The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-24
BARTENDER SHOT
BY NEGRO Who
IS KILLED
Double Shooting at Chester Re-
suIting in One Death
NEGRO'S VICTIM WILL DIE
Assalant of M. J. Capon Pursued
and Killed BY Harry WaIIing,
Hotel Porter

Springfield Aug. PA sensation
al double shooting case took place al
! Chester about 4 o'clock yesterday af
! ternoon when Milton j. Capron, 90
bartender at the Riverside Inn, was
/ shot and probably fatally injured by
Charles Wilson a colored laborer
who was himself shot dead few
minutes later by Harry Walling a
porter at the hotel.
Wilson entered the hotel baroom
and made an unprovoked attack on
Capron whom he shot three times
after the bartender had failed TO
come out from behind the bar at his
command. Capron is at the Spring
field hospital and the doctors in at
tendance, DR. Walter X. Weiser of
Springfield and DR.. Howard Lamphier
of Chester, said that from the first
examination when he was brought in
about $50 o'clock that the case was
a hopeless one and it would hardly
be possible for him to live through
the night
Walling, who killed the negro,
went Immediately after the shooting
to the office of Deputy Sheriff Ed
win H. Alvord and gave himself up,
stating that he acted purely in self
defense.
The negro Wilson was discharged
from the works of the Western Mas
sachusets Construction company at
Lee on Thursday, and drove in to
Chester yesterday. accompanied by
an Italian. Annibale Mariononio, in
an ugly mood and threatening to
shoot up the town According to
the story of Mariononio, they stopped
fore they reached he center of the
at several places and had drinks be
town They went at once to the Riv-
erside Inn, when Wilson walked into
the bar room and ordered Capron, the
bartender, to come out from behind
the bar When his command was not
instantly complied with, he pulled
out an American bulldog revolver of
32-caliber and fred three shots in
rapid succession at Capron, all three
bullets finding a dangerous mark.
One entered the left side of Capron's
head just below the ear and embedd-
ed itself in the skull on the opposite
side. The second struck the victim
just above the heart and the third
entered his body on the left side just
selow the ribs The shooting was
done entirely without provocation.
When Capron dropped. exclaiming.
Il am shot" Wilson dashed out of
the barroom and started for Main
street. A woman who heard the
shooting screamed and he fired at
her, but missed his aim.
Wilson ran on through the railroad
yards about 200 yards, when he was
confronted by four young men who
had already started out to run him
down. Harry Walling, the hotel por-
ter. called on him to stop and Wilson
turned and fired at him. Walling re-
turned the fire from a Winchester
rifle which he had snatched up when
he started from the hotel. His bullet
struck Wilson in the exact center of
the forehead and the negro was dead
in ten minues.
When the negro dropped Walling
stood as if dazed. and. then, without
going to look at Wilson, he turned
and went back to the hotel. and imme-
diately afterward surrendered him
self. His heart was nearly broken
as he result of his shot it was said,
but he felt that his act had been fore
ed upon him in self-defense