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Show THEIR QUEER TRAGEDY. Loss Charbnnnct lelaled a new story at the Hotel f.runewuld last evening that Is full of legal complications It Is the rtoiy of the killing of a negro by a white man on the Illinois Central northbound train Tuesday night and the probable mortal wounding of an-other an-other negro by the mm killed The Blnrs', us Inld by Mi Ch irbonnet. Is Ibut two negroes became Involved In a low on the train about two mllea Ibis side of ricnler. One of the uegrws drew his revolver and fired at the oth-ci oth-ci 'iho bullet missed Its mark and penetrated tho coat of a white man sitting sit-ting near b) Tho white man. whoso name he does not know shot tho negro with the revolver, killing hint Instantly, ami In fulling the negio'a letoltei was discharged, the bullet striking tho no-gro no-gro at whom he had shot, mortally wounding hlin 'Ihe Coroner, who I veB either on the Valley or Texas A. I'aclfli road was notllled of thn killing, and while he Is In the same parish and within u few miles of the scene of the tragedy, ho must come to New Orleans and go up to Prcnltr to hold he Inquest In the meuntlme the hod) of Ihe dead negru Is In a slate of putrlfiietlon, end probably prob-ably will 1 hurled before tho Coroner tun get there. It will tnke him almost os long to go from his homo tn I'renler as It does to go from hero to Atlanta Theie Is no ollltei ut Cienlcr, and tho white man was allowed to go his was, but the wounded negro wns taken ihuic of by ,ne Illinois Central olll-teas olll-teas and cared foi Hunter O, Leak, general regent of the Illinois Central ralliond, and Assistant Superintendent Dunn last night coirob. orliled the stoiy Basing they had ie-eclved ie-eclved iidvlcee of t lie siiine uiiied-up character, but nelthei was uhlo tn glte the names of the three men concerned New Orleans Tlmis-Diniuirut. |