The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-07-29
SECTION FOREMAN USED GUN
WITH DEADLY EFFECT UPON
MAN FOUND IN HOUSE.
BODY Identified SUNDAY
As lee ROBINSON OF NEWTON
Unfortunate Affair is Greatly Regret
ted.-Remains of Young Man shipp-
ed to Newton, Mississippi, His
Former Home.

At nine o'clock Saturday night Lee
Robinson was shot and instantly kill
ed by ]. B. Tillman, section foreman
of the N. o. G N. E, R. R. at the lat
ter's residSlce, S12 Railroad street.
There seems to be but one story
of the killing, which is, that hav-
ing returned from town, and knowing
he would bave to go back in about an
hour to escort a young lady member
of his household home from O'Ferrell
Bros, where she was employed, Mr..
Tillman proposed to his wife that she
go with him, saying they could at
tend the picture show while waiting
for the young lady. His wife began
at once to get ready to go, and sent
her S-year old girl back into the din
ing room to get some articles she
wanted from there. The girl having
reached the room was badly
frightened by the sight of a man look
the back porch. She ran back and
told her mother that there was a me-
gro on the back gallery. Mr. Tillman
was at his desk making out his rail-
road reports, when his wife told him
what the child reported He asked
her to get his pistol, and when she
Wnnf in adininin0 fn
the pistol kept under the mattress,
the man was standing in the middle
of the room about feet from where
the pistol was kept Being badly
frightened, she screamed and called
to her husband telling him the man
was there in the room. Before Till
man got to the room the intruder ran
out on the back porch, through the
door closed only by a screen AS
soon as Mrs. Tillman handed her hus-
band the pistol he ran out the front
door, around the side of his house
and to within five feet of the man,
there crouched behind zinc tub on
the porch. This move brought Mr.
Tillman face to face with the in
truder, whom he took to be a negro
When he said "come down from there
niger or I'll kill you," the man re-
piled in rough tones saying 'I am
no negro" wherupon Tillman shot him
through the chest. The ball passed
through the mans body and fiattened
against the bottom of the tub. AS
soon as he was shot Robinson leaped
from the porch, ran towards Tillman,
turned and ran for the front gate,
TTillman~ fired again, striking him
in the right side, the ball ranging in
the direction of his heart, which was
evidently penetrated by the ball, caus-
ing him to fall on his face about three
feet from the front gate, where be
died at once.
Mrs. Tillman at once notified police
headquarters, and the officers were
soon on the ground. The dead mans
body was taken charge of by Hulett
Undertaking Company. When seen
by Geo. D. Doris, of this city, at 600
o'clock Sunday morning, he recognized
the body as that of Lee Robinson, a
son of Berry Robinson, formerly OF
Newton, Miss, now of Monroe, La,
where he is time keeper for the V. S,
& p. r. R. Company.
Doris had been school mate OF
the dead man, and had talked with
him at Monroe only about three
months ago c. e. Shearon, the host
Ter in NJ G. R. R. yards in this city af
ter six o'clock Sunday evening readily
identified the body as Lee Robinson
whom he knew as telegraph operator
once at Mount Olive and also at Pear
son, Miss When the man, who Is q
years old, was killed he was without
coat, had apparently not shaved
for two weeks, and his clothing and
general appearance was that of a, typi
cal hobo He had nothing in his pock
cts except small piece OF soap wrap
ped in a piece of newspaper
Berry Robinson, the father Of thu
man was communicated with b,
phone and being convinced that I
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