The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-02
SHOT To DEATH
OYERSONE.. MONEY
HARRY SMITH KILLED UPTOWN
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BY
JOHN MITCHELL.
csc PIECE THE CAUSE
Father Reprimanded Daughter-Lover
interfered and Was Shot
Mitchell Held to
Grand jury.

Trouble over twenty-five cent
piece caused the death yesterday Of
Harry Smith, a young man employed
iby the Cairo Railway and Light sys-
TEN at the new power house as metal
| worker, John Mitchell is the name
OF the slayer and the killing came
about over 25 cents which Mrs. Ola
! Stumps, the daughter of Mitchell,
spent of Is cents handed her by her
father to pay the life Insurance. When
the collector came, she had only fifty
cents and her father who was at the
house started to reprimand her when
Smith interfered
The affair occurred on the rear
porch of $50 Thirty-third street about
! 1890 yesterday afternoon and at the
time Smith interiered, it is said he
also threatened to beat Mitchell and
according to some witnesses, hit him
while they were clinched. Mitchell
is said to have replied that if he didn't
stop he would get his gun and shoot
him and Smith told him that if he got
his gun he, (Smith), would make him
| (MitchelD, eat it, Mitchell had the
gun in his pocket at the time. The
men clinched and Mitchell pulled his
revolver and fired at close range, the
ball going between the eleventh and
twelfth ribs and seyering an artery
( Just below the heart, death coming in
few moments
! The testimony of several of the wit
Inesses before the coroner's fury diff
| fored in a few details OF the shooting.
| At the inquest Mitchell stated that
he did not remember firing at Smith
I and said that his gun was on a shelf
in the house. 1t was found there
latter the shooting and Mitchell added
I that he was SO excited he did not
( know what he was doing.
! The testimony of Mrs Rees, the
woman with whom Smith was board
ling, and Mrs. Stumps, Mitchell
daughter disagreed in minor details
!
back yard when the shooting took
place and that Mrs Stumps came run.
ming through the house Mrs. Stumps
stated that She was in the yard and
Mrs. Rees was in the house. Mrs
Margaret Goatey and her husband
Joe Goatey said that Mrs. Rees did
mot see the shooting AMI at the time
it took place Mrs. Stumps was in the
yard Harry Sells and Earl Sans
We're standing on the rear porch Of
Gardeners saloon and saw the affair
at the start, but did not see the
shooting.
Mitchell was captured by Harry
| Oliver. Mike Egan and VIII Susanka
and was taken to the county jail by
the later When he was taken in
charge he made no resistance.
Mitchell and his daughter live in
the two rear rooms of the house and
Smith was boarding with Mrs Rees
who used the front of the cottage II
faces on Thirty.third street All OF
the occupants in the house used the
back door and the porch
The revolver was a % calibre Iver
Johnson. The coroner's jury viewed
| the remains at the undertaking es-
Enlistment of Burke & Blaine and
rendered the following verdict:
We the undersigned jurors, sworn
ITO inquire into the death of Harry
Smith, on oath do find that he came
to his death by a gunshot wound
caused by a bullet fired from a 81
calihro liver johnson revolver held in
the hands of John Mitchell, we fin1
that the said act was not iustifabla
and we recommend that he be held
until discharged by due process Of
law"