The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-14
KILLED ON HIS
OWN DOORSTEP
Andrew H. Green Shot Down BY
an Insane Negro.
VICTIM NOTED NEW YORKER
CRIME THE RESULT OF A
STRANGE DELUsION.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12-Andrcw IT,
lin Green. the father or Greater New
York. and one of the city's oldest
and most remarka bile citizens. was shot
and instantly killed on the steps of his
nome ON Park avenue today by Cow
nelius II. Williams negro. Who is be-
ieFed 90 be insane. The shooting was
tFiQeuty the outcome Of an insane dee
fusion or the part OF the negro that Mr.
Green had slandered him. FOR when De
was asked why ne had committed the
murder ne replied.
Il did il 20 save my character"
Negro in Waiting.
There were three witnesses Of the
tragedy. Mrs Anna Bray. domestic
IN Mr. Green's family; Emil Nicholson.
an errand boy. and Patrick Dyer. a cab
/ man. According to these witnesses. the
/ negro must have been waiting for Nr.
{ Green TO come home from his office.
The negro was standing i'm the vestibule
I OF the house. and as Mr.. Green started
70 ascend the three steps leading TO the
han door Williams advanced toward
him There was brief Interchange OF
words, and then the negro drew re-
Volver and fired five shots ir rapid sue
/ cession. 0IT Green sank 20 the stone
pavement, blood streaming from his
/ head while the murderer returning
/ the revolver to- his pocket. leaned
/ against the railing OF the stoop. as il
( waiting arrest.
Murderer Arrested.
/ William II. Burns, carriage starter
4 for the Murray Hill hotel. was one of
the first to reach the negro. whom he
seized as he was about to walk away.
ana turned him over TO a policeman
and detective who rushed up mo-
ment later. A physician was on the
spot almost Immediately and pro-
/ hounced Mr.. Green dead. AS the ne
. eros aged victim fen. q young woman
/ rushed out of the house and took the
/ dead or dying mans head tn her lap.
/ AT the same time calling upon him. i'm
I piteous tones, to speak TO her. AS she
/ tried in vain to get a response. Will
mans turned upon his victim and
shouted.
Damn you. I told you I would get even
3 with YOU.
One of the uegro's bullets imbedded
] itself I'm the ceiling OF the vestibuIe Ia fs
] believed that all Of the others took eff
/ feet A cursOry examination by a phy-
: stefan and coroner revealed one wound bon
i the left side of the head. one fin the lefl
! temple. ana another at the base of Che
/ brain. ANY one was sufficient TO cause
+ instant death.
Story of Domestic.
! Mrs Bray told the police that she was
I JUST ABOUT TO enter the house when she
/ saw Mr. Green accosted by Williams and
heard the former say jim answer 90 some
words addressed 10 him bE the negro.
ECO away. I don't know YOU.
/ Then Williams drew his revolver aCl
I snot the old man. The c0-ored man was
hurried 70 the station house. WuerC no
/ was subjected To searching cNamIua-
uOu the result of which left little DOUBT
! OF the negroes insanity. Besides the re
. ha .r
/ possession a razor and a purse containing
Williams appeared to be perfectly self
possessed He said ne was single 43 wears
: old and lived at No. 156 West Twenty
sixth street, at which place, however. he
/ is not known.
The prisoner answered without heslts-
/ ton or amy show of irritation an Ques-
/ uons put TO him. and spoke like a man
firm Ia the conviction that De had been
/ deeply wronged by the man he had muir
dered.
Told Rambling Story.
He told "a rambling story about q COLI
I ored woman, Mrs Bessie Davis. who. uu-
/ I'll about four months ago. kept "a lodG-
I ing house for negroes I'm West Fifty-thiri
street. VINO he said. had circulated state
menJs derOgdtoTy to his character ana
against whom ne had been irving TO brine
suit for $4,000 for Islander. The trouble.
he said. dated back To- che year 1898. when
ne was one of the Iodeers. Her stories
reached the congregation Of the Mount
DhNeI church. of which he was an at
teudant, and ne was forced 90 give up
his membership there because his fellow
WOTshiUers pointed the finger Of scOrn az
I him. Her ISLANDERS. continuing over eight
years, cost him nearly an his friends
~ would have been married now only
Tor her, hc added bitterly.
Why He Shot Green.
Continuing. he said ne had not been
. able 20 ind the woman. who had been
spirited away by powerful friends lie
blamed Mr. Green for hefriending the
woman and enabling her to continue her
slanderOus stories He said he had asked
l'iiieQ 20 90 So am not sorry q shoe
him exclaimed the prisoner che got
what he deserved. 0 may not Doe justified
10y society. but 2 ann justified i'm the eve
OF God m willing to go 10 the elegtr..
CHAIR, pr necessary. to Niudicate my char
acter.
Employees of tho Murray HU hotel told
the police That they had seen the coI0raI
man walking UU and down the street iu
FRONT of AIR. Green's house every ,st,- Tor
the past week. They had heard him mutt
terine 10 himself and waving his hands
about him. and decided that ne WAS
ar. Green. who was bachelor livca
with his nephew, Timothy II. Green. and
his three uiecJs.
Timothy r. Green said tonight that bis
uncle had never before seen the man who
snot him, that me had never heard of tie
colorcC woman. Bessie Davis and that nc
never had amy ColOred servants I'M his
house The story told by Williams was
said Mr. Green. pure fiction
no trace OK the Davis woman could be
found Inc police are disposed TO believe
that The Davis woman was merely the
ugment OF am insane imagination.