he
was enamored, and then proceeded to-
shoot up the town after the fashion
50 popular in bandit days. A few min
utes later he was himself brought to
earth by tramp who was .deputized
to assist in his capture and now he
lies IN the Brown county Jail.
Inc ARRAY was sensational in the
extreme 1t seems that Mrs. Toomey,
who is divorced from her husband,
keeps a lodging house and Kimball
has been boarding with her. He has
been infatuated with the woman and is
said to have made the statement that
they were engaged to be married. At
all events he felt proprietary inter-
est-so much SO, indeed, that recently
ne ordered her to dismiss her other
boarders. She refused to comply with
his request and Monday night, while
intoxicated, he forcibly elected two of
them from the house.
Yesterday he again dallied with the
grape and about 5 O'Clock went to
Mrs. Toomey's home. AS soon as he
encountered the woman he fred three
shots at her in rapid succession, one
taking effect in her right arm. She
ran screaming from the house with the
blood flowing down her dress and
neighbors who heard the shots raised
the alarm, hastily sending messenger
for Marshal Mike Franz. The officer
answered the summons and came upon
Klmball when his revolver was empty.
He called to the barber to surrender
but the latter did not desist in his task
OF reflling the chambers and an in
slant later returned his reply in the
shape of fusillade of shots.
Seeing that he had a desperate char
acter to deal with, Marshall Franz
hurried back to the business portion
OF Sleepy Eye in quest of assistance.
Thirty or forty men were asked to aid
but all declined until finally an old
soldier named Barton and an unknown
tramp came forward. Aiming these
volunteers with 22-calibre rifles, the
marshal returned to the attack.
He was not long in locating his man,
for Kimball was ambling down Sixth
street shouting, 'sThey can't take me, y
and firing at every one he saw. In
STRUGGLING his men to shoot at Kimball's
limbs, Marshall Franz started to make
a detour of a building in order to sur
round the fugitive and the tramp made
his stand in the open street.
Kimball took two snap shots at the
unknown and then the, tourist broke
into the game. AS he raised his rife
Kimball saw his danger and ducked,
but this movement proved his undoing.
Under ordinary circumstances the aim
of the tramp would have sent the ball
into Kimball's shoulder but as the
| barber stopped forward he lowered his
| head and the bullet struck him on the
right side of the skull. He pitched
forward on his face and the marshal
ran out and disarmed him.
After the shooting Kimball was car
ried to DR.. A. F. Strickler's Office and
that physician dressed his hurt, a
puncture of the scalp. Then he was
taken to the Northwestern depot and
while enroute to this city informed his
captors that he regretted the tramp's
bullet did not strike him in the fore
| head and end his trour les. Upon ar
irving here the Wo LIded man was
placed in a, convey ance and driven to
the county jail, where DR.. E. W. Bay
| ley was called and gave his wound a
1 SCSOAA u1CSSiuS. DuIluSS tAO OpOl ouiOA
I he conversed freely with the ply stefan
and Sheriff Julius but did not ex-
press remorse. On the contrary he
repeatedly asserted that he was sorry
he did not take better aim and kill
the woman who was responsible for
| his woes.
Kimball is member of the firm of
Hammond & Kimball and has resided
in Sleepy Eye about four months. He
has reputation as a dissolute sort of
a fellow and is said to have two wives
living. His injuries are not regarned
as serious and that of Mrs. Toomey is
a flesh wound in the arm.
| In all probability the tonsorial artist
is scheduled to receive stiff prison
sentence for the star part he played
yesterday. Assault in the first degree
is the charge upon which he is likely