Show DEED OJ1 A DASTARD I i Mr Phil Adams Assaulted Shot and Robbed A Corset Steel Arrests the Progress of the Bullet and Save tho Womans Life The Assailant Known But at Largo In a lone adobe cabin last night in the very outkirts of tho city one of the most cowaraly and fiendish attempts at murder to aid in a deliberate plot of robbery that has over characterized the police annals of the city was made A colored woman the wife of an honest reputable and hard working resident of the north bench was shot down at the hands of fa whito rufan and the house robocd of the earnings of the couple for many months So isolated is the scene of the outrage so well planned and rapidly executed was the crime and so great was the confusion and consequent inadequate information ot the perpetrator growing out of its disojvery that in all probability the wouldbC murderer mur-derer and bandit has made Rood his escape from the clutches of the law and it has become a question whether he will be apprehended ap-prehended or not SEARCH OF THE HUSBAND Everyone in town knows Phil Adams the colored bootblack hose stand is on thetJodbePitts corner at First South and Main street Last night in company with his nephew Henry Adams he closed up his shop and took a cur for his home at Eighth and C streets They left the Godbe Pltts corner at about 92i oclock and nearly twenty minutes later got to the little adobe cabin which they occupied As they neared the cabin a light flashed for an instant through one of the windows and then suddenly went out Thisv attracted at-tracted Adams attention at once as never before had he failed to find lamp burning steadily in the front window but even then the only remarkable thing to him was that the light which had illuminated the interior of the room tad gone out entirely Advancing Ad-vancing rapidly to the front gate he found it locked and they were compelled to go around to tne side of the house through a noiehboricg yard As they entered the yard a door closing softly attracted his attention Together To-gether the two men went to the doorway and found it swinging open Everything was dark in the house and Adams instructed in-structed his nephew to strike a light before be-fore Centering An undetinable fear off of-f > wrong shot across his mind and us tho light of a match in his nephews hands flashed for a momenfon the interior of the room that suspicion of horror became be-came a certainty A SCENE OF CONFUSION In that brief incident he saw hefts and bedding heaped in confusion on the floor Clothing and furniture was piled in disordered disor-dered heaps on the floor a trunk with its lid torn from the look and hinges was turned on its side and the contents scattered scat-tered over the carpet The full horror of that scene was not known however until a lamp recently extinguished 5was re lighted In the middle room which they had entered a great pool of blood made a stain on the carpet From the pool of blood great splashes marked a plain traok into the adjoining front room Inhere In-here everything was in even worse confusion con-fusion Clothing and beddiiig soaked and clotted with blood lay on the floor while near the bed another great pool of blood lay Two trunks in this room had been burst open and several chairs and a table were turned upside down With eyes starting with terror Adams cried My God 1 my wife is murdered As yet no sign of the woman could be seen She was in neither of the rooms and seizing seiz-ing a shotgun Adams ran into the yard and tired two shots to alarm the neighborhood Ho then ran to his next door neighbors a house occupied by Thomas Keys a white man HE FINDS DIS WIFE Here his wife was found She was reclining re-clining on a lounge her bead ana face gashed and bruised and covered with blood The clothing being torn away from her breast revealed a ghastly wound from a pistol bullet from which tho blood oozed slowly The reports of the gun and cries of Adams and his nephew soon brought i assistance to the spot and the police being notified Chief Paul Captain Donovan Sergeant Sheets and Detective Walker i were soon on the spot Dr McAchran had in the meantime been telephoned for and arrived some moments later Mrs Adams was at once attended to and was shortly reausitated Her wounds were found to be e long gush in the scalp just above the left temple a gash across the bridge of the nose and several abrasions of the skin on tho cheek and neck Above and to the left of the naval a pistol shot wound made by a bullet either from a 32 or 3Scalibre revolver was found On probing prob-ing the wound it was found to be barely a half an inch in depth and the bullet was lodged in the thick inner coating of the abdominal walls An examination revealed the fact that the bullet had struck and gonoentirely through a corset steel and this alone saved the womans life so destroying de-stroying the force of the bullet that it only penetrated the outer and mddle walls of tbo cavity lodging in the muscles over the diaphragm After her wounds had been attended to and a stimulant administered Mrs Adams related her story I MRS ADAMS STORY She stated that about 9 oclock a white man whom she knew from his having been to the house a time or two before knocked at tho door and enquired for her husband Bbing informed that he had not yet returned re-turned tho man said he would wait and was invited to enter He wont into the house and as the woman turned to place a chair for her visitor he drew from his I pocket a checked woolen muffler with some 11 I heavy pubstance Inside of it and struck her a vicious blow above the left temple She fell but at the same time screamed for help Another blow WES truck her in the face and then dropping the improvised slug shot he puljcd a revolver and tired one shot pt her another scream from the woman and tho fiend sprang at her and raising his heavy shod feet stamped her in the faca until from the repeated blows and loss of blood she became insensible Recovering Re-covering shortly she found the man at work breaking open and ransacking the trunks I three ot which stood in the room Again tho became insensible and when she recovered re-covered the man bad disappeared ring I r-ing all her strength she dragged herself to the house of Thomas Keys next door whore she found Mrs Keys alone The I woman at once proceeded to minister to I the wants of Mrs Adams and was about to start to give an alarm when Adams and bia nephew arrived THE SLEUTHS AT WOUK The police made a thorough search of the place but the only clue they found was the instrument with which Mrs Adams had been first assaulted It was heavy woolen muffler inside of which was a two pound chunk of Babbit ni < nal evidently melted in some plumbers working pot Its sharp edged bad cut through the muffler and this bad evidently caused the assailant to throw it away and resort to his pistol The houso as stated had been ransacked from end to end and from one of the trunks had been taken a tin box containing 50 the savings of Adams and his wife for nearly a year Dr McAchran stated that the woman would recover in the course of a few weeks and h13 will extract the ball sometime some-time today WHERE ADAMS MET THE RUFFIAN Adams stated to a Hear reporter that on Monilay a man peddling bluing had come to his house at about 130 oclock in the afternoon He described him as about fifty years of ago long brown hair a cleft lip showing the pper teeth and a long depression de-pression in the upper jaw where some pieces of bone had evidently been removed flushed or reddish complexion and wearing a soft hat checked trousers with square I patch on the knee and a dark saok coat very much worn Not being able to make a sale of bluing the peddler entered into a conversation with Adams and finally mado arrangements to return Thursday to commence a series of lessons in the common school branches Thursday he came and gave Adams a lesson les-son in reading small words from a primer Hex inquired particularly about Adams habits his hours at home and what property prop-erty he had and what his daily receipts amounted to from his stand These questions ques-tions raised no suspicion in Adams mind at the time and the man who never announced an-nounced his name left promising to return Friday night He did not come however and Adams did not expect to see him uguin Adams could gire no information as to the mans residence or his usual haunts Although living next door and within thirty feet of the jfdams residence Mrs Keys who was alone at the time of the shooting heard nothing of the affair and had intimation that anything was wrong until the colored woman foIl into her doorway door-way bleeding and insensible Sho remembered remem-bered however having seen the peddler the day he was at the Adams house with a basket of bluing and her description of him tallies with that given by Adams THE ASSAILANT IS KNOWN The police recognize from tha description descrip-tion the man who evidently committed the crime He is an exConfederate soldier 62 years of age and tallies exactly with the description given He has been arrested several times for drunkenness and once or twice baa been booked aK a vagrant His occupation is that of a peddler of matches cheap jewelry tinware pencils pins bluing blu-ing etc Although acquainted with tue appearance of the man no one on the force is aware of his name No steps wore taken last night by tho officials to guard the depots or other exits of the city untiltho 11 oclock relief went on duty but Sergeants Eillnger Wire and Detectives Rhodes and Walker began a search of the town for tho peddler At midnight Captain ufonovan ordered the dragnet out and every gambling house saloon cheap lodging house and shady resort re-sort in the city was entered and searched in hopes of finding some trace of the robber rob-ber NO CLUE TO HIS WHEREABOUTS At 1 oclock however no clue to the fellow fel-low had been obtained and it seemed probable prob-able that he had made his escape from the I city on cue of the trains leaving before 10 oclock I |