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Show A LAWYER SHOT DOWN. The Recent Murderous Attack on a Nen York Attorney. Presentiments are unezplainable, but omotimcs they prove of value. This was the case recently with Clerk Scott. He is employed by Lawyer Clinton G. Reynolds, of New York city. When, on the latter order, he admitted Alphonse Stephani to the private office the other afternoon he "felt it in his bones" that something was going to happen, and deemed it his duty to listen at tho door. It was well for Mr. !5Jeynolds that lie iRSstV did,f for within fivel minutes he O heajdthe muffled S)l-0 'J sound '61 a pistol n V shot, and mhing InMecured Steph', , .-r;fw JyA anl before he ,gL. otler ball in tne Kfe5 rily of the pros- 'S' tlte lawyer. The 'f$'' Jiumlcd man is Jw in the hos-. alphonse btephakl luu, and the i'Hild be assassin is in jail. Stephani ar-lived ar-lived in New York from England on iio morning of the tragedy, lie came l.i America with the intention of kill-Hug kill-Hug his mother, but as she was in hid-f hid-f ing he vented his iiuano wrath on her at-f at-f torney. Mrs. Stephani is quite wealthy, lint in order to conserve the remains of the fortune left by her husband she was com- polled to take its management from the ' hands of her spendthrift son. He, on find- Ing the supplies cut off, started out gnu-I gnu-I sing, with the result narrated above. His f victim is one of the best known and most highly esteemed members of the New York bar, and much excitement followed the tonouncement of the assault. |