The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-25
NEGROES ENGAGED IN
A SHOOTING AFFRAY
Bullet From Revolver Of
Emory Nelson, who was
Firing on Mark Ewing,
Went Wild, Striking
Young Miller. One Of the
Negroes Stabbed and the
Other Shot.

| young white man was dancer0u-rv
ard perhaps fatally wounded one rr-
gro was stabbed in the lungs, and .Iu-
other negro was shot through and
! through on the right side as the result
of fight between the two wounded
negroes yesterday afternoon on Tar
raGona street between Intendencia and
Coy ernment streets. The young while
man who was wounded is Walter Mill
er who received a bullet while he was
at work in the Pensacola box factory
through which the negroes passed in
| leaving the rear % the building.
Neither of the negroes are thought 10
I he fatally injured. but the extent Of
he injuries TO Miller were not deter
mined by his physician last night.
STABBED IN THE LUNGS,
All of the parties We're wounded as
result Of a fight between Emory
Nelson and Mark Ewing both negro
men. which took place In the driveway
in the rear of the Pensa cola boN fac
tory a No. 215 South Tara Eona street
about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Both negroes tell different stories con-
cernlng the origin of the trouble be-
tween them. Ewing says Nelson shot
him without having any previous
trouble. while Nelson claims that tho
trouble began when he stopped Ewing
frr m robbinE another negro who was
ona Of number who gathered at tho
see ne Of the fight.
Daring the fight Nelson claims .,..t
Ewing stabbed fifn in the back. kut
Ewing denied this statement while.
city Physician Mobiles was dressing
his wound, which, the doctor said,
penetrated the negro's lungs Ewing
said Nelson was stabbed by another
negro. but he did not give his name.
Ewing was shot through and through
en- the right side, the bullet entering
from the rear and coming out I'm front.
LIT. L.
blow as it came from his body. Or.
Mobiles said Ewing's wound is not
serious.
Just before Ewing started to run
from the rear OF the box factory he is
said to have stabbed Nelson in the
back, but before he reached the door
Of the factory Nelson began firms at
him, one Of four bullets striking
Ewing.
MILLER WAS AT WORK.
In leaving the place where tho
trouble occurred both negroes passed
through the box factory and II was i'm
tlis place where Walter Miller. the
young white man, was shot while he
while both of them were i'm the fac
tory, but the bullet went wild and
struck Miller in the right arm, a little
above the elbow, ranging up to the
shoulder and then downward into his
body Miller was attended at the sick
ward in the city Jail by Dr. w. c. Dew
berry but was later carried TO his
home, No 432 East Main street DT.
Dewberry said last night that Miller
was in bad condition, and that the
bullet had not yet been located.
FIRED IN THE STREET.
As the two negroes left the box fac
tory then ran north on Tarragona
street, Nelson firing two shots at
Ewing while he was running. lie was
making for an alleyway IN the rear
Of the saloon at the southwest corner
Of Intendencia and Tarragona streets.
Eut before the two negroes succeeded
in passing through tn allGyway Motor
cycle officer Albert Anderson arrived
on the scene. lie was coming south
or Tarragona street while Nelson was
firing in the street al Ewing. officer
Anderson threw his gun on Nelson and
grabbed the negro's smoking revolver,
but he placed both men under arrest
without firing a shot
Both Of the wounded negroes walked
10 the police station, where their
wounds were dressed Oy city Physi-
cian Mobiles They were both locked
VI in the city Jail after the doctor got
through with them, and warrants for
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