The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-05-27

| Following up this idea all the hospitals
 In the city and many of the physicians
 have been notified to keep on the watch
 for a wounded man and to make re-
 port of any that they may find to the
 proper authorities.
 Left Home Early.
 Between 9;SO and 10 o'clock Thursday night Mr. Walter left his home to come down town and meet a man for the purpose of considering a deal for some Number property in Mississippi. He came to Birmingham and went to the Apollo billiard parlors where he talked to Lee Holt, one of the proprietors, for some time. The two discussed baseball, as Mr Walter was quite an enthusiast He
 stated to MT. Holt that he had an en- gagement with some man, and expected to go to Mississippi to settle a deal for some lumber. He was carrying a small hand bag which was found open and ransacked near his body yesterday morn- ing. It contained change of linen and underclothing.
 About 11:30 o'clock he went to the cigar stand in the Florence hotel and
 talked for more than half an hour with Pryor Plumlee, who was behind the eoun- , ter. He went into the Florence hotel once or twice to see if the man he ex- pected to meet had registered. He seemed cheerful and talked for some time on various subject. Among other things he stated that he expected to go to Miss issippi provided the man with whom he had an appointment arrived in the city. About 12 o'clock he started to catch a car, but being a cripple he was unable to do so and thel car left him. When the next one arrived MT. Plumlee walked part of the way to the car to aid him in catching it. He rode to Fifty-ninth street with R. S. Bowden, who is con- nected with the Seaboard Air Line and who lives on the corner of Fifty-ninth street and First avenue. The two parted at the corner and Mir Walter walked up Fifty ninth street to his home, which is the third house from the corner. MT. Bowden stated to the coroners jury yes terday that he had scarcely gotten in the house when he heard three pistol shots two of which were in rapid sue cesson and the third after a lapse of several second He heard a noise resemb- ling the bowling of a dog which had been shot, and supposed that MT. Walter was shooting at a dog. He went to the rear porch of his house and looked out, but heard no further noise and saw no one, so he returned to the house and retired. Several families living in the neighbor- hood were aroused by the shots and many heard this peculiar noise resembling the l,, alI tpH ha shots to the same cause as Mir. Bowden. MT. Wyatt's Statement. Mr Wyatt gave the following account of finding the body:
 q got up early as usual to catch the first Gate City car for Birmingham. l
 was walking down the street about APO O clock when l saw this body lying across
 the pavement. The man was lying on his | back with his head down in shallow
 ditch, and his feet were in the center of the sidewalk. l would have thought from l the way he was lying that he fell in his tracks when he was shot It had rained hard and whatever tracks would have been made were largely oblterated by the | water l knew that Colonel Hughes B | Kennedy. who lived on the corner, was freouently away from home, and there fore did not go to his house. MT. Wilson,
 who lived next door, has moved away, and
 so 1 went to MT. Walters residence and
 called Mrs Walter. little dreaming that
 it was her husband. Young Walter was
 the first to discover who the dead man
 was, and the scene was truly pathetic,
 By the side of the dead man was lying
 two pistols, two hats and small hand
 bag One of the pistols was identified as MT. Walters and one of the hats was his. ] The other evidently belonged to the man
 who had killed him. I notified Night Po-
 liceman Jackson and then they telephoned
 the coroner the sheriff and Chief Gray of Woodlawn."
 1 Night Policeman Jackson of Weodlawn stated that he was at work Thursday night and heard the shots, although he
 was about four blocks away at the city
 hall He paid no attention to them as
 shots are frequently fired al night in | Woodlawn. When he arrived the body
 hadsbeen propped up against the tree, and
 later he, T. c. King, the older Walter
 boy and MT. Bowden carried the body | into the house.
 News Spread Rapidly.
 The news spread rapidly and by o'clock | a large number of citizens gathered al | the house. All of them were wrought ur | over the matter, as Mir. Walter was one | of the oldest residents or Woodlawn and had many friends. He had lived there six
 teen years. Mayor J. B. Burris called a
 mass meeting for last night, which was
 attended by about 300 citizens, a liberal
 reward was offered and several plans were adopted for preventing a repetition of such | a crime.
 After the excitement had died out Dr | E. P. Riggs made an examination of the
 wound and stated that the bullet entered
 the left temple and came out on about
 the same level on the right side of the
 head The powder stains on the face oi 1 the dead man showed how close the pis-
 tol was when it was fired.
 Mir Walter was connected for long
 time with the Johnston and Walter
 Paint company at No 1923 Second ave. nue. Afterwards Mir Walter ran the busi- | naes hv himself Sometime ago the nIaoe