The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

and that then Mr.. Skinner turned and
ran, Mr. Haywood firing again.
However this is contradicied by sew
eral who were near. and who say that it
would have been impossible for any
words to have passed without their hear
ing them. Moreover Clerk of the Court
w. NJ Russ says that Mr.. Haywood
had Just paid him over some money, and
he had hardly commenced to make the
entry, as Mr.. Haywood went out of the
door, before he heard the shots. 1t would
have been entirely impossible, he says,
for any conversation to have taken place.
The bulk of the evidence seems to
show that there was no conversation be-
tween the men, but that Mr.. Haywood,
standing near the southern steps of the
postoffice. saw Mr. Skinner starting to
cross Fayetteville street diagonally to-
ward Martin street. after leaving the
postoffice. Skinner was near the curb
ing about sixteen feet from Haywood
when the first shot was fired, and about
thirty or forty feet away when the second
shot was fired.
Mr.. Skinner had just had a money or
der cashed in the postoffice.
The first man to reach Mr.. Skinner
when he fell was Logan Terrell. He caught
him just as he fell, but Skinner only
gasped once or twice and died, never
word. Almost at the same mo-
ment that Mr.. Terrell reached the strick-
en- man, Messrs. Frank Stronach, Willis
Briggs, A. Dughi and several others
rushed up and bore him into Johnson's
drug store.
Mrs. SINNERS grief was terrible to
witness.
When she first entered the store, Wild
eyed and almost frantic with suspense,
for no one had told her the full truth,
she demanded; "Where is Ludlow"
Mr.. Charlie Johnson. Mr. ALT Thomp-
son, Col. Bryan Grimes and several
others who were in the store, as quietly
as possible led her to the body. With
wild scream she sank to the floor and
gave way to passionate grief. 1t was
heart-rending.
''Why didn't you all do something to
help him." she walled.
"Tell me how it happened"
80. ] did my best to keep him from 60
ing out this afternoon. 1 'phoned to him
not 10 leave the office. I begged him not
to come down town.
Where is Ernest Haywood? Why
didn't Ludlow shoot first? Did he shoot
him on sight?"
'He meant to give those papers back.
He wrote for them, and he would have
sent them back He was innocent"
80, God, how could he shoot a man
when his mother had just died?"
Presently Mr.. Charles NJ Busbee came
in and Mr.. w. H. King
Mrs. Skinner would not be persuaded
to go home until told she could go with
Ludlow in the carriage
AS she was being conducted out OF the
store she tainted and was carried back
and revived Then she entered a car
riage and was driven home.
THEORIES AFLOAT.
There are many theories advanced as
to the causes that led up to the killing.
Mr.. Haywood was trustee or attorney
of the Ludlow estate, or that part of it
that belonged to Mrs. Skinner mother
of Mr.. Ludlow Skinner, who died a few
days ago.
On Friday, one story goes, Mr.. Skinner
to Mr.. Haywood, requesting him very
politely to return all the papers of the
Ludlow property, and send his bill for
his services, or words to thaf effect Mr..
Haywood did not reply in writing but
sent a message that he had no time to
send the papers.
Another version Of the same affair is
that Mr.. SINNERS note was peremptory,
demanding a return of the letters, and
that Mr.. Haywood's message in reply
was very curt.
Both reports then go on to say, that
when Mr.. Skinner and Mr.. Haywood met
yesterday afternoon in Mr.. Haywoods
office Mr. Skinner referred to his demand
for the papers, and that difficulty arose
that resulted in the shooting on the
street.
However. there are many who believe
that the real root of the whole thing is
in the current report that ntre thI
year ago in New York Mr. Haywood was
secretly married to the sister of Mrs.
Ludlow Skinner, the widow of the late
Mr. w. r. tucker. The story is that the
friends of Mrs. Tucker had said there
was secret marriage, while Mr.. Hay
wood and some of his friends had made
denial of such marriage.
Then there is story along different
line, to this effect, that short time ago
the children of Mrs. Tucker came to Raj
eigh on visit to relatives, leaving their
mother in Boston. A few days ago, so
runs the story, these children met
Mr. Haywood on the street and he gave
them a sum of money to spend; that
when Mrs. Skinner heard that Mr. Hay
wood had given this money to her Sis
ter's children, she wrote him a note say
ing that she wished him to have nothing
to do with any of her family, and re-
turning the money to him.
And there is q sequel TO this story, that
Mr.. Haywood answered Mrs. SINNERS
letter in an insolant manner, and that
this caused Mr.. Skinner to desire to see
Mr.. Haywood, and that DR.. skinner and
Mrs. Skinner had done everything in
their power TO urge Mr.. Skinner to avoid
a meeting.
Theer is a rumor that Mr. Haywood
had threatened to shoot Mr.. skinner on
sight.
There is also a report that Mr.. Skin