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Show SELECTED. A Female Nemesis An appuling and b oody tragedy, attended witn inysteiinus and apparently inesplicab.e circum.-tani.-ets, occurred yeterday evening even-ing at six o'clock, at the store of Van Pelt & Gibson, opposite Court square the victim being a young river pilot, Gus Banks, well and favorably known in this city, wliere he was brought up, wbo was sliot by a woman under the following circumstances. About a quarter to six o'clock, Mr. Banks was observed standing around the door of Van Pelt & Gibson's store, as if waiting for some person. Very soon a young woman very neatly and stylishly dressed, walked up, and beck oning to him, the pair entered the sto:e together and quietly seated them selves near each other on a settee. They commenced a conversation in a very quiet, low tone, and Mr. Va i Pelt, who thought' that they were eus tomers waiting to be served, walked forward to wait upon them. On near ing them he discovered that he was mistaken, and that they were desirous of having a private conversation. He remained near them long enough to hear the woman say, "You diu!" to which Mr. Banks responded, "I did not." This was repeated twice. Mr. Van Pelt turned and started back to the des, and had got hall way down i he store when he heard a pistol shot. He instantly turned back and saw Mr. Banks on tlie floor and t'le woman deliberately de-liberately firing at him with a pistol which she held firmly pointed at his hi id. Mr. Gibson, who was at his Ue?k rushed forward, and got near enough, as the fourth shot w;is fried, tu hear her sa, ''You will tell another lie on me, will you " At this instant a police officer, who had been standing at the coiner of the park when the woman drew the pistol, i nshed up and took her iuto custody. She sui rendered without a word, ex cept remarking quietly, ' lie wronged me, and I paid Imn fo it," or words to that effect. She ivas quickly conveyed con-veyed to the station-house, where she gave her name as Myra Day; residence, resi-dence, ciry. At tlie station hon-e she repealed the remark that lie (Baiks) ' had wronged her. and she had paid him for it." She gave uii the weapon which she had used a four -barre ed repeater of the oharp patent, apparently appar-ently perfectly new. A crowd instantly gathered around the wounded man, who was lying on the matting in the vestibule of the store bleeding from three wounds in his head Lr. lingers. Dr. Nuttall and other physicians were quickly iu attendance, and when the wounds wen-examined wen-examined they were found to be three in number, one entei inn the skull n ar the temple, and lodging in the upper portion of the brain (supposed to have been the first shot fired); another entering en-tering the throat and ranging upward, lodging in the lower portion of the brain. The third was near the fir.-t shot, and though an ualy wound, is not thought to have penetrated the skull. Either r'f the two first are sufficient, suffi-cient, under ordinary circumstances, to produce death The wounded man was removed from the door back to the office, where he was placed in a more comfortable position than that in which he tell, tmt he never spoke or showed any signs of consciousness from the mo nient Le fell. Memphis Appeal, June 30. |