The Cairo bulletin., 1910-10-29
APADUCAH AFFRAY
THREE WOUNDED IN SHOOTING
ScRA,7E AT ENTRANCE 70
PALMER HOUSE. "a
Wicki,fe Man in Company With An
others Wife, Confronted by
Angry Observation-Disclosures
In Cairo.
news emocrat.)

Turning from a recitation OF his
domestic troubles 10 face the wife
dhat had eloped as she walked arm in
arm with the man she had deserted
him for, Peter B. Vaughan, 20 years
old, Tenth and Washington streets,
was missed by the three bullest fired
point blank by John G. Crice, a
stockman, AZ years old, Of Wickliffe,
KY, into the dense crowd at the
Broadway entrance at the Paine
House at 7:45 o'clock last night. AZ
the third report only five people We're
left in the neighborhood. They were,
Joseph Ashoff, 16, of 304 Nortn
Third street, bullet through left
knee.
Mary Riley, negress, 70S Tennessee
street, bullet hole through scalp, the
furrow running from near her left
eye to a point above the left ear.
Joan C. Crice, the man sought, was
being disarmed by Sergeant Cross
to whom Vaughan had been telling
mis- troubles.
Mrs. Vaughan, ME erring wife, was
upon her knees, her face covered by
hey hands, crying bitterly.
When the husband turned and
faced his wife, arm in arm witi
Crice. he sprang toward the couple
The ONT screamed and covered
her iace with her hands. Crice fel'
back, Pefore Sergeant Cross couT'
reach Crice's pistol arm the latter
began shooting.
The entrance OF the Palmer shel
tered the usual large crowd of loaf.
ers and the sidewalk was crowde'
with pedestrians from whose mids
Vaughan had bolted. AS Crice hat
stepped into the street to draw h
pistol. he faced the crowd when shoe
ing, having a human wall to stop hi'
bullets. Vaughan escaped by step
ping into the entrance OF McPher
sons drug store, but the third bu'
let prnctured a metal sign within
icod vi NltTe ne udu Slouu.
Cross gathered in Cree, Vaughn
and the wife, and started for polio
headquarters as Patrolman Smith
Beavers, Shelton and Gillatt came OF
a run from Fourth and Broadway.
Four charges ~preferret
against Crice by Sergeant Cross, two
for malicious wounding and a fourtl
for adultery, the bonds aggregatin
$1,000.
A charge of adultery was also re
corded against Mrs. Vaughn, who
with the aid of her husband, pro
cured bond of $1,000.
OF the wounded, Joseph Ashoff i
the most seriously hurt. The bullo
struck the front of his left leg jus
below the knee cay. The bone wa.
injured and DR.. jeff Robertson, [
whose office the boy was hurried
fears that the injury may be perma
nent The lads parents died a fe,
years ago, and he lives with hi
grandmother Mrs. Pustine Ashoff.
Yes, am The mar that was sno
at" sail rote Vaughn TO a reporte.
for the Ncws.Demoerat, as he tren
blingly reached for a chair at pole
hea lnuarters.
You see, | caught him with m,
wife anl he tried to hit NE thre
times. but he never did 1t. ! don
know who he is, either. That's tn
first time ever | saw that fellow. Nj
and Jessie, that's my wfe's namf
lived in Paducah until last Junc
Then l went to Cairo. ILL.,, to worl
and we did not come back until tw
weeks ago. | am a tobacco classe
and am to go to work for the Italia
factory under MT. Buchanan. We
live at Tenth and Washington street
and about ten minutes to s o'clocI
Wednesday night, Jessie told me tina
she was going to the railroad ST
ton to meet her uncle. who was due
She never came back and today
friend of mine told me she was at Thu