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Show "Old Pom." Shot. Washington, 11. Ex-seiVator Fom-oroy, Fom-oroy, of Kansas, was shot this afternoon after-noon by Kx-represcntativcM. F. Conway, Con-way, of Kansas'. Senator Pomeroy was walking up New York Avenue, and when near the corner of Fourteenth Four-teenth street he met Conway, who drew a large revolver, and when within with-in five or six feet of Pomeroy, fired three shots si t him, one of which took elleet in the right breast, just below tlie nipple. Conway then put up his : pistol and started to walk off, when ' two gentlemen, P. Htillitsonand Addison, Addi-son, who witnessed the shooting, im-; mediately stopped him, ArMUon exclaiming": ex-claiming": "Stop, sir! you have shot a man and you must give your reasons fur so doing. Conway replied: "He ruined myself and my family." He then accompanied the gentlemen to the station house. Pomeroy, who hud fallen to the pavement, was assisted to a carriage and driven to his house in K street, near Fourteenth, where physicians were immediately, summoned. sum-moned. Doctors Bliss and Verdi have itiFt made an examination -of the wound and pronounce it simple and only very slight. One of the balls passed pas-sed through Pomcroy's hat, another through his overcoat, and the other through bis clothing, striking his breast below the right nipp'e, but only penetrating the skin. Pomeroy asserts that ho never hftd any controvcrsy with Conway, and lias not tlie slightest slight-est idea of the cause of his attack. Conway met Pomeroy a few days ago for the first time in about two years, and said, abruptly, "I am out of money;'! to which Pomeroy replied, re-plied, "I know, then, how to appreciate appre-ciate your situation, for J a in nearly in that condition myself." This wae all that passed between them at this interview, and, to-day, not a word was spokcu before Comvay. com-; com-; nu need tiring, surprising Pome-j Pome-j rov more than anything t'nat hod ever happened him . before. Pomei-ov is emphatic ' in stating stat-ing that lie never had any controversy con-troversy or ground for difUculty with Conway, but on the contrary he says i;ht)ut fbree years ago, he and Senator Sumner got Conway's wife a clerkship clerk-ship in the 'treasury department, on her representation that her hu-hand wouldn't support her. Subsequently, says Poiueruy, Conway dried to trustee, trus-tee, or draw her wages at the treasury department, and failed to accomplish it; but lie, Pomeroy, had no controversy controv-ersy with him on that subject or any other. Conway is a native of Baltimore, and is a printer by trade. lie studied law. went Lo Kansas, and took part ui tlie eary struggles of that' Territory. Terri-tory. After serving as county judge he. was elected to Congress as tho " lirsi repivienrntivr. of "K tmsas. ' At the end of his term lj3 wajs appointed, i by President Johnson, consul J.O Marseilles, Mar-seilles, but was removed by President ' Chant, soon after the laltcr's- inangu- ration, liv 1ms been living in this I city several years. |