Show TERRIBLE fRAGEDY IN fti8StI Chancellor Allisons Body Fairly Riddled With Buckshot Buck-shot p ONE OF THE MOST APPALLING CRIMES MURDERER THEN ATTEMPTS TO KILL HIMSELF He Will Prnlmlily Die The Trnjjctly Caused H > n Failure < o Asrec on Financial 3Iatters Kansas City Pnpers Continue Their Howl of Fraud Claimluir the Democrats Stoic the Election Hurry Fury Caught 5 i i ie Tenn Xov HOf all the na2i i tragedies Nashville has1 experienced ex-perienced the most appalling was perpetrated per-petrated today Chancery Court Clerk George K Whlfcworih 1 shot and instantly killed Chancellor Andrew Allison in the upper hallway of the court house in this city today at about 1245 p m He fired both barrels of a shotgun loaded with buckshgt and1 about twentytwo of the shot took effect in i the breast and side of the chancellor who fell neal the stairway gasped one I twice and died Only om lan Joseph H Aoklen saw the tragedy The chancellor had just adjourned his court and left the room entered the Shall and was about to descend the steps Whltworth who was in the hall said 4Oh Judge and a he turned fred at Mm Acklen rushed to him and as the did so heard two shots behind him Turning he saw that Whitworth had shot himself with a pistol After the first firing Deputy Clerk West ran out from his room into the hal and saw Whitworth shoot himself the first time He cUe to 3iini and Whitworth told ttiim to stand of f and backed away from him preparing to shoot himself again West grappled with him but too late and the second shot was fired both taking effect in the left side Whit worth was perfect r cool during and after the affair and expressed no regrets grets but desired to know if he had killed his main stating that no man who had treated him a Allison had could aive in the same county with him The body of the dad chancellor was removed re-moved to his home and Whitworth was taken to his Whlf worth is still alive but is sinking rapidly and his death 1 expected before morning I I was generally believed during the j afternoon that WhitwortW killed the i chancellor because he refused to reappoint reap-point him The facts later developed do not sustain this theory Fron > men I familiar with the transactions between I the two at is learned the cause of the I tragedy was the failure of Allison to I nettle or secure a large sum due from Im to Whitworth for money loaned said t be about 25000 For several weeks efforts have been made by Whitworth to secure a settlement but without success Finally arbitrators were appointed Samuel J Keith a prominent banker representing Whit ort and T M Steger a leading lawyer law-yer acting for Allison For some days they had een trying to bring about a satisfactory settlement settle-ment and today Whitworth was informed in-formed that they could accomplish nothing The shooting followed Last Sunday it was announced that Whitworth would not succeed himself and it was feared trouble would result immediately by some The entire city was dumbfounded when the dumbfunde news spread abioad that the chancellor had beeen Idled by his clerk Chancellor Allison was about 52 years of age and had just begun his second term of eight years having been reelected re-elected in August last George K Whitworth was about 42 years of age and was an active Democratic Dem-ocratic politician |