The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-19
CRAZED DRINK
KILLS COMPANION
julius Morris Victim Of An
drew Bevan Said to Have
Been Intoxicated.


The killing Of Julius tBllnk) Morris
by Andrew (pink) Bevan at 200 Mar
ket avenue Tuesday night lie directly
traeeable to a mixture of bootleg
whisky, made-in- Memphis gin and
lake Gamatca ginger).
Bevan. for Is years a Gamewell tele-
phone operator for the fire department,
was crazed by the fiery mixture, when
he deliberately fired a bullet into Nor
rts' abdomen Tuesday night about Ills
o'clock, according TO Detectives Joe
Bishop and Billy Joyce, who made ar
investigation Wednesday morning. Be-
van then left the living room In the
lodging house OF Mrs. Julia Mcbride,
where the shooting took place. An In
slant later, he returned. Morris was
PROSTATE on the floor, bleeding from
the pistol bullet wound.
In reply TO Morris piteous question,
"Dtnk, what did / do to you to make
you shoot me7" the craZed man fired
another bullet into the wounded man.
This second bullet tore through Morris
heart, causing almost instantaneous
death.
John J. Collins. undertaken. took
charge Of Morris, body. Funeral ar
rangements were being made Wednes-
day, through A.. Siegman, brother-ln-
law OF Morris. The body win be sent
to Savannah, Ga, for burial. Morris
mother. another sister and an aunt live
in Savannah.
Morris was a butcher by trade, but
had not worked at II for some time.
He formerly worked at the Frank
Tucker saloon at Winchester avenue
and Main street.
Revan steadfastly refused 10 make
any statement Of the killing Wednes-
day. He maintained a stoical Silence
when questioned by newspaper men.
Bot Beyan's course of crime did not
cease with the death of Morris, accord
ing to women who were IT. the house,
locked behind the door to the front room
fearfully clasping three small children,
Bevan fired other shots at the dying
Morris, They missed, but two BUILT
holes, one In a door close to where
Morris lay dying, and the other In the
wall near the ceiling, tell a mute tale
Of the unsatiated blood lust which mad
seized the killer,
He rushed into his own room on the
east side of the house. 1t adJoins the
front room where the rome were hud-
died with the children. A door con-
meets the two, but 1t was locked on
the women's side,
ard fired downward, evidently In an
effort to shoot open the door. But he
failed. AS he shot, he kept calling out
to the women that he would not injure
them.
Mrs, Nell Reisser, who was visiting
Mrs. r. e. Doak, daughter Of Mrs. Nc.
Bride, seized Lula May Galloway, aged
four, daughter OF Mrs. Margaret Gallo
way, a widow and also a daughter Of
Mrs. Mcbride, Mrs. Reisser crawled
through u window with the girl and
took refuge at the home Of r. Il. Monte
verde, mayor Of Memphis, who lives
close by.
Mrs. Doak, terror stricken, picked UP
little Margaret Galloway, her neice,
two years old, and leaning far out OF
the window, dropped her to safety on
the ground below. Then, with hci own
baby In her arms, a girl OF eight months,
Mrs. Doak clambered TO safety from
the liquor-craZed nan
Just as this happened, Mrs. Mar
garet Galloway, who ~ employed ~
the Moseley- Robinson South Main street
drug store, arrived home In company
with Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Gamer, Noting
a gathering crowd, they soon surmised
there was trouble at her mothers home.
Gainer informed police and Sergt. Red
Davis sent Patrol Officers Sanderson
and Bailey 10 take charge. They ascer-
tanned nothing, according TO their re-
pert except that Bevan would make
no statement. Began contin9ed this
attitude today at the city prison, where
he was held on a charge Of murder.
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In a room next door to the living room
where the shooting took place, told If
hearing Morris ask Beyan what ne had
done to be shot. He heard the ether
shots fired lie niaced the number at
five. His door was tied shut from the
living room side, as he uses an outside
entrance. He was unable to get Inside,
According to Mrs, Doak, when she
Shouted out to Mrs, Galloway not TO
come in, Beyan shouted, "Shed better
not some In here. I'll Kill her"
Bevan and Norris were friends, Be-
van brought Morris to live at Mrs, Nc
Brides home last May. Mrs. Mcbride,
who was away from hotne last night
at d card party, knew nothing Of the
/, trouble until she returned.
search OF Bevan's room by Detectives
Bishop and Joyce Wednesday morning
disclosed an empty half pint oG Jack
Beam whisky, two pint bottles Nlilef
had contained n homemade variety OF
= gin, concocted from compound extrlct
: OF juniper, probably, and numerous
empty Take" bottles. Police Tuesday
q night took away a full half pint O
whisky.
Revan. Morris and Mrs Doak, VIII
lives with her mother at 200 Markef
avenue, had eaten ravioli earlier In thi
night. There was no quarreling or OILS
order, Mrs Doak said. She had gone
& with Mrs. Reisser. into the fronr room
to put the babies TO bed WHEN III
shooting occurred,