The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-26

Patrolman James Clark was shot
twice and seriously injured and Jonn
Tice, colored gate tender for the ILL.,
nois Central at Eleventh and Broad
way was shot three times and fatal
ly wounded. about noon yesterday in
one of the most sensational episodes
In Paducah's history. The patrol
man spent bad night, but will re-
cover. and Tice' died this morning
about 2:15 o'clock at Riverside hos
pital. where he was taken yesterday
afternoon. Tice shot the patrolman.
There are several accounts of the
trouble. not all of them alike. Ac
cording to Chief of Police James Col
Inns, Tice and his wife had been
drinking egg-nog at their home at
/ Tenth and Washington streets early
Christmas morning, and Tice. usually
n quiet, peaceable man, seems to
have been transformed into a regu-
lar demon by II.
The next incident seems to have
been the one which directly precipl-
tated trouble. Campbell Jarvis, an
Illinois Central machinist. was in
charge of a friend who was enjoying
Christmas not wisely. but too well,
and the friend when he came up to
a colored boy, took the latter's hat.
Tice is alleged to have poked his
head out OF the tower and protested
against taking the boys hat Some
say he cursed and abused the two
white men. and threw coal down at
them. and others say he simply in
terceded for the boy and demanded
that the hat be returned to him.
Jarvis then picked up a lump o.
coal, a brick or something similar
and some say hurled IL through the
tower window at the negro. One OF
the windows was broken by some
thing of the kind, at any rate.
The negro then fred one shot at
Jarvis, and the latter ran into the
f. T. Mckinney saloon for shelter.
A call for patrolmen was sent to
the city hall and in short time the
patrol wagon arrived with Patrol
men James Clark and Albert Senser
They called to Tice 20 come down,
hut he was in an ugly mood and re-
fused. The officers told him they
would have to come after him, and
started up the steps
Tice raised the trap door in the
bottom OF the tower and deliberately
attempted to murder Officer Clark.
shooting twice. and hitting him each
time. once in the thigh, and the 9TH
or time in the left leg. A half inch
difference in the direction of the bull
let would probably have resulted in
the officers being killed instantly,
as the buIu.ts were fired directly
down at the top of his head.
The officer fell back limp and help
less, and was quickly carried away
and brought to the city in the patrol
wagon, DIR. j. ID. Robertson attend
ing him and dressing the wounds,
after which he was carried to his
home on Clements street.
BY this time the city hall had been
notified of the defiant and murderous
attitude of the negro, and other OFF,
GERS were speeding towards the scene
of battle, and hundreds of people
we're assembling in the vicinity
II is said by spectators that there
were more different kinds of weap-
ons on display than they ever saw at
one time before. Reports are not
clear how many shots were fired, but
they popped from all directions. Some
say the negro had three pistols. on9
of which. when empty, was throw !
down at the crowd.
The negro sought protection by
lying down in the tower. and for this
reason II was hard to get bead on
him The roof protected him in a
measure from marksmen on the roofs
of nearby buildings and the upper
windows, the sides of the tower from
those surrounding the tower on the
outside, and the bottom from those
beneath. Several efforts were made
! to wing him by shooting through the