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KILLED.
But the Merchant Who Stayed
Him Is Himself Killed.
BOTH FOUND DEAD.

Edgar Marshal, Maynard Son OF
Eminently Respectable Resident
of Columbia, Holds Up Charles q.
Green, o Merchant, ut Midnight
and Is Shot to Death BY Mr.. Green.
Who Is Also Killed.
A most shocking affair occurred
last Saturday night In Shandon, q
surburb Of Columbia. An attempt
to waylay and rob Charlie B. Green,
a Shandon merchant, resulted in the
death of Mr.. Green and of the would
be robber, who was identified as Ed
gar Marshall, son Of Mr.. P. G.. Mar
shall, an eminently respectable and
highly respected citizen of Columbia.
The robbery and double homicide
took place within sight Of the home
Of Mr.. Green, in the surburh Of
Shandon, shortly before midnight
Saturday night. The bodies lying
feet to feet, we're not found for sew
eral hours and the affair has created
a tremendous sensation in Columbia,
as 1t is possible that there was anoth-
or robber or robbers.
Mr.. Green ran the store on the
Gamers Ferry Road, near the Ep-
worth Orphanage, in the pretty VII
lage Of Shandon, about two miles
from the city of Columbia proper.
On Saturday night he locked up the
store and left In company with his
clerk, J. B. Ward, who also lives; In
Shandon. They walked two blocks
together along Woodrow street, and
when they reached the corner Of
Woodrow and Preston streets Mr..
Green turned to his right to go to
his home one block down on Preston
street. When about half way Of
this block, just at the rear gate Of
his neighbor, Mr.. Toney, he was &C.
costed by a a. In hiding and was
probably struck across the head with
a slung shot, the man being conceal
ed behind the open gate.
Green, 1t Is thought, was carrying
his pistol in his hand, as that was
his custom when going home late
from the store with money In his
possession. He evidently threw up
his left arm to ward off the blow,
and fired with the pistol In his right
hand at close range. Four chambers
Of his pistol were fred, and three
of his shots took effect In Marshall's
body. One entered just below the
left collar bone, another entered his
face Just where the lips join, making
a flesh wound on the left side Of the
face, and the third entered at: the
back of the neck, on the left, also
making q flesh wound.
: Green . was also wounded three
times, each of the three wounds be-
ing In his left breast and one Of the
balls probably piercing his heart.
The last shot was vidently fred at
ter Green had fallen to his. knees,
and it Is supposed that the first shot
which struck him killed him.
The two men were found lying
feet to feet, about four feet from the
gate, where Marshall was conceal
ed and toward the road, BY Green's
right hand was his pistol, a 80 Smith
and Weston, with four chambers
fred. BY Marshall'a right hand was
found q SO Smith and Wesson, with
none of it's chambers fired. BY Mar
shall's left hand was found a A
Colts, with five chambers ared and
one intact. Underneath Marshalls
body was found o slung shot, the
bag bling filled with small shot, and
the string being a leathern thong
several feet in length. It was a
highwayman's weapon, intended TO
knock the victim unconscious. "
Green's derby hat was found near
his head, with a hole, evidently made
by the slulg shot. Marshalls race
was concealed by a black mask
through which the bullets which en-
tered his face had gone, and he also
had a woollep comforter around his
neck. A soft black hat was near
his head and another soft black hat
was in his overcoat pocket, while
tn gray hat which he was usually
seen wearing was found inside the
gate of the Toney yard. The 4 hats
the unfred pistol near MarshalEs
right hand and the position OF the
wounds on Green's body might In
dictate that there was a confederate
with Marshall, and that the confed-
crate shot Green from the left side
after Green had shot Marshall at
closer range.
When found Green's clothing wal
ON fire and the none" in his right
hand pock at was burning. he cur:
| rency had been PRACTICABLE - nsumHd
| and the coins were melting. Inc
| coat was burning and tho inoney sacs
| also. The homicide vas discovered
| when Mrs, Green aroused her neigh
| bors at 9 o'clock, when she could nc
longer endure the suspense in which
| she had existed for severa! hours
| because her husband did not come
home. Neighbors went to the store
and then along the route Green fol'
lowed, finding the bodies IN the pos
ittons already described. The ON
GERS of the law we're notified and the
bodies were brought to the city.
None Of the neighbors knew Mar
shall and he was not identified TO
several hours, until his father wa
taken to the undertaker's establish
ment and said 1t was his son. HI
was a young man, not yet 80 year
old. and hadn't been around Colum 81;
for several years until a few month
ago when he returned from Panama
where he had a good position as
machinist. For several weeks n
has been staying at the home OF
friend not far from the scene OF tn
tragedy. His father Is employed a
the store of ]. l.. Mimnaugh an
the family connection Is q large on
In Columbia.
Young Marshall was seen IN