The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-10
Girl SHOT DOWN
By Boy She Had Refused to
Marry.
nVTTEN TAI TH0Dr
DYING IN HOSPITAL

oASAfS Aous aikCl tuE lIdSSuy
He Tries to Commit Suicide
and Shoots at His Cap.
| tors.
Scorned by the girl be loved, VII
liam Kiley, who said be was a report
er, lay In wait fer his erstrwtil:
sweetheart, Margaret Lynch, Wednes
day night, and when she alightsd from:
q trolley r, and was about to enter
her Williamsburg bone, be drew g
revolver and shot Ter tw!ce.
And as MORALLY wounded, with q
bullet through her left eye and anoth
or through her hand, she tried tt
c:avl away from him, be yelled IL
gles at the SUCCESS OF bis crime, turn
ed the pistol upon himself, and, when
he failed at suicide, tried to kill the
two policemen who arrested him.
Klley, who Is less than twenty years
old: lives at No. 1926 Second avenue,
New York. At the badside Ct his dy.
ing sweetheart late "Wednesday night
be told the story Of the tragedy while
the girl gasped for breath and bowed
aer head weakly In confirmation OF
!hs taie she was 200 near the grave tC
tell herself.
It was four years ago that I net
Margaret Lynch" said Kiley to the
purses, doctors and policemen gatker
I'd about the cot. 'She vas the SWEET
EST girl in Williamsburg, ] fell in love
1t the sight OF her taca before either
Of Us said . word to ahe o:hr.
No man was ever hapcisI-ca1ing
for girl-than I until few weeks
ago some thing happened which I
wont tell about and Margaret said sbe
lid not love me any NOE and that I
must not come to see her again. THic'
after when I callsd her parents SET
me away. Then I knew thss Ii
wasn't worth the living say lo-gsr ~
I decided that both Margaret sid I
should die together"
At this point IL the story the d.
ing girl raised herself upon the cot
and whispered something to her loV.
ar.
You tried to kill me-" she so5bed,
''bu5 love you yet, and I forgive
you"
Klley was 80 overwhelmed at this
deathbed confession that ne could nos
continue his story, and Police Free
stone, Of the Clymer street station,
who had arrested him, tcok up the
tale.
He said be was. standing witt
Special Oh jer Tannsy ad the
corner OF South Tenth street Wed
aesday night, whsn Miss Lynch
alighted from 6 Franklin avenue caI
directly In front nf her home. AS sae
Mounted she piazzs K.lsy arcse from
Is sconcea} a}ment in the huahes bear-b5
md, confronting her, said.
II have found you out. YSu have
ruined me, But once before / go 8
ssy want to ask you to explain why
ru have thrown mp love aE.de P"
Miss Lynch consented to Wslk with
KlIey, aGd tney had moved nalf o
pl3ck when the mat su6e ecly drew
81 cal:b Q rsVoiver from h1s ai2
. ckat and SHOT point blaak a. TIC
s;rl who still stood by his side. Tee
call penetrated ner lef5 eye and lodg
"a at the base Of the brain.
AS the wounded girl fell to he:
kpess and started to crawl aRsy
Kiley frsd second shot which weilt
through her Left hand. Tnen crying
out In gloe at his crime he turned up
on himself and fred two more shots,
ahicn failed to find their mark and
sped harmlessly through his hat. By
this time Policemen Freestone AID
Tsmney ran up and grappled with the
W~uld. be murderer. Kiley les go his
last shot a. Tanney but failed to hit
and In a moment the officers had ths
sun away from him and the handcuff
upon his wrists.
a great crowd gathered about tbs
wounned girl and the man who shot
her. Sill trying to crawl to safety.
Miss Lynch was holding her woun1ed
left hand over the mutilated e5e
through which the first bullet had
passed. Blood stream d bshlnd her,
and the crowd, seeing her pitlful
plight vas only kept from mo5o:ng
K,ley by the Clymsr st;est reserv S,
who had been called out.
Finally the girl and her aSRsliaa;
were t:kan away In pstrol wagon
At tn, Eastern District Hospital Miss
Lynch l2psed into Inconsistencies
stils her lover was telling TIE tale Ct
he tragedy, and though "a operation
aas rerforned for the 1emoVel
of the bullst In her brain the physl
clans said she would die before Morn
ing.
KIley vas locked up in the Clymer
sheet Police station.
Killed 1iy Tram.
a young white man by the name o.