The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-08-13
VOLUME xxxvIl
CARNIVAL W0MAN'S REVOLVER
FINDS TARGET IN RAIL
ROAD MAN. 49,.
q message from Massie Hospital at
10 o'clock last night said that Par
ker had Just died.

AS the result of an encounter
which took place Saturday night in
the closing hours of the engagement
of carnival company" in this city,
Neal Parker, an L. & NJ railroad
man, was shot through the right
lung, and once in the abdomen. The
gun-user was Mrs. Pauline Fleeman,
one of the women connected with
the carnival company.
Conflicting stories have gained cir
culation as to the cause of - the
trouble which resulted in the shoot
ing, but it seems to be a well-authen-
ticated one that Parker, while intox-
icated, visited the carnival grounds,
where his son was employed by the
Fleeman woman, who was operating
what is called in carnival show par
lance "a cat-rack," at which balls are
thrown at targets formed in the shape
of felines. Parker charged the Flee
man woman with leading the boy
away, which she stoutly denied, and
claimed that he sought employment
with her ON his own initiative, and
that she employed him because she
needed help at the time. Parker, 1T
is alleged, became very abusive, and
applied several harsh names to the
woman. ending by seizing several Of
the balls and throwing them at her.
Eye witnesses go further and state
that Parker slapped the woman, tore
"a ring from her finger and finally
knocked her down. Upon rising from
the ground, Mrs. Fleeman grasped a
revolver which was laying close to
the cash-boK on a stand near at hand,
and fired twice at Parker, the first
shot striking him in the right
breast, penetrating the lung, the
second taking effect in his abdomen,
about an inch to the right OF the
navel.
Although desperately wounded,
Parker ran to his home, near the
carnival grounds, a short distance
away, and soon returned with a re-
volver. The Fleeman woman in the
meantime had secreted herself be-
hind a tent in the vicinity, and when
Parker returned he mistook another
woman for his intended target and
fired three shots at her. The training
she had received after years Of life
on the plains of the West saved the
woman's life, as, seeing Parker's in
tentions she dropped fiat on the
ground behind a box and crawled to
safety, while the shots passed harm
lessly over her.
The shooting broke up the pro-
ceedings on the carnival grounds,
which were filled with men, women
and children. The riders on the
merry-go-round hastily tumbled
from their steeds and sought safety
in flight. while the screams Of wo-
men and children filled the air. The
police were notified and went to the
Mitchell boarding house, where the
company had been staying, and plac-
ed Mrs. Fleeman, who had gone there
after the shooting, under arrest. The
wounded man was taken to the Mas
sic Memorial Hospital, where he was
given attention by physicians VINO
had been hurriedly summoned. Mrs.
FIeeman was taken to the jail, where
she was placed to await the outcome
of Parker's injuries. Efforts OF mem
bers of the carnival company to
have the examining trial held yester-
day were refused by County Attor-
ney d. D. Cline, who refused to sane
ton it on account of the uncertainty
of Parker's condition.
Parker has been with the Louis
Vile & Nashville for a number OF
years as section foreman, being lately
in charge Of. the section near the
Tenth street passenger station. He
has a wife and several children. TO
one of the attendants at the JAN
Mrs. Fleeman stated that she had
spent several years on a ranch as a
cowgirl. where she had become Ia
miliar with the use of firearms. She
would not discuss the shooting In
any of its details. ....
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