The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-16
FOUND HIS MARK
UP DARK STAIRS
Two Cairo Negrfes Engage in
Sunday Morning Duel
BLOCKING A DOORWAY
WAS THE CAUSE or DAVE COLE,
A SHOEMAKER BEING SENT
TO HoSPlTAL-OTHER
ARRESTED.

The quiethess Of a Sabbath was
again disturbed yesterday morning in
Cairo by shooting scrape, the partic'
ipants being two negroes as usual
George Gilchrist is incarcerated in
THE city Jail while his victim, Dave
/ Cole. lies To- sing upon as6ed of pain
ia ST. Mary's lniirmary from the eli
| fects of a bullet wound inflicted by
lGichrisj, while q surgeon Is laborins
hard to save Shorty" Coles life for
the sake Of his professional pride.
The episode occurred about $3.50
Sunday morning at a two-story tumble
down frame shack on the southwest
corner OF Nineteenth and Poplar
lstreets.
On the ground floor Of this building
is a dingy room occupied by restaur-
ant, while from over the door leading
into a short hall at the end of which
is pair of narrow steps leading up
nto the dark, gloomy recesses of the
second story. hangs small sign in
forming passers by that Dave Cole is
a boot and shoemaker plying his yoca
! ton somewhere upstairs.
II was this extremely narrow door
dark steps. possibly barbecHed pork
eaten in the ground floor restaurant
and a Whit of coke that were The
prime factors, aside from The two dark.
skinned principals, in the sanguinary
desperate engagement
George Gilchrists was standing in
this doorway surveying the street and
blocking all ingress and eeress yester-
day morning when Dave Cole came
along and suggested that he get out.
lthereby making room so he could en-
/ ter and go 70 his apartments Gil
christ reluctantly stepped out permit
ting Cole co pass through and mount
the steps. While so doing Gilchrist
said something relative 10 Cole ex-
I pecting people to move cut Of door
ways to permit him to enter his apart
ments. only with the difference, that
1 he language used was rather strong
! Cole still climbing the steps replied in
like language. The affair was not set
tied by this wordy battle for Cole en-,
tering his room, secured q revolver
and walking half way down the steps,
fred at Gilchrisr, who had resumed
/ his station in the door OF house in
which he had no residence. as he lived
On Sycamore between Twenty irst and
Twenty second streets.
! Gilchrst flung himself unhurt out Of
The door and around the corner of the
street Safe from flying bullets he
drew his revolver and sticking his
arm in the doorway fred twice mp the
dark recesses of the steps. His second
shot found targeu-Cole was hit and
that seriously
Gilchrist's lucky last shot had set
tied The matter as far as further hos
Titles were concerned and he walked
away leisuFeIy only to be arrested
later by Chief Egan and lodged in
Jail.
Cole managed TO descend the stairs
and assisted by a friend rode to Dr.
Fields office. corner Of Twelfth and
Poplar streets. whore it was discover
ed that the bullet had entered at the
medal line Of the pelvic regions, pass
I'd diagonally upward through the in
testines and emerged at the back sew
eral inches above the coccyx-and
Or Fields. after having the man CON
yeyed TO the infirmary. gave as his
prognosis OF the case. that Cole would
survive his injuries