Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-20
ARIZONA MAN IS
SHOT WITH SHOT
GUN AND PISTOL
R. 7. Lewis, Juryman in Bis
bee Deportation Trial, Is
Seriously Wounded by j..
B. Seal, NeighboF.
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Tombstone, Ari2., Feb. 19.-R. r.
Lewis, one of the. first jurymen
passed by both sides to try Harry
L, Wootton. hardware dealer, ac-
cused of kidnapping in connection
with the Bisbee deportations. is in
a Douglas hospital seriously wound
ed, and j. y. Seal, a neighboring
rancher of Lewis, is free on bonds
here after surrendering himself to
the authorities and confessng he
shot Lewis both with a shotgun ana
pistol,
Lewis is a rancher at McNca'
according to a story told by Seal
he shot Lewis when the latter made
movements as though to draw 4
gun after having threatened to
shoot Seals young brother for
wiring a gate closed. After the
shooting Seal went to the home Of
another neighbor and notified the
authorities.
The shooting occurred last night
near the Pier mine, about eight
miles north of McNeal. Lewis was
Immediately taken to a hospital at
Douglas.
Not until today was it known
Lewis was a juryman in the depor-
tation cases. Because of this, the
shooting created much more than
ordinary interest. Many stories
We're current, one of which was 10
the effect Lewis had several times
drawn down" his pistol on per
sons whom he threatened.
The shooting will remove Lewis
from the Woottoa case and leave
but nineteen jurors in the box. At
least three of these, ii was said,
tonight would be recalled for fur
ther examination by the defense
ana prosecution to attempt to get
them from the box before the jury
is completed.
Court will convene again tOmOr-
row after two-day recess for the
drawing of a new Venire of 400
names for jury duty.
Douglas, Ariz., Feb. JOE. X.
Lewis, aged 60, Waterman at the
rcysart mine at Granite Reef, thir-
ty miles north of Douglas, who had
been accepted as a member of the
panel of twenty jurors in the Bisbea
deportation trial at Tombstone, sub
jet to a peremptory challenge, is
i'm a critical condition at the coun-
ty hospital tonight A bullet from
a IS caliber pistol either severed
his spinal column or created pres
sure in the spinal canal as. accord
ing to the attending physician, DR..
\. W. Vanneman, the patient is
paralyzed below the waist An OPP
Grafton to relieve this spinal pres
sure will be made Friday. the ply
sician stated, but minated that
there was small hope for success.
The wound is alleged to have been
inflicted by !. b. Seal, a rancher
living near the mine where Lewis
was employed. According to the
statement of Mrs. Lewis, who was
in Douglas, today, Seal and his
brother wayaid Lewis and shot
him while mounted on a horse and
trying to escape.
The Seals are said by those who
arrived from the shooting today to
claim that Lewis threatened the
life of the younger brother during
a quarrel about erecting a pasture
gate, and threatened to dick both
Of them" They say he reached as
though for a pistol and j. b. Seal,
who had been rabbit hunting, shot
him first with a shotgun he mad IN
his hand, part of the charge strlk-
ing Lewis in the head, then took a
revolver his younger brother had
drawn and fired three shots at
Lewis, all three striking him in the
back.