The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-08-27
Fatal Wound is Inflicted With
Pistol by A. J.
Fletcher.
SHOOTS ONLY TO SCARE
Man Who is in Act of Breaking
Into the Bee Hive Store
at Night.

AT press time today stranger CIV
Ing his name as Harry johnson and
his home as Crooksvllle, o., lay in
Kessler hospital at the point OF death
as the result of a pistol wound acci-
IDENTIFY inflicted by "A. j. Fletcher, pro-
prietor of the Bee Hive store, about
l o'clock this morning, when Mr..
Fletcher detected the fellow in the
act of breaking into his store. Dis
solution is expected at any moment.
Mrs. Fletcher was restless during
the night, not being very well and
she heard shortly after / o'clock the
windows below rattle twice. She
aroused Mr.. Fletcher. telling him
some one was trying to break into the
store below. He arose, went down
stairs into the store and cautiously
surveyed the rear but could not de-
tect any one. He returned up stairs.
opened a screen at n window in the
rear and listened. When he heard a
noise he shot into the air to scare
the fellow. The latter jumped down
from a window sill about midway
the building, ran toward the Hart
Produce Company's building on the
west adjoining and scaled over high
fence there. -Four shots all told were
fred by Mr.. Fletcher but only to
frighten him.
When the man ran, Mr.. Fletcher
yelled to the electric light employees
to head him off. Some of the latter
saw man running up Modoc alley
and they are convinced there were
two of them.
Dog Discovers Him.
Policemen Why're, Waldo and
Brooks were soon on the scene with
the police dog and a search was be-
gun. The police dog soon scented
the fellow and located him among
some boxes in the rear yard of the
Hart Produce Company behind the
fence he had jumped over. He pro-
tested his innocence and resisted the
officers but was lanGed safely in the
city lookup, where he remained un-
til morning. A fellow prisoner said
he went to sleep and slept well, not
making any complaint to indicate
that he had been shot.
When morning come it was dis
covered that he had been shot and an
examination was made. II was found
that a bullet had entered the small
of the back on the left side or the
spinal column, and he was hurrIedly
taken to the Kessler hospital. where
an operation resulted in the informa-
tion that the bullet had coursed
through the intestincs and imbedded
itself In muscles on the right side of
the abdomen. 1t was not extracted
as the exact location was not deter
mined upon.
Wound Very Serious.
Peritonitis resulted from the
wound, and, his condition was from
the first pronounced very critical.
with slight chance. if any, for his re-
covery.
The fellow gave his name as Harry
johnson and stated that he was from
Crooksville. o. He was quite re-
ticent and but little information was
obtained about him. 1t is believed
that he had but recently arrived in
the city, as he carried a package Of
unground coffee.
The mans appearance was that Of
a tramp and the suspicion is that he
may he a yeggman, especially as he
carried with him such food supplies
~ the coffee, and is scarcely a pro-
esslonal burglar as his outfit consist
IA merely Of an old horse shoe.