The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-07
NEGRO SHOT
 WHITE MAN
STRUGGLED ARMY RIFLE INTO ARLINGTON KITCHEN UNDER
 A LONG BLACK COAT.
Joe schrader, Roast Cook, Shot Through the Back, and George Tanner Receives Bullet
 Through Hand.

Joe Schrader, about 30 years of age, and roast cook in the Arlington hotel. was shot and mortally wound ed yesterday morning Il the back by Henry Bailey, negro yard man, who had just few minutes before walk. ed into the room with a large arm rifle smuggled under long black overcoat. At midnight last night he was very low, but still alive,
 George Tanner, another young white man employed n the hotel kitchen, received shot through DOT. tions of the right hand in attempting to wrest the gun from the negro, and will probably lose the forefinger and thumb of that hand.
 Immediately after the shooting the negro turned to run, but passing Tur- ner Sanders, negro waiter, he was struck heavily in the face and that stopped him for moment, but he got up and managed to leave the prem ises.
 A hunt was started for him, the re- port being out that he had taken over the Hot Springs mountain, Members of the police force and Row Brown deputy constable, immediately set up search.
 Later Brown decided that the negro must be hid about the building, and he started to investigate hole which led to basement under the hotel. He could hear the negro there. hut could not see him, and the negro re- fused to f1swer calls.
 Brown then put watchmen on the job and telephoned police headquar- ters of the situation, with instruc- tions to bring searchllght that the place might be entered in way so if the negro were still armed, he would not set chance to kill an of ficer.
 While these preparations were be- ing made to capture the negro he came out of the hole, and surrendered to Sheriff Hale, who was in the up- per part of the city, and who had started on the search about the same time
 At the county jail Bailey seems to have recovered something from the excitement of the situation. for he gave out statement in which he in- dicated the shooting of the white men was accidental and that he in- tended to kin a negro with whom he had trouble before.
 Under that view of the case the tragedy would be minimized, but the story the negro tells does not tally with other versions of the affair, which would indicate that the negro shot the two white men without provocation, and absolutely without any warning of the impending danger.
 A satisfactory theory is difficult to obtain, unless 1t be that Bailey's prejudiced mind led him to the act. which is a charitable construction of what appears on the surface a cool and calculated tragedy without form of justification.
 The peculiar part of the story the negro told was that he could not tell the name of the negro who he says he intended to kill Baily is dense sort of the black type of negro la borer. He has been employed about the hotel as a sort of yard man, and had been for a number of years en- gagged there. He was not considered troublesome,
 Joe Schrader, the young white man, originally lived in Oklahoma, where his wife was at the time of the shooting. She will arrive here this morning. Dr. Parker accompanied the wounded man to St. Jcseph's aft CT the shooting. and stated after an examination that there seemed no hope for his recovery. The bullet had been fired about the seventh rib, in the back, and had punctured lung, and evidently cut several blood yes sels. and the hemorrhages were SC we're.
 Tanner was taken to the office of Dr. Wooten. who dressed his hand.
 The shooting created considerable excitement at the time. The detail of happenings at the time might have been secured but for the fact thal