The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-26
The Bulletin IL on sale at the 10
lowing places:
colcman's, 214 Eighth street.
Halliday House News Stand.
Blue Front Restaurant.
$500 REWARD.

The directors OF The Bulletin Com
pany held a meeting yesterday morn
ing to consider the incident of the
night before the firing of a shot
through the front door of the Bulletin
editorial rooms with evident malicious
intent. They went over the circum-
stances Of the shooting very careful.
ly, and while taking into considera-
ton the fact that there was more or
less holiday shooting on Christmas
eve, they were satisfied that the shot
referred to could not have taken the
direction it did by chance. They
therefore decided to offer a reward, as
indicated in the notice which appears
on the first page of this paper.
There was,more firing Of pistols in
the streets of the city on Christmas
eve than in former years, No Official
notice had been given that this would
not be permitted, as in former years,
and perhaps the recklessly inclined
felt that the silent laws prohibition
did not count. One or two instances
where bullets fired in the streets en-
tered the homes OF citizens are re-
ported, but none did serious damage.
All this may be given full weight, but
II will not serve to explain the shot
fired into The Bulletin office, because
the circumstances in the latter case
eliminate all probability of accident,
as few statements of fact will indi-
cate. On Ohio street there was little
or none of the kind of shooting above
referred TO on Christmas eve, and for
some time before the hour when the
crash at The Bulletin Office was heard
(1l:30) the street above Sixth street
was practically deserted, and was so
Immediately before and Immediately
after the shot was fired. But perhaps
the most significant circumstance in
the affair is that the bullet ranged
sharply downward after it came
through the plate glass Of the door of
the office. The hole in the door is
81 inches above the sill; the point
where the bullet struck at he corner
of the editorial desk is So inches
above the floor, showing drop OF 10
inches in a space of "a feet.
The sidewalk in front of the office
slopes downward from the door. and
II the line made by the bullet in the
office Is carried to the middle of the
sidewalk it would be above the he ad
OF the average man, and would have
made it necessary for the shootist to
hold his weapon in an unnatural posi-
tion to fire the shot, unless he were
giant in stature
The bullet had clean sweep and
was not detected by anything outside
or inside the room, although it may
have been somewhat diverted from it's
seemingly intended course by the
heavy plate glass OF the door, through
which 1t tore large hole.
Moreover, the bullet had great
force even after it had passed through
the heavy glass, for it bored a hole
half an inch deep into the door frame
OF the stock room, and sprang away
from this against the half open door
with sufficient momentum to indent
the panel of this door, and then fall
dead among pile of papers on
shelf. A bullet fired at hap-hazarad
In the street and DETECTED into the
Office could not have shown so much
force. and if not DETECTED, could not
have taken the range marked by the
chunk Of lead in question.
Taking everything into considera.
ton the conclusion is inevitable that
the bullet vas fired Intentionally and