The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-10-20
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I, Last evening at GAS. at the home;
of Archie sRankins IA colored resident
of Grafton street. occurred what Will
mo doubt result In murder, when
Rankin sfired 8 shots from 3s-calibre
liver Johnson revolver Into the body
of a woman who lived with him.
q One OF the most fatal shots enter
ed the womans abdoman, passing into.
Z or through the stomach. Another OF
the shots grazed the woman on her
left side, causing a bad flesh wound.
while the others went wild. The
cause given Is jealousy, and 1t is this
morning reported that a man from
Union town, Pa, was found With the
woman BY Rankin and that this caus.
ed the shooting.
The woman had her clothes packed
! and was going To- leave for Uniontown
last evening with the man whom Ran.
kin found With the woman. II,
Rankin is still confined in the city
ss1ail, where he will be held awaiting
examination, and the possible SCR.
4 gtous elimination OF the wounds which
he inflicted tuponsthe woman She
having been operated upon by DR..
Howard last might, at Cooks Hospital
and today she sbreported. by the hos.
pital authorities Sias slightly better.
Imnied diately after the shooting, the
police were notified, sand after thor.
ough search Of the city, Policeman
Arnett and Ghiets Of tPollce Buckley
caught the man5 on. Monroe street,
near the corner OF jackson and Mon.
roe. When searehedl he had no gun
ON him, and was in rather a dazcd
condition,
He had % slight wound over his eye,
and after being taken to the Jail, the
wound was looked after by a local
4 physician.
Rankin after shooting at the woman
I chased SherSfrom the house, following
4 her to where she had gotten into
iEpassageway between two houses. and
from there he followed her to the
home OF John, o. 5McDonald, still fir.
ing at her She ran into the cellar
at the Mcdonald home, and Rankin
followed her there.
One Of the Mcdonald family tried to
stop him there, but was pushed aside
and the enraged man was going on
Into the cellar when Ernest McDon.
gald threw a shell into his shot gun
and ordered Gthe man to leave. At
this the negro. ran, and was captur.
ed sas mentioned. All of the police
forces deserve credit for their good
work In capturing this man, as ali
We're making a strict, search. The
man refuses to talw, other than to
/ say that he did not shoot the woman,
and that shc shot herself, after hav.
Ing threatened to shoot both him and
herself: 4, 81
gun answering the description OF
the one which it is claimed Rankin
Used in inlictlng the wound, was this
morning found by "a lady who resides
near TO where the shooting occurred,
81 resident of that section states
4 a that thai Y is almost q miracle that. there
were not as usual a number of chill.
sdren playing under the street lamp
near where the shooting occurred, and
Ssaid that II they had been there they
!: Very g llkelyswould have received some
S6of the stray shots.