The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-07
Tragedy Near the Union
 Slaughter House.
BOTH SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Bob Green, a Negro, Charged With
 the Crime.
George Thomas and Rosa Ella oliver Were Tn Buggy When Green Halted Thom and Be-
 gan shooting. 4.,4..

In cold blood, Bob Green, e negro. stepped in front of buggy in which were riding George Thomas and Rosa Ella oliver, both negroes. and emptied his revolver into the man and woman. Both were seriously wounded, the man most likely fatally, yesterday after noon about 4 o'clock.
 Thomas was taken in charge by friends in the neighborhood Of the crime, while the woman was brought to St. Margaret's Hospital, where, " as said, she will recover.
 The shooting took place on the PicK- ett Springs road in the neighbcrhooo of the Union Slaughter House. ana was witnessed by several white persons who were driving by at the time.
 Al police headquarters the negress, Rosa Ella Oliver, told Captain Miles Smith that she was driving down the road with George when Bob Green stepped into the road just opposite tne Union Slaughter House and seized the horse by the bridle. Without wora Bob Green drew his revolver anu fred>at George Thomas, fatally wound ing him. Green then turned the re- voivsr upon her. shooting her In the left arm and in both legs.
 Coaliy relocating his revolver, Green then made off across Cypress swamp seemingly in the direction of the Sea board Air Line. In making through the swamp, it was necessary Tor tne fugitive to cross the rife range or ihr Alabama National Guard. The soioiers on the range hearing the shots on the road. and seeing the negro making on in the direction of the swamp nt dead run, turned their rifles from the targets and began firing rapidly at the negro.
 Green. seeing that he could not cross the range, lodged back between the trees, and crossed the swampy grounds between the Pickett Springs car tracks and the range enclosure unth ne c@ine above the target hill.
 Those on the range gave chase, ano together with the mounted police ofh- cers, who arrived on the scene, surs rounded the swamp. Sheriff Hood brought two of his man-trailing hounds Ito the scene, and the hot trail was Immediately struck. The hounds fol- lowed through the swamp, for some distance. but for some reason the tran was lost in the marshes.
 The shooting took place in the mics de of the Lower Wetumpka Road. ai- most opposite the Union Slaughter House, and there seems to have been no witnesses to the conversation pre- vious to the shooting, if there was sucn conversation. There were numbers ot AnRWtE9 Han0 pe0oatfiAHS n-buS A~N->@ roing to Pickett Springs for the even- ing. but no one seemed to pay any attention to the buggy containing Rosa Oliver and her companion untii the shots had been fired.
 Spectators sitting on the benches n front of stores near the crossing or the railroad. say that although they were some distance away from the snoot- ing that the killing appeared 70 them fo he cold bIooded murder. Green ac" cording to the rumor among the ne- croes of the section, fired, first at Thom- as. and seeing. him fall forward in the buggy, turned his revolver on the wo. man.
 Rosa Oliver was brought to Police ,Headquarters in the police wagon on a stretcher. and the City Physician summoned An examination showed that the negress had sustained a broken arm. both bones In the left fore arm being splintered. Two shots also took effect in the negress' legs. The city physician ordered that she be carried out to St. Margarets Hospital, and stated that while the woman might lose her forearm, the two wounds in the legs were not at all dangerous.
 Thomas. the woman's companion, was not examined by the City Physician. It is known. however, that he Is fatal ly wounded