Show WENT VENT GUNNING FOR Kansas City Editorial Writer Made Strenuous Objections to Being Fired Kansas Cansas ansas City Nov No 23 General Richard Rich Richard ard ardC C 0 Home editorial writer Kansas City Ct Post today shot and ser seriously i wounded O 0 D Woodward president president pros dent of the company that publishes the paper and then shot H J Groves managing editor Woodward fras fIas shot three times twice in the right arm armone armone armone one bullet passing through and break breaking breakIng breaking ing the bone bane and once in the right side the bullet shattering a rib and falling out of the wound Groves sus sustained sustained tamed a p flesh lesh wound in the right hip The shooting took toak place in the edi editorial editorial tonal rooms of the Post Past Home Horne who is a stockholder in the paper and one of its founders was discharged last night the cause assigned being the business depression This morning Home bought a to the of office flee fice and when Woodward appeared Home Horne raised the pistol and exclaimed Gave Himself Up No Na man can rob me and began to shoot Woodward fell and Groves who was In the room tried to escape and was shot while running Home Harne went on oil the street and surrendered to toa toa toa a policeman Woodward is widely known as a theatrical manager and controls two theatres theatre here one In Omaha and one onal In Sioux City Cit Home Horne who was a brigadier general on Governor Stones staff has been prominent in Missouri state politics for many years and formerly published a newspaper at Marshall He has lias been president of the board of af managers of the Fulton asylum and chief statistician statis statistician statistician of the state bureau of labor At the tho police station Home Horne justified his action saying his whole fortune was Invested In the paper and he con considered considered considered that he was being robbed Home Horne is being held at the city Jail with no charge filed against him Condition Serious Groves who was shot in the fleshy part of the hip is In a serious condition tonight The surgeons fear blood poisoning may result from the fact that the bullet carried with it into the wound particles of af foreign matter from the cloth of his suit Owing to the nervous condition of the patient the surgeons will make no effort until to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow to remove the bullet which is lodged in the muscles of the back Friends of General Home Horne tonight said that the shooting resulted from the threatening manner assumed by Woodward and Groves when they en entered entered Homes presence These friends sly say ty that Groves and Woodward greet greeted ed Home Horne with abuse and threatened him with violence before he lie used his pistol |